Ning Zhan originally wanted to go to the health center to see Sheng Nuan, but in the end he did not go and went back home.
As soon as I opened the courtyard door, I saw Ning An standing in front of the pig pen.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, Ning An turned around, saw him, and then cried, running over and throwing herself into his arms.
The child couldn't say anything. He just pointed in the direction of the pig pen with trembling fingers, and then he grabbed his clothes and cried so hard that his whole body trembled.
Ning Zhan saw the pig at home, which his grandma often joked was skinnier than Ning'an, with its neck stuck on the fence and motionless.
Ning An's eyes were red and he gestured to him: The pig was very hungry and wanted to jump out, but it got stuck and I couldn't lift it... There were no neighbors around, so it was trapped.
Ning Zhan said nothing because he knew that just now, his neighbors had gone to the village committee to watch his excitement and to see him being interrogated as a gangster.
Grandma Ning walked out of the kitchen, her eyes still red, but her expression was still kind: "Let's eat first, I've been hungry for a long time."
Grandma Ning heard when Ning Zhan was taken away. Knowing that something had happened to her grandson, she was so panicked that she couldn't even care about such a big thing as the pig at home being pinched to death.
Now, seeing her grandson back well, Grandma Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
Ning Zhan hummed and rubbed Ning An's head: "It's okay, just die, just sell it... go back and buy a fat one to raise."
But even though Ning'an is young, he clearly knows what a pig means to their family... This was supposed to be their hope for next year, but now there is nothing.
The price of dead pigs is simply not comparable to that of live pigs.
Ning An walked into the house with his head lowered and said nothing. Ning Zhan went to fill the rice in silence, opened the pot, and saw a pot of black and gray paste.
The wild vegetables and black noodles were not kneaded together, and instead of the usual vegetable lumps, there was a pot of dark wild vegetable soup.
Grandma Ning also saw it. She was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly with red eyes: "I'm old, it's no longer useful, it's no longer useful."
"It's okay grandma, it's the same. I can drink a few more bowls."
Ning Zhan comforted his grandma and took out a bowl to serve rice. Ning An came to take the bowl back, and the family sat at the table and drank wild vegetable soup.
At this time, there was a knock on the courtyard door...
After Sheng Nuan sent Chu Lan away, she wanted to find Ning Zhan, only to find out that Ning Zhan had gone home. She found out from the customer service that Ning Zhan had heard what she and Chu Lan said.
Sheng Nuan felt a little uncomfortable. In addition, the asthma and cough syrup she had been sent by someone earlier arrived, so she took it to Ning's house.
I knocked on the courtyard door, and after a moment, the door opened from the inside.
Seeing that it was her, Ning Zhan paused for a moment, did not let her in, and asked quietly: "Is something wrong?"
He even swallowed back all the words of thanks he wanted to say...
If he was just a little shocked after hearing what Chu Lan said, then when he got home and saw everything at home, he seemed to be awakened instantly.
Because he was taken for interrogation as a gangster, the pig at home was pinched to death...
My brother was very sad because of the pig, and my grandmother tried her best but felt guilty and wanted to cry because she had made a pot of wild vegetable soup from the rice.
Ning An felt that he had not taken good care of the pigs, so he felt so hungry that he could not eat even though he felt so guilty... The chicken excrement in the yard had not been swept away, and there was almost nowhere to go.
He still doesn’t know if he will have the money to repay the debt he owed when he bought the breeding pigs...
This is his messy life!
That male educated youth was right, a person like him should only think about eating and drinking to survive... He couldn't even make sure that his family had enough to eat, but he was still thinking about the moon in the sky.
How ridiculous!
Ning Zhan stood at the door, blocking people out.
Seeing his indifferent expression, Sheng Nuan thought that Chu Lan's words might have hurt him. She paused and said in a warm voice: "I wanted to wait for you just now, but I didn't see you."
She said: "Are you okay? How is Grandma Ning? Are you frightened?"
"fine."
Seeing that Ning Zhan showed no sign of letting her in, Sheng Nuan paused and handed over what she had in her hand: "I heard that Grandma Ning has been feeling a little unwell for the past two days, so I brought her some medicine."
But before she finished speaking, she heard Ning Zhan say softly: "I appreciate your kindness, but no need, thank you."
Sheng Nuan became more and more certain that he was rejecting her. Why? Because of Chu Lan's words?
What does it have to do with Chu Lan being an idiot?
She thought they had at least become friends these days.
Seeing that everything was returning to the starting point, Sheng Nuan felt helpless: "Ning Zhan, do we have some misunderstanding? If you..."
But Ning Zhan still didn't let her speak.
His expression was very cold: "There is no such thing as us, Sheng Zhiqing, are you so familiar with everyone?"
Sheng Nuan was stunned and frowned: "What's going on with you? If you have something to say, I provoked you and you follow me!"
