Chapter Twenty-Four: The Mysterious Woman
"Hurry up, little peach, let's have a picnic."
Jiang Jinchen had a pink straw in his mouth, and then suddenly remembered something, and slapped his head vigorously.
……
Tao Tao stared at the pink straw that he had just snatched from him with a look of disgust.
There is no help.
However, before Tao Tao could answer, Jiang Jinchen held a drink in one hand and Tao Tao in the other, and rushed towards the store not far away.
"Can I refuse?"
Tao Tao was pulled by him, feeling the wind galloping.
"I can't."
Jiang Jinchen ran with long legs, Tao Tao felt the whirring autumn breeze blowing in his face, and for a moment he almost thought that he was no longer in this world.
After a while, Jiang Jinchen and Tao Tao walked out of the store with their hands full of things.
"Jiang Jinchen, do you have any friends coming?"
Tao Tao suddenly burst out of his mouth with a sentence.
"Huh?"
Jiang Jinchen was stunned for a moment, glanced at Tao Tao Tao with an expressionless face suspiciously, and then he answered this question very seriously.
"Nope."
Good.
Tao Tao rolled her eyes, and then recalled the way the shopkeeper looked at the two of them just now.
She lowered her head and looked at the various things in her arms.
Well, I didn't know and thought I was coming to a tour group.
The two of them found a random place, then spread out a blanket and sorted out the food.
Jiang Jinchen looked at the food all over the ground and pondered for a moment.
"Miss Peach, did we buy too much?"
Jiang Jinchen, a bold and arrogant person, can be regarded as aware of this serious problem.
"No, I didn't buy much."
Tao Tao glared at him, then patted his ass and sat down, and after glancing at the food that had completely surrounded the two of them, he reached out and touched his stomach.
Thank you for your hard work.
Tao Tao sighed.
"Ahem, it's okay, we'll pack it up and take it away if we can't finish eating."
Jiang Jinchen cleared his throat in embarrassment, and then sat down as well.
Well?
Tao Tao seemed to feel very strange about what he had just said.
A rich man like Jiang Jinchen would pack food and take it home?
"You just said pack and take away?"
Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen's serious expression, and then asked uncertainly.
"Huh? That's right, if we can't finish eating, we'll pack it and take it away. ”
After Jiang Jinchen finished speaking, he noticed Tao Tao's suspicious gaze.
"Hahaha, do you think that people like me would not do such things at all?"
Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao and asked with a smile.
“…… Right. ”
Tao Tao admitted.
"Actually, when I was young, there were a few years when I was poor and couldn't even eat."
Jiang Jinchen smiled nonchalantly, and then casually picked up a sandwich with a particularly good-looking packaging.
"You know, at that time, I was standing on the side of the road looking at the beautifully packaged food in the shop window, and for a moment, I just wanted to smash the window open and snatch it all away."
"But I didn't do that, because I couldn't...... Losing my principles and dignity as a human being. ”
Tao Tao listened to Jiang Jinchen's words in shock.
She never thought that Jiang Jinchen, who is now so noble, would experience such a thing when she was a child.
Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen who was bowing his head and pretending to smile in distress, and then lowered his gaze.
"But then, a girl showed up next to me."
Suddenly, Jiang Jinchen raised his head, then looked at Tao Tao and said.
"She showed up when I was in despair, when I was young, and I just remember that she bought me a bag of fragrant buns and put them next to me."
Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao, who suddenly raised his head and was full of shock, and then smiled gently.
"I will never forget the taste of that bun for the rest of my life."
Tao Tao seemed to see through his gaze the mysterious past that happened to Jiang Jinchen before.
"You ......"
Tao Tao looked at his smiling face, feeling his heartbeat skipping.
She suddenly found that the space around her shook violently, and then there were extremely deep cracks, followed by a momentary collapse.
The taste of buns......
Tao Tao always felt that she should also remember that taste.
And so she fell into darkness.
