Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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“Dahuang! Dahuang, if you run again, I’ll kill you and stew your meat!!”
When you take a big dog with a lively temperament out for a walk, you could never know whether you are walking the dog or the dog is walking you.
For example, Gu An now.
Dahuang had grown rapidly since he came to Gu family house to eat and drink well. It was unknown what breed of dog he was. He did not look like a proper Chinese pastoral dog. He was much larger than ordinary pastoral dogs. Because there was a large lawn at home for him to run and jump, his limbs were also strong. His waist was thinner like a pastoral dog, but his muscles were quite strong.
The most important thing was that he really loved to toss around, like a Husky. At this moment, he was running around with Gu An excitedly, and Nuan Nuan couldn’t catch up with him since she was holding the cats.
“Dahuang!”
“Woof…woof…woof!!!”
Dahuang, who was excited, heard Nuan Nuan’s voice and barked. His speed was a little slower, but he still rushed forward with Gu An.
Nuan Nuan couldn’t run any more.
“Nuan Nuan, don’t run anymore. Rest here. I’ll go get it and bring it back!”
Gu An saw Nuan Nuan running out of breath. Although she had been jogging with her big brother for a while, she was still young after all, and her motor nerves were not well developed. And she was wearing heavy clothes now.
Gu An felt sorry for his sister and didn’t want her to run with him.
The little girl had put the cats down, and was now supporting her knees with her hands and panted heavily. The clothes on her back were all wet and hot.
Taking off the scarf, the little girl hummed and moaned, thinking that she would punish Dahuang to face the wall and reflect on its mistakes after returning, and she would have to bring the big brother that it feared the most to supervise it!
“Meow!”
While resting, Briquettes suddenly called out vigilantly at a tree not far away, and the hair on his back stood up.
Nuan Nuan looked over there, but there was nothing?
Looking again, a person suddenly jumped down from the tree.
Nuan Nuan: “!!!”
She was so scared that she almost jumped up.
After jumping down from the tree, the man lowered his eyes and stared at the cats at the girl’s feet. His thin body leaned back against the tree trunk, and the skin on his face was an unhealthy white. His temperament was gloomy and depressed, and his eyes were indifferent and disgusted with everything.
“Is it you?”
The pale-faced young man finally turned his eyes from the cats to Nuan Nuan.
The cats stood beside the girl, with the fur on their back standing up, looking at the young man opposite it warily and fiercely.
“You recognize me.” Liang Chi’s voice was hoarse and gloomy.
Nuan Nuan smiled softly and hummed, “You are the brother I met at school that day. So you live here too?”
The little girl had an expression on her face as if they were so destined to meet, and she had no idea how dangerous the man in front of her was.
Because she didn’t feel any malice from Liang Chi, she didn’t know why her cats were so hostile to him.
She squatted down and gathered the cats, lining up their heads one by one, and said in a baby voice.
“Don’t be rude!”
“Meow…meow…meow!!!”
Gu Nan and the others didn’t want Nuan Nuan to worry, nor did they want her to know too much about the darkness, so they basically didn’t tell her about Liang Chi.
So until now, Nuan Nuan still didn’t know that the man in front of her was the mastermind behind her being mistakenly taken hostage that day.
“Brother, why are you here? Today is Chinese New Year? Aren’t you at home? You don’t look very good, are you sick? Do you want to see a doctor?”
Liang Chi walked slowly to Nuan Nuan and squatted down, not afraid of being scratched by the few fierce cats.
“I have no home.”
He looked at Nuan Nuan with a pair of light black eyes, and moved his fingers as if he wanted to touch her head, but he gave up with a dim look in his eyes for some reason.
Nuan Nuan’s face wrinkled when she heard him say that he had no home.
“Then… where are your parents?”
The young man pursed his lips and shook his head. “I have no parents.”
Nuan Nuan looked at him with the same pity as if she was looking at a homeless big dog. Thinking back to when she was in Xiaoxi Village, she had also been alone since her grandmother passed away. During the Chinese New Year, she saw other families wearing new clothes and eating a sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner with all kinds of candies and snacks, while she could only stay in the house pitifully and listened to the sound of firecrackers from other families. When she thought of this big brother, Nuan Nuan’s nose turned sour.
She raised her little fleshy hand and touched the young man’s head, and her voice was soft and comforting.
“It’s okay, you can spend the Chinese New Year alone.”
After saying that, she brought her schoolbag to the front and began to search for things. She didn’t notice that when her hand was on the young man’s head, Liang Chi’s body instantly stiffened, and he hadn’t recovered yet.
After a few seconds, little Nuan Nuan took out a small handful of fairy sticks, some candies wrapped in red festive paper, and various snacks from her small backpack. She then took Liang Chi’s hand and went to find a place to sit.
As soon as they held hands, she realized that the older brother’s hands were so cold! Even colder than her older brother’s hands.
“Brother, squat down a little bit.”
Liang Chi squatted down a little stiffly, and then the little girl tiptoed and put her scarf around his neck.
The scarf was very soft and warm, but some places were not knitted very well.
Liang Chi touched the scarf with his slender and cold fingers, lowering his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
The little girl blushed when she saw that his eyes happened to fall on a place that was not knitted well.
