Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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“Yes!”
The little girl answered loudly, and then her voice became soft again in the next second.
“I miss my second brother so much. When will he come back?”
The little girl held the phone and looked at it eagerly, as if she wanted to stare her second brother out of the phone.
Gu Bei felt his heart soften as he listened to his sister’s soft and tender voice, and the tiredness of the past few days was swept away.
“Well, I miss Nuan Nuan too. When things here are over, second brother will go back. It will be no later than a month.”
There was still a month left, but her brother’s birthday was only half a month away. Nuan Nuan’s little mouth turned down pitifully, and she couldn’t say it yet.
“Oh, there is still a month left, and the New Year is coming soon.”
The little girl’s voice was full of pitiful taste.
Gu Bei heard it and asked in a gentle voice.
“You miss me so much, I will definitely come back to celebrate the New Year together. What is Nuan Nuan doing now?”
The little girl was successfully diverted, and said in a baby voice that she was reading a book now.
“What book are you reading?”
Nuan Nuan hummed, “I won’t tell you.”
There was a burst of laughter from the other side, but he didn’t continue to ask, and turned to ask other questions.
Nuan Nuan was like a chatterbox, mumbling all the interesting things that happened recently to her second brother, but as she was talking, she found that there was no sound from the other side, but instead there was a long and even breathing sound.
This was… he fell asleep!
The child’s delicate face wrinkled, and her beautiful and clean eyes were full of heartache. Her second brother must be very tired, but she didn’t even see it. Nuan Nuan was very annoyed, and she was also worried that her second brother didn’t cover the quilt well. The weather was very cold now. What if he caught a cold? She knew that it was always uncomfortable to have a cold.
Nuan Nuan hung up the phone with her second brother and called his assistant.
“Brother Mu Qing, please go and see if my second brother has covered himself with the quilt. He has fallen asleep.”
The person on the other side was used to receiving calls from Nuan Nuan, because many times when she couldn’t get through to Professor Gu, the little girl would call him and nag him to help take care of her second brother, to pay attention to eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. She was just so considerate.
The little girl’s soft and glutinous voice did not make people feel impatient, but rather very heartwarming. In this day and age, who would be so nagging if they didn’t really care about you? Many people in their institute often didn’t have anyone call to care for them even after ten days or half a month.
Mu Qing smiled and agreed while going to see Gu Bei. Sure enough, Professor Gu was still holding his mobile phone and lying on the bed without taking off his coat.
The assistant quickly turned up the heating in the room a little, then took off his coat and shoes, covered him with a quilt, and explained the matter here to Nuan Nuan. The little girl thanked him softly and repeatedly, which sounded sweet.
Mu Qing smacked his lips. Why didn’t he have such a sweet and good sister?
After the matter with the second brother was settled, Nuan Nuan continued to flip through the book in front of her. There were many kinds of knitting methods in it, and there were also knitting methods for various small things. The little girl read it with great interest. After comparing several knitting methods of knitting wool, Nuan Nuan began to try it herself.
With the foundation of knitting sweaters and socks with her grandmother in Xiaoxi Village before, she quickly got the hang of it.
After three days of sneaking around, she was a little dissatisfied with the first scarf, so she put it aside and continued to knit.
In the winter, except for those who went to work, many people had nothing to do and mostly chose to stay at home. There were thus fewer people on the street. So, it seemed normal for Nuan Nuan to forget to get out of her little bed at any time.
But in the eyes of others, it was not so normal.
The abnormality of the little girl returning to her room and locking the door at any time these days was of course discovered by her family members who were always paying attention to her.
Father Gu was a little puzzled, “What is my daughter doing?”
Mother Gu smiled mysteriously, then leaned over and told her husband what Nuan Nuan was doing secretly.
After hearing this, Father Gu felt that his daughter was adorable, but he felt sour in his heart.
“It’s a pity that my birthday has already passed.”
What a pity!
It was the first time that his daughter knitted a scarf by herself, but this scarf was not for him!
What should he do? He was a little jealous of his sons. Could he wait until his sons’ birthday was over and snatch the scarf away?
Bai Anran knew what he was thinking when she saw his dishonest eyes, and immediately rolled her eyes at him unhappily.
“Can you be a little more ambitious? You are so thick-skinned to be jealous of your own sons all the time.”
Father Gu said confidently, “This is the first time that our daughter knitted a scarf by herself, don’t you want it?”
Mother Gu: “…………”
She really wanted it, but she couldn’t snatch her sons’ things. Besides, at their age, could they even snatch it from their young and strong sons?
“By the way, don’t tell anyone about this. Nuan Nuan wants to give her brothers a surprise.”
Father Gu muttered sourly, “I know, I know, it’s a bargain for them.”
On this Saturday, after Father Gu and Gu Nan went to work, little Nuan Nuan quietly went into her room again.
But not long after she entered, the door was knocked.
The little girl immediately became like a frightened hamster, stuffing the scarf she was knitting into the storage box in one go, and almost locked Briquettes, who was playing with a ball of yarn, in the box. She quickly took Briquettes out, pushed the box under the bed and hid it, and then reluctantly went to open the door.
But the door was only opened a little crack, and when she looked out from behind the crack, she saw her fourth brother looking down at her with his arms folded.
“Oh, do you have a little secret?”
Gu Mingli raised his eyebrows and looked at a little girl with a playful look on his face.
Nuan Nuan rubbed her feet in her socks on the furry carpet, feeling a little guilty, but she just kept silent.
Then her chubby little face was pinched.
Nuan Nuan: “…………”
This method was very familiar.
“Guoguo.”
