Boss, do you think I look like a dish?

"Xia Chen, your mood has been very stable recently, you can go out for some activities today." Wang Yang pushed the medicine cart with a gentle smile and said as Xia Chen finished taking the medicine.

She has been working here for more than three years, and this is the first time she has seen such a cooperative patient. Except for the big mood swings in the first few days, she was quiet like a normal person in the following days. As long as the mood remains stable, you can be allowed to see your relatives.

"Thank you."

Wang Yang took back the small plastic box containing the pills, "Oh, by the way, there is a time limit for going out, up to two hours, and there will be a bell to remind you when the time comes. Because there are many people going out for activities, they can only be divided into batches, so you must be on time. Come back, otherwise it won’t be so easy to go out next time.”

Xia Chen nodded, with a smile on his white face, and his voice was calm, he returned to the state of a good student, gentle and polite, "Okay, I see, thank you for reminding me."

Wang Yang pushed the medicine cart with one hand, covered his blushing cheeks with the other, turned and left the ward, "It's such a pity, the whole body has a noble temperament, but..."

Xia Chen walked to the window, half a month had passed since he entered this madhouse, and now he was transferred from the third floor to the general ward on the second floor.

In order to leave here as soon as possible, Xia Chen decided to try hard to control her emotions after much thinking, and declared that she was not sick when she stopped seeing anyone.The medical staff here will not believe what they think a mental patient says. Only by making them think that he is not ill can he escape this twisted and suffocating devil cage and return to the outside world.

Since then, the first thing Xia Chen does when he wakes up every day is to take a deep breath, trying to keep himself calm and look safe and harmless, but only he knows that the more he suppresses himself to make the outside look calm, the inner turmoil The more turbulent it was, the monstrous anger burned his slender nerves every day, washed over his mind over and over again, and carved a deep brand of hatred.

Xia Chen stared at the ceiling of the ward every night, recalling the past, it was not the mother who abandoned him, but the father who he thought was dependent on each other, occupying most of the thinking space.

His father, his beloved father, which words he said were true and which were false, Xia Chen was shocked to find that once he noticed the clues, those clumsy lies could not stand up to careful scrutiny.

He remembered that one month before the final exam in the first half of the first year of high school, his father told him that he would go on a business trip to Russia. The exam was approaching, but he still arranged so many jobs. Did not block his father's footsteps.His father also went on a business trip for a month before the final exam in the first half of the second year of high school. Xia Chen curled his lips. He really cared enough for that woman's son. His frequent dinners and business trips on weekdays were all for that mother and son. Let's accompany them, I just don't know where he arranged them, but according to his father's temperament, it must not be too far away.

Xia Chen sneered, but his mother knew that his father was cheating but didn't tell him anything. Mom, do you include me in the people you want to take revenge on?

His white and slender fingers covered his face, and a thin and trembling figure was reflected on the glass window. The laughter forced out of his throat flowed out from between his fingers, and gradually dissipated in the empty room.

A melodious bell rang, and Wang Yang's voice came from the speaker beside the bed, "Xia Chen, you can go out now, remember, you must come back on time when you hear the bell."

Xia Chen looked up at the intercom system at the head of the bed, turned around and left the room. Although she walked steadily, her steps were large, and she was a little eager.

In the corridor, he saw patients coming out of the ward one after another. They passed through the small iron gate in the middle of the corridor, with a kind of hope and anger on their faces, which was the longing for life.

He bowed his head to suppress the disgust and sarcasm on his face, the iron gate in the middle of the corridor was a symbol of their abnormality.Xia Chen raised his eyelids, and when he looked up again, his face was already full of youthfulness. Like other patients, his only longing for life now is to try to make himself look more like a normal person than a normal person, and then from here go out!

Is there anything more ironic than this?

This rehabilitation psychiatric hospital is built in the mountains, sitting on the entire mountain group, the mountains are continuous, it covers a very wide area, green water and green mountains, beautiful scenery, the hospital is very complete, and each patient is equipped with a separate room, and according to him Observation, many wards are empty at present, although there are few patients, the soft and hard facilities are extremely sound. This hospital obviously has very strong financial strength.

