Under the sycamore tree in the municipal mental hospital, when Lin Wan met Jiang Ci for the first time, he was stuffing aspirin into the ant holes - "They will have headaches, and the ground is too damp, so they can easily get rheumatism."
Lin Wang shook the glass bottle containing his wisdom teeth and smiled like a cat hiding a secret: "Aspirin hurts the stomach. In the blood I vomited last time, the stomach acid crystals looked like stars."
One believes that wisdom teeth can swim in formaldehyde, and the other believes that butterfly specimens can scream cold.
They sat side by side by the window and counted the crying shadows, used a blood pressure monitor to listen to the Morse code of the heartbeat on a rainy night, and exchanged "treasures" hidden under the bed when the nurse wasn't paying attention.
Until one full-moon night, Lin Wan clutched the stolen key, and Jiang Ci ran like two wisps of rootless smoke in the heavy rain with the butterfly that had lost its phosphorescent powder.
"Go to the beach." Lin Wan's white coat was stained with mud, but his eyes were astonishingly bright, "Bury your butterfly in the beach and let my teeth see the real sea."
Jiang Ci's light gray pupils reflected his face, and his smile was like a freshly sharpened knife: "Remember to tell them that the bones of a madman are salty and not tasty."
Later, someone said that of the two teenagers who ran away from the mental hospital, one buried a moving wisdom tooth at the beach, and the other installed shell wings on a wingless butterfly.
Only they themselves know——
The sea in his eyes had drowned countless stars, but it could only accommodate one madman;
The butterfly on his chest lost all its phosphorus powder, but within the other person's body temperature, it grew a flying soul.
"We are each other's psychosis and each other's prescription medicine."
Purpose: The purpose of "Crazy People Are Hard to Eat" is to use "madness" as a mirror to see the pure connection beyond the secular definition. When two souls who are not accepted by the conventional world meet, they use absurd perspectives to interpret each other's loneliness - swimming wisdom teeth, cold butterflies, and crying shadows. These seemingly illogical images are actually their way of fighting against the alienation of the world. The story breaks the boundaries between "normal" and "crazy", proving that love does not need to be logical, and understanding does not need to follow rules. The mutual redemption of two "madmen" is the most pointed question on "what is true emotion": When the world regards you as an alien, there will always be someone who will understand the sea in your eyes and catch all your inappropriate tenderness.