Strangers

Um. "Qi Xie took a bite of Lantern Festival.

"Well what is it?"

"It's much better." Qi Xie said.

Ding Li stared at him: "Really, don't lie to me."

"Fake, the doctor said that there is no cure, and I can live for half a year at most. He told me to hurry up and enjoy the time. I can eat whatever I want and play whatever I want."

Ding Li was startled: "Don't scare me."

Qi Xie smiled and handed over his left hand, Ding Li hesitantly pinched the radial artery, and the steady and powerful pulse came along with his body temperature.

"You're ready!" Ding Li instantly turned from worry to joy.

"No, it's the effect of the drug. Once the drug is stopped, it will return to its original state."

"How long will it take to recover?"

"A few years." Qi Xie said suddenly, "By the way, let me tell you about that doctor, it's very interesting."

"Is it the doctor who treated you?" Ding Li asked.

"Yeah." Qi Xie put down the bowl and adjusted to the state of storytelling, "That man's surname is Tie. When he debuted, he first called himself 'Strange Doctor Tie' and 'Ghost Doctor Tie'. Later, he became obsessed with Japanese manga for a while, and asked others to call him Iron Man. Finally, he was officially nicknamed 'Broken Finger Iron' when he lost a pinky finger."

"Why did he break off a little finger?" Ding Li asked.

"This is what I want to talk about." Qi Xie said, "It is said that the grandfather of 'Broken Finger Iron' was a Miao Yao witch doctor. Fu, I only want a little knowledge of everything. I have studied all the medical skills of Miaozhong, Tibet and Mongolia, but they are all half-baked. As for his medical skills, he also fluctuates. If it’s not controlled well, it’s still superfluous and overkill. In short, it often brings some messy side effects when treating a disease. It’s like someone asking him to see a cold. After taking the medicine, he sees immediate results, but suddenly starts to have diarrhea. Another example is someone who has a migraine headache. After taking his prescription, he did not get sick again, but became a bald man. It is like a few years ago, a mafia boss got very serious hemorrhoids. With a wave, the medicine cured the disease, and the result..."

"How was the result?" Ding Li asked curiously.

"As a result, after the boss's hemorrhoids healed, he never lifted it again!" Qi Xie laughed and said, "He became furious, and immediately issued a hunting order, forcing Duan Zhitie to flee all the way to Hainan. Hearing this, Master Xun thought that this man was a Yicai discussed with the boss, and only chopped off his little finger to apologize, so he was admitted to the Hall of Guixin."

Ding Li didn't smile, he stared at the other side and asked, "Will you stop lifting after you get cured?"

"No way." Qi Xie didn't care, "He promised Master Xun that he will treat the disease seriously this time and never make this mistake again."

"Will that make you bald?" Ding Li asked again.

"Maybe." Qi Xie smiled.

Ding Li thought for a while, then turned around and went to the kitchen to fetch the medicine: "Xiaotao asked you to drink it before going to bed. It's so bitter."

"Have you tasted it?" Qi Xie looked at the bowl, there seemed to be a little less.

Ding Lin hummed: "Do you know the ingredients?"

"Do you think Broken Finger Tie will tell me the recipe?" Qi Xie brought it over and drank it all in one gulp, "It's getting late, it's time to rest, I'll take you to the guest room."

"I want to sleep in the same room with you." Ding Li said, "I want to chat with you."

"What time is it? If you're not sleepy, I'm still sleepy." Qi Xie cleaned the medicine bowl and put it back in the cupboard.

"It's okay not to talk, anyway, I want to sleep with you." Ding Li said stubbornly.

Qi Xie didn't speak again, and went upstairs after clearing the dining table. Ding Li picked up his luggage and followed behind. Seeing him enter the master bedroom on the third floor, he couldn't help but chuckled inwardly.

After washing and getting into bed, Ding Li turned his head, and Qi Xie next to him turned his back and did not make any movement.

"Are you asleep?" Ding Li asked.

"Falling asleep..." Qi Xie said lifelessly.

