Chapter 207

Before Su Chunjun left the house in the morning, Yang Yuyan ran over with a canned jar and shoved it to him, “Here, take it.”

The bottle was still hot, and it looked like pear soup.

Su Chunjun smiled and asked, “What’s this? A snack for me?”

Yang Yuyan: “I stewed the ice sugar bird’s nest pear myself. Didn’t you cough last night? I guess you probably spoke too much at work, drink this to replenish your voice.”

Rock sugar bird’s nest pear.

Mr. Su had never tasted this strange combination in his life, but he could imagine how it was made: every day, Zhang Ma would give Ms. Zhu a small cup of ice-sugar bird’s nest to replenish her health, the bird’s nest was served in Ms. Zhu’s bowl, and the extra bowl of sweet soup would be given to the two sisters, Yang Yuyan and Yang Yucan, for a taste.

In the words of Mrs. Zhang, “you are young, you don’t need to make up for it so early”.

I think last night’s icing sugar bird’s nest added another bowl of water, and asked Miss Yang to cut two pears and add them to make this sweet soup.

This from the mouth to save out of the tonic called Su Chunjun want to go home today to bring a carload of bird’s nest.

His heart is sweet, his mind is a little bit not sober, moving his mouth to ask Miss Yang: “What are you doing after class today?”

–If there is nothing to do, why don’t he skip a class in the afternoon and go out for a stroll together.

He did not have time to say the words in his heart, Miss Yang said: “I should go to the activity room in the afternoon, we want to make a donation.”

If you want to organize activities, you need funds, where do the costs come from? Naturally, we have to rely on the donations of the members of the ministry. Since Miss Yang went to school, spending money like running water, a week at least to throw in five or six dollars, and it is not like going to the bookstore to buy unappealing books can get a book back, the money spent, even a shadow can not be seen.

Last time they donated money to buy tools for making malt candy, repairing bicycles, polishing shoes and mending shoes, etc. The students had to learn how to do it themselves before they could be taught.

As a result, the students were not recruited, and the purchased items are still in the storage room of the activity room. The last time they voted on this, they were going to donate all of it and see if anyone needed it.

Now Division 2 has decided to help the prostitutes get out of prostitution, and they don’t yet have a framework for their activities, but they can’t do away with those things.

What prostitutes need most is medicine. They have no place to go when they are sick, and traditional Chinese medicine stores and medical centers are very reluctant to treat prostitutes, and serious doctors won’t even go there. Fortunately, now there are western hospitals, western doctors do not mind giving prostitutes to see the doctor, the church also frequently administer medicine.

They are still very weak, can not be compared with the foreign hospitals and churches, can only do a little bit.

Yang Yuyan: “It’s definitely right to buy medicine first. I don’t know how to cure their illnesses, and will have to translate some more lists of commonly used medicines.”

This translation was of course left to Shi Wuwei.

As for the medical magazines and books, it was left to Professor Dai to figure out what to do, and Ms. Zhu said she was willing to call and contact a few old friends to see if she could find a place to borrow books.

Su Chunjun frowned as he listened, and in his heart he was not quite in favor of it. It was true that prostitutes were pitiful and in need of help. But he felt that helping prostitutes and getting close to them were two different things. Prostitutes lived in complicated environments that students might not be able to cope with. And just because they weren’t pathetic, they weren’t necessarily harmless.

He was worried that Yang Yuyan might get hurt in some way as a result.

But he didn’t directly speak up to stop her from doing so.

On the one hand, he didn’t want to interfere with her too simply and roughly. He had always avoided letting himself become a stubborn boyfriend, a future husband.

If she wished to get to know the world, then he didn’t want to block her sky.

On the other hand, when he saw that neither Professor Dai nor Ms. Zhu had blocked it, he thought that perhaps he was being overly protective. Although this matter was risky, it might not be uncontrollable.

All of these reasons prevented him from opening his mouth.

He thought for a moment and said, “Prostitutes are highly contagious because of their profession, the diseases they get are highly contagious, you guys need to protect and sterilize yourselves.”

Yang Yuyan: “Don’t worry, we also feel that this is an opportunity to practice. We will strictly follow the sterilization regulations.”

Even so, Su Chunjun was still worried all the way to the Mayor’s Mansion, all set to work, and still couldn’t help thinking about it.

When Mayor Feng asked a question, his reaction was half a beat slower.

Mayor Feng laughed, “What’s going on here?”

Cai Wenhua said, “I know Director Su, this is thinking about his fiancée.” He appeared to be concerned and said to everyone, “Alas, my eldest son is also in school, tossing around with his classmates every day, and I get a headache when I hear about him. Mr. Su, your fiancée is a girl, so I’m sure she won’t cause any major problems, right?”

