18 Chapter 18: Dreaming of Her
◎The person he dreamed of was Wu Yahua, who was sitting next to him at that moment◎
Xie Yun stood on the balcony for a long time, his brows furrowed in thought.
Until Hong Cangkang and Jiang Yubai returned to the dormitory together, talking and laughing.
Seeing Xie Yun's melancholy figure standing on the balcony, Hong Cangkang walked over to him, bumped his arm into his shoulder, and said, "Brother, are you still thinking about that?"
Everyone in dormitory 309 knew what Xie Yun was thinking about recently. He was not thinking about women or men, but about a cat.
Summer vacation had not yet ended and the school was about to start. Hong Cangkang was playing games at home when he received a call from Xie Yun, saying that his cat was lost and asked if there was any way to find the cat.
"Cat? Where did you get the cat?"
Hong Cangkang's doubts could be heard even through the phone.
Xie Yun: "You've forgotten so quickly that you and I picked up the cat together. We picked it up on July 20th, the day after the exam."
"When did you and I pick up a cat together that day?" Hong Cangkang recalled that day. "After the exam on July 20th, I stayed in the dormitory for one night and took the high-speed train home the next day. You stayed on campus to participate in the competition. I never heard that you had a cat. Xie Yun, do you have a cat? What kind of cat?"
Xie Yun was puzzled when Hong Cangkang denied the existence of the cat.
"Hong Cangkang, are you playing amnesia with me?"
Xie Yun recalled it for him.
"On July 20th, we saw that cow cat on the side of the road together. We took it to the veterinary hospital for a checkup. That night, a large cockroach appeared in the dormitory, and I killed it while holding the cat. You, Jiang Yubai, and Ji Sitao, you all saw it."
Oh my god, is Xie Yun crazy? Hong Cangkang heard that Xie Yun's performance in the competition was not ideal, but he didn't have a mental problem and imagine things that didn't exist.
It was understandable that he fantasized about having a beautiful girlfriend, but it was wrong for him to fantasize about having a cat.
Xie Yun, who was considered to be in trouble, then called Jiang Yubai and Ji Sitao separately to ask them if they remembered the cat.
Jiang Yubai and Ji Sitao also denied that Xie Yun had a cat.
Xie Yun strongly suspected that they were colluding to deceive him.
If they can work together, then the people in other dormitories can't collude with them to deceive me.
On the day when I brought Goudan the cat home, people from other dormitories also came to dormitory 309 to see the cat.
As soon as school started, Xie Yun went to ask the boys who had come to dormitory 309 that night if they had seen Goudanmao.
They all said no and were concerned about whether Xie Yun was under a lot of pressure recently.
Xie Yun's worldview was refreshed by this strange and bizarre incident.
Everyone said there was no cat, and he suspected that he was mentally ill and had imagined a cat. But when he looked through the photo album on his mobile phone and saw the photos of Goudan and the cat, he was extremely sure that he was not mentally ill. Instead, he suspected that they were conspiring to play a trick on him.
But they are making fun of themselves with this matter, which does them no good, so why do it?
He clearly had a cat, as evidenced by photos, but the cat litter, cat food, litter box, cat bowl, water bowl, cat toys, etc. in the dormitory mysteriously disappeared overnight.
He shook out the bed, picked up the pillow and sniffed it.
The world was spinning and the waves were roaring in my ears.
In the past, his bed was full of cat hair, but now there was not a single cat hair, and there was no faint fishy smell of cat urine on the pillow.
His cat ran away and couldn't be found, but that didn't mean he didn't have a cat.
He was certain that he had a cat, even though everyone denied that he had a cat.
On the first day of school, Xie Yun saw a familiar figure in school.
The girl next to Xie Lili finally had a specific appearance in his mind. During the summer vacation, he had dreamed of her, and in the dream, her face was blurry.
So Xie Yun, who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, asked Xie Lili to add him as a WeChat friend for the first time, just to get an answer, that is, whether the girl's name was Wu Yahua, a name that Xie Yun had dreamed of and that had been circling in his mind.
Finally, Xie Yun confirmed from Xie Lili that the familiar girl was indeed Wu Yahua. Holding on to hope, he found Lin Yaonan's number from his recent calls and dialed it.
As expected, Lin Yaonan denied that he had picked up Xie Yun's cat and did not take it home to raise.
Xie Yun didn't believe that Lin Yaonan denied the incident in order to evade the responsibility of letting the cat run away. Although he had never met Lin Yaonan, he intuitively felt that Lin Yaonan was a man who dared to take responsibility for his actions. Otherwise, Lin Yaonan would not have contacted him through the phone number on the cat's collar as soon as he picked up the cat, nor would he have called him to inform him of the situation immediately after discovering that the cat had bitten through the screen and ran away the next day after bringing the cat home.
If Lin Yaonan was an irresponsible person, when he met the dog and the cat, he would not call to help find their owner.
In his ears, Hong Cangkang told him to learn to relax, and comforted him that his summer competition results were not ideal at the moment, and there would be next chance. He stood on the balcony and looked out silently into the distance, staring at the motionless clouds in the sky and the cars passing by on the road, questioning whether he was in an alternative Truman world.
Everyone around him thought that Xie Yun’s poor mental state was caused by his unsatisfactory competition results.
Only Xie Yun knew that there was no time when he could be more clear-headed than now.
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After a week of classes at school, Wu Yahua's dazed mental state did not improve.
This bad mental state is serious.
She suffered from insomnia, loss of appetite, and was always distracted in class. One day, after waking up after four in the morning and unable to fall back asleep, she picked up her phone, the screen light shining on her eyes with dark circles. On the WeChat mini-program, she registered with the psychiatry department of a tertiary hospital.
