Chapter 10
On Saturday, Joe also wore a hat and a mask and walked outside the school.
Like Fatty Xia’s Internet cafe, Xu Shen’s psychological clinic is also located in a narrow alley.
She also didn't understand why this group of people liked to open their upper bunks in such dark alleys.
Xia Yi could still explain that it was because dancing late at night would disturb the neighbors.
But she really couldn't understand why Xu Shen was like this.
Joe also walked through the streets and alleys, and then staggered to a small house.
Outside this house is a door similar to that of the Middle Ages. After pressing the doorbell, the iron door will open automatically.
She walked inside with ease.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a woman with brown hair and a cigarette between her index and middle fingers. The cigarette on it was flickering red, as if it had just been lit.
She walked to the sink nearby and began to wash her hands.
Seeing her coming, the woman put out the cigarette in the ashtray and said, "I thought you were coming this afternoon, but I didn't expect you to come at this time."
"..." Joe also sat in the rocking chair beside him, took off his hat, revealing his slightly tired face, "Something unexpected happened recently, so I had to come as soon as possible."
Hearing this, the woman turned off the faucet, walked to the other side, picked up the perfume on the table, and sprayed it on herself.
Seeing her action, Qiao rolled his eyes in disgust: "You smell like cigarettes, no matter how expensive the perfume is, it can't cover it up."
Xu Shen: "...Whether I can cover it up is a matter of fact, but whether I want to cover it up is a matter of my attitude. I can't possibly have neither facts nor an attitude."
Qiao Ye: "..."
When it comes to "sophistry", this woman Xu Shen can always find some opinions that she cannot refute.
Soon, Xu Shen sat in front of her, his slender fingers twirling a pen as he wrote something on the paper. "Tell me about it. You haven't had an attack in five years. Why did you suddenly have an attack after you started college?"
Joe was silent for a moment, then gave a brief account of what had happened in the past month.
After hearing her words, Xu Shen raised an eyebrow and bit the cap of his pen: "Are you saying that you are interested in a girl who works part-time at Fatty Xia?"
"You can understand it that way," Joe also said.
"Really?" Xu Shen pondered. "But this and the trigger of your illness are two parallel lines. Just from what you've said, I have no idea what exactly caused the recurrence of your illness now."
"Because I focused too much on her." Qiao Ye's eyes were dark, as if he was hiding something unspeakable.
These words made Xu Shen's face solemn.
Others may not know, but she knows very well that once Qiao Ye's condition becomes focused, her emotions will often become extremely violent, irrational, and full of a strong desire for destruction.
So she played games, played basketball, and did everything except studying. Even though Qiao's mother knew about it, she didn't say anything.
Because compared to her desire for destruction, writing about things is not a big deal at all.
But this time, she took the initiative to mention her emotions, which also meant that she could now sense that something was wrong with her, but she couldn't control it.
"What do you want to destroy?" Xu Shen asked. "We live in a society ruled by law now. If you go out and destroy public facilities, you'll go to jail."
Qiao also slowly raised his head, looked into her eyes, and said word by word: "I want to destroy her."
As soon as these five words came out, the entire clinic fell into a deathly silence.
Xu Shen stared at her, trying to find a hint of joking in her eyes.
But unfortunately, it didn’t.
Qiao also looked serious, which showed that she really thought so.
*
After coming out of Xu Shen's clinic, Qiao Ye had a small box of medicine in her hand. She put on her hat again, put it in her pocket, hailed a taxi and left.
Instead of going back, she went home.
The car stopped in front of the house.
This time when she returned home, she did not tell Qiao's mother, but came back quietly.
The neighbor's grandmother saw her coming back and greeted her with a smile: "Hey, isn't this Xiaoye?"
"Yes, good morning, Grandma Sun." Qiao also replied.
When I entered the house, it was quiet.
She felt a little strange. At this time in the past, Qiao's mother should be watering the flowers on the balcony or making some dessert cakes, but today there seemed to be no movement at home.
When she wanted to find Qiao's mother, she heard some movement in the master bedroom.
But even when she reached the door of the room, she could not hear any sound.
After making sure there was no movement inside, she knocked on the door.
Soon, the door was opened.
What caught my eye was Qiao's mother's slightly haggard face.
"Ah, Xiao Ye is back. Wait a moment, sit there and rest for a while, I'll go find you the little cake I just baked this morning."
Although Qiao's mother was trying her best to conceal her condition, Qiao was also a person and she was very sensitive to the fact that something was wrong.
But at this time, she still didn't do anything, but just walked into her mother's bedroom and found the mobile phone she had just taken.
Her fingerprints were recorded in Qiao's mother's mobile phone, so she could easily open Qiao's mother's mobile phone.
Everything seemed normal, except for the twenty-minute phone call between her and her father.
She turned off her phone as if nothing had happened.
He put the phone back where it belonged, then left the bedroom and sat in the living room.
At this time, Qiao's mother brought out a small plate of cakes. "I just made this this morning. Try it and see how it tastes. If you think there's anything wrong with it, tell me and I'll make sure to fix it."
"It's delicious. Thanks, Mom." Qiao also tried one and then didn't touch it again.
