Chapter 22 Peace Medical School 20
Xia Bai was crawling in a dark cave.
The cave was dark, winding, sticky and slippery, and becoming increasingly narrow. He didn't know how long he had been climbing before he finally saw someone. It looked like Chu Xuelin, but it was too dark for him to see clearly.
He sat next to the person and wanted to talk to her, but when he opened his mouth, nothing came out, as if his throat was blocked.
The person had no intention of talking to him. She lowered her head and lay in the cave, her sticky hair covering her face.
Xia Bai sat beside her in a daze.
An unknown amount of time had passed before a ray of light shone into the dark cave. Xia Bai and she looked up in the cramped cave and saw a circle of white edges around the entrance.
At this moment, they were like being at the bottom of a narrow well, able to glimpse the sky.
"Look." The voice was very light, like a voice from the sky, floating into the bottom of the well.
Xia Bai saw nine childish words and three names written in the white sky.
Chu Xuemu.
Chu Xuemu.
Chu Xuelin.
"Your name is Chu Xuemu, and my name is Chu Xuemu. Two Mus make one Lin, and we are Chu Xuelin. When they call Chu Xuelin, they are not just calling me, but also you and us." The voice sounded in the sky again.
Xia Bai noticed that the people around him were trembling.
She lay prone in the cave, with her head tilted back the whole time, but her head was motionless, trembling for unknown reasons, but it was definitely not fear, but rather some intense emotion that her body could not bear.
"Chu Xuelin!" Another more serious voice sounded from the sky.
"Sorry, Xuemu, I have to leave for a while." After the pleasant voice fell, the sky disappeared and the cave fell into darkness again.
Xia Bai saw that she was still holding her head up, and she maintained that posture for quite a while before she lay down, curled up with her head buried, her whole body wrapped in wet hair.
Not long after, she looked up again, waited for daylight for a while, then lowered her head again, repeating this cycle over and over again. Finally, she saw the sky and heard the voice from heaven.
"I avoided the adoptive parents, and no one else noticed anything unusual."
"Don't be afraid, Xuemu. We won't be discovered. The people in this orphanage are lazy. They won't check our bodies unless someone confirms that they want to adopt us."
The pleasant voice lasted for a long time, and many words were spoken softly.
The person next to Xia Bai was half-lying down, looking up, without moving.
"Mom didn't abandon us, she just couldn't support us anymore."
"Actually, when she left... she was crying. It was so miserable. She would look back after every step she took. She wouldn't just run away and not be able to be found."
"It's okay if mom is gone. You still have me, and I still have you. We will always be together and will never be apart."
A gray cloud appeared in the white sky, and raindrops broke into pieces.
The voice gradually faded away, and the people beside Xia Bai still maintained a half-lying posture with their heads raised, until the sky gradually became smaller and disappeared, and the cave fell into darkness again.
Just like that, Xia Bai sat on her, watching her curl up with her head down, watching her look up and waiting, greeting the daybreak with her, and listening to the voice from the sky.
Most of the time, the bottom of the well was pitch black and narrow, and sometimes it was difficult to breathe, as one was trapped in the sticky suffocation.
But when that voice sounded, light would come in, sometimes falling on them, and oxygen would come with it, a bright sky, and a colorful world.
Gradually, Xia Bai, who had been staying in this dark cave, began to look forward to the arrival of that voice. The owner of that voice began to be equated with light, oxygen, and a colorful world.
The only person in their dark world is the celestial being.
Fortunately, he was a gentle person who would always respond to their silent expectations and share all the good things, allowing them to look up and see the sky with different scenery in the dark.
"Xue Mu, Xue Mu is going to elementary school."
A shabby green schoolbag that was a little big for a child appeared in the sky.
"Xuemu, Xuemu got first place in the exam. This is a little red flower. Did Xuemu learn to read well?"
A small red flower knitted with wool, the round yellow pistil looks like a little sun, and there are five bright red petals.
The snow wood in the cave was half-lying down and nodding vigorously, even though the snow wood couldn't see it.
"Xue Mu, Xue Mu graduated from elementary school."
In a graduation photo, she stood out in the crowd, pretty and cute, with her mouth gently covered and her eyes smiling into crescent shapes.
