Chapter 064 Chapter 64
So the two of them set out on a journey to find Comrade Ou Xu.
With Su Fangxiao as an enemy undercover, it became much easier for Xia Meng to leave the palace without being noticed.
Su Fangxiao found her a set of light armor worn by knights.
There are many female knights in the palace, especially around the Knight Commander, who has a special team of female knights.
So, when Su Fangxiao and Xia Meng rode out of the main gate of the palace together, the guards did not stop them——
The news of Prince Snow White running away from his marriage had spread like wildfire throughout the entire royal city and everyone knew about it.
At this time, the Knight Commander left the city, and everyone naturally thought, without a doubt, that he was going to arrest someone for Her Majesty the Queen.
The two men rode out of the city.
Then I quickly found a small valley and changed my clothes.
The armor is too heavy, making it inconvenient to travel and easily slowing down the pace.
The two men took off their armor and went into battle lightly.
Su Fangxiao's border collie ran very fast and was far ahead.
Su Fangxiao's spirit body is extremely good at tracking.
Especially good at tracking Ou Xu.
While the two of them were chasing someone on horseback, Su Fangxiao took the opportunity to talk to Xia Meng about their friendship.
Su Fangxiao and Ou Xu have known each other for quite some time, since they were in college.
The two met by chance in a guidance counseling class.
She was a senior at the time, and Ou Xu was a freshman.
At that time, she was well-known in the school for her good interpersonal relationships and a high matching rate with many guides. In addition, she had a good personality and a good temper. Therefore, every year in the freshman counseling class, the teacher would invite her to help first.
At that time, Ou Xu had the highest matching rate with her, so naturally she became the guinea pig for his first counseling.
It was that time that started their indissoluble bond that lasted for so many years.
Su Fangxiao said frankly, "Of course. According to Ou Xu, it's called bad fate."
Xia Meng laughed heartily: "Who cares? It's just fate."
The two were talking and laughing.
But the horse's speed was not slow at all.
The two of them rode side by side at lightning speed.
Soon we arrived at the entrance to the Black Forest.
The two men dismounted and released the horses.
Su Fangxiao's spirit body sniffed at the entrance of the Black Forest, sniffed again and again, then turned around and barked at her twice.
Su Fangxiao translated, "It was said that Ou Xu passed by here half an hour ago."
You can't ride horses in the Black Forest.
In half an hour, I probably wouldn’t be able to walk very far.
Xia Meng said it was no problem and was about to continue on her way when she suddenly saw a little rabbit jumping in the distance on the road they came from.
The little rabbit still wore his top hat.
He was carrying a small bag on his back, which was filled with carrots.
Xia Meng waved at it: "Little rabbit smash!"
Mr. Rabbit came over with a grunt.
Rabbit: "Hey! Doesn't this look like a barrier? What a coincidence!"
Xia Meng squatted down, her eyes level with its face: "Why are you here?"
The rabbit exclaimed, "You have a good taste for barrier!"
Xia Meng sighed.
It's not easy to learn well, but it's easy to go astray.
Forget it, let’s just throw it all away.
She propped up her chin and asked, "Tell me, why are you here?"
The little rabbit shook his ears and said, "I don't look like you. I'm here to find Prince Snow White!"
It said, "I heard that the Queen sent the evil knight disguised as a hunter to kill the prince. I have come to save him!"
Xia Meng: “?”
Xia Meng turned her head blankly and looked at Su Fangxiao.
Su Fangxiao said: "Oh my, this little rabbit is really well-informed!"
The little rabbit puffed out his chest proudly: "That's it!"
Su Fangxiao pointed at his face and asked with a suppressed smile, "Do you think I look like that evil knight commander?"
The little rabbit blinked and stared at her for a while, then suddenly gasped, his eyes widened, and he pointed at her with a trembling index finger: "You you you you!!"
Xia Meng quickly explained: "Don't worry, we're one family."
The little rabbit still had a look of disbelief on his face, and hid behind Xia Meng.
His eyes were full of vigilance.
Xia Meng said: "Really, she is my friend, and I sent her to be an undercover agent beside the Queen!"
The little rabbit was skeptical.
Su Fangxiao held her heart and pretended to be sad. "All the bad things I did before were forced by the Queen. You know that vicious Queen. If I didn't do it, she would kill me. I have an eighty-year-old mother and three hungry children. If I didn't listen to her, she would arrest my family members and kill them one by one. I had no choice... I was forced!"
