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Today, I believe that many people in the circle of friends read an article titled "Hangzhou man calls from the funeral home: can you write about our genius son". The article is the self-description of an old man in Hangzhou, his name is Jin Sexyong, who tells the story of his family like a white painting, but it has touched countless people.
A group photo of Jin Xiaoyu with his father when he was a teenager
The protagonist of the story is named Jin Xiaoyu, the youngest son of Jin Shengyong, who has been smart since childhood, but in childhood, he was shot in the eye by his playmate with a toy gun, resulting in blindness. But he has always been the top student in the class, and it is completely fine to enter the university. However, the problem arose again, when Jin Xiaoyu suddenly became bored with school in high school, his mood became irritable, so that he dropped out of school, and was later diagnosed with manic depression.
After taking a break from school for a while, Jin Xiaoyu suddenly wanted to enter the university, and Jin Shengyong sent him to a cram school, and in just a few months, he achieved a score of only 3 points away from a line. The family thought that they had gone to Erben University steadily, but they were withdrawn from the file because the file recorded Xiaoyu's lack of discipline and absence from high school.
Helplessly, seven turns and eight turns, Jin Xiaoyu entered Shuren University (a full-time ordinary higher private undergraduate college in Zhejiang), but after only one year of study, he fell ill, so he experienced a period of decadence... The remaining wish of Mr. and Mrs. Jin Sexyong is that their son can live well: it is acceptable that he will not study, work, or become a family.
But the sun shone again, Jin Xiaoyu fell in love with reading, taught himself English, read all the foreign novels in zhejiang libraries, translated 22 books in ten years, and was almost error-free, highly acclaimed, and was praised as a genius by editors and relatives and friends. But the good times did not last long, Jin Xiaoyu fell ill again in October last year and ran away...
Jin Xiaoyu's translated works span novels, films, music, and philosophy.
Sometimes, God is just a naughty child. Not only does he like to bite the apple, but he also habitually "closes the door and opens the window", and sometimes constantly closes, opens, closes, opens... While torturing a person, he also tortures his family. Some people are born to fight against fate and cycle over and over again.
In Jin Xiaoyu's tortuous life, the brilliant light that was first released was only because of his innate talent? Obviously, more than that. The father's love, the love that is as heavy as a mountain, the persistence and effort to do everything possible, always believe in the child, and resolutely do not abandon or give up, are also indispensable factors.
Jin Sex Yong has a sentence that sounds sad at the same time as it is full of strength, "Children have no friends in their lives." As a father, I am most fortunate to be my child's best friend and assistant in this decade. "We say that Jin Xiaoyu is a genius, but jin shengyong as a father, is not a convincing example?
It is not only about family affection, but also about trust, about persistent protection and companionship.
Reading the story of Jin Sexyong, I have too many literary and artistic works in my mind, such as the well-known "Alive" and "Rain Man", "Finch" released last year, and "Ocean Paradise" starring Jet Li and the article, and so on. "Ocean Paradise" also tells the touching story of the middle-aged father Wang Xincheng who gave everything to protect his autistic son Dafu.
Daifuku's only hobby is swimming, and Wang Xincheng tried everything to teach Daifuku to get used to life in the aquarium, and he did not hesitate to drag his seriously ill body and carry a homemade turtle shell to dress up as a turtle to swim with Daifuku. At the end of the film, Wang Xincheng passed away, and Dafuku was lying on his father's back like before, swimming on the turtle's body, living happily...
Thinking of this, I seem to understand why Jin Sexyong suddenly wanted to tell the story of his son to the society after the death of his wife. Isn't this an arrangement made by an old father for his son's future?
And we who shed tears were not moved by a "good story", but by the real people around us, full of light and heat. Some of us may have read Jin Xiaoyu's translated books, and some of us have children with similar mental illnesses around us.
Looking at the photo of Jin Xiaoyu holding Jin Sexyong across the road, Jin Sexyong's rickety back also reminds me of my father. I suddenly thought, if one day, Jin Shengyong also leaves, Jin Xiaoyu's remaining family, only his brother who is far overseas, how can he live a normal life?
But I think about it, my worries may be superfluous, he still has books to translate, and the love and memories left by his father and mother, and a society that already knows his story and is willing to provide warmth and love.
Also, there was an editor's note before the beginning of the article: "One sunny day, Jin Xiaoyu accompanied his father to the newspaper to send photos..." Does this mean that Jin Xiaoyu, as a normal person, has returned? Once again, his life crossed the morning and evening line, bathed in light.
Jin Xiaoyu should have adapted to this society, even if he is not ready, but we read the story, don't we?
Editor-in-Charge: Wang Lei Photo Editor: Li Jingyun
Proofreader: Liu Wei