Chapter 54
During the days that Lin Anyu was in the hospital, countless people came to visit him.
Especially when everyone knew that she was Song Luo, the door of her ward was almost broken down.
After Lin Anyu hung a sign at the door that read "Bathing, No Entry for Outsiders", many people who were curious about her appearance left in embarrassment.
Lin Anyu, wearing a hospital gown, walked barefoot to the window and watched several colleagues coming and going downstairs carrying baskets.
She picked up a banana, peeled it, and ate it slowly.
After a while, she murmured, "Why didn't I know I was so popular before?"
Not long after, Jiang Aichen pushed the door open and walked in.
He didn't knock on the door or ask through the door, he just walked in carrying a bag of fruit.
Lin Anyu glanced sideways nonchalantly, then continued to eat her banana. She asked, "How is Gu Xingnan's code being cracked?"
"It hasn't been cracked yet. He said to give him some more time." Jiang Aichen said.
"Oh." Lin Anyu replied.
Lin Anyu asked again: "How is the bomber from before?"
Jiang Aichen put the fruit on the table and answered, "He only admitted to planting the bomb in the mall, but he said he didn't know about the one outside. Captain Gu and I checked the surveillance, but the surveillance was damaged at the time, so we can't clearly know who did it."
Lin Anyu was not surprised at all: "Well, the method of installing bombs outside is different from that inside the mall. He may not be lying."
Jiang Aichen hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't help asking, "Master, is the person who tricked you over and asked you to light the bomb the same person who killed Captain Ye?"
Lin Anyu paused for a moment: "I don't know."
Jiang Aichen didn't ask any more questions.
Out of the blue, Lin Anyu suddenly suggested, "It's been a while since we've had a meal together. Invite Gu Beizhi and the others, and we can get together this weekend. I'll treat you."
"Okay." Jiang Aichen said.
After Lin Anyu finished speaking, he quickly checked the map: "I saw on the map that there is a mountain south of Beihai. How about we go hiking?"
"Okay." Jiang Aichen agreed.
Lin Anyu saw that he didn't seem to be in a good mood, so she asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Jiang Aichen stared at her seriously and shook his head: "Nothing, I just feel like you're back, it seems unreal."
Lin Anyu sat by the window. She turned her head and looked at Jiang Aichen: "You are not worried that I will remember that you didn't let me touch the case and sent me to the traffic police team."
Jiang Aichen didn't say anything.
Lin Anyu guessed what he meant, and she consoled him, "You didn't know my identity at the time, and I understand your motives for sending someone who didn't remember anything to the traffic police team."
“Besides, all my previous memories are with Lin Anyu,” Lin Anyu said, “and I am Song Luo now. I don’t remember anything from the past three years.”
"That is to say, you and Lin Anyu are two different personalities," Jiang Aichen said anxiously, "Maybe at some point in time, you will become Lin Anyu, right?"
Lin Anyu pretended not to care and asked back, "What's wrong with this?"
Jiang Aichen quickly replied: "Not good!"
"Amnesia is the temporary forgetting of past memories after the brain is damaged externally. This forgetfulness will return one day," Jiang Aichen said with a trembling voice unconsciously, "but this kind of external damage will not produce a dual personality."
"You have two personalities that carry two different memories. It is very likely that after Ye Pulan's death, you could not forgive yourself, so you chose to escape."
The secret that no one had ever discovered was ruthlessly torn open by Jiang Aichen.
Lin Anyu's face showed no emotion. She withdrew her gaze from Jiang Aichen's face and said calmly, "You have become very capable. You dare to question Master like this."
If it were someone else, Jiang Aichen would never let her speak like that in front of him.
But she is Song Luo.
"Master," Jiang Aichen walked closer, "Captain Ye's case can be solved by all of us together."
"So..." Jiang Aichen asked in a negotiating tone, "Can you please take care of yourself?"
Lin Anyu continued to remain silent.
