"Help! Someone help me. Sweetie, don't scare Grandma."

Yu Yao put the jade pendant and the letter into the biscuit box and quickly ran towards the direction from which the sound came.

Not long after running, Yu Yao saw a very elegant middle-aged woman running towards her, carrying a five or six-year-old girl in her arms.

It was during working hours, and there weren't many people in the park. Occasionally, I saw a few elderly women sitting in the park sewing clothes and making insoles. When I heard the cries for help, I went over to check on the situation.

What's wrong with the child?

Hu Lingyu frowned, her phoenix eyes filled with worry. "Comrade, my granddaughter choked on a steamed bun. Do you know where there's a clinic nearby?"

The little girl coughed violently, her throat making painful sounds, and her breathing became increasingly difficult.

“Sweetie, don’t be afraid! Grandma will take you to the clinic right away.” Hu Lingyu patted the child’s chest while anxiously asking, “Comrade, could you please take us to the clinic? We just came from Guangdong Province to visit our in-laws and we don’t know the way.”

Someone in the crowd said, "It's probably too late to get to the clinic. The nearest clinic is more than ten minutes away by bicycle. The child won't make it like this."

"Oh dear, what should we do?"

A kind-hearted woman in the crowd handed me a military-style water bottle.

"I have some water here, quickly give the child some water to drink and see if he can swallow it. My mother choked on an egg before, and drinking water helped her. See if you can get him to swallow it."

"Yes, yes, try drinking some water and patting your back hard."

As Hu Lingyu watched her granddaughter grow increasingly distressed, her heart ached.

"Cough cough cough!" Tianya coughed violently, making gasping sounds, her condition was even worse than before.

Thinking that the clinic was too far away to make it in time, Hu Lingyu gritted her teeth and took the military water bottle.

I guess I'll just have to try it; hopefully it'll work.

Yu Yao was still a hundred meters away from the woman when she saw the woman about to feed the girl water, so she quickly shouted to stop her.

"No, you can't give the child water!"

Since it was a matter of life and death, Yu Yao quickened her pace and ran over in twos and threes at a time.

"Little girl, why can't you give her water? If you don't give her water, she won't be able to breathe," someone asked.

Yu Yao was panting heavily as she explained:

"Water will cause the bun to swell, making it easier for it to block the throat and cause suffocation."

Those around them, upon hearing this, agreed that it made perfect sense.

"What can we do then? Just watch the child... just watch the child..."

Some of the women couldn't bear to watch and turned away to cry.

Hu Lingyu held Tianya and kept crying, feeling extremely regretful.

Just now, we passed by a state-run restaurant, and Tianya smelled the aroma of steamed buns inside. She started clamoring for some, and I couldn't refuse, so I bought her a big steamed bun.

Who knew that he would choke so soon after eating?

She should have known better than to buy steamed buns for Tianya. If something happened to her granddaughter, how could she face her daughter and son-in-law, and how could she face Tianya?

She's only five years old, still so young.

If anything happens to Tianya, she doesn't want to live anymore.

At this moment, the little girl's face was cyanotic, she was having difficulty breathing, and she was about to lose consciousness.

"It's too late. Give me the child, I have a way."

Yu Yao picked up the child, wrapped her arms around the girl's waist, made a fist with her left hand, and grasped the girl's wrist from the front with her right hand, quickly compressing the girl's upper abdomen to perform the Heimlich maneuver.

Hu Lingyu cried silently, tears streaming down her face, afraid of disturbing Yu Yao's rescue efforts.

The surroundings were also quiet.

Everyone held their breath and stared intently at Yu Yao in the crowd.

Is this woman's strange movement really okay?

Yu Yao clenched her fist and squeezed it a few times.

With a "cough," something fell from the little girl's mouth and landed on the ground.

"It was a steamed bun, it came out."

"Just spit it out."

Those around him wept with joy.

After vomiting, Tianya burst into tears, crying, "Grandma, hug me!"

"Thank you, thank you, comrade." Hu Lingyu hugged the child tightly, unable to hold back her tears any longer, "Sweetie, you scared Grandma to death, waaaaaah."

The two, one big and one small, clung to each other, crying incessantly.

Yu Yao breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the weeping grandmother and grandson.

In her previous life at university, a classmate choked on food and couldn't be saved. Yu Yao later learned about the Heimlich maneuver from a short video blogger's video and specially took related courses to learn it.

In addition to Heimlich maneuver, they also learned cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

It's finally come in handy, that's great.

When the people around saw that the girl had been rescued, they were all happy for Hu Lingyu and the others, and they praised Yu Yao even more.

"This little girl is really good. If it weren't for you today, this girl probably wouldn't be doing well."

"Yes, every year quite a few people in our commune die from choking on their food. This method is truly excellent, a meritorious act."

"Young lady, the actions you just performed didn't seem difficult. Could you teach us your method of saving someone?"

"Yes, young lady, could you teach us? We won't learn for nothing, here are some eggs for you."

Everyone around had elderly people or children at home, and they all agreed that if they learned this method, it could save lives in a critical moment.

"Yes, yes, we didn't learn for nothing. I have extra watch tickets, you can have this one."

Immediately, the older women, uncles, and aunts around her took out things and offered them to Yu Yao, but Yu Yao refused them all.

"Comrades, I can teach you how to save people, and I don't need your things."

There are two Heimlich maneuvers: one for first aid when an individual is choking, and the other for first aid when someone else is choking. There are also slight differences for children over one year old and children under one year old.

Yu Yao studied very carefully back then, and she is explaining it very carefully now as well.

Everyone around listened attentively; the method wasn't difficult.

Before long, everyone learned it and was very grateful to Yu Yao.

Hu Lingyu and Tianya listened very attentively.

The child recovered quickly. He had been crying loudly just now, but he had stopped crying and was looking at Yu Yao with his big, grape-like eyes.

Her long eyelashes were still glistening with tears, making her look incredibly adorable.

Others learned to leave one after another.

Before leaving, they took advantage of Yu Yao's inattention to drop eggs and various tickets and money and ran away as fast as they could, afraid that Yu Yao would return them.

Yu Yao only saw these things after most of the people had left.

The woman who gave out the eggs didn't even take the bamboo basket; she left them all behind, with a bunch of random tickets and money mixed in with the eggs.

Some people didn't bring anything, so they put all the sunflower seeds they had on them into the container.

These people are so naive; once they're gone, there's no way to back out now.

Yu Yao glanced at the sky; it must be noon by now, her stomach was rumbling.

She picked up her things and was about to leave when a gentle voice called out to her.

"Comrade, wait!"