TWWMABMTBH Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Boss Lady, Do You Want Salted Duck Eggs?

Item Details: Salted Duck Egg, red yolk flowing with oil, perfect with millet porridge. Grandma’s ancestral recipe, after eating, you can feel ultimate peace and love.

Note: The lowest level of existence, N-grade.

According to the system’s regulations, items obtained from the lottery are classified by level, with the lowest being gray N, followed by R, SR, and SSR.

Normally, even the first ten consecutive draws would not all be N-grade, just to encourage the host. Yet now, ten lowest-level salted duck eggs stood in a row in front of Rong Ziyan.

This scene was mocking, no matter how you looked at it.

However, Rong Ziyan’s focus was elsewhere. “Can you really feel peace and love after eating them?”

“Really, the system’s descriptions are never false,” the system said weakly, feeling that Rong Ziyan’s bad luck was making it doubt its entire existence.

Rong Ziyan did not try to comfort it, and quickly ended the mental conversation. After all, the pile of ducks in front of him still needed to be dealt with.

However, the village chief was even faster than he was. Before Rong Ziyan had a chance to say he wanted to keep one for testing, so the two aunties could claim their subsidy, the village chief was already leading people to catch both flocks of ducks.

Seeing this, Rong Ziyan went over and instructed them, “Duck tuberculosis doesn’t spread too slowly. After culling this batch, it’s best to quarantine the breeding ducks of everyone else in the village and rule out any positive cases.”

“Positive?” The village chief didn’t quite understand Rong Ziyan.

“Positive means there are viruses present.”

“Then, then what if positive cases are found?”

“Then there’s no saving them,” Rong Ziyan shook his head. “Duck tuberculosis has no medicinal value. Once there’s one case in the flock, the entire lot should be burned on the spot.”

[Collapse Value +1000]

The villagers who had originally come to watch the excitement immediately became serious, and the two aunties were beyond howling.

Ducks being sick was indeed a big deal, but they had never expected it to be such a huge deal. They were all a bit dazed for a while.

It was only after a while that one of the aunties said, “But this disease wasn’t our flock’s fault first! It seems like the first sick duck was brought from my mother’s brother’s place.”

“Neighboring village?” Rong Ziyan quickly asked her, “What kind of ducks does your brother’s family mainly raise?”

“Muscovy ducks. The one I brought was just an ordinary duck.”

“Muscovy ducks, no wonder,” Rong Ziyan frowned. “Muscovy ducks are mainly raised in the south, and their breeding ducks are generally older than the duck breeds raised in the north. Duck tuberculosis is also a chronic disease. Northern ducks have shorter lifespans, and many are slaughtered before they are found to be sick, making such large-scale outbreaks difficult.”

“So it’s likely that there was a problem with their Muscovy breeding ducks, which directly infected all the ducks,” Rong Ziyan was a bit anxious. Meat poultry was a common sight on dinner tables, and such sick ducks going out could easily cause health problems for people. Even if the disease came from the neighboring village, they had to take it seriously.

However, that auntie had already started cursing!

“Damn my sister-in-law, I should’ve known she was up to no good when she sent me a duck.”

“What do you mean? Tell me more,” Rong Ziyan quickly asked.

The auntie wiped her tears and quickly began to explain.

“The first sick duck was a breeder that I brought from my mother’s house.” The auntie’s mother’s family was in the neighboring Xiaowang Village.

The auntie’s parents were now living with her younger brother, and seeing that they were getting old, the auntie often went back to see them. Although she never went empty-handed, her brother’s family would also give her some return gifts, to keep up with etiquette.

Logically speaking, this give-and-take between relatives was a good thing, especially between siblings. But her brother’s wife was always trying to gain the upper hand. Seeing her sister-in-law returning to her parents’ home so often, she felt that her family was being taken advantage of and couldn’t help but make snide remarks.

Over time, their relationship became even worse. Then, that day, her sister-in-law changed her attitude. When she heard that she was raising ducks, she gave her a male duck as a breeder.

The auntie took a look and thought it was fat and strong, and was quite happy. It wasn’t because she wanted to take advantage, but because she was tired of the constant quarreling between family members. If her sister-in-law had decided to be friendly, she saw no need to be so hostile.

So in the end, she paid for the duck and happily took it home. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine that she would cause such a disaster.

“Ah, it’s all my fault! I… I ran into this heartless sister-in-law!” As the auntie spoke, she began to cry again.

This time, she was really crying. Her good intentions had been completely betrayed, and she was heartbroken.

Rong Ziyan could only shake his head as he watched the [Sadness Value 400] floating above the auntie’s head. The villagers who were watching couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Damn! That’s too much! Are they even acting like family?”