Jiang Aichen: "You are a human being, a living person. When you are tracking down clues, there is no need to..."
Jiang Aichen didn't say the rest of the sentence. Lin Anyu followed up his words and asked, "What is there no need to go? Go ahead and tell me. I'm listening."
Jiang Aichen hesitated and said, "Go and die."
Lin Anyu smiled faintly, then looked out the window, as if talking to himself.
She said: "If one day I was killed by a murderer who no one could catch, would you risk your life to find evidence to save me?"
Jiang Aichen really wanted to say that he would, but based on their previous discussion, saying these two words now would undoubtedly be supporting her to continue her desperate search for evidence.
Seeing that Jiang Aichen beside her was silent, Lin Anyu's smile deepened. She continued casually, "We are the same kind of people. We are always willing to give everything, even our lives, for the important people in our lives."
"Is he the most important?" Jiang Aichen asked suddenly.
Lin Anyu, who was lost in her memories, did not expect him to suddenly ask such a question. She seemed to feel that her little disciple today seemed a little different from usual, as if he seemed particularly well-behaved.
If the people from Beihai Criminal Police Team saw Jiang Aichen like this, their jaws would probably drop in shock.
"Yes," Lin Anyu counted on his fingers, "Gu Beizhi is also the most important, Pei Jingji is also the most important, and Chen Shuhao is also very important, and Xiaogu..."
Halfway through the conversation, Lin Anyu suddenly looked up and met Jiang Aichen's eyes.
"And you," Lin Anyu looked him in the eye seriously and said, "You are also the most important."
immediately!
The world fell silent at this moment.
Jiang Aichen looked at his own reflection in Lin Anyu's eyes seriously, and unconsciously a strange feeling slowly crawled out from his heart.
I don’t know where he got the courage from, but Jiang Aichen rushed forward, bent down, and hugged Lin Anyu tightly into his arms.
Lin Anyu, who never set up any defense against Jiang Aichen, was pulled over and her head was raised against his shoulder.
Immediately, a faint rose scent permeated her nostrils, like the smell of the laundry beads on Jiang Aichen's clothes.
Very refreshing, yet not greasy.
"Master." Jiang Aichen called softly.
Lin Anyu had just broken free when she suddenly noticed Jiang Aichen's body trembling, as if he was worried that she would disappear at any moment.
Lin Anyu stopped moving and said comfortingly, "I'm here."
Jiang Aichen paused for a few seconds, then quickly said, "I'm different from you."
Lin Anyu was puzzled: "Huh?"
Jiang Aichen: "In my world, the most important thing is you."
Lin Anyu: “Huh?!”
After saying that, before Lin Anyu had time to react, Jiang Aichen let go of her, turned around and left the ward.
Lin Anyu was left alone in the messy ward.
What was he saying just now?
She is the most important?
What about his parents and girlfriend?
Lin Anyu didn't understand why he said that. She stuffed the last bite of banana into her mouth fiercely: "It's inexplicable."
-
The party was scheduled for the weekend, and Lin Anyu got the doctor's consent the day before to go home and recuperate.
She lay in bed all day and felt like she was going to grow mushrooms.
Finally, it was time for the party the next day.
She changed her clothes and went out early in the morning.
The time agreed was eleven in the morning.
Lin Anyu had the habit of jogging in the morning, so she just ran straight away.
Beihai’s mountains are not far from the city and are mostly flat, making them ideal for company gatherings and other events.
Lin Anyu arrived a little late. When she ran to the wooden bridge halfway up the mountain, the other people from Beihai had already arrived.
Lin Anyu climbed the stairs in a few neat steps.
Her long black hair fluttered in the air a few times as she moved, and then fell steadily on her shoulders.
The whole process was clean and neat.
Lin Anyu smiled confidently: "You came quite early."
Gu Beizhi, who had been waiting for her at the top of the stairs, said, "Yes, Captain Song is treating us today, so we can't be late."
Lin Anyu looked around and didn't see Jiang Aichen, so she asked, "Where is my little apprentice?"
