belated antidote

Zhong Huaiyuan had never had such a frank and direct person around him, too many people approached with obvious intentions, but deliberately concealed their intentions.

He doesn't like the so-called human knowledge hidden in these twists and turns. Zhong Zhiting always says that he is stubborn, but he has not bowed his head for so many years. His popularity in Renji is good but not good.

But Zhong Huaiyuan didn't care about these.Qi Dongqing is different from others, maybe he doesn't know what he cares about, but he will give him some warm comfort.

It was only when Zhong Huaiyuan returned home that he had time to pay attention to the information bombardment along the way.Qi Dongqing seemed really anxious, she didn't even type any words, it was all voice messages.

"I'm sorry Senior Zhong, I was not very polite just now, if I offend your family, please forgive me."

"You can treat me as nonsense for everything else, only the last sentence must be true!"

"I suddenly lost my temper tonight. I hope I didn't make you angry. It's okay to be angry. I will apologize until you calm down..."

Yorkshire at home licked Zhong Huaiyuan's palm, and his ears were also warm, like static electricity caught off guard in winter.He didn't turn on the light, and there was obviously thick darkness in front of him, but it was strange that Qi Dongqing's appearance was clearly visible.

It is undeniable that Qi Dongqing is beautiful and delicate, his face can really make him stand out in the crowd, maybe what makes Zhong Huaiyuan look twice more is his talking eyes as always, and his gentle temperament.

Zhong Huaiyuan didn't think that what Qi Dongqing said at the gate of Hechun Hall was harsh, if it was called offending his family, then what Zhong Zhiding received both openly and secretly would be called knives.What's more, he and Zhong Zhiting are not family members in general perception.

The tutor Qi Dongqing received should be quite good, even at this level, it is a bit too cute to be busy with self-criticism.In the next second, a more terrible voice came.

"Does our new friend... still count?"

Qi Dongqing could completely avoid the unknown embarrassment with words, but he didn't seem to want to hide his panic at all.This kind of hesitant but forced to speak out temptation made Zhong Huaiyuan very helpless.

Usually chatting cautiously with myself is like a cat walking a tightrope. The cautiousness of wanting to look up a dictionary has already overflowed the screen. Now it suddenly becomes a stupid dog who only cares about rampage.

He didn't know what Qi Dongqing's ability was that he could use every pause to make him unable to say no.

Yorkshire was still playing with his hand, Zhong Huaiyuan could only reply to the message with one hand to appease the poor puppy on the screen: "Do the math."

The other party quickly replied with an emoji of Maomao crazily calling, and immediately typed back: "Senior Zhong, I'm so happy!"

Zhong Huaiyuan didn't know why he thought this address was a bit blunt: "Don't be so polite."

Qi Dongqing replied in seconds: "Then what can I call you?"

"Whatever." Zhong Huaiyuan replied, and he also thought so.He doesn't really mind calling it a thing, even though it symbolizes the closeness between two people.

Soon, Qi Dongqing replied with an eight-second voice.Zhong Huaiyuan turned on the loudspeaker while flushing the hot water. In the first six seconds of silence, there were two breathing frequencies, one fast and one slow, and the last two seconds were the sound of two words of hot water spilling over the sink.

"Brother Yuan."

Qi Dongqing's voice was crisp and vivid, and it was very nice.

Zhong Huaiyuan thought of the thrush that mellowed every morning on the big banyan tree outside the courtyard gate when he was a child, and after silently tidying up the sink, he replied "yes" on the chat interface.

"Alright Brother Yuan, rest early [Moon]."

"Grandpa's medicinal wine is ready, I will contact you."

It was rare for Zhong Huaiyuan to be infected by this very simple happiness. When he looked up in the mirror, he realized that the curvature of his mouth seemed to have not been suppressed.

Zhong Huaiyuan's making friends has always been a matter of course through daily running-in, but it has not been two weeks since he officially met Qi Dongqing, and the little doctor has already made himself a friend very domineeringly.

