Zeng Li’s mother kept reminding her that there are three professions in this world that women cannot marry: policeman, teacher, and doctor.

Ma Yi Yi was surprised when she found out about this, “Why? Aren’t these all good son-in-law candidates in the mother-in-law’s heart?”

“My mother said that the police profession can’t take care of the family and is dangerous, and the teacher will always have young female students who want to dream, generation after generation, one generation graduates and the next one comes again, one after another, doctors…” She thought for a while, “She prejudice against doctors.”

“What prejudice?”

“She feels that every time she goes to see a doctor, as long as it’s not an emergency, the doctor will think it’s no big deal, with a cold expression, and…”

“What else?”

Zeng Li smiled, “Also, she said that she didn’t know the words written by the doctor.”

Ma Yiyi laughs.

Zeng Li buried her face, flicked the straw in the Coke cup, and suppressed her smile. In fact, there are other reasons, but she didn’t say it.

On the second Wednesday after New Year’s Day, she asked the director for leave to go to the affiliated hospital of A University for a follow-up visit.

After several failed blind dates last year, Mother Zeng summed up Zeng Li’s shortcomings from top to bottom, and came to a conclusion: in addition to being too thin, her teeth were not straight, which affected her appearance.

There are two large front teeth in Zeng Li’s upper teeth. In Ma Yi Yi’s words, it looks like a rabbit when she smiles, and then the canine teeth on the right protrude a bit from the side, a bit like being pushed back by the neighbours.

When she was a child, she didn’t like to laugh. When she smiled, people would stare at her mouth, which felt extremely awkward.

Later… later someone said: “When you grow up, maybe you will look like Wang Zu Xian when you smile.”

Zeng Li seldom watched TV and movies, and didn’t know who Wang Zu Xian was at all, so she didn’t know at the time whether the words praised her or hurt her.

In the end, Mama Zeng came to a conclusion: take her to have her teeth fixed.

“Mom, have you ever seen someone at my age who still wears braces? It’s shameful!” When Zeng Li said this, she was dragged to the corridor of the hospital by her mother.

Mother Zeng didn’t refute this time, she just nodded her chin wordlessly, asking her daughter to look over there. Zeng Li followed his mother’s line of sight, and saw a few orthodontic infographics posted on the wall of the opposite corridor, one of which was a white old lady wearing braces.

“…”

Facts speak louder than words. Mama Zeng won easily without saying a word.

That Teacher Li had a specialist outpatient clinic, and there were so many people seeing him, that she did not get in until noon. Zeng Li didn’t know if it was because of an introduction from her mother’s acquaintances, or because he had good medical ethics. Teacher Li was very kind and amiable.

The Department of Dentistry of A University’s School of Medicine is one of the best in the country, and many people come here from all over China. Because it is a teaching unit, the expert clinics are accompanied by graduate students, and each consultation room is comparable to a lecture hall. After Zeng Li finished the examination, Teacher Li showed a warm and hospitable attitude and explained the whole treatment process in detail in front of Zeng’s mother. A female student who was on the sidelines said: “Your daughter is beautiful, and her teeth are beautiful. When it’s done, her smile will be perfect.”

Hearing this sentence, Zeng’s mother was elated, and hurriedly made a decision, urging Zeng Li to pay the fee and sign.

When Zeng Li came back with the payment receipt, Teacher Li said to the female student just now: “Zhou Wen, you can make an order to ask her to extract her teeth first.”

Zhou Wen asked, “Which one to pull out?”

Dr. Li said: “Left 4, right 4, pull up and down.” Then he received the next patient with a cordial and kind attitude.

Zeng Li asked tremblingly: “What is left 4 right 4?”

“Counting from the middle of your teeth, the 4th on the left and the 4th on the right.”

“Up and down?”

“Well, up and down.”

Zeng Li suddenly felt a little dizzy, but her mother stared at her after paying the money, feeling that the situation was settled, and left, leaving her here alone with weak calves.

Zhou Wen said: “Don’t be afraid, today we will only pull out two on one side.”

Zeng Li continued to ask, “What about the other side?”

