Chapter 237: Answer

This unexpected information made Ling Li suddenly a little breathless.

Even if she used to be called a master and apprentice, she didn't feel that Zhu Jinchuan cared much about her, at least that year's free-range period still made it easy for her to survive.

And after knowing the past between him and Ling Ling, her mind also changed subtly.

It turned out that the gold medal that could prevent her from making a stupid mistake in a single case and not being swept away by Zhu Jinchuan was not her uncle's kindness back then, but her love and guilt for Ling Ling back then, with her love for the house and Wu.

She, a little crow, has been in a daze for so long under his hidden attention?

In the afternoon, Ling Li got the information she wanted from the procuratorate, and after finishing it, she knocked on Zhu Jinchuan's office door.

After that, she told Zhu Jinchuan the clues she had spent several hours peeling back and her preliminary speculation.

"From Tang Aoxue's circle of friends, I copied such a few passages, I checked them, and they are all from the same novel." She put the printed manuscript in her hand in front of Zhu Jinchuan, "A science fiction novel is about a couple who love deeply but can't be together, which is a tragedy. ”

Zhu Jinchuan turned a few pages of those materials and put them down, looking up at her: "Is there any valid information?" ”

"At present, I can see that there is a clue, but I need to dig deeper," Ling Li said, "I just read the beginning of the novel, the reason why the two can't be together is because of different races, one is a human race, the other is a zerg, one lives on the ground, and the other lives underground, in connection with the situation of the case, I'm not sure if Tang Aoxue thought of it from this......

"Stop, stop!" Zhu Jinchuan hurriedly asked her to stop, "I don't need the process, you just need to tell me the result as soon as possible." ”

Ling Li nodded and said, "I will read it as soon as possible and see if there are any revelations." ”

"So, you're looking for an excuse to read novels during work hours?" Zhu Jinchuan looked at her and frowned, and couldn't help but make a joke.

Unexpectedly, it had no effect at all.

Ling Li still frowned: "I'll watch it when I'm off work." ”

Zhu Jinchuan heard her serious answer, and couldn't help but rub the corners of his forehead and said, "You can watch it whenever you want." ”

"Hmm." Ling Li nodded, turned around and went out.

Before going out, she suddenly remembered Lu Xiaoxiao's speculation in the morning.

Holding on to the door frame for a few seconds, she finally took a deep breath, and then turned around and stood in front of Zhu Jinchuan's table again.

Zhu Jinchuan heard the movement, raised his eyes to look at her, and raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?" What else? ”

Looking at Ling Li's solemn expression, he smiled lightly: "Don't be afraid, I'm here." I try not to travel before the trial, if you have any questions, just come to me. ”

With uncertainty, she asked Zhu Jinchuan: "Master, did you find this case specifically for me?" Moreover, more than a year ago, you decided on this case for me to do? ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Zhu Jinchuan's eyes. Although he quickly regained his composure on his face, Ling Li still captured the emotions of that moment just now.

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Jinchuan sighed lightly and smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect the stupid second sister to have such a sensitive and meticulous time." Or is it Lu Xiaoxiao, what did she tell you? ”

Ling Li lowered her head and said nothing, but her expression was acquiescing.

Zhu Jinchuan was a little helpless: "I knew that Lu Xiaoxiao would do bad things, but I didn't expect to be discovered by her so soon." If I had known this, I should have told the child's father that Lu Xiaoxiao was hiding his pregnancy, and there must have been a good show to watch. ”

Ling Li raised her head suddenly, and shouted a little anxiously: "Don't!" Xiaoxiao didn't want Li Guo to know about this. ”

Seeing the playful expression in Zhu Jinchuan's eyes, she suddenly realized that she had slipped her mouth.

Zhu Jinchuan shook his head with a funny face: "Sure enough, I cheated it out." Lu Xiaoxiao is messing around like this, and she is not afraid of annoying the two sisters and brothers who are not easy to get along. ”

Hearing him say this, Ling Li instantly understood that Zhu Jinchuan also knew about the entanglement between Lu Xiaoxiao and Li Guo.

Zhu Jinchuan tapped his finger on the table: "Everyone has their own fate, don't you look at her chic life and don't care about anything, the scene with Li Guo back then, wasn't it a vigorous and well-known one?" ”

Ling Li shook her head and decided to get back to the point: "Master, you want to distract me like this, it doesn't work at all. Did you hand over Tang Aoxue's case for this purpose? ”

Seeing that Zhu Jinchuan was stunned for a moment, Ling Li asked the second half of the sentence as well: "Are you trying to divert my attention, so let such a case take up all my time?" You didn't even lecture me when I asked to go to work and read novels? ”

Zhu Jinchuan was silent, and Ling Li looked at him steadily, and that look made him even involuntarily reach out to the cigarette case on the table.

Only halfway through, he suddenly came to his senses, looked up at Ling Li, and there was not a trace of emotion in his voice: "That's right, you finally saw through it." ”

Ling Li nodded, tried several times, and finally asked the next sentence with difficulty: "I knew it was like this." Both in terms of evidence and procedure, this case is a bit reluctant. The reason why he took a risk and suddenly put the case out must have some reason as a last resort. What makes you so anxious? ”

Zhu Jinchuan did not answer and remained silent.

