Chapter 106 I will treat her well
Yan Nian's thoughts were in a mess, and there felt like a sour thorn in his throat. He swallowed hard, barely able to relieve the slightly sore throat.
Zhou Ran looked calm and nonchalant, as if he was supposed to be here at this time.
Yan Nian moved clumsily and stopped one meter away from him.
She was so close, yet she was at a loss. She wanted to ask something, but couldn't. After a while, she suppressed her emotions and asked, "Are you still drinking?"
Zhou Ran followed her gaze and looked at the empty glass of tea in his hand and gave it to her.
Yan Nian took it and refilled the tea, then turned around and handed it to him.
When Zhou Ran took it, he deliberately pinched her fingertips.
Yan Nian trembled, and when he took the cup steadily, he quickly pulled it back.
Zhou Ran took a sip and commented, "It tastes good."
"..." Yan Nian bit her lower lip and asked, "Do you live next door?"
Zhou Ran raised his eyelids and met her eyes, neither answering nor denying.
At this time, Yao Lijun called her from the kitchen: "Baby, come and help me."
Yan Nian glanced towards the kitchen and replied, "Coming."
Zhou Ran: "Baby, I'm hungry."
"..." Yan Nian blinked and said politely, "Then please sit for a while, Zhou Shuaishuai."
Zhou Ran raised an eyebrow.
When all the dishes were served, Yao Lijun served soup to each of them and said with a smile, "I won't introduce them. Come on, eat them while they're hot."
Zhou Ran picked up his chopsticks: "Okay."
Yan Nian was tense, wanting to say something, picking at the rice in her bowl. Yao Lijun noticed she was distracted and asked, "What's wrong?"
They both looked at her.
Yan Nian looked up at Zhou Ran, glanced away and said, "It's okay."
Yao Lijun picked up some food for her and said, "Eat some shrimp."
Yan Nian: "Yeah."
Yao Lijun and Zhou Ran were chatting.
Yan Nian always felt that there was something under her feet, so she lowered her head to look. Zhou Ran poked the tip of her shoe with the tip of her shoe from time to time, and listened to her grandmother's words with a serious look on her face.
Yan Nian retracted her feet and drank the soup with a spoon.
Yao Lijun thought of her granddaughter's love life and asked curiously, "Does Shuai Shuai have a girlfriend?"
Yan Nian felt awkward hearing the name, but couldn't help but want to laugh.
Zhou Ran drank the soup and made an indistinct "hmm" sound.
Yao Lijun didn't know whether he had it or not, but she felt the atmosphere was strange. She smiled and said, "You've been here for several years, and I haven't seen you bring a girlfriend here. Do you have a girl you like?"
Zhou Ran said: "Yes!"
Yan Nian: “…”
Yao Lijun said, "Then you should come earlier so that I can attend your wedding."
"Grandma." Zhou Ran put down his chopsticks, looking embarrassed.
Seeing that he was serious, Yao Lijun's smile gradually faded and she asked, "What's wrong?"
Yan Nian's heartbeat suddenly became chaotic. She almost swallowed the spoonful of soup in her mouth. She wanted to explain something: "Grandma."
"Hey!" Yao Lijun responded to her, switching her eyes between the two of them. She always felt that something was wrong with these two children.
Zhou Ran said seriously: "Grandma, how about I be your grandson-in-law?"
This is very straightforward.
"This..." Yao Lijun hesitated for a moment, glanced at Yan Nian beside her, and her expression suddenly became even more embarrassed than his. Then she quickly waved her hands: "No, no, no, not now."
After Yao Lijun finished speaking, she felt nervous inside, because it was all her fault that she always showed off her granddaughter in front of others.
Zhou Ran thought the old man disagreed.
Yan Nian pulled her: "Grandma."
Yao Lijun patted her hands, stopping her from speaking, and explained to her, "Shuai Shuai, my baby has a boyfriend, and you're so good..."
Yan Nian whispered, "Grandma, he's the boyfriend I told you about."
Yao Lijun was about to say something, but when she heard that, her voice stopped abruptly. She turned to look at her and said, "Huh?"
The old man had a blank expression on his face. He looked at Zhou Ran and then at Yan Nian.
Yan Nian said, "Well, I haven't had time to tell you yet."
Yao Lijun asked in disbelief, "Boyfriend?"
Yan Nian nodded: "Yeah."
