Chapter 9 fourth quarter

Yoichiro went to the kitchen and poured a glass of water for Shuicheng to drink, and Shuicheng finally regained his composure.After confirming that Shuicheng was fine, Yoichiro closed the door again.Yaji was still sitting on the sofa in the living room, his face was bloodless, staring at the floor in a daze. "It turned out to be chloramphenicol..." Yoichiro looked at the tinfoil of medicine ingots that Mizuki handed over.In this way, the reason why Shuicheng has been hiccupping since just now and the messy handwriting on the notebook, all have the answer. Chlorpromazine is a neuroleptic that has a calming effect.But any medicine has side effects. The side effects of this medicine are loss of willpower, tremors, loss of balance, diaphragm spasm and so on.

"Since when did you start taking this medicine?" "Two years ago." Shuicheng smiled self-deprecatingly, and let out a small breathing sound from the depths of his throat, which sounded like a small bug trembling. "I asked Takeuchi to prescribe it to me regularly." "Takeuchi...why haven't you heard her talk about this?" "Of course. The researchers in the psychiatric department are taking neuroleptics. It is a big laughing stock to spread such a thing. Takeuchi prescribed it to me secretly." Shuicheng took back the tinfoil of the medicine ingot from Yoichiro's hand, and stared blankly.

"After taking it once, I can't live without it anymore. Of course, I usually abide by the dosage...but this morning I feel so sad that I can't help but take more." Yoichiro blamed himself quite a bit. His friend started relying on this drug two years ago, but he didn't realize it at all. "If it's convenient, can you tell me why I need to take this medicine? Is it depression? Or something..." Before Yoichiro finished speaking, Mizushiro shook his head, "It's a hallucination." He said, "Since two years ago, I have often seen strange hallucinations."

Mizushiro looked at Yoichiro with pensive eyes.After a while, as if talking to himself, he began to describe the content of the hallucination. A large grassland, a white mare, a creature walking towards the mare on two feet.A dark creature with a bulky body and indistinct features.The strange creature and the mare got closer and closer, and finally the two bodies were finally pressed together tightly.A strong wind; a gray wind.The field of vision is gradually dyed black... "A small, horse-like animal gradually approached from the other side of the dark landscape, walking straight and slowly towards me..."

This is the illusion that has plagued Shuicheng for a long time. As soon as he finished speaking, the soundproofed room became as silent as if it was under water.Yoichiro analyzed the content of Mizuki's hallucination in his mind.The prairie, the mare, the black creature clinging to the mare, and finally a horse-like... small animal... Yoichiro looked up at Mizuki. Should be right. With a certain degree of certainty, Yoichiro asked Mizuki: "Shuicheng, that little animal that is gradually approaching you...what do you think it is?" "do not know me……" Shuicheng said while sighing, then rubbed his face with the palm of his hand, the movement was very hasty, as if he wanted to pull the skin off his face.

"You do not know?" "Yeah, I have no idea..." Keep rubbing, keep rubbing. "You must know!" The movement of Mizushiro's hands suddenly stopped, and his eyes stared at Yoichiro from between his fingers. "Actually, you know." Shuicheng did not answer. "The horse-like animal born of the white mare..., the mongrel..." Hearing this, Shuicheng's fingers trembled.Yoichiro continued: "It's a mule." A mule is a hybrid animal produced by mating a female horse with a male donkey. "And that mule is Aki." Shuicheng's fingers were trembling.

"Am I right?" Shuicheng's upper body was slumped on the round stool, like a machine that was turned off.Yoichiro glanced at the door behind him.After confirming that the door was closed, he turned his head to look at Shuicheng. "You suspect that Yaji is not your flesh and blood?" Shuicheng was powerless, but nodded slowly. "exactly……" Mizushiro and Kei were married fifteen years ago, and their marriages with Yoichiro and Sakieda started almost at the same time. Not long after Yoichiro and his wife got married, Sakieda was declared by the doctor to have cancer cells in his body and must receive treatment, so he was temporarily infertile.It was not until the fifth year after marriage, after the diagnosis confirmed that the possibility of cancer recurrence was extremely low, that the two had a plan to have children.