The next afternoon, Wu Yahua had no classes, so she took the bus alone and went to the hospital's psychiatric department for treatment at the appointed time.
Following the hospital signs, Wu Yahua took the elevator to the psychiatric outpatient clinic on the fifth floor. After swiping her ID card, she was shown to be number 25 in line, with six patients waiting ahead of her.
She found a seat in the corridor, sat down, crossed her legs and played with her cell phone.
There are quite a lot of people visiting the psychiatric department.
Not long after Wu Yahua sat down, someone took the seat on her left and right.
Just as Wu Yahua lowered her head and looked at her mobile phone intently, the man sitting next to her looked at her frequently many times, and finally plucked up the courage to greet her.
"Wu Yahua."
Wu Yahua looked up and saw Xie Yun's face.
What was this! An illusion? Or someone who looked just like Xie Yun? Wu Yahua's eyes and face were filled with shock, and she immediately returned to a more ladylike sitting position from her crossed-legged position.
Xie Yun was holding number 26 in his hand, and he was the one after Wu Yahua in the order of appointment.
"You are here to see a doctor too." Xie Yun's eyes quickly swept across the number plate in Wu Yahua's hand.
"Yes, I..." Wu Yahua stammered and her face turned red for no apparent reason.
She knew she was blushing, and felt deeply embarrassed to behave like this in front of Xie Yun. However, the more anxious she became and the more she blamed herself, the more her face did not get better, but became even redder.
His ears were so red that the blood vessels were visible.
"I, I, I have some insomnia, so I'm going to make an appointment to see you."
After stammering, Wu Yahua finally uttered a complete sentence.
"oh."
Xie Yun said "oh" and didn't say anything else.
Wu Yahua didn't know what was wrong with her and asked, "You can't sleep either. Are you here to see a doctor?"
"Yeah, that's right." Xie Yun answered according to Wu Yahua's words.
After the two of them had an awkward chat, they both tacitly stopped talking to each other.
Xie Yun came to the psychiatric department for treatment, not because he suffered from insomnia, on the contrary, he slept soundly at night, but he had many dreams at night, and he often dreamed of a person.
The person he dreamed of was Wu Yahua, who was sitting next to him at that moment.
Ever since he saw Wu Yahua on the first day of school, Xie Yun would dream about Wu Yahua whenever he slept.
People were coming and going in the hospital corridor, with medical staff and patients walking around. Xie Yun took a deep breath. He sat there without playing with his phone, waiting for his number to be called.
Wu Yahua's hands never left the phone, her eyes were fixed on the screen, and she didn't dare to turn her head.
Her face flushed and she couldn't regain her normal complexion.
Her mind was not on the content on her phone at all, and she had no idea what was displayed on the screen.
She held the phone in her hand, her soul had already left her body and she smelled the scent on Xie Yun's body.
Like a cat, identifying the other person's identity through smell.
Xie Yun's clothes have the scent of fragrance beads, fresh and natural.
Wu Yahua sat beside him. She could smell the faint fragrance as soon as she held her breath and relaxed. It was a scent that made her feel safe and happy, and it made the dark circles under her eyes look lighter.
The silent call display shows number 25.
Wu Yahua was so immersed in the smell that she couldn't help herself. The nurse called out the number and repeated it several times, number 25.
"Is No. 25 here? No. 25."
Wu Yahua woke up as if from a dream.
"Here." Wu Yahua stood up in a panic, and her cell phone accidentally fell to the ground and landed at Xie Yun's feet.
Xie Yun picked it up for her first.
Wu Yahua blushed again, lowered her head to take the phone, and didn't dare to look at Xie Yun.
"Thanks."
As she entered the clinic, her heart was pounding.
Wu Yahua didn't dare tell the doctor about the bizarre events that happened to her, for fear of being diagnosed with mental illness. She only mentioned her insomnia and that she didn't have any headaches or dizziness.
The doctor prescribed two courses of tranquilizing Chinese medicine for Wu Yahua's insomnia, and wrote out a prescription. He asked her to take the prescription to the outpatient clinic on the first floor to settle the bill, and then go to the Chinese medicine department to get the medicine with the prescription and receipt.
Wu Yahua walked out of the clinic and met Xie Yun who was about to walk into the clinic. She lowered her head and pretended to look at the prescription, intending to pretend that she didn't see Xie Yun.
"How is it?" Xie Yun took the initiative to greet Wu Yahua.
Wu Yahua was at a loss and in a hurry.
She really didn't expect Xie Yun to be so proactive.
"Fortunately, the doctor prescribed Chinese medicine to treat insomnia. Come in quickly. The doctor is very kind."
As soon as she finished speaking, Wu Yahua regretted having said too much.
Why are you making small talk? The doctor is very kind. It would be perfect if you only said the first half of the sentence.
After Wu Yahua walked into the elevator, she slapped her mouth.
Pay the fee, wait for the medicine to be boiled, and get the medicine.
Wu Yahua was carrying a large bag of boiled Chinese medicine. When she left the hospital, she looked back at the clinic building, hoping to see Xie Yun again.
But Xie Yun had probably left long ago after seeing the doctor, so she waited for an hour and a half just for the Chinese medicine to be boiled.
It was getting dark, and Wu Yahua got on the bus back to school at the bus stop.
I sat down in the empty window seat in the second-to-last row. The doors were closed. The driver was about to start the car when the door suddenly opened.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, the passenger ran onto the bus, panting, said thank you to the driver, paid the fare with his mobile phone e-wallet, and walked towards the back half of the car.
Wu Yahua was looking out the window, and from the reflection in the window, she suddenly realized something.
She turned her head and looked at Xie Yun who was walking towards her.
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