1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 523 This is... your President Yang?
Perhaps it is due to the times, or perhaps it is due to the difference in group concepts, or perhaps it is because they have personally experienced the strong impact brought about by reform and opening up; in short, the two generations born in the late 60s to early 80s have a strong desire to share; intellectuals of all sizes in various fields, like their predecessors in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, have a strong sense of mission to "enhance public cognition."

It is precisely because of this group characteristic that the pure Internet spirit was so prevalent at the beginning of the millennium and so many public intellectuals emerged... Unlike the "public intellectuals" that have changed their nature in later generations, in fact, most of the public intellectuals, big and small, during this period were not as bad as later generations thought, and many of them were even extremely staunch patriots.

Of course, each industry has its own characteristics, and not everyone will engage in loud debates in the media;

But this does not prevent them from sharing some knowledge they think is useful with ordinary people in the fields and on community street corners in an almost anonymous way.

………………

The commercial demonstration area is the No. 2 leisure plaza which was recently completed.

Under the bright street lights, several men in white coats and a dozen young men in blue and white stripes are performing a unique show amid the laughter of countless spectators.

The leader, wearing a white coat and holding a microphone, introduced passionately in a tone like an announcer at a sports meeting: "Now, I will show you a demonstration of abnormal gait!"

As the words fell, a young man in a blue and white striped patient gown, under the threatening gaze of two middle-aged doctors, walked out of the chalk line drawn on the ground with a sad face, then quickly stretched out his arms and staggered forward like a drunkard.

I have to say that the young man is quite dedicated. Once he crossed the chalk line, his expression became dull, and his swaying posture and unstable steps with large spans made him act out the drunken-like, but quite different, state to perfection. His acting skills far surpassed those of the young actors of later generations.

The voice in the white coat sounded along with the heavy noise of electricity: "The first thing coming towards us is the drunken walk, also known as the cerebellar ataxia gait. Its characteristics are that the center of gravity of the knees is unstable when walking, and the gait is disordered, like a drunk state. It is more common in cerebellar diseases and alcohol poisoning... If you see similar steps in daily life, after excluding the other party from being drunk, please be sure to send them to the hospital for examination and medical treatment in time!"

Just as he finished speaking, the first performer had reached the finish line. Following a signal from another doctor, another young man took a deep breath as if ready to die. Then, the moment he crossed the chalk line under his feet, he lowered his head and hunched his back, like an old woman, and entered a strange posture.

"The second one that came towards us was a person with a small, broken step gait. The characteristic is that he has difficulty starting, then he rushes forward, leans forward, walks faster and faster, and looks panicky... This is one of the typical symptoms of Parkinson's disease. If you find similar symptoms around you, please pay attention and take good care of him. At the same time, don't ridicule or make fun of him. Try to keep him in a positive and stable state of mind, which will help control his condition. If conditions permit, he can be sent to the hospital for examination and treatment intervention."

Huh?
Seeing the familiar-looking old lady's steps, a few people in the dense crowd of onlookers were surprised.

What I mean is, the old man next door is not a sissy, but he has a disease called something?
Oh no, that’s bad. I just joked with him in person a few days ago. Could something have happened?
Thinking that a casual joke of theirs might get them into trouble, the faces of several young men and women who were there to watch the fun at first suddenly turned unnatural.

"The third one coming towards us is the scissor-legged gait of a spastic paraplegic. The legs are stiff when walking, the feet are crossed inward, and the knees are close to each other, like a pair of scissors. It is often seen in patients with cerebral palsy and paraplegia..."

Halfway through the conversation, the man in the white coat suddenly shouted, "Zhao Dequan, demonstrate this to me carefully! Can the limbs of a cerebral palsy patient be as flexible as yours? If you keep fooling around, get out of here! You are misleading the public!"

When the young man on the field saw his teacher getting angry, he shuddered all over. Then, regardless of the huge pressure on his knees, he half-knelt and made his limbs straight.

If this action is slightly adjusted, the feeling given will be completely different.

If the young man before gave people the feeling of a yo-yoing gorilla, then he now feels like... a yo-yoing gorilla wearing a military uniform during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Seeing that his student had finally managed to show the characteristics of his abnormal gait, the doctor in the white coat nodded without comment, then picked up the microphone and continued, "If you find someone with a similar gait around you, please be sure to send him to the hospital for examination. If it is not appropriate to send him to the hospital, you can consider recommending that he buy a wheelchair to avoid secondary injuries caused by unbalanced walking... Please don't worry too much about the cost of wheelchairs. On the 8th of next month, Momo Baiyao will start trial operation. There will be corresponding substantial subsidies for medicines and auxiliary medical equipment required for 72 special diseases, including cerebral palsy. These subsidies can be enjoyed even if you don't have medical insurance. As long as you have a doctor's diagnosis certificate from a regular hospital, you can buy auxiliary equipment such as wheelchairs at a % discount."

