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Chapter 47: Copying the stall
After hearing what Xie Hushan said, Li Changfu was so angry that his blood pressure instantly rose higher than his height.

His face was green, and he gritted his teeth. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in Xie Hushan's mouth. He lit it with a match. Xie Hushan then waved his hand and said, "Let's go."

Li Changfu returned to his stall and tried to comfort his three nephews while unloading the truck.

Two groups of people have been arranged today, one group will raid their stalls, and the other group will call their people. They will definitely be able to make up for the face they lost in the past two days in front of all the stalls in the market. There is no need for a few of us to go head-to-head with this fatherless and motherless bastard. If things get out of hand and we get hurt, it will affect the business of the bun stall. It's not worth it.

Xie Hushan had been sitting on the donkey cart smoking and dozing off until other people setting up stalls came to the market. Only then did Han Hongzhen and Lao Meng arrive late, pulling an empty cart.

The two were responsible for unloading the car, making a fire, and arranging the tables and chairs, while Xie Hushan took a stroll around the market, and when he came back and looked at the bun stall, his smile looked even more provocative.

When the first wave of members who came to catch the morning market and have breakfast appeared, there was a long line at the meat-smelling stew stall as expected. Just when Han Hongzhen and Lao Meng were busy, two men in blue coats carrying veterinary clinic boxes squeezed through the crowd and walked to the chopping board, and scolded Han Hongzhen who was busy:
"Stop selling! Which production team are you from? Who is the person in charge? Who told you to come to Lijiazhai to sell pig offal? This area is currently suffering from swine fever and swine erysipelas! You dare to privately kill pigs and sell the meat to everyone without passing the veterinary quarantine? Can you be held responsible if someone gets sick from the plague? Load the pigs and take them back to the Lijiazhai veterinary station! I'll have your team send someone to the station to resolve the issue!"

Han Hongzhen was frightened by the harsh criticism from the other party. When the people queuing to buy braised pork saw that someone from the veterinary station was making trouble, they immediately stepped back and watched the excitement from a distance.

The three young men from the steamed bun shop squeezed over and stood at the front of the crowd, laughing with glee. One of them even shouted exaggeratedly:

"You idiot, aren't you awesome? Let someone copy your stall! Fuck!"

"Comrade..." Han Hongzhen opened her mouth to talk to the two veterinarians, but Xie Hushan had already gently pulled her behind him and stood in front of the two men, smiling:

"Two leaders, I'm the team leader. I have poor hearing and was busy in the back just now. I didn't hear clearly. Sorry for the inconvenience. Could you please speak louder and repeat it to me again?"

A slightly younger veterinarian frowned and stared:
"Let me ask you, who told you to come to Lijiazhai to sell pig offal? Don't you know that our Bingyang countryside is suffering from swine fever and swine erysipelas? You dare to privately kill pigs and sell the meat to everyone without passing the quarantine at the veterinary station. To put it mildly, you..."

Xie Hushan gestured to him to stop:
"Stop, leader, I understand. You said there is something wrong with my pig offal. We should smear it and punish it. We are all good citizens for eight generations. We will definitely cooperate with the leadership. But there is one thing, you can't let a bad guy go. I will lead the way. Let's catch the mastermind and punish him to death. You dare to sell the problematic pig offal to our production team's sideline group? This is cheating people! Come with me to catch the guy! There is still a lot of meat on his body. We can't let it flow out and hurt others!"

Xie Hushan was a little confused by what he said for a moment. After working for so many years, this was the first time he saw a sideline vendor who was not scared at all. Instead, he spoke righteously and was full of justice and wanted to catch them all in one fell swoop.

The older one nodded with a stern face: "That's a good attitude. Then let me ask you, which production team slaughtered the pigs, how many were slaughtered, and how many did your team buy?"

"The person in charge of the Zhongping Veterinary Station canteen is an old man named Xie Qimao, a senior animal husbandry technician. He is really a jerk! It was this old man who personally guaranteed that the pork offal supplied by the meat processing plant to their canteen would be used to pay for our production team!" Xie Hushan said to the two men with a look of anger on his face.

"He's my uncle, but it doesn't matter. For the sake of the people's health and the safety of their meat, I'm willing to sacrifice my own family for the greater good! Let's go, I'll take the two leaders to deal with him! If he even betrays his own nephew, we need to hold a public trial and kill the old man!"