“It depends on the situation. If the situation is good, it will usually be done every other week.”

After Zhou Wen finished writing the list, he asked, “Tooth extraction in surgery on the second floor. Hey, by the way, are you on your menstrual period?”

Zeng Li didn’t understand, “Huh?”

“You can’t extract your teeth during your menstrual period, and the bleeding will be more serious, are you?”

“No…” After Zeng Li blurted out, she hastily corrected herself stammeringly, “Yes, yes, yes.” It seemed that she had grasped a life-saving straw.

Zhou Wen glanced at her, took the form back, and said, “There’s no other way, I’ll tell Teacher Li, next time. Anyway, every Monday and Wednesday morning, Teacher Li visits the doctor, and you can come directly after that is over.” That’s it.

Then Zeng Li ran out of the hospital as if she was fleeing.

However, she couldn’t stand her mother’s words, and after two months she went to the hospital with the determination to die. She was thinking about how to explain the two things about her disappearance to Zhou Wen and that Teacher Li along the way.

“After my aunt finished, I forgot about it, and when I remembered it, it came again the second time.”

Or: “Student Zhou Wen, I’m sorry, my aunt has been here for two months.”

That’s so tragic.

She thought over the reason, and finally made up a reliable reason, and resolutely walked to the hospital.

Climbing to the orthodontic department on the sixth floor, she found that there was no one in the huge consulting room on the right. She looked left and right through the glass in the corridor, but she didn’t see anyone in a white coat. She hurried in and found that even the name tag that Teacher Li had hung outside the cubicle was gone.

She paid more than 10,000 yuan, they wouldn’t abscond with the money, would they?

It happened that a nurse came in and asked Zeng Li, “Who are you looking for?”

“Isn’t Professor Li going to the clinic today?”

The nurse looked at her, “Are you Teacher Li’s patient?”

Zeng Li nodded.

“He went to Africa to aid in the construction. He left temporarily at the end of last year, and the patient was handed over to Teacher Ai.” He pointed to the consulting room opposite.

“Oh, thank you.”

Zeng Li walked to the opposite door without thinking carefully, and found that there were many patients, and each cubicle had a treatment bed, one patient and one doctor, busy. There was another one who was idle, sitting on a stool with his back to her, talking to two people, the distance was not too close, and he couldn’t hear clearly.

She didn’t know who she could disturb now, but when she was about to retreat, someone suddenly walked in from the corridor and asked, “Are you Zeng Li?”

Zeng Li looked back and found that the girl who called her was Zhou Wen.

She said hello shyly, “Doctor Zhou.”

“Hey, why did it take you so long to come? I thought you were scared away by me last time.” Zhou Wen smiled.

“No, I was on a business trip, so I didn’t have time.” Zeng Li hastily explained with a lie.

Zhou Wen said: “Teacher Li went to help foreign countries, and all the students he brought were transferred to Teacher Ai, but there were too many patients, so I divided some of them out. Don’t worry, you are still to be seen by Teacher Ai. I have read your film and medical records.”

“En.“

“Just wait for a while, Teacher Ai has to see every patient in person, and he is communicating with the family members over there.”

Zeng Li thought, this teacher’s surname is really good, love! You can adapt “Five Lectures, Four Beauties, Three Loves”, to love the school, love the major, and love the teacher.

She couldn’t help laughing at her own thoughts, and turned her head inadvertently, only to see a doctor’s name plate nailed to the wall. The silver-grey sign was printed with black bold characters, three characters, “艾” (Ai) in front, a space between the first and last name, followed by “景 初” (Jing Chu).

She opened her mouth slightly in surprise, and just when she didn’t know what to do, she heard Zhou Wen say: “Teacher Ai, the Zeng Li that Teacher Li turned around is here.”

She watched the man with his back to her take the medical records handed over by Zhou Wen, turned around, and walked towards herself step by step. He was wearing a white coat, and the collar of his grey and black checked shirt was exposed. The central air conditioner in the hospital was fully turned on, so they didn’t wear coats when they were working, but Zeng Li was wrapped in a down jacket and scarf, which made her feel a little hot, and her palms were sweaty.

