Chapter 55 Why Are You Not Happy?

Yan Nian seemed to have found an outlet to vent his emotions and sent a message to this WeChat user.

When I feel tired, I put down my phone and stare blankly.

The mobile phone lying on the carpet suddenly illuminated the furniture in front of him, and Yan Nian picked it up to look at it.

It was a message from Zhou Ran. The two accounts with the same avatar and name stood out in the message column.

Zhou Ran sent her a question mark from the number he was currently using.

Yan Nian adjusted his mind and asked: [What happened?]

Zhou Ran replied: [Is this the sincerity you show when you invite someone to dinner?]

Yan Nian realized that she hadn't chosen a restaurant yet and asked absentmindedly, "What do you want to eat?"

Zhou Ran: [Choose for yourself.]

Yan Nian asked him his opinion: [How about eating seafood? ]

Zhou Ran: [There's a line of people waiting to treat me to a meal! Are you just going to give me a once-over?]

You can tell how arrogant he is from the words.

Yan Nian: [Is Western food okay?]

Zhou Ran: [I don’t want to eat.]

Yan Nian: [Where's the hot pot?]

Zhou Ran asked back: [Eating hot pot in summer?]

Yan Nian: [Then let’s have Cantonese food.]

Zhou Ran: [Too bland.]

Yan Nian: [What about Chinese food?]

Zhou Ran: [?]

Yan Nian was at a loss, so he quit WeChat and searched on the food app.

But I'm not in the mood at all.

On the other side, Zhou Ran washed up and waited for messages in his pajamas boredly, but there was no reply.

Zhou Ran: [Where are the people?]

When Yan Nian saw the message above, she was absent-mindedly browsing the restaurants on the city's food rankings.

Xiangzhangli——barbecue restaurant.

Yan Nian switched to WeChat and replied: [I found a barbecue place with a good reputation, but it’s a bit far. Want to go?]

Zhou Ran: [Where?]

Yan Nian: [In the camphor tree.]

Xiangzhangli Park is in the south of the city.

Zhou Ran agreed and asked, "Where are you?"

Yan Nian replied: [At home.]

The other party is typing...

Yan Nian waited for several minutes, and the string of input and name kept switching.

After about a few minutes, it completely disappeared and turned into a motionless name - Zhou Ran.

During the time they were chatting, her attention was diverted a lot.

The turbidity in my heart is gradually dissipating.

Yan Nian asked: [Are you available for voice chat?]

After waiting for a long time, Zhou Ran called directly.

The screen suddenly switched to the voice interface. Yan Nian was stunned for a moment, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and picked up the phone and put it to his ear.

Zhou Ran's tone was as lazy as ever: "There are less than 24 hours left, and you're already so impatient?"

Yan Nian smiled tiredly in the dim light and called him, "Zhou Ran."

Zhou Ran nodded, and then the place became quiet, with only the sound of faint breathing.

Yan Nian felt that everything in front of her was not real. She had an argument with Xu Yiqing. Even when her mood fell to the bottom, she could still hear his voice.

Zhou Ran: "Speak."

Yan Nian said weakly, "I just want to hear your voice."

Zhou Ran scoffed, "That's quite corny! Can you be satisfied just by listening to the sound?"

Yan Nian nodded where he couldn't see: "Yeah."

Zhou Ran had already sensed something was wrong with her and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"

Amidst the sourness, Yan Nian squeezed out a "hmm".

Zhou Ran paused and asked softly, "Did someone bully you?"

Yan Nian sniffed. She had heard the same thing when she was in elementary school. She lost a fight with the fat kid in the next class and came home unhappy. Yan Qilin asked her the same question.

Yan Qilin went to see the teacher the next day, and after returning home he taught her that if someone hits her first in the future, she should hit back. If she can't win, she should go home and tell her father, and her father will support her.

When Xu Yiqing heard this, he punished him to wash dishes for a week, saying that if a teacher taught like this, he would definitely mislead the students.

