Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 379 - Fighting For Trash

"Bro, now that I'm not crying anymore will you sell me one?" Fatty Lai wiped his eyes as he turned to Lin Yi, not paying Tianyi anymore attention.

"No." Lin Yi shook his head.

"Why… Bro… I have money, all I have is money, I can spend whatever that old fox Liu Tianyi can spend, and more!" Fatty Lai started sobbing again.

"......" Lin Yi was a little troubled- why did this fatty like to cry so much? He was a total crybaby! Helpless, he decided to explain himself. "I only had that one pill, I don't have any now!"

"Is that so… Then when will you have more?" Fatty Lai's face turned as sad and sour as could be- that pill was the last one!

"I'm not sure." Lin Yi didn't know this Fatty Lai- he wouldn't just give him a pill out of nowhere. The few he had were for promoting his company when it opened, he couldn't just waste them!

This Fatty Lai was a crybaby, and he seemed to be a good son, but good sons and daughters who happen to be crybabies were plenty- if all of those people jumped on his leg and wiped their snot and tears on him asking for pills then Lin Yi would have to work himself to death making them those pills. That, or he'd get annoyed the life out of him first.

That was why he couldn't make this exception- he'd decided firmly that he wouldn't give the pills to people he weren't close with!

"Ah… I… I… s-see… Waah…… Waahh……" The fatty started crying his heart out again. "Miracle Doctor Kang's bastard grandson, that damned grandson, desecrating that heavenly pill!! Curse him… curse him……"

"......" Lin Yi pitied Fatty Lai's situation, but pity wasn't enough to warrant giving him the pill. He wasn't a charity, after all…

At that moment came a cleaner, walking over with a trash bag in his hand, headed to the dump in the resort area. Fatty Lai's sharp eyes recognized him as the cleaner who'd swept up the pill's remnants- he bounced off the ground and charged to the cleaner's side. "Don't throw that away, just give me that trash bag!"

The cleaner jumped in shock, not sure how she should react to the fatty who'd charged at him with tears and snot on his face. "W-W-What are you doing!"

Fatty Lai didn't bother explaining- it was simply too much trouble. He reached for the trash bag and tried to pull it away from her.

The cleaner, on the other hand, would've been crying out for help had the bag not be full of trash. One look at that crazed look on Fatty Lai's face and the cleaner let go immediately, leaving the bag full of useless trash behind as he ran away in fright…

There was no way she'd fight a lunatic like that over a trash bag! As the cleaner ran, he thought about how fatty's clothes had hidden his insane tendencies pretty well.

Fatty Lai did not care what the cleaner thought of him in the slightest- the pill Zhaoming had crushed was the priority here!!

Lin Yi, Xiaobo, Tang Yin, Fen, and even Tianyi stared at the crazed fatty, shocked as they wondered just what the hell he was planning on doing.

"Old Lai, what're you doing! What's the matter with you, what are you doing!" Tianyi may have had some differences before, but they were still good friends- he couldn't just let him go crazy that shamelessly! What if his business rivals saw that and filmed it, it'd humiliate him!

But Fatty Lai didn't seem like he'd heard Tianyi at all- he pulled open the trash bag and started pulling the items out one by one, throwing them into the trash can!

There was a half eaten lunch box, a cup noodles' container, tissues with snot in it, a chewed bubble gum, a one-time pair of chopsiticks… There was a lot of variety in the bag's contents. A fly and even a mosquito came flying out from there.

Tianyi was quite disgusted- had the fatty gone mad?! What on earth was he doing?

"Be quiet! I need to find that pill that spoiled child crushed!" Fatty Lai roared as he flipped through the contents of the bag.

Shaking his head, Lin Yi decided to leave him be- he'd be lucky if he'd managed to find it. Zhaoming might've crushed it, but the effects were still intact.

Tianyi was stunned as well- he wasn't expecting for Fatty Lai to come up with something like that… He was looking for the pill Zhaoming crushed!

"Found it! Found it!" Fatty Lai removed his hand from the trash bag- there was some black stuff on it. He raised it in the air, very excited to have attained the treasure. "I found it, I finally found it! HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

"Haha, congratulations, Brother Lai!" Tianyi walked over and patted the fatty on his shoulder.

