Zeng Li, Wu Ying, and Ma Yi Yi were roommates at Z University. There were originally four people living in the dormitory but one of the classmates dropped out after only a few months of study. After that, no newcomers came for the empty bed.

The three of them were not in the same major. Zeng Li majored in books and archives, Ma Yi Yi majored in hotel management, and Wu Ying majored in clinical medicine. Z University is not a well-known university, but its location is next to A University, and it has barely developed into a comprehensive university with the reputation of a famous school.

Zeng Li’s major is the most obscure. She originally applied for the Department of Computer Science, but she was transferred because the department’s admission threshold was too high.

She has always been a person who is very afraid of loneliness. When she arrived at Z University, all her high school classmates and friends disappeared, so she quickly turned her attention to the two people in the same room.

But, who knew that Ma Yi Yi and Wu Ying are high school classmates, they had been friends for a long time, and they happened to go to the same university, and Wu Ying’s father asked someone to put them into a dormitory so that they can take care of each other and adapt to the new environment. The two of them naturally excluded Zeng Li from the circle from the very beginning.

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Zeng Li is tall, slender and handsome, and there are not many girls majoring in archiving. In addition, she is not good at using her appearance to deal with people. Even with acquaintances she can barely talk, and when it comes to unfamiliar people she can’t express a word. People misunderstand that she is pretending to be cold, arrogant and withdrawn, which often makes people respect her at a distance. She was not very good at studying since she was a child, and she was very lucky to be admitted to Z University, but the little excitement after entering the university campus was diluted by this lonely melancholy.

In addition to love, how to win friendship between the same sex may also be the most important thing for girls at that time.

The next day was Sunday, and Zeng Li also had to go to work this week. When everyone was on vacation, they were the busy days, so they usually took turns. As soon as she opened the door in the morning, she took the time to clean up the books left by her colleague when she got off work yesterday. By the time she finished her work and sat down, it was past nine o’clock, and several readers appeared. Everyone was quietly looking for books. Sometimes she stood in front of a bookshelf and stop to read carefully.

On the other side of the library is a huge glass window, under which there are several round tables. Because there is a special reading room downstairs, there are not many tables and chairs here, only for readers who cannot borrow them to sit and look through materials occasionally. However, Zeng Li’s academic department is at the highest point of the library. In winter, there is plenty of light, and the window just faces the corner of the municipal park next to it. Many people like to sit here and bask in the sun.

After a while, a reader asked Zeng Li to help him find a book. Zeng Li looked up the code and took the reader to the innermost place. She didn’t know who borrowed it up before and then randomly placed it or something, she searched for it for a long time but couldn’t find it. Zeng Li was afraid that there would be people waiting at the door to borrow and return books, so she had to give up.

Returning to his seat, Zeng Li saw a book on the table. Some reader who had just came in was about to return it. He probably didn’t see Zeng Li when he entered the door, so he casually put it next to the scanner. The title of the book is “Craniomaxillofacial Bone Distraction Osteogenesis”, a thick and heavy translation book, like a brick, and it is expensive. Since it was first placed on the bookshelf until now, the number of times it has been borrowed out can be counted on five fingers. However, Zeng Li still remembers it vividly, because she once sprayed rice, celery powder and dough on the skull in the cover picture…

Zeng Li took a few steps, looked around, and saw Ai Jing Chu.

He picked up a book and sat patiently on the chair by the window to read. The sunshine today was exceptionally good, coming in through the glass, and the beams of light warmly shone on the floor, table top, and his side face of the borrowing room. Those lights made his eyes narrow a little bit, his brows slightly frowned, and his facial features became more three-dimensional in the half-light.

One of the long legs under the table is open, the other is slightly retracted, but the upper body is slightly leaning forward towards the table, holding the page of the book with the left hand, and the five fingers of the right hand are slightly curled, clasped on the table, looking extraordinarily slender under the stretch of the sun. Suddenly, the fingers of his right hand moved, starting from the little finger, then the ring finger, middle finger, index finger, from right to left, the four fingers tapped rhythmically on the table. His nails are short, and he uses the part between the fingertips and the fingertips, so there is no clicking of the nails, light and fast, making a very small sound, knocking once or twice, he will stop for a few seconds, and then come back again. It’s a casual knock next time.

Ai Jing Chu sat peacefully in the morning sun, half bathed in the warm sun, half in the light and shadow.

