Chasing Tides

Chapter 5

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Sui Yi also felt that his actions were immature, but he was used to being conceited since he was a child.

Ning Lan's appearance is pure and harmless, and she can easily win the favor of others at first glance. He understands Zhang Fan's intention to arrange him into AOW, and the group is currently lacking members of this type.

However, after getting along for a few days, Ning Lan's behavior did not match his face at all. He owed debts, lied, and flattered himself and other members. Sui Yi even suspected that Zhang Fan didn't know his details before bringing him in.

Before the release of Sui Yi's personal promotion in the evening, Zhang Fan called and asked him to notify all members of the meeting room next Monday morning.

Sui Yi asked about Ning Lan's origin by the way, Zhang Fan half-jokingly said that he picked it up on the road, Sui Yi also half-truthly asked, "Have you been vaccinated?"

Zhang Fan laughed for a long time on the other end of the phone and said, "This task is left to you. I believe you can turn him from wild to domestic."

Sui Yi hung up the phone and went back to the room. Ning Lan put the book of "Basic Music Theory" on his face and dozed off. The sound of the door being closed made him shiver. The pen, the saliva will flow down from the corner of the mouth.

Seeing that he was sleeping soundly, Sui Yi leaned over and took out the pen, closed the book and put it beside the pillow before crawling onto his own bed on the top bunk.

The next morning, the five people in the dormitory arrived early and squatted at the door of the conference room, which had not yet opened, to have breakfast together, and each handed a pancake and fruit. Wang Bingyang got up early and went downstairs to line up to buy it.

Gu Chenkai couldn't bear the disgust on his face, he flattened his mouth and picked out the chopped green onion one by one. Gao Ming bumped into Wang Bingyang: "Xiao Chen doesn't eat onion, garlic and coriander, don't you know?"

Wang Bingyang smirked: "I didn't wake up, I forgot, I just asked the boss to make five identical copies."

Although Ning Lan is not from the north, she has been living in the capital since she was 18 years old. She is used to this taste, so she solved it by dividing three and five by two. She patted Wang Bingyang with a puffed cheek and said, "It's delicious, brother back and invite everyone to eat hand-to-hand cakes. , put two intestines."

Gu Chenkai grabbed a slice of green onion and said competitively, "Tomorrow I will treat you to breakfast at the tea restaurant downstairs of the company."

Gao Ming and Wang Bingyang applauded the venue, and Ning Lan also smiled, thinking that this silly child is really not funny.

Zhang Fan stepped on the click, and everyone entered the door. Just as Zhang Fan was about to announce something, there were still few people: "Where's Fang Yu?"

Sui Yi said: "I informed him yesterday, it should be coming soon."

Lu Xiaochuan sneered with his arms crossed: "He's in the parking lot and can't back into the garage. He's probably still tossing around there."

Zhang Fan asked, "Can't you help him fall?"

Lu Xiaochuan: "Why should I help him?"

Lu Xiaochuan is a playboy, and he can't hide his emotions even more than Gu Chenkai, and his disgust is beyond words.

Ning Lan was even more curious about this teammate she had never met. Judging from the photos released last night, Fang Yu is very beautiful, and the kind of beauty that will not move at first sight is the front office of the group.

It is said that Lu Xiaochuan, a hooligan who is not taboo between men and women, should like Fang Yu's hanging. Just now he came to the door of the conference room. Seeing that Zhang Fan hadn't come, he turned around and went to the downstairs practice room to find a girl to play with. When he came back, there was a spring breeze on his face. There was a bunch of nasty perfume smell on his body.

After waiting for another ten minutes, Fang Yu knocked on the door of the conference room, apologized softly, and sat next to Sui Yi.

Zhang Fan didn't blame him, but Ning Lan felt that no one could bear to blame such a beauty. She really had red lips and white teeth.

When everyone arrived, Zhang Fan announced that he would take group publicity photos tomorrow, and the personal photos of new member Ning Lan would be taken together.

At present, there is only one member of AOW that has not been disclosed, Ning Lan. The outside world thinks that Starlight Entertainment is pressing a trump card to sway everyone's appetite, and it is a member who replaces Feng Qiu, so it has naturally gained a lot of attention.

They don't know that the reason for the delay is actually that the seventh member doesn't even have a decent photo.

The group photo is the cover photo of the debut single, which shows that the official MV is not far away, everyone is very excited, and Lu Xiaochuan, who doesn't care about anything except for girls, is also very excited, saying that he would invite everyone to lunch to celebrate, Zhang Fan asked him Later, when he went to practice dancing with Ning Lan, he immediately fell down and hummed on the table.

After the meeting, Zhang Fan called Ning Lan out to talk alone, and asked him whether he was used to it and how hard it was for the past two days. Ning Lan said it was fine. In the service industry he worked in before, he often worked two shifts, and it was common to work more than 12 hours a day. In contrast, singing and dancing were only half the labor.

Zhang Fan asked him to study hard, saying that he was short on time. He would shoot the MV location in a week, and he would start to give him some training in camera sense tomorrow.

