Insufficient balance

  After being hugged, to be honest, she didn't have any feelings at all. More accurately, shock, anger, disgust, helplessness, too many emotions burst out at the same time, confusing You Fen.

  Should he save himself? Should he push away the women clinging to him? He had tried, but the strength of the three women was too great. They held onto Yu Xun tightly and he couldn't shake them off. What should he do? As he listened to the women's wails, a sentence escaped his lips. "Let go!"

  The woman holding onto Yu Yun naturally wouldn't let go, but after shouting that sentence, Yu Yun also became somewhat clear-headed. What was strange was that his vision remained blurry, and the sense organ that stimulated his brain the most was actually his sense of smell. The faint scent of perfume on his body couldn't be smelled during class, but being tightly hugged by these three women, Yu Yun could suddenly smell it clearly. It was a warm, slightly pungent fragrance. Mixed in with this fragrance were the smells from the bodies of several women - the smell of hay, the stench of urine, and the nauseating smell of human flesh beginning to rot. There was also a very special smell, seemingly fresh, seemingly like the scent of tears.

  Her vision began to return to normal, and the woman's face, full of large wounds and bruises, was very close. The air she breathed out carried a faint stench. On her twisted and terrifying face, distorted by illness, there were two lines of crystal clear tears. Although it looked frightening, at such a close distance, one could still make out that the woman had once had a delicate oval-shaped face. Even with yellow and white pus-filled eyebrows, there was still a hint of the elegant willow-leaf eyebrow she once had.

  Yóu Fú's anger suddenly disappeared, perhaps because it was too close, so that even the feeling of nausea did not exist. When making medicine, Yóu Fú actually didn't know what syphilis looked like. These things were not for her to worry about. The fluffy cute rabbits used for experiments, before they became uncontrollable, would either be cured or killed. This was really Yóu Fú's first time seeing how disease could torment humans into such a miserable state. A kind of female-specific sympathy emerged.

  At the party meeting, the resolution leaped into Yu Yun's mind. She said to the woman: "We have decided to make the prescription for the medicine public. You can get the medicine."

  The woman opposite had never thought of such an answer and asked in astonishment: "What did you say?"

  At this time, You Yun had already returned to normal. She said loudly: "We will make our pharmaceutical secrets public. And if you want to be cured of your illness, please go to our hospital."

  After finishing speaking, You Yun lowered his voice and said: "If you continue making trouble here, let's see if I can make you sick."

  The woman immediately let go of You Yun's arm, and You Yun pushed the woman aside, not caring about the two people who were still tightly hugging her legs. She shouted loudly: "I am a German exchange student, I studied at Humboldt University in Berlin, one of Germany's best universities. My classmates are all sons and daughters of officials, princes and nobles. This time I came back to make medicine with my friends, and we successfully developed a cure for syphilis. We are not heartless people who only care about wealth. Originally, today we would have announced this medicine publicly. Moreover, the affiliated hospital of our school has always accepted patients with syphilis! As long as the disease is still treatable, we will provide treatment to everyone!"

  A loud noise erupted from the audience. The woman who had just gone on stage was making a ruckus, but in fact, everyone wasn't really clear about what was going on. Now, You Yun was shouting loudly. Everyone heard it clearly. Whether or not they understood what was happening, everyone was intimidated by You Yun's words.

  The woman pushed aside the two legs that were hugging her and put on a white coat that had been prepared but never worn. She then simply explained the principle of gonorrhea. The crowd did not believe that gonorrhea was caused by invisible bacteria, but You Fen's firm attitude made them have to believe what she said. Moreover, You Fen introduced the transmission route of gonorrhea is through contact, especially blood contact transmission. Then she introduced the differences between the first, second and third stages of gonorrhea, and then asked the three women standing beside her, "Is this your first time getting infected?"

  The two women who had just hugged Yu Yun's legs excitedly shouted: "We are infected for the first time."

