Half-baked

49.
It's like watching a butterfly cause the butterfly effect.
Seeing a butterfly's wings flutter may very well cause a tsunami.

It was a coincidence that Shang and Li met again, it seemed so casual, yet also like a destiny.

The elevator room in the inpatient department is relatively quiet.
I stared blankly at the scene in front of me. In my mind, the past was like fireworks, exploding in clusters. Time simplified everything, and the face of the mother bream in my mind gradually overlapped with the person in front of me, becoming extremely clear.

Because no one had been walking around for a long time, the elevator door slowly closed.

You can also press the door open button.
The metal elevator door opened again.
After Meng Xiao left.

Stop when someone comes up.

It's said to be wearing a black suit, but just a white coat.
Speaking of which, he glanced around and saw the nameplate on the chest pocket of the person who was hanging.

Nancheng University Affiliated Second Hospital
Name
Practicing Orthopedics
Department Orthopedics
Title: Doctor

It's blind to say you take it back.
After the reunion, this is the second sentence.
"Have you lost weight?"

The tone of voice was no different from before. It was cold to the throat, and there was no ups and downs in the voice.
But from what he said last time, I didn't hear much concern.

Just as I was about to open my mouth to refute, the phone rang loudly in the empty elevator, which seemed abrupt.
At the same time, the phone that I had arrived at last time also did not ring.

Both of them took the phone to their right, put it to their right ear, and faced each other with their faces tilted to the sides.
It was better to hear the receiver coming from the phone and then shout out in agony, "This is really going to be a waste."
The nurse heard a voice through the receiver: "The patient in the VIP ward said that he was about to be disconnected. Doctor, are you still in the VIP ward?"

The speakerphone was not on, but the sound was surprisingly loud.
They both heard each other's voices through the machine.

The two of them looked at each other again, but no one looked at them.
Freeze for two seconds.

When I go up, I say, "Do you know? I'll go over and take a look right away."
Compared to the response last time, the attitude towards the patient here is also "Oh."
"..."

Hang up the phone at the same time.

I understood it when I was on the stage, but I didn't understand the situation now.
It was also good to see someone show up at the VIP ward of the hospital on the first floor early in the morning, and then visit his injured good brother who was late.
Didn't you just purse your lips and say "Look?"
There is also a good "Hmm."

The corridors were long and quiet, with the air permeated with the slightest smell of disinfectant.
Inexplicably, when I smelled it, I could smell the familiar yet strange scent of cedar mixed with sandalwood. Light and indifferent.

Just drooping eyelashes.

Soon we arrived at Chi Jingting's ward.
Push the door open and enter.

What caught my eye was this frail figure lying on the hospital bed.
Chi Jingting squinted his eyes and said breathlessly, "I've been hit before, but I didn't see it. This time it really hurts--" When the voice came from behind, he suddenly sat up from the bed, pointed with his injured hand and said, "There, there, there--"

When I was halfway through the conversation, I didn't know what to say and I was still disappointed.
Since we have already met, there is nothing much to say.

When Chi Jingting indicated that he was going to go up, he said politely, "I'll check later to see if it's been there."
It has been mentioned that plaster has been applied and the results can be checked with the naked eye.
When asked, "Does it hurt to appear?"

Chi Jingting: "It hurts."
I said, "Why don't we take another look at the film? Because it happened again, I didn't see it, so how can we rule out the possibility of displacement?"
Chi Jingting raised his voice and asked, "Shift?"

The master nodded and said, "In the early stage of a fracture, you must take protective measures, because at this time the callus is still healed and the fracture site is very stable. Even if it is a slight collision, it will cause the bone to shift."
Chi Jingting's forehead twitched. "What should I do then?"

"Let's take an X-ray first." He took out a radiograph. After all, this was a VIP ward for patients, and the hospitalization fee was so high that they naturally had the privilege. "Let's call the radiology department and ask them to make time to take an X-ray right away."

When I called to inquire about the gap, I was also asked, "How did you get it?"
Chi Jingting said, "I was playing dice yesterday, but I got too excited and it just died."
"..."

Chi Jingting raised his eyes, and his eyes met He Liye's.
I said with no confidence, "It's really a bit stupid."

After hanging up the phone, I looked at the time. I looked at the watch on my wrist out of habit. The dial was transparent and clear pink. It was a mechanical watch. The hands moved on time, showing the current time.
Just say, "The nurse will take you to the radiology department for an examination later. I will go to the ward for rounds later. I will find out the results later after they come out."

"If I do this, I'll be useless, right?" Chi Jingting was worried.
"How could that be?" Shang Shiwan smiled, "Even if it's dislocated, it can be restored. Don't worry too much."
"That's fine."

