Chi Nuan stood outside the bar and probed into the door. The atmosphere inside was hot, and a room full of men and women swayed their bodies casually to the music.
I called Gu Ningzi and wanted to tell her that she was here, but Gu Ningzi didn't answer.
Chi Nuan folded her long hair, plunged into the bar with blurry light, shuttled through the crowd, trying to identify Gu Ningzi's figure.
The dynamic music came to an end, the crowd scattered, Chi Nuan looked around blankly, she still didn't find Gu Ningzi, but her ears caught a little familiar voice.
"Why are you still so cruel?... I beg you, I really beg you, can you, can you love me too?"
Chi Nuan followed the sound, and in front of the bar a few steps away, Guan Luo put his arms around a woman and knocked his head on the other's left shoulder: "Qingqing, Qingqing... I really can't take it anymore... You have pity on me..."
Chi Nuan rolled her eyes when she saw the woman being hugged by Guan Luo, then turned around and broke free from her embrace, slapped her face with a crisp and loud slap, "Qingqing? Who is Qingqing? You are playing with me by chasing me. Woolen cloth?"
Guan Luo was beaten to the side, and as soon as she moved, Chi Nuan saw Gu Ningzi sitting behind her.
Gu Ningzi seemed to be taken aback by this scene, and drank the... juice from the glass without any disturbance.
The woman was not satisfied with the slap, grabbed the wine glass, and poured a glass of wine at Guan Luo: "Guan Luo, we are finished!"
Chi Nuan: "…"
After the woman left, Guan Luo wiped his face, and fell to the bar with waving steps, and asked the bartender for a drink.
The bartender looked at Gu Ningzi, Gu Ningzi shook his head, and he poured Guan Luo a glass of water.
Chi Nuan walked over: "Gu Ningzi."
Guan Luo was drunk and squinted at Chi Nuan, and suddenly he stretched his arms and hugged him: "Qingqing..."
All her weight was on Chi Nuan, and this momentum forced Chi Nuan to back away involuntarily.
Gu Ningzi responded quickly to stabilize Chi Nuan, got up and pushed Guan Luo away.
…
Chi Nuan was driving in the front, and in the back seat, Guan Luo hugged Gu Ningzi's arm: "She... Marry, go abroad, I... chase abroad! She divorced, came back, and I came back.... I grew up, I have regarded her as the sun since I was a child, and kept revolving around her, you say, why doesn't she know to look at me?"
Gu Ningzi took her arm out of Guan Luo's arms, patted her shoulder, and expressed comfort.
Guan Luo received a cold reception from Gu Ningzi, and turned to lie on the car seat in the front seat, tilting his head and talking to Chi Nuan: "Assistant... Miss, you like me... woman, there is no prejudice, see?"
Chi Nuan: "...No."
Guan Luo: "Then have you seen, seen, seen someone worse than me...?"
Chi Nuan: "…"
Guan Luo: "If you want me to tell you, Gu always... Immortal! Pure heart! Desires! She is an immortal... How can she understand me? Assistant... Miss Assistant, do you understand me?"
Chi Nuan said, "Doctor Guan, you are drunk, take a rest."
Guan Luo hugged the back of the chair and refused to let go: "Miss Assistant, have you ever loved...? Do you understand the heartache of not being able to love me?"
Chi Nuan looked at Gu Ningzi from the rearview mirror, Gu Ningzi looked at the night scene outside the car window, her indifferent attitude burned Chi Nuan's fragile nerves every inch.
"No", Guan Luo squinted his eyes and shook his fingers: "Assistant Miss - so gentle and beautiful, there must be a boyfriend... or a girlfriend? Hahaha, tell me, tell me!"
Chi Nuan didn't answer, Guan Luo stood up with a hunched waist, grabbed Chi Nuan's shoulder, and squeezed from the back to the front seat.
Chi Nuan was so frightened by her action that she almost braked: "Doctor Guan, I don't have a boyfriend, let go and sit down, it's very dangerous!"
Gu Ningzi pulled Guan Luo back to the back seat and buckled her seat belt neatly: "She's a driver, don't disturb her."
Guan Luo seemed to have listened and stopped moving. After sitting obediently for a few minutes, he held his face and said, "Qingqing... I waited for you for so many years, what is it... What am I in your heart... "
On a cold winter night, the streets are silent. Guan Luo's cry was suppressed in his throat, and Chi Nuan bit his lip uncomfortably.
Sending Guan Luo home, she was still muttering "Qingqing". While waiting for the elevator, Chi Nuan stared at the tip of her shoe and asked Gu Ningzi, "Will Dr. Guan have a chance?"
Gu Ningzi: "She is wasting time."
Chi Nuan looked at Gu Ningzi: "But she waited for so many years..."
Gu Ningzi faced the closed elevator door, her brows clear and cold: "She doesn't dare to face the reality, she knows that persistence will have no results."
The elevator came, Gu Ningzi walked into the car, pressed the floor, looked up, and found Chi Nuan still standing there.
The sight collided, Chi Nuan smiled and walked behind her.
On the rainy night of joint pain, Xiao Wutong was sent to the hospital, and she provided this job with extremely good salary. As a former high school classmate, Gu Ningzi has been very loyal in all aspects. ... She just forgot, Chi Nuan thought, otherwise she wouldn't say such heart-wrenching remarks anyway.
…
After that, I met Gu Ningzi again on the day she had her wisdom teeth removed. Chi Nuan had a class, and as soon as the class was over, she hurried to the dental hospital. It was snowing, and she didn't dare to drive fast. When she got to the hospital, the operation was over.