  The woman in front was silent and disheartened, Yu Xun didn't want to ask any more questions. She inadvertently took a step back, sighed, and then continued to speak loudly: "I've already spoken out about this medicine today. Tomorrow, our 'Huangpu Review' will have a more detailed explanation. We will also publish explanations in other newspapers at our own expense. Please spread the word to those who know. And our hospital is not just for treating venereal diseases, but can treat many illnesses. We hope everyone comes to our hospital for treatment."

  On one hand, You Yu walked slowly towards the edge of the stage.

  "Are you saying my illness can't be cured?" the woman shouted.

  "I'm sorry, we're powerless. Our medicine is of no use for tertiary syphilis."

  The woman lowered her head, first shaking her shoulders, then making a sound that was like crying and laughing at the same time. Then she suddenly lifted her head, with a dull and determined look in her eyes, and her long fingernails slowly began to scratch her own forearms, which were covered in pus-filled sores. The force of her scratching grew stronger and faster, and pus and blood flowed from the torn skin. You Xun looked on without trying to stop her. She agilely jumped down from the platform, "Quickly, go deeper into the forest, and you two brothers, hurry up and run."

  Unexpectedly, the woman had gone mad. She shrieked loudly, "If we're going to die, let's die together!" Her red and white fingernails were wide open, pouncing towards You Yun.

  Those two brothers from Shandong, although they didn't understand the language, were absolutely agile. They followed Yu Yun and Qi Hui to run away quickly. The woman chased for two steps, seeing that she couldn't catch up, so she jumped off the podium and grabbed towards the people in the front row. There were still more men listening to the lecture, especially those looking for excitement in the front row, who were all males. Some clever ones saw that the situation was not right and immediately withdrew, while others didn't understand until their faces or arms were scratched. Only then did they realize what Yu Yun had said earlier, that the flower willow disease is transmitted through blood, that is, through wounds on the body. Now, they finally understood why this woman was so frantic - she wanted to drag others down with her!

  Those who were timid, after being scratched and torn, panicked and ran away. But with so many people, how could they get out of the way in time? Some were naturally fierce and saw that they had been scratched and torn, but instead of retreating, they became even more vicious and directly beat up the woman. When the people in the front row sat down, there were still stools, and it's unclear who picked one up first to hit the woman with it. The actions of the crowd are infectious, and once the first person takes the lead, naturally there will be a second and third. As she ran away, she saw that the woman was initially still trying to grab onto the surrounding men, but gradually began to feel pain and started using her arms to block the men's fists and feet. After the stool was swung, the woman quickly fell to the ground, and then disappeared into the crowd of men, with only the up-and-down swinging stools visible.

  Some of the men were unwilling to give up, they gave up continuing to beat the woman who had already fallen to the ground and turned to attack several other women who were frightened by the sudden change and stood still on the spot. You Yun suddenly stopped running and stood still, laughing uncontrollably. Then she suddenly stopped her laughter and stood still.

  "Don't hit them!" Yu Yun shouted loudly, then turned and ran back. Qi Hui Shen was quick to react, grabbing Yu Yun with one hand. Yu Yun struggled hard to break free from Qi Hui Shen's grasp, but Qi Hui Shen used a lot of strength to hold him back.

  "Don't hit them! Don't hit them!!" Yu Yun shouted with all her might. But the group of men had also gone mad, perhaps they didn't hear or perhaps they just ignored it. They cursed and chased after the fleeing women.

  Unable to stop the men, You Yu struggled but couldn't break free from Qi Hui's deep grasp. She kicked Qi Hui repeatedly in the chest. Qi Hui endured the fierce kicks, taking several blows without making a sound.

  "Zuodao, you take your sister Yuxuan back first and tell Wengqing everything."

  He had never seen such a scene before, his face turned pale and he stuttered: "I know, I understand."

  Qī Huì's eyebrows almost stood up straight as he bellowed, "Stop just saying you know! Grab your sister Yóu!"

  He Zuodao hastily came up and nervously grabbed You Yun's wrist with a trembling heart.

