Chapter 0980 – Never Forget It No Matter What
”You were able to help Little Fish?” The fat auntie and grandpa looked Chen Ge up and down, “What do you do? A brain doctor?”
”I run a haunted house, but please trust me.” Chen Ge looked at the fat aunt and the grandpa with great sincerity.
”What are you pulling here if you run a haunted house? Hurry up and go!” The grandpa held his Taiji sword in both hands, “If you don’t leave I’ll pull out my sword!”
”Don’t worry, just give me ten minutes, okay? Just ten minutes.” Chen Ge took out his cell phone and searched the internet for news about himself helping the police solve the case: “Look at the news, the one standing with the police on the accompanying picture is me, I’m really a good person.”
”Seeing justice? Repeatedly?” The grandfather and the fat aunt took their cell phones and compared them with Chen Ge for half a day before they believed Chen Ge’s words, “What are you looking for Little Fish?”
”I really want to help her, can you guys take me to meet her parents.” Chen Ge immediately realized that the ghost he was looking for should be the boy in the photo after noticing that the woman’s body possessed a temperature.
”Little Fish grew up in an orphanage, she doesn’t have any parents.”
”Then does she have any other relatives? Who is taking care of her while she lives here? And who provided her house?” Chen Ge felt that in the woman’s current state, it was very difficult to live independently, so someone should be taking care of her.
”We’ve never heard Little Fish mention anything about her family, she was abandoned in the old city ten years ago. At that time she was still a little girl, standing alone in the middle of the road, a few police officers and I sent her to the police station, then the orphanage staff came over, they were not happy to receive Little Fish, I couldn’t stand to see them, so I let Little Fish live in my house for the time being.” Auntie Fatty was very generous and kind.
”Ten years ago?” This time span was a bit big, and Chen Ge didn’t know how to start.
Ten years was a long time for any person, long enough to forget the joys and sorrows of the time, and to forget many of the things that had once felt precious.
”She’s been like this for these ten years?” Chen Ge looked towards the woman at the entrance of the building, she was holding the photo with both hands, her eyes kept staring at the faceless boy in the photo, she seemed to be reminiscing, but also seemed to be simply looking at it.
”Yes, Little Fish suffers from amnesia, in order to figure out why, I once personally ran to the orphanage where she was before to inquire. That group of people said that Little Fish’s memory was very poor when she was very young, she couldn’t even remember the names of the children in the same house, she lost things and often made mistakes.” Auntie Fatty sighed, “I don’t know if they said that on purpose, or if this disease does get worse on its own, Little Fish’s condition intensified after she stayed with me.”
”The memory loss got worse?”
”En, she was forgetting everything, until finally she couldn’t even remember her own name, she was also on that …… day,” Auntie Fatty said here, paused, and gave Little Fish a somewhat heartbroken look, “It was also on that day that She started to tattoo the name on herself, the name seemed to have a special meaning to her, she didn’t want to forget it no matter what.”
”Who gave her this name? The orphanage?”
”No. It is said that when Fang Fish was abandoned in the hospital, she had two hundred and seventy-one dollars stuffed in her pocket and a letter in which her name was Fang Fish.” In the past these things, the fat aunt remembered very clearly, she is very attached to the square fish, personally ran many places.
”That letter ……”
Without waiting for Chen Ge to ask, Auntie Fatty knew what Chen Ge was going to say, “That letter was gone long ago, and now the only clue that can help Fang Fish find her parents is her name, which is the word Fang Fish.”
”That’s why she tattooed the two characters Fang Yu all over her body? No, you guys must be missing something!” Chen Ge just stood in the rain, “A biological parent that she has never met is not worth a person searching for like this, what she doesn’t want to forget in the depths of her memory is another person, she thought that person was called Fang Yu, she doesn’t want to forget that person!”
Chen Ge signaled the fat aunt and grandpa to the woman’s side: “Do you recognize this boy in the photo?”
”There’s no face, how do you want us to recognize him?”
”You can look at the body type, height, and head shape, has such a boy appeared since Fang Yu moved here?” Chen Ge spoke quickly.
”Fang Yu rarely comes into contact with people, she just goes to the park in the city every night, how could she possibly know such a boy?”
”Go to the park every night? Are you sure?”
”Sure, Fang Fish never goes out during the day except for doctor’s appointments, it’s the tattoos that she goes to at night.”
”This information you guys provided is important.” Chen Ge understood one thing: “Fang Fish met the boy in the photo before she moved here, and they went to the park in the city together.”
Fang Fish looked about the same age as Chen Ge, the boy in the photo was 17 or 18 years old, ten years ago, Fang Fish should have been just a little younger than this boy.
”Fang Yu lived in an orphanage before, which means that the boy in the photo most likely grew up in an orphanage as well, and they were friends who lived together since they were young.” The rain slowly became heavier and water droplets slid down Chen Ge’s face, “Big sister, do you know which orphanage Fang Yu was previously taken in by?”
”It’s the Hanjiang Orphanage, it used to be a private orphanage, it’s very informal, it’s gotten much better in recent years.”
”Hanjiang Orphanage? It’s the place where Fan Yu lives now! I see.” Chen Ge was ready to take away the photo, but the woman suddenly exerted force with both hands.
”Fang Yu, I know you want to see the person in the photo, now I’ll go bring him to you!” Chen Ge gently pressed the woman’s hands, “Maybe, he actually wants to see you.”
The woman slowly loosened her hand, Chen Ge put away the photo and walked towards the outside of the neighborhood in the rain.
”Wait!” Auntie Fatty first let Fang Yu enter the building, then she ran over with an umbrella, “Take the umbrella, I don’t know how long this rain will last.”
”Thanks a lot.” There were comic books and photos in the backpack, and Chen Ge was not polite.
”You don’t need to thank me, just now auntie saw very clearly, you wanted to take away the photos, Little Fish held on to them for dear life, it’s the first time she cared so much about a thing.” Auntie Fatty shoved the umbrella to Chen Ge, she grabbed Chen Ge’s hand, “Please you must help her, you know? The first day that child forgot her name, she broke a teacup and carved the word square fish into herself with a piece of porcelain. She forgets everything every time she wakes up in the morning and keeps repeating the same day over and over again, she has to remember that name no matter what, and I just took her to get the tattoo so she wouldn’t hurt herself.”
”Understood, I’ll figure everything out.”
Chen Ge looked towards the hallway, the woman was still staring blankly at the name on the back of her hand.
To others, ten years was a long time, but to her, it was just repeating the same day for ten years.