She stood in the darkness listening to her heartbeat, and then suddenly felt a light appear in front of her eyes.
This familiar scene.
Tao Tao was stunned for a moment, she thought of the dream she had often had a while ago.
The scene in the dream is exactly the same as this one.
Tao Tao ran forward after the light, closer and closer.
In the previous dream, Tao Tao ran desperately every time, but every time it was a little bit close, it was just a little bit short, she could run into that beam of light.
This time, Tao Tao is still trying to get close to that light.
It wasn't until she finally passed through the light that she stopped, holding her hands on her knees and breathing heavily.
Well?
Did I really go through?
After Tao Tao adjusted to the light around her, she suddenly found herself in a very dim alley.
She touched her chest, then breathed her breath deeper into the alley.
Just then, she smelled a very fragrant smell.
Tao Tao was stunned, and then she ran quickly in search of the smell until she rounded the corner.
After rounding the corner, she stopped all at once.
Tao Tao looked at the picture in front of him in shock.
In front of him, a little boy appeared, covered in blood and leaning against the wall, the whole person was pale, as if he would disappear in an instant.
And next to him, squatting a little girl in a white dress, with her back to herself, Tao Tao could only see the little girl's shiny and silky black hair.
And......
and the blood-colored red lotus that bloomed on the side of the little girl's white skirt.
Tao Tao looked at the steamed buns that were still steaming beside them and fell into a coma.
"Tao Tao, Tao Tao !!"
Finally, Tao Tao was awakened by this call.
Jiang Jinchen frowned and looked at Tao Tao in front of him who was sweating coldly, and then worriedly stretched out his hand and touched her sweat-soaked forehead.
"What's the matter, you just fainted all of a sudden, and it scared me to death."
Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao, whose face was gradually recovering ruddy, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I ......"
Tao Tao was helped up by Jiang Jinchen, and then touched his head.
Hiss, it hurts.
Tao Tao took a deep breath, and then adjusted his state.
She didn't want Jiang Jinchen to worry.
"I'm fine, maybe I'm too tired these days and haven't rested well."
Tao Tao raised his head and smiled, then looked at Jiang Jinchen and said.
Jiang Jinchen still frowned worriedly when he heard this.
"No, I'll take you to the hospital."
After Jiang Jinchen finished speaking, he made a gesture to pick up Tao Tao.
"Eh, don't, don't!"
Tao Tao suddenly clenched his hand tightly.
"I really don't need to, I'm fine."
Tao Tao seemed to want to prove that she was really okay, so she stood up suddenly.
"Look, I'm fine."
Tao Tao smiled and spun around twice, and then pulled Jiang Jinchen to sit back.
"You ......"
Jiang Jinchen still stared at her uneasily.
Tao Tao blinked at Jiang Jinchen with watery eyes, pouting and being cute.
Who knew that Jiang Jinchen suddenly blushed.
……
Tao Tao looked at the red-faced man in front of him with a confused expression.
What's going on?
Jiang Jinchen was pierced by someone else's soul?
Tao Tao swallowed her saliva, and then ignored the still sore head, quietly touched the bag next to her, and made a gesture to run.
"Ahem."
Just when Tao Tao was about to run away immediately, Jiang Jinchen on the opposite side suddenly coughed.
"Forget it, since you're okay, let's continue."
Tao Tao was startled by what he said suddenly.
"Huh? What to continue? ”
She was stunned for a moment.
Jiang Jinchen looked at the bag that Tao Tao was holding tightly in his hand, and then raised his eyebrows.
"Huh?"
Tao Tao saw that his gaze fell on his hand holding the bag.
Forehead......
"Are you leaving?"
Jiang Jinchen retracted his gaze, and then looked at Tao Tao with a malicious smile.
"I ......"
Tao Tao wanted to cry without tears.
"I, where can I go?"
Tao Tao weakly put down the bag in his hand, then sat down dignified and elegant, and looked at Jiang Jinchen obediently.
Jiang Jinchen nodded with satisfaction, and then said.
