Chapter 255 - Monkey blood makes sex more stimulating! (1/2)

Ake was transferred over to the infectious diseases department. Zhang Fan already began to prescribe treatment and ordered a quarantine without even waiting for the lab results to come out. Although typhoid fever was an illness that would display itself all over the body, it mostly spread through fecal transmission.

If this had been a Class A infectious disease like cholera or bubonic plague, then the entire area under Chasu City’s jurisdiction would have been quarantined. Even though this was only typhoid, a Class B infectious disease, this still had to be reported to the relevant higher-up bureaus.

Even though it was the Spring Festival, when the Center for Disease Control and Prevention learned of the report of typhoid, they immediately sent someone to confirm the situation. Right after that, they traveled over to the place where Ake lived! With this report of the infectious disease, the hospital leadership had to come from home as well. They had to come as this was no joking matter.

China really did control infectious diseases quite severely. Everyone would have to take responsibility. If the hospital didn’t properly quarantine the infected patient, then all of the doctors who were on duty, the department director, the vice superintendent in charge of this department, and the superintendent would be punished. A light punishment would be getting fired and losing their medical licenses. A severe punishment would be additionally getting punished with arrest and prison time!

A significant number of people who came into contact with Ake now had to be quarantined. First and foremost, Ake’s two older brothers were also quarantined. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention would deal with the remaining work in suppressing the typhoid fever. They would even be assisted by the police!

Infectious diseases were truly scary not only because they were infectious, but also because the majority of infectious diseases would have incubation periods. There were also many infected people who would have mild to no symptoms at all. It would be impossible to know that you were actually infected without a test. This all combined made infectious diseases so scary. There would be disease carriers who infected others without even knowing it!

Typhoid’s incubation period could last anywhere from three days all the way up to 60 days! Ake was now delirious due to his high fever. Zhang Fan immediately prescribed medicine for Ake as he was extremely confident in his diagnosis. He didn’t need to wait for the official lab test results to confirm it.

As for Zhang Fan’s four hepatitis B patients, the young man who was in the most severe condition suddenly vanished! He disappeared without telling anyone that he was going to leave—not even his three hospitalized girlfriends. When Zhang Fan performed morning patient checkups, he discovered that the young man was missing. The young man didn’t appear again for the entire day, or the day after that. Zhang Fan then asked the young man’s three girlfriends, but it turned out that none of the three girlfriends knew anything about the young man other than his name and cell phone number. They tried to call him, but his cell phone was turned off. It was as if he completely vanished into thin air!

The young man’s liver was already swollen. Not long after, symptoms such as abdominal dropsy, splenomegaly, and esophageal varices would soon start appearing due to his severe hepatitis B! But, what could even be done? It was impossible to find him!

Zhang Fan’s Spring Festival was really busy! This was simply the trait of the infectious diseases department. When things were slow, there would only be two or three patients, and the doctors would have lots of free time. When things were busy, even everyone in the department wouldn’t be enough, and the hospital would have to send additional personnel to support them!

Since Zhang Fan was really busy, he could only have Shao Hua’s father, Shao Hua, and Chen Qifa work together on running his hospital. Luckily, his hospital only focused on performing hand and foot limb replantation surgery, and there were only two possible results: either the limb could be reattached or it couldn’t. There wasn’t much else involved.

Starting a new year was quite difficult, as Chinese ancestors would say. That was because during this time, not only would you need to help your family to eat better food and wear newer clothes after working hard for an entire year, you would also need to calculate the past year’s expenses, which was why things were difficult.

Some people also had it hard in modern day society. When normal people were preparing for the Spring Festival, these people would hide themselves everywhere, waiting for the first day before the Spring Festival before they dared to return home for a few days. Such people were those who owed debts!

For normal debts, if the creditor was unable to collect by the time of the Spring Festival, the creditor wouldn’t normally send anyone to try and collect money during the Spring Festival. At the very least, the creditor would wait until the Spring Festival was over. This was simply a custom, an unwritten rule that was followed by legal creditors. However, there was one type of debt that was an exception: gambling debts!

China was undergoing rapid development and major urbanization. China’s government made liberal use of eminent domain, which helped many ordinary families instantly become really rich in a single night, no longer being just commoners. This wealth would come far too quickly and suddenly. Most people weren’t prepared to handle such wealth. The end result was that some people started behaving really strangely!

Obtaining several hundreds of thousands of yuan, or even several million yuan or more would suddenly make an entire family no longer need to worry about money. An entire village might suddenly become really rich instead of being just normal. These people had yet to learn how to properly manage their wealth, so some strange behaviors would occur.

They would buy cars, especially luxury cars. They would buy houses, especially large houses in the center of the city. They would buy clothes, especially international brands. Such reactions were understandable. As long as such people managed to make it past the early period of wanting to enjoy themselves and not having a sense of security, they would be able to return to leading normal lives.

However, anyone who came into contact with illegal drugs or gambling would usually end up far worse than before they got rich because of eminent domain. It would be impossible for most people to return to the normal lifestyle they had had before.

Losing everything and becoming penniless in a single night was quite a common sight among the families who made it rich from eminent domain. It would still be fine if they lost all their money, as the newfound wealth would pay for it all. However, in most such scenarios, not only did they lose all their money, they also racked up heavy debts.

China had been greatly developing the border province over the past few years. There were now many young people with name-brand items on the streets of Chasu City. They didn’t have proper jobs, yet they lived quite luxuriously, going to really expensive places and spending money as if it grew on trees. These people were relying on gambling to fund their lives of luxury.

On the 5th day of the Spring Festival, the police brought a patient named Chen Feng to Zhang Fan’s private hospital. Chen Feng’s entire left hand had been sliced off by a sharp weapon. He was a classical example of someone who instantly became rich from eminent domain. The Chinese government had paid him 3,000,000 yuan for his property. Not only did he lose all of this money through gambling in just a single month, he even now owed many high-interest loans. He tried to hide everywhere from the loan sharks, but today, they finally caught up to him.

Normal people typically wouldn’t know much about how these things worked, as normal people would know that gambling and illegal drugs were bad, so they would automatically stay away from such things.

However, over the recent years, many criminals started moving around to the areas where the government was using eminent domain. These criminals would establish illegal gambling dens there. The criminals were really clever, even to the point where the government would find it impossible to suppress them without major effort and resources.

The criminals would rent a house in a upper-class neighborhood. The rent would usually cost around 1,000 yuan per day! The gambling den would be set up in this perfectly ordinary house in a nice neighborhood. The gambling den would only operate for at most three days before it would change locations in order to avoid getting caught.

The people who came here to gamble didn’t need to bring any cash with them. The criminal organizations running the gambling dens had already done plenty of investigative work on the gamblers. The criminals were very clear on how much money the gamblers had earned from eminent domain, how valuable their assets were, and so on.

The criminals were extremely well organized. There were those who were in charge of finding new places to rent, being lookouts, handing out loans, and so on. The criminals operated on a strict system. The gamblers were all those who had recently struck it rich. They were basically nothing more than lambs to be slaughtered by the criminals.

The criminals wouldn’t even stop at taking all of the gamblers’ money that they had. The criminals would then issue high-interest loans to the gamblers, which would then ruin the gamblers’ lives completely. The criminals were vicious and willing to use any method necessary to get their money back! The normal tactic was to use intimidation. The criminals would start intimidating the gambler’s family and friends, disturbing the gambler’s daily life.

More vicious criminals would organize some people who had special diseases to come visit the gambler and ask for the owed money. The most vicious criminals would cut off your hands or feet, or even kill you, if you owed too much money!