22. She's dead
Although he didn't know about Liuchuan City, Bai Su still quickly took Ruan Jing to find a high-standard tea room, asked the waiter for a clean single room, and closed the door, separating the inside and outside into two worlds.
It didn't take much effort, Ruan Jing simply retold his experience for more than a month to Bai Su, but subconsciously disguised his experience as an ordinary car accident, and concealed the relationship between Xiao Chongyan and his driver who caused the accident was the same person.
"You mean, you lost your memory after the car accident?"
In the steam, Bai Su frowned, and the concentration unconsciously revealed made his face more and more handsome, recovering a little of the shadow of a young boy in Ruan Jing's memory.
Ruan Jingjing nodded and smiled bitterly, "Yes, when I woke up, I was terrified to find that I was no longer who I thought I was, and I was three years old for no reason, and this experience can be regarded as rare for few people." ”
Bai Su frowned, "Why didn't you contact me when you woke up?"
"I called you, it's empty. ”
Bai Su reacted and couldn't help but pat the table in annoyance, "Yes, I almost forgot, I changed my phone number after graduation...... Actually, you know. ”
Ruan Jing calmly lowered his head and drank water.
There was a suffocating feeling in the air.
Bai Su was silent for a moment, "You don't believe me. ”
Ruan Jing didn't speak, she suddenly realized that a few years of time was just a sleep for her, but for Bai Su, it was more than a thousand days and nights, he was constantly growing, and once she could easily hide something from him, she didn't want him to know, but now Bai Su noticed the concealment beyond her words after she matured.
After a brief silence, Ruan Jing shook his head, "I just don't want you to be in danger because of me." ”
She didn't want to tell all the truth and discernment, in fact, not only for this reason, she had a hunch that in the three years she didn't know, between "Ruan Jing" and Xiao Chongyan, there must be something between the two people, which was private and not enough for outsiders, she was wary of Xiao Chongyan and suspected Xiao Chongyan, but she couldn't let others suspect him instead of herself.
These thoughts crossed her head, eventually turning into her drooping eyelashes.
Bai Su frowned and asked, "Dangerous?"
"Yes...... When I was in the hospital, there was a woman who didn't know my identity who tried to hypnotize me and tried to talk to me, and then I wanted to go back to Binjiang, and another wave of people killed people to prevent me from leaving. ”
There was a "hiss", and the chair screeched as the man suddenly got up.
Bai Su stood up without saying a word, grabbed Ruan Jing's wrist, and said eagerly, "I'll take you away, let's go to Binjiang, if you think there's danger there, I'll take you to Kyoto." ”
Ruan Jing broke away from him and shook his head, his expression was very calm, and the determination of the free faction could not be shaken.
"No, now I volunteered to stay, I lost my memory here, and I'm going to get it back here too. ”
Hakusu's face was full of objections, "You are risking your own personal safety." ”
Ruan Jing knew his temper, and it was useless to argue with him about this, so he simply looked at it and said something else.
"By the way, Shirajuku, do you know why I'm in Yanagawa?"
Bai Su was still puffing up, but he still answered her.
"The last time we contacted was about half a year ago, we called, you said you were going to investigate a case, and then I couldn't get through when I called you, and this happened when you were investigating the case before, so I didn't pay much attention to it. ”
Ruan Jing asked a few more words, and found that Bai Su actually didn't know anything, so she completely gave up the idea of asking him for help, and at this time, a thought gradually emerged, and she couldn't help but ask.
"By the way, Liang Yan, are you okay?"
When she asked this, she still thought that since she met Bai Su here, there was no need to ask Yu Ze to help contact Liang Yan. As long as Liang Yan stood in front of her, her constant panic would probably calm down.
Who knows, hearing Ruan Jing's words, Bai Su's hand suddenly shook, and water spilled all over the table.
Seeing his reaction, Ruan Jing's heart sank, "...... What's wrong? Can't you contact Liang Yan either?"
When Bai Su heard this, he looked at her in a daze for a while.
There were only a few seconds in between, but Ruan Jing felt that every second was like a year, and an ominous premonition swept her deeply, and for a moment, she wanted to rush out of the door, but in reality, she could only stare at Bai Su's mouth and see his mouth open and close.
"Ruan Jing, Liang Yan is dead. ”
All the sounds around me receded like a tidal wave.