After the communication, it’s okay if you don’t even look at me.
I noticed that the line of sight was raised and lowered, and the movements were up and down.
When he went up, he hid his left hand behind him.

"Are you leaving first?"

After leaving the ward, stand in the elevator room and wait for the elevator to go up.
All four elevators were in operation, with red letters flashing.
When he went up, he stretched out his left hand, lifted up his sleeves, and saw the silver-gray watch on his wrist.

I was in a daze.
My thoughts drifted far away.

That time we met by chance in the library, this is the beginning.
After that, we met in the library several times. We also made reservations on the fourth floor, but the seats were a little further away. We arrived here first and then went to class. Like this time, we got information about the library study session and followed him stealthily.

They didn't say anything else. They sat in their study seats and did their own thing.

Watch the entire month of March pass.
By the end of April, I was busy in the laboratory and had no time to go to the library.
Except for the time when I was in the dormitory and not sleeping, I spent the rest of the time in the laboratory.

It was a cold spring period, and the temperature dropped particularly low at night. When I came out of the laboratory, a cool breeze blew in my face, and I was so cold that I shivered all over.
I took out my phone to check the time, but the screen was dark and no matter how I pressed it, it wouldn't light up. I realized that I forgot to turn off the battery again. I sighed, put the phone back in my pocket, put my phone in my pocket, and walked out.

When I looked down, I saw that there was no one standing in the distance.
The street lights were dim, and I was wearing a thin sweater, so I took out a coat from inside.

Finally I found out that there was no one there, so I just walked away without going anywhere.

It is said that the inner coat is held up by both hands, and it seems that this is a replacement for the clothes.
However, it seemed like nothing happened, and he lowered his eyes, so much so that he restrained his emotions.
When you hand me clothes, I just say, "Put them on."

When he was standing, he stared at it intently, saying that he had stretched it out and that his joints were distinct and his veins were bulging like mountains. Because of the low temperature, he was said to have been frozen to the point that his skin was slightly bluish purple.
He just shook his head and said, "You can wear it yourself."

"It's so cold." Say.
"..."

In the end, he put the clothes on the person forcefully.
I have never been so cautious since then, afraid of physical contact with him, and getting irritated so quickly. But I still caught it from the corner of my eye, when someone asked me to put on my clothes, my face was tense, and my lips were trembling slightly.

My hair was pressed inside by my clothes, my fingertips could not see clearly, and my breathing became heavier.
After a few seconds of silence, he said, "That's all."

I didn't stop it when I went up.

The scene fell into silence again.
When I was told to pack my clothes, I sniffed and took the initiative to break the silence by saying, "Are you going back to the dormitory next time?"
I lowered my voice and said, "I will accompany you back."

Seeing Lu Wuyan coming downstairs of the dormitory, he took off the clothes he was wearing when he went up and handed them back to him.
"It's not down yet."
"Well." After saying that, "Go up."

He didn't even raise his eyelids when he looked at me, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. In the end, he said nothing and turned back to the dormitory.

After arriving at the dormitory, I went to the balcony as soon as possible.
Through the balcony, you can see people standing on the roadside or inside.
It was cold and bleak till late at night, and the figure looked lonely and rugged.

After that, almost every night, when I came out of the laboratory building during work, I would see people standing on the roadside or inside.

Said I would take an extra coat.
Wear it to keep warm when you see it, and take the coat when you see the road.

Sometimes when I go to school, my roommates will be around me, and even though they haven't walked past me yet, I can only look at them from a distance, and then the people behind me will keep looking at them no matter how far or how close they are.

Jing Yue asked the man, "What's going on between the two of you? Is the old relationship rekindled?"
When I went up, I said, "I haven't returned it yet."
Jing Yue: "You said someone is chasing them out again?"
Didn't I think about "I haven't paid it back yet"?

Except for the first day we talked, we didn't talk to each other for a while afterwards.
He just played a simple role and sent her back to the dormitory safely. If he really wanted to give her a title, it could only be the flower protector, not the pursuer.

Not to mention Jing Yue couldn't clearly explain the relationship between the two, even Shang Shi himself was confused.

On the way back to the dormitory, I finally broke the long silence and asked, "Are you busy lately?"

"I'm not that busy." Li Yehao thought for a while and added, "I'm looking for someone with rich experience in the industry to manage the company. I haven't received the offer for studying abroad. I don't have much time here."
Hearing this, Shang Shi just nodded quietly.

After a while, I asked, "When are you going abroad?"
It seemed like an illusion, as if the expression on his face was frozen for a moment.
But the tone was still calm until "the end of September."

