Chapter 1: Loss of memory
Ma Xiaoyuan had amnesia, he didn't remember anything, not even his own name. The name Ma Xiaoyuan was told to him by his father Ma Huaishan.
Standing in front of the mirror, Ma Xiaoyuan looked at the unfamiliar face in the mirror, in his 40s, and his hair was half white.
In the past month, Ma Xiaoyuan has stood in front of the mirror and looked at the unfamiliar faces in the mirror countless times, and he really can't remember his past, even the slightest bit.
Ma Xiaoyuan's father Ma Huaishan and mother Liu Yuexiu. His parents told him that he used to be a calligraphy enthusiast and aspired to become one.
He also told him that in order to practice calligraphy well, he rarely went out, and rarely had deals with others, and was a typical old otaku.
In order to practice calligraphy, he forgot to sleep and eat, and although he has not participated in any competitions or won any awards, he has also gained a certain degree of attainment.
Of course, they also told Ma Xiaoyuan that in order to practice calligraphy and painting well, Ma Xiaoyuan has never been in love, let alone married and had children.
In Ma Xiaoyuan's room, there are a few calligraphy and paintings, which look pretty good, but there are still 108,000 miles away from becoming a calligrapher, far from the height that his parents told him.
What makes Ma Xiaoyuan feel even more strange is that although these calligraphy and paintings are newly framed, the calligraphy and paintings are very old, and the inscription is a pony crossing the river, and the time is 20 years ago.
Isn't there any work left in the next 20 years? If so, why don't parents hang it out?
The house where Ma Xiaoyuan lives is not big, it is the kind of old-fashioned building, with two bedrooms and a living room of only 60 square meters, and in Ma Xiaoyuan's bedroom, there is only a bed, a desk, a chair and a bookcase.
There is no TV at home, no telephone, and Ma Xiaoyuan has no mobile phone, as if he is isolated from the world.
Ma Xiaoyuan's parents are not at home at this time, they always go out early and return late every day, and they don't know what they are doing.
And Ma Xiaoyuan was also locked in the house and couldn't get out at all. Several times, Ma Xiaoyuan proposed to his parents that he wanted to go out and go around, maybe he could retrieve his memory, but his parents ruthlessly refused.
Although his parents did not let him go out every day in the morning and returned late, they did not leave him hungry, they always cooked the food, and when they wanted to eat, it was good to warm it up.
Regarding heating the rice, Ma Xiaoyuan has already learned, no matter how bad it is, his parents also prepared a lot of instant noodles and ham sausages for him, anyway, he can't be hungry.
In the past month, Ma Xiaoyuan also wanted to insist on practicing calligraphy and painting, but somehow, as soon as he picked up the brush, he felt upset and had no patience at all.
He also couldn't read all kinds of books on calligraphy and painting in the bookcase, not like that kind of calligraphy lover at all.
Especially in the last few days, he was annoyed when he saw calligraphy, and even more annoyed when he saw those calligraphy and painting books, and he suspected that he was about to go crazy.
Therefore, he has not practiced calligraphy and painting again in the past few days, and he is afraid that if he continues to practice, he may really go crazy.
A world of one person, quiet but lonely, Ma Xiaoyuan finally waited for his parents to come back, and wanted to say what he thought, but when he saw his parents tired, he couldn't bear it.
Ma Xiaoyuan's father, Ma Huaishan, is in his sixties and looks more than seventy years old, his hair is basically white, and his face is deeply wrinkled, like a dry riverbed.
Ma Huaishan works two jobs, doing chores on the construction site during the day, and after getting off work in the afternoon, he has to work as a security guard in the community for eight hours.
Therefore, Ma Huaishan has to go out early in the morning and come back after 12 o'clock at night, and he can only sleep for five hours a day, which is very hard.
Ma Xiaoyuan's mother, Liu Yuexiu, also works two jobs, working as a waitress in a restaurant during the day and two or three hours at night to clean a company.
As for why Ma Xiaoyuan had amnesia, the answer given by his parents was that when he hung the calligraphy plaque, he was accidentally hit on the head by the plaque, causing congestion and compression of the nerves in the brain.
As for whether they can recover their memories and when they will be able to recover their memories, the answers of the two people are also the same: "The doctor said that it is impossible to recover memories." ”
Ma Huaishan and Liu Yuexiu, at first glance, are the kind of honest people, who don't know how to enlighten people like Ma Xiaoyuan who have lost their memory, they enlighten Ma Xiaoyuan, and they repeat one sentence: "It's good to lose your memory, you can treat yourself as a newborn baby, and start all over again." ”
When he was bored, Ma Xiaoyuan certainly checked his parents' room, as well as the kitchen and dining room, but found nothing.
Ma Xiaoyuan's parents' room is smaller than the room where Ma Xiaoyuan lives alone, except for a bed, there is a coffee table replaced by a square stool.
The facilities in the whole family can be described in two words, that is, "simple". Even if it is described as a family with four walls, it is not too much.
What makes Ma Xiaoyuan feel strange is that he is now in his 40s, has he never gone out to earn money?
If he has insisted on practicing calligraphy and painting for so many years and has not gone anywhere, then his level of calligraphy and painting should be very good, but unfortunately he is not.
In the past month, Ma Xiaoyuan has tried to find something from home that can bring back his memories, but he has found nothing.
In short, Ma Xiaoyuan just felt that his parents were deliberately hiding something from him.
Once, in the middle of the night, he heard his parents still whispering, so he crept to his parents' door to hear what they were saying.
However, he only had time to hear one sentence: "Okay, don't say it, if you let Xiaoyuan hear it, it will be bad." ”
This sentence was said by his father Ma Huaishan, and then, the two of them never said a word again.
What are parents hiding from themselves? What is it that is not good to know to yourself? Ma Xiaoyuan was puzzled.
Ma Xiaoyuan's head injury is not completely healed, once he thinks about too many things, his head hurts as if it is about to burst, so he doesn't dare to think too much.
Despite this, Ma Xiaoyuan still thought about a lot of things in this month, and he needed to get out of this house to understand a lot of things.
He didn't want to practice calligraphy and painting anymore, he felt that he was not the material to become a calligrapher and painter at all, he wanted to try a normal life, even if he couldn't recover his memory, it didn't matter, everything could be learned from scratch.
Amnesia is just the loss of memory, not a fool, how can a person with hands and feet and a normal brain be willing to let his elderly parents support him, how can he live a parasite life with clothes to reach out for food and open his mouth?
It is absolutely impossible to go on like this, you must have a showdown with your parents, you must go out to do things, you must rely on your own hands to support yourself, and even support your parents.