The sky was blue and the breeze was blowing. Xia Chen stood on the steps on the first floor, took a deep breath, chose a bench on the lawn that was shaded by trees, and walked slowly.

He went downstairs faster than the others. After he sat down, a large number of people poured out from the door of the hospital. He roughly counted, there were about eighteen or nineteen people in this group, and there was a gray-haired The old man walked at the end, leaning on a cane, wobbling down the steps, and slowly moving to the seat not far from him.

There were no trees around the bench, only some low holly and Milan growing, and the sun was shining at this time, and the temperature of the bench was hot enough to make people feel hot.

The old man sat up tremblingly, noticed Xia Chen's gaze, turned his head and smiled at him.

"En?" Xia Chen froze for a moment, then smiled back.

This was the first patient he met to express kindness to him since he came here. The patient seemed to be a kind old man. After staring at the old man for a moment, he got up and walked over.

"Hello, can I sit here?"

The old man smiled and shook his hand, the wrinkles on his face deepened, "I'm going to be here for a while."

Xia Chen had question marks all over his face, "What?"

"It's sunny today, I'm going to lie down here and dry my shells in the sun."

"Your shell?"

"Child, can't you see? I'm a ten thousand-year turtle!" The old man smiled more kindly.

"Oh, oh, okay, I don't want to bother you, just post it." He shouldn't have any hope that there might be normal people in the madhouse.

Xia Chen sat back on the chair with a cold face, probably because he had taken too many messy pills, and he felt that his IQ was on the decline.

The breeze is blowing, the branches are swaying, and the sun is dappled on the body. Xia Chen is enjoying the comfortable temperature. He turns his head inadvertently, and suddenly finds the bench where the old man is. A giant tortoise!

The tortoise's shell is brown, and each scutellum of the tortoise's shell is shiny under the sun. There are some white stripes on the tortoise's head, and its limbs are hanging loosely outside the bench. In fact, the whole tortoise is so huge that it occupies an entire bench.

Shocked, Xia Chen stood up and rubbed his eyes, then opened his eyes and found that the tortoise had disappeared, and the white-haired old man was lying comfortably on the bench.

No, it's impossible, he didn't believe he was wrong just now, he could even see the white pattern on the turtle's head clearly.

The tortoise was brown in color, and it was so big. It was impossible for him to be so dazzled. At this moment, some fragments suddenly flashed in his mind, and Xia Chen frowned.

Suppressing her beating heart, Xia Chen walked back to the old man, sat casually on the lawn beside the bench, and said casually, "Grandpa, how long have you been here?"

"How long? I can't remember."

Xia Chen nodded and changed the subject, "The weather is really nice today, is it comfortable for you to lie on your stomach like this?"

"It's comfortable, basking in the sun is the most comfortable thing, there is nothing more comfortable than eating and basking in the sun."

"Well, it's easy to get sleepy when you're full, so it's really comfortable to stay lazy like this." Xia Chen stared at him with both eyes, as if trying to see something from his old, ravine face. "Did you just say that you are [-] years old?"

"Actually, I don't remember how old I am anymore. It's been too long, long enough for me to forget everything." The old man stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and the white shiny hair followed his movements. swing left and right.

"Time can really make people forget everything, even the injuries they have suffered?"

"More than that, time is the best medicine in the world, it can heal all wounds. As time changes, when you have experienced more and watched more, when you look back, you will know that you once upset yourself Chaotic things will not attract your attention in the end, just like a windless lake, in the end it will be so calm that there is no ripple."

"Unfortunately, I don't have that much time. My life is very short, so short that it only lasts a few decades. I don't have that long time to forget the past and heal my wounds."

Xia Chen touched the low grass on the lawn, "They stabbed me in the heart and never cared about my feelings. Everyone dislikes me so much and deliberately wants to destroy me. I can't even compare to these people who enjoy the sun and rain. grass, they have room to grow, but all I'm left with is darkness."

