Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 327 Palace
The three of them temporarily settled down in Fox Town.

Gu Ran didn't know how long he would stay here. It depended on when Tamamonomae would contact the fox shrine maiden and how long this dream would last.

Both are unknown, just like Nuosong in Shen Congwen’s “Border Town”. It may be tomorrow, or it may be forever - which is impossible.

Inferring from this, Nuosong will definitely go back and marry Xiaocui? That's great, a happy ending, and the pure love warrior Gu Ran is very satisfied.

I don’t know how Su Qing slept tonight. I hope she has a dreamless night until dawn.

The setting sun was about to disappear in the sky when two foxes, one old and one young, brought dinner. The meal was good, with a bowl of rice, one meat dish, one vegetable dish and one soup.

"From now on, at this time every day, when the sun is about a finger's width away from the horizon, we will deliver food. It's only this one meal a day. If you want to eat more, or even three meals a day, it depends on your own abilities." said the old fox.

"Thank you." Zhuang Jing said.

"After we finish eating, wash the dishes and we'll pick them up tomorrow."

The old fox took the little fox away. Gu Ran relied on his extraordinary hearing to hear the little fox say, "Grandpa, they are so beautiful."

"Starting tomorrow, you will deliver meals to them. Keep an eye on them more often. It's good for your health."

"Good~"

Everyone knows that appearance is innate and can hardly be changed, but appearance is still one of the biggest sources of anxiety.

Gu Ran withdrew his thoughts and looked at the food on the table.

The shadow is slightly lighter, but still noticeable. But at least it is edible. The food outside is purely expired food for half a month.

No, food is a large category, and many of them can be eaten even after their expiration date. It should be fresh milk that has been out of its expiration date by half a month.

The food in Fox Town is usually three or four days out of date and not good for your health, but as long as you are not too unlucky, you will at least not die after eating it and you will be guaranteed not to be pulled into the next level by the shadows.

Gu Ran summoned a black goat, which seemed to enjoy cooked food and meat.

After it finished eating, the food looked much more real and the colors became brighter. Only then did Zhuang Jing and the others sit down and start eating.

"With the help of the black goat and the abilities of Xiaojing and I, the three of us can build a village." Yan Hanxiang took the bowl from Gu Ransheng.

Gu Ran originally wanted to give it to Zhuang Jing first, luckily he reacted in time.

"You can't leave any room for yourself," said Zhuang Jing.

"But we must also prepare for the worst." Yan Hanxiang took a bite of the food and resisted the urge to spit it out. "I take back what I said before. I must go back!"

After tasting it, Zhuang Jing and Gu Ran also felt that this was not a place for people to stay.

At least not in Foxtown.

It's not too salty, nor too bland, nor too bitter. In short, the taste is unpalatable and complex, like tasteless, hard, and tooth-stuck sugarcane.

After dinner, Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang refused to let Gu Ran wash the dishes, saying that he had worked hard carrying things today, and they would feel uncomfortable if they were not given the light work.

Now, they were washing the dishes, and they felt relieved, but Gu Ran felt bad.

Asking Aunt Jing and Aunt Xiang to wash the dishes? What's the difference between this and a 90-year-old mother picking up trash to buy wine for herself every day?
——Gu Ran’s guilt is so severe.

So he gave up all other plans and just wanted to end the dream quickly. However, the [Black Dragon Dream] could not be "awakened" like an ordinary lucid dream, but he could fly out with the help of the black dragon.

Fly?

Yan Hanxiang is washing dishes now and is not paying attention to him, so there is a chance.

However, what if Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang resist? He can actually hold his breath and block the effect of the "incense" for a short time, but can Black Dragon hold his breath? I haven't tried it.

Wake up from the dream! Gu Ran, feeling guilty, fell asleep while praying.

When I woke up, the moment I saw the unfamiliar ceiling, a sense of familiarity came flooding in like a tide.

This is his bedroom in {vision}, he is really awake!
An average psychologist might still hesitate and suspect that he or she is still dreaming because he or she wants to return to reality too much.

But Gu Ran hardly ever does that. He has a kind of intuition that dreams are dreams and reality is reality, just like a deer and a horse, which can be easily distinguished.

It is now undoubtedly a reality.

He glanced at the time. It was 4:21 in the morning. When it was still darkest in South City, it was already dawn in Haicheng, and the sunlight was as bright as moonlight.

Gu Ran lay back down again, and the screen of his mobile phone on the bedside table lit up, illuminating the ceiling.

He didn't go to get it.

It was a message from Zhuang Jing or Yan Hanxiang. From now on, he would occasionally pretend that he was not dreaming.

wrong!

He quickly took the phone.

Besides him, there were two other people in the dream, Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang. As long as they had a conversation with each other, it would be possible to determine whether it was an ordinary lucid dream or a black dragon dream.

The plan to suspend Zhuang Jing's youth can actually only be fooled by the scene of 'there are only him and Zhuang Jing in the dream'.

