Out of place

Cheng Boyan was sitting in the consulting room, the sky outside the window was very cloudy, the wind blew the leaves and branches all bent over, as if he followed into a Japanese grocery store, it was estimated that there was going to be a heavy rain.

I was not in a good mood today. I was scolded by my family members in the morning and scolded again in the afternoon.

A ten-year-old boy sprained his foot and walked quickly but kept complaining of pain. Cheng Boyan checked him and took another film. No bone was injured.The boy's mother was very distressed, and insisted that he had hurt his bones. Cheng Boyan showed her the film and explained it for a long time, and suggested that if the pain was so severe that he couldn't walk, he should have an MRI to check the ligaments.

"It's okay, okay, don't tell me these professional terms, I don't understand!" The mother helped the boy out of the consulting room, and said with a dissatisfied face, "I'm going to call the director! The young doctor doesn't want to If you want to see a doctor well, you want to make the patient spend money!"

Cheng Boyan smiled and said nothing.

When I got off work, I just wanted to make a phone call to ask Xiang Xi if he had eaten. Another patient with a fractured fibula came and wanted to remove the external fixation bracket.

Removing the stent is very simple, and it can be done in ten to twenty minutes if everything goes well, but the patient nervously grabbed Cheng Boyan's arm and did not let go: "Aren't you going to the operating room?"

"There is no need for surgery, it can be removed by unscrewing the screws." Cheng Boyan said, the man's leg was injured, but his hands were quite strong, which made his arms a little sore.

"Screw it?" The man suddenly yelled, "Are you taking anesthesia?"

"No need." Cheng Boyan smiled, "It doesn't hurt very much, ten-year-old girls just take it directly."

"No, doctor, I want to take anesthesia, I'm afraid of pain," the man grabbed him very sincerely, "I'm really afraid of pain, if I don't take anesthesia, I'm afraid that if it hurts, I will move around, kick you, and bite people ..."

Cheng Boyan made him yell so hard that he had no choice but to put him under local anesthesia, and it took him a long time to remove the brace.

When he walked out of the consultation room after changing his clothes, Cheng Boyan looked outside, it was already dark, and when the door was closing, a flash of lightning flashed, and a few seconds later, thunder exploded.

"Ouch!" A little nurse behind him jumped up in fright, "Dr. Cheng is off work?"

"Well," Cheng Boyan said with a smile, "he jumped quite high."

"The high jump No.2 in the school sports meeting." The little nurse said with a smile, and trotted away.

Doctor Liu in the clinic next door also left late today, and while closing the door, he was on the phone with his wife: "Just steam the buns, I haven't eaten for a long time..."

"I also want to ask my sister-in-law to steam some more," Cheng Boyan leaned over and said, "Bring me some tomorrow."

"Steam more, I'll bring it to Xiao Cheng tomorrow," Dr. Liu said into the phone with a smile, "Bachelors eat porridge with mixed beans every day."

Cheng Boyan smiled and walked along the corridor to the inpatient department.

Everyone in the ward had eaten, and Xiang Xi had also finished eating. When Cheng Boyan walked into the ward, Xiang Xi was sitting upright on the bed, staring at the TV with his face up, and the patient in the next bed who had just finished the operation was humming. , the family members comforted softly on the side.

Thinking back to when Xiangxi was wearing braces on his arms, legs and neck, compared to this person, he was so brave and strong... Maybe he felt that there was no one to comfort him.

"Why are you looking so seriously?" Cheng Boyan looked at the TV, which was broadcasting the city's news, "waiting for the weather forecast?"

"Why wait for the weather forecast?" Xiang Xi turned his head when he heard his voice, and said with a smile.

"Who knows," Cheng Boyan saw that his lunch box was on the bedside table and had been cleaned. "My grandma, if you can't beat it, you have to check the weather forecast every day. You must have one from the central government. The ones in provinces, cities, and municipalities are not enough."

"Why? Don't you have it on your phone, just tell the old lady what day it's going to be?" Xiang Xi didn't understand.

"It has to be on TV, the episode after the Central One news network is over, nothing else," Cheng Boyan was happy after thinking about it, "After watching it, she can decide whether or not Laohan's legs will hurt tomorrow."

