Chapter 25 – I will teach you how to daydream

  Daydreaming, what does it mean?

    The explanation from Baidu explained it as ‘showing a blank expression and being lost in thoughts’.

    Lost in thoughts is one way for our brain to release its tension from thinking about external affairs.

    Daydreaming is a kind of psychological adjustment for normal people. Some experts point out that daydreaming occasionally is harmless and can be beneficial to our health.

    Little Red Riding Hood didn’t know whether daydreaming was really good for her health. She only knew that if she stayed daydreaming for too long, she would go crazy.

    However, Brother Wolf didn’t seem to have any troubles in this regard. When he said he want to daydream, he was actually doing it. He found a chair and sat by the window for two hours. It was petrifying.

    Didn’t he say that he hates daydreaming the most? But it’s obvious that he likes doing it. This guy doesn’t mean to fix himself.

    “That…” Little Red Riding Hood tried to communicate.

    “You shouldn’t talk when you’re daydreaming.” Brother Wolf didn’t move, his eyes still looking out the window.

    There was something beautiful outside the window. Little Red Riding Hood stood beside Brother Wolf and looked out through the window curiously.

    Brother Wolf’s private ward is on the top floor of the hospital, and this spot has an excellent view. But the Xincheng City in the daytime and the Xincheng City at night were surprisingly different. The neon lights at night decorated the city like a starry sky, but the steel jungle during the day was only tense and busy.

    Little Red Riding Hood didn’t know if he would feel the same as her, but this kind of view from afar, with only gray and white buildings, would really make people a little depressed after looking at it for a long time. It’s better to look up at the sky, at least the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and sometimes if you are lucky, you can see a few special-shaped flowers that were blown away by the wind. That kind of feeling, as if you were lying on the grassland.

    “Brother Wolf, what are you thinking?” Little Red Riding Hood is not the quiet type. In the past two hours, she has made a great discovery of her own characteristic.

    Brother Wolf frowned impatiently for the first time. This woman always made some noise every once in a while.

    “Well, I’m a little tired after daydreaming for so long. Let’s take a break and share our experience.” Little Red Riding Hood smiled.

    “Are you tired just from daydreaming?” Brother Wolf asked.

    “Tired, I feel exhausted physically and mentally now.” Little Red Riding Hood complained.

    Tired physically and mentally? Yes, it’s definitely not just physical and mental exhaustion.

    “Tell me, what were you thinking when you were in a daze?” Little Red Riding Hood continued the topic just now.

    “I didn’t think about anything.”

    “How is it possible? No one thinks about nothing when they are in a daze.” Little Red Riding Hood didn’t believe it.

    “You should have graduated from elementary school. You don’t know what it means to daydream? If you don’t know, look it up online.” Brother Wolf said with contempt.

    “You’re the one who didn’t graduate from elementary school.” Little Red Riding Hood said, “The kind of daze that you don’t want to think about anything can only last for a short time. If a person is in a daze for a long time, his brain will definitely think about something or many things. He might think about matters that may not have anything to do with his current life, such as fantasizing that he won the lottery, or traveling around the world…”

    “You are talking about fantasizing, not daydreaming.” Brother Wolf asked.

    “Daydreaming is a process of fantasizing. Humans are not machines, so how can they not think about anything? When the master is sitting in meditation, he still needs to recite his sutras.” Little Red Riding Hood said with disapproval, “Only dead people think about nothing.”

     “I don’t want to.” Brother Wolf suddenly asked, “So… should I be a dead person?”

    Little Red Riding Hood was stunned by Brother Wolf’s sudden question, what does it mean? Should he be dead?

    Brother Wolf’s eyes looked at Little Red Riding Hood quietly. She saw her stunned expression in those black eyes and she realized his always domineering face seemed to have become calmer. He was sitting in the sun, but his face seems lifeless.

    Little Red Riding Hood saw Brother Wolf commit suicide more than once. She always thought Brother Wolf was a pervert, who liked suicide games. But at this moment, she saw the real death energy from Brother Wolf, that kind of sullen and unlovable aura.

    It turns out that Brother Wolf truly has a reason for his pervert-like behaviors.

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    “Cough…cough…” Little Red Riding Hood coughed a few times, pulling herself away from the delicate atmosphere just now, then raised a smile and asked curiously, “Brother Wolf, what are you looking at? The city, the street, or the sky?”

    “Is there a difference?” Brother Wolf asked indifferently.

    “Of course there is. For example, when I was looking at the city just now, I was thinking, ah, this city is so big, the housing prices here are so high, when will I be able to afford a house here.” Little Red Riding Hood said to herself. After pondering about it, she turned her head and asked Brother Wolf, “How about you?”

    “As I said, I didn’t think about anything.”

    “It doesn’t matter if you didn’t think about it before, you can think about it now.” Little Red Riding Hood induced.

    “This is also part of the treatment?” Brother Wolf finally found a shadow of a traditional psychiatrist on Little Red Riding Hood and try to control the conversation.

    “Hmm.” Little Red Riding Hood nodded vigorously.

    Brother Wolf is someone who speaks his mind. Since he has promised to cooperate with Little Red Riding Hood’s treatment, he will cooperate fully as long as the treatment is reasonable. So he looked out the window again, looked at the huge city, and thought.

    “There.” Brother Wolf pointed to one direction of the city and said, “The real estate in that area is mine, and 80% of the office buildings, shopping malls, and communities in the city center are owned by the Huihuang Group. There is also the land in the outer suburbs, the park by the lake, the demolition building in the center of the city…”

    “It’s all yours??”

