Zeng Li hurriedly took out the phone, she remembered that she should have saved Ai Jing Chu's number. Unexpectedly, she searched the address book back and forth but couldn't find it, it seemed that it really didn't save it, and the only clue was the text message he sent her half a month ago.

Fortunately, she doesn't like to send text messages very much, and she doesn't often clean up the things in her mobile phone. She opened the text message inbox of her mobile phone, scrolled down one by one, and finally found Ai Jing Chu's doctor's order among a pile of spam advertisements, unit work notices, and bank account receipts and payments, and then quickly dialed it. The phone connected after two or three rings.

"Are you leaving?" Zeng Li asked anxiously.

The voice on the other side of the phone hesitated, and asked uncertainly: "Zeng Li?" She didn't save his number, and neither did he.

"It's me, are you walking back alone?"

"En."

"Are you all right?"

"It's okay, you can drive after a short walk." He said.

"What if the car is frozen?"

"It's not too far to go on."

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Hearing his answer, Zeng Li became silent, and didn't know what to say anymore, so he could only repeat that sentence again, "Thank you for sending me back."

After hanging up the phone, Zeng Li walked back to the west building. As soon as she opened the glass door, the sound of music, noisy conversations and even the sound of mahjong mixed with the smoky heating came rushing in, and several children brought by colleagues playing back and forth, pressing the elevator door to open and close.

She didn't enter the chess and card entertainment room, so she sat on the sofa outside. The waiter came over immediately, added a cup to the tea table in her hand, and poured water.

Colleagues passing by greeted her casually.

It seemed that the night road just now was just a dream, so cold and so dark.

She felt hot after sitting for less than two minutes, and someone next to her said, "Isn't Zeng Li here? Wu Wan Xia has disappeared again."

Another older colleague replied: "Xiao Wu said she had a cold and a headache, so she went back to bed."

"Did you catch a cold playing outside when it snowed just now? Young people can't help but pay attention to this weather."

Zeng Li looked up and looked outside, separated by a layer of glass, there seemed to be two completely different worlds inside and outside.

She rose slowly, made a decision, and went upstairs.

Ai Jing Chu received a call from Zeng Li when he had just walked out of the Dongshan Hotel. Zeng Li's last sentence of sincere thanks made him pause, and replied: "It's a little effort."

He left without waiting for her to come back, indeed because he was always a little at a loss when faced with enthusiastic gratitude.

It really is a piece of cake.

When she said at the foot of the mountain that she was going back to Dongshan Hotel, he estimated that the car might not be able to drive to the destination, but in such a place, he was the only person she knew, and he couldn't leave a little girl like this alone. Unexpectedly, he answered a lengthy phone call halfway, and was delayed for another half an hour. The situation was even worse, and they had to go down and walk in the end.

It was probably because he had lost his worries when he moved alone, walked a little fast, and had a fever, so Ai Jing Chu was a little dizzy. He slowed down and walked for a while, and saw a long stone bench by the side of the road, so he pushed aside the snow and sat for a while.

He turned off the power of the flashlight, put it on the stool, and took out the two boxes of medicines he bought just now from his coat pocket. After thinking about it for a while, he put them back intact. Situation, the feeling of swallowing a pill so dry.

Afterwards, Ai Jing Chu took out a cigarette and lit one.

Yu Yi taught him about smoking when he was in the United States, saying that nicotine can refresh his mind, refresh his mind, relieve pain, and cure all diseases.

He took a sharp puff, and the smoke made his throat very uncomfortable. If it wasn't for refreshing the mind from the cold, smoking when you have a cold is really not a good idea.

Night, very heavy.

It was a strange experience to be alone in the middle of the night, sitting and resting in the snow.

At this time, Xixi's voice came from not far away. He turned on the flashlight curiously and saw a squirrel running up the road. As soon as the light hit it, the little thing jumped back into the grass in.

When the flashlight was retracted, it caught sight of a large branch lying in the middle of the road, where Zeng Li had broken the aligner just now. Before he saw her nibbling on the snow, he wanted to remind her that the wire might break due to the sudden cold, but he observed her reaction, and it seemed that she was fine, but it really broke after only a few steps.

Ai Jing Chu remembered Zeng Li's expression after the appliance broke, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but slightly raised. He shook his head, put out most of the cigarette in his hand, and did not continue to smoke. He rested quietly in the darkness again, and when he was about to get up and start on the road again, he heard something else.

The sound came from the direction he had just come from. It was different from the sound made by the squirrel just now, but a rhythmic creaking sound, which seemed to be the sound of human footsteps. Then, he saw a swaying beam of light gradually approaching, probably also a person who was driving at night just like him.

The other party walked in a hurry, almost trotting all the way, so he caught up after a while, the footsteps were getting closer, and the light of the flashlight became clearer and clearer. After turning the last corner, Ai Jing Chu finally See the face of the visitor.

With the help of the other party's light, when he saw that face, Ai Jing Chu was stunned, and then couldn't help blurting out two words:

"Zeng Li!"

He was sitting there alone, without any movement, and without turning on the flashlight, he suddenly made a sound in the dark, which almost frightened Zeng Li who was focusing on trotting on the road. She screamed, instinctively threw away the flashlight in her hand, turned around and wanted to run away.

Seeing this, Ai Jing Chu hurried up to grab her.

Unexpectedly, the more he tried to stop her, the more she earned.

"It's me." Ai Jing Chu said.

"Go away! Go away! Don't grab me!" She was begging as she struggled.