Xiang Xi laughed along with him for a while, then returned to the TV with his eyes on his pillow.

Cheng Boyan turned his head, the news was still on, and there was nothing surprising about it. When Xiang Xi was with him, he never watched the news while watching TV, but now he just stared at the news without saying much.

"What's wrong?" He asked, "You..."

"I can read." Xiang Xi smiled, glanced at him, and then his eyes fell on the TV screen, "There are words under the news, let me see how many I can recognize."

"... Really working hard, have you finished shopping with Dad in the supermarket?" Cheng Boyan sat by the bed. He couldn't sit still at work. Now he was a little tired, so he changed into casual clothes again, so he was more casual, but when the nurse came in He stood up anyway.

"I didn't bring it, so I brought a pen and a notebook over here." Xiang Xi rubbed his nose. After the news was over and the weather forecast started, his eyes finally left the TV. "How soon will I be discharged from the hospital?"

"Usually a week. If you recover well, four or five days is about the same," Cheng Boyan said with a smile, "Why, you're tired after only one day?"

"It's kind of boring," Xiang Xi scratched his head, "I was hospitalized with severe injuries before, but now I feel like I'm just dazed here with my arms and legs."

Cheng Boyan smiled and said nothing, something was wrong with Xiang Xi.

I can't tell exactly what's wrong, he's restless, he seems a little uneasy, but he really can't see what's in the news that could make him like this.

"Have you not eaten yet?" Xiang Xi asked him.

"No, I'll go to the supermarket opposite in a while..." Cheng Boyan said, before he finished speaking, another bolt of lightning struck outside the window, and at the same time as the thunder sounded again, the torrential rain came down, and the lightning and thunder sounded like the end of the world. As if, he was stunned for a while, "I'll go home and eat whatever I want."

"Hey..." The person who had been lying on the bed next door sighed, and finally said a whole sentence, "Someone is about to cross the catastrophe..."

Everyone in the room was stunned, and then all laughed together.

"Can you still go back?" Xiang Xi said with a smile, "You must be drenched in the parking lot, and then go home and take a shower with disinfectant."

Cheng Boyan clicked his tongue: "I should have taken a photo of you before the operation that day for revenge."

"Damn!" Xiang Xi patted the bed, and laughed again after thinking about it, "Actually, I really should take a commemorative photo... I mean when I'm wearing clothes."

Cheng Boyan smiled and took his cell phone beside the pillow, took two steps back, and took a picture of him.

"Let me see, let me see," Xiang Xi immediately stretched out his hand, "Are you handsome?"

"Handsome," Cheng Boyan handed him the phone, "If you're not handsome, take a picture until you're handsome."

Xiang Xi looked down, and in the photo, he was sitting on the bed and looking silly at the camera, he laughed twice: "It's pretty good, compared to..."

Better than Fang Yin's.

He almost blurted out this sentence, bit it quickly, and said, "Better than I look in the mirror."

Cheng Boyan looked at him, he guessed what Xiang Xi was trying to say before that small pause, and thought that if Xiang Xi missed something, he would talk to him along the way, but Xiang Xi's nonsense skill level is still low. Very tall, he sewed the words calmly.

Chatting with Xiang Xi for a while, seeing that it was almost nine o'clock, he looked out the window: "I have to go back."

"Has the rain stopped?" Xiang Xi also looked out the window, "It's still like this..."

"It's okay, just run a few steps," Cheng Boyan pressed his stomach, "I'm starving."

"Are you in the inpatient department tomorrow?" Xiang Xi asked.

"Tomorrow is still an outpatient clinic," Cheng Boyan smiled, "but I will stay here on duty at night."

"Great," Xiang Xi smiled happily, and whispered, "Come over to chat when you have time, and count for me. Counting like that yesterday was quite useful, and I fell asleep in a while."

"Okay." Cheng Boyan nodded.

Xiang Xi felt a little flustered, but he didn't know exactly why.

For the mantou, or for the mantou that may be found by Erpan, or for the life that may overlap with the mantou if you are not careful.

He has been unwilling to admit how good his relationship with Mantou is, but he has actually spent more time with Mantou these years than anyone else.

Mantou is cunning and can act like a train, but Mantou has always been very interesting to him, treating him as a buddy, even though he doesn't admit it.

