On April 29, Wu Dao had lunch with Su Hongmin after class in the morning. Su Hongmin said to him:

"Big brother, tonight we have dinner in the dormitory, and we have to sing, you can participate."

"You're all so young, I'm not going." Wu Dao said.

"Go ahead, there are no outsiders, you know all the girls in our dormitory. I told them all that you'd be there tonight. Besides, do you know what day it is? ”

"What day?"

"It's my birthday."

"It's your birthday, and you didn't even tell me."

"You didn't ask me."

"I was negligent. What birthday gift do you want? ”

"I want you to come to our party, and we'll have a three-day trip to the waterfront on May Day."

"Since it's your birthday, I'll promise you."

"Then we'll go to the travel agency and book it today."

"Okay."

There is a travel agency near the west gate of Fangzhou University, and after eating, Wu Dao and Su Hongmin walked there and booked a three-day tour of the seaside during the May Day holiday.

They will leave on the morning of May 1 and return on the afternoon of May 3, which is actually two days.

After leaving the travel agency, Wu Dao and Su Hongmin separated and went back to their dormitories. After meeting Meng Yihong, Wu Dao told her about the evening party. Meng Yihong said:

"Su Hongmin celebrates her birthday, and others may bring gifts to her at the evening party. You're her boyfriend and teacher, so it's not good to go empty-handed, so you should buy a gift and take it with you. ”

"What should I buy?" Wu Dao said.

"What did you buy before?"

"Do sugar gourds and grilled squid count?"

"At this time, you still joke with me, you don't buy a gift seriously! This time it just so happens that Su Hongmin has a birthday, so you buy a better gift. I think many young people use smartphones now, and Su Hongmin still uses ordinary mobile phones, so you can buy a smartphone and give it to her. ”

"Sister Meng, how do you know that Su Hongmin uses an ordinary mobile phone?"

"I saw it in class. Don't you know? ”

"I didn't pay attention to it before, but when I heard you say this today, she really uses an ordinary mobile phone."

"You're using a regular phone, too. It just so happens that you buy two new mobile phones, couples, one for your own use, and one for Su Hongmin as a birthday gift. Both use smartphones, so it's easy for you to communicate in the future. ”

"Okay."

"It's the first time I've bought a gift for a girl, buy something better."

"Okay, I'll go to the library to borrow a book in a while, and then I'll buy a phone when I come back."

"It's not in a hurry to borrow books, it's important to buy a mobile phone, don't delay the evening. Now that you and Su Hongmin are in love, it is the biggest thing. You just go buy it now. I'll go shopping with you, I'm really not at ease when you buy things for girls. ”

"Okay."

The central campus of Fangzhou University is located in a busy road, and there are several mobile phone stores nearby. Wu Dao and Meng Yihong went to the largest of them and looked at several brands.

After a comprehensive comparison, Wu Dao bought two smartphones of the same model with almost a month's salary, one blue and the other pink, the blue one was used by himself, and the pink one was given to Su Hongmin.

Wu Dao knew that Meng Yihong's mobile phone was also an ordinary mobile phone, so he tried his best to persuade her to buy a new smartphone, and Meng Yihong also bought a white mobile phone of the same type.

After buying the mobile phone, Meng Yihong asked Wu Dao to call Su Hongmin again and ask her if she had ordered a birthday cake, if not, Wu Dao would order one. Su Hongmin told Wu Dao that her roommate had already ordered a cake for her and there was no need to order another one.

At 5:45 p.m., Su Hongmin called Wu Dao and asked him to gather at the west gate of the college at 6 o'clock. Meng Yihong knew that Wu Dao was going to a birthday party, asked him to wear the latest suit, and reminded him not to forget to bring Su Hongmin the mobile phone he bought.

Wu Dao got dressed, put his phone in a handbag, and arrived at the west gate of the academy two minutes early. The other five students in Su Hongmin's dormitory are also students of Wu Dao, and two of them have brought their boyfriends, who are also students of the Chinese department.

Of these seven students, not every one of them can be named, but they are all familiar with each other and know which class they belong to.

Before this, Su Hongmin's roommates already knew that she was in love with Wu Dao. There are still many students in the Chinese Department who have seen the two of them together, and although they are not sure whether they are in a relationship, they at least know that their relationship is extraordinary. Attending Su Hongmin's birthday party this time was the first time Wu Dao appeared in front of other students as her boyfriend.

Seeing Wu Dao come to the door, the other seven students were even more excited than Su Hongmin, and before Su Hongmin could speak, they had already opened their mouths to greet Wu Dao.

Seeing these seven students and hearing them call themselves "Teacher Wu", Wu Dao still felt a little awkward, and didn't know whether he should associate with them as a teacher or as a friend.

If in terms of the identity of Su Hongmin's boyfriend, Wu Dao and the other two boys have the same identity, and everyone should be friends with equal status; However, these people in front of him were clearly his students, and they were still calling the word "teacher", showing the difference in identity.

Wu Dao couldn't think of a suitable way, so he had to wave his hand to everyone, smile and say:

"You're all here."

"It's all here." Several students said.