“This… this is a scarf I knitted myself. It was not knitted well the first time, please don’t despise it.”
Liang Chi paused and said, “Did you knit it yourself?”
Nuan Nuan nodded shyly, “Although it’s a little ugly, it’s very warm.”
She felt embarrassed to give this failed scarf to her brothers, but she didn’t want to waste it, so the little girl modified it and added some wool of other colours and used it herself.
Liang Chi hummed, lowered his eyes and said seriously, “It’s very warm.”
Seeing that he didn’t dislike it and praised the scarf for being warm, the little girl smiled sweetly and took his hand to continue walking.
“There’s a bench in front, let’s go over there and sit down. Big brother, your hands are so cold. You really need to see a doctor, otherwise you will feel very uncomfortable if you get sick, and you have to take very bitter medicine.”
As she said this, the expression on the little girl’s face became disgusted.
“But you have to take medicine to get better. If you take bitter food, you can eat a piece of candy and your mouth won’t be bitter anymore.”
As she said this, they found the bench, and the little girl pulled the man to sit on it, rubbing his cold fingers with her little hands. In fact, she wanted to put her gloves on this brother, but her gloves were too small.
After rubbing for a while, she grabbed the young man’s hand and stuffed it into the scarf.
“This will block the wind.”
Then she put all the things she had just found in her schoolbag in the middle of the bench where the two of them were sitting.
“This is a fairy wand. You can’t light firecrackers and fireworks in the city, but you can play with fairy wands. I’m giving it to you. It’s fun to light it at night. These are snacks eaten during the New Year. I only secretly brought a little bit, and I’m giving them all to you, brother. Oh, and this.”
The little girl came out with a red cloth strip.
“My mother and I bought it when we went to the temple fair. My brothers bought a lot for me. I’m giving you one for peace and safety. You see, I have one on my hand too.”
The little girl showed her fair left wrist. On her right wrist, she already had a bracelet given by her eldest brother and a bracelet given by her second brother. The jade bracelet given by her aunt was hidden at the bottom of her box.
“I can take it down and hang it on the tree tonight. My mother said it can bless Nuan Nuan to be safe and healthy.”
Liang Chi didn’t believe it, but he still stretched out his hand obediently and let the little girl tie a red string on his wrist.
“I’ll give you a big red envelope and wish you a happy new year.”
Nuan Nuan stuffed a red envelope in his hand and asked, “Big brother, what’s your name? It’s a bit awkward to always call you big brother. I call my brother Gu Nan big brother.”
Liang Chi pursed his lips, his voice was hoarse and his emotions were unclear. “My name is Ananda.”
‘Do you think you came to this world to enjoy happiness? You came to suffer! So your name is Ananda, remember this name forever, your name is Ananda, the suffering of Ananda, born in such a family, you will never be happy, hahaha…’
In his mind, the woman grabbed his hair and said the origin of his name Ananda in a crazy manner.
He came to suffer.
Liang Chi’s face was very calm. He had been called Ananda since he was a child, until he killed that person when he grew up and went to the orphanage. The director then gave him a random name, Liang Chi.
“Then can I call you Brother Ananda?”
For some reason, the name that accompanied him like a nightmare was called out softly by the child before him, and it suddenly didn’t seem so difficult to accept.
Liang Chi just nodded, and the red dot on the dial of the watch on his wrist started approaching them.
Liang Chi knew that he should leave.
“I’m leaving.”
Nuan Nuan sighed with some regret, but soon cheered up. “Well, it’s still warmer at home in such a cold day. Brother Ananda, these are all for you.”
Liang Chi nodded, but he didn’t care much about those things. He just raised his hand and grabbed the scarf around his neck and asked.
“Can you give this to me?”
Nuan Nuan nodded. “Yes, I can wear other scarves. You can take this one. As long as you don’t dislike it because it’s a little ugly.”
“It’s not ugly.”
Liang Chi looked pale and unhealthy, but his expression was unusually serious.
“It looks good.”
Nuan Nuan scratched her little head and laughed. Liang Chi looked at Nuan Nuan deeply and then left. He didn’t want those candies and snacks, nor did he want red envelopes. He only took those fairy sticks.
“Ah? Brother Ananda, don’t you want these?”
Liang Chi shook his head. “No, you can eat them yourself.”
Nuan Nuan: “Okay, goodbye, Brother Ananda.”
Liang Chi walked slowly in the wind and snow, looking at the fairy wands in his hand and whispered.
“Well, goodbye.”
The wind blew away his three words. Nuan Nuan didn’t hear them, but felt that his back was full of inexplicable loneliness.
When she could no longer see him, Gu An also came back, panting and dragging Dahuang.
It was really dragged back, leaving a long trail on the snow.
“Let’s go! Let’s go back and stew dog meat!”
Nuan Nuan ran over with the few cats. “Okay.”
Dahuang instantly got up from the ground and howled. Looking at its appearance, it seemed to be protesting.
Gu An was really mad at this stupid dog. “Protest is invalid. I’m going to eat dog meat today!”
Then he was pounced on by the dog and pressed into the snow.
Gu An: “Ahhhhh!!! Stupid dog, you’re dead!”
After a commotion, Gu An and Nuan Nuan dragged Dahuang back by one of his legs.
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