Now Mantou's whereabouts are unknown, and he stayed in the hospital in a daze.

Erpan never watches TV, but Uncle Ping does, and Uncle Ping likes to watch the news. He also likes to watch various legal programs from CCTV. .

He can recognize steamed buns, can Uncle Ping?

Thinking about these things in my mind makes it difficult to sleep.

Cheng Boyan would come to see him when he was free, and he would come over to chat with him for a while when he was on duty at night. It was a pleasant thing, but it started to make him a little entangled. While looking forward to Cheng Boyan's coming, he was afraid that Cheng Boyan would watch it He has something on his mind.

Listening to Cheng Boyan's soft-spoken voice, he enjoys it very much. When he closes his eyes, he will have a comfortable feeling of feathers sweeping across his face, but he is afraid that one day this comfort will disappear.

In the past few days, Xiang Xi has been staring at the news. Although he knows that a fake liquor den has been knocked down, and it is such a small pocket den, it is impossible for the news to have any follow-up, but he still wants to Find the figure of steamed buns in the news.

By the time he was discharged from the hospital, he almost knew all the big and small things in the city. He even remembered the names of the mayor, deputy mayor and various leaders. A modernization process...

"Take another two days' rest," Cheng Boyan told him standing at the gate of the hospital, "What I told Song Yi is that I won't go back to work until next Monday. You shouldn't be too active recently, you know?"

"Yeah!" Xiang Xi twisted his arms on his hips, "After nesting for a week, I feel that not only the bones, but also the skin is tight."

"Shall I give you a loose?" Cheng Boyan said, squeezed his fingers lightly, and there was a click.

"Ouch! I'm loose!" Xiang Xi quickly raised his legs and swung his arms, "Okay, the movement has started, now it's so loose that it looks like it's about to fall apart, so let's carry it by the skin, or should I release it immediately?" One place."

"I'm sick, go back," Cheng Boyan said with a smile, "Call me if you need anything."

"Okay." Xiang Xi nodded, walked two steps outside the hospital and then stopped. He suddenly didn't want to leave the hospital. Although he felt annoying when he was in the hospital, he could see Cheng Boyan every day. Now that he is out of the hospital, he will It's time to start working and returning to the kennel to learn how to read...

"What's wrong?" Cheng Boyan was still standing behind him.

"Shall I treat you to dinner?" Xiang Xi turned his head, and Cheng Boyan was standing in the sun in a white coat, his sharp but soft face made him squint his eyes, "It's a thank you, it's a formal meal, not to go The kind you smashed and robbed."

Cheng Boyan was happy: "Okay, when?"

"Look at you, before I go back to work, call me when you get off work early." Xiang Xi said with a smile.

"Then wait for my call," Cheng Boyan pointed at him, "Get ready for the money."

"No problem!" Xiang Xi snapped his fingers.

When I got back to the small dilapidated room, it was almost lunch time, and the young couple next door were cooking noodles again. The girl saw Xiang Xi and smiled: "Hey, you're back?"

"Yeah." Xiang Xi smiled.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, have you gone on a trip?" the girl asked.

"...Yeah," Xiang Xi shook the backpack in his hand, "I didn't go far, just camped nearby for a few days."

"Did it rain that night?" The boy came out of the house and threw him a cigarette. Last time because of the dead man downstairs, Xiang Xi talked to him a few times and knew his name was Liu Yuanping.

"I stayed in the hotel for those two days, and then I went camping," Xiang Xi clicked his tongue twice, and made it up without a beat, "The ground is wet, and the moisture-proof mat can't stop it. It's boring."

"That's not fun. Hey, you have to like the outdoors. Next time our classmates go out for a ride and spend the night, why don't you come together?" Liu Yuanping felt that he had found a fellow student, and immediately proposed.

"Okay, but it depends on the time, I'm at work." Xiang Xi smiled, chatted with him a few more words before returning to the room.

There was no one in the house for a week, and a layer of dust fell on the table. Xiang Xi wiped the dust with his hands, and it looked clean. The bed was probably dusty too, but he was too lazy to do it, so he took a shower and changed his body. His clothes flung themselves on the bed.

If Cheng Boyan saw this scene, he would probably go crazy.

