preface
Some time ago, as I was taking my child to school, a mental patient suddenly grabbed a child by the neck in front of the school gate, and was soon subdued by security guards and parents. I thought of my own experience with the mentally ill. Strangle home visit teacher neck qianshan mother, total to the child money “fool”, and that everything is extremely serious xiaozhang. I wonder what became of them.
Driven to madness by rumour
Zhao Qianshan is my little hair. When I was a child, he would hang out at my house, read comic books with me and play marbles with me. Feed the carrot to the long hair rabbit and then collect the pine hairs in the latte spider.
But I’ve never been to his house. Though his family had more comic books, including Journey to the West and A hundred thousand Whys, and military, chess, and draughts bought from the supply and marketing company. They even had flutes, flutes, and an accordion that made a nice sound and was never borrowed.
But at that time, not only I, almost all the children in the yard are afraid to go to his house to play. Even on the first day of the Lunar New Year, we would avoid his family because Qianshan’s mother was crazy.
It is said that when Qianshan was one year old, her spirit was already abnormal. No one can agree on why.
Qianshan ma did not hit people, there is no radical action. He is of medium height, thin, with a clean face and neat clothes. But after three meals a day, she liked to walk the streets for no reason. He looked up with an anxious face, as if he had lost something valuable, and he kept talking to himself. Walking, will suddenly stop, turn your head to the side, to the sky senselessly smile on a few. At first, everyone was afraid, and as time went on, they turned a blind eye.
In 1986, When I was in the fourth grade of primary school, I went to qianshan’s home for the first time to listen to qianshan’s elder sister play the accordion while her mother was out on a wild trip. While I was absorbed in katyusha, I suddenly felt as if someone was behind it. A look back, is qianshan mother, scared I rushed forward a step. Qianshan also stepped forward to stop his mother.
But she pushed him aside and walked right up to me. Then she stared at me. After a while, she suddenly touched my head, the corners of her mouth broke into a strange smile, turned around and went out.
Since then, I often go to qianshan’s house to play.
At that time, there was still a week or so before the salary was paid every month, Qianshan’s father would go to several friends’ homes to borrow some money for living expenses. When it comes to my house, I usually borrow 5 yuan. Every time qianshan father borrowed money to go, not long after, Qianshan mother would always smile senselessly, walked into my house. If her father happened to be at home, she would take a quick glance and turn away without batting an eye. But if he wasn’t around, she would seriously inspect every corner of the house, including the coal shed. When the inspection was over, her mother would silently pour her a cup of tea and bend her head to hold the soles of her shoes. She’ll have a quiet cup of tea and leave.
Mother often said: “Qianshan mother is a poor man ah! A mad man is not mad.” When I asked my mother how she was mad, she would sigh bitterly and say, “All landlord children are romantic. But she’s dying to marry me.” Then my father would whisper in the background, “Those are rumors. It’s all jealousy that has killed her. In fact, they are both poor people.”
I was too young to understand my parents. But in our eyes, Father Qianshan is really a different person. His yard is not like other families, always grow vegetables and livestock, but planted two peach trees, the rest of the place is full of all kinds of flowers. In late spring, the fragrance of flowers in the garden can reach the public toilet.
Grown-ups would stomp their feet and say, “What a waste of land! Even if we planted some potatoes!”
The second year, I and Qianshan primary school fifth grade. His sister went on to junior high school. One Sunday morning in October, the head teacher of Qianshan’s sister, a female college student who had just graduated for two years, came to visit her home. According to the custom, she first found the secretary’s home, the secretary was away, the secretary’s wife accompanied her to qianshan home.
Inside the door, the adults were not there. Sister Qianshan offered them tea and water, and then ran out to look for her father. The secretary’s wife and the head teacher would sit drinking tea and gossip. Qianshan and I played chess in another room.
About ten minutes passed. Suddenly, the head teacher let out a cry of surprise. Originally do not know when, Qianshan mother has been standing behind the teacher in charge, with both hands strangled the teacher in charge of the neck, just like a female beast caught the prey. The head teacher’s face began to turn purple from suffocation. Secretary wife with both hands to pull qianshan mother’s hand, but how also can not break off. She shouted qianshan and I, let us hurriedly help, we two still leng in place, after a long time, just desperately clinging to qianshan mother’s waist, together back drag.
Later, I can’t forget how Qianshan mother looked at me at that time, full of anger and disappointment.
From that day on, I never went to Qianshan’s home to play again. When I saw her on the road, I avoided her at a distance. Then my family moved out of town.