He stood still and asked, “How old are you?”

“Twenty five.”

“Why do you want to fix your teeth?”

“Uh…” This stumped Zeng Li.

Zhou Wen accepted the words with a smile, “Your mother was very funny last time, saying that you couldn’t find a boyfriend, and it was your teeth that delayed you.”

Zeng Li glanced at Zhou Wen in a cold sweat, but she didn’t expect that Ai Jing Chu was looking back at her from the medical records. His gaze moved from her chin to her nose, eyes, and forehead, and finally fell back to her mouth, saying lightly: “Protrusion has little effect.”

Zeng Li was stunned for a moment, unable to hear clearly whether the “protruding” teeth had little effect on her appearance, or whether the teeth had little effect on the “prospect” of finding a boyfriend. But he was a person with a very cold aura, which made her dare not say a word.

At this time, Ai Jing Chu took a pair of unopened rubber gloves from the operating table and put them on her hands. Because there were no extra treatment beds, she could only stand like this to be checked. Fortunately, Zhou Wen helped pull the stool over, he sat and she stood. He took out the flashlight from his breast pocket and told her to open her mouth.

At the same time, Zeng Li was praying hard, hoping that there would be no residue left between her teeth after eating just now.

After a while, Ai Jing Chu turned off the flashlight and said, “I have read your medical records. In fact, the prolapse is not too obvious and has no impact on life. You don’t need treatment, but since you have this wish and Professor Li has already admitted you, then we will continue. My plan is the same as that of Professor Li, extract the teeth first, but the bottom two can be kept first, and we will take a look at it after we operate it, and then we will make a decision.” He turns around to call Zhou Wen to write the tooth extraction form, but he saw that Zhou Wen had been called away by another patient, so Ai Jing Chu had to write it himself.

He raised a pen and asked, “Is it—”

“Zeng Li, as in Li 鲤 of Li Yu 鲤鱼 (carp).”

“Period?” he asked.

“……no.”

An hour later, Zeng Li came out of the surgical tooth extraction room biting a cotton ball to stop the bleeding. Because she was a little dizzy, she sat down on a chair in the outpatient hall. On the side wall of the registration office, there were several rows of names and photos of the experts in the hospital. Zeng Li found Ai Jing Chu at a glance, always wearing a white coat with a straight face.

At this time, there were still many patients waiting in a long line to register.

“I have Ai Jing Chu’s number.” Someone took the money and said loudly in front of the window.

“Professor Ai is full today.” The person in the window replied with a loudspeaker.

“What about the afternoon?”

“It’s full all day.”

“Then I will come back tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow is Thursday, and Professor Ai will only be in clinic on Wednesday and Friday.”

“No way, I’ve come so far, and I have to wait for two more days?”

“Are you still hanging up? Don’t hang up the next one.”

“Hang up, hang up, you can hang up something else.”

Those answers and inquiries were drowned out by other noises.

She suddenly understood why Zhou Wen reassured her, because the doctor was Ai Jing Chu.

As a result, tooth extraction was not as painful as Zeng Li had expected, and she went to “Carol’s” at night as if nothing had happened. Carol’s is a small coffee shop jointly opened by Zeng Li, Ma Yi Yi and Wu Ying. In fact, the money is mainly paid for by Wu Ying, but she is very busy working in the hospital, so Ma Yi Yi usually takes care of it. Zeng Li comes to help when she is free. The coffee shop is very close to the east gate of A University, so the customers are mainly students. The four walls of the store are covered with green wallpaper, which has a nostalgic taste. There is a small blackboard hanging on the outside. Like most student stores with pretty bourgeoisie, it is a place for customers to leave notes.

It was a cold winter evening and not a weekend, so Carol’s is a bit deserted.

Ma Yi Yi is frothing the latte.

The younger sister, Dou Dou, who works in the shop, has nothing to do. She took out the Tarot cards in the drawer and played with them for a while. When a customer asked to add water, she put down the cards and went to work.

