Doted by My Seven Brothers

Chapter 174 Going Shopping

Chapter 174 Going Shopping

"Adolph, stop! If you don't stop running, I'll slaughter you!"

One, who came out with a lively dog, would never know whether he was walking a dog or a dog was walking him.

Adam was the case.

Since Adolph went to the Brook's villa, it was taken good care of and grew increasingly larger. Its breed was still unknown. It wasn't like a normal pastoral dog because it was larger. Adolph often ran on the lawn inside the villa, so it had stronger limbs and muscles.

The most important was that Adolph was as lively as a Husky. It was running around excitedly and Adam kept being dragged forward. Nancy couldn't catch up with them, holding the cats in her arms.

"Adolph!"

Adolph barked loudly.

Adolph heard Nancy's voice and barked as a response. It lowered its speed, but Adam still failed to stop it.

Nancy couldn't run anymore.

"Nancy, just stop running and have a rest. I'll take Adolph back here!"

Adam saw Nancy running out of breath. She started the morning jog with Marcus for some time. But she still felt tired because she was too young and not good at sports. Besides, she wore several layers of clothes and could only run awkwardly.

Adam felt sorry for Nancy and didn't want her to keep running.

Nancy put the cats in her arms down to the ground. Then she was panting for breath, hands on her knees. Her clothes were wet with sweat and clung to her back.

She took off her scarf and thought that she would punish Adolph after going back home. She would also ask Marcus, whom Adolph feared most, to frighten Adolph!

Harley abruptly mewed.

While Nancy was resting, Harley suddenly mewed vigilantly at a tree not far away, its fur on the back standing on end.

Nancy glanced at the tree and discovered nothing.

Then a person unexpectedly jumped down from the tree. It was Symon.

Nancy was stunned. Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

She was so scared that she almost jumped up.

Symon lowered his eyes to stare at the cats around Nancy's feet. He leaned back on the tree. He was bony, pale, and depressed. There was a trace of indifference and disgust for everything in his eyes.

"It's you?"

Symon with a pale face finally turned his gaze from the cats to Nancy.

Several cats were standing beside Nancy. They glared at Symon vigilantly and fiercely, the fur on their backs raising on end.

"Do you know me?" Symon said in a hoarse voice and with a sullen look on his face.

Nancy smiled, "Yes. I used to meet you at school. Do you live nearby?"

Nancy thought it must be fate that she could meet Symon again. She didn't know how vicious and cruel he was.

It was because she didn't feel any malice from Symon. She didn't understand why her cats were so hostile to him.

She squatted down and gathered all her cats together. Then she patted each cat on the head and said softly.

"Don't be rude!"

All her cats mewed to reply to her.

Marcus didn't tell Nancy about Symon because he didn't want Nancy to feel fearful or let her know the dark side of human nature.

So Nancy still didn't know it was Symon who drove her to be mistakenly kidnapped as a hostage.

"Why are you here? It's New Year's Eve today. You should come back home. You look unwell. Are you sick? Do you want to see a doctor?"

Symon walked slowly up to Nancy and squatted down beside her. He was not afraid of being scratched by her fierce cats.

"I have no home."

He stared at Nancy with his light black eyes. He moved his fingers and wanted to touch her head, but he gave up at the thought of something sad.

Nancy's face crinkled up sadly when she heard Symon's words.

"Then what about your parents?"

Symon shook his head, his lips pressed together. "I don't have parents either."

Nancy took pity on him and felt he was like a big homeless dog. She thought of the time living in Stream Village. She had been alone since the granny taking care of her passed away. During the New Year Holiday, she saw others wearing new clothes and eating a hearty dinner and all kinds of sugar and snacks. She could only stay in the house sadly and heard others setting off fireworks outside. Thinking of Symon's miserable life, she was about to cry.

She raised her hand to stroke Symon's head and comforted him gently.

"It doesn't matter. You can also celebrate the new year alone."

Nancy brought her backpack to the front and began to rummage around in it. She didn't notice Symon stiffened the moment she put her hand on his head. Now Symon remained stunned.

After a while, Nancy took out some sparklers, candies in red wrappers, and various snacks from her small backpack. She held Symon's hand and tried to find a place where they could sit.

Nancy found Symon's hands were colder to the touch than Marcus'.

"Please bend over."

Symon did awkwardly as he was told. Then Nancy stood on tiptoe to throw her scarf around his neck.

The scarf was very soft and warm, but some parts of it were not well-woven.

Symon touched the scarf with his slender and cold fingers. He lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Nancy blushed with embarrassment when she noticed Symon staring at a part of the scarf that was not well-woven.

"I knitted the scarf myself for the first time, so it's not perfect. I hope you won't dislike it."