"It's me, Zeng Li, I'm Ai Jing Chu!" He held her wrist tightly, not daring to let go at all, for fear that she would fall off the cliff side of the road in a panic.

This sentence was finally heard by Zeng Li, she calmed down a bit, turned around, and asked in a trembling voice: "Ai Jing Chu?"

"It's Ai Jing Chu." He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alive?" she asked again.

This is a sentence that makes Ai Jing Chu dumbfounded.

His flashlight was left on the stone bench, and her flashlight was thrown on the ground just now, and rolled several meters away. The two of them were panting in the darkness with faint light. He couldn't tell her whether she was alive or not, so he helplessly grabbed her hands and put them on his face, "I promise, I'm alive."

Zeng Li hastily touched him with her hands, her cheeks were really hot, she had a chin, and she was still breathing. She even leaned forward and sniffed him to distinguish his breath.

Gradually, she calmed down, tremblingly took out the mobile phone in her pocket, and used the light of the screen to make a final confirmation. After seeing Ai Jing Chu's face clearly, her tense heartstrings finally let go, and then she cried come out.

"Ai Jing Chu, why are you scaring me? Do you know that I was almost scared to death by you." She cried.

"I was wrong." He apologized.

He really didn't think that much, he shouldn't have called her directly.

After confirming that she was calm as usual, he dared to let her go, and then went back to get his flashlight and the things she threw on the ground.

She wiped away her tears and didn't want to cry anymore, but she still had lingering fears and couldn't hold back her tears.

He returned her flashlight and asked, "What are you doing here?"

It was unbelievable, he never dreamed that the person he met on the road was actually Zeng Li.

"Looking for you."

"Looking for me?" Ai Jing Chu asked back.

"You sent me back with a high fever. I just let you go. It's so embarrassing. I brought you a cotton coat and a hat, as well as cold medicine, antipyretic medicine, antipyretic patch and plain water." , Zeng Li wiped his tears with the back of his hands and sleeves, unloaded the backpack behind him, and handed it to Ai Jingchu.

She came prepared. Just now she made up her mind and went back to her room to get the cold medicine that was always in her luggage. She also asked Dr. Wang in the infirmary of the unit for some medicine. Jing Chu was wearing a hat, while she herself was wrapped in a thick scarf and hat and chased out through the wind and snow.

Ai Jing Chu was stunned for several seconds before taking the bag in her hand.

In order to catch up with him and give him these things, she walked such a long night alone.

When she came here just now, although she never mentioned her fear of the dark, she would walk in front, walk alongside him, and hesitate to move forward when she heard the slightest noise. Ai Jing saw it for the first time. But such a timid girl actually walked alone in the wilderness at night in order to give him these things.

How scared should she be at that time, and how much courage did she have to come here? So much so that when he called her, she was scared out of her wits.

What a silly girl.

She sent him here, so why should he send her back?

Ai Jing Chu looked at her and didn't say a word for a while.

Zeng Li seemed to see what was going on in his mind, and hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Don't worry about me, just go forward, I'll go back by myself, if you arrive at Dongping Temple, just send me a text message to report that you are safe."

He was a little speechless for a while.

"I'm not afraid. I came alone just now, and now it's easy to go back alone." When she said this, she smiled reluctantly, the tears on her face were still wet, and she turned around after she finished speaking.

Ai Jing Chu stared at the back of her leaving, and suddenly felt that something gathered around the heart, and then slowly dispersed to the limbs through the blood.

He stood where he was, and after turning his thoughts back and forth, he sighed softly.

"Zeng Li." He stopped her.

She stopped, turned around and looked at him strangely, waiting for his next sentence.

"There should be vacancies in the hotel right now?" He said.

Zeng Li was a little puzzled, not understanding why he suddenly asked this.

"Go to the front desk and ask to find out."

"Let's go." He walked towards her.

"I really don't need you to send it again, or I will cause trouble for you." Zeng Li said.

"It's none of your business, it's because I can't walk anymore." Ai Jing Chu said.

Zeng Li opened her mouth when she heard the words, she didn't expect his situation to be so bad, but after thinking about it in his heart, she was embarrassed to say anything about him. There is a difference between men and women, enough is enough, if you talk about caring too much, it will make people feel that you have crossed the line, and she can't do it.

I don't know if she walked alone just now to practice her courage or what, but she was not as scared as last time, and walked forward side by side with Ai Jing Chu calmly, as if at a distance.

"What were you doing sitting there just now?" She couldn't help asking him. Sitting alone on the side of the road, in the dark, don't you panic?

He wanted to answer honestly: smoking. But after thinking about it, he said, "Rest."

The logic is correct, because I can't walk anymore, I take a break.

"I thought you were looking at something."

"It's kind of like that," he said.

"Look at what?"

"There are graves by the roadside."

"Grave?" Zeng Li's face was darkened, "Isn't it a soil bag?" There is no stele.

"I saw paper money and incense sticks."

Hearing what Ai Jing Chu said, Zeng Li suddenly thought of those women who were selling business at the foot of the mountain just now, claiming that they could not only be consecrated, but also see Fengshui moving graves and so on. .

At that time, she wondered how she could do this since there is no cemetery in Dongshan. Now that she thinks about it, could it be that she buried her family here privately?

Zeng Li suddenly lost the courage he had just now, and even felt afraid of his reckless behavior of chasing him alone. Looking around, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck. She hurriedly stopped and looked back, but there was nothing but darkness behind her, and she was even more uncertain, so she hurriedly and nervously followed.

"Aren't you afraid?" Zeng Li asked.

"What are you afraid of?"

