Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 140 Gu Ran’s cousin

Su Qing, Chen Ke and the others came back and had lunch with Gu Ran and the others in the hotel cafeteria.

After Zhuang Jing's speech, she was left by Sumire Kuroda and was served lunch by the University of Tokyo.

"If we collect tickets and sell autographed books, Dean Zhuang Jing may earn more than a star who holds a concert!" Gege couldn't forget the scene in the morning, and at the same time she greatly admired Zhuang Jing's ability.

"I spend all my time making money, so I don't have time for research," Gu Ran said.

"Yes." Gege suddenly realized, "By the way, when we went out today, we were questioned by the police again because of Xiya."

"What would you do without me?" Gu Ran asked.

He giggled and said, "Translation software."

"Translation software is quite powerful now." Chen Ke said with a smile.

"It's much easier to use than someone else." Su Qing also said.

Chen Ke couldn't help but smile. Just as she was about to say something, the sound of the door opening came from the entrance.

It is unclear whether Gu Ran likes Zhuang Jing or uses "like" to please his mother-in-law.

Everyone couldn't help laughing.

No, it should be torture.

"'Jing' has 14 paintings. Do you have enough ashes?" He Qingyan didn't know whether she was really curious or provocative.

The two of them had already developed the habit of taking a nap. They washed off the morning sweat in the bathroom and fell asleep.

"The premise is that the clothes look good, but if they look good, it doesn't matter whether they are stockings or not." Gu Ran is so honest.

However, she could completely understand why Gu Ran liked that person the most, and that person was still her mother.

"What is your favorite?" He Qingyan asked.

"You can bring it back to stockings no matter what the topic is!" Gu Ran was helpless.

Although she traveled and came to a foreign country, Su Qing still insisted that Xie Xiya and Gege maintain the {Jinghai} schedule.

"Really?" Chen Ke asked Gu Ran with a smile.

He Qingyan doesn't matter.

"The point is, I was invited to be a model." Gu Ran reminded her.

Gu Ran and the others were chatting in the living room, telling each other about their experiences in the morning.

"It's not a matter of whether it's enough, it's determination. Determination is the most important thing." Gu Ran is like a missionary who maintains his virginity for God.

Su Qing and Chen Ke looked at him.

Su Qing and Chen Ke originally wanted to laugh at his abruptness in changing the subject, but after hearing his few thoughts, they couldn't help but listen carefully and then participated in the discussion.

If it's to please the mother-in-law's 'like', most women on that day should be able to tolerate it, because it is essentially a liking for themselves.

"Translation software is a tool. Only those who can truly speak belong to you!" Gu Ran is like a tailor who believes that machines have no soul and handwork is art.

""Encouragement to Learning", a gentleman's life is not different, and he is good at fake things."

"I can live well on my own." Gu Ran was as stubborn as an empty-nest man who said he was not lonely, and ate in silence.

"The language of painting is accessible in every corner of the world, so I can bring up stockings on any topic." She was quite proud.

"There's always a favorite, right?" Chen Ke said tentatively.

"No, the point is that Gu Ran said he likes women with good-looking legs and buttocks, so I bought all kinds of socks, black silk, white silk, stockings, pantyhose, and garters." He Qingyan said.

As the object of Gu Ran's crush - someone who wanted to kiss, I always heard him say that he liked another person the most, so of course he was repelled in his heart.

"You really like my mother!" Su Qing's mood was complicated.

Gu Ran looked at He Qingyan who was quoting the classics.

"So are silk stockings a special kind of hypnosis for Gu Ran?" she asked.

After dinner, it’s time for a lunch break.

Everyone stood up subconsciously, and a few seconds later, Zhuang Jing walked in carrying a bag and wearing a lilac and almost white dress. Behind her was a woman dressed in Japanese simple style who looked to be the same age as Gu Ran and the others.

He Qingyan put down the bowl in her left hand, covered her mouth, and secretly said to Gu Ran in a voice that everyone could hear: "Should I be on your side?"

"Absolutely nothing!" Gu Ran said, "I was educated by Teacher Zhuang Jing, how could I be so superficial? If you don't believe me, you must also believe in Teacher Zhuang Jing's educational ability. By the way, about this teacher Zhuang Jing's lecture , I have some ideas.”

If He Qingyan said the stockings as a joke, and Chen Ke said the stockings as inquiring, then Su Qing said the stockings as a knock.

Gu Ran looked at her in disbelief. He didn't know she bought these socks.