Gu Beizhi replied: "He said he was not feeling well today and asked for leave."
Lin Anyu: "Is he okay?"
Gu Beizhi said: "It shouldn't be a big deal. When he asked me for leave, I heard that his voice sounded okay."
Shen Shuhao rushed over from the side: "Boss, why do you care about him? He won't die."
Lin Anyu said unconvincedly: "You seem to have a lot of opinions about my little apprentice."
Shen Shuhao: "Who doesn't have a problem with him? He found you three years ago and lied to us that he didn't know where you were."
"Isn't this playing tricks on us, the uncles?"
"Don't take advantage of my apprentice. Just because he is my apprentice doesn't mean he is your nephew," Lin Anyu corrected him, "We are not from the same generation."
"Boss, why are you still so clear about the distinction between us?" Shen Shuhao said.
As if he had noticed something, Gu Beizhi asked, "Did Jiang Aichen say something to you a few days ago?"
"When?" Lin Anyu asked.
"Before you were discharged from the hospital," Gu Beizhi said, "ever since the last time he went to the hospital to see you, he has been acting strange."
Lin Anyu thought carefully for a while and said, "No, he didn't say anything to me."
Gu Beizhi asked again: "Are you sure?"
"What's uncertain about this? If something was really said, how could I not know it?" Lin Anyu had just finished speaking when she suddenly remembered what she and Jiang Aichen had said in the ward.
"You were moved by my words, weren't you?" Lin Anyu said, and he did not forget to conclude, "Kid, your tear point is quite low."
Gu Beizhi seemed to smell some gossip: "What did you say?"
"He asked me if I had anyone important to me, and I said you, Pei Jingji, Chen Shuhui, Gu Xingnan, Ye Pulan, and he are all very important to me," Lin Anyu said nonchalantly, "Then he was touched and said that I was also very important to him, and then he turned around and left."
Gu Beizhi: “…”
Shen Shuhao heard all this and said, "What's so touching about this? Isn't it normal for you to think that we are important?"
"We have been your teammates for many years, and he is your apprentice. We are very important to you. Isn't that wrong? Is there anything touching here?"
After hearing Shen Shuhao's analysis, Lin Anyu also felt that Jiang Aichen's emotions were a little inexplicable: "No."
Shen Shuhao: "That's it, he is just too sensitive."
Lin Anyu agreed: "I think so too."
Gu Beizhi: “…”
Not far away, Pei Jingji, who was grilling meat, saw the three of them chatting at the entrance, and he immediately called out, "Boss, do you want to eat mutton?"
"Eat!" Lin Anyu shouted across the crowd.
After saying that, she walked to the barbecue stall where a crowd of people gathered.
This is a specially opened gathering place, so all the utensils are fully available. You just need to make an appointment with the person in charge of the scenic spot in advance.
"You are worthy of being called Master Pei. The texture of the lamb is cut beautifully." Meng Qirang couldn't stop praising while standing next to his idol.
"No," Pei Jingji said modestly, "If you want to learn, I can teach you another day."
"Old Pei, give me a bunch of tender ones." Lin Anyu said.
"Okay." Pei Jingji picked out a skewer of the best grilled meat and handed it to her.
Lin Anyu took it and was about to put it in her mouth when she suddenly noticed that except for Pei Jingji, everyone around her was looking at her, and even the lively conversation before was gone.
Lin Anyu felt a little embarrassed unconsciously, and she pulled out the kebab of lamb that she was about to put into her mouth.
She closed her mouth awkwardly for a few times, trying to ease the awkward atmosphere.
When she was abroad, her social circle basically consisted of Gu Beizhi and others.
After returning to China, she tried to hide as much as possible. Apart from Jiang Aichen, the only person she knew was Qi Sui, who often looked for Jiang Aichen to play with.
This is the first time facing so many people.
She pretended to be relaxed and asked, "What's wrong?"