"Fuck off!" Fatty Lai said impolitely, glaring at Tianyi. "Don't you try to take my Pill of Life Extension and Toxin Cleansing… I won't give it to you!!"

"I'm not…" Tianyi knew that Fatty Lai wasn't very happy with him withholding information on Lin Yi, but that wasn't his fault, he didn't have Lin Yi's permission! He wouldn't dare just expose Lin Yi like that.

"Eh? Why's this pill so big? I don't remember it being so big???" Fatty Lai walked over, his face curious as he looked at the black stuff. "Bro, do you mind taking a look for me? Is this the one… Eh? There's a bad smell… Ah, it's one of those, right? Good medicine all smell bad."

"......" Lin Yi took one look at the black stuff on Fatty Lai's palm before darting his body away, pulling Tang Yin back as she walked over for a look.

"What's wrong?" Tang Yin asked- why was Lin Yi pulling her back?

"That's the pill, but it's been merged with dog poop." Lin Yi said to the fatty. "Scoop out the left side with the lighter shade, that smells 'cause that's the poop part…"

"Ah?" Fatty Lai stared with wide open eyes as sweat dripped down his forehead. "Dog poop…"

Yet the fatty gritted his teeth- even if there was dog poop on it he needed to retrieve the pill!!

Tianyi broke out in a cold sweat- merged with dog poop..? This Fatty Lai sure had shitty luck…

But Fatty Lai didn't think so. He actually found himself to be quite fortunate! So what if there was dog poop on it, he was lucky enough to have found it in the first place! It was something worth celebrating, it didn't matter if there was dog poop on it!

Fatty Lai carefully scooped out the poop part, but didn't do it completely- there was some of the pill on the dog part, but Fatty Lai couldn't go any further… He couldn't just bring dog poop back home for his father to eat, could he?

He threw the poop part into the trash bag and carefully held the other part in his hand. There wasn't a container for him to use, so he took out a cigar box and dumped all of the former into the trash can and containing the crushed pill inside the box.

Chapter 380 - Go Retrieve It

Lin Yi thought to himself that the fatty sure was rich- those cigars were clearly very luxurious, and here he was, dumping them without a second's hesitation. The cost for that pill wasn't even the value of one of those cigars…

But it was different for Fatty Lai- to him, what he held in his hands was pure treasure. To him, it was worth way more than just a hundred million- Lin Yi wasn't even willing to sell it for five hundred million! This was a priceless item, an ultimate rarity!

As the saying went- gold doesn't buy you years! If his father got to live ten years longer after taking the pill then it was, without debate, a priceless treasure! Although, the pill was now a lot less than it had been… Would it still be effective?

At that thought, Fatty Lai turned to Lin Yi. "Bro, the pill is a smaller than before, does it still work?"

Much of the original crushed pill had been stuck onto the ground and swept up into the broom already after Zhaoming destroyed it- there wasn't much left.

"A little. I don't know about five or ten years, but one or two is possible." Lin Yi said. "It depends on how many toxins are in your dad's body, and also the condition it's in…"

"My dad has uremia. Will the toxins still be cleansed?" Fatty Lai had been the most worried about Lin Yi ignoring him- now that he was responding to his inquiries Fatty Lai used that momentum to get as much out of LLin Yi's guidance as possible, insanely overjoyed as he did so.

"Yeah, it'll have some effect. It'll give him something like one or half a year, there shouldn't be a problem." Lin Yi said.

"Ugh… Will he be cured?" Fatty Lai asked urgently.

"Maybe if he eats ten or twenty of those pills? I'm not too sure." Lin Yi didn't want to lie to the man- uremia wasn't something you could cure that easily, you needed acupuncture comboed with Eastern medicine to achieve a cure.

"Bro, then could you help cure my father… I'll give my life to you and work for you, do whatever you want and pay however much you want… Waahh…" Fatty Lai kneeled in front of Lin Yi again, getting more than just snot and tears onto his pants- Lin Yi now had someone with dog shit in his hands hugging onto his leg.

"Ugh… Let go of me first." Lin Yi was thinking that his pair of pants had to go- he'd throw them away after getting home.

"You'll cure him for me?" Fatty Lai asked, delighted.