  Qī huì shēn zhēn hèn bù dé chuài hé zú dào yī jiǎo. Hǎo dāi qī huì shēn huì shuō guān huà, tā kàn páng biān de nà liǎng wèi Shāndōng hǎo hàn suī rán zhèn jīng, dàn shì hái suàn zhèn dìng. "zhè wèi xiōng tái, nǐ dài yóu gū niáng xiān huí qù."

  "Ah? Okay." The two Shandong men beside him, acting as guards, were quite competent. They heard Qi Hui's command and their strong hands grasped You Yun's wrists, pulling and dragging him to the front of the rickshaw. They stuffed You Yun and He Zuodao into the vehicle like a pair of chickens, then urged the driver to hurry up.

  She struggled all the way, trying to break free. "Don't let them hit you. Don't hit her." Her shrill cries shook Qizhi's eardrums.

  After being stuffed into the yellow sedan chair, Qi Hui suddenly heard Yu Yun stop shouting and start wailing instead. Amidst the crying sounds, a sentence seemed to be mixed in, "Hui, don't let them hit you again. Hui, save them." Next, the rickshaw runner started running, and the two guards also ran after the sedan chair.

  Qī Huì Shēn's face was filled with an indescribable expression as he watched everyone "escape from danger". He then ran back. As soon as he started running, the place where Yóu Fēng had kicked him earlier began to ache severely. Qī Huì Shēn couldn't care about that anymore, "Stop fighting!" Qī Huì Shēn shouted loudly. Seeing those men show no signs of stopping, Qī Huì Shēn stopped in his tracks and looked around, then picked up a broom and charged towards them.

  Under the beating, scolding and shouting of Qi Hui Shen, the fight finally ended. Two out of five women were clever enough to run away. The remaining two were not seriously injured. With a heavy heart, Qi Hui Shen reluctantly walked towards the woman who was lying on the ground, unable to get up. The woman's face was deathly pale, with blood flowing profusely from her forehead, mouth and arm. Chen Ke had said that patients in the third stage of syphilis have difficulty clotting their own blood. Once they lose too much blood, they are likely to die. The woman's eyes were tightly closed, her breathing weak. After being covered in blood, the woman on the ground looked less frightening than before, but rather pitiful.

  Qihui Shen stood up from the lectern, pulled over two white coats that had fallen off the clothes rack, and tore them into strips. He then used these makeshift bandages to dress the wounds on the woman's head and arms.

  "Wake up! Wake up!" Qi Hui shouted loudly. The woman heard the voice, her eyes slightly opened a crack, and her damaged lips moved slightly.

  He didn't care about anything else anymore, he grabbed the woman's arm wrapped in white cloth and pulled her up with force.

  Originally, everyone in the venue either ran away without a trace or stood far away. However, the windows on the second floor of the street were packed with people. The adults didn't make a sound, but the shrill cries of children could be heard. Everyone's eyes were fixed on Qi Hui rescuing and treating these women.

  Qī Huì Shēn felt that the woman was like a piece of cloth pulled out of a dye vat, soft and limp. It was impossible to walk with her in this state, and just as he was getting anxious, the woman exerted some effort and, with Qī Huì Shēn's help, managed to stand up straight.

  "I'll take you to the hospital." Qihui Sheng shouted. At this time, he couldn't think of anything else, his thoughts were simple and only had one goal, which was to save the woman's life. The late stage of syphilis would definitely take the woman's life, but Youhuan could only remember Youhuan's sobbing voice, "Huisheng, save her."

  The girl should have heard Qī Huì Shēn's shout, she struggled to get up, her head leaning towards Qī Huì Shēn's shoulder. "Maybe she'll bite me?" Qī Huì Shēn thought, although knowing that being bitten would absolutely not lead to anything good, but Qī Huì Shēn just didn't want to do anything evasive.

  "Stand up, let's go to the hospital." Qi Hui deep grasped the woman's left arm with his left hand and wrapped his right arm around her armpit, hoping to make it easier for her to use less strength and quickly walk to the rickshaw in front. With this effort, the woman's head leaned closer to Qi Hui deep.

