Chapter 112 How do you distinguish between me and her?

"Who are you talking about?" Su Mei stopped twisting her waist after hearing what Huo Jianguo said, turned around and gave Huo Jianguo a displeased look.

Living under the same roof every day, even if she has changed a little, such as changing her clothes, she shouldn't be so different that Huo Jianguo can't recognize who she is!

The familiar voice made Huo Jianguo stunned for a moment: "Are you Su Mei?"

He really didn't realize that the person in the yard was Su Mei.

In Huo Jianguo's eyes, women all look pretty much the same. His impression of Su Mei is the thick, large flowered jacket and the fluffy gray cotton coat she wears.

Apart from these two sets of outfits, Huo Jianguo had never seen Su Mei wear any other clothes in winter.

So when he first saw Su Mei, he thought there was another woman in his yard. When he found out that the person in the yard was Su Mei, Huo Jianguo was even hesitant to confirm for a moment.

"Who else could I be if not Su Mei?" Su Mei felt a little frustrated when she saw that Huo Jianguo really didn't recognize her:

"We've lived under the same roof for several years, Huo Jianguo, have you forgotten my face?"

"I've never looked at anyone's face carefully. Don't all faces look the same? What's the difference?" Huo Jianguo stared at Su Mei blankly, with a confused look on his face.

Su Mei was convinced: "If you haven't looked carefully, how can you remember what the people around you look like?"

"Remember what the clothes look like!" Huo Jianguo glanced at Su Mei, thought for a moment and said, "It's not that I don't remember, it's that I can't remember people's looks. To me, everyone looks the same!"

"Can't remember people's faces? What does that mean?" Su Mei was shocked. She stared at Huo Jianguo and said, "You don't have prosopagnosia, do you?"

"What is prosopagnosia?" Huo Jianguo had never heard of this disease.

As a doctor, Su Mei had heard of this disease, but she had never come into contact with a patient with this disease. She thought for a moment and explained:

"Prosopagnosia is the inability to identify different people based on their facial features."

"Don't all people look the same, with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth?" Huo Jianguo never thought that there was any difference in facial features between people.

Su Mei finally understood that this person was suffering from prosopagnosia and was unaware of it. She tentatively asked Huo Jianguo:

"If Yinglan and I were standing in front of you at the same time, how would you tell us apart?"

"You are short and she is tall, you are fat and she is thin." Huo Jianguo answered quickly. After he finished speaking, he looked at Su Mei strangely and said:

"They are obviously two different people. Do we still need to distinguish them?"

Su Mei: “….”

These words are very heart-warming.

Why would she compare herself with Yinglan?

However, people with prosopagnosia should not be completely unaffected in their lives. She thought about it and asked Huo Jianguo:

"Your method of distinguishing people won't always work, right? If there are several people with similar looks, hairstyles, and heights, will you mistake them for the wrong person?"

"Yes." After Su Mei said this, Huo Jianguo remembered it and said awkwardly:

"You have five brothers, and I still can't tell how many brothers there are. So every Chinese New Year when I go to your house, I never add one, two, three, four, five brothers in front of the name when I call them brothers, because I can't tell them apart at all, so I just call them brothers.

Apart from your brothers, there are many aunts and relatives in the village, and I can’t tell them apart, so every time I meet someone, I will stay away from them, for fear that if I don’t say hello to them, others will say that I have become a cadre and my nose has grown to the sky.

I always thought that I just had a bad memory and couldn’t remember many people. It turns out... this is actually a disease?"

"This is indeed a disease." Su Mei didn't expect that she would discover a new continent just by changing her clothes.

No wonder Huo Jianguo could hold her even though she weighed 180 kilograms. It turned out that in his eyes, it made no difference what she looked like. This discovery made Su Mei feel very complicated.

Huo Jianguo was stunned for a while, then he took a long breath and said in confusion:

"It turns out that everyone's facial features are different. I can't remember them, not because I have a bad memory, but because I have never remembered them in the first place?"

"That's right." Su Mei looked at Huo Jianguo with some sympathy.

"This is actually a disease." Huo Jianguo suddenly laughed: "Since I was a child, I have been scolded by my parents for not being well behaved because I refused to call people.

I told them that I couldn't even remember people, but they didn't believe me. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have known that there was such a strange disease in the world.

