"My son is a genius" brings tears to the eye, remembering an old man's affectionate entrustment to the world

"Our Genius Son" caught fire all over the internet without warning.

For the first time in more than 20 years, Hangzhou Daily's "Listening" column received a call from a funeral home: "Can you write my son's story?" My son is a genius, he's in a mental hospital now, and his mom just left today. This report, which tells the true story of the nameless "genius" translator Jin Xiaoyu and his father Jin Shengyong, has forced many people to issue an "early warning": look at the paper towels in front of you.

Due to an accident, Jin Xiaoyu had an eye disability at an early age and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Also because of an accident, he embarked on the road of translation. Over the past ten years, he has taught himself English, Japanese, German and other languages, read almost all foreign language novels in zhejiang libraries, translated 22 books, and paid close attention to his mother who suffered from Alzheimer's disease during the last three years of her life.

After this story was published, it was read by the Hangzhou Daily news client alone to 6.89 million. At least seven film and television companies said they wanted to shoot the story, which is called the "Hangzhou version of "A Beautiful Mind."

Misfortune, misfortune, surprise, pity, pursuit, worry, fatherly love, affection... In this report, there are many reading and understanding perspectives, but there is no doubt that an octogenarian's affectionate entrustment to the world is the deepest content hidden in all the words. It is a spiritual secret that penetrates the ice of fate.

Hangzhou Daily said in the second report that the story of the newspaper is more like the completion of a long-standing wish for the old man. I said what I said in my heart, and Xiaoyu read the report and accepted it. Because there were some words in front of Xiao Yu's face, I didn't dare to say them before. "The two of us can still live on each other." Now the two of us don't want to be separated. ”

The old man's long and simple expression makes people faintly feel a kind of worry. What prompted him to call the newspaper elsewhere at the end of his life may be this concern. But the truth does not stop there, the "genius of his son" that he strives to show clearly emits the light of life in a certain courtyard, in an unknown corner, attracting people to inquire.

This is a spiritual invitation that transcends matter.

The core of this report reminds many people of Yu Hua's famous novel "Alive" and the famous report "Five Uncles and Five Aunts" that China Youth Daily Bingdian touched countless people more than 20 years ago. The weak and strong "living" are the most respectable confidants of people in this world. Embrace these beautiful lives and care for their destiny. In times of crisis, it is a father's instinct to gently lift these lives out of the water, enjoy the sunshine, and talk to them, and it is also a social morality. We saw this from countless netizens' "what can I do" inquiries, and felt warm for it.

This is a spiritual echo that transcends mundane affairs and transcends boundaries. As the Hangzhou Daily report said, "Although we have never known each other, these human emotions are interconnected with each other about love, about misfortune, about redemption" - yes, every winter, warmed by embrace.

Modern Express commentator Dai Zhishen