Chasing Tides

Before dawn, Ning Lan went out to take her mother and sister to watch the flag-raising ceremony.

He didn't sleep all night and had a severe headache. He fell asleep in the taxi, and the driver woke up after calling several times.

Sui Yi didn't return all night, he clutched his cell phone wondering if he should call him or not.Seeing that he was out of his mind, Zhao Jinshan leaned closer and asked, "Do you want to call that Zhou Zhou?"

Ning Lan guessed that Lu Xiaozhou's mother told Sui Yi about Lu Xiaozhou. He has a criminal record, so it's not unusual for Sui Yi to be wrong.

Ning Xuan, who was next to her, came over when she heard them talking, and asked shyly, "Brother, why didn't that little brother come yesterday?"

"He's busy." Ning Lan said lightly.

Ning Xuan pursed her lips, and tugged at her newly done hair in disappointment.

After ten o'clock in the morning, the temperature rose, and the two women couldn't stand the sun, so they found a photo studio next to the tourist attraction, and each of them picked a set of ancient art photos.

Ning Lan sat and showed them the bag, while rubbing her sore ankle, she began to settle accounts again.

The previous insurance compensation plus the remuneration of "Overturning the Country" is getting closer and closer to that amount.After all, the last video incident involved Sui Yi. He is Starlight Entertainment's trump card in the future. Zhang Fan's eloquent tongue persuaded the company's top management to take most of the responsibility, so Ning Lan didn't really let Ning Lan take the upper body.

His only request was not to let Sui Yi know. Zhang Fan hesitated and finally agreed.

Ning Lan counted on her fingers, the commission of the concert's income will be issued immediately, and the new single will be released next month, and there will be another wave of dividends, and it will probably be close by then.

Thinking of this, Ning Lan was rarely in a relaxed mood. Zhao Jinshan asked for another set of clothes, but he did not refuse.

Ning Xuan was taking pictures in the shed, and Zhao Jinshan was wearing a Hanfu with a wide robe and large sleeves, showing it around in front of Ning Lan, asking him if it looked good, Ning Lan gave the first smiling face of the day: "It looks good."

Zhao Jinshan squeezed to sit next to him, and said, "Is your son in a good mood? Is there anything good that I can tell my mother to be happy together?"

Ning Lan shook her head and said no, Zhao Jinshan didn't pursue the question, and changed the subject: "By the way, what was the name of that handsome guy yesterday?"

Ning Lan ignored her, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip of water.

"Is it the rich second generation? There are quite a lot of rich second generations in your group? If you don't have a match, introduce it to Ning Xuan, so that the little girl will not ask you for money all day long."

Ning Lan screwed back the bottle cap and said, "He has a partner."

Zhao Jinshan observed Ning Lan's expression, rolled her eyes, and asked, "Isn't he your...the one?"

"Which one?"

Zhao Jinshan covered half of her mouth and lowered her voice: "That's it, that's the one, the benefactor."

Ning Lan's eyelids twitched, and she said firmly, "No, don't guess."

Zhao Jinshan caught the panic and nervousness in his eyes, immediately beamed with joy, and patted him on the shoulder: "Hey, you are my son, I know what you want to do even if you raise your eyebrows." Then she beamed and said, "I thought the other party was a As for the old man who is over half a century old, I didn't expect my son to be so capable, hooking up with such a young man, you have to catch him firmly, while he still likes you, hurry up and force him to get the certificate..."

Ning Lan couldn't stand it anymore, she stood up and said, "If you say no, I'll leave if you talk nonsense again, and you will pay the money yourself."

Zhao Jinshan quickly pulled him to sit down: "Okay, yes, no, why are you so arrogant? Everyone around is watching."

Throughout the day, Ning Lan's eyelids kept twitching, feeling that something bad was about to happen.

After playing until the evening, Ning Xuan said that she was going to eat at a well-reviewed restaurant in the capital.The place was a bit out of the way, so the three of them took a taxi to go there. Unexpectedly, there were quite a lot of people. They waited at the door for more than half an hour before it was their turn.

The waiter led them in. The restaurant was decorated in a simple and simple way, and there were small semi-open compartments inside. It was the first time Ning Lan came here, but she didn't bother to look around, she just wanted to finish eating and leave.

Walking through the corridor and entering the hall, Zhao Jinshan suddenly tugged at Ning Lan: "Hey son, is that your teammate, the one from yesterday?"

Ning Lan looked up in the direction she was pointing, and it was Sui Yi, he was sitting at the outside of the box, and there was another person inside, half of his body was blocked by the curtain, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

Ning Xuan also said pleasantly: "Yes, it's him, should we go over and say hello?"

