Chapter 48: Surprise of the Fool
Chapter 48 April Fool's Day Surprise
April 4st, April Fools' Day.
Ryukyu, Chiayi County.
There were a few dark clouds in the sky, and the ground was a little wet from the light rain.
Wang Dafu, who had just returned home from paying homage to his ancestors, was startled by the ringing of the phone before he could even sit down. He looked at the number and found it was his son calling.
"Hello? Wynn, what's up?"
"Dad! Something terrible has happened! Something has happened to the eel!"
"What!?" Wang Dafu jumped up from the sofa instantly, as if his butt was pricked by a needle. He asked nervously, "What happened?"
"The eels are dead! When I went to feed the fish just now, I found that the eels in several fish ponds were floating."
"What! I'll be right there!"
Wang Dafu no longer cared about the meal his wife had just prepared. He picked up the car keys and drove quickly to the farm.
Along the way, his heart involuntarily became gloomy, and at the same time he thought of various possibilities.
Twenty minutes later, the car braked suddenly in front of the breeding base, leaving behind a black trail with a slight burnt smell.
As soon as he got off the car, he was not the only one there.
The cars of the other two shareholders also appeared almost at the same time.
The bald man's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
The bald old man with glasses was trembling slightly all over, and he could hardly walk steadily. There was a hint of uneasiness in his eyes.
The three of them didn't bother to exchange pleasantries and rushed directly into the farm.
Wang Dafu's eldest son, Wang Yongli, was standing beside the fish pond with six or seven employees. His face was filled with anxiety, as well as a hint of helplessness and powerlessness.
"What's going on!" Wang Dafu pushed aside a few employees and came to the fish pond.
Sure enough, there were a large number of eels with their bellies turned up floating on the surface of the fish pond. These eels were already dead. The remaining living eels looked half-dead and were breathing slowly near the water surface.
"Wang Yongli! How do you think you are doing this?" The bald man grabbed Wang Yongli's collar and roared.
Wang Yongli also looked innocent and frustrated, and quickly explained: "Uncle Zhang, I don't know! When I came here this morning, he was fine."
The old man with glasses stared at the large number of dead fish on the water surface with an unpleasant look on his face: "Could it be poisoned? Change the water immediately! And find someone to send it for testing to find out what the poison is!"
"Yes, yes, yes, hurry up!" Wang Dafu seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw: "Yongli, quickly arrange for the eels to be sent for inspection, and everyone else, come with me to change the water."
Although the bald man was furious, he had not completely lost his mind and could only let Wang Yongli go. However, he warned Wang Dafu: "Although we don't know the reason now, Wang Yongli is in charge of the place. No matter what, he must be responsible."
"You're talking nonsense!" Wang Yongli's temper also flared up: "Would I run my own business? Zhang Biao, stop slandering me!"
"Humph! Anyway, you didn't supervise me well, that's a fact."
Seeing that Zhang Biao and his son were about to fight, Wang Dafu immediately yelled: "What are you guys arguing about? We are all on the same boat now. Change the water quickly!"
"Uh uh..." Wang Yongli looked at his father's eyes again and could only quickly catch the fish and fill a few bottles of pond water. At the same time, he sealed the feed of the past few days and took a part of the feed as a sample.
He hurriedly left with the two employees, and while walking, he called acquaintances, trying to find someone to conduct testing as soon as possible.
"Hmph!" Although Zhang Biao had an angry look on his face, he also knew that this was not the time for an internal conflict.
Wang Dafu had already called all the other employees over. More than fifty people were faced with the task of changing the water in more than 400 acres of fish ponds, and it was simply impossible for them to do it quickly.
However, the eels surfaced one after another, their bellies turned upside down.
More than a dozen pumps are working non-stop.
Puff puff…
The noise from the diesel engine made everyone present feel irritated.
In less than an hour, the water in the first three-acre fish pond was replaced, and several water pumping and aerators were working non-stop.
