Sui Yi got caught in the rain and fell ill after returning home.
He is in good physical condition. He has not stopped running and strength training for a day. For three years, let alone a fever, he has never even had a cold. This time, the sickness has been accumulating for a long time, and it is menacing, and the past few days have been spent in bed.
Mi Jie automatically switched her role to a life assistant, mainly responsible for buying medicine and delivering meals. Sui Yi had a fever and was unwilling to go to the hospital. She used the navel sticker that her sister's family gave to her little nephew to treat the fever for him.
On this day, Mi Jie remembered that she forgot to bring her key while walking. After going upstairs, she knocked on the door, only to hear a loud noise from the door, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps from far to near. When the door was opened, Sui Yi His chest rose and fell violently due to his breathing, and he called out "Lan Lan" before he could see clearly.
Seeing that the light in Sui Yi's eyes quickly dimmed, Mi Jie was also a little sad. Of course she knew who Sui Yi was calling, and why he stayed alone in AOW's former dormitory.
With little hope, he stubbornly stayed here, hoping that Ning Lan would come back one day.
After entering the door, Sui Yi said, "Tell Brother Wang, I will resume work tomorrow."
Brother Wang is Sui Yi's current manager.
Mi Jie's hand holding the table and chopsticks stopped: "So soon? Let's rest for two more days?"
Sui Yi shook his head: "No, I'm fine."
Mi Jie watched Sui Yi turn on the TV with the remote control, and watched "Overturning the River and Mountains" rebroadcast every summer, thinking that this is still called "very good"
After Mi Jie left in the afternoon, Sui Yi saw a USB flash drive on the dining table, thinking it was dropped by Mi Jie, picked it up and looked at it, there was a note underneath: Look at this.
Sui Yi turned on the computer, plugged in the USB flash drive, and read it. There was a video file in it, which was a clip of all the scenes that Ning Lan appeared in "Overturning the River and Mountains".
In the video, Ning Lan is dressed in black, with her head held high and her chest raised. When she rides the horse and whips her whip, she has sharp eyes.
When the TV series just aired, the little guard played by Ning Lan was praised by a well-known drama critic, who praised it as "it's not like the first time acting at all", and also said that "with time, the future is boundless".
Zhang Fan is right, Ning Lan is indeed very talented in acting, or because he is smart, he learns everything very quickly.
Including learning how to hide from yourself.
Sui Yi opened Weibo, and the AOW super talk post, which had become a cold circle, was slow to update. Some fans also watched the replay of "Overturning the River and Mountain" and sighed: Ning Lan actually has acting skills, I don't know if he is going now. where is it.
There are only a few comments below, all of them are sighing and sighing that time is flying by, and now in retrospect, most of the stops in my memory are the good parts.
Three years ago, not long after Ning Lan left, Sui Yi bypassed the company and posted a Weibo post on his own initiative: It's not what you see, Ning Lan will come back, I'll wait for him.
The comments at that time exceeded 10,000 every minute, and most netizens accused him, saying that Ning Lan's personality had collapsed, and the emperor and Laozi could not cleanse him when he went down to earth; some suspected that Sui Yi's account was manipulated by the company's top management because "Recovery" "Jiangshan" is about to be broadcast, and he has to create a wave for Ning Lan. After all, he just quit the group and did not officially terminate the contract.
Three years later, the trolls who changed their name to "Ning Lan's life is black" disappeared. Some fans even turned it into a pity for him. three years
Fans are forgetful, Sui Yi hopes that Ning Lan can be like them, be a heartless person, and quickly forget those unhappy things.
Just don't forget the way back.
Delayed for a few days due to illness, Sui Yi ran to the Beijing suburbs stadium every day after returning to work.
The surrounding conditions are simple, and he is on a diet to reduce fat for the concert. He only drinks mineral water during the rehearsal. After a long time, it is inevitable that his mouth will be dull and tasteless.
He remembered the shop with a coffee machine. Mi Jie was called to help by the stage art team. Sui Yi had nothing else to do, so he walked along the path for more than ten minutes and successfully found the store. A half-open, unnamed commissary.
The old woman was sleeping on the rocking chair behind the counter, and when Sui Yi approached her, she woke up, squinting and asking him what he wanted to buy.
Sui Yi pointed to the coffee machine: "Is there any coffee today?"
The mother-in-law turned her head and shouted into the room: "Stinky boy, come out!"