Nuan Nuan looked at her fourth brother pitifully.
“What are you doing being so secretive? Tell your fourth brother, ok?”
Nuan Nuan shook her head.
“You really won’t tell me? Don’t you like fourth brother anymore?”
Nuan Nuan: “Brother, you can’t wrongly accuse Nuan Nuan like this!”
She shook her head quickly.
“Okay, if you don’t want to tell me, then don’t tell me. But you have to know that if you don’t tell me, I will be in a bad mood. If I am in a bad mood, I can’t sleep well. If I can’t sleep well, I can’t eat well…”
Nuan Nuan’s eyes widened. Was it that serious?
Gu Mingli tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth that were curled up. This little girl was too easy to fool. She was so naive that everything she thought was written on her face.
“Yes, it’s that serious.”
Gu Mingli tried to nod seriously.
The little girl pulled at the door frame, her expression tangled for a few seconds, then finally compromised. She looked around furtively and said quietly.
“Then…then fourth brother, come in, but don’t tell big brother.”
Gu Mingli raised his eyebrows. Was this related to big brother? And she made it soundso mysterious.
Then he followed Nuan Nuan in, watched the little girl lock the door, and then watched her lying on the carpet, sticking out her little butt, and dragging out a storage box from under the bed.
When she opened it, he saw a half-finished scarf and some wool inside.
The semi-finished scarf was dark grey, tightly woven and beautiful, and a small smiling face was woven at the beginning with white wool, which looked cute, but did not affect the integrity of the whole scarf at all, and was very harmonious.
“What is this?”
Gu Mingli already had a rough guess in his mind.
Nuan Nuan took out the unfinished scarf. The scarf looked very soft, with a simple and beautiful style, which was the style that the eldest brother liked.
And every part of the knitting could be seen to be very attentive.
Nuan Nuan: “It’s a birthday gift prepared for eldest brother and second brother.”
Knowing that was one thing, but hearing the little girl say it herself made him feel sour.
“Oh, so it’s this.”
He walked over and sat down, watching Nuan Nuan skilfully holding the needle with her little hands and starting to knit.
“When did you learn this?”
He fiddled with the scarf with his fingers, thinking that his birthday was still several months away, and he felt a little dissatisfied.
He also wanted a gift made by his sister.
“Nuan Nuan learned from the book.”
After saying that, she took out the book and handed it to Gu Mingli.
“Fourth brother, don’t tell big brother, and second brother, Nuan Nuan wants to give them a surprise.”
“Do you have one for second brother? He’s coming back?”
Thinking of what second brother said that he would be back in about a month, she suddenly felt disappointed.
“No, but I can keep it for him and give it to him when he comes back.”
Gu Mingli said, “Oh,” and seemed to be casually saying, “Birthday gifts are of course only meaningful when given on birthdays. How about giving second brother’s one to me?”
Nuan Nuan hummed, “No.”
Fourth brother just wanted to cheat her out of the scarf.
Gu Mingli sighed, the little girl was not easy to cheat.
“What are you going to give me on my birthday?”
The little girl glanced at him and said in a babyish voice, “Fourth brother’s birthday is still a long way off. Nuan Nuan doesn’t know now, and I won’t tell you even if I think of it.”
Gu Mingli pinched her little cheeks. “Have you become braver?”
Nuan Nuan blinked. Of course, bravery comes with age.
But she didn’t dare to say it. To put it bluntly, she was still timid.
Although he knew what Nuan Nuan was doing, Gu Mingli was not happy at all, because his birthday was still a long way off, which meant that he would not get a gift made by the little girl for the time being.
Watching her knitting each stitch happily and seriously, he felt jealous at every stitch.
The first successful scarf was successfully knitted after four days. It was twice as long as her height, and the end was knitted with two words in white wool, neat and small.
Gu Nan.
Nuan Nuan directly knitted the name of her big brother, which looked better than her writing.
Holding the dark grey scarf, Nuan Nuan was very satisfied.
Gu Mingli was even more envious and jealous, and he wished he could take those two words and turn them into his own name.
Little Nuan Nuan carefully folded the scarf and put it in the box.
“It’s so precious.”
A sour and resentful voice came from behind, and Nuan Nuan was so scared that her hair stood up.
“Fourth brother…”
Nuan Nuan looked at him with a faint look in her eyes.
Gu Mingli coughed, put his arm behind his head, and walked away.
Looking at his back as he left, Nuan Nuan covered her mouth and laughed, and then continued to knit a scarf for her second brother.
The days of the hardworking little bee knitting scarves passed quickly, and the twin brothers’ birthdays arrived.
But as the hosts of today’s birthday, the two parties didn’t care at all. In the past, their birthdays were basically no different from usual, after all, they were so busy with work.
Many times, Gu Bei was even too busy to leave, and he didn’t even come back for his birthday.
But Nuan Nuan remembered today in her heart, and got busy early in the morning.
After her elder brother left, she went to the kitchen with her mother to make a cake. For this purpose, mother Gu specially invited a famous pastry chef to teach the two novices who couldn’t do it.
On the way to work, Gu Nan looked at his father expressionlessly.
“Dad, just tell me what you want to say.”
Don’t stare at him weirdly. He has had nightmares these past two days.
Gu Linmo retracted his gaze and snorted coldly, “It’s okay!”
He said that his daughter was very anxious with him. Although he couldn’t say it, he still felt sour.
They were all counting the dates to their own birthdays.
“Alas… time goes by so slowly.”
Gu Nan, who wished he could divide a day into eight parts, “…………”
Did his father hit his head against the door?
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