Crazy Psychologist

"Tell me quickly, did you hit Zhou Fei and prick his hand with a pencil? Was it you? Was it you?"

The more Li Xiaoyun asked, the more anxious he became. His heartbeat almost reached his throat. Finally, the anxiety turned into anger, and he slapped Xie Xiaofei on the face with a "pop".

Xie Xiaofei was quiet for three seconds, no more, no less, exactly three seconds, and then his whole body trembled manically.

Xie Chunping couldn't help it anymore. The left side of his brain was afraid that Xiaofei would be beaten stupid by his mother, and the right side of his brain was afraid that his wife would have a heart attack or stroke.

"Xiaoyun Xiaoyun, calm down, calm down, the child is scared, please calm down a little."

Xie Chunping only dared to persuade him from the side and did not dare to touch Li Xiaoyun who was angry.

The atmosphere in the living room became extremely strange. Xie Chunping looked at the black coffee table and white bookshelf, hearing his son's strange screams and his wife's curses. He didn't know how to deal with such an occasion.

Until the wife shifted the blame from her son to him.

"Does your family have such a situation where it moves around all the time? Don't blink. I'm telling you, don't blink."

Li Xiaoyun finally lost patience with his son and turned his anger on Xie Chunping.

Xie Chunping also felt uncomfortable. He had no idea what happened and why Li Xiaoyun was so angry.

But he knows that his wife is a woman who cares about face very much. She cannot dress worse than others, and his son cannot be criticized by others.

But this child is also the product of two people’s genes. You can’t just scold the man whenever you feel something is wrong, right? Doesn’t the woman have no genes to pass on to the child?

"You kept moving, you injured someone's child and you didn't say a word when he came back. What about you? You didn't even answer a single sentence when I asked you ten questions. Is that how you two treat me? You just watch me work like this from morning to morning." At the end of the day, do you treat me like this, right? Then I don’t care, I don’t care about anything, you don’t want to lose face, but I still want to lose face.”

After saying that, Li Xiaoyun closed the door with a snap, and Xie Chunping sighed in his heart, which was considered relieved.

Looking at his son Xie Xiaofei, who was sitting on the coffee table and shaking continuously, Xie Chunping was also confused. Leaving aside the matter of hurting people, is there really something strange wrong with his son?

Xie Chunping remembered a piece of news he had seen on Weibo before, saying that a teacher repeatedly checked whether the door at home was locked, and that some people had to wash their hands dozens of times a day. Could it be that his son's blinking and shrugging problems were also uncontrollable? Of?

Xie Chunping didn't believe that there could be such a strange thing in the world. This kind of thing must be regarded as evil in their hometown in Heping.

He still remembers when he left his hometown to go to college in Huanhai. When he returned home in his junior year, he heard his mother say that his uncle's children were possessed by evil spirits.

The word "possessed" is not a superstitious word in the mountains around Heping. People use this word to explain many things. For example, a woman is always depressed after giving birth, and her personality is completely different from before. She used to be evil to everyone. To be polite, after giving birth to a child, it looks like someone else is trying to rob her family of money and steal her child.

I went to the doctor in the village and took some medicine. Anyway, it was good and bad. I went to the masters in the village and they said it was something unclean that I saw on the day I gave birth. This kind of unclean thing usually comes out. They run to children, such as big rabbit spirits, big turtle spirits, and giant centipede spirits.

To Xie Chunping, these things must be stories from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" or "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".

Moreover, the relatives and villagers in his hometown have also read books, but these folk cultural things are just told as stories. Xie Chunping just listens to them and never takes them seriously.

There was only one time that Xie Chunping still vividly remembered. When he went home during the Chinese New Year in his junior year, his mother said that his uncle's children were possessed by evil spirits.

"How could you be possessed?" Xie Chunping asked.

Mom sighed and served a bowl of dumplings to Xie Chunping, "You eat first, pickled cabbage dumplings are your favorite."

"Yeah." Xie Chunping liked the dumplings made by his mother the most. He didn't go home for a year, so he naturally ate them.

His mother said to Xie Chunping in the same tone she used to tell him stories about the gods in the village when she was a child: "He's really crazy. It's such a cold weather. He said he couldn't wear a coat or a sweater, so he just wore a short-sleeved shirt." top, and you know, your brother has already passed the graduate school, but now he will definitely drop out."

"I don't know when it happened."

Xie Chunping said in surprise.

"I don't know how long it has been. Your aunt wants to save face. Your brother is crazy all day long. He has to take a bath in the winter. He takes a dozen times a day and uses cold water. He says that hot water won't work. Ask him why he can't, and he won't. Just say no, the masters in the village said that the child was entangled in the willow tree on the back mountain."

"Willow tree?" Xie Chunping knew what his mother was referring to by the willow tree. There was a small river on this side of Heping. After people died in the villages on the other side of the river and the villages on this side of the river, they would send them to the same mountain.

Pick a good day for burial and then call it a day.

The funeral ceremony here is not very grand, but it is different on the other side of the river. The funeral on the other side of the river is particularly elaborate, even more terrifying than a wedding. Sometimes the family has to stay up for several nights without rest.

Xie Chunping is one of the more well-educated children in the village. He knows that sooner or later these customs across the river will be simplified like in his village.

In fact, many knowledgeable people and thinkers have always advocated the idea that funerals should be simplified. For example, Mozi’s famous concept of "Festival Burial": In the section "Festival Burial", Mozi described the situation of generous burials in society at that time: The coffin must be heavy, the burial must be thick, the quilts must be many, the embroidery must be complicated, the hills must be huge...the gold, jade, and pearls are as large as the body, the strings are economical, and the chariots and horses are hidden.

Mozi pointed out that those princes and nobles not only lived a luxurious and lascivious life during their lifetime, but also had to be buried generously after their death, which was a great waste of social wealth. He advocated the use of three-inch thick wooden boards as coffins regardless of high or low, and no burial items. He opposed the three-year mourning system, and opposed the "strong food will lead to hunger, thin clothing will lead to cold" during the funeral period. Thin and weak, the heavy rituals of "helping you to stand up and walking with a stick" destroy your body.

Mozi believed that thick burials and burying useful wealth underground would inevitably lead to poverty for the living; long-term mourning would destroy the body and reduce the population; during the period of mourning, the people could not engage in production, resulting in "a poor country, few people, and poor government." chaos".

Although Mozi talked about the relationship between frugality and people's prosperity from the perspective of a country, it is actually the same for a small village or a small family.