The bully thought he was wearing a book

Yi Huai lay on the bed all afternoon, listening to the sounds of chopping dumpling stuffing and rolling dough from the kitchen, occasionally mixed with the voices of the two people over there.

When he was not present, He Yanyan was obviously more at ease, and when communicating with Chen Yuanxin, she seemed to have returned to her previous state of being a little girl.

The bed under him was big and soft, more comfortable than the dormitory in No. [-] Middle School, and even more comfortable than the house he rented directly with Qi Hang.

If this is really his home, it must have been a warm and happy year.

This idea just flashed in Yi Huai's mind before he snuffed it out. He didn't like thinking about it very much, so he got up and got out of bed, closed the door, and lay down again to play games.

In the evening, the three of them had a quiet meal together. Fireworks are now banned in the urban area, and the night outside the window is also quiet. It is not a very lively New Year's Eve.

Yihuai wanted to leave after eating. He remembered that He Yanyan liked watching the Spring Festival Gala very much. Let him sit on the sofa with Chen Yuanxin and He Yanyan for a few long hours and watch a boring show together. It would be better to let him alone Go back and have fun.

Just about to speak, He Yanyan suddenly said: "Let me take you to see grandma, you probably don't want to watch TV either."

Yi Huai looked at her in astonishment.

However, He Yanyan has already walked to the cloakroom on her own: "I'm looking for the pair of pants I just bought two days ago, and I just happened to wear them out today to try them out."

After a while, she reappeared in front of Yi Huai and Chen Yuanxin with a pair of trousers on her arm, still clutching a pair of scissors, she wanted to cry without tears: "The buttonhole is a little tight, I want to cut it a little looser, no Thinking of cutting it bigger."

This heartbroken expression is much more vivid than the good mother mask she showed Yi Huai these days, Yi Huai couldn't help but said: "You still remember when I was a child, you wanted to cut my hair on a whim, but in the end you gave me a haircut. Cut off the ears? You didn’t feel so uncomfortable at that time, I might as well be a pair of pants.”

He Yanyan didn't even think about it: "Can it be the same? If the ears are cut, they can still grow back, but if the pants are cut, how can they grow back?"

Yi Huai: "..."

Chen Yuanxin looked at his phone: "It's almost eight o'clock, I'll drive you there."

Yi Huai didn't say anything. He went to the door to put on his shoes, and saw He Yanyan put down her pants, and brought out two boxes of packed dumplings from the kitchen. It seemed that the dumplings were ready when they were just out of the pan.

He froze for a moment.

After arriving at the hospital, Chen Yuanxin stopped the car and opened the door for Yi Huai and He Yanyan.

"I won't go down anymore, call me when you are all right," he said.

The evening wind on New Year's Eve was still cold, and when Yi Huai and He Yanyan entered the hospital, they said: "He is quite understanding."

He Yanyan turned her head and glanced at him, wanting to say something, but in the end she still didn't make a sound.

Before entering the ward, she wanted to stuff the dumplings into Yi Huai's hands, but Yi Huai didn't take them.

He Yanyan, who was once ridiculed by him, actually did a lot more for his grandma than he did. This incident made him feel a little complicated.

Grandma was very surprised when she saw them. He Yanyan was not very good at dealing with such occasions, so she just walked over to put down the dumplings and called mom.

"Hey, it's really hard for you. I ran here at night. Isn't it cold outside?" Grandma asked.

He Yanyan said it was not cold, took off her coat and hung it on the hanger.

The TV was on, and before Yi Huai was dismissed at the party, the noisy voices dilute the desertedness in the room.

Grandma reached out to take the dumplings on the bed and opened them, and said to Yi Huai, "Come here and eat some."

Although Yi Huai had already eaten dumplings at He Yanyan's house, thinking that today was a special day, grandma might let him eat dumplings before she had eaten them, so she was embarrassed to refuse and took one with chopsticks.

Because he wasn't hungry right now, he ate very slowly. Seeing this, grandma asked, "Isn't it delicious?"

"Delicious." Yi Huai said while speeding up his eating.

Seeing him eating so fast, grandma asked distressedly, "Are you hungry? Come, come, eat all of this."

Looking at the two full boxes of dumplings and grandma's expectant expression, Yi Huai felt that he might be sent to the hospital on the spot because of a stomach explosion tonight.

He couldn't help asking: "Why don't you eat?"

Grandma said "Oh": "I ate it tonight, and the nurse brought it. It's delicious."

Yi Huai: ...So it was stuffed to him because he couldn't eat it.

The three of them had a brief chat, all of which were innocuous topics. Grandma seemed to be very concerned about He Yanyan's current life and asked a lot of questions about Chen Yuanxin.

They watched the party together for a while, and Yi Huai still remembered that Chen Yuanxin was waiting downstairs, so he said to He Yanyan: "You go back first, I'll just stay here with grandma."

He Yanyan thought he wanted to be alone with grandma for a while: "When will I pick you up?"

Yi Huai hesitated for a moment, and said as lightly as possible: "I'll go back by myself."

He didn't specify where he was going back, but He Yanyan could tell that he was going back to the rented house outside.

Knowing that she couldn't persuade Yi Huai, she sat on the chair and hesitated for a moment, then stood up.

Yi Huai watched He Yanyan put on her coat and walked to the door, she paused when she reached out to hold the doorknob, turned her head to look at Yi Huai, and wanted to ask if he would like to stay at home for a few more days.

But in the end she just said: "Go back at night and be careful."

Yi Huai watched the Spring Festival Gala and yawned continuously. He didn't wake up until several smiling hosts were counting down together. He sneaked a glance at the grandma next to him and found that the old lady had fallen asleep.

He took out his phone and opened the address book, stopped on the page of Qi Hangzhi, and patiently waited for the zero.

The three hands of the wall clock were stacked together at the position of the number 12. Before Yi Huai had time to press it, Qi Hangzhi's caller ID appeared on the phone.

His heart beat a beat faster, he pressed the answer button, walked to the window, and stood inside the curtain.

I don't know when it snowed outside the window, and the street is covered with a light layer of white.

"Happy New Year, puppy." Qi Hang said directly.

Yi Huai felt that there was a lot of noise on his side, as well as the voices of children chirping: "Are you at a relative's house?"

"Well, at my grandpa's house..." Qi Hangzhi's voice was overshadowed by a noise, and Yi Huai vaguely heard Qi Hangzhi say "Don't snatch brother's phone".

It took a while for the mobile phone to return to Qi Hangzhi's hand. He said helplessly, "My younger brother is too noisy. He just started elementary school and got first place in the final exam this time. The family can't accommodate him anymore."

Yi Huai gave a "tsk" sound: "No, does your family have any genes for mastery?"

Qi Hang seemed to think of something, and smiled softly.

Yi Huai felt that this person's smile was not too serious: "What's the matter?"

Qi Hang lowered his voice: "It's nothing, I just feel that it's a pity that you can't give birth, otherwise you can verify it yourself."

The author says:

It should be over in about [-] words.