“Don’t even talk about relatives, now the whole village is going to suffer! Didn’t you hear Doctor Rong say? All the village ducks need to be inspected! If there’s any, any positive result, we’re all doomed!”

“No, Village Chief, we can’t let this go!”

“That’s right! We must get an explanation from Xiaowang Village! How can they be so harmful?”

For the villagers, livestock was as important as land. Hearing that their livestock might be at a loss, they would definitely cause a commotion.

The village chief was still rather calm. He quickly signaled for the villagers to calm down, and then asked Rong Ziyan, “Doctor Rong, are you sure that the disease came from the outside ducks?”

“It’s basically certain, because now both flocks of ducks are sick, even the ducklings show symptoms. If it was a local pathogen, then the whole village would have it by now, not just these two flocks. According to the outbreak period of duck tuberculosis, it’s exactly the time when this auntie brought back the breeding duck.”

“Then is there a way to be absolutely sure?”

“Yes. If we can take samples and investigate the ducks from the other village, we can confirm it definitively. The breeding duck fell sick after arriving, which proves it was already infected before. I estimate that the situation of their ducks is likely to be worse than ours. I’ll contact their epidemic prevention station first.”

As he spoke, Rong Ziyan took out his phone, dialed a number, and put it on speakerphone.

“Xiaowang Village Animal Husbandry Station, what’s the matter?” The vet on the other end was a middle-aged man who, despite it only being morning, seemed to be in a half-awake state, and his speech was also mumbled.

Rong Ziyan explained the situation, “I hope you take it seriously, duck tuberculosis is a rather serious infectious disease.”

But the other end let out a snort of laughter, and directly denied it, “Impossible! Our village has two epidemic prevention inspections each year.”

“Young man, you’re not that old, don’t cause trouble.” The vet clearly didn’t take Rong Ziyan seriously.

The vets at the village animal husbandry stations were all directly dispatched from Beijing. So as soon as Rong Ziyan took office, his school history had spread through the system.

After all, such a high-achieving student, stuck at a remote animal husbandry station, showed his bad situation.

In addition, this vet was strictly speaking, distantly related to Rong Ziyan and was also quite jealous of him, so he was even less likely to listen to his explanation.

Back then, his family had scolded him for twenty years for being incompetent. But then, Rong Ziyan had gotten into an agricultural university, and the entire ten-mile radius was full of praise.

Now it was all over, a fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken, and anyone could step on him.

The vet was just waiting for Rong Ziyan to speak so he could humiliate him.

However, Rong Ziyan only replied with a very calm “Oh,” before hanging up the phone.

[From Vet Wang Dazhuang, Worthless Value 888]

Wang Dazhuang punched the air, feeling utterly defeated. But Rong Ziyan really didn’t care.

Rong Ziyan: Quite auspicious, Dazhuang is a man who cares about such things.

The system was speechless at this comment, and suddenly didn’t know what to say.

But the village chief and villagers who had also heard Wang Dazhuang’s response were furious.

Good heavens, the ducks from your village had a problem and caused trouble for our village, and you’re just going to ignore it?

The fire that the village chief had been suppressing instantly exploded, “What kind of vet is this? The people in Xiaowang Village are no good, and their vet is just a quack.”

“That’s right! Village Chief, we can’t let these troublemakers go!”

“Every family in the village raises ducks, it’s all free-range, this is a huge problem. No, we have to get justice!”

“That’s right! Village Chief, you’re our leader, you must do right by us!” The two aunties started crying again.

The village chief was also furious, and finally, he hardened his heart and grabbed a hoe, “Let’s go! Let’s go get an explanation from them!”

A child around ten years old in the crowd heard this, immediately ran back into the house, grabbed a gong, and began running and banging it along the dirt road toward the fields, yelling.

“Xiaowang Village is trying to kill us for our money!”

“The Village Chief is leading us to seek justice, let’s go with weapons!”

“Human lives? Then call the police!” Someone in the field heard and replied.

The child was quick-witted, and explained everything in a few words.

Those who had gathered nearby, passing the word around, immediately had the reputation of Xiaowang Village being greedy and trying to kill them for money.

What? Not people but ducks, it’s not killing for money?

That’s nonsense! The life of a duck is money! They had to get an explanation.

A group of strong men from the village, carrying their tools, followed the village chief in a large group towards Xiaowang Village. Before leaving, Rong Ziyan had them take the dissected dead duck, its heart, liver, and lungs with them, and then watched them leave.

With Rong Ziyan’s help, the village chief and villagers became even more confident. In a matter of minutes, they provided Rong Ziyan with over three thousand points of excitement. Enough for three more lottery draws.

Rong Ziyan: You think I should draw now?

The system calmly suggested: How about we wait for ten draws?

Rong Ziyan looked at the watch: I guess it’ll be soon.

