Watching the sea from the shore

Chapter 84 Paper Airplane

On the campus of No. [-] Middle School, there were still students from the art class and the rocket class making up lessons. The security guards refused to let them in during class hours. Lu Guanhai said he went back to school to see the teacher.

The security guard looked at them suspiciously. Lu Guanhai pointed to the bulletin board with information about outstanding alumni just a few meters from the gate: "Uncle, go and take a look. There is a photo of me on it."

The security guard actually went to see it, and after reading it, he came back and waved to let them in.Ni Manhua really didn't expect it: "Your face is still so useful after so many years of graduation?"

"Only in this time and space, we are on the alumni list, but we will not be there after we go back."

At this time, Ni Manhua's photo was also posted on the alumni list, but the position was slightly lower than that of Lu Guanhai.From this point of view, they won't gain anything after reviving their lives.

In another time and space, the school that Ni Manhua and Lu Guanhai attended was not the top university. Even if it was considered a prestigious school, it could not compare with this time and space.

It was class time now, and the campus was empty. After Ni Manhua walked in, she stood in front of the alumni list. She looked at the photo of Lu Guanhai hanging high on the list.

Lu Guanhai didn't like taking photos very much. In the past, Ni Manhua always liked to ask him to take photos. In this time and space, Ni Manhua didn't force him. He had very few solo photos. When the school asked him to hand in photos, he just flipped through them casually. A small photo taken when I was a freshman in high school. That photo is particularly conspicuous among the many art photos and life photos.

Ni Manhua raised his head and looked at Lu Guanhai's name and school for a long time: "Actually, you could still go to this school if you chose an unpopular major."

"I wanted to be a doctor back then, but you didn't take the exam to go to Beijing."

Lu Guanhai answered the conversation quickly, and Ni Manhua then remembered how much they had changed. Lu Guanhai once liked studying medicine, and Lu Guanhai also loved her.But now, everything is different.

On the day of Ni Manhua's second birthday, Lu Guanhai said that he would no longer be a doctor because he didn't want to lose his family and didn't want to make his family wait hard because of his busy work. Ni Manhua believed that when he said those words It was sincere, but Lu Guanhai didn't really hate being a doctor. He was just annoyed that he didn't live a good life as a doctor, and thus resented that profession.In fact, their problem does not lie in what kind of occupation Lu Guanhai is doing. Even if Lu Guanhai is engaged in other jobs, after experiencing what they have experienced, he will still spend all his time in it. At work.

"You have actually done a lot for me, and I know that." Ni Manhua's eyes left the alumni list, and she continued walking towards the campus: "You should have lived a very relaxed and happy life, but because of me Your path has become much more difficult.”

"No path is absolutely easy. It's useless for me to mess up the life you expect." Lu Guanhai quickly followed Ni Manhua. He didn't know how to tell Ni Manhua that he actually didn't know anything about it. Nor did she want her to think of only bad memories when she mentioned their marriage.

Ni Manhua may be pessimistic because she has been overwhelmed by negative emotions recently. She also wants to get along with Lu Guanhai more simply in her last teenage years.

When passing by the playground, Ni Manhua pointed at the white goal that had been washed away by the wind and rain and was beginning to fade: "Remember? When you were a sophomore in high school, you played football with others. I had to wait for you. I thought you were so good at playing. , but your level is really quite poor.”

"We were really not very good at playing football at that time. The physical education teacher was just teaching me, and I caught a ball with my head. When we were off the field, you ran over in a panic to look at my head and insisted on taking me to the hospital for examination."

Ni Manhua has watched football games, and she knows that many players can head the ball, but Lu Guanhai has never practiced it. His strongest talent is learning. He will have to rely on his brain to make a living in the future. Ni Manhua was afraid that he would have brain problems. If you become stupid due to shock, you will not be able to get into a good university.

Now that I think about it, she is really naive.

Ni Manhua defended: "It's not because I care about you. I remember that you had a Mathematical Olympiad competition to participate in soon."

