When I was a child, I had written opinions for many frail female classmates. After the 800-meter test every semester, their faces looked extremely ugly, as if they were about to collapse at any time. So every physical test was the day for the boys to show their courtesy. They would rush up to the frail girls in time to show their concern, which was really enviable. Unfortunately, Shen Xieyi was a strong person who could only cough twice after running 3,000 meters.
There is a girl named Huang next door. Sometimes when neighbors see her every once in a while, they often sigh: "Huang Ni, I haven't seen you for a few days. How come you have grown taller and become more beautiful?" When this aunt sees Xie Yi, she says: "Xiao Yi, you are in good health."
At first, Xieyi felt smug when she heard it, but later she found that people only praised her for being strong and healthy. Over time, she came to a conclusion: if a child is good-looking, they would praise her as "beautiful"; if she is tall, they would say "she has grown taller"; if she is good at studying, they would praise her as "smart and promising"; if she has a good personality, they would say "a sensible child"; if she does not have the first four aspects, then well, we can only say "healthy and healthy" and so on.
Others were ranked first in studies, dancing competitions, and public speaking, but every time a relative asked her about it, she could only answer with embarrassment, "First in mountain climbing competitions." And it was a group of both men and women...
Therefore, the adjective "fragile" was once the dream of freehand brushwork.
Unfortunately, from childhood to adulthood, the only part of her body that had been against her was her teeth. She had been having terrible toothaches since midnight, but she didn't dare to tell Li Zeliang. He went to the hospital for rehabilitation treatment during the day and was so tired that he finally managed to fall asleep without taking medicine.
The next morning, Li Zeliang dragged her to see a doctor. The hospital clinic was brightly lit. A child next door was seeing a dentist. She refused to cooperate with the doctor, cried loudly, and kept calling for her mother. She lay there, nervously opened her mouth under the light, and Li Zeliang sat beside her. The doctor kept asking her to open her mouth, rinse her mouth, open it wide...
When her cheeks began to feel sore, the doctor made a conclusion: "Both the upper and lower wisdom teeth on the left side need to be removed, otherwise it will still hurt."
When Xie Yi heard about tooth extraction, his face suddenly changed, "I don't want to have it extracted."
"If you don't remove it, it will continue to hurt, and it will be even more uncomfortable if it gets inflamed. Think about it."
Xie Yi pursed his lips and looked at Li Zeliang pleadingly, "I won't pull it out."
Unexpectedly, Li Zeliang said: "Just pull it out. Wisdom teeth are useless anyway. You'd better remove them so that you won't suffer pain in the future." This sentence was equivalent to taking back the lifeline for Xieyi.
Li Zeliang then paid the money and took her to get a dental X-ray. After returning, the doctor looked at the dental X-ray, asked about her menstrual period, allergy history, etc., asked her to sign, and asked the nurse to get the anesthetic.
"Ayan." Xieyi lay on the chair and stretched out his hand, asking him for help.
Li Zeliang walked over to take her hand, held it and said, "It's not a good idea to suffer like this for a long time. Anyway, it's here. If you get pregnant in the future, you can't just take medicine. What should you do when the pain comes?"
"Oh." Xieyi blushed and said nothing more. I didn't expect his reasons to be so serious and to be so far-sighted. Child, this man has already thought about having a child, but the divorce is still a few months away. Doesn't he want to get on the bus first and buy the ticket later
The doctor inserted the anesthetic needle and pricked it a few times like a bee stinging someone. "Wait a few minutes, the anesthetic will take effect, and you can start." Then the nurse placed a ceramic tray next to Xieyi's face. On the tray were various types of pliers, hammers, and knives. When Xieyi saw it, she would have almost jumped up and ran away if Li Zeliang hadn't grabbed her in time.
"Ayan." She begged.
"No." He said firmly, "It won't hurt much. I'm here with you, right?"
"Don't... go." Xie Yi felt his lips and tongue go numb, and he had trouble speaking.
"Well, I'm not leaving." He still held her hand and stood beside her.