"This is not a question of whether I like it or not. It is engraved in my mind like the red light stops and the green light goes. Even if the flesh and blood turn into fertilizer and the bones turn into slag, I can still write 'quiet' on the ground with bone meal."

"I like Teacher Zhuang Jing best." Gu Ran replied instantly.

People who didn't know the inside story might think she was joking, but Gu Ran suspected that she was trying to get information.

"Omotesando, I'm so envious." Chen Ke smiled.

"So you really like stockings?" Su Qing asked Gu Ran.

Gu Ran didn't understand the causal relationship between the two, but could use the word 'so'.

Su Qing and others looked at the stranger.

"You are——" Gu Ran looked at her, "Tang Ling?"

Tang Ling smiled brightly: "Long time no see, cousin!"

"Cousin?" He Qingyan was confused.

Su Qing and Chen Ke also didn't understand why Gu Ran's cousin was in Tokyo. Could it be a rich relative?
"Don't get me wrong," Gu Ran explained, "Although she calls me cousin, our families are actually far apart. Since I was a child, I have only seen her twice except at school."

Originally, He Qingyan and the others had nothing to do with each other. After all, cousins ​​are not allowed to get married in modern times. But after he explained it like this, it became a marriageable relationship.

"Hello." Tang Ling greeted everyone with a smile and bowed slightly like the Japanese.

"Sit down first." Zhuang Jing smiled.

After some explanations, everyone finally understood why Tang Ling was here.

She was also one of the students that Zhuang Jing originally sponsored. She is currently a student at Dongda University, and her tuition and living expenses are all paid for by Zhuang Jing.

Zhuang Jing's decision to come to Japan this time was a last-minute decision, and the psychology schools of major universities knew about it. But she didn't know that she heard someone talking in the cafeteria at noon today, so she hurried to meet Zhuang Jing.

There was still some time before the afternoon surgery. Zhuang Jing wanted to know how she was doing, and because of her relationship with Gu Ran, she brought her to the hotel.

"You and Gu Ran grew up in the same school?" He Qingyan was curious.

“There are many children in primary schools but few teachers, so children from several villages study in the same school. My cousin’s village is the farthest away and we have to walk for a long time every time;

"There is only one junior high school for direct admission, but for students with good grades, the teacher will ask if they need to go to other better junior high schools. My cousin went to a junior high school with a psychology major. That junior high school is also the best junior high school in the city. I Also passed;
“The high school is the best, too;

"Later, I applied to the University of Tokyo, and my cousin went to Beicheng University."

"You like your teacher Zhuang Jing so much, why don't you come to Haicheng University, maybe you can become our junior brother." He Qingyan teased.

Su Qing couldn't help but imagine the situation when Gu Ran came to Haicheng University.

Based on the relationship between Gu Ran and Zhuang Jing, as long as he enters Haicheng University, he will definitely get in touch with them, and even live directly in {Tianhai Manor-Village Villa} like now.

The two of them will have a year of college life as "senior sister and junior brother". Thinking of this, Su Qing couldn't help but smile.

She actually felt a little regretful. If Gu Ran really came to Haicheng University, life would be much more interesting.

Yan Hanxiang, who was drinking alone at the bar, thought that if Gu Ran had majored in psychology at Haicheng University, the two would not have such an unspeakable relationship now.

"Teacher Zhuang Jing's alma mater is Beicheng University, so I went to Beicheng University." Gu Ran's reason was simple and legitimate.

"Has Gu Ran been like this before?" Even Chen Ke felt that Gu Ran was too loyal.

"What?" Tang Ling was puzzled.

"It seems that some people are acting," Su Qing said with a smile, "My mother was doing the same thing before, but she is doing another thing when she is away."

"I didn't say it before because no one said it, and I didn't want people to think that I was flattering. I don't have such low-level emotions towards Teacher Zhuang Jing. My true faith is in my heart."

Su Qing was dumbfounded.

But no one refuted it. Everyone knew that what Gu Ran said was true. They knew it from the fact that he went to Zhuang Jing's alma mater to study in college.

"How is Tokyo?" Gu Ran asked Tang Ling.

"It's not bad." Tang Ling said with a smile, "I went to Ueno to enjoy the cherry blossoms in the spring, walked to the Kamakura beach in the summer, and watched the fireworks display. I went to the Seto Inland Sea to cycle alone, and in the autumn I went to Arashiyama in Kyoto to take pictures of the maple leaves. In the winter, I went to Otaru to visit the filming location of "Love Letter" and also joined a club."

