Chapter 109: First Time Seeing Symptoms Like This! What Did You Say?
Chen Han watched the woman leave. Seeing that she showed no intention of admitting fault, he no longer bothered to be polite. He channeled his true qi into the Magic Qi Ring, and in an instant, a faint, almost invisible wisp of black energy drifted out of the ring, shooting at great speed toward the woman and burrowing into her body.
The speed was extremely fast; ordinary people’s eyes would not be able to follow it. It was hidden to the extreme.
He was not someone who, once holding a magic qi prop, would enjoy arbitrarily punishing evildoers, but just as he had said, he would not indulge unreasonable tourists either.
Then he looked at the little brat whose hand the woman was holding.
This child had already been completely spoiled into a brat.
Children are cute and likable, but brats are detested by everyone.
Sometimes the disasters caused by brats can be worse than those caused by criminals.
For example, a brat setting off a firecracker that ignites sewer gas and blows up a parking lot full of cars; igniting the elevator protective panels and burning out an entire elevator; throwing a younger brother into a water well, and so on.
The things these brats do, their parents do not take seriously, brushing it off with “the child is still young, why fuss with a child,” even completely unconcerned. Without a harsh lesson from society, neither the brats nor their parents will change.
Only after experiencing lessons like stomping on a luxury car until their parents sell the house and still cannot pay, ending up on the streets, or in a hotpot restaurant running into ruthless people who shove their heads into the hotpot, can these brats truly wake up.
Now this child was still young. If he was not given some punishment, he really would become that lawless kind of brat in the future.
So he once again channeled true qi into the Magic Qi Ring. Another faint, imperceptible thread of demonic energy flew out and drilled into the brat’s body.
After Chu Fei dragged her son out of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, the more she thought about it, the more upset she became. She had come to the Chen Clan to tour and to spend money, yet look at the Chen Clan’s attitude; the service was terrible, and they had even made her precious son cry.
“No, I have to make my husband teach the Chen Clan a lesson. If the Chen Family Head doesn’t apologize, I can’t swallow this,” Chu Fei thought viciously. So what if the other side knew kung fu? In today’s society, as long as you have the authority to control someone, even if they know kung fu, they still have to kneel.
Thinking this, she immediately took out her mobile phone to make a call, when she heard her son suddenly cry out in pain, “Mom, it hurts, my butt hurts, it hurts so much!”
Hearing this, Chu Fei hurriedly asked, “Baby, what’s wrong? Oh…”
Just as she was about to squat down, she suddenly felt a sensation there as if glass shards were being fiercely squeezed in, stabbing into the flesh, so that she could not squat down at all.
She found the feeling somewhat familiar. It seemed like a hemorrhoid flare-up, but her earlier hemorrhoids had never hurt this much.
“Mom, it hurts…” the child wailed in agony.
Chu Fei herself wanted to cry. She was in pain too.
She had no idea why she suddenly had a hemorrhoid flare-up, and her son seemed to have one too. Could it be because she had taken him to eat spicy hotpot the day before yesterday, and they had eaten too many deep-fried foods?
The child’s crying grew louder, attracting the attention of some tourists.
Chu Fei immediately felt flustered and irritable. She wanted to take the child back to the car and then return to the county hospital for a check, but after only a few steps she felt as if broken glass were cutting open that tender spot.
The pain shot into her nerves, and tears were about to fall.
She had had hemorrhoids before, but it had never hurt this much.
This made her unable to even drive back. She had no choice but to pick up her mobile phone again and call her husband. This time she could no longer think about making trouble for the Chen Clan. As soon as the call connected, she said, “Husband, hurry and come pick me up at the Chen Clan. My son and I have hemor… are sick…”
Seeing the child crying and the surrounding tourists attracted, taking out their phones to record, she really could not bring herself to say she had a hemorrhoid flare-up so bad she could not walk.
If that humiliation got posted online, it would be mortifying.
At the entrance of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, Chen Han heard the child’s cries. When he stepped out, he saw the miserable mother and son.
He had not expected the effect of Hemorrhoid Infliction to appear so quickly. Judging by their appearance, the effect was clearly terrifying.
This made him look at the Magic Qi Ring in his hand.
To be honest, after obtaining the game system, Hemorrhoid Infliction was his first true spell in the real sense.
Although the spell relied on a prop and was an evil technique of the demonic path, but… there was no “but”… power itself is not inherently evil; it all depends on the user. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Besides, as a righteous family head, how could he possibly use an evil technique?
For the next ten days, this pair of mother and son would spend their time in torment under the severe agony of hemorrhoids.
