Chasing Tides

Sui Yi got caught in the rain and fell seriously ill after returning home.

He has good physical fitness, has never stopped running and strength training for a day, let alone a fever, and has never had a cold in the past three years.This time, the sickness probably has been accumulated for a long time, and it is fierce. I spent the first few days lying in bed.

Mi Jie automatically switches her role to a life assistant, mainly responsible for buying medicine and delivering food.Sui Yi had a fever and didn't want to go to the hospital. She used the navel stickers from her sister's house for her little nephew to treat fever. After two or three days of tossing, the illness finally stopped.

One day, Mi Jie remembered that she forgot to bring her keys when she was walking. After going upstairs, she knocked on the door, only to hear a loud noise from inside the door, followed by hurried footsteps from far to near. When the door was opened, Sui Yi His chest rose and fell violently due to panting, and he called out "Lan Lan" before he could see the person clearly.

Seeing the light in Sui Yi's eyes dimming rapidly, Mi Jie also felt a little sad.Of course she knew who Sui Yi was calling, and also why he lived alone in AOW's former dormitory and refused to leave.

With little hope, he stubbornly stayed here, hoping that Ning Lan would come back one day.

After entering the door, Sui Yi said: "Tell Brother Wang, I will resume work tomorrow."

Brother Wang is Sui Yi's current manager.

Mi Jie's hand holding the table and chopsticks froze: "So fast? Let's rest for two more days?"

Sui Yi shook her head: "No, I'm fine."

Mi Jie watched Sui Yi turn on the TV with the remote control, and stared intently at the rebroadcast of "Overturning the Country" every summer on David TV, thinking that this is still called "very good"?

After Mi Jie left in the afternoon, Sui Yi saw a USB flash drive on the dining table, thought it was Mi Jie's left behind, picked it up, and found a note underneath: Look at this.

Sui Yi turned on the computer and plugged in the USB flash drive to read it. There was a video file in it, which was the edit of all the scenes that Ning Lan had appeared in "Overturning the Country".

In the video, Ning Lan is dressed in a black outfit, with her head held high, her eyes are sharp when she rides her horse and whips, and when she laughs, she has the unique vigor and chicness of a teenager.

As soon as the TV series was broadcast that year, the little guard played by Ning Lan was highly praised by a well-known drama critic, who praised that "it's not like acting for the first time", and also said that "with time, the future is boundless".

Zhang Fan is right, Ning Lan is indeed very talented in acting, or because he is smart, he can learn everything quickly.

Including learning how to hide from yourself.

Sui Yi opened Weibo, and the AOW super chat posts that have become cold circles are updated slowly. Some fans also watched the rebroadcast of "Overturning the Country" and sighed: Ning Lan actually has acting skills. I don't know if he is going now. where is it.

There are only a few comments below, and they are all sighing and lamenting how time flies. Looking back now, most of the good parts that stop and stay in memory are still good.

Three years ago, not long after Ning Lan left, Sui Yi bypassed the company and posted a Weibo on his own initiative: Things are not as you see, Ning Lan will come back, I will wait for him.

At that time, there were tens of thousands of comments every minute, and most netizens accused him, saying that Ning Lan's character design had collapsed, and the emperor and I couldn't clean him up if he went down to earth; "Jiangshan" is about to be broadcast, and it has to create a wave of momentum for Ning Lan. After all, he just quit the group and has not officially terminated the contract.

Three years later, those trolls who changed their name to "Ning Lan is always black" disappeared, and some fans even felt sorry for him, thinking that Xue Zang's three years was enough, how many years can an artist's career be? three years?

Fans are very forgetful, Sui Yi hopes that Ning Lan can be like them, be a heartless person, and quickly forget those unhappy things.

Just don't forget the way back.

Due to being delayed for a few days due to illness, Sui Yi ran to the stadium in the suburbs of Beijing every day after returning to work.

The surrounding conditions are poor, and he is on a diet to reduce fat for the concert. During the rehearsal, he only drinks mineral water. After a long time, his mouth will inevitably taste dull.

He remembered the canteen with the coffee machine, Mi Jie was called to help by the choreographer, and Sui Yi had nothing else to do, so he followed the impression of walking to the venue that day, walked along the path for more than ten minutes, and successfully found the store. A half-open no-name canteen.

The old lady was sleeping in the rocking chair behind the counter, and Sui Yi woke up when she approached her, squinting her eyes and asking him what he wanted to buy.

Sui Yi pointed to the coffee machine: "Is there any coffee today?"

The mother-in-law turned her head and shouted into the room: "You brat, come out!"