The doctor poked Xie Yi's tongue with a clamp and said, "You can remove it when the medicine starts to work. If it hurts, raise your hand."
But the doctor poked Xie Yi in several places and she said she could still feel it.
After waiting for a while, she still said she was conscious.
"Some people are resistant to anesthesia. In that case, you'll have to give them another dose," the doctor said.
Li Zeliang nodded.
The nurse had to get another anesthetic and gave the second injection. After waiting for ten minutes, she tried again. Xieyi raised his hand and still said he felt pain. The doctor was helpless. He tilted his head and looked at Xieyi's teeth and said, "It's impossible."
Just when the doctor didn't know what to do, Li Zeliang saw the clue. She couldn't even move her tongue when she spoke, and she said that the anesthetic was ineffective. He didn't understand her? She was clearly trying to survive.
"Xieyi, stop wasting time. There's a saying that goes, you can't escape the fifteenth even if you try to hide from the first." He said with narrowed eyes.
Xie Yi looked down at Li Zeliang in despair and had no choice but to open her mouth and let the doctor do whatever he wanted.
The doctor opened Xieyi's mouth and found that only the white tip of her wisdom tooth on the left side was exposed, so if she bit it a little, her gums would become inflamed. It was difficult to hold the pliers firmly, so the doctor tried to use more force, but to no avail.
"We need to use a scalpel to cut the gums a little and peel the tooth out before we can extract it." The doctor was afraid of affecting Xie Yi's mood, so he pulled the patient's family aside and explained in a low voice.
Li Zeliang's expression changed slightly when he heard this, "Do you want to cut it open?"
"Just cut it open and put two stitches on it," the doctor said. "It's free."
Li Zeliang took a look at Xie Yi and could only agree.
So, the doctor inserted the scalpel into the mouth and made two sharp cuts on the gums. Bright red blood gushed out from the wound and flooded the mouth. The doctor wiped the blood with a cotton ball.
As for Xie Yi, who was being cut, he couldn't see anything because of the anesthetic and felt no pain at all. He just wanted the doctor to be quick because he felt uncomfortable keeping his mouth open for too long.
Li Zeliang saw the blood spreading and gradually tightened his grip on Xieyi. The clamp mercilessly pulled at the wound, pulling the tooth out of the gums. Then he used pliers and exerted force. The tooth moved but still stubbornly refused to fall out. So, another doctor came with a hammer to help. This kind of tooth extraction was really scary. With each hammer, Xieyi finally felt it. It wasn't from the teeth, but from the head, which was shaking and making him feel dizzy.
She closed her eyes in pain, unable to see Li Zeliang's extremely pale face. He held Xieyi tightly with one hand, and with the other hand, he twisted the edge of the examination chair where Xieyi was lying, and because he was holding it too tightly, his joints turned white.
After finally pulling out the stubborn tooth, the doctor placed it on the tray, wiped his sweat and said, "Take a five-minute break. We'll pull out the top one."
Li Zeliang pulled up Xieyi and said unexpectedly, "I won't pull it out."
The doctor said, "Okay, take a good rest today and continue next time."
Because the effect of the anesthetic had not yet worn off, Xie Yi felt no pain, so he and Li Zeliang sat in the corridor to rest.
"I'll come again next time." In fact, she had thought it through. It didn't hurt much anyway, so it would be better to solve it once and for all.
"No," he said. "Never again."
Xie Yi glanced at Li Zeliang. He could still remember clearly how he had said no just now. How did he suddenly make a 180-degree turn? "But we paid the money. It would be a waste if we don't pull it out."
"Even if you give me money, I won't pull it out."
"But, if you can't avoid the first day, you can't avoid the fifteenth day."
"Then I won't pull it out."
Xie Yi was delighted, he actually figured it out.
"But what if I feel pain in the future?" She continued to ask vaguely while biting the hemostatic cotton.
"If it hurts, I'll buy you some medicine."
Xie Yi looked at him again, as if he understood something, and then deliberately said, "But, if you have children, you can't take medicine casually."
"It's okay not to have children for the time being." He actually said.
"But… "
"Where do you get so many buts?" He frowned.
