Chapter 2322: with translation of chapter title

Zheng Ren firmly refused Duomingge·Baoluo's request to continue discussing late-stage dilated cardiomyopathy, and several people went home together.

Every day, taking Heizi for a stroll with Yi Ren became Zheng Ren's greatest pleasure.

Light chatter that requires no thought, occasionally chatting with Heizi, strolling a few laps around the residential area and heading home, Zheng Ren felt joy and peace in his heart.

Zheng Ren had none of Lin Ge's worries.

Faced with the flood of consultations and invitation letters from hospitals around the world, Zheng Ren, just as Lin Ge had imagined, coldly, indifferently, and ruthlessly threw them all to Su Yun.

Let Su Yun rebut them all; Zheng Ren thought it had nothing to do with him.

Days passed as usual; at the center of the storm, Zheng Ren performed surgeries in an ordinary, unremarkable way, living each day earnestly.

And lately the days have been so busy that the planned hot spring trip has been postponed again and again.

Zheng Ren's days were plain and uneventful, while Dahungya, far away in Northern Province, finally completed the surgery.

Zheng Lao Ban's diagnosis was correct: superior semicircular canal syndrome; after a thin-slice CT scan, the diagnosis became clear.

At the Medical University Affiliated Hospital in Sheng Cheng, they performed a superior semicircular canal plugging procedure, and Dahungya finally returned to normal; the noises he had heard before finally disappeared.

The whole world became quiet.

The surgical trauma was minor, and Dahungya recovered quickly.

After experiencing one setback after another, Dahungya's life underwent some changes.

Although he could no longer engage in deceit and fraud, this left Dahungya with no outlet for his energy.

Fourth Aunt had already made her stance clear, firmly refusing to do this; Dahungya's change made her panic inside, and she decided to "go straight".

Dahungya pondered for several days, but his thieving nature was hard to change, and he finally decided to go up the mountain.

Since ancient times, deceitful tricks in the jianghu have emerged endlessly; Dahungya especially liked this line when he was young.

Deceit and fraud were not just for money; more so, they were a hobby.

Fourth Aunt refused to cooperate, and Dahungya had no better idea, so he pondered an old deceitful trick to use in the present.

Many funeral shops lined the hospital entrance, their trade profits enormously high, and Dahungya had long eyed them with envy.

Drive one out and take it over himself! At least he'd extort some money—this was a scheme Dahungya had long contemplated, but he just couldn't find a good method.

After the surgery, during his postoperative recovery period, Dahungya came up with a good idea—Little Ghost Knocking on the Door.

This is one of those old deceitful tricks, which in fact is worthless.

Smear eel blood on the door, not much—just a little is enough. Then find some bats and secretly release them.

The bats will follow the scent of blood and crash into the door, producing a continuous thumping sound. When the householder opens the door to look, there's no one there; after this happens a few times, they will become panicked.

Creating panic is what Dahungya needs.

If they don't panic, how could they be taken in?

If they don't panic, how could they be relieved of wealth and disaster?

This time I'm not the one extorting patients or their families; Zheng Lao Ban, whose vigorous yang energy makes Dahungya fearful, shouldn't interfere, right?

Deep in Dahungya's heart, he had subconsciously placed Zheng Lao Ban in some position; just thinking of him made his whole body feel uncomfortable.

Even so, as the saying goes, "it's easy to change the landscape but hard to change one's nature," he still decided to engage in deceit and fraud. He can't afford to provoke them, but he can avoid them, and since he has no financial ties to patients, their families, or the hospital, this should be acceptable, right?

He had long had his eye on a funeral shop; at night that shop would pull down its rolling shutter, and if someone knocked on the door, it would open a small window to inquire.

Dahungya first observed the surrounding surveillance devices, figured them out, then went into the mountains to catch bats. Catching bats is said to be difficult, yet also said to be simple.

City dwellers might go a lifetime without seeing what a bat looks like, but for Dahungya it's not difficult at all.

Now the forest coverage is too high; the deep mountains of Dong Bei, rarely trodden by humans, are exactly the legendary old-growth forest.

Upon entering the mountains, even this old jianghu hand almost got lost. Moreover, everywhere were mosquitoes, insects, rats, and ants; the flies were so numerous they made his face a mess.

It's said that bears have reappeared in the deep mountains; Dahungya was very cautious and didn't go too deep. He only needed to catch a dozen or so bats, so there was no need to go that far.

It took a full two days before Dahungya returned with a bag containing several dozen small bats.

He then went to the market to buy eels and extract their blood. He rented a room upstairs in the funeral shop, which Dahungya had planned all along.

With everything ready, he had his subordinates sabotage the surrounding surveillance equipment, and then he began the operation.

Following the usual procedure, at midnight when no one was around, he smeared a bit of eel blood on the funeral shop's rolling shutter, released a bat, and tied a string to its foot.

Bats are hard to handle, and Dahungya didn't want to waste them. Moreover, keeping bats alive is difficult; it's said they can transmit rabies, so Dahungya was extra careful, cautious again and again.

If this little matter caused some deadly disease and he died outright, that would be fucked up.

Just as expected, the bats followed the scent and slammed straight into the rolling shutter. With a bang, the sound was especially loud in the midnight hour.

「Bang~ bang~」

"Who is it? Knock gently!" a voice from inside the house called out.

He knocked twice more, Dahungya gauged the timing, and pulled the bat back.

Standing by the upstairs window in the darkness, Dahungya faintly saw light and shadow flickering downstairs, guessing that the shopkeeper had opened the small window.

Seeing no one, the shopkeeper's cursing voice came through.

Dahungya chuckled to himself, waited ten minutes, then released the bat again.

「Bang~ bang~ bang~」

The sound of pounding on the door rang out.

After several repetitions, the shopkeeper opened the rolling shutter but saw no one, and finally grew frightened. Dahungya heard him call someone on the phone and chuckled to himself.

After the shop closed, Dahungya went downstairs and quietly wiped away the eel blood, ending tonight's activity.

In this way, after doing it repeatedly for several days, Dahungya had the shopkeeper wrapped around his finger. All the preparations were now complete, and the grand show was finally about to begin!

Dahungya chuckled to himself, estimating that the shopkeeper must already be scared to death.

At first the shopkeeper kept one person on duty, later three or five. Initially, after a few knocks, they would check; later, a single bang would prompt them to fling the door open to see who it was.

Because he was upstairs, when the bat hit the door he would simply pull it back up, so there was essentially no flaw.

Perfect! He innovated, stood out with originality—truly a genius in this line of work, Dahungya praised himself in his heart.

Especially seeing the shop owners with their dark circles during the day, Dahungya felt delighted. He really is a genius, a genius among geniuses!

Early on the fourth morning, he wore the security uniform, dressed neatly and tidily, briskly and efficiently, and arrived at the shop's door.