Chapter 6
How can I sleep here?
How can I sleep like this?
After hanging up the phone, Ning Bei stood alone to the window between the floors.
He remembered that the first time he had an impression of Nan Xia in his memory was when he was about four years old. A little sister often watched cartoons with his brother in the living room of his house.
Ning Nan is a big bastard, when his parents are not at home, he always leaves Ning Bei alone in the bedroom, while he and Nan Xia enjoy watching cartoons in the living room.
Sometimes when Ning Bei went out to play with Ning Nan, he would be dismissed at will by Ning Nan.
It was at that time that Nanxia began to occupy an unshakable position in Ningbei’s memory.
She often wears a white floral dress, with small braids on each side, and she is exquisitely dressed. He waved to him: “Xiao Bei, come to my sister.”
Then Ning Bei climbed onto Nan Xia’s body and hugged her tightly.
Later Ning Bei was older, eleven or twelve years old. He is tall and has outstanding looks. Many girls in the class in elementary school liked him. Ning Bei ran home every day after school, on the one hand to get rid of girls he was not interested in, and on the other hand, because Nan Xia ate at their house every night for the past two years.
Nan Xia’s parents are busy with business, so they entrust Nan Xia’s dinner to Ning Bei’s family. The two families have been old neighbors for decades, and it is easy to help each other.
So every night when Ning Bei came home, he could see Nan Xia, who was in high school, doing homework in their living room. At that time, she had grown into a slim young girl with long black hair draped over her shoulders, and Ning Bei began to stare at her.
Probably since then, Ning Bei no longer wants to call Nan Xia sister.
He didn’t want her to be his sister.
And soon, Nan Xia was admitted to Lincheng University with a high score.
Ning Bei could no longer see Nan Xia often.
In the summer that Nan Xia left, Ning Bei was admitted to the best experimental junior high school in his hometown, and he applied to live in the school, so he no longer wasted time on commuting back and forth.
Parents laughed at Ning Bei’s brains, but only Ning Bei knew that he was going to be admitted to Lincheng University, and he would definitely pass the exam.
However, when Ning Bei was fifteen years old, Nan Xia went home to celebrate the New Year and brought back her boyfriend.
That was the saddest and most painful year Ning Bei had ever lived. He locked himself in his bedroom and cried loudly. I don’t know why I have to study so hard, I don’t know why I must be so much younger than Nan Xia.
Why is the sky so unfair? He was born to fall far behind Nan Xia.
So Ning Bei began to bless Nan Xia to break up every day.
While studying hard, he secretly used Ningnan’s mobile phone to browse Nanxia’s circle of friends and follow her updates.
One time when he saw Nan Xia posting a photo of her and her boyfriend, Ning Bei was filled with jealousy. He secretly saved the picture and cut off the man’s head, and then took the photo to ask his mother: “This man is the same as me.” Which one is more handsome?
Ning Bei’s mother took a closer look: It’s a bit on par…
Ning Bei: …
Distraught.
Ning Bei no longer secretly checked Nan Xia’s Moments, he left a string of ellipses in the comments, and quickly returned the phone to his brother.
On the third day, Ningnan came to him, and they fought each other.
Ning Bei never asked Nan Xia about her relationship status again. He knew in his heart that even without this man, Nan Xia might have another man.
Every year after the Spring Festival, when Nan Xia came to his house to pay New Year’s greetings, Ning Bei always looked indifferent.
Came out to say hello and went back soon.
Nanxia usually sits at his house for a while, chatting with Ningbei’s parents and Ningnan.
Ning Bei sat on the floor with his back against the bedroom door and listened to Nan Xia’s voice.
He didn’t dare to go out because he was afraid that he would behave too much and make Nan Xia keep him at a respectful distance.
But he couldn’t really go far.
This is the only way to listen to Nan Xia’s voice through a thin bedroom door.
The night wind passed through the window and blew on Ning Bei’s slightly wet eye sockets, and he whispered Nan Xia’s name:
“Nanxia.”
The corner of Ning Bei’s mouth curled up silently, how could there be such a nice name in this world.
Nanxia, Nanxia, Nanxia.
On the first day of National Day, Nanxia and Ningbei took the high-speed train back to their hometown.
Ning Nan drove to the high-speed rail station to pick them up. When he got out of the car, he saw Ning Bei alone carrying two bags.
