Lacking Appointments and Looking

Sunday, September twenty ninth, morning.

It had simply rained flippantly and there was a refreshing coolness within the air.

Carrying a plain black shirt, Yi Zhize purchased a big bouquet of brilliant purple roses from the florist downstairs.

Putting the bouquet fastidiously on the passenger aspect, Yi Zhize drove from his neighbourhood to Anhe Mountain within the distant suburbs of A Metropolis.

The mountain was not a vacationer attraction and had not been developed in any respectable method. The automobile couldn’t drive up there in any respect, so it needed to cease on the foot of the mountain.

Yi Zhize received out of the automobile, holding the bouquet of flowers, and walked in the direction of the one path via the mountain.

Twenty years in the past, this was the general public cemetery of A Metropolis. Later, because of the growth of town, the cemetery was moved to a extra handy location. The variety of folks coming to the cemetery step by step declined, and it turned an increasing number of abandoned.

The mountains have been inexperienced, and once in a while birds flew from right here to there.

Black leather-based footwear stepped on the outdated and dilapidated stone slabs, and the sound of the breeze rustling via the timber was heard within the background.

About ten minutes stroll alongside the stone brick path, midway up the hill, there was a cemetery hidden away.

It had been left unattended for years and was overgrown with weeds.

Passing by patches of monuments and stones, Yi Zhize stopped on the finish of the trail.

Putting flowers earlier than the small bluestone inscription, he mentioned nothing.

The sky was overcast and it appeared prefer it was going to rain.

Yi Zhize frowned and headed down the mountain.

About half an hour later, he turned again once more, a black umbrella in his hand.

Because the rain fell, he opened the umbrella and positioned it gently in entrance of the monument, overlaying it and the attractive roses.

The rain drenched his hair and garments, however he appeared unaware of it.

Yi Zhize stood in place, completely silent.

The rain stopped for some time.

He gently stroked the title of the individual on the tombstone: “Mom, I introduced you roses. It has simply rained and the petals are stained with moisture, it’s totally fairly.”

Naturally, there was no reply.

Yi Zhize added, “I do know you want mountains, and I like them too. The town is so crowded and murky, it is nothing in comparison with right here.”

A fowl all of the sudden flapped its wings and flew out of the bushes. It rested on the tombstone and chirped at him.

Yi Zhize smiled softly, “With it holding you firm, I suppose it will not be too lonely.”

The fowl cocked its head and checked out Yi Zhize, then abruptly burrowed again into the bushes.

“Mom, I really feel like I am unable to maintain on any longer.” Yi Zhize mentioned softly, “Are you able to enter my dream and speak to me?”

He sat down on the steps as if alongside somebody: “It’s getting late into autumn, I hope to see the celebrities tonight.”

It was almost midday and there was no solar on a wet day, so he was unaware of the passage of time.

The rain got here in bursts, wetting his coat again and again.

Droplets of water slid down the nook of his brow, and Yi Zhize all of the sudden remembered that he had made an appointment with Ou Tingyun for a remedy this afternoon.

Taking his cellphone out of his pocket, it was 12:07 PM.

He opened WeChat and despatched a message to Ou Tingyun: [Tingyun, I have to do something today, so I have to cancel my appointment, sorry.]

After sending the message, he switched off his cellphone.

Due to work, there have been at all times calls coming in.

However right this moment, he did not need to be disturbed by anybody.

Sitting alone and withered, from daylight to dusk.

When he appeared on the sky and the primary star was revealed, Yi Zhize blossomed right into a smile and mentioned, “Mom, look, the celebrities are out.”

It was as if he had returned to his childhood years, the time he had spent along with her on autumn nights.

The sound of bugs was incessant and Yi Zhize felt desolate inside.

Instantly, a beam of sunshine shone throughout the realm, and he appeared blankly in the direction of the sunshine supply as somebody approached him.

Surprisingly, he was not scared in any respect.

