Chapter 184 A bad environment can drive people crazy
"Weiwei went out? Where did she go? To Aunt Xing's place?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
She also wanted to take Fu Baiwei with her to catch the steel-toothed rabbit. There is strength in numbers, as her physical strength alone is limited after all.
Sun Haiyun shook his head slowly and didn't want to say more. He just focused on tanning the rabbit skin.
Xia Xiaoman noticed something was wrong and asked in a deep voice, "Did something happen to Weiwei?"
Sun Haiyun still didn't speak.
At this moment, Wang Shijin came over quickly, bending over, "Ayun, I saw that girl Fu Baiwei."
As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Haiyun dropped the rabbit skin and stood up, almost hitting the top of the cave. He grabbed Wang Shijin's shoulder excitedly and asked, "Have you seen Weiwei? How is she? Is she injured?"
Wang Shijin was startled and hurriedly comforted her, "Don't be so excited. She's not injured. I don't know if she's doing well, but I think she's much more energetic than before, just as energetic as when she was in the shooting team. She should be doing well!"
When Sun Haiyun heard this, he first breathed a sigh of relief, then sat down on the small bed beside him somewhat dejectedly, muttering, "It's enough to live well, and live better than before."
Xia Xiaoman was confused. She quietly approached Wang Shijin and asked softly, "What's going on? What happened between him and Weiwei?"
Wang Shijin glanced at Sun Haiyun and saw that he was still immersed in his own world. He pulled Xia Xiaoman aside and said in a low voice, "He broke up with Fu Baiwei."
"Break up?!" Xia Xiaoman's eyes widened in surprise. "Doesn't Fu Baiwei love him to death? How could she bear to break up? Did Sun Haiyun do something to let Fu Baiwei down?"
Some time ago, Fu Baiwei said that she wanted to save more rabbit fur to make sweaters for Sun Haiyun. Not long after that, the two broke up.
Wang Shijin was afraid that Xia Xiaoman would misunderstand, so he quickly waved his hands and said, "No, don't make blind guesses. Sun Haiyun has done nothing wrong to Fu Baiwei, and Fu Baiwei has done nothing wrong to Sun Haiyun. They broke up because... because Fu Baiwei was almost driven crazy by the environment in the sewer..."
A bad environment can drive a normal person crazy.
Fu Baiwei didn’t feel much about having just moved to the sewer. She thought that all the familiar people were around her, so even if she moved to a place with a worse environment, it was no big deal.
In addition, the weather was not extremely cold at that time, so she could occasionally go out to help shovel snow or chat with Xia Xiaoman.
But as time went by, she gradually became unable to tolerate everything in the sewer, whether it was the people or the environment. The people were very noisy, the environment was very bad, and every time she wanted to sleep, she would be woken up by the sound of others talking or walking.
Fortunately, Sun Haiyun was with her and her emotions were relieved.
But since Sun Haiyun went to work, she has no time to relax. Every day she has to stay at her position to watch over the family property and cannot leave for even a moment.
Fu Baiwei just sat there, watching blankly the neighbors around her quarreling over trivial matters, and listening to the neighbors complaining about this and that every day.
Forced to receive all kinds of negative information all the time, Fu Baiwei's mentality gradually began to collapse.
What made her completely collapse was that half a month ago, Fu Baiwei handed the freshly tanned leather to her employer. The employer checked and found that some of the leather was not tanned well, so he asked for redo work or a reduction in the commission.
Fu Baiwei didn't know what was wrong with her at the time. Her emotions suddenly reached a peak and she yelled like a madman, saying that her hands were rotten from tanning the leather and that the man was going to withhold her commission.
"Fu Baiwei made a big fuss that day. When I came home from get off work, I saw that she had lost her mind and was about to chop people with a knife. I had to work very hard to snatch the knife from her hand." Wang Shijin sighed heavily. He didn't expect that a good person would be forced into this state.
"After that incident, Sun Haiyun didn't dare to let her take on leather tanning work anymore. But even so, Fu Baiwei's condition didn't get better, but got worse."
Without work to do, Fu Baiwei felt even more depressed. Gradually, she seemed to be assimilated by the other people in the sewer. She would quarrel with others over the smallest things, and even fight in serious cases.
Occasionally, when she calmed down, she would feel regretful and annoyed, and even cry helplessly, unable to control her emotions.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Fu Baiwei, she should be suffering from a mental illness like depression."
Wang Shijin nodded, "Sun Haiyun and I think so too. After Sun Haiyun discovered this problem, he took a long vacation to accompany Fu Baiwei. But it didn't work."
In an environment like a sewer, it is hard not to feel depressed even if a family of more than a dozen people huddle together.
"Some time ago, Hong Shuangyan came here to hire someone to help tan leather. Fu Baiwei didn't know what was going on. After chatting with Hong Shuangyan for a few words, she insisted on going with Hong Shuangyan."
"Hong Shuangyan? The wife of the headless corpse?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Wang Shijin hummed, "It's that pervert's wife. The community vote failed, so Hong Shuangyan left Shuiyue Bay."
"She is quite capable. After leaving Shuiyue Bay, she moved into an old family compound. I don't know how she convinced the people there, but she copied the management model of Shuiyue Bay and used it in the family compound, becoming the leader of the family compound."
"Now she often takes people from their family quarters to catch steel-toothed rabbits. But their method of catching rabbits is a bit bloody."
Wang Shijin frowned and said, "They like to reveal their weaknesses and lure others to rob them. Then they capture the robbers, tie them up in iron cages, cut the blood vessels in their hands and feet to let the blood flow, and lure the steel-toothed rabbits into the iron cages to capture them."
Usually they would capture three to five adults a day to help them catch steel-toothed rabbits.
This method of catching steel-toothed rabbits made Wang Shijin feel very dangerous. It was like stepping on the moral bottom line, and the danger of crossing the line at any time.
Xia Xiaoman said, "Does Sun Haiyun agree to let her join Hong Shuangyan?"
Based on her understanding of Sun Haiyun, he would not allow Fu Baiwei to join such a dangerous team.
Wang Shijin immediately said, "Of course I don't agree. They even had a quarrel over this matter."
"Did they break up because of this?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Wang Shijin thought about it and shook his head, "Strictly speaking, it's not because of this that they broke up. Their story is quite complicated, and I, a single man from birth, can't understand why they broke up."
Fu Baiwei wanted to join Hong Shuangyan for a simple reason. She wanted to leave the sewer and go out to create her own world. She didn't want to be trapped in the sewer and live like a rat in a gutter.
In order to keep her, Sun Haiyun thought about finding a house with a basement on the ground, and also thought about resigning and joining Hong Shuangyan with Fu Baiwei.
But all these ideas were rejected by Fu Baiwei.
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