Ding Li turned to face his back: "After you left today, Qian Sining suddenly asked me if I would like to come to the hospital in Shanghai. She said that if I wanted, Guixintang could arrange all the transfer matters."

Qi Xie no longer pretended to be dead, and asked, "What do you say?"

"I said I'll think about it." Ding Li poked his back, "What do you think she means?"

Qi Xie turned around and lay flat, looking at the ceiling: "She wants me to stay at the headquarters and work in peace until the day I retire."

"What does that have to do with me?" Ding Li asked.

"Family placement."

"Family?" Ding Li blinked his eyes and pretended to be stupid.

"Otherwise, you think we are nothing in the eyes of others." Qi Xiong's tone was not good.

Ding Li didn't speak for a long time, and finally said: "Then I will come to Shanghai, and we will go back together when you recover from illness."

Maybe it was because he paused for too long, Qi Xie almost fell asleep, and only said in a daze, don't come.

"Why?" Ding Li asked.

"Housekeeping for me..."

"Am I a dog?" Ding Li turned his head with a smile, and seeing that Qi Xie had completely fallen asleep, he simply raised his arms to observe his sleeping appearance.Not long after, he took a few heavy breaths, then frowned slightly, as if he was dreaming of something unpleasant.

So Ding Li leaned forward and stared with wide eyes, Qi Xie's lips were slightly pursed in the dim light from the curtains, and after a long time, he turned over and muttered "[-]:[-]..."

"Six at six?" Ding Li frowned.

"Zero six... Nine..." Qi Xie muttered a few more words, and gradually fell silent.

Ding Li lay down in confusion, his shoulder touched something under the pillow, he tiptoedly pulled it out, it was a copy of "Quantum Mechanics", and opened it again, the notes in the book reached the page of Planck's constant.

What do you study in Guixintang?Ding Li chuckled and sighed, closed the book and placed it gently on the bedside table, said good night to himself and closed his eyes.

☆、Quantum Mechanics

The patter of rain woke him up in the morning.

After touching the phone, the time was already 08:30. Ding Li rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at the person next to the pillow in doubt, thinking that Ah Jing should have woken up by now.

"How much wine did you drink last night..." Ding Lichen murmured hoarsely to himself.

"A bottle of Moutai." Qi Xie said suddenly.

Ding Li was taken aback: "Are you awake?"

"I woke up once at 06:30, and continued to sleep after seeing if you didn't wake up." Qi Xie said with his eyes closed.

Responding to his answer just now, Ding Li frowned: "You don't have to take it easy, how can you drink so much at once?"

"Everyone in Guixintang knows that I drink a lot, so I can hide there." Qi Xie pulled the quilt over his shoulders.

"Then you open it up and drink it, and come back to vomit after drinking it?" Ding Li was a little annoyed.

"I don't usually vomit, but I couldn't hold back when I saw you yesterday." Qi Xie said without a beat.

"Then I'll leave earlier, so as not to upset your spleen and stomach." Ding Li threw off the quilt and got out of bed.

"Angry?" Qi Xie poked his head out and saw Ding Li fiddling with his backpack with his back turned to him.

"Yes, I'm angry." Ding Li threw a box and got under the bed again, and Qi Xie unwrapped it. It was a set of exquisitely crafted silver foil bookmarks.

"Do you like it?" Ding Li asked.

"I really like it." Qi Xie picked out one and put it in the "Quantum Mechanics".

Ding Li remembered his sleep talk last night, and asked curiously: "Can you understand this?"

Qi Xie is ambiguous: "I know a thing or two in front of ordinary people, but I don't know anything in front of experts."

"Then explain it to me, an ordinary person."

"I don't need to explain it to you from an operationalist perspective."

"What is operationalism?" Ding Li asked.

"How to explain the concept of quantum mechanics depends on what purpose I want to achieve through the explanation. The purpose has already been achieved in you, so there is no need to explain it."

Ding Li slammed down on the pillow: "I know you are very powerful, but please take care of the intelligence level of ordinary people and use expressions that we can understand."

