Watching the sea from the shore

Chapter 26 Overreaction
When Ni Manhua was in high school, she had a lively personality and got along well with her classmates. During extra classes, she brought a lot of snacks to the classroom to share. Everyone just thought she was a nice person and didn't think much of her.

During this period, Ni Manhua went to Hexing Supermarket every now and then to buy things. Now she would be carrying snacks to Lai Hongtu's place.When she couldn't finish the snacks at home, she sent them to Lai Hongtu, including rice, noodles and oil.

However, she only gave red wine once. At that time, Lai Hongtu looked at the bottle with disgust, frowned and asked, "Why haven't I seen this brand before? How much did you pay for it?"

"220 six."

"More than 200?" Lai Hongtu had already poured it out and took a sip. When he heard this, he spat out the wine in the trash can and stared at Ni Manhua: "Where did you buy it? Can you drink it?"

"I got the most expensive one, don't worry, it won't kill you." Ni Manhua also found a wine glass, poured wine into it, and took a sip. Well, it tasted almost like the red wine-flavored lollipop she ate.

Lai Hongtu took the wine away in disappointment: "Stop drinking, I'll water the flowers. You said you have a lot of handsome young men who have gone to college. Now read more books and don't waste money all day long thinking about trivial things."

When school was over at noon that day, Ni Manhua met Lu Guanhai and the others in the corridor. In such a coincidence, Lu Guanhai would usually invite Ni Manhua to go home together.

They have two classes a week, Saturday at [-] pm and Sunday at [-]:[-] pm.

If classes are over on Saturday, they usually take the bus back to save some time and have dinner early.

There are many people on their way to get off work at this time. There are no seats in the car and it is crowded.Lu Guanhai asked worriedly: "Are your feet completely healed? Can you stand firm?"

"Okay, I've been riding my bike for the past few days, it's okay." Even after saying this, Ni Manhua found that Lu Guanhai took two steps closer to her. She was standing on the handrail between the back door of the bus and the back seat. At the pole, because the injury on her waist was thick with scabs, Ni Manhua was afraid of being hit. She turned her back to the vertical armrest, and then used her right hand to hold the armrest in front of the first row of seats.Now Lu Guanhai was standing in front of her, holding the armrest in front of the seat with one hand and holding the hanging ring with the other hand, as if to give her enough space.

The distance between them was so close that Ni Manhua was a little uncomfortable and could only look at the scenery outside the window.She was praying that the driver could drive more steadily. Her arm strength was never strong enough. If the car undulated a little more, it would crash into Lu Guanhai's arms.

There was a lot of noise around, but Lu Guanhai's voice still reached Ni Manhua's ears clearly: "Have you... often gone to my supermarket recently?"

Ni Manhua's heart skipped a beat, wondering who had spread the news to his ears.Ni Manhua said: "I've been hungry at night lately, and I do volunteer work with Zhan Ping in the welfare home in my free time, so I need to buy a lot of snacks, but not very often."

Lu Guanhai couldn't help but laugh: "I'm just asking, what are you doing with so many explanations?"

"Oh..." Ni Manhua knew that she was overreacting, and she didn't know what to say.

She actually had questions to ask. She used to go to the supermarket to help out when she had free time. When she first went there, she was always afraid of meeting him, but now that she has been there so many times, Ni Manhua has not seen him. Passing by and watching the sea, I don't know what he has been busy with during this time.

On the contrary, she met a lot of classmates from Classes [-] and [-].Many students from No. [-] Middle School live in their area. Everyone knows that Lu Guanhai’s family has a supermarket, and they usually go there for shopping. Ni Manhua also saw Jiang Lan a few times. She took the initiative to say hello to Jiang Lan, but Jiang Lan Lan wore headphones and pretended not to hear.

Ni Manhua heard that Jiang Lan would go to Class [-] to find Lu Guanhai from time to time. In the name of giving lectures, Lu Guanhai is a good person. Whenever he has time, he will talk to her a few more words, but nothing else.