The company's technicians gritted their teeth and prepared some antibiotics and nutrients to enhance immunity. In the plastic bucket, there were more than a dozen eels that had just been fished out and were half dead. The technicians began to try to treat them, and the small aerator made the water in the bucket bubble continuously.
Wang Dafu's face turned extremely pale when he saw the speed.
Under the scorching sun.
He had no time to eat lunch, and coupled with his emotional excitement and the fact that he was moving things with other people, he felt physically exhausted and a little dazed.
"Boss, have a drink of juice to calm down!" The assistant quickly took a bottle of orange juice to Wang Dafu.
"Huff, huff..." Wang Dafu's eyes were a little empty, and his hands were shaking as he took the orange juice. The assistant didn't know how to comfort him, and was afraid of saying something wrong, so he could only stand aside and act as an invisible figure.
The situation of the other two shareholders is not much better.
Zhang Biao was checking the conditions of other fish ponds while swearing from time to time.
The old man with glasses had hypoglycemia and was overly excited, and was lying in the lounge of the breeding base.
Looking at the dead fish that were constantly being fished out, which weighed no less than tens of thousands of kilograms, everyone was in a bad mood. After all, many employees had worked at Xihai Company for more than ten years, and seeing such tragic losses, they naturally felt bad.
At this time, Wang Dafu and his employees subconsciously believed that someone had poisoned the eels, which led to the death of a large number of eels.
Until sunset.
The dead fish that were caught piled up like a mountain, emitting a foul and strong fishy smell under the setting sun.
But after five or six hours, the water change work progressed very slowly, and only the water in more than 20 acres of fish ponds was replaced.
Wang Dafu, Zhang Biao and the old man with glasses stood on the dam of the first fish pond where the water had been changed, staring intently at the layer of dead fish that had floated to the surface.
Apparently changing the water didn't work at all.
"What should we do? What should we do?" Zhang Biao clenched his fists, his voice trembling slightly, then he looked at the technicians on the side and shouted with gritted teeth: "Your technical department, find a solution quickly!"
The technician cried out in his heart that he was unlucky, and could only shake his head helplessly: "Vice President Zhang, it's not that we don't want to save them, but we don't know the reason. From noon to dusk, I tried more than a dozen plans, but the eels kept dying. We need time to find the reason."
Zhang Biao gnashed his teeth and yelled, "Time? How long will it take you to find the cause? In another day or two, all the fish will be dead. What's the point of finding a cause?"
About a quarter of the eels have been caught so far, and the remaining fish are gasping for breath on the water surface.
There is very little time left for them.
It’s a pity that they didn’t know that the formula Jiang Miao deliberately leaked to them was the one with specially added ingredients.
Some people may feel very confused. As a fish fry breeding company, Xihai Company has tried to breed eel fry before. Logically, it should know what cannot be fed to eels.
The reason for this is that they encountered an exception, Jiang Miao.
Jiang Miao's identification panel can not only show all the conditions for eel reproduction, but also discover genetic defects of eels.
Just like dogs can't eat chocolate and some people are lactose intolerant.
Eels also have their own genetic defects. If they are in a natural wild environment, eels will not eat foods that may cause their own death.
But artificial feeding is different.
Jiang Miao simply added two seemingly useful nutrients and minerals into the formula. As long as the eels eat this feed, these two ingredients will form chronic toxins in their bodies through a series of biochemical reactions. Once the accumulated concentration reaches the critical point, the eels will die of acute poisoning.
This is a "poison bait" specially designed to target the genetic defects of eels.
In other words, Wang Dafu poisoned the eels himself.
This is the terrifying thing about being able to read the genes of living things.
As long as Jiang Miao is willing, he can even formulate special versions of "allergic foods" and "genetic toxins" for each species.
This customization can be for a species or for an individual.
Jiang Miao’s things are not so easy to steal.
(End of this chapter)