On January 17, after the article "Our Genius Son" swept across the Internet, more than 20 media rushed to report on the father and son, and some people called their story the Hangzhou version of "Beautiful Mind".
The interview stemmed from a phone call from his father, Kim, from the funeral home:
"Can you write about my son, he's a genius, he's in a mental hospital, his mother just left."
The father is in his 80s this year, and his son's name is Jin Xiaoyu, a talented translator with many years of bipolar disorder.
Fluent in German, Japanese, English and many other languages, he has translated many best-selling works such as The Seducer, The Dog Son-in-Law, and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema.
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But such a "genius translator", his life can be said to be ill-fated.
When he was 6 years old, Xiaoyu played with a neighbor's child, and the other party held a toy pistol and shot Xiaoyu's "biu", who knew that there was a needle hidden inside.
Since then, one of Xiaoyu's eyes has not been seen at all, at that time, his parents were in pain, but the sensible Xiaoyu repeatedly comforted them and said that it was okay.
Xiao Yu studied very well since he was a child, until he was in high school, he was the top student in the class, but when he was in high school, he suddenly said to his parents, "I don't want to go to school, and I don't want to go to high school."
Instead of blaming him, his father let him go home from school and helped him find a job as a book salesman.
I thought that changing the environment and changing the mood would make him adjust his mentality and want to go back to school to study well, who knew that after just two months of work, Xiaoyu fought with others and was directly dismissed from home.
Since then, Xiaoyu has been lying at home, when his parents went out to work, he lay in bed, and when his parents came home from work, he was still lying on the bed.
And his mood has become extremely unstable, he loses his temper at every turn, and even overturns the refrigerator at home at one time.
Later, he poured water into the family's television set, smashed the washing machine, kicked the door, and almost all kinds of furniture in the house were spared.
Both parents were in pain and didn't know what to do to make their son feel better.
Later, Xiaoyu said that he wanted to go to college, his parents quickly gave him a cram class, Xiaoyu did not go to high school, but the score of the college entrance examination was only a line of 3 points.
After going to college, I thought that everything would return to normal, but Xiaoyu had just gone to college not long ago and caused trouble again.
He ran to the roof of someone else's car in the middle of the night, Ladu could not pull down, the classmates sent him to the hospital, when his father went to the hospital to pick him up, he understood in his heart that this child had no connection with the school from then on.
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But Xiaoyu still showed his amazing talent, and he taught himself at home to get a diploma in the English Department of Zhejiang University.
At that time, his parents did not know that Xiaoyu was ill, until he committed suicide by taking sleeping pills for the first time, his father was frightened, but fortunately he was rescued by insufficient medicine.
But not long after, Xiaoyu once again hung his belt between the ceiling and the window, and after his parents saved him, they hugged him and cried bitterly.
It was also at that time that my father began to wonder if he was sick, and after going to several hospitals, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and his father had mixed feelings in his heart.
The only two things that make my father happy are:
1. After bipolar patients commit suicide once or twice, they generally cherish life more.
2. Bipolar disorder patients have amazing talents in the spiritual field, and even have genius creativity, which is mostly the case with world-renowned celebrities such as Beethoven and Newton.
But as a father, he did not ask for anything but the life of his children.
A child can not study, not work, not a family, he can accept it, as long as he lives well.
The 90s was the most difficult period for Xiaoyu's family, and parents had to take Xiaoyu to see a doctor at any time, and they might face the risk of any furniture in the family being smashed by Xiaoyu at any time.
But at that time, his father actually spent more than ten thousand yuan to buy a computer for Xiaoyu.
When Xiaoyu received the gift, he happily said to his father, "Thank you."
Xiaoyu never played online games, but used this computer to watch foreign soundtrack movies and learn foreign languages, and this became the foreshadowing of his fate.
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In 2010, Xiaoyu's mother went to the 50th anniversary student union of NTU, and heard that Xiaoyu was sick and had no job at home, and the professor of NTU introduced him to a job as a translator.
Who knew that Xiaoyu's translation was unexpectedly good, and since then he has started his 10-year translation life, and this is also one of the few happy times in this family.
Xiao Yu was fully engaged during his translation, and the number of bipolar attacks was much less. In this decade, he translated 22 books and seven million words, spanning novels, films, music, and philosophy.
Xiaoyu has no friends in his life, and Jin Shengyong, as a father, plays his friend, family, assistant, and partner.
In an interview the day before yesterday, Xiaoyu said:
"I can't say anything too meaty, I rely on him, I usually only have contact with my father, he plays any role, secretary, assistant... In the past, I also helped me read manuscripts, and contacted the publishing house was done by my father, and he thought a lot for me, which was equivalent to being my brain spokesman. ”
Originally thought that this family can live happily ever after, who knows that Xiaoyu has just improved, but her mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and she can't take care of herself at all, and has been lying in bed for several years.
Xiaoyu's lamp had just been lit, but her lamp was about to go out.
In the more than 3 years that my mother was ill, I had to defecate once every two hours, and my father was more than 80 years old and could not hold my mother at all, and Xiaoyu took on this heavy responsibility.
When Xiaoyu bipolar disorder attacked, he often couldn't control himself, but he never yelled at his mother, and he took care of his mother every day.
The father said that without Xiaoyu, he and his wife might not have lived.
Xiaoyu takes care of her mother very carefully, sometimes when she wipes her mother's face, she can see the tears in her eyes, although she does not know, but the line of fate between mother and son is still tightly wrapped around each other.
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In October last year, Xiaoyu had a bipolar attack and was sent to the hospital again, and less than a month later, Xiaoyu's mother suddenly left, and Xiaoyu, since then, has no mother.
Father did not know, what if Xiaoyu came back and could not see his mother?
Some people say that translation should be quite profitable, but this is not the case at all.
Translating this matter for Xiao Yu was a huge spiritual food that helped him slowly shift the manic world, allowing characters to crowd his head and blossom in his heart.
Wu Zhihong once said:
"The desire to be seen is the need of every human being, the deepest desire of every life."
For Xiao Yu, he was unconditionally seen and accepted by his parents, and this is also the reason why he did not fall down whenever he went to the edge of the cliff.
He smashed everything, but he wouldn't smash his mother's sewing machine, he wouldn't smash the computer his father gave him, his parents became the only pillar of his world, and the wind and rain outside also bypassed him and tilted towards his parents.
"My son will be back in the spring, and he'll let his mother read his new book." This is the last sentence that Jin Sex Yong said in an interview.
And as I write this, I also get the latest news online:
His 85-year-old father, Jin Sexyong, said That Xiaoyu had been discharged from the hospital and returned home, that the long-awaited sample of Benjamin's Collected Letters had also been received and was expected to be available next month, and that he was currently working on translating a second benjamin book, The Arcade Project.
The old man thanked everyone for their concern, but also refused all material help.
He said that my son was lonely, and I was lonely, so I wanted to spend as much time with my son as possible when my body was still good.
Looking at Xiaoyu's back of his father crossing the road, I thought of the description in Mr. Zhu Ziqing's "Back Shadow", and I couldn't help but cry like rain, for a child like Xiaoyu, for a father, for a mother.
The world kissed me with pain, but I sang in return.
"Under the great suffering,
Also hope that the world,
Can give Xiaoyu and his father the gentleness of not disturbing. ”