Chapter 1043: Carpe Diem

Shen Guizhi sobbed over the phone: "Your eldest uncle is gone... come to the hospital quickly..."

He Yuzhu's mind went "buzz," and he nearly dropped his mobile phone.

He took a sharp breath, turned his face, and said to Secretary Liu: "I'm sorry, Leader, my eldest uncle has passed away, I must rush over there."

"Gone?" Secretary Liu's expression tightened; without another word, he waved his hand: "Go quickly! Any day is fine for a meal."

He Yuzhu didn't waste words; he turned and rushed out, his steps fast and heavy.

He raced all the way to the hospital, but the ward was already empty; he circled around before finding his cousin Shen Wei at the entrance of the morgue.

Shen Wei's eye sockets were red, and seeing him arrive, he called out in a low voice: "Brother..."

He Yuzhu gripped his hand and squeezed it hard: "My condolences."

Shen Wei sniffled: "Before my dad passed, he was still muttering about you, wanting to see you one last time, but it was just too fast; he didn't even leave a single word."

The staff pulled out the remains, and He Yuzhu looked at Shen Wenqing's face—calm, peaceful, as if he were asleep.

He stood straight, bowed deeply to his eldest uncle three times, and then said: "Eldest Uncle, I didn't expect this epidemic to take you away... Rest assured, I will not let a single one of the people who harmed you go."

Shen Wei was stunned, his face full of bewilderment: "Brother, what are you saying? What enemies could my dad have? How come I don't know? He just caught the virus..."

He Yuzhu nodded, tears pattering down; with his back to Shen Wei, his voice was low and heavy: "Your father's enemies are the group of people who created this virus."

"Who did it?" Shen Wei's anger flared up instantly.

He Yuzhu sneered: "Those assholes over in Europe and America!"

Three days later, once Shen Wenqing's memorial service was over, He Yuzhu turned and left; this time, he was aiming for the bosses, technical backbones, laboratories, and factories of those few pharmaceutical companies that participated in creating the virus.

Through interrogating Martin, the Bureau Chief of the CIA East Asia Bureau, he figured out exactly who participated in the plot to harm Doctor: Novalon Pharmaceuticals in M Country, Avison Biology in Germany, Seravie Group in Switzerland, and Dairi Stock Biology in the small island nation.

With the gold he had seized from the small island nation in his hands, his confidence was rock solid; he was too lazy to take planes and instead used the Space-Time Shuttle to reach his destinations every time.

These four factories suffered a string of disasters—the workshop equipment was moved out completely, the office buildings and virus laboratories were blown to the sky, and the relevant responsible persons vanished into thin air one after another.

These companies were all listed on the Nasdaq; in just a few days, their stock prices plummeted like someone jumping off a building, evaporating by ninety percent.

By the time He Yuzhu returned to Si Jiu Cheng, it was already early September.

As soon as Doctor saw him, her eyes nearly popped out: "He Yuzhu, you are too reckless! With you doing this, we won't be able to buy a lot of medicine!"

He Yuzhu grinned, carrying a bit of a devil-may-care attitude: "My eldest uncle could have lived another seven or eight years, but he was gone just like that, and my mother cries every day. They must be buried with him. By the way, from now on, you can't call me by my name; you have to call me Godfather!"

Doctor stamped her feet in anxiety: "But what about the patients? A lot of the medicine relies entirely on imports from these companies!"

He Yuzhu returned to his smiling appearance: "I didn't blow up the workshop equipment; I hauled it all back. I can just produce these medicines myself."

Doctor was both angry and amused: "They have patents!"

He Yuzhu waved his hand: "I'm not exporting, so why care about patents! Besides, I'll just adjust the ingredients of the medicine slightly; who would know?"

Doctor waved her hands repeatedly: "They will sue you!"

He Yuzhu looked up and laughed heartily: "Whoever sues me, I'll kill them. What can they do to me?"

Doctor shook her head vigorously, sighing repeatedly: "I can't reason with you."

He Yuzhu was righteous and confident: "The Indians call that generic medicine, but this isn't—this is original research medicine! And if I add a little Immortal Water to each one, who can compare?"

Doctor huffed in anger: "I'm not talking to you anymore; you don't understand this industry at all!"

He Yuzhu wasn't annoyed, smiling as he dropped a line: "You have your Dao, and I have my Dao. I'm going to the pharmaceutical factory."

After saying this, he turned and left.

Upon arriving at the pharmaceutical factory gate, the security guard immediately notified Hu Bayi upon seeing him.

He Yuzhu went in and took a look; it wasn't just Hu Bayi who came, but Xu Damao, Wang Pangzi, and Dajinya were following behind.

"Are all you brothers here?" He Yuzhu greeted them.

Xu Damao rushed up in two or three steps, threw his arms around him, and patted his back hard: "Zhuzi! You really are the God of Wealth for us brothers! Those medicines of ours that treat the virus and pneumonia are selling like crazy in Southeast Asia; even Europeans have started scrambling for them. The prices have multiplied several times over, and people can't even get in line!"

Dajinya also leaned in, his face full of smiles: "Master He, tell us, how much longer can this business stay hot? We need to have an idea in our heads, right?"

He Yuzhu shook his head: "I really can't say for sure, but I reckon it should last at least a year or two."

Dajinya's eyes lit up: "If it can really last a year or two, never mind breaking even, we could earn back the entire pharmaceutical factory!"

He Yuzhu curled his lip: "We're nowhere near the end yet! I recently obtained the formulas and equipment for dozens of new medicines; it won't be long before we can roll out a new batch."

Hu Bayi's eyes darted around: "Master He, these wouldn't happen to be things you swiped from those few pharmaceutical factories, would they?"

Having been brothers for twenty years, He Yuzhu didn't hide it and nodded: "But Doctor isn't too happy about it; she's had her brain washed quite clean by that Western way of thinking, but I don't buy into that."

Dajinya slapped his thigh: "Those foreign devils, they don't know a damn thing themselves, yet they all want to use patents to scare people!"

He Yuzhu nodded.

Wang Pangzi chimed in: "When we were running a restaurant in the United States, we received all kinds of letters every day, all suing us. The funniest part was that we were even sued for buying takeout containers; they said the shape of the containers we used infringed on their rights, and if we didn't change them, we'd have to face a lawsuit."

He Yuzhu was stunned: "Didn't you buy your containers from someone else too?"

Wang Pangzi clapped his hands: "Exactly! They said not only the sellers would be sued, but the users would be too; they even sent lawyer letters."

Hu Bayi shook his head with a bitter smile: "They're just bullying us because we don't understand the law; it's not about going to court at all, it's just to scare you into buying the brand they designate."

He Yuzhu shook his head: "Sigh, they rely on thousands of legal precedents; ordinary people can't even find the door, so lawyers can manipulate you however they want. Who has the Kung Fu to waste on that?"

Hu Bayi nodded: "That's true, staying in that place is indeed stifling."

He Yuzhu turned to look at Xu Damao: "Damao, isn't the work in Pudong not finished yet? Why did you run back?"

Xu Damao chuckled and waved his hand: "I heard you were coming back, so I came to see you. People our age, every time we meet is one less time."

He Yuzhu cursed: "I still want to live to be a hundred, don't curse me."

Hu Bayi added from the side: "Xu Damao's senior fellow apprentice, Cui Dazhi, caught pneumonia and couldn't be saved, so he's been acting like he's possessed, thinking about living for the moment."