Overbearing Immortal Doctor
Chapter 109 - 109 109 Fire

109: Chapter 109 Fire 109: Chapter 109 Fire Early the next morning, just as the sky began to lighten, the native chickens in the mountains started to become active.

Although these hens couldn’t crow at dawn, they clucked incessantly, quickly waking up Liu Sheng, who had just closed his eyes not long ago.

Liu Sheng sneezed and slowly stood up, trembling.

After a night of torment, his resentment toward Wu Xiaoyu had only grown.

However, having witnessed Wu Xiaoyu’s ferocity and cunning, he dared not make any move and dejectedly headed down the mountain.

As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, he ran into several cousins from the Wu Family, each carrying a bamboo basket and heading up the mountain.

Wu Daqing walked up and smiled, asking, “You’re already heading up the mountain this early?”

Liu Sheng, having done something shameful and been caught by Wu Xiaoyu, had avoided embarrassment and more severe consequences by pretending to be drunk.

Feeling extremely guilty, he didn’t answer and quickly ran off with his head down.

Wu Daqing and his group had toiled in the fields all day yesterday, their backs and waists aching.

Yet, they still got up early to pick mushrooms.

Wu Xiaoyu, feeling sympathetic, gave each of them a few dozen extra yuan.

Then he loaded the still-damp mushrooms onto a tricycle and went to deliver them.

These past few days, Wu Xiaoyu had considered hiring someone else to deliver the goods.

After all, running back and forth every day was not tiring but very annoying.

However, he couldn’t find anyone reliable at the moment.

After delivering goods to two places, Wu Xiaoyu followed Zhou Dong’s given address to find Jiji.

Pushing the door open, he found that renovation workers were already working inside.

The people at the restaurant, all hired by Zhou Dong, had never seen Wu Xiaoyu, the other boss.

As he entered, a girl quickly came over and said, “We’re still under renovation.

We won’t open until the 18th.”

The 18th?

That number seemed quite auspicious.

Wu Xiaoyu, pretending to be fierce, said to the girl, “Where’s Zhou Dong?

Tell that kid to come out.

Doing business on my turf, did you pay the protection fee?”

The girl, who had always worked at Zhou Dong’s ‘Super Delicious’ restaurant under Director Ma’s protection, had never encountered such a thug demanding protection fees and was terrified, retreating repeatedly.

A boy behind the counter immediately went inside to call Zhou Dong.

As soon as Zhou Dong heard someone was demanding protection fees, he knew it was Wu Xiaoyu.

Entering the hall, he indeed saw Wu Xiaoyu sitting in a corner, looking bossy.

Zhou Dong, knowing the drill, walked over and bowed, loudly saying, “Hello, Boss…”

Several waiters and renovation workers in the restaurant were astonished.

This person is the boss’s boss?

Seeing Zhou Dong’s cooperation, Wu Xiaoyu burst into laughter and said to the waiters, “Don’t be afraid!

I’m not a thug, but…

I’m also not your boss’s boss!”

“Alright, stop joking with them!” Zhou Dong said, gesturing for several waiters to gather around and introducing:

“This is Wu Xiaoyu, a good friend of mine.

He is also your boss.

This restaurant is a partnership between us!”

He’s also the boss?

As young as Boss Zhou, which family does he come from?

Some of the more attentive waitstaff were already thinking of getting closer to him.

Wu Xiaoyu briefly greeted everyone, then followed Zhou Dong to the back.

Zhou Dong pulled out a document from a bag on the bed, saying:

“This is the equity statement.

Take a look!

Although our place isn’t big, the equity contract is based on a large company’s model!”

Having known Zhou Dong for so long, Wu Xiaoyu felt he understood his character well.

He glanced through the equity distribution and put it away.

Today is July 10th, leaving only eight days before the restaurant officially opens.

In another eight days, his native chickens would be on the market.

He felt both excited and a bit nervous.

After showing Wu Xiaoyu around, Zhou Dong asked, “How about your chickens?

Will they be ready for sale by then?”

In fact, the chickens at the farm had been ready for sale for a while.

To prevent the native chickens from growing too large, he hadn’t fed them Spiritual Spring Water for a long time, hoping their debut would be a big hit at the restaurant’s opening.

Wu Xiaoyu said, “Don’t worry!

The chickens are already ready for sale, just waiting for the restaurant to open.”

While Wu Xiaoyu and Zhou Dong were envisioning their future business, it was already past noon.

Just as Wu Xiaoyu was about to take Zhou Dong out for lunch, he received a call from his father saying the village’s wheat field was on fire and told him to hurry back.

A burning wheat field is no small matter.

Upon hearing the news, Wu Xiaoyu immediately pedaled his tricycle home.

From a long distance away, he could see thick smoke rising above the village.

Judging by the scale, the burnt crops were not few.

But with the fields in the village so scattered, how could such a large fire break out?

And why wasn’t it noticed earlier?

As soon as he reached the village entrance, he saw a crowd gathered by the river.

Men, women, and children were fetching water from the river with various containers and running to the fields to the south.

Wu Xiaoyu abandoned his tricycle and ran with the villagers, only to find that his family’s field had already been burned to the ground, and the fire was still spreading.

Villagers were pouring buckets of water around the fire, but it was like a drop in the bucket.

The village’s only water pump was already in the well, but the fire had gotten too big for the water to make a difference.

In the fields that had not yet caught fire, a large number of villagers were working hard to harvest, trying to minimize their losses.

The owners of the wheat fields that had already burned before harvesting were crying by the roadside.

“Xiaoyu, our field hasn’t been harvested yet, and it’s all burned…” his mother cried.

What’s the use of crying now?

Wu Xiaoyu looked around and asked, “Where’s the fire truck?

Did anyone call the fire department?”

Several sobbing women nearby answered, “We called, they said it would take forty minutes to get here!”

As soon as they spoke, the sound of a fire truck’s siren could be heard.

Niu Mansheng led the fire truck to the burning wheat field.

With the addition of the fire truck, the fire was quickly brought under control.

The wheat fields around the fire were all harvested, leaving only stubble behind.

From the time the fire was discovered to when it was completely extinguished, it took more than two hours.

In those two hours, nearly thirty acres of fields were burned.

If the villagers hadn’t worked hard to harvest, the entire large area of wheat fields to the south might have been completely destroyed.