"The grave, there are ashes, maybe they'll be buried directly... people." Zeng Li felt his tongue start to tremble.

"Actually, people..."

"Stop!" Zeng Li hurriedly told him to stop, not daring to continue listening.

She was really dizzy, how could she discuss with a senior doctor who taught medicine that the dead should not be scary? He must be the kind of person who can sit and eat meat while looking at the fragmented corpses without spitting out the bones!

When the word "corpse" popped into Zeng Li's mind, he couldn't help but look around again, and leaned closely in the direction of Ai Jingchu.

The distance between the two instantly narrowed a lot.

When we arrived at the hotel, the front desk said that there were no standard rooms and double rooms, and only business suites and above were available. Originally, the price of this kind of exclusive business hotel in the scenic area was not very friendly to the people. Zeng Li looked at the Arabic numerals on it and felt really painful.

Ai Jing Chu took out his wallet without saying a word.

Zeng Li suddenly felt guilty. If it wasn't for her, Ai Jing Chu would have returned to Dongping Temple and slept with his head covered, how could he be slaughtered here?

At this time, a clear female voice called tentatively: "Brother?"

Ai Jing Chu and Zeng Li looked back at the same time.

After confirming that it was Ai Jingchu, the other party greeted him with a smile, and said to him, "Brother, didn't you say you live in Dongping Temple?"

"I have something to do and I can't go back, so I just stay here for one night." Ai Jing Chu replied while watching the waiter take his ID card for registration.

The person who came was Ge Yi, who was Ai Jing Chu's colleague in the medical school. Because she also returned to China after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, she habitually called him senior brother. Ai Jing Chu has always felt that if he is a student, he can only be called a teacher, respect the teacher, and not break the rules. As for others, he can be called Dr. Ai or Ai Jing Chu, or even affectionately A brother and a brother are all the rights of the other party.

Ge Yi's father is one of the shareholders of Dongshan Hotel, so she happened to meet Ai Jing Chu at the Dongshan toll booth in the afternoon and knew where he lived. She originally invited him to come to play, but he refused because he said he had something else to do. I didn't expect to meet again by chance at night.

The waiter returned the ID card to Ai Jing Chu after registration, and then asked Zeng Li: "Madam, I still need your ID."

Zeng Li suddenly became embarrassed, blushing and said, "We... are not together."

"She has a room." Ai Jing Chu replied.

The waiter nodded, and began to explain the deposit, room fee, etc. to Ai Jing Chu, and then Ai Jing Chu handed the credit card to the other party.

Seeing this, Ge Yi said to the waiter: "No need, just ask Manager Wen to sign the bill later."

"Don't bother." Ai Jing Chu still insisted on handing over the card, but the waiter didn't dare to take it anymore.

Standing on one side, Zeng Li felt that it was Ai Jing Chu's own business to solve in the future, but being called senior brother would save her from a four-figure bill. He hastily said goodbye and slipped back.

Back in the west building, most of the colleagues are still playing cards in full swing. Some of the children who were frantically surrounding the elevator just now have been coaxed to sleep, and there is a fat boy who is still running around tirelessly. That little fat man is Director Li's son, and he is known as a naughty guy in the whole unit.

She got into the elevator while taking off her scarf and hat, and was about to go back to her room to sleep. In the elevator, she picked up her mobile phone and looked at it. It was only after eleven o'clock, but she felt as if a century had passed.

After taking a bath, she fell asleep because she was too tired. Not long after she fell asleep, she heard a noise in the corridor, accompanied by the crying of children and adults.

At first, she was so dazed that she didn't want to talk to her, but there was too much movement. When someone passed by her room, she was caught by her doorknob and hit her hard.

"Who's driving? Who's driving?" someone yelled.

"Our hotel has a car, but we can't get down."

Zeng Li finally put on his clothes and got up. When he opened the door, he saw that Director Li and his wife were holding their children and standing at the elevator entrance diagonally opposite with several people. Unbearable. Zeng Li came closer and was shocked when he saw the child in his arms.

The little fat man actually had a stainless steel fork stuck vertically in his mouth.

He was held by his mother facing up to the sky, while Director Li pinched his chin with his hands, fearing that he would bite back because of crying or discomfort. The child was crying loudly, but his mouth was clamped to make the crying sound more distressing.

"What happened? Wasn't it fine just now?" Zeng Li asked Wu Wan Xia, ​​who was also anxious beside her.

"I heard from Sister Yuan that after everyone finished playing cards and gave Pang Duner a cake, he ran around with a fork and fell when he returned to the house."

Together with the hotel staff, everyone escorted the child downstairs, but they were still helpless. They called 120. The hospital said that the road was blocked by snow, and the ambulance couldn't get on, and the hotel car couldn't drive any further.

The hotel also has an infirmary, but the doctor on duty, like Dr. Wang in their library, is an elderly general internal medicine doctor. It is okay to have a cold and headache, but I dare not say anything else.

"I'll carry my son down the mountain." The child's mother said with tears in her eyes.

"Is there no other doctor?" someone asked again.

The man in the infirmary shook his head.

Zeng Li suddenly said: "Yes." She originally thought that as a dentist, Ai Jing Chu must have no choice, so she didn't speak for a long time, but when she saw the child, she felt that every tiny hope should not be let go. How can he help?

Hearing Zeng Li's words, all eyes were on Zeng Li.

And in the next second, the manager Wen of the hotel suddenly thought of something and said: "There is really one..."

Before he finished speaking, another voice rang out, "I am a doctor."

Zeng Li heard the reputation and looked over. It was Ge Yi who came.

