Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Amnesia Woman

In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China, September sixteenth in the Gregorian calendar. outside Nanjing. The end of summer is cool, and the morning sun is warm and soft.Strolling along the river, smelling the faint mist and looking at the vast mist, one can't help but feel open-minded and feel the emptiness and vicissitudes of the world. Most of the fishermen by the river have gone out of the port, and there is only one black-covered boat parked alone on the pier.There is a person standing at the bow of the boat, looking up.I quickened my steps towards the fishing boat, and when I got close, the fisherwoman at the bow had recognized me, and she waved her hand and shouted loudly: "Come on!"

I nodded and grabbed the shore in two or three steps.The fisherwoman wanted to stretch out her hand to pull me, I waved my hand to say "no", then I stepped into the boat and asked, "Is the girl there?" "I've been waiting for you for a long time." Just as Yu Niang finished speaking, a girl came out of the cabin.I turned my head and met the girl's eyes.For a short moment, I felt as if I had been enchanted, and I froze in place, feeling so emotional that I couldn't extricate myself. A girl's eyes are the source of all magic. Those were a pair of eyes that were as beautiful as a crescent moon, exuding a light that was gentler than the morning light.The big double eyelids raised the corners of the proud brows, and the dark eyes were as bright as a mirror, reflecting my figure and capturing my confused soul.

It was the first time I met a girl and my life changed forever. "Hello." The girl looked at me with a smile, and extended her right hand to me.I suddenly came back to my senses, and quickly stretched out my hand to shake the girl. There was a soft and delicate feeling in the palm of my hand, and my heart beat suddenly three minutes faster. The girl giggled, amused by my embarrassment.Then she pulled her hand back and hugged her arms mischievously, while tilting her head slightly and asked, "Are you a detective?" "Isn't it?" I looked down at myself.Before I went out, I packed it on purpose. I was wearing a suit and leather shoes—this is the most fashionable decoration now.

The girl laughed: "You are so young—I thought all detectives were old men." I also smirked twice "hehe", not knowing what to say for a while. "Let's go into the cabin and talk slowly." The fisherwoman interjected, "It's time to fish." The girl nodded, made an inviting gesture to me, and entered the cabin by herself.I followed suit.The cabin is not big, but tidy and tidy.Through the raised cabin curtain, I saw a dark, middle-aged man standing at the stern, presumably the husband of the fisherwoman.The man was busy untying the thick boat rope.

The girl stopped and reminded me: "Sit down quickly, brother can rock the boat very fast, you won't be able to bear it if it shakes for a while!" There was a square low table in the middle of the cabin, and the girl and I sat face to face.After calming down, I began to carefully examine the girl's face.She has a delicate face and delicate facial features, with a straight nose, eyebrows and eyes like the moon; her long black hair is tied behind her neck, making her skin look like creamy white snow.This wonderful picture deeply attracted me and made my mind fluctuate boundlessly.

The girl smiled and took the initiative to ask me: "I heard from the eldest sister, are you willing to help me?" "Yes." I came back to my senses, "—I saw your story in the newspaper, so I contacted my eldest sister and made an appointment to come here today." After speaking, I took out a business card and handed it to the other party.The girl took it in her hand and read softly: "Donghai Private Detective Agency: Feng Yuanchi." Then she pursed her lips, raised her head and told me, "Actually, I have also found a few private detectives before, but they are not willing to take over."

I said "Oh" and asked, "Why?" "I can't afford the investigation fee." The girl said bluntly, "I have no money. My brothers and sisters want to help me, but they don't have that much money either." I nodded my head in understanding, because I had heard about her situation before. The girl and the fisherwoman couple on the boat are not related to each other.One morning three months ago, the fishing boat found a drowned and unconscious girl by the river.The couple rescued the girl.The girl woke up two days later, and her physical condition gradually recovered, but her memory was all lost.She didn't know her name, nor where she came from.The kind Yu Niang couple took the girl in and asked for information.Later, this matter was also followed by reporters, and it was published in a newspaper in Nanjing City.However, no clues have been found about the identity of the girl.

