Asking for Trouble
Asking for Trouble
"Sure, I see. You take care," the young man with him said.
Hong Nan was sweating severely on his head. His body was shaking badly. "Call the doctor!"
"Sure!" The young man accompanying him quickly ran out to look for a doctor.
A doctor came a moment later.
"I started to have pain in my stomach again," Hong Nan said as he clenched his teeth. He was in severe pain. It was worse than being stabbed and twisted by a knife. "Give me some painkiller!"
"OK, just a moment." The doctor went out to get the medicine and quickly returned. He was followed by a nurse, who gave Hong Nan the injection.
"Oh, dear!" Hong Nan took a big breath of relief.
He thought he would be pain-free for a while.
"Hmm!?" The pain suddenly came back. What the hell is going on?
In the past few days, he was in pain almost every day, mainly in his stomach and head. Normally, the pain would disappear after he had taken a painkiller, so he could settle for a while. However, the situation was different now. The pain came back almost immediately after he had received the medication.
Did they give me the wrong medication?
"Call the doctor!" He was in such horrendous pain that he was like a prawn being throw into boiling oil. He curled up. The pain in his stomach didn't get any better. On the contrary, it got worse. The pain was intolerable.
The doctor who came to check on him was surprised. "What's going on?"
Hong Nan was not supposed to be in severe pain after being injected with a painkiller.
"Give him another dose," the doctor said.
The nurse followed the doctor's instructions, but it still didn't work.
"Change the medication," the doctor said.
There were different types of painkillers. A moment later, the nurse injected a different type of painkiller into Hong Nan's body. However, it didn't work either. He was still screaming in pain on the bed.
"Can you do something? Do something!" Hong Nan shouted.
Shouting didn't reduce the pain.
"Give him some morphine," the doctor said.
Despite advanced medical technology, morphine was still the most effective painkiller in the world. Morphine could basically treat any kind of pain. However, it had bad side effects. People could easily become addicted to it.
It worked. The pain faded. Hong Nan was breathing hard. He needed more air.
"I need... I need oxygen," he said.
"Give him oxygen," the doctor said.
Meanwhile, a patient was screaming in a room in the same hospital.
"Ouch!"
A nurse ran out of the room with a panicked expression on her face. She had blood all over her upper body. A knife was in her right shoulder. She was still bleeding.
"Ting!" Her colleagues immediately came up to help her.
"Take her to the trauma department. Be quick," a nurse said.
"What is going on?" another nurse asked.
"Boss, calm down! Please calm down," a man in the room said.
Several men were trying to pin a bald guy on the bed in the room.
"No! No! No!" The bald guy was screaming like a maniac.
Suddenly, he bit one of his men's arms. He bit hard and didn't let go.
"Ouch! Stop! It's so painful! Let me go!" The man tried to take his arm out of the bald guy's mouth, but the bald guy wouldn't let him go.
"Break open his mouth!" the man shouted. "Sedate him!"
The medical staff came to give the bald guy an injection, which didn't immediately stop him.
"Give him another dose," the doctor said.
The nurse gave him another injection, which finally calmed him down.
"Oh my god," one of the bald guy's men said.
"Dear!" The young man who had been bitten rolled up his sleeve to check the wound. He had two sets of tooth marks on his arm, and it was bleeding.
"Get your wound treated now! Otherwise, it might get infected," the doctor said.
"Is his condition contagious?" the young man asked.
"I'm not sure," the doctor said.
The young man was so anxious that he went to get his wound treated immediately. He didn't want to be infected and become as crazy as the bald guy.
"Get the paperwork ready and transfer him to the psychiatric ward," the doctor said.
"OK," the nurse said.
"Nan, the boss has just been transferred to the psychiatric ward," one of Hong Nan's men reported.
"Why?" Hong Nan asked.
"He just stabbed a nurse," the man said.
"Is the nurse dead?" Hong Nan asked.
"No, he stabbed her in the shoulder," his man asked.
"That's good. The boss always gets agitated so easily," Hong Nan said. "I don't think he's psychotic. The doctors are useless. Go talk to the doctor in charge. Pay him privately if we have to."
"OK," his man said.
"Sh*t!" Hong Nan cursed.
It was Wang Yao who caused him and his brother to end up in the hospital. He had to get revenge. He wanted to give Wang Yao a painful death.
