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Chen Tingbai didn't want to go to the public hospital to queue up, saying that he felt sick when he smelled the disinfectant.

In fact, everyone knows why they don’t want to go.Teacher Lu didn't force Chen Tingbai to make an appointment for him in a private hospital. He originally planned to go with his son, but Chen Tingbai didn't want to say anything, so he had to ask Hu Cong to be smarter.

There are not many people in the dental clinic, and the staff will guide you to the treatment room when you report your phone number.

Chen Tingbai has always had a gloomy face, and the left cheek is slightly swollen due to the inflammation of the gums. In this case, even if he has a fairy face, it looks funny, and the rest is a cold face that is not threatening.

Hu Cong was afraid to make him angry again, so he didn't dare to talk much, but quietly pushed him to do various examinations. After the examination results came out, the doctor told him that he still had to extract the teeth.

Chen Tingbai couldn't get on the treatment couch. The doctor looked at him in embarrassment, but he didn't dare to say anything because of his ugly face. It was Hu Cong who had the courage to go over and pick him up and put him on the bed.

It has been a long time since I have encountered such a thing, lying brightly under the shadowless lamp.A doctor in a mask and disposable gloves looks down at himself.Chen Tingbai even clutched his clothes tightly with his hands nervously. He opened his mouth and closed his eyes.

Fortunately, only the anesthesia will cause pain, and then only the mechanical sound will reach the ears.

"Okay, just give another anti-inflammatory injection later." The doctor helped Chen Tingbai spit out a mouthful of blood foam into the small pool, and told Chen Tingbai with a smile that it was over.

It turned out to be over so soon.

This toothache, he was in pain for almost ten days.

But the whole process of tooth extraction took about half an hour.

Things like wisdom teeth are useless at all, and human beings have evolved to the point where they don't need their existence.When it grows, it will be painful and inflamed, and it may grow crooked and affect other teeth.

Such an absurd existence is very similar to Chen Tingbai's relationship that came and went inexplicably.

Now, it's all over.

The doctor said that after taking anti-inflammatory injections, I will take anti-inflammatory drugs for two days after going home, and eat a light diet. After two days, I will be fine.

But will feelings get better so quickly?

That person had been standing outside the door for several days, and Chen Tingbai could see the cigarette butts at the door every night when he came home.He would feel that he was about to suffocate in his heart. He didn't want this kind of redemption that wasn't even an apology, but if he didn't even have this, wouldn't his relationship be more ridiculous.

"Doctor, you liar..." This was the first time Chen Tingbai gritted his teeth to greet the doctor after the anesthesia passed.It wasn't at all like he said, he still had a toothache and couldn't eat anything.

When I looked in the mirror while washing, my face seemed to be swollen even higher.

Because of the toothache, he couldn't sleep even more.

Insomnia and unable to sleep well, his weight dropped visibly to the naked eye, and heavy shadows hung on his eye sockets.

Teacher Lu didn't know what happened to Chen Tingbai.It was obviously a very bland and nutritious food, but when it was brought to the table, Chen Tingbai still couldn't eat it.It was the same at night, I tried hot milk, I also tried essential oils to soothe the nerves and help me sleep, I woke up in the middle of the night and opened the door of Chen Tingbai's room, only to find that he was still awake.

Every time he was asked, Chen Tingbai's prevarication reason was still the toothache and he couldn't sleep.

Toothache is real, and it's also real that you can't sleep or eat.

It's just that I can't sleep and can't eat, but it's not just because of toothache.

Chen Tingbai knew it in his heart, and everyone knew it in his heart.

Chen Tingbai also didn't want to stay at home, and still went to the writing every day.If he had been at home all the time, Mr. Lu would have been looking at him with a worried face, making him food in different ways or urging him to go to bed.

Chen Tingbai felt that this was even more annoying. He hated this kind of care very much, as if he was so useless that he needed others to worry about these things.He went and didn't do anything, just drank tea, dazed, and occasionally smoked in the yard.

"Xiao Cong, why are there no painkillers?" Chen Tingbai was a little annoyed when the painkillers were gone.

Hu Cong touched his nose, with a sad face on his face: "Auntie didn't let me buy it. She asked the doctor, and the doctor said that you don't need to take painkillers now."

In fact, Chen Tingbai's teeth didn't hurt anymore, and the swelling on his cheeks disappeared long ago, but Chen Tingbai was still irritable.

No good, probably himself.

Those injuries on the body and the annoyance in the heart have never been experienced by others, so how can they experience them personally?Those so-called doctors say that they are just judgments locked by advanced technology.But is it really good or not? Doesn't he know it himself?

He knew very well that what was wrong with him was actually not teeth.

The place where Chen Tingbai really felt the pain was not the wisdom tooth that had been pulled out long ago.

Chen Tingbai also knew that that person was still standing outside the door.

He stayed in the words all the time, as if he dared not face Xu Shaohua.But this will go out, always meet.

These all make him feel annoying!

It was very late, Chen Tingbai sat at the door for a long time, rubbing his hands on his legs and rubbing the fabric of his trousers.Recently, his daily routine has been completely messed up, and he ate very little food, not to mention the regular rehabilitation. Chen Tingbai felt that his unconscious legs, paralyzed in a wheelchair, had become much thinner.

