Chasing Tides

Sui Yi rushed home, and the teacher greeted him at the door, saying that he ran into Zhao Jinshan who was stopped by security at the door of the residential area just now, and then called him.

Zhao Jinshan was drinking tea on the sofa when she entered the room. When she saw Sui Yi, she stood up and asked, "Why is Xiao Sui so thin?", "Have you had dinner?" It's his own mother.

In the past three years, Sui Yi has been harassed by her in various names.He kept the thought that Ning Lan might go back to his hometown to take a look, and he kept Zhao Jinshan's contact information. He never got a reliable clue, but she stole a lot of money.

Only now did he understand Ning Lan's bitterness in those years.After all, she was her biological mother, and Ning Lan was hard-spoken and soft-hearted, so it was hard to sit idly by.

This time, Zhao Jinshan still put on an expression of "If I don't save me, I will die here", she squeezed tears and said that the demolition money was used to buy a new house. Tickets, I haven't been able to eat a good meal for a few days.

Sui Yi gave her all the cash she had on her body, and Zhao Jinshan counted it dissatisfied. After counting, she rolled her eyes and said mysteriously that Ning Lan's father gave her a dream last night, saying that the child came to visit him in the cemetery Yes, I talked a lot, one of which was that I wanted to go back to school.

Sui Yi didn't believe in these illusory tales of ghosts and gods in the past, but this time he went to the doctor in a hurry. He believed it for half a day, and immediately took out his mobile phone to transfer money to Zhao Jinshan, and got the name of Ninglan's first choice school for the college entrance examination. Drive in haste.

On the way, he remembered that when he was filming for the first time that year, Ning Lan flew over from the capital to see him, and braved the rain to go to the university campus for a walk.Sui Yi didn't understand at the time, but now he thinks back to the regret in Ning Lan's voice when he asked him why he didn't continue to study, and the envy in his eyes when he looked at the playground, library, and boulevard.

The teacher helped him find someone to adjust the surveillance at the school gate to investigate. Sui Yi parked the car at the gate and looked at the students who were hooking their shoulders and shoulders, talking and laughing during dinner time, and suddenly understood the reason why Ning Lan wanted to go to school.At least the air on campus is fresher and purer than outside, and his destiny can be controlled by himself, instead of being bound by those strict contracts and endless IOUs, so that even breathing freely becomes a luxury.

In the middle of the night, the teacher called him: "The school surveillance is only kept for one month, and the preliminary investigation did not find Ning Lan. Go back to sleep and don't stay there."

Sui Yi stared at the closed campus without blinking, and called hoarsely, "Teacher."

"Ok?"

"Am I... am I stupid?"

The teacher pondered for a moment, and said: "It's pretty stupid. A young man in his twenties is more superstitious than an old man like me."

Sui Yi raised her hand to cover her eyes: "...I'm sorry."

"You paid for the money. Why are you sorry? Why don't you save it and tell him when he comes back."

Sui Yi's Adam's apple rolled twice, and he asked with some embarrassment: "Did Dad apologize to you in the same way back then?"

"Of course, otherwise I should be in country Y now, not here to fold your father's clothes." The teacher pretended to be relaxed.

Sui Yi opened the corner of his mouth, then put away his smile in an instant, and said in a deep voice, "Teacher, I'm sorry."

"Why is it here again? Is today an 'International Apology Day'?"

Sui Yi took a deep breath: "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you and took you as..." After all, I didn't say that word, "I still owe you a formal apology."

Last year, when I learned the dusty truth from the elders I hadn't seen for a long time, the impact at that moment was tantamount to reshaping the world view.Everything he thinks is wrong, the truth is hidden behind, and the whole picture can be seen with a little questioning, but he is blinded, only believes what he sees, and stubbornly does many stupid things.

Just like he treated Ning Lan.

The teacher on the other end of the phone smiled: "Okay, okay, I'm officially apologizing"... Don't scare me, an old man, so that I can't sleep at night. I really want to record a few more songs when I have time. Let the teacher show it to the parents of the students, and save a lot of admissions advertising fees."

"Okay." Sui Yi readily agreed.

At the end, the teacher said earnestly: "You have to live well, don't make yourself a mess. When he comes back and sees you like this, he feels that he has lost his eyes, so what should he do if he turns around and walks away?"