Ning Nan opened the trunk of the car and teased, “Why haven’t you ever carried a bag for me, kid?”
Ning Bei glanced at him: “Who are you?”
Ning Nan shrugged and smiled: “That’s right, you only have Nan Xia in your heart.”
Ning Bei stared at him sharply, not allowing Ning Nan to talk nonsense.
Fortunately, Nan Xia was used to the two of them not fighting each other, so she took Ning Bei’s arm and told them to get in the car.
Nan Xia is the guest, sitting in the back seat. Ning Bei followed suit.
Ning Nan put on his sunglasses and felt a sense of emotion: “Good guy, I am the real driver of feelings.”
Who knew that Ning Bei ignored him at all, and only asked, “Do you have water in your car?”
“You are holding back.”
“I remember you have water in the co-pilot.” Ning Bei ignored him and leaned over to see, and sure enough there was.
Stretching over with his long arms, Ning Bei unscrewed the mineral water bottle and handed it to Nan Xia.
“Drink water.”
Nan Xia was a little surprised. She thought it was Ning Bei who wanted to drink water.
In the rearview mirror, Ning Nan’s gaze through the sunglasses was quickly seen, and Ning Bei stared back at him with an invulnerable look, warning him to stop talking nonsense.
The car went smoothly all the way and arrived home soon.
Ning Bei immediately got out of the car and took out Nan Xia’s luggage first.
“Put your luggage back for you first, and then you have come to my house for lunch at noon today, have you not forgotten?” Ning Bei told Nan Xia as they walked upstairs.
“Remember, I’ll put my things down and I’ll look for you in a while.” Nan Xia waved to Ning Nan, said thank you, and went upstairs with Ning Bei.
As soon as the door was opened, Nanxia’s mother was watching TV.
When Ning Bei came up, he shouted “Hello, Auntie”.
“Xiao Bei is back.” Nan Xia’s mother warmly walked over and hugged Ning Bei, “Wow, how come I feel like I’ve grown taller and handsome again.”
Ning Bei lowered his head and smiled embarrassedly.
He put Nan Xia’s luggage on the table, then bowed his head and said to Nan Xia, “I’m leaving first, you… come over after packing up.”
“I see, a puppy who talks so much.” Nan Xia’s voice was so low that he was the only one who could hear it.
A strange sense of privacy made Ning Bei a little inexplicably excited.
He suppressed his smile, turned and left Nanxia’s house.
Nan Xia went to the back room with her bag, and just sat down at the table when she saw her mother standing at the door.
“what’s the situation?”
Nan Xia was at a loss: “What is the situation?”
Nan Xia’s mother: “You two?”
Nan Xia blinked: “There is nothing wrong.”
“Is that so?” Nanxia’s mother sat by the bed, “Xiaobei likes you.”
Nan Xia: …
“Since the two of you just came in and he left, Xiaobei’s eyes have never come down on you.”
Nan Xia laughed: “This room is either looking at you or me.”
“You think I can’t see it, when Xiao Bei looks at you, his eyes can kill flies.”
Nan Xia: “Mom, please change the metaphor.”
“Sweet ants.”
Nan Xia: “Change another one.”
“Poison your mother.”
Nan Xia: “Let’s go.”
After Nan Xia finished speaking, she dodged and dodged a heavy punch.
But Nanxia’s mother turned her expression down the next second: “But I have something to warn you.”
“What advice do you have?”
“Don’t play with Xiaobei’s feelings at will.”
“Mom, I’m so wronged.”
“It’s not about whether you’ve been wronged or not,” Nanxia’s mother said, “Xiaobei is too simple and has a violent temper. Unlike you, he has so many thoughts, so it’s okay, that’s okay. If Xiaobei gets hurt, then It’s a serious injury.”
“What if I get hurt?”
“That’s doing justice for the heavens.”
Nan Xia: …
“Okay, I don’t care about you or anything, I just want to remind you that if you are really sure you like someone, tell them, but if you are still not sure, don’t make Xiaobei feel sad.”
Nan Xia took a long look at her mother and nodded.
The voice is much more serious: “I know.”
Over there, Ning Bei returned home, lying on his bed with a relaxed face, listening attentively to the movement at the door.
