Chapter 8: Which wound has not healed yet?
Yu Ziming added, "Yesterday your father called and said we could delay it a little longer, but he would definitely give it to us by the end of the year. But you've seen the child's situation, so how can you ask us to delay? We all have plenty of time, but how can a child wait?"
Yu Ziming's eyes turned red after he finished speaking.
Sasa didn't say anything, and Yu Ziming continued, "It's only natural to pay back debts. I don't want to make a scene at your workplace. If I do, and I get arrested, you have to help me support my daughter, Miss Chen."
Sasa's heart sank, and she said, "I understand, Mr. Yu. But even if you want the money now, I can't give it to you."
Yu Ziming said, "Then it can be done at the end of this month."
Sasa glanced at her phone. The date was the 23rd, and there were still seven days left.
Sasa asked, "Do you have the IOU?"
Yu Ziming took out a wallet from the inner pocket of his coat, and then took out a piece of hard card from the wallet. When he opened the card, he found an IOU inside. Sasa took a photo and sent it to her father.
Her father acknowledged it and said that he had indeed written it himself.
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Sasa walked out of the supermarket, while Mr. Yu stayed inside to pick out a wash basin for the child. She left first, but she still felt that Mr. Yu's eyes behind her were emitting thousands of flames, burning her back.
Outside the supermarket, a man was holding a cigarette in his mouth and lighting it with one hand.
Sasa subconsciously turned her head and saw him wearing gray sportswear pants, a hooded sweatshirt, and a baseball cap, as if he had just finished exercising.
She paused to look at him.
"It seems like he has changed his glasses and looks thinner." Sasa thought so, then she walked up to him, took out the windproof lighter from her pocket, and lit his cigarette.
Sasa smiled and said, "I don't know why you bought a windproof lighter. It's very windy here."
The man was a little stunned, then suddenly laughed and shouted "Sasa."
Sasa nodded, "Yes, it's me."
The man's name is Chen Ang, and he is Sasa's first love.
They hadn't seen each other for ten years. But Sasa acted as if she hadn't experienced those ten years. She didn't need any time to get to know each other, and she rushed over to talk to Chen Ang.
Sasa started studying very early and attended university in her local area at the age of seventeen. There was a Qingbuliang restaurant near the school, and she was addicted to it and ordered it every day. One day in the middle of the night, she came out of the shower and was drinking Qingbuliang in the playground. A gust of wind blew her stomach and made her feel pain.
Sasa's classmates took her to the hospital, where her doctor, Chen Ang, was. He pressed on Sasa's stomach and diagnosed her with appendicitis. Chen Ang wanted her to have surgery, but she said it would be painful and leave scars, so she didn't want to.
Chen Ang said it was anesthesia.
Sasa said that the anesthesia was also painful.
She gestured with her hand and continued, "I know there will be an anesthetic as long as my little arm inserted into my back."
Chen Ang coaxed him like a child: "It won't hurt any more than your appendix."
Sasa said, "That's hard to say. By the time I'm lying on the operating table, there's no turning back."
Southern girls speak in a soft and sticky voice, sometimes with extended ending sounds.
Chen Ang asked again: "Are you in college?"
Sasa nodded.
Chen Ang said: "College is the best time to do an appendectomy. After graduation, I was very busy with work and had no time to do it."
Sasa stared at the name tag in front of him. "Then Dr. Chen, can you lend me a stress ball from the pediatric department? That way I can hold it when I'm scared."
Chen Ang shook his head: "The operating room is sterile. If you really don't want to do it, you can give yourself an anti-inflammatory drug."
Chen Ang stood up, flipped through the medical record in his hand, turned around and wanted to leave.
Sasa was anxious and said quickly, "I can do it too."
Chen Ang looked at her and urged: "Then go and sign quickly."
Sasa said, "Then give me your phone number."
Sasa stretched out her hand and extended it in front of Chen Ang.
Sasa said, "Just write here."
Chen Ang wrote down word by word. Sasa read out the string of numbers and confirmed with him, fearing that he had made a mistake in one number.
Then he said to Chen Ang, "Doctor Chen, can you sew my wound into a bow?"
Chen Ang actually said...okay.