The two men's faces suddenly changed. It was not surprising that he could say the name Xie Qimao, and it was not surprising to know that the other party was the webmaster. They could all think that the other party was taking advantage of the power of others and trying to scare them by saying Xie Qimao's name.

But the fact that Xie Qimao was a senior animal veterinarian was unknown to anyone who was not a relative or colleague, because ordinary rural members could not and did not need to understand what this title meant. It was enough for them to brag that they knew the head of the veterinary station, and there was no need to mention any professional titles. The other party was using the title of senior animal veterinarian, which outsiders did not understand, to tell them that he really knew Xie Qimao and that they had a close relationship.

In other words, he is most likely the nephew of the first senior animal husbandry practitioner in Bingyang County since its liberation.

"Closing up the stall, closing up the stall! Go to Zhongping with the two leaders of the veterinary station and call all the young and old men from our third team to gather. Grab your weapons and go to the veterinary station to settle accounts with old man Xie Qimao!" Xie Hushan turned around and shouted to Han Hongzhen, Lao Meng.

"Comrade, comrade..." The older veterinarian saw Xie Hushan pretending to close the stall, and spoke awkwardly under the gaze of the crowd watching the excitement:
"Maybe they made a mistake. Since Stationmaster Xie has already checked it, there must be no problem. Continue to set up the stall. We are mainly investigating the production teams that slaughtered animals without quarantine..."

Xie Hushan sucked his teeth and looked at the other person with a half-smile:

"Don't worry, leaders. If the old guy dares to disobey, more than 2,000 people from Zhongping Brigade will help you go to the county town to complain to the Animal Husbandry Bureau. We must find out why he used sick pigs to harm the people of Zhongping Brigade. Maybe the old guy is an enemy spy planted by Chiang Kai-shek for many years. If we really find out, you two will have made great contributions to the country."

The two veterinary station staff who had originally regarded Xie Hushan as an ordinary member were a little at a loss at this time. If the other party really closed up and took them to Zhongping Veterinary Station to see Xie Qimao, their careers would be completely over.

Two barefoot veterinarians who haven't even obtained the qualification of junior animal husbandry technicians are tired of their lives, so they fined the senior animal husbandry technicians who can be counted on one hand in the entire county, criticized and educated them, and confiscated their pork?

Even if Xie Qimao doesn't care this time, who knows if the Lijiazhai Veterinary Station will end up killing all the animals it wants to transfer to Zhongping Veterinary Hospital for treatment in the future?
Moreover, the death would be blamed on the Lijiazhai Veterinary Station, because they were the first to receive the patient. They would have ten thousand reasons to say that the animals were almost dying from being treated by them before they were transferred to the hospital. Otherwise, why would they transfer the animals to the hospital and ask them to treat them?

When the time comes and the livestock dies, should the production team believe the words of Xie Qimao, the best veterinarian in the county, or their veterinary station?

"Since it's meat from the veterinary station canteen, it has been quarantined and there won't be any problems. We were also going to the livestock market to check on the livestock and saw it passing by. We were worried that the swine fever might be spreading, so we came over to ask." After all, he was an elderly veterinarian, and he had a friendly smile on his face as he explained.

He wanted to say that he was not deliberately looking for trouble, but was just asking out of concern as he was passing by.

"You two leaders are really devoted to the people. I am so moved that my tears are streaming down my face. My pants are soaked. Why don't you turn around now and explain loudly to the people watching the fun, whether my pig offal is sick or not? If you don't explain clearly, I won't be able to do business." Xie Hushan said to the veterinarian with a smile, lighting a cigarette and holding it in his mouth.

The other party hesitated. After all, there were so many people around. It was really embarrassing to take back what he had just said: "This..."

"I'm CNM!" Seeing the other party hesitate for a moment, Xie Hushan spit the cigarette on the other party and cursed at the two of them:

"You are two illiterate country folk who can only castrate pigs and chickens. You are a barefoot veterinarian who got into the veterinary station because the country was short of manpower. You are pretending to be a state official! And you are here to scare your father. I have already figured out your background three days ago! I even know what color pants your wife wears!"

"Are you embarrassed now? After I fucked your wife, you remembered to give her an IUD? It's too late!"

(End of this chapter)