Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Bankruptcy of the Large Plant Company

Don't know and the kid didn't sleep well at night.Both had terrible dreams.Knockout dreamed that some crooks had been following him, and in order to avoid them, he hid now in a dusty attic, now in a dark basement.Later he hid in an empty barrel, but at this moment someone poured heavy oil into the barrel.Quan Zhu wanted to get out of the barrel, but someone grabbed his hair tightly with his hand to prevent him from poking his head out.Quan didn't know that he was about to choke to death in this stinky black liquid, so he made a last effort, and finally...woke up.He was convinced that he was not in the barrel at all, but lying under the covers of his own home.He wants to sleep again.But suddenly the window was opened silently, and some suspicious-looking people wearing checkered caps and holding pistols were getting in through the window.I don't know how to jump out of the bed and run away.In order to avoid the pursuers, Quanzhi ran to a train station, where some oil tank trucks loaded with heavy oil were parked.One tanker truck was empty.I don't know how to get in, but for some reason, the oil tanker starts to be filled with heavy oil immediately.The heavy oil first flooded to Quan Zhi's waist, then to his chest, and finally to his throat.I don't know how to swim on top of the heavy oil, but the liquid rises higher and higher.I didn't know that I was finally squeezed to the roof of the car.The sticky black liquid poured into his mouth, nose, and glued to his eyes.Quan didn't know that he was about to suffocate, he shouted with all his strength, and woke up again.

Quan didn't know that he was still lying on the bed at home, gradually calmed down, and fell asleep again, when the little goat moaned. "Let go of me! Let me go!" the little goat tossed and moaned on the bed. Quan Shi started to pull his upper arm, but the kid didn't wake up. "Let me go?" he continued to yell. "What are you shouting! No one is holding you." Quan Mo said. "You know, I had a dream, as if those robbers we saw in the movie caught me and were strangling me with a nylon noose." The kid said sleepily. "But I kept dreaming that I seemed to be drowning in heavy oil." Quan Mo said.

"That's all from yesterday's movie," said the Kid. "It's always like this: watch a movie and then have nightmares all night." The two friends talked for a while, and they thought it was better to make some fast-talking videos instead of scary ones.Then they calmed down a little and fell asleep again, but the nightmare persisted until morning. Knowing nothing and the kid woke up earlier than usual, finished their breakfast with a bland appetite, and decided to hike to the office to refresh their minds after a sleepless night.They went to the street and saw a newspaper seller at the corner of the street, shouting:

"Crush City Humor News! Breaking news! Ridiculous! Buy one for two Sankeks! News about the bankruptcy of the Big Plant company, sensational news! Big Plant stock holders get nothing Hey! The Crush City Humor! The company is down! It's ridiculous! . . . " Don't Know and Little Goat spent two money to buy a newspaper, and then looked for news about the bankruptcy of a large plant company in the newspaper, but the newspaper didn't say anything about it.I had to read the newspaper carefully again, only to find a short text message: Readers of this newspaper have been asking us a lot lately to talk about macrophytes.But what is there to say about this notorious plant, which has indeed had countless rumors and rumours?All that can be said about this plant is that there is nothing to be said about it, because all that is really known about it is really nothing, and many credulous little people are still buying shares in this fabulous plant because of their credulity .We're not trying to spread rumors about the big plant companies at all.We also do not want to say that the little dwarfs bought nothing when they bought stocks, because they got the hope of improving welfare when they bought stocks.And hope, everyone knows.Also valuable.As the saying goes, small sores are not born in vain.You have to spend money to do anything, and you can fantasize if you spend money.Whenever possible, this journal will revisit the discussion about dry macrophytes.

——Editor Grizzly After reading this text message, the little goat shook his head sadly and said: "Such a text message is enough to make people stop buying our stocks. It seems that there must be someone among the rich who is so concerned about our stock business." Xinglong is jealous. But that's all right! We don't have to worry about it now, because the stock is almost sold out. It's too late for them to taste it, dear!" "What does it matter to the rich whether people buy our stock or not?" asked Quan Wu. "The rich have everything to do with it!" replied the Kid. "I don't think they'd want us to have big plants at all. It's been known for a long time that what's good for the poor isn't good for the rich."