"Xuemu, Xuemu is going to middle school. We can leave here now."
On the dirty ground, there is a woven bag containing everything they have. They are about to go to an unknown place together.
"Xuemu, Xuemu is going to high school now. Tuition is free and there are many scholarships. He doesn't have to worry about not having enough food to eat anymore."
For the first time, a proper meal appeared in the sky. On a stainless steel plate, there was a portion of carrots, a portion of braised chicken, a portion of rice, and a bowl of red bean soup. It was steaming and flowed into the cave, fragrant and warm.
"Xuemu, Xuemu is going to fill out the application form. Xuemu wants to study medicine, oral medicine."
The voice gradually lost its childishness, but it was still pleasant to hear, and was polished by time to be gentle and firm.
"Xuemu wants to study dentistry because she wants to see if she can find someone like us in the future. If there is still someone like us in the world, she won't have to stay awake because of toothache and won't dare to go to the doctor. I can treat them."
"Xuemu, do you feel lonely?"
The sky brightened, and the golden sunlight penetrated deep into the cave, shining brightly on them.
For the first time, three of them appeared on the glass sky, along with a flashlight.
Chu Xuemu is very beautiful, even prettier in person than in photos. She has fair skin, natural eyebrows in the classic willow-leaf shape, gentle and bright eyes, and a naturally rosy red lipstick-free lips.
Clean, beautiful and spotless.
Perhaps it was because she had brought light and companionship to him in such a dark and cramped environment for such a long time, that she also had a bright and noble filter in Xia Bai's eyes.
When such a celestial being opened his mouth, a sticky and deformed person was lying there, completely exposed in the bright light.
She had been half-lying on the ground, with her two thin arms supported on the cave. This was because she had no legs. She grew out of the cave, which meant she was connected to the throat of another Chu Xuemu.
The facial features on his face, which was often covered with sticky hair, were slightly distorted. It wasn't that he looked distorted. In fact, he looked very good, and was very similar to the other Chu Xuemu. He just looked like he had been squeezed, so he didn't look ugly, just a little weird in shape.
Xue Mu beside Xia Bai was trembling, and looked up at the sky as he did every time before, but this time there was a slight flicker in his eyes.
When the beautiful girl opens her mouth, you will see a sticky head with a thin blood film on the face, and narrow and distorted facial features.
In ancient times, some places regarded twins as unlucky, believing that they were born incompatible and would bring disaster to family members.
There is a rumor now that most twins will compete and absorb each other in the embryo, and in the end only one child is born who absorbs the other into its own body as nutrition, or the absorption is incomplete, and a person is born with deformities such as two heads, three legs, six fingers, etc.
No one knows what the truth is when they are still embryonic cells.
Perhaps many people are born with another soul in their bodies.
The existence of two Chu Xuemu is beyond human cognition. Not to mention being understood and accepted, they can't even tell others. One of them always wonders if the other one will be lonely.
So when she saw a pea flower in the first bouquet she received, she showed it to her with joy.
"Xue Mu, look, isn't it beautiful? This is a pea flower. Peas are plants that are willing to coexist with rhizobia. I like pea flowers the most. Do you like them?"
Xia Bai and Xue Mu beside him looked up at the pink and purple flowers filling the sky. Two thin petals stretched out on the dark calyx, trembling in the wind like huge fluttering butterflies.
like.
Pea flowers became their favorite flowers. Occasionally, Chu Xuemu would buy a bunch of them, and the sky would be filled with pea flowers. The delicate fragrance of the flowers would drift into the cramped cave. She would slowly lie down with her head tilted up, like a fetus curled up in the mother's womb.
Later, she was even more surprised to find salamanders, kept in a fish tank with green algae floating around.
"Xue Mu, look! Did you know that green algae was already in the salamander's body when it was still an embryonic cell? They were a symbiosis that humans couldn't understand at first. Plants and animals grew up together when they were embryonic cells, but now, many people know about it."
"Are we like that?"
"You are like green algae, and I am like a salamander. We grew up together, and we can't live without each other. We will always live together."
"One day, we will be accepted and someone will see us."
In the green sky, there are more and more salamanders, of different species and sizes.
