Watching the sea from the shore

Chapter 7 Designed Fate
Separating from Zhan Ping and the school gate, Ni Manhua stood alone on the street for a while, then shook off the memories and walked home.She wanted to start over again, to live a new life, to live a life without a road to see the sea, and why she kept thinking about those things in the past.

Ni Manhua strode forward, along the street to the left gate of the school, and walked four intersections forward, and it took about 10 minutes to get home.After working, she gradually lost the time to be alone. She thought about using this hard-earned leisure time to slowly walk back alone and think about what she needed to do in her life again.

From the school gate to the first intersection, there is a milk tea shop. When Ni Manhua was in school, she liked the original milk tea from this shop. She hadn't drank it for a long time, so she walked into the shop unconsciously.

Sitting in front of the bar, Ni Manhua saw several familiar figures through the bamboo screen on the left.They were the brothers with whom Lu Guanhai had the best relationship in high school. They were sitting at the small table over there. Fortunately, Lu Guanhai was not there.

Several boys gathered together, their voices not deliberately lowered, and they were very clear in the empty milk tea shop.

Wu Bo, who has always had the most ideas, said with excitement: "Luotuo stands on the right, Lin Xiang stands on the left. Remember to wait until the people leaving the venue are almost gone before taking action. Safety is important."

Lin wanted to ask him: "Then where are you standing?"

Wu Bo glared at him: "Stupid, you pretend to bump into Brother Hai, I will reach out from the middle and push him."

A picture appeared in Luo Zheli's mind, and he couldn't help but laugh: "It's true that you can only push. If we really bump into it..."

Wu Bo chuckled: "Ni Manhua's small body will definitely fall apart on the spot."

"That's not bad." After Lin Xiang figured out the plan, he started to make trouble: "Think about it, if Ni Manhua really gets into trouble and Brother Hai goes to the hospital every day to ask for help, maybe it will happen!"

Luo Zheli was the most sensible person and rolled his eyes at him: "You can pull this off. When the time comes, you can pay for Brother Hai's medical expenses."

"Forget it, we still have to leave a good impression on Brother Hai on Ni Manhua."

The three of them got together and talked to each other. Ni Manhua stared at them blankly, not even hearing the boss call her.

The boss patted her hand helplessly: "Classmate, your original milk tea is ready. Do you want to package it or drink it now?"

"Ah? Let's drink now." Ni Manhua finally reacted, took the drink from the boss awkwardly, lowered his head and left from the door.

The moment he walked to the street, Ni Manhua took a deep breath of oxygen.

The summer sun was a bit dazzling, perhaps because of this, her sensitive eyes became moist with stimulation.

Afraid that the people in the milk tea shop would see her, Ni Manhua didn't stay long and walked quickly home, sipping her milk tea.

"Hey, Lu Guanhai, you said you met you at the cinema for the first time. If the person you bumped into wasn't me, would you have been with someone else?" In 2013, after graduating from high school, he accepted Lu Guanhai's confession Ni Manhuacheng asked him this.

"No, I have eyes on my feet and I love to bump into you." Lu Guanhai rubbed her head and pressed her into his arms: "We have so much fate that we can't use it up, don't you? Did you find that our lives can always overlap?"

Ni Manhua leaned against his chest with peace of mind, believing deeply in what he said.Ever since he met him in the cinema, Ni Manhua began to search for clues about his appearance in his memory.He was indeed always by her side, but Ni Manhua was too slow in the past and never noticed.

The 10-minute journey was so long. When he got home, Ni Manhua took clean clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. His mother shouted from behind: "I just came back and I'm not sweating yet. You need to take a rest first!"

"It's okay, I'll be out in a minute." After saying that, Ni Manhua quickly closed the door, squatted in the corner of the bathroom, and hugged his knees tightly.

No fate.She and Lu Guanhai had never been destined to each other. He had always been trying to get closer to her, but she had never noticed it before.

At that time, they could always take the same bus when they went to school. After school, she took a long way to go to the snack street to buy braised tofu. He also happened to like to watch people playing spinning tops nearby.

She once naively thought that this was all the fate between her and him.

the next morning.Ni Manhua's alarm clock rang 10 minutes early.She opened her eyes, looked at the half-dark sky outside the window, and got up to change clothes and wash up.

Her mother sat on the sofa and looked at her in surprise: "Why did you get up by yourself today?"

Ni Manhua faced the full-length mirror in the living room and tied her ponytail behind her head: "I will walk to school from now on, exercise, and lose weight on the way."

"I've never been to the gym where I applied for a card for you. Now I want to exercise." Mom sat there muttering, looking like a stranger.

Ni Manhua didn't want to explain. The aunt hired by her family had already prepared breakfast and served it on the table, so she walked to the dining table and started eating.

She has to walk to school.If the first meeting in the movie theater was planned by Lu Guanhai in advance, then all the "fate" between them after that might have been planned by him as well.She can no longer have anything to do with Lu Guanhai in this period of her life.

After breakfast, Ni Manhua went out with his schoolbag on his back.On a familiar street and a familiar platform, Ni Manhua unconsciously walked to the stop sign and looked at the arrival information of the No. 26 bus.

It was this bus trip that only took two stops to school that witnessed her and Lu Guanhai's two and a half years of high school acquaintance.

Ni Manhua remembered that once, she got up late and jogged to the station. The last bus had just left.

That day, she panted and found a seat to sit down. When she turned her head, she saw Lu Guanhai.They didn't know each other, so she didn't pay attention. Later, he got on the next No. 26 bus with her.

Ni Manhua stood on the platform for a while and then continued walking forward.There are not many cars on the road in the early morning, but more motorcycles and bicycles. These two models are rarely seen in 2023.

Yesterday, they were still old memories in the mind of 28-year-old Ni Manhua, but looking at them now, they felt like novelties.

I don't know if it's been a long time since I had such a young body. Ni Manhua found that his mentality was much younger, and even the steps he took while wearing sneakers showed the unique briskness of his youth.

When Ni Manhua was approaching the school gate, a bus stopped at the platform.The car door opened, and five or six students got out of the car one after another.A familiar figure rushed over and jumped on her: "Manman! Cover me! I didn't bring my school card."

Ni Manhua almost lost his footing and fell backwards due to her attack. After standing up straight, he pretended to be angry: "Zhan Ping, do you have any sense of eating fat? Do you want to bump me into the road?"

"Oh, I'm so happy to see you so early in the morning." Zhan Ping put her head on Ni Manhua's shoulder like a baby, and Ni Manhua knew that he would stand with her at the school gate again, waiting for her classmates.

(End of this chapter)