Chapter 1385 The Rat Killer!

Boston, Massachusetts.

Dinis Family Manor.

Yang Ming and others quietly left New York and took a car to the Dinis Family Manor.

Here, Yang Ming met with the main members of the Dinis Family and reached in-depth cooperation.

The outside world did not know what kind of cooperation between Sir Yang and Dinis. At this time, Yang Ming returned to New York after He Chaoxuan met his mother and brother in Vancouver, Canada.

Yang Ming and others took a plane directly from New York International Airport and went back to the Hong Kong New International Airport.

This trip to M country for more than two months has gained a lot.

In addition to further laying out the Internet in M ​​country, this time he went there to save the international superstar Michael Jackson.

Yang Ming took a car back to the Repulse Bay Hillside Villa.

Just got off the car, Lin Dezhong came out to greet him.

"Young Master Yang, welcome home."

"Butler, it's a pity that you don't go this time."

Yang Ming also knew that Lin Dezhong was old now, and he was ready to give up his position to Ah Zhu. He didn't go this time so that Ah Zhu could gradually adapt to the position of butler.

Of course, the butler position of Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa is still Lin Dezhong, but he handed most of the work to Ah Zhu.

Ah Zhu is only about 40 years old now, and there are at least 20 years before she retires.

After Yang Ming greeted his parents, Lin Dezhong followed Yang Ming and talked about the cleaning of Hong Kong some time ago.

In general, Hong Kong is still developing very well now, especially under Yang Ming's reminder, Hong Kong is now far behind other cities in all aspects.

Now that Hong Kong is an international tourist metropolis, more and more tourists from home and abroad come every day, and the hygiene of Hong Kong is particularly important.

However, in many old houses in Hong Kong, such as the Chongqing Mansion where Chung Chuhong and her parents lived, there are many rats in addition to many people.

It is also because of that that Chung Chu-hong has seen them since she was a child, and she is not afraid of rats and cockroaches. On the contrary, people like Anita Mui, Kwan Ka-wai, and Lee Ka-yan screamed in fear every time they saw rats and cockroaches.

The Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa also pays great attention to hygiene, and Lam Tak-chung often asks people to clean the place, including not seeing rats, cockroaches, flies, etc.

Even so, rats can still be seen occasionally.

"I don't know if the current rat-killing drugs are ineffective. I found that rats have bitten things several times when I killed rats."

Rats?

Yang Ming thought of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he asked Tang Yun to collect a lot of collections in China, many of which were calligraphy and paintings, and these were most afraid of being destroyed by rats.

However, rats seem to be particularly common in Hong Kong. For example, the rats seen in the sewers may be larger than some wild cats, with green eyes, and look particularly scary.

Before, as a Justice of the Peace, Yang Ming went to Kowloon City for inspection with Lin Xiuzhi and others, and he found that there were a lot of rats there.

"Are there still many rats now?"

"Yes, maybe the rats have become smarter now, and ordinary rat poison and mouse traps are not effective against them at all."

Lin Dezhong had no choice but to ask people from the rat extermination company for help many times, but he still couldn't catch the rats.

I wonder if the rats have become smarter?

Yang Ming thought it was funny.

There is such a thing.

And he thought of one thing, which was also quite funny. In his previous life, he often heard that people from a certain place specialized in doing certain things.

For example, there were no rats in that place originally, but this group of people secretly put rats there, and then after a while, they started selling rat poison nearby.

Isn't this very similar to producing computer viruses and then selling antivirus software?

In fact, it is almost the same.

And this group of people not only did it in domestic cities, but even did it in China, so that their rat extermination poison sold very well and made a lot of money.

As for the villa halfway up the mountain where Yang Ming lived.

This place is very large and there are many trees. It is normal to have rats around. You can't see a single rat, which is impossible.

"Housekeeper, there are endless rats."

"That's right."

Yang Ming returned to his study.

He was going to Yanjing after a while.

That night.

After Yang Ming and Yang Jirong and his wife finished dinner, they went back upstairs.

22:30 in the evening.

Yang Ming was reading in the study when he suddenly saw Yingla walk in.

Some time ago, after the two broke through their relationship in New York, Yingla's identity was a little different now, and Azhu and others around him could see it.

"Sir, I can't sleep."

"What's wrong?"

"Just now I heard the sound of rats squeaking in the room."

In Chiang Mai, Siam, she had seen rats many times, but she was naturally disgusted with rats and felt that they carried many germs.

Yang Ming felt strange. When he just came back, Lin Dezhong told him that there were rats in the villa, and he had hired people from the rat extermination company but failed to kill them.