With that thought, he quickly went back into the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall. Seeing his aunt-grandmother tidying up, he hurried forward to help.
After they had laid the altar cloth back properly, Chen Han also helped his aunt-grandmother set out fresh offerings of tea leaves, liquor, and other items.
These were the Chen Clan’s daily offerings to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
His aunt-grandmother instructed him, “Patriarch, begin today’s incense burning. Before the consecration, the ritual must not be interrupted. After you burn the incense, go take a look at the newly arrived statues of god.”
“Okay,” Chen Han nodded.
A moment later, he took the incense sticks handed to him by his aunt-grandmother and reverently lit them.
At the same time, in the county.
Chen Kai was working overtime, holding a late-night meeting with his subordinates in the culture and tourism department.
Today, visitor numbers at the Chen Clan site had already exceeded Even though these 300 people had not stayed in the county, just in terms of taxi use, they had created income for the county’s taxi and cab drivers.
And there was also spending at the Chen Clan; the Chen Clan had to pay taxes. The Chen Clan had already called their clan members back from outside and was offering salaries of at least 5,000, which also had to be taxed and also created job positions.
Compared to this small county’s average salary of 4,000, this helped raise the average. In addition, there was that cultivation market, which was actually a vegetable market. Now, the villagers of Shangyuan Village were selling fruit and natural vegetables there.
This also provided income-generating positions.
All of this had to be counted as achievements for culture and tourism.
He had been communicating with Xiao Yu from the Chen Clan. Hotel bookings from tourists had already exceeded 300, and the Chen Clan was adding more housing. Once the national style event began, the number of tourists would explode to a frightening level.
By then, tourist numbers would definitely surge.
Now the entire county leadership was paying attention to this.
The plan he had written to renovate that section of old city wall into the “ruins” of a place where the Chen Clan had once gathered young and strong men from ten miles and eight villages to help guard had also been directly approved.
Whether it had really happened was not important. As long as they said it had, and the Chen Clan said it had, then they could find a skilled writer to draft a story and a tour guide with great eloquence to explain it. Wouldn’t that present a vivid piece of history before visitors’ eyes?
For a small, impoverished county that was even in debt, having suddenly discovered it could also benefit from tourism, there was no way they would let this opportunity slip.
They had to seize it firmly.
Chen Kai now said to one of the section chiefs, “Ma Qi, the Chen Clan’s national style event will definitely have many areas where they need our cooperation. You will be responsible for coordinating with them on that. This national style event is also important for our future promotion.”
Hearing this, Ma Qi immediately assured him, “Director Chen, don’t worry. I have already made a preliminary plan. I even had my wife take our son there to play and experience the Chen Clan’s tourism firsthand. After I hear her account, I can address potential issues early and offer suggestions to the Chen Clan.”
Chen Kai nodded with a smile. “Section Chief Ma, you really are thoughtful. I feel at ease leaving this to you. After the meeting, let’s talk more.”
Ma Qi was very pleased to hear this. He knew that everyone in the county leadership was now watching the Chen Clan. If tourism really developed and Linhe County enjoyed the bonus, then promotion for him would not be a problem.
So he was handling this task with great care.
At this point, if anyone dared to compete with him for this assignment, he would truly be furious.
Just as the meeting ended, his mobile phone ringtone sounded. Seeing it was his wife’s number, he immediately answered. His wife’s voice came through: “Husband, hurry and come to the Chen Clan to pick me up. My son and I have hemor… are sick…”
“How did you suddenly get sick? Don’t worry, I’ll come right away.” Hearing that his wife and son were both sick, Ma Qi immediately grew anxious. He said to Chen Kai, “Director Chen, my wife and son seem to have had something happen at the Chen Clan. I need to go pick them up.”
“Okay, go,” Chen Kai nodded.
Ma Qi quickly left the conference room and immediately hailed a taxi to the Chen Clan. Their family car had already been taken by his wife.
On the way, he took out his mobile phone and watched videos related to the Chen Clan. Since this concerned his future, he had to stay updated at all times.
Today the Chen Clan had gained more popularity again. First, that Ming Di had posted another video. The other party was an out-of-town internet celebrity who had come to piggyback on the Chen Clan’s popularity, and it seemed the Chen Family Head had agreed. The two sides were generating traffic for each other.
Ming Di had even said he would send people to deal with the Chen Family Head. Then Ma Qi saw that the Chen Family Head had caught a demonic cult rogue.
He initially thought the two were coordinating content again, but the thieves who appeared later left him stunned. It did not seem that way, especially when Captain Li from the county showed up with his men.