Everything happened so suddenly. In less than half an hour, Yan Nian hadn't found a way to talk about this matter. Now that he had said it, he felt a lot more relaxed.
Yao Lijun calmed down and gradually accepted this coincidence. She blamed the two of them instead: "Hey, you two kids, why didn't you tell me earlier? You made me worry for nothing."
Although he spoke strangely, he couldn't hide the smile on the corner of his mouth.
Yao Lijun looked at the table full of dishes and said, "If I had known earlier, I would have made something more sumptuous."
Zhou Ran smiled, dissatisfied: "You are biased!"
Yao Lijun said: "The situation is different now."
Zhou Ran asked: "What's the difference? It's still me."
Yao Lijun also replied to him: "That's different."
Yan Nian smiled as she listened to Yao Lijun setting rules for Zhou Ran.
Yao Lijun said, "This is my only granddaughter. If you treat her badly, I will settle the score with you."
Zhou Ran listened very carefully: "Don't worry, grandma, I will treat her well."
The delicate atmosphere at the dinner table was wiped out.
After lunch, the two of them cleared the table together.
Zhou Ran washed the dishes with familiarity, which was completely different from the person who never had to wash dishes before. Yan Nian saw that this didn't seem to be the first or second time, so he must come here often.
As soon as they finished cleaning up, Yao Lijun chased them away: "I have a mahjong date, you two should go out and play!"
The two were abandoned at the door.
Zhou Ran raised his chin and said, "Come to my house and sit for a while."
Yan Nian asked, "Are we going to Zhou Shuaishuai's house or Zhou Ran's house?"
Zhou Ran smiled and pulled the person closer: "Are you angry?"
Yan Nian was not angry, but she kept smiling in front of her grandmother, afraid that the old lady would notice something and get worried. But now she couldn't hold it in any longer, lowered her eyes, and said, "No."
Zhou Ran pulled the person into his arms: "I'll tell you slowly."
Yan Nian said "hmm".
Zhou Ran lifted her chin and asked, "Come to my place?"
Yan Nian: "Okay."
Zhou Ran took out the key and opened the door of room 1601 next door.
It was the same as what I saw before, except that there were four large cardboard boxes in the living room that had not been sealed and were ready to be taken away.
Yan Nian stepped in: "Do you want to change your shoes?"
Zhou Ran said, "No need."
The room is the same as my grandma's, and it is spotlessly clean inside and out.
Yan Nian looked around, walked to the kitchen door, tilted her head and leaned against the door frame of the sliding door, looking at his back.
Zhou Ran took out mineral water from the refrigerator and poured it into the kettle.
Yan Nian asked, "When did you move here?"
Zhou Ran answered simply: "Just graduated."
Yan Nian took a deep breath where he couldn't see her, and asked again, "Is it convenient for me to work?"
Zhou Ran hummed in a deep voice.
Boyazhi’s old factory was not far from here, but Yan Nian just couldn’t believe it was such a coincidence.
Yan Nian had seen Mr. Zhang, the sales director, come here before and asked, "Are you sharing the apartment with someone else?"
Zhou Ran: "It was before, but not now."
Yan Nian stopped asking him and turned back to the living room. She walked between several cardboard boxes and saw a beige photo frame in the corner of the box, facing down. She bent down and picked it up.
I thought it was Zhou Ran’s photo.
What caught my eye was a girl in a white dress. She looked very young, with baby fat on her cheeks from her youth.
Yan Nian paused. This was a photo taken when she was fourteen years old. In Lingyun, her grandmother would ask her to take photos and send them back every year.
Ever since I got a smartphone and WeChat, I gradually stopped sending emails.
I remembered the missing photo in the frame hanging in my grandma's living room, and this is it.
Why are you here?
Did Zhou Ran bring it?
Yan Nian had no time to think about these things because there were still three cans of rainbow candies in the carton.
Yan Nian picked them up. The transparent bottle was a little old, but every candy inside was fresh.
Yan Nian looked at the date on the bottle and saw that it was produced on June 1, 2014. A smiley face was added on the bottle with a red pen. Over time, the color had almost faded, but the pen mark was still on it.
Yan Nian's throat felt sore. That was something she had placed in her bedroom and had been reluctant to throw away. When she came back, it was gone. She thought her grandmother had thrown it away as garbage.
Unexpectedly, it has been preserved by Zhou Ran until now.
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