This level of familiarity can be said to be socially awesome. Zhong Huaiyuan felt that Qi Dongqing's problem was even more difficult to see than the difficult and miscellaneous diseases he encountered in the emergency center.

The little doctor will share his daily life with him every day, sometimes it is a pot of tonic soup that is dark because of too many medicinal materials, sometimes it is a mosaic appointment form, and more often it is some very unnutritious "Have you eaten?" ", "Busy?" daily greetings.

When exaggerating, Zhong Huaiyuan left his mobile phone at the nurse's station, and when he came back from rounds, his colleagues laughed at him: "Head nurse, your news alert is more frequent than my morning alarm clock."

The amazing thing is that Qi Dongqing didn't make him dissatisfied with being disturbed. He didn't always reply or express his feelings, but he would read the messages and pictures he sent.Zhong Huaiyuan looked at how he was struggling to live every day, and felt that the exhaustion that hit him so hard before had dissipated all of a sudden.

Qi Dongqing and the friends he had made in the past were not of the same type at all, and Zhong Huaiyuan couldn't handle the way the two interacted. Fortunately, Qi Dongqing never made him feel embarrassed, but when he came to his senses, this person seemed to be It has been very naturally integrated into his life circle.

In fact, the two people's workplaces are not far away, to put it bluntly, the distance is only two streets, and Zhong Huaiyuan would not be surprised to meet Qi Dongqing at the breakfast stall opposite the hospital.

He just got off the evening shift and handed over to his morning shift colleagues at 07:30. He used to come to this store to have a meal before going home to rest.

Qi Dongqing took a wet towel and carefully dried the ponytail beside her, and motioned Zhong Huaiyuan to sit down.He still had half a peanut bag in his mouth, but he frantically helped himself to boil the chopsticks with tea, and a special aroma came out just like that.

Strange to say, the sour taste of chili noodles at the mobile pancake stand opposite, the bamboo clears scattered when the steamer is heated at the gate of Shaxian County, and the grease that has been fried repeatedly, all these worldly flavors that can grab Zhong Huaiyuan's olfactory nerves in an instant in the past, are now here. Qi Dongqing was paralyzed in front of him, no matter how mixed the smell was, it couldn't cover the medicinal fragrance of him.

It was as if what flowed in his blood vessels was not blood plasma at all, but medicinal soup.It is not the bitterness that lingers on the sick bed, but the sweetness that overflows when the crock pot is stewed.

Zhong Huaiyuan went to order food at the entrance of the store, and when he came back, he had a basket of soup dumplings in his hand. Seeing him coming back, Qi Dongqing mixed soy sauce and vinegar very naturally, and he never forgot the taste of the person in front of him.

Under Zhong Huaiyuan's surprised and probing eyes, Qi Dongqing suddenly became flustered: "Ah, if you don't like it, you can adjust it again."

Qi Dongqing was very afraid that Zhong Huaiyuan would think too much about it, so he added a very lame reason: "Uh... I usually eat like this, so I want to recommend you to try it."

"No, this is my taste too." Zhong Huaiyuan held down his hand that was about to push away the seasoning plate, "Thank you."

Fortunately, Zhong Huaiyuan didn't feel anything wrong, so Qi Dongqing was relieved.

This breakfast shop is very famous in the neighborhood, and there are usually no seats during commuting time. The two of them are sitting on the temporary tables and chairs on the side of the street, and the sound of horns hitting their eardrums from time to time.The temperature in the early spring morning was not too high, Qi Dongqing's knuckles were a little red from the cold, Zhong Huaiyuan poured a cup of hot tea and put it in his hand.

"Not used to it?" Zhong Huaiyuan saw Qi Dongqing's narrowness.

Qi Dongqing gnawed on the glutinous rice chicken, and quickly denied: "No, this restaurant tastes very good."