It was after I learned of this that I came here on a special trip.Now that the girl mentioned the investigation fee, I suggested: "We can sign a post-payment agreement-that is, I will help you find your identity first, and then charge the investigation fee after success." The girl seemed a little surprised, she looked at me and asked, "What if it doesn't work? Or I'm still a pauper in my previous identity, what should I do?" "Both of these situations are impossible." I smiled confidently, tapped the low table with my finger and said, "I am very confident in my detective skills, and I am equally confident in your family's situation."

The girl understood what I meant, and her big beautiful eyes turned into crescent moons: "Do you think I'm not a poor man?" "of course not." "why?" I lowered my voice hypocritically: "Because you shook hands with me." "Huh?" The girl raised her eyebrows, not quite understanding. Only then did I explain in detail: "Handshaking is very Western-style etiquette. Girls from ordinary families would never do this kind of gesture. But when we met for the first time, you naturally wanted to shake hands with me. This shows that you have been very educated. Systematic Western-style education. If you continue to analyze, I believe that you not only have a good family background, but also your parents are liberal-minded. They should be progressive and enlightened people living in a big city. And your accent when you speak..."

"What's wrong with my accent?" "You speak official language, which is very rare in the south. This also proves that you come from a rich family. And your official language is not very standard, which makes me believe in my judgment even more." The girl was a little puzzled: "It's a good thing to say that it's not standard?" I said, "Not standard means that you learned the official language later. If you speak very standard, I will suspect that you are from the north." Girls get what I mean.The official language comes from the northern language family, which is not unusual for northerners.Even if the southerners learn it, they will still have some accents.

