Chapter 7 seven

Lin's shop finally closed down.News of Boss Lin's escape spread throughout the town.Among the creditors, Hengyuanzhuang first sent people to the Lin family's shop to seal up the stock.They searched the ledgers again.None left.Ask Shousheng.Shousheng fell ill in bed.Go to press Aunt Lin again.Mrs. Lin's answer was hiccups, tears and snot like a cannonball. Because she is "Aunt Lin", people can't help it. Around eleven o'clock, a large group of creditors was making an extremely loud noise in the Lin's shop.Hengyuan Zhuang and other creditors are arguing over how to distribute the stock.Although the shop is empty, the total "generated wealth" is enough to repay 70% of the creditors, but everyone only wants to get 90% or even 100% for themselves.The president of the chamber of commerce said his tongue was a little stiff, but there was no result.

Two policemen came and stood at the door with sticks and yelled at the idlers. "Why don't you let me in? I have a deposit of three hundred yuan! My capital!" Mrs. Zhu was arguing with the police with her puckered lips, shivering as she squeezed through the crowd.The veins on her forehead were as thick as a little finger.She squeezed for a while, and suddenly saw Widow Zhang holding her five-year-old child and begging another policeman to let her in.The policeman squinted his eyes, pretending to tease the child, but secretly rubbed the breasts of Widow Zhang with the back of his hand.

"Sister-in-law Zhang-" Mrs. Zhu San yelled out of breath, and sat on the edge of the stone steps, twisting her puckered lips vigorously. Widow Zhang turned around, looking for who called her, but the policeman shouted obscenely: "Don't be impatient! Go in in a while!" The idlers who heard this sentence all laughed.Widow Zhang pretended not to understand, and with tears in her eyes, she took another step aimlessly.I happened to see Mrs. Zhu sitting on the edge of the stone steps panting.Widow Zhang also stumbled to the side of Mrs. Zhu, and she was also sitting on the edge of the stone steps, and suddenly burst into tears.She cried and murmured:

"Grandpa Ada, you left me, you know how miserable I am! The day before yesterday was the third anniversary of the bandit soldiers killing you... Boss Lin, who had no sons and no grandchildren, closed his shop again,——I Hundreds of dollars made out of ten fingers were thrown into the water without making a sound! Oh! The poor are miserable, and the rich are cruel—" Seeing the mother crying, the child also cried; Widow Zhang hugged the child and cried even more sadly. Mrs. Zhu, however, did not cry, she opened her red sunken eyes, and repeated a sentence frantically: "The poor have a life, and the rich have a life; without my money, I will die!"

At this time, a person squeezed out from the shop, it was Qiaotou Chen Laoqi.His face was purple and blue, and while squeezing, he turned around and shouted: "You gang of robbers! Seeing that you have good rewards! The sky is burning and the earth is burning. One day, it will be in the eyes of me, Chen Laoqi! If you want to repay the debt, let everyone eat. It is fair to share it among the same people,—— —” Chen Laoqi was scolding furiously, and when he saw Mrs. Zhu and Widow Zhang, he called their names and said: "Third Aunt, Mrs. Zhang, why are you sitting here crying! Shit, they're done! I can't quarrel with a dozen of them with one mouth, and these gangsters are unreasonable, insisting that our money is not accounted for,—"

When Widow Zhang heard about it, she cried even harder.The policeman from before suddenly came over again, tapped Widow Zhang's shoulder with a wooden stick and said: "Hey, why are you crying? Your adoptive family is dead long ago. Who are you crying now!" "Shit! They robbed us, are you going to use this thing to tease women?" Chen Laoqi yelled angrily, and pushed the policeman hard.The policeman opened his eyes strangely, and wanted to beat him with his stick.The idlers shouted and scolded the policeman.Another policeman rushed over, pulled Chen Laoqi away and said:

"You are arguing here for nothing. We have no grudges against you. The chamber of commerce calls the gatekeepers. There is nothing we can do to eat this bowl of rice." "Chen Laoqi, you go to the party headquarters to file a complaint!" A voice in the crowd called out.Just by hearing the voice, he knew it was the famous Xianhanlu monk in this street. "Go, go! See what they say." Many voices screamed.But the mediator policeman sneered, pulled Chen Laoqi's shoulder and said: "I advise you not to cause trouble. What's the use of getting there! You'd better wait for Boss Lin to come back and settle the score with him. He's not going to let it go."

Chen Laoqihu put on a face and lost his mind.Unable to bear the coercion of "go" from those idlers, he looked at Mrs. Zhu and Widow Zhang and said: "How about going? Over there they shout every day to protect the poor!" "That's right. They detained Boss Lin yesterday to prevent him from escaping, and the money of the poor has not been secured!" Another one called out in a drawn-out voice advocating to go.So, as if involuntarily, the three of Chen Laoqi and a group of idlers all went to the road where the party headquarters was.Widow Zhang was still crying along the way, cursing the bandit soldier who killed her husband, cursing Boss Lin who had no sons and grandchildren, and cursing that vicious policeman.

When he was about to reach the destination, he saw four policemen standing in front of the gate, all holding sticks, and shouted from a distance: "Go away! Don't come here!" "We're here to sue. The Lin's shop has collapsed, and we can't get the money we stored there—" Chen Laoqi walked in the front row and said loudly.But suddenly a black pockmark jumped out from behind the policeman, shouting and beating angrily.The policemen were still standing, threatening only with their mouths.The idlers behind Chen Laoqi made a loud noise.Hei Mazi yelled angrily:

"Bitch who doesn't know good and bad! Do we care about your affairs here? If you don't leave, we will shoot!" He stomped and told the four police officers to beat him.Chen Laoqi was standing at the front and had already been beaten several times.The idlers are in chaos.Zhu San'a was too old and fell down.Widow Zhang dropped her shoes in a hurry, and fell to the ground after being rushed by people. She scrambled and scrambled to avoid many jumping and stepping feet. She stood up and ran for a while before she felt her child. there is none left.When I looked at the skirt, there were a few drops of blood.

"Ah! My baby! My darling! The robber killed someone, the Jade Emperor, help me!" She ran away crying and yelling, her hair disheveled; by the time she ran past the closed shop of Lin's, she was completely insane! Finished on June 18, 1932.