Chapter 57 Xiao Haiyan was afraid that he would understand, but even more afraid that he wouldn’t understand…
The chorus of Class 4 chose a song called "Outside the Long Pavilion" which expresses the meaning of farewell, so the performance time was scheduled at the end of the school celebration.
Not long after Yan Ning and his classmates went on stage to sing, the anniversary celebration of Wancheng No. 1 Middle School officially ended with an impassioned speech by the school leaders.
The school cafeteria is open free of charge and provides lunch. Since it's a holiday, the afternoon is free for students and parents to explore the school or leave on their own.
Because they had already walked around the campus before, and the school was too crowded with people everywhere, Yan Ning and his family did not stay any longer.
Yan Xiangrong drove with his wife and daughter to find a restaurant for dinner. Then, having a rare free afternoon, the three of them went to a nearby park for another walk.
In the park.
Fish food is put into the pond.
Yan Ning stood on the bridge, head lowered, looking at the shimmering water and the colorful koi slowly gathering from the bottom of the water, somewhat lost in thought.
"Ningning, what are you thinking about? You're so focused."
When Lin Xinci asked this question, Yan Ning immediately came back to his senses and quickly shook his head, saying, "No, I was watching the fish."
Not far away, Yan Xiangrong on the other side of the bridge suddenly shouted:
"Xinci, Ningning, look at me!"
The two people here did as they were told. Yan Xiangrong held the phone horizontally, pointed it at his family, and pressed the camera button several times.
After Yan Xiangrong finished taking the photos, he opened the album and admired them very much. "Very good, many beautiful photos."
Lin Xinci smiled and walked towards Yan Xiangrong:
"Okay, stop bragging. I don't know you yet. It's good enough if you can take more normal photos."
The distance between them was only a few steps, and Yan Xiangrong had big steps, so he started walking towards his wife the moment she started moving, so the two of them met up quickly.
Lin Xinci stretched out her hand, and Yan Xiangrong gently took his wife's wrist, picked up the phone, and said in a low voice:
"Although the photography skills are average, the people in the picture are beautiful enough. How can it not be a beautiful photo?"
Lin Xinci patted Yan Xiangrong with her other hand and whispered angrily:
"Be serious in front of the children!"
But the smile on her face, called happiness, was still deeper.
Yan Xiangrong had a gentle and well-behaved appearance. Upon hearing this, he smiled, took a small step back, pushed up his glasses, and immediately returned to being the Engineer Yan that outsiders saw: a man who worked rigorously and meticulously, was a kind person, but also had principles.
The sun is a bit strong.
Lin Xinci squinted her eyes as she looked at the phone screen.
Engineer Yan moved aside patiently, raised his arm dutifully, and acted as a sun visor.
At the same time, in the middle of the bridge.
Yan Ning was still staring at the water in a daze.
because.
here we go again--
Ever since she realized that she liked Lu Chen.
Why does it seem like everything can be associated with him?
At noon, her parents asked her what she wanted to eat. Without thinking much, she blurted out the name of a restaurant. After her parents said let's go there, she suddenly remembered -
This hotel.
It was the last time, on Fang Ze'an's birthday, that he had to apologize and thank Wen Shujin because of what happened, and he treated her to dinner at that restaurant.
Those traveling together included Xin Jing and... Lu Chen.
That day, Lu Chen helped her cover up, and also, when they were returning home from the dinner party, in the taxi, Xin Jing made those wild imaginations about her relationship with Lu Chen.
Now when I recall it.
Immediately, Yan Ning blushed.
So much so that at the dinner table, my parents asked in surprise, "Ningning, why is your face so red?"
Yan Ning could only hurriedly pick up the glass of iced cola beside him, took two sips, and covered up:
"I'm fine, it's just that the boiled fish is too spicy!"
The fish is spicy.
But Yan Ning actually didn't eat two bites.
So I understand.
The burning sensation on her cheeks was mostly caused by her emotions.
After lunch, we went to the park.
The car was parked in the parking lot outside. The family entered the park through the main gate. The sun was shining brightly, and all kinds of seasonal flowers, plants and trees in the park were growing lushly.
As soon as Yan Ning smelled some familiar floral scents, his mind couldn't help but emerge with the scenes in the flower bed this morning, as well as everything that happened earlier in the multimedia building.
especially.
Lu Chen looked at her and said these two words to her:
"Yes, it's very beautiful."
"You look really good like this."
It also replayed in her mind.
Yan Ning's cheeks began to feel hot again.
This time, she had some experience. While her parents were not paying attention, Yan Ning directly put the cold drink she bought at the park entrance on her face, using the physical method of heat conduction to cool down.
Fortunately, the method worked.
Her parents no longer noticed anything unusual about her.
After walking along the lakeshore in the center of the park for a while, the family arrived at the pond where the most people were walking. Yan Xiangrong went to the side and bought two bags of fish food, handing them to Yan Ning and Lin Xinci respectively.
Yan Ning opened the package and while feeding the fish, he suddenly noticed a large lawn shaded by trees not far away.
Her memory flashed back, and she couldn't help but think of the grassland where she and Qijin had run together.
