"Wash your hands and eat." As she was about to stand up from the leather sofa, Nan Xiaonan instinctively went up to hold her grandma's hand. After feeling a different strength from what she remembered, Nan Xiaonan raised her head.
"Grandma, does your back hurt?" Grandma's waist is already suffering from a chronic disease, which is getting worse and worse, so she has fewer and fewer opportunities to make steamed buns. Nan Xiaonan acted as grandma's crutch and asked worriedly, "I'm going to make steamed buns today."
Does it hurt more?"
"Old problem." Grandma leaned on Nan Xiaonan and went out through the narrow door. The housekeeper skillfully used a large red flower pot and poured hot water from the blackened iron kettle to wash the hands of the two young masters. Finally,
Just went to the dining table.
The dining table is a dilapidated square table with the insect-proof cover lifted. The dishes that don’t look very good but are extremely rich are directly presented to the eyes of several people. The dishes and chopsticks for a total of five people have been arranged neatly, and the butler is
Going to the table nearby, Nan Qinse looked over and realized that there was a basin full of handmade steamed buns.
Although he doesn't cook, he also knows that kneading dough requires the strength of the waist. After doing so much, plus a whole table of food, looking at Nan Xiaonan's behavior, I am afraid that grandma has a waist problem for a long time, and the condition is not serious, but
Even so, such a table of meals was still prepared early...
Nan Qinse felt quite uncomfortable for a moment.
In their previous life, they did not enjoy grandma's love, nor did they have much affection. In the end, they only attended a funeral. But now they have really met this person, and her enthusiasm for them is not something they can understand.
Nan Heming lowered his eyes and was stuffed with a steamed bun by the housekeeper. Do as the Romans do. The housekeeper was not as well-behaved as he was at Nan's house. He took off his suit jacket and rolled up his sleeves, revealing his inner arms. He didn't know when
He took off his tie and unbuttoned two buttons, looking much more relaxed than usual.
But the old man sitting on the seat took a look and was quite satisfied: "It won't be uncomfortable for you if you rub your neck like that, but it makes me tired just looking at it."
"That's what the old lady said." The housekeeper smiled politely.
"Well, it tastes pretty good." After Nan Heming tasted it, he unexpectedly thought it was OK. Simple home-cooked dishes were just oilier, and the old man also preferred meat dishes.
"Grandma cooked a lot of meat today." Nan Xiaonan grabbed her own chopsticks. Unlike the children's chopsticks used in Nan's family, Nan Xiaonan was also very comfortable with the very long chopsticks. "Normally grandma doesn't like to cook so much meat?"
"All the people here are men, and men like to eat meat." Then grandma hit Nan Xiaonan on the head with chopsticks, "Eat less, your face will grow sideways when I just touch it. If you eat more fat, you will crawl again in the future."
No more climbing trees?”
"But grandma said I'm not fat?" Nan Xiaonan felt aggrieved.
"It's better to be fatter. Xiaonan needs to be chubby to be cute." Nan Heming said and added a piece of chicken drumstick to Nan Xiaonan's bowl.
Grandma glanced at Nan Heming strangely.
"What's wrong? Grandma?"
"You pamper him much better than his mother."
Nan and Mingqiang smiled. He finally understood why Nan Xiaonan always liked to say that he was weak and pitiful. I am afraid that in the eyes of this grandma, he is more like a girl, not to mention his image in Nan Xiaonan's eyes.
.
Okay...
I have to say that grandma's cooking skills are definitely not as good as the chef at home, but Nan Xiaonan's appetite is extremely good. While she was chirping something, grandma hit her head once in two minutes: "Don't you want to eat again?
"It's shameful to waste food. Do you know how many people couldn't afford to eat back then?"
So Nan Xiaonan had another couple of bites, and while eating, she heard a commotion outside. It turned out that all the children who were leading the family had gathered over, shouting Nan Xiaonan's name at the door.
"Wait a minute, I'm eating!" Nan Xiaonan shouted towards the door.
Outside: "Oh!"
Nan Qinse and Nan Heming looked at each other. Now that it is completely dark, and children are allowed to run outside, are adults not worried at all?
After Nan Xiaonan finished eating, he instinctively planned to get down from the table and go play with his children. However, he suddenly froze and raised his head to meet the eyes of Nan's brothers.
"Will the eldest brother and the second brother come with me to meet my friends? I will introduce all my friends to you?"
"Go on, let's play." Grandma didn't like to talk very much. She basically used it to scold Nan Xiaonan. After finishing the meal, she stood up shakily to clear away the dishes.