Didn't people calculate in their minds, "It's still three months."

……

I always thought that it would be fine if I accompanied him back to the dormitory every night, and that it would be over by the end of this semester. But that summer vacation, I still accompanied him here.
From spring to summer.

By the end of August, the school notified us of internships.

On the night I received the notice, I asked him if he would go to the hospital for internship the day after tomorrow.
There was no meal here, just say "OK."
When I went up, I said, "I haven't seen you since we parted."
Li didn't say anything.

When I got downstairs to the dormitory, I found that he hadn't returned to the dormitory when I went upstairs, and this person was talking in front of me.

The black hair on her forehead was scattered on her eyelashes, and the surrounding light and shadow were dim, making her expression look even more inhuman and cold.
When I looked at it for a while, I said cruelly, "We have already divided it, so it doesn't matter where it is."
"I know." He turned his head and looked away, "There's no need to repeat this to me."

"We've been apart as a couple, so it should be like this."
"Then what should we do?" Li Yehao said, "We should continue to be friends after we die? How can we do it?"
"..."

I didn't know what to say at the moment, so I just moved my lips and finally put together a very weak sentence: "Should we all move forward?"

I finally decided to lower my gaze to that person.
Look at each other.
It's like looking at the words and sentences, "How do you know if it's coming out? Will you still go forward?"

The topic came to an end.

But I knew then that I was not happy at all.
Because after that day, no one appeared in front of him again.

It is said that we have not deleted any WeChat friends, so we have switched to communication methods and kept them all.

When I went up, I didn't send a WeChat message, didn't apologize, and didn't show any goodwill.
After all, we have already broken up.

After not watching the internship, it was a rare day for Jingyue to take a break.
The hospital has a working time arrangement for each department, and stipulates that each person has eight days off per month. There are three people in the dormitory who are interning in the same department, so how should the three of them spend their rest time?

It was Shangshi and Jingyue's turn to rest during the day. The two did not go anywhere. They went to bed at 10 o'clock last night and slept until noon the next day. Then they got up slowly, washed up, and went to the cafeteria to have lunch.

When the two arrived at the cafeteria, it was already past lunchtime.
As long as we went to the window to cook, we ordered two dishes and sat down to wait.

Jing Yue started to complain about the latter: "To be honest, I don't want to do anything when I go back to the dormitory every day, I just want to go to sleep. The dormitory is too far from the hospital. I am tired after work, and I have to take a bus for half an hour. It's so annoying."
I also agree with this statement: "When the night shift is over, I think about having to take the bus for half an hour to go back to school, and then walk for another ten minutes to get back to the dormitory. I feel miserable."

Jing Yue said, "Have you discussed this with He Yang? We plan to rent a house in a community near the hospital."

I didn't expect it to be so exaggerated.
Sure enough, falling in love is so difficult. When you are in love, you will always look at the other person half of the time.

Last time, "How many months do I need to rent a house?"
Jingyue's "The cheapest one is about 1,000, but it doesn't have furniture and it's quite small. The next two looked at a house for 2,500. Although this is for the living room, it's only over 50 square meters. It has rooms, halls, bathrooms, and water and electricity. It's quite good."

I said, "That's pretty good."
Jing Yue asked, "What do you mean, do we have to rent a house outside when we go out?"
When I went to school, I was worried that "the rent is still a bit expensive."
Jing Yue smiled and said, "I didn't get a scholarship of 20,000 yuan this semester. It's only 2,000 yuan. It's not expensive."

When I went up, I was thinking, "How much does it cost to return the furniture to see the room?"
Jing Yue said, "Let's look at 1500? It's not clear. After all, the layout of each house is different. You have to ask yourself."
I thought for a while, "I'll go downstairs and look for a suitable house when I have a day off. To be honest, I don't want to run back and forth between school and hospital every day. I feel like I'm wasting my time on the road and have no time to study."

"Student Shangshi," Jing Yue was speechless, "Do you think about studying every day?"
"I still want to make money." Shang Shi said honestly.
"..."

At this moment, the auntie at the cooking window called out, "Is the food ready?"
Jing Yue stood up and said, "Go get it, and go sit down."
I didn't move when I went upstairs. Suddenly someone passed by and found two boxes of yogurt on the table.
My eyelids were twitching, as if I had a premonition of who was coming. I raised my eyes and saw the figure leaving.

After Jing Yue brought the dishes back, she saw yogurt on the table and was stunned. "Why are you out of yogurt so soon?"

We sat down and went to the convenience store near the restaurant.
When I came up, I just gave a vague "Yeah."
Just take the unread box and give Jingyue a "drink."

