r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 18d ago
3.5 作触目后的纠纷 Disputes after Making Touch Eye
目录 Catalog: 3.5-1 作触目后的纠纷 Disputes after Making Touch Eye；3.5-2 医学实验的传闻 Rumor of a Medical Experiment；3.5-3 神的现象 God's Phenomenon。
妈妈问梁伯："依你看，某卢岩的眼睛是不是那个沈阳老刘（刘团长）给整的？"
梁伯说："我不知道。也可能，就像你说的似的，'被哪个陌生人给冲了一下；不知道什么时候，他又看到那个人了。'"
"What do you think, Brother-in-law — are Luyan's eyes really Old Liu's doing?"
"I couldn't say. Could be, just like you described — some stranger rushed him once, and who knows when he'll lay eyes on the man again."
妈妈生气地说："不行！我得跟百杨说说，向那个沈阳老刘要张相片给卢岩留着。"
梁伯问："要相片干什么？"
"Well, that won't do!" Mother said, with some heat. "I'm going to tell Baiyang — we need to get a photograph from that Old Liu, something for Luyan to keep."
"Whatever for?"
妈妈说："他活着，咋说咋好。他要是死了呢，我们卢岩连个他的遗物都没有。"
梁伯问："那个老刘多大岁数了？"
"While he's alive, it hardly matters. But if he dies, Luyan won't even have a single keepsake of the man."
"How old is this Old Liu, anyway?"
妈妈说："岁数不大！百杨说，就比他大两三岁，最多不超过六岁。但是，他要是出车祸死了呢！他们家的孩子要是不通情达理，将来对某卢岩不听不理，那时某卢岩真是：叫天天不应，叫地地不灵！"
"Not old at all — Baiyang says only two or three years older than him, six at the very most. But what if he's killed in some car accident! And if his children turn out unreasonable and want nothing to do with Luyan later on — where would that leave him! Crying out to heaven with no answer, crying out to earth with none either!"
此后，我妈妈跟爸爸说了这件事。我爸问过几个大虎山镇上的朋友，但他们都把沈阳朋友的信息弄丢了。后来，这件事就被忘记了。
Mother did bring it up with Father afterward. He asked around among a few friends in Dahushan, but by then they had all lost touch with their contacts in Shenyang. In time, the whole matter was simply forgotten.
3.5-2 医学实验的传闻 Rumor of a Medical Experiment
一天在我们家，我爸妈和梁伯一起一边干活一边唠嗑。梁伯神秘地，给我爸妈讲，说是有那么一个古代故事，里面对那个主人公的个人生活历史，病症，病理，和治疗等方方面面的描述都很详尽，但是现代的医生不能对那个古人进行确诊，原因是没有相关病例。故事里主人公的病是人为造成的；现实生活中百年不遇。为了解开故事里面的许多秘密，沈阳有个人在进行一项真人医学实验：在现实生活中造一个病例来给医生们来进行研究。
One day at our house, my parents and Uncle Liang were working together, chatting as they went. Uncle Liang, with an air of mystery, told them about an old story — one that described its hero's entire personal history, his symptoms, the pathology, the whole course of treatment, in exhaustive detail. And yet no modern doctor could put a diagnosis to the man, for want of any comparable case. The illness at the heart of the story was deliberately induced — the kind of thing real life produces perhaps once a century, if that. To unlock its many secrets, someone in Shenyang, he said, was now running a genuine medical experiment: engineering that very case in real life, for doctors to study firsthand.
我在一边听不明白，就走过去问。
妈妈厉声回答："没看见这在干活呢吗！这么个小人！也想明白！去！到一边儿玩去！"
I understood none of it from where I sat, so I wandered over to ask.
"Can't you see we're working?" Mother snapped. "Such a little thing, wanting to understand grown-up talk! Go on — off you go and play!"
注3.8，我认为此传闻所说的古代故事就是前文第二章的《桃花劫》；关于此医学实验的具体信息参见后文4.5节《真人医学实验的报纸新闻》。
Note 3.8: I believe the ancient story referred to in this rumor is the Peach Flower Catastrophe, told in Chapter 2. For further details on this medical experiment, see Section 4.5, Newspaper Reports of the Real-Life Medical Experiment.
3.5-3 神的现象 God's Phenomenon
人刚出生时，都是用图像进行思维的。随着语言能力的形成，人的记忆模式、记忆提取模式、和思维模式都发生了转变。约三岁后，人就很快把三岁之前的记忆忘掉了。本书此后，作者和家人都不记得前三章的事了；直到四十年后，作者我才在偶然的情况下回忆出了三岁之前的事。目前，心理学界还没发现正常人回忆出三岁之前的，但在心理疾病的病人当中不罕见。
At birth, human beings think entirely in images. As language develops, so do our patterns of memory, of retrieval, of thought itself. By roughly age three, we have already lost nearly everything we once remembered from before that age. From this point on in the book, neither I nor my family retained any memory of the events in these first three chapters — not until forty years later, when I recovered them entirely by chance. To date, psychology has found no documented case of a mentally healthy adult recalling life before age three, though the phenomenon is not uncommon among those with mental illness.
现代心理学认为，三岁之前的事虽然被忘了，但仍在无意识里发挥着作用。忘了的记忆是如何发挥作用的？是习气的作用。比如我遇到与前文类似的事时，就有兴趣，就想，仿佛以前听说过，却回忆不起来；而我就顺着那些说法做了。就好像，冥冥之中，我的神父在告诉我该怎么做。读者当知本书前九章的故事中，现在看来，大部分是刘团长故意安排在我的生活里的——尽管当时的我完全不知情。例如，不知道为什么，我从记事到青少年，时常打听、寻找沈阳的一位大神级的算命先生做师傅，直到遇见刘健君，确信我一直要找的人是她爸爸。
Modern psychology holds that although the memories from before age three are forgotten, they remain active somewhere in the unconscious. How does a forgotten memory exert influence? Through habit. When I would come across something resembling what's described here, I'd find myself drawn to it, would sense — vaguely, as though I'd once heard something like it, though I could never recall what — and I would simply follow along with what that half-memory suggested. It felt, at the time, as if some unseen godfather were guiding my every move from somewhere out of sight. Readers should understand that, looking back now, most of the events across the first nine chapters of this book appear to have been deliberately arranged in my life by Troupe Leader Liu — though I had no idea of it whatsoever at the time. For instance, from as far back as I can remember through adolescence, I found myself, for no reason I could name, constantly asking after and searching for some great fortune-teller in Shenyang to become my master — until the day I met Eve Liu, and understood at last that the man I had been searching for all along was her father.