Chapter 9 Visit the Madhouse

Luo Hongchen was reading his father's diary, mother Luo Xiu's diary. The sun shines well in the garden, and an umbrella-shaped shade is formed under the silk tree. Hongchen sits side by side with his father on the steps of the flower bed in the shade of the tree, slowly reading his mother's diary, hoping to use his own The sound brought his father back to more than 20 years ago, awakening his memory of the past. The doctor said that his father, Zhou Feng, has shown signs of improvement recently. His thinking activities are very frequent and his dreams are becoming clearer and more organized. They are no longer just fragments, but have simple plots. As long as he insists on medication and psychological massage at the same time, There is absolutely a possibility of recovery.If Hongchen can spend more time with him, talk to him more, talk about the past, stimulate his memory and thinking, the possibility of recovery will be greater.

So, Hongchen finds out his mother's diary that he treasured, and reads it to his father over and over again.The wind is light and the leaves are quiet, as if listening with Zhou Feng, recalling—— "May 21, rain. Today Zhou Feng came. He was standing in the living room, dripping water all over his body, pointing at my father and yelling and cursing.You will definitely have retribution! 'I don't understand what he means, and I don't know what kind of grievances he has with Dad. It was the first time I saw someone like him.All the people who came to my house were respectful to my father. No one dared to refute what my father said.In my impression, Dad has always been majestic and always right, but now, a young man came to accuse him and scold him.This is so weird.

Dad was very angry. They kept mentioning a name in their conversation, which seemed to be 'Fei Yan'. Who is Fei Yan?What did father do to apologize to Fei Yan?What is the relationship between that Feiyan and this Zhou Feng? " "May 25, sunny. I think about that young man named Zhou Feng every day, I think about him.He is handsome and brave.But what I think of him is not his handsome face, but the melancholy temperament on his body.His face has resolute lines, as sharp as a knife, but in his eyes, when talking about Fei Yan, there is a kind of heartbreaking lingering.At that moment, I really hoped that I could be a woman like Fei Yan and get his lingering gaze.

He is sharp-edged and aggressive, but I breathe a fragile breath, knowing that his heart is actually soft and vulnerable.Although it is only one side, I firmly believe that in this world, I understand him, and I am the person who understands him best. But, will I see him again? " This is love at first sight, right?Hong Chen stopped and sighed faintly. I don’t know if it’s the dozens of times I’ve re-read my mother’s diary, but every time I turn it out, there’s always a gut-wrenching feeling.The love of that era is so lingering and delicate, and the mother's thoughts are so twists and turns.The love between her and her father, Zhou Feng, is like Romeo and Juliet, carrying family grievances and the burden of history, breaking through many barriers to get together.

Although my father was not considerate and gentle enough to my mother after marriage, my mother never resented her. She loved her father so obsessively from beginning to end, with no complaints or regrets, until death. These diaries were accidentally dug out when Hong Chen was ten years old when he was helping his grandma tidy up the room, and immediately decided to hide them quietly so that no one would know.She had never seen her mother, only saw her picture, such a beautiful and gentle woman, more like a painting than a real person.But those diaries made the image of my mother clear, kind and touchable.

Hong Chen breathed his mother's breath between the lines. I remember that when she read these diaries for the first time, she closed the bedroom door, buried her face in her hands, and cried so hard.At that time, she didn't know what love was, but the story of her mother and father implanted a deep-rooted model of love in her little heart-that is, love is like fate. When she was a child, her grandmother taught her to embroider: "Embroidery is a matter of a lifetime." Love, too, right? Falling in love with someone is a lifetime thing. It is a commitment, a promise, and it is giving with all your heart, without asking for anything in return.

It is because of such persistence and brilliance that Hong Chen has always regarded love as a serious matter.From college to graduation, quite a few boys expressed deep or shallow affection for her, but she always tasted it, and dared not give herself easily. I always feel that the time has not come, I always feel that there is no consonance, and I always feel that it is not her final choice. Until I met Ziheng. The first time the "No Needle Embroidery Workshop" of Confucius Temple saw him, she felt confused, thinking that something special was going to happen.She couldn't help but tell him her own name, Luo Hongchen, who fell into Hongchen by mistake.

With him, she has a familiar feeling from the bottom of her heart, so familiar that her heart will ache slightly.After all, people are spiritual animals, and they are destined to fall in love with someone, and they know it. Luo Xiu loves Zhou Feng, Luo Hongchen loves Zhou Ziheng—the daughter of the Luo family always seems to love the men of the Zhou family, and this is also fate. Zhou Feng and Zhou Ziheng... Hongchen was amazed by his new discovery, stopped reading for a while, and smiled. At this moment, she heard Zi Heng's call. When Zhou Ziheng received Mei Qi's call, he was watching TV with Zhou Gong and Zhou Po in Shanal Garden. The "Jinling Twelve Hairpins" played collectively.Zi Heng admired his own work, a little complacent.