"You have accumulated a lot of spiritual wealth!" Gu Ran said with a smile.

"Cousin, you must have a lot of material wealth!" Tang Ling also teased.

"Where did he get his material wealth?" He Qingyan picked up a grape and said, "Keke is celebrating her birthday. Well, Keke is this beautiful girl. He is also planning to buy her a gift worth 100 yuan." "Then. Too little!" Tang Ling laughed heartily, and he could tell that he was Chinese.

"In a bitter and cold place like Japan, I must not have eaten watermelon for a long time. Here." Gu Ran pushed the watermelon towards her.

"I haven't eaten for a long time!" Tang Ling was not polite.

"What club did you join?" Gu Ran asked.

"The music department, but those with no foundation like me are completely on the cheerleading team. If we make up the numbers, the ones who can actually play are those who have been practicing since junior high school, and there are even national competition champions!"

"That's amazing." Chen Ke said in admiration, "I can enter the University of Tokyo in terms of study, and my talent can enter the national competition!"

Tang Ling nodded in approval.

In fact, she is also very powerful herself.

"Does Gu Ran have a dark history?" He Qingyan suddenly asked Tang Ling, with a narrow smile on her face.

"Can you tell me?" Tang Ling asked Gu Ran.

"Do I have a dark history?" Gu Ran said with a smile.

"No, no, it's just a fun fact!" Tang Ling also laughed, "Can you tell me?"

"What's interesting about me?"

".I don't dare to say it anymore."

"You dare to say that he has no human rights here." Su Qing said.

Tang Ling looked at Su Qing and Gu Ran differently.

"Then let me tell you?" She wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue, "Although my cousin and I are in the same school for elementary, junior high, and high school, we are rarely in the same class, so we don't know much about each other.

“There are only two things that impress me most, both when I was a child.

"Among the people who came to visit our school with Teacher Zhuang Jing at that time, some of them sponsored our school supplies after returning, including crayons. Cousin, do you remember?"

"Of course!" Gu Ran smiled and nodded, "To us, it's not a crayon, it's just a box of diamonds!"

"Hmm!" Tang Ling clicked hard, "So we were completely reluctant to use it at that time, and it took a long time to draw a tree with a green crayon.

“Because they are so precious, no one is willing to use them, so crayons have become hard currency, in other words, our internal currency.

"Some guys can even use a paintbrush to get a girl to kiss him."

"Gu Ran did such a thing?" Yan Hanxiang asked jokingly.

Tang Ling shook his head and continued: "Many girls like their cousin and want to get crayons from him to prove that they have the best relationship with him. The more pink the color, the better the relationship.

“But my cousin sold all the crayons and replaced them with marbles, which are the currency among boys.

"Before this, my cousin had never played with marbles, but since then, every time my cousin went out to play, his two deep pants pockets would be filled with marbles.

"He exchanged marbles for pens, exercise books, erasers, and even sold them directly for money. One marble was a dime at the canteen, and he sold two marbles for a dime. If he bought fifty cents, he would get two more marbles of slightly different quality as a gift. He made money by doing this. That’s a lot of money for us.”

"How much?" He Qingyan asked Gu Ran.

"About three hundred dollars."

"So many?" Tang Ling said in surprise, "I thought it was only a hundred at most!"

"You are a girl. You don't understand. In addition to marbles, I also play Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Pokémon cards, Little Raccoon Water Margin, and the kind of 'bread' made of books. In addition, I help people make slingshots and teach people. Shooting birds."

"You were criticized by the teaching teacher for hunting birds, saying that you don't care for animals." Tang Ling said with a smile.

"In a remote country, people still don't care about animals, and people don't have enough to eat." Gu Ran also laughed.

Everyone listened quietly.

Su Qing saw Gu Ran back then. He was smart and shy. His face turned red when she and Zhuang Jing looked at him. He also helped the family herd cattle. She didn't expect him to do these things!

He Qingyan was also very noisy when she was a child, but her noisiness was different from Gu Ran's.

If we use food as a metaphor, Gu Ran wanted to be full, but she was greedy.

"Marbles, Water Margin, I heard my father talk about these. Aren't those what they played in that era?" Chen Ke was puzzled.

"We were very poor there." Tang Ling recalled his childhood. "The floors at home were either cement or dirt. They glowed when they were stepped on."

"That's why I'm grateful to Teacher Zhuang Jing." Gu Ran said.