Hearing Li Zeliang say this, Xie Yi suddenly realized, "Ayan, are you afraid? Besides, they pulled out my teeth, not yours, what are you afraid of?"
She remembered what he said when he was drunk before, "I stabbed you, not me," so she replied to him with the same words.
Li Zeliang turned his face away and didn't argue with her anymore. He didn't say anything. After a long time, he said something lightly.
“It makes me sad.”
Before leaving, the doctor gave her a lot of precautions, including asking her to bite the hemostatic cotton, talk less, not eat hot food, not rinse her mouth, etc.
When I got home, the effect of the medicine began to wear off and my mouth regained feeling. But what followed was not pain, but a strange feeling, as if my head was filled with water and was about to explode. I felt dizzy.
Li Zeliang touched her forehead and found that she had a fever.
"Ayan, I feel uncomfortable." She threw herself into his arms, acting coquettishly and sickly.
"I know," Li Zeliang touched her face, "I won't go to work and will stay with you." After saying that, he took out the anti-inflammatory medicine prescribed by the doctor from his coat pocket, and then poured boiled water to feed her the medicine.
The wound on her gums was bleeding non-stop. Every half an hour, she had to go to the toilet to vomit to avoid swallowing it. But when taking medicine, she had to drink water, and the blood mixed with the saliva went down her stomach. The rusty smell of blood made Xieyi feel sick, and she couldn't help but vomit out the water with the medicine, which flowed onto the quilt and stained it.
Xie Yi originally thought that Li Zeliang was going to scold her again, but she didn't expect that when he saw the blood, his eyes changed slightly, and he actually hugged her and said, "We will never have teeth pulled again."
Xie Yi rested her face on his shoulder and said, "Ayan, I'm not in pain, I just took the medicine and want to eat something sweet."
Li Zeliang went to find some candy for her. He brought some fruit candy, but she said, "I want some milk candy." He didn't hesitate at all and immediately went to change it. That day, Li Zeliang finally let Xieyi enjoy what it means to have her requests met and to be taken care of in every possible way. No wonder most of the heroines on TV love to get sick. It turns out there is such treatment.
As expected, she became more precious when she fell ill. Whenever she made a mistake and made Li Zeliang angry, before he could get angry, she would act like a spoiled child and say, "Oh, my teeth hurt and I feel dizzy." It worked every time she said this.
Unfortunately, she was born strong and recovered in less than two days. Therefore, this reason would become less and less tenable as time went by and her body became stronger. It must be used with caution, Xieyi thought to himself.
In the past few days, they were going to move back to the apartment in the city to live alone. Li Zeliang knew that she didn't like living with so many people, and it would be more comfortable for them to live alone. So during the weekend, Xieyi took him to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities.
Xieyi was very careful about his legs along the way, worried that he might feel a little pain. "I'll go in and buy it. You wait for me in the car."
"I'm fine, you don't need to worry about me," he emphasized.
It was Saturday, and the supermarket was particularly crowded in the afternoon. There were discounts and promotions everywhere, and it was very noisy. In the crowd, he was afraid that she would get lost and would be too lazy to look for it, so he kept holding her hand. When they walked to the audio-visual area, Li Zeliang suddenly remembered that they had not watched the story they watched together in the cinema last time, and she kept clamoring to know the ending. So, he deliberately looked for the disc, and also selected a few movies to keep at home, so that she could kill time when she was free in the evening, so that she would not have to drag him to watch the prime-time TV series every time, and there would be ten minutes of commercials inserted after watching for twenty minutes, which was simply a living torture.
After Li Zeliang made his choice, he habitually took the hand of the girl next to him and led her away. He didn't notice it the first time he touched her, but after a few steps he felt something was wrong. He turned around and found that the girl he was holding was a strange girl. The girl's face was as red as a persimmon, but she actually followed him obediently for a few steps.
It was the first time that Li Zeliang felt so embarrassed in public, but his expression did not change at all. He pretended to be calm and let go of the girl, saying very gentlemanly, "I'm sorry, Miss. I held the wrong hand."