Chapter 147 Murder in Sleep: Finding the Memory

After Zhang Mingli knew what Zhang Taotao had done, she agreed to undergo hypnosis treatment to recover the lost memory.

The hypnosis location was the house where the crime occurred.

"Ms. Zhang, your brain is not damaged or diseased. You should be suffering from psychogenic amnesia. In order to protect us, our brain will activate the defense mechanism and selectively forget some things. But these memories are not lost, but suppressed in the subconscious. Are you sure you want to get that memory back?" Lin Sen confirmed again, "This may be very painful for you?"

"It doesn't matter, I can bear it."

"Then let's start."

Lin Sen asked Zhang Mingli to sit on the sofa. He first asked Zhang Mingli to do breathing exercises to make her completely relaxed.

"You feel very relaxed now... You are walking in a long tunnel. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. You follow the light. The end of the tunnel is your childhood... What do you see?"

"I saw my father cooking and my mother teaching me to write... After dinner, my father played games with me and my mother was washing dishes... I was smiling happily. I am very happy. This is my home." " Is

there anyone else in the room?"

"No." Zhang Mingli's face suddenly changed, "No, there is someone, he is coming, he is coming again..."

"Who is he?"

"My uncle. He came to ask my parents for money again. Dad didn't agree to lend it, and my mother was scolding my father."

"Then what?"

"My head hurts, I can't remember..." Zhang Mingli covered her head with a painful expression.

"Do you see the stairs?"

"Yes. It was dark there, and I was scared. I didn't dare to go over there."

"The lights are on now. Do you see the light? Do you have the courage to go up there now?"

"I... I saw Mom and Dad watching me upstairs. They let me go up."

"Then you go up the stairs, okay?"

Zhang Mingli nodded. "I'll try. I went up the first step."

"Okay, go up slowly."

"I went up. I saw Mom and Dad, but they couldn't see me."

"Why couldn't they see you?"

"I was hiding behind the sofa. I was playing hide-and-seek with Dad. Mom and uncle suddenly came back, and they were arguing with Dad. Dad couldn't win the argument, and he cried in grievance."

"Why did they quarrel?"

"Dad doesn't want Mom to lend money to Uncle, and he also said that I'm not his daughter. No, I'm Dad's daughter." Zhang Mingli shook her head desperately, tears pouring out of her eyes, "Dad made a mistake, how could I not be Dad's daughter?"

"Take a deep breath... inhale hard, exhale... what do you see now?"

"Mom said Dad was slandering her, and Uncle said Dad wanted to divorce Mom and was deliberately making trouble. Dad slapped Mom... Mom cried. Dad wanted to comfort Mom, but Uncle said that Dad had cheated on her and spent all his money on the mistress, and Dad was going to divorce Mom. Mom was very angry, she picked up her suitcase and planned to leave..."

"And then what happened"

"Dad rolled down the stairs! Mom pushed him down!"

"Where is your uncle?"

"Next to Mom."

"What did he do at that time?"

"He was laughing..." Zhang Mingli hugged her head, "I remember, Dad wanted to hold Mom, but Mom shook his hand off... Dad didn't stand steadily and rolled down the stairs. He bled a lot... Uncle laughed happily when he saw Dad die..."

Zhang Mingli suddenly opened her eyes. Cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She breathed heavily, like a stranded fish.

"I remember now, it was my mother who caused my father to fall down," Zhang Mingli covered her face and cried bitterly, "My uncle told my mother that it was my mother who killed my father. If my mother turned herself in, she would go to jail and she would not be able to take care of me. My uncle said that he could help my mother deal with the body and ensure that it would not be discovered by the police..."

At that time, Zhang Mingli found out that she was not her father's daughter, and she witnessed her mother killing her father with her own eyes. Under the strong stimulation, she forgot everything before the age of six. When her mother saw her behind the sofa, Zhang Mingli had already fainted, and she remembered nothing when she woke up.

But Zhang Mingli's confession alone was not enough to incriminate Zhang Taotao. Zhang Mingli was too young at the time of the crime, and it has been so long, her confession is not reliable, and she has also suffered from amnesia, so the accuracy of her memory will be questioned.

"Zhang Mingli once said that her mother never admitted that Zhang Mingli was her daughter. Could it be that Zhang Mingli's mother did not have schizophrenia at all?" Xiao Zhang analyzed, "Could she have known the truth? Would she have left us any clues before she died?"

Fang Rui and his team went to the mental hospital where Zhang Mingli's mother Zhang Huanhuan had lived.

"Zhang Huanhuan's condition is not very serious, but she is very aggressive. She will attack her relatives indiscriminately." Zhang Huanhuan's attending physician said, "She is still very sober most of the time, can take care of herself, and speaks logically and clearly."

"Has she said anything special before?"

"She often says that her daughter is not her child. But this is a very common symptom of schizophrenia, called Capgras syndrome. Patients will think that their relatives are pretending to be someone else. This is also a kind of delusion. Oh, she always feels that there is a ghost following her, so she likes to hide under the bed. She said that she can see her husband's ghost that way."

"Can you take us to the ward where Zhang Huanhuan lived?"

"Sure."

After entering the inpatient department, Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang saw all kinds of crazy mental patients. Most of them had dull eyes or silly smiles.

When passing by a ward, Fang Rui saw Lu Tian sitting on the bed, holding a color picture book in her hand, and reading quietly.

"Boss, look, that's Lu Tian." Xiao Zhang pointed to the ward, "She looks fine now."

Among a bunch of mental patients with different symptoms, Lu Tian seemed particularly normal.

Feeling the gaze of Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang, Lu Tian looked at them, a smile appeared on her face, and then continued to flip through the picture book in her hand.

Zhang Huanhuan has violent tendencies, so she was locked up in the intensive care unit and lived in a single room. After she was discharged from the hospital, no other patients have lived in this ward.

The ward has been cleaned by the cleaners, and there is no debris in it, even the sheets and quilts have been changed.

Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang carefully checked the entire ward and found no clues.

Xiao Zhang was not discouraged. He crawled under the bed and planned to check it. As a result, he found words engraved on the bed board:

Zhang Taotao will not die well.

The handwriting was very blurry, and it looked like it was carved out bit by bit with fingernails. She carved all over the bottom of the bed.

"It seems that Zhang Huanhuan discovered Zhang Taotao's true face. So she carved these words under the bed." Xiao Zhang sighed, "Hey, why didn't she leave us any clues?"

They took apart the bed board and checked it carefully.

Fang Rui found that in addition to the line of words "Zhang Taotao will not die well", the bed board also had words such as "bedroom", "bookshelf", and "hole" engraved on it. Those words were very small and crooked, and they could not be seen at all without careful identification.

Fang Rui said: "She may have left evidence behind, hidden behind the bookshelf in their bedroom."