Watching the sea from the shore

Chapter 43 Lost and Found
The Provincial Unified Art Examination this year is held ten days before New Year's Day. The unified examination is led by teachers. At this time, the school also takes care of their accommodation.

It was rare for Zhan Ping to become serious. The night before she took the major exam, Ni Manhua went to the bathhouse to take a bath with her. Ni Manhua and she were still in the cubicle facing each other. Ni Manhua saw Zhan Ping with her eyes closed the whole time while taking a bath. One hand was still beating the beat in the air.

Ni Manhua wanted to laugh a little. She rarely saw Zhan Ping looking so concerned and found it a bit cute.

When he went back after blow-drying his hair, Ni Manhua asked Zhan Ping: "You have talked less recently."

"I'm protecting my throat. We've been typing and communicating for the past few days."

Zhan Ping always had these strange thoughts. In order to cooperate with her, Ni Manhua nodded helplessly.If Zhan Ping is nervous, just let her go. Anyway, it's just for the past few days.Because Ni Manhua and Zhan Ping want to apply in different directions. Ni Manhua wants to enter an art college. The unified examination is not that important to her. She just needs to pass the exam. After that, she will have to go to other cities to take the school examination.

But Zhan Ping was different. Zhan Ping's family required her to study music. She actually wanted to go to university and get better scores on the unified examination. Comprehensive universities were admitted based on their unified examination scores.

So Ni Manhua still maintained his own pace step by step. The training institution was near the examination point. It was very convenient for them to go back and forth. With food and accommodation guaranteed, Ni Manhua had nothing else to worry about.

But the agency is only responsible for them until the unified examination is over, because each student wants to apply for a different school, and it is inconvenient for teachers to organize them. Once the unified examination is over, they will be allowed to take action on their own.

Zhan Ping and Ni Manhua had booked a hotel near the school exam site in advance. At this time, the better hotels nearby were all being snatched up.Ni Manhua had booked a double room for half a month starting from the day they left school. She and Zhan Ping each paid half of the rent.

However, they did not schedule the exams fully. If they had time, they would continue to sign up for small lessons with professional teachers, and then each choose their favorite school to apply. In this way, their time is slightly staggered. Sometimes Zhan Ping gets up early to put on makeup, and Ni Manhua Still sleeping, sometimes Zhan Ping's exam ends late, and Ni Manhua is already lying on the bed.

Zhan Ping is really loyal. If Ni Manhua has an exam that day, even if she is resting, she will get up and help Ni Manhua put on makeup. She always dislikes Ni Manhua's makeup skills and says that she is the only one who knows what Ni Manhua's most beautiful look is. Sample.

But two days before New Year's Day, Aunt Zhan Ping's birthday was the next day, and her parents came back. She said they would go back and see them.Ni Manhua had an exam that day and didn't send Zhan Ping off. He just returned to the hotel and saw a lot of things piled up in the area where she slept, which made him a little disappointed.

The next day, Ni Manhua took the exam for an art school. She had also passed the exam back then but failed. This time, she wanted to know if she would be rewarded after redoubling her efforts.Ni Manhua hurried to register after taking the exam to another school. She registered a bit late, so the exam was scheduled to [-] o'clock that night.

Ni Manhua was doing it again. Xu wanted to prove herself so much that she was a little nervous and kept watching the video of the track in the waiting area.When the teacher called her number, Ni Manhua took off her cotton-padded jacket and placed it on the chair. She only put her mobile phone, room card, key, wallet and some props needed for the exam into a small bag and brought her into the examination room.

Five candidates entered in one group and were given six to seven minutes each. They were the last group. After the exam, they went out together. The teacher also followed them out of the examination room. One of the teachers smiled at Ni Manhua when she passed by. For a moment, Ni Manhua felt that he should have a chance this time.

They walked back to the waiting classroom in a good mood. The waiting classroom was about to close, and a staff member urged them to grab their things and leave.But when Ni Manhua walked to where she was sitting just now, everything she put on the seat was gone.Cotton coats, scarves, shoes, and a book.

Ni Manhua went to the staff and asked: "Hello, teacher, I am a candidate who has just finished the exam. I put all my things in the classroom when I was waiting, but now they are all missing."

The staff member raised his hand and glanced at the watch: "There's nothing we can do now. You are the only students in the whole building. It's almost eight o'clock. Let's go back first and adjust the monitoring tomorrow. But there are so many candidates coming and going here. If there are too many, I probably won’t be able to get them back.”

She carried all the important things in her hands. Logically speaking, the clothes left on the seat should not be stolen. Who would want to ask for shoes worn by others?Ni Manhua really couldn't understand.

But after the staff said this, she had to leave now no matter what.Ni Manhua lowered her head and looked at her dress and high heels. It was two degrees below zero outside. She was afraid she would freeze to death outside the building.

Ni Manhua could only call Zhan Ping. Zhan Ping said yesterday that he would have dinner with his family at noon and then come back in the evening. He didn't know when the time was.

The phone rang for a long time. When Zhan Ping picked up the phone, Ni Manhua felt a little desperate when he heard her muffled voice. Zhan Ping drank too much wine at noon and fell asleep until now. When she picked up the phone, she thought Ni Manhua was concerned about her. What to do, say you won’t be back tonight and bring her fried chicken to eat tomorrow.

Ni Manhua told Zhan Ping in frustration about the tragic incident she had experienced. Zhan Ping finally sobered up and asked her where she was now and asked her to hide in the canteen next to the examination room.

At this time, the area was full of candidates. The hotel where Ni Manhua lived was one kilometer away, the bus station was 800 meters away, and taxis were not available. Ni Manhua had no choice but to wait where he was.

Ni Manhua originally wanted to tell her family that her father drove here quickly, but she was afraid that such a big thing would be known to her family. One of her parents would always come to accompany her for the exam. She didn't want to be 30 years old and have to be harassed by her parents. Take the exam with you.

Fortunately, the owner of the canteen was quite friendly. Ni Manhua went in and bought a bunch of snacks first. After that, she said she wanted to take a rest inside, and the owner enthusiastically asked her to join him to warm up by the fire.

His nearly frozen shoulders and arms finally regained consciousness after getting close to the stove. Ni Manhua opened a pack of biscuits and ate them.Because he was afraid of eating too much and showing off his belly, Ni Manhua only ate a small cake for dinner and was already starting to feel hungry.

Ni Manhua waited until 08:30, and then his cell phone finally rang again, as if he had fallen asleep. However, the caller was not Zhan Ping, but Lu Guanhai.

Ni Manhua answered the phone: "Hello..."

"Hey." Lu Guanhai's voice appeared, and Ni Manhua seemed to feel a lot more relieved. She heard Lu Guanhai ask on the other end: "Zhan Ping said you were in the canteen, but there are two canteens here. Is it the one next to the rice noodle shop or the one next to the mobile phone store?”

Ni Manhua was stunned for a while, then stood up suddenly after understanding what he was talking about, picked up her skirt and trotted out.

At one end of the alley, Lu Guanhai was standing there with his schoolbag on his back and his cell phone raised.

"Lu Guanhai!" Ni Manhua shouted to him. When he looked over, he raised his left hand and waved hard.

(End of this chapter)