Zhou Po said: "Aren't these twelve girls going to work in your unit in the future? Ahem, aren't they your colleagues? I think they are all beautiful and talented. Ahem, which one do you think?" Will it be the champion?" Zhou Ziheng smiled: "What I say doesn't count. The judges and the audience have to score. This time the competition is absolutely fair and just, transparent. Who is the champion and who is the runner-up? Ahem, even I, the organizer, don't know who is the winner." I know." Duke Zhou laughed and said, "Playing stupid. Your grandma didn't mean to inquire about inside information, but to ask who you fell in love with so that she could take her home and be a grandson-in-law."

"Then these twelve women are still far behind." Zi raised his neck, deliberately showing off, "The one I chose is more beautiful than all of them." "Do you have a girl you like?" Zhou Po was overjoyed, "Cough, tell me, what's your surname, cough cough, what kind of job is the girl from? It doesn't matter whether she looks pretty or not, cough, The most important thing is to have good character and ingenuity..." Zi Heng smiled: "Grandma, don't worry, the person your grandson likes is guaranteed to be selected based on your thoughts, eyes, and standards. The heart is smarter than anyone, the hand is smarter than anyone else, and even the name is different." It sounds better than others, and its name is Luo Hongchen."

"Luo Hongchen? This name is a bit strange." Zhou Gong immediately found a pen and paper and began to count strokes, and asked, "Do you know her birth date?" "Who remembers this." Zi Heng smiled, "She is seven years younger than me, Capricorn." "That is the year of Xinyou, the five elements belong to pomegranate wood, and the chicken in the cage." Duke Zhou pinched his fingers carefully and murmured, "Xinyou's chicken is smart all its life, refreshed in spirit, eloquent, its relatives are cold, and its flesh and blood are estranged... ..." "Very accurate!" Zi Heng laughed, "Grandpa, you really have two skills." Zhou Gong gave him a white look, and continued to chant: "The high man respects, and the money is enough..." Zi Heng shook his head: "It doesn't look like that, but if you marry me, it will be enough money, that's right." Possession Zhou also aroused interest, interjected and asked: "Don't interrupt, ahem, let grandpa finish talking, do you want to marry?" Zhou Gong nodded: "Women are virtuous, and they have the destiny to manage and prosper the family." Zhou Po was overjoyed: "That's a good daughter-in-law. You can figure it out, when is the best time to get married?" Ziheng laughed loudly: "Grandpa and grandma, are you too anxious? The horoscope has not been written yet. Besides, I don't believe it." "You said just now that if she marries you will be rich, don't you count?" Zhou Po was anxious. This grandson who is good in everything but refuses to seriously fall in love and get married is rarely enlightened. He is willing to take the initiative to talk to the old man. Talking about the girl he likes, this time he can say anything to force him to rush to do things. Under the nervousness, he even forgot to cough, "When will you bring the girl home? You are not young anymore, it is rare to have someone you like, Your grandpa also said, what is smart and refreshing, what can be argued, and what is rich, why don't you hurry up?" "All right, all right, I'll call her right now, and make an appointment to come home to see the elder." Zhou Ziheng also readily agreed, and immediately took the phone, and was about to dial it, but the ringtone had already rang. It's Mei Qi's number. He was kind of bored.He hates sloppy feelings and hates endless entanglement. In matters of relationship, things should come and go if they agree. He and Mei Qi owe nothing to anyone. If they break up, they break up. What a waste, why should she ask him to meet? But Mei Qi said that the content was related to Hongchen, and warned him that if he didn't come, he would regret it.Zi Heng is not afraid of any threats, but he cannot but be a little curious.He was curious as to what secrets Hongchen still had that he didn't know, and he was also curious about what new tricks Mei Qi could play.Mei Qi's voice on the phone was a little different, but he couldn't tell what was the difference. When Zhou Gong and Zhou Po saw that their grandson was going out, they became anxious again: "Why don't you tell us to show us the girl? Why are you leaving again?" "Tomorrow, I will bring Hongchen back to you tomorrow." Zhou Ziheng's voice remained at the door, and the figure had already gone outside. The car drove all the way to the outskirts, and the woods on both sides of the road brushed back. The autumn fields were full of small herbaceous flowers with long stems.In cities, such flower fields are extravagant and almost wasteful. Zhou Ziheng and Mei Qi once again sat side by side in his Mercedes.After a long time no see, he narrowed his eyes and