Watching the sea from the shore

Chapter 32 Today belongs to them

That time, the squad leader took the form to sign in at [-]:[-] in the evening of the school anniversary. This was originally the time for self-study in the evening, because the school anniversary started at [-] o'clock, and the school asked each class to go to the auditorium to wait after signing in.Moreover, many parents will participate in the school anniversary, and the guards are not strict, so Ni Manhua and Lu Guanhai move separately and make an appointment to meet at the bus station.

Ni Manhua was usually led by Zhan Ping for a few self-study sessions and sneaked out without blushing or heartbeat. But this was the first time Lu Guanhai had done such a thing. When he saw Ni Manhua, he patted his chest and said, " I was almost discovered just now, it scared me to death, this must be too exciting."

Ni Manhua wanted to laugh when he saw how nervous he was: "You're making too much fuss. You won't be afraid if you get used to it a few times."

"How many more times do you want to come?"

Growing up in a wealthy family with no worries about food and clothing, Ni Manhua didn't have any lofty goals at all. She always thought that she could just go to college and not embarrass her family.As the college entrance examination scores for art students were low, she didn't feel that she needed to work hard.Being late at school and skipping classes was a common occurrence for her and Zhan Ping. Ni Manhua was confident and didn't feel there was anything wrong with her at all.

But Lu Guanhai was different. In order to change his destiny and let his mother live a good life in the future, he had to work hard to pass the college entrance examination and realize his dream.

Ni Manhua didn't want to talk to Lu Guanhai about this. She would save these disappointing topics for later. She just wanted to rush to the lantern festival and experience the crazy night described in the flyer.

"Lu Guanhai, look what I brought." Ni Manhua mysteriously took out a small bag from his schoolbag. Lu Guanhai opened it and found that it contained a small and exquisite camera.

Lu Guanhai only saw this kind of camera in the hand of a school teacher when he was taking graduation photos in the third grade of high school. He had always wanted to own it, but it was such an expensive thing and it was not a necessity. His family simply couldn't afford it, so he couldn't afford it. Just keep it in my heart.

Now seeing Ni Manhua bring out the camera, Lu Guanhai couldn't help but feel a little envious: "You are quite prepared. Do you want me to take a few pictures for you later?"

"Of course, come here and I'll teach you how to use it." Ni Manhua held the camera in front of Lu Guanhai and patiently introduced every button on it to him.

The two people were very close to each other, and they bumped into each other from time to time on the constantly shaking bus.Sometimes Lu Guanhai's fingers would touch Ni Manhua's fingers, and sometimes Ni Manhua's hair would sweep across Lu Guanhai's neck.

Under the dim light inside the bus, the green, ambiguous and charming feelings are growing uncontrollably like weeds in spring.

After 10 long minutes, they finally arrived at the lantern festival that Ni Manhua was talking about. Tickets were five yuan each. Ni Manhua rushed to buy them first, then took Lu Guanhai's hand and ran inside.

She had been looking forward to this for days and couldn't wait even a moment.

Just entering the so-called lantern festival, Ni Manhua was completely dumbfounded.The lights inside, except that they glow, are not consistent with the content on the flyer.

Those ugly and grotesque shapes, as well as shops selling small commodities everywhere, made Ni Manhua unable to walk even after taking a look at them.

Lu Guanhai knew that Ni Manhua was disappointed, but he still couldn't help but want to laugh a little.However, Lu Guanhai was afraid of irritating Ni Manhua, so he suppressed his smile and said, "Let's go a little further inside. Maybe there is something interesting inside."

But what else could there be? The ones at the door are so ugly, who would want to look inside.

Ni Manhua pouted and felt a little unhappy. These broken lights were not as beautiful as the lights on the school anniversary stage, let alone the dazzling handsome boys and beauties in the school.

Ni Manhua lost interest, but Lu Guanhai had already raised his camera and captured her full face.Ni Manhua realized it later and grabbed the camera in his hand with shame: "Give it back to me. It's so ugly here. It makes me look ugly too. I don't want to take pictures."

"Are you sure it's the lighting that makes people look ugly? Why didn't I realize that these lights have such an effect?" Lu Guanhai deliberately lengthened his voice.

"It's not Lu Guanhai. What do you mean? Believe it or not, I pushed you into the water to keep company with those lights."

"Do not believe."

On both sides of the narrow road, stalls were set up one after another, as if they had entered a market.There weren't many tourists, but the shop owners couldn't wait to open. They ran over to stop them one by one and coaxed them to buy something.

No matter how rich Ni Manhua was, she was not stupid enough to spend money in a place like this. Lu Guanhai, who didn't want to look smarter than her, pointed to one of the shops and said, "Let's go there and have a look?"

After being pulled over by Lu Guanhai, Ni Manhua saw clearly that it was a very young stall owner selling sketches of portraits and painting them on the spot for ten yuan a piece.

Lu Guanhai asked the price cautiously: "Sister, if we draw two of us on a piece of paper, how much will it cost?"

The stall owner seemed to be a college student. Seeing that there was no business tonight, he could talk easily, so he smiled and said, "Twelve is fine. You can just sit down."

Ni Manhua was about to give her money, but Lu Guanhai stopped her, found two crumpled five-yuan pieces in his pocket, and handed them over two pieces of one-yuan.

It was Ni Manhua who suggested coming to this crappy place. Ni Manhua never thought about asking Lu Guanhai to spend money, but seeing Lu Guanhai's determined look, Ni Manhua couldn't argue with him.

The two of them each took a small bench and sat down. Lu Guanhai looked ahead seriously, as if listening to a lesson in class.Ni Manhua couldn't help but ask: "Why do you want to come here to take portraits? I used to be a model for the second class of art students for free."

"That's different." Lu Guanhai rubbed his wrinkled school pants at his knees with both hands: "They can't draw today's lanterns, nor can they draw us watching the lantern show."

Ni Manhua looked into Lu Guanhai's smiling eyes and finally understood what he meant.

Yes, today and the fragments that belong to them are clearest only at this moment.

Ni Manhua also imitated Lu Guanhai and behaved well, but his eyes couldn't help but peek in his direction. The person who just said that the lamp was too ugly and made people look ugly was just Ni Manhua's Angry words.These not-so-bright, but somewhat special lights flickered on Lu Guanhai’s face, making him seem to glow.

He is so good-looking, and I don’t know who is so lucky to be liked by him.

Is it her? 17-year-old Ni Manhua carefully guessed in his heart.

She would be the one who was treated tenderly and cared for by Lu Guanhai.

After the sketch was completed that day, Lu Guanhai put it away.Ni Manhua pretended to be angry and said, "Why don't you give it to me?"

Lu Guanhai blinked at her mysteriously: "This is yours, because I'm afraid you won't be interested in studying after seeing my handsome appearance every day. I'll keep it for you until you finish the college entrance examination."

"Okay." Ni Manhua waved her hands and walked forward in a carefree manner. She walked very fast, but she still heard Lu Guanhai's soft whisper.

"When the time comes, you must take it away with me."

(End of this chapter)