The next day, I worked the day shift.
It's rare for me to get off work on time, so after get off work, I planned to go to the community near the hospital to see if there was any suitable house yet.
However, when I walked out of the hospital gate, I saw that there was nothing inside.
To be precise, the black G-Class is also good here.

It is better to park the car at the entrance of the outpatient hall or outside the outpatient clinic, so as not to let the car stay for too long.

After the passenger window was lowered, he leaned over and said two words, "Get in the car."
He said there was a car waiting behind him, and he was afraid of disturbing others when he got on, so he didn't mention the car yet.

As soon as the car went into the sky, something was thrown into it.
This one is slightly bigger than the green box.
Then I asked, and I could just say "internship gift" casually.

Shang Shijing didn't say "still this..."
"If you want to, just throw it away." Li Ye said decisively.
I really believed it at the time and said I would throw it away.
He rubbed the surface of the box with his fingertips, and after a while, he whispered "Thank you."

"Open it and take a look," Li Yehao smiled, "It won't take long for the gift to arrive."

There was no box when I opened it.
This depends on the table.

"I often check the time when I go out. It would be more convenient to check the time by a watch."

He took the box without moving, holding his breath, and only the sound of shallow breathing filled the car.
It seems to be still watching the minutes.
Maybe two minutes.
Maybe longer.

Just swallow the bitter taste in your nose and say "thank you."

"Just put it on." He said it in a casual tone, looking very worried.

But I know that my peripheral vision is always watching you, hoping you will wear the watch.

His fingers froze when he took the watch out of the box, and put it on very slowly and carefully.

After saying that, he turned his head and didn't look at it, and just smiled at Meng Xiao and said, "It's very suitable for going out, baby."
After the words were out of their mouths, they both fell silent. A feeling of stagnation and awkwardness filled the air, as well as a feeling of despair and sadness that spread silently.

It's like muscle memory in the body.
So it came out in a controlled manner.

His Adam's apple rolled and he said hoarsely, "I'm sorry."
When my heartbeat returns to normal, I just say "It's okay."

It's like saying you're used to it.
Are you used to listening to it when you are on the Internet?

This word "baby".
It's hard to forget.
It is unforgettable to all living beings.

……

Memories are unraveling and entangled.

When the elevator arrives, go to the floor.
As soon as he pulled himself out of his memory, he adjusted his mood and walked out.
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After leaving, Chi Jingting felt a burst of pain on his thumb. He looked around with a straightforward and sinister look.

Liye looked indifferent and remained indifferent no matter how Chi Jingting looked at him.
Chi Jingting suddenly sneered without looking at her, "Mom, I know from the look on your face, are you planning to reconcile with me like this? It doesn't matter, can't you be more promising? After so many years, can't you change a woman to Xiamen? Do you have to be in Xiamen?"

"You really have to think clearly, what else is there to do? Besides being prettier, having better grades, and having a job, it's best for talented people in Nancheng to work in a hospital. You can't force yourself to have a job." Chi Jingting said this very objectively.
"The hospital affiliated to Nancheng University is the best hospital in the country." Li Yihan said that there was no such sentence.

"..." Chi Jingting choked, "Do you still want to argue with me about this matter?"

"The next person will state the facts."

Chi Jingting was speechless, but this is the key point. After reading it through and summarizing it, he said, "Looking at it this way, it is indeed quite excellent?"

He sat on the sofa and said he would take out his phone to check the progress of the takeaway, but he didn't pay any attention to Chi Jingting.

"But there are so many excellent women around me, what's the point of looking at one?"
"The way you were dumped is something that people still remember now."
"Is it really that simple? Is it really that necessary?"

"Look, look at Chen Jiangce, didn't you say your mother was bewitched? Don't you have eyes for women?" Chi Jingting kept talking a lot, but he never responded.

Chi Jingting asked if he was tired and said he would lie on the hospital bed facing the ceiling.
His eyes were dazed and empty for a while, and he was so helpless that he compromised, "This is really the way it is, and there's nothing I can do to stop it. So let it be, it just so happens that I haven't been injured, I'll go out and see you every day, and then I'll be able to meet you."

"As for when to get off here, we have to see when we can catch up."

"It depends on the weather, or it can be a week. If it rains so much, you can cut off your fingers and stay in the hospital for a year. It's no problem."

At this point, Chi Jingting sighed, and looked like he was ready to sacrifice himself for his buddy.
In the end, he couldn't help but brag about himself, "Who asked me to pay the money? I can stay in the VIP ward as I like."

(End of this chapter)