After listening to my analysis, the girl's interest was ignited, and she leaned forward and asked, "Is there any more?" I shrugged my shoulders very westernly and said, "I need clues." "What kind of clue?" "What did you have on you when you were rescued?" "I have to ask my eldest sister." The girl greeted the bow of the boat.The eldest sister rushed over enthusiastically, and I repeated the previous question to her. "It's just a suit of clothes and a piece of wood - I put them away properly." The eldest sister said as she opened a cabinet in the cabin, took out a few things from it and spread them on the table. The first is the clothes the girl wears when she is drowning. The upper body is a white short-sleeved unlined top with a Chinese-style slanted front and made of silk; the lower body is a blue long skirt, which is obviously Western-style.This kind of decoration makes people believe that this girl must come from a wealthy family in the city. As the eldest sister said, there is a wooden board under the clothes.I lifted the board up and examined it carefully, only to see that it was one and a half feet square, three inches thick, with a smooth front, and two cloth ropes stretched obliquely on the back. "She was carrying this board at the time." The elder sister told me, "It's also thanks to this board, otherwise she would have drowned long ago." I conclude: "This is a drawing board." "Drawing board?" The girl's eyes were shining, obviously she wanted to hear more. "You know how to paint, and it's Western-style oil painting." I pondered for a while, and then said, "It seems that you had an accident when you were out painting." "Really? What kind of accident would that be?" The girl frowned, trying to remember something.But there was only a blank in her mind. I turned my head to look at the eldest sister who was standing aside, and asked, "When you found her, did she have any scars on her body?" The eldest sister recalled: "There are some small wounds, and they are very shallow." "It should be left by rubbing and bumping in the water—is there any serious bruises or wounds? Like the kind where a stick and knife fell?" The eldest sister shook her head decisively and said, "That's definitely not the case." "It seems that you were not attacked by villains." I said to the girl, "The drowning should be caused by yourself." "Then what's going on?" the girl asked me with her head tilted, she was completely fascinated by my analysis. "You were carrying your drawing board, which means you were walking outside. It is certain that you have reached the water's edge--you painters like to go to such places. Maybe you patronize when you are crossing the bridge. Or you were wading in the shallows, but you didn't realize that there were dangerous rapids hidden under the calm water... In short, you accidentally fell into the water, and you choked on a lot of water during the struggle, and eventually passed out Over there. That drawing board saved your life, it held you afloat in the water. Well, sister, you found her early in the morning, didn't you?" The eldest sister nodded: "It was just dawn at that time." "That's right." I clapped my hands, continued to look at the girl and said, "You can't come out to paint at night, right? So you must have fallen into the water during the day the day before, which means you were at least in the water Drifting all night!" "How far does it have to float down?" The eldest sister exclaimed, "No wonder we can't get any information nearby!" "Now I can only be sure: you drifted down from upstream. But how far upstream is it? No one can say." The girl stared at me with wide eyes.She was surprised and delighted to hear so much information about herself at once.But after the surprise, he was deeply at a loss. "What should I do now?" When she asked me again, she was already full of help. I didn't answer directly, just said: "If we continue to analyze, I need more clues." The girl curled her lips in disappointment, looked at the clothes and boards on the table and said, "That's all there is to it..." While I was silent, I stared at the girl up and down with my eyes.Finally, my eyes stopped on the opponent's chest.The girl was wearing a single shirt with a flat collar, revealing a piece of delicate skin on her neck. The girl noticed my gaze. Although she had a cheerful and lively personality, she couldn't help blushing at the moment, and hurriedly raised her hand to straighten the skirt of her chest. I smiled, stretched out my finger and asked, "What is that?" The girl was taken aback, and looked down by herself: It turned out that what I was referring to was a thin red line in her neck.She hooked the red thread with the middle finger of her right hand and gently picked it up, pulled out a pendant from her collar, and replied, "It's a jade pendant." "Did you take it with you when something happened?" "Yes—" the girl asked cooperatively, "Do you want to see it?" I nodded without hesitation.The girl untied the pendant and handed it to me.It was an oval jade pendant, about the size of half a silver dollar. The pendant was light green in color, and the jade was cloudy, so it was not a good material. When I took a closer look, I found that the pendant has engravings on both sides, with a dog pattern on the front and only a word "cloud" on the back.From the perspective of the carver, the lines are rough and the fonts are clumsy and soft, which are really inferior folk works. "Yun?" I whispered softly, "Is this your name?" "I think so." The girl glanced at the eldest sister beside her, "Anyway, they call me 'Yunyun'." and so on.It's nice to hear, but it's just too popular.There is little hope of finding out the identity of the girl by this name. I turned the jade pendant over again and looked at the pattern of the dog, thoughtfully. "Could this be my zodiac?" the girl reminded me. I shook my head and said, "It's unlikely. If you are a dog, then you are either fourteen or twenty-six years old this year-this is really unlikely, your real age should be around twenty years old." The girl