Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Birthday Party
In the early autumn of October, the autumn is high and cool, the maple leaves have fallen all over the ground, the ground is full of poetic autumn maples, like a layer of golden gold, gorgeous and dazzling, there are a few maple trees in the alley at the door of Cheng Siyu's house, whenever the autumn wind blows, the maple leaves are sprinkled and floated with the wind, just like a few dancing fairies fall into the mortal world, whenever at this time, Siyu always happily circles in the alley, gently kicks the maple leaves on the ground with his feet, and then stretches out his hands in the wind to touch the wanton autumn leaves, smiling like a spring breeze, smiling like a flower.
Tomorrow is Chu Lei's birthday, Cheng Siyu prepared a light green skirt for Chu Lei, she always likes to laugh at Chu Lei on weekdays, and Chu Lei buys all bright skirts, and there is no more generous and elegant skirt, so this time she carefully selected this birthday gift, hoping to add a touch of elegance to Chu Lei's wardrobe.
This day in 2005 is a relatively trendy era in Taipei, with rapid economic development and outstanding science and technology, this is just such a symbol of the era of novelty or there is no lack of nostalgic style, when Siyu passed by the video store with a skirt, the video store was pasted with Faye Wong's poster, Jay Chou's big headshot, and Andy Lau's photo, but he did not forget to play the popular song "Keep the Sadness to Yourself" in the 90s, this song is Cheng Siyu's "drinking song" that is often played in a loop at home , the melody is long and long, the liver and intestines are broken, and the pain of sad parting and lovesickness cannot be exhausted...
At seven o'clock in the evening, Chu Lei's birthday banquet was held in her home, she invited a few good middle school classmates, college classmates, as well as relatives and friends, and even Ye Hui's friends and family, the atmosphere can be lively, full of high seats, Dao Xi, chatting chat, there are classmates who have not seen each other for several years, meeting is even more exciting, as if there are endless words in the heart, three days and three nights can not be finished, Cheng Siyu is Xie Chulei's high school classmates, seeing so many old friends, he is ecstatic, chatting eyebrows flying. Aunt Xie and Ye Hui were busy entertaining the guests, so they had no time to take care of Siyu, and the guests were also chatting happily, everyone gave gifts to Chu Lei, and said happy words to Chu Lei, and the scene was full of emotion.
At this time, Chu Lei wore a light pink evening dress and walked into the pile of classmates, smiling, and said: "Thank you for coming over to my birthday party in your busy schedule, the little woman is grateful, what you have to say today, you have to make any jokes, you have to be drunk to go home." He raised his glass and toasted to everyone.
"Chu Lei, I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm much more beautiful, I remember when you were a glasses girl in high school, but now it's amazing, you're generous, you're a beauty!" Xu Ruting praised while picking up the wine glass.
"Thank you, Xu Ruting, you are not the same, you used to love to have clean and handsome short hair, now how can you keep your hair like a waterfall!" Chu Lei raised her eyebrows and said with a slight provocation.
"Of course, Xu Ruting's fiancé likes it, Xu Ruting is a little bird now, it's time to get ready to enter the auditorium with her lover!" Chen Yashi, who was drinking on the side, hugged Xu Ruting's shoulders with both hands and coaxed, and everyone laughed when they heard it.
Xu Ruting's cheeks suddenly turned red like a red apple, her face was full of shyness and embarrassment, but there seemed to be something in her throat that she couldn't speak, so she hurriedly spit out a few words in the big roll of her tongue: "When are Chu Lei and Ye Hui going to get married, haven't you been in love since high school, when will you enter the auditorium!"
"Hehe, you have to ask the actor Ye Hui about this!" As he spoke, Cheng Siyu waved his hand to signal Ye Hui to come, and as soon as Ye Hui came over, all the classmates were surrounded by each other, and they all coaxed and asked: "Ye Hui, when will you marry our great beauty Chu Lei?" "Marry early and have a noble son early!" "Or you can take advantage of Chu Lei's birthday today to propose, double happiness is coming!" ......
Chu Lei was silent on the side, feeling a little embarrassed, but she had some hope in her heart, and glanced at Ye Hui expectantly, only to see Ye Hui's face sad, hesitant, and did not say a word for a long time, and then said: "We are still young, and we have no plans for marriage for the time being! Chu Lei is very open, she is the most understanding woman in the world, and she will never think of binding me with marriage." ”
Suddenly the classmates were quiet, full of embarrassment, you touched her hand, she patted you on the shoulder, Siyu noticed Chu Lei's disappointment and uneasiness, and was about to say a few words when Chu Lei herself opened her voice first, she smiled generously and said tepidly: "We are still young, Ye Hui still wants to break into the career first, I also want to make a few more years of money, I am now selling clothes in a fashion store, although the work is hard, but the clothes are sold more and there is a commission, and it is a lot of money, if you want to buy beautiful clothes, remember to find me!" Everyone applauded and cooperated, poured wine together, and picked up the wine glass to toast, in order to eliminate the embarrassment just now.
