Chapter 77: Evil cannot defeat good
Since he had promised to take the children to the zoo, Gu Jianguo naturally would not break his promise. Since he came with Zhang Mingli and the others, he took the children to find Zhang Mingli first to see if he would leave.
When they arrived at the table tennis room, Zhang Mingli's son, Zhang Xiaoqiang, was playing with a child of about his age. Gu Siqing thought Zhang Xiaoqiang was quite strong, as he could at least catch every ball.
Seeing them, Zhang Mingli came over and said to Gu Jianguo, "Has the coach seen the child?"
Seeing Gu Jianguo nod, he asked again: "What did the coach say?"
Gu Jianguo smiled and said, "The coach said it's okay." He didn't have the habit of bragging about his children everywhere.
"The coach also said that my Xiaoqiang is good and asked him to take the exam during the enrollment next summer." Zhang Mingli said with pride, "I'll let him practice hard in the next six months."
"I think your child is pretty good too." Gu Jianguo didn't know whether to mention the coach letting San Jing pass the New Year's exam. If he did, it would seem like bragging, which would be quite discouraging. If he didn't, since they came together, this information was quite important.
"Are you leaving?" Zhang Mingli asked.
Gu Jianguo nodded and said, "I practiced with the coach for a while. The coach said that the first practice can't be too long."
"Is the coach coaching your child?" Zhang Mingli was a little surprised. These coaches who only look at whether a child has talent generally don't coach them.
Gu Jianguo hummed, "The coach said my child has decent talent and will take the exam after the New Year. I feel time is tight, so I'll let him guide me during this time."
He won't tell anyone about giving money to the coach. Who knows if it will have any impact on the coach?
Zhang Mingli felt a little uncomfortable. Originally, the coach said that his Xiaoqiang was okay, and he was very happy, but now compared with others, the gap is obviously huge.
"That's great. The school has allowed her to take the exam in advance, which means your daughter is very talented." Although Zhang Mingli felt a little uncomfortable, he still praised Sanjing.
Gu Jianguo understood his feelings; everyone wanted their children to be the best and most outstanding. He praised Zhang Xiaoqiang a few more times and then offered to take the child away first.
After leaving the gym, Gu Jianguo stopped by a nearby cotton candy stall and bought a marshmallow for each of the four children. Han Zhengping, feeling he was a grown-up and that holding a marshmallow would ruin his youthful demeanor, refused to accept it. But Gu Jianguo forced one into his hand anyway.
The fair-skinned little boy was holding a marshmallow awkwardly, neither wanting to eat it nor not wanting to eat it. He was so cute that Gu Siqing laughed at him.
Han Zhengping glanced at her and casually stuffed the marshmallow into her hand, "Let me help you with your cavities."
Gu Siqing laughed, "I'm not afraid."
As he said that, he walked over to Gu Sanjing and Han Erpang. The three of them took turns to eat the marshmallow, and finished it in no time.
Gu Jianguo didn't care about the lawsuit between the children and took them to the zoo on the bus. Not only had the children never been to a zoo, but Gu Jianguo had never been to one either.
So everyone had a great time on this trip to the zoo. Gu Siqing and Gu Sanjing even said they wanted their mother and older sisters to come over and see it when they were free.
They took the bus back to the store. As soon as they got off the bus, they saw many people running towards their store. Their hearts were lifted. Gu Jianguo held one of his daughters in each hand, and asked Han Zhengping to hold Han Zhengyang in front. They hurried to the store.
Because they walked so fast, Gu Siqing and the other children were a little out of breath when they reached the store entrance. But what reassured them was that the accident didn't happen in their store, but in Lu Yanping's store next door.
Because there was something exciting to watch, all the customers in the store ran out to watch. Gu Erhui and the others closed the door and went next door.
Gu Siqing moved closer to Gu Erhui and asked quietly, "What's going on?"
Gu Erhui had a happy smile on her face. "I heard that the customs officials came to confiscate their clothes and wanted to burn them on the spot."
Gu Siqing opened her mouth in surprise, "So fast?"
Gu Erhui was amused by her words, "It's so fast, let's go and watch the fun."
A lot of people were already gathered at the door next door to watch the fun. Gu Siqing, relying on her small stature, pulled Gu Erhui inside. The onlookers initially made way for her because she was a little girl, but they didn't expect a long "tail" of people following behind the little girl: Gu Erhui, Gu Yimin, Gu Sanjing, Han Zhengping, Han Zhengyang, and then Gu Jianguo and Wang Yueju.
Gu Jianguo was too embarrassed to squeeze in, and had to explain to others with a smile, "Children like to watch the excitement."
Inside, seven or eight customs officers were unloading clothes from the store, while another was sitting there checking them in. Lu Yanping and Tang Shaohui stood aside with their heads bowed, like criminals awaiting trial.
Thinking of Lu Yanping's arrogance a few days ago, the Gu family felt relieved. Gu Erhui let out a long breath and whispered to Gu Yimin, "This is what it means that evil cannot defeat good."
Gu Yimin knew she was still upset about Zhu Yujiao's slap, so he held her hand and whispered, "Look, their retribution has come."
"Comrade, were these clothes really taken from dead people?" someone among the onlookers asked the customs officer.
Customs: "These clothes are old clothes smuggled in from abroad. We can't verify whether they were taken from dead bodies, but it is indeed possible."
Upon hearing this, the onlookers automatically filtered the possibility into a certainty, and everyone began to stir. Two people with hot tempers who had bought this kind of clothes squeezed behind Lu Yanping and Tang Shaohui and raised their hands to push them. The two were caught off guard and were pushed to the ground.
"It's really heartless."
"People like this should go to jail."
People around started pointing and talking, and no one knew who stepped forward and kicked the two of them first, but then the situation got out of control and Lu Yanping and Tang Shaohui were beaten up.
Customs officers rushed forward to intervene, and by the time they had cleared the crowd, Lu Yanping and Tang Shaohui were already battered. However, there were so many onlookers that the customs officers didn't know who had done the beatings, so they let the matter drop.
The customs officers took all the clothes to the ground outside, registered them, poured gasoline on the clothes, threw a match on them, and the clothes instantly caught fire.
Because the weather was cold, some of the onlookers even smiled and stretched out their hands to warm themselves by the fire.
Lu Yanping looked at the blazing fire, her heart aching. This was all they had. They had hoped to make their first fortune from these clothes, then earn more and more, eventually reaching the pinnacle of their lives. But now, there was nothing left.
Lu Yanping fell to the ground and started crying, cursing Tang Shaohui while crying: "It's all because of you, you coward! If you had the ability, would we have come to this point? It's all your fault!"
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