But before Nanxia arrived, Ningnan arrived first.
Ning Nan leaned against the door of Ning Bei’s bedroom with his arms crossed, with a meaningful smile on his face.
Ning Bei: “You don’t have a room?”
Ning Nan: “Did you get your wish?”
“Can’t understand.”
“What are you pretending to be here with your brother?” Ning Nan sat down beside Ning Bei, looking at his face, “You think I don’t know that you have a crush on Nan Xia since you were a child?”
Ning Bei sat up suddenly: “Don’t talk nonsense!”
“Then I’m going to tell Nan Xia that you don’t like her at all?”
Ning Bei charged with blood: “Ning Nan, I will strangle you to death now!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he threw himself on Ning Nan’s body, and the two men “fighted each other” for the 10,000th time on the bed.
A few minutes later, Ning Bei was crushed under him.
Ning Nan laughed: “Xiao Bei, let’s eat for a few more years.”
Ning Bei looked at him: “Eat less, it’s almost two hundred catties.”
Ning Nan: “I’m 192, unlike you, I’m only 188.”
Ning Bei: “You are not 192.”
Ning Nan: “?”
Ning Bei: “You are 19:35.”
Ning Nan: “…Get lost.”
The two then dispersed, and Ning Bei ran to the living room to wait.
Ning Nan walked out and took a sip of water.
“Xiao Bei, do you know that there is a creature?”
Ning Bei looked at him indifferently.
Ning Nan held back his laugh and continued: “When it sees its master, it frantically surrounds it. It does whatever the master tells it to do. It can do whatever the master doesn’t tell it to do. And when the master is not around , it just sits there alone, waiting for the master.”
“Ning Bei, tell me, what is this?”
Ning Bei immediately heard that Ning Nan was laughing at him for treating Nan Xia like a puppy is to its master. But he didn’t care, and raised his eyebrows to fight back: “I know that there are two kinds of creatures you mentioned, one is a puppy in sweet love, and the other is a pitiful single dog without an owner.”
“For example you.” Ning Bei added.
Ning Nan: “…”
Ning Nan didn’t expect Ning Bei to accept the fact that he was a puppy so smoothly, Ning Nan felt ashamed.
“From today on, I’ll call you brother.”
Ning Bei glanced at him, then went to Maoyan and looked out to see why Nan Xia hadn’t come yet.
Who knew that after a while, I heard Nan Xia talking to someone downstairs.
Ning Bei’s house is on the second floor, and people downstairs can hear clearly when the windows are open.
He first ran to the window to look, only to find that it was Nan Xia talking to a man he didn’t know.
The two didn’t just talk for a while, Ning Bei lay by the window and listened to the conversation for 30 seconds without ending.
Ning Bei couldn’t sit still anymore, he turned around and picked up the garbage bag that was not full from the kitchen, put on his shoes and went out.
He ran downstairs in two or three steps, and immediately slowed down, pretending to meet Nan Xia when he went downstairs to take out the trash.
“Xiao Bei, take out the trash.” Nan Xia took the initiative to greet him.
Ning Bei nodded to her, facing the direction of the trash can, and glanced at the strange man from the corner of his eye.
After throwing the trash into the trash can, Ning Bei walked slowly behind Nan Xia, standing still without saying a word.
The man quickly noticed Ning Bei, “Xia Xia, is this?”
Nan Xia looked back and saw that Ning Bei was still there. She said to Ning Bei first: “This is my high school classmate Chen Fei. I told you that we have a high school party on National Day.”
Ning Bei nodded, “I know.”
Nan Xia turned her head again and said to the man, “This is—”
Ning Bei had imagined many times how Nan Xia would introduce herself to others.
Brother, friend, neighbor, boyfriend.
At different stages, she should use different introductions.
So what stage are they in now?
He is now my sister’s puppy.
It is the puppy who receives rewards from the older sister, the puppy who is cared about by the older sister, the puppy who is fed candy by the older sister, the puppy whose earlobe is pinched by the older sister, and the puppy who says good night to the older sister.
Their relationship is not normal, and Ning Bei is now sure about it.
In the clear afternoon, Ning Bei stood beside Nan Xia confidently.
He looked down at the man in front of him almost like a successful man.
Then, I heard Nan Xia say with a smile:
“This is my neighbor’s younger brother.”