Zeng Li suddenly remembered what Zhou Wen said when discussing her medical records with her a few days ago, in terms of the aesthetics of human beings, especially Orientals, when viewed from the side, the tip of the nose, the tip of the mouth and the tip of the chin can be connected into a straight line. A straight line is the most perfect outline ratio. Some people’s teeth are not protruding at all, but because the chin is retracted a little, it will give people a sense of discomfort and abruptness; In general, such a shape will not make others feel that the teeth are ugly.

She raised her head and looked at Ai Jing Chu’s side face again, it was definitely the three-point-one-line beauty model Zhou Wen said.

At this time, a reader wanted to borrow a book, so Zeng Li returned to his seat and moved Ai Jing Chu’s book to the side, and continued to work. There were many people coming and going, borrowing and repaying, and everyone was silent.

After some time, Zeng Li took a break and looked in Ai Jing Chu’s direction. There is a row of tall iron bookshelves between them, and Zeng Li can see half of Ai Jing Chu’s figure through the row of uneven books and periodicals.

It seemed that there were only the two of them left in the huge lending room. There were no footsteps or human voices, and only the music from the playground in the park downstairs could be faintly heard. As time passed, the sunlight slowly shifted the angle of illumination on him.

If Ma Yi Yi’s mother sees this, it might be her common phrase: “How can a mother raise her son so well? It’s a blessing of eight lifetimes!” Young, promising, and talented , famous brand returnees, as well as high education and good career, each of which is a halo.

Zeng Li smiled, a little self-deprecating, reopened the computer’s browser, and entered the local forum “Dadiwang” she frequented—she was one of the moderators of a section called “Urban Observation”. She can surf the Internet at work, and most of the time is free, so she applied for a moderator position at this place she often goes to. She usually deletes advertisements, organises the posting order of the forum, and meets some friends.

Some time ago, the post about Teacher Ai was overwhelmed by other topics. She didn’t show up for two days, and it didn’t matter much, so she randomly opened some new top posts, one of which was to organise the whole forum’s AA system eating group year Hot pot news.

At this time, Ai Jing Chu stood up, and walked towards Zeng Li with the book in his hand to check out the book.

He was standing and she was sitting, with a table between them.

Facing the computer, she hesitated, wondering whether she should greet him or not. She has always had a little communication barrier with unfamiliar people, always hovering between talking and not talking. She was afraid that if he didn’t recognise her, it would be impolite for her to speak rashly; she was also afraid that he had recognised her, but she would deliberately pretend not to know her, which would be even more impolite. What’s more, the doctor-patient relationship will continue for a long time in the future, and it may be even more difficult to get along with.

So, Zeng Li raised his head, and the corners of his mouth raised reluctantly, “Doctor Ai, what a coincidence.”

Ai Jing Chu lowered his head, his eyes flicked across her face, a little puzzled.

Zeng Li sighed secretly in his heart, he really didn’t know her very well. She wears a dark blue dark-striped suit as a uniform at work, and her hair must be tied into a bun at the back of her head, which is as ugly as it gets. She is ten years older and looks completely different from usual. Besides, every time he sees her, she opens her mouth wide open, her face is distorted and deformed for a long time, and he usually sees patient Bailai every day, so he probably can’t tell who is who.

She knew earlier that one thing more is worse than one thing less.

But now that riding a tiger is difficult, it is even more strange not to explain it, so Zeng Li stood up and introduced himself and said, “I am your patient.” As she spoke, she opened his mouth to show the proof of the braces for Ai Jing Chu to see.

The first time Ai Jingchu saw her aligners, he said two words: “Zeng Li.”

When he pronounced her name, the ending sound would be a little longer, and it would go down and turn around before rising up, which had a strange texture. His voice was still hoarse, but it was much better than yesterday. Fortunately, he recovered well, otherwise he would really disappoint many young people of the opposite sex.

He really has an unforgettable voice.

Zeng Li smiled shallowly as a response, and suddenly felt that the person in front of her was quite interesting. He couldn’t remember the patient’s appearance, but he could clearly remember the dental condition and medical records of each patient.

Perfect professionalism.

At this point in the conversation, there was some silence.

Zeng Li hastily picked up the book and the card and handed them back to Ai Jing Chu, “You are busy with your work, I will continue to work.” This sentence is regarded as the ending farewell.

Ai Jing Chu took it and left silently.

