Chapter 30 (2/2)

“I brought it back from Hai Nan.”

“Thank you, I don’t want it.”

This was exactly what Shi Yan had expected, or rather what he had known would happen. Shi Yan didn’t really feel like flaring up. He shrugged as the edges of his mouth twitched, “Up to you, if you don’t like it then throw it away.” He stuffed his present into He Nuo’s arms, got on his bike and left.

He Nuo didn’t understand what was up with Shi Yan? Why would he give him a present?!

He didn’t know where Shi Yan lived either, so he carefully set aside his nicely packaged present, and thought that he would return it to Shi Yan when the new school term starts.

During the weekend, He Nuo’s whole family (his brothers who were studying in university had also returned) took turns to bathe, He Nuo was at the end of the queue. The gas tank was empty, so he took half of his bath with hot water, and the other half with cold water. As a result, it hadn’t even been two hours when he had to make several trips to the toilet while sneezing non-stop – his symptoms of frequent urination and blood urine had appeared again. In the hot summer, He Nuo’s tears and snot was wreaking havoc on him together, he had actually come down with a cold and fever.

He Nuo ate some flu medication he found in his home, and even took out the Yunnan Baiyao and other anti-inflammatory medicine that Shi Yan had given him in the middle of the night. In any case, he had just eaten any medicine that he thought could help. He knew that medicine was also partly poisonous, but when he was faced with the kind of pain that made him wish he were dead, he couldn’t care about anything else anymore. As long as he didn’t have to endure the pain in his urethra or the heat of his 40 degree fever, he was even willing to align himself with the revolutionary martyrs.

A night of torment pa.s.sed, He Nuo had been drenched in cold sweat throughout. But luckily, even though he still had to go to the toilet non-stop, his urine was no longer red in colour, so the acute pain that he had felt would dull. For the He Nuo who was used to tolerance, this kind of pain was nothing to him.

In the morning, he still went to fetch his nephew, then brought his nephew back after dinner. He had just left his house when he saw Shi Yan. Originally, Shi Yan wanted to see if He Nuo liked his thousand layer buddha’s hand conch gift. However, what he saw was a He Nuo whose face was slightly flushed and was sneezing relentlessly. When he saw that He Nuo still wanted to send the kid back, Shi Yan carried the kid onto his bike and accompanied He Nuo to his destination.

He Nuo barely got a wink of sleep the night before, and today he had to take care of his little nephew. Right now, he really felt weak, his whole body felt like collapsing and his legs were unstable. So he could only follow along at a side, he didn’t have the energy to play with his nephew. On the other hand, Shi Yan actually managed a conversation with the little guy the whole way, and often teased the little one into giggling. Meanwhile, He Nuo constantly blew his nose and sneezed at the back. Shi Yan would turn around once in awhile and look at He Nuo with a frown.

1. Buddha’s hand: The author had provided a picture of the conch sh.e.l.l somewhere…but I can’t find it ;-;↩2. Ok so this was a Chinese phrase that described the friendship between two gentlemen whom didn’t need much talk with each other to know that they were friends. Imagine two scholarly-looking guys with friendship that was as “calm as a lake”, like they didn’t need to interact much to be considered friends. But to Shi Yan right now their friendship couldn’t even be compared to that LOL He Nuo’s just like not talking to him cuz he doesn’t even wanna be friends :’)))↩