Chapter 17 14 The Bastard in the Cradle (Part 1)

"It's not me, it's my younger brother." As she spoke, the haggard middle-aged woman sighed. The partner nodded: "Oh, it's okay, if it's convenient, you can tell him about his situation first." Middle-aged woman: "He...may be delusional." Partner: "Already confirmed?" Middle-aged woman: "No, but, about the same." The partner frowned: "Then why don't you go to a psychiatrist directly?" "Because...these are the materials collected and sorted out by the psychiatrists I visited before, and they are all here. I don't know if this is useful." She dug out a thick stack of materials from her bag and put them in the On the table, he hesitated for a few seconds, "Here are all the materials. The previous psychological diagnosis and treatment all failed."

The partner glanced at the documents on the table and nodded expressionlessly: "Have you read them all?" Middle-aged woman: "Saw part of it... I've seen a psychiatrist before, but they usually give up after touching my brother once." Partner: "Why?" Middle-aged woman: "I only know one of the reasons." Partner: "For example?" Middle-aged woman: "My brother...um...swearing..." Partner: "You just said that you only know one of the reasons, which means there are other reasons that you don't know? But how do you know that there are other reasons?"

Middle-aged woman: "A few doctors called me at night and said they didn't need to go back the next day. I asked the doctor if he was swearing again, and they said no, but they didn't need to go... I really don't know why. clear." Partner: "So it's like this... Have you guessed it?" He said, unhurriedly picked up the thick stack of documents from the table and began to look through them. Middle-aged woman: "I think...maybe he's sick again?" "Huh?" The partner didn't even raise his head. "This is new. The doctor refused to treat the patient because of his illness? How old is your brother?"

Middle-aged woman: "45." Partner: "Married?" Middle-aged woman: "Divorced." Partner: "What's the reason for the divorce?" Middle-aged woman: "I... I don't know very well, it was brought up by the woman." Partner: "Do you have a child?" Middle-aged woman: "Yes, it's a girl, she's a big girl now, she's in high school, but she doesn't recognize him." The partner raised his head: "I don't recognize it? I don't know it, or..." Middle-aged woman: "She hates him." The partner nodded: "Oh...that's right...can you tell me more about your brother?"

The middle-aged woman thought for a while: "There is only one boy in our family, so we have paid more attention to him since childhood. My mother passed away early, because I was the eldest daughter, so I played the role of my mother almost since he was a teenager... …I admit that I am a little bit used to him, including my dad. During the two years before he was admitted to university, I asked people to arrange work for him everywhere, but he stopped after a few days On the one hand, he was unwilling to do it, and on the other hand, those jobs themselves were not very good. After a few years, after he was admitted to university, our whole family was relieved. After he graduated, we hurriedly arranged for him in his hometown Married. In the first few years, he was pretty good. At first, we thought everything was fine, but we didn’t expect him to resign before the child was a month old. He came here with all his savings, saying that he wanted to start a business..."

The partner was stunned for a moment: "Huh? Wait. You just said that the child is not yet full moon, and he left with all his savings? No living expenses?" The middle-aged woman nodded: "... this... no... I know it's a bit too much, but maybe we restricted him too much in those few years in order to let him live in peace? That's why... it doesn't matter It's entirely up to him." The partner showed an imperceptible smile: "Okay, you continue." Middle-aged woman: "Well. Maybe before the child was 5 years old? He never came back... Then... um... divorced. In fact, this is also our problem. At the beginning, the family just wanted him to be at ease, so they didn't ask Is he willing, maybe there is no relationship between them, that's why it's like this."

Partner: "What was he doing in those years?" Middle-aged woman: "I don't know, I've seen several different business cards, so I don't know exactly what he's doing." Partner: "And then?" Middle-aged woman: "After divorce..." Partner: "Wait, just skipped in the middle? What's the specific reason for the divorce? You just said that it was the woman who brought it up, nothing else?" Middle-aged woman: "Because... probably he hasn't been home much..." Partner: "Didn't you ask?" Middle-aged woman: "I didn't ask for details, but it seems that my brother hit her... I can't be sure."

The partner nodded.I suddenly hated the woman in front of me and his brother. Middle-aged woman: "After the divorce, he seems to be a lot more relaxed. He concentrates on his own career. The family also thinks that boys should go out for a living, which is good. I didn't expect something to happen later. According to him, he has a girlfriend But the girl disagreed..." Partner: "Sorry, I have to stop for a second, there is a sentence I didn't understand: He has a girlfriend, but the girl doesn't agree? What does this mean?" The middle-aged woman looked a little embarrassed: "That is to say...that girl...is not very willing..."

The partner frowned and looked at her: "This is not considered a girlfriend, is it? This is your brother pestering him?" The middle-aged woman lowered her eyelids and was silent for a while before she spoke: "Well, there is something wrong..." Partner: "Okay, what's next?" Middle-aged woman: "He may have been looking for that girl a little too often, and then the girl called the police... This part is in the documents." She raised her chin at the thick stack of documents on the table, "Actually, I also It's not a big deal, but just in time to call the police, he called the girl. The girl was rather bad, so he used the speakerphone to listen to the police. It happened that he was not in a good mood that day, so he said a little swearing, and the result ..."

Hearing this, I couldn't hold back anymore: "Coincidentally? Is it always like this?" Middle-aged woman: "I don't know about this. Maybe he was a little bit abnormal at that time, but he really wasn't like that." My partner glared at me, and continued: "Go ahead, we want to know more information before meeting him." The middle-aged woman nodded: "In the end, the police arrested my brother and released him after about half a month. When I picked him up, he cried. He seemed to have suffered a lot... Sigh... ...Girls nowadays are too bad...for such a trivial matter...call the police, what can't be discussed properly..." Her eyes were red when she said this.

