The circle of friends in these two days was blown up by this shocking true story, which is a sad story, but he is full of the family's tenacious love, love that cannot be destroyed. The end of the story is resistant to people's hearts, so I can't stop the tears, I can share it with your child and inspire him to grow.
On the morning of November 11, 2021, I put away my old partner's urn at the Hangzhou funeral home, and I felt that my hands were trembling and my walking legs were shaking, so I let a few relatives and friends go first, and I wanted to accompany her for a while. When my father was sober, he told me that when he left, whether to bury him or scatter it in the sea and the river, he would have to wait until the eldest son came home to decide what to do. But I didn't call my eldest son Jin Xiaotian, now the world epidemic, he can't come back, nor did he tell the younger son Jin Xiaoyu, because he was hospitalized before November, let the children think that their mother is still alive, I looked at the box and said to my wife. I'm going to call, do you agree? If I were to leave one day, no one would know about our son anymore.
From the small bag hanging from my wrist, I found the elderly mobile phone and a Hangzhou Daily newspaper, which had the phone number I copied. The phone rang and I said, 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.
In 1984, we took our two sons back to the roots and returned to Hangzhou, so insistent on coming back, because we stuck a thorn in our hearts, we never imagined that it had become a knife, how could Xiaoyu's life be so bitter? When he was six years old, Xiaoyu played with a neighbor child, who had a toy pistol in his hand and could shoot out a small paper ball. Unexpectedly, that day, he put a needle and a shot hit Xiaoyu's eye, and his left eye was broken. One of Xiaoyu's eyes was blind from then on, and he could only squint at things. He also in turn comforted us that it was okay, get used to it.
The son is very smart, hangzhou after the first year of high school in the top class, the teacher said that the entrance to the university is no problem. But one day Xiaoyu suddenly told us, I don't go to college, and I don't want to go to high school. We thought the child was tired of learning to talk and play, but she really lived at home every day. I asked my friend to help introduce Xiaoyu to Xinhua Bookstore as a sales clerk, and I thought that after a while the child would want to go back to school. In less than two months, the bookstore did not want to know, there was an old customer reading in the bookstore, Xiaoyu said that the family was a thief, and quarreled. I introduced Xiaoyu to the factory as a worker again, but within a few days he refused to go to work, saying that the workers were not good for him. After he didn't go to school, his mom and I went to work every day, she was in bed before leaving, she was still in bed when she got home from work, he didn't talk to us, he would suddenly lose his temper, he was emotionally unstable, and he was completely changed as a person.
One day, his mom and I were sitting on the couch watching TV when there was a sudden boom and a light rain knocked down the kitchen fridge. This is the first time he has been violent, because this family has been four walls, the whole of Hangzhou may not have a TV set in my home, before it was smashed by a light rain three, poured water into it, refrigerator, washing machine changed several times, as well as tables, bookshelves, cabinet doors, good, suddenly boom, you say what to do? Xiaoyu's mother asked me desperately. Is he crazy? For a long time we did not know that the child was sick, she suddenly said that she wanted to go to college, we were overjoyed, let him into the cram school. Xiaoyu basically did not go to high school, but a few months later, the college entrance examination results were surprising, only three points away from the first line, and the second volunteer filled in the foreign language department of Hangzhou University, and the score was also exceeded. We were very happy to wait for the school to notify, but who knew that the school would return the file, because the file recorded that Xiaoyu was not disciplined in high school, missing classes seven times and turning eight times. Xiao Yu entered Shuren University, but after only one year of study, he fell ill. According to the classmates, several of them went outside to drink, Xiaoyu showed unusual excitement, after returning to school, he climbed on the top of the teacher's car, Ladu could not pull down, the school thought it was drunk and crazy, and sent him to the hospital. Xiao Yu saw me and shouted angrily, what are you doing, pull out the needle, I want to go home. I took him home. I knew this kid was out of touch with school. For two years he immersed himself in self-study, more diligently than going to school. Two years later, he received a self-examination diploma from the English Department of Zhejiang University, but then he issued it. The terrible thing, I was not at home at the time, and I couldn't wake up when I slept in bed. Her mother found that she had taken sleeping pills and rushed to the hospital with her neighbors to wash his stomach, but fortunately the amount of medicine was insufficient, and the child was saved. After