After a whole minute, Doctor Pei finally spoke. He looked at Jiang Xiaohu in bed, and his expression was weird.
"I feel like the whole family is sick. I don't mean that in a derogatory way; I mean it literally." Doctor Pei stood up and walked around the bed. "Three years ago, Jiang Xiaohu's mother brought him and his sister to see the doctor. I can still remember the scene that day. His mother's name was Zhang Chuyu. She was very pretty, and there was a heavy perfume on her.
She was dressed from head to toe, but I could sense that she was not happy. There was something hidden in her heart, and she was in a trance. When we were talking, her mind would wander off.
"After a simple conversation, I got a general understanding of her family.
"The sister, Jiang Bai, suffered from paranoia. She felt like someone was out to kill her, and everyone looked like a crazed murderer.
"The younger brother, Jiang Xiaohu, had a strange illness. He would often do strange and dangerous things like turning on the stove alone, splashing water at the electrical outlet, playing with fire at home, and so on.
"Zhang Chuyu scolded Jiang Xiaohu more than once, but the boy did not listen to her. If anything, it only worsened his behavior.
"When her husband, Jiang Long, found out about this, he beat Jiang Xiaohu several times, but the violence did not change Jiang Xiaohu. If anything, it made his personality even weirder.
"Impulsive, violent, often fighting with other students at school, causing destruction. Sometimes, it felt like he was possessed, and he would try his best to hurt the people around him.
"This was the first time I had encountered a patient like that. Considering Jiang Xiaohu's young age, I did not prescribe any medicine for him at the time but encouraged his parents to communicate with him.
"I was doing it for the child's future, but Zhang Chuyu did not agree. She was very impatient, and she felt like the child should take medicine when he was sick.
"There was a difference in treatment. As a doctor in the field of mental illness, we are often misunderstood by others, so I did not mind this small thing.
"A sudden change in a child's personality must have something to do with his surroundings. From how I saw it, Jiang Xiaohu's illness was mostly due to his parents.
"To better treat Jiang Xiaohu, I had his mother and sister leave first and asked Jiang Xiaohu to stay behind to communicate with him.
"After this communication, I discovered something so strange that it was terrifying."
Doctor Pei did not shy away from Jiang Xiaohu, who was lying on the bed. He continued to say, "When we were interrogating Jiang Xiaohu, the boy accidentally revealed a piece of information. His mother was lying."
"Lie?" Chen Ge was confused. "The mother lies to send the child to the mental hospital? I think Jiang Xiaohu is the one who is lying. "
Doctor Pei shook his head lightly. "I couldn't be sure, but after Jiang Long got into a car accident and died, I realized that Jiang Xiaohu might not be lying."
"What did he tell you?"
"Jiang Xiaohu secretly told me that he did not do those dangerous things. His mother held his hand and forced him to do those things. She wanted to create the illusion that he had lost his mind."
"A mother forces her child to do those dangerous things?" Chen Ge was getting more and more confused. "Then what is her purpose in doing so?"
"The purpose is to kill Jiang Xiaohu's father, Jiang Long." Doctor Pei looked at Jiang Xiaohu with a complicated gaze. "The boy told me that the real crazy person is his mother, Zhang Chuyu. His mother knew that her husband had a mistress outside, so she planned to kill Jiang Long in an accident to get the insurance money and then take over Jiang Long's company for herself."
"It's hard to imagine something like that coming from a child's mouth. Things can't be that simple, right?"
"Yes, I think the same." Doctor Pei leaned against the side of the bed, and his eyes were dark. "I don't think a child can understand so many things. There is a high chance that someone taught him these things. In this family of four, the father is always away from home, and the mother would not frame herself, so the most likely person who taught Jiang Xiaohu these things is his sister, Jiang Bai."
Chen Ge did not interrupt and allowed Doctor Pei to finish in one go.
"After that, I called Jiang Bai in alone, and the result of the interrogation shocked me greatly."
"Jiang Bai told me that the real crazy person is her father, Jiang Long. When Jiang Long started to manage the Ming Yang Residence project, she already felt that her father was not normal. He would not come home at night, and he would do things that normal people wouldn't understand. The way he looked at his family became strange.
"One time, after Jiang Long was drunk, he got into an argument with his mother, Zhang Chuyu. Jiang Long, who was usually gentle, attacked Zhang Chuyu. In the end, he ran into the kitchen to grab a cleaver.
"He waved the cleaver in the air and pointed at a spot where there was no one around. It was like he had changed into a different person.
"After that, Jiang Long rarely came home. He was very secretive and even bought a house in Eastern Jiujiang's Li Wan City. He lived alone outside.
"If that was all, Jiang Bai wouldn't think that his biological father was a lunatic. But what happened later made Jiang Bai completely afraid of his father."
"One month before they came to my place for treatment, Zhang Chuyu was knocked into by Jiang Xiaohu when she was pouring water, and both of them were scalded. Jiang Bai sent Zhang Chuyu and Jiang Xiaohu to the hospital. She called her father, but there was no answer. Then, she went to Jiang Long's house in Eastern Jiujiang to look for him.
"When Jiang Long heard that both Zhang Chuyu and Jiang Xiaohu were scalded, he cursed at them, saying that he was too busy to visit them.
Jiang Bai was very angry when she heard that. She stayed at Jiang Long's house and insisted that her father go to the hospital.
"That night, Jiang Long received a phone call and left in a hurry, leaving Jiang Bai alone at home.
"After midnight, Jiang Bai suddenly heard movement inside the house. She thought it was a mouse, so she followed the sound for a long time. Finally, she found a hidden room behind the cupboard.
"Entering it, she saw a steel cage, and inside the cage was a giant doll!
"There seemed to be a person inside the doll. The person couldn't speak, and his body was weak. When he heard the door to the hidden room open, he instinctively started to feel fear and shrank into the deepest part of the cage.
"Jiang Bai didn't dare go over. She was scared out of her wits. She closed the cupboard door and ran back to the hospital. She told Zhang Chuyu and Jiang Xiaohu about this.
"Jiang Xiaohu was young and didn't know anything, but Zhang Chuyu's reaction was very strange. When she heard that there was a giant doll inside the cupboard, she laughed happily.
"Based on Jiang Bai's description, both Jiang Long and his wife had mental problems, but there was a contradiction. Zhang Chuyu said that Jiang Bai suffered from paranoia, and everything was Jiang Bai's imagination."
Doctor Pei finally finished the story. "In any case, that was the situation. The mother said that the brother and sister were mentally ill, the brother said that the mother was crazy, and the sister said that the mother and father had mental problems. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but until now, I still can't tell who was lying.
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