"Well, that's good."
Jiang Jinchen wanted to speak and stopped, and then glanced at the smiling Tao Tao a few times.
"You, in the future, don't sell cuteness in front of others."
Huh?
Tao Tao was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Jiang Jinchen, who seemed to be blushing again, with her mouth open.
"Why?"
Then she asked this extremely mentally retarded question.
Jiang Jinchen didn't seem to expect Tao Tao to play cards out of the routine.
“……”
He choked up.
"Forget it, it's okay."
Jiang Jinchen glanced at Tao Tao deeply, and then cruelly tore open the sandwich with a particularly good-looking package, and took a hard bite.
Tao Tao was frightened.
Tut......
Then she silently opened a box of small cakes, picked up a spoon and dug it up.
The two of them were quietly eating the food that seemed to be piled up in the warm sun.
But while eating, Tao Tao suddenly remembered the pictures he saw after he fainted just now.
What do you mean?
What does that mean exactly......
Tao Tao's mind is now full of the little boy covered in blood and the corner of the skirt stained red with blood.
"You just ......"
Just when Tao Tao was about to sink into her own world, she suddenly heard Jiang Jinchen on the other side say something.
"Huh? What the? ”
Tao Tao had been thinking about things just now, so he didn't hear clearly.
"Did you just see anything?"
Jiang Jinchen put down the sandwich in his hand, and then stared at Tao Tao with a serious face.
……
Tao Tao panicked for a moment.
She heard it, Jiang Jinchen's sentence just now was obviously a question sentence, but he said it in an affirmative tone.
How did he know he must have seen something.
Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen in a daze, and then hesitated to say it.
She didn't really want to say it.
I don't know why, although Tao Tao wants to work hard to find the part of his lost memory, but ......
She was afraid.
Yes, she was afraid, she was afraid that the content of the part of the memory she eventually found would be contrary to what she had hoped for.
Tao Tao suddenly didn't want to look for it now, if in the end, she saw those illusions hidden in the depths of her memory, she would definitely collapse.
Thinking of this, Tao Tao lowered her head sadly.
She felt that she was too inferior, and she didn't even have the courage to find the truth.
She really couldn't figure out what she was afraid of, even if it was a false illusion in the end.
Suddenly, she looked up at Jiang Jinchen, who was looking at her affectionately in front of her.
Tao Tao suddenly understood what she was afraid of.
What she may be really afraid of is that there is no shadow of the man in front of her in her part of her lost memory.
Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen and unconsciously lightened her breathing.
She was afraid of losing him.
Tao Tao thought what if both of them remembered wrong.
Maybe...... She is not the girl Jiang Jinchen is looking for that changed his life.
Tao Tao thought of this, and his heart suddenly throbbed.
"I didn't see anything."
So Tao Tao heard himself say this.
She panicked, then clutched the corner of her coat tightly.
Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao, who had been struggling just now, and then suddenly smiled very happily, and was visibly relieved.
She really doesn't lie.
Jiang Jinchen thought.
"Haha, okay, okay, I'll just ask casually. Come on, come on, let's keep eating. ”
Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao in front of him with a nervous face, and then picked up a plate of freezing points and handed it to her with a smile.
"Eat it, it'll be cold for a while."
Tao Tao looked at him quietly for a few moments, and then reached out to take it.
Eh, wait?
The corners of Tao Tao's mouth twitched, and then he looked up at Jiang Jinchen, who was happily stuffing French fries into his mouth.
"Is your freezing point just out of the pot and still hot?"
Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen speechlessly, and then held the plate and sent the steaming freezing point to him.
"Here's it, eat it while it's hot."
Jiang Jinchen was stunned for a moment, and then took it with a confused expression.
It took a long time for him to react, and then Tao Tao saw his stiff expression.
Tut-tut, it turns out that he also makes stupid moments.
Tao Tao curled the corners of her mouth and laughed.
"Huh, Mr. Jiang?"
