Chapter 24 Return

On Monday morning, Grandma Gu and Grandpa Gu ended their two-week trip. As soon as they got home, they cooked a table of dishes in the evening and told Gu Nianci to bring Shen Ningshen to eat at home after school.

Gu Nianci dragged Shen Ningshen to his house. As soon as he entered the door, he smelled the tempting aroma of food. He kicked off his shoes as always and walked in with his slippers. Shen Ningshen followed behind him, looked at the shoes, and bent over to put them in. Put it on the shoe cabinet, then took off the shoes and walked in.

Gu Nianci walked to the dining table and took a bite of the fried pork with bamboo shoots directly with chopsticks. Grandpa Gu laughed and scolded him for being unruly. His eyebrows were bright and bright, "Well, there are rules, I'll give you something to eat first."

Shen Ning narrowed his eyes for a while, silently looking at the chopsticks that Gu Nianci had just eaten, and then raised his eyes to look at Gu Nianci, the peach blossom eyes smiled sly and clear, like Cangshan with snow, bright candles and bright stars.

Shen Ning, in his expectant eyes, lowered his head and ate the fried pork with bamboo shoots with chopsticks, then raised his head and said to Grandpa Gu, "Grandpa Gu's cooking is delicious."

The old man was coaxed to be happy, and let them sit down to eat first, and the rest of the stir-fried vegetables will be ready soon.

Shen Ningshen was still following the rules. He didn't move his chopsticks and was going to wait for the two old people to come together, but Gu Nianci didn't have this rule anymore.

So he took the chopsticks and clipped a piece of sparerib to himself, and then in Shen Ningshen's disapproving eyes, he took a piece of sparerib and sent it to Shen Ningshen's mouth.

Just like this, they put a chopstick for themselves, and they couldn't refuse to put a chopstick for Shen Ning. When the last green vegetable was served, the two had already tasted all the dishes on the table.

Gu Nianci giggled and whispered in Shen Ning's ear, "My grandmother made the fried vegetables, it's not very delicious."

Shen Ning's deep eyes filled with a smile, his eyes fell on his face, and he replied in a low voice, "Yes."

Grandma Gu saw that the relationship between the two seemed to be much better than before, so she couldn't help smiling kindly, and served a bowl of soup for each of them.

During the dinner, Gu Nianci and Shen Ningshen deliberately brought the topic to the interesting events that happened during the trip, to make the two elderly people happy, and the whole dinner atmosphere was extremely relaxed.

When he was about to finish eating, Gu Nianci put down his chopsticks, looked at his grandma and grandpa and said, "Grandma and grandma, I have something to tell you."

The old man looked at him, and Grandma Gu asked with a smile, "What's the matter? It's still so formal."

Gu Nianci bent his fingers inward, looked at them, smiled and said relaxedly, "I've split, Omega, I went to the hospital for a checkup, the doctor said there's nothing wrong, I thought what would happen to the split, but I didn't expect it to feel the same. Beta is no different."

When the words fell, the atmosphere in the banquet suddenly froze, and Grandma Gu and Grandpa Gu froze with chopsticks, as if someone had pulled the switch, and everything stopped abruptly.

Gu Nianci saw the instant reaction of the grandmother and grandfather in his eyes, pressed the pulp of his fingers to the palm of his hand, and continued to smile while pretending not to know, "The doctor said that I am in good health, so the differentiation reaction is very small, and it is nothing to take inhibitory drugs on a regular basis."

After the atmosphere subtly sank, Grandma Gu and Grandpa Gu looked at each other and said, "When did it differentiate, why didn't you tell us before."

Gu Nianci didn't care much and said: "Last Tuesday, it was divided. I didn't feel anything, so I didn't tell you specifically. Oh, I really don't feel anything. Don't look like I have a terminal illness."

Shen Ning's eyelashes were half-drooped, and the atmosphere in the banquet changed too obviously. Grandma Gu and Grandpa Gu couldn't hide their worries at all.

He narrowed his eyes. He could roughly guess one or two things that the two old people were worried about, which should be related to Gu Nianci's parents.

In fact, he vaguely knew that Gu Nianci’s parents had a relationship problem for a long time. He remembered that he accompanied Gu Nianci to buy a toy once. After buying it, Gu Nianci wanted to eat ice cream, but the weather had turned cold, so he did not agree and took Gu Nianci to go. Walking in the courtyard, and then far away, he saw Gu Nianci's father walking in front with another woman, with a close attitude.

At that time, he was still young, so he didn't understand these complex feelings in the adult world, and he couldn't even figure out what Gao Jing and intimacy with other women represented exactly, but subconsciously, he didn't want Gu Nianci to see it.

