Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 126 The vixen who has absorbed enough energy

Gu Ran locked the notes, went into the bathroom, took a shower, washed all the sheets and clothes, and hung them to dry on the balcony.

While I was stretching on the balcony and looking out at the sea view, there was a knock on the door.

He opened the door, and Su Qing was standing outside in home clothes, holding a clothes basket.

"Is the washing machine empty?" she asked.

"Just freed up." Gu Ran stepped aside.

Su Qing walked past him.

She wore loose white trousers, a T-shirt, and slippers. Her hair was pulled back casually, giving off a heart-stirring demureness.

It's like the first day of marriage when you see your wife washing clothes at home.

"Do you want me to help?" Gu Ran suggested because he was so absorbed in watching Su Qing that he really regarded Su Qing as his wife. According to the principle of equal sharing of housework.

"Are you laughing?" Gu Ran asked.

"The cheapest ones are more than 1,600. The capacity and packaging are as you can understand. They are probably about the same as eye drops."

"You are not allowed to come in." Su Qing ordered.

Su Qing didn't know whether to be angry or happy for a moment.

"I really went."

"No." After a while, Gu Rancai said, "Someone once said to me, 'I live by the sea, do you know how to surf?'. I asked her what surfing was, and she said, 'Step on the waves.' She also said she could, and I thought I had met a god.”

Su Qing walked into the bathroom and put her clothes into the washing machine one by one, as well as sheets and quilt covers. They were all light and thin in summer and did not take up much space.

"What are you laughing at?"

Su Qing finished washing the cup of the bra, then scrubbed it carefully and then tied it with the shoulder straps: "I really don't know what to give. I asked Aunt Xiang to recommend a perfume that is suitable for both girls and female psychiatrists."

"Talk to Aunt Xiang, maybe I'll give you a discount." Su Qing felt like she was persuading a child. She had never thought Gu Ran was so childish before.

She stood in front of the double basin sink and began to wash her underwear and socks by hand.

"I was just going to find inspiration from your answer. What do you think I would give her a fishing rod?"

While the wash basin was being filled with water, she fixed her hair in front of the mirror.

"Are you free? If you are free, go to my room and mop the floor for me."

"What gift are you going to buy Chen Ke?"

"Do gods also need to wash their own clothes?" Gu Ran asked, with a smile in his voice.

"No!" Gu Ran said.

She was washing her underwear, with a dumbfounded expression on her quiet and elegant face.

"A fishing rod is not a sex toy."

"What about you?"

Pour the laundry detergent, press 'soak wash', and the washing machine starts to fill with water.

"What are you planning to give?" Gu Ran asked.

"Yes."

Whether a person is naive or not depends on who he is with.

"One thousand six hundred and sixty is still too expensive. I also want to save money through working part-time to buy her a birthday gift and a surfboard for myself."

She does morning exercises three times a week, at irregular times, choosing three days of the week when she wakes up early and is in a good mood.

The packaging looks similar - to a man's eyes, but in reality it's definitely more gorgeous.

"Come in." Su Qing said.

"Maybe he is a god." Su Qing smiled while cleaning her underwear.

Obviously, she is the type who does not allow her husband to work.

"More than 1,600?" Gu Ran said in shock, "Even if I buy you a gift, I don't plan to use that much budget!"

"I don't know what will happen to her, but if you gave me a fishing rod for my birthday, I would whip you with it."

What does it mean that Gu Ran is so childish in front of her? She laughed softly.

"return!"

"I'm laughing at you for being naive, do you really like surfing that much?"

"Aunt Xiang." Gu Ran thought of last night's reality and dreams, "Is the perfume she prepared expensive?"

"It seems there is something invisible in the room."

"Skirt." Su Qing drained the sewage and turned on the faucet, "In Haicheng, girls always need skirts."

Su Qing turned off the faucet and started washing the clothes: "There is no need to exercise on Saturdays and Sundays. The amount of exercise is enough."

"I won't practice on Saturdays and Sundays," Gu Ran said.

