Chapter 160(1/2)
"Sem, I still won't participate in this. First of all, I'm not the boss, so I can't decide on this matter. Secondly, there are not too many inventory in my store, probably not enough for you." Chen Chu refused politely, but what he said was the truth.
"Don't you really think about it? We're all suffering. It's not easy to do it normally. I originally planned to buy some for them, but since you don't decide to take this, I'll talk to them tomorrow." Seme said with disappointment.
Chen Chu didn't say anything, he still couldn't believe Seme.
During the meal, Chen Chu asked Emily what gifts she wanted. Emily was very sensible and said she didn't want them. Even Semm said that the child was still young and the family was poor, so it was not suitable for buying any gifts.
Chen Chu no longer insisted. Since Emily Bu said, it would be fine if you think about it. During the meal, Chen Chu said that he should not let Emily go out to sell matches in the near future. If the money is not enough, he will still have it here. And when he goes out in the evening, Emily also sent it out. Chen Chu lowered his head and reminded: "Don't come out again in the near future. If Seme must drive her out, then come to find yourself or go to the store."
Emily nodded and agreed, her golden hair was swaying, making Chen Chu unable to help but reach out and touch it again.
"Little Emily, I have one more thing to tell you."
"What's the matter with Uncle George?"
"You see, I'm only seventeen years old now, not much older than Emily. Although I'm a little mature, Emily will call me brother in the future, otherwise I will be sad."
"Hehe." Emily smiled embarrassedly when she heard the front. In fact, he called Uncle Chen Chu mainly because Chen Chu wanted to be brotherly with his father, and George really looked like an uncle. However, after hearing it, Chen Chu said that he would be sad. Emily quickly changed her words and said, "Okay, okay, Brother George, don't be sad. I will call you Brother George from now on. It's true that Emily is only eight years old and rarely feels sad. Brother George is really like a child."
"Of course, otherwise how could I become good friends with Emily?"
“That’s right.”
Chen Chu chatted at the door for a while, then said goodbye to Emily and went back to his own home.
Time flies, and it is the day of the old year. Chen Chu doesn't plan to set up a stall today. After all, it's the New Year. He sits in the store and goes to buy roasted turkey after get off work, and then goes home to celebrate the New Year with Emily. This is the first exotic New Year he has ever lived. There are no dumplings, no dumplings, no firecrackers, and no couplets.
But it should have a unique flavor.
Unexpectedly, when Chen Chu first arrived at the store, the boss suddenly looked at him.
"George, it's the Chinese New Year today. I didn't plan to arrange for you to go out, but suddenly a friend who helped me came to me and said that his friend at the dock wanted to order a batch of shoes from me. There was the last batch of stock in the store. Can you send it for me?"
Chen Chu frowned as he heard this.
"Do you give me shoes?" Chen Chu murmured in his heart. This is exactly the same as what Sem said some time ago. Thinking deeper, there must be something strange about this matter. There are so many people at the dock, and there must be a source of goods. Why do you have to purchase goods from here?
Seeing that Chen Chu was hesitant, the boss instinctively wanted to be stern, but thinking that Chen Chu had sold all the goods that had been accumulated in his store for a long time in the past month, he couldn't help but slow down and said, "George, please help me go once. Today my wife brings the children to my place, and I will pick them up later."
This was the first time Chen Chu heard his boss say this to him. He stayed here for more than a month. He also knew that his boss’s wife and children were usually in the countryside and would only come once during the Chinese New Year. Finally, he nodded, "Okay, I'll go."
If anything happens, you will act again by chance.
So Chen Chu took the goods directly towards the dock.
At the same time, the boss also closed the store and went to the station to pick up his wife and children.
Chen Chu took the carriage and cargo straight to the dock, thinking that he would go and return early, and that he had no power here. Even if Sem hated him, he would not be able to use such a great amount of energy to deal with him.
Then you can go back after you have handed over the goods. At that time, you will buy a turkey for Emily, and you will need the kind that fills the belly with apples and spices, and the appearance is crispy.
The price of roasting turkey here is extremely high, even more expensive than the most expensive shoes in the store. It is absolutely fine for the rich, and the food is only available on the Rich Street. The poor can only go to the window there to enjoy the pleasure, and even smell it is a luxury.
It takes 40 kroners to buy one.
The store naturally needs to close all the fragrance in the store, so the poor don’t even think about getting close to the door.
Chen Chu thought that as long as he could survive today, he would be fine.
Chen Chu thought, but he was about to reach the dock, and it started to snow.
But when I just walked here for cross-examination and registration, a team of soldiers suddenly came over.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm here to deliver some goods to the workers on the dock, which they ordered before."
"Delivery? Open it and let's check it out!" the soldier said without hesitation, but his hands were not slow at all.
He pulled Chen Chu down and started to look inside.
Chen Chu suddenly felt a bad premonition. Sure enough, after they watched it for more than two minutes, the soldiers came over and muttered a few words.
"I received a report saying that you are smuggling, let's go with us now!" The leader said, waved his hand and directly detained Chen Chu without giving him a chance to defend himself.