Don't Know and the Kid went to Fielding Street talking like this, and saw a large group of people near the office building from a distance. Some dwarfs held stocks with pictures of large plants in their hands, and the dwarfs held up the stocks, shaking them and shouting: "Let us in! Let them give us back the money! We have been cheated! It turns out that any large plants are worthless!" No!" "Go away!" shouted the doorman standing at the entrance to them. "All the offices open at nine o'clock. No one is allowed to enter the building before then. Before I call the police to arrest you, go away!"

Quan Wu and the little goat squeezed through the crowd and walked along the steps to the door. The little goat turned around and shouted to the crowd: "Brothers, don't believe the newspaper! The newspaper is lying to you. There are large plants. If anyone wants to spend money Bring it back, we can give it to him." "That's them, Liar Hands!" someone in the crowd shouted. "Hit them!" Several shareholders ran up the steps, trying to catch the kid, but the door of the building opened immediately, and a policeman wearing a shiny copper helmet ran out, brandishing an electric baton, and the crowd immediately retreated.

The police said: "The office opens at nine o'clock. You can go in and get your money by then. Don't talk nonsense until then!" The policeman turned to the gatekeeper, swung his baton in the direction of Omniscience and Kid, and said, "Let them in!" He gave the order. Quanzhi and Little Goat got the office key from the gatekeeper and quickly went up to the third floor. "The smartest thing that can be done is to give the money back to the person who wants it," said Kid. "I think that as soon as they see that they can get their capital back at any time, the panic will stop."

After the little goat finished speaking, he walked into the office and glanced at the room where the safe was kept.To his surprise, the heavy iron door of the safe was ajar.The kid sprinted to the safe, glanced inside, and saw that it was empty. "None!" he exclaimed in panic. "The money is gone!" "Where did the money go?" Quan Zhi asked while running to the back room. "I don't understand," said the Kid, spreading his hands. "Perhaps we were stolen." Then he noticed a small piece of paper and two train tickets on one of the shelves of the safe.

"Wait a minute, here's a note," said the Kid, and read aloud. "Dear Friends (friends)!" Some untidy printed letters were written crookedly on the note. "In order to save ourselves, we had to escape (run away). You take the ticket, take the train, and hurry to the city of Saint Mosquito (run away). Your fellow (love) friends are little winks and big liars." "I didn't expect that!" cried the little goat. "Little Blink and Big Liar have run away, and of course they have taken the money with them. Now we are here as if we were in a cage."

