Chapter 64: A Forgotten Birthday
Qiao Twilight got out of the car and saw Xu Ruoou and Qiao Anzhe playing happily in the yard, Ah K was stopped by him as soon as he took two steps forward, and whispered to let him go back first.
Ah K glanced at the people who were having fun in the yard, and stopped talking, but he didn't say anything and left.
Qiao Twilight, who originally thought that he would be spotted after standing here for a while, stood for ten minutes, and finally realized that he was thinking too much, as long as he didn't say anything, the two of them would not be able to find him at all, and it was useless to stand for a long time.
Realizing this, Qiao Twilight was a little confused, isn't it interesting for him to be a big living person and a pile of snow?
Xu Ruoou took Qiao Anzhe to prove to him with facts: No!
"Is it fun?"
Since no one found out about him, he had to take the initiative to stand up and brush his sense of existence angrily, he wouldn't say that it was fun to just watch the mother and son have a snowball fight and flutter at each other, and he wanted to join in. He is Qiao Twilight, how can he play a game like snowball fights that elementary school students don't play?
"Fun...... Hey, you're back?"
"Daddy! you're back, let's play!"
Qiao Twilight looked at Qiao Anzhe, who was coming straight to him in snow, and was satisfied. It's better to be a son, my son understands him!
Thinking about it, he glanced at Xu Ruoou who was standing in place with an embarrassed face, probably because he was having too much fun, this little face was red, like a ripe red Fuji, looking sweet and sweet, making people want to take a bite.
But no, the son is still there, and the servants are also there, so they just go up and take a bite, and the servants don't dare to say anything, they will teach the children badly.
"How long have you been playing?"
Picking up Qiao Anzhe, Qiao Twilight asked.
Qiao Anzhe in his arms was snorting and snorting, and the little hands around his neck were cold, as if they had been frozen in the refrigerator, and his smaller face didn't need Xu Ruoou to be any better, and the heat was red, and the two little hands were the same.
Qiao Twilight frowned, she probably understood what was going on, she was afraid that if the two children got together to play together, no one would dare to care, that is, he came back early, and he could say a few words, if he came back late, these two people would have to catch a cold!
"Mother Wang, go and ask the kitchen to prepare ginger water for Mrs. and the little master to ward off the cold. ”
After saying that, Qiao Twilight's collar was grabbed by Qiao Anzhe, a pair of bright deer eyes looked at him pitifully, and then looked at Xu Ruoou, who had already thrown a snowball and took the initiative to come over, was also pitiful, Qiao Twilight's heart softened.
"Wang Ma, change the ginger water to cola ginger water. ”
Xu Ruoou pursed his lips and didn't dare to protest again. This will also know that she has been playing crazy with Qiao Anzhe for too long, she is okay as an adult, Qiao Anzhe is still a child after all, if she doesn't drive away the cold in time, she will definitely catch a cold, just drink some!
Besides, don't you add Coke?
Qiao Anzhe secretly sent a distress signal to Xu Ruoou, Xu Ruoou shook his head gently, Qiao Anzhe pursed his mouth, knowing that he was hopeless for help, this bowl of ginger water could not escape, and buried it in Qiao Dushi's neck sullenly, silent.
"Still standing here?"
Qiao Twilight was not used to Qiao Anzhe, let alone Xu Ruoou, he patted Qiao Anzhe's back a little harder, put him on the ground, and held Xu Ruoou's hand with his free hand.
Xu Ruoou and Qiao Anzhe, who were forced to change their clothes by Qiao Dusk's cold rays, sat on the sofa obediently, one holding a cup of hot water in their hands, blowing two sips and one small sip.
The steaming warm water slid down, activating the frozen cells all over the body, warming up from the inside out, and the two people, one big and one small, squinted happily, sighed in satisfaction, and couldn't wait to take another sip.
In the end, the hot water was for the two of them to warm their hands, not for the two of them to drink, and the kitchen quickly sent the ginger ale that really warmed the cold, and the brown liquid in the white porcelain bowl collided with the bowl wall, and the rich ginger flavor mixed with the sweetness of the cola, making the two of them frown in unison and look at Qiao Twilight pitifully.
