"My mom worked in the insane asylum for a long time, and at first they didn't let her touch the patients, but just washed the sheets and quilt covers and did the cleaning. It was only after she successfully subdued a patient who tried to attack the dean that she was allowed to start watching the patient. She was a very sensible woman, sometimes a little impersonal - cold and ruthless. I've never seen her smile. But, the afternoon Anna came, she smiled. It's weird, right, I think so too. She seemed to be very fond of Anna, and she took her to the bathhouse to wash off the sludge off her, trimmed her hair and nails, changed her into clean clothes and trousers, and took off my shoes for her to put on, which was a bit too big for her. I would love to give her my shoes, she looks so pathetic, even though she is aggressive. My mom quickly tamed her. She was very quiet, always standing in front of the iron window and looking out, standing there all day long, staring into the distance, never speaking, just silently accepting everything that happened around her. We all thought she was mute. Until one year, the asylum brought a murderous madman, a 20-year-old man, who stoned his brother to death, and while planting rice in the field, he suddenly went crazy and hit his brother's head with a stone. The madman was assigned to my mother, and it was a somewhat sultry afternoon, and they chained the madman, tied his hands with very thick ropes, and there was almost no hair on the top of his head, which they said he had pulled out himself. I was frightened the first time I saw him, I knew it was a very dangerous person, he looked at me and smiled sinisterly, raised his covered hand, gently put one of his index fingers to his mouth, and made a 'shhh' motion. I was so scared that I hid behind the fat man. I didn't dare to look at his eyes, which I still remember, were the eyes of the devil - blood-red and horrible." Hu Sheng stopped at this point, he wiped his face, and spread his hands again.

"I guess what this person did? has something to do with Anna?" asked Shuqing very carefully.

Hu Sheng shook his head: "No, not exactly, he attacked my mother that night. ”

Shuqing gasped and looked at Hu Sheng apologetically.

Hu Sheng waved his hand, and then said, "My mother just broke a leg, you must not think of who saved my mother." ”

"Could it be?" Shuqing covered her mouth with one hand and looked at Hu Sheng incredulously.

"Yes, it was her, she smashed the wooden stool, then stabbed him in the chest with the broken wood, killing him with one blow. ”

"Oh my God—she's—how could she, how could she do it. ”

"The fat man said that only a madman would have such power. My mom told me she wasn't crazy, she was a poor kid like me. ”

"And then?"

"Later, I was sent away, and when I went back, I was with Zhenzhen. ”

"You didn't tell your mother when you got married?"

Hu Sheng shook his head.

"My mother told me never to go back, never to go back to Longmen. ”

"Why?"

He shook his head again.

"Do you remember what you said to Anna that you were going to marry her?"

He shook his head.

But Anna remembers, not only does she remember, but she has been waiting for you, for her to grow up, for you to go to the madhouse and marry her home. ”

Hu Sheng looked at Shuqing suspiciously, he didn't understand.

"But what she was waiting for was death, and your ex-wife kidnapped her, tortured her, and ruined her little by little—"

"It's not like that!"

"So what's going on? Why did Li Zhen go to Bang Anna, and why did she do this?"

Hu Sheng sat dumbfounded, not saying a word.

"Because she's the one who is sick, she's the one who is sick. ”