Chapter 3: Number 091 - Grimace in the Water (3)
"That night, my brother came back and went to bed very early. The next morning, he also got up early. We had breakfast together, and when we talked about yesterday's events at the dinner table, he smiled, saying that he was dazzled yesterday and scared himself. I asked him what he saw, and he said he saw a snow-white face hanging from a tree, staring at him condescendingly, or rather, staring at himself, with a pair of black eyes, like holes, staring at him like that. I laughed when I heard it, and my brother laughed embarrassedly. We all thought he was dazzled. There are no lights in the park, and there are security guards on patrol, sometimes they will turn on a flashlight and shine casually, or if someone smokes a cigarette, there will be a light. My brother was probably dazzled like that. Later, I went to work, got off work, and didn't do much for a few days. The elder brother made friends with the girl again and made an appointment to meet in the park. ...... that evening That night he ran back early again......"
"Did he see that face again?"
"yes, he's seeing that face again."
Quack!
"Shhhhh
"No, thank you."
"Whew——...... My brother came back early, and this time without saying anything, he rushed into his house and locked himself up. He and I slept in the same room. The conditions of our family are better, because the old man in the family is the office director in the factory, and there is a two-bedroom house, one for the two of them and one for our brothers. My parents and I were watching TV, and he rushed in and slammed the door, and no matter how we knocked, he wouldn't open it. I couldn't get in that night, so I had to sleep in the hall. However, I didn't sleep long. His object chased him to our house, and he also rushed in, and when he came in, he started scolding, and the neighbors all ran to see the excitement, and asked my mother to persuade him to finally stop and close the door to talk. The girl wiped her tears as she spoke. I listened to her incoherent, and it took me a long time to figure it out. My brother was running with her or something, and half of his clothes were taken off, and suddenly he left the girl alone and ran away, doesn't this make people angry? When she finished counting, she was worried about my brother again, and when she heard my mother say that my brother would lock himself in the house, she was also nervous, and she leaned on the door to talk to my brother. My brother didn't make a sound in the house, and when my old man got angry, he called me to bang on the door, and my brother spoke, yelling at us not to come in. That roar...... It's not the angry kind, it's the scared kind of voice. Whew—"
"And then?"
"Later, my mother took the girl to the next room to talk, and when she was done, she sent her out. I saw that the girl was worried, but she went anyway. My mother sent people away, turned around and whispered to our grandfather, my brother is probably ...... Probably there was a sudden problem there, so I left the girl halfway through and ran away, and now I'm locked up myself. I didn't believe it was like that, but my parents believed it, and they were lying on the door, doing ideological work for my brother there, persuading him to go to the doctor or something, and tossing for most of the night. My brother was annoyed and yelled again, and everyone went to sleep first. When he woke up the next day, he opened the door, but under his eyes, it was jet black, like the kind of person who was dying. My mother was so anxious that she asked my dad to ask my brother for leave, and she was going to take him to the doctor immediately. My brother agreed. On that day, I went with me. Whew—"
"My brother's illness is always difficult for people to know, we didn't go to the factory hospital, we went to the big hospital in the city, and it took a long time to ride a bicycle from the factory. At first, it was fine, but when I got to the city, there was a road in front of the hospital, which was rare at that time, because there were trees planted there, and they were neatly arranged in two rows. I remember it was summer, and the trees were covered with green leaves, half of the road was covered, and the sun was shining down, and the road was dotted with light. That road, which I later watched and filmed, was a famous love road in the city at that time, and people who talked about friends in the neighborhood went there for a walk, just like the park in our factory. ”
"Well, it's Kangxin Road, right?"
"Yes, yes! It's Kangxin Road! The first time I went, it was a little strange. At that time, our family had always lived on the side of the factory, and we were farmers who built the factory and became workers, and we didn't come to the city often. My mom and I thought it was pretty, slowed down our bikes, and then listened to the bang...... When we both turned around, we saw my brother falling. He rode well and there were no other bikes around, so he fell. The bicycle was lying across the road, he pressed half of his legs under the bicycle, and the whole person sat on the ground, with his neck tilted and his eyes straight. I was not far from him at that time, and I watched as the blood on his face receded, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead and slid down his face. His body was trembling, and the bicycle trembled with him, and he slammed into the ground, clattering. There was a wind, and the leaves rustled, and he suddenly cried out......"
"Mr. Li, beware of cigarettes."
"Huh? Oh...... Phew—I still remember his scream, I've never heard him scream like that. I remember when he entered the factory as an apprentice, once he almost caused the machine to be rolled in, but he didn't scream, and he was very calm, shouting to the stunned person next to him to turn off the machine quickly. People in the factory said that he was bold and promising. But at that time, he sat on the ground, and when he screamed like that, everyone around him looked at him. Whew—I went over to help him, put my hand on his shoulder, and found that in the summer, he was cold, like ice. Probably I was blocking his view at the time, but he looked at me for a while and then calmed down. I helped him up, he lowered his head, wiped his sweat, and the whole person became stunned. My mom and I asked him what was wrong, and he said nothing. I thought later that he had seen that face again. ”
"Wait a minute, you keep saying that your brother sees a face?"
"Yes, he told me he saw a face."
"Isn't it a human head?"
"Human Head...... Maybe it's the head. I didn't see what he said, he always said 'face' when he said it to me. ”
"Well, okay. Sorry to interrupt you, please continue. ”
"Then we went to the hospital. My mom went to register him, and I stayed with him. Queue up, see a doctor...... He seemed to be absent-minded all the time. The doctor was very good, persuaded him for a while, and explained to him that the disease was normal, not ashamed, and that it would definitely be curable. Then queue up to do a check or something...... As we walked around the hospital, he stopped suddenly, stared at a billboard in the hospital for a while, and pointed to one of the photos and said he wanted to see the doctor. My mom and I went over and saw that it was an ophthalmologist, an expert in something. My mom asked him what was going on, but he didn't answer and went to register himself. My mother couldn't catch up with him, I caught up, asked him what was going on, he didn't say anything, he was registered, I couldn't do anything, so I said to find our mother first, let's go see what kind of expert together. When I walked back with him, he suddenly started talking and said without a clue, I probably have an eye disease. I thought, can I think about hanging an eye if I am not sick? My brother said that day that he saw the snow-white face and suddenly popped out of my head, and I scared myself into a thrill...... After that, I found my mother, and she talked about it, and accompanied my brother to see an ophthalmology. My brother didn't let us be around, so he kicked us out, and he and the doctor saw the doctor alone, and when he came out, the whole person was in a trance, and he was going to register again, and he was hanging...... Psychiatry. ”