Chasing Tides

Sui Yi's pupils dilated slightly. What Ning Lan said had been projected to his brain through the nerves, but he subconsciously resisted to interpret it.

The mouth, nose, and eyes of the person in front of him, including the mole under the eye that he has kissed countless times, are exactly the same as in his memory, but the words he speaks do not feel familiar at all, which only makes him feel as cold as falling into an ice cave. .

Sui Yi murmured, "You...don't remember me?"

This tentative question is obviously nonsense.If she didn't remember, Ning Lan wouldn't have reacted like this, even her eyes were erratic, and she didn't dare to meet her.

Sui Yi strode around and grabbed Ning Lan's wrist involuntarily.The stud on Ning Lan's left ear was removed, leaving only two light pink pierced ears, and the bracelet was gone, only the scar on the back of the hand was still there.

It was scalded by hot oil while cooking for him.At that time, he was still thinking about buying the best burn ointment, and applying it three times a day, so that there would be no trace of burn marks on these beautiful hands.

This is Ning Lan, that's right, his Lan Lan is back.

People are always more afraid of making mistakes when they are in an urgent situation.After confirming, Sui Yi held Ning Lan's hand tighter, and when he felt the cold sweat on his palm, he asked anxiously, "What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?"

Seeing Ning Lan's strange reaction, Lu Hao was obviously extremely nervous, so he decided that even if Sui Yi knew him, he was definitely not a good person.So he stepped forward to separate Ning Lan, protected him behind him, and said to Sui Yi: "He said he didn't know you, please leave now."

Sui Yi only had Ning Lan in his eyes, and was suddenly pushed away by Lu Hao, and stretched out his hand to pull Ning Lan in dissatisfaction: "Come back with me."

This time Ning Lan hid, he turned sideways, shook his head slightly, without looking at Sui Yi from the beginning to the end, he turned and walked straight to the back room.

Sui Yi was blocked by Lu Hao and couldn't get in. His facial expression was tense, and a second before he was about to explode, he said in a deep voice, "Get out of the way."

Lu Hao was only a little shorter than him, and he didn't show timidity at all. He still said the same words: "Please go back."

Sui Yi still retains some youthful recklessness in his heart. If it was three years ago, he would have pinned this man to the ground and beat him up.

Lu Hao could feel the ferocity emanating from this young man, met his dark eyes, and said calmly: "If you want to see his condition worsen, just rush over."

In the end, reason prevailed.

Sui Yi retreated outside the canteen, took a few deep breaths and forced herself to remain calm.

Now that the man has been found, the next thing to do is to bring him home.Although it doesn't seem so easy and easy, but no matter what, it's better than blindly stalking around blindly when you can't find anyone, and then suffer disappointment again and again.

Feeling slightly calm, Sui Yi slumped against the wall, as if all the energy in his body had been exhausted in just a few minutes.

Ning Lan's timid and fearful actions were still in front of his eyes, and the throbbing pain that had been delayed for a long time came slowly. He closed his eyes, afraid of recalling, but couldn't help but keep replaying the scene just now in his mind.

This was the first time in more than 1000 days and nights that he saw a brand new, living Ning Lan.

Sui Yi raised his hand, and rubbed his sore eyes a few times where no one was watching.

The sun was about to set, and the daylight was replaced by street lamps on both sides of the street. After waiting outside for a while, the door of the commissary opened from the inside.

Lu Hao came out first, with a bun in his hand, and turned around to talk to the person standing inside. Sui Yi thought it was Ning Lan, and couldn't help but look around, but was caught by the mother-in-law at the door, and jumped up Roll up your sleeves and look for weapons everywhere.

As soon as Sui Yi called out "mother-in-law", a basin of cold water was poured on her face.

"You kid still dare to come? Get out, I don't want to see you, and Ning Ning doesn't want to see you, get out!"

The mother-in-law was out of breath from scolding, her face was flushed, and she went into the house after being comforted by Lu Hao.

The canteen seemed not to be open again today, the iron gate closed with a bang, and Lu Hao walked west along the road, leaving Sui Yi alone at the door.

The mother-in-law who had been kind and kind to him suddenly changed her face, but the embarrassment of being splashed with water in public was far less than the dull pain in her heart when she found out the meaning behind this action.

