Chapter 363: 363 No Wonder

Chapter 363

The leaders were willing to give Jiang Tao important responsibilities, and Jiang Tao had a promising future ahead of him. He didn't want to ruin himself over this small gain.

"We're not brothers if you're going to be petty about this. As deputy factory manager, can't you make decisions on even small matters like this? This is a win-win for both of us and does no harm to your factory. Why can't you just..."

"Anyway, I can't do it. Get rid of this idea."

Jiang Tao stood up and walked away. He had barely started eating and hadn't even picked up his chopsticks, but something told him he couldn't eat here anymore.

Over the next several days, his old friend kept pestering him.

Red Maple was developing rapidly. After just a few months, it had started becoming profitable. The down payments received in the second half of the year alone were enough to cover what Sister Zhang had spent on starting the factory.

Zhi Xia was formulating plans for the next step. The leaders she had cultivated so far, especially outstanding ones like Jiang Tao and the two others selected early on, could already hold their own.

Barring any accidents, she could hand management of this place entirely to Jiang Tao and go start a new factory.

Knock knock knock.

There was a knock at the door.

Without even lifting her head, Zhi Xia parted her red lips slightly. "Come in."

Jiang Tao came in carrying newly selected orders. "Boss, you're still working hard?"

"Mm," Zhi Xia nodded and temporarily set aside her work at hand.

After thinking it over left and right, Jiang Tao decided to tell Zhi Xia about the controller issue.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was off. His old friend's stubborn persistence made him feel this matter was not so simple. If he didn't cooperate, it was very possible the other party would look for someone else, so he had to give the boss a heads up.

If some shortsighted person got bought over and tampered with things, leading to subsequent product quality issues, the whole factory would be implicated.

Zhi Xia quickly went over to ask, "What happened? How is Third Brother?"

"He's still in surgery. We don't know the specifics yet."

Seeing her crying so hard and incoherently, Zhi Xia could only turn to An JingZhi. "How did Third Brother suddenly get stabbed? Was it a patient's family member..."

She could only think it was some medical dispute. An ZhiXian was currently a top doctor at the hospital and one of the few actively advocating integrated Chinese and Western medicine. Since returning from abroad, the cough and asthma Chinese medicine he had developed had passed review by the drug regulatory agency and was being mass produced at a pharmaceutical factory. Because of this, he had also been featured in People's Daily.

There were also the male oral contraceptives that were being rapidly popularized since the formal legislation of the family planning policy, sparing many women the pain of ligation while also achieving over 99% contraceptive rates, with both short-term and long-lasting versions up to three years.

At this thought, Zhi Xia flushed slightly. Fortunately this was her brother. Otherwise she suspected what would have been developed was female contraceptives instead of male ones.

But to Zhi Xia's surprise, this time An ZhiXian had been inexplicably stabbed over the contraceptives.

The assailant already had 5 daughters at home. Since family planning was promoted last year, he and his wife had been trying every way to conceive a son. His wife got pregnant after two months in hiding but unfortunately miscarried from a fall. The man got forced to take long-term contraceptives, and seeing no more hope for children, instead of blaming the people who caught him or coerced him, he blamed An ZhiXian as the contraceptive developer.

He found the newspaper that had covered An ZhiXian, then posed as a patient to surveil the hospital back and forth for several days before finally finding an opportunity to suddenly pull out a knife and stab An ZhiXian, who had just finished an exhausting surgery.

An ZhiXian's abdomen was stabbed once. He was immediately pulled into the ER, and the An family rushed over to await outside the operating room where his status remained unknown.

"What about the stabber? Was he arrested?" Zhi Xia asked again.

"The police took him away."

Just then, the operating room door opened and the surgeon came out.

"Doctor, how is my son?" Zhou Nan anxiously rushed to ask.

"The surgery was very successful. He will be fine now. The injury was to his abdomen. Doctor An will need ample rest and recuperation."

After being moved from the OR to a premium single room for his status, the An family finally got to see him.

But this had been an unforeseen disaster.