Chapter 16
Hearing the sound of the elevator outside, Mu Nan hurried out to open the door. He opened the security iron door a crack and saw that it was indeed Qin Huai who came back. He quickly opened the door: "Why did you take so long? Are there many people?" After saying that, he saw the full cart that Qin Huai dragged up, and was immediately surprised: "Is there so much shrimp for ten kilograms?"
Qin Huai smiled and said, "I saw that there were not many people here, and the boss happened to bring extra, so I bought ten kilograms more. Please go in and don't stand at the door. I will take off my protective suit first."
Mu Nan picked up the disinfectant beside him and sprayed him all over, even on the bag that contained the shrimps. After a while, the two of them soaked the shrimps in a large wooden basin with salt, and covered them with a net to prevent them from running away. They soaked them for two hours, changing the water, and soaked them for another two hours before cleaning and cleaning the shrimp threads and preparing to put them in the pot.
Looking at the basin full of shrimps that were still alive and kicking, Mu Nan felt satisfied but also had a headache: "It looks like we have a big project tonight. It will break my back to clean so many of them one by one."
Qin Huai washed his hands while saying, "If you want to eat delicious food, you naturally have to pay for it. If you feel tired, you can sit by my side and cheer me up at night."
Mu Nan smiled and said, "How could I be so cruel? Can salt make shrimps faint? Won't it pinch my hands when I wash them at night?"
Qin Huai: "No, they will almost wilt after soaking for a while."
Seeing Mu Nan squatting there poking shrimps, Qin Huai suddenly asked: "Do you have stomach medicine at home?"
Mu Nan stood up quickly and looked at Qin Huai nervously: "What's wrong? Is your stomach uncomfortable? I have painkillers, flatulence medicine, and antispasmodics here." Mu Nan hurriedly took out the big medicine box in the space, squatted on the ground and found a bunch of medicine in it: "There are medicines for gastritis, stomach soothing, and..."
Qin Huai held his hand as he was nervously looking for medicine, pulled him up from the ground, and glanced at the pile of medicines on the ground with his eyes slightly lowered: "Which ones do you take regularly?"
Mu Nan was puzzled: "Huh? What?"
Qin Huai said, "I just ran into Uncle Zhong from the 19th floor in the elevator. He used to raise a black and white collie. He said that he once saw you getting an injection in a small clinic downstairs. You were in so much pain that you couldn't even sit still. Have you been to the hospital? Do you just take medicine randomly when you feel the pain, or has the doctor prescribed any medicine for you?"
Mu Nan felt a little embarrassed when Qin Huai looked at him. When he was a child, he was loved by others, so he was very delicate. He would make a scene and ask the whole family to comfort him if he felt uncomfortable. Later, he was alone and got used to bearing illness and discomfort by himself. After getting used to it for a long time, he was not very open about such private matters. He would endure it if he could, and he would have to endure it if he couldn't. Gradually, he even felt ashamed to let outsiders know, as if it would cause trouble to others if others knew.
Being asked by Qin Huai at this moment, Mu Nan subconsciously wanted to be vague: "It's not that exaggerated, I just had a stomachache."
Qin Huai looked at him seriously: "When you lie, you will subconsciously lick your lips first. Are you hiding this from me? We will live together for a long time in the future. If you feel unwell one day, I won't even know what medicine you are taking."
Mu Nan carefully glanced at Qin Huai and saw that he seemed angry and his expression was a little scary. Then he pointed to the medicine in the box and said, "Take the pills in the small box first. If it doesn't relieve the pain, take the painkillers in an hour or two. Generally, it will be better after taking them." After that, he whispered, "Don't look at me so fiercely."
Qin Huai sighed softly, picked up the medicine Mu Nan pointed at and looked at it carefully: "Is this prescribed by the hospital?"
Mu Nan nodded, and Qin Huai took a picture of the medicine box with his mobile phone: "How much of this medicine did you buy? Why didn't you write it down in the notebook?"
