Zhou Nuan carried her schoolbag, held her grandmother's hand, lowered her head, and walked in the familiar community.

Residents of the community around him say hello to their grandmother, and they will respond and will not stop and chat with the elderly of the same age.

When they walked a few steps forward, they could hear the old people behind them. The sound was not loud, so they could only be sure that they were talking and couldn't hear clearly what they were saying.

Zhou Nuan can guess what they are talking about.

They were talking about her family.

Her mother passed away not long ago. Because her mother was still very young and did not mention her health on weekdays, everyone who learned about this news was very surprised. Zhou Nuan remembered that some people thought she was a child and said some gossip without hesitation, thinking she couldn't understand.

She actually understands everything.

Those people thought her father killed her mother, and thought that her mother had done something wrong, so her father killed her. They used to say that her father could marry her mother because she used evil methods. The word "evil" or she specifically looked up the dictionary to find out what it means. She was very angry and complained to her parents, but her parents smiled and said that those people had such ideas.

Because my father is a lame man, he is physically disabled, has average work, and cannot make money, and his mother is particularly beautiful when she gets married. Those people naturally think that it is impossible for mothers to marry their fathers voluntarily. Moms are so beautiful that they can do whatever they want to marry.

They didn't know that my mother was so beautiful, but she had several long and terrible scars on her body. My mother said that when she was a child, she was hit by a car, and she took off a kidney and cut off a piece of intestine. She lived in the hospital for a long time, and finally survived. My grandmother owed a lot of money because of this, and my grandmother worked very hard to pay off her debt. My mother was also weak due to that accident and would get sick from time to time. She and her father met in the hospital.

They like each other before getting married.

Before getting married, the thin and weak mother grew more flesh after marrying her father. When grandma and grandpa saw such mothers, they always praised their father and kept saying that the wind would fall when the mother was blown. When they heard this, they would look at each other? She smiled happily.

Her father loves his mother very much?    My mother loves his father very much.

It's not what those people say at all.

Zhou Nuan lowered her head lower and clenched her fists.

Grandma took out the key to open the door? She led her upstairs? She opened the door with the key again.

Grandma's warm and rough hands were released at this time. Both old and young hands were warm, but at first apart? Both sides felt a hint of cold.

"Come in quickly. Wash your hands and drink some hot water. Wash your face with hot water." Grandma greeted while changing her shoes.

Zhou Nuan was clenching her fists? She didn't enter the house for a while.

She forgot about those gossiping people for the time being.

She raised her head timidly and looked at the familiar home.

The small sofa at home was empty and there was no one.

This should have been the case.

My father hasn't come home from get off work yet. If that weren't the case, I wouldn't have to pick her up.

Zhou Nuan breathed a sigh of relief? Bent over and changed into furry slippers? He entered the house.

Grandma closed the door behind her.

Zhou Nuan temporarily placed her schoolbag on the sofa and entered the bathroom.

She turned on the faucet, shrank her hands stimulated by the cold water, and then hurriedly adjusted the water temperature.

She washed her hands when the water became hot? She washed her face and warmed her cold cheeks with a hot towel. She felt comfortable all over? She put down the towel and exhale.

She happened to face the mirror in the bathroom. As soon as she put down the towel, she could see the reflection in the mirror.

She saw herself and the half-open door of her bedroom behind her? And a white figure in the crack of the door.

Zhou Nuan's body, which had just become hot, has dropped its temperature again? A hint of chill came from the depths of her heart.

She tried hard to identify the figure.

The man in white clothes turned his back to her? I don’t know what he was doing in her room.

The man had no head and could not see the upper part of his neck. It seemed that he had used up all the paint halfway through the drawing and could only draw some shallow marks.

Zhou Nuan couldn't see the man's face clearly, and thought that the man looked very terrible, but...

"Do you have washed it? Then go back to do your homework after it is washed. Grandma is going to cook. When your father comes back, you can eat." Grandma walked over and pulled out the steaming towel from Zhou Nuan's hand.

Zhou Nuan's vision was blocked, and she could only see herself and her grandmother in the mirror.

She nodded, left the bathroom, and picked up her schoolbag.

She walked to the door of her bedroom, stopped, and pressed her hand on the door panel.

Through the crack in the door, she saw the familiar room.

The figure is gone.

Zhou Nuan carefully pushed open the door and looked inside.

There is no one inside.

There should be no one inside.

Zhou Nuan gradually relaxed, sat in front of the desk, and took out the homework assigned by the teacher today from her schoolbag.

The brushing sound of pencils and paper rubbing is endless.

Grandma came in halfway and turned on the sun for Zhou Nuan to put it at her feet.

That kind of warmth made Zhou Nuan a little sleepy.

She smelled the scent of the food, cheered up and finished her homework.

Before my father came back, the sound of cooking in the kitchen had stopped.

Zhou Nuan packed up her homework, pulled out a children's magazine on the desk shelf, and looked at it with relish.

The security door outside was opened.

Zhou Nuan turned around and heard not his father's voice, but his grandfather's voice.

“…I bought a braised beef.”

"What cold dishes do you buy when it's such a cold day?"

"I bought it when I saw it. Just eat more meat."

"You are really..."

"I know, I know. I buy braised mutton tomorrow, okay?"

"You bought so much, and you can't finish it today, so you still buy it tomorrow?"

Grandma and grandpa were clamoring.

Before he finished speaking, the door opened again.

"Oh, I'm back."

"Okay, okay, you can have supper."

"Nuannuan, it's time to eat."

Zhou Nuan ran out of the bedroom and saw the smiles of her father and grandfather. She listened to them greeting her, and remembered that the little sun in the room had not turned off and was about to go back to the room before it was turned off.

The fluorescent lights in the room were still on, and the room was very bright, but there was no orange light.

Zhou Nuan looked at the closed Xiao Sun and was a little confused.

She didn't take this matter to heart and ran back to the living room.

"Stop running around, sit down and have a meal." Grandma brought the served rice to the table.

The rice is crystal clear and exudes a lingering heat.

After Zhou Nuan sat down, she picked up her own small chopsticks.

“…It’s cold today, and it’s going to cool down tomorrow.”

"Yes. Mom and Dad, you should wear more clothes."

"We know. Take care of Nuannuan. Add a vest to your school uniform tomorrow."

“…How do you eat the New Year’s Eve dinner?”

"Are your sister here?"

"Here. She's here to do it."

"Her son is here for the New Year this year?"

"No. Xiaokai wants to go back to his father's place."

"This is really... what's going on with his father? Have you remarried?"

"No. I don't know what the situation is. I haven't contacted me before, and Xiaokai didn't say anything. My sister has no choice. Let's just do that."

Zhou Nuan listened to the conversation on the table and lowered her head to have a meal.

"Eat more beef. If you grow up, you should eat more meat. Your mother didn't eat enough before, and she couldn't eat too much. She grew thin and small." Grandpa picked up a few slices of beef and put them in Zhou Nuan's bowl.

"Nannuan is like her father, she must have grown tall. Her brother is quite tall." Grandma said, and asked again, "Does she grow tall?"

Dad reacted a little before answering: "Xiao Kai looks like the people in our family, not very much like his father. He looks exactly like my father when he was young."

"Oh, right." Grandma suddenly realized, "My father-in-law is very tall."

Grandpa smiled and said, "What should Nuannuan do if a girl grows so tall?"
To be continued...