Zeng Li casually held them together, but a card fell to the ground.

“The wheel of fate”.

She looked at the card and put it back in its place in silence. After a while, she took out the follow-up card from her bag and unfolded the small paper card.

The inside page of the card wrote the time of the next follow-up visit, and then turned it back. On the front, there were the names of the attending physician and the patient, and “Zeng Li” was written on the top of “Ai Jing Chu”.

In fact, he didn’t know her.

She didn’t really know him.

And yet, what a strange thing it was to turn the wheel of fate as it was supposed to.

Half a month later, when she went for a follow-up visit, her gums had almost recovered. Now, she couldn’t smile too unrestrainedly, otherwise she would have a tooth missing on the left and right sides of her big grin, which would be very scary.

She specially brought a toothbrush, toothpaste, and water cup with her this time, and brushed her teeth carefully before going in.

As soon as she was lying on the treatment bed, Zhou Wen invited Ai Jing Chu to come.

He opened the drawer on the operating table next to him, changed his gloves into a new pair, and then sat down. Several students who were listening also gathered around Zeng Li, turned on the light, lowered their heads, and looked at her teeth like visiting a giant panda. Among them was a burly black classmate.

Ai Jing Chu spoke all in English, and Zeng Li basically didn’t understand a single word of those unfamiliar and lengthy professional vocabulary, but saw him gesturing on her teeth while talking.

She dared not look at him.

Zeng Li was afraid of doctors, teachers, and leaders all her life. If you have a headache, go to the pharmacy and buy some medicine to make do with it. If you have any pain, just search online to see if it is a big problem. If it is just a minor problem, you can bear it yourself.

Zeng Li didn’t dare to look at anyone above her head, so she could only act as a living teaching mold, opening her mouth stiffly and staring straight ahead. But after a while, the orange light dazzled her, but she couldn’t move it casually.

She squinted her eyes, feeling a little uncomfortable.

He was talking about the depth of overbite between the upper and lower teeth, and the phrase “overbite depth indicator” in his mouth paused for a while, and at the same time, he moved the handle of the lampshade down with the back of his gloved hand calmly. The angle of the lamp was slightly adjusted, and the light no longer pierced her eyes.

Afterwards, after they finished fiddling, Ai Jing Chu gave Zhou Wen a few words of advice, and then moved on to the next patient. Zhou Wen asked the nurse to help, and took a dental model for Zeng Li.

Zhou Wen said: “Next time you come on the weekend.”

“Do you also work on weekends?”

“No, winter vacation is coming soon. If I don’t get it for you in a hurry, you will be delayed for more than a month. Besides, you are doing a full-mouth aligner, and it will take several hours to stick it. Usually, Teacher Ai’s outpatient, there are too many patients, more than one hundred people. How can we fit them in? I will work overtime for you alone on weekends.”

Zeng Li smiled embarrassedly, “I’m sorry to trouble you.”

“Professor. Ai arranged you for me. This is my business. By the way, you can write down our number here. If you have any questions, call the nurse and they will pick up and ask me. Teacher Ai has no time to answer the phone. “

She followed Zhou Wen’s eyes and saw that another new patient had arrived, and Ai Jing Chu was communicating with them standing there with his back to them. Every patient, even if he just came for a follow-up visit, he had to look over it personally, ask for guidance, and then teach the student in charge of the patient what to do next, and finally check and accept.

In his speech, there are very few redundant words, and he never smiles. It has almost nothing to do with the words “approachable” and “friendly”. No wonder he always gives people a severe feeling.

“Is this weekend okay?” Zeng Li asked.

“This weekend,” Zhou Wen thought for a while, “I’m going to make the mold first, and then compare it to the size. I’m afraid it’s too early. Next week. I haven’t left at that time, so I’m sure it will work.”

“Oh, that’s good.”

“Nine o’clock, I’ll just wait for you. If you don’t come, you must call me in advance, or I will wait in vain.” Zhou Wen said, took Zeng Li’s follow-up visit card, and wrote the time and date.

Hearing what Zhou Wen said, she also became more cautious, picked up her phone and set a reminder.

