This is not the first time Chi Nuan has come to Gu Ningzi's house, but it is the first time he has been on the second floor.
Gu Ningzi turned on the light at the entrance of the stairs, and Chi Nuan realized that the second floor was completely different from what she had imagined. The entire space was opened up, making it an extremely empty studio.
Gu Ningzi can draw
Chi Nuan watched Gu Ningzi walk to the east wall, picked up a corner of the white covering cloth, and tore it off.
The white cloth fell slowly to the ground.
A huge oil painting was presented in front of them.
The oil painting shows a graceful lady leaning against the window, wearing a dark green velvet cheongsam with emerald earrings, plump lips, slightly raised corners of her lips, long and charming eyes, and incomparably glamorous.
Chi Nuan was shocked: "... Gu Ningzi, did you draw it?"
Gu Ningzi: "Well."
Although Chi Nuan doesn't understand oil painting, he also knows that such vivid works are not like they can be painted casually. Gu Ningzi must have studied them deeply.
— but who did she draw
Gu Ningzi stood quietly in front of the oil painting, looking at the person in the painting: "I said I would introduce my mother to you."
Chi Nuan was startled: "You mean..."
"My mother isn't here anymore." Gu Ningzi turned to Chi Nuan and asked, "Do I look like her?"
Chi Nuan suppressed the shock in her heart and stared at the person in the painting: "You're not like her."
Whether it is facial features or spirit, rhythm, Gu Ningzi has nothing in common with her mother, she probably looks like her father.
Gu Ningzi was silent.
Chi Nuan: "Gu Ningzi..."
Gu Ningzi: "Well, they say I don't look like her."
Chi Nuan approached Gu Ningzi, they stood side by side, and for a long time, no one spoke.
Later, Chi Nuan went to find Gu Ningzi's hand, the two of them touched her fingertips lightly, and Gu Ningzi held her.
For a moment, Chi Nuan thought that Gu Ningzi would say something, but Gu Ningzi still didn't say anything. She led Chi Nuan to the stairs and turned off the light.
Darkness returned to the studio, and the oil paintings of my mother were painted, and I could no longer see.
…
The evening breeze brought summer heat, the green plants on both sides of the road had just been trimmed by sanitation during the day, and the air was filled with the fragrance of grass and trees.
Gu Ningzi walked Chi Nuan back to school. She didn't mention her mother again, so Chi Nuan didn't ask about it. The two said goodbye at the school gate, and Chi Nuan took the initiative to give Gu Ningzi a comforting hug.
"Gu Ningzi, I'm glad you're back... I'm also glad to meet your mother, we'll see you tomorrow."
Gu Ningzi: "... Well, see you tomorrow."
…
In the morning reading the next day, Chi Nuan recited the words absent-mindedly, and kept paying attention to the direction of the classroom door, but Gu Ningzi didn't come until the bell of the fourth class rang.
This is He Liwen's language class. After a quarter of an hour, He Liwen did not appear.
The classroom was relatively quiet at first, and then someone who was sitting by the window called out "Gu Ningzi", the whole class was boiling, and they all squeezed from the bench to the window to look down.
"Where is it!"
"Let me see, don't squeeze, let me see my tablemate! No... That's my tablemate, why are you squeezing too much!"
"I rely... I haven't seen you for more than a month, Gu Ningzi is more attractive, isn't it?"
"Who is the one who accompanied Gu Ningzi? Is it her parent? This parent is young enough to be in her mid-thirties?"
"Have you read it yet? Just walk away after reading it. Let me have a look too."
"Fuck, Awen found us and withdrew."
"… "
Chi Nuan, who was sitting by the window, also looked out. The sun was shining brightly. Gu Ningzi was standing in the shadow cast by the teaching building, her hair was dyed black again, tied up at will, she was wearing her school uniform, put in her pocket, and listened absently to Principal Hu and his words. Secretary Su speaks.
Chi Nuan snorted, when did she dye it
Xu Dan: "Ah, ah, the boss is back to school!"
Chi Nuan's ears hurt from Xu Dan's scream, and she turned to remind her, "It's class, please be quiet."
Xu Dan wondered: "Don't you have a good relationship with Gu Ningzi? You call every once in a while, why aren't you excited when she comes back?"
As he spoke, his eyes lit up: "Ha! Tell me honestly, did you already know she was coming back!?"
Chi Nuan didn't say anything after returning to the dormitory last night. When asked where she came from so late, she just made a vague and perfunctory past. At this moment, Xu Dan hit the nail on the head, and Chi Nuan said with a guilty conscience: "I didn't know earlier..."