Unexpectedly, he ran to Yingla's room now.

Yingla lives in a room all by herself, which is decorated in the style of her hometown, where she has lived for many years.

“Then you can stay here tonight!”

But this is not a long-term solution.

Yang Ming also knew that it was impossible to completely eliminate rats, but now there are more rats in the Repulse Bay Mid-Levels Villa, which would make him unhappy.

. . .

Rest for a night.

Early the next morning.

After Yang Ming got up, he had breakfast with Yang Jirong and his wife. Li Yufang also said: "Peter, there are indeed more rats at home."

"It seems that we need to find someone."

After breakfast, Yang Ming returned to the study and called Tang Yun who was far away in Yanjing.

Tang Yun knew that the boss had gone to Country M, but she didn't know that Yang Ming had returned to Hong Kong.

"Boss, are you still in Country M?"

"No, I'm in Hong Kong. Now there are more rats here. I want to ask if you have any suitable recommendations to catch rats?"

Catch rats?

Tang Yun thought about it, and she really thought of someone.

"Boss, I did think of someone. This person was very famous before. He was known as the rat extermination king, but he has caused a lot of trouble recently."

Rat extermination king?

Qiu Mantun!

He was born in a small mountain village in Wuji, Hebei Province in 1934. During the Republic of China period, wars were frequent, and the Qiu family, who had been farming for generations, had long been penniless and impoverished.

Little Qiu Mantun had never had a full meal, and his parents were even unable to support him in his studies. Therefore, he was often laughed at and bullied by the villagers because he was illiterate.

But Qiu Mantun didn't care. Although he was introverted and lonely, he had a large group of "friends" around him, that is, the big rats that often ran around in his room.

Others avoided rats when they saw them, but Qiu Mantun played with them happily.

Strangely, these big rats were not afraid of him, and he seemed to be able to understand the language of rats, and often commanded these rats to play around.

In the eyes of the villagers, this child was not mentally normal, and with his small eyes and brows, he had to squat in the corner even when eating. This vivid rat look made everyone even more reluctant to approach him, and warned their children to stay away from him.

"At that time, no one in the village looked up to me. They all said I was a useless second-rate person." Qiu Mantun recalled.

In his daily exchanges with mice, he gradually understood their habits.

He could not only tell the gender of mice at a glance, but also judge their intentions from their behavior.

What's more enviable is that when others couldn't eat, he could accurately take out bags of food from the mouse holes to help himself and his family get through the difficult times.

Qiu Mantun's ability laid a solid foundation for him to become the "rat extermination king" in the future.

In the late 1950s, the whole country began a campaign to eliminate the four pests in full swing. Qiu Mantun never thought that his ability, which he had trained by tinkering with mice all day long, could be put to such a great use.

"I have been in the mouse pile for many years for the sake of mankind. As long as I kill them, our food will be saved." With his understanding of the habits of mice, Qiu Mantun became a household name as a rat extermination expert.

He finally relied on mice to make himself proud.

However, the campaign to eliminate the four pests ended like a gust of wind, and his glory, like a flash in the pan, soon faded, and everyone returned to the track of normal life.

Only Qiu Mantun, every day in his head, besides mice, is still mice. His obsession with mice has become crazy. Day after day, year after year, he observed mice, pondered mice, and was obsessed with how to quickly kill mice.

But Qiu Mantun, who was immersed in the world of mice every day and enjoyed himself, never thought that his backyard would catch fire. Qiu Mantun's wife watched her husband not go to work every day, and tinkered with mice at home all day, and she was furious.

"You play with mice all day long, can you eat it? People who are in charge of the family go to the fields to work to support their families. You are so good, you do nothing at home, you go with the mice, I'm leaving."

The wife took her daughter and went to her parents' home without looking back.

In this way, his marriage broke down. Qiu Mantun looked at the culprit mice and secretly vowed that he must develop a medicine to eliminate mice.

When he took the first batch of rat poison he developed and sold it with hope, life dealt him a heavy blow. Because the rat killing effect was not very good, no one recognized his rat poison, and he did not make any money at all.

The stubborn Qiu Mantun refused to admit defeat. He gritted his teeth, sold his only house, and continued to develop rat poison. Without a home, he took his rat poison and left his hometown, starting a twenty-year wandering life.

In these twenty years, he traveled all over the country. Qiu Mantun invested all the money he earned from selling rat poison into the development of new rat poison. He never gave up his original dream.

But rats are the smartest in the world of mammals, and they have super identification ability. It is not easy to develop poison that rats can't identify.