Everyone shook their heads in tacit understanding.
"oh."
It's okay.
Lin Anyu was about to eat the skewer of meat again, but they were still staring at her intently.
Lin Anyu's scalp felt numb, and the skewers of meat in his hand suddenly lost their fragrance.
She compromised: "Do you have any questions for me?"
They were really not used to the change from Lin Anyu to Song Lue.
Several people stared at each other for a long time, and finally Tang Jianyue couldn't help but ask out of curiosity: "Sister Anyu, are you really Song Luo?"
Um?
Lin Anyu never expected that the first question they asked would be this.
She asked back: "Is there anything worth pretending to be Song Luo?"
Everyone: ...
Do you really not know how famous you are?
Jiang Nan cleared his throat and asked in a broadcasting voice, "Goddess, can you still remember the memories of these three years?"
Lin Anyu shook his head: "I can't remember, but I only know that I was very happy when I ate the cake with you."
Jiang Nan pointed at himself excitedly: "Do you know my name?"
Lin Anyu said: "Jiang Nan."
"Yes, yes, yes!" The idol he had been waiting for for many years was right in front of him, and she was even calling his name. Jiang Nan was so excited that he almost jumped up.
Tang Jianyue pointed at himself frantically: "Song Shen, me, me, me!"
Lin Anyu: "Tang Jianyue."
"Yes, yes, yes," Tang Jianyue sat down and introduced himself frantically, "Song Shen, I just got admitted to the Beihai Criminal Police Team. You are the idol of all of us in this class. Before every exam, we will worship you."
Lin Anyu: “…”
This really treats her as a mascot.
After a while, Lin Anyu said awkwardly: "Thank you."
Li Tang's eyes sparkled: "Goddess, we have been with you for three years, but we didn't recognize you."
Lin Anyu explained one by one: "I don't often attend activities, it's normal that you haven't seen me."
"Oh my god, I've been working with Song Luo for three years," Li Tang said, "Goddess... can you sign an autograph for me?"
Lin Anyu: "Where is the signature?"
Li Tang said quickly: "On my clothes."
As he said this, he handed Lin Anyu a pen and straightened his clothes.
Lin Anyu pulled off the pen cap and wrote his name on his clothes in a very casual manner.
Her notes are free and uninhibited, and every stroke of her writing carries a sense of unrestrained willfulness.
Li Tang was so happy that he almost forgot his roots.
Tang Jianyue pulled Li Tang's body in front of him, looked at Lin Anyu's handwriting carefully, and said, "Song Shen, your handwriting is completely different from when you were Lin Anyu."
Lin Anyu put on the pen cap and said, "What was my handwriting like before?"
Tang Jianyue felt a little embarrassed. After making eye contact with several people, he stammered, "It's nothing...just the handwriting is a little childish."
Lin Anyu didn't doubt it: "Oh."
I'm already here, it would seem impolite not to ask about gossip.
Tang Jianyue asked: "Song Shen, have you ever dropped out of school before?"
Lin Anyu was puzzled: "Why should I drop out of school?"
"They said your dream is to open a Taekwondo gym," said Tang Jianyue.
Lin Anyu laughed and said, "Who spread it? It's so outrageous."
She turned around and asked Pei Jingji who was grilling meat seriously: "Pei dog, did you make up the rumor?"
The people around were instantly shocked and broke out in cold sweats.
Given Pei Jingji's status in the domestic forensic community, who would dare to call him Pei Gou?
But the person in front of him was the only one who shouted.
The key point is that even after she shouted, they didn't have the confidence to refute.
Pei Jingji said without even raising his head: "If I were to make up a rumor, I would definitely say that if you twist your head off, you can turn into a Transformer in seconds."
After saying that, Pei Jingji did not forget to complain: "Who wants to spread rumors that you dropped out of school? There is no technical content at all, and it is not scary at all."
That's right.
Lin Anyu didn't dwell on it. She explained, "I didn't drop out of school. I just took a break to participate in the World Taekwondo Competition."
