Sweet Teeth / A Speck Amid The Dust of The World 世界微尘里 Chapter 11.3

Chapter 11.3 - An Unlockable Past (Part 3)

    After Ma Yiyi finished speaking, she saw Zeng Li quickly combed her hair, dressed and changed her pants.

    "What are you doing?"

    "I'm going to Ai Jingchu to testify for me and make it clear to them."

    "He's gone." Ma Yiyi said.

    "Gone?"

    "Yeah, check out after breakfast."

    "How do you know?"

    "Oh, it's another story." Ma Yiyi smugly betrayed her.

    "Say!"

    "He came back from outside to eat breakfast, and he met colleagues from your unit in the restaurant. A group of aunts gathered around him to ask for his mobile phone number, saying that they would no longer have to get up and line up before dawn when they registered for a slot at A Hospital as they have acquaintances in the A hospital. In order to express their gratitude, they promise to take care of you for Ai Jingchu and not let you suffer in the unit, but guess what he said?"

    Zeng Li thought for a while and replied, "I don't know Zeng Li!" Especially with Ai Jingchu's expression and tone, the dignity and hope of the aunts must have been shattered instantly.

    "wrong."

    "Who is Zeng Li?"

    "Wrong, wrong, wrong."

    "What did he say?"

    "He said 'thank you'."

    "Thank you?" Zeng Li was stunned.

    "So, you plead guilty and accept punishment." Ma Yiyi pinched Zeng Li's cheek with a smile.

    Ai Jingchu walked back to the place where he parked last night alone. There were staff from the scenic spot removing snow along the way. When he got to the middle of the mountain, he saw his car.

    There was snow on the hood and roof.

    He don't know which child drew a big heart on the snow on the hood, and a few tourists who looked like students next to the heart also added an arrow that passed through the heart. He walked over slowly, and a girl with big eyes noticed him. When he took out the key and pressed the remote control, the car beeped and the lights in the car came on. Only then did the tourists realize that Ai Jingchu was the owner of the car, so they exclaimed one after another and ran away.

    The girl with big eyes didn't react so quickly, she stayed where she was, and was caught.

    After running a distance, a few people looked back and found that Ai Jingchu didn't intend to ignore them at all, so they stopped in place, pointed at the girl, and laughed happily.

    A boy who seemed to be her boyfriend laughed and pulled her unresponsive, "Nan, let's go."

    Only then did she regain her senses and hurried away.

    As soon as she moved, the phone in her pocket fell out. After running a few steps, she realized it. When she turned around, she found that Ai Jingchu had already picked it up for her.

    "Thanks," said the girl, "we didn't touch your car."

    Suddenly, Ai Jingchu asked something inexplicable: "How old are you?"

    The girl was stunned, "Nineteen."

    Ai Jingchu stood for a while, then opened the door and got on the car.

    Nineteen……

    It is a very far age from him.

    Most of the graduate students he brought were in their twenties, and some were even on-the-job doctors sent by lower-level hospitals for training, so some were much older than him.

    He is smarter than the average person in school and spends less time, but he has no time to think about anything else. What are the other nineteens doing? The age of freshman and sophomore is the age when you can fall in love at will.

    And fifteen years old?

    When wearing the seat belt, Ai Jingchu turned around and saw the mineral water on the passenger seat. One bottle was full, and he drank half of the other.

    He couldn't help reaching out and picked up the half bottle of water and looked at it.

    Like many of his peers, he has a slight obsession with cleanliness, whether eating utensils or otherwise. For example, when Zeng Li got his hands dirty in the morning, the first thing he did when he got to the top of the mountain was to go to Dongshan Temple to pick up a basin of cold water and wash his hands. As for the overnight water, it is never imported, so he hardly drinks the bottled water after opening it.

    However, at this moment, he unscrewed the cap of the bottle and raised his head to take a sip.

    The clear liquid slowly flowed into the mouth from the mouth of the bottle, and slid into the body along the esophagus following the swallowing of the throat.

    It’s cold~

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Sweet Teeth / A Speck Amid The Dust of The World 世界微尘里 Chapter 11.2

Chapter 11.2 - An Unlockable Past (Part 3)

    "I've been in love with the same person since I was fifteen years old. With my personality, I liked him first and chased him foolishly for many years. When we came here that day, he said that if we threw the key of the lock away, then we can never be separated.

    "It's silly, naive, and ridiculous, isn't it? When you're in a relationship, your IQ seems to decrease. Later, I went to Dongshan many times, but I didn't dare to come here. But last night I thought about it again, and I thought, come and see. Let's see if that thing is really still there."

    After listening to her words, Ai Jingchu turned his eyes away and did not speak for a long time.