As soon as these words were spoken, several people in the crowd looked at each other, their eyes revealing surprise and disbelief.

They are migrant workers from other provinces. Born in rural areas, they naturally know that in this era, there are one or two people in every village who walk strangely like the one just now (there are many causes of cerebral palsy, but they are currently mainly concentrated in rural areas)?
Even the cousin of one of the men had the same symptoms. Not only was he mentally retarded, he had also fallen a lot over the years and even lost half of his teeth.

and so……

Should I take some time to go back to my hometown, bring my cousin over to the hospital for a check-up, and then take the certificate to the Momo Baiyao store which is about to open to buy a wheelchair?
Don't be surprised why he had such an idea without even knowing the price of the wheelchair. Having been in Texas for more than half a year, he naturally knew that if something dares to add the word "silently" in front of it, you can buy it with confidence. No matter the quality or price, you are guaranteed to be satisfied, and the price-performance ratio is excellent... Under such a premise, they still give you such a large subsidy, allowing you to buy the thing at a 70% discount, so why are you still hesitating!

I was just wondering what day of the week March 8th was when a burst of good-natured laughter suddenly broke out from the crowd.

Turning around, I saw a very pretty girl in patient clothes, one hand on her waist and the other on her hip, just like those people in costume TV dramas who were shot with an arrow in the leg. She dragged her left leg with great difficulty and walked forward half a step at a time.

He knew without even a second glance that this was Lv Yingying, the brand manager of Qingfeng Food.

This girl is definitely a familiar face in the commercial demonstration area, and her popularity is incredibly high. As long as you have been here two or three times, it is almost impossible not to know this face that you like more and more the more you see it.

It's because Manager Lu is too active at the grassroots level. Apart from the weekly store inspections and random consumer experience checks, and the Qilu Bangzi performance on Saturday nights, she will actively participate in almost all activities that she finds meaningful, and then run over to play a supporting role.

I don't know what this girl is thinking. If other girls had her face and influence, they would definitely be the protagonist, or at least a host of an event. But Manager Lu likes to be a supporting role, and a free one at that. She is not even happy when the event organizer takes the initiative to pay her to be the protagonist or host.

But everyone likes this girl very much, and it's not just because of her face and status; it's because this girl always gives people a feeling of being full of energy, optimistic, and even a little carefree.

Many people like to come here and look at her when they are in a bad mood or encounter difficulties. After looking at her, their mood will often improve a lot, as if they were injected with some new energy.

Over time, Manager Lu, who actually had considerable power, had become something of a mascot for the commercial demonstration zone. She really brought in a lot of customers, and any activity in which she played a supporting role had great publicity effects.

The voice of the man in the white coat was obviously much softer. "The one walking towards us now is the elderly, especially the elderly in the northern region. The magnet gait is relatively common. When walking, their feet seem to be stuck to the ground by magnets, and they cannot lift their feet to walk. The typical disease that causes this abnormal gait is positive pressure hydrocephalus... Positive pressure hydrocephalus is very harmful and is often caused by cerebrospinal fluid circulation dysfunction caused by tumor space occupation. If you find similar abnormal gait around you, please be sure to check and seek medical attention as soon as possible."

Perhaps because the performer was Tugou, after the white coat introduced the basic information of the magnet gait, he added: "Please do not be afraid of tumors in the body. Tumors are not necessarily malignant. In addition, the Momo 72 Medicines Plan provides a large amount of high-quality poplar mulberry and mulberry mulberry, and they are also included in the medicines needed for special diseases that enjoy substantial subsidies... Tumors are not scary. Early detection and early treatment are the key. I believe that with a large number of affordable natural anti-cancer drugs, more early and mid-stage patients will gradually recover!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was warm applause in the square.

Thanks to Dahua Company and several large-scale artificial poplar and Coriolus versicolor cultivation bases, people in Qilu, especially in Dezhou and Lanling areas, are no strangers to Coriolus versicolor.

Although Coriolus versicolor has been driven up to sky-high prices by pharmaceutical companies in these island countries, since it appears on Momo Baiyao's heavily subsidized list and can be called "affordable", then as long as there is a diagnosis from a regular hospital, the price is definitely within the affordable range for an average family... No one is not afraid of death, and in recent years, with the increasing severity of industrial pollution problems, propaganda about cancer has been frequently reported in the newspapers, and everyone cannot help but be concerned.

But don't forget that Texas is an old industrial area, and the air still smells sour. According to experts, the chance of getting cancer in such areas is much higher than in places that are not heavy industrial areas.