Coming out of the hospital, Zeng Li saw dust-like things floating down from the sky one after another. She caught it with her hand and found that it was actually fine snow. She smiled slightly, dipped it with her fingers and put it in her mouth.

It’s really almost the Chinese New Year.

When she went to the hospital on the second Saturday, Zeng Li was almost late. She has never been a person who does not keep promises, so she hurried to the hospital, but the two elevators in the hospital stopped at the seventh floor and did not come down, so she had to go up by herself.

On the sixth floor, there were only two or three sporadic people in the waiting hall. She turned into the corridor, with consulting rooms on both sides, separated by huge glass, so she could clearly see the movement inside. The consulting rooms are very large, and there are seven or eight dental treatment beds at the same time, but it looks very empty. On the left hand side of the corridor was Zhou Wen’s room. The sky was extremely gloomy, but the lights in the huge consulting room were not turned on, which was in stark contrast to the brightness of the waiting room and corridors.

Zeng Li walked in panting, suspecting that he had got the time wrong.

She glanced roughly, but didn’t find Zhou Wen, and just when she didn’t know what to do, she found a slender figure standing by the window on the other side.

That person was Ai Jing Chu.

Because there was no light and the sky was dim, he stood quietly in the corner, which was almost overlooked. She saw him with his arms folded silently looking out the window. Zeng Li moved a few steps closer and followed his line of sight. Outside is the road with endless traffic, the weather is bad, the sight-lines are not good, and many car lights are on, which makes the grey morning feel a bit like evening, but it also makes you wonder. What is he thinking about?

Not knowing whether it was Zeng Li’s footsteps that alarmed him, or because of her breathing, Ai Jing Chu turned around slowly, was not surprised to see Zeng Li, and nodded lightly.

Zeng Li didn’t know what this nodding meant, so he said, “Doctor Ai, I’m looking for Zhou Wen.”

He didn’t answer, went straight to the door and turned on the light.

Hearing a whimper, all the lights in the consulting room were turned on one by one, sweeping away the darkness, the shining white light shone on his face, and his black eyes sank slightly uncomfortably.

He turned back, walked to the sink by the window, turned on the tap, washed his hands carefully, and then said, “She has something urgent to do and went back home last night.” From the first sound he uttered, Zeng Li has been a little surprised, the originally extremely pleasant and textured voice was hoarse at this moment, and it was already extremely difficult for him to speak a few words, and the word “Hui” was almost hoarse and low.

He paused and tried to say, “Your phone doesn’t work.”

Only then did Zeng Li remember that her phone was shut down yesterday, and she only remembered to go online to pay her phone bill in the middle of the night.

While speaking, Ai Jing Chu had already washed his hands, motioned her to lie down on the treatment bed, adjusted the angle of the chair, and turned on the light. He moved the mobile shelf next to him to his side, went to the next door to fetch something, and put them back. Zeng Li glanced at it, it was her dental model, and there were a bunch of stainless steel wires and small lumps. Afterwards, he washed his hands again and put on gloves.

It was only then that Zeng Li found out that he was going to stick the braces on her by himself.

She saw them do this the first few times she came to the doctor, and she heard Zhou Wen explain it to a patient. Before that, she saw many children wearing braces and thought they were metal devices that could be removed.

The process is very simple to say, that is to place the small metal bumps one by one at a good angle, glue them to the corresponding position of each tooth with special synthetic glue, and then stick a fixed steel wire to string the upper and lower teeth together, and finally screw on that kind of extremely thin small iron wire, add it between each tooth, and adjust the position of the teeth by applying force to each other.

This seems to be a basic technique in the orthodontic department, so nurses usually lead students to do it. Two people are required, one to adjust the mucus and the other to stick it. It must be well coordinated, otherwise the cement will dry easily. Moreover, those brackets require angles, and slight errors will prevent the fixed wire from being stuck in position.

In short, it is definitely a labor-intensive technical job, which requires care and is time-consuming, not to mention sticking Zeng Li’s mouth full.

He put on the light blue mask and sat down.

