Later, Gu Ningzi called. Chi Nuan had already turned off the lights and fell asleep. Gu Ningzi listened to her voice and was drowsy. She couldn't bear to disturb her sleep. She only said that she would bring her breakfast tomorrow and ended the call.
The next day, Chi Nuan carried the suitcase with difficulty, went downstairs ten minutes earlier than the appointed time, and hid in the doorway of the bedroom to wait for Gu Ningzi.
Although it was only after eight o'clock in the morning, the sun had already risen very high.
Not long after, I received a call from Gu Ningzi, saying that it might be a little late.
Chi Nuan said, "It's alright, take your time."
After waiting for more than half an hour, Gu Ningzi came. The black Benz she drove to L City, Chi Nuan recognized the license plate, and pulled the suitcase to meet it.
The window glass of the co-pilot lowered, Tang Siru put on delicate makeup today, and greeted Chi Nuan with a smile: "Morning, classmate."
Chi Nuan didn't expect Tang Siru to come too, mobilizing her enthusiasm, she finally managed to squeeze out a word: "...Early."
Gu Ningzi took Chi Nuan's luggage and stuffed it into the trunk, and Chi Nuan opened the back seat door wisely and sat on it.
Tang Siru turned back: "I'm sorry, Chi Nuan, I got up late, making Aning late, did you wait for a long time?"
Chi Nuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "No, I just went downstairs."
Tang Siru breathed a sigh of relief: "That's okay."
Gu Ningzi put her luggage in the car and said to Chi Nuan, "There is an oil painting exhibition in the art museum, and I will send Tang Siru there by the way. ... By the way, Chi Nuan, there is breakfast there if you are hungry."
The art museum is only a few blocks away from here, Gu Ningzi should take Tang Siru for a ride.
Chi Nuan persuaded herself like this and nodded, "Okay."
She lost her appetite because of the heat, and when the air-conditioning blew the heat off her body a little, she picked up the heat preservation bucket on the seat.
Gu Ningzi prepared seafood porridge for her. There were very fine pieces of celery floating in the porridge, which smelled very fragrant.
There is a crossroad ahead, and the turn signal is red. Tang Siru raised her mobile phone and leaned towards Gu Ningzi in the driver's seat, leaning her head on her arm: "A Ning, look here."
Press to shoot.
After Tang Siru took the photo, she zoomed in and zoomed out and looked at it for a while. In the photo, Gu Ningzi was wearing sunglasses, and her expressionless face was still beautiful and jealous. She said "ouch": "A Ning, why are you so tall? so pretty?"
Gu Ningzi stepped on the accelerator and ignored her.
Tang Siru laughed to herself and remembered something: "Hey, Chi Nuan, let me ask you, does any of you like Aning?"
Chi Nuan was taking a mouthful of porridge when he heard the words and raised his head: "...I don't know."
Gu Ningzi glanced at Chi Nuan in the rearview mirror.
Tang Siru said with a smile: "A Ning, just say if you have it."
Gu Ningzi: "Boring."
Seeing that she couldn't pry Gu Ningzi's mouth open, Tang Siru had to turn to Chi Nuan again: "I'll tell you, people who liked Aning in the past couldn't sit in the classroom on the first floor. She doesn't know how she would attract peach blossoms like this, especially girls."
Chi Nuan chokes a mouthful of porridge in her throat, and her heart rises, and it takes a while to find her own voice: "... girl?"
"That's right," Tang Siru smiled, "all kinds, but Aning doesn't like it."
Chi Nuan's heart, which was raised high, fell heavily. Like being slapped out of thin air, his face is hot.
Gu Ningzi said to Tang Siru, "The art museum is coming, you are ready to get off."
Tang Siru and Chi Nuan said goodbye, and then acted like a spoiled brat to Gu Ningzi: "Don't forget the noon movie time, I'll send you the information later."
After Tang Siru got out of the car, Chi Nuan felt that her breathing was a little easier. It's just that no matter how delicious the porridge is, I can't eat a single bite at this time.
