Manager Bian pursed his lips and said, “Guests, please go this way. I will take you there.”
So, everyone in 208 followed Manager Bian to the monitoring room, checked the monitoring footage from this morning, and finally confirmed that there were indeed fifteen pieces of luggage.
Manager Bian’s face looked a little ugly. He didn’t expect the picture to be so clear. Jiang Qin didn’t want to be verbose anymore and asked Wei Lanlan to call the police.
After the police arrived, the manager surnamed Bian showed a much better attitude. He also admitted that the hotel was not working properly and said that he would help them find their luggage, but they could not guarantee when it would be found.
“We have a lot of things to do next, and we don’t have time to wait for you to find it. Since the luggage was lost by your hotel, let’s pay the original price first. After the luggage is found, we will refund the money to you.”
Jiang Qinqian raised his finger and made a sign of three, indicating the amount of compensation the hotel needed to pay.
What he wanted was definitely not the 30,000 yuan, but he knew that if they didn’t keep the money in their hands, it would be difficult for them to seriously help find their luggage. By then, they would really have to wait until the end of the Year of the Monkey.
“Pay compensation first? This is definitely not allowed. We have not checked whether you have these things in your bag. You can’t just say 30,000 and we really have to pay 30,000, right?”
Manager Bian looked at the police officer sitting next to him: “We will cooperate with the police in actively searching for him later, but there is no rule for any hotel to pay first.”
Jiang Qin thought for a while: “Manager Bian, where do you think my accent is from? If your guess is correct, I will go back and wait.”
“It should be further north, right?”
“Damn it, you know I’m a foreigner and you want to buy time, right? And every time you call me, you say you’re looking for me?” Jiang Qin slammed the table.
Manager Bian: “…”
The police officer sitting on the sofa also spoke at this time: “Sir, don’t worry, we will also actively investigate and help you find your luggage as quickly as possible.”
“There is very important information in our computer and we must retrieve it today. This is the hotel’s fault and we should not bear the consequences.”
“But it takes time to find something. It’s not yet certain whether it was stolen or left somewhere.”
In short, after negotiating for an entire afternoon, the hotel refused to pay compensation first. Jiang Qin refused to agree to anything, because he knew that as long as they left Shanghai, the hotel would find various ways to shirk responsibility.
If it was taken away by an internal employee, then no matter how powerful the police are, they may not be able to find it. He has seen this kind of thing too many times. The main idea is to make a big issue into a small one. If it is made into a trivial matter, the only one who will suffer in the end is you.
But that won’t work this time, because it’s Suna’s computer.
You know, Zhihu’s upgrade all depends on Sunai and his project team. If the computer cannot be found for two or three months, or is completely lost, a lot of the early work will be in vain.
Seeing that negotiations could not be reached, Manager Bian had no choice but to call the general manager.
The general manager of this hotel, surnamed Qiu, had a tough attitude. He first expressed his willingness to cooperate in the search, but also said that it was impossible to pay compensation in advance.
“We will definitely help find the luggage, but it is impossible to pay compensation in advance. Moreover, we did not unpack and check the contents at that time, let alone confirm the value of the items. Guests, please don’t make unreasonable troubles and wait for the results.”
His unreasonable words made everyone in 208 furious: “What do you mean by unreasonable things? We paid the storage fee!”