She Can Also Be Gentle

Later, Gu Ningzi called. Chi Nuan had already turned off the lights and fell asleep. Gu Ningzi was drowsy when she heard her voice. She couldn't bear to disturb her sleep. She just told her to bring her breakfast and ended the call.

The next day, Chi Nuan carried the suitcase with difficulty, and went downstairs ten minutes earlier than the agreed time, hiding in the doorway of the bedroom and waiting for Gu Ningzi.

Although it was only past eight o'clock in the morning at this time, the sun had already risen very high, and it was still a scorching day, and even standing still could make a sweat.

It didn't take long to receive a call from Gu Ningzi, saying that it might be a while late.

Chi Nuan said, "It's okay, take your time."

After waiting for more than half an hour, Gu Ningzi came. She drove the black Big Ben when she went to L city, Chinuan recognized the license plate, and greeted her with the suitcase.

The windowpane of the co-pilot was lowered, and Tang Siru put on a delicate makeup today and greeted Chi Nuan with a smile: "Classmate, morning."

Chi Nuan didn't expect Tang Siru to follow along, mobilizing his enthusiasm, and finally squeezed out a word: "...Morning."

Gu Ningzi took Chi Nuan's luggage and stuffed it into the trunk. Chi Nuan wittily opened the back seat door and sat in.

Tang Siru turned back: "Sorry for Chi Nuan, I got up late, which made Aning be late. Have you waited for a long time?"

Chi Nuan wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "No, I just came downstairs."

Tang Siru breathed a sigh of relief: "That's okay."

Gu Ningzi put her luggage on the car, and said to Chi Nuan, "There is an oil painting exhibition in the art gallery, and I will send Tang Siru there.... By the way, Chi Nuan, there is breakfast when I am hungry."

The art gallery is only a few blocks away, and Gu Ningzi should take Tang Siru for a ride.

Chi Nuan convinced herself so, and nodded: "Okay."

Her appetite was so hot that she waited for the air-conditioning to subside a bit before picking up the thermos on the seat.

Gu Ningzi prepared seafood porridge for her, and the porridge was filled with fine pieces of celery, which smelled very fragrant.

There is a crossroad ahead, and the turn signal is red. Tang Siru leaned toward Gu Ningzi in the driver's seat with his mobile phone, his head resting on her arm: "Aning, look here."

Pressed to shoot.

Tang Siru took the photo, zoomed in and zoomed in and looked at it for a long time. In the photo, Gu Ningzi was wearing sunglasses and her expressionless face was still beautiful to the point of envy and resentment. She said "Ouch", "Aning, why can you grow? So good-looking?"

Gu Ningzi stepped on the accelerator and ignored her.

Tang Siru laughed to himself, remembering something: "Eh, Chi Nuan, I ask you, does any of you like Aning?"

Chi Nuan was drinking the porridge without a bite, and raised his head when he heard the words: "...I don't know."

Gu Ningzi glanced at Chi Nuan in the rearview mirror.

Tang Siru laughed and said, "Aning, just say if there is one."

Gu Ningzi: "boring."

Seeing that he couldn't open Gu Ningzi's mouth, Tang Siru turned to Chi Nuan again: "Let me tell you that people who liked Aning before can't sit in the first floor of the classroom. She doesn't know how to recruit peach blossoms, especially girls."

Chi Nuan choked in her throat with a mouthful of porridge, her heart was lifted, and it took a long time to find her own voice: "...girl?"

"Yes," Tang Siru smiled, "Various, but Aning doesn't like it."

Chi Nuan's heart was lifted high, and it fell heavily. It was like being slapped out of thin air, and his face was hot.

Gu Ningzi said to Tang Siru: "The art gallery is about to arrive, you are going to get off the car."

Tang Siru and Chi Nuan said goodbye, and acted like a baby to Gu Ningzi: "Don't forget the movie time at noon. I will send you the message later."

After Tang Siru got out of the car, Chi Nuan felt that her breathing became a little smoother. It's just that no matter how delicious the porridge is, I can't eat a bite at this time.

She closed the thermos and put it aside gently.

Gu Ningzi doesn't like girls.

——Of course I don’t like it. What's so disappointing?

At this moment, I was so weak that I didn't want to continue to like Gu Ningzi anymore.

I can't help but regret that I shouldn't have turned down my brother last night. Why not be cruel and refuse Gu Ningzi's kindness to send herself home earlier?

Gu Ningzi didn't know anything, but under the guise of a "classmate", she dignifiedly absorbed her care and poured her unseen love in her heart.

Too despicable and too greedy.

...

The speed of the car was not fast or slow. When passing the lake, Gu Ningzi in the driver's seat suddenly said, "Is it here?"

Chi Nuan looked out the window and thought for a while before realizing what Gu Ningzi meant.

After finishing her last homework exam that day, she took the bus home and saw that the golden light on the lake was very beautiful. She took a picture and passed it to Gu Ningzi.

If time can be turned back, she still doesn't know what kind of feelings she has for Gu Ningzi, and there is nothing wrong with being ignorant and ignorant.

Chi Nuan smiled, and an inexplicable sadness appeared at the corner of his mouth: "...Yes."

After half past ten, the car drove into the street that Chi Nuan had known since she was a child, and soon arrived outside the community where she lived. Tang Siru called with a pinch and asked Gu Ningzi if she had returned. She had already left the art gallery and was going to the cinema after brunch.

