The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 91 She is Split
After dinner, Wang Shengnan coaxed Tang Jiaojiao to sleep. Wang's father and mother also sent Wang Dingnan back to the room. Seeing that she had stopped crying, they both walked out the door.

Standing outside the gate, Wang's father lowered his head slightly, speaking in a hoarse and dull voice to Wang Shengnan who came out from inside.

"Shengnan, I."

"Alright, you guys should go back and have some rest. It was just a quarrel, why are you taking it to heart? Let bygones be bygones. I'm almost fifty years old, and I've mostly digested any grievances."

Wang Shengnan closed the door gently and interrupted her father. She was already this old and all the things from her youth had become memories. She couldn't say whether sending herself to learn martial arts was a good or bad thing. But no matter whether it was good or bad, it was already in the past. There was no point in discussing it any further except to make everyone feel bad.

After hearing what his eldest daughter said, Wang's father sighed, skipped the topic, and took the elevator downstairs with Wang Shengnan to discuss things.

After driving her parents home, Wang Shengnan dragged her tired body back home. Fortunately, it was summer vacation and she, as a teacher, could have a rest. Otherwise, she would have to go to work the next day, which would have been painful to think about.

Without even changing her clothes, Wang Shengnan went straight into bed. The familiar environment made her fall asleep quickly.

"bell--"

The phone rang again. Wang Shengnan no longer had the energy to be angry. She struggled to get up and answered the phone. Her tone was filled with despair.
"Hey"

"Auntie, come quickly, my mom cut herself with a knife! She's bleeding so much!"

Wang Shengnan's heart twitched suddenly, and she jumped up from the bed. At this time, Lin Dawei's voice came from the bed.
"Wait a minute, I'll go with you"

As the voice came, Lin Dawei put on his clothes quickly. Because he moved too fast, his waist was pulled, making his face distorted.

Wang Shengnan looked at Lin Dawei, and her originally panicked heart suddenly calmed down, as if she had found a backbone.

Lin Dawei drove Wang Shengnan towards Wang Dingnan's home at high speed, not caring about speeding. Fortunately, there were not many cars on the road in the early morning, and the two quickly arrived at Wang Dingnan's community.

As I walked out of the elevator, I heard a noisy voice coming from the corridor.
"Hey, don't go over there, she has a knife in her hand"

"What a sin! If someone dies here, the house price will drop so much."

"You deserve it, I think. You're as stupid as a pig and you still want to learn how to invest. Now you've lost your money, your marriage is over, and now you've lost your life."

Listening to the noisy voices, Wang Shengnan ignored what those people said and squeezed into the crowd. She looked at Wang Dingnan, who was covered in blood, holding a fruit knife in his left hand, with several knife marks on his right wrist. He was now hugging his legs and crying.

If someone came forward and just waved the knife around without even looking, some neighbors who wanted to help would not dare to come forward.

When Wang Shengnan saw this scene, she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart. She was already numb. She stood in front of Wang Dingnan, looking at her with her head down.

Wang Dingnan seemed to sense something. He raised his head and looked at Wang Shengnan. His body trembled, but he did not dare to swing the knife in his hand.

The crowd fell silent. Lin Dawei was holding his phone, ready to call an ambulance. He asked the people around him.

"Have you called an ambulance?"

"I called, I guess he'll be here soon"

Someone's voice was heard, Lin Dawei and the man nodded, indicating that they understood, and the call on the mobile phone was still made.

Only after confirming that the ambulance was on the way did Lin Dawei put down his phone.

Wang Shengnan, who was standing opposite Wang Dingnan, had a blank expression on her face. She took advantage of Wang Dingnan's inattention and kicked the knife out of her hand. Someone in the crowd took the opportunity to kick the knife away.

Before Wang Dingnan could react, Wang Shengnan slapped her in the face. This slap seemed to wake Wang Dingnan up. She stopped crying and sat in the corridor with her legs hugged.

After Wang Shengnan slapped Wang Dingnan, she didn't even look at her, walked into the door, and hugged Tang Jiaojiao who was hiding in the room.

"Okay, auntie is here, everything is fine."

Seeing that the situation was under control, Lin Dawei shouted

"Let's go, let's all go. It's still early and everyone can go back to sleep. I'm really sorry for causing trouble to everyone. Let's all go."

At Lin Dawei's call, the crowd gradually dispersed. The remaining few elderly people who couldn't sleep also left after Wang Dingnan was carried away on a stretcher by the doctor.

