After rubbing for a while, the color of Jiang Sui's fingers finally returned to normal.

Noticing Jiang Sui's constant gaze, Si Nian pinched Jiang Sui's nose with one hand, "Silly boy, why are you staring blankly? Move your fingers and see if it feels better?"

Jiang Sui nodded and flexed his fingers.

Si Nian looked at the basin beside him and said, "The water is cold, don't stir it anymore, sit down and rest for a while, I'll do the rest."

In the following time, Si Nian was busy working, and Jiang Sui either sat aside and watched, or followed him around.

When Si Nian finished cleaning the whole house, put away the basin and came out of the bathroom, Jiang Sui was curled up on a small chair at the door of the living room, browsing on his mobile phone, occasionally blowing air into his palms.

Si Nian pulled down his sleeves and walked towards her.

"Cold?"

Jiang Sui nodded honestly.

"Is there no heating in the house?"

He asked Jiang Sui in confusion. He remembered that when he was a child here, his grandmother would light a coal stove in the house to keep warm in winter.

"Yes," Jiang Sui said with his head down, "but it seems to be broken. I just tried it."

Just now, while Si Nian was cleaning, she had tried to plug in the electric heater in the house, but after a long time, the heater was still ice cold.

"Where is it? I'll go check it out."

Jiang Sui stood up and took Si Nian back to her bedroom, pointing to the corner of the wall for Si Nian to see.

Si Nian squatted down and fiddled with it carefully for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's no good, it's burned."

Jiang Sui sighed and complained, "This is too fragile. I only used it for one winter after I bought it."

Si Nian was surprised, "Bought it last year?"

Jiang Sui nodded.

"So how did you keep your home warm in the winter before last year?"

Jiang Sui thought about it and said, "When my mother was still alive, the floor of our house was renovated. I think we installed floor heating, but it required a stove to be burned manually. I thought it sounded complicated, so I never paid attention to it. My mother and grandmother have been using it ever since."

At this point, Jiang Sui's expression dimmed again. She said, "After my grandmother passed away, I never used the stove again. I bought this electric heater and put it in the room. The temperature is okay and the bedroom is not cold."

Jiang Sui seemed to be speaking very easily.

Si Nian frowned after hearing this.

How can it not be cold?

In this season in Northeast China, there is only one room with an electric heater, and it may be like a world of ice and fire inside and outside the house. You can imagine how inconvenient it is for Jiang Sui to go in and out of this house.

He sighed and looked at Jiang Sui.

"Where is it? Take me to see it."

Jiang Sui led Si Nian out of the main house and came to a slightly lower house on the side of the yard. She pointed with her finger.

Si Nian looked over and his thoughts went back to more than ten years ago.

He remembered that this room used to be a storage room.

When they were young, he and Jiang Sui often played hide-and-seek here.

At first, he hid here and let Jiang Sui find it.

But the little girl couldn't find him no matter how hard she looked, and she started crying at the door in panic.

When her grandmother heard it, she came out of the main house and asked her what was wrong. She cried and said, "I can't find my brother Niannian. He is lost. I am so sad."

At this time, Si Nian came out from the pile of debris, came to the little girl, picked her up and coaxed her, "Don't cry, where is your brother? Isn't he holding our Sui Sui?"

After this time, the little girl would usually stop crying and laugh quickly.

When Jiang Sui was a child, he knew that as soon as he cried, he would immediately come out obediently.

But later, she cried many, many times, but he never showed up again.

Thinking of this, Si Nian felt a little heavy-hearted. He opened the door of the low room silently.

The layout inside was completely different from before. The sundries he used to hide in were gone, replaced by a household boiler that was as tall as a person.

From the appearance, the upper part should be the water tank, and the lower part is the furnace mouth for starting fire and adding coal.

Si Nian bent down and walked into the low house. He saw a few bags of things standing in the corner. When he got closer, he opened them and found that they were a few bags of black and shiny coal.

Jiang Sui didn't come in, so he leaned against the door and waited for him.

Si Nian turned back to Jiang Sui and said, "Bring the basket of fallen leaves under the tree to start the fire. Once the boiler is lit, the room should be warm enough."

Jiang Sui looked at him with eyes wide open, somewhat incredulous, and asked, "You can use this thing?"

Si Nian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, but I can try. It can't be harder than writing programs and speaking foreign languages, right?"

Jiang Sui looked at Si Nian and saw a hint of smile at the corner of his lips.

She frowned, a little reacting.

"Are you mocking me for being stupid?"

Jiang Sui pursed his lips, looking a little unhappy.

The curve of Si Nian's lips seemed to widen again. He smiled and said, "No, I just think everyone has their own strengths. You're just not good at this."

He pretended to cough lightly and said seriously, "And it just so happens that there is nothing I can't do well. I seem to be good at everything."

Jiang Sui was shocked that Si Nian could say such words now.

She seemed to see the proud and confident Si Nian again.

This immediately made her feel better.

She immediately ran back to the yard and brought in the basket of fallen leaves.

Si Nian filled the boiler tank with water, then added some fallen leaves and coal to the furnace and lit it.

Jiang Sui brought two small stools from somewhere, and the two of them sat in front of the stove together.

Looking in from the furnace mouth, the fire slowly burned up and became stronger and stronger.