    Zeng Li smiled bitterly, "I really..."

    She regretted that she was being blunt. Usually, she seldom talked about it with others, even with Ma Yiyi and the others, but she complained to Ai Jingchu under such circumstances.

    Some people have already walked from the cliff one after another, and some people later walked towards the Sun Viewing Cliff, which is the only way to go to watch the sun on foot. Occasionally one or two passing tourists looked at Zeng Li and Ai Jingchu curiously, but most of them were in a hurry to go to the eastern cliff, wanting to catch the last-minute scenery, and didn't care about anything else.

    "It always trouble everytime you meet me," she said. "I'm sorry."

    At this moment, the sun has completely escaped from the cover of the clouds, and jumped out, emitting a fiery red light, soft and warm. Ai Jingchu stood opposite Zeng Li, with his back facing the sunrise. His entire face was turned against the light, so she couldn't see his expression clearly. After a long time, she heard him sigh and say, "Show me your hand."

    "What?"

    "The sprained one."

    Zeng Li raised her left hand to Ai Jingchu's eyes.

    Her skeleton is thin, so her fingers are thin and long, which is very beautiful, but the second knuckle of her ring finger is bulged like a pimple on a tree trunk, which looks out of place.

    He took it and look it over and over again.

    At this moment, her hands were pitch-dark and wet, making his hands dirty too.

    "It should be a ganglion cyst." He came to a conclusion after letting go of that hand.

    "It's been many years, other than it being ugly, it is really nothing major."

    He didn't speak any more.

    Suddenly, Zeng Li saw Wu Wanxia and a few colleagues swaying upward, getting closer and closer to her and Ai Jingchu. Zeng Li suddenly became nervous. Wu Wanxia is the most famous gossiper in the whole unit. As soon as something comes to her, the influence of the gossip can be doubled. If she sees herself crying here, she doesn't know what she will ask, not to mention there is also Ai Jingchu next to her.

    Either one is enough for her. Married and unmarried women in government units, the fun of killing time during work, the first is to introduce people to people, and the second is to spread gossip around them.

    Zeng Li quickly rubbed her face, wiped away the tears, and then said to Ai Jingchu, "Where are you going?"

    "Up the mountain."

"Then I'll go down the mountain." After saying that, she walked in the opposite direction.

    It wasn't even eight o'clock when she got back to the hotel, she felt sleepy, so she took off her clothes and went to sleep, but she fell asleep until Ma Yiyi knocked on her door.

    "God, are you here for vacation or sleep? The sun is going down, you haven't gotten up yet?" Ma Yiyi frowned at her messy hair.

    "What time is it? Is it dark already?" She yawned while rubbing her face. The curtains are so thick that you can't see the outside at all.

    "Boss, the sun is going down is just a metaphor."

    "Oh." She was still a little confused.

    "It's already lunch time. Your colleagues asked me to invite you to hurry down."

    Zeng Li slowly got up and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth, wash her face, and go to the toilet.

    "When will the handsome guy come back?" Ma Yiyi asked loudly while sitting on the bed outside.

    "What handsome guy?" She wondered, holding the toothpaste foam.

    "My God, Zeng Li, how did you end up like this after you escaped my sight for a day?" Ma Yiyi used this word for the second time, then jumped up and said, "Don't cover up, before I went upstairs, i heard last night's glorious deed, your boyfriend saved the world!"

    "Pfft—" Zeng Li spurted out a mouthful of water.

    She wiped the foam on her mouth with her hand and rushed out to ask, "What did you say?"

    So, Ma Yiyi vividly repeated to her what she had just heard from Zeng Li’s colleague .

    Zeng Li screamed, "Wu Wanxia's big mouth, I admit that I know Ai Jingchu, and the other sentence is not true."

    "They also said that you went down the mountain mysteriously by yourself, just to pick him up and come to Dongshan to accompany you."

    "I'm there to pick you up!" Zeng Li was angry.

    "Yes," Ma Yiyi recalled, "but didn't you say that there are many colleagues with you?"

    "This matter will be explained later."

    "They also said you were going to see the sunrise together."

    "Shit!"

    "They also said..."

    "say what?"

    "You hide it, and you don't introduce such a handsome, rich and handsome boyfriend to everyone. If it weren't for the unexpected situation yesterday, you would have fooled them again. It's no wonder that so many people were introduced to you before, but you didn't like it. The famous flower has its owner."

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Sweet Teeth / A Speck Amid The Dust of The World 世界微尘里 Chapter 11.1

Sorry for not updating for so long > _ <

Started a new job and didn't have time to do any of my translations. 

