imperial psychologist

Chapter 244
Bo Ling smiled and handed over the tea bag in his hand—this scene has happened many times, and Bo Ling didn’t count how many times, but every time he came, the Queen Mother would happily tell her that in half an hour month is my birthday.

She seems to be living a day in her life on repeat.

But the Empress Dowager's real birthday is in winter—this is what Fourteen told her.

For Bo Ling, all the changes happened one night four years ago. She came to the palace to deliver dinner to Bo Shijun as usual, and then met the empress dowager who was fleeing with disheveled hair.

That night, Wei Shishi happened to be going to Fusi, Beizhen, and left the Compassionate Ning Palace after the Queen Mother fell asleep.No one knows how the old queen slipped out of the guards in the harem without anyone noticing, and finally appeared near the west side.

This luxuriously dressed old man with a terrified face froze for a moment when he saw Bai Ling, and then called out to her ecstatically, "A Ling (ling)——!"

It was hard for Berlin to forget what she saw when she turned her head because of the voice.

It was an old face full of tears, a pair of cloudy eyes, and messy hair.

In the past, many villagers who came to the house to see a doctor would call her "A Ling"-but Bai Ling had never seen this old lady who came out of nowhere, and did not know that she was the queen mother.

Bo Ling just stood there in a daze, and after a moment, he saw the guards rushing towards him throwing the old man down in front of him.

But the astonishment of the old man looking at her, the joy of reuniting the old man after a long absence, also made her surprised and moved.

That night, Bai Shijun was hungry—because Bai Ling, who delivered the food, was also arrested on the spot and interrogated for a whole night.

But fortunately, it was a relatively gentle questioning. There were no instruments of torture, no torture, only a eunuch whose face could not be seen stood behind the paper window and asked her many questions.

--What's your name?
Berlin.

—Who are your parents?
My father is Bai Shijun, a doctor at the Imperial Hospital, and my mother has passed away.

—What's your mother's name?
Well, it should be... Yao Chu, Bai Yao's family.

—Do you even think about your own mother’s name?
Uh... because she passed away very early, I hardly ever see her except visiting the grave with my dad every year.

——What relatives do you have in your family?
And my brother.

——Why did you appear on the west side?

Because I want to deliver food to my father.

——Has your family been in the capital?
No, we just came here... for almost a year, because the old envoy of Taiyuan Hospital appreciates my father, so...

There were about fifty or sixty questions in total, ranging from who's name, where they lived, when and what the family did... The eunuch asked her over and over again all night.

She can't rest, drink water, or walk around. If she gets sleepy, a eunuch wearing a mask will come and stick a needle in her arm to wake her up instantly.

What is the purpose of this kind of interrogation? Berlin is very clear-one cannot lie in this state, because this kind of quick and coherent question and answer will not give you time to think. Inconsistencies in the front will immediately give away.

Bo Ling remembered that the old lady's night cries kept coming from the room not far away at that time, and that night made her live like years.

At daybreak, she was finally allowed to get up, and was brought to the old empress by several eunuchs.

The moment she saw Bo Ling, the queen mother stopped crying, showing a certain sad expression revealed because of trust, that kind of sadness reminded people of a puppy getting wet in the rain.The two briefly exchanged a few words, and the Queen Mother fell asleep leaning against Bo Ling's lap.

When she was taken away from the Palace of Compassion and Peace again, Bai Ling was told that she could not tell anyone about every scene she saw and every word she heard from last night to this morning. When we met the queen mother, the queen mother liked her very much when she saw her—and she had to be ready to accept the queen mother's summons at any time.

During this whole process, she didn't see any specific face, either a palace man wearing a mask, or a figure standing behind the paper window. Now she thinks that the person behind the paper window may be Huang Chongde, but Berlin isn't sure either.

After the initial period of intensive appeasement, the palace told her that from now on, she would come to the palace on the [-]th of every month to have a talk with the queen mother, and everything else should be as if nothing had happened.

Berlin did so.

This fear is hard for anyone to digest alone.She experienced nightmares and insomnia for a period of time. Later, when Bai Yi saw the clue, Bai Ling opened his mouth with difficulty, and quietly told Bai Yi about the interrogation that happened that night—but she still didn't mention anything about the Queen Mother. detail.

As Zheng Shu said earlier, "the less you know, the safer" is definitely not empty talk in the palace.

At that time, Bai Yi hadn't started learning how to cook with Wan Fushun, but was doing odd jobs with a master carpenter who had just entered the city. After learning about this, he took half a month off to take care of the frightened Bai Ling at home.

During that time, Bo Ling's abnormality was so obvious that Bo Shijun, who has always been dull, noticed it. Although he couldn't figure out what happened, he would often bring a Take one or two bouquets of wild flowers picked from the mountains, tie them with dry straw, pick up a small clay pot, put them in, and put them on the bedside of Boling.

It's hard to say how much this kind of care can change the situation, but when people know that someone is taking a difficult time with them, something has already happened.

These four years have passed quickly, and Bo Ling has gradually learned how to respond to the court's summons, but with the Queen Mother, time seems to have not changed at all.

At first, Berlin suspected that what happened to the queen mother was some kind of anterograde amnesia, which may be caused by the degeneration of brain function, such as the atrophy of the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe caused by Alzheimer's disease.That is to say, she can no longer have any memory of what happened after a certain moment, her life will always be only the time before a certain moment, and all new things that happened will not be able to leave any memory in her mind. trace.

But this conjecture was dispelled after meeting Shishi——Wei Shishi was too young to be an old friend of the Empress Dowager when she was young.If the Queen Mother could accurately remember Wei Shishi's identity, then what happened to her could not be a complete anterograde amnesia.

So Berlin's conjecture turned to another kind, which may be a kind of psychogenic amnesia.

The cause of this mental illness is usually not organic.The patient has generally experienced some kind of huge blow—this kind of blow is severe enough to break her whole body, so that it directly triggers the internal defense mechanism, making people temporarily erase certain memories and forget them.

Some patients with dissociative personality disorder are accompanied by dissociative amnesia.Some of them will forget who they are, some will forget their family and friends, things they have done, and even the most important people they have ever had.

Bo Ling could feel that the Queen Mother, who had forgotten many things, mistook herself for someone she knew and trusted, but Bo Ling never asked who that person was.

The reason for this is simple, the queen mother's nonsense will not bring any disaster, but once the queen mother gives a specific and exact answer, does she really have the ability to bear the truth?
　Thank you ysshiau for the monthly pass~
　　Thank you rquall for your daily reward~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)