The five people who escaped slept in Kuichong for one night. The next day was the weekend, so after breakfast, they went their separate ways.
Liu Sijia planned to go back to Wen Liyanjia's home first instead of going to the sanatorium.
She planned to have a peaceful talk with Ms. Wen. If it didn't work, then forget it... Anyway, from now on, Liu Sijia decided to love herself.
As for Ning Chao, he touched the back of his head out of habit, thinking: Should I find a dream and work hard for it
Liu Sijia and Ning Chao happened to be going the same way, so they took a taxi together. They both sat in the back seat of the car, and as the car drove forward, Ning Chao folded his arms, leaned his head back on the back seat, and closed his eyes to rest.
Liu Sijia looked up at his stern profile, remembering how Weixia had teased them yesterday with a mocking look in her eyes, and also remembered everything that had happened during this period of time.
Ning Chao has always been very good to her.
And she didn't know when it started, but her heartbeat would speed up when Ning Chao got close to her. Yesterday when he grabbed her wrist and ran, the skin she touched became hot.
She wanted to confirm it.
Does he like himself too
Ning Chao crossed his arms, without opening his eyes, and said, "If you peek at me again, I'll charge you."
Liu Sijia immediately looked away and rolled her eyes.
The car drove for 20 minutes before arriving at Zhongtan Road. Ning Chao got out of the car. He remembered something, propped his elbow on the car door, and looked inside at Liu Sijia:
"Get off the bus when you get home, don't run around."
"oh."
Liu Sijia's hand was on the door handle, and she kept thinking in her heart - should I confirm it? She hesitated for only two seconds, and resolutely raised her foot and got out of the car.
A loud "bang" sound came from behind, making Ning Chao turn around and see that Liu Sijia was actually standing in front of him.
"Ning Chao, I have something to tell you." Liu Sijia hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to look at her.
Ning Chao touched his head, a little confused: "Go ahead."
"Ning Chao, I... I like you." Liu Sijia felt like her chest was about to explode because her heart was beating so fast, but she pretended to be calm on the surface.
One second
Two seconds
Three seconds.
After a minute and a half, Liu Sijia looked up at Ning Chao. The boy touched his short hair uncomfortably and hesitated for a long time:
"Thank you... But... I like you as a friend now."
Liu Sijia's face was full of disbelief, her eyes began to heat up, she felt embarrassed and uncomfortable, but she still asked: "Then why did you come to the nursing home to pick me up? You have been so good to me during this period."
Asked the most direct question, Ning Chao sighed.
"I want to help you, because you are not a bad person by nature. In fact, it's not just me... Lin Weixia also came to secretly visit you several times when you were in the hospital." Ning Chao began to stutter and was no longer fluent as before.
The cruel truth hit her and Liu Sijia was completely stunned.
Yes, everything made sense now. The people she met were all so kind and pure, and they just wanted to help her as a friend.
"Then why did you take my lighter on Christmas?" Liu Sijia still refused to give up and asked stubbornly with red eyes.
"It's really a coincidence." Ning Chao said softly.
He really doesn't go online often as he has a lot of work to do every day, so he didn't see Liu Sijia's Weibo post implying that the lighter was his.
"Then take me to your shop!" A tear fell, and Liu Sijia quickly raised her hand to wipe it away.
Ning Chao stopped talking.
His silence made him look like a clown. Should it be pity or something? Liu Sijia kept thinking, tears falling to the ground.
"Okay," Liu Sijia's eyes were red, but she still maintained her pride, and her tone was forced to be calm, "I'll ask you one last question, have you ever fallen in love with me?"
She didn't believe that the boy's smile and the redness in his ears when they were together, all those details of their time together were fake.
"Yes," Ning Chao looked at her, his dark eyes clear.
Ning Chao felt anxious when he saw such a proud girl like Liu Sijia crying non-stop. He moved his curled fingers but still resisted the urge to wipe her tears.
