Chapter 37: Eating the Bitter Fruit of Ourselves (1)

As expected, on the second day of Chen Mo's meeting, a truck drove into Shanghai Middle School to deliver soap to the school's laundry room.

The laundry room has been completely replaced by the washing machine that has spread to thousands of households in later generations. Laundry, although it is the most common household chore, is also time-consuming and laborious. Especially in this day and age, there is no hot water that is continuously available twenty-four hours a day. Before winter, when washing clothes, people's hands will be red and swollen from the cold.

Therefore, people with more well-off families will not wash their own clothes, but will hand over their dirty clothes to the laundry room. Although it seems to be a bit of an expense, once a large-scale assembly line operation is formed, the cost of things like laundry and cooking will drop significantly. As in later generations, the cost and effort of cooking at home for many people is actually higher than going to many small restaurants for a meal.

Therefore, even if you take into account the meager remuneration earned by the washerwoman, the laundry clothes washed in the laundry room are clean and cheap compared to ordinary people.

But it is precisely because of this meager discount that thousands of unemployed women who have left Shanghai Beach can still earn a bowl of rice with their physical strength. Although Shanghai High School is not a charity, it does have a laundry room. On the one hand, it can earn some money for the school and urge students to be clean and tidy, and secondly, it also has the meaning of taking care of poor students. Among them, most of the washerwomen who work are family members of poor students. In order to make the future generations have a good life, in order to prevent the whole family from freezing and starving to death, he is willing to work day after day in the laundry room.

The amount of soap consumed in the laundry room is huge, and it is considered a large user of department stores. Every time you buy soap in large quantities, you get a steep discount. The specific discount depends on the ability of the purchaser. And among them, there is a lot that can be done.

This time, the foreman in charge of purchasing in the laundry contacted a newly opened department store and quoted an unbelievable price, but the quality was acceptable. Even if you count the rebates, it's a lot cheaper than buying from other department stores. Therefore, the foreman in charge of procurement purchased a lot of money at one time for the cost of his own pocket bag and laundry.

There is no doubt that this department store is nothing more than a front for the Zodiac Society. Yu Sheng was standing in the principal's office at this time, seeing a truck full of soap driving into the school, and knew that he was right. It sent a signal to Chang Bu and Ji Yang, who were wandering around the campus. Su Yingjie frowned beside Yu Sheng and said, "Mr. Yu, is the information provided by the military commander's gang accurate?" Could it be just a false alarm? ”

Yu Sheng said: "Principal Su, whether the news is accurate or not, we must be cautious!" What if it's true? The people in the school are all arranged, right? ”

"I have told the entire staff and students to come to the auditorium for a meeting. The auditorium was at least 180 meters from where the truck had stopped. There is also a school building in between. Even if something on the truck does explode, it's not a big deal. ”

"In addition, the few students I arranged with Chang Dou Ji Yang are the most active anti-Japanese elements on weekdays, and they are also strict-mouthed, so it shouldn't be a problem."

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After Chang Buji and Ji Yang saw the reflection from the mirror for the rest of their lives, they put down the basketball, left the playground, and took a few people who had already been arranged, and headed towards the stopped truck.

The truck stopped next to the playground, and several strong men jumped out of the car. Began to curse and unload from the car. They can be regarded as the core members of the Zodiac Society, the die-hard loyalists of the Japanese lackeys, and they also enjoy the glory and wealth by selling their ancestors on weekdays. At this time, I felt that the quality of life had decreased, and my heart was naturally unhappy.

I can't help but scold at the gods and Buddhas, hoping that a few people from the sky will do their work and finish the work for the uncle. Unexpectedly, when I burned incense and made a wish on weekdays, the gods and Buddhas didn't take it seriously, but this time it came true.

A few big men looked at Chang Buji and Ji Yang running over with a few students enthusiastically, and asked, "Do the eldest brothers send soap to the laundry room?" ”

"That's right! That's right! Where's your laundry room? Your school is just a place where you can park trucks, and you have to carry bags of soap over! It's just exhausting a person! ”

Chang Bu couldn't help but laugh with a few students: "If the big brothers are too troublesome, let's move it!" ”

"Huh?" Several big men don't believe that there are such hard-working people in this world, and they are a little vigilant.