"Yes, you suddenly became a lot quieter from the day I told you that I was going to compete. You said that it was me who made the noise and affected my mood." Recalling what happened in the past, Lu Guanhai's smile finally came to the corner of his mouth again: "So when I got the bonus, I gave you half of it."

Ni Manhua remembers the schoolbag that Lu Guanhai gave her. It cost 50 yuan, was made of canvas, and had a cute pink pig on it.

That schoolbag had no other advantages, except that it was big. After Ni Manhua carried it back, her mother disliked it for a long time, so Ni Manhua lied and said she bought it herself. This kind of bag was popular in school.

"The bag you bought is really hard. The straps rub my shoulders. I didn't dare to put too many things in it when I was carrying it." Ni Manhua was finally able to tell the truth to Lu Guanhai.

"It's not easy to hold things?" Lu Guanhai was a little surprised: "I bought such a big one just to hold things for you."

Ni Manhua smiled, her last bag was used to hold broken basketballs for them.The school does not allow dormitory students to bring basketballs, but Wu Bo secretly brought them and hid them in the storage box in the dormitory. He would take them out to play as soon as school was over, and then secretly put them back into the dormitory after playing so that he could not be discovered by the dormitory teacher.

After they finished playing ball that day, they happened to see Ni Manhua coming to school. Ni Manhua was carrying a leather bag. Lu Guanhai came over and asked her if she could help Wu Bo load the ball and take it back to the dormitory. Ni Manhua agreed.

Ni Manhua's small leather bag was not big, so Wu Bo had to force the basketball into it for a long time. After returning to the dormitory, he also spent a lot of effort to pour the ball out, but Ni Manhua's bag was burst.

Lu Guanhai felt very guilty. Although it was Wu Bo who broke the bag, he was the one who asked Ni Manhua to borrow it. At that time, in order to make Lu Guanhai feel better, Ni Manhua comforted him and said, "It's okay. This I don’t want this bag for a long time. It’s so small that I can’t hold anything in it. It happened to be broken and I can get a new one. I’ll get a bigger one next time.”

So after Lu Guanhai won the first prize in the Mathematical Olympiad, he spent half of the prize money to buy her a large enough canvas bag.

Lu Guanhai said helplessly: "It's so difficult to guess what you girls are thinking. What you say means one thing, but what you think means another."

"Yeah, when I was a kid, I didn't think it was easy to say what's on my mind."

They continued walking inside. When passing the gymnasium, Lu Guanhai asked Ni Manhua if he wanted to go in and take a look. Ni Manhua said yes.The gymnasium has two floors above ground and two floors underground. The first floor below is the piano room. Resident students in the art class will apply for the qualification to use the piano room.

Ni Manhua is a day student, and she usually practices piano at home.

"Do you remember? One year you and your classmates were practicing in the piano room, and someone threw a paper airplane at you."

Ni Manhua was not very impressed by this incident, but when Lu Guanhai mentioned it, she had some impression.

The situation at that time was that two piano students in the class were preparing to participate in a city competition together. However, at the scheduled rehearsal time that day, one of the students asked for leave and was absent. The other student asked Ni Manhua to help rehearse the other's part.

Ni Manhua's major is not piano, and she only used the school's piano room that time. She didn't expect to be seen by Lu Guanhai by such a coincidence.

"I threw that paper airplane." Lu Guanhai told Ni Manhua the secret very frankly.The person who played the piano with Ni Manhua at that time was her deskmate, a boy with excellent piano skills and good looks, which immediately aroused Lu Guanhai's jealousy.

At that time, Lu Guanhai didn't know Ni Manhua, but he was very afraid of what would happen between Ni Manhua and that male classmate. In desperation, he wrote a confession on a piece of paper, folded it into a paper airplane and threw it away, but while he was playing the piano well, Ni Manhua, who was hit in the face by a paper airplane, was angry at being disturbed. She didn't pay attention to what was written in the paper airplane or who threw it. She just thought that someone was flying around out of boredom and happened to hit her.