Ning Lan ignored it and followed the waiter to an empty table to sit down.

Zhao Jinshan still looked over there reluctantly, and asked the waiter when ordering: "Can we share a table here? There are acquaintances over there."

The waiter said embarrassingly that there is no bigger box in the store, so Zhao Jinshan gave up angrily.

Ning Xuan took the initiative to order a table of dishes, but didn't take a few bites. She kept looking at Sui Yi's side. After a while, she picked up her mobile phone and didn't know who to send a message to, and then continued to look over there.

On the other side of the restaurant, Sui Yi's cell phone kept vibrating in his pocket, and the teacher sitting across from him heard the movement, and said, "Look who it is, what if there is something urgent?"

Sui Yi came out today to get the violin that his teacher re-selected for him. Since he promised his father to return to music, he must have a weapon at hand.Before, he was always worried that the teacher would let him go back to pick up the violin. Fortunately, the teacher took the initiative to make an appointment outside, which prevented him from meeting his father and making the atmosphere tense.

As soon as the teacher sat down, he showed him the violin. It was an old European violin. The texture of the wood and the texture of the paint were excellent. The teacher fixed the strings for him. He plucked the A string, the sound was mellow and sweet, even better than the piano he dropped before.

He didn't show his liking on his face, and arrogantly asked the teacher how much it was. The teacher smiled and said no. give him.

The master and the apprentice hadn't seen each other for a long time, and there was a huge knot in the middle, and there was a lot of relationship between them, and they didn't say a few words for a long time after the dishes were served.

At this moment, Sui Yi took out his mobile phone, glanced at the rows of messages on the screen, then turned his head to look out, and saw Ning Xuan who was waving at him, and Ning Lan who was sitting opposite her and buried her head in food.

The portions of each Japanese dish are relatively small. Zhao Jinshan said that it was uncomfortable to eat whether it was sweet or not, so she simply put down her chopsticks and played with her mobile phone.Ning Lan is also not used to this taste, but thinking that these dishes are often three-figure a plate, the meat hurts so much, she gritted her teeth and stuffed it into her mouth.

When eating sashimi, she got too much wasabi on her and choked to the point of tears. Ning Lan hurriedly covered her mouth and nose and went to the bathroom.

All this fell into Sui Yi's eyes, he hesitated for a moment, stood up and followed.

The restaurant was unusually quiet, Ning Lan dared to cough loudly when he got to the sink, patted his coughing chest, turned on the faucet and flushed his face with cold water.

As soon as he raised his head, he saw a person standing behind him in the mirror.

The first thing Sui Yi noticed was that the thing that Ning Lan had been wearing on his wrist was missing.

The vague sound of beads falling on the ground echoed in his ears, and he suddenly remembered that the bracelet seemed to be broken yesterday, and the beads were all scattered, and he didn't know if he could put it back on.

In fact, he was somewhat regretful, Ning Lan finally begged him not to leave, her voice was full of tears.Maybe he should listen to what he wants to say, even if it's all made up and deceitful, it's better than him being sullen all by himself, driving around the city on the expressway around the city, and finally sleeping in the car for a night.

Ning Lan turned around, wiped her face with a few pieces of paper and said, "The captain is eating here too."

The state is natural, as if nothing happened yesterday.

Whitewashing peace is one of his usual tricks. Sui Yi used to think that there is nothing wrong with being so heartless, but today he is a little irritable.

When he asked the teacher about the price of the piano just now, he thought of Ning Lan's "preoccupation" last night, and from another angle, he accidentally produced a new interpretation-whether Ning Lan will be like him, it is also for self-esteem, and also because he does not want to be underestimate?

"En." Sui Yi responded, "Are you bringing your aunt to dinner?"

Ning Lan froze for a moment, as if thinking about who "Auntie" was. After realizing it, she nodded, wiped her hands with a tissue that had been wiped off her face, and then threw them into a ball into the wastebasket: "Then I'll go out first, my mother waiting for me."

Sui Yi also washed his hands, and stayed in the bathroom for a while before going out. When he approached his seat, the first thing he heard was a burst of noise that didn't match the quiet and elegant atmosphere.

"Teacher Fang, right? We'll be relatives soon, and we'll walk around a lot in the future. Come on, replace wine with tea, let's do it!"

When he got closer, he realized that Ning Lan's mother ran to them at some point, and was sitting next to the teacher, holding a cup and inviting him to have a drink.

Ning Lan's face was livid, and she pulled her arm and told her to go back. Zhao Jinshan was in high spirits, and touched the cup that the teacher put on the table. Seeing Sui Yi coming, she beckoned him to sit down instead.