As he said this, he buried his face in his hands and cried in pain.
The little rabbit was moved by what he heard.
The little rabbit's eyes were filled with tears. He sniffed and said, "It's not easy for you either!"
Xia Meng beside her: "..."
They say dogs are dogs and Border Collies are Border Collies.
But Su Fangxiao is different. He has the most innocent and kind face and fools the naive little rabbit without blinking.
The man is like his spirit, part dog and part Border Collie.
So the little rabbit believed them.
He told them how he helped Prince Snow White escape.
Prince Snow White gave him a basket of carrots, so it granted him one wish.
Prince Snow White said that he wanted to escape from the palace, so it helped him go to the Black Forest.
Xia Meng: “?”
A basket of carrots for one wish?
How come she exchanged one carrot for three?
Inflation?
The little rabbit said shyly, "I can only make three wishes at a time. I still owe you two, so I can only give him one."
Xia Meng was also moved.
I can only make three wishes in total, but I gave them all to her at once.
What a touching little rabbit.
Xia Meng asked, "Since you have already helped him escape from the palace and his wish has been fulfilled, why are you coming here to save him now?"
The little rabbit said as a matter of course: "Because he is my friend!"
It hugged the carrots in its small bag tightly and said very seriously: "Anyone who is willing to give me carrots is my good friend!"
Xia Meng looked at its expression.
She blinked and suddenly felt vaguely as if she had grasped something.
She asked, "Who are your other good friends?"
The little rabbit counted on his fingers: "There are so many! Sleeping Beauty! The Little Mermaid! Rapunzel! The Frog Prince! The Ugly Duckling! And many, many more!"
It is indeed a hodgepodge of fairy tale world!
Su Fangxiao asked curiously, "Why are there no Red Queen and White Queen?"
The little rabbit tilted its head: "The Red Queen and the White Queen? I don't know them."
"I only know the King of Spades and the King of Hearts. They're so bad! They don't even have a Queen!"
Su Fangxiao: "Huh?"
King of Spades?
King of Hearts?
What kind of fairy tale is this?
There are deviations of one kind or another here and there.
There are always slight differences from the original.
Xia Meng has already gotten used to it.
She coughed and said, "Forget it, let's not worry about anything else for now. Let's meet up with Ou Xu first."
Su Fangxiao: "Oh, yes."
They hurried deeper into the Black Forest.
The Black Forest, as the name suggests, looks ominous from the outside.
It was early winter and the Black Forest was already covered with thick snow.
The leaves of the trees have all fallen, leaving only bare, dark trunks. The white snow and the black trunks interweave to create a sense of desolation.
Along the way, you can occasionally hear crows calling in the distance with their rough voices.
The atmosphere becomes more eerie and mysterious.
The two men and the rabbit walked on the snow, one step deep and one step shallow.
The little rabbit is not tall and has short legs, so it is particularly difficult for him to walk.
Soon, he was a few meters away from Xia Meng and the others.
Xia Meng turned around and waited for it, saying, "Do you need me to carry you?"
The little rabbit struggled hard in the snow. Upon hearing this, he said very politely: "No, no, I can do it myself——"
Before it could finish its words, it tripped over a dead branch buried in the snow and fell headfirst into the snow.
The snow-white rabbit and the snow-white ground almost blend into one.
Xia Meng walked over, raised her hand to pull the rabbit out of the snow, patted the snow off its head and body, picked up its hat, and then picked up the rabbit and its hat and carried it away.
Little Rabbit: "No, no, no, this is embarrassing!"
Xia Meng simply said: "Don't be embarrassed, it's just a small favor."
The little rabbit looked at her with sparkling eyes: "You are so kind! Thank you! My friend!"
So the two men and the rabbit continued on their way.
This time, the speed was a little faster.
But the snowy road was difficult to walk on, and they still had a hard time walking.
The little rabbit held the top hat and said, "Do you need snow boots? I have them!"
It blinked at Xia Meng and said, "Boundary! One wish can be exchanged for a pair of snow boots! Do you want it?"
Xia Meng: “…”
Don’t you forget to do business even at this time?
She casually said, "Do you like helping people fulfill their wishes so much?"
The little rabbit nodded and said, "Of course."