Ning Zhan twitched his lips: "You may have forgotten that I am this kind of person. Don't you know?"
Sheng Nuan looked at him: "I didn't believe what those people said and I didn't think about you that much, otherwise I wouldn't have helped you today. You..."
Ning Zhan interrupted her quietly: "That's because you are too naive."
He looked at Sheng Nuan with no expression: "Maybe I was following her on purpose last night."
Sheng Nuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed angrily: "Is there something wrong with you? Why didn't you just say that?"
Ning Zhan was careless and showed a bad expression: "It's not like someone is rushing to exonerate me."
Sheng Nuan took a deep breath to stop cursing. Opposite him, Ning Zhan looked cold: "So, you should listen to other people's advice and stay away from me."
After saying that, he slammed the door.
Sheng Nuan was also full of anger and turned around to leave. Just two steps away, she saw Ning Zhan's neighbor hiding behind a tree and looking at her.
She said: "Xu Qian, can you help me?"
Xu Qianqi Ai Ai walked out, a little afraid to look at Sheng Nuan: "What are you busy with?"
"Give this to Grandma Ning. She hasn't been feeling well these days and this medicine is useful."
Xu Qian glanced at it, paused, then nodded and reached out to take it. Just as she was about to speak, Sheng Nuan had already turned around and left without looking back.
Xu Qian stood there and looked at Sheng Nuan's back. After a moment, she looked down at the things in her hands, paused, and knocked on Ning's door.
Ning Zhan opened the door with a cold face and paused when he saw it was her: "Is something wrong?"
Xu Qian caught up with him and apologized in a low voice: "Brother Ning Zhan, I'm sorry, it's all because of me that those people misunderstood you, I..."
Ning Zhan showed no expression: "It's all over, no need to mention it again."
Xu Qian didn't dare to speak anymore and followed him carefully into the house. When she saw the wild vegetable soup on the table, she felt a little uncomfortable.
She handed the box to Grandma Ning: "Grandma Ning, this is the medicine Sheng Zhiqing asked me to give you."
Ning Zhan paused while drinking soup, and Grandma Ning subconsciously raised her head: "Why didn't she come in?"
"I have no idea."
Xu Qian said weakly: "She seems to be very angry. I, I don't know what happened."
After saying that, Xu Qian seemed to notice that Ning Zhan's mood was not right, and said in a low voice: "I'm going home first."
Xu Qian turned and left. At the dinner table, Grandma Ning looked at Ning Zhan and asked warmly: "What's wrong, Zhan Zhan? Why didn't Sheng Zhiqing come in?"
Ning Zhan paused for a moment, without raising his head: "I'm not from the same world, so there's no need to come in."
Grandma Ning was stunned and looked at her grandson.
As if she finally realized something, Grandma Ning's lips moved, but before she spoke, her eye circles turned red again.
She reached out and touched Ning Zhan's head: "Zhan Zhan, our Zhan Zhan is the best child in the eight villages in ten miles..."
Ning Zhan raised his head and reached out to wipe away the moisture from the corners of his grandma's eyes. He felt helpless and said, "Why are you crying?"
Grandma Ning's hands holding the chopsticks were shaking a little, and she murmured in a low voice: "People like us shouldn't have seen too much of the world. Once we've seen the good things, it would be too uncomfortable to stop. Every day is suffering..."
Ning Zhan said nothing, lowered his head and ate deeply.
Next to her, Ning An looked at her grandma and brother eagerly.
Grandma and brother looked very sad, especially the eldest brother. He hadn't seen him look like this for a long time.
It's all his fault, he let the pig pinch him to death...
At the same time, on the other side, Sheng Nuan had returned to the Educated Youth Station.
She was sorting out the medicines without saying a word when she heard the customer service suddenly say: "Host, are you angry?"
Sheng Nuan pouted: "Shouldn't you be angry, that ungrateful bastard?"
The customer service paused for a moment, then transmitted to her the conversation between Ning Zhan and Grandma Ning after she left, and then said seriously: "Host, after analyzing these data, I think that Ning Zhan did not let you in because of the courtyard.
A dead pig and a lot of chicken excrement are too dirty, so you are not allowed in..."
Sheng Nuan fell silent.
She didn't have a customer service brain circuit that was completely supported by data, so she naturally wouldn't think that Ning Zhan turned her away because the yard was too dirty.
What made him suddenly change his attitude was not that the yard was too dirty, but because of what the dirty and messy yard represented about his situation and life.
The young man is still struggling now and cannot see the future path. In his eyes, he is the same as everyone in this village, poor and backward, and may be chained to this place for the rest of his life.
So he refused her approach.
Sheng Nuan suddenly thought of that day when it rained heavily and the young man walked back step by step with her without saying a word.
Everything suddenly became clear, and she realized that that boy might like her...