"Aren't you going to do morning exercise today?" she asked Gu Ran while tidying up.

"I'm afraid you'll do shameful things in my room!" Su Qing pressed her underwear to drain as much water as possible.

After she washed her underwear and socks and went back to her room to dry them, they went to the restaurant to have breakfast together.

While eating, He Qingyan walked out of the room.

She didn't feel lazy after getting up in the morning. She felt as refreshed as if she had been in the living room just now and just went back to the room to get her mobile phone charger.

"Good morning!" she greeted, sitting down and scanning the dining table to see what was available for breakfast today.

She was wearing a white T-shirt and denim shorts. The front hem of the T-shirt was casually tucked into the denim shorts. Her white legs looked particularly long.

"Good morning." Gu Ran responded.

"When I think about having to work today, I feel exhausted both physically and mentally." He Qingyan said.

"I can't tell at all." Gu Ran said.

"My heart is tired, do you understand my heart?"

"Know my heart clearly~" Yan Hanxiang hummed softly and came down from upstairs, charming as if
"Mom, you seem to be a vixen who has absorbed enough energy today." He Qingyan praised.

"Your mother and I have been celibate for seven or eight years." Yan Hanxiang sat down.

"You should just divorce my dad," He Qingyan said nonchalantly. "Parents also have the right to pursue happiness. I don't want you to be together because of me. This will make me even more unhappy."

"Silly boy, who cares about you? It is very dangerous for beautiful women like your mother and me to be single. Although your father is not easy to use, his power is very useful."

Su Qing and Gu Ran didn't dare to raise their eyes, they only dared to eat the food in front of them.

"Mom," He Qingyan was curious, "Is my dad dying?"

"It's not impossible, it's just that I'm too beautiful, and a person's energy is limited. If he spends too much on me, he won't be able to concentrate on his official career."

"So he just abandoned his parents and fiancée like Li Xiuyuan did and became a monk at Guoqing Temple?"

"Ah."

"Then mom, do you hate him?"

"I don't hate it, because although my mother is very energetic, no matter how much energy she puts into making perfume, it's not enough."

"By the way, Aunt Xiang." Gu Ran quickly interrupted the mother-daughter chat, "As you know, we are working to celebrate the birthday of a colleague."

"Female colleague." He Qingyan completed the gender.

"It's a female colleague." Gu Ran continued, "I want to buy a bottle of perfume from you suitable for a twenty-year-old psychiatrist."

After Yan Hanxiang pondered, he said, "Looking at how hard you have worked, I will give you a bottle."

"Why did he work so hard?" He Qingyan was puzzled.

Gu Ran's heartbeat accelerated.

"Isn't it hard to take care of you, my dear?" Yan Hanxiang lifted a romantic curl of He Qingyan's hair to her mouth.

"He didn't spend any energy on me, so how could he take care of me?" He Qingyan retorted.

The next moment, she suddenly thought that Gu Ran had not spent any energy on her.

It was an uninhabited island, and he even got it in her hair - she did it herself, and she also touched it by herself.

It seemed like the strands that Yan Hanxiang was tucking behind her ears.

"Okay." She changed her mind, "Give him a bottle."

"It's not without request for you. Take more care of the baby in the future." Yan Hanxiang said to Gu Ran.

"We take care of each other." Gu Ran replied. "What have I taken care of you for?" He Qingyan was curious.

"let me see"

I thought about it for a long time, so long that both Yan Hanxiang and Su Qing laughed.

"You kid!" He Qingyan said angrily, "You can't even say a word. I'm so disappointed in you! I want to reveal your true colors!"

Finish!
When Gu Ran thought that she was going to tell the shameful things about the two of them, even though He Qingyan took the initiative.

He Qingyan said: "Didn't you realize that Gu Ran is a bad person, greedy for money and lustful?"

Su Qing and Yan Hanxiang were both thoughtful.

Even Gu Ran himself suddenly discovered that he seemed to be greedy for Su Qing's family's wealth and for Su Qing's beauty.

"There's nothing wrong with being greedy for money and lust, right?" he said.