Ge Yi asked someone to move the child to the infirmary of the hotel, and while turning on the light for examination, she said to Manager Wen next to him, "Please go and call the guest in Room 608 of the Administration Building."

Out of duty, Manager Wen hesitated and said, "It's too late, will it be..."

Ge Yi said, "It's okay, you just tell him about the situation."

The child's mother burst into tears, "Doctor, what's wrong? Is the child very serious, or are you unwilling to help?"

Ge Yi said: "I am a surgeon at the medical school of A University. The guest in room 608 is my colleague. He is an expert in maxillofacial problems and has much more experience than me. You can't be careless about children, right?"

Ai Jing Chu has been studying oral and maxillofacial surgery, and it was only later that he switched to orthodontics. Ge Yi's teacher had taught Ai Jing Chu, and he was full of praise every time he was mentioned, and he especially liked to say that his acupuncture techniques during surgery were perfect, and it was a pity to be poached by the orthodontist.

"What's the doctor's name?" The mother was a little worried at the end, and instead questioned the doctor who descended from the sky, "Do you really have experience? What school did you graduate from? What is your job title? Is it a formal teacher of A University? "

Zeng Li couldn't help standing at the door and said, "Sister-in-law, I know that doctor. He is a professor of Stomatology1 at A University. It takes several days to get an account with him. I promise, he is really a good doctor. Don't worry."

In a short time, Ai Jing Chu appeared together with that Manager Wen.

He walked in such a hurry that he didn't notice Zeng Li in the corridor at all.

When Ai Jing Chu entered the door, he saw the child lying on the observation bed, being comforted by his mother.

He said coldly: "How can you lie on your back? What if you choke blood into your trachea when you cry?" Although he didn't specify who he was speaking to, there were only a few people in the room, and the child's parents ,She definitely didn't understand, it was obvious that Ge Yi was negligent, she was embarrassed when she heard the words, and hurriedly changed.

When Zeng Li heard this sentence outside the door, he couldn't help shrinking her neck.

Really a fierce person.

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Wu Wan Xia asked: "Is it because experts and famous doctors have a temper?"

Zeng Li smiled noncommittally, she was too embarrassed to speak ill of Ai Jing Chu behind his back.

"You said just now that you knew a doctor was referring to him, right?"

"Yes."

"So young and handsome, it's worth being fierce." Wu Wan Xia sighed.

Although the condition of the infirmary is limited, there are still basic emergency equipment.

Ai Jing Chu looked at the child's condition and said calmly: "The metal is inserted into the child's mouth and jaw. Fortunately, it is not deep, and it can be pulled out, but the bleeding in the mouth is not easy to stop. We need to sew a few stitches. If possible, go to the hospital." It's better, but if you can't go down the mountain now, it can be implemented like this."

"Is it all right?" the child's mother asked.

"No problem." Ai Jing Chu replied with an unquestionable tone.

Ai Jing Chu carefully washed and sterilised his hands, put on gloves, asked the father to hold the child in his arms, and asked Ge Yi to take an anaesthetic. As soon as the child saw this battle, he became nervous and began to cry and struggle desperately. Zeng Li was worried when he heard it from a distance, but Ai Jing Chu was unmoved, and said to the parents: "We have no way to do general anaesthesia and debridement. We can only let you hold the child firmly." A little anaesthetic was given to the area.

Although the needle was extremely thin, it was painful, and the child twisted.

The child's father added more strength, and controlled the child's chin with the other hand, and the mother also held the child down, firmly in the father's arms.

After a while, Ai Jing Chu stretched out his hand and pulled out the fork with light force, and then, the blood from the wound gushed out. Zeng Li saw that his eyes flickered slightly, her face was terribly pale, and she turned his head away slightly.

Ge Yi used forceps to cover the hemostatic cotton, and then disinfected and debrided the wound.

Probably the anesthetic took effect, the child didn't feel much pain, and the crying gradually became subdued, Zeng Li couldn't help poking her head in.

She saw that Ai Jing Chu was stitching the wound was inside the mouth, and the light was limited, as the child sobbed, the mouth would open and close. Under such circumstances, Ai Jing Chu concentrated his head down, quickly alternated the tweezers in his left and right hands, and pulled up a bloody thread. Zeng Li didn't dare to look at it, and retracted his head again.

The whole process was very quick. After explaining some precautions and handing them over to Ge Yi, Ai Jing Chu walked out of the infirmary.

When he went out, he looked up and found Zeng Li.

Just now, after Director Li saw that the child was fine, he thanked everyone in all directions and asked everyone to go back to rest quickly, and only Zeng Li was left waiting there.

Zeng Li nodded at him as a greeting.

"Are you here?" Ai Jing Chu was a little surprised.

"It's a colleague's child inside." Zeng Li explained.

"The child is fine, for the time being, go back to the hospital in the city tomorrow and have a look."

Zeng Li saw that Ai Jing Chu's face turned from the horrible white to flushed under the light, and guessed that he must have a high fever that has not subsided. Remember he said that he dozed off immediately after taking the medicine, so maybe he just took the medicine and was waking up while he was warming up.

"Thank you for the child." Zeng Li said.

She didn't know how many times she had to say thank you to him in one night.

"It's easy to do." He still replied, but his tone sounded listless.

They walked out from the corridor of the infirmary in the north building together, and when they reached the fork in the road, Ai Jing Chu said to Zeng Li: "You stand inside and wait for me to get off, and I will bring the bag back to you."

The bag in his mouth refers to the one Zeng Li sent to him just now. If he doesn't return it to her now, he doesn't know how long it will be delayed. If she needs it urgently, it will be troublesome.

