Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After leaving the hospital, Jiang Lan never mentioned Doctor Yu’s words again. Perhaps it was his attitude that made Jiang Chi relax a lot. He pursed his lips slightly, and there was a little light in his dark eyes.
He knew exactly what the doctor meant.
From childhood to adulthood, the most common thing he had heard was that a big madman was raising a little madman, and that both the grandparent and grandchild would be locked up in a mental hospital sooner or later. Those people called his grandmother Crazy Lady Li, and called him the little monster raised by Crazy Lady Li.
Every time he heard it, he would feel angry and embarrassed. He would rush up to fight with those who laughed at him, and when he couldn’t win, he would bite with his teeth, scratch with his nails… like a wild beast with red eyes, intimidating the enemy with his ferocity and recklessness.
As the years passed, those who had fought with him knew how powerful he was and no longer dared to laugh at him in person. Instead, they would tell others from a distance: “Look, that little monster is really mentally ill. Everyone stay away from him. It is not illegal for a mentally ill person to kill someone.”
Those people no longer mocked and insulted him on purpose, but more people began to walk around them, and when they looked at them from afar, there was fear and pity in their eyes.
They stopped talking, but in their hearts they had already concluded that both he and his grandmother were mentally ill lunatics.
Although Doctor Yu did not say it explicitly, he understood the implicit meaning. Anger surged in his heart. If Jiang Lan had not been beside him, he might have rushed forward like before and used his teeth and fists to tell the doctor with a nasty smile that he was not sick.
Jiang Chi lowered his eyes, touched the corner of his forehead through his hat with his other hand, and suddenly said, “I’m not sick, I don’t need to see a doctor.”
He pursed his lips, thinking uncertainly, Jiang Lan said before that he was not a little monster, so… he should not think that he was a little lunatic either.
“I know.” Jiang Lan lowered his eyes to look at him and said calmly, “Don’t take the doctor’s words to heart.”
Jiang Chi felt relieved, hummed, and stopped talking.
….
After making sure that Jiang Chi was fully capable of traveling to and from the hospital on his own, Jiang Lan took out his previous cell phone, registered a parent-child number for it, and had him wear it so that he could contact him at any time.
After Jiang Chi washed it carefully, there was another mobile phone in the small black bag he always carried with him.
On weekday mornings, Jiang Lan and Ying Qiao went to work separately, and Jiang Chi would get up with them. After they went out, he would first imitate Jiang Lan and mop the floor at home, and then put away the toys and snacks that Suan Ni and Jiao Tu had placed there. After everything was ready, he would take the bus card that Jiang Lan had bought for him and take the bus to the hospital.
Although Jiang Lan said that he only needed to play with his brothers and didn’t need to do housework, he knew himself and cherished such a stable life. Although he didn’t say it out loud, he had been working hard to show his value. He hoped that this “job” could last longer.
Jiang Chi was wearing the hat that Jiang Lan bought for him. He looked out of the bus window, with the corners of his straight lips curving into a tiny arc.
The bus stopped at the platform opposite the hospital. He crossed the zebra crossing, found the inpatient department skillfully, took the elevator upstairs, and went straight to the ward. The nurses here all knew him. Some greeted him with a smile and asked him if he had breakfast. He didn’t want to pay attention to it, but thinking of what Jiang Lan said, “Don’t reject all kindness”, he stopped and said “hmm” in a sullen voice.
The nurse who greeted him probably didn’t expect him to respond. She was stunned for a moment and then smiled, “This child is livelier than when he first came two days ago.”
Jiang Chi didn’t listen to what they said and walked towards the ward without stopping.
As usual, he went to the bedside and touched his grandmother’s hand. It was warm and he could feel a weak but continuous pulse. Only then did he feel at ease and move a chair to sit at the bedside to watch over her.
Sister Zhang had just come in after changing the urine bag. When she saw him, she greeted him: “You’re here so early. Have you had breakfast?”
Jiang Chi looked up at her, nodded slightly, and then lowered his head again.
Sister Zhang didn’t see it, but she was used to his silence. She just couldn’t help muttering in her heart, “There may be something wrong with this kid.”
Jiang Chi sat there for a while, took out the phone Jiang Lan had given him from the small bag, and fumbled with it unskillfully. Jiang Lan had taught him how to use it yesterday, and he could recognize most of the words, but he had never touched a phone before, so he felt a little unfamiliar with it, and was a little new to it.
He clicked into WeChat and found only two contacts. Jiang Lan had added them yesterday and even changed the note. One was Brother Lan and the other was Brother Jiao.
He clicked on Jiang Lan’s name and entered the chat interface. He wanted to send a message, but he didn’t know what to send. Thus he hesitated for a while, and finally sent a smiling emoticon.
Just after he sent the message, his phone rang. It was Jiang Lan who replied: [Are you at the hospital?]
Jiang Chi hadn’t learned how to type yet, so he sent a voice message: Yeah.
Jiang Lan clicked on the voice message and listened to it. Looking at the concise conversation on the chat interface, he sensitively sensed the tentacles that the kid was trying to reach out. It was a good thing that he was willing to communicate with others. He sent him an emoji of patting his head; [I’ll pick you up at the hospital after getting off work, and we’ll go out for dinner in the evening.]
After waiting for a while, Jiang Chi sent another “OK” message.
This time it was a text message. He could guess he was typing slowly just now.
Speaking of which Jiang Lan could not help but sigh that Jiang Chi was really smart. He was raised by Crazy Grandma Li, so naturally he never went to school. Jiang Lan was worried that he could not read but found that he could recognize most of the words and could write them exactly. However, it was obvious that he did not write stroke by stroke, but rather seemed to be drawing pictures based on memory.
His cultural level was higher than that of many trained monsters.
Jiang Lan began to think about sending him to school. According to human age, Jiang Chi should be in fifth or sixth grade of elementary school.
Remembering that Xiao Xiaoyu said last time that she had helped some homeless children contact schools to resume their studies, he called Xiao Xiaoyu and asked what materials were needed to prepare for their return to school.
Xiao Xiaoyu turned around, with two transparent eye masks under her eyes: “There are quite a lot of materials required. I have archived them before. I’ll send them to you to take a look.”
Perhaps because she had a good rest, she became more energetic: “Do you want to contact the school for Jiang Chi?”
Jiang Lan talked about Jiang Chi’s situation and said, “It’s not a good idea for him to stay in the hospital every day. Going to school can help distract him.”
Xiao Xiaoyu nodded in agreement: “I am quite familiar with the principal of Experimental Primary School. If you have prepared the materials, I will go with you.”
Jiang Lan agreed, and seeing that the dark circles under her eyes had faded a lot, he asked with concern, “Is your insomnia better?”
Xiao Xiaoyu was refreshed: “I stayed at my parents’ house for two days. I ate well, drank well and slept well. It’s just that the commute to work is a bit far. I plan to go back to my own home today.”
As she said that, she sent a scanned copy of the materials she had prepared earlier to Jiang Lan.
There was not much work to do, so Jiang Lan simply opened the document and began to study it carefully.
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