Ruan Jing was still smiling at the corner of her mouth, every word of Bai Su was pronounced clearly, but it was so obscure when they were connected, she didn't understand what he was saying, but her tears fell down in an instant, hitting her arm, and all her limbs were smashed painfully.
"You...... What are you talking about?"
Bai Su looked at her with regret, "I'm sorry, Xiaojing. ”
"It's ...... When was this. ”
"Half a year ago. ”
Ruan Jing opened his eyes, opened his eyes wide, looked at the man in front of him, and muttered, "I don't remember." ”
"I know. Bai Su sat down beside her and stretched out his hand to take her in his arms, Ruan Jing let out a heart-rending muffled howl, like a dying young beast, extremely painful, but knew that nothing could be done.
Bai Su hugged her, and in a place where she couldn't see, the heavy sadness on her face slowly put away.
He grimaced, patted her back with his hand to comfort, his fingers wrapped around her long hair, sliding down her back a little, his fingertips seemed to be caressing a piece of jade, Ruan Jing's hair flowed between his fingers, and he grabbed it again.
According to Bai Su's words, Liang Yan died in an accident.
Half a year ago, Liang Yan died on the spot in a car accident caused by speeding, and that date happened to be a few days after Ruan Jing came to Liuchuan City.
Ruan Jing didn't know how she walked back to the psychological counseling room step by step, and even, she didn't know why she wanted to go back, in this hesitant and confused moment, her first thought was to go to that man's side - maybe because, no matter what he was hiding from him, this man was strong, determined, and had the power to stabilize people's hearts in her heart.
Xiao Chongyan put down the book in his hand and looked at her with a frown, "Didn't you see your old friend go? Why did you come back with this expression?"
Ruan Jing shook his head, didn't have the strength to speak, sat down in his place, his expression was unconsciously empty, Xiao Chongyan stared at her for a long time, got up and went to the middle to get a blanket and draped it on her.
Ruan Jing shook his head and wanted to refuse, but as soon as his fingers touched the edge of the blanket, he was held by Xiao Chongyan, and he used some strength.
"Wear it, you're shaking. ”
With that, he let go.
Ruan Jing lowered his head, and after a moment of silence, he gathered the blanket and wrapped himself.
At this moment near dusk, there was no light in the room, and Xiao Chongyan hadn't been talking to her since he gave her a blanket, browsing the documents in his hand by the warm light outside the window.
I don't know when the warm wind turned on, the room was silent and warm, Ruan Jing felt that her blood began to flow slowly again, her spirit continued to sting, but her body was even more tired because of this, Ruan Jing slowly lay on the table, looking at Xiao Chongyan's back, his mind gradually became dull.
Sometimes, an inadvertent moment in life, traveling through time and space, can be stagnant in a person's memory for a long time.
Just like Liang Yan.
There was a lush summer, Liang Yan stood under the tree, wearing a pure white dress, her hair was black, her eyes were wavy, and the boys in the past secretly looked at her, she stood there, she could represent the brightness of the whole summer.
Thousands of stars are not as smart and shining as her.
"Xiaojing, come here. ”
Ruan Jing has always felt that there is nothing more beautiful in this world than the smiling Liang Yan.
She walked quickly towards Liang Yan and walked to her side, with a sense of stability that she had never felt before.
But in the next moment, Liang Yan suddenly grabbed her wrist in pain, and blood gushed out in a big gulp, and the extreme red made her face even paler.
"Xiaojing, I hurt. ”
Ruan Jing wanted to hold her, but her feet suddenly seemed to be grabbed by something, and she sank down little by little, and she could only watch her vitality drain rapidly, and finally turned into a corpse that couldn't speak, laugh, or breathe, but Liang Yan was still so beautiful,
Ruan Jing thought, she was also in pain, and her heart was about to crack.
"Ruan Jing, wake up. ”
A voice, indifferent, broke through the bloody sky and dragged her out of the swamp.
She opened her eyes and looked at the dark-faced man in front of her, her eyes were still confused, and she couldn't help asking, "Who are you?"
His eyes were imprinted with her reflection, and there was a softness in his voice that she had never heard when she was awake, "Xiao Chongyan, I am Xiao Chongyan." ”
He said he was Xiao Chongyan, but who was Xiao Chongyan?
"Sleep. ”
His fingers were inserted into her hair, carefully combed little by little, a faint fragrance began to fill the air at some point, the temperature in the room gradually rose, and the man's forehead was already faintly sweating, but for a woman, it was just warm.
She fell into a groggy sleep again.