Chapter 21 The mystery of the dismembered body: Unforgettable emotions

Because of the traffic jam, when Mu Mian and Shen Xinyin arrived at the restaurant, Professor Jiang had been waiting for them for a long time.

Professor Jiang was a very kind old lady with gray hair and glasses. When she saw Mu Mian, she greeted him first:

"Hello, Xiao Mian. I finally see you. You are as cute as in the photo."

"Hello, Professor Jiang, I'm glad to see you. You are as professional as in the photo." Mu Mian forced himself to look Professor Jiang in the eye, pulling the corners of his mouth to smile, just like a normal person.

"Xiao Mian, don't be nervous. We are here to eat today. I will not conduct a behavioral assessment on you."

"I'm not nervous."

Professor Jiang exchanged pleasantries with Shen Xinyin for a while, then she looked at Mu Mian and cautiously tested: "Xiao Mian, do you want to meet your mother..."

Mu Mian was concentrating on the menu and did not hear clearly what Professor Jiang was saying.

"Teacher Jiang," Shen Xinyin handed the menu to Professor Jiang and interrupted her forcibly, "What do you want to eat?"

Professor Jiang glanced at Shen Xinyin with dissatisfaction, but still swallowed the question he was about to ask.

They came to a Western restaurant. Shen Xinyin ordered a seafood risotto for Mu Mian and a steak for herself.

"I want another seafood risotto, take it away!" Mu Mian said to the waiter.

Shen Xinyin looked at Mu Mian in confusion: "Are you hungry today?"

"I have a friend who always forgets to eat dinner on time, and I want to bring him some."

After the dishes came, Shen Xinyin and Professor Jiang talked about their work.

Mu Mian first picked out the shrimps and carrots from her plate, and then put them in the packed lunch box.

"Xiao Mian, aren't you going to bring that portion to your friend? How can you put food you don't like in there?" Although Mu Mian used to be picky about food, she didn't have the habit of putting food in other people's bowls.

"He won't mind. He likes to eat these. He ate all the carrots on the plate last time."

Shen Xinyin was a little surprised. Mu Mian was a person with a strong sense of boundaries, and the friends she mentioned seemed to have been put into the circle she had defined.

In the past six months, Mu Mian's social skills have improved greatly.

After picking all the dishes, Mu Mian started to eat, "Sister, don't talk to me, you will affect my eating speed."

Professor Jiang asked puzzledly: "Xiao Mian, you eat so fast, are you in a hurry?"

"There is a corpse waiting for me, it's very urgent, I need to go back quickly."

Professor Jiang was stunned for a moment, then he smiled again: "You are a forensic doctor now?"

"Yes! And a very good forensic doctor."

"I can see it because you are very dedicated."

"Your logic is wrong, not all dedicated forensic doctors are excellent forensic doctors. Chen Xue is also very dedicated, but she is not an excellent forensic doctor."

"..."

Mu Mian finished her meal quickly. She refused Shen Xinyin's offer to send her off and took a taxi away.

After Mu Mian left, Professor Jiang looked at her back and couldn't help but sigh:

"It's been nineteen years. The last time I saw Mu Mian, she was only six years old. At that time, we all thought that she might live in her own world for the rest of her life.

I didn't expect that she has changed so much now. If I don't observe carefully, even I can't tell that she is an autistic patient."

Professor Jiang still remembers the scene when she first met Mu Mian. Mu Mian was very quiet. She was like a puppet with a soul taken away. No matter how others talked to her, she would not react at all and stared at the pattern on the floor intently.

She conducted a series of tests on Mu Mian, and the results were very bad. Mu Mian's intelligence level was extremely low, her language function development was stagnant, and her sensory integration disorder was severe. She was in the kind of situation that could not be intervened.

At that time, they all gave up the preventive treatment for Mu Mian, only Shen Xinyin did not give up.

Shen Xinyin smiled and said: "Teacher Jiang, you are exaggerating. Mu Mian's symptoms are still very obvious, and her behavior logic is very different from that of normal people."

"But her current condition is what many families of autistic patients dream of. She can basically live independently now, right?"

"Yes, she has lived independently for the past six months."

Professor Jiang was a little shocked. Few autistic patients can live independently without guardians. Although Mu Mian's living ability is not a problem, it can be seen from the conversation just now that Mu Mian has serious social barriers.

"Mian's emotional disorder is still very serious. Her memory is very good, but she can hardly remember emotions. Her emotions are just the perception of the moment, and it is difficult to extract them from memory again. Professor Jiang, is there any way to improve this situation?"

Shen Xinyin knew that the root cause of Mu Mian's social disorder was that she could not judge other people's emotions and could not empathize.

"Many autistic patients have this problem. This may be related to the development of their brains, which is difficult to improve through acquired training."

"I understand." Shen Xinyin was not surprised by her answer. Today, she took Mu Mian to meet Professor Jiang just to reminisce.

"So you plan to settle down in the country?"

"Not sure. But at this stage we may stay in the country first. My father has an inheritance that I need to deal with. After I finish, I will take Mu Mian back."

"I met Mu Mian's mother a few days ago, and she is doing well now. Do you want to take Mu Mian to see her? I think she will be willing to take care of Mu Mian, and you can feel more relaxed."

"No need! I begged her before to let her see Mu Mian, and I even promised to give her a large sum of money, but she still refused to come to see Mu Mian." Shen Xinyin cut the steak on her plate slowly, "So I won't let Mu Mian see her."

Professor Jiang found that Shen Xiyin had changed a lot. Shen Xinyin was like a little sun in college, with a lively personality and extroverted emotions. Since her parents died in a car accident, she has become much more stable, but she no longer has the lightness she had before.

She seems to be under a lot of pressure.

"Xiyin, what responsibility and obligation do you have to take care of Mu Mian? What about your own life? What about your career? Your supervisor is very angry. He has carefully cultivated you for so many years, but you ran back to your country to work in an unknown clinic. You will ruin your career! You should return Mu Mian to her mother and let her mother take care of her. It will be good for both you and Mu Mian!"

Professor Jiang became more and more angry.

She is a good friend of Shen Xinyin's parents and also knows Shen Xinyin's supervisor. She thinks Shen Xinyin is too emotional. She actually resigned such a good job opportunity for Mu Mian, a sister who is not related to her by blood.

"Xiyin, if you go back and apologize to your supervisor now and take back the resignation letter, everything can still be saved."

"He should learn to respect my choice. My career ideal is very simple. I just want to realize my sister's wish and let her become a normal person."

Shen Xinyin doesn't understand why everyone thinks that Mu Mian is a burden to her. In fact, she didn't. She resigned not only because she had to take care of Mu Mian, but more for herself.

Mu Mian is her relative and the achievement of her career!

"You are too naive! This is impossible!" Professor Jiang sighed.

Shen Xinyin remembered that many years ago, they also said to her, you are too naive, Mu Mian will be a dumb fool all her life.

"Teacher Jiang, as a therapist, we shouldn't easily say it's impossible."

"Hey, we have already advised you at that time that you should hand Mu Mian over to other therapists. She is both your patient and your sister. The dual relationship makes it impossible for you to make a rational judgment."