In the evening, Gu Ziqiang found a rice noodle shop and ordered a bowl of the cheapest rice noodles for dinner.
Originally, she wanted to go to Tao's house for a meal, but Tao Guanghui told her aunt that she wouldn't go back if there was no fire at home recently.
So it was useless for Gu Ziqiang to go to Tao's house.
Moreover, the aunt looked at him as if he were a thief and refused to let him go upstairs at all.
Although Gu Ziqiang wanted to get something from Tao's house to help him out, he didn't have the courage.
After all, there are guards guarding the place. As long as the aunt screams, he will be arrested immediately.
He was really embarrassed by that slut recently. He had to think of a way to get some more money and pay off the usurious loan quickly.
Gu Ziqiang was eating while thinking about it.
Two workers sat down at the table behind him.
Gu Ziqiang caught a glimpse of them from the corner of his eye and turned slightly so that the other party could not see his face.
As expected, the two workers didn't see him and were just chatting.
"I did seven or eight more jobs this afternoon. I'm really exhausted."
"Haha, if Yang Minhui hadn't snatched away a few of them, we wouldn't be able to finish today."
"To be honest, this is really profitable. You can earn thirty or forty yuan for each one. I think Comrade Zhang Hongmei collected another three hundred yuan today."
"Hey, the income is high, but the costs are also high."
Gu Ziqiang felt ecstatic after hearing this.
It's more than two hundred again. If he can get it, he can pay off the loan shark, and then use his salary to make up for the shortfall in public funds, and that's it.
With this thought in mind, he quickly got up and left while the people behind him didn't see him.
When he walked to an alley not far from the dormitory, someone called him from behind: "What a coincidence, Comrade Gu Ziqiang."
Gu Ziqiang turned around and saw that it was the fat man who lent him a loan shark. He was so frightened that he turned around and ran away.
It's just that the other end of the alley has been blocked.
One against three, the opponents are all tough men, he doesn't have that ability.
Gu Ziqiang calmed down and said, "I was just going to find you to pay back the money."
Those people laughed: "Everyone who was stopped by us said the same thing."
Gu Ziqiang took out the ten dollars and said, "I'm different from others."
The man took it with a look of disgust on his face: "Such a small amount of money is not enough to pay back the interest."
Gu Ziqiang said: "Give me some time."
"I've given you a lot of time." The man smiled and took out a knife: "According to the rules of the road, if you don't pay back more than one day, you will get one finger. How many days have you been owed?"
Gu Ziqiang was so frightened that his lips were numb and he said sternly: "Do you still have a government in your eyes? How dare you persecute a revolutionary mass like this."
The man said: "Yes, but the government didn't tell people not to pay back the money they owe."
Gu Ziqiang wanted to take action, but was punched in the stomach by the person next to him. He bent over in pain and became speechless.
Then someone grabbed his wrist and pinned him to the wall.
The man took out a knife and was about to cut it.
Gu Ziqiang felt the cold knife at the base of his finger and screamed hysterically: "I am Tao Guanghui's lover. I will go to Tao Guanghui tonight to get the money. I can return it to you tomorrow. You are just doing it to make money, why bother to hurt yourself?"
And me."
When the man heard this, he stopped and asked, "You are really Tao Guanghui's lover. Then why didn't you ask Tao Guanghui for it in the first place and asked me to borrow it?"
Gu Ziqiang said: "Yes. Last time I bought something for Zhang Hongmei, so of course I couldn't borrow it from Tao Guanghui. Now I want to save my life. Tao Guanghui is also my lover, and I won't refuse to save her even if I die."
The man nodded and put away the knife: "Okay, I'll give you one more day. Anyway, if you can run away, the monk can't run away from the temple."
Gu Ziqiang was let go, and with lingering fear, he asked: "If I pay you back tomorrow, how much will I have to pay back? Tell me the amount, so that I can pay you enough at once, and you will come after me if I save the money in the future."
The man calculated and said: "In addition to the ten yuan that I paid today, if you pay it off at once tomorrow, you will have to give me another three hundred and forty yuan. If you pay it back the day after tomorrow, it will be different."
Gu Ziqiang almost cursed: It's really snowballing, it's too much. In just a few days, three hundred has become three hundred and fourteen.
But he knew that he was now in someone else's hands and there was no way he could reason.
He could only answer: "Okay, got it."
The man patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, I'll wait for you."
Then a few people walked away slowly.
Only then did Gu Ziqiang feel that his back was wet with cold sweat, and he rubbed the fingers he almost lost with lingering fear.
Only Tao Guanghui can save him now, go find Tao Guanghui!
Gu Ziqiang only had this idea in his mind.
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There are two types of dormitories for county party committee staff. One is inside, where more important people live. The other is outside, where ordinary staff live.
Gu Ziqiang came back at that time and asked Tao Guanghui to help him apply for a dormitory inside the county committee. Tao Guanghui ignored him. He had no choice but to live outside.
Tao Guanghui lived in the single dormitory of the county party committee, which was only a few doors away from Zhang Hongmei's dormitory.
Gu Ziqiang went outside the dormitory and knocked on the door: "Tao Guanghui, are you there? I have something urgent to ask you."
After filming for a long time, no one paid attention to him.
Gu Ziqiang thought, could it be that Tao Guanghui was just using this place to deceive others? Otherwise, he had come here so many times and never saw Tao Guanghui once.
There was a lot of commotion in Zhang Hongmei's room that day, and Tao Guanghui didn't show up either.
Where should he find Tao Guanghui? He didn't know where Tao Guanghui's other residence was.
He went around to the back and saw that the window of Tao Guanghui's room was closed and dark.
On the contrary, the window of Zhang Hongmei's room was open.
Tao Guanghui must have kept all the money at home, not in the single dormitory. Even if he went in, it would be useless.
What Zhang Hongmei's two workers said today flashed through his mind: "They collected another three hundred yuan."
Gu Ziqiang gritted his teeth and thought to himself: "What are you afraid of? That money is mine!"
He jumped up, climbed up through the window on the second floor, and climbed into Zhang Hongmei's room.
Zhang Hongmei was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, as if she was asleep.
Gu Ziqiang wished that she fell asleep to avoid another conflict when she woke up.
He tiptoed to the table, and as soon as he touched the drawer, Zhang Hongmei behind him suddenly screamed at the top of his lungs: "Come on, someone is playing hooligans."
Since ancient times, a chill has stood on end.
Before he could react, several people rushed in from outside and pushed him down on the table.
Gu Ziqiang pretended to be surprised and looked at Zhang Hongmei: "We have been together for such a long time, and I don't know how many times we have gone to bed. You are willing to be with me, but why have you turned into a hooligan?"
Zhang Hongmei seemed to have not heard what Gu Ziqiang said at all, and cried: "I was sleeping well, and he came in through the window. He also broke in yesterday, robbed my money and ran away. Today he dares to come. It's really
It’s so outrageous. Comrades from the police, you have to make the decision for me.”
Only then did Gu Ziqiang realize that the people holding him down were two uniformed police officers.
