Chasing Tides

Chapter 76

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If Ning Lan's "whitewashing" is a small pebble thrown into the lake, causing ripples on the lake surface, and soon it will be calm, then Sui Yi's "surrendering" is a giant meteorite that fell from the sky, and the splashes are thousands of feet in a radius of No one for thousands of miles is untouched.

The next morning, even the aunt who sold vegetables in the vegetable market could comment on the matter.

"That child named Ning Lan is really pitiful. He was bullied like that by his family. He finally became a star and was slandered and scolded by others."

"Tsk, how can you be such a mother? If my son is so good-looking and so promising, it's too late to hold it in his hand."

"No wonder you have to hide, to see what the children are being forced into."

The girl who helped her mother to buy vegetables at home during the holiday also joined the chat: "I said back then that Ning Lan was not that kind of person, and there must be an inside story when he was hacking him, but no one believed him."

"The little girl has a good eye, isn't it better now, what can that be called... You can come back!"

The girl chose a bunch of dishes at the aunt's booth in a good mood, and said, "It's up to him to come back or not, as long as he is happy."

The aunt who sold vegetables asked, "Who is that Sui Yi who plays the little policeman? He is also a good baby to stand up and speak for him."

At that time, "Night Play" was well known in the streets and alleys, and once pushed Sui Yi to the altar of national idols. In recent years, he has also been active in the public's attention. In a show the year before last, he was humble and polite, not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and even taught the children in the mountains how to play the piano, and asked the masses to label him "Although The label of a young man who was born into a wealthy family but is not arrogant and works very hard" means that people of different ages and classes can call his name and have a good impression of him.

"He's the target, can't you tell?" The aunt who sold eggs beside her smirked ambiguously, asking for approval, "Isn't that right, little girl?"

The girl narrowed her eyes with laughter, nodded her head like garlic, and said repeatedly, "Yes, yes."

There was a lot of uproar outside, but Ning Lan didn't hear any movement in the hospital.

My mother-in-law reacted badly to chemotherapy recently. Her fever reached nearly 40 degrees. When she was confused, she couldn't even speak a word.

Ning Lanyi took care of her inexplicably. When the heat finally stopped repeating, two full days and nights had passed.

Ning Lan relaxed and fell asleep beside the bed holding her mother-in-law's hand. Sui Yi helped him up and carried him to the bed. Just after laying him down, he heard the old-fashioned mobile phone vibrating by the bed.

Afraid of waking people up, Sui Yi hurriedly pressed a button, and Lu Binghua's male duck voice floated out of the phone: "Hey, Brother Ningning, are they all true? You used to be a star? "

Sui Yi quickly walked outside the house, put the receiver to his ear and said, "Yes."

Lu Binghua heard that the other party was not Ning Lan, and asked cautiously, "Who are you?"

"I'm Sui Yi."

Lu Binghua took a deep breath and lowered his voice: "You and Ning Ning, are you... is it true?"

Sui Yi didn't understand what he asked was true or false, and only reminded him that if he wanted Ning Lan well, don't casually mention this matter in front of Ning Lan. Lu Binghua knew that his brother Ning Ning was suffering from a heart attack, so he responded without chasing guesses.

Sui Yi hung up the phone and took his mobile phone to Weibo. He changed the password first and then played it. The company's people couldn't go to and delete the Weibo. Whether it was Wang Xu or someone from the public relations department, his response was only two words - no deletion.

He has never participated in hype since his debut, but this time he used his popularity to whitewash Ning Lan. Fortunately, the effect was as he expected, and he was very satisfied.

Being rushed to the cusp of the storm, there will naturally be a small group of negative voices, such as "If you didn't stand up back then, what's the use of the guns now?" When he appeared, he was cut off by the fans with a pot of water, saying that Sui Yi's wealth is necessary to help Ning Lan to hype it? He is willing to help, it must be out of a sense of justice.

Then the style of painting changed again, and some people began to speculate about the relationship between Sui Yi and Ning Lan. After all, he went to the funeral specially, unlike what his former teammates could do. This next stone stirred up a thousand waves, and all the fans related to AOW were shaken. A certain high-flower CP station that had existed for five years quickly announced the closure of the station. Only fans and CP fans were miserable in their own super words. Howling, all kinds of small compositions swipe the screen to express sadness and anger.

