Because his memory was getting worse and worse, Lin Yongnian felt that he was really getting old, and he was in a particularly bad mood.
Winter is here in the blink of an eye, and as the year draws to a close, the weather is getting colder and colder, so we're starting to steal more food.
In this alley, it's always the same story: one house gets robbed today, another gets robbed today.
Because Lin Yongnian's memory has deteriorated, Lin Guodong and Zhang Jiao would repeatedly remind him to lock the doors and windows and turn off the stove when they left for work.
Lin Yongnian found these instructions annoying, feeling that Lin Guodong and Zhang Jiao were treating him like he had no brains.
Even so, the Lin family was still robbed.
When Zhang Jiao got home from work that day, she saw that the front door was open, because her father-in-law, Lin Yongnian, was home. But when she went inside, she found that all the drawers in the main room had been opened and were in a mess.
Zhang Jiao was startled and rushed into the bedroom. She saw that the clothes in the closet had been turned over and were scattered all over the floor. The bed was in a mess, and the blankets had been pulled off and were on the floor.
She hid a wool coat with 100 yuan of her secret stash of money, but it's nowhere to be found. That coat cost 70 yuan!
“The money!” Zhang Jiao shouted with a mournful face, searching the entire house, but she couldn’t find the savings book that Lin Guodong had hidden.
Lin Guodong manages the family's savings account and salary, but Zhang Jiao doesn't know where he hides the savings account and the family's cash.
I could only pray in my heart that the passbook hadn't been stolen.
Zhang Jiao went to Lin Yongnian's room to take a look. His room had been ransacked, and there was a large earthenware jar on the bed, which was completely empty.
Needless to say, this must be the earthenware jar that Lin Yongnian used to store money.
She and Lin Guodong had been urging Lin Yongnian to open a bank account and deposit all his money there, as keeping cash at home was unsafe.
But Lin Yongnian was old-fashioned and always felt that he could only feel at ease keeping the money at home. He even confidently said that the things he hid the money in would be impossible for a thief to find.
That's terrible, all the money he's saved up over the years has been stolen.
Zhang Jiao rushed out the door, intending to call the police. Just as she reached the door, she ran into Lin Guodong, who was returning home.
"Guodong, something terrible has happened! Our house has been robbed!"
"Dad's gone somewhere, our house's been ransacked, and even the new coat I bought last year has been stolen!"
"What?" Lin Guodong shouted, rushing into the bedroom and lying down on the floor to look at the foot of the bed. Seeing that the thin book at the foot of the bed was properly placed, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Guodong crawled under the bed, pulled the thin book out from under the bed, opened the book, looked at the bankbook inside, and patted his chest, saying, "Thank goodness, thank goodness, the bankbook wasn't stolen."
Zhang Jiao: "..."
No, the way he hid his bankbook was so unexpected. Who would have thought he would hide it here?
Although you can report a lost passbook and get a replacement, it's still unsettling to have it stolen.
"Where do you hide the cash at home? Didn't you say you were going to deposit it once a year ago?" Zhang Jiao asked hurriedly.
Lin Guodong walked to the wardrobe, took out a pair of worn-out rubber shoes from under the wardrobe, and took out two stacks of money from under the soles of the shoes, a total of three hundred yuan, not a single penny of which was stolen.
Zhang Jiao: "..."
He knows how to hide money.
At this moment, she was extremely grateful that the family's money was managed by Lin Guodong; otherwise, it would all have been stolen.
“Not a single penny was lost,” Lin Guodong said.
Zhang Jiao: "The jar where Dad hid his money was turned upside down; I bet it was all stolen."
Lin Guodong frowned and said, "I told him to deposit it in the bank, but he wouldn't listen. All his several thousand yuan was stolen. Now he feels so relieved."
Zhang Jiao complained, "It's not that he didn't lock the door, the house won't be burgled. I've told him so many times, but he just can't remember."
"What happened to this house? Was it burgled?" Lin Yongnian's voice rang out in the main room.
Zhang Jiao and Lin Guodong walked out.
"Dad, how dare you ask? You didn't even lock the door when you left. Did you forget all about it?"
Lin Yongnian was taken aback. "Didn't you lock the door?"
I have absolutely no memory of whether I locked the door or not; my memory before leaving the house is completely blank.
Zhang Jiao said irritably, "You're still asking me that?"
"Damn it, the money!" Lin Yongnian slapped his thigh and hurriedly ran into his bedroom.
Seeing her room ransacked and then looking at the jars on her bed, she suddenly felt dizzy and fell straight down.
"dad!"
Lin Yongnian opened his eyes groggily, and what he saw was a cloud of white mist.
There was a voice speaking in my ear.
"Based on your father's various symptoms, he should have Alzheimer's disease."
"What exactly is this Alzheimer's disease?"
Alzheimer's disease is commonly known as senile dementia!
"Alzheimer's!" Lin Guodong exclaimed in surprise. "Dad is only sixty-one years old, how could he have Alzheimer's?"
He knew about Alzheimer's disease, which is that as people get older, their memory and physical health gradually decline, and they become like children, needing to be taken care of in all their daily needs, such as eating, drinking, and toileting.
But he had only heard that people in their seventies and eighties get this disease. His father was only sixty-one, not very old, so how did he start getting Alzheimer's?
The doctor frowned and said, "This disease doesn't necessarily only affect very old people; some people in their fifties start developing Alzheimer's."
“Your father’s illness progresses quite quickly. Before long, he may gradually forget many people, become incontinent, and even stop eating. You children need to be mentally prepared.”
Caring for an elderly person with Alzheimer's disease is very hard work and mentally exhausting.
"Shuping, you're thirsty, you need water." Lin Yongnian looked at Zhang Jiao standing by the bed with a somewhat dazed expression.
Zhang Jiao frowned and took a step back, unable to accept the fact that her father-in-law had Alzheimer's disease.
She has a distant relative in the Zhang family who became demented in his seventies. He would urinate and defecate indiscriminately in bed, and he would hit and curse people. He was disgusting.
Her father-in-law has dementia, and she can't take care of him at all.
"Shuping, drink some water." Seeing that "Shuping" ignored him, Lin Yongnian continued.
“It’s not Shuping, it’s your daughter-in-law Zhang Jiao!” Zhang Jiao said with a look of disgust.
Lin Yongnian paused for a moment, "Zhang Jiao, who is Zhang Jiao?"
"Dad, do you still know who 놖 is?" Lin Guodong asked, looking at Lin Yongnian on the hospital bed.
Lin Yongnian stared at him for a while and said, "You are my son Lin Guodong. Guodong, are you stupid? How could your father not recognize his own son?"
"And what about her?" Lin Guodong asked, pointing at Zhang Jiao.
Lin Yongnian said, "That's your mother!"
Lin Guodong: "..."
The doctor said, "This is a classic case of memory confusion. He recognizes some people, doesn't recognize others, and sometimes mistakes people for other people."
"Doctor, is this disease incurable?" Lin Guodong asked, frowning.
The doctor shook his head regretfully, "Currently, there is no treatment for this disease. I hope you, as children, can be patient with such a patient."
Lin Guodong: "..."
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