33   Hold in your arms

Gan Nian heard this and stayed for three seconds before bent her lips. She was originally unwell, but Xu Huaishen's words were like a magic pill, which made her feel refreshed.

The sweet laughter on the other end of the phone softened Xu Huai's deep ears, and he silently raised the curve of the corners of his mouth.

Although the signal is weak, the sound is accompanied by the rustling of current, which is a bit noisy.

But both of them were satisfied.

"Xu Huaishen, I miss you very much.

I am sick and sleeping in bed, so uncomfortable, but when I call you, I feel much better. Can you chat with me for a while?"

He agreed and then asked her when she would come back.

She said she didn't know either. It was originally the first day of the Lunar New Year, but now she is sick. If she doesn't get better for a long time, she may have to go back to T City for treatment early.

In fact, she also wanted to go home early, so it was so comfortable to go home. First, there was no need to live in such a bad environment, and second... she was not very happy here either.

“Can I ask you out when I go back?

I want to see you and glutinous rice.”

"Well, I'm free."

Gan Nian narrowed her eyes excitedly when she thought that she could give him the scarf she had knitted a few days ago.

Gan Nian yawned a little and muttered, "Xu Huaishen, I want to get up and go to eat something, and I'm so hungry.

Maybe I can't tell you."

Even if Xu Huaishen was reluctant to leave, he could not ignore her body. He thought for a moment and explained, "Send me a message at any time if you have anything, huh?"

Don't be out of contact, he will worry about bad things.

Gan Nian understood what he meant and promised: "I send you messages every day."

"Yeah, go eat something."

Gan Nian agreed, and after hanging up the phone, she held her cell phone and smiled to the satisfaction.

——

Because Gan Nian was sick, the family returned to City T the day before New Year's Eve.

Before leaving, Li Xiu was reluctant to leave and could not help complaining about Gan Nian's thin body.

But I still hope that she can improve her physical fitness and stop being weaker.

Before leaving, Gan Nian held Li Xiu's hand and said intimately: "Grandma, you have to take care of yourself here. If you are in good health, we will not worry."

Li Xiu was stunned for a moment, nodded, and wrapped Gan Nian's little hand with his other hand.

She recalled what Luo Jian said to her in the room a few nights ago.

He said that the reason why Gan Nian was not intimate with her was like an alien granddaughter because she wanted Gan Nian so much.

It was she who had a estrangement from Gan Nian first, and Gan Nian had never lived with her since she was a child, and she only came back twice a year, which led to Gan Nian not being close enough to her.

Put your heart in mind, how good you are to others, the same is true for others to return to you.

...

After returning to City T, the family first took Gan Nian to the hospital to prescribe medicine.

On the way, Gan Qing received a message that a friend was visiting his home.

This person has to go to another place for the New Year, so today he happened to come here to have fun.

After hanging up the phone, Gan Nian asked, "Will Yunzhi come too?"

I haven't seen him for a long time."

Chen Yunzhi is the son of this fellow villager, one year older than Gan Nian. However, he stayed in elementary school and became a classmate with Gan Nian and also a classmate in junior high school.

It is also considered another brother next door besides Brother Qiu Luo.

But after Gan Nian came to T City, the two basically had no contact.

Gan Qing nodded: "Your Aunt Cheng will bring him here later."

Shortly after returning home from the hospital, a guest knocked on the door, and it was Cheng Shu and Chen Yun who arrived.

Luo Jian and Gan Qing welcomed them lively, and Gan Nian also came out to welcome them.

"Hello, Auntie, Brother Yunzhi, long time no see you."

When Chen Yunzhi looked up, he saw Gan Nian waving at him. She was wearing a light brown pink wool skirt today, with a pile of fluffy collars, which made her look warm and cute.

He smiled softly and responded.

Everyone sat together and chatted for a while, Gan Nian slipped to the study. She took out a gift box from the cabinet and opened it, giving Xu Huaishen a scarf.

She stroked the soft fabric and the sound of footsteps came from her ears.

When I turned around, I saw that it was Chen Yunzhi who walked in.

"Hey, Brother Yunzhi."

He was wearing a light brown sweater with his hands in his pockets, and his clean eyebrows and eyes were gentle.

Chen Yunzhi always gave Gan Nian the impression that the gentle and elegant young man was.

