Chapter 209: Gu Shibai
I am Gu Shibai.
When I was in the first grade of elementary school, my father had an affair. In the same year, my mother suffered from severe depression. When I found out, my mother had already engaged in self-harm and attempted suicide.
Later, I became a psychiatrist and met my first patient...
Yu Qing.
It was she who introduced me to Taoism, and it was she who led me onto a different path.
But at the end of the story, I completely forgot about her——
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The day Gu Shibai's mother committed suicide was in September, not long after he started school.
In the past, when Gu Shibai came home from school and shouted "I'm back", his mother would respond, but today the house was quiet.
He walked around the living room and finally went to his mother's room, but he didn't see his mother.
Ever since his father cheated on his wife, his mother moved out with him. Although the two-bedroom, one-living-room house is not as big as the Gu family's, and there are no servants or luxury cars, he feels very happy.
Gu Shibai walked back to the living room puzzled, went to the refrigerator to get a can of milk, drank it while walking outside, and then knocked on the neighbor's door: "Grandma, are you home?"
The neighbor's door was quickly opened from the inside, and a kind old woman stood inside. It took her cloudy eyes a long time to recognize who was knocking on the door.
"Shi Xiaobai, what do you want to do with your mother-in-law?"
Gu Shibai tilted his head, looking very well-behaved: "Grandma, have you seen where my mother went? I didn't find her when I got home."
The old woman shook her head: "I don't know. It seems that she didn't go downstairs to buy groceries today. Otherwise, I'll call your mother and ask her. You should go to my house to eat something first. Don't go hungry."
Gu Shibai refused obediently: "No, Mom said that we can't go to other people's houses for dinner unless it's invited by my mother-in-law, but I must bring a gift, and I need Mom's consent."
The old woman was amused by his words. He was a poor, good boy.
"Then the mother-in-law will call your mother first, don't worry."
"good."
The old woman was using an elderly mobile phone. She took out the phone book and tapped the enlarged button several times before she finally dialed the number.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
The sound of the cell phone ringing echoed in my ears, and it seemed not far away.
Gu Shibai looked around in confusion, it seemed like the ringing sound came from home.
He ran back home with clattering steps, followed the ringing sound to find the restroom, looked at the closed door, and stood on tiptoe to open it.
He was a boy who developed late, so at this time he was not even as tall as the door handle.
The moment the door opened, a bloody smell wafted out. Until the door was fully opened and the bloody scene inside came into view, he stood there in a daze.
There was a person lying in the fish tank, blood was overflowing and flowing all over the floor. The bathroom was full of scarlet, which deeply stung his eyes.
"Oh my God, what a sin!!"
The old woman's distressed voice was heard behind him. She followed Gu Shibai because she saw him running away. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen.
The old woman was old and experienced after all, so she immediately went up to cover Gu Shibai's eyes, but he reached out and took them away. The little boy looked inside with an expressionless face.
There was a lot of noise in the living room. Father Gu, who rushed over after receiving the notice, had a gloomy look on his face and did not feel sorry for his wife's departure at all.
There was a small figure sitting on the sofa, he was curled up with his hands on his knees, with a dazed expression, as if he was scared silly.
Gu Shibai remained unresponsive until his mother's body was taken away.
He didn't think it was his mother, it must be someone else...
As long as he stayed at home obediently, his mother would come back to cook for him and would not let him go hungry.
At his mother's funeral, Gu Shibai seemed like an outsider. He neither shed tears nor showed a trace of sadness. He was just a stranger attending the funeral.
"This is an ungrateful person!"
"What an ungrateful person! He didn't even cry at his own mother's funeral and just sat there like an idiot!!"
"Could she be frightened silly? Chaoxia is also pitiful. Her husband cheated on her, and her child..."
“Shut up!!”
Suddenly the little boy rushed out and bumped into the woman who was speaking, baring his teeth like a wild beast, staring at those who were gossiping.
"Whose funeral is this! Say again whose funeral is this!"
Those people were so frightened that they ran away quickly, fearing that they would be pestered by him. Gu's father came over with a sullen face and slapped him without saying a word.
"You little bastard, just shut up! Don't embarrass me, do you hear me?"
Gu Shibai looked at him with a vicious gaze, and suddenly raised the corner of his mouth to sneer.
How could a seven-year-old child have such a scary look in his eyes?
Father Gu didn't react for a moment, and then he realized that he had just been frightened by his seven-year-old son, and his face became even more uglier.
“Bang!”
He seemed to be using anger to cover up his previous behavior. After slapping her, he turned around and left indifferently.
Gu Shibai watched helplessly as his father took the hand of another strange woman, kissed her openly in front of his mother's portrait, and then prepared to leave with a joking smile.
Especially when the woman gave him a provocative look, Gu Shibai suddenly lost all his rationality. He rushed over and bit the woman's thigh, refusing to let go.
"Ah!! Let me go!! Are you sick?! Your mother's incompetence is none of my business!!"
No matter how the woman screamed, no matter how Gu's father beat, kicked and cursed him, Gu Shibai refused to let go and bit off a large piece of flesh.
He looked at the woman with blood in his mouth, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
"Crazy! He must be crazy!"
The woman was almost on the verge of collapse, the pain driving her away from Gu Shibai.
In the end, Gu's father took the woman into the ambulance. Because he was young, Gu's father did not plan to call the police. After all, she was his own flesh and blood, and he couldn't just slap himself in the face.
Gu Shibai returned to his home and looked at everything in the house in silence.
When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, he finally realized what was happening and started crying on the table. He knew that from then on he no longer had a mother.
There will never be anyone who will hold him gently, reason with him, tell him stories to put him to sleep, or cook for him with great care, just for fear that he will be picky about food.
That person will never come back...
From then on, he was left alone.
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Half a month later, Gu Shibai returned to school. After finishing elementary school, he went to junior high school and high school. His father never gave him a penny, and he completed his studies on his own.
After graduation, I chose to work in a psychological clinic and became a psychologist.
No one knows how he managed to survive all these years alone.
But he did not seem to be overwhelmed by the difficulties, and never bowed to the Gu family. He even did not go back to see his father when he was sick.
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