Qi Xie thought for a while, lay down a little, and said in a slightly lowered voice: "Then let me tell you something, don't tell others."

"Yeah." Ding Li changed his posture and looked at him.

"I promise not to tell." Qi Xie stared into his eyes.

"I swear by Hippocrates." Ding Li clasped his little finger, "If Iswervefromitorviolateit, maythereversebemylot."

"Can't understand."

"Lying is struck by lightning." Ding Li's translation is convincing and elegant.

"No need." Qi Xie patted his raised hand, "Do you know the origin of Qi Xie's name?"

"I know." Ding Li memorized the high school text, "Those who are in harmony are also those who dream of monsters. "Qi Harmony" is a book that records monsters."

"Yes and no, that's a pun. 'Qi Xie' is not only a book, but also the name of a kind of monster, and I am this kind of monster."

Ding Li's eyes darkened for a moment, and he stretched out his hand to pluck the other's forehead hair: "Are you really a monster?"

"It wasn't before, but it was later." Qi Xie turned his face away to avoid his hand, "Just like a human being can become a vampire from the 'First Embrace', I also experienced some things before I became Qi Xie. But this is not like the First Embrace , it does not have a clear ceremony, but an unintentional process of quantitative change to qualitative change."

"What's that?" Ding Li asked.

"Zhiguai." Qi Xie said, "Ten years ago I was an ordinary human, no, a mentally ill human. At that time, I could only see very few monsters, so I tried to write them down one by one. Then I came to When I arrived at Zhaizi, I met an old man who gave me a book, and started a business of buying and selling stories. As time passed, I remembered more and more monsters, and found that I could see more monsters, and my physique gradually changed. , and finally obtained the ability of gathering nothing into being, and became a Qi Harmony."

Ding Li was thoughtful, and finally asked: "Did you know from the beginning that Zhiguai's actions would turn you into a monster?"

"If I had known, I wouldn't have done this." Qi Xie said in a deep voice, and smiled again, "I think I must have been cheated by the old man, and he deliberately let that "Qi Xie" fall into my pocket on the day we met. Right now, so that I can take such an alias in advance."

"What is gathering nothing and turning something into something?" Ding Li asked again.

Qi Xie's eyes moved to the farthest part of the room, and he said in a trance: "Some religions say that this world, including you and me, is just a dream of God. Do you believe it?"

Ding Li stared at Qi Xie and shook his head, but saw that the focus of his eyes stopped somewhere: "But I believe it, because all the monsters... are also Qi Xie's daydreams."

"Daydream?" Ding Li was infected by his remote thoughts, and repeated in a mutter.

"I don't know how to describe it..." Qi Xie said dreamily, "When I encounter a strange thing, I will gradually see a monster emerging from nothing... At this time, if I record Once it is lowered, it will condense into a solid form, gain an independent life, and obey the 'creator' Qi Harmony like a servant."

"That is to say, you can materialize the strange phenomenon, turn it into a monster, and control it independently of the phenomenon itself?" Ding Li tentatively summarized.

"Yes." Qi Xie said slowly, "Later I thought... Maybe there are no monsters in this world, but there were those ghosts who gathered nothing but turned into existence. The strange phenomena that have been neglected by people, and given them entities and life, have created this grotesque and countless evil spirits."

Ding Li thought for a long time, then nodded.

"But Qi Xie's power doesn't come out of thin air." Qi Xie turned his face to look at him, "For example, the person asked me to perform teleportation yesterday, but I can't do it."

"Why?" Ding Li didn't understand.

"Because they don't believe in me.—I can only do it in front of people who believe in me."

"Like me." Ding Li said with a smile.

"En." Qi Xie nodded, "Not only Qi Xie, but all supernatural beings are the same. The more people believe in them, the greater their power. You should know that Qian Sining had the ability to 'hypnotize' before. But it was never used again, because Tan Qigong's training class had been disbanded at that time, and she could no longer draw strength from the students' beliefs."

Ding Li suddenly had an idea, stood up and asked, "So Boss Xun opened Guixintang to gather believers and expand his influence?"