Thank you for your patience and for sticking with me <3 

Hope you enjoy this new chapter - illa

Chapter 11.1 - An Unlockable Past (Part 3)

The one she was looking for not only had these eight characters but also had her and his names written on the back, which was carved by him in the summer when they came.

    The gloves were too thick, and she felt that it was in the way, so she simply took off the gloves and continued to turn them one by one.

    After a while, she suddenly realized something and began to regret that she was too stupid just now. After so many years, how could it be still on the outer layer of the chain? So, she pushed aside the new layer above and looked for the old locks that had been eroded by the wind and rain.

    A lot of metal objects are cold and hard, hanging there in the wind and the sun for an unknown amount of time, many handwritings on the lock surface are covered with rust and ice ballast, and the original appearance cannot be distinguished. She wiped them off one by one with her fingers and got closer to identify them carefully.

    When she did all this, her thoughts were very clear, and she didn't want to cry or shed tears.

    Gradually, her feet felt numb, and she simply sat down on the spot.

    But, one, another, one, another... none of them was it.

    The red sun on the other side of the mountain has already jumped out, and those excited cheers and shouts have reached their peak.

    Then, a figure stood in front of Zeng Li.

    Zeng Li only thought that the other party was going to pass by, so she moved to the side to let him out. Unexpectedly, the visitor did not leave, but asked, "What are you looking for?"

    Zeng Li raised her head when she heard the sound, and saw that the person was actually Ai Jingchu, she was a little embarrassed, "Why are you here?"

    "I woke up just now and felt the time was right, so I came to catch the sunrise," he said.

    "Then you're late." The first light of dawn had already appeared, and he was still scoffing with her here.

    "What are you looking for?" he asked again, ignoring her words.

    "The lock I used to put here."

    "How long has it been?" he continued.

    Zeng Li suddenly felt a little angry, "It's none of your business."

    "I've seen them change the chains every few months, and at the same time throw away all the locks, otherwise it's too heavy and the armrests won't hold up and break."

    After speaking, Ai Jingchu noticed Zeng Li's hand, the fingers were black and dirty and had been frozen red, and there were many scratches on the back of the hand by the corners of the copper lock.

    In fact, he had been watching her from a distance for a long time.

    Originally, he was going to check out after getting up to wash up, but he opened the window and found that the weather was fine, and remembered that she asked him to watch the sunrise last night, so he simply went out by himself.

    He didn't take the cable car and walked up the steps alone. When he was about to reach the top, he saw Zeng Li walking alone on another path with a dazed expression, and he followed her after a moment of anxiety.

    Originally, Ai Jingchu didn't want to disturb her, but in the end, he couldn't hold back.

    "Get up," he said.

    "I'm not looking for it anymore, just taking a look."

    "Zeng Li."

    "The sunrise is almost gone, hurry up, it is none of your concern here." After she finished impatiently, she switched place again, signaling Ai Jingchu to leave quickly, and then she started to look at the lock.

    He squatted down and said slowly to her in an unwavering tone: "If you couldn't go back to the hotel last night, it's none of my concern, the child's accident is none of my concern, and the stupid things you do here now are none of my concern. But, Zeng Li, I took care of it all."

    The mountain wind blew, making a hua~la hua~la sound in the ears of the two.

    "I don't know what happened to you, but you are no longer a child, and the hope of life is not pinned on such things."

    On the other side of Guanri Cliff, people shouted various slogans, sentences and names at sunrise, one after another.

    Suddenly, a little girl shouted at the sea of ​​clouds in the air:

    "Hey hey hey - Xie Xiaoyu - I love you -"

    Then, a male voice shouted out in a more excited voice: "I—got it—"

    Then there was a burst of laughter from the others.

    Under such a festive and lively atmosphere, Zeng Li suddenly felt that something was surging in her heart and shed tears quietly.

    "I'm sorry," she said.

    He's such a good person, and she actually hurt him with her word when she was sulking.

    "I'm sorry," she said again.

    Ai Jingchu silently handed her a tissue.

    "Do I look funny?" Zeng Li asked.

    He wanted to say something to comfort her, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with a suitable word.

    She added: "I've been stupid since I was a child, afraid of life, timid, and poor memory. It takes me an hour to memorize a text that others can memorize in ten minutes. Sometimes I have to memorize it with difficulty. I was so nervous that I couldn't pronounce a word.

