At six o'clock in the morning, the sparrows on the telephone poles fluttered their wings and broke the tranquility of the alley. Because it had just rained the night before, the sweet-scented osmanthus was beaten to pieces, like an overturned honey pot, dripping on the wet ground.
Moisture came in through the gap of the window, Xu Sui lay on the table, her shoulders shrank subconsciously, she raised her head with difficulty, stretched out her hands and rubbed her face to make herself more awake.
Yesterday Xu Sui had just completed two surgeries, and he had been on the night shift until now. His long black eyelashes could not conceal the tiredness of his eyelids.
In the bathroom, Xu Sui had mint-flavored mouthwash in his mouth, turned on the tap, took a handful of water, and simply washed his face.
At 7:50, the number of people in the department gradually increased, and everyone said good morning to each other. Xu Sui quickly finished a portion of croissants, and put the black coffee next to him. Someone took it away and replaced it with a bottle of milk.
Xu Suiyi looked up, it was a new intern doctor, the boy scratched him embarrassedly: "Doctor Xu, drinking coffee all the time is not good for your health."
"Thank you." Xu Sui smiled, and she glanced at the time, "Come on, it's time for ward rounds."
Most of the patients in the inpatient department like Dr. Xu to make rounds. He is gentle, patient, and listens to their occasional complaints.
Several interns followed Xu Sui, and she went round the room one by one. With the corner of her clothes raised, she looked at the past with a blue ID pinned to her left chest—Xu Sui, a surgeon from Puren Hospital.
When a girl was found in the ward round, the patient had just had her appendix cut two days ago. Xu Sui specially instructed her to avoid food and adjust her work and rest.
The little girl was young, and not long after the operation, she regained her previous vitality. She raised a pair of big eyes and said that she would die if she ate this kind of food that faded out of birds.
"Doctor Xu, can I drink milk tea?" The little girl asked cautiously.
Xu Sui stopped on the blue folder with a signature pen, raised his eyes to meet a pair of expectant eyes, and let go: "A little bit."
"Why, but I prefer to drink Yihetang." The little girl looked distressed.
"..."
The intern behind him couldn't help laughing, and Xu Sui said expressionlessly, with a bit of cruelty in his voice: "You can't drink even a little bit now."
The little girl came to her senses and said regretfully, "I was wrong, doctor!"
After checking the room, Xu Sui went back to the office with his hands in his pockets, and met the teacher who had been accompanying him in the corridor, who was also the director of the surgery.
"Xiao Xu, did you just finish the house inspection?" The other party asked her.
"Well," Xu Sui nodded, and seeing that the director seemed to have something to say, he asked, "Teacher, what can you do?"
"You are really busy recently. You are the hardest working in this department. You have the same vigor as I did back then." Doctor Zhang smiled with a kind face, "But you must also pay attention to the balance between work and rest. Your mother has already called me. Let me worry about your big business."
Xu Sui was stunned. She didn't expect that the result of her repeated refusal to go on a blind date was that her mother found the director to suppress her. She made up her mind: "Teacher, do you know what my mother's dream is after middle age?"
"What?"
"Be a matchmaker, practice with me first." Xu Sui pointed at his innocent self.
"You child," Director Zhang laughed, his tone helpless, and then the conversation changed, "there is a nice young man in the family courtyard where I live, and the conditions are also good..."
Xu Sui's eyes flicked around him, and he changed the subject: "Teacher, why did I smell smoke on you? It's quite heavy."
Everyone in general medicine knows that Dr. Zhang has superb medical skills and authority, but he is also notoriously afraid of his wife. Dr. Zhang's wife is the head nurse of the Pediatrics Department, and she often comes to check on the post. Every time the teacher's wife smelled the smoke on his body, she would threaten to break his hands if she didn't care that his hands could still be used to save lives and heal the wounded.
"I haven't had time to smoke today. It may be stained by the patient's family members." Dr. Zhang grabbed his collar and sniffed it, with a flustered expression on his face, "Stop talking, I'll wash my hands first."
After the teacher left, Xu Sui finally got off work until eleven o'clock in the morning. She went home to catch up on sleep, and fell asleep in a dark place. When she woke up, the sky was completely dark, and there were already dots of neon lights in the distance.
Xu Sui let it go for a while, got up and closed the window, connected the speaker with the bluetooth of his mobile phone and played a hot rock song, and stepped on the shiatsu board to relax.
Most people think that it may be painful to be on the shiatsu board. For Xu Sui, it is a good way to decompress. The phone made a "ding" sound, Xu Sui sweated a little on his forehead, and sat on the acupressure board to get the phone.
Mother Xu sent a bunch of messages, asking her to go on a blind date.
The cloud is calm and the wind is light: [This time the young man is really good, he is two years older than you, he is still a lawyer, he is a successful person and looks good, the introducer said he is a responsible and excellent young man.]