Gu Ningzi said, "No."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Ningzi drove the car downstairs at Chi Nuan's house. The two sat in the car for a while, Chi Nuan reached out to open the door.

"Chi Nuan." Gu Ningzi called her.

Chi Nuan: "Huh?"

Gu Ningzi: "Take me to eat something, I'm hungry."

...

The car stopped in the community, and the two walked out, crossed the road, and arrived at a noodle restaurant opposite the community.

Although the noodle shop is not large, it has been in business for many years, and there are still many customers at this point, mostly residents nearby. The boss knew Chi Nuan, and when she saw her coming into the store, he smiled and said hello: "Little girl, is it on holiday?"

Chi Nuan smiled at him, then turned to ask Gu Ningzi's meaning: "Is this okay?"

Gu Ningzi took off her sunglasses and said, "Very good."

They ordered a bowl of Yangchun noodles and saw that there was an empty table in the corner, and they sat down.

Chi Nuan took out the facial tissue, wiped the countertop in front of Gu Ningzi several times, and then went to the disinfection cabinet to fetch her chopsticks and spoons, and blanch them with hot water for later use.

Gu Ningzi's gaze followed her and asked her: "Do you come here often?"

"Sometimes I will come with my brother." Chi Nuan said.

The Yangchun noodles came on the table soon, with the green onion floating in the soy sauce soup, and the fragrance was tangy.

"..." Chi Nuan was startled: "I said no chopped green onions... Let's make a new bowl for you."

Chi Nuan got up, and Gu Ningzi stopped her: "It's okay....I used to be a vegetarian with my mother, but then she was gone, so I'm not so particular about it 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 ate a bowl of noodles slowly, the two returned to the community again. Gu Ningzi took the warm suitcase from the car and escorted her upstairs.

There was no elevator, the two of them worked together to lift the box up to the sixth floor, and opened the door late, wanting to invite Gu Ningzi in and sit for a while, lest she delay her return.

Tang Siru is still waiting for her.

There was no one in the house, so Ji Nuan pushed the box into the room and immediately returned to the living room. Gu Ningzi shook a fan on the coffee table, Chi Nuan walked to the wall and turned on the vertical air conditioner, then moved the small fan to blow to Gu Ningzi, and asked her, "Would you like some water?"

Gu Ningzi said, "Don't be busy, I'll just sit down and leave."

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 returned to the 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. You can stay at home. Don't give it away."

Gu Ningzi opened the door. Seeing to leave, Chi Nuan caught up again: "...Gu Ningzi, do you have any sugar?"

Gu Ningzi: "..."

Gu Ningzi smiled, "I will bring it to you next time."

After Gu Ningzi left, Chi Nuan sat where she had been sitting before, her eyes blank, unable to find a place to fall.

Maybe five minutes, maybe a little longer, there was a noise from the door, and Chi Qingchuan and Yue Yun came back together.

At the expected date of delivery at the end of August, Yue Yun's stomach was already quite high, and the two talents completed the check-up from the hospital.

Chi Qingchuan rushed to the living room when changing shoes and said, "Nuannuan is coming 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 casually and mentioned such a sentence.

"I ran into Xiao Gu downstairs." Chi Qingchuan also came over, "just chatted a few words. You, don't want my brother to pick you up, how troublesome it would be for her to send you back so far? Xiao Gu is pretty good. Yes, I keep saying that it’s okay, it’s okay."

Chi Nuan tilted her face to the fan, as if watching the fan turning, gently, not knowing whether to tell Chi Qingchuan or tell her herself: "Well, it won't be anymore."

The next day, Gu Ningzi and Tang Siru returned to the north together. Chi Nuan changed into work clothes in the bakery and started a part-time summer job.

Chi Nuan spent a summer vacation in that bakery last year. The proprietress thought she was young and hardworking and took good care of her. This year the proprietress asked her if she would do a summer job. Chi Nuan agreed without thinking about it.

The bakery is well-known in the town. Because the business is good, the work is also very hard. Chinuan will go to the store every morning to help out. When the kitchen is finished, he will go to the front desk to help. Sometimes if there are not enough staff, he will go out. Customers are always busy delivering deliveries, and they have to close at night to get off work and rest.

When Gu Ningzi left Cloud City, she maintained the frequency of actively sending two or three messages to Chi Nuan every day, but Chi Nuan was too busy to look up the information, and occasionally talked a few words freely, but also had to say "busy" and " End the conversation for various reasons such as something.

Gu Ningzi knew that after doing summer work, she didn't contact her during the day. It was just that Chi Nuan was tired after returning from work at night, and she had to review her homework, and the time she could spend on chatting was really limited. Gradually, Gu Ningzi sent fewer messages.

One day in early August, half a month has passed since the last separation. 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 soggy. Chi Nuan leaned against the car window, thinking of Gu Ningzi amidst the shaking of the body.

Their last message was still three days ago. Gu Ningzi said that it was very cool in the resort, and the curtains were torn on the first day the little warm girl came.

Missing her was so turbulent, Chi Nuan muttered Gu Ningzi's name silently, and dialed her number without holding back.

The phone rang a few times and got connected.

Chi Nuan was holding her breath nervously. Before the opening remarks, Tang Siru's deliberately lowered voice came from the earpiece. She said: "Chi Nuan? Are you looking for Aning? She is a little uncomfortable these days. She has fallen asleep after taking the medicine. Now... 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.