"The fifth one that comes to us is the cock dance gait. When standing, the thighs are close together, the calves are separated, and the legs stand straight. When walking, it is like dancing ballet. It is often seen in spinal cord diseases..."

Amid the roar of laughter from the onlookers, another poor student who was being sacrificed walked out with hesitant steps, and the student Tugou, who had been dragging one leg for a long time, also successfully left everyone's sight.

"Eh? Yang Shidan, why did you have the time to come out today?"

Just as Tugou was shivering and jogging to the scene to put on his cotton-padded jacket, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.

Yang Mo looked at the festive cotton-padded jacket on her in silence: "Hey, hey, hey, country girl, the Lantern Festival is over, why are you still wearing this...your mother is not around, is it necessary?"

Tugou curled his lips, looked at her with a lecherous look, and then showed his fist without any courtesy: "I just like to wear it, what's it to you!? If you don't agree, come and fight me?"

Yang Mo suddenly felt a headache and quickly raised his hands in surrender: "I am afraid of you. You are more beautiful than flowers. You look beautiful in anything you wear. Wear whatever you like... Don't worry, no matter what you wear, you will always be the most beautiful one in the crowd!"

I don't know what's wrong with this girl in the past few months. She's become more and more violent. Every time we meet, she starts looking for trouble after just a few words, as if she can't live without finding a chance to punch me a few times.

So there is no way. Mr. Yang, who is so majestic in front of outsiders, will show his weak nature at such times. Not only will he admit defeat, but he will also give in to the others with a lot of flattery as if it were free.

Hearing the other party praising her beauty, the country boy classmate, who had received more than a dozen such flatteries in recent months, had long been immune to it. After curling his lips, he rolled his eyes, and without saying a word, he grabbed Yang Mo's arm and walked aside.

"Hurry up and change it!"

Under the surprised eyes of a poor medical student, Tugou casually took a hospital gown from the cardboard box on the ground and threw it over, then began to pull the zipper of Yang Mo's down jacket without paying attention to the impact. "Hey, hey, hey, girl, what are you doing!?"

Feeling his stomach go cold, Yang Mo was suddenly shocked and quickly reached out to protect the remaining half of the zipper.

Sister, this is a square, okay? How can a little girl like you take off a grown man's clothes in front of so many people?

He wasn't worried about others misunderstanding him, but the problem was...

chilly!

The temperature tonight is minus two degrees Celsius!

Tugou impatiently shook his hands away: "Hurry up and change. We are in need of qualified demonstrators for abnormal gait. These students from Jining Medical College are a bit stiff. We have practiced many times before, but some students still have some deviations in their movements... This kind of publicity involves the initial diagnosis of symptoms, so it is very important to have the right movements."

Jining Medical College?
Is it the medical school that is now just a technical college and will not have undergraduate programs until next year?
After understanding what Tugou meant, Yang Mo was shocked and covered her clothes tightly like a little girl who was molested: "Why do you want me to go up? I don't understand!"

Tugou exerted force with his hands, and Yang Mo, feeling the pain, immediately let go of his hands.

Lu Yingying proudly pulled off someone's down jacket, elbowed Yang Mo in the chest, and then stuffed the hospital gown in his arms: "Although you know nothing about these things, you are a smart guy and you learn everything quickly... Hurry up and change your clothes, follow me and study hard a few times, and you should be able to go on stage!"

Hey Hey hey,
Speak clearly.

What do you mean by cunning and subtle?
Are you sure this is a compliment?

Also, even if my brain is barely working well, that doesn’t mean I can learn moves quickly!
Hey, hey, hey, I'm a deadbeat loser, my body is still very stiff!

However, the slight pain in his chest told him that he'd better do as he was told. A certain girl who had entered menopause before having a boyfriend had long wanted to punish him. If he dared to refuse, he would get a more than a mild elbow.

Thinking of this, Mr. Yang, who had suffered an unexpected disaster, looked more bitter than a bitter gourd.

What sin did I commit in my previous life, no, in the life before that, that I would know this girl!

While complaining in his heart, Yang Mo put on the thin hospital gown with a sad face in the minus three degree night, shivering. Then, under the sympathetic gazes of several medical students, he obediently followed Tugou classmate to learn the key points of the movements.

So...

ten minutes later.

"Coming toward us now is... a waddle gait."

There was something indescribably strange about the tone of the man in the white coat, and he even paused for a moment during the introduction.

As the white coat was introduced, Yang Mo appeared in everyone's sight. He was wearing a shirt that was obviously one size too small. The thin sweater inside made it so big that he couldn't even button two buttons on his chest. If it weren't for the fact that his expression and temperament looked just like a normal person, everyone would have thought that he was an idiot who couldn't take care of himself and came out of nowhere.