After two or three days, Zeng Li felt that she seemed to have gotten used to the existence of braces, and it was not as scary as some people said. It was certain that the inside of his mouth was a little worn out, but her gums were not red and swollen.

During the Chinese New Year, it was the winter vacation. Apart from the on-duty personnel and the inpatient department, most of the other departments of the dental hospital would also be on vacation, so Ai Jing Chu told Zeng Li last time that if there were no special circumstances with the orthodontic appliance, the next visit time would be in the next year, the day before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

In the first few days, Zeng Li followed the doctor’s orders obediently, and drank a lot of porridge carefully. Later, seeing Ma Yi Yi eating lou mei alone, she was really hungry, so she tried to eat two chicken wings. After eating, she found that In fact, there was no problem, so she boldly started breaking the rules one by one.

Dou Dou said: “Miss Xiaoyu, don’t be careless. There are people in our dormitory who have their teeth fixed. I heard that if you knock off an aligner once, it will delay the treatment time for several months.”

Zeng Li said with a guilty conscience: “Don’t scare me, is it real or not?” She is quite old, and the most unbearable delay is the treatment time. The last time she heard Zhou Wen said that the treatment time for adults is longer than that for children, ranging from one to two years to three to five years. At that time, she wanted to hit the wall and die. If two teeth hadn’t been pulled out, she would have left immediately. Three to five years? Doesn’t it mean that if she gets married in two years, she will have to wear braces when she wears a wedding dress and gives birth? Zhou Wen also comforted her solemnly: “You don’t have to worry too much about it. It must be removed during pregnancy, because the teeth are loose during pregnancy, and it is not suitable for treatment and it is easy to get periodontitis.” Zeng Li couldn’t be relieved.

Ma Yi Yi smiled and said, “Ai Jing Chu glued it on with his own hands, how could it fall off? Diamonds are probably not as hard as your braces.”

After Dou Dou’s persuasion, Zeng Li didn’t dare to have any more fun, but on Saturday, it happened to be the day when the website had a reunion dinner to celebrate the anniversary, so Zeng Li had to go.

The activities of the day were very lively, an outdoor stage was set up, and a radio host was invited to host a program. The intermission of the cultural program was interspersed with the inventory and summary of the major events of the website in the past year.

First, the women’s section, the literature section, the real estate section, and the self-driving and cycling section came on stage, and finally the social hot spot section where Zeng Li was located was the finale.

Their department and the education department jointly planned two activities in the middle and the end of the year. One was to build an extracurricular library for children in mountainous areas during the summer vacation, and the other was to start raising winter clothes in autumn. When they went to the mountains in summer, they saw children’s current situation, and everyone was interested.

The matter of donating the library was suggested by Zeng Li. At that time, the station manager wanted to launch a meaningful public welfare event in the station and asked everyone to contribute ideas. Zeng Li remembered that she followed the curator to the township and cultural bureaus below, and inspected the construction of rural cultural undertakings with the local leaders. To be honest, all localities only made superficial efforts. At the time of the inspection, some local farmers and residents were invited to sit and read books in the library. The magazines and books in it were lacklustre. What about the village.

It just so happened that the city library was going to hold a similar event, which required media and social support, so Zeng Li contacted the library for the event.

“Jia Xiaoyu.” A man called Zeng Li’s screen name behind his back.

Zeng Li looked back and saw that it was the moderator “Blade” who managed the “City Watch” section with her. “Blade’s” real name was Ning Feng, he was neither fat nor thin, he had a capable crew cut, and took an unusually tough vest name.

“Lao Ning, what’s the matter?” Zeng Li asked.

“The reporter from Education Channel wants to interview you.” Ning Feng said.

“Interview me?” Zeng Li was surprised, and suddenly became nervous.

A young female reporter came out from behind Ning Feng, smiled and said to Zeng Li, “Just chat for a while.”

“I…I… You can interview them, I have nothing to say.” Zeng Li wanted to hide as she said that.

“We’re going to make a special topic. Everyone has been interviewed. You can also say a few words. Do me a favor!”

“I can’t speak.”

“It’s okay, we have to edit it in the end, if it’s not good, we won’t broadcast it.”

Hearing this, Zeng Li felt relieved.

When the female reporter saw Zeng Li let go, she turned around and took the microphone to communicate with the cameraman, and it was time to start.