observed Mei Qi secretly from the rearview mirror, as if he wanted to find some difference in her face. Mei Qi noticed it and couldn't help turning her face away.She put on heavy makeup and wore sunglasses. Normally, there would be no clues in Zhou Ziheng's eyes, but she still felt guilty, as if her face was covered with spiders, scorpions and little green snakes. The viewing mirror will become a demon mirror, revealing her true self.Looking at the embroidered shoe ornaments in front of the car window, the resentment in her heart came out little by little like a waking insect breaking through the ground.In the past, she often drove to the countryside with Zhou Ziheng, sometimes for business, and sometimes for picnic dates.But now, neither his career nor his love life needs her participation. She didn't want to take Zhou Ziheng back from Luo Hongchen's hands, she just didn't want Hongchen to get him. Three years of youth have been given to a ruthless person, if his emotions have always been this thin, calm, and restrained, then that's fine; but, when he met Luo Hongchen, he learned to burn, this is really right Mei Qi's torture and humiliation in disguise. She couldn't stand it. When he arrived at the destination, Zi Heng had already guessed Mei Qi's intentions, and an inexplicable disgust arose spontaneously. He glanced at Mei Qi contemptuously, got out of the car, walked around to the right and opened the car door, and said to Mei Qi: "Get off!" car." Mei Qi jumped out of the car, just about to speak, Zi Heng had already walked around to the left and opened the door to get in the car, and started the car again.Mei Qi was shocked, she hurriedly stopped in front of the car, and angrily reprimanded: "Zhou Ziheng, what do you mean?" He leaned out of the car window and sneered: "You asked me out, and I've already come out; you asked me to send you to the mental hospital, and I sent it too. Now, go in by yourself, do you still want me to accompany you to the hospital?" Is the procedure not complete?" Mei Qi was furious: "You are the one who is insane and needs to be hospitalized!" Ziheng laughed, shifted gears, reversed the car, turned the steering wheel, and turned the car to leave.Mei Qi was in a hurry, regardless of the dust kicked up by the wheels, she ran after the car in embarrassment: "I know you don't want to see me, and don't you want to see your Luo Hongchen? She just went in!" The car stopped abruptly, and Zi Heng poked his head out again: "How do you know that Hong Chen went in?" "How do you care about me? Do you want to go in?" After turning off the engine and getting out of the car, he took Mei Qi's hand and said nonchalantly, "Just go in, I'd like to see if you have any magic weapons, just bring them out quickly." After entering the hospital, following the nurse's instructions, he went all the way into the garden, and saw Hong Chen sitting under the silk tree with a man from a distance. Zhou Ziheng suddenly felt palpitations, but before he had time to think about it, he instinctively raised his voice, "Hongchen." Luo Hongchen turned around and was taken aback: "Zi Heng? Why are you here?" The man beside her also slowly turned around. Seeing the man turn around, Ziheng suddenly felt dizzy and almost unable to stand up.He stood there blankly, staring at the man, as if he had seen the most terrifying thing in the world, and kept saying to himself: No, no, it's impossible! However, the man's well-defined face, thick and slightly frowning eyebrows, straight nose, and two deep nasolabial folds extending from the nose to the lips, are so familiar, so kind, so true, and unforgettable, That person is my dearest relative in my life, my father! Zi Heng trembled violently, he could no longer see anyone other than his father, he could no longer hear any voice other than himself, he heard himself calling weakly: "Dad." dad.This title has been unfamiliar for twenty years.Didn't his father die when he was a child, and died of depression after his stepmother's car accident? Could it be that everything was just a dream?Or, this moment, this scene, is an absurd dream? !It's a dream!It must be! Zi Heng subconsciously bit his lip, then raised his hand and slapped himself without feeling any pain.Yes, yes, it is a dream, it must be.He raised his hand and slapped himself again, and then continued to slap him until blood oozes from his mouth. Both Hong Chen and Mei Qi were stunned by this scene, one left and one right rushed up and grabbed Zi Heng's hand and shouted: "Zi Heng, what are you doing? Stop, why are you hitting yourself?" In all this chaos, Zhou Feng, the common father of Zhou Ziheng and Luo Hongchen, had been standing quietly, watching and thinking.His mind has not been thinking for more than 20 years, and it has just improved a little recently, but it is still not used to reacting too quickly, but now, it is suddenly agitated violently, and many people and things come one after another. Indistinct