"That's what I'm doing now." Qi Xie casually flipped through the book, and said in a half-joking tone, "In order to gain a foothold in Guixin Hall, I need to win the trust of the students step by step, and become the worshiped Qi." Master’, so this set of seemingly scientific discourse must be used to deceive more scientists.”

Ding Li felt inappropriate: "Why do you say abduction? How did you lie to them?"

"Buddha said, don't disturb your own mind and don't disturb others' minds. It means don't shake your own beliefs easily, let alone disturb others' beliefs by self-righteousness. Besides, monsters are also homogeneous one-sided words. Who knows if it is true or not, it is right It sounds like a group of psychopaths in a collective lust, but it sounds like a magic stick's mystification."

"No, it's true." Ding Li looked into his eyes.

"Is it true?" Qi Xie asked back, "Do you still remember that Qian Sining once showed you my diary?"

"Well, when I asked you why, you didn't want to say."

"It's not that I don't want to say it, but I can't. Because there are some logical loopholes in the diary, which are enough to reveal the truth about the monster."

Ding Li recalled it suspiciously, and suddenly remembered the sense of disobedience he had felt when he was flipping through the diary that day.

Qi Xie observed his expression: "Actually, you also discovered the problem, but your subconscious ignored it, didn't you?"

Ding Li thought for a long time and finally raised his head: "Weiyin's four wings, you drew them side by side at first, but then you painted them out and changed them to a circle arrangement."

"That's right." Qi Xie said, "If I really 'saw' Weiyin, I would naturally know how those wings grow on the torso, but in the diary I drew two completely different looks, which shows that Objectively, there is no such monster, everything is my subjective imagination."

"Then why did you draw two kinds of wings?" Ding Li asked.

"Because that's my imagination." Qi Xie looked straight at the ceiling, "I don't know how to tell you... just like you can control your own dreams when you are dreaming, I can also control the appearance of those monsters. After recording them, their shape will be firmly fixed, but sometimes... I am not sure if this is a hallucination, a product of insanity."

"No." Ding Li was sure, "You have solved so many cases with monsters, how could it be fake?"

"That's because you believe in me, and those clients also believe in me. Just like the existence of Zhiguaizhai, those who don't believe will just walk away with a smile, but whoever steps into that room, he must believe it more or less A thing of gods and ghosts." Qi Xie paused, "At that time Qian Sining showed you the diary, it was a warning to me, because at that time almost all my strength came from you alone, if you realize If Qi Qi doesn’t believe me anymore, I’m useless.”

Ding Li tilted his head and thought for a while: "So it's not you, it's me."

"It's you." Qi Xie smiled.

"What about now? Are you not afraid that my nuclear power plant will run away?"

"Don't be afraid, I have brought three batches of students in the headquarters, and at least I have developed a dozen believers. You are not missing."

"But is this okay..." Ding Li was a little worried, "I always feel that these demons and ghosts can only be a minority thing, and if they are too large, they will easily cause problems, such as political issues."

"That's something the PR department has to consider, so I don't have to worry about it." Qi Xie rested his arms on his pillow and said relaxedly, "I just need to do my job well, lure more ignorant people into the classroom, and have nothing to do with them Chatting, chatting, comforting the lonely soul lost in the metropolis, and then you can get paid."

Ding Li still sighed: "Is this considered a fraud?"

Qi Xie smiled: "The first rule of the professional code of liars is, never admit that you are a liar under any circumstances."

Ding Li didn't say anything more, and closed his eyes sleepily: "You should get well soon, and then leave this place completely."

"Don't have too much hope." Qi Xie played with a piece of bookmark, "The so-called kiln sister is hard to be good, even if I leave Guixintang, I will always be someone who has been in this circle, and I will not be able to pick it clean in this life."

Ding Li did not continue this topic, but only asked: "Are you going home for the New Year?"

"No return."

"Then I'll come and accompany you."

"I'm going to Beijing."

"I'll go to Beijing to find you."

"I have something to do with Master Xun, I'm afraid I won't be free."