Zeng Li took the opportunity to brush her hair with her hands, and regretted it as soon as she opened her mouth, she was still wearing braces…

After the event, everyone went to a dinner party, and more people participated. The entire first floor of the hot pot restaurant was covered, and the merchant also hung a banner at the door saying “Warmly welcome netizens from Dadi.com, all dishes are 20% off”, which made Zeng Li see how awkward it was. Everyone was warm and peaceful during the meal, introducing each other’s screen names and real names from time to time—it was also Zeng Li’s first time participating in a gathering with other ordinary netizens besides the moderator.

After the dinner, Ning Feng wanted to send her home.

Zeng Li waved his hand, “I’ll take the subway by myself, it’s very close.”

She walked for seven or eight minutes alone to the opposite side of the subway station. When crossing the road, I happened to see the city’s news on the electronic screen on the other side of the street, and the person speaking into the microphone was her Zeng Li herself.

A magazine that Zeng Li read before said that it is easy to torture a beautiful woman to collapse, just lock her in the room and not give her a mirror. When studying, the most beautiful female students in the class always like to keep the mirror by hand or on the table, and take out photos at any time, but Zeng Li herself doesn’t like to look in the mirror, and always feels that what she sees is not what she wants she wants to see.

When she stood on the street and suddenly saw herself magnified on the screen for the first time, she felt extremely awkward, wishing to dig a hole in the ground, or pull a piece of cloth to cover the electronic screen. The screen was like a huge mirror, exposing all her flaws, even the slightest anxiety in her eyes.

She looked at the screen and walked stiffly. Suddenly, the phone rang, and she buried her head in looking through the phone in her bag. She didn’t pay attention to her feet and bumped into someone. The two bumped into each other, and the phone hit the ground and broke into two pieces.

Zeng Li hurriedly looked up and saw that it was a middle-aged woman wearing a blue community traffic suit and collecting temporary parking fees on the side of the road. The other party was also running towards the other red car that was newly parked on the side of the road wholeheartedly just now, anxious to collect the toll, so he didn’t notice Zeng Li.

It wasn’t a big deal at first, Zeng Li was going to apologize first, but before Zeng Li could say anything, the middle-aged woman opened her mouth to curse. As she walked to continue charging, she turned around and scolded Zeng Li, with as much swearing as she wanted.

Zeng Li was stunned, picked up the phone, blushed, stood for a while, turned and left.

She didn’t come to her senses until she had already walked to the subway station and waited for the train. She has a clumsy mouth and has never quarrelled with others since she was a child. When she is scolded to the point of pain, she can only squeeze out a few words. Often the other party has finished scolding, and it took a long time before she remembered how to reply.

In Ma Yi Yi’s words: “The day lily is cold, why are you still thinking about the last round?”

At this moment, Ai Jing Chu was sitting with Grandpa Ai in front of the TV in the living room after dinner. The old man takes a walk in the morning, reads the newspaper in the afternoon, and watches the news in the evening, from CCTV to local stations, from the prime minister’s foreign visit to the city’s hot spots.

During the winter vacation, when the patients moved away, Ai Jing Chu was free.

Today’s hot spots are being broadcast on the market station, and a girl is being interviewed on the screen. The girl had a pointed chin and long dark chestnut hair. Ai Jing Chu glanced casually, without paying attention, until the girl opened her mouth to speak, and he saw her braces before he remembered who it was.

Zeng Li, 25 years old, with maxillary protrusion and deep compound. In fact, her teeth did not cause any major problems to her appearance, and the facial features were well matched. In his opinion, there was almost no need for treatment. It’s just that Professor Li admitted her before, and the medical records stated that the patient and her family members strongly demanded orthodontic treatment, and since she paid the fee and transferred it to him, he couldn’t save the old man’s face, so he had no choice but to accept it. Of course, the positions of her upper and lower teeth and canine teeth are a little messed up. If they can get in a little distance and arrange them neatly, the patient may feel more confident psychologically.
He has always believed that the treatment given to patients by the orthodontics department should be both psychological and physical.

Just thinking about this, the phone vibrated a few times, he took it out to check, it was a text message from an unfamiliar number: Is it Ai Jing Chu?

Ai Jing Chu stood up, left the living room, went to the balcony outside the dining room and dialed the phone back.

“Are you Ai Jing Chu?” the man on the other end of the phone asked.

“I am.” He replied.

“I’m Yu Yi, buddy, your number hasn’t changed, are you free? Come out for a get-together?”

After making an appointment to meet, Ai Jing Chu told the old man and drove out.