At that time, Sasa was seventeen years old and Chen Ang was twenty-six years old.
Sasa is now 29 years old, and Chen Ang is 38 years old.
The atmosphere became dull after he finished smoking. He threw the cigarette butt into the trash can and crushed it hard.
Sasa was not embarrassed at all. She asked directly, "Are you divorced?"
Chen Ang paused and asked, "How do you know I'm married?"
Sasa said, "Then why aren't you married at the age of 36 in this small city? Are you planning to go to our Taoist temple in the mountains and attain enlightenment?"
Chen Ang was speechless and uttered two words: "Divorced."
Sasa said "Oh".
Sasa turned her head to look at him again and asked, "Do you want to have dinner together?"
Chen Ang said, I am on duty at night.
Sasa said, what's wrong with being on duty? Don't you have a desk to put your food on?
Chen Ang looked at her, his deep eyes behind the thin-framed glasses seemed to contain ten thousand dark fairy tales, and then he slowly said, It's not impossible.
Sasa actually wanted to eat spicy hot pot, but she was 29 years old, which in this small city was considered the age for starting a family. She needed to be a mature person and could no longer eat spicy hot pot in front of outsiders. So she politely carried a bag of snacks to Chen Ang's office.
She didn't know that Chen Ang had been promoted to chief physician and had his own private room. As soon as she came in, Sasa said, "I should have ordered Malatang earlier. I haven't had Malatang here in a long time."
When Chen Ang saw her come in, he moved the materials he was writing on aside and said to Sasa, "You still like to drink Qingbuliang. That Qingbuliang shop is still open."
Sasa's eyes lit up. "Then we can order takeout? You will accompany me to eat Qingbuliang, right?"
Chen Ang said, "Okay, now we have a private room, we don't have to follow the rules like before."
He paused and continued, "You can also eat spicy hot pot if you want."
He took out his cell phone and searched for Malatang and Qingbuliang for Sasa in the takeout list.
Sasa was immersed in this "we" and couldn't pull herself out of it for a while.
Sasa was a little surprised that Chen Ang wanted to order spicy hot pot for her. In her memory, Chen Ang was a bit pretentious, not like someone from this small city.
She still remembered what Chen Ang's small home looked like. It was in a small community in the mountains. Outside the window were tall fir trees and green plants. It really looked like a French manor in a magazine. There was a small piano in the secondary bedroom, and the kitchen was full of illy coffee beans. The first time they went back to his house, Chen Ang used a projector to show her a Mayday concert.
When she was seventeen, Sasa wrote love messages to Chen Ang's QQ space, using the function that was visible only to each other. Then Chen Ang said, "You are good at writing. Why don't you try writing footnotes for books, journals and magazines?"
Sasa just started writing.
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Sasa’s college classmate Li Yao works as a front desk guide at a medical beauty institution in Beijing. A few years ago, when Sasa went to do a project, Li Yao asked her if she had any special instructions while helping her register.
Sasa said, "I'm very afraid of pain. I talk a lot when I'm in pain."
Li Yao scoffed and said as she wrote the admission record, "I'm not Chen Ang. I don't have time to coax you."
Sasa didn't reply for a long time. Li Yao looked up and saw Sasa holding a stress ball in front of the counter and squeezing it hard.
Li Yao said, "This is for customers who are afraid of pain to distract their attention. It's perfect for you."
Sasa said, "Then your operating room is not sterile."
Li Yao laughed again and said, "You are just getting a hydration injection on your little hospital bed. Don't make it look like you are on an operating table in a top-tier hospital.
Sasa kept groaning in pain while getting the injection. Li Yao stood by and watched her, smiling and saying, "You still use a machine to inject. Some female customers are so beautiful and fierce that they let us inject them directly by hand."
Sasa asked, "How do you do it manually?" Li Yao said, "The machine gives you several injections at a time, but you only give one injection by hand. It takes longer and hurts longer, so you just do it that way."
Sasa curled her lips and said, "Then I definitely can't bear this hardship."
After the injection, Sasa sat in the observation room eating brown sugar biscuits. Li Yao happened to be having lunch break, and came over to tell Sasa gossip, such as how so-and-so in her hometown was doing, who had given birth to their first child, who had given birth to their second child, who had divorced, and who had cheated.