"Then are you more greedy for money or more lustful?" He Qingyan continued to ask.

"At my age, I'm quite lustful." Gu Ran hesitated to speak the truth.

He felt that there was nothing wrong with saying this. After all, the people present were all people with close connections. This was the bad nature of men. If they had some relationship with the opposite sex, they would treat the other person as one of their own.

In response to his answer, all three women looked at him.

"Dirty!" He Qingyan criticized.

"If you dare to act recklessly, it won't be as simple as writing a self-criticism." Su Qing, the accomplice, warned.

"Asking you to take care of Qingyan is just a matter of care between friends. Do you understand what I mean?" Yan Hanxiang reminded her.

Is there no truth in this world except him?
After dinner, because the clothes and quilts Su Qing put in the washing machine were not washed properly, He Qingyan wanted to use them again, so Gu Ran simply read in the living room.

By the time the two of them finished cleaning up, it was almost time to go out to the cafe.

The service work in the cafe on Saturday was much busier than that of the psychiatrist. Su Qing still had time to rest, while Gu Ran and He Qingyan almost never stopped.

At 10: pm, get off work on time.

After cleaning, the elegant female shop owner Li Wen said: "There will be a 'Spiritual Sisters Self-help Meeting' in the store tomorrow morning. Can you please come?"

"Spiritual sisters self-help meeting?" Gu Ran was curious.

When most people hear this word, the scene of "funny girls gathering together" will probably come to their mind.

But as a psychiatrist and Li Wen as a mental patient, the first thing that came to his mind was naturally: female mental patients help each other.

"Yes." Li Wen was a little shy for some reason, "Actually, I was inspired by Su Qing, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva inspired Sun Wukong."

Gu Ran looked at Su Qing. Su Qing had a little bit of Jade Guanyin in mind.

But it’s more tacky than Guanyin.

This bit of vulgarity comes to mind: everyone thinks she's too beautiful.

Regarding Guanyin, the first thing people pay attention to is not her beauty.

Facing Gu Ran's questioning eyes, Su Qing responded with a puzzled expression.

"I haven't told you about my condition yet, right?" Li Wen continued.

Of course Su Qing wouldn't say anything.

Gu Ran and He Qingyan could read the "Doctor's Notes" to learn about Li Wen's condition, but the "Doctor's Notes" they had read so far contained no information about Li Wen.

Li Wen took the three of them to a pub on the same street.

The tavern is deliberately decorated to look old-fashioned, with bamboo tubes for chopsticks, chandeliers for lamps, and "Ascetic" as the song, just like the old era in the movie.

"Just order, I'll treat you." Li Wen said and smiled, "Just think of it as a bribe to invite you to come to the buffet tomorrow."

During the meal, she talked about her illness.

"Twenty-eight years ago, I had no problems and entered the workplace smoothly. After some unremarkable hard work, I became a team leader with an annual salary of 400,000 yuan, and I was able to show my ambition a little bit.

“But at this moment, something went wrong with my head.

"I was in a great mood at the time. I was buying bags and shoes. How could I get mentally ill?"

She picked up the enamel cup with the words "I am honored when the factory prospers, I am ashamed of when the factory declines" and took a sip of the drink.

"I was living alone at the time, and my parents came to see me. I shared my joy with them. After dinner, my father suddenly asked me, 'Daughter, are you worried about anything recently?', and I said, 'I'm not.' My mother hesitated to speak.

"Dad looked around my room and said to me, 'Then why did you buy six of the same bag and the same pair of shoes on the shoe cabinet? Your mother saw your closet and it was full of clothes. 'None of them have been worn.

"'I usually buy a few more items if I like them or if they suit me. The real pursuit of fashion is the suitability.' I said.

"But when I said this, my heart and body became colder and colder. Now I feel cold just thinking about it, like a completely frozen person being taken out and thawed.

"At the request of my mother and father, I followed them to the hospital for a check-up. After the test, it was found that I was suffering from depression.

"My mother was worried, so she contacted several classmates and contacted Professor Zhuang Jing to get checked out. It was found to be bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression.