Chu Xuemu completed his undergraduate and master's degrees and then received his doctorate.
She often chatted with another Chu Xuemu in the laboratory, and the equipment in the laboratory allowed them to see each other clearly. They looked at each other, one with a smile in her eyes, very beautiful, and the other with a stream of light in her eyes, ignoring everyone else.
Xia Bai could already understand Xue Mu beside him. He knew that was her happiest moment, enough to resist the long darkness and depression that was to come.
Chu Xuemu liked this major more and more and wanted to become a doctor more and more.
She often imagined to the other Chu Xuemu that after she became a doctor, the light in her eyes would become brighter. That seemed to have become her dream, to put on a white coat and become a doctor.
Her efforts paid off and she was accepted by a very good hospital.
On the day of her pre-employment physical examination, she said, "Xuemu, I don't want to be a doctor anymore."
Raindrops fell obliquely from the sky.
She thought she didn't know, but even Xia Bai knew. During the university entrance physical examination, she skipped the eye, mouth and nose examination. However, to be a doctor in a large regular hospital, the physical examination must be much stricter.
Chu Xuemu, who was beside Xia Bai, lay down completely and curled up in her long hair, which seemed to become even stickier and wetter.
As the raindrops fell, she laughed and said, "Being a doctor is so tiring. There are always medical disputes. I just want to live a quiet life with Xue Mu."
Chu Xuemu in the cave took a long time to raise his head, stretched out his hands, and tried to pull himself out of the cave.
Xia Bai didn't know whether she wanted to catch the raindrops or touch the person in the sky.
Later, Chu Xuelin became a counselor at Heping Medical College and officially entered this hospital.
She was an optimistic and positive person. She adjusted herself quickly and lived happily in this medical school. It seemed as if she had forgotten her dream and nearly ten years of hard work. Every day, she and another Xue Mu planted flowers, raised salamanders, read books, and did her best to help her students realize their dreams of becoming doctors.
During this time, Xia Bai and Xue Mu beside him looked up at the sky and saw more beautiful scenery.
One day, the cave was not dark, but there was not much light either. Xue Mu in the cave was like most of the time, looking up and waiting for another Chu Xue Mu. Suddenly, his body tensed up and he made a nervous and defensive sticky gurgling sound from his mouth.
Xia Bai looked up, but this time he did not see the beautiful scenery, but saw a pair of shocked and excited eyes in the gloomy sky.
Those eyes were so big, and the madness and desire inside them were clearer, like the eyes of a devil.
His eyes flashed, and then a pleasant voice that put them at ease sounded, "Teacher Wang, I'm sorry, did I fall asleep?"
After that, Chu Xuemu beside Xia Bai was always very uneasy and anxious. She looked up and waited for another Chu Xuemu almost all day long, but she couldn't speak.
The other Chu Xuemu would talk to her and show her things every day, but he didn't see her every day.
When the other Chu Xuemu said that she was in love, the uneasiness and anxiety reached its peak.
"Xue Mu, we have finally met someone who may be able to accept us and know us. She seems to be my destined person. She is a teacher in our academy, named Wang Badan."
Chu Xuemu, who was beside Xia Bai, struggled and screamed hard. His facial features were almost deformed and only gurgling sounds could come out of his mouth, like the anxious humming of some small animal.
Xia Bai reached out and patted her back carefully. She seemed not to feel it, but he felt her slight trembling underneath the stickiness.
The other Chu Xuemu completely regarded this as worry and panic, "Don't worry, Xuemu, when we talked about deformities, he said that deformities are unique in the world. This uniqueness is the unexpected beauty of nature and should be well protected. He is such a person."
The salamander in the fish tank was brought over to comfort him. Looking at the salamander and green algae in the fish tank, Chu Xuemu said, "If there is one person in the world who can accept us, it should be him. If there is a second person in the world who can see you, it should also be him."
He really saw her, and a dark light flashed across his narrow eyes. "It's really a miracle of nature."
"Teacher Wang, how do you feel?" There was a rare nervousness in that pleasant voice.
"I just felt amazed and heartbroken. Xuelin, it must have been very difficult and lonely for you all these years. I'll be with you from now on."