【Zhuang Jing: Awake?】

Gu Ran replied quickly.

[Gu Ran: Yeah, I just woke up, still a little confused. ]

He lied, but in fact he was not confused at all, and he was still trying to deceive people.

【Zhuang Jing: Come to my spiritual world】

Those things just happened in Heilong’s dream, and now they meet in reality. It is as awkward as running into his girlfriend’s father in the bathroom to take a shower.

But escaping is never a solution.

Gu Ran replied "OK" and put down his phone. After falling asleep this time, he felt something in the dark, and his thoughts drifted along with the feeling, and he woke up in [Spiritual World·Blooming Paradise].

On a hillside full of blooming flowers, the elegant and charming Dean Zhuang Jing and the seductive and intellectual Professor Yan Hanxiang are standing beside a small lotus pond.

Zhuang Jing looked up at Gu Ran and waved to him: "Come here."

Gu Ran walked towards the hillside. Under Yan Hanxiang's smiling gaze, he couldn't help but reached out and touched his nose.

Such obvious actions, unless they are acting, will only appear in one situation when seen by a psychologist: it is really embarrassing!
The morning dew on the flower petals was a little cold, and he used this coolness to keep himself calm.

Walking up the hillside and coming to the small lotus pond, he looked down.

In the small pond - more like a puddle - a lotus seed has grown into a tiny leaf.

The leaves are very small, probably only enough for a frog to squat on, but they probably can't bear the weight of a frog, so only tadpoles can be raised on them.

The lotus leaf is so delicate that it looks weak. It has no strength to stand up and so it floats on the water.

"Great progress," said Zhuang Jing.

"Yes." Gu Ran replied.

It just sprouted a little before I went to bed!
"Call the black goat out and let's see." Yan Hanxiang said with a smile.

It's like meeting your girlfriend's father in the bathroom. Not only does he pretend not to recognize you, he actually waves, asks you to come over, and invites you to take a shower together.

Gu Ran raised his hand and tried to grasp it, but he failed to grasp the [Curved Shepherd's Crooked Staff] the first time, and only managed to grab it the second time.

Unlike before, this time I could feel the activity in the [Cranked Crooked Staff].

"Mee~" The black goat was much more lively than the black dragon in the dream. After calling, it began to eat lotus leaves.

"Hey!" Gu Ran quickly hugged the sheep's head.

The sheep stretched its head and tongue to eat the lotus leaves. Its expression looked as if it was Gu Ran's fault. Gu Ran didn't want it to eat the lotus leaves. "Haha~" Yan Hanxiang laughed.

Zhuang Jing clenched her right fist and smiled against her lips.

The black goat was not very strong, so Gu Ran used all his strength - he could lift about 500 kilograms with one hand - and finally pulled it back little by little.

Even though he was trying so hard, he still had time to think about other things, such as thanking the black goat, which at least eased the embarrassment.

By the time he drove the black goat to the foot of the mountain to graze, he was already sweating profusely.

"The fact that you can't control the black goat proves that you don't have enough mental strength and your understanding of the Iceberg Therapy is not deep enough," said Zhuang Jing.

Gu Ran suddenly realized. He just thought that the black goat was greedy and never expected that it was because he couldn't control it.

"Aunt Jing," he had always wondered, "What does 'falling into a dream' mean in a dream?"

"To put it simply, there is something wrong with your mood. In a dream, once your mood gets bad enough, your shadow will swallow you up, and when you spit you out, you are already in the dream. In reality, your body will show various symptoms, such as depression, bipolar disorder, neurotic disorders (such as obsessive-compulsive disorder), etc."

"A good person suddenly fell from reality into hell just because of some invisible and intangible thoughts." Yan Hanxiang sighed.

Her feelings were more about reality rather than just dreams.

Gu Ran didn't want the topic to become serious, although with the solidity of Yan Hanxiang's [heart wall], it was almost impossible for her to be affected by the atmosphere.

He asked curiously, "Then why did we fall into the dream?"

"You fell and became disabled while hiking." Zhuang Jing looked at him.

"We forgot about it in the dream. It was only after we woke up - after we truly woke up, that we remembered it," said Yan Hanxiang.

"Disabled." Gu Ran would be fine even if he slid down from the eighteenth floor. How could he not have time to react? Could he be disabled so easily?
Maybe it was because of his good skills that he became disabled?

If it were someone else, they would have fallen to death.

"You didn't slip." Zhuang Jing seemed to know what he was thinking and shook her head gently to deny it. "It was because of a little girl."

"A family of three. There was a stone on the top of the mountain that served as a check-in point. It was drizzling, and the little girl stood on the stone and accidentally fell down." Yan Hanxiang glanced at Gu Ran and continued, "When we found you, the girl was in his arms and only slightly injured. You were disabled."

"Oh." Gu Ran nodded, and his chest straightened even more.