Those days have been gone for a long time.

There is no going back.

Yan Nian said, "No one bullied me. It's a family matter. It will be fine in a couple of days."

Zhou Ran: "Really?"

Yan Nian: "Really."

After chatting for a while, Zhou Ran said he would pick her up at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and hung up the phone.

Yan Nian's depressed mood gradually subsided, and he stood up by the edge of the bed to turn on the light.

The moment the lights came on, everything around me seemed to be filled with color and sound.

As for Xu Yiqing's stubborn decision, she hasn't figured out how to deal with it yet.

Yan Nian calmed down and sent a message to Mu Chen.

Mu Chen worked as a psychology teacher at Lingyun Middle School, but that was several years ago.

After Yan Nian sent the message, the other party did not reply for a long time, so he went out to get some yogurt.

When I returned, I saw Yan Qilin carrying a quilt into the study.

Yan Nianning paused. She was a light sleeper. Ever since the last time they had a fight, she often heard the sound of a door opening in the study next door in the middle of the night.

Yan Nian washed up, turned off the lights and went to bed, but he always felt uneasy sleeping in the middle of the night.

I often dreamed that my house was on fire and I could hear Xu Yiqing's heart-wrenching voice.

When she woke up, it was already nine o'clock in the morning.

Yan Nianqi got up, walked barefoot to the door, opened a crack and took a peek outside.

There was only the sound of Aunt Zhang washing dishes in the kitchen. She closed the door, changed her clothes, and went out.

Yan Qilin and Xu Yiqing were not here.

Aunt Zhang came out of the kitchen and said with a smile when she saw her, "There's breakfast. I'll bring it to you."

"Okay, thank you Auntie!" Yan Nian sat down at the dining table.

Aunt Zhang brought out breakfast and noticed that she looked tired. She asked, "Didn't you get enough rest last night?"

Yan Nian nodded: "Yeah."

Aunt Zhang said, "Don't stay up late. It's most harmful to your health for girls."

Yan Nian drank a sip of milk and noticed that Aunt Zhang was still standing next to her: "Auntie, please sit down. There's no one else at home."

"Hey," Aunt Zhang sat down on the chair opposite her, as if she had something to say to her but was too embarrassed to speak.

Yan Nian asked: "Auntie, do you have something to say to me?"

Aunt Zhang looked embarrassed and said hesitantly, "Originally, I was going to do it today and not come..."

Yan Nian put down the milk and asked in surprise, "Auntie Zhang, aren't you going to do it anymore?"

Aunt Zhang said, "Hey, Teacher Xu said you guys won't be living here anymore, so I'll just skip it today."

Yan Nian was slightly stunned. Aren’t there still two months left?

Aunt Zhang said a little embarrassedly, "Teacher Xu calculated my salary before she left this morning, but I didn't have time to count it. I just checked and found that I was shortchanged by two days. She left in a hurry this morning, so I didn't feel comfortable calling her."

Recently, the hostess here has had a conflict with the host. She has to be very careful when she is resting at home, washing vegetables, and cooking rice. She is always targeted in everything and the pressure is very high. She has wanted to find another job for a long time, but has never found a chance to ask.

Yan Nian said dazedly, "Don't worry, I'll make it up to you."

Aunt Zhang had been working there for a long time, cooked delicious meals, treated her well, and was a very kind person. Yan Nian had heard that her husband had been ill for many years, so she gave her an extra two hundred yuan.

Aunt Zhang thanked me repeatedly and they exchanged phone numbers. "If you want to eat my cooking in the future, you can call me. I'll come over when I'm free, and it's free."

Yan Niankong sat down at the dining table and ate breakfast.

Xu Yiqing and Yan Qilin must be hiding something from her. No matter how serious the situation, they never slept in separate rooms like they did recently.

After Aunt Zhang left, Yan Nian put on her makeup and prepared to go to her uncle's house.