He yelled a few times and got no response, he stood up and muttered something like "the brat is going to kill my old woman", threw down the cattail fan, took out a disposable coffee cup from the cupboard, put it in the water outlet, After groping for a long time, not knowing where the switch was, I impatiently slapped the coffee machine hard.

After getting permission, Sui Yi walked around behind the counter, found the valve switch, filled a cup of coffee, and the old woman was worried about how much to charge.

Sui Yi took out a [-]-yuan bill and put it on the counter: "Put it on the account first, and wait for my next visit to refund any excess."

As soon as he left on his front foot, a person opened the door curtain and came in on his back foot, yawning and stretching his head against the chicken coop head, and the road was in a curve: "Why are you calling me, mother-in-law?"

The mother-in-law waved his head with a fan: "You didn't come when I called you, what are you doing now? Go in, go in."

"I don't have a fever anymore, and I'm going to grow hair if I lie down again." Ning Lan avoided her mother-in-law's fan attack, walked around to the counter, saw the brand new 100 yuan, her eyes lit up, "It's open today? "

The mother-in-law snorted and sat back on the rocking chair: "The one who bought the coffee didn't know how much it cost, and they said they would keep it for next time, and they would refund the extra and pay less."

Ning Lan picked up the money and blew it, and smiled and rolled her eyes: "Is there such a person? Next time he comes, just tell him two hundred cups."

The mother-in-law's fan was about to be thrown again: "Stinky boy, we can't earn money without conscience!"

"I know, I'm joking." Ning Lan folded the money and put it in his pocket, "I'll get a card for that person, and next time he comes, I'll hold it for him, five cups for 100 yuan, and an extra cup for the membership card. okay?"

After all, he took out a box of water from the shelf and went out: "I'm going to Bingbing's place, wait for me to come back to cook at night."

"Just let him wash your hair!" The mother-in-law shouted from behind.

Ning Lan pushed the small scooter to the east, the scorching sun made his skin red, but he didn't care, he pushed the scooter leisurely for a while, played with the scooter as a skateboard for a while, and turned at the second intersection soon , four large characters appeared in front of my eyes - Bingbing Hair Salon.

"Boss, the water delivery man is here."

Lu Binghua, who was dozing off on the barber chair, had his arms unsupported, and his big face almost fell on his legs. He took a sip, looked towards the door, and said in a daze, "You're here, bro."

Ning Lan put the water on the ground, unceremoniously opened a bottle to drink, and slapped the table hard after drinking: "Young man, where's your male hormone? Didn't you promise to be the number one stylist in Quanxi? You've lost it so quickly? "

Lu Binghua scratched his hair: "No, no, isn't there no one here, I will just sleep for a while."

Ning Lan waited for him to return to his IQ after washing his face in cold water, and sat down on the barber chair: "Dye my hair back to black."

Lu Binghua's facial features were wrinkled together: "Brother, didn't you agree to advertise for me?"

"With such a shape, if I tell you, can someone dare to ask you to do hair?" Ning Lan pointed to her head in the mirror, "Do you know what Granny Zhang said I look like?"

Lu Binghua was confident: "The CEO of the largest non-chain canteen on Quanxi Street."

"Stop here." Ning Lan rolled her eyes, "She said I looked like I was wearing a watermelon rind, and when I saw it, I wanted to split it with a knife."

Lu Binghua wanted to hold it back, rolling on the ground with his stomach full of laughter, and finally wiped his tears: "The last time I dyed you was for advertising, so I confiscated your money, this time it won't work, my water, electricity and gas are all sold out every day. It all costs money..."

"That's enough." Ning Lan took out 100 yuan and slapped it on the table, "Pay back the utilities, is this a restaurant?"

Lu Binghua took the money, Meizizi opened the cabinet to get the dyeing cream: "I can assure you, you will not regret paying this piece of Grandpa Mao!"

Lu Binghua's work was extremely tiresome, and he had to toss about dyeing his hair for more than three hours. Ning Lan had several weird dreams. When she woke up, the sticky hair dye was still on her head, and she touched the black oil in her hands.

There was darkness in front of his eyes, and he was about to get up in a hurry. Lu Binghua held him down, and took out a thin cardboard with printed words from his pocket like a treasure: "Look what this is!"

Ning Lan took it angrily, and the finger that touched the hair dye on her hair just now will press a big black and big fingerprint on the word "concert", and the word "Sui Yi" on the front is unexpected into view.