On the third day of the howl, a well-known fan of Sui Yi posted a long Weibo to express his position, saying: Don’t make trouble, are you fans of this person or fantasies of your own? If it's the latter, let's get rid of the fans as soon as possible, we don't lack one of you in our family, and Sui Yi doesn't rely on this amount of traffic to eat. I'm fans of his character and talent. Anyway, I love Wu Jiwu, and I like whoever he likes. Most of the sisters present have followed the trend and blackened Ning Lan, right? The same is true for me. My idols are not evading, so I have nothing to be afraid of. I solemnly say sorry to Ning Lan here. If you can come back one day, I will definitely come to the scene to support you, single and double, It's your choice.

The fan's open-minded attitude has infected and encouraged many people. The fan who figured it out has cheered up from the sluggish atmosphere and threw himself into the list of new dramas. The high-flowered CP fans are the ones who get rid of the fans, and Zhuan Wei's Zhuan Wei. After all, both of the main protagonists support Ning Lan, and they have nowhere to throw the blame.

Then, the topic "I'm sorry Ning Lan" was deliberately pushed by some fans, and with the push of someone in the background, it was easily sent to the top three in the hot search list. Click on the topic and you can see the integration of fans from Popular science from Ning Lan's debut to being hacked and then to quitting the circle.

In the end, all the entertainment headlines covered it, which in turn sparked a discussion about cyberbullying, which really brought attention to a climax.

It was only on her nominal birthday that Ning Lan received a co-branded cake from the hospital's nurse station that she knew that it was such a big deal.

There are many people on the Internet that he and Sui Yi are guarding a lonely old man in this hospital, and some fans want to come in to visit. Fortunately, the hospital has strict management and strong privacy. Staying in the hospital is not disturbed. clean.

Ning Lan didn't ask Sui Yi directly, she just asked casually during dinner one day, "Are you affected by that incident, so you haven't worked recently?"

Sui Yi truthfully said no, Ning Lan didn't quite believe it, so he took out his mobile phone and checked the Internet, and he was relieved that Sui Yi's personal super talk ranking was still in the forefront.

Sui Yi was happy when he saw that he was willing to pick up the smartphone, and couldn't help but assume, "If I'm really out of breath, do you still want me, baby?"

Ning Lan was opening the account book, and when she heard the words, she raised her head and glanced at him with a fixed smile, and said nothing.

Sui Yi was frightened by his expression. Although Ning Lan does not contradict him now, and is gradually willing to accept his care and care, but after all, there is no seal or seal, and she has never even admitted it verbally. Nothing happened, as if he didn't care what others thought.

Maybe not care, but numbness. This is worse, he would rather Ning Lan hate him than have no feelings for him and no longer have any expectations.

Sui Yi couldn't be more optimistic. In the afternoon, when she played the qin to her mother-in-law, she was often distracted. Even laymen could tell that she was playing several wrong notes, which made her mother-in-law say that she might as well listen to her Huangmei opera.

Ning Lan washed the fruit and came in, and asked him if he was not using the bow well. Sui Yi felt that he had no position to ask him for a bow with love lettering, so he changed a simple tune and played it. Ning Lan listened to it for a while, The action of tossing apples back and forth between the two hands suddenly stopped, and then the eyebrows creased, and said very tiredly: "I heard it, change it."

When Sui Yi reacted and showed an expression of ecstasy, Ning Lan suddenly felt that she had leaked, her cheeks flushed, she stood up and ran.

This song is exactly the one that Sui Yi recorded in the tape recorder on Ning Lan's birthday and placed on his windowsill, Schubert's "Song on Water".

Ning Lan's feet recovered well under the careful maintenance recently, and slipped back to Quanxi after this run.

Under the urging of her mother-in-law's winking and whipping, Sui Yi cheekily followed. When Ning Lan tallied the goods, he wiped the table, when Ning Lan cooked, he pulled the onions, and Ning Lan delivered him... He just stood on the trolley and wouldn't let him go.

"Give me the address, I'll deliver it, you rest."

Sui Yi's body is nearly 1.9 meters tall, standing on the trolley is even funny. Ning Lan couldn't step on the bicycle, so she lifted her foot and kicked the scooter violently. The bottom wheel slipped, and Sui Yi's center of gravity was unstable and almost fell, but she still held on to the handle and refused to come down.