This year before the New Year, I have business back to the town, unexpectedly in the street saw qianshan mother. She was grey-haired and portly and stooped. But he was still walking briskly, but his stride was getting smaller and smaller, and he seemed to be moving. There was still an anxious look on his face, as if he had lost something valuable.
Qianshan ma did not hit people, there is no radical action. Qianshan ma did not hit people, there is no radical action.
How can a “fool” lie
In 1988, I entered junior high school.
It’s 25 minutes’ walk from my home to school. But if you take a path, it only takes 15 minutes. Most of the girls in the compound were afraid to take the path, which required crossing the entire psychiatric hospital.
When school was over, it was time for the lunatic asylum patients to go for a walk. Some patients stood quietly looking at the sun with tears in their eyes; Some ramble in the courtyard, saying nothing; Some were dancing while singing loudly “On Beijing’s Golden Hill”; There are also patients who are suddenly irritable, who cling to the high iron bars with both hands and scream so loudly that fire seems to come out of their eyes.
But the boys prefer the path. A big reason, a secret kept by the boys, was that there was a patient in a mental hospital who smoked a “big front door” cigarette. He is a middle-aged man, neatly dressed. Every week a student would be stopped at random on the edge of the iron fence, and while quietly handing out a fifty cents, he shouted: “Big front door!”
At that time, a pack of “big front door” was forty-one, so that the child who bought cigarettes for him would get the remaining nine cents. Back then, a pocket full of spiced melon seeds was only five cents.
Sometimes a middle-aged man would hand over a dollar bill. That hand can be fifty-nine cents, can buy a week of sweet and fragrant “oil spin” (a popular fried food in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia central and western) for breakfast.
Every time the chosen child was delighted, everyone took him for a fool and never gave him back his change. And he would grin and catch the cigarette and run away again.
One afternoon after school, Eryong and I went home together. Just went to the mental hospital by the iron fence, that smoke “big front door” patient suddenly shouted us. We were overjoyed at the thought that we would all be eating spiced melon seeds soon. Instead of offering the money, he lowered his voice and said, “Tomorrow you two buy me a big front door, and after a couple of days, when I’m rich, I’ll give you ten dollars more!” Eryong and I were dumbfounded. A “big front door” costs 4 yuan. Where can we find such a large sum of money? But if you buy him a cigarette first, you can make 6 yuan in a few days.
Six dollars! Fools do not deceive people.
That night, facing the delicious pickled cabbage, I was preoccupied. Mother asked me what had happened. I told her everything that had happened that afternoon, and begged my mother to lend me 4 yuan. After a few days of earning money, I also wanted to buy some bags of “big front door” cigarettes for my father.
At that time, my father was not willing to buy a pack of cigarettes, he would buy twenty cents or two of tobacco, and then roll up paper smoke.
After hearing this, my mother stopped for a long time, touched my head and said every word: “Good son, eat quickly. We can’t make that money. Don’t be greedy, don’t bully anyone, even if the other side is a fool.”
The next night, when I saw the cheerful eryong, asked him if his parents gave him the money to buy cigarettes. two yong pie mouth, said they did not pay him, is he stole money from home. Wait a few days, then sneak it back in. He told me to keep it a secret, saying that he would treat me to three days of “oil spin” after he made $6.
Two days passed quickly, but the patient never showed up. Two yong was very anxious, after a few days, every time he passed the psychiatric hospital, he would stand for a long time at the iron fence. Several times, when it was already dark, he would not go home late.
At that time, our class study committee’s father is the director of the psychiatric hospital, Eryong and I repeatedly urged him that often buy big front door patient how disappeared? Study committee member a face impatient to tell us: “my father said. The man was almost cured last month. The other day, his family took him away.”
Later, Eryong was severely beaten by his parents. His classmates said he was more stupid than a fool, and gave him a new nickname, “Big front door”.
Zhang is in tears
In the summer of 2006, I worked in a foreign trade company in Shanghai. The company’s production plant, located in an economic development zone in a county under the jurisdiction of Nantong, Jiangsu Province, has more than 600 workers and more than 20 managers. One of them is Xiao Zhang.
Xiao Zhang has just graduated from college for two years, majoring in international trade. In the factory engaged in a series of export declaration work. He paid great attention to his appearance. Every day his hair was meticulous and his shoes were well polished. The young man does not smoke or drink. He likes to study in the dormitory after class.