Finally, Zhang Fan took out an envelope from his bag: "This is two months' salary, which the company paid you in advance."

Ning Lan was stunned: "I've only been here for a week."

Zhang Fan said with a smile: "It's okay, our company is humane, and it is difficult for young people to start out. We don't help at this time, who can help? Go back and send the card number to my mobile phone, and I will punch you in the salary later."

Ning Lan nodded and took the stack of money a little bewilderedly: "Thank you..." It was the first time that he had been paid within a week of starting work.

"Don't thank me, it was your captain who told me that you seem to be in trouble. I have a lot of artists, so it is inevitable that I will be negligent and not take care of everyone. In the future, you can call me directly. Our company will not only train you, I also want to take care of you, after all, they are all teenage children, and they are the treasures of their parents at home." Zhang Fan said.

Ning Lan thought to herself, Manager Zhang, you might have forgotten that I am 23 years old.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the seven AOW members gathered in the practice room for the first time, and dance teacher Xu Rui lined up for them.

The positions of the group going out to attend any event are pre-determined. Most of the tall people stand in the middle, and the short people are distributed on both sides. In addition, the visual effect must be considered. The observation habit of normal people is to spread out from the middle to the two sides. In layman's terms, the more you are in the middle, the more eye-catching you are.

Sui Yi has a face that can eat both men and women, and he is tall. He is the C position. Looking from the front, Fang Yu, Wang Bingyang, and Gao Ming are on his right, and Lu Xiaochuan, Gu Chenkai, and Ning Lan are on his left.

When the formation was about to be finalized, Gao Ming raised his hand to ask questions, and said, "Isn't this arrangement unscientific? Ning Lan has a good appearance and is not inferior to Wang Bingyang and Gu Chenkai. Why put him on the edge?"

Ning Lan's eyebrows twitched, I'm going to pull it, can I still lie down while standing

He soon figured it out. As the most stage-experienced member of the group, Gao Ming was naturally unwilling to such a position arrangement, and he couldn't simply say "I want to stand in the middle", just stand like him. The self at the farthest used an excuse to insinuate the unfair placement.

Ning Lan also knew that it was not good to stand on the edge. The group of seven people lined up four or five meters in a row. The photographer was almost at a low level, and he was thrown out of the camera. If he was asked to choose, he would also like to stand in the middle, but he knew that with his current qualifications, he did not have the right to speak. Now that Gao Ming said this, even if he did not have the intention, he would have it.

Ning Lan glanced at Gao Ming from the gap, thinking that this child is not easy.

Naturally, the formation could not be changed. Xu Rui formed another two rows in front and back, with several people in the middle standing in the back. Gao Ming, Gu Chenkai and Ning Lan stood in the front row. This eases.

At lunch time, Lu Xiaochuan invited everyone to the Sichuan restaurant downstairs for dinner. Fang Yu has a beautiful and elegant demeanor. Before eating pickled fish, pass the fish fillet in clean water before putting it in his mouth. Ning Lan was curious and asked him why he did it. He smiled: "I can't eat spicy food, my face will break out ."

Lu Xiaochuan snorted heavily, as if he couldn't stand his squeamishness, he threw his chopsticks in the middle of the meal and let everyone eat slowly, then checked out and left first. Before leaving, he didn't forget to blow a kiss to Ning Lan, his eyebrows were affectionate, as if to say, "Brother will come to thank you when he is done."

The teammates were accustomed to it, and continued to eat their own meals without squinting.

Lu Xiaochuan didn't show up for the afternoon's vocal music class. Teacher Zhao asked Sui Yi to call him. He was hung up three times, and no one answered twice. Teacher Zhao almost broke the pointer in his hand.

After class, Ning Lan slowly packed up and went downstairs. The elevator descended slowly. He simply walked down the stairs. The stairwell was dark and quiet, and he could only hear the muffled sound of his footsteps.

As he walked, he took out the photo in the book and looked at it. It was the Polaroid that Xu Rui took for them when they were queuing up in the morning. Got squeaked.

Ning Lan saw that several teammates around him took out their mobile phones to announce the good news to the family on the spot. He watched from the side, probably because the training time was too short, and he could not experience the joy of this harvest.

But everyone has vanity, and he still wants to share it with others.

He took out his mobile phone, pressed a number he knew by heart, and a long "beep" came from the receiver, and it got through.

It took nearly half a minute for someone to answer the phone: "Hello, who is it?"

Ning Lan cleared her throat: "It's me, Ning Lan."

There was a moment of silence over there: "Oh, Xiaolan, how did you change the number?"

Ning Lan said casually, "The phone is broken, so I'll just change it. Auntie, please save my new number."

"okay."

"Xiao Xuan has started school? Are you still adapting to another school?"

"pretty good."

The other party obviously did not have the will to continue the conversation with him.

Since Ning Lan was arrested in the basement, she has not had any contact with her family, and she has never dared to go back. Today, he faces unfamiliar faces he has only known for a few days. Even if his family is not so friendly, he is reluctant to hang up.