Yu Yi was his classmate when he was studying abroad in Philadelphia. He said he was a classmate, but in fact he was just an alumni. One holiday, Yu Yi’s old lady landlady passed away, and his children and grandchildren were about to sell the real estate, which suddenly left him without a house to live in. He happened to know that Ai Jing Chu, a fellow from the medical school, had a spare vacant house, so he asked Ai Jing Chu to help him. Later, the two gradually became friends. A few years later, Yu Yi went to Singapore, and Ai Jing Chu returned to A University to teach.

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In the bar, Yu Yi saw Ai Jingchu’s first words: “You haven’t changed a bit.”

Yu Yi is slightly older than Ai Jing Chu, but when he first came to the University of Pennsylvania from China, Ai Jing Chu was about to graduate.

At that time, Ai Jing Chu was a well-known young student in the circle. His age and grades were all amazing. According to his conditions, he could go to a higher medical school, but he just stayed in Pennsylvania. He usually doesn’t like to socialise with people, and he always puts on an appearance of not getting close to strangers, so he rarely gets gossip, but Yu Yi has a sweet mouth and an easy-going personality, so he is naturally more liked by girls than him.

Ai Jing Chu glanced at him and sat down.

“Still teaching?” Yu Yi asked.

“En.”

“Didn’t ask for a wife?”

“No.” After answering, Ai Jing Chu asked unprecedentedly, “What about you?”

“Me?” Yu Yi smiled, “It’s business as usual.”

Yu Yi said again: “Just you are enough. I made several phone calls, and each of them was either disconnected, or they couldn’t come because of something.”

“How long will you stay when you come back?” Ai Jing Chu asked.

“I’ll leave tonight, I returned to China to hold a seminar, and I’ll be on the plane at eleven o’clock.”

Ai Jing Chu nodded, then asked, “What to drink?”

“Are we still not drunk?”

“I want to drive, aren’t you flying?” Ai Jingchu said.

“Just kidding you.” Yu Yi smiled, “I quit drinking, I can’t drink as much as when I was studying, I have to control it, if my hands shake after a few years, how can I do surgery?”

Yu Yi went on to suggest, “Let’s have some beer.”

When Ai Jing Chu heard the words, he turned around and called the waiter to bring the wine.

Yu Yi sighed: “You were better than me in everything before, you shouldn’t have returned to China, how good it is to develop outside.”

“You have sisters who can take care of you at home, unlike me.” Ai Jing Chu replied.

The two clinked glasses without saying a word, and after a while they drank half a dozen beers. When it was almost time, Yu Yi took a taxi to the airport. Ai Jing Chu sent him to the car and stood alone on the side of the street. He can drink a lot, but he doesn’t like to drink. Perhaps, as Yu Yi said, he is required to do delicate work, so he can’t drink too much. At this moment, he dare not drive.

He looked at his watch, guessing that the old man must have already fallen asleep, so he simply walked a few times alone to let off the smell of alcohol.

It was sunny during the day and the sun was shining brightly. At night, the wind was not strong but it was colder. He came out of Bar Street, walked around the square by the river, and went back again.

At this moment, when the bar street was busy, two young girls came out of it, and a child about six or seven years old stood up from the steps in the dark and followed, “Sister, I’m hungry, give me some Money.” Repeated several times in a row while walking, and even grabbed their clothes corners.

The two girls had no choice but to look at the dirty child next to them, and took out some change from their wallets and gave it to him. The child stopped happily, and waved the banknotes in his hand towards the opposite side of the street. In an instant, a group of dirty children jumped out of the darkness, like a swarm of hornets that had received a signal, rushed out from the side of the road, They chased after the two girls together, saying the same words in their mouths: “I’m hungry, give me some money.”

Frightened by the battle, the two girls hurriedly turned around and ran into the bar they had just come out to ask for help.

The security guard of the bar got the news and came out to yell for a while, and the children dispersed again in pieces.

Standing behind them, Ai Jing Chu could see these clearly. One of the smallest children, timidly, ran the slowest. With the flickering light, Ai Jing Chu suddenly saw the child’s face, his heart skipped a beat, and when the other party was about to escape from his side, he grabbed the child.

He knelt down, clasped the child’s hand and said, “Let uncle see your face.”

How could the child be so obedient, he kept twisting and turning, but he refused to obey, so Ai Jing Chu freed his other hand to clamp the child’s chin.