It seems that I have known him for so long, but I have never seen him get angry.

Compared to the irritable outward appearance of another brother Qiu Luo, Chen Yunzhi seemed much more low-key and restrained.

He came to her and asked casually: "How does it feel to go to No. 1 Middle School?"

Chen Yunzhi studied at No. 2 Middle School.

"It's pretty good. It's much better than the first year of my previous high school, and the teachers are also very good."

"It seems that learning has also improved?"

"Yeah, where are you?"

"Average, occasionally you can get the first place in the year."

He said with a chuckle.

Speaking of "the first place in the year", Gan Nian remembered that person and then unconsciously bent his eyes.

When Chen Yunzhi saw it, he thought it was the first place he said about the year-end that made her feel admiration and satisfied his unique sense of vanity in front of her. "So if you have any questions you don't understand, you can ask me when you don't go to No. 1 Middle School, don't contact me."

The possibility of asking him a question is almost zero. After all, there is a big boss around her, but she didn't point it out, just nodding according to his intentions.

Chen Yunzhi looked down and found the scarf in the gift box on the table. He paused for a moment, and the smile on his face became more obvious: "Is this for me?"

He naturally reached out to get it. When he was about to touch it, the box was quickly pulled away by Gan Nian and stopped behind him.

He was stunned for a moment, his eyes stayed on her slightly red cheeks, thinking she was embarrassed, and was discovered by him. He smiled and said, "I didn't expect Nian Nian to be shy in front of me."

Hearing the "Niannian" in his mouth, she frowned slightly, and felt uncomfortable in her heart. She didn't like other boys to call her like this. She curled her eyelashes and spoke a little solemnly: "Brother Yunzhi, you misunderstood, this is not for you."

A hint of embarrassment slipped through his eyes, and the hand that wanted to reach out to get the gift box was retracted, "It's so unconscience-free. I've brought you a gift."

"ah?"

He turned around and returned to the living room, and came back less than half a minute later, with an extra bag in his hand, and he handed it to her, in a natural tone: "For you, a New Year's gift."

Gan Nian didn't expect that he would give her a New Year gift, so she had to thank her and accept it.

Chen Yunzhi was planning to say something, but Luo Tianjin's voice came from the door:

"Sister, come here to teach me the question."

His words broke the awkward atmosphere. Gan Nian breathed a sigh of relief and told Chen Yunzhi that he wanted to teach the topic first.

After a while, Cheng Shu said she would leave first and come here to play next time.

Gan Nian and others sent them to the door. At the end, Chen Yunzhi said to Gan Nian: "I'll leave first, you can ask me out for fun during the Chinese New Year."

And she could only agree.

After the person left, Gan Nian went to tear off the gift he gave her.

But he found it was a large box of Ferrero chocolates... Luo Tianjin came over at this time and joked: "Brother Yunzhi can, is it interesting to give you chocolate?"

Gan Nian almost slapped him in the face, "If you talk nonsense, you will beat you up."

Seeing that she was really unhappy, he quickly restrained himself: "Okay, okay, I keep it a secret for you and I won't tell my parents.

But you can’t fall in love early, as early love affects your study.”

Gan Nian rolled his eyes to him, not knowing how to deal with the gift, so he had to bring the scarf and chocolate into the bedroom first.

This chocolate always makes her feel weird, and in her world, men and women cannot give such ambiguous things except for that kind of relationship.

She doesn't know how to eat, and plans to give it to Luo Tianjin later and ask him to help eliminate it.

Gan Nian looked at the scarf and thought to herself that she should not tell Xu Huaishen the news of returning to City T first.

When she recovers from the New Year's Eve tomorrow, she will find him and give him a surprise.

She lay in the bed and continued to rest.

——

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Xu Huaishen went downstairs and saw the nanny and Hong Xin busy in the kitchen. Today is the day for the Chinese family to reunite. At noon, he also received a message from Xu Zhen that he would come back tonight for the New Year's Eve dinner.

So Hong Xin was in a good mood, so she prepared dishes with the nanny.

Xu Huaishen was bored at home, so he said to Hong Xin: "I'll go out for a walk."

“When will you come back?

I have to have dinner tonight.”

“I’ll be back before supper.”
To be continued...