Zeng Li remembered that there were other people's things in that bag, "I'll go get it with you, anyway, even if I go back, I won't be able to sleep for a while."

Ai Jing Chu silently agreed.

She followed him into the administration building, and then took the elevator to the sixth floor.

He opened the door with his room card, and Zeng Li hesitated for a long time whether to go in or wait for him outside the door.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the door opened, I heard Ai Jing Chu's cell phone ringing, probably when he left just now in a hurry, he didn't bring his cell phone with him. The bell continued to ring from the bedroom. He didn't know how long it had been ringing, so he had to walk in quickly to answer it.

Zeng Li was standing outside the door just as someone came out of the elevator and saw Zeng Li standing at the door. The man looked at her curiously all the way, and stared at Zeng Li with undisguised eyes, until he took out his room card, opened the room next to Ai Jing Chu and walked in, then disappeared behind the door.

In the middle of the night, a woman stood in front of the expensive suite in the administrative building with disheveled hair. The door was open, but she didn't go in, and she didn't intend to leave. Zeng Li felt that the other party was definitely thinking about her career.

She looked towards the ceiling, summoned up the courage to take two steps inside, and quickly closed the door.

Only the lights in the living room and bedroom were on, and Ai Jing Chu was standing in the bedroom talking. Zeng Li glanced inside, the snow-white quilt was wrinkled, he was really woken up from the quilt just now.

Ai JingChu heard the door closing, and walked out of the bedroom to see what was going on while talking on the phone.

Zeng Li stood in the living room and looked at him.

He pointed to the sofa and signaled Zeng Li to sit down first.

Zeng Li found the disassembled medicine box on the coffee table, as well as the thermos cup she gave him.

Then, he said, "I'll go back early tomorrow morning." The call ended.

After he hung up the phone, he poured out the remaining water in the thermos, washed it, wiped it clean, and put it back in Zeng Li's bag. The two were about to talk when Zeng Li's cell phone rang suddenly.

When Zeng Li answered, it was Director Li's call.

"Xiao Zeng, you haven't rested yet, have you?"

"No, Director Li, how is the child?" Zeng Li said.

"Doctor Ge prescribed some medicine for him to eat and sleep, and his mother was watching over him."

"That's good."

"I went to look for you just now, but I couldn't find it. I heard Xiao Wu said that you and that Dr. Ai are acquaintances, right?" Director Li asked again.

Hearing this, Zeng Li couldn't help but glance at Ai Jingchu, who was also looking at her.

Learning from the past, she dared not hold the mobile phone in front of Ai Jing Chu again and talk about him on the other end of the phone. Moreover, Director Li is different from Ma Yi Yi. He is the leader, so he can't just hang up the phone just because it's inconvenient. So, she smirked at Ai Jing Chu, pushed open the glass door, and stood on the balcony to continue talking.

Seeing that Zeng Li didn't answer for a while, Director Li said, "Just now I met you in the yard coming back from the outside, and that Doctor Ai is next to you, right?"

Zeng Li was turning his head, and saw through the glass that Ai Jingchu took off his coat under the heater and put it on the back of the chair. After that, he sat down on the sofa and waited for her.

When she heard Director Li's questioning, she wailed inwardly. When Ai Jing Chu sent her to the west building, she just bumped into Director Li. He didn't even say a word, but he still remembered it?

Now that she had to admit it, she turned around and replied: "Yeah, haven't I been seeing the dentist these days? He is my attending doctor, what a coincidence."

"Oh, I didn't expect it at the time, and I didn't even have time to say hello."

Zeng Li slapped a sloppy eye with a laugh.

"He is the benefactor of our whole family, and we must thank him."

"You should."

"So, since you know Dr. Ai, you must tell him my gratitude. You make an appointment with him for me, and you must treat him to a light meal some other day, and the whole family will thank you in person..."

The other party couldn't hide his feelings, and kept asking Zeng Li to convey his gratitude, over and over again, until Zeng Li agreed or refused.

Director Li is notoriously blunt in his work unit. When making a speech at a meeting, he first spends the first half of the time reviewing the past, and then spends the second half looking forward to the future. Every time he talks for a long time, he thinks of looking at his watch, " Yo, time is running out, let's get down to business."

After finally hanging up his phone, Zeng Li heaved a long sigh of relief, stomped his frozen feet, and returned to the living room.

She froze in place.

Ai Jing Chu actually just sat on the sofa and fell asleep.

Zeng Li quietly approached a few steps, and called out tentatively: "Ai...Jing Chu." She called softly, afraid that he was just closing his eyes and pretending to be asleep, or that he was really asleep, and she accidentally disturbed him. Gave him a good night's sleep.

He didn't move, his breathing was even and long.

Maybe it was the effect of the medicine, or maybe it was really exhausting, she waited silently for a minute or two, and found that he was indeed in a deep sleep.

His head was slightly raised, leaning against the back of the sofa. Against the backdrop of the orange light, the outline of his brows exuded a dazzling sense of beauty from the inside to the outside. With one hand resting in front of him and the other on the armrest, his eyes were closed with thick eyelashes, and he looked much more amiable than when he was awake.

Zeng Li didn't know what to do.

Finally, after a long thought, she went into the bedroom and came out with a thick blanket.

A corner of the blanket brushed over the coffee table, and accidentally brushed the bag Ai Jing Chu put on it to the ground, and the thing rolled onto the carpet, making a muffled sound, and Zeng Li hurriedly raised his eyes to look at Ai Jing Chu.