As he guessed, the child’s face was missing a piece in the middle of the nose and the centre of the lips, which is a very serious type of cleft lip and palate. The child seemed to be very concerned about the defect, and turned his head away vigorously. Ai Jing Chu was afraid of hurting him, so he didn’t dare to use too much force, so he could only say: “If you are obedient, I will let you go.”

The child nods.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he let go, the child was like a loach, and jumped a few metres away in a flash. After catching up with his companion, he turned his head and glanced at Ai Jing Chu. Ai Jing Chu originally wanted to chase for a few steps, but when he saw the children, he wanted to continue running across the road, fearing that a car would hit them, so he had to give up.

After going back and forth like this, the alcohol in his body basically disappeared, and he hailed a taxi to go home.

Zeng Li returned to Carol’s, took out the phone that had been broken in half, and put it back together. After turning on the phone, the network signal was lost, so she opened the back cover and fiddled with the card slot, and it returned to normal. However, the phone lost the previous call information, and she didn’t know who called her just now.

Ma Yi Yi said: “Wu Ying won’t come at night, saying that they have dinner in the department.”

“It’s like this in the Chinese New Year. There are dinner parties everywhere. Our unit will go on an outing next week. The curator said that we can bring our family members. Will you go?”

“Where do you go for a picnic?”

“Dongshan, to soak in the hot spring.”

“If you don’t go, you won’t go!” Ma Yi Yi laughed.

Afterwards, Ma Yiyi began to abandon the customers in the store, opened the shopping website, and thought about what swimsuit to wear, “Hey, who are the people from your company?”

Zeng Li said: “You might as well just ask if there are any handsome guys.”

“The one who knows me is Xiaoyu.” Ma Yi Yi laughed.

“Don’t dream, it’s not like you haven’t seen them before, either they’re horrible, or it’s taken, otherwise, does my mother still need to take me for plastic surgery?”

“You finally admitted that you are undergoing plastic surgery.” Ma Yi Yi said.

“…”

After a while, Ma Yiyi asked again: “Do you think I look better in one-pieces, or in two pieces?”

“It looks best without clothes on.” Zeng Li replied solemnly.

“Zeng Li, you have been corrupted by the women in your unit.”

“I’ve always been pure.”

Ma Yi Yi glanced at her, “It’s not that I haven’t eaten with your unit before.”

Zeng Li also called Ma Yi Yi during the usual small gatherings at work and singing. Now that she has quit her job, she manages Carol’s by herself. Apart from her former classmates, she basically has no interpersonal relationship and knows few people of the opposite sex. Therefore, as long as there are group activities in the unit, regardless of AA or public expenses, as long as the situation permits, Zeng Li and Wu Ying will do it. Call Ma Yi Yi.

After a while, when the cafe was about to close, Ma Yi Yi’s mother came to the door and made a special trip to bring her ready-made soup. Mother Ma greeted Zeng Li to eat and drink together. Mother Ma is the kind of middle-aged woman who can talk, and basically has no generation gap with Ma Yi Yi. While eating, she talks about idol dramas on TV. Zeng Li smiled and watched the mother and daughter chatting enthusiastically, almost unable to get a word in.

The next day, when Zeng Li opened the forum at work, almost the whole page was filled with posts from yesterday’s event, and there were many photos of the event. After a while, she found a private message from Ning Feng on the website: Zeng Li, the website is going to set up a cycling club, sign up for you?

She wanted to ask when it was and if there would be a delay, but after a closer look, he was already offline, so she gave up.

The past few days coincided with the beginning of the children’s winter vacation, and it happened to be the time when the library was busy. In addition, the Spring Festival holiday was at the beginning of February. There were a lot of things like year-end reports and summaries in their units. It would be very difficult to ask for leave.

At night, Wu Ying suddenly ran to the house, saying that she didn’t bring her keys, and she had to go to the hospital to be on duty in a while, and there was nowhere to go in the cold weather, so she could only sit here for a while. She wanted to take a bath, and drink hot tea for a while, and she was not polite to Zeng Li at all. After taking a bath, Zeng Li found a nightgown for her to change into.

The two of them sat cross-legged on the sofa and watched TV. The news investigation was reporting on the abuse of antibiotics and the love of transfusions when they were sick. After various analysis, there were reasons for the patients and doctors.

Wu Ying said indignantly: “I knew that our doctor is not good. You don’t even know that I met two patients yesterday. If you don’t prescribe an infusion for them, they get impatient!”

