Chapter 8

After finishing the buns, Yu Huai was just about to take a nap when a few dark shadows came in front of him. Two dirty and slovenly old men walked over, with cold light flashing in their cloudy eyes. Their cracked and chapped lips opened slightly, revealing a mouthful of incomplete teeth with a mixture of black and yellow.

An old man rubbed his hands and laughed: “Little girl, why are you here alone? Do you need a man to accompany you? I promise to warm your bed.”

Yu Huai snorted. These two old men have been malnourished for years and their internal energy is very strong. She can’t resist the strong man with a gun, so how can she not beat the old man?

She stood up, hands on her hips, and looked at the two old men in front of her with disdain, “If you don’t want to get hurt, stay away.”

The two old men looked at each other and burst into laughter. “The little girl is quite arrogant.”

An old man rushed towards Yu Huai with his arms open. Yu Huai dodged nimbly and at the same time pulled out a kitchen knife from her waist. She swung her hand and slashed at the old man’s arm. She slashed very skillfully and avoided all the major blood vessels.

The old man covered his bleeding arm and screamed, “You little bitch! ! “

The other old man turned pale with fright. He never expected that a little girl would be so aggressive that she could even chop people so easily.

Yu Huai sneered and waved the kitchen knife that was still dripping with blood. “If you are not afraid of death, come on and see who can escape without hesitation.”

The old man standing by ran away in a hurry, and the old man who was chopped covered his arm and kept backing away in fear.

Yu Huai waved a kitchen knife and said to everyone who was still watching nearby, “From now on, this place is my place, Yu Huai. If anyone dares to touch this package, I will kill them with the kitchen knife.”

I was just wondering when I could establish my own reputation, but now it’s like a pillow is given to me when I’m sleepy. From now on, she will be the leader of this Beggar Gang.

Yu Huai wiped the kitchen knife clean, put it back behind his waist, and took a short nap leaning against his package.

When he woke up, Yu Huai drank some water, put the big package here, and carried a small package out.

Although I still have some money now, I can’t just sit there and do nothing. I still have to find a job first and then solve my household registration problem.

Yu Huai went looking everywhere. The recruitment information published by companies in newspapers generally required talents from universities, while the ones posted at the entrances of factories, shopping malls and communities also required a certain level of education, not to mention an illegal immigrant like Yu Huai who had no connections and no money.

Finally, Yu Huai found a job as a dishwasher in a private restaurant. The owner of the restaurant was a kind-hearted old couple. They felt sorry for Yu Huai and let her wash dishes in the kitchen for only fifteen yuan a month.

This amount of money would not even be enough for Yu Huai to buy a cup of coffee in the future.

On the way back to the bridge tunnel, Yu Huai met the lame man and the little boy again. The lame man had a rope tied around his waist, and the other end of the rope was tied to the little boy who was still coughing.

Yu Huai stopped unconsciously. The little boy’s cough seemed to be more severe than at noon. It was a typical paroxysmal wheezing. He made a high-pitched wheezing sound when breathing, similar to a whistle. After a period of time, the little boy’s breathing rate would increase, become rapid, and he would feel short of breath.

Yu Huai looked up at the lush flowers blooming on the trees and streets on both sides, and was almost certain that the child had asthma caused by the change of seasons and hair powder allergy.

Severe asthma may cause difficulty breathing, but at this time, almost no one took it seriously, let alone these two people.

Yu Huai spent two days in this difficult environment. Fortunately, he received a daily salary of 15 yuan. Holding this money, Yu Huai felt motivated.

After work that day, she went to the restaurant next door as usual, bought two white flour buns, two dishes, and a big duck leg, and walked along the gravel road as usual.

But on this day, a crowd of people gathered on the gravel road. They formed another circle, and from the innermost circle came the voice of a man crying in despair, “Please, is there a doctor? Please save my son… Please…”

When Yu Huai heard this, he immediately stepped forward, pushed through the crowd and said, “Make way, make way, I’m a doctor.”

When they heard someone say that he was a doctor, the people around him automatically made way for him.

Seeing that she was a young girl, some people thought it was unreliable, “She is so young, could it be that she read two medical books and said she is a doctor?”

“It’s better to read a couple of doctor’s books than just stand here and watch.”

“I think we should send the child to the hospital quickly and not waste any more time.”

“Do you think that person has enough money to take the child to the hospital?”

“Oh, how pitiful.”

When Yu Huai went in, he found that it was the father and son who lived under the bridge.

The little boy was held in the man’s arms, breathing rapidly and having difficulty in breathing in and out. Due to lack of oxygen, his lips and nails had turned purple.

Yu Huai didn’t have time to think about it. He walked forward, took the child out of the man’s arms, put him on his lap, leaned forward slightly, lowered his head slightly, and then unbuttoned the little boy’s clothes to allow the little boy to breathe more smoothly.

She waved her hand and said to the people around her, “Please move aside. Stop gathering here to watch the fun. Let the air circulate.”

Upon hearing this, the people of Western Zhou Dynasty dispersed.

Yu Huai then asked the man next to him to come over and said, “Come here and hold the child like I did. Calm the child’s emotions, stop him from crying, and reduce oxygen consumption.”

The man nodded, and hurriedly held the child on his lap, comforting him softly, “Xiaoyu, be obedient and don’t cry. The doctor is here, and you will feel better soon. Be obedient…”

Yu Huai took out the needle he carried with him, lifted up the child’s clothes, and groped around the cervical vertebrae on his back. He found the point 0.5 inches below the seventh cervical vertebrae, determined the location of the Dinghai point, picked up the needle, and inserted it into the skin at a 90-degree angle.

In fact, recovery would be faster with salbutamol bronchodilator, but I don’t have it on hand now. Acupuncture can only provide relief. I can save him temporarily, but I have to always have the medicine on hand in the future.

Not far from the crowd, a black car parked steadily on the side of the road. A younger man with a crew cut in the front turned slightly to the back and said, “Boss Chi, they’re still waiting for us over there.”