"You get up right now, scram back home, and give that pill you picked up to your dad so he won't be dead anytime soon!" Lin Yi said helplessly. "Let me think about this! Also, you seem to be a bit of bigshot- are you a celebrity?"

"Alright, I'll go home right away!" Fatty Lai nodded immediately before answering the question. "I've made a bit of a name for myself in the business world. Do you need something, bro?"

"It's nothing, I'm starting a company in a couple days, you wanna come to the opening ceremony? I'll distribute another Pill of Life Extension and Toxin Cleansing that day." Lin Yi nodded. "You'll have time, right? It's fine if you're not."

"Yes, yes, yes!!! I'll have time!!" Fatty uttered the three words instantly, horrified that Lin Yi might hear him wrong and cross his name out from the invitation list- he was so excited he just might faint. "I'll go be your follower, don't you worry! I might be fat, but I'm strong! I'm best at carrying stuff around!

"Then you can leave now. You can get my phone number from Mister Liu." Lin Yi was really backed up by this fatty's persistence- might as well give him a pill, since he wanted to distribute them to people for testing.

"Alright, alright!" Fatty Lai nodded, satisfied as he walked Lin Yi to his crappy van. So Lin Yi liked cars like that? Fatty Lai thought that he should get a car like that as soon as possible, too, so as to be the best follower for Lin Yi!

Meanwhile, Miracle Doctor Kang's birthday feast was still taking place. The guests still had big smiles on their faces, but the doctor found the atmosphere off. He looked at Zhaoming, who was standing at a side, and remembered what had happened earlier.

Miracle Doctor Kang waved Zhaoming over after the guests finished presenting their gifts.

 

Zhaoming rushed over, still remembering his fuck-up. The situation was as clear as it could be now at this point- Lin Yi was a young master. He didn't know how Xiaobo got to know him, but Lin Yi wasn't just a nobody!

He was able to gather at least that much, from what he'd seen of Moon on the Sea's Mister Tian, Liu Tianyi, and Guan Xuemin's attitudes towards Lin Yi. His Pill of Life Extension and Toxin Cleansing, too, was very likely authentic as well, probably some rarity from who knew where… 

And Zhaoming crushed it to crumbles, under his foot, no less.

"Grandpa…" Zhaoming walked over carefully as his hatred towards Xiaobo deepened. Why couldn't he had told him about his new bigshot boss he'd just met!! He wouldn't have been humiliated like this otherwise!

"Go and look for that cleaner from earlier, and retrieve that Pill of Life Extension and Toxin Cleansing he swept away!" Miracle Doctor Kang, naturally, was able to understand something so simple that even Xiaobo could understand- he also felt that it'd be an extreme pity for the pill to be in the trash, if it were real. 

But he couldn't let the outsiders see something as shameful as that. "Remember, don't let anyone see you!"

"Understood, grandpa!" Zhaoming nodded quickly- there was still a chance to redeem himself, he just needed to do what his grandpa told him!

Zhaoming slipped out the ballroom when the others weren't paying attention. In truth, he was a very minor clown character, nothing important in the slightest- people wouldn't be paying attention to him in the first place.

Zhaoming walked out the ballroom and bumped into the cleaner from earlier- he quickly walked over. "Ma'am, excuse me, but where did you throw the trash from earlier?"

Zhaoming needed something from this cleaner, that was the only reason he was treating her so kindly. It wouldn't be happening in any other circumstance.

"The trash can outside, but…" The cleaner hadn't finished her 'but' when Zhaoming turned and darted away! The cleaner only shook her head- she'd wanted to warn him about the fatty who'd wrestled the trash bag from her, but Zhaoming didn't give her that chance at all.

Zhaoming feared that the trash bag had been picked up by someone else already- he charged outside quickly right after the cleaner's words, and got out of the ballroom to see an opened trash bag right next to a trash can!

Zhaoming was in shock- did someone steal it before he got here?! He remembered that there were people who flipped through the trash cans near the resort and hotels around here, looking for bottles or anything that could sell for scrap money… But they shouldn't have known anything about the pill, should they?

He didn't want to dilly-dally around- with speed, he ran over and picked the trash bag up, searching through its contents…

"Hm? This should be the one!" Zhaoming retrieved some black stuff from the trash can.