"Da Huang! Da Huang, if you run again I will kill you and stew you into meat!!"

When you take a big, active dog out for a walk, you never know whether you are walking the dog or the dog is walking you.

For example, Gu An now.

Since coming to Gu's house and eating and drinking well, Da Huang has grown a lot. I don't know what breed of dog it is. It doesn't look like a proper Chinese farm dog. It is much bigger than an ordinary farm dog. Because there is a large lawn at home for it to run and jump. So its limbs are strong. Its waist is relatively thin like a farm dog, but the muscles all over its body are quite strong.

The most important thing is that it really loves to play, just like a Husky. At this moment, it is running around with Gu An excitedly like crazy, and even Nuan Nuan can't catch up with it even when she is holding the cat.

“Da Huang!” “Woof woof woof!!”

The excited Da Huang heard Nuan Nuan's voice and barked, but his speed slowed down a bit. But he still rushed forward with Gu An.

Nuan Nuan can't run anymore QAQ

"Nuannuan, don't run away. Rest here and I'll go get it and bring it back!"

Gu An saw Nuannuan running breathlessly. Although she had been jogging with her elder brother for a while, she was still young after all, her motor nerves were not well developed, and she was wearing rather bulky clothes.

Gu An felt sorry for his sister and didn't want her to run away with him.

The little girl put the cat down, supported her knees with her hands and gasped for breath. The clothes on her back were wet and she was hot.

Taking off the scarf, the little girl groaned and thought that she would punish Dahuang by making him face the wall and reflect on his mistakes when she got home, and she would also have to bring the big brother that he feared the most to supervise him!

"Meow!"

While taking a break, Coal Ball suddenly barked alertly at a tree not far away, and the hair on his back stood up.

Nuannuan looked over there, but there was nothing there.

Looking again, suddenly a man jumped down from the tree.

Nuannuan——"!!" She was so scared that she almost jumped up.

After jumping down from the tree, the man lowered his eyes and stared at the cats at the little girl's feet. His thin body leaned back against the tree trunk, the skin on his face was an unhealthy pale, his whole temperament was gloomy and sad, and his eyes showed a kind of indifference and disgust towards everything.

"Is that you?"

The pale-faced young man finally shifted his gaze from the cats to Nuannuan.

Several cats stood beside the little girl, with the fur on their backs standing up, looking at the young man opposite them with vigilance and ferocity.

"You recognize me." Liang Chi's voice was hoarse and gloomy.

Nuan Nuan smiled softly and hummed - "You are the brother I met at school that day. So you live here too?"

The little girl had an expression that said we were destined to be together, totally unaware of how dangerous the man in front of her was.

Because she didn't feel any ill will towards Liang Chi, but she didn't know why her cat was so hostile towards him.

She squatted down, gathered the cats together, lined up their heads one by one, and said in a baby voice.

"Don't be rude!" "Meow meow meow!!"

Gu Nan and his friends didn't want Nuan Nuan to worry, nor did they want her to know too much about the darkness, so they basically didn't tell her about Liang Chi.

So until now Nuannuan still doesn't know that the person in front of her is the mastermind behind her being mistakenly taken hostage that day.

"Brother, why are you here? Today is Chinese New Year. Aren't you at home? You look very bad. Are you sick? Do you want to see a doctor?"

Liang Chi walked slowly to Nuan Nuan and squatted down, not afraid at all of being scratched by those ferocious cats.

“No home.”

He looked at Nuan Nuan with his light black eyes, and moved his fingers as if he wanted to touch her head. But he gave up with a dim look in his eyes after thinking about something.

Nuannuan's face wrinkled when she heard him say that he had no home.

"Then...where are your parents?"

The young man pursed his lips and shook his head—“No.”

Nuannuan looked at him with the same pity as if she were looking at a homeless dog. She thought about her time in Xiaoxi Village. She had been alone since her grandmother passed away. During the Chinese New Year, she saw other people wearing new clothes and eating rich New Year's Eve dinners with all kinds of candies and snacks, while she could only stay in the house pitifully and listen to the sound of firecrackers from other people's homes. When she put herself in the shoes of this big brother, Nuannuan felt a little sad.

She raised her little fleshy hand and touched the young man's head, her voice soft and comforting.

"It's okay. I can celebrate the New Year alone."

After saying that, he brought his schoolbag to the front and began to search for something, not noticing that his hand was on the young man's head. Liang Chi's body stiffened instantly and he hasn't recovered yet.

In a few seconds, little Nuan Nuan took out a handful of fairy wands, some candies wrapped in red festive paper, and various snacks from her backpack. She took Liang Chi's hand and went to find a place to sit.

As soon as he held his hand, he realized that his brother's hand was so cold! Even colder than his own.

"Brother, squat down a little."

Liang Chi squatted down a little stiffly, and then the little girl tiptoed and put her scarf around his neck.

The scarf is very soft and warm, but the weave is not very good in some places.

Liang Chi touched the scarf with his slender, cold fingers and lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

The little girl's face immediately turned red when she saw his eyes fell on a certain place that was not woven well.

"This... this is a scarf I knitted myself. I didn't knit it well the first time, so please don't dislike it."

