Before Chen Rou could respond, Nie Yao had already begun speaking.
He said, "Three hundred years ago, early biologists discovered a tiny organism in the human mouth that could cause illness. More than two hundred years ago, Pasteur invented pasteurization, and humanity began its war against bacteria."
Liang Lisheng didn't know why he had to bring this up out of the blue, and was about to stop him when Chen Rou waved her hand: "Let him continue."
Nie Yao added: "More than a hundred years ago, humans were still slaves to bacteria. Cholera, typhoid, smallpox, and other epidemics would cause a major pandemic every 100 years. Humans could only watch helplessly as these diseases raged and were powerless to deal with them."
Just as Song Yuanchao helped Liang Lisheng to a chair and was massaging his legs, he saw Ahui helping Nie Rong walk over. He quickly went to help them up and turned back to say, "Second Master, I have an objection."
Nie Yao held Song Yuanchao, the bodyguard from the mainland, in contempt and was annoyed by his interruption. He said impatiently, "Speak."
Song Yuanchao said, "I do not agree with your point of view, Second Master, because Zhang Zhongjing had already written 'Treatise on Miscellaneous Injuries' during the Han Dynasty, which also contained prescriptions for the targeted treatment of plague."
Although Nie Yao grew up in Hong Kong, he only learned two foreign languages during his school years: Japanese and English. He understood Chinese, but did not study classical Chinese. The Nie family also mainly practiced Western medicine, so he did not understand traditional Chinese medicine, let alone history and dynasties.
He was quite confident: "That was in modern times, it couldn't be ancient times."
He also said, "In 1880, Pasteur developed vaccines for cholera, anthrax, and swine erysipelas. Humans began to try to defeat bacteria and viruses, which was a historic breakthrough."
Song Yuanchao could no longer tolerate it and said, "Zhang Zhongjing lived in 100 AD, and he was already defeating the virus at that time."
Nie Yao was about to tell Chen Rou a story, but was kept interrupted by a bodyguard who slapped the book: "Since you say Zhang Zhongjing is so amazing, why have I never heard of his existence? He wasn't even in my textbooks when I was a student."
Song Yuanchao was telling the truth, but it sounded like he was arguing with Nie Yao.
He said, "But Zhang Zhongjing was in my textbooks when I was in school. When we were sick, we used his prescriptions."
Nie Yao thought this person was stupid and stubborn, and was about to get angry when Chen Rou quickly said, "It's just that the textbooks are different."
He then gestured for Song Yuanchao to stop speaking and let Nie Yao say what he wanted to say.
Nie Yaocai opened his mouth, but then coughed violently. Nie Rong, who was sitting behind him, immediately handed him a water glass: "Drink some."
He kept patting Nie Yao's back, saying, "Did you choke? Let me help you soothe it."
Liang Lisheng said, "Don't drink too fast, drink slowly."
Song Yuanchao looked at Chen Rou with eyes as if he had seen a ghost.
Nie Rong was a long-established tycoon, with a bunch of servants to wait on him. When he was too lazy to eat, the servants would feed him. But the more picky and distant he was towards Nie Zhao, the more gentle and considerate he was towards Nie Yao.
His care for Nie Yao was that of a truly responsible and devoted father.
Nie Yao was clearly spoiled from a young age. The chairman and vice-chairman of the Nie Group fawned over him, but he could only coldly say, "Please, don't touch me!"
Looking back at Nie Rong, he said, "Please stay away from me."
Other bodyguards were used to it, but Song Yuanchao was seeing this scene for the first time and looked incredulous.
Of course, this kind of brazenness born from being deceived into love is something a rough, uncaring guy like him would never understand.
Surrounded and pampered by the two old men, Nie Yao began to speak again: "Plagues that use bacteria as carriers are usually transmitted from animals to humans, and are a natural phenomenon. So far, apart from the Soviet Union in the north, no country has been so ruthless as to develop a form of warfare using plagues and germs."
Song Yuanchao, having lived in this era, immediately understood the purpose of Nie Yao's words.
He tried to answer again, but Chen Rou patted him on the back and stopped him.
Nie Yao then added, “Just like cholera, anthrax, and plague, they will appear naturally. When they appear, and a country or government is unable to solve them, and the people are plunged into suffering and hardship, then the intervention of other countries is needed.”
Song Yuanchao raised his hand and cracked his knuckles.
Nie Rong didn't speak, but Liang Lisheng said, "A Yao, the world and people's hearts are not as simple as you think."
Nie Yao suddenly became agitated: "What happened in 1937 was clearly an aid mission targeting a large-scale plague virus spreading in the Kanto region, but you insist on calling it an invasion, and even made such a terrifying movie, and forced me to watch it."
Then, pointing at Chen Rou, he said, "It was you, the devil, who instructed me to live in a nightmare every day since that day."
"Black Sun 731" was a movie that Nie Zhao showed to Nie Yao after he was imprisoned.
That was actually a historical fact, and it is said that in order not to frighten the audience, the bloody and terrifying scenes have been cut as much as possible, and what has been kept is as mild as possible.
Even though the history was embellished, it still terrified Nie Yao.
Moreover, he firmly believed that it was not true, but that Chen Rou, that devil, had sent it to scare him.
Song Yuanchao was angry because he had noticed from the beginning that Nie Yao was trying to confuse the public. What happened in the Guandong region in 1937 was clearly an invasion, but he insisted on calling it aid, which was called tampering with history.
As for how dedicated and hardworking Nie Zhao was in the affairs between the two places, there is only one word to describe Nie Yao, this crooked-side second master: a traitor!
Of course, he was indeed a traitor, since his mother and uncle were both from other countries.
If it weren't for the fact that they were on a mission, Song Yuanchao could have easily stomped this skinny second master of the Nie family to death.
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