“Is there such a person?” Zeng Li asked.

“It’s too much! It’s not a big deal at all, I just say you get an injection, and get another injection tomorrow, and guess what happened?”

“What?”

“He said that I ignored his pain, didn’t understand him, and didn’t pay attention to him. He was so sick that I didn’t give him an infusion. I just asked the nurse to give him an injection. The injection was a method in the past.”

“Male or female?”

“Male, in his forties. I explained to him for a long time, but he just refused. I got a little impatient, and he even said he would sue me.” Zeng Li knew that if Wu Ying and the others were complained by patients, they would have to sue at the end of the month. Withhold bonus.

Wu Ying continued: “In the end, I asked the nurse to hang him with 500ml of normal saline, inject the injection I just prescribed and infuse him with fluid, so that he can feel at ease. Don’t you think it’s just looking for trouble?”

Zeng Li was happy.

“The point is, after a while, another one came up exactly the same, so I was almost complained twice a day.”

Zeng Li took a sip of water and said, “However, don’t tell me, there are some unscrupulous doctors among your doctors. The sister Wu in our unit, her daughter is just two months old, and she only coughs occasionally. The doctor in your hospital prescribed antibiotics for her. It takes a week to eat, and he said that although there is no pneumonia, it is good to take some precautions.”

Wu Ying opened her mouth, and finally said: “Most of the hospital’s money is paid by itself now. If you don’t prescribe medicine or check up, you will have nothing to eat. Besides, people are divided into good and bad, and doctors are like that.” Wu Ying is a person with strong collective honour. Sensitive people usually don’t like anyone to say that their hospital is not good or that the doctor is not good, so Ma Yi Yi and Zeng Li always give some counterexamples to sharpen her nerves.

After talking about this topic, the two of them turned to watch TV again.

When the advertisement was broadcast, Zeng Li looked at Wu Ying. She didn’t speak after that, staring at the screen intently. Zeng Li felt that she must have something on her mind, including that she came to her house without warning and said that she didn’t bring the key, it was just an excuse.

When they first entered freshman year, Wu Ying and Ma Yi Yi had been friends for many years, and Zeng Li couldn’t get in between them at all. Sometimes when she would go to the cafeteria to eat, if there were two empty seats, it must be Ma Yi Yi and Wu Ying sitting together, and Zeng Li can only sit at another table consciously.

She thought countless times how to please Ma Yi Yi or Wu Ying so that they could accept her. Therefore, if the two of them are going to bathe in the bathhouse or go shopping in the city, even if Zeng Li doesn’t want to go at all, then she would go and pretend to be happy.

She was afraid that they would alienate her even more and not want her anymore.

At that time, Zeng Li wanted friends so desperately, but she didn’t ask, and they didn’t pay attention to her loneliness.

Until one afternoon, Ma Yi Yi went to aesthetics class, while Zeng Li and Wu Ying were alone in the dormitory, Wu Ying asked her abruptly: “Zeng Li, what do you think love is?”

Zeng Li raised his head from the diary, thought for a while and said, “It’s air.”

“Air?”

“Can’t leave, can’t let go. Eating, sleeping, walking, shopping, and even going to class, I will think of what the person in love is doing now.” Nineteen-year-old Zeng Li answered this way.

Wu Ying smiled, “You are different from Yi Yi in this, she always says I’m stupid.” Wu Ying was flirting with a netizen online at the time.

Both Ma Yi Hi and Zeng Li are sure that she is in an online relationship, and that she is in a different place.

Later, halfway through the summer vacation, Wu Ying suddenly called Zeng Li, “Is it convenient for me to leave something at your house?”

“What?”

“Luggage.” Wu Ying replied.

“What are you doing?” Zeng Li smelled something unusual.

“I’m going to find him, I’m going to elope.” Wu Ying said excitedly on the phone, “I’m afraid that my mother will catch me on the train next Monday, so I’ll move out my luggage today while they’re away. “

“You…” Zeng Li’s heart was pounding, “Have you thought it through?”

“I thought I would go there decades later, so I had no impulse.”

“What should you do about studying? You will be expelled from school.”

“It’s okay to be expelled. There are many people who are successful even without going to university. I don’t want to learn what kind of clinical practice.” Then Wu Ying complained a lot, and after that, Zeng Li stopped. persuade her.

