Chapter 7 Schizophrenia

  My goodness! My older sister rushed into the house with red eyes, and as soon as her butt touched the stool, she started wailing like thunder on a rainy day. I asked her what Officer He said, but all she did was sob uncontrollably. I asked again, and still, all I got were sobs.

  It was easy to wait until she had cried enough, wiped her nose clean, and the sky had darkened. Her stomach also started growling.

  "Sister, now there are two options. One is to go get some food, and the other is to tell me what Officer He said. You have to choose one of them!"

  "Oh, I'll go get some food for you!" After saying that, older sister wiped the corners of her eyes and left.

  I really can't understand what kind of problem would make her cry like this. Could it be that I've got a terminal illness and the doctor has given me a death sentence?

  Soon, my sister came back with a big pile of food, another unusual move. Normally, as long as she went out, she wouldn't come back within two or three hours. I remember the last time I had tonsillectomy, she went out to buy lunch at 11 o'clock and didn't come back until 1 o'clock. It seems that there is really something big going on with Officer He.

  "I bought sugar vinegar ribs, roasted chicken, and even took a taxi to buy Wuji mantou," my sister flipped over the dinner table on the hospital bed, placing each dish in front of me, "They're all your favorite foods, eat up!"

  I didn't have any appetite at all, I grasped her hand and looked at her with pleading eyes: "Older sister, can you tell me what's going on?"

  As soon as she heard this, her eyes turned red again.

  "Tomorrow I'll send you to a mental hospital...... Waaaahhhh......"

  Ah! My sister's answer was like a thunderbolt on a clear day. I didn't know what to say for a moment, and the truth turned out to be this. Why did they want to send me to a mental hospital? I'm the victim! Someone tried to kill me, and I barely escaped with my life. I'm a normal person!

  "Sister, what did Officer He say? I don't have a mental illness, I was stabbed with a dagger by someone, how could I possibly go to a psychiatric hospital?"

  "He, the police officer, went to school and inquired about the situation in detail. He said that there was no one named Hou Dayong in your class, nor a female student named Bai Huaiqian. The seat next to you had always been empty. On that day, as soon as you started class, you fell asleep. At noon when school let out, classmates saw you going to the cafeteria alone to eat. As for Li Xiaoshu, he indeed existed, but his family didn't have a villa and lived near Huan Cheng East Road, not in the west of the city. On the day of your accident, he was in Germany for an exchange program. Near the location where you were found, there were witnesses who said that they saw you running around alone on the grass at dusk."

  After hearing these words, I suddenly felt as if the mountains and earth were cracking. Everything in front of me was blurry and dizzy, and everything around me was spinning in circles.

  "Does Hou Dayong and Bai Huaqian really not exist?" It turns out that when people get excited, their voices will also tremble.

  “Uh……” My older sister started sobbing again, but this time she was more calm than before. It's clear that she can accept reality better than me. “Earlier, the school also sent someone to the public security bureau. The doctor said you have intermittent schizophrenia. The school advised you to drop out because high school is not compulsory education and your mental illness has a tendency towards violence. I begged them to give you another chance, and the leader of the public security bureau came out to persuade them, so the school agreed to accept you, but on the condition that you must receive regular psychiatric treatment and can only continue classes after being discharged from the hospital.”

  I had heard stories about normal people being locked up in mental hospitals before, but I never thought it would happen to me. It's said that in a place like that, the normal person is actually the most abnormal one.