The next day.
An attractive woman in her thirties brought an embroidered banner to Xiao Yu's shop.
"A peerless pillar of the nation, courageous and fearless."
Upon seeing Xiao Yu, she immediately bowed a full ninety degrees.
"Thank you, Master Xiao! Thank you so much! If it weren't for you, my husband would have died!"
"He's our family's only source of income. If he died, our whole family would be crushed by the mortgage!"
"Thank you so much! I went out first thing this morning to buy this banner!"
"You're a true hero, the hero who saved our family!"
Xiao Yu accepted the banner and shook his head with a smile.
"It was no trouble. If we're talking about heroes, your husband counts as an everyday hero too."
"Without maintenance workers like him, none of us would have electricity."
"If it hadn't happened to him, it would have happened to someone else."
"The danger is part of the job. Someone has to step up, and someone has to put their life on the line."
The woman paused, seemingly not expecting Master Xiao to think so highly of an ordinary worker like her husband.
"You're too kind, far too kind. My husband is just an ordinary electrician. He's not that great. He only does it to support the family."
He only did it to support the family.
Risking his life to earn money with his own hands might be ordinary.
But compared with those "princesses" who were "lazy freeloaders keeping backup men" and "spread their legs and let the money roll in"...
Didn't that make him a hero?
Mocking poverty but not prostitution-how tragic was that!
"All right, I've accepted the banner. Go on home. Your husband still needs to stay in the hospital for a while, and he needs someone