Chapter 20: Birthday Party

The woman has a feeling that her heart has been pinched, and every year on Haohao's birthday in the past, she and her husband did give him two different gifts. But this year, her husband is gone, and Hao Hao does not think that his gift should be reduced by one because of this, on the contrary, her husband has made a promise to Hao Hao, as if he wants to give him a special gift.

According to the woman's observation during this time, she found that although Haohao had adapted to the life of only one parent, he had always felt in his heart that his father would come back, and now he was just going out for a long time and leaving temporarily.

The woman does not want to cause trauma to her son's young heart, even if her husband is missing, she has to give her son double love. It is not difficult to give two gifts, but before that, the woman needs to know what her husband has promised, "Haohao, what do you want your father to give you?"

The woman asked expectantly, but she didn't expect Haohao's answer to be, "This is a secret between me and my father, I won't tell you!"

The woman was a little disappointed in her heart, but she didn't care about it soon, it was not easy to set up a child, and the woman felt that she always had a chance to ask this secret.

Time passed day by day, Lin Yu still took classes and delivered food part-time, and no one saw that he had another hidden identity, the Grim Reaper.

When he was bored in class, Lin Yu would occasionally secretly click on the Grim Reaper game on his phone to see how much comfort the man had. Lin Yu found that the value had been slowly increasing these days, and it had risen from one hundred to three hundred and fifty, but there was still a gap behind the progress bar, and there was only one last step left before it was completely comforted.

After finishing the morning class, Lin Yu returned to the dormitory building, ready to put down his backpack and go to the cafeteria to eat, but downstairs in the dormitory, he unexpectedly saw the figure of a man wandering.

Lin Yu took him to a secluded corner, looked around, and only after finding that there was no one around did he ask in a low voice, "What's the matter, is there anything wrong with me?"

The man's expression looked a little apprehensive, but under Lin Yu's gaze, he still said in a slur manner, "Lord Death, what you said, is that wish still valid now?"

Lin Yu nodded very affirmatively, in fact, helping the deceased fulfill his wish was also the easiest means for the god of death to comfort the soul, "Of course, you have already thought about it?"

The man hummed in affirmation, "I hope you can help me..."

At some point, women became more and more accustomed to the life of orphans and widows, and even knew how to add a little fun to their lives, such as occasionally taking Hao Hao to the zoo to see his favorite giant panda, and holding a small party on his birthday.

Today, the woman took a half-day off, and she began to prepare in the afternoon, blowing up colorful balloons one by one, tying the purchased hydrogen balloons into a bunch and letting them float to the top of the ceiling, hanging a golden tin foil belt around the wall, and taking back the birthday cake that had been made from the cake shop.

This time's birthday, the woman was even more grand than ever, she hoped not to let Haohao feel the lack of her father, and even tried to make Haohao forget the gift that her husband promised him. Because although the woman has worked hard many times during this time, Haohao still did not let go after all, so there is no way for the woman to prepare two gifts for Haohao.

Just as the woman was trying to organize a birthday party for Haohao, two uninvited guests appeared on the road next to the residential building, sitting in a taxi, carefully looking in the direction where the woman was renting.

"This woman is so ruthless, really let our grandson live in this kind of place?" Through the car window, the woman saw that the woman on the third floor was holding a ribbon to decorate the room, and suddenly her whole body was out of breath.

"I didn't believe that they would move to an urban village just now, but now it seems..."Another gray-haired elderly man in the taxi said, they are the woman's parents-in-law, because they know that today is Haohao's birthday, so they want to come to see their grandson, and at the same time they also have plans to take Haohao back to their hometown by the way.

"This place is worse than our countryside, dilapidated and cramped, I can't watch Haohao suffer like this, old man, I want to take our grandson back today," the woman's tone was categorical.

"But, can she agree to this?" the elder also looked at the figure of the woman on the third floor.

"If you don't agree, you have to agree, I can't control it so much," the woman replied with some forceful words.

Behind the taxi, the laughter of a few children could be heard, and they ran like a gust of wind to the bottom of the residential buildings, and their laughter could be heard in the streets outside.

"Old man, isn't that Haohao?" said the woman, whose body shook and pointed to a child in front of her.

Before the elder could react, the woman quickly opened the car door and was about to step out with one foot. But her body was quickly grabbed by the elder, "Old woman, what do you want to do? ”

The woman shook the elder's hand a few times and didn't shake it off, and shouted in an angry tone, "You let go of me, if you don't take Haohao away now, there will be no chance when that woman knows!"

Even though the woman was already angry, the elder still didn't mean to let go, and under the pull of the two people, Haohao had already appeared at the end of the corridor on the third floor.

"Mom!" Hao Hao spread his chubby arms and hugged the woman's thighs like a koala.

The woman put the ribbon aside, touched Haohao's round head and asked, "Did you have fun in the kindergarten today?"

Hao Hao nodded vigorously, he found that there were many things in the room that he didn't usually have, hydrogen balloons, streamers, and colorful origami, "Mom, what are you doing?"

A knowing smile bloomed on the woman's face, "Haohao has not forgotten, today is your birthday, and my mother is going to hold a grand birthday party for you!"

Haohao jumped up with excited applause, he rushed out of the room, and kept shouting at his friends in the corridor, "Today is my birthday, my mother is going to hold a birthday party for me, and I have a birthday cake to eat..."

