Watching the sea from the shore

Chapter 34 The heartbeat of a 17-year-old
On the day of the school anniversary, in the afternoon, the owner of the dress rental shop sent the dress over. He smiled and said that he had lent it to a host for half an hour in the morning. He was afraid that it would not be dry after washing, so he did not wash it, so he refunded Ni Manhua 20 yuan.

Zhan Ping was not happy and rolled up her sleeves as if to fight, but Ni Manhua roughly rummaged through the bag and saw that the clothes were not stained and had no odor, so he asked Zhan Ping to forget it.

There was going to be a performance in the evening, and it was too late to change now. It would be makeup time soon, and they had to rush to line up.

Sitting in the dressing room at the backstage of the auditorium, Zhan Ping did not find the makeup artist hired by the school. Instead, she put on the makeup herself in the corner and asked Ni Manhua to wait. After she had finished it, she would help Ni Manhua.

"I've never heard of the makeup brands they use, and the makeup looks the same." Zhan Ping muttered as she pasted a few rhinestones on her face: "If you want to stand out, you have to stand out from the crowd. different."

When she is not in class, Zhan Ping likes to play with cosmetics at home.Her parents were not at home all year round, so Zhan Ping would sit in front of her mother's dressing table and look at her face.

Ni Manhua once laughed at her, saying that if she couldn't go to college, she could work as a makeup artist in an art troupe.

Zhan Ping would really add drama to herself. Not only did she bring rhinestones and gold powder, but she even brought two small crowns, saying that she and Ni Manhua would each wear one on their heads.

After a while, Lu Guanhai walked in, and Zhan Ping waved to him: "Lu Guanhai, come and sit down. I'll do your makeup later."

Lu Guanhai was so frightened by her: "Change it for me? Why should I change it?"

"Aren't you on stage too?"

"No need for me... I'm here to check on the meal ordering status. The canteen will deliver meals on school nights."

Seeing Ni Manhua sitting aside, Lu Guanhai walked up to her and asked, "The dishes served in the cafeteria today are pig's trotters, fried pork with bitter melon and cabbage. I see that you didn't eat pig's trotters or bitter melon when you went out to eat before. Can I go out and buy you something to eat later?"

Apart from meeting each other on the bus after school, Lu Guanhai hadn't taken the initiative to show courtesy to Ni Manhua for a long time. Ni Manhua also didn't expect that he could write down her food preferences only a few times when they ate out. .

"I'll go out and buy it later. You have to go on stage after the leader's speech, and you have other things to do."

"I was going out and bought some on the way. It's okay. What do you want to eat?"

"Then bring me a meat bun."

"Okay, Zhan Ping, would you like to eat something?"

Zhan Ping turned her back to Lu Guanhai and waved: "No, I want to be a fairy tonight. Fairies drink the wind."

After dinner in the evening, Lu Guanhai hurried to wait for the show. His time was earlier, unlike Ni Manhua and Zhan Ping, whose show was second to last.

Zhan Ping cleaned up slowly, while Ni Manhua had nothing to do, so he walked to the side of the stage and watched the excitement.Lu Guanhai happened to be on stage when she went.Ni Manhua watched him straighten his back and walk up, and then a beam of light shone from the top of his head, like the gentle touch of a god.

Ni Manhua was a little entranced. He was just wearing a simple school uniform today and white sneakers without any decoration, but she felt so special.

It seemed so special in the memory that was already occupied by disappointment and regret in her mind.

Ni Manhua felt that her heart, which had been silent for a long time, began to beat again. She felt as if she had a brilliant fantasy about Lu Guanhai at the same time in different time and space.

Ni Manhua, who is almost 30 years old, once again felt his heart beating faster because of 17-year-old Lu Guanhai.

He stood there so brightly and dazzlingly, and the memories and feelings she had spent so much time burying seemed to break out of the ground the moment the light came down, growing crazily against the light.

She suddenly felt envious of herself when she was a teenager, for having such a view of the road and the sea.

"Manman, what are you looking at? Come and change. Didn't you bring a camera? Let's take some photos." Zhan Ping found that Ni Manhua was missing and ran out to look for her, and patted her shoulder from behind.

Ni Manhua's eyes were a little wet just now, and now he seemed to wake up with a start. He gathered his emotions and walked to the dressing room with her: "You have free time, come out and watch the show."

The two sets of dresses were put in a bag, and Zhan Ping's one had already been taken out. She narcissistically compared herself to the mirror for a long time: "What a pity, no man in this world can marry such a perfect wife as me. "

Ni Manhua was amused by her and took his dress to the temporary changing room set up in the corner.After shaking the dress open, Ni Manhua discovered that the zipper puller on the back of the dress was squeezed and hung precariously on the zipper. With a slight tug, it fell off.

Perhaps the host this morning accidentally damaged it and didn't want to compensate, so he made such a "clumsy" repair.With something like this happening now, Ni Manhua was a little anxious and walked out with the damaged dress.

"Pingping, my zipper is broken, what should I do? Do you have a needle and thread to sew it on?" Ni Manhua asked. Zhan Ping, who was still looking at the mirror, suddenly turned around and said, "What's going on? The one who doesn't wash clothes?" The bad boss actually brought the bad clothes over, I will definitely have to settle the score with him when I change clothes."

"Don't think about settling accounts with him first, think about what I will do."

"It's definitely not possible to use needle and thread. It's too obvious. Is there a clothes repair shop nearby? If it's nearby, it might still be possible."

"Yes." Lu Guanhai's voice came from behind, but he only heard the last sentence: "What's the problem?"

Ni Manhua briefly talked to him. Lu Guanhai looked at her clothes and said, "It's not a big deal to change the zipper pull. It's still early for your show, and we can go out now."

"Okay, then tell me the address, and I'll look for it."

"It's in the alley, hard to find. I'll take you there."

Ni Manhua looked at Lu Guanhai and hesitated for a while. However, Zhan Ping reached out to push her anxiously: "Why are you so stunned? Go quickly, go quickly."

There was no other way, so Ni Manhua had no choice but to hold the dress and walk out of the school with Lu Guanhai.Ni Manhua was always a little uneasy along the way. She and Zhan Ping had been preparing for this show for a long time. Zhan Ping attached great importance to it, and Ni Manhua didn't want Zhan Ping to regret it.

But it seems that she is not just for Zhan Ping and their show.Could it be the sequelae of watching Lu Guanhai in the audience because his heartbeat accelerated?Ni Manhua couldn't understand, she even didn't dare to think about it.

As she grows older, Ni Manhua becomes more and more hopeless. In the past, she dared to rebel, pursue, and dream, but now she does not have the courage to face her heart.

Ni Manhua suddenly blamed Lai Hongtu. It would be great if he could invent a magical potion that erased memories, or a regret medicine that cut off all their interactions.

(End of this chapter)