Ding Li closed his eyes and smiled lightly: "You started calling him Xun, and then you called him Boss Xun, and now you're also Lord Xun."

Qi Xie didn't pay attention to the change in the atmosphere: "Everyone in Guixin Hall shouted that, so I naturally do as the Romans do."

"That's right." Ding Li's tone could not detect emotion, "You are now Teacher Qi of Guixintang, not Mr. Qi of Zhiguai Zhai."

"Yes." Qi Xie said.

After that, the two stopped talking, only hearing the sound of rain, which was extremely noisy.

In the evening, the sky finally cleared.

In the kitchen, Qi Xie turned off the gas stove and took out two bowls of noodles from the pot. Ding Li took four chopsticks and sat down at the dining table.

"Do you want to eat cake?" Ding Li asked.

"If you want to eat, just say so, don't be selfish." Qi Xie on the opposite side picked up a bowl and took a sip of noodle soup.

"Forget it." Ding Li buried his head in the noodles and asked again, "Do you want to make a wish?"

"Will it come true if you promise?" Qi Xie asked back.

"Isn't that what you said, sincerity leads to success."

"That's fine." Qi Xie replied, "I hope you don't devote yourself to the medical career all day long, and quickly find a good woman to start a family."

Ding Li's chopsticks stopped for a while, but he didn't say a word.

"Do you need me to introduce you?" Qi Xie asked with a smile.

"No, you can't rob my grandma of the joy of life."

"How is grandma?"

"Very good. According to this trend, it is estimated that she can live to be two hundred years old. Then you have to write her in your diary."

Qi Xie clicked his tongue: "How can you slander the elders like that."

"It's her who calls herself an old goblin all day long, and even calls Grandpa Song a holy monk when she's happy."

Qi Xie almost choked as soon as he imagined that scene, put down the bowl and almost coughed with laughter: "Then how did Grandpa Song react?"

"No response." Ding Li said while eating, "Only one time I saw him put a stick of incense on my grandfather, saying that you really shouldn't have left so early, leaving such a big disaster in the world, and then grandma grabbed him and beat him Two punches."

"It seems that they have a very good relationship."

"It's very good. Sometimes I admire my grandma. Grandpa found his wife again in the second year after his death." Ding Li paused his chopsticks, "Speaking of which, I volunteered twice in 512, one for disaster relief. The first time was in October. Before the second departure, I deliberately adjusted my emotions, thinking that I must take care of the victims’ psychology, and I had to act a little sad. But when I got there, I found that the community center was holding a blind date meeting. They were all men and women who lost their spouses in the earthquake, everyone sang and danced, it was joyful and peaceful, and it was completely impossible to see that they had experienced a catastrophe four months ago."

Qi Xie smiled: "Did you feel that you underestimated the tenacity of human beings?"

Ding Li didn't answer, got up and went to the kitchen, and said while serving the second bowl of noodles, "I'll sleep in the guest room tonight."

"Okay, I'll find you the quilt later." Qi Xie's answer came from behind.

That night, Ding Li seemed to be resigned to bed, tossing and turning sleeplessly, and suddenly heard the faint sound of Guqin.He listened to it, but he didn't know what it was. He only tried to write down some parts for later reference, but when he woke up and recalled it, he couldn't even remember a single tone.

☆、Pink Elephant

Don't think about a pink elephant, hypnotists say.

Yet what's on your mind at this moment.

At two o'clock in the morning, in the lounge of the Affiliated Hospital of Medical University, Dong Qiankun slumped on the sofa in big characters: "Oh my mother, the emergency department is really not a place for people to stay. Who stipulated that the inpatient department come to be on duty regularly? What do you mean? Is it a human thing?"

"Dean! Some people say that you don't do human affairs!" The intern shouted towards the door.

Dong Qiankun quickly stretched out his legs to sweep him back, almost tripping over Ding Li who had just entered the door.

"I'm not the dean, don't accidentally hurt the good people." Ding Li walked into the room rubbing his shoulders.

