Unlike my brother's family business, the families of the other eighteen people either own shops or are company employees.
And today, without exception, they were all suddenly hit hard.
Families with local shops were suddenly asked to vacate their premises, with landlords even willing to pay a high breach penalty.
Company employees were suddenly fired or directly transferred to a branch in another city.
Even a few who were simply attending school locally couldn't avoid it; though they couldn't be expelled, their family's jobs back home were also affected to some extent.
In one short evening, none of the nineteen people were spared.
The small group of nineteen people was suddenly in an uproar.
[This is too much! The Jennings Family forced my family's shop to be taken over! What gives them the right? Is there no law anymore?!]
[My dad got fired from the company! My brother-in-law even called home to yell at me!]