"Old madam, let me help you." The housekeeper on the side took off the car keys and handed them to Nan Qinse, smiling and nodding.
"Xiaonan." Nan Heming instinctively wanted to hug Nan Xiaonan, but Nan Xiaonan refused.
He took the second brother's hand and whispered in his ear: "Second brother, can you please stop hugging me in front of them? I am the eldest and I am always hugged. They will laugh at me."
Nan Heming originally wanted to reply with a smile, "Who dares to laugh at you?", but Nan Xiaonan finally made the request, so he didn't refuse and nodded.
A group of little kids gathered at the door, lying on the car and looking inside. They all looked very curious. There were dim lights in the yard, and they all looked sallow and thin.
Nan Xiaonan has a high reputation among the children, and he is not lying when he says he is the eldest. People rush to gather at his words. Nan Heming took a quick look, and there are seven little cubs in Nan Xiaonan.
"This is my eldest brother, this is my second brother, I have two brothers!" Nan Xiaonan smiled and showed off his two brothers to his friends, "My eldest brother is very powerful, he has a lot of muscles!
"
Several little kids raised their heads and looked at Nan Qinse with admiration. Nan Qinse, who had never dealt with children before, had a headache. Shouldn't he be a thinker now?
"Me too!" The fat boy lifted up his clothes to reveal different skin tones, with white and tender muscles bulging out.
"As you said, I have one too." The friends all rolled up their sleeves to show off their muscles.
"What are you doing? Brother just lifted me up with one hand."
Then Nan Qinse once again received the admiration of the little beauties.
Nan Qinse:......
Nan Heming on the side couldn't stop laughing.
"I don't believe it." Xiaopang said, "That's because you are too young. He definitely can't lift me!"
Nan Qinse chuckled: "Try?"
“Just try it!”
Nan Heming looked at Nan Qinse from the side. His eldest brother was serious and hard-line. He had never seen him getting along with the children. It could be seen that he might be a little impatient, but he tolerated it.
The reason for tolerance is simple.
Because at this moment, Nan Xiaonan had her hands on her hips and looked very proud.
Compared to Nan Heming, Nan Qinse, who was tall, handsome and strong, was more popular among the children in the village. Nan Heming shook his head. If it was in a kindergarten, he would definitely be more popular.
Nan Heming's eyes stayed on the boy named Slug who had not paid attention to them but always followed Nan Xiaonan. This boy had a somewhat angry look on his face. He did go back and wash his face as Nan Xiaonan asked, but there were
The clothes were still very dirty, so I grabbed Nan Xiaonan's clothes with my hands, as if she was afraid that Nan Xiaonan would disappear.
This was abnormal possessiveness. Nan Heming narrowed his eyes.
Although it was very blurry, the boy's outline gave him a vague feeling of familiarity.
Nan Xiaonan was sitting on the trunk of the car at night, taking out snacks one by one and giving them to his friends. Each of these friends stood upright, and Nan Xiaonan casually hung one of his legs under the car.
, one leg was bent up, looking extremely cool. After he called the name, the children came forward and happily received the snack bag that belonged to him. They were not curious about what snacks others got in their hands.
Instead, use your hands to protect your snacks.
There is a strange thing here. It is obvious that the slug gets a little more snacks than the others, but the other children just glance at it and say nothing.
Slug got the huge snack bag, held it in his arms and lowered his head without saying a word.
All the children who got the snacks went back happily. In the dark night without street lights, they stepped into the darkness with ease. Nan Qinse raised her eyes and saw the endless dark night without the twinkling lights of the city. After the children disappeared,
After the noise, everything fell silent, and the late summer night was no longer hot. At this moment, it seemed that only the three of them were left.
At this time, the housekeeper came out of the room, holding a toiletry bag in his hand. Nan Heming asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go and stay at the house next door." The housekeeper seemed to have relaxed a lot after leaving the Nan family. "The old lady's house does not have enough beds. I have rearranged the beds of the two young masters and put down the bedding.
If necessary..."
"I will take good care of the eldest and second brothers." Nan Xiaonan stood in front of the housekeeper and said with her head raised.
"Then I'll trouble you, young master."
"Don't worry, this is my home!"
Nan Qinse and Nan Heming looked at each other with mixed emotions. They came for Nan Xiaonan, but they didn't expect that he would be asked to take care of them instead.
The housekeeper was more familiar with this place than the Nan brothers, so he turned around and walked into the darkness, while Nan Xiaonan rolled up her sleeves and looked like she was going to do something big.
"Big brother and second brother, wait for me."
Nan Heming looked at Nan Xiaonan who ran back to the house and narrowed his eyes slightly: "When he arrived in the countryside, his whole person was different."