  There was no tearing or biting as the woman expected, instead she pushed Qī Huì Shēn away with all her might, trying to break free from his grasp. However, her strength was too weak and Qī Huì Shēn still held onto her tightly. The woman tried again but it was ineffective. Qī Huì Shēn had already taken a step forward. The woman didn't move, her faint gasps for air entered Qī Huì Shēn's ears, then the gasping stopped. When Qī Huì Shēn turned his head to look at her, the woman spat a mouthful of saliva onto his face. "Get out!" she wanted to shout loudly but her voice was as weak as a mosquito's buzz.

  The people surrounding the scene definitely couldn't hear the woman's voice, but everyone saw the saliva clearly. A burst of exclamations immediately erupted from the crowd. The woman seemed to have used up her last bit of strength, and her body fell softly to the ground.

  Qī Huì Shēn didn't get angry, he even felt a bit numb and put down the woman, then picked up another white coat from the fallen clothes rack. He casually used the white coat to wipe off the saliva on his face. A bright red stain immediately appeared on the white coat. Qī Huì Shēn walked back with heavy footsteps, wrapped the woman's body in the white coat and hugged her tightly. The woman was already very weak, Qī Huì Shēn couldn't imagine where that fierce energy came from just now.

  "Come on," Qihui Shēn shouted to the other two women crouching on the ground, "I'll take you to the hospital." Upon hearing Qihui Shēn's shout, the women did not get up, but instead shrunk their bodies even further.

  "Get up and follow me. I won't harm you. Hurry up and follow me, or else I won't take you to see the doctor." Qi Hui shouted.

  Two women were crying softly and remained motionless.

  Qī Huì Shēn didn't care about them anymore, he carried the woman in his arms and walked to the front of the rickshaw. The rickshaw driver was over 30 years old, looked like a local. He was hiding in the crowd watching the commotion, saw Qī Huì Shēn carrying the woman over. Someone already started laughing. "Hey, Old Zhao, you're getting lucky!"

  The driver saw that they were clearly heading for his own car, the woman wrapped in a white coat, quietly lying in Qī Huì Shēn's arms, her head tilted back limply, her hair hanging down. The driver took two steps forward, blocking Qī Huì Shēn's path, and said in a trembling voice: "Sir, sir, I won't take you. Go find another car."

  "How much is this car? I'll buy it." Qi Hui said coldly.

  "Sir, you're joking." The rickshaw puller thought Qi Hui was just kidding. Who would buy a rickshaw for a woman with venereal disease?

  "Save people first! How much money, you say it. I'll buy it." Qi Hui shouted in deep anger.

  "Ah, twenty taels..." The driver was startled by this angry shout and stammered in fear.

  Qī Huì Shēn let out a deep hum, he bypassed the carman and put the woman into the carriage seat. The carriage was tilted because no one lifted the carriage seat, and the woman couldn't sit still on the carriage seat no matter what. Qī Huì Shēn turned his head to shout at the two women behind him, "You come over, help her."

  "Sir, you, do you really want to save her?" The driver asked, lifting the reins with one hand and trembling with fear.

  After helping the woman up, Qi Hui said, "That's right." He then took out some money from his pocket and handed over a dozen or so silver dollars to the rickshaw driver. "Follow me, if it's not enough, I'll make up for it when we get to the hospital."

  "Do you want to pull it yourself?" the cart driver asked in surprise.

  "Are you alright?" A glimmer of hope emerged in Qi Hui's heart.

  "I won't pull, I won't pull." The carter's head shook like a rattle drum.

  Just as they were speaking, the two women behind them came over and said, "Sir, you really want to take us to the hospital."

  "No nonsense, get on the bus quickly." Qi Hui Sheng shouted.

  The two women got on the rickshaw, one on each side of the woman, supporting her. Qi Hui took the handle from the rickshaw driver and pulled the rickshaw with force.

