In the evening, when they returned home, Zhou Jianan was covered in sweat.
Xu Wan watched him run into the bathroom holding his clothes. He turned around worriedly and asked, "Aren't you going to help him wash it?"
Ruan Chen followed her gaze and looked over: "He washes himself at home. I told him which way to turn on the hot water."
"But……"
After all, what if such a young child accidentally falls inside?
Ruan Chen said: "Don't worry, he can do it himself."
Although he said this, Xu Wan was still a little worried and kept wandering around the bathroom door, paying attention to what was going on inside.
If anything happens, it's best to rush in as soon as possible.
Ruan Chen sat on the sofa, holding his head with one hand, looking at her like this, with the corners of his lips raised slightly.
After the sound of water inside stopped, Xu Wan stepped forward and said, "Jian An, please pay attention to the water under your feet and be careful not to fall."
Zhou Jianan responded: "I understand, thank you, aunt."
In the bathroom, Zhou Jianan methodically took her own small bath towel, wiped her hair, and slowly changed into clothes.
Seeing him come out, Xu Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then, her eyes fell on his wet hair, and she dragged him back to the bathroom. While taking the hair dryer, she said: "The air conditioner is on outside, your hair
If you go out without drying yourself, you will easily catch a cold."
The little guy stood in front of her, extremely well-behaved: "Thank you, aunt."
The boy's hair was already short, and it was half-dried and quickly blow-dried.
Xu Wan put away the hair dryer, patted his small shoulder, and said with satisfaction: "Okay, let's go play."
As soon as Zhou Jianan left, Ruan Chen leaned against the bathroom door and said slowly: "Would you wash it first or should I?"
Xu Wan subconsciously turned her head to look at him, then immediately looked away, saying vaguely: "You...you go first, I'll cut some fruit for Jian An."
As she spoke, she was about to walk out of the bathroom when Ruan Chen's voice continued: "Then after you cut the fruit, will you stay at the door like you did just now?"
Xu Wan: "...?"
Ruan Chen's expression remained unchanged: "Aren't you afraid that I will fall, sister?"
Xu Wan blushed and blushed to the root of her neck. How could he call her that in front of a child...
Xu Wan quickly looked outside and made sure that Zhou Jianan's attention was not on their side, then he pulled Ruan Chen into the bathroom and said in a low voice: "You deserve it if you fall!"
After finishing speaking, he hurried past him towards the kitchen.
This little bastard is really...
Ruan Chen looked at her back, the smile in his dark eyes deepened.
Xu Wan stood in the kitchen, took several deep breaths, calmed down, cut the fruit and took it out.
What is shown on TV is not cartoons, but scientific documentaries.
Xu Wan sat next to him: "Jian An, don't you find this boring?"
The little guy shook his head and asked thoughtfully: "Auntie, what do you mean by dark matter and dark matter in the universe?"
Xu Wan: "..."
The little guy continued: "Dark matter cannot be observed, but it can interfere with the light waves or gravity emitted by stars..."
Xu Wan coughed twice: "What, let's eat the fruit first, it will get cold in a while."
Zhou Jianan recovered his thoughts, nodded, picked up the fruit tea, and ate a piece of dragon fruit.
Xu Wan said: "What time do you go to bed at home?"
The little guy thought for a while: "Mom asked me to go to bed before ten o'clock, but sometimes my sisters can't sleep, so I will stay with them."
"Okay, then if you are sleepy, tell your aunt and she will take you to bed."
"Thank you, aunt. I'll just go to bed by myself."
Xu Wan was silent for a few seconds, looked at the bathroom, and asked in a low voice: "Jian An, when did you... start sleeping by yourself?"
Zhou Jianan also followed her example and also lowered his voice: "My father said that when I was very young, I was raised by my grandmother. Before my mother gave birth to my sisters, I would occasionally sleep with my mother. After she gave birth to my sisters, my grandmother returned to Jiangxi."
After I got out of state, I started sleeping alone."
Xu Wan thought for a moment, that was two or three years ago, and the little guy was at most three years old at that time.
"Then are you afraid?"
Zhou Jianan shook his head: "Sometimes my father will sleep with me, sometimes my mother will sleep with me, and sometimes I will sleep with my sisters, but I don't know why every time, when my mother sleeps with me, I wake up in the morning,
She is gone.
Dad said that if there is a monster in my room, Mom will be scared."
Xu Wan: "..."
She whispered: "Your father is really not a human being."
Zhou Jianan waved her hand: "Auntie, you don't have to be afraid of monsters, my uncle will protect you."
Xu Wan choked for a moment and touched his little head: "Auntie, you're not afraid, just eat it quickly."
After a while, Ruan Chen came out of the bathroom.
When Zhou Jianan saw him, he quickly put down the fruit in his hand: "Uncle, aunt said, if you turn on the air conditioner and don't dry your hair, you will catch a cold."
Ruan Chen glanced at him, his eyes fell on Xu Wan, and he raised his eyebrows without any trace.
Xu Wan: "?"
Zhou Jianan understood the signal in his uncle's eyes, immediately stood up, ran into the bathroom, took out the hair dryer and put it in Xu Wan's hand: "Thank you, aunt."
At the same time, Ruan Chen also sat next to her: "Thank you..."
He prolonged the pronunciation of the last word a bit.
Xu Wan knew without thinking that what he wanted to say was "Thank you, sister."
She reluctantly took the hair dryer from Zhou Jianan's hand, bent down and plugged it in.
Ruan Chen was not like Zhou Jianan. He was much taller than her. Xu Wan could only stand up and stand in front of him.
Zhou Jianan sat on his knees on the carpet, with his hands on the coffee table and his chin in his hands. He looked at this scene with two big round eyes.
Xu Wan felt that something as simple as blow-drying her hair made it difficult for her to do it.
And how can this kind of thing between men and women be treated like blow-drying a child's hair?
She simply couldn't focus on anything else.
Probably sensing her stiffness, Ruan Chen glanced sideways: "Zhou Jian'an."
The little guy immediately sat up a little straighter: "Uncle."
"It's time for you to go back to your room and sleep."
Zhou Jianan stood up quickly: "Good night, uncle! Good night, aunt!"
After saying that, he immediately ran back to the guest room.
As the door closed, Xu Wan felt that the atmosphere seemed to be more subtle...
Just when she was about to put the hair dryer in Ruan Chen's arms and let him blow it by himself, Ruan Chen's voice sounded unhurriedly: "If you don't blow it, you'll catch a cold, sister."