There had really been thieves at the Chen Clan today, and the Chen Family Head’s junior sister had truly become very popular. Those two moves of her sword technique had even amazed him. That thief really should be glad the sword was not sharpened.
Soon, Ma Qi arrived at the Chen Clan. As soon as he got out at the parking lot, he called his wife. Their son’s crying came through, along with his wife’s voice: “Husband, I’m in the car, at the very edge of the parking lot.”
He hung up and quickly found them. Their son’s cries were so hoarse it sounded like his throat was torn.
When he reached the car, he saw his son lying on the back seat crying, and his wife lying on the front passenger seat, butt raised, face pale.
The posture was somewhat indecent. If she were not wearing clothes, it would have looked like she was waiting to be violated.
“What’s going on?” Ma Qi asked at once.
Chu Fei’s face was ashen. “Husband, our hemorrhoids relapsed. It’s very serious. Any movement feels like dozens of cuts being slashed open.”
“What?” Ma Qi was dumbfounded. Could hemorrhoids be that exaggerated?
But looking at his son’s hoarse crying and his wife’s pale face, it clearly was not an act.
He did not dare hesitate and immediately got into the driver’s seat, driving them back to the county as fast as possible and taking his wife and child to the proctology department.
At this hour there was no line, and the on-duty doctor quickly examined them.
After inquiring and observing their condition, the on-duty doctor immediately had a nurse help. He wanted to know what kind of hemorrhoids could make people suffer like this.
When he actually examined them, he was stunned.
Was this really hemorrhoids?
Normally, an external hemorrhoid forming a thrombus would be only 1–3 centimeters in size. Now this was more than double that. More importantly, that was not even the main issue. The hemorrhoids were also oozing blood and pus, a horrific sight.
What was key was that an adult having such hemorrhoids was possible, but for a child it was exaggerated. Children are generally less likely to get hemorrhoids, let alone to this degree.
He suspected it was not hemorrhoids at all, and since he had never seen such a case and had no experience treating it, he could only call the director for support.
Soon, a director arrived. Seeing the situation, he was also shocked. He had never seen such a condition and suspected it was not hemorrhoids, so he personally arranged tests right away.
The results surprised him. It really was hemorrhoids.
What was crucial was that such miserable hemorrhoids were something he had never encountered. They rivaled that poor soul in the Star-Spangled Nation who had to have a large portion of that area cut off.
And that case had been a unique one of toxic hemorrhoids as sequela from drug use.
“Use medication first and start IV drips. We will observe the condition. If it doesn’t improve, we will have to do surgery,” the director immediately arranged, having both mother and son put on IV drips.
But after taking the medicine and finishing the IV drips, there was still no improvement at all. The son was crying himself completely hoarse.
Chu Fei felt as if the lower half of her body no longer belonged to her. When she had just gone to the toilet, it had felt like several pieces of sharp glass were scraping back and forth there, even bringing out blood.
She was on the verge of losing her mind.
Ma Qi frowned. “Doctor, why is there no effect at all after the medicine and IV drips?”
The director was puzzled too. They had already used the best hemorrhoid drugs. After a full course of IV, there should have been some effect. But he could not say that, so he only frowned and said, “It appears this is a very stubborn toxic hemorrhoid. Surgery will be necessary.”
“Arrange the surgery,” Ma Qi finally nodded. Then, frowning, he asked his wife, “Wife, how did you suddenly develop such severe hemorrhoids at the Chen Clan? You were fine this morning.”
Chu Fei was bewildered too. “How would I know? I was just at the Chen Clan playing around and got into an argument with them, and then this suddenly happened.” At this, she thought of the anger she had suffered in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
Already in such torment from the hemorrhoids, her resentment surged and she wanted to vent. She quickly said to her husband, “Husband, listen to me. The Chen Clan’s service attitude is terrible, and they made our son cry. You cannot let them go.”
“Isn’t tourism under your department’s control? You’re a section chief. Just say their service attitude is bad and demand they rectify it, and make that Chen Family Head apologize to me!”
“What? What did you say?” Ma Qi stared wide-eyed at his wife, hardly believing what he had heard.
Have the Chen Clan rectify themselves? Make the Chen Family Head apologize to his wife?
What a joke. If he dared do that tonight, tomorrow he would find out exactly why flowers are so red.
Was his wife trying to rectify the Chen Clan, or rectify him?
He immediately looked at his wife with great seriousness. He had never expected that the person standing in the way of his advancement would be his own wife.
Seeing his expression, Chu Fei sensed something was wrong and frowned. “Husband, why are you looking at me like that?”