Unmoved, Joe Twilight flipped through a page of the magazine, pretending she hadn't seen anything.
Xu Ruoou and Qiao Anzhe glanced at each other, cheered each other up, and drank the cold ginger coke with a little bit of breath, the pungency of ginger in the mouth dominated, and the sweetness of the cola was like a field doctor, trying to soothe the irritable spicy, but it had no effect.
"Daddy, I'm asking for a bottle of Coke. ”
Qiao Anzhe, who had poor endurance, frowned, shook Qiao Dusk's arms bitterly, and his voice was soft and coquettish.
"No, you've drunk it today. ”
Such a categorical refusal made Qiao Anzhe doubt his life for a few minutes, and seriously thought about when he had drunk Coke today, and his limited memory recalled it from today to yesterday to the day before yesterday, and there was no taste of Coke.
"Daddy, I didn't drink Coke, I haven't drunk it in three days. ”
Qiao Anzhe thought that Qiao Twilight had misremembered, but Xu Ruoou, who was watching, snickered, she would have passed the time when the ginger flavor was at its strongest, and she didn't have to have something in her mouth, so she also understood Qiao Twilight's plan.
"You just drank it. ”
Sure enough, Joe Twilight hit the idea of ginger ale, ginger ale is also coke, and the fact that it is coke cannot be denied just because ginger ale is put in.
Qiao Anzhe also understood what he meant, his wrinkled little face completely collapsed, and he looked depressed like an angry brown bear, Xu Ruoou was amused by his abstract imagination, and he lost his image on the sofa with a grin, holding his stomach and laughing endlessly.
"Daddy, isn't Mommy stupid to be drunk, why don't you give her a bottle of Coke?"
The father and son looked helplessly at Xu Ruoou, who couldn't stop laughing, Qiao Anzhe leaned over to Qiao Twilight's side and whispered.
Qiao Twilight suddenly became serious, seriously thinking about the possibility of what Qiao Anzhe said, as if it was really because ginger ale was too exciting, so it was stupid?
Qiao Twilight knew that some people didn't eat ginger at all, he had known Xu Ruoou for so long, the two of them had eaten so much together, and he had never heard her say that he didn't like to eat ginger, so he took it for granted that she could drink ginger juice, was he wrong?
When Xu Ruoou finally laughed enough, laughing so much that tears came out, she was surprised to find that Qiao Twilight and Qiao Anzhe were looking at her solemnly, and there was a bottle of Coke on the table that had been unscrewed and screwed back to no one had drunk.
"What's wrong with you two?"
Xu Ruoou sat upright unconsciously, looked at them, and pointed to the Coke on the table.
"An Zhe is about to change his teeth, so don't let him drink Coke, right? ”
In the end, the bottle of Coke was abandoned, and no one drank it.
Xu Ruoou's leisurely did not last long, just because the Xi family robbed Qiao's business again, Qiao Dusk didn't say anything, but his face had betrayed his heart, and the entire Qiao family was trembling during this time, for fear that he would be wrong and provoke Qiao Dusk.
Even Xu Ruoou, who didn't feel anything, became cautious, didn't even go to the pantry to fish at work every day, and sat obediently and skillfully in his seat every day to sort out the documents, and poured tea and water for Qiao Dushi, almost treating him as an ancestor.
Min Ziwen's investigation of the mole did not go well, after all, the so-called traitor is not an internal employee of the company, and no matter how he investigates, there will be no results, but she is unwilling to admit her like this, so she stares at Xu Ruoou very closely.
Min Ziwen never thought that it would be her drunken revelations, let alone that after what happened last time, Min Nanai would pass on the news she heard here to Xi Yusi.
In a blink of an eye, Haicheng ushered in the second snow since the beginning of winter, compared to the first snow like a small fight, this time the heavy snow can only be described as goose feather snow, but in just two hours, the road was paved with a thick layer, Xu Ruoou stood in front of the window of the pantry and looked at the snow outside, sighing helplessly.
It's a terrible weather, but it's not a different kind of romance.
The mobile phone on the windowsill vibrate, Xu Ruoou glanced at Jiang Jiu'er's phone, and hurriedly put down the cup and picked it up.
"Jiu'er, what's wrong?"
Jiang Jiu'er was probably outside, talking and snorting, and occasionally there was the sound of the wind whistling by.
"Xiaoou, happy birthday! I have to work overtime today, I can't accompany you, when I rest, let's go out to make up for another birthday!"
Listening to Jiang Jiu'er's words, Xu Ruoou was in a trance, she had been working from five to nine every day recently, and she didn't pay attention to the date at all, which can be regarded as remembering that her birthday was indeed not long after the winter.
In previous years, her birthday Xu family would hold a banquet to celebrate her, but this year, because of Xu Zeyu's change, let alone a banquet, I am afraid that in previous years, those who licked their faces and were close to her wanted to get as far away from her as possible, in fact, there was nothing bad about forgetting.
Thinking of this, Xu Ruoou's heart that was originally excited because Jiang Jiu'er mentioned her birthday suddenly sank, she smiled slightly, and her empty hand casually sketched a flowery "HappyBirthday" on the atomized window glass, and her eyes were a little astringent.
"Well, I've been busy lately, so why don't I wait until Christmas to make up for it. ”
Winter has arrived, will Christmas be far away?
"That's okay, I'll hang up first, our boss is really, I have to come out to buy some coffee in this weather, what the hell!"
There was a crisp sound of the small bell hanging on the door of the café on the phone, and the whistling wind disappeared without a trace, Xu Ruoou knew that Jiang Jiu'er had arrived at the café, so he stopped pestering her to chat, and told a few words to pay attention to safety, and hung up the phone.
The handwriting on the window pane was a little blurry, and the thin mist condensed into water droplets, flowing down the smooth glass, like a weeping beauty.
Xu Ruoou didn't think much about it anymore and left with his coffee.
"Mr. Qiao, do you need anything?"
As soon as he came out, he met Qiao Dusk, who was also holding a cup, Xu Ruoou was shocked, and looked at his face carefully, for fear that he would be angry because he answered a phone call.
I wasn't worried that Qiao Twilight would embarrass herself, but I was afraid that he couldn't be angry because he was dissatisfied with herself, and turned to be harsher with other employees in the company, then she would become a sinner for the ages.
"No, I'll do it myself, and I'll breathe by the way. ”
The reason was impeccable, Xu Ruoou silently swallowed the word "I come", gave up the position of the pantry, and returned to his seat.
As soon as Qiao Twilight entered the pantry, she saw the lines of tearful English characters on the misty window glass, smooth and beautiful handwriting, just like Xu Ruoou himself, fresh and elegant.
After carefully identifying it, Qiao Twilight frowned, and seriously recalled the information that Ah K gave him at the beginning, but it did not mention common-sense information such as birthdays, but it introduced her growth experience and the like.
"Check Xu Ruoou's birthday. ”
After calling Ah K, Joe Twilight saw the blue mug in the corner of the table against the wall, and was in a trance.
He remembered that the cup belonged to Min Ziwen, and then he remembered that he didn't seem to have asked Min Ziwen to help him check any private matters for a long time, and even the official affairs were assigned to her some things that were not very important, or not very easy to check, when did this change start?
Joe Twilight shook her head and threw these chaotic thoughts aside, he didn't have time to think about it, there was still a big mess in the company waiting for him to solve.
The phone vibrate, and Ah K sent a new message: It's today.
"Have a meal with your parents in the evening. ”
Qiao Twilight made herself coffee, knocked on her table as she passed by Xu Ruoou's table, and said.
Xu Ruoou didn't know why she didn't ask, nodded and sent Qiao Dushi back to the office, looked at the birthday plan she had just written in the notebook, and drew a × silently, she forgot that she was not alone now, in addition to her parents, as well as her husband and son, it was impossible to be happy alone.
In the evening, Qiao Dusk's seat was still in Risher, Xu Ruoou got out of the car and looked at the familiar signboard, and his nose was sour.
It was here that she met Xi Li, and it was here that Xu Jiaru was wronged and turned defeat into victory, here carries too many of her memories, some can be reproduced and revisited, some people are still waiting for an opportunity to move, and some people will never be able to hook up with her again and tease Los together.
"You say, will we meet Xu Jiaru today?"
Xu Ruoou took Qiao Dusk's arm and suddenly asked in a low voice.
Jo Dusk paused and looked down at her, her expression was as usual, and there was even a smile between her eyebrows.
"Do you know? I think Xi Li's death has something to do with Xu Jiaru, so she doesn't dare to come here. ”
It can only be said that Xu Ruoou's sixth sense is very accurate, but she underestimated Xu Jiaru's cheekiness. Xu Jiaru didn't take Xi Li's death seriously at all, and she even scolded Xi Li for being a stupid X because Xi Li's death blocked Xu Ruoou.
At this moment, Xu Jiaru and Xichuan were sitting opposite each other in the luxury suite on the top floor of Rischer, the atmosphere was a little cold, and there was a table between the two people, on which were placed two small packets of unknown objects, an unopened bottle of red wine, and an unopened syringe.
Xu Jiaru clasped his hands to his chest and looked at Xichuan with a sneer, with a look of disdain.
"Do not do a word, do you squirm, think that you are a yellow flower girl who has not budded, or do you feel unbearable at the thought of returning your dear ex-girlfriend?"
The words she said were prickly, Xichuan was very uncomfortable but couldn't refute anything, this matter was too inferior, he just wanted to cling to his daughter, and he didn't want to make trouble, once he and Xu Jia were like a stream of filth, maybe one day he would have to help Xu Jiaru top the pot when the East Window incident happened.
If he can live well, why should he die by himself? He just doesn't look down on Xu Ruoou, and he doesn't have any deep hatred.
"Yo, did I say yes?"
Xu Jiaru made up his mind to go into the water with Laxichuan, how could he easily let him go because he was silent.
"Hehe, I can't help it if I don't want to, who asked you to come with me to Risher today, whether you start or not, you can't miss a place as an accomplice, admit it Xichuan, it's your fault whether you do this today or not. ”
Xu Jiaru walked to Xichuan's side, exhaled like an orchid in his ear, the rich smell of perfume stimulated Xichuan's wavering nerves, his eyes gradually turned red, the green tendons on his forehead and neck burst out, and Xu Jiaru looked at each other.
In the next second, Xu Jia was spinning like the sky, and was pressed under Xichuan, because of the size of the sofa, he was suspended in the air from the waist down, his upper body was on the sofa, and his head was pillowed on the armrest, and the whole person was uncomfortable.
Before she could reprimand Xichuan, she saw him wave his big hand and tear open her clothes, the snow-white carcass was half-hidden, Xichuan hooked his lips, leaned forward, and held her red lips.
"If you're going to hell, why not have fun at the gates of hell?"
Violent gasps and moving moans mingled in the room, and Xu Jiaru was resentful but couldn't resist the pleasure of her body, scolding Nishikawa for being hypocritical while catering to his movements.
When Xu Ruoou and Qiao arrived at dusk, Xu's father and Xu mother were already sitting in the private room drinking tea, and Qiao Anzhe was also sitting beside Qiao's mother obediently, taking small sips of tea that was a little too bitter for him.
After saying hello, the group sat down in turn, and Qiao Anzhe snuggled up to Xu Ruoou and whispered to him.
"Mommy, can I have a drink today?"
Thinking of Coke on a snowy day last time, Xu Ruoou held back a smile and shook his head.
"No, you're changing your teeth, and you won't get new teeth after drinking. ”
Two days ago, Qiao Anzhe officially started the tooth replacement period, one of the front front teeth was lost, and the lower teeth were also lost, and sometimes he leaked when he spoke, not to mention how difficult it was to eat.
Because he knocked out his crumbling front teeth when he ate apples, Qiao Anzhe now has inexplicable resistance and fear of eating apples, for fear that he will knock out another front tooth.
Children love to be beautiful, and when he heard that drinking drinks would not grow teeth, Qiao Anzhe shuddered, hugged his small teacup, and resolutely did not drink, even Xu Ruoou gave him his own drink, he refused to touch a drop.
Soon the dishes were served, but the center of the table was vacant, and the waiter whispered something beside Qiao Twilight, who nodded with a deep groan, and the waiter went out.
Curious, but the waiter's voice was so small that she didn't hear anything said.
On the other side, Father Xu heard a few key words because he was closer to the waiter, and when he looked at Qiao Twilight, he was a little more satisfied.
Xu Ruoou didn't wait too long, about ten minutes later, the waiter came back again, first turned off the light in the private room, and then completely opened the door of the private room and let another waiter in.
Another waiter pushes a cart with two tiers of cakes filled with candles, and at the top is a little princess made of fondant cake, dressed in a beautiful evening dress, holding a bouquet of champagne lilies, waist-length hair permed with large wavy curls, and a crown with a sparkling diamond in the center.
A diamond is not a fondant or an ornament, but a genuine diamond that shines brightly in the candlelight.
Xu Ruoou looked at Qiao Twilight in surprise, only to see him stand up and hug her, and suddenly began to sing happy birthday songs, his voice was sexy and low, and the cheerful song of the intestines also had a hint of seduction, until Qiao Anzhe and Xu's father and mother also joined in the singing, and they suppressed the slightest seduction.
"I'm sorry, I only found out today that it was your birthday, and I couldn't help you prepare well in a hurry, I'll make up for it next year, happy birthday, Xiaoou." ”
Jo Twilight was all at hand, her low and deep voice whispered in her ear that it was not a love word but a love word, and the warm breath hit her face and ears, tickling her heart, and she wanted to knock him down on the spot, forcing him to say those red-faced and hot love words in her ear.
"Thank you, I'm impressed. ”
Xu Ruoou snorted, and turned his head a little awkwardly, afraid that Qiao Twilight would see her unnaturalness and tears.
Closing his eyes, he put his hands together and made a wish, and Xu Ruoou was satisfied and blew out the candles with everyone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to disturb you, this bottle of red wine was given to Mrs. Qiao by our hotel, and I wish Mrs. Qiao a happy birthday and more and more beautiful. ”
Not long after the waiter who delivered the cake left, someone knocked on the door, dressed in the uniform of the Riescher Hotel, and brought a bottle of red wine. Xu Ruoou didn't think too much, and after thanking her, he let her open the wine on the spot, and then poured himself a glass.
I thought this was the end, who knew that they had just eaten a few bites, and someone knocked on the door again, but this time no one spoke, but Xu Ruoou was red in the face and dizzy because of the wine, and subconsciously shouted in, Qiao Dusk did not stop it when she saw this, and everyone looked out of the door.
Xu Jiaru was wearing an aqua blue bare-the-shoulder dress, the skirt was just above her knees, and because of the makeup, the whole person looked pitiful.
"It turns out that cousin, you are really here, and the front desk said that you are here, I still don't believe it!"
As if she didn't see anyone else, Xu Jiaru went straight to Xu Ruoou, and affectionately took her arm, with a flattering face.
"Cousin, today is your birthday, happy birthday! We used to spend your birthday with Xichuan together every year, but this year you haven't called us, I thought you forgot!"
Except for Qiao Anzhe, who didn't know Xu Jiaru's true face, and he couldn't stand it watching her embarrassing performance of pretending to be a sister.
Xu Ruoou looked at it coldly, couldn't guess what she wanted to do, she wanted to endure it, but the smell of perfume on Xu Jiaru's body was too strong, she couldn't stand it.
"Xu Jiaru, if you have something to say, don't pull and pull, what does it look like!"