Wang Shengnan carried Tang Jiaojiao and followed the ambulance to the hospital, while Lin Dawei stayed here to clean up the bloodstains on the corridor. After supporting his waist, Lin Dawei drove to the hospital again.

Wang Dingnan's wound was not deep, as could be seen from the fact that she still had the strength to throw a tantrum in the corridor outside her home after cutting her wrist. After being treated by the doctor, she is out of danger and is now asleep.

But the doctor on duty found Wang Shengnan, who had just coaxed Tang Jiaojiao to sleep, and made a suggestion.

"Why don't you take the patient to a psychiatric department?"

Seeing Wang Shengnan's face suddenly turned cold, the doctor understood and quickly explained

"That's not what I meant. It's just that we would recommend that patients who are in such extreme situations get checked out."

After hearing the doctor's explanation, Wang Shengnan took a deep breath and forced a smile.

"Okay, thank you"

The doctor could see that Wang Shengnan was in a bad mood, so he didn't stay long and left Wang Dingnan's ward directly.

Not long after, Lin Dawei rushed to the ward, opened the door quietly, and saw Wang Shengnan, with a haggard face, sitting beside the bed holding the sleeping Tang Jiaojiao. He immediately walked over, stretched out his hand to signal that he would hold Tang Jiaojiao so that Wang Shengnan could take a nap.

Wang Shengnan looked at Lin Dawei's waist, raised her head and looked at him, signaling with her eyes whether he could do it or not, but Lin Dawei did not respond. He took Tang Jiaojiao from Wang Shengnan's arms and asked Wang Shengnan to take a nap on another chair.

Before he knew it, Lin Dawei fell asleep leaning against the chair. Before falling asleep, he found a position so that Tang Jiaojiao in his arms would not fall out.

As the doctor made his rounds in the morning, Lin Dawei and Wang Shengnan were both awakened. Wang Shengnan saw that the leading doctor was an older man who looked more reliable than the young doctor last night, so she stood up and asked the doctor if he really wanted to take the patient to the psychiatric department for a checkup. After the older doctor took Wang Shengnan out of the ward, his expression was slightly serious.

"Based on my experience, I think it's better to go check it out." "But doctor, I can see that my sister doesn't really want to commit suicide. You can see that her wounds are not deep. She even ran to the corridor outside the door to commit suicide, making a noise for the neighbors to find. My sister has been spoiled since she was a child. This time she probably went to extremes because of the emotional excitement. It shouldn't be necessary."

Wang Shengnan no longer had the momentum she had last night. She frowned and spoke with hesitation. The doctor turned his head to look at Wang Shengnan, pushed his glasses, and spoke calmly.
"I am just suggesting it, it is not necessary, but what I want to tell you is that people who have attempted suicide but failed are very likely to attempt suicide a second or third time. You family members should pay attention to this."

After saying that, the older doctor nodded, and left with the doctors and nurses behind him to the next ward.

Wang Shengnan returned to the ward with a heavy heart. Tang Jiaojiao had woken up at some point and was sitting on another chair. Lin Dawei was carefully moving his waist. He felt like a piece of wood that was about to rot. He didn't dare to move too much for fear that it would break accidentally.

Seeing Lin Dawei's sweaty face, Wang Shengnan felt distressed and stepped forward to help rub it. Lin Dawei turned around and saw that it was Wang Shengnan, heaved a sigh of relief, straightened up and said

"Look at me for a while, I'm going out to move around and buy some breakfast. Jiaojiao just said she was hungry."

"Okay, go ahead and buy some more."

When Lin Dawei walked out of the ward, Wang Shengnan remembered something and took out her cell phone to leave a message for Lin Miaomiao, saying that she didn't know when she could go back today, so she didn't want her to be alone at home and worry about it.

While editing the message, Wang Shengnan stopped. Miaomiao probably wished she was alone at home, so she went to find Xiaoyu.

Pursing her lips, Wang Shengnan sent a message asking her to solve her own breakfast and then put away her phone.

Not long after, Lin Dawei came back after buying breakfast and asked Tang Jiaojiao to eat first. The two of them stood at the door of the ward and discussed whether to take Wang Dingnan to the psychiatric department for a check-up.

"Dawei, do you think we should take Dingnan to get checked?"

Lin Dawei leaned against the wall, stroking his chin, thinking for a long time.
"I think we should go check it out. After all, Dingnan is living with Jiaojiao now. If not for Dingnan, we should at least think about Jiaojiao."

Wang Shengnan's shoulders sank and she sighed.
"Okay, let's check it out when she wakes up."

