The father of the talented translator Jin Xiaoyu came to the mental hospital early in the morning to handle the discharge procedures for his son. Jin Xiaoyu, who suffers from manic depression, is basically admitted to the hospital every year, and has been in the hospital for 30 years since 1992.
This time, Jin Xiaoyu came out of the mental hospital and found that he had been separated from his mother forever.
Unhappy childhood
When Jin Xiaoyu was 6 years old, one of his eyes was blinded by a small friend with a toy pistol. The experience unknowingly changed the trajectory of his life.
Originally, Jin Xiaoyu's family was very happy, his parents were high-achieving students in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and there was an older brother in the family.
Jin Xiaoyu and his brother have been very smart since childhood, and they are always the top students in the class at school. Later, my brother was admitted to Fudan and went to Australia for the TOEFL.
And Jin Xiaoyu, who had excellent grades, could have been admitted to a good university. However, in his freshman year of high school, his mood suddenly changed dramatically. Schools are not willing to go, and universities are not willing to take the exam.
Jin Xiaoyu's parents initially thought he was talking about playing. But I didn't expect that he really stayed at home every day and didn't go out, and he couldn't persuade him well.
After some time, Jin Xiaoyu said that he wanted to go out and find something to do. With the help of his father's friends, Jin Xiaoyu became a sales clerk at Xinhua Bookstore. But within a few days, the bookstore didn't want him because he had a conflict with an old customer of the bookstore.
Then, Jin Xiaoyu went to the factory to work as a worker, and after a few days, he was reluctant to go, saying that his co-workers were not good to him.
Since then, Jin Xiaoyu has not wanted to go to work again, lying at home every day. He also does not communicate with his parents, is also emotionally unstable, and will suddenly lose his temper, and the two of them have been sentenced to the previous sentence.
Suddenly, one day, Jin Xiaoyu smashed everything in the house, refrigerator, TV, washing machine... Wait a minute. This is the first time that Jin Xiaoyu has been violent.
When the family saw all this smashed in front of them, they suddenly felt that they didn't know their son, didn't know what to do, and didn't know that their son was actually sick.
Not long after, Jin Xiaoyu said that he wanted to go to college. The family was very happy to hear this, so they signed him up for cram school. A few months later, Jin Xiaoyu was three points short of reaching the line at that time. You should know that Jin Xiaoyu dropped out of high school in the first year of high school, and the knowledge of the second and third years of high school was not learned at all.
But the problem is that Jin Xiaoyu's high school file has some bad records; so, the universities he applied to have him back. After several twists and turns, he eventually went to Shuren University.
After only one year in college, he fell ill: he was extremely excited after drinking with his classmates, and when he returned to school, he smashed the teacher's car, and was finally taken to the hospital by his classmates as a drunkard.
After his parents brought him home, he never went to school again. Jin Xiaoyu taught himself at home for two years, not only learning English, Japanese, German, painting and music, etc., and obtained a diploma from the English Department of Zhejiang University through self-examination.
But then a terrible thing happened, Jin Xiaoyu took sleeping pills at home and tried to commit suicide, fortunately, the family found out in time, sent to the hospital for gastric lavage rescue, to avoid the tragedy.
Later, Jin Xiaoyu was diagnosed by doctors with manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder. The patient will first enter a period of depression, which will only be emotionally abnormal. Entering the manic period, there will be obvious destructive behavior, manic and restless.
The doctor said that this disease came and went quickly, taking medicine could not be controlled, and the only thing that could be done was to send it to the hospital in time.
Manic and depressed, many talented artists, such as Beethoven, Van Gogh, Hemingway... They are all afflicted by bipolar disorder, but they also have extraordinary imaginations.
The rise of genius
Like those talented artists, Jin Xiaoyu also has a unique and extraordinary talent. Discovering Jin Xiaoyu's talent also began with a classmate's meeting with his mother.
One of Jin Xiaoyu's mother's classmates who stayed at the school to be a professor heard that Jin Xiaoyu had no job due to illness, so she wanted to ask Jin Xiaoyu to work as a translator at home. Jin Xiaoyu's mother said that she could try it.
Nanda Publishing House quickly sent eight short stories by American female writer Andrea Barrett, asking Jin Xiaoyu to translate one to try. Unexpectedly, Jin Xiaoyu quickly translated one of the articles "Ship Fever", and the translated works were highly appreciated by the publishing house. The remaining seven were also all handed over to Jin Xiaoyu for translation.
The first work translated by Jin Xiaoyu
In ten years, he translated 22 books. His father also gave him the greatest support, buying scanners, printers, receiving foreign samples, buying information books, helping his son print hundreds of pages of translated translations, re-proofreading, sending sample books, and so on.
Jin Xiaoyu's translated manuscripts, the whole book did not have a single typo, nor a wrong sentence, a mistranslation. This book is a bestseller, and the readers have responded very well. The professors in Nankai personally called Jin Xiaoyu's mother: "You have raised a genius!" ”
Jin Xiaoyu's translation work was in full swing, but his mother's health was deteriorating. However, Jin Xiaoyu is a very filial piety person, every day at home in addition to translating is to take care of his mother, buy vegetables, cook and feed and so on.
Until one day, Jin Xiaoyu's manic depression flared up again and was taken to the hospital. This time, when I came out, I never saw my mother again.
Who says that standing in the light is the hero, and there is also glittering gold in those shadows.