torture to the end

Qiao Yue didn't like the ward either, but if there were people he didn't like living in the ward, then dislike would become like.

It's not the first time Qiao Yue has come here.

In fact, this is not a ward, but the walls are painted pale, and it smells like disinfectant and iodine, so it looks very close to a hospital ward.

It was a woman who came in to greet him. The woman was still wiping away tears and told Qiao Yue about the recent situation of the man on the bed.

"He doesn't eat anything, and he always wants to run outside—the walls are covered with glass, and he still has to run outside." The woman's tears began to fall again.

Qiao Yue showed a very sympathetic expression to pity the gray-haired mother.

"You can talk to him." The woman was much older than when Qiao Yue saw her last time, her back was bent, "I'll get you a glass of water."

Qiao Yue nodded, then dragged the chair out from beside the bed, and sat next to the man.

The person on the bed wasn't asleep, nor was he unconscious. On the contrary, he was awake.It's just that this sobriety is weird.

Qiao Yue said, "How are you doing recently?"

The man didn't say a word.

His lips were pale, and his eyes were looking at Qiao Yue.He originally had a very handsome face, but because of this expression, he became a little dull.

The woman pouring water put it next to the table, Qiao Yue smiled at her and sent the woman away.

The person on the bed was still looking at him with his eyes open.

Qiao Yue stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, but the man still looked at him timidly.

Yes, that kind of timid gaze that seemed to bury its head in the quilt at any time.

The gaze of a child.

Qiao Yue looked at Shen Chen who looked like this, and smiled slightly.

He smiled, and the young man in front of him who was about the same height shrank under the quilt.

Qiao Yue knew that Shen Chen had become like this a long time ago, it seemed that he became like this about two months after he knew that Han Jingyu was dead.At first, Qiao Yue thought he was lying, and came to watch Shen Chen climb over the wall and jump to the place where Han Jingyu used to live.There was no one living there, and the weeds in the yard had grown outside the yard. Shen Chen ran to the yard where Han Jingyu lived, and knocked on the door inside.

Naturally, no one opened the door for him.

It has been deserted for a long time, even Han Jingyu has grown up and left.

"Jingyu, are you there?" Qiao Yue was upstairs, watching Shen Chen sticking to the door and calling Han Jingyu.The knee-length weeds in the yard were still growing wantonly. Shen Chen yelled at the door for a while, but he found no answer, and refused to leave. Fished out from the weed pile.

Then again.

Shen Chen would always run out secretly. The woman was afraid that he would get lost, so she locked the door behind her every time she went out, and he could also climb out from the courtyard wall.Later, the courtyard wall was covered with broken glass, and Shen Chen would run outside even with cuts on his hands. He would take out the delicious food at home, and the food he thought was delicious.

Then he went to Han Jingyu's house and knocked on the door.

Naturally, no one responded to him.

Sometimes Shen Chen would stick to the iron door and say, as if whispering, "Jingyu, I brought you delicious food."

Even if no one answered, he would continue talking.

"If you like it, I'll bring it to you next time. Don't show it to your mother."

There was a knock on the iron door.

It seems that it was knocked like this a long time ago.

But this time, no one tiptoed to open the door for him, no one showed such a grateful smile, and no one told him with tears about the unhappy things that happened around him.

But there is no one and he will come.

The weeds in the yard have grown outside the yard, and the old people who lived here have left one by one.No one told him that there was no one living here anymore, even if someone told him, Shen Chen would just nod condescendingly, and then continue to run over the next day, at most complaining a few more words.

"They said, Jingyu, you don't live here anymore."

"It must be a lie. Jing Yu said that he would take the same exam as me."

"Well, as long as you believe Jing Yu's words, that's enough."

His hands are full of wounds from glass, and he doesn't seem to feel pain, bright red dripping from the door of his house to where he is standing now.

When he was just sick, the woman cried every day, crying to bring him back from the empty yard, but then this kind of thing happened too much, and the woman was already numb.

Qiao Yue saw Shen Chen's hand. Originally, Shen Chen's hand was very beautiful, with slender joints and delicate fingertips.But his hands have become much uglier now, and several panes of glass on the wall of the yard pierced his palm, and it was useless to bandage it afterwards, because new wounds would be added the next day.

When Qiao Yue came a few times before, it was almost the most common thing for a woman to hold broken glass in his scarred palm with tweezers.

But what does this have to do with him?

Qiao Yue patted his head, and Shen Chen poked out from under the quilt to look at him.The eyes that used to hide all emotions now seem to be able to see through them with a single glance, with joy and anger on the face, and even the mind has become a child.

Why did Shen Chen become like this?

