Chapter 45: Happy Birthday

It snowed heavily for two days and two nights!

Li Yuan took Chang Anne to eat small wontons, and Li Yuan took Anne to the mall in the city center without saying a word.

It was terrible cold, and the streets that had snowed were full of snow, and Anne tucked her hands into Li Yuan's coat, and the two of them walked in strange shapes, the toes of their smoky gray suede boots wet and dried by the snow the night before, and now they were wet again.

Li Yuan asked Anne if she was cold all the way, he said that today was Anne's birthday, he wanted to make Anne happy all day, he said that he had saved up a whole year's pocket money, and he wanted to use them to buy a new pair of shoes for Anne.

Anne was so cold that the tip of her nose was almost frozen and transparent, standing at the door of the mall, Anne reached out and touched the tip of her frozen nose, and asked, "Yuan~ What are we doing in the mall?"

Li Yuan stretched out his hand and lightly tapped Anne's forehead and said, "I'll take you to buy shoes, aren't your shoes wet and a little deformed yesterday!" I'll take you to buy shoes! ”

Anne smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's all because I put my shoes on the radiator last night and baked them, but I didn't expect them to be deformed when I saw them in the morning."

Anne looked down at the boot on her foot again, and now it was not only deformed, but also wet and discolored.

Li Yuan was wearing a yellow ski jacket with a slight stain on his chest, and soft light blue jeans on top of black sneakers that could not tell whether they were clean or dirty.

The two of them dangled for a long time, Li Yuan's shoes, Anne felt uncomfortable to wear, and Anne's own shoes did not meet Li Yuan's aesthetics, and the two of them wandered for a long time, but they didn't choose a pair of suitable shoes.

"Look there, Annie!"

Anne looked in the direction that Li Yuan pointed to, but found nothing, and was about to turn around and say something, when she was suddenly blindfolded.

Anne was startled, instinctively screamed, and struggled with both hands to pull down the blindfolded hands, but heard a sweet voice in her ear say: "Nini baby, sneak into the mall, don't come with me, hum!"

Anne heard that the voice was Jingjing, smiled and broke her blindfolded hands, and said with a smile: "I hate ~ you ~ Stinky Jingjing, you scared me!"

Anne turned her head and saw Jingjing standing behind her laughing and screaming, Jingjing's hair was static, and the whole person looked like Xiaoxue who had blown up hair, and quickly reached out to touch Jingjing's hair.

Jingjing mysteriously took out a small square box wrapped in violet brown paper from the denim bag she was carrying cross-body and stuffed it to Anne.

"Come and guess what gift I chose for you!" Jingjing

Anne listened to Jingjing's words and looked curiously at the small violet box in her hand. On top of the small square box is a small yellow bow, which is very delicate and cute. The box is also fragrant, and Anne smiled and said, "What is it?"

"You can open it yourself and see." Jingjing

As soon as Jingjing's words fell, before Anne could open the box by herself, Jingjing reached out to help Anne open the box.

Inside the box was a white music box: a simple wooden house with a windmill wheel on the roof, and the blades of the wheels were engraved with several small golden characters - "Happy Birthday".

There is also a swing rack on the left side of the house, tethered to six swing chairs. On each chair sat a Winnie the Pooh, dressed in a cloth garment and wearing a small flower on his head, smiling brightly.

The music box that Anne held in both hands shone warmly in the light of the chandelier in the mall. Curiously, Anne twisted the windmill with her hand, and the famous song "To Alice" came softly from the little cabin.

Anne looked at the gift in her hand in surprise, and the moment she raised her head, Anne saw that there seemed to be stars shining in Li Yuan's eyes.

"Where did you find this? Oh my God, I love it, thank you, Jingjing. Anne said as she stretched out her arms and hugged Jingjing.

"I saw it the last time we were shopping together, and I saw that you liked it very much, so I quietly bought it." After Jingjing finished speaking, she smiled and happily touched Anne's head.

Anne thinks she is so happy, Anne has only received one birthday gift since she was a child, or when she was a child in Jiangcheng Anne's 9th birthday, her aunt gave Anne a Disney Minnie Mouse talking small alarm clock.

Anne hugged the music box tightly in her hand and continued to choose shoes.

Li Yuan followed behind Anne and Jingjing, walked a few steps faster and grabbed Anne's ponytail, and the three of them laughed and made a fuss.

"I'll help you put the music box in my backpack, don't break it." Li Yuan said as he unloaded the blue schoolbag behind him from his shoulder, carefully put Annie's music box into the schoolbag, carefully zipped it, carried the schoolbag, and followed Annie and Jingjing to the direction of the shoe cabinet in the west of the mall.