"How is Shanghai?" Dong Qiankun asked.

"There is no war in Songhu." Ding Li replied.

"Who asked you about the war." Dong Qiankun poked him with his knee, "Then what, how about it."

"What is it."

"Your girlfriend." Dong Qiankun took it for granted.

Ding Li turned his head: "When did I get a girlfriend, why don't I know."

"Didn't you go to Shanghai to see your girlfriend? Are you hiding it from others and from me? Report it quickly."

"Oh, we broke up." Ding Li opened the cabinet and took out a box of instant noodles.

Dong Qiankun said: "No way."

"He fell in love with the chairman of a big company, so he doesn't want me anymore." Ding Li said lightly.

Dong Qiankun groped his stubble and pondered for a long time, then patted him on the back: "Two days ago, Dr. Gu turned a corner and asked Xiao Jiang if you have a partner. I think it's interesting to you, otherwise you two internally digested For a moment, don't take advantage of outsiders."

"Both you and Xiao Jiang have digested internally, and if we continue to digest, we will have ulcers." Ding Li opened the seasoning packet of instant noodles, "When will we do business?"

Dong Qiankun laughed hilariously: "Next year on Valentine's Day, you have to come and be my best man."

"Okay." Ding Li readily agreed, and then heard a series of footsteps running to the door of the lounge, saying that there was a traffic accident.

"Who is going?" Dong Qiankun asked him.

"I'll go." Ding Li looked at the noodle bowl that was about to be flushed in his hand, and threw it on the table.

In the corridor, the injured have lost consciousness.

Ding Li checked quickly and took off the stethoscope: "Fractured ribs with pneumothorax and heart damage, X-ray and CT first."

"The family members haven't come yet." The nurse next to him reminded.

Ding Li looked at the patient whose breathing was getting weaker and weaker, and then looked around: "It's too late, don't wait, send the CT to the operating room."

The nurse didn't move, and stared at him with the eyes above the mask: "Are you sure, it will be very troublesome to investigate if something goes wrong."

"I know, it's important to save people." Ding Li pushed the hospital bed and went inside.

The rib fracture punctured the heart, at 03:30 in the morning, the rescue failed.

After taking off the blood-stained surgical gown, he finished filling in the records, and the hallway was already full of wailing.

"Those three are family members of the deceased." The nurse introduced in a low voice.

Ding Li was mentally prepared and stepped forward to explain the situation. The old parents just cried bitterly. Just as they talked about the cost, a man in a leather jacket suddenly stood up.

"You still have the face to ask for money even if no one is saved?" He glared at each other and pointed at the medical staff.

"Our rescue conforms to the regular procedures, and the first operation is also considered for the patient, including the preliminary inspection..."

Before Ding Li finished speaking, he was interrupted by the other party: "My brother is still alive at night! How could he die after being rubbed by a motorcycle! It must be a medical accident! I want to see your leader!"

"The victim suffered a severe blow to the chest, fractured and displaced ribs, and the tip pierced the heart resulting in—"

"Fart! You guys did the surgery, so of course it makes sense!" The man pointed at his nose and cursed harder and harder, and finally pushed and shoved.

"Hey, are you still doing it?" Dong Qiankun yelled immediately, "Look at it, you beat someone, there is no law for you."

"I hit you!" The man raised his fist.

Ding Li hurriedly held him back, Dong Qiankun hummed and refused to let go: "Call him, don't stop him, there are surveillance cameras installed above, whoever strikes first will ignore it."

The security guard finally arrived, and the man swung his body and said: "I will definitely investigate this matter to the end! You all wait for me!" After saying that, he dragged the two old people away cursing.

"Of course I'm waiting." Dong Qiankun said to the door, "When your grandson hits my hand one day, I'll connect your coronary artery to your bladder."

Ding Li looked out of the dark door surprisingly calmly, and said something without signing.

Dong Qiankun looked at him hesitantly: "Surgery...... Didn't you sign?"

"Yeah." Ding Li turned around, "I'm sleepy, take a nap, call me if you need something."

