, it took a long time to utter a single syllable: "Huh?"
Ling Chennan also slumped his shoulders, leaning against the wall of the corridor with him, and sighed almost inaudibly.
[Thirteenth week? Monday]
The spring rain is the next warmer one.
A few days ago, the ground was covered with ice, but today it has warmed up to almost ten degrees above zero, and the sky is getting darker and later, and the streets in the evening finally become lively.
Ling Chennan had been busy all day, and he was able to catch his breath after seeing off the last customer. He opened the window of the office halfway, and the cold wind instantly occupied half of the room. He stared at the white and green buds on the tree in a daze.
"Besides Hummingbird and Toffee, do you know other personalities exist?" Ling Chennan remembered asking Bai Sheng like this before.
The other party shook his head rather blankly.
"So... when did the hummingbird and toffee appear?" Ling Chennan asked again.
Bai Sheng thought for a while, and said: "Toffee... it should have appeared recently, so to be honest, I don't even understand his name and habits until now. Hummingbird, it was probably when he was eight or nine years old."
Ling Chennan was taken aback: "Eight or nine years old?"
He has checked the disease history of Bai Sheng's immediate previous generation—patients without mental illness. Although men are more likely to inherit recessive genes from generation to generation than women, split personality is indeed a very rare case. To the abuse suffered... No, even in those cases of childhood abuse it is rare that someone develops a separate second personality to escape reality.
Ling Chennan knew that he was no longer talking to the other party as a doctor. Although he reminded himself repeatedly, it was difficult to separate his care for him from his mental state.
Bai Sheng didn't seem to care, he shook his head and said: "It was only when I thought about it later... when I was a child, I kind of... don't remember clearly, my mother always said that when I was alone in the room, I talked to the air. It happened when I was eight or nine years old, so I thought later, maybe it started at that time... those childhood events that I don’t remember clearly, maybe it’s the hummingbird’s experience, not me.”
Ling Chennan nodded, then asked after a long silence: "Hummingbird... has he appeared more frequently recently?"
Bai Sheng raised his head to look at him in surprise: "Frequently? Ah... When you put it this way, it seems to be more frequent than in previous years, but it is far less than when I was a child. When I was young, hummingbirds were mostly active. He was very courageous." , I am not afraid of anything... My family, my family education is very... Strict, I am always a little afraid."
It took him a long time to say the ambiguous "strict" sentence. Ling Chennan rolled his eyes, and Bai Sheng continued: "Hummingbird will be disciplined very badly every time. He doesn't give in, doesn't admit his mistakes, and is always... punished, actually. He doesn't cause trouble, but adults don't like him."
Ling Chennan became more and more weird when he heard it, and asked: "Your parents, those of your parents, don't know about the existence of hummingbirds, do they?"
Bai Sheng thought silently for a while, then sighed and said, "Who knows, I... I told them that I didn't understand it when I was young, I didn't understand that it was abnormal, and I didn't know how to hide it." At first, they only thought that I was talking crazy again to avoid punishment. Later, the hummingbird caused a lot of trouble. They finally believed it a little bit. It was also from that time on that they told me to learn not to let others found this out."
Did he hide his multiple personalities from the age of eight or nine? Ling Chennan was stunned. He always thought that Bai Sheng came from a well-educated family of intellectuals. Didn't he seek medical help immediately when his child developed a mental illness
Bai Sheng didn't notice his thoughts, and turned his eyes to the side and continued to recall: "Later, my grades got better and better, and I wasn't so afraid of my mother, and the hummingbirds appeared less and less often, and my mother seemed to be just treating me Satisfied with not causing trouble anymore, without asking any more questions, even…”
Ling Chennan: "Even?"
Bai Cheng looked at him, then lowered his head guiltily: "Even, sometimes I make mistakes, they...we will habitually blame the hummingbirds."
In Ling Chennan's mind, the childish appearance of that person's anger emerged, and he remembered his sarcastic expression of world-weariness, he bit his lip and frowned.
There is one more sentence he couldn't ask, that is, did hummingbirds appear more frequently than you when you were young
Are those trance fragments of childhood because you don't remember, or because you didn't exist then
Ling Chennan was afraid that the other party would notice his strangeness, so he reached out and hugged him into his arms. Bai Sheng was surprised and hugged him back.
Ling Chennan buried in his hair and said: "I'm sorry, I didn't ask you this on purpose, I didn't treat you as a patient, I couldn't help it because I cared about you."
Bai Cheng lifted his face from his neck, squinted his eyes and pursed his lips, he hesitated several sentences, and finally gave up with red ears: "No, it's okay, I'm super happy."