The partner passed the tissue over. The middle-aged woman slowed down for a while, and then continued: "At that time, my brother also lost his job, so we let him rest for a while to change his mood. As a result, my brother was a bit blunt and couldn't swallow it. After a few years I ran to find that girl again, but actually I just wanted her to apologize that time." Partner: "Apologize? Your brother made that girl apologize?" Middle-aged woman: "It's just a symbolic apology, it doesn't mean anything else. But I really don't know what's wrong with the girls nowadays. We don't care about my brother being arrested, but she didn't even apologize. It is said that his attitude is still very bad, my brother may be angry, or he may be sick, so he beat her a few times... Later, the girl's family came and called the police again..." Partner: "Where did you fight?" Middle-aged woman: "This... I don't know the details, is it on the street? I don't know." Partner: "Why are you downplaying it so lightly? A man in his 30s pesters a young girl who just graduated, and then she calls the police, and your brother beats her in the street... Don't you think it's a little too much?" The middle-aged woman thought for a while: "It may be a little too much, but he is a patient, that girl must have stimulated him..." The partner interrupted her: "Does your father know about this?" Middle-aged woman: "I didn't know the first time, but I knew it the second time." Partner: "You told him?" Middle-aged woman: "No, it was the girl's parents who found out my phone number and called my dad to tell my brother not to...um... pester her..." Partner: "What did your father say?" Middle-aged woman: "My dad was very sober at the time, reminding the other party not to interfere with young people's emotional problems, just let them solve it by themselves..." I couldn't listen anymore, so I picked up the stack of materials on the table and flipped through them for a while, and found that most of these materials were collected by previous psychiatrists, and they contained some people's views on the younger brother of a middle-aged woman. "He's arrogant and headstrong." "He's crazy." "He tried every means to harass me, phone calls, text messages, faxes, emails, and even harassed everyone around me, and made up dirty lies to slander me." "He's never been successful, but if you listen to him describe it, you'd think he had a glorious past." "As far as I know, he only bullies women, and even beats them in the street—of course, only women." After reading several pages of materials, I have a general understanding of what kind of person the material mentioned is. Middle-aged woman: "...So he was hit hard by this incident, and he never went to find that girl again, and devoted himself to his career. After my brother was arrested for the second time, I once Talked to that girl and begged her to change her workplace and change her name so my brother can't find her and there won't be any trouble." The partner laughed: "You asked that girl to change her name?" Middle-aged woman: "I really begged her to say it. I didn't care about the previous things. I just didn't want my brother to cause trouble anymore. There is only such a boy in our family..." Partner: "This... can I express my opinion?" Middle-aged woman: "Well, tell me." Partner: "I think you're asking too much." Middle-aged woman: "Maybe. But my younger brother has paranoia and is not mentally normal, so he can't use it..." The partner interrupted her again: "Then why didn't you take him to see it then?" Middle-aged woman: "We didn't realize this problem at that time, so we didn't look for it." "When did you start to think he was abnormal?" After finishing speaking, my partner glanced at me and hinted with a smile that I should keep calm. Middle-aged woman: "3 years ago? At that time, he decided to start his own business and borrowed a lot of money from me." Partner: "Approximately how much? If you think this is private, you can choose not to say it." Middle-aged woman: "More than 800,000." Partner: "Your savings?" Middle-aged woman: "Well, my husband and I opened a toy factory at that time, and it did pretty well. In addition, he borrowed some from others, including my sister and some relatives." Partner: "Does your husband know that you lent him money?" The middle-aged woman lowered her head and sighed: "I don't know...because I'm in charge, he usually doesn't ask." Partner: "Did you know later?" Middle-aged woman: "Got it..." Partner: "How do you know?" Middle-aged woman: "Because of cash flow problems, the factory closed down...it was originally a small factory." Partner: "Has your relationship with your husband been affected?" The middle-aged woman's eye circles were red again: "We're divorced." Partner: "What did your brother do with that money?" Middle-aged woman: "He really went to start a business, not a waste of money. But those years were not smooth, and some people slandered his business, so it has not been very good. My brother also reported to the police, but those policemen Don't care at all, say there is no evidence..." Partner: "Slander? Did someone really slander?" Middle-aged woman: "It should be... right... He said yes." Partner: "Did he tell you?" Middle-aged woman: "Yes." Partner: "Have you ever thought that the so-called 'slander' might not exist, but just his paranoia?" Middle-aged woman: "Thought about..." Partner: "And then?" Middle-aged woman: "Although I also doubted it, I think it is unlikely." Partner: "Why?" Middle-aged woman: "Because he was very busy at that time, but the business just couldn't do well, and I also think that someone interfered with it, that's why it happened." Partner: "Can I ask what his company does?" Middle-aged woman: "I don't know the details. I only know that one of them is to publish books for entrepreneurs and celebrities." Partner: "Have you been out?" Middle-aged woman: "Well, there is one..." Partner: "Who is it?" The middle-aged woman said a name. My partner frowned and thought for a while, then looked at me. I shook my head to show that I hadn’t heard of it. Partner: "Other than that?" Middle-aged woman: "I don't know anything else." Partner: "Well...then he didn't have anything emotionally afterwards?" Middle-aged woman: "I'm not very clear about this, and he didn't tell me much, there should be some." Partner: "Why do you say that?" Middle-aged woman: "Sometimes when he comes home during holidays, he often sends text messages in the middle of the night. I once asked, and he said that some boring women harassed him." Partner: "Oh... what is your brother doing now? Still running that company?" Middle-aged woman: "His company later went bankrupt due to debts." Partner: "Debt?" Middle-aged woman: "It was the money he borrowed from his relatives, and some from the bank. It was just small money, and the credit card was overdrafted. In addition, there seems to be a problem with the book. Because the printing factory is always looking for trouble , so the book was not finished, and because of this, the entrepreneur who published the book is going to sue my brother." Partner: "Your brother is in your hometown now?" Middle-aged woman: "No, a rented house in this city." She mentioned a place name that is very far from the urban area. The partner nodded: "Well, how about this, let's look at the information later, you will bring him over tomorrow... afternoon, and I will get in touch with him personally, what do you think?" The middle-aged woman looked at her partner with hope: "Good!" After the middle-aged woman left, I asked my partner directly: "Didn't you read the information? Such a dirty, trashy bastard... I don't understand why you want to follow up?" "It doesn't matter to me who he is? We're not in the profession to let our likes and dislikes drive us crazy." My greedy partner put the money in a drawer. I was a little annoyed: "Are you really going to take on this tricky job? Don't forget that the previous psychological consultation and diagnosis and treatment all failed." The partner leaned on the bookshelf with his shoulders in his arms, with a relaxed expression on his face: "I guess the reason why they failed was because they had emotions, so they forgot the most important purpose." Me: "What?" Partner: "Whether it's analysis or hypnosis, our ultimate goal is not to know 'how jerk he is', but 'why he became a jerk'." Me: "Is there even a question? Isn't it obvious? It's all in his house..." Partner: "Wait, don't get mad. Did you forget? If he's really delusional, then everything is understandable, understand? I mean the etiology." I still didn't calm down: "I thought you had your own principles, but I didn't expect..." My partner looked at me with a half-smile: "Of course I have my own principles, but I never forget that I should look at the problem from a neutral and objective perspective, otherwise it will be incomplete. You will understand this matter in the end , but I need to see him in person to be sure." Me: "Are you sure? You think he really has a mental problem?" Partner: "No, it's something else, haven't you noticed?" Me: "Find what?" Partner: "Well, you'll know when the time comes." After finishing speaking, he smiled smugly. 【Information 1】 Gender: Female Age: 29 Relationship with the respondent: Once a colleague Note: The content is all from telephone recordings, and the interviewees refused to be interviewed (questions are omitted in the following part) "Okay, I accept, what do you want to ask? "Well, yes, I reported the crime twice at the time. "You can't imagine the situation at that time. At that time, I had just graduated, a kid who didn't understand anything, he was my colleague at the time, and harassed me like crazy every day. "No, he failed to do anything to me, but it must be explained that it was the result of my resistance. He tried to sexually assault me ​​many times. It turned out that he often found reasons for me to go to his office and close the door. You know that at that time he What are you doing? He reached out to grab my hair... Can you imagine? In the office, during the day, with colleagues outside! "My reaction? What do you think? I grabbed the ashtray and almost threw it...reporting the police? I was just out of school at that time, I didn't understand anything, and I was terrified. "Crazy? No, he's not crazy, he's very conscious when he's doing it... like he'll cut me off when he's off duty, and if someone interferes or someone's around, he acts innocent, like It's like a boyfriend and girlfriend quarreling, but if no one is around, he is a completely different person. For this reason, he even beat me...Of course, you think it was the first time he hit me after he was released from detention? Before Have. "Well, he asked me to go to his house that time, but I didn't go, so I just walked around on the street. Later, when I yelled 