    "Once when I was playing basketball in PE class, other boys threw the ball at me very hard. When I caught it, I sprained my finger, but I didn't dare to say it, because I was afraid that the teacher would say that I was squeamish and that I was afraid that my classmates would say that I was a snitch, even though it was very painful, I had to endure it. I didn’t dare to tell my mother when I got home, because I was afraid she would run to the teacher and the school. When I was uncomfortable, I thought, I’ll just endure it, but it really won’t hurt after a while. But the knuckles were bulging. Later, my mother took me to see it, and the doctor said that it had been too long and it cannot be cured. "

    She recounted the trivial matters calmly as if she would go mad if she didn't say it now if she didn't find someone to vent about.

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Sweet Teeth / A Speck Amid The Dust of The World 世界微尘里 Chapter 10.3

Chapter 10.3 - An Unlockable Past (Part 2)

    The other party couldn't hide his feelings and kept asking Zeng Li to convey his gratitude.

    Director Li is well-known in her work unit, and when he makes a speech in a meeting, he needs to spend the first half of his time looking back at the past, and then spend the second half of his time looking forward to the future. After he speaks for a long time, he then thinks of looking at his watch." Yo, time is running out, let's get down to business."

    After finally hanging up her phone, Zeng Li let out a long sigh of relief, stamped her frozen feet, and returned to the living room.

    She froze in place.

    Ai Jingchu actually just sat on the sofa and fell asleep.

    Zeng Li quietly took a few steps closer, and called out tentatively, "Ai...Jingchu." She shouted softly, afraid that he was just closing his eyes and slumbering, but also afraid that he was really asleep, and she might accidentally disturb his sleep.

    He was motionless, breathing evenly and long.

    Maybe it was the effect of the medicine, maybe it was because he was really tired, she waited silently for a minute or two, and found that he really slept soundly.

    His head was slightly raised, leaning on the back of the sofa, against the background of the orange light, the outline of his eyebrows exuded a dazzling beauty from the inside out. With one hand in front of him and the other on the armrest, he closed his eyes with a thick layer of eyelashes, much more amiable than when he was awake.

    Zeng Li didn't know what to do.

    Finally, after a long thought, she went into the bedroom and came out with a thick blanket.

    The corner of the blanket swept across the coffee table, and accidentally kicked the bag that Ai Jingchu put on it to the ground, and something rolled onto the carpet, making a muffled sound, Zeng Li hurriedly raised her eyes and looked at Ai Jingchu.

    Fortunately, he was not affected.

    After carefully picking up the things, she bent over and cover the blanket in her hand on him, and the hand he put on the arm of the sofa was out of the blanket because it was stretched farther. The fingertips were neatly trimmed, there were no extra nails, and even some places were cut too much and were slightly deformed. The fingers are very white and all the nail seams are extremely clean.

    Hands used to save the wounded.

    Are all men who need to work using their hands like this?

    Zeng Li thought for a while, then moved the hand on the armrest to his lap. Maybe her hand was too cold, which disturbed him. His brows wrinkled, he took his hand back from Zeng Li and put it on the near side, tilted his head but didn't wake up.

    After doing all this, Zeng Li took her things, turned off the light, and slowly closed the door.

    Zeng Li didn't fall asleep for a long time after she went back.

    She have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than her own, and she couldn't fall asleep till late at night. She was lying on the bed, looking at the curtains for a while, and the ceiling for a while, and she didn't know how long it took to close her eyes. In a daze, she had many dreams again. Those dreams were fragments, fragment after fragment, layer by layer, like a black shadow grabbed her, dragged her, and forced her to be unable to breathe.

    She kicked her legs under the quilt suddenly, and she was woken up by herself.

    Zeng Li looked at the time, and opened the curtains, the snow had stopped, and the horizon seemed a little gray.

    In the end, she simply packed up and went out.

    The sunrise on Dongshan Mountain is a well-known sight. Because the mountain is covered by heavy snow, the road has not been opened to traffic, but the cable car has opened. Dongshan Hotel is still a short distance from the top of the mountain. You can take the cable car or climb up by yourself.

    Probably because of the snow last night, there were not many people watching the sunrise, only a few groups of people.

    Zeng Li happened to meet a few colleagues who were going to watch the sunrise when she went out. She didn't dare to walk the mountain road alone, so she bought a ticket to the top of the mountain with them.

    The cable car is very large, and one car can hold more than 20 people.

    Along the way, everyone was very excited and kept taking pictures in the cable car, but Zeng Li stood quietly in the corner by herself.

    At the end of the cable car, everyone got off and ran towards the cliff to view the view, not paying any attention to the other direction Zeng Li was walking.

    Instead of walking with the crowd watching the sunrise, she bypassed the courtyard wall of Dongshan Temple on the top of the mountain and continued to walk towards the small mountain there. The snow on the top of the mountain was so thick that it barely covered her calf, and the altitude was high, so she struggled to walk and was a little out of breath.