"Xiao Sui, right? Come and sit down, my aunt didn't know about your relationship with our family Lanlan yesterday, so what do you say? Oh yes, I've been neglected, and my aunt will punish you with a drink."

Seeing that she was about to drink, Ning Lan snatched the cup from her hand, raised her head and gulped it down, then slammed the cup on the table.

The people around were stunned, and the guests at other tables followed the movement and stuck their heads out to watch the excitement.

Zhao Jinshan was a little afraid of her son now, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to say another word, stood up cowardly, dragged Ning Xuan to her desk, and completely lost her arrogance just now.

Ning Lan hadn't been so angry for a long time, the sound of her heartbeat made her eardrums thump.

He bowed to the teacher: "I'm sorry to disturb you." Then he swallowed hard and said, "He and I are teammates and have no other relationship."

On the way to send the teacher back, Sui Yi looked ahead, watching the road with endless traffic, without saying a word.

The teacher took the initiative to break the silence: "Speaking of which, this is the first time I've been in your car."

When Sui Yi got his driver's license, he was no longer at home."This is the car my mother left me," he said.

The smile on the teacher's face did not fade at all: "No wonder, your mother is devoted to you, and she is not afraid that you will be remembered for driving such a good car."

These words were clearly alluding to the reason for the farce just now, Sui Yi pursed her lips and said, "I have a sense of proportion."

The teacher nodded: "Your father is always worried that you are joking, and he doesn't know when you will have enough fun. I think differently from him. The road is your own. We can only give advice, not control. If you don’t take a few detours, it can’t be considered a successful life.”

When he got there, Sui Yi refused the teacher's invitation to go home and sit down. The teacher went to the back seat to open the piano box, stroked the beautiful piano for the last time, and sighed: "If you don't like it from the bottom of your heart, I will be around you. I gave up the idea of ​​continuing to teach you when I was young. If you really like it, don’t hide it, and don’t change your mind for anyone or anything.”

Sui Yi always felt that his preaching had other meanings, so he said impatiently, "I don't like him."

The teacher chuckled. The man in his early forties smiled as gently and warmly as he did when he was young.He comforted Sui Yi like coaxing a child: "Okay, okay, if you don't like it, no one likes it."

Sui Yi went back to the dormitory full of sulking, while Ning Lan was holding his antique cell phone and pressing the calculator again. After ten minutes of pressing, he finally took the initiative to talk to him: "I'm sorry today, my mother made a mistake, I've already made a mistake. I told her, and I won't do it in the future."

Sui Yi was just waiting for him to give in to her, and said "it's okay" smoothly, but felt that the words "wrong" sounded awkward.

wrong?If it wasn't him, could it be Lu Xiaozhou?

He learned the lesson from yesterday, calmed down, and changed the subject: "Where's the new phone?"

Ning Lan let out an "ah" and said, "I've already taken it apart, can't I return it?"

Still want to withdraw?Sui Yi said angrily, "Why don't you use it after taking it apart?"

Ning Lan scratched her head: "There is no more traffic."

This reason couldn't be worse, Sui Yi felt that Ning Lan was so good at lying now that she didn't even write drafts.

In the blink of an eye, in October, Sui Yi waited and waited, but Ning Lan changed into the mobile phone he gave him and quietly charged him with a bunch of data packets. Ning Lan held the mobile phone and asked who filled the data for him. , He didn't stand up and respond.

In the evening, after the two had turned up and down in bed, Sui Yi finally couldn't hold back and asked him, "Do you like it?"

Ning Lan's limp arms lay across his waist, she was too tired to open her eyes: "What do you like?"

"cell phone."

"Ah... the data is charged by you." Ning Lan laughed softly and said, "I like it."

The rising ending had a seductive flavor for no reason, Sui Yi turned sideways, raised his hand to touch the mole at the corner of his eye, and let his eyelashes gently brush over his fingertips.

He didn't know whether this impulse was a reaction that would occur after the fusion of the body. In short, before the balance between reason and emotion was found, he blurted out: "Do you like me?"

He was still brooding over what Ning Lan said in the restaurant that day, "There is no other relationship".They are doing the most intimate thing in the world, how can there be no relationship?

Ning Lan's eyelids trembled a few times, and when she opened her eyes, all the drowsiness dissipated.

He turned his head sideways, and his dark eyes looked straight at the handsome face with sharp edges and corners, as if he wanted to engrave his unique facial features and every inch of skin in his mind, which would never be erased.

He raised his hand and stopped when he was about to touch Sui Yi's face, and the moment he put it down, it seemed that something was temporarily stripped from his body.

Ning Lan opened the corner of her mouth and smiled: "I don't like it, I don't like you."