With global currency devaluation, I'll wear these back and take my whole family flying!

"I won't wear this brooch to the event for now."

As Xu Junhuan spoke, he looked up and gave Shen Jingjing a deep look, his eyes turning slightly cold. He said, "Big sister, we're leaving soon. If you really took the brooch, you can return it while we're gone. I promise I won't hold you responsible for anything."

He felt that this approach was already very dignified for the other party, and the way it was handled was also very gentle.

But Shen Jingjing, who has nothing to hide, once again clarified: "Gentlemen, I have worked in the hotel for more than ten years and have never taken anything from guests. If the lost items are really important to you, I still suggest you call the police to avoid unnecessary losses."

"You..." Seeing that Shen Jingjing was completely unmoved, the lean man immediately burst into a tirade of anger: "Don't push your luck! Do you really think we can't do anything to you?"

Shen Jingjing was furious at the other party's slanderous and arrogant attitude, but as a member of her job, she could not speak too harshly, so she could only angrily turn her head away and ignore him.

The manager, having worked with Shen Jingjing for a long time, knew her character well and immediately spoke up in her defense: "Please calm down, both of you. It's not that I'm defending our employee, but she's a long-time employee who's worked at the hotel for over ten years. She's previously helped guests find large sums of cash left in their rooms, and she always managed to contact the guests immediately to return it. We even have a 'Honest and Reliable' banner from a guest in our housekeeping department."

“She had to return such a large sum of cash, it was too conspicuous. Did she think she could just stuff it in her pocket and take it with her? But that brooch is different. Who would notice if she just stuffed it anywhere and stole it?” The lean man persisted, glaring at Shen Jingjing and mocking, “She wasn’t even wearing her employee badge. Isn’t she just feeling guilty and afraid we’d remember her name?”

"mom?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Shen Ci's voice rang out from the doorway of the room.

The tense atmosphere in the room froze. Everyone looked up and saw Shen Ci. The room manager and the lean man were both stunned for a moment, while Xu Junhuan was completely dumbfounded.

is her?

The girl who sat next to me on the plane yesterday but didn't recognize me!

He then turned his gaze to the housekeeping staff member, the only woman in the room who could possibly be his mother.

"I brought you the name tag. I came all the way up from the 26th floor. I sent you messages but you didn't reply."

Shen Jingjing took the work badge and casually pinned it to her clothes. Seemingly not wanting her daughter to see her being falsely accused, Shen Jingjing urged, "Mom is working, you should go home first."

There were only a few people in the room, and Shen Ci recognized Xu Junhuan. Although she didn't know the whole story, she had just vaguely heard some words in the corridor.

She responded to what the other person had just said, "My mom wasn't feeling guilty. She forgot her work badge at home this morning, so she wasn't wearing it."

"Aci, this is none of your business. Go back first and be good." Shen Jingjing knew her daughter's personality and didn't want her to have a verbal conflict with the two men, so she reached out and pulled her daughter's arm, trying to get her to leave first.

Shen Ci looked at her mother and said softly, "Mom, don't be afraid, I know what I'm doing."

Turning her head, she looked directly at Xu Junhuan and asked expressionlessly, "What did you lose? Where did you lose it? When did you lose it?"

Xu Junhuan seemed not to have expected the other party to be so calm, and the first thing he said was to ask him a question.

“Think it through carefully. My mother, as a hotel employee, has an obligation to help you handle this kind of incident, but as the person involved, you also have a responsibility to carefully recall all the details,” Shen Ci added.

Shen Jingjing, who had originally intended to persuade her daughter to leave, nodded involuntarily after hearing her daughter's words, feeling that her daughter made sense.

The lean man had initially thought the girl was quite pretty, his attention fixed on her face, but her first words enraged him: "Who are you? Do you know who you're talking to..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Junhuan patted him on the shoulder to stop him. He looked at Xu Junhuan in confusion, only to see Xu Junhuan say seriously, "I lost a diamond brooch in this hotel room. I don't remember exactly when it disappeared."

He answered the three questions Shen Ci asked.

Upon hearing this, Shen Ci asked again, "When and where was the last time you saw such a valuable brooch?"

“Last night, in the room.”

Were you all alone at that time?

Xu Junhuan shook his head: "No, there are others."

Seeing the two start chatting, the lean man couldn't help but chime in: "Last night after we arrived at the hotel, the brand sent someone to deliver clothes and a brooch. The clothes were hanging in the closet by the door, but the brooch was missing."

Did you see the brooch again this morning after you got up and before my mother went into the room?

Xu Junhuan's eyes flashed with embarrassment, but he still shook his head honestly: "I didn't pay attention, but when the brand came yesterday, they put the box containing the brooch on the table. I saw the box the whole time, but I didn't open it to look at the brooch. When I opened it, the brooch was gone."

Upon hearing this, Shen Ci said, "In other words, the last time you saw the brooch was last night, and at that time there were many people in your room besides you, including people from your team and people from the brand."

"Then how did you determine that the brooch was lost after my mother went into the room?"

Xu Junhuan choked for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and then explained, "I've already asked the rest of the team, and they all..."

"They all say they didn't take it?" Shen Ci interrupted Xu Junhuan, sneering, "My mother also said she didn't take it. Why is it that when your people say they didn't take it, it's considered true, but when my mother says she didn't take it, it's considered an excuse?"

Xu Junhuan was speechless, because Shen Ci's logic had no loopholes; they indeed lacked substantial evidence, it was simply because...

Class distinctions and arrogance!

When these words flashed through Xu Junhuan's mind, his brows furrowed involuntarily, and he realized that he had made a fundamental mistake.

He shouldn't have done that!

Shen Ci turned around and walked to the door, closed it, and then walked back to look at the people in the room and said, "You trust your people, and the hotel trusts my mother, which is understandable. But the brooch won't grow legs and wings and disappear on its own. If no one else has really come into this room, then it is most likely still in this room."

Without wasting any time, she took the initiative to search: "Let's all search together again carefully."

She went to the doorway and opened the wardrobe. The suit sent by the brand was hanging in the closet. Shen Ci originally intended to start looking from the doorway, but when she reached out to take down the suit jacket hanging inside, a shiny brooch was found hanging on the jacket!