If the bystanders are like this, then how much pain Ning Lan must have suffered.

He also imagined that Ning Lan could forget the pain and only remember the happy part.But Ning Lan tried every means to avoid him. She didn't want to see him because she couldn't forget him.

The most painful thing is memories, and most of all the cruel memories about pain were engraved on Ning Lan's body with his own hands.

No one to blame, only himself to blame.

"Hey, boy, look this way! Here—"

Sui Yi was immersed in a daze and frustration, when he suddenly heard someone calling him.

He straightened his stiff neck and looked up. To the right of the canteen was a bathhouse that often appeared on the edge of urban and rural areas in the north. Bathhouses are usually closed in summer, so the signboards on the light boxes were not lit up.

It was a middle-aged woman standing there who called him.

A few minutes later, Sui Yi was sitting in the shop of the middle-aged woman who claimed to be surnamed Jiang. A girl who was supposed to be her daughter brought him a bottle of mineral water with a blushing face, and then sat across the table holding a book and quietly Look, look up and sneak a glance at him from time to time.

Aunt Jiang took him a towel from the counter to wipe his face, and said, "I saw you standing at the door in the afternoon, and you were still there after playing mahjong, sorry to see you."

Sui Yi thanked her, took the new towel, and wiped the water off her neck and face silently.

Aunt Jiang sat on the stool next to him, her eyes rolled, and she asked gossipingly, "Who are you from the Zhang family's mother-in-law?" Then she looked Sui Yi up and down, guessing, "Is it from her adopted son? Son? Tsk, the last time I saw you was held in my arms, now you are so big!"

Sui Yi said no, and asked about the "adopted son" by the way. Aunt Jiang must have been bored at home for a long time, and finally found someone who could talk, and immediately opened the chatter box and began to tell stories endlessly.

It turned out that Granny Zhang was not a widowed old lady.When she was in her 20s, she worked in a textile factory in the town. On the way back from the night shift, she picked up a crying baby boy. Communication was not developed at that time, so she knocked on the door and asked about it, and the police station also ran away. After several visits, the baby boy's family members were not found. Granny Zhang raised him for a few days, and as the birth gradually took place, the baby was adopted.In those years, in order to take care of the child, she worked so hard that she didn't even get married. Fortunately, the child was promising, and her grades were always among the best in school. Later, she was admitted to a well-known institution of higher learning with a scholarship, and a thousand firecrackers were sent in a carload , It rang all day long on Quanxi Street.

"At that time, Quanxi was still a remote rural town, so it was such a happy event that the whole town followed suit!" Speaking of this, the smile on Aunt Jiang's face gradually faded away, which meant that the story had ushered in a turning point, " Everyone thought that Granny Zhang’s hard life was over, but Zhang’s biological parents suddenly came to the door and wanted the child to recognize his ancestors. The biological parents’ family name is Sun, and it is said that when the child was born, they were judged to be congenitally deficient by the hospital. He could not live to be 20 years old, and the Sun family had not made a fortune at that time, so they gritted their teeth and threw the child away. After more than 20 years, they became rich and rich, and they thought of such a child again. When they went to Quanxi Street to inquire, they knew that the child was not only alive, but also Promising, of course, immediately rush to come back.

"That kid is also heartless. Seeing that his parents' family is rich and powerful, he abandoned his adoptive mother, changed his name in a flash, returned to Sun's house, and soon got married. After getting married, he took the child to see Granny Zhang Once, more than ten or 20 years ago, I can’t remember clearly, Grandma Zhang didn’t let her in, and she was thrown out with a basin of water.”

After Aunt Jiang finished speaking, she sighed deeply: "Some people just have a human heart, so I don't know how they can be so ungrateful."

Sui Yi fell into deep thought, thinking that it's no wonder Granny Zhang is so hostile to him, probably because she regards him as a villain who robbed her precious son.

After thinking about it, he was actually right, he was indeed the bad guy who left Ning Lan when he needed care the most, seeing that he was alive and well, and wanted him back.

In the early morning of the next day, the canteen opened normally.

