Chasing Tides

At the end of February, the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival has not yet dissipated, and the news of Ning Lan leaving the AOW group for the time being due to injury has made headlines on major entertainment editions.

Some passers-by laughed and said that this was the most trafficked time since this debut. Most fans also hold a lively mentality. They all know that injury is a guise. The actual situation is well known to everyone. Ning Lan is not their fate. For the sake of the same group, it ’s a good thing to be happy.

Sui Yue got out of the plane, took out her mobile phone in the taxi, didn’t brush any useful news, didn’t say anything, and saw a bunch of unpleasant comments. She was so annoyed that she took the mobile phone back to her pocket and turned to look out the window.

This is his second visit to this small southwestern city this month. The spring here comes earlier than the capital, the icy cold wind is quietly gone, the river freezes and freezes, the air is wrapped in the fresh fragrance of grass, the long streets and alleys just wake up from their sleep, with a little laziness in the quiet, Looking up, the mountains loomed in the morning mist.

This is where Ning Lan grew up.

The urban area is not large. Sui Yue got off at an alley on the street and walked along a concrete road that was only three or five meters wide. After a while, he saw an old tube house.

It was early in the morning when I came last time. Only the old man who collected garbage was running downstairs, but this time it was noisy. The closer we got, the louder the noise was.

“You think everyone else is like you, just care about your health!”

“Why, I have a son who is so talented, can you? You can only have a prodigal daughter!”

“Suck your son’s blood, don’t be embarrassed! You call your neighbors to judge, is there any such a mother you!”

“No matter how I am his mother, son, mother, righteousness! It’s you, who is deliberate, come to me every day to ask my son for money, shameless!”

“Have you ever raised him, are you justified? You are shameless!”

…

Approached and found two middle-aged women quarreling, one of whom was Ning Lan’s mother.

After Ning Lan left, Sui Yan spent three days searching for all the places he could find, and even contacted the fat and big boss Liu, Fang Yu and Lu Xiaochuan were just as anxious as him, and were looking everywhere. Up to now No results so far. He really didn’t know where Ning Lan might go. He contacted Ning Lan’s sister Ning Xuan on WeChat and asked her for Zhao Jinshan’s contact information and address.

“I wasn’t at home for the Chinese New Year, so I went out to travel years ago.” Ning Xuan said at the time.

Zhao Jinshan’s phone could not be reached. Sui Yue immediately set off for a trip. In case Ning Lan returned home and found his mother was absent, why did he celebrate Chinese New Year alone at home?

The flight was late in the morning and arrived at dawn. He asked a few passers-by according to the vague address, but it was difficult to touch the door. The spring couplet on the wooden door was obviously the same as last year. The words are unclear. Sui Yan knocked on the door with a deep heart, and no one came to open the door until his heartbeat calmed down.

So when I saw Zhao Jinshan this time, he finally saw hope, and no matter whether they were still quarreling, he strode forward: “Auntie.”

Zhao Jinshan and Jin Feng were so arguing that they didn’t bother to listen to Sui Yan immediately, and continued to scold: “You have the ability to ask him to recognize you or me in the face of Lan Lan! My blood is flowing in his body Breaking bones is still connected to muscles. Haven’t you extorted enough in recent years? People’s hearts are not enough to swallow elephants! “

Jinfeng was vomiting blood with her anger, and raised her sleeves and said, “Lan Lan promised Xiao Xuan that he had finished college, who extorted him? You are the one who takes your son’s money to go out and be merry, extortion! Fraud! Extortion! You catch it! “

Zhao Jinshan also squinted her sleeves: “Ask your son for money for fraud? Come on, you report, I’ll see if the police understand the traditional virtue of honoring parents!”

Sui Yan, who was next to him, turned blue and saw that two women like shrews were about to fight. He couldn’t help but step forward: “Hi aunt, I’m Ning Lan’s friend.”

Ten minutes later, Sui Yue entered Ning Lan’s house.

He was sitting on a small sofa, and the table in front of him was covered with dried oil, and covered with a thin layer of gray.

The house is a long time ago, and the wall is cracked and mottled. On the south-facing wall, a row of yellow-colored certificates are attached, with Ning Lan’s name on it, three good students, and a model pacesetter.

Zhao Jinshan brought a glass of water and looked at the wall along his gaze, showing off: “It was all the awards that Lan Lan took when he was in elementary school. He didn’t live at home in middle school, and asked him if he wanted to give me a certificate. His grades are particularly good from childhood to big. Every time I have a parent-teacher meeting, he and I are rushing to him. They are praised by the teacher for being face-saving. “

Putting the water in front of Sui Yun, Zhao Jinshan took a paper towel and wiped it twice on the table. She smiled and said, “I haven’t come back for a few days, and I haven’t had time to clean it.”