Sui Yi listened to the teacher's words, got up early the next day, washed her face after running, picked out a casual short-sleeved pair with black straight-leg pants, and carefully combed her hair in front of the mirror before going out.

The old lady at the canteen near the stadium in the suburbs of Beijing could see that he was in good spirits today, and talked to him with a smile: "Does the young man work in the flying saucer over there? What do you usually do?"

The exterior design of the stadium is unique, and it looks like a UFO from a distance.

Sui Yi smiled and said: "Yes, research chemical weapons and prepare to destroy human beings."

The mother-in-law curled her lips indifferently: "You young people will scare me, an old woman."

Sui Yi was suddenly a little curious about who else was "you" in her mouth.

The mother-in-law didn't call "brat" to the back room this time, she had already learned how to use the coffee machine, filled up a cup and handed it to Sui Yi, then took out a card the size of a business card from the counter: "Here, get one free when you fill five cups. "

Sui Yi turned the piece of paper that said "Supreme VIP Coffee Card of Quanxi Commissary" upside down and read it twice, and said, dumbfounded, "Thank you, boss."

The mother-in-law waved her hand: "Don't thank me, the brat did it. Keep this card well, and you can still drink four cups."

The concert is less than a week away, time is tight and work tasks are heavy, Sui Yi no longer has time to go to the canteen to buy coffee, and gradually forgets the handmade coffee card in his pocket.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of the concert, the last rehearsal during the day, Sui Yi looked at the empty audience, and in two hours, it would be full of audience.He couldn't help thinking, would he be among the 1 people?Will he hear the tunes he plays for him?

However, this kind of unrealistic idea can only stay in the mind for a while, but if you think about it deeply, you will be overwhelmed by regret and self-blame.

When Ning Lan endured the Black Sea alone, seeing that Ning Lan didn't cry, he shallowly thought that he was strong enough and didn't need his own comfort.

At that time, he didn't know that some things can only be experienced by putting himself in his shoes.For example, when being abandoned by someone who regards it as a treasure, it is like the pain of cold blood retrograde in the body, and the despair that the body keeps falling in the dark, but can't find the landing point.

At that time, he failed to protect Ning Lan, and the last despair was inflicted by him himself.

Therefore, he didn't even have the right to imagine that Ning Lan would appear in front of him now.

This is God's punishment for him.

At this time, there were many people outside the arena, and the hot weather did not affect the enthusiasm of the fans at all. In the early morning, before dawn, there were banners at the entrances of various stations to send out support.

Ning Lan's whole body was tightly wrapped, only two eyes were exposed, and she was still a little nervous when she walked into the crowd. She didn't dare to look at the faces of the people on the roll-up banners around her, and stopped one of them from getting out of the cattle gathering area. The depressed girl asked in a low voice, "Do you want a ticket?"

After much deliberation, he finally decided to sell the ticket an hour ago.

After searching in the room for more than ten minutes, I remembered to put the ticket in the book.In the past three years, his memory level has improved slightly. However, due to the relationship with the medication, it is impossible to return to the previous photographic memory. Occasionally forgetting things and forgetting things does not affect his normal life. He is already very satisfied.

The girl who was stopped looked at his strange attire, hurriedly said "no" and ran away.

Ning Lan asked a few more girls who were wandering in the cattle pile, and they were all frightened by his appearance as a fugitive suspect and waved their hands again and again.The current level of scalper business is extremely high. Tickets are sold with ID cards, and they also provide a one-stop service to buy tickets and send them to the scene. Compared with them, Ning Lan really has no advantage. After all, he doesn't even dare to take out his ID card.

Ning Lan was still holding the ticket after going around a lot, squatting on the curb thinking, did she rot the ticket in her hand, or took out her ID card and waited for tomorrow's headlines?

He had already thought of the headline headline - former AOW member Ning Lan appeared at the concert of leader Sui Yi, turned into a scalper and was beaten by fans for selling tickets.

Ning Lan shivered under the scorching sun, shaking her head to get this terrible thought out of her mind.

Or... just go in by yourself?Tickets are so expensive, it's useless not to listen.

As soon as this idea appeared, it was snuffed out at a lightning speed.