Fortunately, he was not affected.

After carefully picking up the things, she bent down to cover him with the blanket in her hand, and his hand on the armrest of the sofa was exposed from the blanket because it was stretched farther away. The fingertips were very neatly manicured, without any extra nails, and some places were even cut too much and slightly deformed. The fingers are very white, and all the nails are extremely clean.

The hands used to save lives and heal the wounded.

Are these men who need to work with their hands like this?

Zeng Li thought for a while, then bent down again and took that hand and put it on his lap. It might be that her hands were too cold, which disturbed him, his brows were frowned, he withdrew his hand from Zeng Li, put it on the nearby side, tilted his head but did not wake up.

After finishing all this, Zeng Li took his things, turned off the lights, and slowly closed the door.

Zeng Li didn't fall asleep for a long time after returning home.

She found the bed, missed the usual work and rest time, and couldn't fall asleep in the middle of the night. She lay on the bed, looking at the curtains for a while, and the ceiling for a while, and she didn't know how long it took her to close her eyes. In a daze, she had many dreams again, and those dreams were fragments, fragments one after another, accumulating layer by layer, like a black shadow grabbing her, holding her, forcing her to be unable to breathe.

She kicked her legs under the quilt suddenly, and she was woken up by herself.

Zeng Li checked the time and opened the curtains. The snow had stopped, and the sky seemed a little gray.

Finally, she simply packed up and went out.

The sunrise in Dongshan Mountain is a well-known scene. Because the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, the road was not open to traffic, but the cable car opened. Dongshan Hotel is still a short distance from the top of the mountain. You can take the cable car or climb up by yourself.

Probably because of the snow last night, there were not many people watching the sunrise, only a few teams here and there.

When Zeng Li went out, she happened to meet a few colleagues who were going to watch the sunrise. She didn't dare to walk the mountain road alone, so she followed them and bought a ticket to the top of the mountain.

The cable car is a big one, and more than 20 people can sit in one car.

Along the way, everyone was very excited and kept taking pictures in the cable car, but Zeng Li stood quietly in the corner alone.

When the cable car reached the end, everyone got off the car and ran towards the cliff for viewing, without noticing the other direction Zeng Li was going.

Instead of walking with the crowd watching the sunrise, she walked around the courtyard wall of Dongshan Temple on the top of the mountain and continued to walk towards the small mountain over there. The snow on the top of the mountain was so thick that it barely covered her calves, and the altitude was high, so she struggled to walk and was a little out of breath.

But she still walked faster and faster, and finally she couldn't lift her legs, and fell into the snow with a puff.

She fell face down with her cheeks pressed against the snow, not wanting to move for a long time.

After a while, she heard someone shouting from the other side of the cliff, one after another, it seemed that dawn was about to break.

She tried to turn over, sat up, and continued to walk forward.

Finally, I saw the long-lost huge concentric lock sculpture. On the chains around the sculpture, and even on the handrail made of iron chains on the edge of the cliff, there are all copper locks. As long as there are gaps, they are fully locked, layer by layer, overlapping, and the original appearance of the chains can hardly be seen.

She walked over, then squatted down to look through the locks one by one.

Almost every lock is engraved with the words "Keep together forever and have a good union for a hundred years".

But she was looking for more than that.

The one she was looking for one that not only had these eight characters, but also had his and her names written on the back, which was engraved by him one by one when they came that summer.

The gloves were too thick, and she felt that they were in the way, so she simply took off the gloves and continued to rummage one by one.

After a while, she suddenly realised something, and began to regret how stupid she was just now. After so many years, how could it be still on the outer layer of the chain? So, she broke off the new upper layer again, looking for the old locks that had been eroded by wind and rain.

A large pile of metal objects was cold and hard, and had been hung there for an unknown amount of time. Many writings on the lock surface were covered by rust and ice shards, making it impossible to tell the original face. She wiped it clean with her fingers one by one, and leaned closer to identify it carefully.

When she did all this, her thoughts were very clear, and she didn't want to cry or shed tears.

Gradually, she felt that her feet were numb, so she simply sat down on the spot.

However, one, another, one, and another... none of them.

The red sun on the other side of the mountain has jumped out, and those excited cheers and howls have reached their peak.

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Then, a figure stood in front of Zeng Li.

Zeng Li only thought that the other party was going to cross, so she moved to the side to make way. Unexpectedly, the visitor did not leave, but asked, "What are you looking for?"

When Zeng Li heard the sound, she looked up and saw that the person was Ai Jing Chu, she was a little embarrassed, "Why are you here?"

"I just woke up and thought the time was just right, so I came to catch the sunrise too," he said.

"Then you're late." The first light had already appeared, but he was still chatting with her here.

"What are you looking for?" He ignored her words and asked again.

"The lock I put here before."

"How long ago?" he continued.

Zeng Li suddenly felt a little angry, "It's none of your business."

"I've seen them change the chain every few months, and throw away all the locks at the same time, otherwise it's too heavy and the armrest won't hold it up and it will break."

After finishing speaking, Ai Jing Chu noticed Zeng Li's hand, the fingers were black and dirty, already red from the cold, and there were many scratch marks on the back of the hand from the corners of the copper lock.

In fact, he had been watching her from a distance for a long time.

He was going to check out after getting up and tidying up, but he opened the window and found that the weather was fine, and remembered that she asked him to watch the sunrise last night, so he simply went out by himself.

He didn't take the cable car, and walked up the steps alone. When he was almost at the top, he saw Zeng Li walking up another path alone in a trance, and followed her with an uneasy feeling.

