Lin Wu sat down, his face as gloomy as water.

The second cobbler laughed instead, "Why do you think so?"

Lin Wu took the jade pendant out of his pocket and placed it on the table.

The second shoemaker looked slightly restrained.

Lin Wu lowered his eyes and slowly turned the silver ring on his finger. He was obviously a little dazed, but there was no abnormal fluctuation in his indifferent voice.

"I am now very sure that Bo Yuting and Jian Chong went to the underground city with them."

"In other words, he knew what was in the underground city, what they were going to do, and the Chi family's past."

"So he understood that he couldn't come back."

"But when did he know that? And why did he know that?"

The only opportunity Lin Wu could think of was the Blackback Mountain in the northwest.

Before that, she, like Bo Yuting, knew nothing about the Chi family; after that, she got the answer in Killer City, and Bo Yuting left quietly during that time, apparently earlier than she knew.

The only way he could have known about this was the night he encountered a sandstorm and entered Blackback Mountain, so she wouldn't have known about it in advance.

But she believed that Bo Yuting would not lie to her, and he must have met Bo Qingcheng in Blackback Mountain.

But he won't just meet Bo Qingcheng, there will be others as well.

Bo Yuting must have come into contact with this person recently, which is why he asked in surprise when he saw him, "Why is it you?"

And he must have known everything from this second person.

"There are only a handful of people who know about the Chi family's affairs, so it's easy to rule them out." Lin Wu looked up, "Jian Chonghe and Lu Guichi were both in Lingnan at the time, and the city lord was in the Polar Killer City and couldn't go out. Apart from them, the only other people who might know is either my mother Chi Yangzhi or Bo Qingcheng."

There can be no one else except them.

"My mother lost her memory, so I naturally thought it was Bo Qingcheng who was still alive."

So Lin Wu didn’t think much about it at that time.

"But now that I think about it, Bo Yuting wouldn't have that reaction when he saw him. Bo Yuting wouldn't lie to me either. He must not have had much communication with Bo Qingcheng."

"Excluding Bo Qingcheng, I have been wondering for a long time who else could appear in Blackback Mountain."

"Just when I couldn't figure it out, Lu Guichi reminded me of another possibility - what if my mother has recovered her memory?"

If the memory is restored, everything will make sense.

Moreover, Chi Yangzhi didn't have to go to Blackback Mountain in person.

Lin Wu pointed at the jade pendant with his finger, "My mother and you are still in contact privately, and it has never been severed. You work for her. She could have easily asked you to go to Blackback Mountain."

The only one who can meet all the conditions is the second cobbler.

"I think that the first person Bo Yuting saw after the sandstorm was you, and then he met Bo Qingcheng, right?"

The second shoemaker stared at Lin Wu.

After a long time, he finally nodded.

Lin Wu's heart sank.

"However," the second cobbler said, changing the subject, "you are wrong about one thing. It was not Madam Gu who asked me to go to Blackback Mountain, but Jian Chonghe. I went with Bo Qingcheng."

Lin Wu was slightly startled.

Lin Wu didn't need to ask any more questions as the second cobbler explained spontaneously.

"Master, I have known Jian Chonghe for a long time, eighteen years ago."

"At that time, my master's family was destroyed and he had nothing. He gambled his life on Ghost Street, but lost to a young man wearing a mask. He is the person who speaks for the Huo family in the contemporary foreign affairs."

Lin Wu had heard what the second cobbler had said, but she didn't quite understand why the other party suddenly brought this up.

"In fact, the young man didn't want to let me go at that time. It was someone who followed him who spoke up for me. That's why I was able to survive and work for them."

"That person is Jian Chonghe."

Lin Wu was stunned.

"He seemed to just do it casually and didn't care about saving my life. I really didn't see him again in the next ten years. It was not until three years ago that he started contacting me and tried to get me to work for him."

"He has given me a lot of benefits. But it's not necessary. I am willing to help him because he saved me."

"And three years ago wasn't the first time I helped him."

"Eighteen years ago, I helped him secretly."

Lin Wu quickly understood: "Is it my mother?"

The second leatherworker nodded. "How could I be an ordinary person to know Ghost Street? Before I went to Ghost Street, I did a lot of things overtly and covertly, and I also had my own information channels. At that time, a friend of mine in North City found Jian Chonghe and told me about it. He also said that he seemed to be in some trouble."

"So I rushed over there. But I didn't meet Jian Chonghe, but I met your mother Chi Yangzhi."