As for the Shuicheng couple, they wanted to have children immediately after marriage, but Hui never got pregnant for some reason.After the diagnosis of obstetrics, gynecology and urology, it was determined that the problem was Shuicheng.Shuicheng suffers from hypospermia, and the number of sperm contained in the semen is less than that of ordinary men. Days passed, and the two never had children. Just before they decided to use artificial insemination, Hui became pregnant.That year was their fifth year of marriage. In this way, the children of the Shuicheng couple and the Yoichiro couple happened to be classmates in the same grade.

"Shuicheng, do you suspect that Yaji is not your own flesh and blood because of the rare sperm?" "That's right... the chances of a man with this disease getting a woman pregnant through normal intercourse are very low. Megumi must have slept with other men, and her performance must have been traded for her body. Her insurance performance is not good. Like, you know that too! Yaji is the child she gave birth to with a client, I believe it must be so." "What the hell are you talking about..." Yoichiro felt a pang of anger in his chest.He had indeed heard that Hui's performance was outstanding among colleagues, but it was definitely due to her personality traits, and there could be no other reason.

"It's not completely impossible for a man with oligozoospermia to allow a woman to conceive naturally. You should be very clear about this, right? Although the field of study is different from yours, you are also a medical student." "I understand, I understand, but..." At this moment, Yoichiro noticed a contradiction. According to what Shuicheng said just now, the hallucinations began to appear two years ago.But if he suspects that Yaji is not his own flesh and blood because of hypospermia, he should have hallucinated as early as when Hui was pregnant with Yaji.

"Shuicheng, what happened two years ago?" Yoichiro asked about Shuicheng.He was silent for a moment, then asked Yoichiro in a weak voice: "Do you remember that I went to the University of Wisconsin for training?" "Yes, I remember. It happened to be two years ago in the spring." "Yes, not long after I bought this apartment." The University of Wisconsin in the United States is quite famous in the field of psychiatric research.Shuicheng once conducted training there for about two months. "On the night I came back from the United States, I looked at the things in the trash can in the living room... I didn't intend to look at it, but I just happened to see a watercolor painting by Yaji in the trash can. It seems that there is a landscape painting in school the next day exam, so Aki is practicing." Shuicheng closed his eyes and continued: "There were several paintings by Yaji in the trash can. She threw away many of them, saying that they were all failed works and told me not to read them, but I wanted to see Yaji's paintings, even if they were failed works. Maybe Because of shyness, Yaji locked herself in the room and refused to come out. I looked at Yaji's paintings, one, two, three..., when I took out the fourth..., in the trash can lowest……" Shuicheng covered his forehead with his hands and said: "I saw toilet paper with semen on it." For a moment, Yoichiro felt his facial muscles tense. "At that time, Hui was cooking in the kitchen and seemed to be very happy. She didn't realize that I had seen the contents of the trash can. I questioned her, and she was holding the pan at that time. I grabbed her by the shoulder, Turned her body, yelled at her, and asked her to explain what happened to the toilet paper in the trash can... But Hui kept saying that she didn't know, she said I must have made a mistake, but I was absolutely right, then The liquid on the piece of toilet paper was definitely semen. I went back to the living room, grabbed the trash can, walked to the kitchen again, and pushed the trash can in front of Kei's eyes, but Kei still refused to admit it, and finally even... smiled. Look at me seriously She actually smiled." For a while, Shuicheng couldn't make any sound, as if his throat was blocked by something. "Since then, I don't trust her anymore. I don't believe her at all. I think Aki is definitely not my child. I can be sure of this... I Mao, do you think I look a lot like Aki? Does Aki look like me?" Before Yoichiro answered, Mizushiro spoke again: "Not at all. There's nothing like me in her, nothing at all."