However, this misunderstanding only lasted less than two seconds.

Seeing that Yang Mo was not getting into the state, Tugou classmate next to him coughed viciously.

Hearing the cough, Yang Mo's expression became bitter. He quickly lowered his eyebrows, twisted his mouth, and then stepped out of the chalk line in front of him in a mentally retarded manner like a zombie.

The introduction of the white coat also sounded: "Now walking towards us is with a swaying gait, with a solid body, and even with a prominent waist and legs swinging from side to side, it looks like a duck walking... It is often seen in patients with rickets."

The people next to him didn't hear the additional suggestions from the man in the white coat, they all laughed like crazy.

There's no way. Yang Mo was a very showy and reserved guy when he was young in his previous life. Since he was forced by a girl to go on stage to act as a science prop, out of a small revengeful mentality, his on-the-spot performance was off the charts, far exceeding Tugou's expectations, even to the point of being a little... exaggerated.

I saw this guy with his eyes rolled up, his mouth slightly tilted, his hands tucked under his armpits but held together like chicken claws. He looked like a Tyrannosaurus Rex holding up its crippled front paws, or like the madams of the late Qing Dynasty in movies and TV dramas who induce decent girls to sell themselves into brothels.

If a grown man acting in an expression that is a mixture of effeminacy and idiocy is hilarious enough, then Yang Mo's weird steps make people want to lie on the ground and smash a hole in the concrete floor.

I saw this guy first took out his left foot with a zombie's step, and then as if his waist was broken, his whole body spun in a big circle in the air like a top, and then he put his right foot up on tiptoe, and his body was tilted like a corner, with one leg higher than the other, and he repeated this process over and over again.

The exaggerated waist-breaking action, which seemed to split his body in two, coupled with the idiotic face with an IQ of only 45 at most, and the chicken claws that kept grabbing and pinching in the air, was actually funnier than a circus clown.

Seeing this guy acting himself into a mentally retarded zombie beyond the scope of the role, Tugou was so angry that he wanted to rush up and kick him twice; but it is undeniable that although this guy exaggerated his facial expressions, at least he grasped the essence of the abnormal gait demonstration. This is how those rickets patients with relatively severe symptoms walk.

jerk!

Everyone is focusing their attention on your retarded face. How many people still remember the walking posture of a rickety person?
Let you add drama!
You’ll see something interesting when you come down!

Glancing at the two medical school teachers with strange expressions next to him, Tugou thought with gritted teeth, a raging fire burning in his chest. He wished he could pull that guy down right now and punch him hard.

………………

At this time, the outermost part of the crowd of spectators,

The man and the woman withdrew their gazes and turned to look at the two landlords who accompanied them with some disbelief.

"Director Song, that is... Mr. Yang from your company?"

There was a strong sense of surprise in Chen Bingyi's tone.

Song Wenxuan looked away with a guilty look, wishing he didn't even know the clown whose clothes didn't even fit him. He nodded with a stiff smile, "Well... our CEO Yang is quite independent and straightforward, and his work intensity is also quite high, so... people like us who have studied abroad should be able to understand it."

Chen Bingyi's handsome face showed understanding, he nodded knowingly, and then laughed: "To be honest, before I came here, I was a little afraid that Mr. Yang would be as serious and majestic as my uncles. Now that I see you... we are all young people of similar age. In our spare time, we should have more similar hobbies."

Zhuo Mali on the side looked at Lin Keran who had an indifferent expression on his face, pursed her lips slightly, then tilted her head to glance at the idiot-like man in the crowd, a smile flashed in her eyes.

Didn’t you realize that our boss doesn’t have a stern face like a piece of wood all day long?

Thinking of this, he extended his hand and said, "Mr. Chen, Ms. Lin, you have just arrived in Texas. Since you are interested in exploring the local conditions and customs of Texas at night, I have to mention the snacks and delicacies on the commercial street... If you don't mind, please follow me."

Influenced by traditional Chinese culture, whether in China or Southeast Asia, communication is always inseparable from the three words "tea", "wine" and "food". As the saying goes, the guest should follow the host's wishes. Due to the overall environment in China, there are naturally no places like nightclubs in Texas to assess the local economic vitality and capital flow trends, but a stroll around the night market can also help to judge the local economic base from the side.

Thinking of this, Chen Bingyi smiled and nodded, bowed slightly politely, and made a gesture of invitation.

After Zhuo Mali and Song Wenxuan exchanged some pleasantries, the third-generation Hongmiao of the Chen family turned her head to look at the woman in the crowd wearing a flowered cotton-padded jacket with the festive colors of the north, then she smiled. At Song Wenxuan's gesture, she followed the two very important special reception staff of Dahua Company and walked towards the bustling Commercial Street.

(End of this chapter)