Waiting for Anne to pick out her shoes, Li Yuan proposed to find a store to eat something, Jingjing recommended a delicious waffle shop, Anne was really hungry, and looked forward to the delicious waffles recommended by Jingjing.

The three of them giggled through the park in the center of the city and came to the shop that Jingjing said, the small shop was clean and not pretentious at all.

After finding her seat, Anne exhaled deeply and tiredly. Opening the menu, a variety of waffle combinations, so that the sweet tooth Jingjing couldn't help muttering, saying that she didn't know how to choose, in order to resist the cold along the way, Anne quickly asked for three cups of hot chocolate.

Li Yuan opened a bag of fried chestnuts with sugar in a brown paper bag that he had just bought on the side of the road, Anne likes to eat fried chestnuts with sugar, but because Anne wants to play the violin, she is always bald, and peeling sugar and fried chestnuts has become a small sweet burden.

Anne likes it and is always afraid of trouble, so she doesn't often buy it to eat, after all, eating fried chestnuts with sugar is also a very energy-consuming thing, if there is no leisure in her heart, eating and eating may make the whole person frizzy.

Li Yuan patiently peeled the chestnuts one by one and stuffed them into Anne's mouth. Jingjing was fed a handful of dog food alive, sighed and lay on the table and said, "Mom, help!" Bullying a single dog! ”

When the hot chocolate was delivered, Anne and Li Yuan were both dumbfounded, the huge chocolate cup was like a classical small wash basin, a large pool of fresh cream was piled up in the center of the cup, floating and spinning happily and lightly, Anne lowered her head and drank a few sips, and the mouth spit out a white warm breath, the high-calorie cream slid into the stomach with the chocolate, and the cold and hunger suddenly melted into a warmth, surrounding Anne's stomach, surrounding Anne's heart, and also surrounding us happy birthdays.

The banana strawberry and blueberry sauce waffles ordered by Jingjing caused us to exclaim after they were delivered, and the layers of egg cakes were paired with blueberry jam, plus the giant strawberries and banana chips, the banana slices were sprinkled with white sugar and thin like the white snow outside the window, the bee pulp molasses on the strawberries was crystal flowing, and the hand-beaten whipped cream was mixed in a childish manner.

The three of us were amazed and satisfied while eating, and Jingjing said proudly, "How is it, this store is delicious, right?" In fact, just now the three of us ordered one serving is enough to eat, and it is too much to eat and waste, and the amount of food it eats is particularly large. ”

After eating, we were indescribably full, and Anne, who had always liked sweets, had only one sweet pain at the moment, not allowing herself to see waffles for the rest of her life.

Maybe because of excessive satiety, the three of them were going to take the bus, but they said in unison that they wanted to go, when we walked along the central park, after a few turns randomly, only to find that the passers-by around them, dressed like a polar bear, when we stopped in front of a five-star hotel, we saw the doorman at the door of the hotel with big thick leather boots on his feet, very thick.

Anne was wearing a black cropped down jacket with a British red plaid skirt today, and the gray snow boots on her feet were wet and discolored.

I still felt frozen on my toes while walking, so the three of them decided to take the bus in the direction of home.

When I got home, I took off my shoes, and the three of them walked to the living room collectively, Xiaoxue meowed and ran over, Anne picked up Xiaoxue, kissed Xiaoxue's little head, and turned on the corridor light The moment I found a delicate brown paper bag on the dining table.

Anne walked over, and there was a pink Hello Kitty card on the dining table, which read: "Nini, today is your 15th birthday, it's a pity that I couldn't spend my birthday with you, I'll come back the day after tomorrow and make it up for you, in the handbag is your birthday gift, I wish you a happy birthday, mom loves you!"

Anne put the little snow in her arms on the dining table and chair beside her, sat down with the card in her hand, and the starlight flashed in her eyes, Anne was really surprised, because for the first time in all these years, her mother remembered Anne's birthday.

Opening the tote bag, Anne saw a new and cute purple Anna Sue purse, and when she opened the wallet, Anne found a photo that she had never seen before.

Because of the age, the photo looks slightly yellow, the mother in the photo is very young, like a female college student, in her early 20s, beautiful and refined, wearing a crochet sweater, sitting on a chair, holding a little baby like glutinous rice dumplings in her arms.

This is the first time Anne has seen a photo of Anne with her mother, and the number 1989.1.20 is engraved in the lower right corner of the photo.