She closed the thermos and gently put it aside.
Gu Ningzi doesn't like girls.
- Of course not, what's so disappointing
At this moment, I was so exhausted that I didn't want to continue liking Gu Ningzi anymore.
I couldn't help regretting it. I shouldn't have rejected my brother last night. Why didn't you be cruel and reject Gu Ningzi's kindness to send him home earlier
Gu Ningzi didn't know anything, but under the guise of a "classmate", she openly absorbed her concern and watered the unseen love in her heart.
Too despicable, too greedy.
…
The speed of the car was neither fast nor slow. When passing by the lake, Gu Ningzi in the driver's seat suddenly said, "Is this here?"
Chi Nuan looked out the window and thought for a while before realizing what Gu Ningzi meant.
After finishing the last homework that day, she took the bus home and saw that the lake was very beautiful. She took a photo and passed it to Gu Ningzi.
If time can be reversed, back to that moment, she still doesn't know what kind of feelings she has for Gu Ningzi, ignorant and ignorant, and there is nothing wrong.
Chi Nuan smiled, and there was an inexplicable sadness in the corner of his mouth: "...Yes."
After ten thirty, the car drove into the street that Chi Nuan had known since childhood, and soon arrived outside the community where she lived. Tang Siru called on the phone and asked Gu Ningzi if she was returning. She had already come out of the art museum and was going to the cinema after brunch.
Gu Ningzi said, "No."
After hanging up the phone, Gu Ningzi drove the car downstairs to Chi Nuan's house. The two sat in the car for a while, and Chi Nuan reached out to open the door.
"Chi Nuan." Gu Ningzi stopped her.
Chi Nuan: "Huh?"
Gu Ningzi: "Take me to eat, I'm hungry."
…
The car was parked in the community, and the two walked out, crossed the road, and arrived at a noodle shop opposite the community.
Although the noodle shop is not big, it has been in business for many years, and there are still many customers here, most of which are nearby residents. The boss knew Chi Nuan, and when he saw her coming into the store, he smiled and said hello: "Little girl, are you on vacation?"
Chi Nuan smiled at him, and turned to ask Gu Ningzi's meaning: "Is it ok here?"
Gu Ningzi took off her sunglasses and said, "It's good."
After ordering a bowl of Yangchun noodles, they saw an empty table in the corner, so they sat down.
Chi Nuan took out the tissue, wiped the countertop in front of Gu Ningzi several times, then went to the disinfection cabinet to get her chopsticks and spoons, and scalded them with hot water for later use.
Gu Ningzi's eyes followed her and asked her, "Do you come here often?"
"Sometimes I come with my brother." Chi Nuan said.
The Yangchun noodles were served soon, and the soy sauce soup was filled with green chopped green onion, and the fragrance was fragrant.
"..." Chi Nuan was stunned: "I said I don't want chopped green onion... Let's make a new bowl for you."
Chi Nuan said and got up, Gu Ningzi held her back: "It's okay. ... I used to be vegetarian with my mother, but after she was gone, I'm not that particular anymore."
She raised her chopsticks to start, Chi Nuan said, "Gu Ningzi, wait a minute."
Chi Nuan sat down again, picked up the spoon, and carefully skimmed the chopped green onion floating on the soup surface.
After Gu Ningzi chewed up a bowl of noodles, the two returned to the community. Gu Ningzi took Chi Nuan's suitcase out of the car and took her upstairs.
There was no elevator, so the two worked together to lift the box to the sixth floor, Chi Nuan opened the door, and wanted to invite Gu Ningzi to sit in for a while, lest it delay her time to go back.
Tang Siru was still waiting for her.
No one was at home, Chi Nuan pushed the box into the room and immediately turned back to the living room. Gu Ningzi was shaking a fan on the coffee table, Chi Nuan walked to the wall to turn on the vertical air conditioner, and then brought the small fan to blow at Gu Ningzi, and asked her, "Do you want to drink some water?"
