Many people were standing in the hospital corridor, all gathered around the entrance of a ward, chattering noisily. The scene was extremely lively.
Song Yueying didn’t pay attention to what they were saying. Just seeing the situation made her frown slightly. The first rule of survival in her past life, avoid crowded places.
Qi Yanjue’s ward was the last room at the end of the corridor. To get back to it, she would have to pass through the crowd.
For safety’s sake, Song Yueying decisively decided to wait until the crowd dispersed before going back.
While she was looking around for somewhere to sit, a sharp female voice suddenly rang out: “This foreign devil is insulting us! He must be a spy, definitely a spy!”
“Quick, call the police and arrest him so he doesn’t escape!”
“Yes, yes, arrest him!”
“Damn foreign devil, spy! How dare he insult us, he must be arrested!”
“The nurse is right, this foreign devil is definitely a spy. Arrest him and send him to the Public Security Bureau. We absolutely cannot let him get away!”
Song Yueying’s brow twitched.
Spy. Foreign devil.
In this era, there really were many spies and intelligence agents, but… a foreigner personally coming to be a spy, and doing it so openly?
That was something rare to see.
This was worth a look.
At this moment, Song Yueying had already forgotten her survival rule. She stepped forward toward the crowd. After squeezing through and reaching the doorway, she suddenly heard panicked shouts in German.
“What are you going to do? Help! Help!”
“Someone! Someone help me! Oh God! I’m going to die, who will save me? Oh God!”
Inside the ward, the foreign man was shouting at the top of his lungs for help.
While calling for help, he insisted that he meant no harm.
He said he was only here for medical treatment because he was sick, and his interpreter could testify for him. It was just that his interpreter wasn’t with him right now, but once the interpreter returned, everything would be clarified.
He also told everyone not to harm him, he was not a bad person. He had been invited here to help the country solve certain problems.
Unfortunately, he was speaking in German, and no one present understood a single word.
Because they couldn’t understand him, the crowd began chattering again.
“What is this foreign devil saying? Is he gesturing like that because he wants to fight us?”
“Fight us? Don’t be ridiculous.”
At this, everyone burst into laughter.
The nurse’s voice rang out again. “This foreign devil is insulting us again! He’s saying he’s very powerful and that we definitely can’t beat him!”
“Damn foreign devil, killed so many of our compatriots! Now he comes here to spy on us, insult us, and provoke us, I’m going to beat him to death!”
A man shouted angrily, raising his fist and swinging it toward the foreign man standing beside the hospital bed.
“Oh God!” the foreign man screamed, collapsing back onto the bed in panic.
“Stop!” Song Yueying called out, stepping forward and pushing aside the middle-aged woman blocking her way.
The woman turned back angrily, only to see a slender figure walk past her and stop between the man and the foreigner sitting on the hospital bed.
The man who had been about to strike lowered his eyes. Seeing it was a woman, his expression immediately darkened.
Looking at Song Yueying shielding the foreign man behind her, he glared at her and demanded loudly, “Who are you? Why are you stopping me from hitting this foreign devil?”
Seeing Song Yueying, the nurse’s eyes flashed with malice. She also raised her voice and questioned her, “Why are you helping this foreign devil? If you help him, you’re helping a spy.”
“Spies are the public enemy of the people, they are reactionaries. That makes you a reactionary too!”
Hearing the nurse’s words, everyone’s gaze immediately turned to Song Yueying. Their expressions were angry and wary, mixed with a hint of curiosity.
Song Yueying tilted her head toward the nurse. Heh, an acquaintance.
No wonder that sharp voice sounded familiar, it was her. Back in Qi Yanjue’s ward, she hadn’t gone easy on her, and she naturally wouldn’t now.
“You’re saying he’s a spy. What evidence do you have?” Song Yueying asked calmly.
The nurse said, “He’s a foreign devil. That means he’s a spy.”
“Because he’s a foreigner, he’s automatically a spy?” Song Yueying asked again. “Who told you to make that judgment?”
At this time, although the country was not yet fully open, import and export trade was already taking place. Based on what the foreigner had just said, he had been invited here to help solve national problems.
Song Yueying was certain, this foreigner was an engineer.
It was probably that a state-run factory had purchased foreign machinery, and when the equipment broke down, a foreign engineer was brought in for repairs.
In such cases, the country would usually pay a large sum of money, because at this time there was no such thing as warranty services.
“Yes, he’s a foreign devil, so he must be a spy,” the man echoed the nurse. “A foreigner showing up here in the first place is abnormal, there must be something wrong with him.”
A middle-aged woman also chimed in, “Exactly! If he isn’t a spy, then why isn’t he in his own country? Why is he here?”
The man continued, “He was just insulting us and trying to fight us earlier.”
“Who told you that what he said just now was insulting you or that he wanted to fight you?” Song Yueying asked, glancing meaningfully at the nurse.
The man and the woman both turned to look at the nurse. The implication was obvious.
The nurse felt a wave of guilt under their gazes. But then she remembered that no one could understand what the foreigner was saying anyway, so she quickly regained her composure.
Steeling herself, she said, “He was definitely insulting us just now, and his hand gestures were clearly meant to challenge us. He is a spy sent here to sabotage things.”
“Heh.” Song Yueying let out a cold laugh and swept her gaze across the crowd before saying calmly, “He didn’t insult you, and he wasn’t trying to fight you.”
“He was frightened by you and was calling for help. The hand gestures were because you couldn’t understand what he was saying, so he could only express himself through actions.”
“Also, he’s here to help us solve problems, not to sabotage things like you said.”
In the last sentence, Song Yueying was speaking while looking directly at the nurse.
Everyone was stunned. They looked at each other, seeing confusion in one another’s eyes, then turned to Song Yueying and the foreign man sitting on the hospital bed behind her.
“Who is that female comrade?”
“Why is she protecting the foreign devil?”
“And how does she know he’s not a spy or someone here to sabotage us? Could it be that she understands what he’s saying?”
“Make way, make way…” A few people pushed through the crowd and rushed into the ward. Seeing so many people inside, they froze for a moment.
A tall man went straight to the bedside and looked at the foreigner sitting there, asking nervously in German, “Mr. Will, are you alright?”
Seeing the tall man, Will’s face lit up with relief. He repeatedly said that he had finally returned, if he hadn’t come back, he would have been scared to death.
Seeing so many people in the ward, the tall man signaled his companions to escort everyone else out.
Soon, only the tall man, his companions, and Will remained in the room. Will’s gaze swept across them all.
“Where is that brave and beautiful girl?” Will asked.