In the end, Sui Yi rode a bicycle, Ning Lan sat in the back seat to guide the way, and then tied a small trolley to the tail to deliver goods from house to house.

Some street residents didn't recognize Sui Yi, so they kindly teased Ning Lan and said, "It's different for those who have been big stars. Now there are delivery guys."

Sui Yi, wearing a mask, reached out and shook hands with the customer in the canteen: "Hello."

Ning Lan jumped into the back seat and beat him on the back with his fists, urging: "Let's go, there's still the next home."

It carries both people and goods, and it is really exhausting to deliver it for most of the day. In the evening, Sui Yi was paralyzed on the sofa in the ward, saying that he had leg cramps, and he was afraid that he would not be able to shoot commercials tomorrow.

One is true and false, and the other is dubious. Ning Lan wasn't sure if he was playing tricks. Under her mother-in-law's nagging, she reluctantly stepped forward and pinched his calf: "Does it hurt here?"

Sui Yi's expression was painful, but Ning Lan finally couldn't bear it. He sat down and put the plaster on him, and then gently pressed him for a while.

The next day, Sui Yi got up early to catch the announcement. Her mother-in-law didn't know whether she was still asleep or just woke up. She was leaning on the bedside to read the newspaper. Sui Yi added hot water to her mother-in-law and thanked her for her assistance yesterday.

The mother-in-law looked good today, with a smile on her wrinkled face, and said with relief: "You two are fine, I'm relieved."

Sui Yi never thought that this was the last sentence his mother-in-law said to him.

When he received the call from the hospital, he had just come out of the shed, and within three seconds of the call, his ears were buzzing, and his heart seemed to stop beating instantly. On the way back to the hospital, he slowly returned to normal. breathing rate.

The doctor's explanation was: "There was a sudden cerebral hemorrhage during sleep, and it was impossible to save it when it was discovered."

Walking into the ward, Ning Lan sat on the edge of the bed with her back to him. The old man on the bed had her eyes closed and a smile on the corner of her mouth, proving that she walked peacefully and didn't suffer much as the doctor said.

Sui Yi slowly covered her mother-in-law's face with a white cloth with her own hands, while Ning Lan just sat motionless, as if she had lost her response to everything in the outside world.

Sui Yi pulled out a piece of paper from his hand, with two lines written on it:

[Mother-in-law is very happy, don't read.

Sell the house and go with him.]

Later they learned that when the two of them went to G City to deal with Zhao Jinshan's funeral, the mother-in-law contacted the lawyer who had come before privately and made a detailed will, including that the only heir to the house in Quanxi was Ning Lan.

Grandma Zhang has tasted the warmth and coldness of the world in her life, and the happiness she enjoyed in her later years has made her feel that her life is complete enough to leave no regrets. She knew in her heart that she had run out of oil, and it was time to go, but the pace of time was forced to lengthen during the painful treatment process, and she didn't want this extra time.

To die peacefully in her sleep is a kind of fulfillment for her.

On the day she sent her mother-in-law away, Ning Lan still did not cry.

In a short period of time, two relatives who were significant in his life passed away one after another, both of whom gave his life. Sui Yi knew that at this time, no matter what he said, he would appear to be high-sounding. He had lost his mother, but his so-called "empathy" was only 1% of what Ning Lan could bear.

Sui Yi was very worried. After the funeral, he held Ning Lan's hand tightly and didn't let it go anywhere, for fear that he couldn't think of it and would do something stupid.

While eating, Ning Lan picked up the chopsticks with her right hand and was about to hold the bowl with her left hand. She found that Sui Yi was still clenching her hand, and a smile appeared on her pale and bloodless face: "What are you doing, I want to eat."

He didn't cry, but his voice was hoarse. Sui Yi felt pain in his heart, and slowly let go of Ning Lan's hand, watching him take small bites of rice, not even daring to blink.

In the evening, Sui Yi took Ning Lan back to Quanxi and followed him into the house.

It was cold and cold in the late autumn. After Ning Lan washed and lay down, Sui Yi covered him with a quilt, but he still refused to leave. He picked up the book by the bed and said he wanted to tell him a story.

The one I took was "One Thousand and One Nights", a book that Ning Lan often read when she couldn't sleep.

"Do you know how "One Thousand and One Nights" came about?" Ning Lan asked him, huddled under the covers.