Granny Zhang woke up early, moved a stool, and sat at the door like a door god.She has bad eyesight, and she doesn't distinguish between humans and animals three meters away. Whenever there is footsteps approaching, she will straighten her neck and stare at them fiercely, just like an old hen spreading her wings to protect her chicks.

Ning Lan, the little chick, couldn't stand it anymore, and repeatedly advised her to go back to her room to rest. The sun was shining during the day, and she would definitely suffer from heat stroke if she sat like this.After a while, Lu Binghua wandered over from the west end of the road to have breakfast, and after eating, he patted his chest and promised to look after Brother Ning Ning, so Granny Zhang asked Ning Lan to help her back to the room for a nap.

Lu Binghua moved the small stool by the door behind the counter, and asked in a low voice, "Listen to my brother, someone is looking for you?"

Ning Lan filled the coffee machine with coffee beans and ignored him.

"Is it your relative? Dad? Mom? Brother or sister? Why didn't you come earlier? Did the mother-in-law beat him? Oh, tell me quickly!"

Lu Hao obviously didn't disclose the specific situation to Lu Binghua, and Ning Lan felt that it was not easy to keep his mouth shut under the machine gun bombardment of Lu's younger brother.

So in the morning when Lu Hao sent a message reminding him that he could only take medicine after eating, Ning Lan typed "um" and added "You should also eat well".

The barber shop had little business in the morning, so Lu Binghua couldn't get a word out of Ning Lan's mouth, so he lay down on the counter playing mobile games, and helped him watch the shop by the way.

Ning Lan happened to find time to go out, the cart was full of goods, and her hands were tied to the bicycle, and it became a small delivery van.

Quanxi Street is not big, and it takes more than an hour to stop and go back and forth.On the way, Ning Lan received a call from Lu Binghua, saying that someone came from the barber shop and he had to go back first. Ning Lan didn't bring the key to go out, so just tell him to close the iron door of the canteen.

Neighbors in the surrounding neighborhood are friendly and harmonious, and few outsiders appear. Even if the house is open on weekdays, it is for the convenience of visiting. There are people coming and going on the street, and no thief dares to patronize.So Ning Lan got off the car and bought a few tomatoes, cut a slice of winter melon, weighed a piece of pork belly, and picked a fat crucian carp. She queued up in front of the stall and waited for the boss to disembowel and dispose of it.

I made my mother-in-law angry yesterday, so I have to make a good meal to make up for her.

He was thinking about the three dishes and one soup for noon in his head, and when he opened the iron door with a big bag and a small bag, he suddenly met a tall figure, and was so frightened that he almost lost his breath.

Sui Yi was also quite frightened, he went back to the city last night, got up early in the morning and went to the jewelry store to pick up the repaired pendant, then bought some things and rushed over, seeing that the canteen was closed and there was no one inside, Thinking that Ning Lan had run away, a chill quickly rushed from the soles of her feet to her forehead, and she almost lost her ability to think.

Seeing Ning Lan at this moment, the hanging heart fell to the ground.

Ning Lan's heart was beating fast, probably because she was frightened.He bypassed Sui Yi, went into the back room, marinated the fish in a bowl, cut the vegetables and put them on the chopping board, his heartbeat gradually stabilized.

When he was pulling green onions in the yard, he glanced at the half-hanging curtain and saw that Sui Yi was still standing there.

After thinking about it, he went out and asked in a business-like manner, "What do you want to buy?"

Sui Yi was not ready yet, so he took two pieces of chocolate from the shelf in a daze and put them on the counter.

Ning Lan lowered her eyes and said, "A total of twenty."

Sui Yi went out in a hurry today, searched all over his body but couldn't find a note, so he asked, "Can I pay electronically?"

"No." Ning Lan decisively picked up the chocolate and put it back on the shelf, then turned around and wanted to enter the room again.

From the beginning to the end, they didn't look him in the eye.

Sui Yi had a lot of things to say. She wanted to ask him what happened yesterday, how he was doing these years, and also wanted to apologize to him, and asked him if he would go back with her.However, Ning Lan's indifferent face was like a lump in his throat, and he couldn't say anything.

The opportunity to be alone was hard to come by. He didn't want to let Ning Lan in again, so he walked over to stand in front of Ning Lan in three steps at a time, and took out a card the size of a business card from his pocket: "I want coffee."