As the little goat said, he jumped to the door of the room and locked the door, because at this moment there were chaotic footsteps outside the door.This is a group of shareholders pouring into the building and running down the corridors.The holders of large plant stocks ran to the office, knocked on the door with their fists, and shouted, "Hey, I ask you to open the door! Otherwise, it's no good for you! Give us your money back!" The little goat thought for a while and ran to the window and opened it.He looked down and saw that it would be dangerous to jump from the height of the third floor, so he took the lengths of rope that had bound the stocks from the safe and connected them.I don't know and help him pick it up.At this time, the noise outside the door increased.The door vibrated under the knock, but it didn't open. There was a sudden silence, and the crowd seemed to hide outside the door.The kid leaned out of the window, threw one end of the rope into the yard, and when he was sure that the rope had reached the ground, tied the other end to the heating pipe by the window. "Go down!" He ordered Xiang Quanzhi. I didn't know it was useless, so please climb down the rope.At this time, there was another noise outside the door. "Come on, let's bump!" Someone shouted. There was a loud crash. "Again!" The door jerked violently under the second impact.Seeing that Quan Zhi had reached the ground, the little goat grabbed the rope with both hands and slid down the window sill. "Come again!" someone yelled outside the door. This time the impact was so violent that the door fell off its hinges with a clanging sound and fell to the floor.A few dwarfs holding a large desk top as a siege shield rushed into the room together with the door.All this happened so suddenly that some of the dwarfs fell on the floor and broke their noses.The office immediately filled with crowds.Some shareholders ran to the safe, and some hurried to open the safe and took out the paper that originally wrapped the stocks. Seeing that there was no money anywhere, the little ones smashed the glass case, pulled out the omniscient spacesuit, and tore it to pieces.Later, they looked out the window and saw the rope dangling below. "Run through the window!" someone yelled. A few dwarfs began to climb down, clutching the ropes, while the rest ran out of the room and hurried down the stairs.But it's too late.Don't know and the kid was out of sight, and after they got down the rope they ran across the yard, luckily it was passable.They came to another street, mingled with the crowd, and in a short while were far away from the scene of the accident. "Should go to the Warehouse of All Calibers on Twisted Street, we might run into Mr. Big Liar there," reckoned the Kid. The friends soon came to Twisting Street, turned into Snake Lane, and began looking for stores of various calibers, but couldn't find them. "Look at this! Even the shops are gone now!" cried the Kid in chagrin. They looked over Snake Lane from beginning to end, came again from end to end, and walked a third time. Finally, the Kid stopped by a candy store that didn't seem to exist before, and said, "What the hell! I think this used to be a store of all calibers, and now it's a candy store." Don't Know and the Kid go into the candy store and ask a woman who sells if she knows where the store of various calibers has gone.The women selling goods said that the shop for goods of all calibres had closed down because the owner had suddenly become rich and traveled, and now opened a candy shop here. "See? 'Suddenly got rich and went on a trip'!" murmured the little goat with No Knowing when he came out into the street. He took out the note left by the great liar from his pocket and read it again. "Why do Little Blink and Big Liar talk. They have to run away to save themselves?" said the Kid. "Maybe they knew what was going to be in the paper beforehand, so they decided to take the money and hide early? Anyway, we can't stay here, and we have to go to Holy Mosquito City. It's a good place, I lived there .” Only in the evening did the train leave for St. Mosquito City, but Quan Zhi and Little Goat dared not go back to Lvwan, because it might fall into the hands of shareholders who were unintentionally deceived by them.Before lunch, the two friends chatted for a while in the city park, found a small restaurant they had never been to, had a good lunch, and spent almost all their money.The pair bought a sorbet and a soda with fruit juice with the few remaining shanks they had left to take with them on the road. They had come to the station long before they drove, and got into the carriage.The conductor checked their tickets and said that both seats were on the upper berth. "That's great," said the kid to Omniscience. "No one will find us in the upper bunk. You know, there may be our shareholders on the train, and it would be terrible if we were recognized." Quanzhi and the little goat climbed to the upper berth, stretched out comfortably, and began to quietly observe the passengers getting on the bus one after another.At this time, there were more people in the carriage.Below, just under the bunk on which Omniscient lay, was a fat little man.He stuffed the suitcase under the bunk and took a pile of newspapers out of his pocket to read.Here's the Business Clever, and the Crushtown Humor, and the Fat Man and the Thin Man, and the Smart Man and the Fool. Yes Yes!Please don't be surprised: it is "Fool".Some readers may think that it is unreasonable to give a newspaper such a name, because who would buy a newspaper with such a name?Nobody wants to be thought a fool.However, the residents of Squeeze City don't pay attention to such trivial matters.Anyone who buys The Fool says he doesn't buy it because he thinks himself a fool, but because he wants to know what it says about fools.By the way, this newspaper is very smart.Everything in the papers can be understood by a fool.As a result, the "Fool" has a large circulation.Not only sold in Crush City, but also sold in many other cities. It is not difficult to imagine that "Fat People's Daily" is not only read by fat people, but also by those who plan to gain weight as soon as possible!Likewise, The Thin Man isn't just read by skinny runts, but by those trying to shed excess fat.Newspaper bosses know very well that the entry itself should arouse the interest of readers, otherwise no one will buy it. After a few minutes, I saw that a passenger who was the opposite of the first passenger occupied another lower berth.In other words, this is a very thin person.He looked as if he had just walked through the swamp not long ago, and his body was not completely dry.His black trousers were wrinkled and speckled with tan mud.There was also such a yellow-brown mud spot on his top hat, as if someone had thrown a ball of mud at him from a distance.There is a conspicuous large triangle cut on the back of the black jacket.Such openings are often formed when clothing gets caught on a dry branch or on a nail protruding from the wall.The back of the jacket is slightly lowered, and a yellow-brown cocklebur is glued on, which is the old Chinese cocklebur in the dialect.Such an old man still has one sticking to his elbow, and another on the back of his trousers. The visitor from the swamp sat down on the bunk, took off his black top hat, and began to pull out various things from it as if by magic.Those who watched the scene from the upper bunk were surprised to see that in the top hat there appeared a toothbrush and tooth powder, a bar of soap with strawberry flavor, a towel, some handkerchiefs, spare socks, and lastly, two raw embroidered clothes. Iron nails and a length of copper wire. I didn't know that I was so absorbed in watching this scene that I didn't even notice that the train had started and they were already on their way.