I shouted a few times, but no one answered. I stood up and muttered something like "The stinky boy is going to kill my old woman." He threw down the fan, took out a disposable coffee cup from the cupboard, and put it at the water outlet. After fumbling for a long time, I didn't know where the switch was, so I slapped the coffee machine impatiently.
After getting permission, Sui Yi went behind the counter, found the valve switch, filled a cup of coffee, and the old woman was worried about how much she should charge.
Sui Yi took out a hundred-yuan bill and placed it on the counter: "Put it on the account first, and wait for me to return more and make up less money next time."
As soon as he walked on his front foot, someone opened the door curtain on his back foot and came in, yawning and stretching his back against the head of the chicken coop.
The mother-in-law slapped his head with a fan: "You didn't come when I called you. What are you doing out now? Get in and get in."
"I don't have a fever anymore, I'm going to grow hair when I lie down." Ning Lan avoided her mother-in-law's fan attack, went around to the counter, and saw the brand new one hundred yuan, her eyes lit up, "It's open today. ?"
The mother-in-law snorted and sat back on the rocking chair: "I don't know how much it cost to buy coffee, but she said she would save more money and make up less money next time."
Ning Lan picked up the money and blew it, then smiled and rolled her eyes: "Is there such a person? Next time he comes, just tell him two hundred cups."
The mother-in-law's fan was about to be thrown again: "Stinky boy, we can't earn money for ignorance!"
"I know, I'm joking." Ning Lan folded the money and put it in her pocket, "I'll make a card for that person, and next time he comes, I'll take it for him, one hundred yuan and five cups, and the membership card will give you an extra cup. Is that all right?"
After that, he took out a box of water from the back of the shelf and walked out: "I'll go to Bingbing's place and wait for me to come back to cook at night."
"Just let him wash your hair!" the mother-in-law shouted from behind.
Ning Lan pushed the scooter to the east. The scorching sun tanned his skin red, but he didn't care. He pushed the scooter leisurely for a while, played the scooter as a skateboard, and turned a corner at the second intersection. , four big characters appeared in front of him - Bingbing Hair Salon.
"Boss, here comes the water delivery."
Lu Binghua, who was dozing off in the barber chair, didn't support his arm, and his big face almost hit his leg. He sucked in his saliva, looked at the door, and said in a daze, "You're here, brother."
Ning Lan put the water on the ground, opened a bottle rudely, and slammed the table hard: "Young man, where's your male hormones? Didn't you say you want to be the number one stylist in Quanxi? You're slumped so soon? "
Lu Binghua scratched his hair: "No, no, isn't there no one here? I'll just sleep for a while."
Ning Lan waited for his IQ to come back after washing his face with cold water, and sat down on the barber chair: "Dye my hair back to black."
Lu Binghua's facial features were all wrinkled together: "Brother, didn't you promise to advertise for me?"
"With this style, if I say it out, someone would dare to ask you to do your hair?" Ning Lan pointed at her head in the mirror, "Do you know what Granny Zhang said I looked like?"
Lu Binghua said confidently, "CEO of the largest non-chain canteen on Quanxi Street."
"Don't come." Ning Lan rolled her eyes, "She said I was wearing a watermelon rind, and she wanted to split it with a knife when she saw it."
Lu Binghua wanted to hold back and rolled around with laughter while holding his stomach. At the end, he wiped away his tears: "Last time I dyed you for advertising, so I forfeited your money, but this time I can't do it. I have water, electricity and gas here every day. It all costs money…”
"Okay, okay." Ning Lan took out a hundred yuan and slapped it on the table, "I'll return the water, electricity and gas, is this a restaurant?"
Lu Binghua took the money, and Mizzi opened the cabinet to get the dyeing paste: "I dare to guarantee that you will not regret paying this grandpa Mao!"
Lu Binghua was extremely grumpy. After dyeing her hair for more than three hours, Ning Lan had several bizarre dreams. When she woke up, the sticky hair dye was still on her head, and she touched the black oil.
There was darkness in front of him, and he was about to get up in a hurry. Lu Binghua held him down, and took out a thin cardboard with words from his pocket as if offering a treasure: "Look what this is!"
Ning Lan took it in angrily. The finger that touched the hair dye on her hair just now will press a large black fingerprint on the word "concert". The word "Sui Yi" in front of it is unexpected. came into view.
