845 The Stall Is Smashed Up
“Impossible! My son is even afraid of killing chickens! How can he attack someone on the streets! You must be lying to me!” Old Madam Fan said.
Xia He kept her eyes fixed on the door. This was the first time she looked forward to seeing Xia Wen so much. Only Xia Wen could handle such matters. She really could not hold it in anymore.
Just as Old Madam Fan was getting tired of making her one-sided arguments, Xia Wen finally arrived.
Xia He looked at him with a great deal of gratitude in her eyes. She quickly patted Xia Wen’s shoulder and said to the police officer, “My eldest brother is here. I’m leaving. Talk to my brother about the rest.”
Xia He had already told Xia Wen the whole story over the phone. Furthermore, during this period of time, the Xia family’s spies had also already reported this matter to Xia Wen. Therefore, she did not need to stay here anymore.
“Hey, hey, hey! What right do you have to leave!” Old Madam Fan asked as she pointed at Xia He.
Xia Wen blocked Old Madam Fan’s line of sight and said, “I’m her eldest brother. You can talk to me.”
Old Madam Fan looked at Xia Wen’s refined appearance and thought that he was someone easy to bully. She sat on the stool and thought about how to trick him. In reality though, their good days were over.
Li Gui packed up some popcorn at home together with the remaining seeds. Tonight, she still went to the cinema to set up a stall. As soon as she arrived, many people gathered around to buy things from her. The popcorn also sold very well.
“What is this? Is it a new product?” a customer asked.
Li Gui said warmly, “This popcorn is our family’s new product! It’s sweet and delicious! It’s also 50 cents a bag. Everyone, come and try it!”
At this moment, a group of people walked over with their hands in their pockets. They pushed through the crowd and came in front of Li Gui.
“Get out of the way! Get the hell out of the way!”
“Can’t you see that we’re here! Move aside quickly!”
Li Gui hurriedly shielded the two children behind her and looked nervously at the men in front of her.
“Um… big brothers, what do you… want to buy?” Li Gui said in a trembling voice.
The person leading the group was a peddler in the vicinity, though it was not the person who had a stall at the entrance of the cinema. All the peddlers had seen their business getting worse by the day. It was all because of the seeds and popcorn that Li Gui sold that made it difficult for everyone to do business.
The man in the lead stepped on Li Gui’s stall and said disdainfully, “Who says you can set up a stall here?”
“I… anyone can use any random place nearby…” Li Gui whispered.
The man kicked the stall over, causing popcorn and seeds to fall all over the ground. Zhang Qin angrily broke free from Li Gui’s arms and pointed at the man as she shouted, “Why did you kick over our stall! Apologize!”
“Come back!” Li Gui was so frightened that she hurriedly pulled Zhang Qin into her arms and apologized to the man, “I’m sorry, big brother! That… the child is insensible and she didn’t do it on purpose! I’m sorry! We’ll leave now! We won’t set up a stall here anymore!”
These people’s goal was not to stop Li Gui from setting up the stall today, but to get her to tell them where she got the seeds from. They wanted to know where she had bought them and how she got them so that they could also make money. They did not like the fact that she was the only one making money.
“As for us, we’re not here to cause trouble for you on purpose. We really can’t survive anymore. By doing this, you’ve left us brothers without any income. We haven’t had any sales for three to four days. Just tell us where you got these seeds,” the man asked patiently.
“My daughter brought this from the village! It’s not available locally! We don’t have any more left!” Li Gui said truthfully.
However, the man did not believe what Li Gui said at all. How could such a good thing be all gone? She must be lying to them.
“Really nothing left?” the man asked.
Li Gui quickly nodded and said, “It’s true! These are my last batch of seeds! There’s really no more!”
“It’s alright if you don’t want to talk. Brothers! Smash all these things!” With that, the man walked away coolly.
The people he brought along smashed Li Gui’s stall to pieces and even removed the wooden planks. The small three-wheeled vehicle that Li Gui bought some time ago was also smashed up and had all its wheels removed. Now, it was just a pile of scrap metal.
This was the first time Li Gui had encountered such a thing. She did not expect these people to be even worse than the nasty people in the village. The people standing around did not dare to go up to help, afraid that they would get implicated.