"Yes!" Tang Ling nodded, "Because of Teacher Zhuang Jing, we can get out of the mountains."

"I also gained a lot, especially mentally." Zhuang Jing said with a smile.

Sponsoring children in the mountains, one becomes a psychiatrist, and another becomes a student at the University of Tokyo. Is there anything more fulfilling than this?

If this can be considered a kind of hypnosis, the effect of hypnosis can make the sponsor face everything in life calmly, and no matter what he does, he can be said to be "not a real bad person."

"What about the second thing?" He Qingyan asked.

"The second thing is actually related to marbles." Tang Ling said.

Everyone listened as she continued to speak——

"It must have been the third grade of elementary school at that time. Our elementary school was very chaotic. Bullying and fighting were common. In fact, the main reason was to fight for food because no one had enough to eat.

"My cousin's family is very poor. Although he doesn't have to worry about tuition and clothes because of teacher Zhuang Jing's support, he doesn't have any extra money and his family doesn't give it to him. He relies entirely on playing marbles to make a living. Of course, now I know It’s not just about playing marbles.”

"It's popular and popular." Su Qing smiled.

Everyone also smiled.

"Mainly snacks like spicy strips, ice water, and bubble gum!" Tang Ling also smiled, "But my cousin doesn't eat alone. People who often buy his marbles, commonly known as big customers, will invite them. They eat, and sometimes I get a little.”

"Although I didn't know the concept of 'win-win' at that time, I already understood it," Gu Ran said.

Yan Hanxiang smiled.

Tang Ling continued:
"Because he is good at marbles, well-dressed, and always welcomes guests, my cousin is targeted by senior students.

"I don't know the specifics. I just know that my cousin was robbed after school. The marbles and money he always kept in his schoolbag were all robbed."

Chen Ke exclaimed.

Su Qing looked at Gu Ran, as if she could still find the wounds from the beating on his body.

"Since then, my cousin started to exercise, and then a bullying incident at the sports day broke out that shocked the whole school!"

"The bullying incident at the sports meeting?!" He Qingyan began to worry about Gu Ran.

"Well!" Tang Ling seemed to have returned to that time, "There is a sports day in school, and those who like to fight will hide in the corner of the school. After everyone goes out, they will secretly go to the classroom to steal things, only taking food or a few cents. , I don’t care if the teacher is gone.

"When a female classmate ran over and told the teacher on the podium that someone beat Gu Ran in the classroom and she was bleeding, and when the teachers on the playground rushed to the teaching building in a swarm, everyone realized that something was wrong.

"I was working as a small host at the time, responsible for announcing the curtain, and I was also on the rostrum. I heard my cousin bleeding and ran over.

"When I arrived, the classroom smelled of chili powder. I coughed hard at the teacher in front. My cousin was in the classroom with blood on his head and a steel rod in his hand.

"Those gangsters were lying on the ground, curled up like shrimps, with chili powder on their faces.

"I remember clearly that at that time my cousin wiped his face. There was more blood on his face and he looked even scarier. He said to the teacher present: 'Teacher, they stole things and I caught them!'

"After a week, this matter is finally over. It seems like it's over."

Gu Ran nodded: "Because I was too harsh, otherwise it would be their fault."

"Are you still fighting?" He Qingyan said with a smile.

"It's self-protection!" Gu Ran had to make it clear.

"But since then, cousin, you don't seem to be playing marbles anymore?"

"My parents said that if I liked making money so much, I would drop out of school and work in the fields," Gu Ran said.

He knew that after he said this, the atmosphere would definitely become depressing, so he continued without pause:
"You don't know, I actually fought with them several times. Of course, I always fought in self-defense. Even if I caught the opponent alone and beat him up, I was beaten badly. Later, I started doing push-ups and actively learned How to fight and win back slowly.”

"I don't know any of these things," Zhuang Jing said.

At that time, Gu Ran had not yet had lucid dreams, and the two of them did not communicate frequently. Gu Ran only regarded Zhuang Jing as a kind and beautiful aunt.

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"Private Diary": August 27, Tuesday, sunny noon, Tokyo.

I met my cousin Tang Ling and talked about some past events.

Crayons, marbles, and fighting are actually good memories for me.

The reason why I treat guests frequently is not only to keep the water flowing, but also to offset the fear of walking alone at night to and from school.

That road was so dark, it was Aunt Jing, she lit up that road.

But can I walk out of that path in this life?
(End of this chapter)