It even occurred to him that if it was an actual paranormal occasion, it would not harm to finish his life right here.

However then he heard a well-recognized voice calling him, saying, “Zhize?”

It was Ou Tingyun.

Yi Zhize stood up from the steps, “How did you…?”

Ou Tingyun appeared relieved, “I lastly discovered you.”

Yi Zhize appeared shocked and muttered the identical phrases again and again, “How did you?”

“Have you ever forgotten? We made an appointment for this afternoon.”

“Did not I ship you a message to cancel the appointment?”

“I did not get it.” Ou Tingyun requested, “When did you ship it?”

“Midday.”

“Right here?”

“Mmm.”

Ou Tingyun sighed and mentioned, “There isn’t any sign right here, did not you realize?”

Yi Zhize shook his head, “So, that message wasn’t despatched?”

“Yeah, I assumed you have been…” Ou Tingyun turned off the sunshine on his cellphone and checked out him fastidiously for some time within the moonlight, “It is good that you just’re okay.”

“You thought I used to be what?”

“Your psychological state is not too steady and I am nervous about you.”

Yi Zhize smiled, “Apprehensive about me for what?”

Ou Tingyun requested rhetorically, “What do you suppose? If something have been to occur to you, as your psychotherapist, my popularity would fall in your arms.”

“How did you discover this place?”

“Do you suppose this place is straightforward to seek out?” Ou Tingyun mentioned helplessly, “Our earlier appointment was at two o’clock, and whenever you did not present up at two thirty, I began in search of you.”

“Who did you ask?”

“The folks from the regulation agency.”

“They should not know.”

“En, so I ended up getting your grandfather’s contact data from the emergency division, and he informed me that you just come right here yearly.”

“The mountain roads are usually not simple.”

“Sure, I began on them at 5 and located you now.”

“I am sorry.” Yi Zhize stifled amusing, “Do I must pay time beyond regulation for you?”

“In fact!” Ou Tingyun pretended to be offended, “There’s additionally an emotional harm charge.”

Yi Zhize laughed softly, “Okay.”

“Are you very completely happy, Zhize?”

“No.”

“Then why are you laughing?”

“I simply thought it was humorous.” Yi Zhize appeared over at him, “I am actually sorry, Tingyun. However I am in fine condition now, there isn’t any downside.”

“Good, we could return then?”

Yi Zhize shook his head, “You return, I need to keep a bit of longer.”

Ou Tingyun appeared on the clock on his cellphone, “It is nearly seven o’clock, do you need to spend the evening right here?”

“Why not?”

“You are not staying right here all day, are you?”

“Yeah.”

Ou Tingyun observed a bouquet of brilliant purple roses with an umbrella over them in entrance of a monument not far-off.

He requested, “You left your umbrella there and received moist your self?”

“Sure.”

“Zhize, you are so…” Ou Tingyun could not consider an apt description for a second. He touched Yi Zhize’s sleeve, which was certainly moist: “Take off your garments.”

“Why?”

“You may catch a chilly.”

“I will not.”

“Are you a health care provider or am I a health care provider?”

“You are a psychiatrist, not an outpatient physician.”

Ou Tingyun was livid with him, “Zhize, in case your mom knew that you just have been so capricious and didn’t care on your physique, would she be unhappy?”

Yi Zhize then compromised, “Change out of my moist garments, what is going to I put on then?”

Ou Tingyun took off his jacket and handed it to him, “This.”

Yi Zhize took the jacket and draped it straight over his shirt, “It is not well mannered to alter right here.”

Ou Tingyun requested, “Barrister Yi, when do you propose to go down?”

“I am going to take a look at the celebrities for some time longer.” Yi Zhize did not sound fairly the identical as regular, sounding as if he have been a young person who did not know what was happening, “Only for a short time.”

Ou Tingyun checked out him in silence, understanding that this was an outflow of his unconscious, an attachment to his mom deep in his psyche.

“Okay.” Ou Tingyun mentioned, “I am going to stick with you.”