Sasa couldn't help but ask, "Is there anyone who wants to ask me?"
Li Yao shook her head. “People like you who go out are rarely mentioned.”
Sasa lowered her head to open a new cookie, but her palms were sweating and she couldn't open it. She sighed and put it down, saying to Li Yao, "You didn't get anything I wanted to hear."
Li Yao slapped her head and said, "And, oh, that, that someone, that Chen Ang."
Sasa turned her head and looked straight at her.
Li Yao said, "She's getting married. She's from my brother's class, and she's the most beautiful girl on campus. Do you know her? Her name is Cong Shanshan."
Sasa thought for a while and said, "I don't know him. He really doesn't have anything I want to hear."
Li Yao looked at her and said, "Hey Chen Su, do you hate Chen Ang?"
Sasa smiled and said, "Why do you hate me? If it weren't for Chen Ang, I would be running a clothing store in my hometown, selling clothes."
Li Yao saw that she was not paying attention and laughed, "You still look down on selling clothes. Those live broadcasters who sell goods now make millions a year."
Sasa looked over and shook her head: "I don't look down on you. I just think being a reporter has allowed me to see a bigger world."
Li Yao looked at Sasa's face, then took out a disinfectant wipe and wiped the blood off her face, saying, "That's not what you said when you first broke up."
Sasa's eyes were red, and she said to Li Yao, "You are too hard, my wound has not healed yet."
Li Yao asked meaningfully, "Which wound hasn't healed yet?"
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In fact, her relationship with Chen Ang that year was very painful. Chen Ang was handsome and a medical student. She was a minor at that time, and the two never made their relationship public.
At that time, she secretly took photos of Chen Ang and posted them on his QQ space. Chen Ang thought it was childish. She printed out her own photos and put them on the back cover of Chen Ang's phone. Chen Ang would secretly take them down when he was at work.
They went rafting together, and when they met an acquaintance, Chen Ang would hold her hand and then let go.
When they go to the movies, they always go to the last row at the latest time.
When they just broke up, she secretly hated him and even wrote a long breakup message on QQ space, letting the whole world know about their love and hate. She also hated him for not loving her openly, but later she became indifferent.
She has been in Beijing for so many years without a love relationship, because no one has ever caught her eye. The young ones are too ignorant, and the old ones are too greasy, with an air of self-righteousness that makes them look down on others.
Sasa didn't know whether it was right or wrong for her to have met Chen Ang at the age of seventeen. She had met Chen Ang, a very mature and charming man who was good at studying and handling interpersonal relationships.
So later on, whenever she met proud cats and dogs, she always felt a little bit inferior. She had been a little anxious in recent years.
She felt that he was a star that twinkled for a moment in her life, but its light had been scattered for ten years.
Sasa thought that maybe she had been waiting for the starlight to fade away for so many years after leaving Chen Ang.
The Qingbuliang arrived first. Chen Ang helped her open it, poured the coconut milk into the fruit shredded coconut cup, and then handed it to her.
Chen Ang had severe astigmatism. He took off his glasses and squinted his eyes to rest for a while, but he felt something was wrong. He opened his eyes and saw Sasa was very close to him. He could see the top of her head and the ceiling light of the ward behind her.
The incandescent light diffused, and under the light, Sasa's eyes were full and a little mischievous.
Chen Ang stared at the mole on the wing of her nose, and it seemed as if a ghost that wanted to eat people had appeared in his heart. He was actually a little...hungry.
His Adam's apple moved, and Sasa kissed him.
In fact, Sasa had never told anyone that when she was seventeen, she skipped classes to surf the Internet. One day, she was sitting on the steps opposite the hospital and making a phone call. A boy with long legs walked out of a convenience store. She turned her head and saw his jawline.
That was the first time she met Chen Ang. Then she rode her bicycle to the hospital, found Chen Ang's photo at the reception desk, and went back to eat ice cream and drink water crazily.
Sasa felt like a gambler and never thought about what would happen if another surgeon received her.
At the age of seventeen, when she was only pursuing love, God gave her a blessing.
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