Dong Qiankun immediately clicked his tongue: "You can really sleep."

"There must be a way for the car to reach the mountain." Ding Li pushed the rest room away.

"There must be a Toyota car on the road." Dong Qiankun followed slowly, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, hurry up and report the situation to the director and take care of it, otherwise you will have nothing to say if you really have a lawsuit.— —Hey, I'm talking to you."

"We'll talk about it tomorrow." Ding Li lit a cigarette, and after two puffs he fell on the bed, suddenly feeling a pain in his right rib.

When he opened his clothes, he saw a bruise the size of a fist.

Dong Qiankun immediately took out his mobile phone to take a picture: "That's good, let's do an appraisal later and sue him for personal injury."

"Then you punch me twice again, you can't take care of yourself, and you can make him pay tens of thousands more." Ding Li smiled wryly, and fell asleep with his clothes on.

When I was dreaming randomly, there was a noise outside the door, and when I opened my eyes, it was already daylight.The security guards were blocking the corridor, but the man in the leather jacket pushed them away and rushed in, yelling for the doctor from yesterday.

Ding Li went out and said with a blank expression, "I'm sorry that the wounded died, but I've done my duty, and—"

"Doctor! Doctor Ding!" The man interrupted as before, and suddenly grabbed his hands, "Yesterday I was impulsive, impulsive! I blamed a good man, and I apologize to you here!"

"Huh?" Ding Li was completely out of sorts.

"Don't say anything!" The man was so enthusiastic that he seemed to meet the country/family/chairman/chairman, "The consent letter for the operation is still a notification letter, do you want to sign it?"

"Oh, yes." Ding Li finally came to his senses.

After receiving the documents brought by the nurse, the man quickly pressed the ballpoint pen to sign his name, and turned around to pay for the medical bills.

The surrounding medical staff looked at each other in blank dismay, and Dong Qiankun was also baffled: "It's too fast for good to be rewarded. Why do I feel that my worldview has retreated to kindergarten overnight."

"I'm a little better than you, probably at the junior high school stage." Ding Li looked at the light of the gate, his shoulders finally sank half an inch, he took a deep breath unconsciously, and there was still a dull pain in his right rib.

After returning to the department for an examination, he was urged by the head nurse to take X-rays, and there were no serious problems such as fractures.

"How is it?" The director walked into the office with a beer belly to comfort the wounded.

"Soft tissue contusion, little heart trauma." Dong Qiankun finished his diagnosis.

"My mind is intact and I have not been injured." Ding Li put on his clothes.

The director raised his finger: "Are you saying that you lost your brain abroad and didn't bring it back? You're almost promoted to deputy high school, and you're not an intern. Why do you keep doing such careless things! The last time you were suspected of taking bribes, this time If you don’t follow the procedures and operate without authorization, who will be responsible in case of a lawsuit? I will not protect you at that time, and the higher authorities will immediately fire you if you are investigated, so as to correct the medical style!"

Ding Li snorted.

"Unconvinced?" The director's eyes were sharp.

"Convinced." Ding Li muttered.

"Give you a day off and go home and reflect on yourself!" The director waved his hand.

"I don't have work today, can I leave it until tomorrow?" Ding Li asked, and the director left long ago.

On the way home, Ding Li was full of random thoughts, and the conclusion was nothing more than what to do next time he encountered such a situation.

However, at the gate of Zhiguai Zhai, there was still no answer.

There was a dull pain in his chest when he turned the key, and he pulled himself out of his thoughts.

But fell into another vortex.

—Is this a weird thing?Ding Li thought while changing his slippers. He seemed to have seen an article in Qi Xie's diary before, saying that a writer was in danger while climbing a mountain, and left a bruise on his forehead that could not go away, which eventually intensified and covered most of his face.

If it is visualized according to Qi Xie's method, assuming that my bruise is not caused by a contusion but a monster, for example...Ding Li pinched his chin and wondered, for example, my body was parasitized by some kind of monster, so this mark appeared?Speaking of which, the deceased also had a large bruise on his chest. Does this mean that he was also parasitized, so he infected me?Or in the words of Qi Xie: There is a kind of monster in this world, which uses humans as containers and spreads, no, reproduces through physical contact.Its host develops strange bruises that grow in size until eventually...  Forget it, it's too unlucky.

