"Have I told you about my husband?" Sister Chen asked Sheng Chuncheng.
Sheng Chuncheng said yes, I heard you say that you have been living apart.
Sister Chen said that she was right. They had been living apart and the relationship between husband and wife was in name only.
"More than a week ago, something happened to him and he was taken away by the procuratorate. It happened to be Sunday. People from the procuratorate took him away from home and searched the entire house." Sister Chen said.
"Where is Binjiang?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.
"Yes, it's the house where I usually live. Didn't I tell you that when my daughter came back during the summer vacation, he also came to live there. The people from the procuratorate took him away in front of my daughter."
"Then your daughter...is she okay?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.
Sister Chen sighed: "She is what I am most worried about now. She is a patient originally. She has bipolar disorder, which is medically called affective mental disorder or mood disorder, which is what we usually call bipolar disorder. Like three
Mao, Leslie Cheung, Van Gogh, Hemingway, Wang Guowei, and the poet Haizi who committed suicide by lying on the train all suffered from this disease.
"By the way, even the Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari and the former British Prime Minister Churchill had this disease. If my daughter hadn't had this disease and I looked up the information, I wouldn't have known about it.
"She is a patient herself, and she watched her father being taken away, and her room was searched. Even her underwear was turned out, and the locked drawers were ordered to be opened and searched.
Even her father and I didn't know about the things hidden there, but they were all taken out. Think about it, how exciting it was to her?
"I was watching from the side, and she asked me for help with that helpless look, but there was nothing I could do. I knew these were necessary procedures. I wanted to take her out of her room, and she would die.
She refused and screamed that she just wanted to watch them and watch them reveal all her secrets to everyone.
"I know that at this time, her whole body is being torn apart little by little, but there is nothing I can do. I am her mother, but at this time, I have no ability to protect her and keep the last fig leaf for her.
I can only watch her become naked, being spurned by others, I don’t know if you can understand that feeling?"
Sheng Chuncheng felt that he understood. He had had a similar experience. After his father had an accident and his mother was still in the hospital, those people came to their house and after all the money was divided, it was not enough. They moved almost everything they saw.
At that time, Chuni wanted to keep a desk, but those people refused. Chuni begged them, please take my desk away and let me take out the things in the drawer.
But when those people heard what she said, they thought there was some treasure hidden in the desk, so they didn't even pay attention to her and took the desk away.
He, Chun Ni, and Chun Ming watched as the things in their home were taken away bit by bit in front of them, and in the end, even they were kicked out.
When they left home, even the things they brought with them were inspected by those people. Some clothes were found, and someone shouted at them, "Anyone can wear this clothes, so even this one"
Clothes were also taken off.
Even their schoolbags and pockets had to be searched. At that time, Sheng Chuncheng knew what it meant to be swept away. They were just like this, swept out like garbage, swept out of the countryside, and swept away to the mountains where grandparents left behind
, in a dilapidated old house that no one wants.
"I am not complaining when I say this, Xiao Sheng. I know that his father has committed a crime and deserves it. In fact, I can say that I have a premonition that this day will come to him. I have also advised him not to do certain things, but
If he doesn't listen, there's nothing I can do about it.
"For so many years, the two of us have been de facto separated. Firstly, we were noisy and exhausted, and secondly, I had a premonition that he would have this day sooner or later. It was also a way for me to completely cut off the relationship with him, so it was a way for me to protect myself.
, I really thought about it, what would happen to my daughter if something happened to both of us? Even the prosecutor said, I have never seen a husband and wife who can tell the difference like you do.
"Those things he did, I thought about it with the back of my head, and I knew that one day he would be listed on the list. If I tried to persuade him, I would be doing my best. I can't just say that I will kill the family out of justice. If that were the case, I'm afraid my daughter would
Kill me.
"He is not a good husband, or maybe we have different views, but he is really a good father. His daughter is very close to him, and she is also his life, including those things he does, reaching out to ask others
He asked for so much money, he said, because of his daughter. Because of her illness, he wanted to change her environment and send her out after graduating from college.
"He wanted to send her to a place with less competitive pressure, to go to Northern Europe, and he also wanted to leave her some money so that she would not have to worry about money for the rest of her life. He felt that in this way, his daughter's illness might be cured.
He would gradually get better, but he would never have thought that the things he had done and the crimes he had committed would ultimately be a greater blow to his daughter.
"Xiao Sheng, let me tell you, I'm really scared now. I have hired an aunt at home. I don't need her to do anything for that aunt. I can clean the house by myself. I leave her and my daughter to eat.
We ordered takeout together, and I quietly gave her a task, which was to ask her to pay attention to my daughter's every move and call me immediately if anything happens.
"When I'm at work now, I can't concentrate at all. As soon as the phone rings, I jump up. I'm relieved when I see it's not my aunt calling. I'm really scared. My daughter is at home.
What will happen? Her whole person is becoming more and more extreme now.
"Now that things have come out, we can no longer hide the things we originally wanted to hide from her. For example, she also knows the fact that her father and I have been separated for a long time. Now she blames me.
They say that I am a selfish person who only knows how to protect myself and my official position. I don't care at all what happens to my father.
"She scolded me for being an official fan, saying that her father was really blind for being with me in the first place. She would just say whatever was unpleasant anyway. I asked her if you wanted me to go in with your father.
Satisfied? She told me that if that were the case, I believe we are still a family. Even if I beg for food, I will wait for you to come out and provide for you in your old age."
As Sister Chen talked, tears flowed down her cheeks, and she held Sheng Chuncheng's hand, which was shaking non-stop.
"Xiao Sheng, can I smoke a cigarette?" Sister Chen asked.
Sheng Chuncheng said yes.
Sister Chen took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from the side of the car. She held the cigarette in her mouth and pressed the lighter with trembling fingers. She pressed it several times but it didn't light up. Sheng Chuncheng wanted to go over and help her light it.