Symon stopped touching the scarf, "Did you knit it yourself?"

Nancy nodded embarrassedly, "It's a little ugly, but it's very warm."

She felt embarrassed to give this ugly scarf as a gift to her elder brothers, but she didn't want to throw it either. So she added some knitting wool in other colors and wore the scarf herself.

Symon lowered her eyes and said seriously, "This scarf is very warm."

Hearing his praise, Nancy smiled sweetly and held his hand to continue walking forward.

"There is a bench not far away. Let's go over there and take seats. Your hands are so cold and you need to see a doctor. Otherwise, you will get sick and feel uncomfortable. You also have to take medicine that tastes bitter."

Nancy felt disgusted when she mentioned the medicine.

"But taking medicine is necessary and helps us recover. After you take medicine, you can eat a piece of candy to decrease the bitter taste."

They walked up to the bench while talking to each other. Nancy pushed Symon to sit on it and rubbed his cold hands to warm them up. She wanted to ask Symon to wear her gloves, but her gloves were too small.

After rubbing Symon's hands for a while, Nancy grabbed his hands and rolled them up in the scarf.

"It can protect you against the wind."

Nancy put what she took out of her backpack between them.

"These are sparklers. Firecrackers and fireworks are banned in the city, but you can play with sparklers. It's fun to light them up at night. These are snacks that you can eat during the holiday. I only took out a small amount of them stealthily. Here you are! Oh, this one is also for you."

She took out a strip of red cloth.

"My mother bought strips of red cloth when we went to a temple fair. My elder brothers also bought a lot for me. This strip of red cloth is for you. It's an amulet that can protect you. Look, I tied it around my wrist."

Nancy showed her left wrist. There was a chain bracelet given by Marcus and a bracelet by Neil around her right wrist. Besides, she hid the jade bracelet given by her aunt in the bottom of a box.

"Tonight I can untie the red cloth and hang it on a tree. My mother said that it could bless me to be safe and healthy."

Symon didn't believe the function of this red cloth. But he still stretched out his hand and let Nancy tie it around his wrist.

"I hope this lucky money can bring you luck. Wish you a happy new year."

Nancy stuffed the money in Symon's hands and asked, "What's your name? It's a little awkward to address you in the same way as my eldest brother. My eldest brother's name is Marcus."

Symon said in a hoarse voice and it was difficult to know how he felt now, "My name is Jinx."

'Do you think you were born to enjoy happiness? No! You were born to experience suffering! That's why I named you Jinx. This name has an ominous meaning. Remember it forever. You can never get happiness since you grew up in such a terrible family.'

Symon still remembered that a woman grabbed his hair and spoke frantically about the reason for naming him Jinx.

He was born under the curse.

Symon was very calm. He killed that woman after he grew up. Then he was sent to the orphanage and the head there named him Symon casually.

"Then I call you Jinx, okay?"

Jinx, this name, was a nightmare for Symon. But when Nancy said this name softly, he suddenly felt the name wasn't unacceptable for some obscure reasons.

Symon nodded at Nancy and glanced at his intelligent watch around his wrist. He found someone was approaching them.

He knew it was time for him to leave.

"I should leave now."

Nancy didn't want to part with him but soon cheered herself up, "Well, it's better to stay at the house and keep warm on such a cold day. Jinx, these are your gifts."

Symon nodded, but he didn't care much about those snacks and sparklers. He gripped the scarf around his neck and asked.

"Can you give it to me?"

Nancy nodded her approval, "Of course, I have other scarves. You can take this one. But it's a little ugly."

"Not at all."

Symon looked pale and unhealthy. He said seriously.

"It's beautiful."

Nancy scratched her head and laughed shyly. Symon looked deeply at her and left. He didn't take away those snacks and money and only took away a few sparklers.

"Jinx, don't you want these snacks?"

Symon shook his head, "Have them yourself."

Nancy said, "Well. Goodbye."

Symon slowly walked through the snow and looked at the sparklers in his hands. He said in a low voice.

"Goodbye."

Because of the heavy wind, Nancy didn't hear what he said. She gazed at his receding figure and felt he looked lonely.

When Nancy could no longer see Symon's figure, Adam dragged Adolph back, panting heavily.

It left a long trail of being dragged on the snow.

"Let's go back home and have the dog meat!"

Nancy ran over with all her cats, "Okay."

Adolph got up from the ground instantly and barked its discontent as if it was protesting.

Adam was angry, "Your protest is invalid. I'm going to eat your flesh today!"

Then Adolph pounced upon Adam and pressed him down into the snow.

Adam screamed with fury, "Stupid dog, you're inviting trouble!"

After a while, Adam and Nancy held Adolph's legs respectively and dragged Adolph back home.