It took Qiao Yue half a year to confirm that this was not deliberately pretended by Shen Chen, and it took another two months to confirm that Shen Chen did not go crazy, nor was he insane, he just hid part of his memory to stop his memory. In a certain period of time that was relatively good for him.

——This is what a psychiatrist told Qiao Yue.

Qiao Yue doesn't think Shen Chen is pitiful. If a person can always have what he wants, that is also a great happiness.

Qiao Yue peeled an apple for Shen Chen, and put it in his hand. Shen Chen took two bites, then broke off half of it and hid it.Qiao Yue pretended not to see it.

The woman came in and called the two to eat, Qiao Yue stood up naturally, but Shen Chen was still curled up on the bed, the woman came over and lifted the quilt, revealing a silver iron chain locked around his ankle.After the woman opened the chain, she turned around and saw Qiao Yue's eyes.Some embarrassed smile.

"This is also impossible."

If it is not locked, he will run away.Women think so.

Qiao Yue suddenly felt sad for Shen Chen again.

The three had dinner downstairs, the woman coaxed Shen Chen upstairs, and then continued to lock him in the room.

After the woman came down, Qiao Yue waited for her on the sofa.

Because Qiao Yue paid most of their living expenses, so that the family would not fall apart after losing the main pillar.So women respect Qiao Yue very much.

Qiao Yue said, "Don't lock him at home, take him out for a walk more, it's good for his condition."

The woman quickly shook her head and refused, "It's not locked, what if he disappears."

Qiao Yue's gaze deepened.

"If you lock him up like this, won't he run away?"

The woman asked back, "I locked it, how could he run away?"

Qiao Yue was speechless for a while.

When Shen Chen grows up, he will suffer from such extreme mental illness, which probably originated from his family to a large extent.

The story of Shen Chen and Han Jingyu, he also heard a rough idea from the woman's mouth.

The outline of the story sounds like two children from dysfunctional families huddling together for warmth and trying to warm each other up.

Qiao Yue also put away a lot of his flamboyant and aggressive temper in the past, otherwise he wouldn't have so much free time to come here to see Shen Chen over and over again.He should wish that this person would die as soon as possible, but he still came.

When he saw Shen Chen for the first time in the past, he felt that this was his kind. Instead of liking such a person, why didn't Han Jingyu like him?

Why don't you like him?

Someone upstairs suddenly called him, it was Shen Chen's voice, and Shen Chen said that he had left his things upstairs.

Joe frowned more, he didn't remember.

But he still went up, and after he went up, it was indeed as he thought, he didn't leave anything behind.Shen Chen sat on the bed and looked at him with a cautious and tentative expression.

"Can I ask you a favor?"

Joe blinked.help?

Shen Chen moved out a box from under the bed, it wasn't big, but he didn't know what it used to contain.

"Mom locked me at home, can you deliver something for me?"

Qiao Yue looked down at Shen Chen who was sitting on the bed.That man who is about the same height as him, now speaks like this.

Qiao Yue looked at him, unable to think of refusing, "Yes."

Shen Chen suddenly showed an extremely happy expression, and he handed the box to Qiao Yue.

Qiao Yue already knew who to give it to.He already had the answer in his heart.

Sure enough, Shen Chen said, "That person is in the building next door, you go and knock on the door, if the door is not opened, you just wait, maybe his mother asked him to mop the floor."

Qiao Yue took the box over.Some heavy.

"By the way, his name is—"

Before Shen Chen could speak, Qiao Yue continued, "Han Jingyu."

Shen Chen was pleasantly surprised for a moment, then froze, "Do you know him?"

"Ah."

Shen Chen said, "Then I will trouble you."

Qiao Yue said, "You're welcome." He took the box and walked out. Shen Chen stood up from the bed, and the iron chain on his feet was locked to the foot of the bed, so that he could not walk out of the room.

After Qiao Yue said goodbye to the woman, he went to Han Jingyu's residence.

The outer door was ajar, and the inner iron door was tightly closed. When Qiao Yue was about to put the box down, he suddenly felt a little curious.

He broke open the box.

Inside are half an apple with a rusty color, half a box of candies, and two claws of blue loquats.

Qiao Yue was speechless, he closed the box and put it in front of the iron door.

Many of the things placed outside the iron door were eaten by wild cats passing by, and some animals didn't like to eat them, but they were still here, but they were already rotting and integrated into the ground.

By coincidence, Qiao Yue knew that there was no one here, but he still raised his hand and knocked on the door.

It was as if the shy, sensitive and crying Han Jingyu would open the door for him from the inside on tiptoe.

"Boom boom boom——"

However, no one will really come to open it.

Never again.

Qiao Yue suddenly understood why Han Jingyu didn't like him.