Until this time, Chen Chu didn't know why Seme had such great energy.
But Chen Chu had no choice but to resist. Denmark had already begun the industrial revolution, and weapons were naturally not cold weapons. If so, Chen Chu could try to resist. However, if this is the case, he might have to make plans for what he would do later.
And if you resist, based on your weakened body, the success rate will be two different.
Finally, Chen Chu was taken back.
As for the New Year, the team leader probably wasn't here, so Chen Chu was directly asked what was going on.
"Fortunately, I was tortured before I came up, otherwise I would have lost the task if I failed like this." Chen Chu thought to himself, and told the truth.
"Are you from the shoemaker shop in the slums?" asked a person wearing clothes and even Chen Chu didn't know.
"Yes, the boss will pick up his wife today and he will probably go back to the store." Chen Chu didn't know if the boss had participated, but no matter what, Chen Chu could only bet that the boss would help him clarify. At that time, the matter would touch the boss's friends, and he would definitely weaken.
So the person who looked like a school leader asked him to bring the boss over alone, and he stayed here to continue asking.
"You said your goods came from Aarhus?"
"Sheriff, to be honest, no, this is all from my store, but this is just a basic business method. Just like the pure wild turkeys they said in the rich areas are actually just artificially raised. My prices are sometimes lower than those in the market, which is not a deception at all." Chen Chu explained, this does not count now.
But at this moment, someone suddenly walked in.
The sheriff looked at Chen Chu: "Now there is a witness."
After saying that, a police officer walked in with Sem. When Sem saw Chen Chu, his expression suddenly became excited: "That's right, it's him. I felt that he was not like a good person early in the morning. He took home countless money every day, and he also beat me, here, here, and here, all were injured. I couldn't even get out of the ground in those days!"
Seim said, pointing at himself.
The sheriff looked at Chen Chu at this time and said, "Do you have anything to say?"
Chen Chu looked at Seme coldly with a murderous look, looking straight at him so hard that the other party dared not look at him again.
Chen Chu calmed down for a moment, then turned around and said, "Sheriff, I can explain all these."
Chen Chu is now in prison (two to two sounds) and Emily is running on the street.
It was obviously fine yesterday, but my father seemed to have a worse attitude towards him this morning. Emily didn't know why. Until noon, her father didn't come back. Brother George also agreed to come back at noon and didn't come back at this time.
Seeing that the window was not locked from outside, Emily opened the window and looked out, it seemed that it was snowing outside, but it didn't matter. Emily was still wearing the more expensive cotton shoes Chen Chu had sold for her before.
But the door was locked again. Emily wanted to go out and ask, but in the end she had to hand the match basket out of the window and hand it out on the stool, and then flip it out herself, but when she flipped it out, she accidentally slipped and fell to the ground with her back on the sky.
Even matches were scattered all over the ground.
He endured the pain and got up, Emily packed up the basket, and then came to Chen Chu's door.
"Brother George, are you at home?"
"Emily is here to see you for the New Year!"
But no one responded.
"Brother George should be in the store now." Emily thought to herself.
So he limped into the store.
The snow seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. When Emily walked to the store, she found that the store was closed.
After knocking for a while, no one came to open the door.
Emily then walked towards several streets where Chen Chu often went to buy things, but she didn't hear the familiar figure or the familiar voice.
The weather seemed to be getting colder and colder, and Emily seemed to have turned into a snowman. Only the pair of shoes on her feet could give her a hint of warmth.
Emily didn't know where to go now, but suddenly there were two passing people chatting next to her. Emily seemed to hear them saying: "The young man who had been selling shoes here some time ago seemed to have been caught."
"It's so unbelievable? Why?"
"It seems to be smuggling?"
"Is it their boss who came back with his sister-in-law? He also sued them for taking away the warehouse stuff?"
"Maybe, who knows?"
Emily wanted to run over and tell those people that Brother George did not smuggle, and was not a bad person. She didn't know what smuggling meant, but it could be heard from other people's tone that this was not a good word.
But suddenly someone accidentally hit her by, and the basket fell to the ground again, without even saying a word of sorry, and didn't even know that he had hit a little girl, maybe he was deliberately ignoring it? Maybe.
A poor little poor man is not that important either.
Emily didn't know where to go, so she was going to go home and take a look. On the way, she was still shouting matches, but it was New Year and she didn't sell a single one.
When I went back, I passed by the store and looked at it. The door seemed to be open.
Emily ran over with great joy: "Sir Boss, Mr. Boss, do you know where Brother George is?"
"George? Didn't he go to deliver goods? Haven't he come back yet?" The boss was a little surprised.
"No, I can't find where Brother George is everywhere. Is he lost his way?"
"Of course not. George is so old, so he will definitely not get lost.
As soon as he finished speaking, a police officer came over in the store and asked, "Did George work here?"
"Yes, Mr. Police." The boss just finished speaking, and seemed to feel something was wrong, and then said to the police, "Hello, can we say it in there?"
The police also saw that there were two children and a woman here, and considered it and agreed.
To be continued...