Meanwhile, Wang Yao was on Nanshan hill.
"I know, San Xian, I know. I'm just experimenting," he said.
He took many wild grapes from the hill. Although the wild grapes didn't look as good as those from a vineyard, they tasted good. Wang Yao gave some to his parents to taste and used the rest of them to make wine. He had just learned some wine-making techniques and wanted to try them right away. San Xian was sitting next to him and barked from time to time.
Wang Yao found a lot of information and videos online related to making wine at home. Producing homemade wine didn't seem to be difficult.
"I'll just make one barrel first," Wang Yao said as he clapped his hands.
Meanwhile, Zhong Liuchuan received a message while he was in his rental house in the village.
He frowned. This is going to be tricky!
He visited Wang Yao after dinner.
"Dr. Wang, can I have a word with you in private?" Zhong Liuchuan asked.
Wang Yao agreed and followed him out. Zhong Liuchuan told Wang Yao what he knew.
"He is offering $5 million to kill me and my family!" Wang Yao was shocked.
"Yes, something like this hasn't happened for years," Zhong Liuchuan said.
"He seems to be very rich," Wang Yao said.
"He is, but a lot of gangsters are poor. That amount is more than enough to make them do anything," Zhong Liuchuan said.
"Let me think about it," Wang Yang said after pausing for a moment. "If the two Hong brothers suddenly died, I guess no one would do the job."
"Of course, no one can get money from dead people," Zhong Liuchuan said.
Removing firewood from under a cauldron was a fundamental solution.
"I have to go out now," Wang Yao asked.
"I'll keep your parents safe," Zhong Liuchuan said.
"Thank you very much," Wang Yao asked.
"My pleasure," Zhong Liuchuan said.
Wang Yao was still worried about his family since Zhong Liuchuan was on his own. He made a few calls. One of the calls was to Sun Yunsheng, who was going to send some professional bodyguards to protect his family. Another call was made to Zhou Xiong, who was from a family with a kung fu background.
"Someone wants to hurt you?" Sun Yunsheng asked. "I'll send some people over right away."
"I'll come to you tomorrow," Zhou Xiong said.
The next morning, Sun Yunsheng came to the village with eight professional bodyguards. Zhou Xiong arrived in the afternoon. He came with a thin, young man who had learned kung fu from the same teacher. The young man was also from the same village as Zhou Xiong. His name was Zhou Anxin.
"Thank you very much for coming. Please try not to let my parents know," Wang Yao said.
"Not a problem," Sun Yunsheng said.
"Are you going to visit the northeast?" Zhou Xiong asked.
"Yes, I am going to visit Hong Nan and his brother's hometown to get some useful information," Wang Yao said.
"I can arrange for someone to go with you or just run some errands for you. He is quite familiar with the northeast," Sun Yunsheng said.
"Sounds good," Wang Yao said.
However, he didn't expect that Sun Yunsheng was talking about Hao, the guy with no facial expressions.
"Hello, Dr. Wang," said Hao, whose voice was as stiff as his face.
Wang Yao and Hao arrived at the Hong brother's hometown that night. Dengzhou was the town in which the two had started to become rich.
It was busy that night in Dengzhou. The town was on the coast, so it was nice and cool, even in summer.
Hao was very efficient.
"Dr. Wang, I've booked a hotel and contacted someone who knows Hong Nan and Hong Wen," Hao said.
"I want to talk to the person first," Wang Yao said.
"OK," Hao said.
Thirty minutes later, in a cafe, a guy wearing a big golden necklace with a beaded streamer in his hand met Wang Yao and Hao.
"Hao, long time no see!" The guy was happy to see Hao. Apparently, they had known each other for a long time.
"Please take a seat, Dr. Wang. Allow me to introduce Li Chengwei to you. He is one of my friends," Hao said.
"Just call me Chengwei," Li Chengwei said.
"OK. I want to ask you something," Wang Yao said.
"Sure, go ahead," Li Chengwei said.
"We need to know everything about Hong Nan and Hong Wen," Hao said.
"Those two? Have they offended you?" Li Chengwei asked.
"Not really, I just want to know their backgrounds," Hao said.
Li Chengwei immediately got what Hao meant.
"They are quite well-known in Dengzhou. They do whatever they want. A lot of people are watching them," Li Chengwei said.