Xiang Xi lay on the bed for almost half an hour before getting up again. He was a little hungry, so he was going to go downstairs to have something to eat, and by the way... go out.

He couldn't save Mantou, and he couldn't think of how to save Mantou, but he wanted to know what happened to Mantou during this period, and what happened now.

He counted the time, and it has been more than a week since the news was broadcast. The black den is gone and the boss has been arrested. Come out and tell the second set...

The second set should have been there a long time ago, and now that he is going there, he will not run into the second set or the people of the second set, because it has only passed now, and the steamed buns have long since disappeared.

Then why go to see it yourself?

yeah why?

Xiang Xi couldn't tell, so he wanted to go and see what kind of place Mantou worked in and what kind of life he lived.

The news did not mention the specific address, but only said that it was in a certain street in Linjiang, but the locals knew where it was. There was more than a black den, and there were all kinds of small workshops operating without a license.

Xiang Xi took the bus and changed three times before arriving at the place.

Although it is a gathering place of small workshops, it is much better than Zhaojiayao, at least it seems that there is no urge to walk around.

Xiang Xi tore off the band-aid on his face, walked slowly on the street with his head down, turned in when he saw a small alley, and looked for it. After more than an hour, he found the house that had been sealed off and closed. fake wine workshop.

A small courtyard that is not too old, next to a food workshop of the same type. Although this one was not investigated, it was also shocked and closed the door together.

Xiang Xi didn't approach, lit a cigarette and drank it, squatted on the side of the road and looked at the face of the counterfeit wine workshop half a street away, how did Mantou find this job, how long did he work, what did he do every day ...

There are many questions in his mind, rather than wanting to know about Mantou's life, it is better to imagine what he will face without Cheng Boyan.

A motorcycle came out from the narrow passage next to the workshop, with two helmets hanging on it, and it was obvious at a glance that it was a motorcycle.

The motorcycle drove across the street and stopped under a tree next to him.

Xiang Xi clicked his tongue in his heart, this is very good, he will wait when he goes out, if he doesn't drag anyone, he can still go home and go to the bathroom...

The driver of the motorcycle took out a cigarette and dangled it. After touching his body several times, he walked towards Xiang Xi. Xiang Xi put his hand into the bag in front of his heels, and there was a fruit knife in it.

"Little brother," Mo's driver called to him, "borrow a fire."

Xiang Xi glanced at him and handed him the lighter in his hand. He took it, lit the cigarette and went back under the tree, lying on the motorcycle.

Xiang Xi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Waiting for someone? Where are you going?" Modi asked, smoking a cigarette, "Do you want to call a car?"

"Wait," Xiang Xi said, "Brother, will you live here?"

"Hmm." Modi raised his chin towards the counterfeit wine workshop.

"That's right there?" Xiang Xi put on his clothes and looked over there, "Hey, brother, is that the news a few days ago..."

"That's right!" Momo regained his energy, "The one that is closed, I'm watching from upstairs, the police, businessmen, and TV reporters, there are quite a few people here."

"Ah! You said the boss was arrested?" Xiang Xi moved closer to him.

"I've been arrested, and I'm still detained. My wife and children have gone back to my hometown," Mo clicked his tongue, "I don't know who reported it."

"The worker was also arrested together?" Xiang Xi asked.

"Worker? Which worker... oh, that lame boy?" Modi took a puff of cigarette, "After asking the question, let him go. If he didn't catch him, whoever catches him is just a worker. He came back and got something before he left. of it."

"Oh, that's quite depressing, it's not easy for a cripple to find a place to work." Xiang Xi clicked his tongue twice.

"Depressed? I can't, I don't know how happy I am," Modi sat up, with an unspeakable expression on his face, "I was beaten all day long, and I was beaten hard. I know why I don't run... Maybe I can't run if I'm limp..."

The motorcycle driver didn't chat with him for too long, someone called a car, and he took the driver away.

Xiang Xi squatted on the spot for a while, the sun was very good today, his back was hot, but he didn't feel warm at all, his forehead was sweating, but it was still not warm.

When he stood up and walked towards the bus stop, Fang Yin called.

"Don't bother me." Xiang Xi answered the phone.

"Have you been discharged from the hospital?" Fang Yin asked him.