It's not a lie either. Yesterday afternoon, it was indeed not much earlier than them...
Xu Dan doubted that he was there: "Then you have a strong sense of discipline, and you deserve to be the squad leader."
Chi Nuan: "…"
This compliment is not true, Chi Nuan smiled awkwardly, pretending to read a book.
Gu Ningzi's message came at this time, and she said, "It's hot outside."
"It's summer." Chi Nuan raised her lips and asked her, "When did you dye your hair back?"
Downstairs, Gu Ningzi lowered her head and pressed the phone, Lao Hu smiled and was still talking to Secretary Su.
"Last night."
Chi Nuan: "It's also pretty."
Gu Ningzi raised her eyes and looked towards the window of Class 2 and 6 of Senior High School. Chi Nuan, who had finished writing these words, lay on the desk and covered her face with the Chinese book.
…
Gu Ningzi was led back to the classroom by He Liwen. Everyone was restrained in get out of class. After class, all the heads of Wu Yangyang rushed to Gu Ningzi, blocking her surroundings.
Xu Dan said loudly: "Big brother, you are back! We think you are thinking about collective lovesickness! Look at you, you have to be responsible for us!"
Chi Nuan smiled and shook his head.
"Especially our squad leader! In the first few days, she even called your name with a fever, so you can say that you are not touched!!"
Gu Ningzi asked, "Really?"
Du Min and Zhao Jingjing testified one after another, and added: "I even went to your house to find you many times!"
"..." Chi Nuan couldn't smile anymore.
…
The air conditioner was on, and the ceiling fan overhead was spinning slowly in circles.
In the first class in the afternoon, Chi Nuan propped her head up and looked at the blackboard. The history teacher is writing on the blackboard, and the blackboard is connected into a piece of cursive script full of white flowers. The more Chi Nuan looked, the more sleepy he became, and his eyelids were about to close.
Gu Ningzi returned to school, Xu Dan and the others were excited in the dormitory for a noon, and she was so disturbed that she didn't sleep for a nap.
Xu Dan, who was full of energy and never lethargic, said brightly, "I have good news."
Chi Nuan struggled to look at her.
Xu Dan gloated and said, "Chen Wan has not come to school for a few days because of Cai Miao's correction."
Chi Nuan: "... ah?"
Xu Dan shook his phone: "There is a first-year junior high school girl who lives in the same community as me and is in the same class as Chen Wan. She said that Chen Wan has been tormented by Cai Miao recently."
Sleepiness was driven away most of the time, Chi Nuan asked in a low voice, "She offended Cai Miao?"
Xu Dan curled his lips disdainfully: "It's not surprising that she offends anyone with her temper, let alone the eldest ladies in the art class."
This is not without reason.
Chi Nuan yawned, caught a glimpse of Xu Dan scribbling and scribbling on the pink letterhead sandwiched in the history book, and asked curiously, "What did you write?"
Xu Dan, who has always been carefree, twisted for two seconds and confessed: "Love letter."
"..." Chi Nuan glanced at the podium quickly, the history teacher was still writing on the blackboard, she couldn't help repeating: "Love letter?"
Xu Dan covered his face: "It's a junior! I met that junior from the same community when we were doing homework in the library on weekends, and she introduced me to me."
Chi Nuan: "…"
Xu Dan: "I've been thinking about it for a few days, but I'm still obsessed with him, that's why I like it!"
After school, the whole dormitory surrounded Xu Dan and asked her to explain things clearly.
"I just met it in the library. I heard from the junior girl that he is from a scholar, with excellent grades, one of the best in the whole year... If he looks modest, give him an 8. The key voice is good. I'm voice-controlled, you know... I'll ask him questions, his patience—"
"Are you asking him questions?" Zhao Jingjing interrupted Xu Dan's admiring speech, and asked in surprise, "Isn't he a freshman in high school?"
Xu Dan raised his chest proudly: "That's why he is a scholar! He has already completed his self-study in high school."
Du Min: "So what? It's still a high school life, Xu Dan, you are a senior in the second year of high school."
Xu Dan became anxious when he heard it: "What's the matter with the first year of high school? He is much taller than me!"
Du Min: "But you are older than him!"
Xu Dan: "Now there is a lot of love between siblings, why am I older than him!?"
Seeing that the two were about to argue, Chi Nuan changed the subject and asked Xu Dan, "You wrote a love letter, then what are you going to do?"