Sui Yi flipped through the pages at a loss, feeling that none of the stories were positive enough or sunny enough, so he turned and replied: "In ancient times, there was a king who married a girl every day, killed her the next morning, and finally it was the prime minister's turn. The daughter of the family, she is very smart, she tells stories to the king every day, and the king wants to hear the story, so he doesn't kill her."

Ning Lan asked again, "How did you know that?"

"My mom told me when I was a kid."

After Sui Yi finished speaking, he was stunned. Ning Lan lost two mothers in a row, but he was with his premise mother. The more anxious he got, the more mistakes he made.

Sui Yi was very annoyed here, but there was no sadness on Ning Lan's face there.

He curved his lips and said, "I don't want to hear the story in the book." He stretched out his hand again and tugged at the hem of Sui Yi's clothes, "I want to hear the story of you and your mother, okay?"

Sui Yi was only surprised for a moment, then calmed down again, leaned against the bedside to organize some language, and slowly said, "My mother... very beautiful."

As soon as he raised his head, Ning Lan burst into laughter. He looked up at Sui Yi: "I know, just look at you."

Sui Yi couldn't help blushing, cleared her throat, and continued: "She...is a spoiled eldest lady, she has never suffered or suffered any setbacks since she was a child. The only setback...is probably meeting my dad. My dad There is another love, my mother refuses to admit defeat, and she is stubborn and does not listen to persuasion. She is used to being conceited, she has to get what she wants, and then it will take twenty years to make a toss." Having said this, Sui Yi paused, " You can imagine the tossing process for yourself, as for me, she is the product of her tossing and refusing to admit defeat."

Ning Lan blinked, these rich and powerful entanglements that can only be seen in gossip magazines are too far away from him, maybe there is also the reason why Sui Yi talked too easily, he could not imagine, nor did he feel real.

Sui Yi felt very warm, he couldn't help leaning beside him and asked in a low voice, "Is it gone?"

"No more." Sui Yi frowned, "I'm not very good at telling stories."

Ning Lan was silent for a few seconds, and said, "I asked about the story of you and your mother, you are off topic."

Sui Yi was even more cramped: "My mother and I... have no story, just like an ordinary mother and son, nothing special."

"What does an ordinary mother and child look like?" Ning Lan asked.

Sui Yi looked far away, as if thinking, and after a long time said, "She loves me very much, and I love her very much."

A simple sentence, but for no reason, calmed Ning Lan down. The swaying light in his eyes suddenly settled down, and the hand holding Sui Yi suddenly loosened.

Sui Yi regarded his move as wanting to give up, his heart tightened, and he quickly said: "They all love you, there are so many people who love you, you have to live well, live well..."

He spoke more and more urgently, and suddenly stopped talking halfway through. I wanted to cover up what I was thinking for a few days, but I blurted out in this situation.

Ning Lan looked blank: "Live well... What are you doing alive?"

Sui Yi was short of words, so he searched his stomach and said, "You haven't avenged me yet, haven't made me suffer..."

Ning Lan shook her head: "I'm running out of strength."

Sui Yi would rather Ning Lan not forgive him now, it would be better to hate him so much than to have nothing to do with the world.

He took a few breaths, suppressed the panic that was about to devour him, clenched Ning Lan's outstretched hand, put him in his arms, and said forcefully, "Then I'll give you half of my strength, and give you half of my strength. Your life is also divided into half, and you can take whatever you want from me. You, you took my things, and I will follow you every day, wherever you go... You can never get rid of me."

Each word weighed more than a thousand gold, was crushed unreasonably, and then burst out of the teeth.

These words have been deeply suppressed and screened, but they still sound incoherent and somewhat childish and crazy.

Ning Lan's body trembled with him, but he didn't feel scared and didn't want to run away.

He remembered Sui Yi's birthday three years ago. At that time, the two of them were separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and their hearts were silently tied to each other.

Twenty-year-old Sui Yi asked him to make a wish on the phone, and said loudly: "My wish is very spiritual, I will share with you."

At that time, Sui Yi was high-spirited and free-spirited, but now he has become desolate and fearful, and his heart is cold.

At that time, I only took that as a joke, but now I take it seriously.

Ning Lan raised her neck, her cheek brushed against Sui Yi's chin, her trembling fingers lifted the broken hair on his forehead, letting her absent-minded face be reflected in his amber eyes, and a fluttering syllable emanated from her throat: "Um."