Whether it's because of the pursuit of New Year's red envelopes, or because of the looming pressure of the college entrance examination, Xu Dan and the others have all become serious this exam month.
And Gu Ningzi.
Gu Ningzi didn't skip class anymore, went to school on time every day, and occasionally asked Chi Nuan with questions she couldn't figure out.
Like classmates with a general relationship, the two get along well.
From the monthly test to the weekly test to the daily classroom test, the rhythm before the final exam passed very fast, and the school announced the winter vacation.
Zhou Damao shouted that he would invite everyone to sing K and relax. The pocket money that had been saved for half a year finally had a place to be used.
It's still the same place. When Chi Nuan and his roommates arrived, it was already very lively inside. Singing, playing cards, and talking about love were crowded into the room. No one expected Zhou Damao's appeal to be even higher. There are so many people coming.
Xu Dan and the others plunged into the crowd like a duck to water, the study committee members had sharp eyes, and they caught Chi Nuan and waved: "Here! Here! Chi Nuan, there is still a seat here!"
Chi Nuan walked over and suddenly found that Gu Ningzi was also there.
Gu Ningzi sat in the corner of the sofa, took off her coat, and rolled the sleeves of her sweater to her elbows, and listened to the people around her talking to her.
Her eyes were hidden behind the lens, and she was half-smiling, making it impossible to see through her expression.
Chi Nuan didn't quite remember what she did or said to people that afternoon. The rotating light in the private room made her dizzy, and the blurred light shone on Gu Ningzi's cold beauty. Unexplainable loss, and one after another.
When I came out of the KTV, it was completely dark. Zhou Damao invited everyone to go to the food stalls for a meal. Some of the classmates had to go home. Chi Nuan was dragged by the roommates who were still interested and got into a taxi.
Chi Nuan's stomach cramped, she covered her mouth and retched.
"Is it motion sickness?" Du Min gave her a smooth ride, and Zhao Jingjing handed over a bottle of mineral water.
Chi Nuan didn't speak, her forehead was against the glass of the car, the body was shaking, and there seemed to be a rotating light in front of her eyes. Under the colorful lights, Gu Ningzi's face was sometimes clear and sometimes blurred.
When we arrived at the food stall, there were only a dozen or so classmates left behind, which happened to fill a whole table. I don't know who asked: "Zhou Damao, where are you at the same table? Will she come? If she doesn't come, we'll start?"
Zhou Damao said: "She took the plane at seven or eight and left."
"Huh, then she stayed in room K until so late, can she make it in time?"
Zhou Damao squeezed his eyes: "I have a big face."
Full of laughter.
Chi Nuan slammed open the bathroom door and vomited in a mess.
The next day, Chi Qingchuan came to the school to pick up Chi Nuan. It's the end of the year, the brother and sister went to the supermarket to buy New Year's goods together. They couldn't go home in time for noon, so they ate something casually outside.
Chi Nuan looked at Chi Qingchuan. It seemed that she hadn't observed him carefully for a long time. I don't know when it started, but he also had shallow fine lines right now.
After the new year, he was thirty years old.
Chi Qingchuan smiled and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Chi Nuan: "Look at how good-looking my brother is."
Chi Qingchuan raised his eyebrows meaningfully, but he still couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud: "Don't say this to other boys at will."
Chi Nuan followed him and laughed.
Chi Qingchuan thought about it again: "If you meet someone you like, it's not impossible, when I was as old as you—"
When she was her age... Chi Qingchuan got stuck, the siblings looked at each other, Chi Qingchuan said "hey": "Eat, Aunt Lu is on vacation, Yunyun has a party in the afternoon, we have to go back early."
The first two days before returning home, everything was fine, but on New Year's Eve, early in the morning, Yue Yun quarreled again because of the nuts bought by Chi Qingchuan: "Have you ever cared about what I want for a second? "
Chi Qingchuan said: "Don't be angry, don't be angry about such a small thing, I'll go out and buy it again."
Yue Yun looked at him coldly: "Small thing? In your heart, what is the big thing? Which thing about me makes you feel important, Chi Qingchuan!?"
"Yunyun, let's stop arguing, okay? We've been arguing enough recently, so stop arguing." Chi Qingchuan put on his coat, "Wait for me for a while, and I'll buy it for you."
He went out. Yue Yun stared at the closed door, her chest heaving rapidly. Later, she walked into the room, opened the suitcase, rolled up a few clothes, and threw them in. The lid closed and she was about to leave.
Chi Nuan was teasing Xiao Wutong. Seeing that the situation was wrong, he ran over immediately: "Sister-in-law, don't be angry. If you have something to do when your brother comes back, you can sit down and talk, okay?"
Xiao Wutong played well and was left out, pulling his mouth and crying.
Yue Yun and Chi Nuan looked over at the same time.
"Little Wutong..." Before Chi Nuan finished speaking, Yue Yun opened the door, and when the box was dragged out, it hit Chi Nuan's knee, and Chi Nuan took a deep breath.
Yue Yun left, but Chi Nuan couldn't stop her in time, so she could only contact Chi Qingchuan while coaxing Xiao Wutong.
Later in the day, Chi Qingchuan came back with the nuts he bought heavily. He put down the nut bag and sat on the sofa picking his eyebrows.
Chi Nuan didn't see Yue Yun coming back with him, so he didn't dare to make a sound, and hugged Xiao Wutong to look at him.
Chi Qingchuan got up and started to simply pack up his clothes, his own, Xiao Wutong's, and Xiao Wutong's milk powder toys, diapers, etc. Chi Nuan asked him what he was going to do, he said, "Yunyun has gone back to her mother's place for the New Year, Nuan. Nuan, you also go and pack up, and let's go together."