No wonder they always talk about which woman is beautiful and which is average. I thought they are all the same, but it turns out they are really different.

Is there a cure for this disease?"

"There is no cure." Su Mei shook her head at Huo Jianguo and said truthfully: "This disease is a hereditary genetic disease and there is currently no good treatment.

However, if you cannot remember people's faces, you can improve it through special memory methods.

I don’t know exactly how to do it. I haven’t studied this disease in detail. When I have time, I will think about it and see if I can help you make some corrections.”

"Oh, it's okay if it's not corrected." Huo Jianguo was not too disappointed when he heard that it was incurable. After all, before today, he didn't even know there was such a disease.

Looking at the clothes on Su Mei, he frowned a little unaccustomed, because this new set of clothes made him feel that Su Mei was very strange.

He had to start over again to recognize Su Mei's appearance.

After talking with Su Mei for a while, Huo Jianguo went into the kitchen and started preparing dinner.

Su Mei looked at her new clothes and suddenly felt a little bored. She was slightly surprised that Huo Jianguo didn't recognize her just now.

She thought that she had suddenly become prettier, which was why Huo Jianguo didn't recognize her at first.

It turns out that he simply didn't recognize her, and it had nothing to do with her being pretty or not.

Su Mei couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when she thought that the man beside her had no facial features and no distinction between beauty and ugliness.

She also wants to become thinner, dress fashionably and elegantly, so that Huo Jianguo/this blockhead can also experience what it means to make a dazzling appearance and dazzle the audience!

It looks hopeless.

Not to mention stunning, if she lost a few more pounds and changed into slimmer, figure-revealing clothes, it would probably scare Huo Jianguo.

Next time if she gets thinner, Huo Jianguo will probably ask again:

"Hey, lady, who are you and what are you doing in my house?"

.........

After putting the clothes away in the closet, Su Mei went to the kitchen to cook dinner with Huo Jianguo.

She has been very busy in the clinic recently and sometimes she can't help but feel a little lazy and is not willing to cook by herself.

But she also didn't want to ask Huo Jianguo to cook alone, because the taste of his cooking was really bad. Su Mei usually waited for Huo Jianguo to light the fire and cut the vegetables before she went over to cook.

When she entered the kitchen, Huo Jianguo had just put down the kitchen knife. He saw Su Mei put on her old clothes again and couldn't help but frowned and asked:

"Where are your new clothes? Why don't you wear them again?"

"I'll wear them when I get home tomorrow." The next day, Su Mei and Huo Jianguo went back to their hometown to visit relatives. Su Mei put the clothes away because she was afraid that the new clothes would be dirty while doing housework.

Unexpectedly, she didn't wear it anymore, which made Huo Jianguo anxious. He urged:

"You should start wearing new clothes now!"

He had to remember the appearance of Su Mei's new clothes.

He will take the train back to his hometown tomorrow, and he is afraid that he will not be able to remember what Su Mei's new clothes look like. When he goes to the train station tomorrow, he will forget which woman is his wife after just two minutes of walking in the crowded train station.

"Does it matter what I wear?" Su Mei couldn't understand: "In your eyes, people are not divided into beautiful and ugly. Whether I dress nicely or ugly, it's the same in your eyes, right?"

In this case, Su Mei couldn't understand why Huo Jianguo wanted her to wear new clothes. She always wore the same clothes.

Huo Jianguo was not afraid of embarrassment, he told Su Mei the truth:

"If you wear that new dress tomorrow, I won't remember the features of the dress. When I get to the train station tomorrow, everyone I see might look like my wife!"

Su Mei: “….”

Wonderful.

After dinner, Su Mei put out her new clothes, found a piece of red cloth, and embroidered a big bow on the back.

She put on her clothes and pointed the bow to Huo Jianguo:

"Remember, the woman with a red bow on her back is your wife!"

"Okay, I'll remember that." Huo Jianguo looked at the bow and nodded seriously.

Because he was going back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year, Huo Jianguo packed some things after dinner and said he would take Su Mei to pay New Year's greetings to Chen Yilon and Chu Zhonghua respectively.

Although Huo Jianguo is a rather rigid person, he still understands the basic etiquette of the world.

Chen Yilon and Chu Zhonghua are both Huo Jianguo's top superiors. Before the Chinese New Year every year, he will never forget to wish his two leaders a happy new year.