He didn't want to see him, and couldn't see him.

A few minutes before the opening, the tickets in scalpers' hands were sold out, and finally some fans saw Ning Lan leaning against the wall, drowsy, with tickets in hand.

After some bargaining, the last girl carrying a huge light sign made a deal with Ning Lan at the original price.

While counting the money, the girl complained: "Brother, why don't you even have a branch? Are you afraid that I will give you counterfeit money?"

Ning Lan proudly said: "Brother, I am a businessman, and I can tell real money and fake money by touching it."

The girl handed Ning Lan the wad of money she had counted out, and handed over the money with one hand and took the ticket with the other. Ning Lan rolled up the money and stuffed it into his pocket, saying, "Go in, the show is about to begin."

The girl was indeed in a hurry to enter, but she felt strange: "You don't order it again, to check whether it is true or not?"

The corner of Ning Lan's mouth was raised behind the mask: "No, you trust me, and of course I trust you too."

Trust is the most precious thing between people in this world.

Watching the girl walk into the ticket gate, Ning Lan put her hands in her pockets and walked back facing the gentle evening wind.

Just turning out of the stadium and stepping onto the small road of Quanxi Street, the music roared behind him, and the stage lights instantly illuminated the night sky.Ning Lan couldn't help but glance back, then took a deep breath of the grass-scented air, and ran all the way home.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't sleep well at night.

Ning Lan sat up from the bed for the fifth time, and was about to do something else to find sleep, but found that it was already dawn.

Facing the mirror and yawning up to the ear, Ning Lan seriously began to think about the reasonable causal relationship between "sleepy" and "not being able to sleep", trying to persuade herself that this is normal.

As soon as he got up, the iron door outside was knocked loudly.

"Brother, are you up? Open the door, brother!"

Ning Lan gritted her toothbrush and went to open the door. Lu Binghua, who had just passed her 19th birthday, changed into a hairstyle that looked like Ultraman Tiga. When she jumped in, she grabbed Ning Lan's shoulder and shook wildly: "Brother, why didn't you go yesterday?" See a concert?"

Ning Lan was almost vomited by him, and said inarticulately, "Didn't you ask me to...sell the tickets?"

Lu Binghua's facial expression was distorted exaggeratedly, and he raised his voice and said: "I just said it casually, you are really sold!"

After Ning Lan finished washing, he took out the steamed buns that were frozen in the refrigerator and served them on the table. Lu Binghua took one bun in each hand and explained the ins and outs clearly while eating.

It turned out that his elder brother's unit actually issued two tickets with consecutive numbers, and Lu Binghua wanted to give one to Ning Lan, hoping that he and his brother could "unexpectedly meet" in the stadium.

Ning Lan understood halfway through, and the boy Ganqing hadn't stopped thinking of matching him and his elder brother.

"I don't understand. What do you think is good about me? There are so many beautiful girls on Quanxi Street, why are you following me?" Ning Lan questioned from the depths of her soul.

Lu Binghua puffed his cheeks and gave a thumbs up: "Brother, you are so good, cooking is super delicious!"

"Aunt Jiang's daughter next door cooks delicious food, and she just graduated from college and is not yet married."

Lu Binghua shook his head like a rattle: "No, I don't agree, I want you. You are the only one in the street who calls me 'Bing Bing' and not 'Hua Hua'."

Ning Lan was speechless by this strange reason, and it took her a long time to say, "Because I have a friend named Huahua."

"I know," Lu Binghua pointed to a small pot of succulents on the window sill, "I'll give this to your friend."

Fang Yu, who was more than 20 kilometers away, sneezed for no reason, wiped his nose with a tissue, and when exiting the food video, he tilted his thumb and accidentally clicked on the hottest one. The first one was "Sui Yi Concert Kiss Necklace".

Fang Yu rolled his eyes, thinking that you should just slowly look at things and think about others.

At the end of yesterday's concert, after Sui Yi finished playing the serenade, he pulled the pendant out of his clothes along the rope around his neck, brought it to his lips and kissed it lightly.

According to fans' observations, this pendant has been on Sui Yi's body for three years. It was worn close to the body before, and only a section of rope could be seen. This time, a sister Pao in the front row holding a telephoto lens finally took a high-definition large picture.