Zhong Huaiyuan glanced at the slightly cramped legs under the low table, and said with a smile, "I'm talking about this environment."

Qi Dongqing couldn't tell a lie under his gaze.This is indeed not his habit, he always cooks and eats at home, and then goes out after eating, and going to the breakfast shop means that complex food will leave a taste on his body, Qi Dongqing doesn't like to go to the doctor like this.

"I usually do it myself." Qi Dongqing smiled shyly.

"No wonder I haven't met you before." Zhong Huaiyuan nodded, without delving into the reason for his sudden appearance.

Qi Dongqing pressed the back of her hand against the hot plastic cup, and regained some feeling in her fingers that were stiff just now. "It's rare for me to run into each other without opening fire, and today we are destined." He just looked at Zhong Huaiyuan so generously, his eyes filled with a faint smile.

Qi Dongqing has always known where to meet Zhong Huaiyuan, but for so many years, he has been reluctant to bother him.He Chuntang and Renji belong to the same life circle, and everyone's daily activities will always overlap. Whether it's the avoidance before or the encounter today, it's all because of him deliberately.

Zhong Huaiyuan did not deny the meaningless words of fate, let alone deny that Qi Dongqing's clean and gentle eyes at this moment put him in a better mood than the long-lost sun.

"Actually, it's not fate, I'm here to try my luck." Qi Dongqing put down the glutinous rice chicken in his hand, and took a sip of water from a plastic cup, as if he was doing some psychological construction, "I'm lucky today."

Zhong Huaiyuan couldn't help laughing: "Are you staying here? Are you afraid you won't run into each other?"

"I'm afraid. But when I got up this morning and saw the message you sent me back last night, I really wanted to come to you." Qi Dongqing said, "When I realized it, I was already shrinking here."

A seven-year-old girl was sent to the emergency center last night. She was run over by a car on the way to a hobby class. The local hospital said that her leg had to be amputated, and her family drove for several hours to bring her here.The child does not cry or make trouble, and is so quiet and obedient that it makes people feel distressed, but even if the strength is as strong as Renji, there is no way to protect the last hope of the family.

Zhong Huaiyuan can still recall that when the little girl was pushed into the emergency room, the blood-stained gauze skirt exposed outside the quilt was like a scorching crater, melting her fledgling dream.

As Qi Dongqing spoke, she carefully looked at the expression of the person in front of her.There was no emotion on Zhong Huaiyuan's face, but deep regret was hidden in his eyes.

"You comfort the patient's family, I will accompany you to have breakfast, and I will treat it as comforting you." With a smile on his face, Qi Dongqing touched Zhong Huaiyuan's with the back of his hand, "It's a good thing I did, otherwise you would have to Digest it yourself."

The backs of the hands briefly touched and then separated, a very close but not sticky physical contact.

He never thought that Qi Dongqing would take his casual words so seriously.After soothing the crying family members last night, leaning on the table at the nurse's station, Zhong Huaiyuan clicked into the chat box, and suddenly had the desire to share.Although he has learned to calmly face countless disappointments and regrets, he still feels worried about it.

Because he was not used to imposing his negative emotions on others, Zhong Huaiyuan was already very careful with his words, but Qi Dongqing still sensitively captured the depressed mood that was unconsciously released through words.

Zhong Huaiyuan looked at him, and felt that there was warmth and emotion in his eyes that he couldn't resist.Qi Dongqing's eyes wrapped his heart like a hot spring, washing away all impurities and dust.

Zhong Huaiyuan lowered his head to hide his gradually strange mood: "Thank you, I feel much better."

"You're welcome. Even if you think I'm annoying, I'll always be here." On an ordinary spring morning, amidst the noisy hawking and billowing smoke, Qi Dongqing made a promise that the other party didn't quite understand.

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* Forsythia: heat-clearing and detoxifying, reducing swelling and dissipating stagnation