Chapter 35 Buying a Jigsaw Puzzle
"Nuannuan, Xiaoyan is still young, don't take what she says to heart." Mother Gu was afraid that Ye Nuan would care, so she grabbed Ye Nuan's hand and said.
"No." Ye Nuan shook her head.
"Good child, it will be fine after a while. Xiaoyan hasn't reacted yet. She is a sensible child. Mom will talk to her later. It's getting late. You have to go to work tomorrow. Go to bed early?" said Mother Gu.
"Yeah." Ye Nuan followed Gu's mother downstairs.
Gu Muwan stood there, and before he could say anything, he saw his mother pulling the person away.
Ye Nuan returned to her own little room. She'd originally thought it was perfectly fine, lacking perhaps a few more daily necessities and personal preferences compared to the other rooms in the Gu family. However, after seeing Gu Jingnian's toy room and Gu Muwan's room today, she realized the stark difference. The Gu family's opulence had once again redefined Ye Nuan's perception. She felt a strange, inexplicable feeling in her heart.
But then she changed her mind and remembered what Gu Muwan had just said to her. She felt like a ray of sunshine shone into her heart through a crack. Apart from Gu's mother, she was the second person who said these words to her and put her and the Gu family on the same level.
When she was called by Gu Mocheng and Gu's father to do a paternity test, or when she was with Gu Mochen and Gu Muyan, even when she had few contacts with Gu Muxi, she had a deep sense of inferiority. She felt that she was not worthy of the position of "Gu family's biological daughter". She had been inferior since she was a child, afraid of contact with others, and was unequal to her peers in all areas except learning.
But Gu Muwan, a man who looks the same as her but has a temperament thousands of times better than hers, said to her, "We are the same, you can think of this place as your room."
Ye Nuan was touched, but only touched. She still didn't dare take that big step. How could she treat Gu Muwan's room as her own? The clothes she had just changed out of were bought at the stall in the "market street" near the school gate when she was in college. How could she wash them together with Gu Muwan's clothes?
Gu's mother bought her a skirt, but she refused it. One reason was that she had never worn a skirt before, so she was not used to it. Another reason was that it was too expensive. In addition, she rarely visited Gu's family, so every time Gu's mother said she wanted to buy her clothes, she would not take her measurements.
Ye Nuan thought a lot and she felt that if she just lived slowly like this, time would give all the answers. This way of getting along was also good. She didn’t have much in common with Gu’s brothers and sisters. Ye Nuan had never heard of many of the topics they were interested in. Therefore, what Gu’s mother thought, that more contact would lead to familiarity, was not very realistic for them.
Over time, if most of the Gu family could accept her, she would choose to accept them. If, like today, her arrival disrupted some of the harmony in the Gu family, it wouldn't be impossible for her to return to living alone as before.
As for little Gu Jingnian’s puzzle, she will go to the mall where she and Gu’s mother went last time to take a look during the lunch break tomorrow. Although it is nothing to the Gu family, she has to express her attitude, right?
I gently opened the door and went to the adjacent bathroom to wash up. Then, returning to the room, I looked at the bed and the table. Forget it, since my identity wasn't stolen, why should I suffer in these few days? Lying on the bed, it was indeed much more comfortable than the one in the dormitory. However, my back seemed to be a little sore...
There was a dressing table in the room with a half mirror. Ye Nuan walked over, took out her cell phone, and took a picture of her back in the mirror. Okay, it's just a red spot. If it still hurts tomorrow, she can just get an ice pack at the hospital and apply it.
After sleeping on her side for a whole night, Ye Nuan sighed. No wonder she had seen people selling mattresses, no matter how expensive they were, people would buy them. Also, when someone went to see other experienced doctors for treatment of their cervical or lumbar spine, the old doctors would often say, "Go home and change to a better pillow," "Go home and change to a mattress..."
After washing up, she came to the living room. Old Mrs. Gu was sitting on the sofa. Seeing Ye Nuan coming over, she said, "Nuan Nuan, you woke up so early? Will you have breakfast with grandma later? They are all too lazy. Except for your grandfather and your second brother, no one else has ever gotten up so early to eat."
"Okay." Ye Nuan nodded. Second brother? What kind of existence would her brother be?
After having breakfast with grandma, Grandma Gu asked the driver to take Ye Nuan to work.
At noon, Ye Nuan quickly ate lunch, took the subway to the mall, went to the toy floor, and found a puzzle that was the same size as Gu Jingnian's, but with a different pattern.
However, a warship and a ship plus a helicopter should be similar in nature, right? Ye Nuan had no better choice and asked the price. Sure enough, even though Ye Nuan was mentally prepared, she was still shocked: 2350... The salesperson next to her said, "Miss, the materials here are all the best. Look, we have three-dimensional ones here."
Ye Nuan looked at the price of 8888 and was thankful that Little Gu had put together a floor plan yesterday. Although it was expensive, Ye Nuan had worked for two years and had some savings, but she had always been concerned about her future and was reluctant to spend it.
But now, if you break someone else's things, you always have to pay for it. Fortunately, this store can deliver to your home for free, otherwise Ye Nuan would not be able to move such a large puzzle by herself.
After writing down the specific location and delivery time, Ye Nuan hurried back to the hospital. It was lunchtime now, so she'd text Gu's mother to let her know when she was almost back to work. As for the red patch on Ye Nuan's back, she'd been busy all morning and naturally had no time to apply ice. It looked like it was peeling a little, so she'd go to the surgery department this afternoon to get a tube of ointment.
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