"The timing of our meeting is wrong." Ning Chao looked at her.
How could he not be moved by such a beautiful, proud and lively girl? The two held hands and ran all the way to avoid Lao Liu. That night, they hid together under the cramped pool table, so close that they could hear each other's heartbeats.
His heart felt like it was burned.
But that time when Ning Chao saw Liu Sijia leading people to bully Lin Weixia and tried to wake her up with a water pipe, Liu Sijia pointed out the gap between them.
Ning Chao suddenly came to his senses. How could the boy who grew up in the dirty and mixed Goldfish Street be qualified to pick the roses that he could not reach
No matter which rose it is, he doesn't deserve it.
It just so happened that my mother's old illness relapsed during that period and she needed money for surgery. When Ning Chao went to borrow money from relatives, he saw the rough edges of his sneakers when he bent down.
The relative threw money at him and said in a sarcastic tone: "You Nings are shameless! This is the nth time!"
The self-esteem of the poor is trampled underfoot, but they can only pick it up, wipe it off, and move on.
Ning Chao could only hunch his back and keep smiling.
Ning Chao immediately recognized the reality and understood the distance between them. From then on, Ning Chao began to calm down and put himself in the right position. Later, when Liu Sijia came to him to apologize again, he found that he no longer felt that excitement.
The boy's heartbeat comes and goes quickly, like the wind blown away on a midsummer night.
He also felt ridiculous.
Later, Ning Chao kept helping her because he felt that—
If a rose develops rotten petals for various reasons during its growth process, pull them out and move the flower to the sun so that it can grow well in the future.
Ning Chao would not tell anyone about the accidental incident that made him fall in love with Liu Sijia or what was in his heart. He did not want to hurt Liu Sijia anymore.
"I'm sorry." Ning Chao said with difficulty.
Liu Sijia shook her head, wiped the tears from her face and regained her beautiful appearance. She looked at him sincerely:
"Thank you for your likes."
“I hope you can find your dream.”
“I must become a very powerful person in the future.”
After saying that, Liu Sijia turned around and strode forward with her back to Ning Chao. She tried to straighten her back so that the final farewell would not be too ugly.
Even if no one loves you, at least stay beautiful.
Liu Sijia walked with her neck raised, the curve of her neck was beautiful and slender, just like the black swan that everyone praised in school.
She understood that the opportunity was missed.
She was too proud and didn't like people like Ning Chao at first, but later she found that she was prejudiced against him and thought he was clean and kind.
Ning Chao was so nice, his eyes were always clear when he looked at others, his temperament was like a wild dog, pure and full of natural wildness, but what did she do.
When she first found out that Wei Xia and Ban Sheng were together, the feeling of being out of control caused by anorexia overwhelmed her. Why did the course of things change again
My good friend is dating a boy she has liked for a long time.
Her eyes changed, and she no longer looked at herself gently.
Everything is the same as before, with my mom leaving and my dad trying many times to reunite the family. I feel more and more out of control and the world is falling.
She tried desperately to correct the course of events, so she did those things, thinking that everything would return to the way it was when they first met.
But she was wrong.
What she did caused substantial harm to Lin Weixia, and also caused collateral damage to Ning Chao.
It's all her own fault.
God's punishment for her was losing her best friend and missing out on good boys.
This is not a story about pride and prejudice, which only exists in movies.
If she hadn't done these things, would she have had a good ending
But there is no if.
Goodbye, Ning Chao.
Goldfish Street was a street that turned left and right, and it was still a long way from home. Ning Chao put his hands in his pockets, feeling very upset because of what happened just now, and he planned to walk back.
Turning into a busy commercial street, Ning Chao put his hands in his pockets and kicked a can off the road. There was another can not far away, and when he raised his foot to kick it—
With a "bang", a strong force came and a man in a black hat hit Ning Chao's shoulder. He paused for a moment and ran straight forward.
Ning Chao was about to speak when he noticed that the man was running forward and looking back at him fiercely, and the crowd began to scream in panic.
