vrcanaries Chapter 542 Wang Jianjun's Medical Records
Chapter 542 Wang Jianjun's Medical Records
"Later, I met her in the bamboo forest. Strictly speaking, she was waiting in the bamboo forest; she was waiting for me. She was covered in wounds and told me she couldn't survive in these mountains and asked me to take her away. I just found it laughable. I wasn't even sure if I could leave myself, how could I take her away? So I refused her."
After working for two years, I went to high school. I lived at school almost the entire time, only returning home for the Chinese New Year. When I returned home for the Chinese New Year in my second year of high school, I found that Fang Qing was living in my house, in my room.
My father only said a few words, explaining that the girl was an arranged marriage by my grandmother, but her family had kicked her out because she was too old, and she came to our house with only her clothes. He said our family wasn't well-off, so we wouldn't have a wedding banquet, and that I should just live a good life with her.
"I was shocked and angry, and furiously chased her away. She really left that night, but she couldn't get back to her own home; she spent the night under my eaves. It was winter, and when she was found in the morning, she was almost frozen to death."
"My father, fearing someone might die, gave me a severe beating at my stepmother's instigation. My relationship with my stepmother has always been bad, but what she said that day did make some sense. She said Fang Qing's family wouldn't let her go back, and kicking her out would be forcing her to die. Looking at her pale face, my heart softened. We're both pitiful people; she had no choice, so why should I make things difficult for her?"
"I didn't send her away again, and I even promised to take her away from here if the opportunity arose. However, I won't marry her. I told her how wonderful the outside world is, and that once she goes out, she can start a new life for herself and meet someone she likes. The country promotes free love, and she can find someone she loves to marry."
"That day, she and Jianguo rescued me. She prepared food and clothes for me to leave with. On the day I left, she insisted on seeing me down the mountain, and I agreed. When we parted, she told me a lot. She said how pitiful she was at her parents' home, how her parents favored her and treated her like dirt. She said how difficult it was for her at her parents' home, how she had a stepmother who treated her badly, and how even worse it was for her."
"She asked me if I would come back for the Chinese New Year. I didn't answer, and she cried. She said she would wait for me, wait for me to come back for the New Year, and if I didn't come back, she would jump off a cliff. Her thought at the time was probably that if I couldn't come back for the New Year, then I had abandoned her and run away."
"Our relationship over the past three years wasn't exactly great, but we treated each other with respect. I was actually doing alright at school; my family couldn't exploit me, so I took it all out on her. When I realized this, I knew I couldn't refuse her, because I couldn't drag an innocent person into it."
I promised her I would come back and take her away someday, and only then did she stop crying.
"Student life is great. I've met many classmates whose upbringing is completely different from mine, and I envy them. But my closest friend has always been my high school classmate, Lu Jiangting."
From here on, the protagonist of the story becomes Lu Jiangting, and the location changes to the school.
"After I ran away from home, I went to find Lu Jiangting. He begged his parents to buy an extra ticket. His family was well-off, but once he asked, his parents readily agreed and then borrowed some money from others to make up the difference."
If it weren't for them, I wouldn't even have had the chance to go to university. I'm incredibly grateful to their family, and at the same time, I deeply envy Lu Jiangting. His family, though not wealthy, gave him all the love they could.
"Of course, Lu Jiangting is a very good person. He sympathized with my situation and took good care of me. During high school, on those days when I couldn't go home, I would go to his house."
He's the only one who knows about my family situation, and I only tell him. I guess I don't fit in with this world. My happiness at school didn't last long; I started feeling sad again. I can't fit in with them, even though I try very hard, it never works.
Seeing this, Fu Huaiyi and Yi Yunshuo looked up at the doctor.
Yi Yunshuo said, "Everything is starting to get better, so why is he still sad?"
Director Huang sighed and said, "A person's heart is very fragile. Years of repression made him lose all hope for life. He had the idea of ending his own life as early as when he was locked in the grain shed. If his brother had arrived a day later, he might not have survived."
"The cave part wasn't written."
"But there's an ellipsis, probably because it was too painful for him to write it out."
Ok.
"So Wang Jianguo saved his life?"
"I don't know what happened between them, maybe. You'll have to keep reading."
The two continued reading.
"School life was so good. Clothes were free, blankets and mats were free, daily necessities were free, and meals were free—all you could eat. It was the first time I wore clothes without patches, the first time I slept under a soft blanket, and on a perfectly good bamboo mat. It was the first time I could eat as much as I wanted, until I was stuffed, and there was even meat. But I always wondered, did someone like me deserve such a good life?"
The two of them gasped in shock.
Director Huang said, "You see, in his mind, although school life is good, his mood may not be good."
Fu Huaiyi said, "The fact that he can see the good places means that his sky has gained color and has finally become strong after being gray for so long."
"Yes, although he still has significant emotional problems, he has begun to change. Mental illness is not as simple as a cut on the body; it is invisible and intangible, yet it truly exists."
It's incredibly difficult to cure. Simply changing the environment isn't enough; everyone around him needs to work together. During the healing process, he can't be subjected to any more stress. But his condition…”
Director Huang shook his head helplessly, "Apart from that friend surnamed Lu, it seems there is no one I can confide in."
Fu Huaiyi and Yi Yunshuo were at a loss for words.
Yi Yunshuo said, "I didn't know he was like this back then. I just thought he was just like that, not talkative."
Back then, they were all young men under twenty, carefree and oblivious to such things.
Because Wang Jianjun worked for two years before going to high school, and he started school late, he was older than all of them.
He seemed more like an adult in their presence.
Sometimes they thought that Wang Jianjun didn't talk to them because he didn't want to play with them, a bunch of kids.
Director Huang gestured for them to continue reading.
The medical records left by Wang Jianjun are quite thick. They started reading from the records of Wang Jianguo. Actually, there were several pages before that, which recorded his family, his father, stepmother, grandmother, and his childhood in the village.