'help', some passers-by stopped to see what was going on, but he raised his hand and said A slap in the face, and then walked away cursing. "The second time he grabbed my wrist and wanted to go back to the place I rented. After walking for almost ten kilometers, my wrist was bruised for a long time. At that time, he wanted to follow me upstairs, and I waited for my apartment downstairs. friend, he couldn’t survive, and he slapped him again... Later, it was my roommate’s boyfriend who came to slap him away. After he knew that the roommate’s boyfriend didn’t live here, he often came to harass him, knocking on the door in the middle of the night, scolding Extremely nasty swear words... not for long each time, he was afraid that we would call the police. "He called and texted in the middle of the night, never stopped, and every time he said dirty words and dirty things. It's not a big deal, there are my parents' phone numbers on my registration form, and he will I called them and lied that I had a child, and he was responsible for me. I only found out about this later. If I was really sick, it must be because I was almost driven crazy by him... Of course my parents took care of it , They once called that bastard's father with a communicative attitude, but his father actually pretended to be stupid, said that he was old and could not hear, and then hung up the phone. When he called again later, he called me lewd and seductive His son is irresponsible. After the beast found out, he tried his best to harass my parents, and even sent anonymous faxes and emails. I hate swearing, but when it comes to that beast, I can only express my emotions with dirty words... …Well, my parents told me to leave this city and go back, but why should I go back? Just because of a jerk, trash, scum, I have to give up my dream? Why! "You don't understand, because of the nature of the job, my phone can't be completely hidden, he can always find it... Please stand in my position - why should I change to another job because of this? It's my fault ? "I accept your apology. The third time he hit me was at the door of my new work unit, and it had been 5 years! I didn't expect him to appear again, it was like a nightmare. When he came, he took his mobile phone and laptop Lost my computer on the bus and when he showed up in front of me he was like 'I wouldn't have lost those things if I hadn't come for you bitch!' That's his logic! And grabbed me almost I was dragging, I struggled desperately, and finally a passer-by stopped me, and then he slapped me round and round, I was so blinded by the slap, I fell straight down, my shoes fell off, and the things in my hands scattered all over the floor , he told me there was no end to it, and then cursed and left. Because of this, I called the police a second time, and he was arrested again. "No no, he is very awake. If you read the text messages he sent me in the middle of the night, you will know. I have kept thousands of text messages, and took photos and saved them, including emails... Can you think of it? A year ago That trash is still harassing me with text messages... yes, last year... since I left school and started working, he has harassed me for 7 years! In the past 7 years, I have changed countless phone numbers, and my family has also changed phone numbers. Don’t dare to go off work alone, dare not answer strange calls, dare not make boyfriends... If you were any person, what would you think if you suddenly saw those perverted text messages? How many 7 years in my life... These are in the local police station There are records, you can ask them, it is not easy for me to be sane and tell you so much. If you want to ask me how to judge whether he is sick, I can tell you very clearly: 'He did I know everything about myself very well. I'm sorry, I don't want to say any more...'” 【Information 2】 Gender: Female Age: 32 years old Relationship with the respondent: Once a colleague Note: The content is all from telephone recordings, and the interviewees refused to be interviewed (questions are omitted in the following part) "Sorry, I can't help it either... "I know he has been harassing her, but he often calls me in the middle of the night to ask for her phone number. I can't bear it anymore, so... I know I'm sorry for her, but... If I don't give him the number, he will Harassing me... in various ways, even sending text messages to scold me in the middle of the night, I really can't stand it, so... "Well, he's arrogant and headstrong. "Arrested? I know... yes, it was twice, according to my colleague from the original unit. "Yes, the situation is exactly as she said. There was a lot of trouble at the time, so I resigned from my original unit... I just want to leave quickly before trouble comes to me..." 