Nan Qinse didn't notice it. It seemed that she had put down all her wariness when she arrived at a familiar place. The little arrogance that she had never dared to reveal had come to the fore. Although she was cute, she also noticed that when she was at Nan's house
His secretly suppressed mood made Nan Qinse feel uncomfortable.
"Even though he loved me so much, he never let me go."
What makes them sad the most is - this is my home.
These words were like the edge of a knife, cutting through their originally proud mood.
Could it be that for Nan Xiaonan, the Nan family where they live is not home?
When Nan Xiaonan came out of the room, she was holding a huge flashlight in her hand?
The flashlight had a huge battery. After Nan Xiaonan turned on the flashlight, the bright light instantly illuminated the road ahead like a white sun. The brightness was no less than a searchlight. The ignorant Nan brother was silent.
"What is this going to do?" Nan Heming asked.
"I'll take you to the toilet." Nan Xiaonan raised her head and looked at her brother eagerly, "If...if the brothers don't care, you can actually go there on the grass with no one around. It's dark at night and no one will."
Seen.”
Thinking of the legendary aqua toilet, Nan Heming's face turned green. The elegant young master had never been exposed to such a place. If he was allowed to deal with it directly on the grass nearby, according to Nan Heming's character, he would probably die of shame and anger.
.
Although Nan Qinse was not as delicate as Nan Heming, she had a strange feeling about the toilet that only existed in her memory.
"Then go to the bathroom." As long as Nan Xiaonan can bear it, he, as the second brother who loves Nan Xiaonan the most, can definitely bear it.
"Among Xiaonan's friends, who do you like the most?" Nan Heming asked the question, which made Nan Qinse glare at him. It is not a good thing for children to always ask these comparative questions.
But Nan Heming always enjoys it.
"I like them all."
"I feel like Xiaonan likes slugs more?" Nan Heming asked intentionally or unintentionally.
Nan Qinse glanced at Nan Xiaonan vaguely, and stepped forward to pick Nan Xiaonan up, but Nan Xiaonan uncharacteristically avoided it.
"Brother, the dirt road at night is not easy to walk on. It's easy to fall. It's better not to hug me. I can walk." Nan Xiaonan turned around and smiled at Nan Qinse, showing her little fangs. "Actually, I don't particularly like slugs.
Yes, it’s just that slugs are more pitiful. Even if I don’t give snacks to others, their parents will give them to others. But slugs don’t have a mother, and their father doesn’t even care about eating. If he leaves me, he won’t have enough to eat.”
"Everyone knows, right? It seems that you all love slugs?" Nan Heming asked a bit reluctantly.
"No, in fact, they are not happy either." Nan Xiaonan said as she walked, "But I want to be nice to anyone, and I won't let others take care of me. Everyone knows that."
Nan Heming opened his mouth, and his chest felt inexplicably tight: "Does that mean Xiaonan won't listen to anyone she wants to be nice to, no matter what others say?"
"That's right?" Nan Xiaonan turned around and smiled at the two brothers, "I just want to be nice to the eldest brother and the second brother, and no one else can say anything about me!"
In the silent night, the evening breeze of late summer and early spring blew layers of coolness on the exposed skin. The temperature seemed to be taken away, but it always kept flowing. Nan Heming's fingers gently touched Nan Xiaonan's hair.
Xiaonan stopped and turned around to look at his two brothers in confusion. Under the not-so-bright starry sky, Nan Xiaonan could not clearly see the expressions of his two brothers at this time.
"Xiao Nan, second brother is the same."
No matter what others say or how they say it, even if they are not understood, disliked, discouraged by others, or gossiped about, he will try his best to be good to this child with everything he has in this life, and will not allow others to comment.
Just like...
Just like what this child did for them in the previous life.
No one in the previous life could understand this child.
Perhaps countless people discouraged him from helping them who would never know how to repay them.
Once upon a time, Nan Heming also wondered why, even though he knew it was a thankless task, no one around Nan Xiaonan dissuaded him and allowed him to go his own way.
It turns out it’s not that it’s never happened before, but that he has never accepted it.
They...how virtuous and capable they are.
Nan Xiaonan held the searchlight and looked up at the eldest brother and second brother who had stopped. Why didn't they leave?
"Well..." Nan Xiaonan thought carefully and reached out to touch his pocket. Well, I brought tissues and wet wipes, so there is no need to worry, "Big brother and second brother... you are so suffocated that you can't walk."
?”
The faces of the Nan brothers, who were feeling unspeakable emotions, were all stiff at the same time.