So he took Gu Nianci back and bought him an ice cream.

Later, he followed Daddy to go abroad for two years. When he returned to China, he found that the former Uncle Gao had become a new rich man on the wealth list. The news reported that his family was harmonious and his love was happy.

The family portrait in the report, a family of three, looks very warm, but the person standing next to him has changed, the new person is smiling and Yan Yan, and the old person has disappeared.

From the time they met until now, he had never seen Aunt Gu, nor had he heard Gu Nianci mention it.

When he called his father and daddy, he pretended to casually ask about Aunt Gu's situation. His daddy was silent for a while and told him that he had passed away.

He couldn't accurately describe how he felt after hanging up the phone, he just felt bored.

Shen Ningshen raised his eyelashes and looked at Gu Nianci for a moment, his face that was more severe than when he was a child wore a smile, that smile was as bright as a spring breeze, but Shen Ningshen only felt that one glance was fake.

He always felt that Gu Nianci put everything on his face was a bit silly, but when Gu Nianci took away his emotions and performed perfectly, he felt that the smile from the performance was very dazzling.

He retracted his gaze and said to Grandma Gu and Grandpa Gu in a warm voice, "Grandma Gu and Grandpa Gu, are you still worried that he will be bullied? It's fine if he doesn't bully others at school."

After he finished, he took a piece of spareribs and said casually, "I will help to watch him, after all, it is not good to be too arrogant."

Gu Nianci glanced at Shen Ningshen, just in line with Shen Ningshen's eyes, he pursed his lips and said, "I'm not a child anymore, don't think about taking care of me like when I was a child."

Shen Ning snorted deeply: "I can't control you anymore?"

The two of them sang and harmonized, and performed all-round interpretation of Gu Nianci's domineering and arrogant image.

After dinner, Gu Nianci left Shen Ningshen's house to get his computer and clothes, and when he walked upstairs to the bedroom, Gu Nianci tugged at the corners of his lips mockingly, and said in a low voice, "Thank you just now."

Shen Ning glanced lightly, then withdrew his gaze, then hesitated, stretched out his hand and touched Gu Nianci's head.

The boy's soft hair felt good to the touch, Shen Ningshen felt for a moment that he was back when he was a child, he was still the boy beside him, and the temperature in his palm was still the same.

Gu Nianci was stunned by the gentle touch on the top of his head and stopped.

The warm light on the stairs shone down, giving Gu Nianci a shallow light, and also dyeing the wooden stairs with old filters. Gu Nianci lowered her head, feeling the warmth of Shen Ning's palm.

Just like standing at the gate of the compound when he was a child, the setting sun stretched the shadow behind him, Shen Ningshen left get out of class with him and patted his head habitually.

He didn't know why, but suddenly he felt a little uncomfortable.

He had to admit that Shen Ningshen was his closest friend for so many years, and he also had to admit that he actually missed Shen Ningshen very much. Ever since he was ten years old, after Shen Ningshen went abroad, he had no shortage of friends around him, but someone as close as Shen Ningshen seemed to be vacant all the time, as if this position was reserved all the time, waiting for someone to come back.

He lowered his head and asked in a low voice, "Why did you report me that day?"

Shen Ning was deeply silent and did not answer.

Gu Nianci raised his eyelashes to look at him, like a stubborn child asking for an explanation: "Didn't you recognize me?"

Shen Ning looked deeply at the peach blossom eyes that were almost the same as when they were young and the small red mole on the corner of the eye: "I recognized it."

"Then why are you reporting me?"

Shen Ning was silent again before saying, "I don't like you fighting."

Gu Nianci was stunned for a moment, her eyes were half lowered, and after a while, she replied, "They were the ones who came first."

After a long while, Shen Ning gave a deep "um", raised his hand and rubbed his hair again.

The strength on the top of his head is not heavy, even a little gentle, just like an adult touching a child's head, Gu Nianci lowered his head and paused, and then suddenly laughed.

Shen Ning looked at his smile deeply, as if infected by his smile, and the corners of his lips also evoked a shallow arc.

In the past, Shen Ningshen also liked to rub Gu Nianci's hair, and Gu Nianci would always rub against Shen Ningshen's palm very cooperatively. This long-lost muscle memory made Gu Nianci think about it without much thought, habitually, with her soft hair rubbing under Shen Ning's deep palm.

Shen Ning deeply felt the intimate rubbing under the palm of his hand, and was stunned for a moment. It was inexplicable. He felt that something had hit him hard, which raised emotions that he didn't quite understand.