Although it is not the same park or the same lawn.
But even now, when she thinks about everything that happened at that time, it is still vivid in her mind.
That afternoon.
When she was almost overwhelmed by her schoolwork, it was Lu Chen who noticed it.
He brought her out, handed her the seven-pound leash, and gave her a chance to run freely, to relax, to let off steam. The joy that welled up from the bottom of her heart after releasing the pressure was simply unforgettable...
Yan Ning couldn't help but distract himself with reminiscing while keeping his eyes on the koi fish that gathered under the bridge because of the food.
One of them was a golden bighead carp.
I don't know why.
In her eyes.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like - Qi Jin.
So, Yan Ning couldn't help but think absentmindedly -
I don't know. How is Qijin doing recently?
I don’t know either.
Where is its owner now?
At this moment, Dad shouted, Yan Ning turned around and was photographed.
Then, when Mom came over and looked at the photos with Dad.
Yan Ning stayed where he was, and his complicated thoughts suddenly became more and more like bamboo shoots popping up like crazy after the rain.
She couldn't help but think randomly -
Not long ago, in the school playground, at that moment when bubbles were flying all over the sky.
Lu Chen...
Are you really filming her?
Or was she being overly sentimental, mistaking his actions of photographing other people and other scenery for photographs of herself?
And if he really had a photo of her, would he show it to her?
Also, why film her?
People generally don't take pictures of people and things that are not important to them. Does that mean that she is important to him and he is willing to record her?
What kind of relationship is that?
A familiar classmate? A good friend? A neighbor's sister?
Or maybe.
Could there be something else? A tiny possibility...
The water surface was shimmering, and the fish food bag in Yan Ning's hand remained slightly tilted because of her complete absorption. More and more koi fish gathered under the bridge, and their peaks emerged from the water like a small hill.
"Ningning! We should go!"
Lin Xinci shouted from the other side of the bridge.
Yan Ning snapped back to her senses. She quickly put aside her chaotic thoughts and scattered the remaining fish food into the pond. Then, she called out to her parents, "Here I come!"
evening.
Return to Huize Community.
Lin Xinci and Yan Xiangrong were busy in the kitchen, preparing dinner.
Yan Ning was originally arranged to watch TV in the living room.
But she soon realized that her symptoms of having wild thoughts for most of the day after she realized her feelings not only did not improve, but instead because of the thought of -
There was nothing to do at school this afternoon, so Lu Chen might have left school early, just like her. He might even be in Room 302 across the street right now...
After realizing this.
Yan Ning's unconscious nervousness began to sweep through his body again.
These are things I think about over and over again.
It even made her feel a little uneasy at home.
After finding that willpower was ineffective, Yan Ning simply turned off the TV and returned to his room.
She found the book "Selected College Entrance Examination Mathematics Questions" that she had bought before from the bookcase, and found the difficult and wrong questions marked on it. She forced her overly divergent thoughts to put an end to it, and instead put all her energy into exploring the ocean of learning.
An hour or two passed by unnoticed.
It was not until Lin Xinci knocked on the door that Yan Ning realized it was time for dinner.
After dinner, Yan Xiangrong had to go to work the next day, so he didn't stay there for too long before driving back to the Materials Institute. Yan Ning also had to start school the next day, and his parents told him not to stay up too late. Yan Ning nodded in agreement.
In the evening, in order to stop his mind from being in a mess, Yan Ning sat back at his desk and studied for about two hours, not stopping until it was almost time for his usual break.
One night, she was doing nothing but difficult problems, and her brain began to get tired.
After Yan Ning stretched his shoulders and neck a little, he took out the daily plan record book from his schoolbag as usual.
This notebook was bought by Yan Ning when she entered her second year of high school. It has a sea-blue leather cover, the same style as the notebook she used in her first year of high school, but in a different color.
Turning to a new page, Yan Ning quickly wrote down tomorrow's daily plan as usual.
But, wait until——
To complete her own little secret, she selected sticky notes of different colors and stuck them next to her plan. She would write down tomorrow's priorities on them, and secretly use colors to represent her mood for the day.
Yan Ning was in a dilemma.
Because the memories that had just been temporarily suppressed by studying suddenly burst out again.
When I think of the school anniversary, the band, the stage, the applause, the crowd, the bubble eggs flying all over the sky...
Also, a white T-shirt, a citrus scent, and a camera.
And that young man who was looking at her with a gentle smile across the crowd.
On this cool night.
Yan Ning suddenly felt an indescribable heat again. She tugged at her collar a few times, trying to cool herself down. At the same time, she cast her eyes on the sticky note beside her, hoping to use the idea of choosing a color to calm her mind.
However, the colors of these sticky notes are very limited.
And after choosing again and again, Yan Ning was not satisfied. She felt that no color could even remotely describe her feelings today...
Suddenly, an idea struck me.
Yan Ning quickly tore off a pure white sticky note, wrote down tomorrow's key points quickly, and stuck it on the notebook.
Then, without stopping, she fetched a pencil case from the corner of the desk, took out all the fluorescent markers in it, and then, on the corner of the white sticky note, Yan Ning drew stroke by stroke -
Half Rainbow Bridge.