Zeng Li lay on her back and opened her mouth consciously.

He didn’t like to talk, and she had to open her mouth the whole time, so the process was extremely quiet.

Because of the angle, she couldn’t see his face all the time, but let his fingers skillfully manipulate the inside and outside of her mouth. Sometimes, his hands would go around her head and stretch out from the other side to touch the skin of her face, separated by that layer of opaque medical gloves, which gave an unreal feeling.

When sticking in the opposite direction, he lightly supported her head and motioned her to turn her head sideways, so Zeng Li obediently turned to him. Her ears were pressed against the leather surface of the headrest of the treatment table, and she could see him nearby as soon as she raised her eyes, but most of his face was covered by the mask, leaving only the bridge of his nose and eyes on display.

His eyebrows are slightly thick, and the eyes are as deep as ink.

When he was doing things, his eyes were focused and he had no other distractions, and he didn’t even notice Zeng Li’s eyes. After sticking the one in his hand, he withdrew his attention and picked another one with tweezers on the aluminium dental tray. The rubber gloves adhered tightly to the skin of his hands, hiding the protruding knuckles unique to men, making the fingers more slender and well-proportioned. Those with such hands are either born pianists or doctors. It wasn’t until this moment that he realised that Zeng Li was staring at him, glanced at her faintly, and said, “You can close your mouth and rest for a while.” Maybe it was because he hadn’t spoken for a long time, but his voice was even more horse than before.

Only then did Zeng Li dare to shut her mouth, and moved her stiff jaw. She suddenly had some thoughts, facing such a doctor who worked overtime for her illness, should she say thank you, or is it human nature to care about the other person’s body? But if she asked him about things, did he have a cold, did he take any medicine, would she be misunderstood? Fortunately, Zeng Li still had a plastic brace stuffed into her cheek, which separated the skin of her mouth from the teeth on both sides, making it impossible for her to move her tongue, so she simply gave up.

She just felt that if she looked in the mirror, she must look very stupid now.

It was she who delayed this for a short while. The original cement had been in contact with the air for too long and volatilised too much. He had to open the box again, scoop out the powder with a spoon, and add water to make it.

She thought he didn’t like to laugh very much, so he must have a bad temper, but if he does want to be in this line of work, he must be an extremely patient and meticulous person.

After the cement was finished, she and he continued to cooperate.

It didn’t take long to complete the first two steps, and then he started the last procedure-twisting thin wires on the small nails on each tooth. Those wires were not much thicker than a hair, but he skillfully used tweezers to hold, tie, and cut them one by one, twisting them tooth by tooth. His hands seemed to be carved on ivory. Those fingers Manipulating the tools is astonishingly flexible, both left and right.

Zeng Li couldn’t help but think of when she was learning the piano for the first time, when she played an unfamiliar score, she went crazy several times because her fingers were too clumsy, and she even wanted to chop them off to vent her anger.

At this time, a nurse on duty patrolling the building came in and asked loudly when she saw Ai Jing Chu, “Why does Teacher Ai come to work overtime alone?”

Ai Jing Chu didn’t look back, and continued to move his hands. After a while, he said in a hoarse voice: “I have some work at the moment.”

The nurse approached, and was originally staring at Zeng Li, ready to take a good look at what the person who asked Ai Jing Chu to work overtime looked like, but when she heard Ai Jing Chu’s voice, she turned her head and said, “Teacher Ai, your throat is tired again? There were a lot of patients yesterday, right?”

Now, Ai Jing Chu didn’t answer any more, and nodded his head.

The nurse didn’t know whether she had quit in spite of the difficulties, or she had learned a lot, and then left embarrassed.

Zeng Li immediately felt that he was really an unlikable man, fortunately he didn’t talk much just now.

After all the procedures were completed, Zeng Li moved her sore and numb cheeks, but saw Ai Jing Chu take off his gloves and throw them in the medical waste basket, then went to the washstand by the window to wash his hands once, and after putting on new gloves, he folded back to the previous position and sat down.

“Open your mouth,” he said.

Zeng Li immediately followed suit.