Ning Lan opened her mouth stiffly, not knowing what expression to put on for a moment.His mood at this moment is probably the same as when he saw the poster after delivering water backstage that day, and knew that the person might be inside.

"Do you know what this Sui is? I heard it's very popular. The ticket was issued by my elder brother's unit. You also know that my elder brother doesn't like to watch these singing and dancing. Isn't it cheaper? I'll tell you haha, Aunt Jiang next door asked me for it this morning, but I didn't give it..."

Lu Binghua kept making noises, but Ning Lan didn't listen to a word. He stood up abruptly and stuffed the ticket back into Lu Binghua's arms: "Can I wash it?"

Lu Binghua didn't react: "Huh?"

"I said hair, can I wash it?"

"Yes, yes, yes."

After drying her hair, Ning Lan looked at herself in the mirror with her black hair back, feeling a little strange in a daze.He let out a breath slowly and stood up: "I'll go back first, my mother-in-law is still waiting for me to eat."

Lu Binghua gave him the ticket, but he refused to accept it. Lu Binghua stomped his feet and said, "This is the VIP in the front row, especially the front row!"

Ning Lan couldn't laugh or cry: "No... I really don't want it, I don't even know who this person is."

Lu Binghua couldn't help but put the ticket in his pocket: "Then take it and sell it, I don't care, it's yours anyway."

On the way back with the scooter, Ning Lan was completely out of the mood for skateboarding.Passing by the bus stop, he glanced at the posters neatly pasted inside the light box, hurriedly looked away, and quickened his pace towards home.

The setting sun stretched his shadow very long. He passed by watch shops, tailor shops, and massage parlors, and said hello to every owner in the shop.

After careful calculation, he has lived in this peaceful place like a paradise for three years.Back then, he didn't dare to take a car or fly, and wandered here with nowhere to go. When Granny Zhang said, "Is the young man unable to find a home?" made tears flow down his face, he never thought that he would settle here, let alone that he would live here. Can get such a comfortable life.

80.00% of the residents here are elderly people living alone. No one knows who "AOW Ning Lan" is. The daily entertainment is nothing more than reading newspapers and listening to operas. They don't even watch TV very much. If they have this time, they might as well sleep more.Even the only heterogeneous Lu Binghua here is a second-year middle school boy who just wants to become a well-known hairstylist on this street, and has no ambition to go outside.

Ning Lan stayed in such an environment for three full years, and took it for granted that this place was another world, shrunk in her shell like a deaf ear, and if he didn't go out, no one else could come in.

Back home, Ning Lan put the concert tickets into a locked drawer, saw two jewelry boxes stacked one above the other inside, hesitated for a moment, took out the tickets again, and put them in the book on the table.

The appearance of this name undoubtedly gave him a blow to the head, knocking a crack in the closed world he had built with great difficulty, and a dazzling light came in, forcing him to face the reality forcefully.

So of course his first reaction was to hide, the farther the better.

In the evening, Sui Yi drank the last sip of cold coffee.

Probably the quality of the coffee beans is not good, and the taste of the ground coffee is really hard to evaluate.

Sui Yi felt that it was a miracle that he was able to finish the drink. He threw away the paper cup and got into the nanny's car. When the car passed by the coffee stand, the lights were bright inside, and there was no one at the counter. The old woman must have gone in to eat.

He looked away, lowered his head and clicked on Weibo, and went directly to Fang Yu's homepage from the first one he visited recently, to check his activity today.

Fang Yu liked a food blogger's video 10 minutes ago, the same blogger who made pickled fish last time.

The car was idle, so Sui Yi clicked on it and looked at it. The title was "Bacon rolls go better with rainy days".No one shows his face in the video, the style is very simple, there are no good-looking bowls and chopsticks, only cutting boards and large iron pots can be seen throughout the whole process, there is no BGM, and only the sound of chopping vegetables and the sound of frying vegetables can be heard.

The blogger’s bacon rolls are also very special. Instead of enoki mushrooms, carrots and cucumber shreds are stuffed inside, as well as a few bean sprouts. The colorful rolls look really nice.

Sui Yi has never seen such a perfunctory food blogger. The pickled vegetables are all made of large bowls with missing corners. Stir with chopsticks, and scatter all kinds of silk in the pot, and get it everywhere.

At this moment, the cook's hand holding the chopsticks flashed by. Sui Yi seemed to see a mark on the back of his hand. Just as he was about to turn back to take a closer look, the teacher's phone call came in suddenly.

"There are guests at home." The teacher said.

Sui Yi frowned and asked, "Who?"

"She claimed to be Ning Lan's mother and said she wanted to see you."