War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 355: Gangster (Thanks to the reward from 'Book Friends')
This was the first time that the second sister had seen the gangsters from Tianjin. She usually stayed at the Dagu Shipyard and had no place to see them. So, she found them quite fresh this time.

With her hands in her pockets, she walked to a house in her military uniform, and the jeep that came out of the shipyard stopped at the entrance of the alley.

The Duan family is easy to find in the alley. There are many people gathered in front of the wooden house. The family is so poor that they don’t even have a yard. They just have a house in the alley. The door of the house is the yard door, and the door is the alley. Even so, they are still targeted by a group of people with fancy words.

What kind of people are these hooligans?

It's quite interesting. The collar buttons and chest buttons of the gown must not be fastened. The lapel must be left piled up in front of the body, with the other half of the lapel open. In the middle of winter, the chest hair would show through, and that's how my second sister saw the tattoo on my chest.

In addition, the sleeves had to be rolled up, shoes could not be worn properly but had to be worn with slippers, and people could not stand straight no matter how they stood, either with their legs tilted or leaning on something.

But this group of people were quite well-behaved. They blocked the door and no one dared to go in.

My second sister has seen a lot of gangsters, bandits, ruffians and scoundrels, but she only finds this bunch of hooligans interesting.

There were not many people in the room. Duan Jingwen and his parents stood by the stove. A man was sitting next to the stove, warming his hands. The man had his back to them and did not look at the family. He just said casually, "You guys, don't blame us. Who doesn't have some difficulties these days?" He didn't use any dirty words, as if he was trying to reason with you.

"When your family borrowed the money, we signed a contract that said the money would be repaid within a year, right? Now that New Year's Eve has passed, and today is New Year's Day, I should come to collect the debt, right? Can't you have a little bit of the spirit of contract that foreigners talk about? Logically, you should take the initiative to give the money over, instead of forcing us gangsters to give it every day. It's not up to you to keep your word and it's not up to you to keep it."

"It's clearly money owed since September last year, and the repayment should have been made this September. How could someone come to collect the debt on the first day of the new year!" Duan Jingwen glared with anger on his face and opened his mouth and yelled loudly.

The second sister, who was standing not far away, finally understood that the Duan family had borrowed a sum of money and agreed to pay it back in one year. However, their one year should be from a certain date of this year to a certain date of next year, but when the contract was signed, it was signed within one year. The gangsters seized this loophole and planned to collect a year's interest in a short period of time, which led to today's incident.

The man raised his head, glanced upwards, looked at Duan Jingwen and laughed: "Then we don't know, and we don't understand. We only know that we will do whatever is written in the contract."

This gangster in the room is completely different from the other gangsters. He still has a braid to this day. The braid is behind his back with the tail slightly curled up. There are two big red pompoms on his shoes. You can't tell how he dresses himself.

"What if we don't give it to you?"

Duan Jingwen plucked up the courage to say this, and the man sneered twice: "Okay!" This shout was very clear.

He rolled up his trouser legs to reveal his fair and tender skin. Then he reached out to open the stove lid, inserted his fingers into the round holes in the lid, hooked the lid open with his hand and put it aside. Watching the fire in the stove burning red, he reached his other hand in and took out a piece of wood that was burning and sparking.

He took the quail egg-sized piece of wood that was glowing with fire in his hand, and then placed it directly on the flesh of his thigh!
Duan Jingwen took a step back at this moment. He saw that the hair on the gangster's legs was burnt and his flesh was making a sizzling sound.

The gangster looked up at Duan Jingwen and reached back. A gangster came into the house and handed him a cigarette. Without saying a word, the gangster picked up the burning wood on his leg again, lit the cigarette and said, "Hey, young man, isn't the only thing you do in this life to keep your mouth shut? If you let me and my men poke at the door and you scare them, how are you going to live in the future?"

"Really?" "Don't you want to pay back the money? It's not impossible..." He put the flaming block of wood back on his leg: "But I have never seen anyone who dares not to pay back our Second Master. Today, as long as you can do it according to me, you don't have to pay it back. At this point, as long as you don't tremble, I don't want the money today!" He put the flaming block of wood back on his leg, and his leg was burned until it was smoking!
This isn't a debt collection; this is self-inflicted harm.

But this is the rule in Tianjin!
At the dock, when two gangs were fighting over the dock, they didn't use knives to hack each other, but instead put an oil pan on the ground to boil oil, and then someone came out to throw a copper coin in, and then reached out to grab it out!
If you can't learn, you have to get out immediately. When you are learning, you have to shout: "Which brother can add fuel to the fire? It's too cold here, get out of here!"

Some of the flesh was fried off the bones, and you had to use your fingertips to scoop it out. If you dare to smear vinegar or something like that, people will laugh at you to death, and from now on, there will be no such person as you in Tianjin.

If the winner is still unclear, then some people really jumped into the frying pan and were scalded to death. In those days, countless people died in Tianjin because of the business at the dock.

Duan Jingwen was indeed frightened. He never thought that someone could be such a jerk. He didn't dare to move when he saw the flesh and blood hissing with oil until the fire on the wood was extinguished.

The hoodlum with braids asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Weren't you quite talkative just now?"

"You're not going to say it anymore?"

"That mouth is as shut as a discus. What delicious food did you eat this morning? You're afraid that the aroma will escape. Can you let me, a brother who has never seen the world, smell it too?"

Hahahahaha...

The burly men at the door stood there with their shoulders crossed and laughed. Duan Jingwen was so angry that he stood there gritting his teeth and couldn't say a word.

Seeing this, the second sister finally understood what Xu Chaoyang had said to them in the forest in Northeast China. He said: "I am not afraid of fighting the Japanese, nor am I afraid of death. I dare to charge towards the Japanese's most powerful firepower point, but I am afraid that one day all our actions will be misinterpreted into something else. I am afraid that I can repel the Japanese's attacks countless times, but I can't silence the mouths of my unfilial descendants!"

Before the unfilial descendants had the chance to say anything, didn't Duan Jingwen show it?
Is he the same person now as he was back then when he got drunk and yelled?
The second sister sighed, walked over with her hands in her trouser pockets, and when she reached the door, she didn't say a word, and used her shoulder to push towards the place where the group of thugs were blocking the way. She was knocked by a smaller thug and stumbled. Then she walked into the house from outside.

The gangster who was hit was about to curse, but he shut his mouth when he saw the military uniform on the second sister. Nowadays, anyone wearing a military uniform is not easy to mess with. Gangsters are 'stupid', not 'blind'.

"Useless." The second sister didn't show any kindness to Duan Jingwen. She stood in front of him and cursed him. Then she reached out and picked up a small chair made of broken wooden strips in the house and placed it next to the stove. Then she sat on it...

　Thanks to brother 'book friend 20240821095524913' for the reward. Thank you very much. I am very grateful.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)