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    The Loan
    The Loan
    The Loan
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    The Loan

    By FM

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    What’s the worst thing that can happen to you if you fail to pay the loan sharks on time?
    Harassment, threats, bloody spray paint on the wall . . . All these paled in comparison to what one mother and son duo experienced at the hands of the ruthless Li brothers. The gangsters preyed on their victims with impunity, committing unspeakable acts while the police turned a blind eye.
    But this time, the victims fought back.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFM
    Release dateDec 20, 2017
    ISBN9781370459643
    The Loan

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      The Loan - FM

      The Loan

      Copyright 2018 FM

      Published by FM at Smashwords

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      Contents

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      May 2, Monday

      May 3, Tuesday

      May 4, Wednesday

      May 18, Wednesday

      May 19, Thursday

      May 24, Tuesday

      August 3, Wednesday

      Other Books by FM

      Disclaimer

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      In other words, nothing is real.

      May 2, Monday

      How much do we have? Zhang Yan asked her son. She was seated behind the big yellow wooden desk, her forehead creased in worry.

      Thirty thousand yuan. Zhang Xiong said. He was sitting in a chair in front of the wooden desk, his legs folded, his fingers tapping nervously on the edge of the desk. It was a bad habit, he knew. But he couldn’t help it. His glasses kept slipping off his nose bridge. He should have gotten a new pair months ago, but there was neither time nor money for that.

      How much back salary do we owe? Zhang Yan swivelled her head to look out at the factory floor. Her office was located at a corner of the factory, separated from the workers by a glass panel. She could see the workers in white plastic caps and white gloves, busy screwing on caps to the glass bottles. The assembly line hummed with activity, but she wasn’t sure how long it was going to last.

      Two thousand yuan per month per worker, times two months, times fifteen workers. That’s sixty thousand. Zhang Xiong said. He didn’t need a calculator for that figure. He’d graduated with a business degree, albeit from an admittedly third-rate university. He was the bookkeeper of the family-run business, as well as the general factory manager.

      But all the heavy lifting was done by his mother, who met supermarket owners and distributors and wholesalers in a daily marathon of non-stop meetings in order to drum up business,

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