Although she never thought of running away with anyone, she also thought about running away from home and returning home after ten years. It’s a pity that her longest exodus from childhood to adulthood lasted only one day, but her mother didn’t notice it at all when she returned home at night, and even scolded her a few times, saying that she didn’t study hard at home during the day and went out to play with her classmates.

Thinking about it this way, Zeng Li suddenly admired Wu Ying’s courage.

“What did Ma Yi Yi say?” Zeng Li asked.

“I didn’t dare to tell her.” Wu Ying replied.

“Why?”

“Her family is too familiar with my family, so if there is any sign of trouble, it will be ventilated. Besides, if I disappear, my mother will definitely go to her first. It’s okay if she doesn’t know. If she finds out and leaks it, all previous efforts will be wasted. Besides, I’m going to E City, and Yi Yi’s hometown is E City, if I really haven’t found Yi Yi, my mother will definitely rule out that place, this is called empty city plan!” Wu Ying is like shooting a spy movie, giving Zeng Li analysed well.

After sharing this thrilling secret, the relationship between Zeng Li and Wu Ying suddenly became closer.

Wu Ying’s plan was originally very careful, probably because her mother was a little aware of her daughter’s abnormality, so she had to be more cautious. Taking advantage of morning, noon, and evening walks with the dog, she moved her luggage and clothes out again and again, and put the removed things in the coin-operated locker on the first floor of the big supermarket on the other street, and then let Zeng Li Pick it up at night.

On Monday morning, Wu Ying told Ms. Wu that she was going out to buy sanitary napkins, and then swaggered away from home with both empty hands.

Wu Ying’s battle plan was rather tortuous. She first went to E City to experience the life of a solo flight, and then stayed for a month, and then went to City T to meet her boyfriend after the weather calmed down. It just so happened that Zeng Li had a good junior high school classmate in E City, who didn’t continue to study after graduation and worked hard there for a few years, so Zeng Li stopped by to call and hand Wu Ying over to her.

However, as everyone knows, that month would not be smooth sailing.

On the day Wu Ying disappeared, Wu’s mother didn’t see the letter she left on the bed until night, and then went crazy looking for her. As expected, Ma Yi Yi was the first to be interrogated and suffered. However, under the bombarding interrogation by the parents of both parties, Ma Yi Yi only showed a face of frankness and bewilderment.

After several rounds of investigation, Wu Ying’s parents found Zeng Li here. To be honest, if Zeng Li said that she was not afraid at all, it would be a lie. This is a trick to make people alive. If something happens to Wu Ying, she will be the number one accomplice. However, now that she is riding a tiger, she can only ask three questions.

Mama Wu turned to say “I have persuaded her father, the daughter is grown up, and has self-esteem. How can we just hit her? We should communicate well. Now I don’t know where she is, but I say that I want to live my own life. If she really went to that young man, we can rest assured that her whereabouts are unknown now. How can I feel sorry for her dead grandparents?” As she spoke, Wu’s mother burst into tears, “You classmates, if you really have any news about her, please tell us, let her come back, or we can go and see her, in short, as long as It’s enough to have her letter, we don’t beat or scold, she can do whatever she wants.”

Zeng Li was a little moved when she heard this, and almost blurted out the news about Wu Ying several times, but then remembered the oath she made in front of Wu Ying, and endured it again. Zeng Li didn’t know what happened later. At that time, they were too self-willed and naive. They didn’t understand society, and they didn’t know what setbacks were. They couldn’t understand the painstaking efforts of their parents.

After school started, Wu Ying still didn’t come back. A few days later, Wu’s mother came to the school with the hospital certificate and asked for a long vacation for Wu Ying in a low-key manner. Zeng Li then told Ma Yi Yi about the matter as promised. Ma Yi Yi jumped up on the spot and almost strangled Zeng Li.

When Wu Ying came back, it was already over half of the semester.

Wu’s father went through some back doors, let Wu Ying continue to study in the medical department, deleted and changed some old family rules at home, and promised not to beat her again. The young man from T city was also taken in by Wu’s father and arranged a job. Although the two parents are far apart, they often walk around, and everything is developing in the direction that Wu Ying likes to hear and see.

But in the summer of the second year, Wu Ying broke up with the young man.

Zeng Li said: “In the past, they were so opposed, it was so difficult for you, and you still wanted to be together so far away. Now you don’t object, why are you like this?”

Wu Ying smiled wryly and didn’t answer.

No one can answer.