It is colorful.
No need to write anything down on password paper.
Just one look at it reminded her of the dazzling light reflected by the bubbles in the sunlight.
Half again.
Because, this is——
Her own secret.
A person's thoughts.
After doing all this, Yan Ning's cheeks flushed again, and she stared at the half of the rainbow bridge for a long time.
Her restless heart finally calmed down a little.
By the time he closed the notebook, it was already past Yan Ning's usual rest time.
Thinking about going to school early tomorrow morning.
Yan Ning quickly packed up his things, turned off the lights, kicked off his slippers, climbed onto the bed, covered his head with the quilt, and tried to cultivate his almost non-existent sleepiness.
pity.
Not very useful.
Although she had tried her best to control herself and not think about that name, and had used a notebook to vaguely record what happened today, for some reason, she still felt that it was not enough.
She never knew that she was such a greedy person.
And in bed, tossing and turning for the dozens of times.
Yan Ning finally thought of another thing that could be a little commemorative—
Because he needed to make contact at the school anniversary, Yan Ning put his cell phone in a small backpack when he went to school today. Now, the bag is placed on the hook on the side of the wardrobe, and the cell phone inside is still there.
Yan Ning didn't turn on the light.
I couldn't wait to get out of bed in the dark and get my phone back.
She sat on the edge of the bed, went straight to her destination, unlocked the screen, clicked on the little penguin icon, and the chat interface immediately appeared.
Because he was going out with his parents in the afternoon, Yan Ning turned off the message alert sound of the software.
At this moment, the top of the screen shows Xin Jing, Du Ying, several classmates who have been contacted today, and several group chats that automatically receive messages.
With Xin Jing, we were just chatting casually.
Du Ying sent a few photos of herself in the lounge and said that she hoped she would have time soon to have a celebratory banquet with her, Liu He, and Pan Yuncheng. Yan Ning agreed.
My classmates and I were basically coordinating for today's chorus stage.
There were also a few people who said they saw Yan Ning's opening band stage performance and came to praise and commend him. Yan Ning replied to each of them with a thank you.
Yan Ning finally decided not to tell her parents about the band, so in the afternoon, in order to prevent her parents who were right next to her from seeing the news about the band's stage, she sent a few more emoticons to cover up the news.
And now.
Although red dots popped up on two more dialog boxes.
But Yan Ning didn't care at all. She just moved her finger down, and it wasn't too far away before she found the dialog box with L.
She pursed her lips and clicked in.
The last message was still about New Year's greetings.
Ningning said: -[Happy New Year.]
L replied: -[Happy New Year.]
Yan Ning's lips tightened even more, trying hard to control his thoughts that were about to wander, but he did not click on the message input bar. Instead, he lightly touched his own avatar.
Go to the profile page.
Without hesitation, she clicked on the nickname field, deleted the original [Ningning], and re-entered it.
[Small sea salt]
Type these three words, refresh the interface, and confirm that the name has been changed.
In the dark room, Yan Ning stared at the only source of light, the nickname bar on the screen, for a long time.
Then, she finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Once again.
Yan Ning wrote down his thoughts in a subtle way.
certainly.
It’s related to Lu Chen.
She still remembered the day they first met. It was a hot summer day. In the cramped corridor, there was a bottle of iced sea salt sparkling water in a transparent coffee bag on the side of Lu Chen's schoolbag.
He should like this water.
That afternoon when they watched a movie together, he poured her a glass of lemon-flavored coffee. She had seen him drink other flavors more than once.
And these three words.
It also has some connection with Yan Ning himself.
Sea salt sparkling water has a light taste, and Yan Ning also likes it very much.
In fact, Yan Ning herself is not a person who likes to drink beverages very much, but she can't remember from when to start, but when she occasionally goes to a convenience store to buy beverages, this kind of water has become her first choice.
Also, "yan" and "yan" are homophones.
Even if other people, even her family, saw it, they would probably just think she was acting on a whim and wouldn't guess what other meaning it had...
Get this done.
Yan Ning finally felt relieved. She turned off her cell phone and put it in the drawer of the bedside table.
Then she lay on her back, closed her eyes, and fell on the soft bed.
Uncontrolled heartbeat.
But the corners of Yan Ning's lips were also slightly curved.
However, not long after, the peaceful sleep I had been longing for did not come.
Another contradictory thought began to linger in Yan Ning's mind.
When I think of this new nickname, Lu Chen will also see it.
Yan Ning's current mood is simply -
Afraid he would understand.
I’m even more afraid that he doesn’t understand.
wrong.
The order of understanding and not understanding seems to need to be reversed...
Um……
It seems that there is no need to change...
Should I change it or not?
Go from lying on your side, to lying on your back, and then to the other side.
After thinking about it, Yan Ning still couldn't figure out what he was thinking.
Dwelling on this won't help.
It also made her already confused heart seem even more confused.
She simply covered her head with the quilt and stopped thinking about it.
Just like that, slowly, before reaching any conclusion, I finally fell into a deep sleep.
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