“Muscularman, don’t channel your brute strength into hat-making. You are tearing my hats off.” “Badman, don’t cut corners in the procedure of sewing hats. Your hats are substandard.” “Crazyman, be focused on your needle. You are sewing wrongly and disorderly.” Hatman shouts,” Now, everybody listen, recently the council passed a bill to shift emphasis from economic growth to resource conservation and environmental protection. To make our industry up to the hard and fast code, our factory will be flipped from head to tail to neutralize carbon emission since our machines are so outdated that they generate heavy smoke. As a result, we will have several weeks off until everything is back on track. “”So ashamed that we can’t enjoy our work here. I will neutralize the proposal with a gun aimed at the chairman if I can.” Muscularman, Badman and Crazyman knowingly say to please their boss.
The four are out and about for a mutual picnic at the central park on a sunny day as planned. “Good weather to picnic, isn’t it?” Hatman says. “Yes, I feel refreshed when breathing the relaxing air flow which is full of oxygen. I have never been so carefree before since I embarked on the business of crime.” Badman replies. Suddenly, Muscularman slips and knock on a tree, shaking the branches and leaves off. A thick branch hit Hatman’s head just right, leaving the swelling under his hat. “Haha, you clumsy man. Out of expect is the fact that you lack flexibility. Maybe tai chi best suits you because it can shift your heavy weight to mantain balance.” Crazyman bursts into crazy laughter. “No more laughter. My fists will beat you to death.” Muscularman stands up ，safe and sound, surprising Crazyman. “Just a joke, pure and simple.”He says in extreme tension.
Scary sound of Muscularman’s bumping into a tree catches everyone’s attention, including Baldman who has just released on the completion of his sentense. To join in the fun, he hurries to the source of the sound, only to pick up on a crowd of four with his old opponent Hatman in it. His intense eager to revenge erupts right away as it was the productive businessman Hatman that put him into jail, making his prospect dismal. Needless to say, he is again channelling his energy into finding ways and means to ruin Hatman’s holiday, but this time he has to weigh the pros and cons before his action in case he is in jail for the second time with harsher punishment. Therefore, he keeps track of the four to find the best opportunities to trick them.
He first comes up with the idea to put mouse trap in the shadow of shrub but ends up with failure in that Badman who used to be a successful valiant won’t lose track of checking every corner in case of potential tricks. The next approach that he puts banana peels on the road in belief of being stepped on by Hatman also comes to nothing for the sake that Muscularman leads the way and directly smashes banana peels into thin slices.
It is the last refined idea that eventually comes into effort. He disguises himself into a promoter trying to sell ointment for injury. “Quite in time since I have injury on my head.” Hatman says in relief, so he buys it. As soon as the ointment is applied to the swelling, Hatman cries out in massive pain. Badman is instantly aware of what has happened. “How dare you baldy donkey is to substitute chill sauce for medicine.” Baldman who has yet to sneak away far accelerates in sudden after hearing the words, but Muscular outcompetes him when it comes to speed. Muscularman nearly beats him to death, leaving his hairless head black and blue.
“As is often the case, people count their blessings, but he counts the hatred.” Hatman complains on his way to hospital in the company of the other three. “Maybe I will undergo a procedure. Wait until I am discharged from the hospital.”
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To be continued…