thoughts, indistinguishable bitterness, hotness, sourness, so many colors and sounds flooded over, the door of life that had been silent for twenty years was suddenly knocked open, and the fresh air that rushed in It was suffocating and made him more at a loss. In a daze, he instinctively grasped a thread of thought: "Xiuxiu!" He looked at his daughter Luo Hongchen, "Are you Xiuxiu?" "Father, I am Hongchen." Hongchen let go of Zhou Ziheng and returned to her father. She stared nervously at her father's eyes that had regained radiance, and replied holding her breath, "Dad, I am your daughter. Are you up?" "Daughter?" Zhou Feng pondered for a while, then asked, "Do I have a daughter? What about Xiuxiu?" "My mother passed away, don't you remember?" Hongchen's tears flowed down, but she tried hard to suppress herself and force herself to calm down. She realized that her father's memory was recovering. She came out of the cave quietly, looking for memories bit by bit, and approaching reality step by step. She couldn't scare him. "Father, Luoxiu is my mother, your wife, she passed away, do you remember how she died?" "I remember, it seems, it was a car accident, a terrible car accident..." Zhou Feng hugged his head and said in pain, "I have a headache! I need to rest, I need to sleep!" "Dad, don't sleep! Don't get a headache! Don't rest! Think about it, think about it quietly, your mother died, your wife Luoxiu died, it was a car accident, she has been dead for more than 20 years, you My daughter has grown up too, it's me, Hongchen. Dad, look at me clearly, I'm your daughter, twenty years have passed, and I've grown up!" Luo Hongchen couldn't hold back his tears, crying He fell into Zhou Feng's arms.Father's embrace, the warmth of father's love after more than 20 years, is it finally found now? Zhou Feng hugged his daughter, and instinctively stroked her hair lightly. His mind alternately became clear and confused. Twenty years ago, the faces of Luo Xiu from 20 years ago and Luo Hongchen from 20 years later were overlapped and copied, and they cooperated for a while. The rumbling thunder shook his ears and made him dizzy. In this dizziness, a ray of light gradually seeped in and became clearer and clearer, making him blurt out another name that was even more thrilling: "Feiyan." He raised his head, "Where is Feiyan? Where did Feiyan go?" In the middle of Luo Hongchen and Zhou Feng hugging each other and crying as father and daughter recognized each other, Zhou Ziheng stood like a clay sculpture and wood carving, and with Mei Qi's support, he forced himself not to fall down.Zhou Feng was calling "Xiuxiu" and "Hongchen", slowly recovering the lost memories of more than 20 years with each name. The last bit of luck and possibility: maybe, it’s just that people are similar, it’s just a false alarm, just scaring myself.His father was obviously dead, more than twenty years ago, how could he suddenly become Luo Hongchen's father? However, when Zhou Feng suddenly uttered the name "Fei Yan", Zi Heng's heart suddenly turned gray, and he really turned into "Fei Yan".Everything has been confirmed, and the most absurd, most terrifying and terrifying thing in the world has finally happened!too cruel! Zhou Feng was still talking to himself: "Where is Feiyan? Where did Feiyan go?" "Feiyan?" Luo Hongchen didn't understand, she leaned on her father's arms and raised her head, and asked carefully, "Who is Feiyan?" "It's my mother." Zhou Ziheng replied instead. "What?" Luo Hongchen and Mei Qi were both stunned. Shocking!Zhou Feng actually knew Ziheng's mother, could it be... Mei Qi couldn't help but let go of her hand and took a few steps back, this is too absurd, it's like a plot in a long TV series, could it be that Zhou Ziheng is Zhou Feng's... Ziheng confirmed their guess.He took a step forward, and suddenly knelt down in front of Zhou Feng: "Father!" Luo Hongchen's heart also turned gray, dad?Zi Heng actually called Zhou Feng his father!He actually called his father Dad, so, then, couldn't he be his brother?elder brother? Hongchen knelt down suddenly, grabbed Ziheng's arm and shouted, "What are you talking about? Ziheng, why do you call my daddy? He's my daddy, not your daddy, no!" She even laughed With a smile, "Are you stupid, are you joking?" "He's my father!" He looked at Hong Chen sadly from his face like dead ashes, all the brilliance in his eyes disappeared, that desolate expression was familiar to Hong Chen, in the past, that expression belonged to Zhou Feng, but now The desolation, sorrow, and solitude that had been blocked in Zhou Feng's eyes for twenty years were now written in Zhou Ziheng's eyes with the same expression. No, how could it be, Hong Chen shook her head, trying to wake herself up from this horrible fallacy, she couldn't believe in such a bizarre blood relationship, and couldn't accept such a tragic reversal of human relations.Zhou Ziheng, why would he call her father father?Zhou Feng, Zhou Ziheng, could