Gu Ningzi sat on the chair with a white face, Chi Nuan asked her worriedly, "Is it painful?"
"It won't hurt now, and the anesthesia hasn't passed yet." Guan Luo said, and explained the medicine and postoperative precautions to Chi Nuan.
Chi Nuan: "Thank you, Dr. Guan."
Gu Ningzi lowered her head and put on a mask, stood up and prepared to leave.
This time Guan Luo took them all the way to the parking lot and pulled the car window: "I'm not bothering you that night... Hey, let's not mention it. When our President Gu recovers, I'll invite you to dinner. Bye~"
Night has come quietly, and snow is falling in the sky.
Chi Nuan took Gu Ningzi back to Henan Mountain, Gu Ningzi said, "Go pick up Xiao Wutong first, the snow will be heavy in a while."
Bite on the cotton ball, and through the mask, her voice sounded a little vague.
Chi Nuan picked up Xiao Wutong, Xiao Wutong and Gu Ningzi sat side by side. Seeing her sullenness, she asked, "Auntie Gu, what's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?"
Chi Nuan said, "Be good, don't disturb Aunt Gu, she just had her teeth pulled."
Xiao Wutong is already in the period of tooth replacement. She has had the experience of inflamed teeth caused by shaking and then pulled out. She especially understands the pain of tooth extraction. After hearing what Chi Nuan said, she immediately comforted Gu Ningzi: "Aunt Gu, I know, lying in that chair. On, the doctors and uncles are holding tools and looking at the precious teeth you have worked so hard to grow, it is especially scary."
His eyes were warm and innocent, with a confident tone: "But mom said that every time a bad tooth is pulled, a happy thing happens. If you think about it this way, pulling a tooth isn't so scary, right? "
Chi Nuan: "…"
Gu Ningzi asked slowly, "Really?"
"Yeah," Xiao Wutong pointed to his missing front tooth, "For example, this one, on the day it was pulled out, my mother took me to eat delicious fried chicken. I think it's very delicious and very happy! Gu! Auntie, something happy will happen to you soon, are you looking forward to it?"
Gu Ningzi: "..."
Chi Nuan: "…"
Arriving at Gu Ningzi's house, Xiao Wutong happily followed Chi Nuan into the kitchen. He waited left and right, but Chi Nuan didn't show any signs of doing anything delicious besides cooking porridge. He was disappointed to find Gu Ningzi who was icing: "Aunt Gu, what makes people happy doesn't happen so easily..."
Most of the anesthesia has dissipated, and the pain has gradually become prominent. Gu Ningzi's lips were not too open, she nodded to Xiao Wutong, expressing her approval.
Chi Nuan, who walked out of the kitchen with Xiao Wutong, said helplessly, "Xiao Wutong, do you want to pinch the snowman?"
She took Xiao Wutong to the yard, lest he disturb Gu Ningzi.
The two squeezed a row of small snowmen in the snow and placed them neatly on the stone steps.
"So cute!" Xiao Wutong clapped her hands happily.
After the anesthetic effect disappeared, Gu Ningzi reluctantly drank half a bowl of warm porridge with the smallest spoon.
After drinking the porridge and taking the anti-inflammatories, Chi Nuan said to Gu Ningzi: "There are also painkillers, you can take them if the pain is severe, and Dr. Guan has prescribed you a two-day dose."
Gu Ningzi: "Well."
At this time, Xiao Wutong already understood that Aunt Gu's tooth extraction was not the same as his own. She stood behind Chi Nuan shyly, her big eyes flickering and full of concern.
Chi Nuan: "Doctor Guan said that there is a possibility of a fever tonight. If it does, you must tell me."
Gu Ningzi: "Well."
Chi Nuan took Xiao Wutong home, the car drove out of the courtyard, she turned her head, and Gu Ningzi's slim figure appeared behind the floor-to-ceiling windows on the third floor.
The curtains were open, and the light was like water, smearing the snow-covered ground downstairs.
That night, Chi Nuan couldn't sleep soundly, afraid of Gu Ningzi's pain, afraid of Gu Ningzi's burning in the middle of the night, the phone was always in his hand, and the volume was turned up to the maximum, for fear of missing any message from Gu Ningzi.
After midnight, the phone rang suddenly, and Chi Nuan was awakened. Seeing the words "Gu Ningzi" on the screen, his drowsiness disappeared: "What's the matter? Do you have a fever?"
Gu Ningzi's voice was very soft: "No. Do you have any books at hand?"
The heart that Chi Nuan raised slowly fell back to its original place. Turning on the light, I saw Xiao Wutong's phonetic storybook for the first time: "...there is Grimm's Fairy Tales."
Gu Ningzi: "Read it to me."
ah? …
Although she didn't understand Gu Ningzi's meaning, Chi Nuan still picked up "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and put the bookmark on the page of "Sleeping Beauty". She began to read sentence by sentence: "Once upon a time, there was a king..."
The white snow was flying outside the window, and Chi Nuan's soft voice flowed quietly in the room.
While she was reading the story, the other end of the phone was quiet. After reading the story of "Sleeping Beauty", Gu Ningzi didn't make any new requests.
Chi Nuan waited for a while before calling out softly, "Gu Ningzi?"
No one answered.
He Nanshan, with the hands-free cell phone on, Gu Ningzi, who had been tossing and turning for a long time because of the pain, finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.
In the courtyard downstairs, there is a transparent umbrella. The cute little snowmen hid under the umbrella, with a colorful paper hat on their chubby heads.