Just as Tao Tao was about to say a few more words to mock Jiang Jinchen, she suddenly saw a woman wearing a cheongsam walking towards her.
Huh? Cheongsam?
Tao Tao was stunned, she didn't expect to see a woman wearing a cheongsam in such a wild environment.
Just when Tao Tao was stunned, the woman had already walked in front of the two of them.
Jiang Jinchen frowned imperceptibly.
"What a coincidence, Mr. Jiang, you are ......"
The woman had a very strange smile on her face, and her eyes shuttled back and forth between Jiang Jinchen and Tao Tao.
Tao Tao looked at the woman's eyes and felt extremely uncomfortable.
Although she was smiling, that smile made people feel very cold.
Yes, like a snake.
Her gaze was like a poisonous snake, cold and breathless.
Tao Tao looked at the woman in front of her, and saw that she was wearing a black cheongsam with some strange patterns embroidered with gold thread.
Tao Tao frowned and looked carefully, she felt that those patterns looked very much like beasts with claws, but they were only embroidered with a part of the body, and only the claws that were densely intertwined were visible, and the head was not visible at all.
The woman had waist-length hair, the broken hair on her forehead was pinned behind her ears, and although her skin was very white, it was very abnormally white, and there was no trace of blood in sight.
Her eyebrows are thin and curved, her pupils are dark, and she shudders when she stares at others.
She had a very dark lipstick on her mouth, the color of ......
Tao Tao suddenly felt excited, and she actually thought of the color of blood for a moment.
That's right, the red on the woman's mouth seems to be covered with hot blood, and the bright color seems to flow down at any time.
Tao Tao fell into panic.
I saw a smile on the woman's lips, and then her dark pupils stared at Tao Tao tightly.
"What are you looking at?"
Jiang Jinchen suddenly scolded the woman, but Tao Tao was startled.
"Oh, Mr. Jiang, I'm not curious, I'm curious that there is a woman next to Mr. Jiang."
When the woman saw Tao Tao, who was frightened, she snorted coldly with disdain, and then turned her head to look at Jiang Jinchen's unhappy face.
"Is there something wrong? It's okay to go. ”
Jiang Jinchen didn't look at the woman again, he picked up a glass of juice on the ground, and then gently handed it to Tao Tao.
When the woman saw this scene, her expression suddenly turned cold, she took a few steps towards Jiang Jinchen, and then spoke.
"Look at what you said, Mr. Jiang, I just happened to pass by and wanted to say hello to you."
The woman said as she raised her hand and brushed her hair.
Huh?
It was at this time that Tao Tao noticed a ring on the woman's finger.
The reason why you notice it is because this ring is different from a regular ring.
It seems too old.
The ring was very wide, and the overall appearance was silvery-white, but it may have been baptized by the years, and some of it was blackened and rusted.
The front of the ring is a circular chassis carved with a serpentine body that is long and coiled and overlapped.
It's just that......
Tao Tao squinted her eyes and looked at it seriously, and suddenly, she gasped.
She saw that the snake's head turned out to be a vague human face.
And it has a pair of horns standing up on its head.
Tao Tao's eyes widened and she looked at it again, and this time she found that the creature was not like a snake, but like a dragon......
Who is this woman?
Tao Tao instantly felt that he was surrounded by a burst of coldness, and the woman's body actually exuded a cold air.
Jiang Jinchen seemed to sense that Tao Tao was wrong, and then he stood up suddenly and walked in front of Tao Tao.
Jiang Jinchen frowned and turned his head to look at the woman who had been smiling, and then said to her coldly.
"Li Huan, don't beat her idea."
After Jiang Jinchen finished speaking, he quickly picked up Tao Tao's bag on the ground, then gently took Tao Tao's hand and left without looking back.
"Hehe, that's funny."
After Jiang Jinchen left, the woman looked in the direction they left, gently stroked the ring on her hand, and then sneered.
I saw that the ring suddenly flickered, and the blurred human face on it gradually became clearer.