The cloud is calm and the wind is light: [go to see you tomorrow? Don't make excuses, I know you won't be on duty tomorrow night.]
Yun Danfeng gently pushed a business card to you, Xu Sui clicked on the other person's profile picture, and complained: [This photo pose with hands crossed in front of the chest, I don't look like a successful scholar, it looks like a salesperson.]
As soon as Xu's mother saw Xu Sui interrupting, she knew that she wanted to muddle through as usual, and there was something wrong with her attitude. Xu's mother was a little angry, she was too lazy to type this time, and a series of death voices came over.
The cloud is light and the wind is light: [You are 27 this year, and you are almost an old girl, why do you still look indifferent?]
Xu Sui replied: [Mom, I don't really want to get married yet.]
At least that's what she thinks at this stage. She is relaxed and comfortable alone, and Xu Sui is busy with work, so she really doesn't have the energy to think about it.
The cloud is light and the wind is light: [Then what do you want to do?]
Before Xu Sui could reply, Yun Danfengqing sent another message: [Then do you want to become a nun?]
Xu Sui smiled and was about to reply, when a message from Mouhu suddenly popped up on the screen of her mobile phone. She clicked in, and after many years, someone still liked her answer and replied.
That question is: What was the funniest thing you did during your crush when you were a student? "
Xu Sui was on a whim and replied anonymously:
In my sophomore year of high school, a foreign movie was released, and I liked it so much that I bought a blue T-shirt for the movie.
On the first day of wearing it to class, I suddenly found that he was also wearing a blue T-shirt. Although he was wearing an ordinary blue T-shirt, my heartbeat was obvious, and I secretly thought it was a couple's style.
Maybe God saw that my secret love was too hard, so he specially sent me a sweet coincidence.
Since then, I have worn this dress quite often. Even the night before, wondering if he'd be wearing a blue T-shirt the next day. He sat in the second-to-last row, and I sat in the second-to-last row. Every day in morning class, in order to get a better look at him, I would deliberately go in through the back door, pretending to walk past him casually, and occasionally caught a glimpse of him lying lazily in the crook of his arm, with disheveled hair and protruding shoulder blades. When it is a blue shadow, the heartbeat will be abnormally fast, and I am inexplicably happy all day.
As a result, I found out later that this dress was a 9.9 yuan T-shirt that his girlfriend bought casually in the supermarket. Such a generous boy doesn't mind wearing it every day.
I woke up immediately, as if I realized one thing: he may never see me.
Xu Sui's reply was ranked first in the number of likes, and many people even replied under her: It's not funny at all, why do I feel so sad. Hug Miss Sister.
Xu Sui was stunned, and when he looked at his answer from many years ago and was about to hide it, a new answer popped up: So do you still like him now
The astringency in her eyes deepened little by little, Xu Sui sat on the finger-pressing board, and for some reason, dense pains came from her limbs and bones all over her body, and she was a little out of breath.
Xu Sui didn't reply, exited the software, and replied to his mother: [Okay.]
On the second night, Xu Sui dressed up specially, and she appeared in the restaurant at the address given by her mother, and the other party was already waiting there.
The other party's name was Lin Wenshen, who worked in a law firm, and made a much better impression on Xu Sui than in the photos. His facial features were fairly upright, and he treated others modestly.
The two chatted pretty well. After the meal, Lin Wenshen proposed to take a walk nearby. Xu Sui thought about it for a while and came out for a blind date, so there was no need to twitch, and finally nodded.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the moon is bright and white. Xu Sui and Lin Wenshen walked side by side, and the two exchanged a few words from time to time, and the atmosphere was quite comfortable.
On the snack street, blue and red curtains are strewn in a row. Eggplants are placed on the grill with tin foil. Yellow in colour, with a fresh aroma.
Lightbulbs hung overhead, with fine dust floating on them, dimly lit.
Cheng You brought a plate of grilled skewers to the man and sat down in front of the man. The two drank a little wine and started chatting one after another. Cheng You handed him a bunch of beef, and said in a cautious tone, "Boss, don't be too stressed, this time...you should take a rest."
Zhou Jingze was biting the skewer, when he heard this, he raised his eyelids and glanced at him, and laughed lowly: "What pressure can I have?"
"It's fine if you don't." Cheng You breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Jingze was sitting across from Cheng You, with his feet stepping on the horizontal bar at the bottom of the table. He had not been sitting here for a while, but he had already attracted the attention of several girls at the table next to him.
But he didn't even bother to lift his eyelids, he held a cigarette in his fingertips, the smoke rose slowly, handsome and indifferent.
When Cheng You was with him, he had already felt the attention from all directions, and he was extremely proud. In addition, he liked to chatter when he was drinking, and forced him to talk a lot: "Hey, boss, let alone, the past few years as a pilot I've been flying all over the world in the sky, I really didn't look carefully, but the place with the most beauties is our Jingbei City."
"Hey, look at those long legs." Cheng You sighed.