"Don't bother me!" Xiang Xi raised his voice and roared.

"Then I'll send you a text message." Fang Yin said.

"Send your fucking text message!" Xiang Xi hung up the phone.

After getting on the bus and sitting down, Fang Yin's text message still came. Xiang Xi didn't want to read it at first, but thinking about the 50 yuan that day, he still took out his phone and took a look.

Now he can recognize a lot of characters, Fang Yin's text messages are easy to recognize, he understands them.

Take a look at those photos when you have time, preferably in these two days, and tell me what you think.

This text message was simply inexplicable, Xiang Xi didn't want to read it, nor was he interested in reading it, so he called Fang Yin: "What are you doing?"

"I think I should let you take a look. I didn't release all the photos, but I picked a small part and put them on the blog. The address is on my business card," Fang Yin said, "You must take a look."

Xiang Xi was very irritable: "I have nowhere to look!"

"Why don't you come to my place?" Fang Yin said, "It's really important, Xiao Zhan. I hope you can take a look and tell me what you think. This will affect my future work."

After Xiang Xi hung up the phone, changed the car and returned to his place of residence, he hesitated for a while and went to an Internet cafe nearby.

He has never been to this Internet cafe before, it is not very good, it is very similar to the one he and Mantou used to go to, especially the smell of cigarettes and the occasional burst of shouting after entering, which brought him back to the past days.

"I need to swipe my ID card." The Internet cafe waiter looked at him.

"No," Xiang Xi frowned, "give me a temporary card."

"Temporary cards cannot be issued these days, someone will check." The waiter said.

"Damn," Xiang Xi was very upset, "Is there anyone in your broken Internet cafe?"

"Broken Internet cafes have been filed and have formalities, and everything has to be checked." After finishing speaking, the waiter lowered his head and played with his mobile phone and ignored him.

"Fuck you." Xiang Xi turned and walked out of the Internet cafe.

Standing at the door of the Internet cafe, Xiang Xi didn't know where to go.

He didn't want to look at the photos at first, he wasn't interested in what Fang Yin was doing, and he didn't want to see himself in Fang Yin's lens that wasn't pretty.

But now I suddenly want to see it again.

It was like he was squatting on the side of the street, looking at the place where Mantou had been, and listening to a stranger talking about how he was beaten.

He suddenly wanted to know what he looked like in the eyes of others, was he the same as the steamed bun in his own eyes?

When Cheng Boyan returned home, Xiang Xi was already waiting for him at the door.

"Have you eaten?" Cheng Boyan asked him.

"Eat," Xiang Xi replied, "I'm here...doesn't affect you?"

"It's too fake," Cheng Boyan smiled, took out the key and opened the door, "Are you coming back?"

"I mean..." Xiang Xi followed him into the room, a little embarrassed, "I use your computer, but you won't let you see it..."

"I read, you play yours." Cheng Boyan said.

Cheng Boyan went to take a shower when he entered the room. Xiang Xi stood in the living room, hesitated for a moment, took off his pants, hung them in the closet, and then sat in front of the computer in his pants.

The blog address on Fang Yin's business card wasn't very long, but it killed Xiang Xi when he typed it. Fortunately, halfway through the typing, the computer automatically filled in the second half.

"Very smart." Xiang Xi heaved a sigh of relief.

The moment the page was opened, Xiang Xi saw his own photo. Although it was a bit strange, he knew the clothes. The coat that Cheng Boyan bought for him was the one that Fang Yin despised because it was too new.

Cheng Boyan took longer than usual to take a shower. When Xiang Xi called him and said he wanted to use his computer, he guessed what Xiang Xi wanted to do.

Fang Yin is not a person who only focuses on his "dream". Fang Yin said he will consider what he said, and it seems that he has indeed considered it.

He stood in the bathroom, flushing the water, estimating the time, trying to give Xiang Xi enough time to look at the photos and understand the words.

Estimating that it was almost time to finish reading, he changed his clothes and walked out of the bathroom.

Xiang Xi was still sitting in front of the computer, facing the bathroom, but when Cheng Boyan came out, he seemed to have fallen asleep, staring at the screen motionlessly.

Cheng Boyan took two steps towards him and stopped, Xiang Xi's eye circles and nose were a little red, and there were still tears on his face.