He paused, "Actually, I helped your mother lead away the people who were chasing her."

"Later, I didn't find Jian Chonghe either. After I got away and wiped out all traces, I returned to the capital."

"Not long after, I met your mother. She was not in good spirits and health at the time. When she saw me, she expressed her gratitude to me and asked who I was working for."

Lin Wu intuitively felt that this might be related to what he wanted to know.

She sat up straight and asked, "What can I do for you?"

The second leatherworker's eyes fell on the jade pendant on the table. He said, "She said she wanted to lose her memory."

"What did you say?!"

Lin Wu looked at him in disbelief.

The second leatherworker said, "You heard it right. She wants me to find someone to give her deep hypnosis and brainwashing so that she can forget what happened in North City and everything related to it."

"I asked her why."

"She said she had a brother who didn't want her to get involved in certain things, but she couldn't do that. So she wanted to forget, to reassure her brother, and then remember it at the right time and do those things before her brother."

"besides--"

He looked at Lin Wu. "She said she lost a daughter, but she knew where her daughter was. Because mother and daughter are connected by heart, she could sense it."

Lin Wu's pupils suddenly shrank and he stood up in shock.

"But she didn't dare to look for her." The second cobbler said, "She said that her brother had been driven mad by hatred at the time. If he found her daughter, she would be taken away by her brother and die."

"So she wants to lose her memory and forget everything."

Lin Wu was struck by lightning, unbelievable.

The second cobbler was silent for a moment before continuing.

"I was very curious about her affairs, but she didn't say much."

"Finally, I asked her if her brother was Jian Chonghe, and she said yes. I agreed and made an appointment with her to meet again. I found someone for her as promised."

"However, there is a very serious problem. Her condition was too bad at the time. Forced hypnosis and brainwashing would make her mentally ill. She might remain crazy forever."

"I told her that. But she didn't hesitate."

"After it was completed, I arranged for someone to quietly send her back to the Gu family. She forgot everything about Jian Chong and her daughter, but she did remember me a little, and that I was the only one who saved her in Beicheng."

"Over the years, I kept my promise to her and never went to look for her. I only heard from time to time that the Gu family treated her well and spent a lot of effort to raise her. She lived an ordinary life. I also paid attention to Jian Chonghe's whereabouts, but Jian Chonghe never went to look for her."

Lin Wu was completely frozen in place.

She forced out a hoarse voice: "My mother has never been well. She has serious mental problems. It turns out...it turns out that..."

"Of course she can't be cured. This is artificial amnesia, it's not foolproof. She sometimes remembers a little, but it goes against her cognition, and it tortures her."

The second shoemaker sighed with pity and told a shocking piece of news.

"I never knew who her lost daughter was. But when I first saw you at the Ghost Street Casino two years ago, I had a vague guess because you looked a bit like her."

"So I went to check you out and found out that the Lin family that raised you had received favors from the Gu family in Beijing. But I think Gu Tangzhang and the others don't know about it."

"Who do you think it is?"

He asked Lin Wu.

"…My mother?" Lin Wu's eyes suddenly felt sore and he froze.

When she took over the Lin family, she discovered that the Gu family had helped the Lin family.

At that time, she was wondering how the Lin family could be compared to the Gu family.

Later, when she learned about the relationship between the Gu family and her, this became something she was very concerned about.

On the one hand, she was too busy and had no time to ask what was going on in the Gu family; on the other hand, she didn't dare to ask.

She didn't want to know facts like "They actually knew she was in the Lin family a long time ago, but they just ignored her. Now that she was exposed, they had to recognize her."

In this regard, Lin Wu's trust in his biological family is so weak that it will be shattered at the slightest touch.

It’s better to be confused.

But now...

"If I'm guessing correctly, when Chi Yangzhi fell ill and thought of you, she must have secretly run to Beicheng to see you. After her condition stabilized, she didn't remember it. And she didn't dare to remember it." The second cobbler said slowly.

Lin Wu opened his mouth, but it took him a while to speak.

"Then how did my mother remember it?"

The second leatherworker looked at her and said, "It's because of you."

Lin Wu was at a loss: "Me?"

"Chi Yangzhi came to me not long ago."

"As soon as we met, she told me that she had recovered her memory."

"She said that every time she sees you, she remembers something."

The second cobbler sighed softly: "When I hypnotized her and brainwashed her, the key to her recovering her memory was her little daughter." (End of this chapter)