But how should she answer?
In a short while, with her brain working at lightning speed, Fang Yan came up with countless answers.
But considering that Zhang Jizhou was going straight to the point and asked the question directly, she decided to do the same and answer directly, "Fang Yan."
They share the same surname, but their given names contain the character "燕" (Yan).
It wasn't her after all.
Zhang Jizhou stared at her intently, "Do you know why Fang Yanyan hit the child?"
Fang Yan was slightly taken aback. She thought that Zhang Jizhou would ask her where she was from next.
Unexpectedly, he changed the question.
She quickly came to her senses. Without saying a word, Fang Yan rolled up her sleeves, revealing arms that were as thin and bony as a child's, covered with wounds of varying lengths, both old and new.
Some of them were even still oozing blood, clearly indicating that they were recently added.
And the original owner also had similar wounds on his body.
Startled by the gruesome wound, Zhang Jizhou involuntarily took a large step towards her, his brows furrowing deeply. "Who did this?"
He thought it was someone from his family who had hit him.
"Me." But saying that doesn't seem quite right?
Fang Yan then changed her tune, saying, "To be precise, she should have made the call herself."
"What's going on?" Zhang Jizhou asked, puzzled.
At this time, depression may exist, but firstly, it cannot be diagnosed, and secondly, it is unlikely to be as prevalent as in later generations. Perhaps only one or two out of tens of millions of people have it. The chance of encountering such a rare case is very slim.
Therefore, Zhang Jizhou could not understand why Fang Yanyan would abuse herself.
"This is an illness, a mental illness, and a psychological illness. At first, it's just low mood, but when the condition becomes serious enough that she feels hopeless about life, she will start to abuse her body or even commit suicide."
Fang Yan is not a doctor specializing in this field. Her understanding of depression came from the fact that more and more people in later generations have contracted this terrible disease, so she specifically went online to learn about it.
"I think she probably wanted to die, but she was afraid that after she died, no one would take care of her child. However, she was unable to relieve the torment of her illness, so she used her child as a means of venting her emotions."
These are just Fang Yan's own speculations. "Every time she hits the child, she is actually very upset, but she can't control herself."
This terrible disease was something Zhang Jizhou had never heard of before, but for some reason, he didn't understand Fang Yan's explanation at all.
After a moment of silence, a hoarse voice asked, "Why did she get this disease?"
The causes of depression are too complex, and it can only be diagnosed after evaluation by a highly specialized institution.
Fang Yan could only offer a superficial explanation based on her limited understanding of depression: "The reasons are too complicated. It could be due to a sudden event that hit her too hard, or it could be due to her being too stressed and never being able to relax."
I think her words were probably because after marrying you, you were rarely home, your family didn't treat her and your son like human beings, she had no one to confide in, no one to pull her out of that hellhole, and day after day, she finally grew tired of that dreary life and was consumed by illness.
“How could my family possibly abuse them?” Zhang Jizhou couldn’t believe it.
Because the Zhang family still needs his allowance to support their large family.
If they dare to bully his wife and children, they will all starve once he cuts off their allowance.
“She never told me that anyone in the family was bullying her and her daughter,” Zhang Jizhou added. “Every time I come back, my family treats them very well.”
Although Fang Yanyan was supposed to do housework, everyone in the family either had to work in the fields or do housework at home.
Isn't this normal?
Also, every time he came back, the food on the table wasn't very good; it was just very thin porridge with a three-in-one pancake and two stir-fried vegetables from his own garden.
I've heard that during festivals, they'll slaughter a chicken they raised themselves, and buy some fish and meat.
My family is poor, so we can only live like this for the time being.
Besides, the whole family lives like this; it's not just the mother and son who live like this.
When I was reading the novel, I disliked the author and attributed all of the original owner's actions to "acting".
Fang Yan stopped reading after seeing that the original owner had committed suicide in the mental hospital. She didn't know if the author had used flashbacks to describe the original owner's life with the Zhang family in the later chapters.
In the first three chapters, she mentioned in passing that the original owner was weak, introverted, insecure and sensitive, and dared not utter a word when bullied, so the Zhang family members took every opportunity to bully her and her son.
After hearing Zhang Jizhou's words, Fang Yan suddenly remembered that in her previous life, she had a fan who complained to her that the fan's in-laws were particularly good at pretending. When her husband was home, her parents-in-law and sister-in-law would treat her very politely.
If her husband is away on a business trip, they either make veiled accusations against each other or deliberately make loud noises that keep her awake.
What's even more ridiculous is that the three of them secretly cooked and ate the food, leaving her only a few pieces of boiled vegetables without any oil droplets.
When her fans told her husband about these things in private, he didn't believe a word of it.
Because he saw with his own eyes that his family treated his wife very well and never said a harsh word to her, how could he possibly believe these words?
So her husband turned around and gave her a political lesson, telling her to be content and grateful to have such good in-laws as his parents, unlike other families where the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law argue and fight every day.
The fans were so angry they almost vomited blood!
When fans complained to Fang Yan, Fang Yan gave them advice, telling them to find a way to make their husbands see the true colors of their in-laws.
Although the author did not describe in detail how the Zhang family bullied the original owner and her son.
However, based on the information currently available, Fang Yan is almost certain that the Zhang family members, like the fan's in-laws, are all very good at acting.
They acted convincingly in front of Zhang Jizhou, but as soon as he left, they began to abuse the mother and son.
hehe!
Back then, she was able to support and get fans to tear off the masks of her in-laws and sister-in-law.
Now, she must have a way to tear off the mask of the Zhang family!
Having already made up her mind, Fang Yan raised her eyes to look at Zhang Jizhou and chuckled, "Is that so? So you know I'm lying?"
Zhang Jizhou paused for a moment, then said, "I'm just stating the facts of what I've seen and heard."
There's a saying: "Hearing is not always believing, and seeing is not always the truth." Have you ever heard of it?
Fang Yan raised an eyebrow, glanced at him sideways, and asked.
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