Although Lisa's situation has always been good, but she still need to see Professor Wang at least once a month. It was a routine examination and not necessarily a treatment, it was just a simple chat so that Professor Wang can understand Lisa's current mental state.
When Lisa was child, this thing was taken care of by Grandma Manoban. Later, when Grandma Manoban became older, the Manoban family then would take turns to bring Lisa to these sessions. Now that Lisa was married, this task naturally fell on Jennie.
"I don't want to go in." Reaching the sanatorium entrance, Lisa frowned unhappily.
"We would enter and stay for half an hour, just chatting a bit with Professor Wang and go out. After that, we can go to eat lunch. In the afternoon, we still have to search for some furniture in the furniture centre." Jennie coaxed.
"Can we move in after we buy the furniture?" Hearing about furniture, Lisa's expression became a lot better.
"That's right, after we finish buying all of the furniture, we can move in our new house."
"At that time, you can cook for me to eat."
"I'll cook whatever you want to eat, then what would you do?" Jennie broke into laughter, Lisa was so persistent to make her cook for Lisa.
"Then, I'll wash the dishes, then we can watch TV in the living room together." Jennie remembered everything I said to her in the new house that day.
"Yes, yes..." Jennie took the opportunity when Lisa was talking and swindled her to enter the sanatorium. On one hand, she couldn't help but wondered, she didn't see Lisa so unhappy like this when she came over the previous two times, she didn't know what happened to her today.
Professor Wang had already waited in the treatment room, when he saw the two coming inside, he smiled and asked, "What's wrong with you? You look a little unhappy ah."
Lisa gave one glance at Professor Wang and sat down without saying anything. But she knew that even if she didn't care about him, Professor Wang would still keep talking to her continuously.
Sure enough, she heard Professor Wang continued to say, "What happened? Can you tell me?"
Lisa remained silent, she lowered her head and focused on playing with her fingers.
Professor Wang had no other way, he can only turned to ask Jennie, "What happened before you came?"
"Nothing, it's just... Lisa looked like she's not happy coming here." Jennie explained.
"Don't like coming here? It shouldn't be, she had come here for more than ten years now, how come she suddenly like this?" Professor Wang didn't hide from Lisa when he said this, perhaps it can be said that he said it to Lisa deliberately while secretly observing Lisa's reaction.
But Lisa still didn't respond, she kept on playing with her fingers and occasionally turned her head to look at the clock on the wall.
Is she anxious to leave?
Professor Wang found it interesting and he continued to try to establish communication with Lisa, "Do you guys still have something to do after this?"
Lisa responded this time, she glanced at Professor Wang, but still not saying anything. However, Professor Wang understood this one glance of his, it was showing resistance and impatience.
Is she going against me?
Professor Wang wondered, although Lisa didn't like talking as usual, but she had never shown such a big conflict towards him like this. If Professor Wang talk about a topic that interested Lisa during the treatment, Lisa would still sometimes chat with him with her own initiative. However, just now, his topic clearly aroused Lisa's interest, but Lisa insisted on ignoring him.
"We're going to pick furniture in a moment." receiving Professor Wang's gaze, Jennie helped Lisa to answer.
"Are you going to move out?"
"Yes, do you know about this?" Jennie was a bit surprised.
"It was my proposal to let you guys move out, how could I not know about it?" Professor Wang took a sip of his tea and smiled.
Hearing this, Lisa raised her head to look at Professor Wang, the unwillingness inside her was somewhat reduced.
Professor Wang became more and more interested in Lisa today, it was only ten minutes after they entered, but Lisa had been more expressive today than the ten plus years he had treated her.
"Then... do we need to pay attention to anything before we move out?" Jennie asked. Although she had done a lot of preparation, she was still worried that she couldn't take care of Lisa by herself.
"You don't have to pay special attention to anything, Grandma Manoban can live with Lisa alone, of course you can do the same." Professor Wang encouraged her.
"I will work hard." Jennie didn't know if she could do better than Grandma Manoban, but she will try her best.
After that, Professor Wang let Jennie go outside as he chatted with Lisa alone for twenty minutes. Twenty minutes later, Professor Wang came out from the treatment room alone.
"Professor Wang, what about Lisa?" Jennie hastily greeted him.
"Hush, let's talk here." Professor made a silent gesture to Jennie, as if afraid that Lisa could hear it from inside the room. he took Jennie to the corridor outside before he said with a normal voice, "Lisa is unwilling to cooperate with my treatment."
"Why?" Jennie was anxious as she said, "She has been doing well recently, and her parents said that Lisa's condition is much better than before."
"She's indeed much better than before, furthermore, it was a really big change."
"Then..." Jennie was unable to understand.
"She has exposed more and more emotion, but her resistance to me wasn't inside her own sealed world, instead, she deliberately doesn't want to respond to me." Professor Wang smiled, "The word 'deliberately', I usually don't use it for autistic patient."
Jennie finally understood, what Professor Wang wanted to say was that this kind of deliberate resistance was a kind of recovery manifestation.
"But I still hope that you can ask her later why she resisted my treatment, then secretly tell me the reason." This was why he came out here to speak with Jennie without Lisa knowing.
"Okay, I'll ask her when he's in a better mood." Jennie promised with a nod.
"There's still..." Professor Wang continued, "Some time ago, in order to surprise you, Lisa secretly left the company and ran to find you, right?"
"Yes, actually, I also want to consult you about this matter too." Jennie said, "If there's a similar situation, do you think I should stop him? Or let her follow this natural development?"
"What do you think yourself?" Professor Wang asked back.
"I... I want to let her follow her own natural development, I want Lisa to do whatever she wants." Jennie said, "but I don't know if this is good or not?"
Professor Wang gratifyingly smiled and praised her, "Your idea is correct. Actually, quite a long time ago, it should be the second time Lisa ran out from home, that time, I gave a suggestion to Lisa's parents to give her some freedom. But something happened at that time and made this plan fizzle out."
"What happened?"
"Because they're afraid that they can't find Lisa, Lisa's brother found a watch with a GPS function and put it on Lisa's body. However, Lisa threw that watch and stayed outside for a day and a night before finally returning home. The Manoban family was so terrified, and after that, they dared not let Lisa run anywhere."
"One day and one night, where did she go to?" Jennie asked.
Professor Wang looked at Jennie and asked meaningfully, "Do you want to know?"
"Can I?"
"Of course you can." Professor Wang laughed, "You go and ask Lisa, if she doesn't want to tell you, then I'll send you a video."
"Oh, okay." Jennie didn't ask why Professor Wang didn't just send her the video directly, she only thought that there's a reason for her to do this.
"Letting Lisa go out alone is a good way to promote her integration to the society." Professor Wang continued the topic just now, "In fact, I always think that Lisa's family is too overprotective of her. People with autism could easily immerse herself inside her own world, so if we can let her go out and move more, especially going out alone, we can force her to communicate with the outside world, it's a very effective treatment. Of course, this method is very dangerous. We can't exclude the chances of her encountering something that could irritate her condition, but looking at Lisa's condition now, I think it's okay to give it a try."
"Actually, I suggest you to release more restrictions on Lisa. For example, don't arrange a driver for her, let her take a taxi to and from work, and maybe have her talk one or two sentences to a stranger every day."
"Wouldn't it be too difficult for Lisa?" Jennie was worried.
"Just try it, if it's not successful, then we can adjust our plan."
"...okay." Jennie pondered about it a bit and agreed.
"Alright, go back in, she's waiting for you."
Jennie nodded towards Professor Wang and turned to the treatment room to pick up Lisa. Professor Wang walked down the corridor and pulled up a little boy who was eating leaves.
After leaving the nursing home, Lisa's mood was obviously much better, but Jennie didn't rush to ask why she didn't want to cooperate with Professor Wang today. She took Lisa to a lunch first, and then the two went to the furniture centre according to the original plan.
During this period of time, Jennie already purchased a lot of things, such as curtains, carpets, washing machine, air conditioners, TVs, kitchen utensils and so on, she almost finished buying everything needed, so their purpose coming to this furniture centre was only to select beds and sofas, and the bookshelves that Lisa would use.
Because Valentine was approaching, the furniture centre was full of promotional activities. After all, it was Valentine's day, so there were all sorts of things for couples, no matter what, as long as it was to be used by a couple, there will be a very big discount for it.
Jennie, who had been a single dog in the whole of her previous life, has never enjoyed such a discount that was only meant for couples, thus it can't be helped that she would look a few times over at the discounted products no matter if she needed it or not.
"Sir, madam, if you buy this double bed, we'll give a pair of pillows, a pair of bolsters, a pair of lover dolls as well as a pair of lover pyjamas as a bonus." the promoters spared no effort to sell.
"Thank you, we're still looking around." Jennie tried it a bit but felt that the bed wasn't very comfortable so she pulled Lisa away.
"Why? Do you like that bed?" Jennie saw Lisa looking back frequently, so she can't help but asked.
"Pyjamas."
"What?"
"Couple pyjamas." Lisa's eyes were bright, she wanted to wear the same pyjamas as Jennie.
"Cough... at the back, there must be some at the back." The teased Jennie's face was blushing red, she quickly dragged Lisa away.
"Sir, madam, our mattress is made with the latest nanotechnology, it's soft and elastic, it will make for a good sleeping experience oh." The salesman suddenly moved close to Lisa, passing a look that only men would understand and said ambiguously, "It won't get deformed no matter how you toss around."
"..." the hot blush that Jennie put down with much difficulty immediately went back up again.
"Do you give couple's pyjamas?" Lisa who didn't catch on the hint, was persistently thinking about pyjamas.
"Couple's pyjamas?" The salesman expression became mysterious, he said quietly, "We can give you sexy pyjamas."
"...no, thank you." Jennie didn't wait for Lisa's respond before immediately pulling the whole person to flee that place.