cold flame

The next day, Lin Mo was going to work after the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. The school classes during the holidays were all arranged in the afternoon. After lunch, Gao Wenxuan was about to go back, so he drove Lin Mo with him.

"Did you sleep well last night? You don't look energetic. Are you not used to working during holidays?"

Lin Mo said: "Fortunately, it should be you who didn't sleep well." Gao Wenxuan didn't hear any movement outside after he drove him into the room yesterday, so he probably slept later than himself.

"Six hours of sleep is enough for me every day." Gao Wenxuan smiled, indeed in good spirits.

Lin Mo pointed out: "You seem to be back to normal today...cough cough..."

"Have a cold? I must have caught a cold on the balcony last night." Gao Wenxuan turned his head and glanced at Lin Mo after speaking.

"Just cough a few times, it's fine."

"If you are not feeling well, please take leave today, and I will send you back to rest."

"No, there are not many classes in the afternoon, and they are almost here."

The leaves on the side of the road began to wither and turn yellow, losing their tender greenness, and crumbling on the brown branches. As the car drove along the asphalt road, the dry and broken leaves on the ground flew up, and the whole city seemed to have collapsed overnight. It's autumn.

Summer has really passed, Lin Mo felt it belatedly.

After arriving at the destination, Gao Wenxuan got off the car with Lin Mo.

"You won't be so idle, are you still a supervisor?" Lin Mo thought it was a little funny.

"This is called sending the Buddha to the West." Gao Wenxuan walked beside him, and suddenly said, "Wait a minute."

Passing by a nearby pharmacy, Lin Mo watched the other party go in and came out with a small bag shortly after.

Gao Wenxuan said: "I bought cough syrup, remember to take a few sips in the afternoon."

Lin Mo took the bag in his hand, and said in a somewhat blunt tone, "It's so troublesome."

"Leaving it alone will only make it more troublesome." After Gao Wenxuan finished speaking, his eyes turned to the other side, and his smiling expression gradually faded.

Lin Mo followed his gaze and saw a woman with long hair and a shawl at the corner in front of her, wearing a light blue dress and a white knitted jacket, with a slightly raised chin and a smile curved by thin lips, looking reserved and proud, and Her overall gentle and quiet attire was a little out of tune.

Peng Jing walked over to them and greeted them politely: "Doctor Gao, I didn't expect to see you here."

"I'm also very surprised to meet you here. I remember that your family doesn't live in this area according to the medical records." Gao Wenxuan responded politely.

"Sometimes, a lot of coincidences happen." Peng Jing turned her gaze to Lin Mo next to her, "This is Dr. Gao's friend, right? Are we going out to play together today?"

Gao Wenxuan seemed a bit out of touch with her natural and familiar conversation, but with a gentle professional smile on his face, he didn't deny or explain, glanced at his watch, and followed the words: "Come out to do something during the holidays, we We have to go one step ahead."

"Well, see you next time, Doctor Gao."

"See you later." Gao Wenxuan said in a very sure tone.

Lin Mo didn't speak until he got into the elevator with Gao Wenxuan, "That girl doesn't look like she's from your courtyard."

Gao Wenxuan just confirmed, "Well, no."

For some reason, Lin Mo cared a little bit about the brief meeting between the two just now, because he knew that in the eyes of almost everyone, Gao Wenxuan was a mature, stable and smooth image, and he was indifferent to the enthusiasm of acquaintances. On the body, it seems a little abnormal.

But since the other party did not specifically explain, Lin Mo would not take the initiative to ask.

The sunshine in the autumn afternoon was warm and warm, shining through the glass windows into the consultation room, but the room was shrouded in the dazzling white light of the fluorescent lamp, and the air was filled with a feeling of coldness and oppression.

There are two white porcelain cups on the low table, and a pot of green plants in the middle. The layers of translucent green leaves seem to be the only decoration in this white room, absorbing all the nutrients vividly.

The consultation time had passed, but the person in a white robe sitting on the sofa did not intend to ask the patient to leave. On the contrary, he picked up a cup and took a sip of weak tea calmly before getting to the point.

"You'd better stop that behavior."

Peng Jing smiled, blinked and asked, "What kind of behavior? I don't understand what you mean."

"Following." Gao Wenxuan said these two words coldly, looking directly at the slender and beautiful woman opposite, "I've checked you."

"You are a psychiatrist. If you want to fully understand your patients, shouldn't you use the most reasonable method?"

"That's when the patient needs to cooperate. And I also know that you and your boyfriend broke up as early as summer, not last month as you said, and you have concealed the fact from me from the beginning."

If he knew this from the very beginning and paid attention to it, he would not miss the best opportunity for treatment.Originally, the psychological barrier was caused by the long-term domestic violence by the father, and then the condition was aggravated by the broken relationship. Now it seems that the latter is the key point.

Although there was something about her that made Gao Wenxuan feel sympathetic.

Peng Jing looked calm, "That's right, I did conceal this, but everything else I said is true, I believe you should also confirm it."

Seeing that Gao Wenxuan was silent, she continued to laugh and said, "Besides, my concealment is nothing compared to my boyfriend's treatment to me, and you to Lin Mo, right?"

Hearing the word "Lin Mo" from the other party made Gao Wenxuan's heart tremble slightly, and he quickly understood the other party's meaning, "I know you heard that time."

"There's nothing left behind." Peng Jing had a smug smile on her face, "Pay money to hire people from the public to go to bars to make trouble, and almost leave a criminal record for your relatives, and then go out to save the scene by yourself, this kind of self-directed and self-acted It's a good show, it's really not like what you would do, Dr. Gao."

Gao Wenxuan just showed a distant smile, he understood instantly, and said, "So, it's because of you."

Peng Jing repeated: "This? Isn't it because of this that you have been receiving me?"

"Of course not, this is not enough to be your weight to blackmail me."

"So, even if I tell Lin Mo about this and let him know that he lost his job and his friend was injured and hospitalized, it's all because of his brother-in-law behind the scenes. He will never believe it?"

"No, he will believe it, but my relationship with him will not change in any way, because I am the one who would do such a thing in his eyes." Considering the other party's emotions, Gao Wenxuan thought it over, and said, "And I think you are mistaken, if you feel resentful because you have been cheated by your boyfriend, transfer this emotion to other people, use self-righteous excuses as threats, and try to destroy the relationship of others, this approach is in my case, It doesn't apply at all."

After listening to it, Peng Jing didn't take it seriously, leaned on the back of the sofa, and said, "I just hate hypocritical people. I knew it after I heard that phone call. As a psychiatrist, I didn't expect you to be such a person."

"Treatment with disgust has indeed affected your condition. If you consider changing the attending doctor, I don't mind. Maybe you made a mistake at the beginning." Gao Wenxuan's eyes suddenly showed a burnout that had never been seen in front of patients .

"I won't change doctors, and today, I finally confirmed one thing." Her voice was full of persistent excitement.

Peng Jing opened her eyes wide, and said word by word: "Doctor Gao, you have changed your mind about your dead wife."