The two first went to Chen Yilon's yard.

When they arrived at Chen Yilong's yard, Chen Yilong was having dinner. When he saw Huo Jianguo and Su Mei enter the house, Chen Yilong stood up quickly. He looked at Huo Jianguo and said:

"Jianguo, why did you come here at this time? Have you had dinner? If not, let's eat something together. Even though there aren't many dishes, it should be enough for a meal!

Hmm, who is that following you? Why have I never seen her before? Which regiment is she from? Why is she following you? Our regiment actually has such a fat female soldier. The food on our frontier has been getting better and better in recent years!"

Su Mei: “….”

Why doesn't anyone recognize her?

She just changed her clothes, not her body. Why do people look at her in such a strange way when they see her?

"Commander, she is not a female soldier, she is Su Mei, my love, why don't you recognize her?" Huo Jianguo suddenly doubted whether the disease that Su Mei mentioned really existed.

Obviously, he was not the only one who failed to recognize Su Mei.

Like Huo Jianguo, Chen Yilong was stunned for three seconds after hearing that the woman in front of him was Su Mei. Then he slapped his thigh and stood up:

"Oh, it's Su Mei. Look at me, I suddenly changed my clothes and I didn't recognize you. Have you two eaten? If not, sit down and eat together."

"We have already eaten, but we are leaving tomorrow, so we came to see you before we go. We also have to go to Captain Chu and Doctor Qin.

I have been too busy recently and have not found the time, so I went door to door to wish everyone a happy new year in the middle of the night." Huo Jianguo said as he placed the gift he had prepared in front of Chen Yilong.

"I have to go back home to celebrate the New Year!" Chen Yilong sighed and then whispered, "It's good to go back home, spend the New Year with the whole family, and be happy."

"Yes!" Huo Jianguo nodded to Chen Yilon.

"Go!" Chen Yilong waved his hand at Huo Jianguo: "Finish your worship early and go back to rest. It's not safe to go back too late. Go back and say hello to your parents for me. Happy New Year!"

"Okay." Huo Jianguo exchanged a few words with Chen Yilong, then took Su Mei out of the door and went to the next house.

In fact, Huo Jianguo didn't really want to go and wish Chu Zhonghua a happy new year.

After all, Yinglan's mother had secretly set a trap for Su Mei last time. Huo Jianguo had always remembered this account in his heart, so he was not very willing to deal with the Chu family.

But one thing is one thing. Although Huo Jianguo was very dissatisfied with Yinglan's mother, he also remembered that Chu Zhonghua had always been very good to him during the years when he was in the army.

He couldn't dislike Chu Zhonghua just because of Yinglan's mother's affairs.

After much deliberation, Huo Jianguo decided to take the gifts and visit Chu Zhonghua's residence.

The couple each carried some gifts and walked towards Chu Zhonghua's residence.

Chu Zhonghua lived quite far from Chen Yilon's residence. It took them half an hour to reach Chu Zhonghua's dormitory.

They went upstairs and knocked on the door of Chu Zhonghua's residence.

The door was soon opened from the inside, and a middle-aged woman with fashionable clothes and a refined aura leaned out of the room.

When she saw Huo Jianguo, the middle-aged woman's eyes lit up. She looked Huo Jianguo up and down and said in a surprised voice:

"Oh, who is this? It's Jianguo. You're here, kid. Why are you still talking about this? Zhonghua, come out here quickly! Jianguo is here!"

The woman was Chu Zhonghua's wife, Yinglan's mother, Lin Ruyin.

Lin Ruyin came all the way from Shanghai specifically to spend the New Year with Chu Zhonghua and had only been in the military region for two or three days.

Huo Jianguo was unwilling to show any good face to this woman, because he knew that Zhao Ying would cause so many troubles, all because of Lin Ruyin's interference.

However, Lin Ruyin's attitude was too enthusiastic. Even if Huo Jianguo was not willing to pay attention to this woman, he was too embarrassed to be cold to this elder who was about the same age as his mother.

He pulled Su Mei and followed Lin Ruyin into the house. Just as he was about to introduce his wife to Lin Ruyin, he suddenly saw Lin Ruyin turn around and glanced at Su Mei coldly. She asked Su Mei in a clearly unfriendly tone:

"Are you Jianguo's lover?"