Ning Lan opened her mouth stiffly, not knowing what kind of expression to put on for a while. His mood at the moment was probably the same as when he came out after delivering water to the backstage that day and saw the poster, knowing that the person might be inside.
"Who do you know about this Sui? I heard that it's very popular, and the ticket was issued by my eldest brother's unit. You also know that my eldest brother doesn't like watching these singing, dancing, and so on. It's not cheap, I'll follow you, haha, This morning, Aunt Jiang next door asked me and I didn't give it..."
Lu Binghua babbled endlessly, but Ning Lan didn't hear a word. He stood up and stuffed the ticket back into Lu Binghua's arms: "Can you wash it?"
Lu Binghua didn't react: "Huh?"
"I said, can I wash my head?"
"Can, can, can."
After drying her hair, Ning Lan looked at herself in the mirror with her black hair back, feeling a little strange in a trance. He slowly exhaled and stood up: "I'm going back first, and my mother-in-law is waiting for me to eat."
Lu Binghua shoved the ticket to him, but he refused to accept it. Lu Binghua stomped his foot and said, "This is the VIP in the front row, especially in the front row!"
Ning Lan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "No... I really don't want it. I don't know who this person is."
Lu Binghua couldn't help but put the ticket in his pocket: "Then sell it, I don't care, it's yours anyway."
On the way back with the scooter, Ning Lan completely lost the mood to skateboard. Passing by the bus station, he glanced at the poster neatly affixed to the light box, hurriedly retracted his gaze, and accelerated his pace towards home.
The setting sun pulled his shadow very long. He passed the clock shop, ready-to-wear shop, massage parlour, and greeted every owner in the shop.
After careful calculation, he has lived in this peaceful place like a paradise for three years. Back then, when he didn't dare to take a car or take a plane, he wandered here in desperation and burst into tears when Granny Zhang said, "You guys can't find a home?" to have such an easy life.
Eighty percent of the residents here are elderly people living alone. No one knows who "AOW Ning Lan" is. Every day's entertainment is nothing more than reading newspapers and listening to operas. They don't even watch TV much. Even the only outlier here, Lu Binghua, is a middle school boy who just wants to be a well-known hair stylist on this street, and has no ambition to venture outside.
Ning Lan stayed in this environment for three years, and took it for granted that this place was another world.
Back at home, Ning Lan put the concert tickets in the locked drawer, saw the two jewelry boxes stacked on top of each other, hesitated for a moment, then took out the tickets and put them in the book on the table.
The appearance of this name undoubtedly gave him a blow in the head, knocking open a crack in the closed world he had finally built, and a dazzling light penetrated in, making him face the reality forcefully.
So of course his first reaction was to hide, the farther away the better.
In the evening, Sui Yi drank the last sip of the cold coffee.
Probably because the quality of the coffee beans is not good, the taste of the ground coffee is really difficult to evaluate.
Sui Yi felt that it was a miracle that he could keep drinking. He threw away the paper cup and got into the nanny car. When the car drove past the coffee shop, the lights were bright and there was no one in front of the counter. The old lady should have gone in to eat.
He took his eyes back, lowered his head and opened Weibo, and went directly to Fang Yu's homepage from the first one he visited recently to check his news today.
Fang Yu liked a video of a food blogger 20 minutes ago, the same blogger who made pickled fish last time.
There was nothing in the car idle, so Sui Yi clicked to take a look, and the title was "Bacon rolls are more suitable for rainy days". No one was shown in the video, and the style was very simple. There were no good-looking tableware and chopsticks. Only the cutting board and the big iron pot could be seen throughout the whole process.
This blogger's bacon roll is also very special. It is not stuffed with enoki mushrooms, but shredded carrots and cucumbers, as well as a few bean sprouts. The colorful rolls are quite beautiful.
Sui Yi has never seen such a perfunctory food blogger. The pickled vegetables are all sea bowls with missing corners. When the bacon was rolled out of the pot, one of the toothpicks was not firmly attached and fell apart. The blogger directly Stir with chopsticks, and scatter all kinds of silk in the pot, and get it all over the place.
At this moment, the cook's hand holding the chopsticks flashed past. Sui Yi seemed to see a mark on the back of his hand. He was about to go back and look carefully when the teacher's phone suddenly called.
"There are guests at home," said the teacher.
Sui Yi frowned and asked, "Who?"
"She claimed to be Ning Lan's mother and said she wanted to see you."