Mu Nan said, "This is a prescription drug and can only be prescribed by the hospital. The doctor will only prescribe a few boxes at a time. I don't remember if there were more." He had only three months to prepare after his rebirth, and there were a lot of things to buy. The only time he remembered to go to the hospital to buy medicine was because he was busy and forgot to eat and only remembered after an attack. He didn't have time to go more often. Stomach disease is not a disease that will kill you if you don't take medicine when it attacks. You can just endure the pain and it will go away. But he bought a lot of daily medicines that can be bought in other pharmacies, and also prepared some various painkillers.
Qin Huai looked at his skinny face, which looked like a stick, and asked, "What's the problem? Does it hurt often?"
Mu Nan shook her head: "It's actually fine. The last checkup showed that I had an ulcer. I occasionally feel a little uncomfortable after eating, but it gets better after a while. The time Uncle Zhong saw me was because I forgot to eat while drawing. I was hungry all day so I ate some instant noodles to save trouble." After saying that, she glanced at Qin Huai's ugly face and said quickly: "But after that time, I learned my lesson and never forgot to eat again, really."
Qin Huai hugged Mu Nan into his arms and held her tightly. The feeling of powerlessness in facing what had already happened made him hate the man even more. He wished he could go back on time. Now looking back, he did have ways to reject the man, but unfortunately, his sky was only as big as his head at that time, and he had no power to resist at all.
At this moment, he truly felt the years he had been missing. His Nan Nan had not been living well during these years when he was away, not at all.
Mu Nan was a little overwhelmed by Qin Huai's hug. He didn't expect Qin Huai's reaction to be so big. When he felt the wetness on his shoulders, his heart seemed to be tugged by a hand: "Brother?"
Qin Huai hugged him tighter again, wishing he could rub him into his body, feeling the warmth and heartbeat in his arms. Qin Huai spoke with some difficulty: "I'm sorry, Nan Nan, I'm sorry..."
Mu Nan smiled, hugged Qin Huai back, and patted him on the back: "I'm glad you're back, brother. I have no regrets to see you again."
After the incident with Jiang Xuan, Qin Huai was filled with gratitude for his return, and anger for being deceived by Jiang Xuan. Then, all his plans were disrupted by Mu Nan's dream about the future. He was busy sorting out his assets, remotely dispatching people in City B to help him buy supplies, and trying to find a way to slowly close the gap between him and Mu Nan that had become distant over the years. As a result, he didn't have time to think about too much at once.
Now that he thought about it, Jiang Xuan had never seen Mu Nan in these years. Those photos were probably taken by someone on purpose. The details of Mu Nan's life in these years that he was told were probably fabricated. Even the annual physical examination report might be fake. Regarding the physical examination, he was once very grateful to Jiang Xuan. Mu Nan hated going to the hospital since she was a child. Not to mention the annual physical examination, she might not be willing to go for it once in a few years. Later, he mentioned it to Jiang Xuan and asked him to help coax Mu Nan to go for a physical examination when he had time. Then, Jiang Xuan would take a photo of Mu Nan's physical examination report every year, so he was very grateful to Jiang Xuan. If no one coaxed her to watch, Mu Nan would never go for a physical examination by herself. He also thought that Mu Nan was willing to listen to Jiang Xuan and go for a physical examination, so they had a close relationship. It should be that Jiang Xuan took care of Mu Nan more in normal times.
If it weren't for those details of life, sunny life, healthy body, and his disgust and resistance when mentioned, how could he be willing to stay abroad for all these years? He would probably have returned as soon as that man abandoned him.
Mu Nan patted Qin Huai who was in self-blame, trying to divert his attention and said, "I'm hungry, when are we having dinner?"
Qin Huai slowly let go of Mu Nan. Except for his slightly red eyes, there was not much trace of crying left. He asked Mu Nan to put away the medicine box on the ground, and reminded him to put some emergency medicines outside, not all of them in the space, and then went into the kitchen to cook. In order to coax Mu Nan, he cooked the dishes that Mu Nan used to like during this time. Now that he knew that his stomach was not good, the menu naturally had to be changed, and he had to make more stomach-nourishing food.