“It turns out that when I’m working, I feel like I’m having a smooth sailing and that I’m a little bit omnipotent, which is the reason for my mania.

"Professor Zhuang Jing put me in the hospital. After a few days, the mania passed and depression began.

“I was thrown into a trough, feeling that I worked so hard and only slept four hours a day, and as a result I had bad skin, shortened my life, got sick, and became constipated—sorry, does that make sense?

"I finally realized that my body had become so tired and heavy without knowing when."

As if remembering that experience, Li Wen fell into silence.

After a while, she took a deep breath, as if pulling her feet out of the mire.

She smiled half-heartedly and said:
"At this time, Su Qing appeared and talked about the 'energy theory' that I didn't understand. Then when I was having a manic episode, she took me hiking until I felt tired, and then fell asleep when I came back.

“At the time, I simply thought she was a good doctor, but later I realized how tiring it was to accompany a manic patient to vent his energy.

"Later, I also learned that after a manic episode, hospitals usually force patients to take sleeping pills. Even if they take three sleeping pills at the same time, they still have to make the patient fall asleep.

“You also have to take a variety of anti-manic medications, which have all kinds of side effects.

"If you don't go to the hospital, bipolar disorder is more dangerous. When you are manic, you may drink alcohol, become addicted to gambling, or be promiscuous; when you are depressed, you may harm yourself, commit suicide, or hurt people around you.

"Su Qing is my attending doctor. I only took medicine a few times, and then lived in {Jinghai} for more than half a year. The disease actually recovered. Although bipolar disorder cannot be cured, it does not affect my normal life now.

“During my mental illness, not only did I not gain weight and self-inflicted scars on my body, but I became healthier through mountain climbing, going to the beach and other exercises.

"I have never said it, but I have always been deeply grateful to Su Qing in my heart. I feel that it was this kind of care that really allowed me to overcome my bipolar disorder and start a new life.

"So, after I left {Jinghai}, I used the organizational skills honed at work to establish the 'Spiritual Sisters Self-Help Association', hoping to share this 'care' that I thought was crucial to other mentally ill patients.

“Every Sunday morning, anyone who wants to come can come, just in my store, where everyone talks about their illness, exchanges about the quality of medicines, and shares which hospital is more responsible.

"You can also talk about other things, such as makeup, clothes, babies, children, work, etc. Anything is fine as long as you can vent your stress."

After listening to Li Wen's description, He Qingyan couldn't help but wonder: "Did your desire increase during your manic episode? I mean physical desire, not shopping desire or destructive desire. Do you understand what I mean?"

Li Wen looked at her blankly.

"Actually, at that time," she recalled slowly, "as long as I felt energetic, I was either cleaning the ward or going hiking with Su Qing, so I didn't pay much attention to this aspect."

"Hmm -" He Qingyan fell into deep thought.

Li Wen looked at Su Qing: "Can you come tomorrow? It doesn't matter if you don't come. I just think it's rare to have a doctor from {Jinghai} here, so I won't be reconciled if I don't catch him and take advantage."

Su Qing smiled nicely. Under the light of the old tavern, she looked like a goddess of that era.

"Of course," she said.

"Cheers!" Li Wen raised the enamel cup.

"Cheers!" He Qingyan also raised a cup with the words 'The factory is my home, safety depends on everyone'.

Su Qing and Gu Ran also raised their glasses.

The four of them toasted in the slightly dim but bright light.

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"Private Diary": August 24, Saturday, sunny.

At my age, there's nothing wrong with being greedy and lustful!
Today, we talked about the conversation between the two when they were young. According to Su Qing's reaction, she seemed to remember things from her childhood.

So, on the day she picked me up, she was in a good mood because she wanted to see me, so she put the McDonald's bag on her head?
She has definitely been secretly in love with me for more than ten years!
Also, how did she manage to climb a mountain with a man having a manic episode?

She must be a female robot.

I can be a female robot too!

On the first day that Aunt Jing was away, I missed her so much.

(End of this chapter)