He put the index finger of his right hand wrapped in rubber into her mouth, and then used the pulp of his finger to stroke back and forth the iron nails and small steel wires that had been fixed on the teeth.

Left, right, up, down.

Gently and meticulously.

The temperature inside the mouth was already higher than the outer skin, and he had washed his hands with cold water just now, even through the rubber, she could still feel the process of the slightly cool fingers sliding slowly.

His movements were natural, and he didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with the doctor’s professional habits.

As for Zeng Li, she was a little embarrassed, even though she clearly knew that he was just checking the braces, and finally looked for any sharp, punctured flesh, etc. that made the patient feel uncomfortable.

Time moved so slowly.

Finally, he said, “That’s it.”

Leaving the hospital, Zeng Li returned to Carol’s, and Ma Yi Yi and Dou Dou were on duty. Dou Dou is actually a student from A University nearby, who came to the store to work part-time.

Zeng Li showed his teeth and smiled, which immediately shocked Ma Yi Yi’s heart.

“I’ve become a steel tooth girl.” Zeng Li said.

“Didn’t you say you it would take the whole morning? Why is it so early?” Ma Yi Yi asked while helping people pay at the bar.

“That’s right, the student didn’t come because of something, and her teacher replaced her, so the movements are much more agile.”

“Ai Jing Chu?” Ma Yi Yi asked again.

“Yes.” She mentioned Ai Jing Chu to Ma Yi Yi.

“You have a lot of good fortune!” Ma Yi Yi gestured, “Do you know that the group of students from their academy who came just now are still talking about him?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Handsome and young, and…” Ma Yi Yi deliberately stopped at a critical moment.

“What else?”

“Complain that he is the King of Hades, and there are countless innocent souls under his seat.”

Zeng Li couldn’t help laughing.

Dou Dou put away the cup and came over to ask, “What is Miss Zeng Li happy about?”

“Her heart has sprouted.” Ma Yi Yi joked.

Zeng Li glared at Ma Yi Yi, then turned to Dou Dou and said, “Don’t listen to her nonsense.”

Dou Dou is an undergraduate student in the medical school. You can take medicine indiscriminately, but you can’t talk nonsense.

Ma Yi Yi had no choice but to change the subject and said, “Isn’t it uncomfortable for you to put so much metal in your mouth?”

“It’s true that I feel a little uncomfortable.” Zeng Li opened his mouth to show Ma Yi Yi.

Ma Yiyi frowned and said, “You can’t take it off, is it fixed?”

“En.”

“Can you chew bones?”

“I don’t know, it shouldn’t be possible.”

“Isn’t it all the time?”

“I have no idea.”

“What if it falls?”

“I have no idea……”

“Your doctor, how did he become a doctor, didn’t he tell you anything clearly?”

“His voice is hoarse, and speaking is too painful. It is uncomfortable for anyone to listen to, so I have to call.” Before leaving, Ai Jing Chu had a lot of precautions to tell Zeng Li, but it was extremely difficult for him to speak. It was almost impossible to squeeze out a complete sentence, let alone such a lengthy doctor’s order. He told her not to bite hard objects, and he repeated them two or three times before Zeng Li heard them clearly, so he finally decided to say them on the phone later.

“I’m dying, I’m dying, do you have his private phone number?” Ma Yi Yi was suddenly excited.

“Yes, he wrote down his number and told me to call his cell phone.” Zeng Li replied.

Dou Dou finally couldn’t help asking in confusion: “Who are you talking about?”

“Children don’t interfere with adults’ matters.” Ma Yi Yi waved Dou Dou away.

“What are you so excited about?” Zeng Li said lightly, then adjusted the stereo in the shop and changed the CD.

“Ai Jing Chu in real like! I haven’t seen him before, but you not only saw him, but also stayed alone all morning, and even asked for his phone number.”

“I didn’t ask him for it. He was too lazy to turn on the computer to check the medical records, and the phone was left in the locker room, so he just asked me to call him.” Zeng Li explained with a headache.