Mu Nan, who didn't know what to eat or drink as she wanted, was about to end her days. So she packed up her medicine box obediently and put an emergency box outside. Then she went to the kitchen door and watched Qin Huai cook. Only in this way could she feel at home while waiting for meals. Except that the world was getting worse and worse, Mu Nan really hoped that her whole life could be like this.
After the meal, the two did not rush to clean the shrimps. Qin Huai first changed the water for the shrimps, then turned on the variety show that Mu Nan was watching recently, pressed him on the bed and rubbed his stomach. He asked the doctor, who said that gently rubbing in a clockwise direction after a meal could help empty the stomach and reduce the postprandial discomfort of gastric ulcers.
But when he touched her, Mu Nan couldn't stop laughing, as if her laughter xue was triggered: "Let's not do it, brother. My health is not that bad. Really, I don't feel any pain now. I'm fine."
Qin Huai frowned: "Come here and get used to it. You were never ticklish when you were a child. Why are you ticklish now that you grow up?" When he was a child, he could hold back laughing even when his armpits were tickled, but now he couldn't stand the itch when his belly was touched.
Seeing that Qin Huai seemed to be determined not to give up until he rubbed him, Mu Nan had no choice but to move closer reluctantly. As a result, as soon as Qin Huai put his hand on him, Mu Nan felt as if he had been electrocuted. His whole body was numb and itchy, from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. He felt something was wrong with him. He couldn't stand this feeling, it was too strange. Without waiting for Qin Huai to rub him a few times, he hugged the pillow and rolled away from Qin Huai: "No, no, it's too itchy. Let's not rub it. I'm afraid that I won't feel any pain after eating, but will feel pain from being laughed at."
Qin Huai saw that he was really itchy and not resisting his touch, so he let him go reluctantly: "If you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me, you can't hide it from me, and you can't secretly take medicine and pretend that nothing is wrong."
Mu Nan nodded quickly.
Qin Huai didn't give him a perfunctory answer and confirmed again: "Promise."
Mu Nan raised his hand and said weakly, "I promise."
Qin Huai then let him go and let him lean on the bed to watch the computer for a while. After half an hour, he went on the treadmill to walk to digest the food. Then he took the brush and the small stool and went into the bathroom to scrub the shrimps.
Seeing that Qin Huai was finally no longer in front of her, Mu Nan breathed a sigh of relief, then put her hand on her belly and rubbed it twice. She didn't know if it was because she was touching herself that the feeling was different, it didn't feel itchy at all. Why did it feel so itchy when it came to Qin Huai that she wanted to tremble all over.
When Jian Chu saw the chat in the group, he knew that the torture from Xiao Longxia was not far away, but he did not expect that this torture would come in the middle of the night.
The weather has been getting hotter recently, and the doors and windows are closed, making the house stuffy and hot, so the air conditioner can only be turned on early. In order to save electricity, Jian Chu asked Yu Zibai to move to his room to sleep when the air conditioner is turned on. The more electricity can be saved, the better. So when he smelled the spicy crayfish from next door, he couldn't help swallowing a few times.
Yu Zibai, who was beside him, was also not asleep. Hearing his movements, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "Are you hungry?"
Jian Chu sighed: "Do you think their family is inclined to make this kind of midnight snack so late at night?"
Yu Zibai: "Do you want to get up and eat? I'll go cook noodles."
Jian Chu was really hungry. He hadn't eaten much meat recently. He felt that the rice and vegetables were not oily enough. He was a big guy who ate a lot. If he didn't have a midnight snack for three meals a day, he would be really hungry. So he sat up without any hesitation and looked at Yu Zibai next to him: "Let's cook noodles. I'm so hungry."
Yu Zibai smiled, got up good-temperedly and went to cook noodles. Then the two of them sat on the floor, around a small round table, and ate a big bowl of noodles while enjoying the aroma of spicy crayfish coming from next door.
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