Su Hongmin walked up to Wu Dao and said:

"Big brother, we'll be waiting for you."

Wu Daoxiang said to Su Hongmin, "On this occasion, don't call it big brother, it's better to call Teacher Wu." However, in front of so many students, he couldn't say it directly. In the end, Wu Dao had to say:

"I'm not late, am I?"

"Teacher Wu, you're not late." Another student said.

Several other students also said, "I'm not late. ”

Wu Dao took out the original mobile phone from the handbag, gave it to Su Hongmin, and said:

"Today is your birthday, this is my gift to you, please open it and take a look."

Su Hongmin took the mobile phone with the packaging, and the other classmates also gathered over. From the packaging of the mobile phone, it can be seen that it is a smartphone inside, and the brand and model are also very obvious, and several classmates made a "wow" sound.

Su Hongmin opened the package, took out the mobile phone inside, and looked at it carefully. Wu Dao said to her:

"Do you like it?"

"I like it." Su Hongmin said, and kissed Wu Dao's face.

Wu Dao didn't expect Su Hongmin to kiss him in public, his face turned red at that time, and he regretted buying this mobile phone for Su Hongmin as a birthday gift. If he hadn't bought a mobile phone, Su Hongmin might not have kissed him in front of so many students. But he couldn't say anything, so he had to say:

"It's good to like it. Now that everyone is here, let's go. ”

"Let's go." Su Hongmin said to everyone.

The group set off and walked to a nearby restaurant, where they soon arrived. After coming to the private room, Wu Dao naturally sat with Su Hongmin.

After the feast began, the students kept talking to each other. Wu Dao didn't know what to say, because he wasn't interested in what the students said or had never heard of it.

And the students were still in awe of Wu Dao after all, and few people took the initiative to talk to him, only Su Hongmin said a few words to him from time to time.

Wu Dao also saw that because of his existence, the students had scruples when speaking and could not speak freely.

When the dish was almost served, the salesperson of the cake shop brought the cake. Wu Dao is a teacher and Su Hongmin's girlfriend, so the students let him take the lead in singing the happy birthday song. Although Wu Dao was very embarrassed, he could only watch Su Hongmin open his mouth and sing:

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you."

Before the birthday party began, the students had already agreed that the banquet should be AA system, and everyone would share the cost equally. When it was time to pay, Wu Dao offered him to pay out of affection, but the students insisted on the AA system, and in the end Wu Dao paid him and Su Hongmin.

After the banquet, the students wanted to go to the song hall to sing, Wu Dao had the heart to go, but because of the identity of Su Hongmin's boyfriend, he had to go.

After arriving at the song hall, the students asked Wu Dao to order songs first, and he still ordered his favorite songs, in fact, he would only sing those songs.

Most of the songs ordered by the students were unheard of by Wu Dao, and it was the first time he had heard the names of those singers.

Listening to the songs sung by the students, Wu Dao felt more and more that he was outdated, and felt that he and these students were not from the same era.

He remembered the scene when he sang with his classmates and Si Baifang when he was in graduate school, he sang with Si Baifang, the two of them were very harmonious, and he sang with his classmates majoring in foreign literature, although he couldn't fully integrate into them, but at least he was still a participant, and now he sang with his own students, he became a complete outsider.

At the end of the singing, Su Hongmin ordered a song "Knowing Lover" and wanted to sing it with Wu Dao. Although Wu Dao had never sung this song, he had heard it a few times, and he was quite familiar with the melody, so he sang with Su Hongmin.

Although Wu Dao did not sing well, the other students applauded the two of them.

During the meal, Su Hongmin didn't pay for it, and after singing, she said that she was a "birthday star", and she would pay for the singing. It didn't cost much money to sing, and people got her way.

Leaving the song hall, it was close to ten o'clock in the evening, and the lights in the student dormitory were about to go out at half past ten, and everyone hurried back to school. The girls' dormitory and Wu Dao's dormitory are not far away, and when they arrived at the intersection of the separate roads, Su Hongmin asked her roommate to go back first, and then said to Wu Dao:

"Big brother, thank you for coming to my birthday party today and giving me a birthday present."

"No thanks. However, Hongmin, in the future, in front of others, don't call me big brother. Wu Dao said.

"In front of my roommates, it doesn't matter, they're not outsiders. In class, I still call you Mr. Wu. ”

"I still think it's only appropriate to call it when the two of us are together. Maybe I'm too conservative. ”

"Okay then."

"Also, Hongmin, I feel a little awkward to attend your party today. After all, I'm your teacher, I'm much older, I don't have anything in common, I'm there, and your classmates don't feel comfortable. In the future, I still try not to participate in such activities. We respect each other, okay? ”

Su Hongmin was a little lost, but still said:

"Okay. I won't call you any other parties in the future, but I hope that you can come to my birthday party every year. ”

"Okay, I promise you. It's so late, it's time for you to go back. ”

The two men hugged for a moment, then parted.

Walking on the road, Wu Dao recalled what happened at night, and felt more and more embarrassed, even afraid. I remembered the feeling of hugging Su Hongmin just now, which seemed to be completely different from hugging Si Baifang and Meng Yihong.