nodded, approving my judgment.At the same time, she laughed self-deprecatingly: "Then what does this mean? Why should I engrave a dog behind my name?" I laughed too.What a lovely girl, despite such an accident, she still maintains an optimistic attitude. "Help me think about it quickly." The girl encouraged me again and said, "You are so powerful, you must be able to come up with some explanations!" I nodded and continued to look at the jade pendant.But my mind started to wander.I seem to feel the fragrant body temperature remaining on the jade pendant, which is penetrating into my pores and invading my heart. After a while, I raised my head and asked tentatively, "Can I take it away? I have to study it carefully." The girl replied happily, "Okay." I smiled, and the jade pendant was tightly held in my hand.The girl's generosity convinced me: I had gained her trust.During this special time in her life, I will be able to continue to go deep into her heart and be her only support. Just as I was thinking about it, the man at the stern called out suddenly: "Come help pull the net." I followed the sound and found that the fishing boat had arrived in the middle of the river before I knew it. The eldest sister hurried to the outside of the cabin.The girl blinked her big eyes at me, and suggested: "The fish are being harvested, let's go and have a look together?" While getting up, she took my hand without any scruples, like a playful child Pulling his brother.The two of us came to the stern side by side, and saw the eldest sister dragging the fishing net onto the stern with both hands.The net is sparkling, and the fish are jumping happily. The eldest brother tore open the mouth of the net and poured out all the fish.The girl squatted in front of the pile of fish, she held a bamboo basket in her left hand, and picked and picked from the pile of fish with her right hand, with an extremely focused expression.I soon discovered that what she picked were small fish that hadn't grown up, and she carefully packed them into bamboo baskets, but she didn't know what to do with them. After picking out the whole pile of fish, the girl stood up holding the bamboo basket.She came to the side of the boat cautiously, put the bamboo basket on the river, opened it and shook it slightly.Small fish slid out of the bamboo basket one by one, jumped into the river water. "She is like this every time." The eldest sister smiled tolerantly beside me, "Anyway, they are small fish, and they can't be sold for a price." The girl looked back at us with a faint smile.Then she turned to look at the vast mist and said softly: "They are all poor children, I hope they can all go home." At that time, the morning light was shining brightly, shining on the girl head-on, and I saw the most beautiful face in the world, which was like creamy white jade.And that sentence was like a knife string, cutting in some of the weakest places in my heart, making me suffocate with pain.Maybe it was at this moment that I made up my mind to spend my life with girls. Two days later, I boarded the fishing boat by the river again. I returned the jade pendant to the girl and handed over a train ticket at the same time. The girl took the jade pendant, but she was confused about the train ticket. "Leave early tomorrow morning, destination: Feng'an." I took out another ticket, shook it, and said, "I'll go with you." "Feng'an?" The girl became more and more puzzled, "What kind of place is this?" "It's a small town in Anhui, we need to go there to find clues." "why?" "I spent the past two days in the library—" I explained, "I checked all the literature on domestic jade ornaments, and finally I found a clue: this jade ornament is in line with the folk customs of Feng'an Town : According to local legends, dogs once saved human lives, so engraving the image of a dog on the back of the jade ornament has the meaning of blessing the wearer's life auspiciously." "Oh?" The girl took the train ticket and looked at the place name on the ticket seriously, "Could it be that my hometown is in Feng'an Town?" I nodded: "It's possible." "But you said that I should be from a big city?" The girl pouted, as if she was a little disappointed. "This—something is really wrong." I looked at the girl carefully again, and said at the same time: "From your temperament and conversation, it really doesn't look like you came out of a small town. Um, Maybe there's another possibility—" "What?" The girl blinked her big eyes and asked impatiently. "Maybe you just visited Feng'an Town, and this jade ornament is a souvenir from a local friend." "Really?" the girl whispered, "What am I doing there?" "Visiting relatives and friends? Or just going to play, don't painters like to run around?" I made a few random guesses, then changed the subject: "No matter what the possibility is, if you want to continue investigating , we all have to go to Feng'an Town." I watched the other person's expression while talking.A long journey with a strange man is obviously inconvenient for a beautiful young woman, and I was worried that the girl would reject my proposal.So I bought the ticket in advance, also with the intention of "cutting first and playing later". But I seem to worry too much.After hearing what I said, the girl immediately raised her head and asked, "Are you really going with me?" "of course it's true." The girl reminded me very seriously: "I may not necessarily be rich, I may just be a pauper in a small town." The first thing the other person thought of was this question... I couldn't help but smile secretly in my heart, and said to the end: "Then I will accompany you, even if it's a waste of time, it doesn't matter, it's all a tour of the mountains and rivers." .” "Okay, you are not allowed to go back on your word." The girl smiled happily, "If my home is not there, you have to take me to play around as a comfort to me." "It's a deal." I said as I stretched out my palm.The girl immediately waved her little hand and clapped me crisply.Her eyebrows are curved, and her smile is as bright as a flower.