Xia Meng: "Why?"
Little Rabbit: "Because if I fulfill 999 wishes of others, I can fulfill one wish of my own."
Xia Meng asked casually, "What is your wish?"
The little rabbit said, "I want to find my mother."
"My mother left me when I was very young. The wise man in the mushroom forest told me that if I can help others fulfill 999 wishes, he will grant my wish. Now I only have 10 left."
Xia Meng: "Wise man? Who is it?"
Rabbit: "It is the smartest animal in the entire mushroom forest, and also the most knowledgeable animal."
The little rabbit knew this person like the back of his hand.
Rabbit: "It has a book of predictions. The book contains the future of everyone in this world."
Xia Meng: "So powerful?"
The rabbit nodded vigorously. "Yes, yes! The wise man said that no matter who you are, as long as you open the book, you can see your future. However, everyone who wants to open the book must first complete the wise man's task. The wise man's task for me is to fulfill 999 wishes for others, and each person can only fulfill a maximum of 3 wishes."
Xia Meng asked curiously, "What if it's not fulfilled? For example, has anyone made a wish that was too difficult for you to fulfill? Haven't you ever encountered such a situation?"
Forgive her for her presumptuous assumptions about people's minds.
But human nature is greedy.
Three wishes can easily breed greed in people's hearts.
Just look at the story of Aladdin's magic lamp.
The first thing anyone who gets the magic lamp always wishes for is an endless supply of gold, silver and treasures.
They want to be as rich as a country, have immense power, and even be immortal.
She guessed that this silly little rabbit probably didn't have this ability.
The little rabbit nodded. "There are indeed many tasks that I cannot complete. For example, someone once said he wanted to eat my rabbit meat, but I really couldn't agree to that."
Xia Meng: “…”
...I really can't agree to that.
Xia Meng: "Then what should we do next? Can you refuse to fulfill a wish? But didn't you say that as long as your wish is not fulfilled, you can't grant a wish to others?"
Then how could it give her three wishes?
Rabbit: "Yes. The wise man once said that if I can't fulfill someone's wish, I can wait until the full moon arrives. The wise man said that the power of moonlight can wash away all obsessions and illusions in this world. In this way, the unfulfilled wishes will be cleared, and I can have three more wishes."
Rabbit: "Later, the wise man told me that in order to avoid this situation as much as possible, I could select the people to whom I would grant my three wishes. As for the selection criteria, I had to choose them myself. So, I decided to decide based on carrots. Whoever takes the initiative to give me a carrot, I will grant them three wishes."
Xia Meng touched the little rabbit's head.
999 wishes, only 10 left to fulfill.
I don’t know how long this little rabbit worked hard to fulfill these 999 wishes.
How many people have I met and how many things have happened?
Thinking of this, she suddenly stopped and said, "Little Rabbit, can you conjure up a pair of snow boots for me and the Knight Commander? I can grant you both wishes."
The little rabbit opened his eyes wide in surprise. "Really? That's great! Now I only need 8 wishes!"
It turned its top hat over, and its short, fat hands rummaged inside it again and again, and then took out four thick leather boots one after another.
Xia Meng and Su Fangxiao changed into thick-soled snow boots.
Sure enough, they moved much faster.
Soon, they found Ou Xu under the guidance of Gou Zi.
When he was found, he was in a hunting lodge.
The house is where the dwarfs live.
The surroundings of the small house are covered with various traps set by the dwarves.
Ou Xu was not paying attention for a moment and fell into the trap.
The rope buried under the fallen leaves suddenly tightened and lifted him up.
At this time, he was hanging on a big tree outside the cabin, hanging upside down.
When Xia Meng and the others arrived, Ou Xu was so hung up that he almost rolled his eyes.
When he was rescued, Ou Xu burst into tears.
Ou Xu cried out, "What the hell is going on?! How come this mission is even worse than the previous one?"
Xia Meng also wanted to sympathize with him.
Recalling every time they entered the spiritual realm together, Ou Xu always looked gloomy.
Let’s not even mention the first time. Dancing on the stage in women’s clothing is still the most famous scene of social failure that Ou Xu wants to delete the most.
Later, he was thrown into the racing test field and then ran to workshop No. 9 to dig out manure.
It's so unlucky.