The sky brightened and then dimmed, and a monster with red and white colors surged in, bringing a suffocating hot wind that almost swept them away.
The monster seemed to have set its sights on her. Chu Xuemu in the cave hummed and dodged. When the monster finally left, she lay dying on the cave, her two small hands tightly grasping the cave, and tiny, invisible drops of water fell into the depths of the cave.
Wang Badan: "Xuelin, have you ever thought that it is pitiful and unfair for Xuemu to live in such a dark and narrow environment? She also wants to bask in the sun, feel the breeze and the fragrance of flowers on the ground, and look at the sky. She is not a part of you, and she should have an independent self."
Chu Xuemu in the cave shook his head desperately.
She can call herself Chu Xuemu, and Mu will always be a part of Lin.
They are going to grow up together, and she has her own sky.
Wang Badan: "I know a specialist in malformed children. We can go and see him."
The sky seemed to be expanded a lot. A strange man leaned over and looked over. His big eyes were surging with excitement and heat behind the lenses. The red in his eyes became the brightest color in the sky.
The cold and hard clamps clamped Chu Xuemu in the cave, turning him over and over.
An extremely dazzling light fell down, accompanied by a "crackling" sound. Chu Xuemu covered his fragile eyes, which were then pulled open again. He finally let out a scream that was hardly heard by outsiders, and reddish-brown tears flowed all over his film-like face.
Wang Badan: "Doctor Li needs some clearer videos. Don't worry, Xuelin, I won't let him come this time. I will take the videos for you myself."
The sky turned into a glass with black circles, and it seemed as if there were countless eyes hidden inside, spying on her, all of which turned into dazzling light and pierced into her eyes.
Chu Xuemu in the cave hadn't made any sound for a long time, and even her movements hadn't changed much. For so many days she had been half-lying in the cave, looking up, like a kitten lying on the ground looking up at its owner, but only half of its body was exposed.
Until one day Chu Xuemu said, "Xuemu, Xuemu is going to put on that white coat."
The light finally appeared in Chu Xuemu's blurry eyes in the cave. He bent his sticky and tiny body and tried to raise his head higher.
Chu Xuemu, who had not spoken for a long time, spoke in a deep voice that seemed even gentler. "Tomorrow many industry experts and leaders will come to our college to see the newly opened medical laboratory. The school asked me to be a guide."
She was very happy but also a little nervous. “They are all very good and shining figures in the medical field.”
The next day, Chu Xuemu put on a snow-white coat. "Xuemu, there will be a commemorative photo at the end of today's event. I will show you the photo then."
This was an activity that she attached great importance to. Chu Xuemu in the cave did not move for fear of disturbing her.
When there are many people, the cave is often dark, and the bright sky rarely appears, but sounds can be heard.
"Teacher Chu, can you open your mouth and show me?"
"Teacher Chu, you look better than in the live broadcast room. Is your mouth more shocking than in the live broadcast room?"
"Teacher Chu, weren't you hired by our hospital? Why did you leave when the physical examination was about your mouth and nose? I can continue the physical examination for you. Will you still come to our hospital?"
Xia Bai felt a tremor, not knowing whether it came from Chu Xuemu in the cave or Chu Xuemu outside.
Xia Bai thought she must have known that these big guys came to this small medical school and didn't want to see any laboratories.
Wang Badan held up the camera and pointed it at her mouth, but he was not taking pictures of the medical expert's treatment.
The sky was blocked by the palm of the hand, and sobs and tremors like thunder came from the depths of the cave.
"Everyone, let's take a group photo."
Standing on both sides and behind Chu Xuemu, those surrounding her were all great experts in the medical field, professors who had published in many core journals, and leaders of well-known hospitals. They were all shining figures in the medical field and were the seniors she respected and envied.
She dreamed of the day when she would be able to wear a white coat, appear beside them, and let them see her.
At this moment, the dream seems to have come true.
"Look here, everyone smile, three, two, one eggplant!"
They were all looking at her.
Surrounded by them, pairs of eyes were fixed on her, authoritative, heavy, obscure, and sticky.
Facing the camera, Chu Xuelin subconsciously covered her mouth and laughed, trying hard to hold back the tears in her eyes.
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