Xiao Zhang is also very flexible. At that time, every month when the goods were exported, Mr. Wang from the Inspection and Quarantine bureau would come to the factory for inspection once or twice. Mr. Wang has a passion for table tennis. After often sampling check is over, total should arrive activity room and small piece dozen top a few games. And each time, Chamberlain would lose a couple of clutch shots without showing any signs of losing. At that time, wang would wipe the sweat, while dripping with laughter.
After the game, everyone went to a restaurant for dinner. Xiao Zhang was always helping with tea and toast. Mr. Wang often said heartily to the general manager, “Xiao Zhang is a good comrade, young and promising, and worth cultivating!” Everyone thinks highly of him, too.
During that time, he was seeing a girlfriend. The other party is a female worker of computer flat knitting machine workshop. Everyone was surprised. Because in the factory, the managers are usually rarely in love with front-line women. That girl’s home is in the local county, long very beautiful, lively personality, love to laugh.
In the Spring Festival of 2007, Xiao Zhang and his girlfriend took a long-distance train back to their hometown in the countryside. Unexpectedly, after the end of the holiday, Xiao Zhang was disappointed in love. To be precise, his girlfriend dumped him because she didn’t want to spend time with him. A lot of nice employees wanted to know why, but the little girl didn’t say a word.
Since then, Xiao Zhang has become very depressed. He often lowered his head and frowned. Sometimes a whole day without a word. Colleagues from the same dormitory often go to the administration department to complain that Xiao Zhang does not go to bed at night and just sits on the bed sighing. Once in a while, I still sit on someone else’s bed and stare into a daze. When my co-worker wakes up, he or she is bleary-eyed and suddenly finds someone staring at him or her.
During that time, his work also went wrong. The figures on packing list and proforma invoice are occasionally miscalculated. The general manager called him to his office and advised him earnestly that there were plenty of fish in the sea. But Xiao Zhang still kept his head down and said nothing.
Later, in his spare time, in order to enlighten him, colleagues forced him to play poker with him, but he was obviously not in the state. A card can’t go out for three minutes. Once, the impetuous old cow stood behind him, looked for a while, finally could not help, shouted at him, “you a fool, two Kings, four two you do not go, you are ready to keep the baby ah!” Xiao Zhang slowly raised his head, his face blank.
Work, life in a complete mess, the general manager also sighed and said: “this small piece, how can do!” It was not long before the hr department got wind that the factory would not renew Zhang’s contract until September.
In July, Liu, the deputy director of the Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, will come to inspect the factory. The general manager attached great importance to it and asked Xiao Zhang to prepare the work report several days in advance. Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhang played very well that day. Everyone was so happy that they thought Xiao Zhang had finally figured it out.
At noon, the general manager booked a table in the hotel with a very high standard wine banquet. During the dinner, halfway through the meal, the hotel chef personally served up a plate of braised puffer fish. Seeing this, Xiao Zhang quickly got up and put a large piece of fish in deputy Director Liu’s food plate. All of a sudden, Deputy director Liu’s face as black curtain pulled down. The general manager shook his head at once and said with a smile, “Xiao Zhang is young and does not know the rules. Director Liu may not mind.”
Since ancient times, along the Yangtze River, there has been a rule that “eat puffer fish at the risk of death, and father and son will not yield”. Although the meat of puffer fish is delicious, but because it is extremely poisonous, fishing rules have always been “voluntary consumption”, meaning that any situation must bear their own, do not compromise. But Zhang didn’t know that. He misunderstood the general manager.
He hurriedly put down his chopsticks, took a pair of public chopsticks, apologetically picked up a large piece of fish and gently put it into Liu’s food plate. Deputy director Liu was about to leave on the spot. The general manager hurriedly grabbed his clothes and shouted for Xiao Zhang to leave the room first. Xiao Zhang had to bow his head and slowly retreated to the door of the room. When he raised his face, his eyes were full of tears.
Suddenly, he yelled in a loud, sharp voice that made everyone jump.
“Why do you all dislike me? Look down on me? Our family is poor, but our family is not dirty! Where am I dirty? What are you going to do?” Then he began to laugh and quickly took off his coat and trousers, and when he was ready to take off his underwear, they all piled on.
Xiao Zhang is completely out of his mind.
Later, his mother and brother-in-law came to the factory from their hometown, and a month later, Zhang’s condition was somewhat stable. During this period, the factory also organized employees to donate money for him.
Later, Zhang’s mother insisted on taking her son back to his hometown for treatment. Everyone saw them off. The old man kept thanking him all the way. That day, when I saw a dazed little Zhang follow her mother to leave, my tears suddenly fell down.
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