All Worlds Madhouse

Baltimore Criminal Psychiatric Center.

I'm sorry that our eyes have returned to this place again, because no matter how beautiful the building is, it still can't hide the fact that this is a gloomy place. After all, no one likes mental illness, and no one likes criminals, and no one likes a place full of mentally ill criminals.

Well, this sentence is a bit absolute, because some people still like this kind of place.

Just like our caregiver Barney.

Barney is a good boy, a good boy in the true sense of the word.

He is 38 years old. Like everyone here, he does not have a car, a house, or a girlfriend. But what is different from you is that he is strong, polite, serious at work, has a strong personality, treats people sincerely, and never In fact, he never said bad things about others behind their backs in front of others.

Because he is mute.

Anyway, he has many advantages, so now let's pick a simple one. For example, "strong character". It was easy to see that he was alive after all.

Yes, he did not commit suicide, which is enough to prove his strength.

Because in the past thirty years, his experience has been extremely exciting. After he was born, the first interaction he had with his family was domestic violence. His father was a laid-off worker who drank alcohol all day long. He beat Barney when he was drunk, and he beat him when he was sober, just because Barney was born mute.

Later, when he was 10 years old, his mother finally plucked up the courage to divorce his father. The court mercifully awarded Barney custody to his mother. When he was 10 years and three months old, his mother died. Due to a car accident, Barney spent almost all of his next 20 years with his father.

He was bullied on campus when he was in school. He dropped out of school early to find a job. Being beaten at home was like three meals a day. He lived hard until he was 20 years old. When he finally reached the height that his father couldn't beat him, he had to fight again. He worked even harder to repay his gambling debts. When he was 35 years old, the gambling debts were finally paid off, and his father suffered from various diseases due to obesity.

And since his father had never held any job in decades and had not paid taxes at all, when a dying old man was lying in the hospital, the law once again imposed high medical expenses on him. on Barney's head.

Fortunately, at this time, Barney got a job as a caregiver at the Baltimore Mental Criminal Asylum Center, so he was grateful here. After all, this job allowed him to barely continue to live.

Anyway, his father, who weighed 200 pounds, lay happily on the hospital bed for three years, and finally breathed his last under the watchful eyes of the beautiful nurse.

Look, if you feel that your life is very unsatisfactory, then Barney is your role model. He has devoted his whole life to a man who tortured him. Until the end, he never scolded or even refuted the man once. And these tragic things He had no way to tell anyone about his experiences, which made him mute.

So I can only keep suppressing it in my heart until it explodes or dies.

Oh, by the way, Barney is not a name, who would call such a strange name.

[Barney] is just a well-intentioned code name. Because he can't speak, he can only whine out simple pronunciations like "bar" or "ne" in his mouth, so other colleagues here are used to calling him Barney directly. .

And his real name is

【Michael Lemo】

After dinner, the Baltimore shelter was as quiet and gloomy as usual.

But I don’t know what happened recently, but everyone can see that Barney is in a good mood these days. He always has a faint smile on his face and nods to say hello to every colleague who passes by. Sometimes, when passing by his break room, people can hear him humming to himself.

It was as if he was gradually transforming from a cold, boring gourd to a warm and polite gentleman.

After get off work, everyone left except for some doctors and guards on duty.

Barney has no home. His home has been mortgaged by his father as a bet, so he lives in the lounge of the shelter all year round. The warden also likes that he can stay at work 24 hours a day. of employees.

In the darkness, there was a flash of light.

The light in the back kitchen of the cafeteria was turned on.

Barney's breath crossed his incomplete vocal cords, humming an unpleasant tune that echoed in the empty prison kitchen.

He came to a refrigerated cabinet in a corner. His thick arms were rummaging around among the refrigerated ingredients. Finally, he pulled out a piece of liver.

This piece of liver didn't seem to have been refrigerated for long, and there was only a thin layer of frost on the surface of the plastic bag.

Barney was very satisfied. He took out the liver, carefully washed away the remaining blood, then placed it on the chopping board and carefully cut it into small pieces.

His technique is very skillful. It is hard to imagine that a tall and thick man can have such delicate knife skills. The soft fat becomes less fragile due to the cold storage. When the blade cuts across, the subtle texture can be transmitted from the handle to the knife. Palm.

Barney seemed to enjoy this feeling, and he happily increased the volume of his humming.

Yes, the liver must have thick fat, so that after high temperature, the expanded surface can absorb more spices, which can be egg yolks or some flour mixed with lemon water. In short, only in this way can it be covered The faint bitterness in the internal organs. Then watch them gradually become crispy on the outside in the butter, but still soft on the inside, and then garnish with some celery and green beans to relieve the greasiness. It is best to pair them with a glass of naturally fermented white wine.

Unfortunately, you can't find white wine in the prison kitchen but the liver was still perfect.

So Barney arranged the dish carefully with satisfaction, and then closed it with an aluminum dinner cover.

He did not eat by himself, but pushed the dining cart in this dark and deserted corridor,

Accompanied by the screeching sound of wheel bearings

Disappeared into the darkness.