Sure enough, the nearby places that could be stuffed to get off were full, and the drainage outlet of the attic of the newly built small bungalow next to the old house had left light gray water stains on the snow-white walls. Shi Jiaojiao parked her bicycle in the alley between the house and the house, and as soon as she walked to the door, Grandma A Qian came over and took her hand, "Jiaojiao is here, Lei Lei specially asked me to wait for you here!" Shi Jiaojiao was puzzled: "What about her?" Grandma Aqian said while leading her deeper into the house: "I saw it right away, her childhood friends also came to celebrate her birthday, and she couldn't pull away!" Shi Jiaojiao nodded.

"It's here, go in by yourself, grandma has something else to do." Ah Qian pointed to the room where laughter came from and said, leaving after Shi Jiaojiao thanked him. This is the tea room where Grandpa Xia practiced calligraphy and reading before his death, and it is very spacious and secluded. After Shi Jiaojiao knocked on the door, the person who opened the door was the "Silk Flower Girl" who had taken a picture at that time, in the two years when the girl should have grown her body like crazy, she seemed to be still and generally had no change, but it was a little mellow, so Shi Jiaojiao recognized her at a glance.

"Jiaojiao! Come on in! Xia Lei wore a beige dress with a thin brown belt fastened around her waist, elegant and generous. Xia Lei walked into the room with Shi Jiaojiao's hand, there were three or four girls of the same age standing on one side of the room, and on a mahogany round table on the other side, four teenagers were playing poker, and there were two little boys on the ground fighting with game consoles. Xia Lei held Shi Jiaojiao's shoulders and said to everyone: "My best sisters, Shi Jiaojiao." After speaking, she was introduced to the girls in turn, and the silk flower girl took the initiative to reach out her hand, "Long time no see!" Shi Jiaojiao returned the courtesy, "Long time no see." ”

Xia Lei kept smiling at the cloth bag in Shi Jiaojiao's arms, and Shi Jiaojiao reacted at this time, handed it to her and said, "Happy birthday!" Xia Lei took it and stretched out her head to look, "What?" Shi Jiaojiao tilted her head and smiled, "Of course there are three gifts for three people, there are cards in them, and the words are quite numb, so it is recommended that you look at them when you are alone." Xia Lei laughed, hugged the bag in her arms, and said yes repeatedly.

"I'll take a look later." At the card table over there, Xia Lei's cousin shook his hand, walked over to the girl, looked Shi Jiaojiao up and down, and said, "Do you remember me?" Shi Jiaojiao recognized this "cheap cousin" at a glance, but shook his head after seeing him from head to foot. The cousin was still talking, and an arm was put on his shoulder, another boy with a round haircut, wearing a wide T-shirt printed with exaggerated eye patterns, squinting at Shi Jiaojiao and asking, "Won't she be together at night?" The cousin squinted at Xia Lei and said teasingly: "She doesn't go, do you think my sister will go?" The man glanced at Shi Jiaojiao, who had been pulled to the sofa by Xia Lei, and shrugged, "So boring"

After sitting for a while, Grandma Ah Qian came to call someone, "Lei Lei, it's time to go." Xia Lei replied and called everyone out. Shi Jiaojiao was pulled by Xia Lei's hand and walked out, and couldn't help asking, "Where are you going?" Xia Lei replied: "Go to the hotel in the city." Shi Jiaojiao took a breath when she heard this, Xia Lei turned around and smiled: "Don't think about it, you just follow me everywhere." Shi Jiaojiao nodded obediently, secretly remembering in her heart that Xia Lei's last birthday banquet was not a very pleasant dining feeling.

After getting in the car, Xia Lei said to the driver: "Uncle Fang, you drive steadily, you don't have to compete with other cars for the first place this time, Jiaojiao is a little sicksick." Uncle Fang looked back and said with a smile: "Got it." Moving smoothly towards the city, Shi Jiaojiao really didn't feel any discomfort, and began to understand the situation, "Did you invite a lot of people?" Xia Lei snorted coldly, "It has nothing to do with me." Oh yes, I invited a table of teachers. Shi Jiaojiao shrunk her neck, "It's over, don't run into my math teacher, I'm most afraid of him." Xia Lei turned her head and smiled, "He must have it, who told us to teach both classes!" Shi Jiaojiao rolled her eyes in despair and looked at her friend, Xia Lei touched her hair, "Okay, don't be afraid, you are at the same table with me, and you can't meet them." ”

This is a high-rise hotel that Shi Jiaojiao has only seen on TV, Xia Lei's name is written on the red inflatable arch at the door, all the way in, the LED screen in the lobby is also scrolling with the notice of Xia Lei's birthday party, there are people politely leading the way at every turn, and there are people serving in the elevator...... Shi Jiaojiao carefully shrank behind Xia Lei and secretly stuck out her tongue, what a big scene!