Liang Chi paused for a moment. "Did you weave it yourself?"

Nuan Nuan nodded shyly - "Although it's a little ugly, it's very warm."

She felt embarrassed to give this failed scarf to her brothers, but she didn't want to waste it, so she modified it and added some other colored yarn and used it herself.

Liang Chi hummed, lowered his eyes and said seriously - "It's very warm."

Seeing that he didn't mind and even praised the scarf for being warm, the little girl smiled sweetly and held his hand and continued walking.

"There's a stool in front. Let's go sit there. Brother, your hands are so cold. You really need to see a doctor. Otherwise, if you get sick, you'll feel very uncomfortable and you'll have to take very bitter medicine."

As the little girl spoke, an expression of disgust appeared on her face.

"But you need to take medicine to get better. If you take a piece of candy after you have eaten something bitter, the bitterness will go away."

As they were talking, they found the chair. The little girl pulled the man to sit on it and rubbed his cold fingers with her little hands. In fact, she wanted to give her gloves to her brother, but her gloves were too small.

After rubbing for a while, she grabbed the young man's hand and stuffed it into her scarf.

"It will block the wind."

Then he put all the things he had just found in his backpack in the middle of the bench where the two of them were sitting.

"This is a fairy wand. You can't light firecrackers and fireworks in the city. But you can play with fairy wands. I'm giving it to you. It will be fun to light it up at night. These are snacks for the New Year. I only brought a little bit secretly. I'm giving them all to you, brother. Oh, and this is also included."

The little girl came out holding a piece of red cloth.

"I bought it when my mom and I were at a temple fair. My brother and his friends bought me a lot of them. I'm giving you one for your safety. You see, I have one in my hand, too."

The little girl showed her fair left wrist. On her right wrist she was already wearing a bracelet given by her eldest brother and a bracelet given by her second brother. The jade bracelet given by her aunt was hidden at the bottom of her suitcase.

"I can take it down and hang it on the tree tonight. Mom said it can protect Nuannuan from harm and keep her healthy."

Liang Chi didn't believe it, but he still stretched out his hand obediently and let the little girl tie a red rope around his wrist.

"Here's a big red envelope for you. I wish you a happy new year."

Nuan Nuan stuffed a red envelope into his pocket and asked again, "Big brother, what's your name? It's a bit awkward to always call you big brother. I call my brother Gu Nan big brother."

Liang Chi pursed his lips, his voice hoarse and his emotions unclear - "My name is Ananda."

“Do you think you came to this world to enjoy happiness? You came to suffer! That’s why your name is Ananda. Always remember this name. Your name is Ananda, which means suffering. If you are born in such a family, you will never be happy. Hahahaha…”

The image of the woman grabbing his hair and telling him in a crazy tone about the origin of his name Ananda resonated in his mind.

He came to suffer.

Liang Chi's face was very calm. He had been called "Ananda" all the time since he was a child until he killed that man when he grew up. Then he was sent to an orphanage, where the director randomly gave him a name, Liang Chi.

"Then can I call you Brother Ananda?"

I don't know why, but when the name that sounded like a nightmare to him was called out in a soft voice by the child beside him, it suddenly didn't seem so hard to accept.

Liang Chi had just nodded when the red dot on the watch on his wrist was approaching them.

Liang Chi knew that it was time for him to leave.

"I'm leaving."

Nuan Nuan sighed with some regret, but she quickly cheered up - "Well, it's still warmer at home in such a cold day, Brother Ananda, these are all for you."

Liang Chi nodded, not really caring about those things. He really raised his hand and grabbed the scarf around his neck to inquire.

“Can you give this to me?”

Nuan Nuan nodded - "Yes, I can wear other scarves. You can take this one. Just don't mind that it's a little ugly."

“Not ugly.”

Liang Chi's face was pale and he looked very unhealthy, but his expression was unusually serious.

“It looks very nice.”

Nuannuan scratched her head and laughed. Liang Chi looked at Nuannuan deeply and left. He didn't want the candies or snacks, nor did he want the red envelopes. He only took the fairy wands.

"Ah? Brother Ananda, don't you want these?"

Liang Chi shook his head - "No, you eat it yourself."

Nuan Nuan——"Okay then, goodbye, Brother Ananda."

Liang Chi walked slowly in the wind and snow, looking at the fairy wand in his hand and whispering.

"Well, bye."

The wind blew away his three words. Nuannuan did not hear them. She only felt that his back exuded an inexplicable loneliness.

When he could no longer see, Gu An came back panting, dragging Da Huang.

It was really dragged back, leaving a long trail on the snow.

"Let's go! Go back and stew the dog meat!"

Nuan Nuan ran over with a few cats - "Okay."

Dahuang immediately got up from the ground, howling, and it looked like it was still protesting.

Gu An was really mad at this stupid dog - "Protest is futile, I'm going to eat dog meat today!"

Then the dog pounced and pushed him into the snow.

Gu An——"Ahhhh!! Stupid dog, you're dead!"

After a commotion, Gu An and Niannian finally dragged Da Huang back by dragging one of his legs.