Pastoral Daily Life

It had been two days since Lu Lingxi woke up again and became Lu Lingxi. That was a rather odd statement to make, but the truth was even odder than that.

Lu Lingxi didnt know what had happened; after an operation, he was no longer Lu Lingxi, the youngest child of the Lu family in Zhongjing, but somehow appeared in Fengcheng as Lu Lingxi, the son of the woman he had met two days ago.

When Lu Lingxi first discovered this fact, he was really surprised for a long time. His body was no longer the body he was familiar with; without the pallor and thinness of the past, his new body was overflowing with a vigorous energy. The only thing that carried a shadow of the past was his face. The two faces were three or four points similar, but this new one was more delicate and beautiful, and similar in appearance to this bodys mother.

Lu Lingxi heard the doctor talk about how his operation had created a miracle. At one point during the operation he had lost his vital signs, but a miracle occurred and his heart managed to beat again after stopping for a dozen seconds. He thought that perhaps it was not a miracle created by the operation at all, but a metaphysical miracle from the underworld. After this bodys heart started beating again, the person inside the body was no longer the original Lu Lingxi, but him. What about the original owner of this body? Did he pass away? Or did he enter a strange body like him, a body that originally belonged to him?

This latter thought made Lu Lingxi uneasy. Not only was the idea too odd and he had never heard of anything like it happening, but more than that, his current body was so much healthier than his original one that it gave him an inexplicable feeling of guilt. He imagined the teenager hed never met waking up inside his body, facing a body that had just been crippled by surgery, and wondered what kind of panic he would feel?

Lu Lingxi felt that he needed to try to contact his family. If the other person was really inside him, he would find a way to swap bodies back with him. The other person was not him. They each had their own life trajectories. He could not take over the other persons existence without permission, let alone selfishly allowing the other person to take over his existence. Even though that was the existence he subconsciously wanted to escape…

As all kinds of random thoughts flashed in Lu Lingxis mind, he didnt say a word, just lying quietly on the bed alone. In the past, he was the youngest child in the Lu family, and because of his special situation, he had never had any playmates. After years and years of being alone, he gradually developed a non-talkative temperament. Now that he was in an unfamiliar environment, he was even more at a loss as to what to say.

“Doctor, what is wrong with my son? He doesnt remember anything. Didnt you say the operation was very successful?”

“The patient received a heavy blow to the head earlier, which may have affected the nerve centre to some extent. Its not a big problem, hell be fine after a while.”

“He doesnt even recognise me anymore, and you dont call it a big problem? What is a big problem then? Is your hospital normal or what?”

The doctor said helplessly: “The patients current problem is commonly known as amnesia. If you want the patient to recall things as soon as possible, its best to talk to him more about things hes familiar with. It will help the patient recover his memory.”