Chapter 1262 - 1234: For the Sake of Saliva Fish (400+ Monthly Tickets Bonus)

Chapter 1262: Chapter 1234: For the Sake of Saliva Fish (400+ Monthly Tickets Bonus)

"Dream?" Nong Yao paused, then smirked, "Tell your senior brother, did you dream of snakes, or hats, or dark paths..."

"Senior brother, do you think you’re the only one who understands Freud? You talk to me about these unsatisfied dreams, and all I can say to you is, nothing exists outside of your mind. The world you see is what’s in your heart! What you think of others is exactly how you are yourself. I know of a brand of toys that’s really nice, I can buy some for you to DIY by yourself at night, how about that?"

Nong Yao was talking about dreams that Freud linked with certain things, Qian also retorted sharply. This kind of banter happened almost every time they met.

"You’re so unlovable, A Ka is more fun, she doesn’t understand a word I say."

"Then go teach A Ka, I didn’t make you stay here. My Xiaoqiang is making boiled fish for me tonight, if you come, there won’t be enough to eat. You better leave."

"Boiled fish... is that the ’fish soaked in saliva’?" Upon hearing this name, Nong Yao immediately showed respect.

Last time Xiaoqiang made it once, he ate and was amazed, thinking about it every day for another taste. Qian casually mentioned that it’s also called "saliva fish". That didn’t confuse this mischievous ghost; he remembered it well.

"Yes, that’s it!"

"Junior sister, as your senior brother, I feel obliged to take care of you. Please let me escort you upstairs and help solve your dream crisis. I’m really too loving as a senior brother."

"..." Knowing he just wanted to freeload a meal of boiled fish made Qian internally roll her eyes at his roundabout excuses.

When they got home, Yu Minglang was already wearing an apron cooking. Today’s class was scheduled for the evening, so coming back right on time for dinner. Seeing Nong Yao didn’t surprise Yu Minglang, this guy must be here with a thick skin to bum a meal.

"Junior sister said her sleep quality hasn’t been good lately. I’ve decided to help her. No need to thank me, we are fellow disciples after all. This is my duty—this peculiar aroma, could it be the boiled fish from last time?"

The earlier dignified facade was blown away by this last sentence revealing his true intention.

"She indeed has been dreaming a lot, and when she wakes up, she says she can’t remember clearly. You take a good look, and if you do a good job, you can have an extra pair of chopsticks tonight."

Yu Minglang’s words satisfied Nong Yao very much, he made a gesture of invitation to Qian, who rolled her eyes again, thinking he should just drool to death.

Once inside, Nong Yao, determined to score a meal, got down to business, no longer bantering with Qian, and asked seriously.

"You’ve been having the same dream and forget it as soon as you wake up, right?"

"Yes, do you have a way to help me? I am quite resistant to hypnosis." Qian, unable to treat herself, was quite troubled by this dream puzzle.

"Let me try. Come on, find a comfortable position to lie down, and I’ll try to open your subconscious to see exactly what’s in this dream."

Both Nong Yao and Qian thought it was just an ordinary dream, yet who knew that for the sake of this meal, it led to a big event!

Hypnosis has a certain probability of recalling forgotten things. Under the strong appeal of the boiled fish, Nong Yao prepared to help Qian extract the dream and see why she kept having the same dream every night.

According to Nong Yao and Qian’s analysis, dreams should reside in the hippocampus of the brain. There is an area in the brain called the hippocampus where many short-term memories are stored, naturally, such short-term memories are easily refreshed, only the most recent one is remembered.

So at the beginning of the hypnosis, Nong Yao focused on extracting short-term memory. As Qian said, she was indeed of a super-resistant-to-hypnosis constitution, and it took Nong Yao a bit of time to guide her into a short-term hypnotic state.

He asked what she ate yesterday, Qian detailed it out.

Nong Yao intended to cut to the chase but suddenly smirked, thinking of something amusing.

"How long is Yu Minglang?"

Qian gave a number, and Nong Yao was greatly shocked.

Oh, my, he shouldn’t have asked that, the cook outside is simply inhuman!

Normally, Qian wouldn’t talk about this. It seemed that they could extract short-term memory.

So Nong Yao asked.

"What did you dream of last night?"

"A dream... an earthen kang in the city center, two children in crotchless pants, a few adults standing beneath the kang saying..."

"Saying what?" Nong Yao continued to ask.

"... I forgot."

"Did you forget or didn’t hear it?"

"Forgot."

Nong Yao found it a bit strange, being able to forget things under hypnosis was odd.

He snapped his fingers to wake Qian up, who then asked about it. Nong Yao explained the situation, and Qian remembered too.

"Yes, I did remember this dream once before, but then I forgot as I couldn’t recall this event, also couldn’t remember what exactly was said."

"Let me try again, this time to extract your permanent memory."

When the memory in the hippocampus is used multiple times, it gets stored in the cerebral cortex, forming the so-called permanent memory. Such permanent memory is not easy to extract, only deep hypnosis can do it.

While preparing, Nong Yao complained, "Eating a meal of boiled fish at your house in exchange for a deep hypnosis memory extraction, I’m at a loss this time."

Yu Minglang just happened to come in to deliver some fruits, and upon hearing this, casually said, "Come over tomorrow, I’ll make spicy duck heads."

Spicy duck heads!

Nong Yao instantly perked up again.

"I’m the kindest to my fellow disciples, how could I bear to see my junior sister tormented by dreams? Come, let’s begin the deep memory extraction!"

Round: The art level of green tea, senior brother is absolutely unmatched.

Yu Minglang intended to leave after setting things down, but Qian stopped him.

"Husband, could you stay? If I act unusually, please wake me up."

This was just a surface reason. The real reason was that once entering deep memory extraction, if Nong Yao did anything to her memories, Qian wouldn’t feel at ease. Although their relationship was pretty good now, aside from Yu Minglang, she wouldn’t fully trust anyone else.

Yu Minglang understood Qian’s intentions, so he pulled a chair to sit at a distance that wouldn’t disturb their hypnosis but was not far from Nong Yao.

It was unclear if Nong Yao noticed Qian’s little thought, he only smirked but said nothing and quickly began hypnotizing Qian.

Yu Minglang watched from the side; he hadn’t seen people performing hypnosis before.

The process was relatively long because Qian was hard to hypnotize. It took Nong Yao even longer to get her into a deep state than the last time.

Seeing Qian had entered a deep state, Nong Yao asked about the dream again.

"What did you see in the dream?"

"An earthen kang in the urban village."

"Why do you know it’s an urban village?"

"Feeling, not rural."

"What’s on the kang?"

"Two kids, little girls."