Zhou Jingze didn't even look at it, and sneered, "If you look blindly, I'll tell you."
Cheng You retracted his gaze resentfully, his eyes lit up halfway, and he pushed his arm: "Boss, there is a juicy one on the opposite side, and it looks like a southerner."
Hearing the word "South", Zhou Jingze raised his head subconsciously, his dark eyes swept over, and then he froze for a moment. The other party was indeed a typical southerner, with fair skin, a pair of almond-filled eyes, and wearing an apricot-colored knitted dress with two thin straps, revealing her fair shoulders.
"Tsk, I have a boyfriend, but the atmosphere of these two people seems to be that they just met, and they are probably on a blind date, but both of them have gentle demeanor, and they are quite a match." Cheng You commented.
When Cheng You said these words, he felt that the air around him suddenly cooled down. He was a little flustered, and at a glance, he saw his brother broke off a bamboo stick with his bare hands, without saying a word.
Xu Sui didn't notice the movement here, and was walking through the snack street side by side with Lin Wenshen. When it was about to end, there were a few struggles from the alley mouth.
It turned out that an old lady selling sugar water was stalked by a few drunken gangsters, who were about to smash her stall on the grounds that it was unpalatable. Xu Suilai didn't intend to be nosy, but the old man's begging voice instantly resembled her grandma's.
Just as Xu Sui was about to walk over, Lin Wenshen held her back and said shrewdly, "Don't go over at this time, it will be a disaster if you get scammed by gangsters or old ladies."
"I like being blackmailed." Xu Sui curled the corners of his lips, then looked at Lin Wenshen and held his hand, and the other party let go in embarrassment.
The old man was pushed to the ground by a leader of the gangsters, Xu Sui walked over to support her, and said calmly, "How much money, I will pay."
The gangster with dyed red hair saw Xu Sui's eyes light up, and put his hands on her bare shoulder skin: "Since it's my sister who is begging for mercy, let's forget about it and have a glass of wine with my brother."
"Don't... mess around, I'm a lawyer... you, you, let go..." Lin Wenshen pushed his eyes, too nervous to say a word.
Seeing that Lin Wenshen was a softie, the gangsters waved the iron rod in their hands and asked, "Why, do you want to fight?"
Lin Wenshen took a step back, glanced at Xu Sui, and gritted his teeth and ran away.
The gangster's hand rested on Xu Sui's shoulder, and caressed it wantonly. In less than a second, Xu Sui twisted his wrist with his backhand, making a "click" sound.
"Grass, you fucking—" the red hair let go of his hand in pain, his face sank completely, he raised the palm of one hand, and when he was about to slap it down, suddenly, a slender one appeared out of thin air, with clear and distinct joints. His hand blocked the bastard's fist.
It's Zhou Jingze.
"I thought it was a woman's hand, it was soft and not strong." Zhou Jingze's tone was frivolous and muddled.
His words were tantamount to provocation, the other party waved a hand over, Zhou Jingze dodged sideways, grabbed Hong Mao's arm and punched him to the ground, the red hair let out a scream of pain.
Several people gathered together and fought all of a sudden.
Xu Sui knelt down, helped the old man up, helped her pack up her things, and sent her away without saying a word.
A scuffle came and went quickly, Zhou Jingze fought four with one, and the gangsters fled. Zhou Jingze stood under the street lamp, a long shadow was drawn in front of her.
Xu Sui raised his eyes to look at him carefully.
Zhou Jingze was wearing a flight jacket, with four stripes on his shoulders, straight head and neck with a sense of oppression, single eyelids, extremely short hair, sharp and sharp side face, a bright red bloodstain on his chin, and a pair of dark and sharp eyes staring at him. she.
Xu Sui's heart skipped a beat when Zhou Jingze saw him, and he took a step back subconsciously. At this moment, a cool wind blows, and the leaves and garbage bags on the side of the road are rolled into the air and crumbling.
Seeing her familiar appearance, Zhou Jingze touched his left cheek with the tip of his tongue and let out a sneer.
The man tilted his head and spit bloody saliva into the trash can, then knocked out a cigarette from the cigarette box, twisted the butt of the cigarette with his slender fingertips, lowered his head and bit the cigarette, the silver lighter issued a "click" "the sound of.
It's still that careless and careless look.
He was waiting for Xu Sui to speak.
Xu Sui looked away, and his tone was unexpectedly alienated: "Thank you tonight, I'll go first."
After speaking, Xu Sui was stunned for a moment. She imagined the scene where the two met countless times, but she didn't expect that when it actually happened, they didn't even exchange pleasantries.
Xu Sui turned around and wanted to leave, but Zhou Jingze took a step closer. The smell of tobacco on his body was obvious, and the bitter breath made people unable to move.
Seen from the ground, his shadow suddenly surrounded her. His eyelashes drooped, and under the projection of the light, a faint shadow was formed, and his tone was a bit like gnashing of teeth:
"Are you on a blind date?"