The temperature in the small house gradually rose, and the coldness on Jiang Sui gradually disappeared.

Jiang Sui had nothing to do, so he picked up some leaves from a wicker basket nearby and threw them into the stove one by one.

"I didn't expect you would really set me on fire!"

Si Nian picked up an iron hook from the ground, hooked the fire twice, and spoke casually.

"How difficult can this be!"

Jiang Sui curled his lips, it’s not difficult and she doesn’t know how to do it.

"anyone there?"

There was suddenly a sound outside the gate.

Jiang Sui and Si Nian looked towards the door together following the sound.

At this time, footsteps were heard coming in.

Jiang Sui stood up and leaned half of his body out of the door of the low house.

"Oh, Grandma Wang, you're here!"

As Jiang Sui was speaking, he had already gone out to greet them.

Si Nian also stood up and followed them out.

He saw an old lady with white hair and unsteady walk limping in from the gate of the courtyard.

When she saw Jiang Sui, all the wrinkles on her face were piled up together with her smile.

"So it's you, little girl, who's back? Is it winter vacation? I saw smoke coming out of the chimney in your yard, so I came to see if you were back?"

The old man looked kind and held Jiang Sui's hand and kept asking questions.

"Well, Grandma Wang, I'm back for the winter vacation."

An old man and a young man stood in the yard holding hands and chatting.

Si Nian wanted to say that it was cold outside and ask them to go inside and talk, but seeing how enthusiastic they were, he really didn't have the heart to disturb them.

He just stood behind Jiang Sui and watched them silently.

The two chatted back and forth for a while before the old lady noticed the handsome guy behind Jiang Sui.

She quietly squeezed Jiang Sui's hand, raised her gray eyebrows towards Si Nian, and asked Jiang Sui in a low voice, "Our girl Sui brought her boyfriend back? If your grandmother could see it, she would be very happy."

Jiang Sui also followed Grandma Wang's gaze and looked back at Si Nian. Then she turned back and suddenly smiled at Grandma Wang.

"Grandma Wang, you really can't recognize who he is?"

Jiang Sui asked this because Grandma Wang was an elderly person living alone next door to Jiang Sui's grandmother. She was an old sister of Jiang Sui's grandmother and had watched Jiang Sui grow up since he was a child. Naturally, she should have seen Si Nian.

Hearing Jiang Sui's question, the old man's bright eyes began to look at Si Nian again.

After looking at him for a while, she frowned and said, "The boy is indeed very handsome and has a good appearance, but I really don't know him."

Then she asked Jiang Sui in confusion, "Isn't he your boyfriend?"

Si Nian was laughing behind Jiang Sui's back, and Jiang Sui couldn't help laughing as well.

This made the old man even more confused.

After Jiang Sui laughed for a while, he pulled Si Nian closer to Grandma Wang so that she could see more clearly.

She said to Grandma Wang very patiently, "Please take another look! You must recognize him. He is Si Nian!"

Grandma Wang was stunned for a moment, then her eyes swept back and forth between Si Nian and Jiang Sui several times.

He asked in disbelief, "He was the boy who often took you with him when you were little. He was the one who took the blame for you when you stole our girl?"

Jiang Sui was a little amused and helpless. Grandma Wang finally remembered who Si Nian was, but how could she still remember such an embarrassing thing she did as a child?

Apart from this, is it possible that the old man has no other memories of Si Nian?

Si Nian couldn't help but laugh.

He said to Grandma Wang, "Yes, Grandma Wang, it was me! You remembered it exactly. It was because someone was greedy that I got criticized by you!"

As he said this, he asked the old man to sit in the living room of the main house.

After sitting down, Grandma Wang also laughed, "It wasn't that Grandma Wang forbade you to eat at that time, but Sui Yatou, that little bad boy, pulled out the roots of the rice seedlings. How could I not be angry? And you still protected her and said it was you who did it!"

Si Nian and Jiang Sui looked at each other. Jiang Sui stuck out his tongue at him, and couldn't help laughing when he recalled the ridiculous things in his childhood.

After the three of them laughed for a while, the old man suddenly looked at Si Nian and asked, "Boy, you've been gone for more than ten years, right?"

Si Nian answered honestly, "It's been ten years, Grandma Wang!"

After hearing this, Grandma Wang suddenly sighed.

"Time flies so fast. Ten years have passed in a flash. Sui-yatou's mother and grandmother are no longer with us. If they could see you coming back, they would be so happy."

Hearing this, Si Nian and Jiang Sui's smiles gradually faded.

Si Nian didn't know what to say for a moment and could only nod in response to Grandma Wang.

Grandma Wang seemed to notice nothing and continued talking to herself.

"After you left, we gradually lost contact. Your aunt and grandmother missed you very much. They often mentioned you to me and said they didn't know how you were doing. Sigh..."

Grandma Wang sighed unconsciously again, pulled Jiang Sui's hand over and held it in her own old hand and caressed it.

"Sui-yi-na, these past few years have been difficult. First her mother got sick, and then her grandmother. She had to study and take care of the patient at the same time, and there was no one to help her. Even I couldn't help but feel distressed when I saw it. How nice it would have been if you could have come back to help her at that time?"

Although Grandma Wang's words were not in a blaming tone, they made Si Nian feel as if his heart was being pricked by needles.