She herself doesn't like sweets very much and rarely eats them.
The few times we ate there were because those little desserts were made by Qiao's mother.
"Then why did you decide to come back today? Are you not used to living in school?"
"Yeah. Kind of. I'll come back to see you later."
"Hahahaha. Your mother is fine. Don't worry too much."
Qiao also nodded, and then asked: "What did you just say to my dad? We talked for more than 20 minutes."
According to her understanding, the average length of a conversation between Qiao's mother and her father is three minutes.
This time we talked for such a long time, I’m afraid it’s not simple.
As soon as he asked the question, he saw Qiao's mother waved her hand, "Nothing. It's just that your father missed you. He wanted me to ask about your recent situation. It's not a big deal."
Joe also looked carefully at the expression on her face, trying to get some different answers from the subtle changes in her face.
Just as she thought, Qiao's mother did not hide her emotions.
So I quickly found an excuse to leave. "Make whatever you want to eat. Mom is a little tired, you should rest first."
Qiao also reached out and took out another small cake from the plate. Because it was a small cake made in the morning, the taste was a little bland now.
However, you can still taste some of Qiao's mother's own little habits in it.
For example: She only likes to add a spoonful of sugar.
She put down her fork and went back to her room.
Unlike other girls' bright rooms, her room is mainly decorated in hard black and gray, and looks lifeless.
The whole room looks calm and elegant, and some small stickers and rubber bands that girls like are rarely seen.
She sat in front of the computer and turned it on.
Then he very skillfully entered a string of URLs that he had memorized.
With a press of Enter, the computer screen went black soon.
Then, a string of metallic English letters appeared on it.
Then in front of her was a page asking her to log in.
Soon, she entered a forum where the overall tone was black.
If Fatty Xia were here at this moment, he would find that this forum is not a forum that normal people can see.
But they are forums full of obscene words and sentences.
Because Fatty Xia is also one of them.
As soon as she came online, messages popped up one after another in her contacts, most of which were asking about her recent situation.
But Joe didn't reply to any of them.
Qiao was also browsing through it. She had been in this forum for thirteen years.
I knew about this forum since I started using computers at the age of six.
Soon, someone named "K" contacted her.
K: "Q, you disappeared for a long time. I thought something happened to you in real life."
Q: "No. Why, are you looking for a fight again?"
K: "Hahahahaha, how could that be. This is just a mutual comfort between friends, don't take it too seriously."
Q: "Tsk. If you have nothing to do, go find something to do instead of being an eyesore here."
After saying that, she closed the chat box.
She stood up and poured herself a glass of water, then drank it all in one gulp along with the medicine Xu Shen had just prescribed for her.
The phone on the table suddenly rang. She lowered her eyes and saw it was Fatty Xia.
She leaned against the bay window, watching the cars coming and going below, tilting her head, holding her phone between her cheek and shoulder, turning the boiled water in her hand, "What's going on?"
"Ah, Mr. Qiao, why are you suddenly on the forum?"
"Why, I can't go up yet?" Joe also sneered.
"No, no. It's just that you didn't tell me why you wanted to go online so that I could hide your domain name. Otherwise, all kinds of people would come looking for you." Xia Yi muttered.
"It's okay. I've already hidden myself." The girl's voice was nonchalant, as if she was talking about something unimportant.
Xia Yi, who was about to take action, exclaimed, "Ah!" and then said, "There are many great people on the forum. What if..."
Qiao seemed to have heard some ridiculous joke. "Why, are you doubting my ability?"
"No, no, I hope you're okay." Fatty Xia shook his head quickly and prepared to hang up the phone.
But before he could do anything, she stopped him and said, "Don't you have anything to do right now? Go and help me with something."
Xia Yi: “?”
He subconsciously wanted to refuse, but obviously, facing Qiao Ye, he had no reason to refuse.
After hanging up the phone, Qiao Ye looked at the forum again.
Not many people knew that she was back, besides Xia Yi, there was only one K.
She didn't want to chat with K, but he had no intention of letting her go.
The chat box flickered again: "Dear Q, do you want to experience our masked life again?"
With a crackling sound, everything on the computer desk was swept to the ground.
Even the cup I had just used to drink medicine was broken.
The water inside soaked the carpet under her feet.
Qiao also stared at the message sent by the other party on the computer.
The loud noise attracted Mrs. Qiao from next door.
She stood at the door and knocked. A worried voice came from outside: "Xiao Ye. What's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Only then did Qiao regain his composure, and he walked to the mirror and straightened his clothes to make himself look less disheveled.
He opened the door and forced a smile, "It's okay, Mom. I'm fine. I just slipped after taking a shower."
Seeing that she was fine, Qiao's mother breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good. Even at home, you have to pay attention to safety."
"OK."
After closing the door, the smile on Qiao Ye's face disappeared completely.
She walked to the computer with an expressionless face, and the sentence was still there.
The tip of her tongue pressed against the roof of her mouth, her slender fingers dancing on the keyboard. "Cat and mouse. Want to play?"
The other party is typing...
Then, K sent a message, and his frivolous tone could be felt even through the screen: "If my dear Q likes it, why not?"
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