Siyu complained and cursed in her heart, secretly complaining about her good friend, only she knew best, Chu Lei had long wanted to officially register her marriage with Ye Hui, it was the muddy Ye Hui who had nothing to do, and the left excuse was not ripe, in fact, the stupid people knew that this was clearly delaying and delaying, but no one wanted to tear their faces and say things too white to prevent another dispute!
In the next time, all the guests are talking and laughing, Aunt Xie is very interested today, picked up the red wine glass, drank a glass is another glass, Ye Hui's parents like Chu Lei very much, and have been pulling Aunt Xie to laugh and talk about when to get married, although Ye Hui is not the fast son-in-law of Chenglong in Aunt Xie's heart, and even in the eyes of Aunt Xie, she is not Taoist, but she knows that her daughter loves Ye Hui deeply, and she naturally accepts it, and then sees that other people's parents are so enthusiastic, it is difficult to be warm, and her heart has begun to identify this son-in-law who is not a weapon, and she began to discuss the marriage, talking and talking, laughing loudly and whispering, everyone holds everyone's hand, and they are happy, the picture is very harmonious.
Saying that time flies like an arrow, everyone looks at it and finds that there is one person missing from the classmates, that is, Xia Xiaobing, who was in the same class before.
"The former class flower No. 1 in our class deserves to be Cheng Siyu, at that time, Siyu was a flower in our school, how many rich children and sons of officials and nobles were either waiting for Siyu outside the class, or waiting hard outside the school, but unfortunately our Siyu is demanding, and none of them can be eye-catching!" Chen Yashi has always been grinning, and said loudly with an open voice.
"you, don't exaggerate, if there were so many people who have admired me for a long time, wouldn't I have gotten married and had children a long time ago!
"Wasn't there still Class Flower No. 2 Xia Xiaobing at that time?
Xia Xiaobing used to be the second beauty under Siyu in the class, but Siyu looks very temperamental, noble and generous, and Xia Xiaobing belongs to the type of small jasper and a little bird, talking delicately like a bud waiting to be released, if you want to say that the pursuit of Cheng Siyu belongs to challenging yourself, then the pursuit of Xia Xiaobing will definitely be something that many men rush to, not only will not be discouraged because it is too difficult, but also stimulate their desire to protect, which can be described as pitiful. But only their girls know that Xia Xiaobing is unreal, her weakness is even pretended, and weakness is her weapon.
After half an hour, I saw Xia Xiaobing slowly approaching in the crowd, the blurred figure became clearer and bigger, she ran over, only to see that she was wearing a pink floral dress, her hair was tied in a ponytail, her face was not powdered, but a little lipstick was slightly applied to her lips, but her fair skin made her face without makeup still look energetic, she couldn't breathe, and kept patting her chest and said, "I'm sorry to be late, late!"
Lively and cheerful time always flies very fast, suddenly all the lights in the house are extinguished, the audience screams, after a while, the lights are lit up in the dark, the light of a few candles and the light of subtle flashlights pour into the eyes of the crowd, only to see Ye Hui and Xie Bomu pulling a three-layer pink cake approaching, everyone sang the birthday song in unison, cheering, everyone coaxed the protagonist to make a formal wish and blow out the candles.
Chu Lei combined her hands into a fist, gently closed her eyes, and said reverently: "I hope everything will come true, my friends will always be with me, my family is healthy, and my love lasts for a long time!" Everyone applauded, Ye Hui stepped forward and kissed Chu Lei's cheek, and hugged her hand in hand to cut the cake together, seeing this scene, everyone was even more enthusiastic and cheering, Cheng Siyu was also happy for her good sister on the side, today is Chu Lei's birthday, she sincerely hopes that her good sister can get real happiness. It's just that she is sensitive, she seems to have noticed a person's abnormality, that is, Xia Xiaobing, who was also watching this scene on the side, her brows were tightly locked, her teeth were biting her lips, she was about to bite out blood, her face was tense, her tight face was about to cramp, she clenched her hands into a fist, her whole body was trembling, trembling, how did she suddenly turn around, and ran away and disappeared.
Cheng Siyu was puzzled, why did she react so violently and angrily, could it be... No, no, no, it should be that she thinks too much, and she shouldn't be so prejudiced against Ye Hui anymore.
Cheng Siyu toasted to everyone, and talked with Aunt Xie for a while, Aunt Xie was still the same, and after less than three sentences, she asked Siyu to find a boyfriend earlier, damn boyfriend! She didn't want to think of her boyfriend! When she thought of it, she would have a sad face. Chu Lei is in a really good mood today, slightly drunk makes her face red, affectionate and slightly drunk, the whole person exudes femininity, she talks with her friends, and dances when she is excited...
It's just that it seems that Ye Hui is gone, obviously Fang is still there, because of the doubts just now, Cheng Siyu still subconsciously searched with her own eyes, searched, and then she walked and walked, standing in the corner of the wall, in the window she looked down at the window, only to see Ye Hui and Xia Xiaobing arguing, the two seemed to be arguing, Ye Hui looked angry, and his hand kept waving up and down angrily, but Xia Xiaobing looked pitiful, and even shed tears as he spoke, the two seemed to be in a stalemate, what the hell is going on... Don't...