Gu Ningzi said: "Don't be busy, I'll sit and leave in a while."
Chi Nuan: "Yeah."
Gu Ningzi: "I will go back to the north tomorrow."
Thinking of her and Tang Siru's series of summer arrangements, Chi Nuan nodded: "Okay."
Gu Ningzi sat for a few more minutes, put away the fan and put it back to its original position, saying goodbye to Chi Nuan: "Chi Nuan, goodbye."
Chi Nuan wanted to send Gu Ningzi downstairs, but Gu Ningzi repeatedly refused: "Don't, it's too hot outside, just stay at home, don't send it off."
Gu Ningzi opened the door and was about to leave, Chi Nuan chased after him: "... Gu Ningzi, do you have any candy?"
Gu Ningzi: "..."
Gu Ningzi smiled: "I'll bring it to you next time we meet."
After Gu Ningzi left, Chi Nuan sat where she was sitting before, her eyes were blank and she couldn't find where she landed.
Maybe five minutes, maybe a little longer, there was a sound from the door, and Chi Qingchuan and Yue Yun came back together.
Yue Yun's due date at the end of August, her stomach was already quite high, and the two only completed the maternity examination from the hospital.
When Chi Qingchuan was changing his shoes, he rushed into the living room and said, "Nuan Nuan is going home."
Chi Nuan recovered.
Yue Yun entered the living room and sat down on the sofa: "Your classmate is quite rich."
She turned on the TV and said this.
"I met Xiao Gu downstairs." Chi Qingchuan also came over, "Just a few words. You, you don't want to be picked up by your brother. How much trouble would it be for her to send you back so far? Xiao Gu is a good person. Yes, I keep saying it's okay, it's okay."
Chi Nuan turned her face to the fan, as if observing the rotation of the fan blades, softly, not sure whether to tell Chi Qingchuan or herself: "Well, not in the future."
The next day, Gu Ningzi and Tang Siru returned to the north together. Chi Nuan changed into work clothes in the bakery and started part-time summer work.
Chi Nuan spent a summer vacation in that bakery last year. The lady boss saw that she was young, diligent, and took good care of her. This year, the lady boss asked her if she would do summer work, and Chi Nuan agreed without thinking.
The bakery is well-known in the town. Because the business is good, the work is very hard. Chi Nuan goes to the store to help out every morning. After the kitchen is done, he goes to the front desk to help. Customers deliver goods, in short, they are so busy that they can't get off work until they close at night.
When Gu Ningzi left Yuncheng, she maintained the frequency of sending two or three messages to Chi Nuan every day, but Chi Nuan was too busy to check the information, and occasionally chatted a few words, and had to use "busy", "" I have something to do" and other reasons to end the conversation.
Gu Ningzi knew that she didn't contact her much during the day after she was working on a summer job, but Chi Nuan was very tired after returning from get off work at night, and she had to review her homework, so the time she could spend on chat was really limited. Gradually, Gu Ningzi sent less information.
One day in early August, half a month had passed since the last time we parted. On a rainy day, business in the bakery was deserted, the proprietress closed early, and Chi Nuan took the bus home.
It had just rained, and the road was wet. Chi Nuan leaned against the car window, thinking of Gu Ningzi in the shaking of the body.
Their last message was still three days ago. Gu Ningzi said that it was very cool in the resort hotel, and Xiao Nuan scratched the curtains on the first day she came.
Missing her so violently, Chi Nuan silently recited Gu Ningzi's name, couldn't hold back, and dialed her number.
The phone rang a few times and connected.
Chi Nuan held her breath nervously. Before the opening remarks began, Tang Siru's deliberately lowered voice came from the receiver. She said, "Chi Nuan? Are you looking for Aning? She has been feeling uncomfortable these days, and she has fallen asleep after taking the medicine. ...or can you call back tomorrow?"
Chi Nuan looked at the blurred neon lights on the street, as if there were some floating rain stars.
She hung up the phone.