Something was wrong. He smelled blood when they passed each other just now.
When I looked back, I saw the police chasing me from behind, and I shouted, “Don’t run!”
Ning Chao didn't think about how dangerous the situation was. He got hot-headed and rushed forward. He was always a fast runner, so he waved his arms and kept running.
Seeing this, the man in the black hat spat on the ground and ran forward recklessly, knocking things next to the stall to the ground, and the child cried out in fear.
Ning Chao's throat was dry from running, and the man was like a loach, hard to catch. Ning Chao's eyes turned, and he suddenly braked halfway and turned directly into the alley on the left.
The man in the black hat breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the boy didn't follow him.
Unexpectedly, a gust of wind blew, and dust and sand flew onto his face. Before he could react, a figure flashed by and someone kicked him directly in the chest from the front.
No one knows the streets around Goldfish Street better than him.
The man in the black hat was kneeling straight on the ground. Ning Chao rushed over and kicked him on the back of the neck. The man suddenly fell down.
Just as Ning Chao was about to clamp his hand, the man in the black hat leaped up, pinned him to the ground in an instant, punched him, and said in a rough voice:
"Looking for death."
Ning Chao's neck was tied up by the man's strong arms. The man kicked and hit him hard while tying him up. He hit him so hard that blood came out of his wounds. He shouted in a rough voice:
"You little brat! You're the one who's meddling in my affairs."
Ning Chao's breathing gradually became difficult, his face turned red, he took a deep breath, exerted force with both hands, jumped up suddenly, and with a reaction force, he used his hands and feet, and used all his strength to trap the man.
The veins in his neck stood out.
The police arrived just in time, and when the gangster wanted to resist, with a "click" sound, the silver handcuffs tightened on his hands.
Ning Chao was breathing heavily, with sweat dripping down his chin onto the ground. The sun was very strong, and the sweat evaporated immediately. He had just been through a fight, and his mind was in a mess. He supported his knees with his hands, and was emptying his mind. The blood on his chin kept dripping onto the ground.
Suddenly, Ning Chao was awakened by the applause from the crowd. He was dazed and looked over. The onlookers looked at him with a smile on their faces. An old man applauded and praised him:
"Young man, you are kind and righteous, and you have a bright future!"
"It's great that the young man is brave enough to do what is right!"
"Brother is so great!" a little girl said in a baby voice.
People in the crowd kept taking photos of him with their phones. The praise made Ning Chao feel a little uncomfortable. A policeman who looked to be in his thirties smiled and patted his shoulder, then handed him a piece of paper:
"You are so brave, young man. This guy is a criminal who committed a crime in the street. I want to thank you for your bravery on behalf of the people."
The policeman's skin was a little tanned. He looked Ning Chao up and down with admiration and smiled: "You are quite skilled. You haven't gone to college yet. If you have the chance, you are welcome to apply for the Police Academy."
"Can I do it?" Ning Chao stood there in a daze.
The policeman put his hat back on, smiled, and said casually:
"As long as you are young, there is nothing wrong with you."
"Captain Li, we're leaving," someone called him from a distance. The policeman said "Hey" and patted his shoulder again, then took the prisoner away.
The piercing golden sunlight spread down. Ning Chao stood there, watching the male policeman walking forward with his back to him, the five-pointed star on his shoulder shining brightly.
My heart started beating wildly.
The blood beneath his skin was boiling hot, and seemed to be burning something in his brain, which was growing more and more fanatically, and gradually began to take shape.
My blood is boiling.
Then the crowd saw the boy who was a little shy just now suddenly rushing out to the street with a bloody wound on his face, and started running forward, with the wind blowing up his T-shirt.
He shouted at everyone he met on the street:
“I have a dream!”
"I want to be a people's policeman in the future!"
A girl in the crowd put down her phone that was filming, looked at Ning Chao's back and laughed, "This guy is so weird," she said:
"Silly dog."