Xia Meng teased, "Whether a person is unlucky or not really has a lot to do with the choices they make. Look, if you hadn't run away from your marriage, maybe we could have run into me at the dance, and I could have protected you. But you insisted on running away, so who can you blame? Right?"
Just like how he was determined to go to Workshop No. 9, it was his own choice!
After hearing this, Ou Xu cried even more sadly.
…
Afterwards, Xia Meng took Ou Xu away from the dwarf's hunting lodge.
They found a relatively clean cave nearby to stay temporarily and prepared to start making long-term plans.
At this time, the little rabbit suddenly said: "I may not be able to accompany you any longer."
Su Fangxiao: "Why?"
Rabbit: "I only came to save Prince Snow White. Now that he is safe, there is no need for me to stay any longer. I am leaving."
Xia Meng asked: "Where are you going? Are you going to continue looking for someone to fulfill your wish?"
The rabbit nodded: "Yes!"
Xia Meng quickly pointed at Su Fangxiao and Ou Xu and said, "Isn't there something ready here? At most, there are at least five wishes left."
The rabbit hesitated: "But carrots..."
Rabbit is a very principled little rabbit.
Since the wise man has set rules for it, it must abide by them.
It will only grant three wishes to those who are willing to give it carrots.
Su Fangxiao: "That's easy."
She pointed at Ou Xu and said, "Didn't he give you a basket of carrots before? At that time, your wish quota was not enough, so you only gave him one. Now you still owe him two?"
The rabbit was tricked into going in by the dog-like Su Fangxiao.
The rabbit hesitated: "That seems to be the case..."
Su Fangxiao then squatted down, picked up a branch from the side, and drew a simple picture of a carrot on the snow with his bare hands.
The first stroke is the long and thin radish body, and the second stroke is the fluffy radish tops.
Completed in one go, with two strokes.
Su Fangxiao looked up: "If I give you this carrot, does that qualify me?"
rabbit:"……"
Xia Meng: “…”
Ou Xu: “…”
You are the worst dog when you get something for nothing.
The inexperienced little rabbit had no way to refute and could only agree.
Rabbit: "Okay, then I can also grant you three wishes, but you have to give them one by one."
Su Fangxiao dropped the branch and said with a smile, "I'm not in a hurry. Prince Snow White, please come first."
Ou Xu: “…”
Ou Xu felt that the words "Snow White Prince" sounded particularly ironic when they came out of Su Fangxiao's mouth.
While the little rabbit and Ou Xu are solving their wish problems.
Su Fangxiao pulled Xia Meng aside.
The two stood outside the cave entrance.
Su Fangxiao looked at Xia Meng and said, "Have you discovered anything?"
Xia Meng raised her eyebrows: "How do you know?"
Su Fangxiao: "I saw you deliberately guiding the little rabbit along the way, trying to trick it, so I vaguely felt that you might have a direction."
Xia Meng laughed.
It's indeed a cliché.
This technique is also a required course for psychiatrists.
Psychiatry is a relatively special department in the hospital.
Because the diseases here are more complicated and difficult than those in other departments.
Unlike other departments, if there is something wrong with the patient's body, we can just use X-rays, CT scans, MRI, ultrasound, blood tests, urine tests, sampling and analysis... and it will be clear.
But psychiatry is different.
They can't just give every patient a prescription and open their head to take a look, right?
Most testing instruments cannot accurately detect mental illnesses - at least, current human medical technology cannot fully do so.
We can only rely on the experience of psychiatrists to make judgments.
Directly asking and answering questions in the form of a scale is sometimes ineffective.
Because some patients lie.
Some patients have difficulty distinguishing reality.
Xia Meng doesn't have much experience.
But the advantage is that I have seen a lot by following Lao Wang.
After seeing so much, some of her experiences gradually turned into her intuition and instinct.
For example, at that moment just now, her intuition as a psychiatrist told her that she should ask clearly.
Xia Meng nodded firmly.
She tilted her head to look outside.
The cave is located at a relatively high altitude.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, you can see most of the Black Forest.
The dark branches blend with the cold white snow.
The sky is a blurry gradient of purple, pink and blue.
Xia Meng said calmly: "This world is just a dream of that little rabbit."
Su Fangxiao took a long time to react to these words.
It took me a while to come to my senses.
Su Fangxiao: "You mean...it's Cui..."
She paused and took back the name.