"Don't you know the consequences?" Yan Hanxiang looked at him, her smiling face no longer smiling, "If you really fall and become disabled in reality, you, Su Qingqingyan, and us may all fall into hell."

The pride in Gu Ran's heart seemed to be blocked.

"However," Yan Hanxiang's tone softened, as if she had taken away the wet towel covering Gu Ran's mouth and nose, "At that moment, it was impossible to look ahead and behind, and it was all based on instinct."

"There's nothing wrong with saving people, but don't let yourself get hurt." Zhuang Jing glanced at Gu Ran.

Gu Ran nodded, he really understood.

If the little girl died, a family would suffer, but if he died, there would also be people who felt like they were living in hell, and they were the people who loved him and whom he loved.

"It's getting late, let's go out." Zhuang Jing said.

Gu Ran woke up, and when he thought about going to the swimming pool to swim and meeting Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang again, he felt strange and it was like a dream.

Today, there are two rare guests in the constant temperature swimming pool, Su Qing and He Qingyan, as well as Chen Ke - the spare swimsuit she is wearing is prepared for the guests.

"Gu Ran," He Qingyan sat by the swimming pool, her fair legs holding up the water, "Do you come to the swimming pool every day to exercise, to look at beauties, or to show off in front of Aunt Jing?"

Gu Ran wiped the water off his face and said, "Can't I be like the bottom of the pot at Haidilao, with four squares?"

"What?" He Qingyan didn't react for half a second. After half a second, she laughed out loud and then kicked the water onto Gu Ran's face.

Gu Ran swam away quickly. He had no interest in the foot washing water, but he could accept eating the feet directly.

When eating in the morning, He Qingyan said "Sigongge" as if it were a seasoning for fodder.

A joyful laughter rang out from the bright and clean living room, as if the wind was blowing over the hillside, and the flowers and green grass on the hillside were floating like waves.

"Four grids?" Su Qing held a knife and fork in her hand, smiling so hard that her face was pressed against the back of her hand.

"Ah."

"Two-faced?" Su Qing asked again.

Even if it was Amelia Su, Gu Ran had to fight back.

"Your aesthetic is too narrow and you can't fully appreciate me," said Gu Ran.

"If there are four grids, besides fitness, looking at beauties, and showing off in front of Aunt Jing, what is the other grid?" Chen Ke was curious.

Okay, from today on, you are also an enemy - of course, interpersonal relationships may be a nine-square grid, in some aspects you are lovers, in some aspects you are colleagues, and in some aspects you may be enemies.

"The remaining box is filled with clear water and nothing else." said Gu Ran.

"Clean water is very important. Some dishes need to be cooked in clean water. If the food is spicy, you can also rinse it in clean water. Even if you don't eat it, it's pleasing to the eye." Chen Ke pursed his lips and smiled, expressing his approval.

"Is this a problem with eating hotpot? It's my innocent heart!" Gu Ran was quite dissatisfied.

In fact, the last box is for giving Zhuang Jing a massage.

After breakfast, everyone divided into three cars and set off to work in Jinghai.

The sun was shining, the air was like glass, coconut trees, palm trees, areca palms and other plants were swaying in the morning breeze, and seagulls were soaring over the sea as if they were surfing, not hunting.

A blue BMW is driving in this scenery.

inside the car.

"You are in a good mood today. Did you have a good dream last night? Or are you excited that Ke Ke lives here?" He Qingyan suddenly asked.

"I'm in a good mood?" Gu Ran glanced at the rearview mirror. "Why do you say that?"

"The fodder tastes delicious." said He Qingyan.

"We've finished eating." Su Qing said.

"How amazing." Chen Ke admired.

If you have ever had dinner at Fox Town, you will appreciate the crispness and freshness of vegetables like I do.

"Today is Monday, and I'm going to work. Of course I'm in a good mood." Gu Ran said.

"There's something wrong with you." He Qingyan said.

"Let's go to the consultation room and have a good chat later." Su Qing said.

"It's really amazing." Chen Ke was very impressed.

Gu Ran saw the left turn signal flashing in front of him, so he stepped on the accelerator and turned quickly.

"Ah!" X3
"Humph."

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"Private Diary": October 12, Monday, after waking up from the dream

Thinking about it carefully, the probability of "special psychologist" is indeed higher. After all, Su Qing's [Dream Beast] can also exert its original power on the seventeenth floor.

Of course, the possibility that I am special cannot be ruled out, because I was the one who brought Su Qing in.

After I came out of the dream, I went to Aunt Jing's [Blooming Paradise]. The lotus seed had grown a tender leaf. Although it is still a long way from blooming, it is not only an improvement, but also very obvious!
Eternal life in dreams is something you can look forward to!
I have more than just four squares. I am afraid no one can be as simple as having only four squares. But no matter how many squares I have, I hope to always have a 'clear water grid'.

In interpersonal relationships, being able to occupy one or two squares of the other person is probably enough to become friends or lovers.

(End of this chapter)