“Anyway, everyone has a heart to gossip. You haven’t read their school’s forum, and they are going to gossip about them.”

“Oh.” It turned out that everyone was still liking that post.

After a while, Zeng Li began to feel that his teeth were sore and uncomfortable, and those metals were grinding his mouth, and even closing his lips felt painful.

At noon, several people in the store ordered a box lunch together according to the old rules, and Zeng Li basically didn’t eat it. She felt uncomfortable after chewing twice and had to put down her chopsticks.

Afterwards, Zeng Li almost didn’t even want to say anything.

In the afternoon, Zeng Li suddenly received a text message:

When Zeng Li first read the first half, she thought it was a spam message about health care, and almost deleted it. Only after reading it did he realise that it was Ai Jing Chu’s doctor’s order.

She looked at it, put down her phone, and served drinks to customers. After a long time, she was busy with the things at hand before she remembered the text message again.

She turned on the phone and replied: It suddenly occurred to me that Wu Ying called all the doctors in their hospital teachers. Zeng Li asked curiously why, and Wu Ying replied, “It feels more respectful to be called a teacher than a doctor.”

So, she finally changed her address and wrote: “Okay, thank you Teacher Ai.”

When it was past three o’clock in the afternoon, she was so tortured by the braces that she couldn’t hold on anymore, so she asked Ma Yi Yi for leave and went to sleep in the upstairs lounge.

In the evening, Ma Yi Yi brought a bowl of hot porridge and brought up the mobile phone that Zeng Li had left on the bar. Zeng Li grinned and finished her drink, picked up his phone and clicked on it.

No new text messages came in.

After a while, Wu Ying, the largest shareholder of Carol’s, pushed the door weakly and entered. Ma Yi Yi glanced at her, “Didn’t you rest for a long time today? Why do you still look like you are dying?”

Wu Ying sighed quietly, “Don’t mention it, I was tortured all night by several men.”

Ma Yi Yi squeezed her throat and asked deliberately: “Why did they toss you all night?”

Wu Ying glared at her.

“Didn’t I work the night shift yesterday? Then a group of drunken men came to fight after eleven o’clock. They continued to drink until their heads were bleeding, which turned the emergency room upside down. There was a man in his thirties, who when I wanted to give him stitches, he actually took my hand and cried and called mom because he was so drunk.”

“Pfft—” Dou Dou couldn’t help but laugh.

“At three or four o’clock in the morning, I just finished dealing with this group of people, and I had to lie down for a while, but the lower-level hospital in the suburban county called again, saying that an emergency patient had to be transferred, and then I followed the ambulance to pick up the patient. It was dawn. The shift started at nine o’clock, and I started to write the medical records, and it was almost twelve o’clock when I finished, how could I have time to sleep? At home in the afternoon, I had insomnia again.” After speaking, Wu Ying yawned.

Zeng Li finally asked, “When did you go to the emergency room again?”

Wu Ying said: “Don’t you have to go around every subject? What’s wrong with your mouth?”

Ma Yi Yi said: “Her mother was afraid that she would not be able to marry, so she took her for plastic surgery.”

“It’s dental work, not plastic surgery…” Zeng Li explained.

“Why don’t you go to our hospital for orthodontic treatment? I know a doctor with good skills. If I had known earlier, I would have taken you there.”

“Your hospital?” Ma Yi Yi asked.

“At least it’s the top three.” Wu Ying was not convinced, no matter where she was, she had a strong sense of collective honor.

“She went to the A University, can you compare?”

“Which doctor?”

“Ai Jing Chu.”

Ma Yi Yi originally thought that with Wu Ying’s personality, she would continue to chatter and ask questions, but when she heard this name, Wu Ying glanced at Zeng Li and fell silent.

After a while, Ma Yi Yi secretly asked again: “You have nothing to do with that person?”

“Really, it’s more real than pearls.” Zeng Li answered Ma Yi Yi sincerely, with a full-fledged honesty.

Ma Yi Yi was lost.

Zeng Li glanced at her, and sighed inwardly, if there was anything, it might just be a curiosity lingering in memory.

That’s all.