Xu Dan: "Then let him decide whether to be together or not - but I haven't written my love letter yet, and I can't read the sentence very well. Monitor your language, or can you change it for me?"
Chi Nuan: "…"
At this time, Du Min said something very philosophical. She said, "Xu Dan, the key is not whether the love letter is beautiful or not, but whether the other party likes you or not!"
Xu Dan was so angry that he didn't want to talk to her, so he and Chi Nuan squeezed together under the lamp to study how to write a love letter in order to be touching and heartwarming.
Chi Nuan didn't have any clues, so he had to sort out what Xu Dan wrote first, and corrected the typo. Xu Dan looked at her gentle and serious profile, and said with emotion: "Nuan Nuan, you look so good-looking, you must have received a lot of love letters, right?"
Chi Nuan: "...It's okay too."
Xu Dan chuckled twice, and Chi Nuan said "it's okay", that must be a modest statement.
"Hey," Xu Dan lightly bumped Chi Nuan's arm, "then what kind of boy do you like?"
The tip of the pen stopped on the letterhead, Chi Nuan followed Xu Dan's words to think, Cao Pinhui's evil face and rough movements emerged, and she hurriedly shifted her thoughts.
Xu Dan: "Say it, what do you say?"
Chi Nuan: "...I don't know."
Xu Dan: "I don't know? No way... Everyone has an ideal type or something. Is he tall or short, his eyes are big or small... It's a wide range..."
Chi Nuan avoided: "I really don't know."
Xu Dan's eyes widened: "Don't say that you are so big, you have never had a good impression of anyone?"
Du Min couldn't listen to the question, and interjected into their conversation: "What's the fuss about this, some people just wake up late, because reading is all about reading, and not everyone is born for love."
Xu Dan said in disbelief: "I don't believe it. No matter how good you study, you will still be moved when you meet someone who can attract you! It's not hard-hearted."
Du Min: "No, Xu Dan, why do you have to let her like someone who is a good monitor? Are you responsible for affecting her studies?"
Xu Dan: "Which ear did you hear me say that the monitor likes someone? I just asked her, what's the matter? You can't even ask?"
Zhao Jingjing slapped her head on the edge of the bed and said, "What's the matter with the two of you tonight? Can you quarrel?"
Du Min: "Do you blame me?"
Xu Dan: "I don't blame you, do you blame me?"
Chi Nuan: "Blame me, blame me. If I meet someone I like, I'll tell you right away, okay?"
Du Min and Xu Dan stopped talking.
The screen of the mobile phone under the desk lamp turned on, Chi Nuan picked it up to look at it, and Gu Ningzi sent a photo of a blank paper.
Chi Nuan got up and went back to her desk. Before the love letter was finished, Xu Dan asked her, "Why are you going?"
Chi Nuan turned over the homework paper on the table and answered her: "Gu Ningzi can't do homework, let me take the answer to her."
Chi Nuan took a photo of the answer and passed it on, and then typed into the dialog box, asking Gu Ningzi the question that he couldn't understand.
Xu Dan endured, but couldn't hold back: "What do you think Gu Ningzi would like?"
Zhao Jingjing: "..."
Du Min's white eyes rolled directly to the sky.
Xu Dan said with conviction: "She doesn't look down on Cao Pinhui. Although Cao Pinhui is indeed a bit rotten, the conditions are really good. It can be seen that Gu Ningzi's vision must be super high, unimaginable!"
Chi Nuan's mind came to Gu Ningzi's deep eyes, and the bottom of her heart seemed to be scratched gently by something, itching.
…
Before going to bed, Chi Nuan received a small video of more than ten seconds from Gu Ningzi. In the video, she scratched the kitten's belly with her white porcelain fingers, and the kitten purred and slept soundly.
Chi Nuan watched it back and forth several times, remembering that she didn't know the cat's name yet.
"Did you name it?" she asked Gu Ningzi.
Gu Ningzi: "Xiao Nuan."
Chi Nuan buried her face in the quilt and stared at the screen with her eyes open: "Why..."
Gu Ningzi usually doesn't even say her name, but a "Xiao Nuan" suddenly appeared, Chi Nuan really felt like her heartbeat was missing half a beat.
Gu Ningzi: "I said it's called 'Xiao Nuan'."
Chi Nuan: "…"
Chi Nuan: "???"
Gu Ningzi: "Just kidding, I haven't given a name yet."
Chi Nuan: "..."