There is also Luo Zeli. He seems to have taken over Lu Guanhai's job. He can be seen helping in the store most of the time.

They arrived at the two stations quickly. After getting off the bus, they had to walk in two directions. Lu Guanhai stopped Ni Manhua as she was leaving: "Ni Manhua, my mother has to close the store next week for surgery. There will be activities before closing the store on Tuesday. , if you come here with the invoices you bought this month, you can participate in the lottery."

Ni Manhua was a little surprised and refused hesitantly: "I'm going to my grandma's house that morning and have classes in the afternoon, so I may not have time."

"It's okay. We won't close until nine o'clock in the evening. I'll wait for you."

After saying that, Lu Guanhai waved and walked back home. Ni Manhua stood alone for a long time looking at his back.I'm waiting for you, is that considered expectation?If so, she wouldn't be able to go.

On Tuesday morning, Ni Manhua did go to her grandmother's house and had dinner with everyone at noon. Lai Hongtu was also there.

I don't know if it was intentional, but Lai Hongtu brought a bottle of red wine and opened it in front of Ni Manhua: "Come on, why don't people say that girls need to be rich, drink something good, and their vision will be poisoned in the future."

Ni Manhua's grandmother took his hand with chopsticks: "Manman, a high school student, you ask her to drink? Isn't it enough that you are an alcoholic in the family? Put it away."

Lai Hongtu shrank his hands in pain, looked at his grandmother with pleading eyes for a long time, and finally took back the wine angrily.

Ni Manhua suppressed a smile and said, "You'd better stop drinking. Zhan Ping found a new piano teacher. She found a place in the suburbs after searching for a long time in the morning. We have vocal lessons in the afternoon. You can pick her up."

"Shall I pick up? I'm not her driver."

"Help me, her parents are out of town and it's not easy to take a taxi there."

"Sooner or later I'm going to invent a car that doesn't require a driver."

Lai Hongtu's words were extremely awkward, but Ni Manhua knew that he was just like Zhan Ping, but his words were sharp and his heart was very soft, so he would definitely pick him up.

It was one o'clock when I got home at noon, and the institution's class time was from two and a half to five o'clock, and there was still an hour and a half left. Ni Manhua took a break, hesitated, and planned to take a few receipts to Hexing Supermarket , she didn’t want to go, but she was afraid that Lu Guanhai would be waiting for her.

If he really waited for her to close the shop, he would have to explain himself when they met in the future.

However, Lu Guanhai was not there when Ni Manhua went to Hexing Supermarket, because there were many people gathered there for an event, and Luo Zeli was there to help.

When he saw Ni Manhua, Luo Zheli took the initiative and said, "He has something to do and will come back in a while."

The word "he" gave Ni Manhua a sense of urgency, and he waved his hand quickly: "I'm just here to take a look, I have to go to class later."

There were many people queuing up at the entrance of the supermarket. Luo Zeli was in charge of spinning the carousel to draw the prize, and he didn't have much time to take care of Ni Manhua, so he asked her to queue at the end of the queue.

Ni Manhua looked at the rules of the game. Customers who purchase goods for more than 88 yuan today can receive a lottery ticket.Ni Manhua opened her wallet. She always comes to buy things this month. She has almost used up her pocket money. She still has one hundred left, so she might as well use it. She doesn't want to use the old receipts to make special things, but if she doesn't draw a lottery, Lu Guan It was hard for Hai to tell her when he asked her.

Ni Manhua went into the store and took a few boxes of chocolates, planning to distribute them in class in the afternoon.When it was time to check out, there were not many people in the store. Lu Guanhai’s mother looked at the things in her hand and did not pack them for her immediately. Instead, she hesitated and asked: “Girl, don’t pay in a hurry. Auntie asked Let me ask you, do you... like our little sea?"

Ni Manhua was stunned. She looked at the sincere and worried eyes of Lu Guanhai's mother, and even the hand holding the packaging box was trembling.

(End of this chapter)