Lin Yan sensitively noticed that something was wrong, but she didn't know where the problem lay. She frowned slightly, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the way Gu Zhiyi looked at her.
"What's wrong with Brother Gu?" Lin Yan asked.
The various expressions in Gu Zhiyi's eyes darkened, and he shook his head: "Nothing, I'm just worried about my mother's condition."
It was just a simple sentence, and Lin Yan didn't doubt it and turned around to talk about other topics with Liu Xiuying.
Nearing noon, Lin Yan decided not to disturb the Gu family anymore and got up to go back.
Gu Zhiyi suddenly said, "Ayan, our family would like to thank you for this. I will be back in two days. If you are free today, our family will invite you to have a meal together."
Lin Yan was naturally not going to refuse after a pause. Instead, she said, "Teacher Gu is coming to Beicheng. How can you treat me to a meal? I should treat Teacher Gu to a meal."
Gu Zhiyi didn't refuse, but Teacher Gu beside her directly refused: "You've helped me and your wife so much, and you won't even let us treat you to a meal?"
Teacher Gu had a slightly stern face and looked somewhat unhappy. Lin Yan didn't want to argue with Teacher Gu about the meal and could only nod in agreement.
Liu Xiuying is undergoing chemotherapy, but she has been in good condition recently and is able to go out for a walk. She only went to the hospital entrance to have a meal and set off after asking the medical staff.
They didn't plan to walk too far to find a high-end restaurant, so they just went to the same one where Lin Yan and Lu Jinghuai had eaten yesterday. They went upstairs and Gu Zhiyi stayed downstairs to order food.
Because there were so many people, Gu Zhiyi ordered eight dishes and one soup, some of which were light for Liu Xiuying to eat, and some were heavier in flavor.
Lin Yan ate the food and chatted. The food in this restaurant tasted really good, and Lin Yan also ate a lot of food.
At the dinner table, Teacher Gu and Liu Xiuying talked a lot, mainly because they both cared about Lin Yan.
On the contrary, Gu Zhiyi remained silent until the meal was finished.
Lin Yan got up and went to the bathroom, tidied her appearance briefly, and was about to return to the box when she saw Gu Zhiyi in the corridor.
Gu Zhiyi seemed to be waiting for her. Lin Yan paused, but didn't think much about it and just thought that Lu Jinghuai had something to say to her.
Lin Yan naturally walked over and asked, "What happened to Brother Gu?"
However, Gu Zhiyi did not answer his question, but just looked at her deeply. His dark eyes made Lin Yan inexplicably uncomfortable.
"Brother Gu." Lin Yan couldn't help but called out again, but this time there was a hint of uneasiness in her voice.
"You are not Ayan."
Lin Yan was startled by the sudden words, and an inexplicable uneasiness surged in her heart, but Lin Yan still tried to pull the corners of her mouth, maintaining her superficial emotions, and pretended to be puzzled.
"Brother Gu, what do you mean by this? I don't quite understand."
Gu Zhiyi's tone was particularly firm: "Ayan doesn't eat dates. If you hadn't told me earlier, her taste would have changed. Her taste may have changed, but not so drastically."
A memory suddenly flashed through Lin Yan's mind. It was indeed impossible for the original owner to eat dates.
When the original owner was seven or eight years old, she went out to wash clothes and came back to find that the door of her house was locked because her parents took her older sister and younger brother to her grandmother's house.
Something happened at the original owner's grandmother's house that day, so the original owner's parents and siblings stayed overnight.
The original owner was alone at home and no one thought of her at all. The door was locked and she couldn't get into the house.
Fortunately, the weather was not cold at that time, so she could sleep outside, but eating became a problem. When she was hungry at first, she went to the pond to get some water to drink.
But he was just a child of seven or eight years old. It was okay for him to skip a meal, but he couldn't bear not eating for a whole day, so he went to look for food in the town.
But there was nothing to eat in the town until we came across a yard.
There is a big jujube tree in the yard. Even standing high outside the wall, you can see that the tree is full of jujubes.
The original owner was so hungry that she couldn't bear it anymore, and she didn't care whether she stole or not.
So the original owner secretly climbed up the wall to pick dates to eat, but a child of seven or eight years old, who had been hungry for a day, did not have much strength, and the noises of climbing the wall and messing around were very loud.
As expected, the owner of the yard heard the noise outside. When he opened the door and came out, he saw a man on the courtyard wall and quickly shouted.
The original owner was still eating dates when he heard the scolding. He was so scared that he shivered and fell directly off the courtyard wall.
The wall was not high, so falling down would not be a big deal. However, a date pit got stuck in the throat of the original owner.
The original owner's face turned pale from suffocation caused by the date pit. The owner of the house was also frightened and rushed him to the clinic in the town.
At that time, the doctor said that if the patient had been sent to the hospital a little later, he might have died. Later, when the original owner's adoptive parents found out, they took the original owner to the owner of the yard and asked for several hundred yuan in compensation.
From then on, the original owner was afraid of seeing dates and dared not eat them no matter how hungry he was.
Later, Lin Yan told Gu Zhiyi about it.
That experience left a deep impression on the original owner, but the memory was too distant, and it would never come up unless Lin Yan thought about it.
Lin Yan opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word of defense.
Gu Zhiyi didn't allow her to explain herself and continued, "Also, I noticed during the meal just now that you and Ayan have completely different tastes. You had no reaction to several dishes that Ayan liked, but you repeatedly picked up dishes that Ayan didn't like."
"I don't care who you are. I just want to know where Ayan went? Is she doing well?"
Lin Yan was silent. She couldn't answer Gu Zhiyi's question, and she herself didn't even know where Lin Yan had gone.
Gu Zhiyi also stared closely at the expression on Lin Yan's face, not wanting to miss a single detail.
Lin Yan also came back to her senses. She looked up at Lu Jinghuai in front of her and smiled, "Brother Gu, what are you thinking? I ate dates only because I later realized they weren't scary. I'm an adult now, so I won't choke on a date pit again."
"As for the change in taste you mentioned, people are inherently fickle, and it's normal for tastes to change. How could you imagine that I'm not Lin Yan? If I'm not Lin Yan, who else could I be?"
Lin Yan looked at Gu Zhiyi in front of her with a smile in her eyes. Gu Zhiyi was still staring at Lin Yan.
For a long time, Lin Yan's expression remained unchanged, and there was obvious disappointment in Gu Zhiyi's eyes.
He looked at Lin Yan and spoke again: "I don't know who you are. I don't know why you know all about Ayan's experiences, and also know about what happened between us, but you are not my Ayan."
Lin Yan paused. She thought that the information she inadvertently revealed could dispel Gu Zhiyi's doubts, but it made Gu Zhiyi even more convinced that she was not the original owner.
But she didn't dare to admit it. She was in a book, an alien, and because of Gu Zhiyi's feelings for the original owner, she was not sure what Gu Zhiyi would do.
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