it be... Could it be that he is her brother?She clutched the clothes on her chest tightly, as if clutching her heart, it wasn't true, she couldn't be her brother, no!She looked at her father begging for help, her voice was thin as a gossamer, "Dad, he, he is not..." Zhou Feng looked at Zi Heng who was kneeling in front of him, stretched out his hand to caress the top of his head in a daze, and asked in a daze: "Who are you? Where did Feiyan go?" Ziheng looked at his father sadly, and said word by word: "Feiyan is dead, my mother is dead, she died when I was born, father, I am Ziheng, Zhou Ziheng, do you remember me?" "Feiyan died too?" Zhou Feng murmured and repeated, seeming to remember, "Where is Feiyan's son? I remember it was a boy named Ah Heng. Where is Ah Heng?" "I am Ah Heng, Dad, do you remember? I am Ah Heng!" "Ah Heng..." Zhou Feng's eyes finally focused, "You have grown so big." it is true!Hong Chen lost his mind and passed out.And Zhou Ziheng couldn't bear it anymore, he yelled heart-piercingly, stood up and ran out. Mei Qi looked at it in shock, she was no less frightened than Hongchen or Zhou Ziheng. She clasped her hands and repeated: "I didn't expect it to be like this, I didn't expect it to be so serious, I didn't expect the curse to be so serious. It's scary, I never thought of it..." He also chased after him. At the same time, Zhou Feng seemed to wake up suddenly, his instinctive fatherly love filled him with strength, he picked up Hongchen and rushed to the treatment department, shouting all the way: "Doctor, doctor, save my daughter..." If she could choose again, Mei Qi sincerely hoped that she had never known Luo Hongchen, hadn't led Hongchen to get acquainted with Ziheng, and even, hadn't known Zhou Ziheng. That way, she would not be so annoyed, so fearful, so ashamed, thinking that the cruelest and most absurd love tragedy in the world came from her own curse, and it was her evil thoughts that caused the tragedy to happen.She even suspects that Ziheng and Hongchen were only accidentally injured by witchcraft, and it was witchcraft that changed the relationship between human beings and made a love so rough.She has always hated Zhou Ziheng's blindness, always giving up, and always hoped that there would be no happy ending between him and Luo Hongchen.However, she never thought that it would end in such a way and for such a reason. This is no longer a love breakup, but a sin in the world.And she is the perpetrator. She watched Zhou Ziheng running, rushing, and howling in the mountains and forests, like a wounded beast that couldn't find a way out.He split the big tree with his palm, bumped his head against the tree, tumbling and rolling among the rocks, like crazy, he had already bruised himself all over his body, was exhausted, but he still refused to stop. He was crying because of another woman, but she couldn't help but feel guilty, after all, she tore the wound for him. The twilight swam, like the god of death spread its huge wings, carrying some unknown conspiracy to press down layer by layer, covering the earth.Zhou Ziheng was still howling with injuries, his voice was completely hoarse. He was an orphan since he was a child, without father and mother, but suddenly, he not only found his father who had "dead" for twenty years, but also had an extra The sister who fell from the sky.God, sister! Hong Chen, Hong Chen, Hong Chen, his beloved Hong Chen, could be his sister! Hahaha!Zi Heng laughed wildly, tears flowed from laughter, throat bleed from laughter, it was the desperate struggle of a trapped beast.In this life, for the first time in his most serious affection, the first time he gave wholeheartedly, the first time he showed deep love, he actually gave it to his biological sister!younger sister!God! God of evil!It is the sky that is teasing them, it is the sky that is torturing them, it is the sky that is repaying them! Grandma said, "An adulterer's wife and daughter will receive retribution." Now, is his retribution coming?grandmother!It was grandma who lied to him!Grandma must have known about his father, but she kept it from him for twenty years, and only told him that his father had passed away.Why is grandma doing this?Why lie to him? Mei Qi knelt on the ground and looked at him sadly and helplessly, and from afar she heard the voice of a ghost crying in the valley. Dusk is the time when vengeful spirits haunt, and it is also the time when witches and Gu are most powerful. If they appeared at this time to take away Mei Qi's sinful soul, maybe she would not struggle to refuse.Zhou Ziheng is so desperate, he must feel that life is better than death.So does she.There is also no hope, no love, no kindness, no courage to live. There are no curtains in the valley, no strength to resist the invasion of dusk, the cloak of death is thrown over arrogantly, and she no longer knows fear.She opened her hands to the darkness and prayed softly: Take me away, take me away together...