The old man was not talking, and continued to close his eyes, basking in the sun on his stomach. The old and the young, sitting on their stomachs and sitting on their stomachs, got along naturally and casually until the bell rang.

"Can I continue to chat with you in the future?"

"Let's go!" The old man was still smiling and walked slowly back on his crutches, while Xia Chen naturally supported him with his hands.

When he reached the second floor, the old man stopped and patted Xia Chen with his hands, "Come here, you can go back."

Xia Chen opened his eyes wide. This ward building only has three floors. The first floor is for newly admitted patients, the second floor is for patients in stable condition, and the third floor is for patients who need to be under compulsory control.When he was first locked in, he was on the first floor. Because of his aggressive intentions, he was locked up on the third floor for mandatory isolation. Now that his mood has stabilized, his room has been transferred to the second floor.

But how did the old man in his ward know?And looking at his appearance, saying that he is aggressive and needs to be quarantined?

The big tortoise leisurely basking in the sun appeared in front of Xia Chen's eyes again, and he smiled, "Yes, I'm going back, then go slowly." After he finished speaking, he turned and walked back to the room without looking back.

The next day, Xia Chen was waiting at the door of the ward early. When the bell rang, he hurried downstairs, but today he was disappointed, the old man did not show up.

Reluctantly, he walked around the activity area twice, but still did not see any familiar figures.

Xia Chen stood not far away and observed all the patients, talking or laughing at them, he would pay extra attention to those who were alone, especially those who stood alone in the sun, but after staring at them for a long time, he didn't find anything unusual.

Just when he was disappointed, he saw a person squatting motionless in the shadow of the corner, his eyes lit up, and he walked forward quickly. "What are you doing here?"

The man turned his head and glanced at him, frowned in disgust, "Go away."

"Little friend, what do you mean by your face full of disgust?" Xia Chen not only didn't walk away, but took two steps forward.

The squatting child frowned even deeper, "You smell like sunshine and stay away from me."

"You're wrong, I don't have sunlight on me, I'm standing in the shadows, it's full of darkness!" Xia Chen squatted down beside him, "My name is Xia Chen, what's your name?"

"My name is Xiaojun."

Xia Chen saw that he was not very old, and unexpectedly he also had mental problems, so he couldn't help lowering his voice, "How old are you this year?"

"I don't know." Xiaojun squatted back and stared at the ground again.

This is indeed very sick.

"Why are you here at such a young age?"

Xiaojun Wenyan glanced at him sadly, "I am here because I am young, and I will be eaten when I grow up."

Xia Chen smiled, "Don't worry, no one will eat you."

"Won't you eat me too?"

"Of course not. I don't have a special habit of cannibalism, and cannibalism is illegal now."

"It's not against the law to eat me, my father said, I'm not human." Xiaojun frowned, still worried that someone would eat me.

Xia Chen was a little angry, what kind of father is this, how could he talk to the child like this!

"So you're talking to me because you want to be my friend?"

"Well... yes, why do you ask that?"

"Because they talk to me to eat me."

Xia Chen couldn't help but patted his head. The child probably had persecution paranoia. "Don't worry, brother will not eat you, and will protect you from others."

"Well, I'll be your friend."

"Then let's sit on the bench over there for a while, don't squat here all the time, my brother's legs are a little numb."

"No, I can't bask in the sun, and I won't grow taller if I get in the sun."

Xia Chen laughed so hard that her chest trembled, "You are such an interesting child. Children need to spend more time in the sun and do exercises to grow taller."

Xiaojun blinked, showing an expression of "Is my brother stupid?", and said firmly, "I'm going to be here!"

The two were talking and the bell rang.

"Let's go, it's time to go back."

"Brother, you go first, I won't go back."

Xia Chen was a little strange, "If you don't go back on time, you won't be allowed to come out to play next time."

Xiaojun shook his head, "Brother, don't worry about me, I will stay here for a while."

"Okay, then I'll go back first, see you tomorrow." Xia Chen stood up, shaking her legs to relieve the numbness.

Xiaojun waved his hand at him, "Goodbye, brother."