  It's really heavy! When Qihui Deep was sitting in the carriage, he didn't have this feeling. Especially when starting off, Qihui Deep couldn't pull it at all. After running for a few steps, he finally got used to it. He turned his head and saw that everyone on both sides of the street was staring at him, as if looking at some kind of monster. Curious, surprised, excited, disdainful, uncomfortable, and so on, all kinds of expressions were there. Moreover, as Qihui Deep ran forward, some people even followed along with him. Not a single person came to help. The carriage driver was closely following behind Qihui Deep.

  "Sir, I'm following you like this, won't I get infected with that thing you mentioned? My family relies on me to make a living by pulling carts." The cart driver asked anxiously.

  "Don't worry. Even if you get sick, I'll cure your illness for free."

  Just as they were talking, a clod of earth suddenly flew in from somewhere and landed in front of Qi Hui Shen. The clod was thrown from behind the carriage, so Qi Hui Shen couldn't see who threw it. But someone started laughing and jeering.

  Pulling the rickshaw was really tiring. Qi Hui Shen, who had never done this before, only ran a short distance and was already panting. The rickshaw driver naturally followed closely behind Qi Hui Shen, with some idle people and children also running after them. This commotion quickly attracted the attention of others. Qi Hui Shen wore a deep blue suit, his leather shoes polished to a shine for the lecture he was attending. A man like him, pulling a yellow rickshaw, with someone who looked like a rickshaw driver by his side, and a group of loafers and urchins following behind - everyone couldn't help but notice this big combination. More people pointed at Qi Hui Shen, whispering to each other.

  At first, Qi Hui Shen was still worried, but soon his attention had to focus on the act of pulling the cart itself. His hands were not balanced well, and the road was uneven. Every time Qi Hui Shen rode in a cart, he hated the bumpy ride, so he tried to choose flat roads as much as possible, which required more effort. The hospital wasn't far from here, and walking would take only half an hour, but pulling this cart made the road feel very long.

  After running for a long time, they had only walked half the way. However, Qi Hui Shen was already panting heavily. The leather shoes that fit perfectly normally were now pinching his feet painfully. His shirt was soaked with sweat and clung to his back uncomfortably. This was really not as comfortable as working in the workshop, changing into a small vest and then putting on a large coat. If it weren't for that period of hard work, Qi Hui Shen felt he wouldn't have been able to hold on until now.

  Anyway, gritting her teeth and persevering, Qi Hui had already gotten used to the surprised glances coming her way. However, in her heart, there was a growing sense of grievance. Why? A perfectly good lecture turned out like this. Panting, Qi Hui thought to herself: who did she and You Huo provoke? Did they have to stir up trouble to this extent? Those people behind the scenes, even if they were playing tricks, didn't they need to take it to the point of taking lives?

  However, the physical exhaustion limited Zihui's thinking, and now he could only think of one thing. He must hurry to the hospital and try his best to save that woman. Even if it was just for Yu Yun's sake, he had to save this woman. Moreover, since there were comrades from the People's Party here, this matter would definitely be resolved. The person behind him would definitely be punished and would not be let off.

  It wasn't long before the hospital finally arrived. There were still many people following behind, but Qi Hui Shen couldn't care about that much. He put down the heavy steering wheel and took a few deep breaths. With the help of two women, Qi Hui Shen picked up the woman again. For some reason, the woman's body felt lighter. Qi Hui Shen rushed into the hospital quickly, "Doctor Wang, Doctor Wang." he shouted breathlessly.

  Wang Qinian quickly came out and saw Qi Hui's appearance, his eyes suddenly widened.

  "She's been injured, hurry up and save her!" Qi Hui shouted.

  Wang Qinián hastily helped Qi Huishēn send the person into the medical room.

  When Chen Ke arrived at the hospital, Wang Qian was dressing a patient's wound. Qi Hui sat quietly on a stool beside him. The driver didn't dare to make a sound and stood in the corner of the wall. On the other side of the wall, two more injured women were standing. Chen Ke noticed that the tear stains on Qi Hui's face had not yet dried.