“Depression?”When Zhang Chu heard this word, he felt somewhat fresh.
It wasn’t that Zhang Chu was less knowledgeable and hadn’t heard of this word.
Rather, since Zhang Chu had opened his fortune-telling business, he had never seen any depression come to him.
So Zhang Chu asked, “Tell me carefully, how is it?”
At this time, Lao Zhu said, “It’s a friend of mine, his daughter is only seventeen years old, it is said to be depression, not even going to school, hiding at home all day, and not seeing anyone.”
“Seen a lot of psychiatrists, last time, my friend chatted up and said that an old doctor told him that if psychiatrists don’t work, you can find a fortune teller to try, some fortune tellers, work better than psychiatrists.”
Zhang Chu looked odd, “This …… I have heard of this similar statement.”
Old Zhu hurriedly asked, “Then are you free? If you’re free, I’ll give him a call.”
Zhang Chu then nodded, “Call.”
Soon, Old Zhu picked up his mobile phone and dialled a number.
“Lao Yang, yes, it’s me, Old Zhu ……”
The call went smoothly, and after a few words, the other party was eager to see Zhang Chu.
So, Old Zhu first sent Zhang Chu back, while agreeing to meet Boss Yang.
And Old Chu went to take care of his own business.
In the afternoon of that day, a couple with a worried look came to Zhang Chu’s small shop.
At this moment, Zhang Chu also happened to be fine.
Seeing someone come to his door, he immediately asked, “Are you Boss Yang?”
“Yes!”Boss Yang looked to be in his forties, wearing glasses, a tweed coat, very tall, and looked very temperamental, like an intellectual.
Boss Yang’s wife, on the other hand, was somewhat shorter, also in her forties or fifties, also wearing glasses and high heels.
These two people, looked like the kind of very typical intellectual family.
Ye Lei brought chairs for the two people and poured tea.
Boss Yang spoke, “Mr Zhang, my wife and I, have heard of your great name, and I believe Old Zhu has already mentioned our situation to you.”
Zhang Chu nodded slightly, “From what Old Zhu said, your daughters, they don’t like going to school?”
Boss Yang nodded, “The psychiatrist said that it’s autism, but we always feel that the child’s situation, might be even weirder.”
“Weird?”Zhang Chu did not expect that Boss Yang would use this word to describe his daughter.
So Zhang Chu asked, “Can you tell us specifically, your daughter’s situation?”
“She now stays in her room all day long, refuses to go out, and moreover, won’t let us enter her room.”Boss Yang said.
Zhang Chu muttered in his heart, it wasn’t that weird.
On the other hand, Boss Yang’s wife said, “It’s like this, we’re so worried about her that sometimes we would secretly take the key, open the door, and see what she’s doing in her room.”
“As a result, I saw that she was putting make-up on herself!”
“Putting on make-up? Isn’t it normal for a girl to put make-up on herself?”Zhang Chu asked.
“If, for example, a girl barring lipstick on her eyes, using a black eyebrow tracing pencil to paint her lips, and also painting her own rag doll in a messy way as well, and also talking to the rag doll all the time by herself …… do you think that, is that normal?”Mrs Yang said.
Not waiting for Zhang Chu to speak, Mrs Yang continued:
“Moreover, what she said to the rag doll is too scary!”
At this moment, Mrs Yang mimicked a bizarre tone and spoke:
“Kiki, we’re about to leave this world, are you happy?”
“Kiki, if we’re leaving, does this world have no meaning to exist? Let’s set a fire and burn it all down!”
“Kiki, I love that brother on the third floor so much, let’s take him away with us.”
……
Zhang Chu frowned.
Mrs Yang, on the other hand, said with a tangled expression, “Mr Zhang, we’ve inquired about it, the third floor of our building doesn’t have any children.”
“However, more than ten years ago, there was once an accident on the third floor, where a family caught fire and burned a small child to death.”
“But at that time, we hadn’t bought the current building yet, how did my daughter know that there was a brother on the third floor?”
Boss Yang also sighed, “Yes Mr Zhang, my daughter’s situation, is a bit scary.”
“She stays awake all night long.”
“When both of us sleep at night, sometimes we feel movement by our bed, and after being woken up, we find my daughter standing by our bed, smiling at us.”
“What’s even more disturbing to us is that she sometimes puts make-up on herself, very creepy make-up, and breaks into our room at night and smiles at us.”
“If we weren’t her parents, I’m afraid we would have gone crazy long ago.”
The more Zhang Chu listened, the more he felt that this matter was serious.
So he nodded, “I understand.”
“Mr Zhang, what do you think, what’s going on?”Boss Yang asked.
At this moment, Zhang Chu said, “Either there’s something wrong with the place where you live, or, your daughter might have encountered something.”
“But how exactly, we still have to see your daughter with our own eyes to know.”
Saying that, Zhang Chu got up, “Hot Pot, prepare to depart.”
However, Boss Yang hurriedly stood up and stopped, “No, no, no, Mr Zhang, we can’t go yet.”
“Why?”Zhang Chu asked.
At this moment, Boss Yang said, “My daughter’s condition is very serious right now, and no strangers are allowed to enter the house during the day.”
“Not even without entering her bedroom?”Zhang Chu asked.
At this moment, Boss Yang nodded, “A few days ago, her grandmother brought some home eggs from her hometown and wanted to come and see her.”
“As a result, the child seemed to have gone crazy and scratched her grandmother’s face, acting as if she didn’t recognise her grandmother at all.”
Zhang Chu, on the other hand, frowned: “This is a brain derangement!”
“But there will be a period of time at night when it’s very normal!”Boss Yang said, “It’s from seven to eight in the evening, she will be very normal.”
“How normal?”Zhang Chu asked.
“It’s just very normal, eating normally, chatting normally, and she would tell us that during the day, she felt a little groggy in the head, feeling as if she had a big dream.”
“She would also apologise to us, saying that she didn’t know how she became like this.”
“Also, she would offer to let us take her to a psychiatrist, she knew she was sick.”
“However, as soon as that period of time passed, she would immediately change her temperament drastically.”
The more Zhang Chu heard, the stranger he felt, so he asked, “So, I’d better see her between seven and eight o’clock this evening?”
“Right! At this time, she is still quite cooperative.”Boss Yang said.
“That’s fine!”Zhang Chu said.
Boss Yang and Mrs Yang didn’t go anywhere else, and in accordance with what they said, their daughter, during the daytime, didn’t even want the two of them to be at home.
She would only be quiet when she was alone at home, and then, she would do her own make-up, put make-up on her dolls, and then, chat with her dolls.
Time passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was five o’clock in the afternoon.
At this time, Boss Yang said, “Mr Zhang, why don’t we go to my house now, if we drive, it will take an hour and a half, almost to my house, just right.”
“Okay!”Zhang Chu said.
Boss Yang’s home, was in the next city over.
Zhang Chu and Hot Pot got into Boss Yang’s car, and there were no words along the way.
At around six thirty in the evening, Zhang Chu followed Boss Yang’s car and arrived at the neighbourhood where they lived.
As soon as he entered this community, Zhang Chu immediately thumped in his heart, this community, something was not right!
There was no doorman, no property, the lights in the area were in disrepair, and it looked as if it was an old neighbourhood.
But this old district, but not that kind of life atmosphere, but cold and quiet, even gave Zhang Chu a “cemetery” like feeling!
