Chew Slowly Chapter 70

Chapter 70 Chapter 70

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The preoperative evaluation results passed, and Xu Qiaochuan could undergo surgery. The doctor printed an informed consent form for electroconvulsive treatment without convulsions, which required the signature of the patient and his guardian.

The attending doctor and Chen Zongqian pushed the door in together. Xu Qiaochuan heard the movement and his vision was blurry. He couldn’t see clearly who it was, but subconsciously he knew that Chen Zongqian was there.

No one spoke, and the atmosphere in the room was a bit abnormal.The doctor looked around at the two men. They had similar faces but different last names.He had no intention of interfering in other people’s family affairs, and just regarded them as brothers who were not on good terms with each other.

Xu Qiaochuan stared at the piece of paper in a daze for a long time, holding the pen and not signing because he couldn’t concentrate and the written information could not be transmitted into his mind.He looked away with a dull face, not wanting to look at the people or things he couldn’t see clearly anymore.

The doctor patiently explained the surgical plan that would be carried out tomorrow, as well as possible complications and accidents during and after the operation. Xu Qiaochuan then slowly signed his name.Someone accidentally crumpled the paper, and under his name, there was a guardian who needed to sign.

Lu Xiaoyun has passed away and Xu Jiang is in a detention center. He has no relatives or friends now. Who can sign the paper for him?

“Your spouse, parents, adult children or other close relatives can sign.” After the doctor finished speaking, he saw Chen Zongqian’s face solemn.

Xu Qiaochuan’s movements were very light, but they were very dazzling in Chen Zongqian’s eyes.They are entangled so deeply and are so wrong. Will forcefully correcting them have any results?Chen Zongqian couldn’t understand that he was obviously qualified to sign the information letter, but Xu Qiaochuan cruelly refused and denied it, unwilling to give him a status.

He suppressed his confused mood, took the information sheet and said, “Let me sign it. Xiaoqiao entrusted me to be the person in charge.”

Before leaving, the doctor gave a few more instructions. The patient should not eat from now until the end of the operation tomorrow. He was afraid that Xu Qiaochuan would forget what he had heard, so he also told Chen Zongqian.He remains in the hospital tonight.

Chen Zongqian was sitting next to the hospital bed, not too far away from anyone. He saw Xu Qiaochuan pulling the quilt over his whole body, including his head. He thought to himself, “Why aren’t you afraid of being bored?”His mouth was very silent.

The quilt is Xu Qiaochuan’s defense. He tightly protects himself in it, blocking out visiting eyes and blocking inquiries.He didn’t want to talk to Chen Zongqian, and he was even more afraid of going to see him, so he simply trapped himself like this.

He curled up in the quilt, his oppressed heart trembling violently, like a fluttering bird.Xu Qiaochuan was horrified and pressed the bird against his heart, until it became lifeless. He comforted himself that it would be fine by tomorrow, and he would not feel this kind of sadness again tomorrow.

Chen Zongqian stayed until his breathing became calm and even before leaving. The door was closed and there was no light left in the room.

At the end of the corridor, Chen Simin was looking out the window, and suddenly felt that the scenery in every hospital was similar.He was stunned as soon as this idea came out. In fact, it was different. His mind and eyes were not focused on one place, and his thinking was not careful enough.

“The surgery is tomorrow.” Chen Simin didn’t look back. Chen Zongqian was behind him. “I heard the doctor said that after the surgery, my brother might forget something.”

Chen Zongqian didn’t know what to respond, so he nodded silently.

The first course of treatment includes 8 surgeries, with a frequency of once every other day, starting tomorrow.The doctor said that after four or five treatments, memory loss may occur, and you may forget things during the treatment, or lose memory for the past one or two months.But memories from long ago have little impact.

Doctors also say this memory loss is short-lived and usually goes away within one to two weeks.Will everything be back to good as new after the sequelae are resolved?Chen Zongqian didn’t quite believe that two weeks would be enough for Xu Qiaochuan’s memory to become dusty and to build up a new wall of avoidance, and that he would become the same person he was before without his brother.

The truth was not easy for anyone, so he gave Chen Zongqian the cruelest persecution, making sure that he would never take the initiative to mention the unbearable truth again.

“Is he still willing to come back?” Chen Simin asked on Du Hongwei’s behalf, but she knew there was little hope.Sure enough, Chen Zongqian only said sorry, and neither of them had any choice but to face the reality.

Chen Simin took off his glasses, sighed softly, turned around and said to the person: “He didn’t know who you were at that time, right? How did my brother keep Xiaoran?”

“Yes…” Chen Zongqian responded without explaining the question. He remained silent even more.

The window is only half open, why is it so windy and cold?