Therefore, if you want to deceive rats, you must have superb deception. He decided to turn his energy from developing rat poison to rat attractants. This rat attractant is Qiu Mantun's unique secret. When rats see his rat attractant, they are like seeing opium addicts and can't stop.

In 1981, Qiu Mantun came to Dali County, Shaanxi Province.

He began his one-man show of killing rats in a busy square. He placed rat poison in corners and on tree branches. Within a few minutes, rats came running over in groups, scrambling to eat the rat poison.

The onlookers were stunned. Wherever Qiu Mantun was, no matter how many people there were, the rats would come out to eat his rat poison as if they were possessed. He finally became famous overnight. With this unique rat poison, Qiu Mantun became popular wherever he went.

His rat poison was once sold out, and Qiu Mantun became a rare millionaire of that era. In Dali County, he married a young and beautiful wife. His newlywed wife said gently: "She likes his rat catching skills", which made Qiu Mantun extremely satisfied.

With the support of his wife, Qiu Mantun let go and continued to develop rat poison without any worries. At this time, his rat catching skills had reached perfection.

In 1989, Qiu Mantun eliminated 82.6 tons of rats in Nanning in just one week; in the same year, he guided rat extermination in Bozhou, and his rat extermination rate reached 91.4%. He became a professional rat killer.

After he became famous, Qiu Mantun's hometown, Wuji County, HEB Province, spent a lot of money to hire him back. With his wife and children, he could finally return home in glory.

The county government allocated Qiu Mantun's family a three-bedroom apartment of more than 100 square meters, a Volkswagen sedan, and a full-time driver. He was so happy.

At the same time, with the strong support of the government, the largest rat poison production plant in the country sprang up.

For a time, Qiu Mantun's rat poison factory was extremely prosperous. In the early 1990s, the factory's net profit in just one week could reach 360,000 yuan.

Not only did manufacturers from all over the country set their sights on Qiu Mantun, but foreign manufacturers also wanted to buy Qiu Mantun's patents. A company in the United States offered a high price of 2.7 million US dollars to buy out his formula.

However, he blocked all these people. He told his wife: "If I sell the formula abroad, I will be no different from a traitor."

However, things never go as planned. Just when he was at the peak of his career, a pest control expert named Wang Chengxin caused Qiu Mantun to fall flat on his face.

Wang Chengxin was a technical consultant invited by Qiu Mantun. While checking the production process of rat poison, Wang Chengxin felt that Qiu's rat poison was not that simple.

After a period of secret observation, he was sure that Qiu's rat poison contained monofluoroacetamide, a drug banned by the state.

Wang Chengxin immediately joined forces with four other experts and wrote a letter to denounce Qiu Mantun, saying that Qiu's rat poison not only had no effect in attracting rats, but also had serious safety issues.

He also published an article entitled "Scientific Promotion of Rat Control" to point the finger at Qiu Mantun.

Qiu Mantun was furious when he learned the news. He would never allow his half-life's hard work to be slandered. So he took the five experts to court on the grounds that they had infringed his reputation.

In 1992, this special lawsuit was heard in court under the attention of the people of the whole country.

The court decided to conduct an experiment to verify whether the efficacy of Qiu's rat poison was exaggerated.

The experimental site was set up beside National Highway 107. Qiu Mantun scattered the rat poison in the grass and waited anxiously for the rat to take the bait.

Time passed by minute by minute, and a small mouse head quietly poked out from the grass. The alert mouse looked around and confirmed that there was no danger, so it slowly approached the rat poison.

Everyone held their breath and watched the mouse eat the rat poison. After a while, the mouse screamed and died on the spot.

Another mouse was also poisoned a hundred meters away. At the same time, the ingredients of Qiu's rat poison were professionally tested and the results showed that it did not contain monofluoroacetamide, and Qiu Mantun won the case.

I thought the dust had settled, but I didn't expect a bigger storm to come.

The experts who lost the case felt that they were embarrassed, so they did not obey the court's decision, but continued to appeal, which attracted great attention from the higher authorities.

This time, the higher authorities sent staff from the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Technical Supervision Bureau to form a joint investigation team to conduct a thorough investigation of the rat poison factory.

The ingredients, no problem, the quality, no problem. However, Qiu Mantun had a problem with the procedures for setting up the factory, and the boat capsized in the gutter. Afterwards, the higher authorities still ordered the rat poison factory to stop production within a time limit.

This incident had a great impact last year and even this year.

Yang Ming just didn't hear about it in Hong Kong, but Tang Yun knew it very well.

At this time, Qiu Mantun rarely heard about him, but Tang Yun knew that he was the king of rat extermination.

If the boss really wants to catch rats, it would be very useful to call him over. (End of this chapter)