Mr. Cai had quite a number of sons; his original wife had only one daughter, and his outside wife had six sons. The eldest son was attending a Japanese military school.

All of you here, your sons and daughters are attending schools in foreign countries, some of them in foreign countries.

Only Mayor Feng, whose children are dead. There is also Su Chunjun, who is not yet married and has no children to worry about.

The people in the audience began to talk about their own uncaring children, Mayor Feng sighed as he listened, and turned to ask Su Chunjun: “Your fiancée is 17 or 18 years old, isn’t she? When are you planning to get married? Girls will be quiet once they get married.”

Su Chunjun had been standing closest to Mayor Feng like a secretary – he would have had to sit at the end of the table.

He said with dignity and seriousness, “She is eighteen years old this year, I would like to get married after two more years, when the situation improves.”

Mayor Feng smiled bitterly, gently tapped the table: “The situation will not get better! I don’t know what will happen in two more years. Don’t drag your feet, get married.” He looked at Su Chunjun as if he was looking at his own child, but if his eldest son were still alive, he would be four or five years older than Su Chunjun.

“Is it possible that your fiancée has heard too much of the sophistry in school and is not going to marry you early to be some kind of career woman?” Mayor Feng was an old-schooler, he always felt that schools could accept male students, but it was best not to accept female students. Girls can get married at home by learning women’s red needlework and then learning to dance on the piano.

This is all outside the clamor of the literati to engage in what equality between men and women caused the trouble, corrupt the three principles and five rules.

Su Chunjun laughed: “The mayor is mistaken, Yan Yan’s nature is kind, and she likes to help others the most, she has never caused any trouble at school, and usually donates a little money or something. She did never mention that she would have to continue working after marriage, and I don’t think she is someone who can endure hardship.”

Mayor Feng had read the report on Miss Yang Er, he glanced at Su Chunjun who kept praising Miss Yang Er and shook his head and laughed.

Lo and behold! This is what women are. They can be gentle and virtuous on the surface, but behind the scenes they have another face. Su Chunjun was so smart that he thought his fiancée never caused any trouble in school!

Cai Wenhua was sitting in the first seat on his left hand and heard it clearly, he and Mayor Feng exchanged glances and laughed together.

In the school, the blackboard was already filled with lists of things to be purchased.

Yang Yu Yan was not tall enough and was responsible for standing on the podium and singing the list, Yang Yu Cicada was responsible for writing on the blackboard.

Yang Yuyan: “Lime, three hundred pounds.”

There was no convenient and inexpensive 84 disinfectant now, that one wouldn’t be available until 1984. Nor could one have the luxury of using alcohol to disinfect the environment; alcohol for disinfection was now a controlled commodity, and one would be arrested by the gendarmerie for making it privately without permission.

Therefore, the most commonly used disinfectant is lime.

Even foreign hospitals use lime to disinfect.

But when there were patients, they certainly couldn’t raise lime in the wards, so they also needed a lot of gloves and protective masks.

Fortunately, masks have been invented now – only cotton ones, of course.

Of course, they have to be sewn by hand.

The bandages that weren’t donated last time can be used when they are re-cooked, so that’s a welcome relief.

Gloves were also made of cotton. Rubber gloves have been invented, but they are so expensive they make people cry. Because there are no rubber trees in China now, all of them have to be imported from the United States, and there is no place to buy them. Because rubber products are banned from being exported to China, you can only buy smuggled goods.

Since it’s so expensive, of course they can’t afford to use it, so they have to make do with cotton gloves and wash their hands regularly.

All that was left was the diseases that could be found in prostitutes.

Shi Wuwei spent two days and nights, now learning a lot of new terms, before translating half of an article from an American scientific journal.

This author was an epidemiologist who studied cases in France and England, and he listed hundreds of diseases that prostitutes could catch, counting everything from tooth decay to bedbug bites.

But the worst were typhoid, hepatitis and syphilis.

A prostitute doesn’t just transmit diseases. She could act as an intermediate host, transmitting all the diseases that could be transmitted through intimate contact, and because of the poor living conditions, as well as the lack of good hygiene, each one of them was like a giant collection of germs and a culture medium.

Shi Wuwei panted as he brought this half of the freshly flipped piece to everyone, and everyone fell silent.

Perhaps they had expected there would be difficulties, but they had never imagined that the difficulties would be so many and so great.

Shi Wuwei said, “I read a French novel that mentioned that after an outbreak of a contagious disease in a brothel, all the customers never went there again, and all the prostitutes died. But the disease still broke out on that street.”

Because a john won’t patronize just one brothel and one prostitute. He would visit all the brothels in the city.

He didn’t say anything else, but he thought everyone needed to reconsider.