Ling Li took a deep breath and continued to analyze: "The reason why you brought up this case with very little hope for me to take over is that you want to use this case to attract my attention and make me have no energy to think about other things?" Master, what is it that scares you so much? ”

She paused for a few seconds, and finally asked the cause and effect: "Do you know, what was my sister's illness back then?" ”

Zhu Jinchuan seemed to have guessed the question she was going to ask, and closed his eyes and was silent for a long time.

Ten seconds later, when he opened his eyes again, he was a little unbearable.

He nodded slightly: "I didn't expect you to guess so quickly." Is it because this physical examination is scheduled too urgently? ”

Ling Li was noncommittal, and then replied: "Also, the case of the VAM agreement, you are so anxious to hand it over to a newcomer who has never participated before, which is unreasonable." Some people say that you are deliberately embarrassing me, but I know that Master, you will not do this, and there must be another reason why you have to choose this way. ”

As she spoke, she lowered her head and looked at her toes: "I have a question in my heart, I specially asked someone to check, why do you have to go for a physical examination that day, so anxious that you even do it at the cost of breaking the contract and offending the client." Later I learned that the genetic test was only done on Tuesdays, and if I missed it, I would have to wait another week. You're in a hurry to know the outcome, so you're doing it on purpose. ”

"I knew I shouldn't have been so anxious," he smiled wryly, "If you were to continue to finish the VAM case, if you had waited another two weeks, you probably wouldn't have found out so soon." ”

He was still in the mood to joke now, but Ling Li's heart was getting heavier and heavier.

"So, you finally have a demerit in your investigation for the past few years? What is my family's illness? Ling Li tried not to tremble in her voice.

Zhu Jinchuan sighed. After all, she noticed it.

After learning the answer that had plagued him for many years from his old classmate, he thought about it a lot, and directly told her the result and then pulled her to take blood for a test was undoubtedly the most direct one, but it was also the most unexpected injury.

Sleepless all night, his choice was to be verified in a covert way.

More than ten days ago, he knew the result, Ling Li's genetic sequence was normal, and there was no genetic disease. This also confirms that among the three people Ling Ling said back then, Ling Li was not included.

It also further proved his conjecture. It's not just his conjecture, it's the mainstream view of the police now.

She is the normal one, and it is likely that for this reason, she is the one who survived back then.

Such an answer is both fortunate and unfortunate.

Ling Li stood quietly in place, quietly looking him in the eye, quietly waiting for the final answer.

Zhu Jinchuan finally couldn't help smoking, under the cold white light, the orange and red dots, one bright and one out, accompanied by the swirling smoke, gradually made his facial features a little blurred.

A cigarette, a third of which was burned, was snuffed out by him in the ashtray,

He seemed to have sorted out his emotions, looked up at Ling Li, and gently spit out three words: "Huntington." ”

Later, it is further explained: "Your sister, your father, and your brother's illness is Huntington. ”

Ling Li searched hard for these unfamiliar three words in her head, but to no avail.

Zhu Jinchuan couldn't bear to see her appearance of six gods and no master, but he could only prompt: "Huntington's disease, you can check this disease on Baidu." ”

Ling Li took out her mobile phone as if she had just woken up from a dream, and after accurately entering the three words in Pinyin Association, she hurriedly browsed the explanations of the entries that popped up.

"Huntington's disease dementia was first reported by Huntington in 1872, hence the name. It is a single-gene autosomal dominant disorder. It has a wide range of brain degeneration, especially the atrophy of the caudate nucleus, which is a rare idiopathic neurodegenerative disease. The main clinical manifestations are dementia and chorea-like movements......"

Ling Li's eyes didn't know where to look in a panic, and the symptoms described in the entry about Huntington made her heart messy.

“…… In the early stage, it is often irregular muscle twitching, showing finger flexion and extension movements, nodding heads, and facial twitching with a strange appearance. Further development of sudden, aimless, intense involuntary dance-like movements of the face, neck, limbs, and trunk......"

She remembered her father's trembling hands.

“…… Depression is particularly common. Emotional apathy, sluggishness, depression, often suicidal behavior or personality changes, bad temper, quarrelsome, inattention, etc. Some patients may have paranoid schizophrenic clinical signs and schizophrenia-like symptoms, and have obvious suicidal tendencies......"

She remembered the change in her father's personality in those years.

“…… Patients who are able to perceive changes in their intelligence for a period of time complain of sluggishness, forgetfulness, and confusion, which is considered "subcortical dementia". In the late stage, there may be obvious akinesia-induced mutism......"

She remembered her father's self-deprecation, forgetfulness, and later his gradual silence.

Memories swelled like a tidal wave, overwhelming her.

Fortunately, when the six gods were ownerless, he wished Jinchuan a pair of deep eyes.

"Cry if you want to." He said, "I know you're having a hard time. ”

"I don't want to cry," she shook her head, her eyes cleared up for a moment, "I haven't had time to cry yet, there are still some things that need to be clarified now." ”