Chapter 450 - 12: Guardian (10-Fan Bonus - )
"Half a month already, and you still can’t figure out what disease it is?"
Next to the crab pond at Miyun Reservoir, Huang Tengchong cursed loudly into the phone, his voice so loud that the nearby crab-farming workers all stopped their activities.
The person in charge of supervising, formerly from Milk Feed Factory, scolded: "Get moving, get moving, don’t just stand there like a block of wood, the boss is paying you to work, not to stand around like wooden logs."
In mid-July, each Hairy Crab in the Miyun Reservoir has grown to over two taels. In just another couple of months, they could be sold during the Gui Xiang moon-viewing season. Theoretically, my brother-in-law should be in high spirits, but his mood is even more unpredictable than the weather in June. Now, at great expense, he has hired dozens of people to catch Hairy Crabs, which aren’t even in season yet, claiming he needs to transport them elsewhere.
The Milk Feed Factory had been shut for several months, and its supervisor thickened his skin to obtain his current job, but he didn’t have the nerve to ask Huang Tengchong why he was doing this. As a supervisor not needing to enter the water for fishing, he squatted at the edge of the crab pond, lighting a cigarette, critically observing each Hairy Crab being fished out.
As soon as Huang Tengchong hung up the phone, he hastily stood up, "Brother-in-law? Who’s sick? It’s not your significant other, is it?" The person in charge of the Milk Feed Factory secretly hoped that Huang Tengchong’s wife, a bureau chief, would kick the bucket sooner so his own sister might replace her officially, and then he would rightfully become a brother-in-law, no longer needing to supervise crab-catching in this godforsaken place.
"You’ll die before she does. You’re from the countryside, typically speaking, what should you do if a bee stings you?" The night they caused trouble at Yanqing Farm, the people at the farm were fine, but the mob leader they hired got injured.
Initially, Huang Tengchong didn’t take it seriously, paid a few thousand yuan to register him in a big hospital, thinking he’d be discharged in a few days. Then they’d wait for his discharge, Zhu Xiaoxian from school would also be on vacation, and then they’d thoroughly deal with that family of three.
Who knew that after the mob leader was admitted, he began vomiting and had diarrhea, running a high fever for three to five days, becoming delirious, and blurted out all his misdeeds hired by others in front of doctors and nurses.
When the news reached Huang Tengchong, he immediately transferred the delirious mob leader to a private clinic. The test results from a standard hospital showed it was a bee sting.
"Man, I thought it was some serious disease. Isn’t it just a wild bee? That’s simple. Back when I was farming, I used to get stung by bees all the time. Just crush some ginger or garlic and apply the juice on the wound. If you don’t mind the mess, apply some cow dung, and in a few days the stinger comes out, and it’s all healed. City folks are so delicate; getting troubled by a bee sting still needs to disturb my brother-in-law, they really deserve to die," the person in charge of Milk Feed Factory began to show off, talking about local remedies, but that’s how villagers treat themselves, people who grew up running bare-butt in rural areas all have experiences of being bitten or stung.
"You make it sound so simple, I’ve already spent fifty to sixty thousand yuan. Cupping to pull out bee stingers, ammonia and acetic acid, we even used antivenom serum meant for treating snake bites, and the guy is still lying in the clinic, his whole right arm swollen like a mallet," hearing brother-in-law speak this way, the person in charge of Milk Feed Factory was dumbfounded, unable to believe a bee sting could progress to such an extent, so he urged Huang Tengchong to take him to see the situation.
In the private clinic, the mob leader, who had been moaning days earlier, didn’t even have the strength to murmur now. His arm had just one wound but because these days were hot and the clinic’s conditions were poor with no air-conditioning, the arm bitten by the bee was already festering, emitting a rotten smell. Even if the venom from the bee is cured, the arm might still have to undergo bone scraping, and it might not even be salvageable.
When Huang Tengchong arrived with people, the big boss of the mob leader was also sitting inside the clinic with seven or eight underlings, all with bare arms, looking menacing and fierce, which scared the unlicensed clinic doctor to hide in the outer room, absolutely refusing to come in.
"Boss Huang, you decided to show up finally. My brother ended up half-dead because of your business, how do you plan to settle this?" These hooligans were all part of Beijing’s underground power network, previously, their cooperation with Huang Tengchong, which involved financial transactions, had been pleasant. It was just this time they went to a rural area to burn down a raggedy farm and ended up causing such a mess.