"Lin's Shop" is set in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River in China in 1931. Through the struggle of small industrial and commercial workers to survive and eventually collapse, as well as the fate of Boss Lin's family, it shows the intrigues and "big business" of the entire society at that time. The dark reality of "fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp"?

Plot summary:

In 1931, Japan’s armed invasion of China aroused great anger among the people across the country. Young students from all over the country launched a movement to boycott Japanese goods. This trend has also spread to a small town in the Hangjiahu area of ????Zhejiang.

Lin Mingxiu, the daughter of the owner of Lin's shop, was despised by her classmates for wearing a Japanese cheongsam. She went home crying in shame and anger. At this time, the local Kuomintang party headquarters, through Chairman Yu of the Chamber of Commerce, went to various stores to extort money under the pretext of inspecting Japanese goods.

That night, Boss Lin bribed Chairman Yu with 400 yuan and obtained the tacit consent to sell Japanese goods. As a result, the Japanese goods were transformed into "domestic goods" and displayed on the shelves of Lin's shop. After the January 28th Incident, a debt collector from a Shanghai commercial bank came to demand debt collection from Boss Lin, and Boss Lin had no choice but to ask the loan sharks. Ask for help.

Extended information:

Introduction to the main characters

1. Boss Lin

He is also a distinguished person in the town and is very good at doing business. shrewd. He was bullied by the powerful, but he also exploited those who were weaker than him. Although he tried his best to survive in troubled times, in the world of big fish eating small fish and small fish eating shrimps, he finally couldn't hold on and had to run away.

2. Aunt Lin

Boss Lin’s wife. Loving and self-respecting, she would rather marry her daughter Mingxiu to a poor shop assistant than let her become a concubine in a wealthy family. When disaster struck, she used her personal money to let her husband and daughter escape, leaving her to deal with everything.

3. Widow Zhang

The poor widow in the town depends on her son Amao and keeps her hard-earned money in Boss Lin's cabinet to earn interest. After Boss Lin went bankrupt and ran away, not only was all her savings wiped out, but her son was also trampled to death in the crowded crowd.

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