He couldn’t say anything, so Chen Simin didn’t pursue the question any further and changed his mind: “I met with Professor Tudor in June. He has a student who is as old as you.”

Chen Simin followed a court hearing in which a woman in Manchester accused her father of sexually assaulting her and said she had been molested when she was very young. Charles, a student of Professor Tudor, defended the defendant.

“The father admitted to the subsequent assault and denied molesting his daughter when she was a child. Because too much time had passed, neither side could produce particularly good evidence, and the scene was somewhat stalemate. The woman cried hoarsely during the trial, and the plaintiff’s lawyer cried every word in his complaint.”

The law pursues fairness and justice, and the court is serious, but people inevitably sympathize with the weak, and the defense is in a very passive situation.

“Professor Tudor is very prestigious in the legal community, and Charles is also excellent. He is calm and calm in the face of such severe questioning.”

Charles visited the defendant’s two sons, some relatives and friends with whom he had frequent contact.Before his accident, these people all agreed that the defendant had good moral character.He is a good father, a capable worker, and a warm-hearted friend, but he is also a bastard who raped his daughter.

“After his wife passed away, he sent his 8-year-old daughter to his grandmother’s house for foster care. Before, the couple was loving, and her two brothers said that his father was strict in his teachings and did not favor any child in particular. At that time, he was still a normal father.”

The prosecution lawyer asked: “If he was a normal father, how could he do such a thing? Did he not know that this was incest?”

After hearing this, the defendant clasped his hands together, fell down on the stage, and confessed with tears on his face.Many people around Chen Simin were talking, thinking that this was an immoral scumbag showing off.

Charles said: “Her vaginal extract can only prove the fact of rape that night, but not the molestation before the age of 8. Mr. Presiding Judge, please allow me to state my defense carefully.”

Before she was 8 years old, she lived with her parents and brothers, and the family was harmonious and happy.Charles carefully questioned the defendant and asked the police to investigate his computer. He had not viewed any videos related to child sex or pedophilia.

“After the incident, he voluntarily surrendered. Incest is unforgivable. He repented for his immorality.”

“In biological research, most mammals have an incest avoidance mechanism. Reproduction is a biological instinct, and inbreeding has a very high disability rate. This negative consequence is not conducive to the development of the group in the long run. Using animal groups as an analogy to highly developed human societies is not particularly accurate.”

“However, humans are also mammals. Inbreeding will make the virus homozygous. People have realized it very early. Therefore, in the process of evolutionary adaptation, a physiological mechanism of inbreeding avoidance was formed, which led to inbreeding depression. In order to consolidate this mechanism, the incest taboo was derived at a more cultural level. Our society generally believes that incest is immoral, and there is a cultural atmosphere that prohibits incest.”

Charles cited Westermarck’s hypothesis.Webster proposed that common life experiences in childhood will trigger sexual aversion to close relatives in adulthood, thus forming an inbreeding avoidance mechanism. The incest taboo is derived from this physiological mechanism.

“He has no pedophile tendencies and understands the meaning of incest. He has no reason to molest his daughter.”

The prosecution lawyer still questioned: “The hypothesis is just a hypothesis, not the truth. How do you explain that he later violated his adult daughter? He broke the incest taboo.”

The father who raped his daughter said that everything changed after she came back and that his daughter looked like her mother…

“When he surrendered, he admitted the facts of the crime and stated the reasons for the crime. The police can provide transcript materials.” Charles did not get around the other party’s logic and always firmly denied the accusation.

The child molestation charges were ultimately dismissed due to lack of evidence.

Even without wearing glasses, Chen Simin could clearly see Chen Zongqian’s increasingly unnatural expression: “What is easier to break than moral boundaries is psychological boundaries. Some people have a poor sense of psychological boundaries and cannot clearly grasp them. They are unaware of the transgressions in marriage, love and family relationships.”

Their loose connection over the years from children to adults naturally allowed the incest taboo to loosen.The father projected part of his longing for his deceased wife onto his daughter.His will is weak and he cannot control his excessive desires.Chen Simin paused, lowered his eyes and wiped his glasses.

“He lacks morals.”

Chen Simin devoted half his life to studying legal philosophy and deeply explored the relationship between moral order and legal order.His father was the starting point for Chen Zongqian to study the Fa, but he knew that he lacked too much and rarely satisfied his father, let alone in the future.

After all, he is really a selfish, low-moral, and corrupt person.

In order to retain Xu Qiaochuan and not give himself the chance to abandon Xu Qiaochuan, he crossed the thunder pool, touched the taboo, and became Xu Qiaochuan’s accomplice half-heartedly.

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The Westermarck effect: The incest taboo stems from human beings’ instinctive aversion to sexual relations between relatives.——E.A Westermarck, “The History of Human Marriage” (Volume 2)