Sweet, cautious but still sweet, innocent and sweet, it is this expression that always makes me feel arrhythmia.
No matter what, the person in front of him - this person named Bai Sheng, he wants to protect, Ling Chennan made up his mind.
The milk foam on the coffee collapsed, and the sound like someone sighing slightly awakened him in his memory. Ling Chennan took a sip—the cold coffee was unpalatable.
After pouring the coffee into the sink, Ling Chennan watched the clear water swirl and take away all the brown liquid, inexplicably wishing that this was a Pensieve where all the complicated thoughts could be poured into it.
Suddenly, his phone vibrated—it was very loud in the empty room against the wooden table. Ling Chennan picked up the phone and looked—Lu Baizhou, what a coincidence, he raised his eyebrows and picked up the phone.
Lu Baizhou's carefree voice came over: "Hello, junior? Long time no see."
Ling Chennan felt more relaxed when he heard his frivolous tone, and replied with a smile: "It hasn't been long..."
Lu Baizhou: "Why, ignore me after using it? Throw it away after using it? Dump it after whoring?"
Ling Chennan laughed and said: "Why do you call it used up? Isn't it still in use? What's the matter, is the consultation with Bai Sheng going well?"
Lu Baizhou said vaguely: "Smooth...is smooth..."
Ling Chennan: "Yo, you are panting, why am I panicking."
Lu Baizhou seemed to have walked from the outside to the inside, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the echo became louder: "I didn't call to tell you about him... well, how to say, it's kind of related."
Ling Chennan listened patiently, and the other party said: "That Shen or something, the one you came to contact last time."
When Ling Chennan heard this, his hair stood on end: "Shen Yinchuan! What's wrong with him?"
Lu Baizhou coughed: "You calm down, it's nothing serious, but the chances of hearing his name are a bit high recently, and I thought you were asking him before, so I was a little concerned."
Ling Chennan frowned on the phone: "Under what circumstances did you hear his name?"
Lu Baizhou said: "One, from the mouths of several prisoners and patients on my side, and one of Shen's former roommates."
Ling Chennan grasped the key point: "One?"
Lu Baizhou said, "Hmm, he has only been in prison for a few months, and his roommates have changed three times."
Ling Chennan thought for a while, and said in a low voice: "And the inmates who were 'replaced' went to the psychiatrist for a while, what happened to them, did they have any psychological trauma?"
Lu Baizhou said: "Slow down, I can't tell you about this. In short... he lived a fulfilling life in prison, and he was not idle. The other... I heard his name from the leader. "
Ling Chennan was a little anxious when he heard his ambiguity, but he urged him vigorously, Lu Baizhou said: "Oh, how can I tell you? You don't have a high level of secrecy."
Ling Chennan was going crazy: "Why are you calling me if your level is not enough!"
Lu Baizhou laughed heartlessly: "Don't be angry, junior, let's put it this way, there are big fish and small fish in prison, some big fish need small fish to catch, and only big fish can be fished in the pond. Those bigger fish out there."
Ling Chennan thought for a long time, and asked uncertainly: "What do you mean, you said that the police are using some prisoners inside as informants? Shen Yinchuan has no gang background at all, so what does it have to do with him?"
Lu Baizhou: "You guessed it yourself, I didn't say anything."
Ling Chennan wanted to fly over and kick him, but the other party said: "Anyway, thanks to you, I also care about this person a little bit. He 'manually' replaced a group of roommates, but he didn't impose any additional punishment or receive much punishment. Run away." But behind the scenes there was some kind of peace agreement, and his current roommate is the second-in-command of the former smuggling gang, so I'm a little suspicious."
Ling Chennan was not very interested in the process of solving these cases, so he pondered for a while and said, "I don't know, but this kind of practice should not be uncommon. I just don't understand why he was chosen."
Lu Baizhou said: "That's not what I care about. After all, there are always people in the prison who think that serving their sentence safely is the most reliable, and there are also people who are willing to take risks for the police in order to reward the commutation of sentences. It's just that the few roommates he replaced for committing crimes... It's a bit unnecessary to do it. heavy."
"To be honest, violence like this in our prison is not rampant anymore. Even if there are those who bully Xinniao, they do so secretly. There is no one like him. Hey, junior, are you listening?"
Ling Chennan was silent for a long time, and asked word by word: "You said, Shen Yinchuan, is it possible for him to have his sentence commuted and released early?"
Lu Baizhou hahaha: "Guess, I guess too."
Lu Baizhou: "Hello? Are you there?"
Ling Chennan took a deep breath and said: