Chapter 31: A Birthday Present
It's a calm night again, as the temperature gets lower and lower, the leaves outside the window have already withered yellow, and the cement floor in the backyard has fallen golden in just one day, shining with a light gray image under the illumination of incandescent lights, and even the pool has sprinkled a lot of dead leaves, which looks a little desolate!
Lin Zitan began to take on more and more translation tasks as his translation quality was affirmed, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly as the numbers on his PayPal account continued to increase. The end of the month is his birthday, and when he turns 18, he can apply for his own bank card, and when the time comes, he can bind the bank card, and the money in his PayPal account can be withdrawn!
At the age of 18, this is equivalent to a real adult node in the United States, and he still has a lot to do! When he has accumulated enough start-up capital, he will open a stock account, and now many securities companies in the United States have opened online trading, although the maintenance of the background is not very mature in all aspects, but at least there is no need to go to the stock exchange to watch the big screen like Grandpa Lin at the beginning!
Thinking of this, Lin Zitan's hand holding the mouse tightened slightly excitedly, only hoping that he could take on more tasks, save more money, and have more capital, and then implement his dream of making a lot of money step by step!
"Ding Lingling, woo~" was thinking wildly, the mobile phone in his hand suddenly rang, Lin Zitan hurriedly looked up at the time on the wall: It's broken, I forgot to pick up Li Manrui!
"Hey, I'll come right over!" Lin Zitan hurriedly said as soon as he answered the phone.
"I called to tell you, Mike came to pick me up from the store, you don't have to come out, you ask your aunt to help me cook a bowl of noodles. Li Manrui confessed on the phone.
"Okay, I got it!"
Lin Zitan hung up the phone and walked out, since Li Manrui's restaurant opened, the family has hired a live-in nanny, except for taking care of the pregnant nanny, most of the time is to take care of Lin Zitan's meals and cleaning the house. Auntie is a Cantonese person, her hands and feet are also neat, she can make all kinds of soups, and Lin Zitan's stomach has gradually improved under Auntie's careful conditioning, at least there has been no pain in the past few months!
"Aunt Li, my mother will be home in a while, please make a bowl of noodles for her~"
Lin Zitan walked outside to the hall and saw that the nanny and aunt were sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV while crocheting something, so he conveyed Li Manrui's words to her.
"Oh, okay, there's scallop pork rib soup stewed in the pot, and the bird's nest is also warm, I'll give her a bowl of pork rib noodles!"
Aunt Li said as she put down the work in her hand and got up and walked to the kitchen.
Lin Zitan glanced at the living room of Nuoda, and occasionally had a very unreal feeling, although he is now a pseudo-rich second generation, but the material life is very good, and food, clothing, and housing are all the style of the children of rich families. Recently, Li Manrui's restaurant has started to make money, and every day after finishing the account, he will stuff him with one or two hundred yuan of pocket money.
If it was Lin Zitan before, he would definitely refuse without hesitation, but now he is here without refusing, the so-called no accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles, no accumulation of streams, no sea, now he only needs his savings to continue to increase!
"Ding Dong~" When the doorbell rang, Lin Zitan hurriedly came back from the thoughts of staring out the window, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw his mother Li Manrui walking in with a bulky body and a huge LV bag.
"You better hurry up and find someone to do it for you for a while!" Seeing that Li Manrui's belly was getting bigger and bigger, Lin Zitan, who was still a little worried, suggested with a gloomy face.
"I also said. Find someone to do this to you. The health is not good~" Mike's Chinese who followed behind was getting better and better, he understood Lin Ziyan's words, and also persuaded Li Manrui in awkward Chinese.
"Don't worry, I've already called someone, but they just quit another job and are going to take a week or two off before going to work, and if I insist on it, I'll be liberated immediately!" Li Manrui said indifferently.
"Madam, it's time to eat, I'll order you pork rib noodles. Aunt Li put the dishes and chopsticks on the table and said respectfully to Li Manrui.
Li Manrui put the big bag on the sofa, went to the bathroom to wash her hands and ran to the dining table to eat noodles, seeing that Lin Zitan was about to nest in the room again, she hurriedly stopped her son.
"Daniel, your birthday is coming, do you want any gifts?" Li Manrui looked up at Lin Zitan while picking up the noodles in the bowl with chopsticks and letting them cool a little.
Mike took a newspaper and sat opposite Li Manrui, listening to her question, he also looked at Lin Zitan with interest.
"It's okay!" Lin Zitan wanted to say don't give me gifts, just give me money! But the relationship between him and Li Manrui has never been so close, and he really can't do the child's coquettish actions in front of his mother.
This is your 18th birthday, you invite some friends to come to the store to be lively, I see, it's not a weekend, and the store won't be too busy, so set a table for your classmates, and plan what you want to eat and play with Zhang Jing. Li Manrui said as she copied the cold noodles into her mouth, looking in a good mood.
"You've got your driver's license, would you like to order a car for you?" Mike said suddenly.
"Oh, no, the car is too expensive!" Lin Zitan hurriedly refused.
"There's no need to book a car, he doesn't know which school he will go to next year, he will buy a car after being admitted to college, anyway, there is no shortage of cars at home now!" Li Manrui also refused for Lin Zi.
Lin Zitan thought, why don't you know my innocent heart so much! How good is it to fold these things into money and wrap me a big red envelope?!
"Go ahead, rest early, don't stay up late, I've seen your lights on until two or three o'clock in the morning for several nights, and adequate sleep at your age is the most important!" said Li Manrui and raised his chopsticks at him.
Lin Zitan nodded, and when he walked to his room, he heard Aunt Li coming out of the kitchen praising Li Manrui about how sensible he was, but he didn't hear Li Manrui answer, I guess how bad Lin Zitan was when he was ignorant before he smiled bitterly!
After that night, Li Manrui didn't mention the gift, and even Mike didn't mention the car, so Lin Zitan looked forward to his birthday gift being a pile of green bills, and on the eve of the birthday party, he also quietly inquired about what birthday gifts the couple had prepared for him, but unfortunately except for Aunt Li, who didn't know anything, Lin Zitan really didn't have any clue.
The birthday party was held on a Tuesday night, and in addition to Zhang Jing, Lin Zitan called a few Chinese classmates who had just met at a recent party, and a few foreigners who didn't get along well with each other, including Zhang Jing, who felt that people were crazy because of his charm.
In order not to affect the business, Lin Zitan's party started at half past four in the afternoon, Li Manrui asked people to set up their table well, and also bought streamers and balloons, a big 18 words floating in the air looked extraordinarily grand.
"Happy Birthday, Daniel~"
"Happy birthday~" Lin Zitan stood at the door of the restaurant, his suit looked tall and handsome, and his classmates came in one after another, holding small gifts in their hands, and gave him a big hug one by one as soon as he entered the door.
"Thank you, please come and sit inside~" Li Manrui happily greeted these people and asked the leader to take them to the table inside!
"Where did Zhang Jing run today?" Li Manrui asked puzzled as she looked at the guests who had arrived.
"He's going to be some kind of moth again! Don't worry, I'll be here in a while. As he spoke, he heard the roar of an engine coming from far and near towards the door of the restaurant.
"Look, it's coming!" Lin Zi said with a determined smile.
Sure enough, not long after the car stopped, Zhang Jing was seen getting out of a sassy Porsche sports car, holding a bunch of car keys in his hand, and striding in.
"I'll go, Zhang Jing, you won't be so generous to give me a supercar, right?" Lin Zitan said with a pretended surprise.
"Uh... I.. It's just a test drive, you want to ask your aunt to buy it for you!" Zhang Jing said sincerely.
"I thought you gave me a birthday gift, I dared to be affectionate, I was amorous, cut~" Lin Zitan said and pretended to be angry and turned his head and walked towards the crowd.
"Alas, I'll go, the gift is here!" Zhang Jing took out a bulging red envelope from his trouser pocket and chased Zhang Jing inside!