After hearing his words, Wang Fulin's eyes remained fixed on Chen Hui's face, trying to find even the slightest trace of a lie, but he was unsuccessful.
He then exchanged a puzzled look with Zhao Zhiyi and glanced around at the people around them.
So many people at the educated youth settlement said they saw him come back injured from outside, and his clothes were covered in mud from the fields. It's impossible for the whole educated youth settlement to be faking it to him, right?
But there were no signs of lying on the faces of the other people either.
Thinking of another possibility, Wang Fulin tentatively asked Chen Hui another question.
"Chen Hui, let me ask you, do you remember what you did yesterday?"
When Chen Hui heard this question, he thought about it seriously for a while, but the more he thought about it, the more his brows furrowed.
Finally, he looked at the captain with a blank expression.
"I don't think I did anything? I don't have any particular recollection of it. Apart from having a nightmare before waking up, nothing seems to have happened?"
"Do you even know who hit you?"
"I don't know, but it must be them. Otherwise, how could they have hit me while I was asleep?"
The captain almost laughed at his bewildered expression.
"Then let me ask you another question: if someone really hits you while you're sleeping, wouldn't you wake up?"
Chen Hui himself was puzzled. He scratched his head and looked at the captain with a confused expression.
"Right, I should have woken up by now, but I haven't. What's going on?"
Upon hearing his answer, Zhao Zhiyi frowned and looked at Wang Fulin, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.
Soon he saw Wang Fulin nod at him with an affirmative look on his face, indicating that he should speak his mind directly.
So he didn't dwell on it too much and quickly organized his thoughts.
“Captain, I think Chen Zhiqing seems a bit... because he went out yesterday. He left early yesterday morning, saying he was going to the commune, and he didn’t come back for lunch.”
Moreover, when he came back that night, he was soaking wet and told us that he had accidentally fallen into the river. Many people in the team must have seen him.
As he spoke, Zhao Zhiyi pointed to his head, as if to suggest that the captain might have damaged Chen Hui's brain, causing some kind of problem.
After Zhao Zhiyi finished speaking, the people at the educated youth settlement echoed his words, and some even went to get Chen Hui's soaking wet clothes that he had changed out of yesterday.
At the same time, everyone smelled a faint odor of urine, and Yu Jianguo, who was helping to get the clothes, felt that he smelled it particularly clearly.
Chen Hui looked at the soaking wet, smelly clothes, his eyes flickered somewhat unnaturally, but he still insisted that he had never left the house.
Wang Fulin had the same thought in his mind as Zhao Zhiyi: Chen Hui might have hit his head while fighting yesterday, which is why he can't remember many things now.
He glanced at Chen Hui, who was sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) with his head down, seemingly lost in thought, and then at the other male educated youths around him with their varied expressions. Finally, he sighed.
"Alright, Yu Zhiqing, hurry up and take this wet clothes out and put them away. You don't need to look at them anymore. I trust you."
I think Chen, the educated youth, was probably really hit on the head, so he can't remember some things for a while. I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to bear with him during this time.
I'll go visit Dr. Jiang later and see if there's any way to help him remember. That's all for now; we'll see about the rest later.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhiyi and the others wore bitter expressions, but they understood that there was no other way.
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