Chang Bu couldn't wait for these people to ask, and said: "Actually, I want to thank the bosses of the eldest brother for giving us such cheap soap in the laundry room." Several of us have relatives working in the laundry room, and with these low-priced soaps, we will all get paid more at the end of the month! ”

I see...... Several big men were relieved in their hearts, and they also felt that today's incident was really lucky. The things that President Abnormal and President Zhou ordered to send have been marked, and after a while, they just need to let these stupid students move away. Two hours later, our uncle just listened.

So a few big men didn't stop it, and told Chang Buji and Ji Yang that some soaps belonged to your school and could be moved. Which ones belong to other families, you can't move if you have to send them away later. After all, such a cheap price, if there is only one buyer of the laundry room of Shanghai Middle School, it is a bit strange.

The soaps of this era, except for a small number of high-end goods, are mostly packaged in plain packaging. Usually just a few large sheets of brown paper are used to wrap a dozen or twelve bars of soap. Then tie it up with a rope made of kraft paper. At most, in the bundle, put a small piece of red or green paper, print the manufacturer, advertising words, and at most print a beautiful woman with a blurred face and posture, even if it is perfect.

The bomb that the Zodiac prepared for these people was a small mark on the red advertising paper that was mixed in one of the many packets of soap. If you don't pay attention, you will never be able to see it. Although, there will be more explosives in the zodiac, enough to fill a whole box. However, the transport of explosives is also a dangerous act. The more explosives, the more cumbersome it is to transport and the more special handling is required. And this obviously does not apply to shipping soap. It's easy to see the flaws.

Besides, all the Zodiac will do is to constantly create an atmosphere of terror and suppress the anti-Japanese trend. Instead of blowing up the entire Shanghai middle school. Therefore, it only needs to be an explosion with casualties, and it is not important how many people died.

Ji Yang took a few people to move the soap one by one under the lazy and staggering posture of the big man. Chang Bu was the only one who jumped on the truck, and handed over the packets of soap on the truck under the watchful eyes of several big men. And chatted with a few big men about seemingly meaningless topics.

"What about the students at your school? So quiet, huh? Don't even go to class? ”

"Our principal had a brain convulsion and called everyone to the auditorium for a meeting. I guess what kind of speech and mobilization will be done again! A couple of us slipped out to play basketball. ”

"Aren't you afraid of being discovered by the teacher?"

"What if you find out? It's not the first time......"

"Hey, you kid is interesting, like us in the rivers and lakes! Why don't you like to go to class and stay in school? ”

"Oh, big brother, you don't know the benefits in school. The whole Shanghai is so chaotic, and it is only in the school that we will not be bullied! There's a reason why I don't want to read, but I just learned "Thousand Character Text", and at this time I have to do analytic geometry, isn't it a bit of a trick......"

"Brother, you are much more talented than your eldest brother, and I don't understand any of these birds and things you said......"

The big man led by him didn't chat with Ji Yang and a few people. I was secretly relieved to see that the marked soap package had been moved. Wait for a few students to unload all the soap from Shanghai Middle School from the car. A few big men of the Zodiac Society smiled and exchanged polite words with a few students, and then got in the car and left.

The truck ran all the way back to the department store opened by the Zodiac under a pseudonym. The owner of the department store breathed a sigh of relief after counting the remaining soap. Said: "Recently, the Japanese have been persecuting so badly, and President Chang and President Zhou have no choice but to do so." From the time you delivered the things to the time you returned, it had been an hour and forty minutes. The bomb was set to explode for two hours, and it was troublesome for the brothers to wait another twenty minutes. When the bomb goes off, we can give an account to the president. ”

A few big men agreed, and rested crookedly in the warehouse behind the door of the department store. Minutes and seconds passed. The department store owner looked at the pocket watch in his hand and muttered in a low voice, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!" Explode! ”

Then, there was a roar in the department store, and twelve packets of explosives the size of soap blew up the roof of the department store and all kinds of daily necessities. Scattered in all directions. Fall into the street. It was picked up by the poor people of Shanghai who were passing by. Getting a little ordinary, seemingly complete daily necessities for free is like winning the lottery for them.

And the owner of the department store did what he said, and together with a few delivery men, he was broken down into parts by the bombs he made.