The old man and the woman in the taxi naturally saw Haohao's elated appearance, and their faces looked at each other a little, because the current situation was too different from what they imagined. I thought that living in such a poor urban village, their mother and son must have lived a very miserable life, even if they didn't wash their faces with tears every day, there would definitely be no joy and laughter in their lives.

But now, they saw a Hao Hao who seemed to be happier than before, running and jumping excitedly in the dark mottled corridor, shouting that there was a birthday party of his own today.

The elders and the woman had the same sentence in their hearts, they thought that the woman was working part-time at home and earning extra money by doing some manual work, but they didn't expect that the woman still had the heart to hold a birthday party for Haohao.

"Old man, Haohao has run out again, go and bring him back," this time the woman did not take matters into her own hands, but instead advocated the elder beside her.

The elder didn't make any moves, and let out a long sigh from his mouth, "What do you think Haohao, will he be willing to go with us?"

The woman's eyes showed extremely contradictory colors, as a mother, of course she knew that any child wanted to stay with her mother the most, and the biggest reason why she tried to take Haohao away was that her grandson could not grow up healthy and happy in an environment like an urban village, but this is not the case at present.

The woman knew that it was not a wise choice to forcibly take Hao Hao away, but she still didn't want to give up in her heart, "Is it just to let Hao Hao live here all the time?"

"I think she was forced to move here, didn't she call before about the rent increase, you didn't agree to give her money, she will definitely not be able to pay the rent in the community alone," the elder said objectively.

"What do you mean by that, it seems that the fault is all on me, what is wrong with me taking my son's hard-earned money?" said the woman, still stubbornly.

"I think the son's spirit in heaven doesn't want to see their mother and son live too down, or give her half of the money, after all, it is also the joint property of their husband and wife. ”

The woman is not hard-hearted, she is mean and merciless to women, and more because she feels that women do not take good care of their sons. Now that the husband spoke of his son's spirit in heaven, and the grandson was enjoying himself in such a dilapidated place, the woman could not help but feel compassion, and she said faintly, "Half of it, that's a full 200,000..."

The taxi turned around and left the urban village, and the woman, who was busy setting up the room, did not know all this, and in the evening, when everything was finally ready, the woman called all the children living in the residential building.

It's always easy to have fun with a few kids together, especially if there are plenty of colorful balloons to play with and birthday cakes to eat.

As the woman expected, Hao Hao was very excited all night, and he ate several pieces of birthday cake until his little belly could no longer hold on. At ten o'clock in the evening, when the children were a little tired, the woman sent Haohao's little friends home one by one, and then hurriedly gave her own gifts while he was sleepy.

"Haohao, do you like this gift?" the woman placed the wrapped gift box in front of her son and diverted his attention by asking him to open the gift.

Hao Hao really followed the woman's words and opened the box, and found that it was a toy electric machine gun, Hao Hao grabbed the machine gun in his hand at once, and when he pulled the plate machine, the front and rear lights of the machine gun were lit up, and there was a simulated sound of da-da-da.

Haohao's playfulness was aroused again, and he began to run around the wooden bed with a machine gun, and from time to time he said a few words about fighting monsters.

The woman breathed a sigh of relief, seeing this situation, when Haohao was tired of playing again, he must have fallen asleep upside down. The woman began to clean up the mess in the room, broken streamers, all kinds of broken balloons were everywhere, and the woman had to clean it as soon as possible to go to bed early.

Just as the woman was burying her head in cleaning up the garbage, the sound of the machine gun in her ears suddenly stopped, and the woman heard a question that made her heart sink, "Mom, where is Dad's gift?"

Hao Hao stood in the center of the room, the machine gun in his hand hanging down, and his innocent eyes were full of questions.

The woman's heart was in turmoil all of a sudden, but she didn't expect that after tossing all night, Haohao still remembered her husband's gift. "Daddy, he's... The woman's mind began to spin rapidly, and she wanted to find a suitable reason for Haohao to accept the fact that her husband did not buy him a gift, but after thinking for a few seconds, the woman found that her head was stuck like paste, and she couldn't turn at all.

The woman suddenly felt a deep helplessness, and she found that no matter how hard she tried and how much she cared for Haohao, she could never fill the gap of Haohao's father's love. The strong heart that a woman has built up with great difficulty is broken all of a sudden, and maybe other practical problems can be solved, such as rent, cooking, income sources... , but there is only one problem that cannot be solved even if she tries hard, the fatherly love that Haohao wants.

The woman's eyes turned red all of a sudden, she didn't want to make up a perfect lie anymore, and then deceive Haohao year after year, the woman wanted to tell him frankly that there would only be her mother in the future.

The woman is ruthless, she is ready to say what she thinks in her heart, even if Haohao can't accept it, it doesn't matter if she cries and makes a fuss, the long pain is better than the short pain, and she will make an end today.

"Dad, he, in the future..." Before the woman's words were finished, a sudden knock on the door in the corridor interrupted her words in time, "Is anyone at home, your courier has arrived." ”

The woman frowned suspiciously, she didn't have the habit of shopping online, and many daily necessities were solved directly in the supermarket, why did she suddenly say that she had her own express delivery, or was it so late now?