The three of them went back to the house with their gifts, and Qi Jiuli listened to Qi Shiyi's words and thought of something.

"Shixiang, I forgot your birthday, and so did myself." Qi Jiuli followed Qi Shixiang into the house and asked.

Birthday, the day that every child yearns for, Qi Shixiang thought of the past, as long as the four of them had their birthday, they could eat boiled eggs, or a pair.

There is no single food at home, two boiled eggs are cut into pieces, one person divides one or two pieces, that taste Qi Shixiang still remembers, so I am especially looking forward to the birthday, no matter who can eat eggs on his birthday, it feels like being able to live four times a year.

"Sister, your birthday is the earliest, the seventeenth day of the first month, but this year ......" Qi Shixiang didn't continue, Qi Jiuli understood.

The first month is the time when things are complicated at home and the mood is sad, who will have such things as birthdays, but this day is really nostalgic.

Qi Jiuli's original birthday was also on this day, because it was close to the Lantern Festival, it was not that he had not been teased, it would be good two days earlier, celebrating the Lantern Festival, celebrating his birthday, double happiness is not.

"What about you?" Qi Jiuli asked.

"Next is brother, May 26; Then I was on the third day of August; The eleventh is the same month as mine, but he is the end of the month, the twenty-ninth day. Qi Shixiang said.

"That brother's birthday is just over a month away, twenty-six, it should be on the way to Fucheng to catch the exam, and it may also be to Fucheng." Qi Jiuli said.

"At that time, we will prepare for my brother, and it will be almost out of the filial piety period at that time, and we are not in Qiliangou, so it will not be in the way for our family to keep a low profile." Qi Jiuli said.

Qi Shixiang nodded.

"Shixiang, the past, whether it is sad or joyful, sweet or bitter, we can't do anything to change it, because it is in the past." Qi Jiuli didn't see the sadness and nostalgia on Qi Shixiang's face when he talked about his birthday.

"In the past, my father and mother participated together, but if people are gone, they are gone, it is a foregone fact." Qi Jiuli said with a serious expression, "The future is reserved for the living. ”

Qi Shixiang's red eyes burst suddenly, Qi Jiuli hugged the person over and whispered relief, "But I heard that when people go, they will become stars in the sky, although they are far away from us, they can still be seen." ”

"They can see us too, and they will worry less about our good life, so we can live our lives well now and in the future."

"Really?" Qi Shixiang heard for the first time that people become stars when they die, "Can you really become a star?" ”

With a happy look on his face as if he had thought of something, Qi Shixiang then fell again, "But the stars can only be seen at night, not only that, but they can't be seen on rainy nights." ”

Qi Jiuli smiled nostalgically, when he lost his parents, Uncle Gong comforted himself like this, and he also said Qi Shixiang's words at this time, stars are not seen every day.

Uncle Gong touched his little head, his face was rare and gentle, "The stars have always been there, but the light of the sun is dazzling during the day, and the brightness of the stars is covered; As for rainy days, there are only clouds in between, but the stars are always there. ”

At that time, Qi Jiuli seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and the things he looked forward to every day were very simple, hoping that it would be a sunny day, so that he could see the stars at night.

Qi Jiuli told Qi Shixiang the words that had been comforted, and when he heard that he had been saying this all along, Qi Shixiang's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he stopped crying, and then at night, the two of them put on jackets and looked at the stars in the courtyard for most of the hour.

In the small courtyard under the starry sky, in addition to the voice of nature, it is Qi Shixiang chattering about the recent events of his family.

This is a sensible distressed child, because she said it very quietly, as far as she and herself could hear, and she didn't want to disturb other people's rest, and of course, because she didn't want to reveal her own family background.

After seeing the stars, the two washed their faces again, Qi Jiuli took out the honey ointment, smeared it on his face and hands, Qi Shixiang was reluctant to use it, Qi Jiuli opened it, and dragged Qi Shixiang's hand to pick out some honey ointment.

"Sister, it's so slippery." Qi Shixiang felt the novel experience, learning Qi Jiuli's movements just now, and smeared it a little awkwardly, but the feeling on his face after applying it was obvious.

"Ming'er will use it again after washing her face in the morning, once in the morning and once in the evening." After Qi Jiuli finished admonishing, he lay down and went to sleep.

The next day, when Qi Jiuli woke up, Qi Shixiang on the side was still sleeping soundly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and it seemed that he had had a good dream for a night.

Qi Jiuli moved lightly, dressed carefully, and went out of the house lightly, but he didn't expect someone to be earlier.

"Brother, get up so early today."

In the kitchen, Qi Qizhu had already made breakfast, hot white rice and sweet potato porridge, and fragrant egg cakes.

Qi Qizhu smiled dotingly, "Didn't I look at the stars with Shixiang all night yesterday, I'm afraid you won't be able to get up." ”

"Brother saw it?" Qi Jiuli said with a smile.

"Hmm." Qi Qizhu nodded, although the night was rich, but the moonlight was bright, the joyful look on Shixiang's face, and the mouth that kept opening and closing, Qi Qizhu saw it in his eyes.

Although I didn't hear what Qi Shixiang was saying, she was the only one who spoke at the time, and she kept looking up at the sky, Qi Jiuli only accompanied and listened to it on the side, and Qi Qizhu's smart brain could guess the general thing.

"It's been nine miles of hard work, and my brother thinks you've really grown up a lot." Qi Qizhu sighed for a while, and then rubbed Qi Jiuli's unwashed hair.

"Brother, my hairstyle." Qi Jiuli couldn't stop it, and the hairstyle that was specially reserved last night was scrapped.

"Brother will comb it for you." Qi Qizhu went to get the comb, pulled Qi Jiuli to sit on the stool, removed the original hair rope on her head, and carefully began to comb it, combing it slowly, and it didn't hurt Qi Jiuli at all.

Qi Jiuli was combed by a man for the second time, he was young before, and Uncle Gong also combed himself, but that experience was ...... Later, it was Uncle Gong's beautiful apprentice who took over the task.

Diametrically opposed to Uncle Gong's technique, Qi Jiuli closed his eyes at this time, his eyes were a little sour, no matter what kind of technique, he made his heart full, whether it was now or before, he was lucky.

"Brother combs so well." Qi Jiuli touched the smooth hairstyle, even if he didn't look in the mirror, he knew that it was not bad.

"Practice makes perfect." Qi Qizhu cleaned up with a smile and urged Qi Jiuli to wash.

After Qi Shixiang and Qi Shiyi got up, the four of them had breakfast happily, and Qi Jiuli fished out six salted duck eggs, "I'll send it to Brother Da Zhuang today, the bookbag was made with the help of his daughter-in-law, you have to remember the good of others." ”

"Sister, didn't you use honey ointment?" Qi Shixiang passed by Qi Jiuli and didn't smell the same fragrance as herself, and asked.

"I'll just use it at night." Qi Jiuli replied, "There is no big man who paints this." ”

Qi Shixiang was a little lost, and her eyes were filled with distress.