Ni Manhua crumpled the paper airplane into a ball and threw it into the trash can.

So that weekend, Lu Guanhai and others staged a drama of chance encounter in the cinema. Without this opportunity, Lu Guanhai might still be hesitant and timid, and would not have met Ni Manhua so early.

"You have many tricks. I really didn't realize you did so many things back then." Ni Manhua marveled at Lu Guanhai's palace. Lu Guanhai said without hesitation: "Many people in the school are paying attention. You, I always have to have something special to stand out, I can never just wait for you to take the initiative to get to know me, you won't pay attention to me at all."

Ni Manhua felt that Lu Guanhai looked up to her. When she was in school, she really didn't pay much attention to people other than her classmates because she didn't have that kind of mentality. Even though Lu Guanhai was so famous that 90.00% of the people in the second middle school listened to it. Having said his name, Ni Manhua is also among the one percent.

But that was because she was slow, not because Lu Guanhai was not good enough. The male-to-female ratio in No. [-] Middle School was imbalanced. Lu Guanhai's popularity in school was much higher than hers.

Lu Guanhai walked to the piano room where Ni Manhua played the piano and sat down, opened the cover of the piano, but was embarrassed to play the notes: "You were sitting here at the time, and I was watching from above, just wishing I could play the same instrument ”

The first and second floors below the gymnasium are relative to the playground, but in fact, looking in the other direction, they are the first and second floors built on the ground.The location of Luguanhai Station is on the stairwell on the side of the playground. The stairs can lead directly to the first floor of the gymnasium from the outside.But from Ni Manhua's perspective, the window blocked her view, preventing her from discovering Lu Guanhai's existence.

Ni Manhua lowered her head and looked at the piano keys. After a while, she sat next to Lu Guanhai, picked up his left hand and placed it on a piano key. She pressed it down gently, and the piano keys made a crisp sound.Ni Manhua said: "Just keep this rhythm and keep playing this key."

Ni Manhua let go of his hand, and Lu Guanhai still pressed the white key at the original frequency. Ni Manhua took a deep breath, and began to play a nice melody with his hands on the other side in conjunction with Lu Guanhai.

Ni Manhua kept changing the chords, and melodious music flowed between them.

During class time, a sudden burst of piano sound seemed a bit abrupt in the campus. They were so immersed in it that they did not notice it, but the teacher passing by the playground could clearly hear it.

The teacher walked to the stairwell where Guanhai had peeked from the front road and leaned out to see: "Which class is playing piano here during school hours? They are not wearing school uniforms! Who is your class teacher?"

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, Ni Manhua and Lu Guanhai looked at each other, Lu Guanhai said: "Run from the stairs inside."

Ni Manhua nodded and ran out of the door. Feeling something was wrong, he stopped and asked doubtfully: "We are not high school students, why are we running?"

Lu Guanhai was stunned. He was used to being a good student and was most afraid of leaving a negative impression on the teacher. When he heard the rebuke, he subconsciously ran away. He even forgot that he was no longer a student of No. [-] Middle School.

Lu Guanhai rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and Ni Manhua smiled helplessly. Then the two slowed down and went up the stairs inside the gymnasium.

Unexpectedly, while they were playing the piano, the health teacher hired by the school had already started cleaning the gymnasium. The stairs and floors were all stained with water. Ni Manhua was wearing small leather shoes with heels. He stepped on them without moving forward. The foam on a certain section of the stairs that had not been washed away slipped and fell on the stairs.

When the side of her chin hit the stairs, Ni Manhua felt stars rising in front of her eyes, the world was spinning, and all the bones in her body seemed to be falling apart.Lu Guanhai didn't hold her, but he hurriedly helped her up when she fell. When he saw Ni Manhua's eyes were filled with tears in pain.

Lu Guanhai gave Ni Manhua a rough check. He found that there was a long gash on the right side of his chin, and his right arm was also dislocated because it was propped on the ground when he fell. He had to be sent to the hospital immediately.

(End of this chapter)