Pei Jingji and Lin Anyu went to the same high school. He said, "I can prove that during the time she was on leave, there were rumors in our school that she had been beaten to death on the court."
"If she had been beaten to death, the top student in our school would have to be replaced. I was very happy for a long time and made a bet with my friends about who would be the top student in the next final exam. But the day before the exam, she came back and took the top spot with a huge advantage."
"Because of this incident, my classmates and I who made the bet each gave fifty dollars to the person who opened the market."
Speaking of which, Pei Jingji seemed a little unconvinced, and his hands were not even smooth when grilling meat: "Song Luo, are you a ghost? You took a leave of absence for half a year and still got the first place in the grade."
"The Master does not speak of supernatural powers or strange things." Lin Anyu said.
"Since you're treating me, I have to eat well today." Pei Jingji increased his firepower.
Meng Qirang was still a little uncomfortable facing Lin Anyu.
Although Song Lue in front of her occasionally showed some of Lin Anyu's little actions and even certain habits, Meng Qirang still couldn't equate this person with her former best friend.
Her eyes fell on Lin Anyu, and even the god Pei, whom she admired, was no longer attractive to her.
Lin Anyu noticed her gaze, and her eyes fell on her several times, but she didn't ask any more questions.
Someone in the crowd asked, "Song Shen, have you ever been in love?"
With just a few simple words, the scene suddenly became lively.
Various shouts came one after another.
Before Lin Anyu could speak, someone answered for her.
"Have you forgotten? When Pei Shen first came, didn't he say that he and Song Shen were in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship?"
"At that time, Pei Shen even brought breakfast to Lin Anyu."
Lin Anyu pretended not to care: "Oh?"
Pei Jingji immediately begged for mercy: "I didn't say that, I didn't say that, they just said that."
Lin Anyu explained: "He is not my boyfriend. I have never been in a relationship."
"Yo——" The people around started to cheer in a long tone, obviously showing some disbelief.
Lin Anyu was helpless: "Really."
"Do you have someone you like?" someone else asked.
Lin Anyu thought about it carefully and replied, "No."
"No?" Lin Anyu's words were heard by Shen Shuhao who came over, "Boss, don't you like Old Ye?"
Lin Anyu was puzzled: "Huh?"
"When did I say I liked him?"
"Who is Lao Ye?" Tang Jian asked curiously when he heard the surname for the second time.
Gu Beizhi explained: "Old Ye, his real name is Ye Pulan. He was our captain when we were Interpol officers abroad."
Chen Shuhao was relentless: "Boss, you are going too far. Although Old Ye can't hear it now, the way you deny your relationship is really ugly."
Lin Anyu: "You must have been a matchmaker in your previous life, why are you trying to tie the red thread for me?"
Shen Shuhao: "If there was really nothing going on between you two, why would Old Ye write those words in his suicide note?"
Lin Anyu stopped playing around instantly and asked seriously, "What did he say?"
As if surprised by Lin Anyu's reaction, Shen Shuhao said, "Boss, you haven't read Old Ye's suicide note."
Lin Anyu: “No.”
"I'm telling you... um..." Shen Shuhao was about to say something when his mouth was immediately covered by Gu Beizhi next to him.
Lin Anyu looked at it in confusion.
Gu Beizhi still had a non-aggressive smile on his face: "He was just talking nonsense, you know, he also speaks in a frivolous way."
Lin Anyu was half-believing and half-doubting: "Oh."
Gu Beizhi skillfully changed the subject: "Boss Luo, when did you recover your memory?"
When it wasn't a serious occasion, Gu Beizhi and the others would occasionally tease her and call her "Boss Luo" to express their feelings.
"It's been a long time," Lin Anyu met Meng Qirang's gaze and said, "The first person I saw when I woke up was her."
"She was holding a stack of autopsy reports at the time, and I thought she was sent by some police station to ask for my advice."
