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Chapter 30 Wu Yigou's day

Still in Wuhan, when everyone broke into the police station with a mouse, an ordinary rickshaw driver named Wu Yigou was also sweating silently, pulling the rickshaw to earn money and support his family. There are still a few days until the Spring Festival of the year of Xinhai.Wu Yigou was still pulling the cart desperately.The livelihood of the whole family depended on him alone. Because it was the Spring Festival travel season, the passenger flow increased sharply, and the business was surprisingly good.These days, everyone also wants to drive, enjoy it if you can, and take a taxi for a little farther road.So rickshaws are hard to come by, and everyone lined up on the side of the road doing the same action—waving.

The good rickshaw business is also inseparable from the credit of Huguang Governor Ruicheng. Since taking office, Ruicheng has made great efforts to rectify the rickshaw market, strictly prohibiting black cars from carrying passengers, soliciting passengers, and fishing without permission; all rickshaw drivers are issued a unified business license, and it is strictly forbidden to refuse to pick up empty cars, and strictly abide by the rules and regulations of "stop when you wave, and stop when you wave". After vigorous rectification by relevant law enforcement agencies, the Wuhan rickshaw market has become more regulated.The market is regulated, black cars are basically eliminated, and unfairness is also reduced.Everyone is naturally willing to take a car, sitting comfortably and at ease.

Wu Yigou is also very happy at this time, taking advantage of the business to run more, earn more, and buy more New Year's goods.With a not-too-distant longing for life, he walked happily through the streets and alleys of Wuhan. On the evening of the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month in the lunar calendar, a customer got into Wu Yigou's car in the cold wind.This customer is a bit special, with yellow hair, blue eyes, and an authentic foreigner. Wu Yigou didn't pay attention either, regardless of whether he was a Chinese or a foreigner, as long as he got on the bus and paid, he was my relative.The foreigner said in unproficient Chinese that he wanted to go to the riverside at the wharf in the British Concession in Hankou.

"Okay." Wu Yigou trotted all the way to the pier.Soon the destination arrived, the foreigner paid and left, Wu Yigou collected the money and waited for the next customer. Another business came, Wu Yigou stood up, and suddenly, an astonishing scene appeared. Wu Yigou's face was pale, he staggered and didn't take a few steps, and suddenly fell to the ground, his whole body twitched and foamed at the mouth.It happened that several policemen passed by, and they hurriedly lifted Wu Yigou to the hospital attached to the police station for emergency treatment. But before he got to the police station, Wu Yigou was already on the verge of dying, and when he arrived at the police station hospital, Wu Yigou was really dying.With deep confusion and infinite nostalgia for a better life, this honest man fell on the front line of his job, beside the rickshaw he relied on for his livelihood, and failed to witness the first heavy snow in the year of 1911 with his own eyes.

The doctor came and heard that Wu Yigou had convulsions all over his body and died of no illness. His professional sensitivity made him think of mice first, and the rat-hunting campaign was going on vigorously in Wuhan. plague?As soon as the doctor said it, everyone covered their noses. But soon everyone put down their hands again and breathed the free air freely. The plague was ruled out, and experts diagnosed it as qi faint. What is Qi Jue?He just couldn't catch his breath, and suddenly fell to the ground, unconscious. True experts tell us: "There are two signs of Qi Jue, and Qi deficiency and excess Qi can both cause Jue. People who die from Qi deficiency must have a dull appearance, clear complexion, slightly cold body, and weak pulse. This is also the syndrome of Qi loss... …if the qi is too strong, the body qi is violent, the pulse is stringy and slippery, and the chest and diaphragm are full, which is also a sign of inverse qi." ("Jing Yue Quanshu Miscellaneous Diseases")

To put it simply, when the central qi is insufficient, it is easy to suffer from qi faint; when the central qi is too full, it is easy to have qi faint;In a word, Qijue is by your side all the time, anytime, anywhere. Everyone sighed and regretted, why did Qi Jue happen to a man who was not angry at all and just needed to cheer up his family?Tragedy! The patrol room called several Chinese policemen to carry Wu Yigou's body to the Houcheng road outside the concession, and called for people to claim it; it was a concentrated residence of rickshaw drivers, a slum area. what's next?You are smart, you should have already guessed the story that is about to happen.

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