    But she still walked faster and faster, and in the end, she couldn't lift her legs, and she fell into the snow.

    She fell face down, her cheeks against the snow, and she didn't want to move for a long time.

    After a while, she heard someone shouting over the cliff, and it seemed that dawn was about to break.

    She tried to roll over, sat up, and walked forward again.

    Finally, she saw the long-lost huge concentric lock sculpture. The chains around the sculpture, and even the handrails made of iron chains on the edge of the cliff, are all copper locks. As long as there is a gap, the place is full of locks, layer after layer, overlapping, and the original appearance of the chain can hardly be seen.

    She walked over, then squatted down and flipped through the locks.

    Almost every lock is engraved with "Forever together, a hundred years of harmony".

    But she was looking for something beyond that.

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Sweet Teeth / A Speck Amid The Dust of The World 世界微尘里 Chapter 10.2

Chapter 10.2 - An Unlockable Past (Part 2)

    She followed him into the administration building, and then took the elevator to the sixth floor.

    He opened the door with his room card, and Zeng Li hesitated for a long time on whether to go in or wait for him outside the door.

    However, as soon as the door opened, she heard Ai Jingchu's cell phone ringing. Probably he was in a hurry when he left, and he didn't take his cell phone with him. The phone continued to ring from the bedroom, and he didn't know how long it had been ringing, so he had to walk in quickly to pick it up.

    Zeng Li was just standing outside the door when someone came out of the elevator and saw Zeng Li standing at the door. The man walked all the way to look at her curiously, his undisguised eyes looked at Zeng Li all the way until he took out the room card and opened the room next to Ai Jingchu, and walked in, then he disappeared behind the door.

In the middle of the night, a woman stood in front of the expensive suite in the executive building with her hair disheveled. The door was open, but she didn't go in or leave. Zeng Li felt that the other party was definitely trying to figure out her career.

    She looked up at the ceiling, gathered up her courage, took two steps inside, and quickly closed the door.

    Only the lights in the living room and bedroom were on, and Ai Jingchu was standing in the bedroom talking. Zeng Li glanced inside, the snow-white quilt was wrinkled, and he was really called up from the quilt just now.

    Ai Jingchu heard the door closing and walked out of the bedroom to see what was going on while talking on the phone.

    Zeng Li stood in the living room and looked at him.

    He pointed to the sofa and motioned Zeng Li to sit first.

    Zeng Li found the disassembled medicine box and the thermos cup she gave him on the coffee table.

    Then, he said, "I'll go back early tomorrow morning." and ended the call.

    He hung up the phone and went to dump the remaining water in the thermos cup, washed it, wiped it clean, and put it back in Zeng Li's bag. The two were about to talk when Zeng Li's phone suddenly rang.

    As soon as Zeng Li answered, it was Director Li's call.

    "Xiao Zeng, you haven't rested yet, have you?"

    "No, Director Li, how is the child?" Zeng Li said.

    "Dr. Ge prescribed some medicine and let him eat and sleep. His mother is watching over him."

    "That's good."

    "I went to find you just now, but I couldn't find it. I heard Xiao Wu say that you and Doctor Ai are acquaintances, right?" Director Li asked again.

    Hearing this, Zeng Li couldn't help but glance at Ai Jingchu, who was also looking at her.

    Learning from the previous experience, she dared not hold the phone in front of Ai Jingchu again and talk about him on the other end of the phone. Moreover, Director Li is different from Ma Yiyi. He is a leader, so she can't just hang up because of inconvenience. So, she smirked at Ai Jingchu, pushed open the glass door, stood on the balcony, and continued to fight.

    Seeing that Zeng Li didn't answer for a long time, Director Li said, "I met you in the yard when you just came back from outside, the person right next to you is that Doctor Ai?"

    Zeng Li was looking back and saw through the glass that Ai Jingchu, who was under the indoor heating, took off his coat and put it on the back of the chair. After that, he sat down on the sofa and waited for her.

    When she heard Director Li's questioning, she wailed in her heart. When Ai Jingchu took her to the West Building, he just met Director Li, and he didn't even say a word, how could he remember it?

Now that she had to admit it, she turned around and replied, "Yeah, haven't I been seeing my teeth these days? He's my attending doctor, it is a coincidence."

    "Oh, I didn't expect that earlier, I didn't have time to say hello."

    Zeng Li gave him a sloppy look with laughter.

    "He is the benefactor of our whole family, and we must thank him."

    "We should."

    "So, since you know Dr. Ai, you must pass on my gratitude to him. You can make an appointment with him for me, and you must invite him to dinner another day, and the whole family will thank him in person..."

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