Xu Shaohua was smoking outside the door, and Chen Tingbai could smell the smoke.

"Hu Cong, let's go, go home." Chen Tingbai wanted to go home, or he wanted to take a look at the person outside the door in the name of going out.

The lights in the room were turned off one by one by Hu Cong, and the text suddenly became dark, only a little light from the street lamp outside shone in, and shone on Chen Tingbai.

Sometimes Chen Tingbai felt that he had lost his love for no reason, what was this kind of dying look like.But when I think about the inexplicable occurrence of even two people being together, I feel that the more I am like this, the more unwilling I am.

It should be more of a competition between myself and myself. If it is put in the past, it should be put in before I am not injured.How could someone like Xu Shaohua get into my eyes.

But now even people like Xu Shaohua can perfunctorily deceive him, but he still gets tricked every time.

Chen Tingbai was pushed out of the writing by Hu Cong, but Xu Shaohua was still waiting at the door.

Xu Shaohua didn't know why he had to come and wait every day. From the first day he came here, he told himself in his heart that if Chen Tingbai didn't forgive himself today, he would never come again.

However, the flag that is set up every day will be slapped in the face the next day, and he will still come the next day.When I got to the door, I didn't have the face to go in again, so I stood outside the door and smoked.He was waiting for Chen Tingbai to come out, even if he told him to leave with a gloomy face, then he wouldn't come again, and it could be considered a full stop.

If Chen Tingbai can let him in, give him a step.Then Xu Shaohua can also apologize along the steps, say a few sweet words, maybe he can reconcile.That's the best.

But Chen Tingbai was also waiting for Xu Shaohua to come in.

"Chen Tingbai..." Chen Tingbai came out early today, and Xu Shaohua still had four or five cigarettes left.In the past few days, Xu Shaohua usually smoked out all his cigarettes, while Chen Tingbai still didn't seem to leave at all.

This is the first time the two have met in such a long time.When Xu Shaohua saw Chen Tingbai for the first time, his heart stopped for a moment. How long has it been?How could he be like this, so thin that there is not much flesh on his face, and his chin is so sharp.The whole person seemed to have a serious illness.

Xu Shaohua couldn't help but walked in, bent down to look at Chen Tingbai, he didn't even have any spirit in his eyes, they were dark and not bright at all.Xu Shaohua tried his best not to be too surprised, and asked Chen Tingbai in a low voice: "Are you feeling unwell? Why do you look so bad?"

Is it difficult for you to see this?

Asked by Xu Shaohua, Chen Tingbai became more and more irritable, he turned his head away from him, and responded as if nothing happened: "It's nothing, I didn't have a good rest for the toothache a few days ago."

Xu Shaohua took a step forward, the subconsciously cultivated habits are really fatal.After staying with Chen Tingbai for a long time, Xu Shaohua was already approaching Hu Cong in many movements. As long as his body squatted down, he would naturally help Chen Tingbai straighten his crooked leg.

You can feel that Chen Tingbai has lost a lot of weight. In just a few days, his kneecaps are much more protruding than before.But because of sitting every day, the ankle was swollen badly, even the socks were full, and there was a deep strangle mark.

Xu Shaohua felt a little distressed, this kind of obscure and blunt pain relieved him of emotions that he hadn't figured out recently.

Let alone like it or not, at least I feel guilty.

His hand didn't leave Chen Tingbai's leg, and because of guilt, he kept stroking Chen Tingbai's leg, his voice trembling and hoarse, "Chen Tingbai, I'm here to apologize... Outside the door..."

Xu Shaohua's eyelashes drooped, he didn't know whether he was afraid to look into Chen Tingbai's eyes or he was seriously looking at Chen Tingbai's legs.

Chen Tingbai kept silent, nor did he let Xu Shaohua get out of the way.

The wind in early spring was a bit cold, blowing in disorder in all directions, making Chen Tingbai's trousers rattle, and he could also step on his falling toes.

He didn't speak for so long that Xu Shaohua's mind was racing about what he should say.While thinking about it, he heard another heavy snort from above him.

Chen Tingbai slowly opened his eyes, clenched his right hand slightly invisibly, then slowly loosened it, and then lowered the armrest as if he had lost all strength.

"I'm not feeling well today, I'm going home," he said.

Chen Tingbai was waiting for Xu Shaohua's apology, and when the real Xu Shaohua spoke face to face, he felt that he couldn't listen to a single word.

So what can I say.

Xu Shaohua finally caught the opportunity to meet Chen Tingbai face to face, how could he give up so easily, he grabbed the armrest of Chen Tingbai's wheelchair, and straightened Chen Tingbai to look at him. "Listen to me, I really did something wrong that day. I didn't think so. I really wanted to take you to the scenic spot I mentioned. It's just that I haven't been able to bring you in front of my parents. You You know, in their eyes, you and I are impossible!"

Chen Tingbai pushed Xu Shaohua hard with his right hand, but he really couldn't understand a word.

"I've been really annoying recently, please don't bother me anymore!"

Xu Shaohua was pushed to the ground, and this was one of the few times when he wanted to look up at Chen Tingbai.Chen Tingbai turned his back to the light, his face was pale, but his momentum was not inferior to anyone else.

It's over, it might really be over.