Chi Nuan felt that she shouldn't go, and it wouldn't be very popular if she went there, she shook her head: "I have class since the seventh day of the first year, and I still have a lot of homework to write. You stay there with my sister-in-law for a few more days. Don't go."
Chi Qingchuan's brows gathered into Chengchuan, and when Chi Nuan saw this, he hurriedly said, "I can take care of myself."
Get the blanket that Xiao Wutong went out with, Chi Nuan wrapped Xiao Wutong and sent Chi Qingchuan downstairs. Chi Qingchuan opened the car door and put Xiao Wutong into the baby carrier fixed on the car seat.
The car is Mr. Ji's car, and the basket is also a gift from Mr. Ji. Originally this New Year's Eve, Mr. Ji and his fiancee invited Chi Qingchuan's family to a dinner party.
After settling down Xiao Wutong, Chi Qingchuan said to Chi Nuan, "Brother didn't handle the matter well, but instead made you worry, I'm sorry."
Chi Nuan patted his shoulder: "Come on, brother."
Sending off Chi Qingchuan and Xiao Wutong, from three or four in the afternoon, Chi Nuan was busy for a New Year's Eve dinner for one person, meticulously prepared a few dishes, put them on the table, and took pictures and sent them to Chi Qingchuan to prove that he was indeed Have to take good care of yourself.
Chi Qingchuan gave her a red envelope: "I wish you a happy birthday in advance."
Chi Nuan accepted the red envelope and sent him several funny expressions of thanks.
Chi Qingchuan: "Haha."
Chi Nuan turned on the TV, felt the atmosphere of national celebration inside, and ate dinner alone.
She didn't want to do her homework or think about anything, so she huddled on the sofa after dinner, watching the Spring Festival Gala with her head empty.
After 8 o'clock, the mobile phone buzzed frequently, and the messages on the screen popped up one after another, all of which were all kinds of New Year's greetings messages. Chi Nuan typed in the words "Happy New Year" and replied one by one.
After replying, Chi Nuan held the phone and went back to the room. She leaned against the door, stood still for a while, then entered WeChat again and clicked on Gu Ningzi's avatar.
She sent the New Year message copied from Zhou Damao to Gu Ningzi, and even like Zhou Damao, she was so careless that she did not replace the last sentence "Chen Si wishes you New Year's greetings".
Make this look like a random, unintentional mass message.
Xu Dan in the dormitory group @Chi Nuan and Zhao Jingjing: "Awen sent a red envelope, little friends, go get the red envelope~"
Chi Nuan entered the group, and Xue Min said in the group, "Please invite you to dinner after the new year."
Xu Dan responded enthusiastically, Chi Nuan did not show up, and lay on the bed in clothes.
The sound of firecrackers and fireworks outside the window was incessant, Chi Nuan lay in the dark, silently counting from 1 to 100 over and over again.
Gu Ningzi's phone number.
Chi Nuan jumped off the bed, opened the door, and walked to the living room.
The social gathering on TV is being broadcast to a song and dance program, and the screen is full of colors. In the festive background sound, Chi Nuan pressed on.
She didn't speak, neither did Gu Ningzi.
Chi Nuan impatiently turned off the TV.
The living room fell silent in an instant, Chi Nuan heard Gu Ningzi's breathing on the other end of the phone, and after a long time—
"Have you regretted it?" Gu Ningzi asked her.
Repeating the old story, Chi Nuan's voice wiped her dry throat, and she asked softly, "What do you mean? Regret... being with you, or regret being separated from you?"
After this question, the phone was surprisingly quiet again.
Chi Nuan hugged the pillow and looked straight ahead.
Gu Ningzi: "...do you miss me?"
The second hand moved forward slowly, round and round. Chi Nuan remained silent, and Gu Ningzi hung up the phone before she could wait for her answer.
As he said to Xiao Wutong, Chi Nuan repeatedly murmured "I don't regret" after hanging up the phone to convince himself.
The air conditioner was not turned on, and the house was very cold. Chi Nuan was drinking hot water, and as soon as the heat steamed, tears rolled in her eyes. She knew that this might be the last chance Gu Ningzi gave her.
But he gave up.
How many times can a person's sincerity be trampled on? For someone as cold and arrogant as Gu Ningzi
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On the first day of the new year, the Chi family had no relatives to move around, so Chi Nuan took a bag of sweets and snacks and went to the community to give them to the children. When it was almost done, she went home to review her homework.
Chi Nuan's study plan for herself was still very strict, and it was two or three o'clock in the afternoon when she realized she was hungry. She cooked a bowl of glutinous rice dumplings, which was given to Chi Qingchuan by others. She had stamina, and she ate it warmly in her stomach. After a few minutes, she was sweating all over, her cheeks and ears were all red, and her steps began to float.
This feeling is not bad, not very uncomfortable. Chi Nuan went back to the room and lay down, feeling dizzy, always feeling that someone was knocking on the door. She lay on the bed with her eyes closed and listened carefully, there was indeed a sound on the door.
Chi Nuan had to get off the bed and leaned softly into the cat's eye to look out.
! ! !
Most of the drunkenness dissipated, Chi Nuan stumbled into the bathroom, straightened her sleepy hair, and splashed cold water on her face to wake herself up as soon as possible.
Open the door while adjusting the rate of your breathing.
Gu Ningzi.
There was no sound inside or outside the house.
In the next second, Gu Ningzi held Chi Nuan's face flushed from the trace amount of alcohol and kissed it hard!
"Hmm..." Chi Nuanqing couldn't help but step back, trying to break free, the two of them staggered, Gu Ningzi brought the door, Chi Nuan was pressed against the door by her, her teeth were pried open, and she kissed deeply.