Originally, Ai Jing Chu didn't want to disturb her, but in the end he couldn't hold back.

"Get up," he said.

"I'm not looking for it anymore, just taking a look."

"Zeng Li."

"The sunrise is almost gone, so hurry up, this place is out of your control." After she finished speaking impatiently, she moved places again, signalling Ai Jing Chu to leave quickly, so she could continue to look through those locks without hesitation.

He knelt down and said to her slowly in a non-fluctuating tone: "I don't care if you couldn't go back to the hotel last night, I don't care if the child had an accident, and I don't care if you do stupid things here now. But, Zeng Li, I take care of everything."

The mountain wind blew up, making the sound of hula hula in the ears of the two people.

"I don't know what happened to you, but you are no longer a child. The hope of life is not pinned on such things."

On the other side of Guanri Cliff, people shouted various slogans, sentences and names loudly towards the sun, one after another.

Suddenly, a little girl shouted to the sea of ​​clouds in midair:

"Hey hey hey—Xie Xiaoyu—I love you—"

Then, a male voice yelled out with a more excited voice: "I—know—"§

Then there was a burst of laughter from the bystanders.

Under such a festive and lively atmosphere, Zeng Li suddenly felt something surging in his heart, and shed tears quietly.

"I'm sorry," she said.

He is such a good person, and she actually hurt him when she was sulking.

"I'm sorry," she said again.

Ai Jing Chu silently handed her a tissue.

"Do I look ridiculous?" Zeng Li asked.

He originally wanted to say something to comfort her, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with a suitable sentence.

She also said: "I have been stupid since I was a child, afraid of strangers, timid, and my memory is not good. It takes me an hour to memorise the text that others can memorise in ten minutes. Sometimes I have a hard time memorising it at all. I was so nervous that I couldn't read a word.

"One time when I was playing basketball in physical education class, another boy threw the ball to me very hard. When I went to catch it, I sprained my finger, but I didn't dare to say it. I was afraid that the teacher would say that I was squeamish, and that my classmates would say that I was making small reports. Even though it hurts, I had to bear it. I dared not tell my mother when I got home, for fear that she would go to the teacher and the school. When I felt uncomfortable, I thought, I must bear it, it really didn't hurt after a while but the knuckles were swollen. Later, my mother took me to see it, and the doctor said that it was a waste of time, and the doctor couldn't cure it."

She recounted these trivial matters calmly, as if she would go crazy if she didn't talk about it at this moment and find someone to vent to.

"I have been in love with the same person since I was fifteen years old. With my personality, I actually fell in love with him first and foolishly chased him for many years. They day we came here, he said that if you threw away the key to the lock, then you can never be separated.

"Stupid, naive, ridiculous, right? When you fall in love, it seems that your IQ will drop. Later, I went to Dongshan many times, but I didn't dare to come here. But last night I thought that it again, and I thought, let's see, is that thing really still there?"

After listening to her words, Ai Jing Chu turned his gaze elsewhere and didn't speak for a long time.

Zeng Li smiled wryly, "I really..."

She regretted her outspokenness, usually she seldom talked about it with people, even with Ma Yi Yi and the others, but she complained to Ai Jing Chu under such circumstances.

There have been people walking from the cliff one after another, and some later people are walking towards the cliff. This is the only way to go to watch the sun on foot. Occasionally, one or two passing tourists looked at Zeng Li and Ai Jing Chu curiously, but most of them were in a hurry to go to the east cliff, wanting to catch the last-minute scenery, and didn't care about other things.

"I'm in trouble when you meet me," she said. "I'm so sorry."

At this moment, the sun has completely escaped from the cover of the clouds, leaping out, emitting a fiery red light, soft and warm. Ai Jing Chu stood opposite Zeng Li, with his back just facing the sunrise, his whole face was against the light, and he couldn't see his expression clearly. After a long time, he sighed and said, "Show me your hands."

"What?"

"The one that got sprained."

Zeng Li raised his left hand to Ai Jing Chu's eyes.

She has a thin frame, so her fingers are thin and long, which are very beautiful, but the second knuckle of her ring finger is bulging like a knot in a tree trunk, which looks out of place.

He took it and looked at it over and over again.

At this moment, her hands were dark and wet, making his hands dirty too.

"It should be a ganglion cyst." After he let go of that hand, he came to a conclusion.

"It's been many years, nothing but ugly."

He didn't speak again.

Suddenly, Zeng Li saw Wu Wan Xia and a few colleagues walking upwards, getting closer and closer to her and Ai Jing Chu. Zeng Li suddenly became nervous. Wu Wan Xia is the most famous broadcaster in the whole unit. Once something comes to her, the influence of the gossip can be doubled. If she sees her crying here, she didn't know what to do, not to mention there is Ai Jing Chu standing next to her.

No matter which one, there is enough for her. Married and unmarried women in government units have fun killing time during work, firstly by introducing people to others, and secondly by spreading gossip around them.

Zeng Li quickly rubbed her face, wiping off the tears, and then said to Ai Jing Chu, "Where are you going?"

"Up the mountain."

"Then I'll go down the mountain." Then she walked in the opposite direction.

It was not eight o'clock when she got back to the hotel. She felt sleepy, so she took off her clothes and went to bed again, and fell fast asleep until Ma Yi Yi knocked on her door.

"My God, are you here for vacation or to sleep? The sun is almost setting, and you haven't gotten up yet?" Ma Yi Yi looked at her messy hair and frowned.

"What time is it? It's dark?" She rubbed her face and yawned. The curtains are so thick that you can't see the outside at all.