Sui Sui remembered that Ning Lan loved cleanliness very much, and immediately changed his dirty clothes to wash, but he was very similar to his mother in his fearlessness, thinking that “heredity” was really a mysterious thing.

Sui Yang also didn’t go around the corner, and said directly: “Is Ning Lan contacting you recently?”

“No.” Zhao Jinshan replied without thinking. “He hasn’t contacted me for more than half a month. He doesn’t text me back.”

“When was the last time he contacted you?”

Zhao Jinshan pinched her finger: “Five or six days ago, say he has a job during the Spring Festival and will not go home.”

Sui Yun was lost in thought. Ning Lan didn’t work at all during the Chinese New Year. He stayed to accompany me?

When Zhao Jinshan saw him not to speak, he asked tentatively, “What’s wrong? Our Lanlan is not obedient, making you unhappy?”

Sui Yue shook her head, unwilling to say more about the idea of ​​not worrying her elders. Zhao Jinshan continued: “Ah, my son is good everywhere. He just has a bad temper and admits death. Nine cows ca n’t be pulled back. Xiao Sui, you have a lot of adults. Do n’t see him in general. He just has a hard mouth. Everyone is soft. “

Sui Yue was immersed in the low pressure that the last clue was also broken, and said “um”, and just wanted to ask something else, Zhao Jinshan’s cell phone rang.

She picked it up and glanced at the screen, her expression changed, and she stood up and said, “Sorry, I’ll take a call.” After that, she ran into the room and hid the door.

The old house was poorly soundproofed, and Sui Yue was extremely sensitive from the elementary school’s music ears. Even if she was not overhearing, Zhao Jinshan’s voice fell into her ears exactly.

“Well, thank you Boss … I didn’t hide from you, I went out to travel in the New Year, didn’t switch on … Lan Lan, Lan Lan, he didn’t go home in the New Year … Yes, yes, please help me keep it, I ask Lan Lan took the money and signed it … Well, I have to ask Lan Lan what he means. He is a star now. I heard that there are many rich people chasing him over the capital … Hey, what you said You remember Lanlan for so many years, I also look at it, but which mother does not want the son to live well, you say yes … I do n’t say anything, Lanlan ’s new boss is at home Well, I have to greet him. “

Sui Yan turned into Ning Lan’s “new boss”, watching Zhao Jinshan answer the phone and continue to talk to him without changing his face, and could not ask any useful information, so he did not want to stay here and continue to waste time, standing up and saying To go.

“Don’t leave for a meal?” Zhao Jinshan stood up and frowned, “You said that Lan Lan, the dead child, was running blind all day long, and worried about it. Xiao Sui, rest assured, this child has been a child since he was young He loves to run around. When the results of the college entrance examination did not come down, he packed up and said that he would go out to work, and there was no shadow in the afternoon. He was like this, thinking about it once, and naturally came back when he was tired of playing. “

Sui Yue hoped that Ning Lan really just went out to relax. He heard something else from Zhao Jinshan’s words: “He took the college entrance examination? Why didn’t he go to school?”

Speaking of this, Zhao Jinshan looked mournfully: “Don’t mention that, on the first day of the exam, you hit a blind motorcycle and it was raining heavily. He didn’t have a mobile phone on his body, and Mo Mo almost failed to enter the test room. Then, I started to have a fever in the afternoon. I took time to pick him up for two days. The last scene was directly fainted in the exam room and was sent out by the proctor. The score was not enough to apply for a scholarship, and the family had difficulties. “

Sui Yun looked at Zhao Jinshan without any traces. She wore gold and silver, and a structured cashmere coat, and she could see that she was exquisite. It was not as difficult as she could not afford the university.

He turned his head around to understand that Ning Lan has apparently been the backbone of the family’s economy since several years ago, including his uncle and uncle’s family, and his cousin went to college to pay for it alone.

Inferred from this result, Sui Yue did not feel suddenly open, but he became more and more heavy.

Zhao Jinshan sent him to the door, sulking his face and implying that he had a contact method. Sui Yue reported his number and asked Zhao Jinshan to call Ning Lan if he could contact him.

In fact, Sui Yun knew that Ning Lan would not contact her mother, at least not for the time being.

In the days when the whole world was looking for him frantically, he had already asked everyone who could ask, every clue had not been missed. Zhang Fan told him that Ning Lan replaced his mother ’s card number with his mother ’s card number, and he already had a hunch. He found it here twice, but he refused to let go of the last possible possibility.

Ning Lan seemed to be waiting for his sentence, and when he said he didn’t want him, he could immediately retreat.

Thinking of this, Sui Yan bit his back molars, and suddenly felt resentful in his heart.

How could he be so fierce, so free and easy, just walk away without even leaving a word for himself.