He said, "That's good. I've changed jobs, and maybe I'll be on TV in the future..."

"Oh, the water is boiling. Auntie won't talk to you for now. Hang up."

The other party hung up the phone in a hurry, as if avoiding some plague.

Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Ning Lan grinned and laughed at herself. He is the god of plague. He killed his father, dragged his mother, and made his uncle and aunt's family who were not wealthy carry such a burden on his back.

If it wasn't for the fact that he gave his aunt a sum of money during the Chinese New Year period and asked her to transfer her cousin Ning Xuan to the city's senior high school, her aunt would probably have hung up the phone when she heard his voice.

What about on TV? Who wants to see him

Instead of going back to the dormitory directly, Ning Lan took the fifteen-stop bus to the gate of a private hospital in Shinan, and walked in before business hours ended.

There is only one doctor and one nurse in the less formal small hospital. When the doctor sees him dressed in shabby clothes, the doctor said without raising his eyelids: "All projects must be made by appointment. Look at the quotation on the table."

"Are there any projects that can be done today?" Ning Lan asked.

The doctor pushed his glasses and almost rolled his eyes: "No, the face-lifting injection also needs an appointment."

Ning Lan raised her finger and pointed under the corner of her left eye: "How long does it take to add a mole here?"

The hour hand slowly crossed the number ten, Sui Yi closed the book, turned off the lamp, and got ready to go to bed. When taking off his jacket, he glanced at the empty lower bunk, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and flipped through the numbers.

Although it was not his original intention to be the captain, in the past two months after joining the group, the sense of responsibility he cultivated since childhood has invisibly guided him to be at least a qualified captain. Of course, he has to take care of the team members staying out for no reason.

Just as he found the number and was about to dial, there was a sound of opening the door outside. Sui Yi heard someone come in to change his shoes, and then knocked on the door next door. The room was not well insulated. He heard the conversation between Ning Lan and Gao Ming, saying, "Repay the money." ","dinner".

This kid really likes making bad checks, he thought, and he owes almost everyone a meal in just a week.

Sui Yi put the phone back and hung his coat on the hanger.

As soon as the voices stopped across a wall, the door was twisted open. Ning Lan saw the darkness in the room, turned on the flashlight of her mobile phone, and saw Sui Yi standing there, gasping in fright.

"My darling, it's scary for you to stand here silently, Captain." Ning Lan patted her chest and said.

Sui Yi has hardly left the capital since he was born, and he does not know what dialect he speaks.

"Where did you go?" Sui Yi asked.

Ning Lan also took off her coat. Seeing that the hanger was full, she casually hung her clothes on the back of the desk and chair: "Let's go out to play... Can I put my coat here?"

Sui Yi glanced at it and said, "Well." He raised his hand and held the escalator. After thinking about it, he said, "Go back to the dormitory earlier in the future. It would be bad if someone took pictures before his debut."

Ning Lan was stunned for a while, and when he recalled the first awkward moment between him and Sui Yi, he finally understood that this guy had had a bad impression of himself since then, for fear that he would cause confusion for the group.

Ning Lan felt bored, how come no one sees him anywhere

He smiled and said, "I see, Captain." Then he took off the clothes he just hung up and prepared to throw them back on the bed.

As soon as he turned around, he didn't pay attention to his feet in the dark, and his toes didn't know what to touch, and the whole person's center of gravity was unstable and he fell forward.

It happened so fast that it was too late for him to stretch out his hand. He closed his eyes resignedly, but the expected pain did not appear. Someone quickly grabbed his arm and moved him forward.

"Be careful."

Sui Yi's voice had never been so close to him before, Ning Lan raised her head suddenly, and her eyes met his.

Until Gu Chenkai, who was already asleep on the bed next to him, turned over while talking in his sleep, the two of them took a step back each in a daze.

Ning Lan thanked in a low voice, then threw the lighted cell phone onto her bed, climbed up with her hands and feet, and touched a pair of clean underwear from under the pillow.

When Sui Yi stood up again, before Sui Yi went up, Ning Lan always felt that she should say something, touched the mole just below her left eye, and said, "Sister Zhang Fan paid me my salary today, thank you, I will invite you another day. Have a good meal."

Sui Yi stood against the light, and Ning Lan didn't know where he was looking. Hearing his "hmm" sound, he went out to take a bath.

Sui Yi climbed to the upper bunk and closed his eyes, all he saw were those bright eyes under the shaking light and shadow.

Ning Lan's facial features weren't very attractive in a closer look, but they fit together just right. His nose bridge is high and his lips are plump, so relatively speaking, it is the lower half of his face that attracts more attention.

But just now, his sight was firmly locked on the part above the bridge of Ning Lan's nose, and even after Ning Lan turned her back to him, he wanted to catch up and continue to watch, not wanting those black eyes to escape from his sight.

It is clearly a pure appearance, but just now it was inexplicably more bright and charming.

Sui Yi turned over, faced the white wall, stared at it for two or three minutes, closed his eyes again, and the familiar feeling of deja vu finally dissipated a little.