"Boss, the sun is going down is just a metaphor."

"Oh." She was still a little confused.

"It's already time for lunch, and your colleague told me to ask you to go down quickly."

Zeng Li got up slowly and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth, wash her face, and go to the bathroom.

"When will the handsome guy come back?" Ma Yi Yi asked loudly while sitting on the bed outside.

"What handsome guy?" She wondered with toothpaste foam in her mouth.

"Oh my God, Zeng Li, how did you become like this after you escaped my sight for a day?" Ma Yi Yi used this word for the second time, and then jumped up and said, "Don't hide it, I knew it before I went upstairs. Heard about the glorious deeds from last night, saying your boyfriend saved the world!"

"Pfft—" Zeng Li spat out a mouthful of water.

She wiped the foam off her mouth with her hand, rushed out and asked, "What did you say?"

So, Ma Yi Yi vividly recounted to her what colleague Zeng Li said just now.

Zeng Li screamed, "Wu Wan Xia has such a big mouth, I admitted that I know Ai Jing Chu, and the other words are not true."

"They also said that you went down the mountain mysteriously by yourself just to pick him up and come to Dongshan to accompany you."

"I was going to pick you up!" Zeng Li was furious.

"That's right," Ma Yi Yi remembered, "but didn't you say that you have many colleagues with you?"

"I'll explain this later."

"They also said that you made an appointment to watch the sunrise together."

"Shit!"

"They also said..."

"Say what?"

"You hid it. You didn't introduce such a tall, rich and handsome boyfriend to everyone. If it weren't for yesterday's unexpected situation, we must have been fooled by you again. No wonder you were introduced to so many people to before, but you didn't like them. So it's a famous flower."

After Ma Yiyi finished speaking, she saw Zeng Li quickly combing her hair, changing clothes and trousers.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to Ai Jing Chu to testify for me and explain it clearly to them."

"He's already gone." Ma Yi Yi said.

"Gone?"

"Yeah, checked out after breakfast."

"How do you know?"

"Oh, it's another story after all." Ma Yi Yi said triumphantly.

"Explain!"

"He came back from outside to have breakfast, and met colleagues from your unit in the restaurant. A group of aunties surrounded him asking for his mobile phone number, and said that he would no longer have to stand in line before dawn for registration, and he could call himself a doctor and stay in the hospital. I have acquaintances in A University Hospital, and to express their gratitude, they promised to take care of you for Ai Jing Chu and not let you suffer in the unit, but guess what he said?"

Zeng Li thought for a while and replied, "I don't know Zeng Li!" Especially when he said it with Ai Jing Chu's expression and tone, it would definitely shatter the dignity and hope of those aunts in an instant.

"Wrong."

"Who is Zeng Li?"

"Wrong wrong wrong."

"What did you say?"

"He said 'thank you'."

"Thank you?" Zeng Li was taken aback.

"So, plead guilty and obey the law." Ma Yi Yi pinched Zeng Li's cheek with a smile.

Ai Jing Chu walked back to the place where he parked last night alone. Along the way, the staff of the scenic spot were clearing the snow. When he reached the middle of the mountain, he saw his car.

There was snow on the hood and roof.

Some children drew a big heart in the snow on the hood, and a few student-looking tourists next to them added an arrow that passed through the heart. He walked over slowly, and a girl with big eyes noticed him. After he took out the key and pressed the remote control, the car beeped and the lights in the car turned on. Only then did the tourists realise that Ai Jing Chu was the owner of the car, so they exclaimed one after another and ran away quickly.

The girl with big eyes didn't react so quickly, she stayed where she was, and got caught.

After running for a certain distance, several people looked back and found that Ai Jing Chu had no intention of paying attention to them at all, so they stopped in place, pointed at the girl, and laughed happily.

A boy suspected to be her boyfriend smiled and pulled her unresponsive, "Ninny, let's go."

She just came back to her senses and ran away in a hurry.

As soon as she moved, the phone fell out of her pocket, and she didn't realise it until she ran a few steps, and when she turned around, she found that Ai Jing Chu had already picked it up for her.

"Thanks," the girl said, "we didn't touch your car."

Suddenly, Ai Jingchu asked an inexplicable question: "How old are you?"

The girl froze for a moment, "Nineteen."

Ai Jing Chu stood for a while, then he opened the door and got into the car.

Nineteen......

It's an age far away from him.

Most of the graduate students he led were in their twenties, and some were even on-the-job doctors sent by lower-level hospitals for further training, so some of them were much older than him.

He reads smarter than the average person and spends less time studying, but he has no time to think about anything else. What are other people's nineteen years old doing? At the age of freshman and sophomore, it is the age at which you can fall in love at will.

And fifteen years old?

When wearing the seat belt, Ai Jing Chu turned around and saw the mineral water on the passenger seat. One bottle was full, and the other bottle was half drunk by him.

He couldn't help reaching out to pick up the half bottle of water, and looked at it carefully.

Like many of his peers, he has a slight obsession with cleanliness, eating utensils or otherwise. For example, when Zeng Li got her hands dirty in the morning, the first thing he did after reaching the top of the mountain was to fetch a basin of cold water from Dongshan Temple and wash her hands clean. As for the overnight water, he never drinks it, so he hardly drinks the opened bottled water in the water dispenser.

However, at this moment, he unscrewed the bottle cap and raised his head to take a sip.

The clear liquid slowly flowed into the mouth from the mouth of the bottle, followed the swallowing of the throat and slid into the body along the oesophagus.

Cold.