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Chapter 126 I Just Want to Be Ordinary - It's Hard to Quit the Addiction

What is successful drug rehabilitation? It means never relapsing to take drugs again in your life. It is not about quitting it or not thinking about it, but about restraining yourself from touching it.

What incredible words and truth.

In life, many people try to lose weight, smoke, watch videos on social media, and eat spicy food. These little things in life are difficult to quit, not to mention the pleasure of taking drugs, which is a hundred times stronger than sexual desire.

Why did Zhou Leng take Song Junyang away from Kyoto? Because of the conditioned reflex after drug rehabilitation.

If Song Junyang returned to the place where he had been exposed to drugs and met the people he had used drugs with before, he would quickly fall into the vortex of relapse. However, Zhou Leng did not expect that Song Junyang had already developed a mental addiction.

Mental addiction is difficult to quit, as the damaged brain nerves will make them believe that taking drugs is right.

The human brain normally secretes endorphins, also known as endorphins, which are natural analgesics in the human body. They are opium produced by the body itself, so they are not addictive and can also fight depression and anxiety.

After people take morphine-like drugs, their bodies obtain a large amount of morphine from the outside world. Morphine replaces endorphins, and your brain thinks that you no longer need this neuroactive substance, so your brain will no longer produce endorphins.

Suddenly one day, a person stops taking drugs. The body can no longer obtain morphine from the outside world, and the brain no longer produces endorphins. The person will become depressed, irritable, and feel pain all over the body, as if ants are gnawing at your joints and organs. If your skin itches, you can scratch it, but if it itches between your bones, you can only endure it.

Think about the pain. Even if you quit your physical addiction with great willpower and medication, a more terrible mental addiction is waiting for you.

When you eat your favorite food, your brain rewards you with dopamine, making you happy. When you have a harmonious sex life, your brain rewards you with dopamine, making you happy.

However, drugs cause the brain to secrete a hundred times more dopamine than the above two things.

This kind of pleasure will be replayed repeatedly in the human brain's memory, until one day you can't bear it anymore and want to experience that feeling again, and then you will step into the bottomless abyss again.

Many people would say that the reason they can’t quit a habit is because their willpower is not strong enough!

Let me ask you, if you are given an anesthetic injection, can you rely on willpower to stay awake? Can willpower keep you from fainting?

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. In fact, there are also 3% of people who can defeat themselves.

On the seventh day that Song Junyang was tied up, he temporarily defeated himself. After seven days, he looked haggard and had obviously lost weight.

Zhou Leng untied the ropes that bound the man, but Song Junyang subconsciously felt that his legs and hands were still unable to move.

Zhou Leng couldn't help but hug the man, patting his back and saying soothingly: "It's okay, it's all over, Lao Song, you are a hero in my and my children's hearts, we are all proud of you."

The man asked in a hoarse voice: "Do you think I still am?"

"Of course, always!"

After this incident, Zhou Leng felt that she must keep a close eye on Song Junyang in the future, otherwise he would relapse sooner or later.

The two were silent for a while.

Zhou Leng said, "Old Song, do you want to eat something? I'm heating up some rice in the pot."

Song Junyang nodded.

That night, when Song Wei came back and saw his father free, he ran over and hugged him, shouting happily, "Dad, are you okay?"

Song Junyang looked back at his son and said, "I'm sorry to have made you and mom worry. Dad is much better now."

The father and son smiled at each other, one happy, the other sad.

Three more months passed in this dull life.

During this period, Song Junyang and Zhou Leng went to the village to visit the elderly. At other times, the three of them rarely contacted outsiders and lived their own lives.

Song Junyang also defeated the demons in his heart through repeated addictions.

One day a stranger knocked on the door of their yard, and when the door was opened, a man and a woman appeared.

Zhou Leng asked: "Who are you?"

The man took out a bag of fruit and said:

"Sister, we just moved into the yard next door. My name is Lin Qiang. We have many children and sometimes relatives come over. I wanted to come and say hello to you. If I disturb your family, here is my phone number. Please call me."

Zhou Leng said, "Take the fruit back and feed it to the children. I'll leave your phone number. If it really disturbs us, I'll contact you."

"Sister, please don't, please accept it. We are all neighbors."

Zhou Leng looked up at the man's face. He had a typical farmer's appearance, honest and loyal. But the woman behind him was wearing makeup and bright clothes, and looked a bit arrogant.

Zhou Leng took the fruit and said, "Okay, thank you very much."

Seeing Zhou Leng's calm expression, the man wisely left.

From today on, Zhou Leng actually didn't hear any sounds during the day, nor did he feel any big noises in the neighbor's yard, but occasionally there were sounds of men cursing at night.

A week later.

When Song Junyang went to the market to buy vegetables, Zhou Leng was exercising alone in the yard. She heard a hurried knock on the door. She opened the door and saw a girl who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old. Her hair was slightly messy, she had a pretty face, and her clothes were thin but not shabby.

When the girl saw Zhou Leng, she cried excitedly and said:

"Big sister, please save me, please save me, there are a group of hungry wolves chasing me, I am about to be bitten to death, please let me hide in the yard."

Zhou Leng frowned slightly and said, "If you have any difficulties, I can help you call the police, but you and I have no relatives and I can't take you in. Besides, where do hungry wolves come from in this city?"

The woman knelt down excitedly and was about to kowtow.

Zhou Leng looked at her with an extremely indifferent look, still saying: "I can help you call the police, but I don't know what happened to you. I am just an ordinary citizen and can't care so much. And I didn't see the hungry wolf."

The woman turned her head as if she saw someone. She was so excited that she wanted to rush into the yard, but was blocked by Zhou Leng. Then she pushed the door hard and closed it. Zhou Leng listened to the noise outside through the door.

It seemed that two people came over and pulled the girl up. The girl only shouted, "Let me go, let me go..." and then there was no other sound.

About ten minutes later, someone knocked on the door again. It was the honest and simple man named Lin Qiang. He came to apologize with some fruits.

Zhou Leng did not open the door but asked impatiently: "Who is it?"

"Sister, I'm our neighbor Lin Qiang. My eldest daughter had a mental illness attack again today. She ran away from home without being seen. I heard from my brother that she ran to your door. I'm sorry to cause you trouble."

Zhou Leng did not open the door, but said in an even more impatient tone: "You should take care of your own children in the future. What the hell, you want to go into my house as soon as you open the door. What are you doing to your neighbors? You are scaring people."

"Big sister, I'm sorry. I bought you some fruit as an apology. Please come out and collect it."

Zhou Leng replied: "No, it's not like my family can't afford to buy fruit. Just take care of your own children. What the hell."

After saying that, she turned around and went into the yard to move around. She didn't stop until she heard the man's footsteps leaving, then she frowned and thought.

After half an hour.

When Song Junyang returned home, Zhou Leng did not tell him about this matter. All she could do was to stabilize the man's emotions during this period and not cause any trouble. Although she knew that this neighbor who came here with a ulterior motive must be strange.