Chapter 69 The repair shop is really not doing good things
Finally, the mother and her two children decided to go and take a look.
Seeing that the rolling door is closed and cannot be opened with a key from the outside, it means that it is bolted from the inside, which is indeed a sign of "doing business". If the door can be opened directly, it means that it is locked for other reasons.
This is a secret code known to the family.
They knocked on the door, but no one came to open it and no one answered.
The mother and her two children couldn't help but panic. They knocked on the door louder and louder, and shouted the names of her husband and eldest son, but there was still no movement behind the rolling door.
Instead, it attracted the surrounding neighbors.
"Are you okay? What happened?"
"Can't you open the door?"
"I remember the store was closed for the whole afternoon. Did the boss go out to play cards again?"
"The boss has been addicted to playing cards lately. The boss's wife needs to keep a close eye on him. Our four sons are getting married. This can't be acceptable." There were also housewives who ran out with bowls in their hands to watch the fun and lecture the boss's wife.
The proprietress had no energy to deal with the neighbors at the moment. She responded vaguely with "hmm" and "ah" and asked her youngest son to go to the nearby steel processing shop to call the boss for help.
"The door is locked. I can't open it no matter how hard I try. I don't know if your father is dead or alive in there. Just tear it down. Go now."
The younger son ran away and brought back the shop owner in a few minutes. The owner brought a saw that could cut rolling doors.
"You don't want this door anymore? Then I'll open it?"
"Open, open, open. How much is this broken door worth? I want the person inside."
The proprietress' voice was filled with tears, and more and more neighbors gathered around. Many people who passed by here during the day mentioned that the shop was closed in the afternoon. They hadn't seen the shop owner doing business for half a day, and no one knew what he was doing.
"Okay, okay, stand aside."
The steel store owner started the saw, pressed down the rolling door, and as sparks flew from the metal cutting, he slowly cut out a hole large enough for a person to pass through.
"Oh, there's no light on inside."
The boss was still operating and the onlookers were still watching, but through the open gap one could see that it was pitch black inside and there was no light.
Now even the neighbors had a bad feeling.
The proprietress swayed twice and almost lost her balance, but none of her three sons noticed their mother. They were only busy watching the steel shop owner's operations.
No one among the neighbors came forward to help. They had been neighbors for many years and knew how well this family’s auto repair business was doing, but they thought that others didn’t know.
It’s not that no one wanted to get a piece of the pie in the past, but they all ended up badly. Some people have never been seen again, and when asked about it, they said they had moved away.
Whether it is a real move or a fake move, that’s all for now.
The steel store owner finally cut off the last bit of connection, and the cut rolling shutter door panel fell to the ground with a bang. Before the owner could turn off the saw, he was hit hard. The three sons rushed in impatiently, not caring about the lives of others.
"Fuck! You guys are rushing to die!"
The steel store owner was so angry that he started cursing, turned off the saw, and stormed away.
I'm too lazy to watch the excitement of this place.
Before I had walked far, I suddenly felt a light behind me, and then heard two loud shouts.
"dad!"
"Big brother!"
The sound seemed like a signal, and the neighbors who were watching rushed in and blocked the proprietress outside.
She was so anxious that she was jumping up and down in the back, but no one gave way to her. They all wanted to rush in to see the excitement firsthand.
The steel store owner also wanted to watch the fun, but when he looked at the saw in his hand, he decided not to do so. If someone was injured while watching the fun, there would be a lot of trouble. They were all neighbors, and they all knew each other.
As the crowd poured into the small repair shop, exclamations rose one after another, with high and low tones, which together sounded like an opera.
"Hey hey, call the police!"
"Call an ambulance, call an ambulance!"
"I didn't bring my phone, who has one?"
"What are you three doing? Make a phone call!"
"Where's the boss lady? Where did she go?"
"The boss lady didn't squeeze in." "You are sick, you blocked the boss lady outside."
"Did she bring her phone? Ask her to go home and get the phone to call the police."
In the small secret room where three people died, the three sons stood inside and hurriedly took out their phones to call the police.
At the same time, a nosy neighbor spread the word and asked the proprietress to call the police.
"Old man! My eldest son!"
Upon hearing the bad news, the proprietress's legs immediately went weak and she fell to the ground and began to cry loudly.
Inside the shop, the neighbors still did not disperse, looking at the scene and discussing it in a buzzing manner.
"Oh my god, how could three grown men die in a place like this?"
"Everyone is completely cold. It's been several hours."
"Could it have happened after the rolling door was pulled?"
"Alas, we don't know how they died. There's no strange smell inside, and they don't have any injuries. It's impossible that all three of them died of a sudden illness, right?"
"We'll know when the police come. We don't know how he died."
"Hey, there are three people here. Besides the father and son, who is the other person?"
"I don't know. I don't know him."
"Anyway, he's definitely not a resident here."
"Certainly not."
"Alas, let's go, there's nothing to see. It's bad luck if you see too much."
"Yes, yes, my family is having dinner. I'm going home to eat."
"Let's go."
The neighbors, who had seen enough of the excitement, finally dispersed and filed out through the small incision.
The proprietress then crawled in to take a last look at her husband and eldest son.
"Husband! Son! How did you leave?"
"Did someone harm you?"
"Tell me in your dreams what happened, and I will avenge you."
The sons beside him roared impatiently.
"Mom, stop shouting. You're calling the police. You can't hear what's going on on the other end."
"Call the police? Yes, call the police. Someone must be harming our family. Call the police now."
The proprietress looked around blankly and found a familiar face. She crawled over and took a closer look. She discovered that it was the person who often supplied goods to her husband. She started shouting again in panic.
"No, no, you can't call the police, you can't call the police!"
The sons put down the phone.
"The report has been made. The police and ambulance will be here soon."
"You're going to die! You don't even take a closer look at this guy's face. Can you call the police? What will you say when the police come? The car thief who goes to the police station every day and your father and eldest brother died in a place like this. Are you afraid that the police will not guess that our family is the pilot who handled the matter?"
The three sons then looked down, and they were so scared that they broke out in cold sweats.
"Fuck!"
"You called the police before you even saw the person clearly? I taught you all these days in vain? Why are you so stupid?"
"It was the neighbors who kept yelling to call the police. We panicked when we saw dad and eldest brother and didn't pay any attention to the other person."
"You guys really piss me off. You called the police so quickly?"
"If the police come to ask, we can just say he came to repair his car. Even if the police suspect him, do they have evidence?" The younger son retorted unconvinced.
"He came to fix the car. Where's the car?"
(End of this chapter)