【Information 3】 Gender: Male Age: 37 years old Relationship with the respondent: Former partner Note: Interview (asking questions will be omitted in the following part) "Yes, we have opened such a company. "It was I who took the initiative to divest... well... it's actually not that complicated, it's just because I found him unreliable. "For example? For example, when he is portraying, he will say that he will take a lot of responsibility by himself, but when he actually does it, it is not the case at all. He will not take anything and do nothing, but It is for others to do it, he can only talk empty words... um... just like what he said himself, he said that he is pointing the country. I think this is very funny. You have to conquer the country yourself before you are qualified to point out the country Right? Why do people ask you to give advice after they conquered the country? In addition, he seems to specially recruit girls who have just graduated to the company... um... and then harass those girls in different ways. I have bumped into it more than once... I heard He was fired from his original unit for harassing a female colleague... "I reminded him. After reminding me a few times, I felt that the momentum was wrong. All his thoughts were focused on harassing the female employees. At that time, he seemed to have taken some money from his family, so I asked for a divestment under the pretext of poor cash flow. "No, not all of them are coming back, most of them. Forget it, just take it as a lesson for yourself. I believed too much in what he said before. Later, I inquired and found a problem-he never succeeded. But if you listened to him, you'd think he had a glorious past... What? Oh, I don't know, are you really a psychiatrist? You're a private investigation firm collecting evidence, right? "Oh, I don't know about the debt. I was gone by then. How should I put it? As far as I know, his greatest ideal is to successfully create a large multinational enterprise with a global nature. And listed on Nasdaq, and then he retreated to the second line, all day idle, poetry and poetry, this is his ultimate goal. Of course, the effort he put in for this is just talking with his mouth! Hahahahaha!" 【Information 4】 Gender: Male Age: 26 Relationship with the respondent: Former employee of the company Note: The content is all from telephone recordings, and the interviewees refused to be interviewed (questions are omitted in the following part) "Okay, I read the fax, you can ask. "Oh, this matter...um...it's okay, it's convenient, anyway, I'm not his employee anymore, I'm not afraid. "That's right, that's right, that's right, I know about being arrested... huh? I don't know it's the second time... As far as I know, he only bullies women, and even beats them in the street - of course, Women only. "I heard about harassment of female colleagues in the company. Sometimes some girls who just graduated came to work in the company and left after a short time, but we didn't know what was going on at first. Then I met a girl by accident. I was curious. After asking her why, she left, but the girl said that she couldn't stand his harassment... I heard people in the company say privately that his pleasure in running the company is not to make money, but... You know what I mean, right? ? "Development? That company didn't develop. I don't know about others. Anyway, the reason I left was due to wage arrears. Not only me, but many people left like this. "Slander... um... Well, this is not slander, really, I really think so... Why? Because the people who have been posting messages on various websites saying that he is not good are the ones who are owed wages by him! In fact, let's put it this way: his company will end sooner or later, it has nothing to do with others, it's his problem, because he doesn't care about the business at all, he just draws a cake and says some empty words about a bright future, and then walks away. The people below Of course, I don’t understand anything, so no one can do it well. Isn’t this normal? "Money? I don't know the details, but it seems to be spent on doing special features and interviews for him... Yes, it's the kind of bad TV program where you pay for tens of minutes of interviews... They are all inconspicuous Channels and nightly broadcasts, hehe... "Yes, he prefers to show off, so all the money is spent on that. "Well, it's almost like this. By the way, let me break the news for you. The company has no financial personnel at all, and he comes by himself, so no one knows what's going on with the money... Every year, tax returns are requested. Accounting, tax reporting, etc...Of course outsiders don’t know about it. When the person from the printing factory came to press for the payment, he always said that the finances were out, and then he just let it go. At that time, we were listening outside the office, and we felt annoyed and funny , he doesn’t even pay his employees salaries, so you said he can pay the printing factory.” I didn't read the rest of the information carefully, I just flipped through it in a hurry - there is no need to read carefully, the content is not too different, and I am afraid that if I read it carefully, I will feel violent.Because of this, I don't understand why my partner still takes this order, and why I still want to meet this person. After receiving the material, my partner took several times longer than me to read it. He put the materials on the table and looked at me with a smile, with a curious look on his face. I noticed this: "What?" Partner: "You don't need hypnosis tomorrow." I told him angrily: "I'm afraid I can't do it either, I have emotional problems." He smiled: "I rarely see you with such strong emotions." Me: "Because I'm still a normal person." The partner laughed: "You mean I'm abnormal?" Me: "I just don't understand what the hell you're trying to do." My partner didn't say a word, he took my glass with a smile and took a glass of water, and put it in front of me: "Tomorrow, tomorrow will be clear." After speaking, he put his hands in his trouser pockets and went to the study.