Chapter Eighty-Three: Two Lives
"Aren't you just a homeless man on the side of the road? The meaning of this phrase is ......"
"On that day, I still remember that the weather was exceptionally sunny, hey, it was a happy day, who knows, from that day on, my life has changed dramatically. That day, I drove past the door of the company, and found a homeless man sitting at the door, and I immediately felt strange, because there are usually security guards here, but somehow today suddenly there was a ragged homeless man hanging there, he was lying in the corner, with all kinds of dirty clothes and quilts around him, and a flat pole, and many other things scattered around, I was also driving by, that is, I accidentally skimmed my eyes, but when he looked at me, he nodded and smiled at me, This laugh is like seeing an old friend for many years. ”
With that, he took out a cigarette and lit it, his hand trembling like a wounded man instinctively shaking when a finger approached his wound, until he took a deep puff of the cigarette and calmed down a little.
"I didn't know what to think at the time, but because of his smile, I pulled over to the side of the road and walked over to the homeless man...... And, for the first time to pick up such a person so closely, I can't help but sigh, it turns out that there is still such a person in the world, homeless, helpless, weathered, but strong and alive, at that time it seemed to touch a certain string in the body, opened the wallet, took out a 100 yuan, handed it to him......"
The uncle shook off most of the ash into the ashtray, grasped the pale temples with both hands, frowned, fell into deep pain, and after a while, raised his head, looked out the window, and continued:
"The moment the homeless man caught the money, that is, the moment I held the money with him, I suddenly felt that my eyes were black, and my brain was blank, although this feeling only lasted for a few seconds and immediately returned to normal, but I felt like a world away, when I reflected, I suddenly found that I was still holding the money in my hand, holding it in mid-air, but the homeless man in front of me was gone, and a middle-aged man turned his back to me, walking farther and farther, and strangely, he was wearing exactly the same clothes as me, just looking at the back, It's exactly like me! He walked in the direction of my car, knocked on my door, and got into the cab! ”
"Who is he?" I couldn't help but interrupt to ask.
He had no words to answer. A painful crunch appeared on his face. He buried his eyes on the ground, as if he was deliberately avoiding my attention. It was only after a while that he raised his head, looked at me with a feeble look of despair, and groaned, "When he drove past me, I finally saw his face!" He...... He's actually ...... He's who I am! ”
I widened my eyes and asked, "You saw yourself in your car and drove away?" ”
He looked at me, his lips trembling, as if he was desperate to speak, but he didn't say anything, his face was so frightened that there was no blood at all, only his eyes flashing incessantly. It wasn't until the cigarette butt burned his fingers that he snuffed it out in the ashtray and said tremblingly for a long time:
I instinctively put down the hand that I thought I was going to give money over, raised in the air, and at that moment, I realized that I was sitting on the ground at some point, surrounded by dirty and sticky bedding and other items, I suddenly jumped up, as disgusting as falling in a pile of shit, but the moment I stood up, I suddenly felt so heavy, I looked down, dumbfounded, wearing a lot of clinking and mopping rags, gray and black, holes, phlegm, with my jump, The rag-covered parts of the whole garment flew up, and I vaguely felt that the fleas had fallen to the ground. ”
"You ......," I was speechless for a moment in astonishment: "Is it ...... Changed identities? ”
"I believe that the reaction of any one person should be similar, I looked at myself reflected in the glass door, screaming frantically, slamming the door, throwing things, like crazy, and not long after, the ambulance came, and a few doctors came down, no matter how I resisted, they still forcibly pulled me into the car, and after that, I have been here ever since."
"Then you are here, is Dr. Ma in charge?"
"The first thing I did when I came in, took a bath, changed into clean clothes, Dr. Ma sometimes took me to hypnosis, sometimes I had to do surgical brain surgery, every time I came back, there were physical changes, such as I didn't eat mutton before, and when I came back from hypnosis, I suddenly wanted to eat, and once I came back, I actually felt that I was a woman, and I was surprised and frightened by my male body, but fortunately, it returned to normal on the second day."
"Ruolan, why are you here? Have you eaten the meal? Let's go".
Dr. Ma stood at the door of the ward and looked at me and asked, and the uncle, who had just been very close to me, suddenly kept his distance from me when he saw Dr. Ma's appearance, pretending not to know me, and stood alone in front of the window to "enjoy the scenery".
"I ...... I'll just pass by here and talk casually, it's too boring to be alone...... "I walked out of the uncle's room and casually made an excuse to prevaricate.
"Don't talk to the patients here, if you're really bored, you can talk to me, or you can talk to the nurses, but the patients can't, they all have problems, just like the one just now, he has been fantasizing that he is a rich boy, harassing women and children on the road, many people called the police, the government allocated charity funds to us, let us take him in, treat him for a few months, so far there is no aggression, but the paranoia to get rid of is not so simple." Dr. Ma said to me as he pulled me away.
"I ...... So, got it, so where are we going now? I asked.
"Let's go shopping now, I'll take you to the internal cafeteria to eat, and after eating, you will start hypnosis."
"Okay", now instead of being scared, I'm kind of expecting to be hypnotized......
When I arrived at the ground floor of the building, I suddenly remembered the strange behavior of the uncle just now, and when I saw Dr. Ma coming, I immediately got up to look at the scenery, and I couldn't help but look up in that direction. Really! He was still there, he seemed to see me looking at him, and suddenly, he desperately pointed at me, because it was 12 floors, too high, and I couldn't see it very clearly, only to see him pointing at me, or pointing at Dr. Ma next to me, and then crossed his hands to form a big "fork", and did this action repeatedly, looking very excited, I tried to stretch my neck to look, guessing what he meant.
"Ruolan, what are you looking at?" Dr. Ma asked me curiously, and then looked up as well.
"I didn't ...... Nothing, I'll count how many floors there are," I replied in a panic.
"Hehe, isn't your ward on the 12th floor, aren't you on the top floor, forgot, let's go." Didn't Dr. Ma notice that the uncle above was gesticulating? I couldn't help but secretly look back, and the window was long gone, leaving a boxy black hole.