Chapter 416: Chinese New Year and Flu
Chinese New Year, this is probably something that every Chinese has to experience since childhood, no matter where they are, when it comes to the New Year, the homesickness that may exist in the genes will involuntarily exude.
Although with the development of the times, the Chinese New Year has become less and less atmospheric in the early years, but this festival that has been passed down for thousands of years has always been the most important and symbolic custom in the Chinese world.
Different from the earth's time and space, the influence of the republic of this time and space is huge, basically in Asia, almost all countries will position the Spring Festival as a legal holiday, even if the religious beliefs are different, even if the ethnic groups are different, but in Asia, the Spring Festival is not only a Chinese festival, but also a common festival of the entire Asian country.
In the same way, due to the opposition between the Eastern and Western worlds, the Western world once tried to completely block any news from the East, which made the people of Western European and American countries know little about the East.
However, in recent years, with the slowdown of the development of Western society, coupled with the various differences brought about by the confrontation of political parties, and the advent of the Internet age, the huge iron wall originally erected between the Eastern and Western worlds collapsed.
Capitalists are chasing profits and gains, and although they will also have their own political thinking and pursuits, in the final analysis, they still prefer that their net worth can be more abundant.
And capital doesn't care whether you have the surname "capital" or "gong", a huge market with more than half of the world's population is extremely attractive in the eyes of capitalists.
Since it is impossible to conquer the opponent and win the market by strong means, the capitalists began to flexibly look for opportunities for cooperation, and in fact, the profits brought by cooperation were enough to make the Western capitalists tempted.
Therefore, after entering the 21st century, the exchanges between the East and the West began to increase, and Western culture and customs began to affect the life of the Eastern world through their commercial products and various celebrities, but at the same time, there has always been a kind of discrimination and contempt for Eastern culture in Western society.
But of course, there are special circumstances, such as Sacramento, the capital city of California, which has greatly improved its understanding of oriental culture in just over half a year.
All these changes were basically brought about by Wang Lei and Turgon.
The time has come to February 2021, the Lunar New Year in the East is coming, and Sacramento, who thought that this warm winter was about to pass, suddenly ushered in a very large-scale cold snap, and the whole of California was within the range of the cold snap.
The sudden arrival of low temperatures caught many people in California who had been waiting for spring off guard, and the flu began to rage in California and throughout North America.
The All-Star Game is just around the corner, and the players who have played more than 50 games are experiencing a period of physical and mental exhaustion, and almost all teams in the league have fallen into a bit of a slump, and the strong teams have fallen, especially the new teams that have risen this season, such as the Thunder and the Wizards, and of course, the Runners have inevitably had a variety of poor form.
Now that the flu is hit, although the players are physically strong, many players who are in the tired period are extremely susceptible to infection.
Wang Lei and Ma Dongmei are packing up, in the period before and after the All-Star Game, Wang Lei will return to China with his wife and son for the New Year, for Wang Lei's request for two weeks of leave, boss Francis agreed without any doubts, after all, he knows the significance of the Spring Festival to the Chinese, and the team is now operating normally, Wang Lei's return to China will not affect too much.
However, at this time, the team doctor of the Runners, the somewhat "sissy" Stevenson Packaf, urgently informed the management of the influenza virus in two players on the team.
Two of the unlucky ones who got the flu were Salehi and Stephen Chambers.
In North America, the flu is never a minor disease, although in the eyes of many Orientals, a cold, a big deal, drink a little medicine, sometimes a little home remedies can be good, but in North America, the flu is often fatal.
Knowing that someone in the team was infected with the flu, Wang Lei seemed very calm, but some others were a little panicked, and the players in the team were also a little nervous, and many even wore masks in the training hall.
However, after Wang Lei asked the team's specially hired Chinese medicine doctor to cure the two unlucky eggs in less than three days with two bowls of black medicinal soup, there was a strong smell of vinegar in the training hall of the runners. (During the SARS period, almost every house tasted like that)
Since then, the two Chinese medicine practitioners hired by Wang Lei from China have had the title of "miracle doctor" in the runner team, and some Chinese medicinal materials and Chinese patent medicines they brought from China have also become sought-after.
Moreover, after the flu of the runners players was quickly cured, the government of Saska City also specially invited the team's two Chinese medicine doctors to a meeting, and the Chinese treatment and protective measures provided by the two of them were quickly implemented in Saska.
When the inhabitants of Sa City went from initial doubts to obvious results, the Runners and the Oriental medicine that spread by them began to become hot.
Some merchants in Sa Cheng found a great business opportunity here, and they began to take action to import special Chinese patent medicines from the East to treat the influenza that ravaged North America, and Chinese medicine doctors also began to prevail in North America, and Chinese medicine doctors certified by the special institutions of the Republic were even hired by major hospitals in North America with high salaries, regardless of whether they knew foreign languages or not, as long as their medical skills were no problem, they could obtain medical qualifications in North America.
From traditional Chinese medicine to the Spring Festival, from Chinese medicinal materials to various craft products, the originally weak economy of Sacha City has been greatly improved in a short period of time, which has triggered more cities, more business investment and even changed the overall economic situation in North America, which is what Wang Lei and many people on the runners did not expect.
During this time, Wang Lei returned to China with his wife and son, and the annual NBA All-Star Game was about to start in Dallas.
The NBA originally planned to use Wang Lei and Turgun during the All-Star Game to continue to expand its influence in the East, but Wang Lei eventually returned to China, so Turgon, who became the starter in the West of the All-Star Game and also participated in the rookie game and the three-point contest, became the focus of the league's promotion.