The system didn’t understand Rong Ziyan’s hidden meaning, but soon, the system indeed received various complex emotions.

[Neighboring Village Chief’s Embarrassment Value 890] [Villager xxx, xxx, xxx… Confused Value 2333]

There was even a strange category like [Xiaowang Village Sick Ducks’ Despair Value 250].

And the most, was still Wang Dazhuang, the vet who had argued with Rong Ziyan on the phone. Worthless value, aggrieved value, anger value, etc., he alone provided Rong Ziyan with more than four thousand gold coins.

Rong Ziyan, “See, I told you.”

Duck tuberculosis was a serious disease. Rong Ziyan had found the pathogen and informed them in time out of a sense of duty. Otherwise, he could have directly turned it over to the county.

And once something like this spread, let alone that one village, even the surrounding villages would not have an easy time. The buyers on the outside would definitely break off their contracts upon hearing the news. For the villagers who relied on this for survival, it would be a matter of life and death.

Sure enough, right now in Xiaowang Village, Wang Dazhuang was surrounded by villagers from two villages. The dead duck that Rong Ziyan had the village chief bring was slammed right in his face.

“Look! Look! This is the duck from your village. Isn’t there epidemic prevention inspections twice a year?”

Wang Dazhuang couldn’t explain. In the past two years, he had indeed been negligent in poultry immunization, but there were only a few families in Xiaowang Village that raised ducks. He had gone to see them last month, and he didn’t notice any problems!

But the worst was that after inspecting the duck flock from the auntie’s sister-in-law’s home, they had actually found the same cases.

Now, there was no getting out of it. The source was right here.

The sweat on the Xiaowang Village Chief’s forehead instantly began to flow, “Quick! Go check who all these ducks were sold to! This is a disaster! It’s all a disaster!”

He was in a terrible mess. Meanwhile, the village chief on Rong Ziyan’s side patted him on the shoulder in comfort and praised his own village’s Doctor Rong.

“Don’t worry, we discovered it early. We can resolve the issue where it arises.”

“So that’s the power of knowledge, that’s why the state has always advocated that we must follow science!”

“Yes, yes, yes, it’s all thanks to this little Doctor Rong.” The Xiaowang Village chief nodded while glaring fiercely at his own village vet, Wang Dazhuang, meaning, I’ll deal with you later.

Wang Dazhuang suddenly felt like he had swallowed ten pounds of Coptis chinensis, filled with bitterness. He had just wanted to start an argument with Rong Ziyan because of jealousy, but ended up getting himself into a pile of trouble for nothing.

As the village animal husbandry station’s vet, there was a problem with his own village’s livestock, and it was discovered by another village. If the disease became serious, he might even lose his job. In short, it was harming others without benefiting himself.

Thinking this, he gave Rong Ziyan another 1000 regret points.

Rong Ziyan and the system who were at the animal husbandry station counted their earnings, and discovered that they had made 20,000 gold coins in this wave, enough for a twenty-draw.

The system was very excited, and once again patted its chest to guarantee to Rong Ziyan: Host, go go go! This time, a dragon-slaying saber will definitely appear, trust me!

Rong Ziyan was also very straightforward: Okay, let’s draw now.

As Rong Ziyan spoke, the pointer on the lottery wheel began to spin rapidly again. But each time the pointer stopped, a familiar object appeared in front of Rong Ziyan.

Seeing ten draws go by out of the twenty, with nothing else coming out, the system murmured, dazed, “No, no way!”

Then, the twenty-draw lottery ended, and twenty salted duck eggs were neatly arranged in front of Rong Ziyan. Adding the previous ten, he had a whole basket.

Another crash landing.

Just then, Rong Ziyan’s phone received the due date reminder text message from the loan shark. This time, the loan shark was even more outrageous and sent a photoshopped photo of Rong Ziyan’s obituary. This was clearly a curse that Rong Ziyan should not die a peaceful death.

The system was so angry that it was hopping up and down, “Damn, these idiots are toxic! No, the system lottery is toxic! With such a low drop rate, are we supposed to make two hundred thousand by selling duck eggs?”

Rong Ziyan, upon hearing this, was thoughtful, “Maybe we can.”

The system was completely self-isolating, but Rong Ziyan’s next action made it even more collapse.. Rong Ziyan picked up the basket of salted duck eggs and headed straight for the snack shop next door.

It was the most popular restaurant in the village, but it wasn’t mealtime, and everyone had gone to the neighboring village for an explanation, so the restaurant was currently empty.

“Is the boss lady here?” Rong Ziyan knocked on the door and called out.

“I’m here, I’m here! Little Doctor Rong, what do you want to eat?” The boss lady greeted Rong Ziyan warmly.

Rong Ziyan placed a basket of salted duck eggs in front of her, and sincerely asked, “Do you buy salted duck eggs?”