a while, we heard a clatter and rushed into the room to see a light rain falling to the ground, a circle of belts hanging between the ceiling chandelier and the window. I and his mother hugged him and cried, child, you don't do stupid things, these performances of the child are not personality problems, went to several hospitals to see, are diagnosed as manic depression, also called bipolar disorder, patients will be depressed and manic alternating attacks, light rain does not go to school, depressed mood, do not sleep at night, and even suicide. These are all in an anticipation, unwarranted suspicion, blaming others, manic, disruptive, is turned into mania. Xi psychiatric experts said that this disease comes and goes quickly, but the danger is that it does not know when to come, do not know when to go, take medicine can not be controlled, the only thing that can be done is to send to the hospital in time. So since 1992, basically every year to send a little rain into it, I bought a lot of mental illness books, and finally there are two points, so that a father will not collapse, one is usually such patients after one or two suicide attempts, rarely have this idea, they will give the previous cherished life, the second is that such patients will be extraordinary in the spiritual field, and even show genius creativity. I read a book called Manic Depression Multi-Talent, written by an American psychiatrist, which listed 25 historical celebrities, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Newton, Hemingway, who had a typical manifestation of bipolar disorder throughout their lives, endured more than ordinary suffering, and were genius artists with great imagination. After understanding this knowledge, my greatest relief is that Xiaoyu may not commit suicide again.
As for genius, I didn't think about it, after all, not all mentally ill people can become Van Gogh. Newton's transformation into a genius also requires two points, one is opportunity, and the other is to live. My son didn't want to die, and her mom and I suddenly felt that nothing mattered, that nothing mattered, that we didn't study, that we didn't go to college, that we didn't work, that we couldn't start a family, that we could all accept it, as long as he lived. The next class reunion completely changed his fate.
In 2010, my wife went to the 50th anniversary of NTU's classmate association, perhaps implicating talents, perhaps the sincerity of a mother, this classmate association actually changed xiaoyu's next fate. I heard that my child did not have a job due to illness, and a classmate who stayed at the school as a professor asked him, can you ask your son to be a translator at home? My wife said that Xiaoyu's English and Japanese are very good, please give him a chance to try it. You must be wondering, didn't she drop out of school? How can I still do translation? Back in the 1990s, it was the most difficult time in our family, it cost money to treat the sick everywhere, and the children had to lose money when they went out to cause trouble, but I still did my best to meet the requirements of the light rain. His biggest request was to buy books, English, Japanese, ancient Chinese, and more than 200 copies of his music, painting, geography and other books. In 1993, at the risk of being smashed, I spent 12,000 yuan to buy a Lenovo computer for Xiaoyu. Xiao Yu said happily that day, Dad, thank you, after which he fell ill. I also dropped things, but never touched the computer. Computers became another world for Light Rain. He doesn't play games and does two main things, teaching himself a foreign language and watching acoustic movies. It took him six years to teach himself German, Japanese, and english consolidation. When watching a foreign language movie, he first looks at the subtitles with Chinese, reads and then takes a note to block the subtitles, and then watches a movie again, watching it N times until he fully understands. The excitement and input brought by all this to Xiaoyu is the performance of the child's enhanced creativity in the stove shed. Opportunities are always given to those who are prepared, and I never thought that this sentence would have anything to do with the light rain. It wasn't until his mother came back from a classmate's meeting ten years later that I suddenly felt that what I had experienced with my children over the years was like a training camp, and the opportunity was really for everyone who was prepared.
Nanda Publishing House quickly sent eight short stories by American female writer Andrea Barrett, asking Xiaoyu to try one. He translated one of the heat-transmitting coke stones as quickly as he could, and told the publisher that if the review passed, the rest would be included. Turn it on me? I was surprised, this is a literary translation, equivalent to creating another one, I don't know if it works, can you turn a whole book well? Xiao Yu said, OK, Dad, you can rest assured, I will not be worse than others. Over the years, I went out to the Zhejiang Library, I am not going to play, you go to this map to check the borrowing registration card. Every book I've borrowed has the name Ofe Jin Xiaoyu, so how many novels have you read?
After reading all the foreign language novels in the library, I was stunned, my son seemed to be a genius.