It was a red bead the size of a fingernail, and judging from its texture, it should be polished from some kind of ore.

Careful fans immediately speculated that the pendant had a special meaning, maybe it was given by someone important.When Sui Yi kissed it, his eyes were full of tenderness, with a little sadness and panic, and his deep and strong eyebrows were softened by it, which broke the hearts of the girls.

Chaohua has been discussing from last night to today's lunch time, and has not yet reached a conclusion.A fan posted a post on Sui Yichao: Do ​​you think that red bead looks like the agate bracelet that the captain gave NL five years ago? (Just guess and don't call

In fact, many fans have already guessed this possibility, but they are unwilling to think deeply about it.So there was an ellipsis in the comments, and it was barely stable until a certain station sister who had a great say in the fan circle came to repost and said, "Don't make random guesses until you have sufficient evidence. Who doesn't have a red agate yet?" won the hearts of the people.

Sui Yi didn't know about the turmoil in the fan circle.

After the concert, he was given a three-day vacation. On the first day, he drove to a shop selling bracelets to repair the pendant he was wearing.

I found this agate bead on the day when Gu Chenkai was admitted to the Conservatory of Music and was about to move the last few things out of the dormitory.

At that time, only Sui Yi and him were left in the dormitory. Gu Chenkai touched the three letters "AOW" he had carved on the table with seven parts regret and three parts nostalgia. won't come loose.

Sui Yi knelt down to help him take out a thick stack of music scores from the bottom of the cabinet, when he raised his eyes, a spot of light suddenly flickered in front of his eyes.

A red agate bead that was seen again because of the movement of the corner of the table rolled to the feet.

Since then, the bead has never left his body.Perhaps the bracelet fell hard when it fell apart, and there was a crack running across the center of the bead. Three years ago, Sui Yi took it to the shop and asked the master to reinforce it with metal wires. Seeing that it was a little loose now, he took it to the shop again , ask the master to help repair it.

The grey-haired master has been making jewelry for most of his life, and what he is best at is repairing damaged jade with the help of gold, silver and other precious metals without any traces.He looked at the small bead in his hand, pushed his glasses and said, "Why don't you buy another one, young man, it's not worth spending money to repair it."

Sui Yi said: "It doesn't matter how much it is, as long as it is not broken."

The old master smiled: "Isn't this already cracked? The ancients said that 'a broken mirror is hard to round'. The same is true for jade. No matter how meticulous and beautiful it is, it will be broken after all."

Sui Yi's heart was heavy when he said this, even though he hadn't drank coffee, a bitterness appeared in his throat.When the master went into the back room to repair, he found a chair and sat down, forced himself to cheer up, took out his phone and clicked on Weibo.

Fang Yu just liked the food blogger's video, which was just posted last night, making steamed buns.

Even if Sui Yi doesn't know anything about cooking, he can tell that the blogger is very skillful. The dough is very obedient in his hands. Let him round and flatten it, wrap it with meat filling, knead it into beautiful twists, and then neatly stack it on the steamer. superior.Then the camera flickered, and then switched to 10 minutes later, the steamed buns came out in a beautiful shape, and the aroma could be smelled through the screen.

Sui Yi flipped through the comments after reading it. This blogger doesn't seem to interact with fans at ordinary times. Other food bloggers will repost the lottery to consolidate their popularity. He has nothing on his side.

The first hot comment was a question: Why is Xiao Chi Chi wearing gloves today?Your hands are so pretty, don't wear them in the future, okay?

The food blogger's name is "Can't Fried Chicken Wings", Sui Yi frowned subconsciously every time he saw it.

However, this comment reminded him today. He suddenly remembered the video that was interrupted that day, and quickly scrolled up to the one about making bacon rolls. After clicking on it, the blogger’s hand holding chopsticks appeared on the screen. Press pause precisely.

The video resolution is not high, and the angle is not very good. The hand appears suddenly and disappears quickly, and the frozen pictures are all blurry.

But Sui Yi still saw a dark mark on the top of his right thumb, which was exactly the same as the part where Ning Lan was burned the last time she cooked for him.

Ning Lan said that she has a scar constitution, and her skin burns often don't heal for many years.