Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

The boiling water instantly soaked through the thin hospital gown, reaching the most vulnerable skin and flesh.

The monkey, which had been sleeping like a log, suddenly tensed up into a rigid bow.

"ah--"

A bloodcurdling scream, as piercing as a dying beast, shattered the stifling air in room 308, making the windows vibrate and rattle.

The extreme pain instantly brought the monkey to its senses.

His eyes suddenly bulged out, filled with terrifying red blood vessels, and the veins on his neck stood out like thick earthworms.

He instinctively tried to curl up to cover himself, but his limbs were tightly fastened to the rusty iron frame by rough cowhide straps, and he couldn't move an inch.

The scalding water raged wildly on his skin and flesh. The monkey had nowhere to escape and could only spasm violently all over his body, like a mudfish nailed to a chopping board and doused with hot oil.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

The rusty iron bed frame was violently shaken by his frantic struggles, and the four iron bed legs collided wildly with the terrazzo floor, making a teeth-grinding, ear-piercing sound.

"It's ripe! It's ripe! Ahhhhhh—"

The monkey's heart-wrenching screams immediately alerted those outside.

A series of hurried, chaotic footsteps suddenly echoed in the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, with a loud "bang," the chipped wooden door to the ward was violently pushed open from the outside.

The head nurse on duty stormed in, accompanied by two security officers, their faces full of anger.

"What's going on with you guys in 308?!"

The head nurse was jolted awake by the deafening wailing as soon as she entered the room. Her face was ashen as she pointed at the ward and yelled, "You just made a mess of poop and pee all over the floor! It took several of us wearing masks an hour or two to clean it up. Several of us were so disgusted we even threw up! And now you're making this noise again?"

She stood with her hands on her hips, trembling with anger, and glared furiously at Wang Guowei, who was curled up on the floor pretending to be dead, and Ma Hou, who was writhing wildly on the bed.

"Do you even want to be hospitalized for treatment?! If not, pack your things and get out! Don't waste other patients' rest!"

"Ouch—Holy crap—"

The monkey wouldn't listen to the head nurse's scolding at all. The veins on his neck bulged, and he continued to wail pitifully in his hoarse voice, "Help! Doctor! My genitals are ripe! They're fucking ripe! Quick, give me some cold water! I can't take it anymore—"

The head nurse then noticed that something was wrong with bed number three.

She frowned and walked quickly over, immediately noticing the chipped enamel mug on the ground and the large puddle of steaming water between the monkey's legs.

"How did this happen?!"

The head nurse gasped, her voice instantly rising eight octaves as she turned and glared at the ward. "This was just boiling water! Who did this?!"

Wang Guowei, who had been huddled on the terrazzo floor pretending to be dead, finally raised one hand shakily and began to wail pitifully.

"Oh dear, nurse, it's all my fault!"

Wang Guowei clutched his thigh tightly, wincing in pain, his face streaked with tears and snot: "My injuries haven't fully healed yet. I was thinking of getting out of bed to get some hot water. Who knew my leg would suddenly cramp up? I lost my balance and fell forward, my hand slipped..."

He pointed to the enamel mug on the ground, his face contorted with misery, and continued to argue, "The water just flew all over the place! It was purely an accident, nurse. Look, I fell pretty badly too, ouch, my leg is almost broken..."

The head nurse glanced down coldly, her eyes filled with extreme disgust as she looked at the water stains on the floor and the location of the enamel mug. She didn't believe a single word of Wang Guowei's nonsense.

"Slipped? You've got a really good touch! It just happened to slip over the half-meter-wide aisle and the bed railing, landing right on someone's crotch!"

The head nurse pointed her finger at Wang Guowei's nose and bluntly exposed him: "Stop pretending to be dead! Everyone knows what kind of mess you two made in this ward last night, right? He smashed the bedpan and disgusted you, and this morning you brought boiling water to pour on him! This is clearly retaliation. Do you think the security department and medical staff are blind?!"

Without giving Wang Guowei any further chance to argue, the head nurse turned around and sternly gave orders to the two security officers behind her.

"Since this man still has the strength to get out of bed, fetch hot water, and fight, it means his injuries have almost healed! Security personnel, immediately clear his belongings from his bed and kick him out! You're discharged right now; don't occupy a bed and waste national medical resources!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Guowei, who had been pretending to have a cramp on the ground, suddenly became anxious and stopped covering his legs. He quickly scrambled to his feet, half-kneeling on the ground and howling.

"No! Head Nurse! Why should we?!"

Wang Guowei, his face pale with anxiety, waved his hands frantically at the head nurse, "I really didn't stand properly! Besides, my back is covered in severe injuries from being beaten by hundreds of people; my skin and flesh are all torn apart. How can I be discharged now?! This is going to kill me!"

The head nurse snorted coldly, completely unmoved by Wang Guowei's tactics.

"Even if your skin is rotting, don't you dare soil our ward's beds! Get out! Pack your things and get out right now!" The head nurse waved her hand, signaling the security guards to take action. "Our First Municipal Hospital can't afford to serve you bunch of living devils!"

Without saying a word, the two security officers rushed forward and grabbed Wang Guowei's arms from both sides, dragging him out the door like a dead dog.

Wang Guowei, covered in bruises, screamed in agony as he was pulled, struggling desperately and begging for mercy.

The head nurse didn't even bother to look at him. She suddenly turned her head and her sharp gaze swept directly at Gao Wenbin, who was half-lying on bed number one.

"And you!"

The head nurse pointed her finger at Gao Wenbin's nose and demanded sharply, "You two are in the same room, aren't you? Just now, he was scalding someone with boiling water, and you were just standing half a meter away watching? Did you participate in this? Did you instigate it?!"

Gao Wenbin's heart skipped a beat, and he was startled.

He was used to acting like a tyrant and spouting bureaucratic airs at the Hongxing Factory, but when it came to this critical moment, seeing Wang Guowei about to be thrown out onto the street, he was afraid that he would also be implicated and kicked out of the hospital, and he couldn't even maintain the slightest bit of his leader's airs.

"No...no! I absolutely did not participate!"

Gao Wenbin's face turned deathly pale. He instinctively shook his head vigorously, his official tone turning into a stammering attempt to distance himself: "Nurse, please don't talk nonsense! I have broken ribs and can't even get up. I didn't even see what he was trying to do! It was purely his own doing, and it has nothing to do with me!"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a very gentle chuckle suddenly came from the noisy corridor outside the ward.

"Wenbin, I just stepped outside when I heard you shouting at the top of your lungs. With such a strong voice, it seems your injury is almost healed."

Upon hearing that voice, Gao Wenbin's expression froze completely.

His head, which he had just shaken, remained suspended in mid-air, and a bead of cold sweat slid down his forehead.

As the voice spoke, the peeling wooden door to the ward was slowly and deliberately pushed open from the outside.

A man dressed in a dark gray cadre uniform strode in.

He was around fifty years old, with a pair of thin metal-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, and steadily holding a white porcelain teacup with the words "Serve the People" printed in red.

He is Chen Jianguo, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.