Meng Qirang was in a daze for a second, and immediately asked: "At that time, was it you? Not Lin Anyu?"
Lin Anyu nodded: "It's me."
Jiang Nan quickly asked: "At that time?"
"Do you still remember the time when Lin Anyu and I came very late to lunch?" Meng Qirang tried to awaken his memory. "I also told you that Captain Jiang asked her who she was."
Jiang Nan seemed to have some vague impression: "Is it that serial suicide case?"
Meng Qirang: “Yeah.”
"But that was indeed Lin Anyu at that time." Jiang Nan was puzzled and suddenly remembered that Lin Anyu seemed to have mentioned that she had disappeared for a period of time.
He was about to speak when he looked up and saw Lin Anyu, who was sitting opposite him, making a hushing gesture at him.
Jiang Nan immediately understood and shut up.
-
Although it was a dinner party, most of the time, Pei Jingji was grilling meat and Lin Anyu was refuting rumors.
You don’t know until you get together. After the gathering, Lin Anyu realized that she was so famous and there were so many messy gossips about her.
What Jiang Aichen loved her but couldn't get her, what "Lin Anyu" had a crush on Jiang Aichen for three years, what she disappeared for three years to secretly get married and have children...
Various true or false news are mixed in.
After hearing this, Lin Anyu began to doubt for a moment whether she had lost some memories.
It lasted until five in the afternoon, when the sun gradually set.
Lin Anyu originally wanted to let them go back home early to visit their respective mothers, but when he remembered that there was a homestay at the foot of the mountain, he paid for it out of his own pocket and took them to stay there.
The homestay here is specially used for company team-building. There are many rooms, and after dividing them up, there is finally one more room.
After a simple game of "scissors, paper, rock, and hammer", Lin Anyu, who was luckier, moved in.
Just when Lin Anyu was about to take them back to their rooms, she met an acquaintance in the elevator.
She stared at him confidently, her face calm as she greeted him, "Long time no see."
Xu Jinshu didn't expect to meet her here. He was stunned for a moment, then said, "What a coincidence, Officer Lin."
"It's unfortunate." Lin Anyu said calmly.
Xu Jinshu stared at her quietly.
When Lin Anyu faced him in the past, he could clearly see the panic in her eyes while she was pretending to be calm.
But the person in front of me had none of that.
She is very confident, so confident that no one would doubt her if she said she could move the earth.
Noticing that something was wrong with Lin Anyu, Xu Jinshu asked, "Officer Lin is a little different than before."
Lin Anyu did not say it explicitly, but said: "I think you should be more familiar with me."
Xu Jinshu: "You're kidding. How can I be more familiar with you?"
Lin Anyu said: "I heard from my apprentice that you once told him that three years ago, I encountered a fire while trying to catch you."
Xu Jinshu: “Yes.”
Lin Anyu: "You also told him that I took the initiative to let you go in order to save others."
"Yes," Xu Jinshu said calmly, "You told me at the time that you would defend my right to live until the court pronounced my crime."
After he finished speaking, he did not forget to explain: "I was moved by you at the time, so I turned myself in and was sentenced to two years. The police station should still have my surrender file now."
Xu Jinshu continued, "Captain Lin, I have completed my sentence and have been released. You are not going to arrest me again, are you?"
Lin Anyu calmly shook his head: "No. For those who have been successfully transformed, they are completely new people in my eyes. I will never look at them with the tinted glasses of the past."
Xu Jinshu: "That's good."
"However," Lin Anyu smiled, "you should also abide by the law in the future."
Like a warning.
But Xu Jinshu seemed not to understand what she meant. He said, "Of course."
Noticing that he had been occupying the elevator for too long, Xu Jinshu said, "Captain Lin, do you want to take the elevator? I just happened to be going out to buy something. Would you mind giving way?"
Lin Anyu didn't say anything, but just moved aside to make a path for him to leave.
Looking at Xu Jinshu's departing back, Lin Anyu's eyes deepened.
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