Seeing Wang Shengnan like this, Lin Dawei felt a little strange.

"Have you thought of something? You look like you know something."

At this point, Wang Shengnan felt that there was no need to hide some things, so she explained to Lin Dawei in a low voice.

"Actually, she is not my biological sister."

The first sentence startled Lin Dawei, his eyebrows raised, his eyes full of shock, but Wang Shengnan hadn't finished speaking yet.
"Think about it, in our era, every family wanted to have as many children as possible, not to mention that I was the only girl in our family, so we definitely wanted a boy. But my mother got sick when she gave birth to me, and she couldn't get pregnant again. But one day, my aunt, my father's biological sister, suddenly found our house and stayed there.

I didn't know what was going on at the time. Now I think about it, she must have come back secretly, and her belly was swollen soon after. If you think about it, this was no small matter at that time. For the sake of the family's face, my father thought of a way to make my mother stay at home and pretend to be pregnant. My father told others that she got pregnant with great difficulty, and she didn't go out to be careful.

Then she bribed the midwife and the boy became my sister. My father was so disappointed to see that it was a girl. But my aunt didn't take good care of herself after giving birth and died soon after. Before she died, she told my parents what happened to the child. She said that she had secretly married a man, but unexpectedly, something happened to the man and he disappeared soon after. My aunt was scared and ran back home.

Later, after that period of time passed, my parents wanted to help Dingnan find her biological father. They searched for a long time through my aunt’s relationship. I don’t know whether they found him in the end. Later, I was also silenced and not allowed to talk about Dingnan’s background. This matter has continued until now.”

After listening to Wang Shengnan's words, Lin Dawei took a deep breath. The air filled with the smell of disinfectant entered his body, making his swollen and painful head clearer. He looked at Wang Shengnan.
"So you guess that Dingnan is most likely a hereditary mental illness?"

Wang Shengnan nodded, looking serious.

"I checked last night and found that some mental illnesses can be inherited, so."

The rest of the words were not finished, but Lin Dawei knew what Wang Shengnan meant and nodded.

"Let's not tell Jiaojiao about this for now. After breakfast, call your parents and ask them about the specific circumstances. Then, when Dingnan wakes up, take him for a checkup."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Someone helped her make the decision. Wang Shengnan breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the ward to have breakfast with Tang Jiaojiao.

Halfway through the meal, Wang Dingnan woke up. Wang Shengnan didn't care about breakfast anymore. She came to the bedside and held Wang Dingnan's intact hand.

"Top man? How does it feel?"

"I don't feel strong enough, what's wrong with me?"

Seeing the confusion in Wang Dingnan's eyes, Wang Shengnan's heart skipped a beat. She had a bad feeling and quickly called a doctor.

Seeing the doctor, Wang Dingnan was a little nervous, but Wang Shengnan was beside her, so she was relatively calm. The doctor carefully examined her and took Wang Shengnan out of the ward. This time, his tone was much more confident.
"I think it's necessary to take the patient to a psychiatric department for a checkup. You should feel the same way, right?"

Wang Shengnan hesitated for a moment and nodded slowly. The doctor saw her nod and wrote something on the board in his hand.
"The patient is in good condition now, and there are not many people in the psychiatric department right now. If you go now, I think you will get a number quickly."

"Okay, I understand. I'll go now."

Wang Shengnan made up her mind, returned to the ward, and took Wang Dingnan to the hospital's psychiatric department. While she was being diagnosed there, Wang Shengnan called her parents.

"Hey, Shengnan, what's wrong?"

Wang Shengnan did not tell them about Wang Dingnan's suicide, but directly asked about the situation of Wang Dingnan's biological father.

"Mom, do you still remember what happened to Dingnan's father? Tell me in detail."

The phone fell silent, and Wang Shengnan did not urge him. After a while, Wang's father's voice came.
"Shengnan, why are you asking those questions? It's been a long time."

Wang Shengnan looked up at the sign of the psychiatric clinic and took a breath.

"Dad, don't ask so many questions. Tell me in detail. I need it urgently."

"Okay, okay, let me tell you something. We did find that guy, and he invited us for tea. But we were careful and didn't reveal who we were. We said we knew your aunt and came to see her to see if he remembered her. But as soon as we mentioned your aunt's name, the guy suddenly became a different person. He started talking to himself, and then he got more and more excited. He bit his fingers until they bled. Your mother and I were scared. Fortunately, someone controlled him soon. Later, we never thought about helping your sister find her father again. What's wrong with you? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

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