Ding Li shook his head muttering to himself, throwing this wild idea out of his mind.

However, after a few days, the bruise really didn't fade away at all, instead it became darker and purpler.

"Could it be a psychological effect." Ding Li rubbed his ribs, writing the ward round records and muttering to himself.

"What? It's still not good." Dong Qiankun asked on the opposite side.

"I don't know, the pain seems to be getting worse these two days."

"Me too." Dong Qiankun said suddenly, "When I was taking a shower yesterday, I found a bruise on my back. I don't know where I touched it. It must be infected by you."

An ordinary joke made the pen in his hand pause.

At this moment, Jiang Yan walked in holding the medical records. Ding Li raised his eyes and stopped writing: "What's wrong with the back of your hand?"

"I was riding a bicycle in the morning." Jiang Yan raised her right hand to look, and then gave Dong Qiankun a look, "You see, you don't care about me like Ding Li, and you didn't notice it when you were so green."

"No way." Dong Qiankun laughed immediately, "I only pick out your best side to appreciate, unlike others, who only stare at the wrong place."

The two quickly entered the atmosphere of flirting and cursing, and took a deep breath without seeing the person next to them.

Sure enough, as Qi Xie said, after knowing him for a long time, his brain will become different from that of normal people.Ding Li shook his head, and crossed out a word he wrote wrong just now.

☆、Blue Rabbit

Believe it or not, don't think too much.

In Zhiguaizhai's bedroom in the middle of the night, Ding Li meditated on turning off the lights and covering the quilt, but tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, his eyes turned around in the dark room, and unconsciously fell on the mahogany wardrobe in the corner.

"There is a kind of worm called silverfish in that cabinet, which always destroys clothes. I don't want to kill them directly, so I put a thing in it." Qi Xie once said.

Subconsciously looking away, Ding Li's eyes turned to the ceiling.

"Do you know why there are no lights on the roof? Because there is often a human face floating there, and I'm afraid I'll hit its nose when drilling."

Ding Li turned his head to the other side.

"I looked there in the middle of the night, and the window disappeared, replaced by a huge red eye, slowly turning. It finally fixed on me, clicked and blinked, and the sound of mucus between the eyelids could be heard."

Ding Li covered his head abruptly.

"Oh, and under the bed."

"Hi!" Ding Li sat up instantly.

"Don't worry, they are harmless." Qi Xie finally stopped scaring him, and comforted him with a smile, "Besides, you still have that bead, and ordinary evil spirits can't get close to you."

Ding Li heaved a sigh of relief when he recalled this sentence, and habitually touched his neck.

——The mahogany bead that had been hanging for ten years had disappeared.

No way!He muttered and immediately rolled over and got out of bed.

In the quilt, on the pillow, under the table, in the living room, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, nothing.

Frustrated, he collapsed in the middle of the big bed. He felt like he had an unplaced water glass in his heart. More than half of the bottom of the glass was on the table, but there was always a small piece hanging in the air. will fall irretrievably.

After touching the phone, he hesitated again and again, and finally dialed a number.

The phone was picked up half a minute later.

"Hello?" A female voice said.

"Xiao Tao, I'm Ding Li." He said.

"Doctor Ding, Mr. Qi is not at home. He is on a business trip with Master Fang."

"Business trip?" Ding Li blurted out, "Where are you going? How many days?"

"Yunnan, I don't know when he will come back."

Ding Li hesitated: "Do you have his current contact information?"

"Are you in a hurry to find him? Then you can call Young Master Fang. They should be together. I'll send you the number." Xiaotao was straightforward.

Ding Li thought that it would not be good to go around this relationship, so he politely declined: "No, there is no urgent matter, and I am sorry to bother you."

"Don't bother me, I'll ask Mr. Qi to contact you when he comes back