    “Yes.” Brother Wolf nodded.

    “So we ordinary people can’t afford to buy a house, it’s all because of the house price you raised?” Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t help but sneered when she mentioned the house price.

    “…” Brother Wolf was speechless for a moment, and then sarcastically said, “If you are stupid, you should read more and talk less.”

    “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. You have to understand that poor people like us are a little bit jealous of the rich. It’s not healthy, isn’t it? But who asked you to show off carelessly just now.” Little Red Riding Hood explained vaguely, but Brother Wolf was really annoying just now. As soon as you stretch out your hand, half of the city is yours.

    For Little Red Riding Hood’s idiot-like explanation, Brother Wolf just gave her a look and let her realize it herself.

    “Cough… Let’s not talk about this. Let’s continue, the street, what do you think of when you see the street?” Little Red Riding Hood continued to ask, “I see so many cars on the street and the road, and they all want to go to work. The environment is so crowded. It might increase the rate of air pollution. Then, will Xincheng City also become smoggy like the big capital, and we have to wear masks when we go out in the future?”

    Brother Wolf turned to look at the city’s streets, roads, and overpasses and said slowly: “Vehicles have now become a necessity for people’s lives, but the oil price is increasing year by year, and the supply of gasoline will not keep up sooner or later. Different energy will replace gasoline as the new driving force for automobiles. The state will strongly support technical research on environmental protection, so the cost should be saved a lot. Huihuang group can also do some publicity to protect the environment, which is conducive to the image of our company…”

    “WOW~~~ I finally know why you can be a boss. Our realms are totally different.” Little Red Riding Hood finally knew what it meant to be amazing, and even began to wonder if the programs on how to make money were installed in the brains of rich people.

    “But…” Little Red Riding Hood wondered, “Can’t you think about meaningless things? Don’t keep thinking about these… big things?”

    “For example?” Brother Wolf asked.

    “For example, when I see white clouds in the sky, I think of marshmallows.” Little Red Riding Hood gave an example, “When I see the sky, I think of the sea, when I see birds, I want to travel, and when I see the sun, I think of sunscreen!”

    Little Red Riding Hood almost gritted her teeth when she thought about sunburn. The damn sun was too poisonous, and it even attacked my delicate skin.

    “So our world is really different.”

    “Huh?” Little Red Riding Hood didn’t understand.

    Brother Wolf did say that daydreaming was the thing he hated the most. In fact, he didn’t mean to trick Little Red Riding Hood. He didn’t lie. Brother Wolf really hated daydreaming, but he kept doing it. I always looked at the starry sky, the sea, or look out of the window as I do now, alone in a daze.

    He didn’t know why Little Red Riding Hood thought of so many things when she was daydreaming, but when he was daydreaming, his brain was empty, like the starry sky, the sea, the world, huge, quiet, and empty.

    “When you see these things in the future, think according to my standards.” Little Red Riding Hood learned to be smart this time, instead of asking Brother Wolf what he would think when he saw the white clouds and the sun, she directly asked, “For someone as idiot as me, as soon as I see it, I immediately think about it. So you can try forcing yourself to think about it in this way.”

    “This is also part of the treatment?” Brother Wolf asked.

    “Of course, I’m teaching you the correct way to daydream, let’s try it.” Little Red Riding Hood glanced out the window, just as a strangely shaped cloud floated over, “Look, what does that look like?”

    Brother Wolf stared at it and after looking at the cloudy sky for a while, he said, “According to the thickness, color, and current wind direction of the cloud, there should be thunderstorms in a while.”

    “…” Little Red Riding Hood can finally relate to the math teacher in her class who hated her. What a stubborn-minded guy. “Dog. Look at that cloud, it looks like a dog.”

    “Oh, you mean shape.” Brother Wolf suddenly realized.

    “On your level, you can only start from the shape.” Mud can’t support the wall, and rotten wood can’t be carved. (Idiom: useless)

    “Come again.” Brother Wolf knew the formula, and he couldn’t be bothered next.

    “That one.”

    “Like a crocodile in the Amazon jungle.”

    “What about that?”

    “Something like a limited-edition ’98 Mercedes-Benz.”

    “What about that?”

    “Cat, in the arm of the Queen of England.”

    “You don’t need to be so specific.” Little Red Riding Hood didn’t have such high demands from her student.

    “Oh, because I’ve seen it before, I unknowingly said it.”

    “…” Bullshit, you are definitely showing off your wealth.

    In this way, Brother Wolf’s daydreaming plan didn’t last for a whole day, and because it was too exhausting, the two fell asleep unknowingly. (t/n: aww emoji)

    The breeze was gentle and the sun was shining brightly in the afternoon, the two of them fell asleep one by one until the sunset slanted to the west, and the window turned golden yellow. Brother Wolf woke up from a deep sleep, and what he saw was the dazzling sunset.

    “This should be a poached egg.” Brother Wolf’s learning ability has always been strong.

    “The poached egg, I want it to be 90% cooked.” Little Red Riding Hood wiped her mouth, drooling all over the table.

    “Heh…” Brother Wolf chuckled, stood up from the reclining chair, and muttered while standing in front of the window, “It turns out that when others

were daydreaming, it felt like this?” Drowsiness and laziness after wasting time?

    It turns out that daydreaming also requires skill.