They are now in Cui Yang's mental picture and cannot easily call out his name, as it may easily wake him up.
After receiving a reassuring look from Xia Meng, Su Fangxiao lowered his voice and continued, "It transformed into a rabbit? Why?"
That's a good question.
Xia Meng hasn't figured it out yet.
However, judging from the personality and behavioral traits currently displayed by the rabbit, it does correspond one-to-one with Cui Yang.
The little bunny has the innocence of a 9-year-old.
There is also his wild imagination as a high-functioning autistic person.
If I had to force an explanation...
Xia Meng tilted her head and asked, "Have you heard of sandbox games?"
Su Fangxiao shook his head.
Xia Meng: "Sandplay is a form of psychotherapy in the field of psychology."
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung had a theory very similar to Freud's.
He believed that the human mind should be divided into consciousness, personal unconsciousness and collective subconsciousness.
His theory has an additional layer of collective unconscious than Freud's.
He believed that personal unconsciousness is the sedimentation of personal experience, while collective unconsciousness is the sedimentation of the history and culture of the entire family, nation and even all mankind.
Xia Meng: "Sandplay is a commonly used tool in psychoanalysis. It can reveal a person's collective unconscious. The placement and angle of each sand tool on the sand tray, and even the archetypal symbolism of the sand tools, can reflect the unconscious level of a person. It cannot be controlled or blocked by human will."
It is a projection of human psychology.
Sometimes even the patients themselves don’t know what their placement on the sand tray represents.
But psychologists will analyze and judge based on their experience.
The good news is that Xia Meng is very good at sandbox games.
Wang Xiangyi once said that her talent in sand tray therapy was even higher than his.
The better news is that she suddenly discovered——
The compatibility of sandplay with mental images is surprisingly high.
At this moment, Xia Meng felt that she was born to do this job.
It seems that the legacy of Carl Jung and Dora Kalff (founder of sandplay) can be carried forward at any time.
Xia Meng leaned against the mountain wall with her arms folded and whispered, "I guess there's probably a good psychotherapist in the special school that Cui Yang attends."
Ou Xu and Su Fangxiao had previously checked the school's background information.
In fact, Cui Yang's family was not bad to him. At least the tuition for that special school was not cheap, and his parents would visit him from time to time and take him home on weekends.
It is basically not much different from a boarding primary school.
Xia Meng said, "I can sense that Cui Yang was guided through a sandbox game. His mental picture is the best proof. This world has been reshaped, which means that the previous sandbox game is already halfway through, and Cui Yang has already built a complete sandbox here. You, me, and him on the sandbox are all part of it."
Su Fangxiao was a little unable to keep up with Xia Meng's thoughts.
She interrupted Xia Meng blankly: "Wait, can you explain it in more detail? I'm a little behind."
Xia Meng nodded and said, "The fairy tale background of this world was formed through his collective subconscious. Every person in this story should refer to, or symbolize, someone in his life."
The mental landscape of ordinary people is not that complicated.
Take Li Zhan’s spiritual landscape, for example. It is so small that it can only accommodate him and a room full of books.
For example, Lin Fei’s mental picture is basically a reproduction of the scenes from her memories of her childhood and youth.
The most complex mental picture she had ever encountered was the one at Jingbei Hospital.
It was just that the situation at that time was special, and the mental images of the three sentinels were merged at the same time.
Xia Meng thought of the "wise man" that the little rabbit mentioned repeatedly.
Perhaps, it was the psychoanalyst who influenced Cui Yang.
Xia Meng said: "If we want to get out of here, it seems we have no choice but to go find it first."
Su Fangxiao said doubtfully, "That's not right. Didn't the little rabbit say before? Its wish is to see its mother again. You also said before that as long as the owner's heart knot is untied in the spiritual picture, the door can be found, right?"
Xia Meng nodded, then shook her head.
Specific cases require specific analysis.
Xia Meng: "Some knots can be resolved, but some can't. Especially since he's only 9 years old. For him, his only hope is to see his mother again. But in reality, his mother has already left him. Maybe we can contact his mother in real life, but we can't resolve this regret here now. Even if we really find a mother for him, he will clearly realize that it is fake."
That is to say, even if the little rabbit fulfilled 999 wishes.
It is very likely that I will not be able to fulfill my only wish.
In other words, the "wise man" is their only choice now.
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