The Flower Blossom Fugui Hall has 16 round tables for 10 people, and there are also two separate tables for children who can eat independently. Although it is a child's birthday banquet, it can also be said to be full of friends, and you can get a glimpse of the dense network of the Xia family during the banquet. Shi Jiaojiao followed Xia Lei's example and laid out the napkin, looked at the tableware at hand, and was a little in a trance: how could she appear on such a grand occasion, as if she had a weird dream, she seemed reasonable here, but it seemed out of place.

Xia Lei sandwiched a thin piece of geoduck into the stunned girl's bowl, "Try it, it's crispy, less of this!" It's choking! As she spoke, she pushed the mustard dish into her hand, and after Shi Jiaojiao put it in her mouth, she resisted the urge to cry before chewing. What do you think? Xia Lei looked at her expectantly, Shi Jiaojiao chewed carefully, rolled her eyes, and said with a smile: "It's a little bouncy, isn't it raw, it's quite delicious!" Xia Lei said: "Great, we can go to the beach together in the future and eat seafood, haha!" The cousin sitting next to Shi Jiaojiao whispered, "Cut", "It's delicious if it's unpalatable......" Shi Jiaojiao turned her head to look at him, "What?" The boy ignored it and turned to toast to his little cousin and drink juice.

Father Xia picked up the wine glass and handed his daughter a look from afar, Xia Lei stuffed half a piece of crystal meat into her mouth, and said as she stood up, "I'm going to toast." Serving the dark red wine, he crossed Shi Jiaojiao and patted her cousin's shoulder, and said, "My sister handed it over to you, if she is unhappy during my toast, I will count it on your head!" The cousin widened his eyes, pointed to his nose and said, "Mind my, I'm too lazy to care!" Xia Lei tilted her head, "That's it!" After speaking, he pressed Shi Jiaojiao's shoulder and went to toast with his parents.

Shi Jiaojiao's bowl was filled with dishes by Xia Lei, fortunately she didn't pick her mouth much, and the food here didn't taste bad, otherwise it would be a burden. "Hey, you, how many years have you been behind my sister's ass?" The cousin opened his mouth and smelled a strong smell of liquor, which he had just drunk when he toasted Father Xia. Shi Jiaojiao turned her head to look at the slightly red face next to her, blinked and said, "Six years in the same school." The young man smacked his lips and said with a smile: "The dog leg at her feet, I think you have the longest life." Shi Jiaojiao sighed, took a sip of mango juice, looked into her cousin's eyes and said, "Yes, I'll ask if there is longer one later." ”

"Be sure to come and play with Lei Lei at night! I heard that you are her best friend. Yuancun didn't know where to come from, hugged his cousin's neck and said to Shi Jiaojiao with a smile. The cousin looked back at his alliance in disbelief, winked at Shi Jiaojiao, lowered his head and whispered a few words to his cousin, and both of them laughed. Seeing Xia Lei's toast turned around, Yuancun patted his cousin's shoulder and returned to his seat.

Time passed surprisingly slowly at this friend's birthday banquet, and Shi Jiaojiao looked forward to the stars and the moon before it came to an end. Xia Lei went to see off some of the guests, came back and took Shi Jiaojiao's hand and said, "I'm bored, let's go out to play later, but we have to bring the children with us." Shi Jiaojiao wanted to go back by herself now, but looking at Xia Lei's face and thinking that she had been carefully maintaining herself since the morning, she shook her hand back and said, "Okay." ”

It was the first time Shi Jiaojiao went to the KTV box, and she found that the singing box had something in common with the hotel room: as soon as she entered, she couldn't feel what was going on outside. The waiter served snacks, fruit plates, and drinks and retreated, except for three little boys who looked twelve or thirteen years old, all the other big and small people in the huge box were girls. Xia Lei distributed drinks to everyone, sang a song, sat down next to Shi Jiaojiao and said, "We are just adults and children!" How nice the boys are, they all ran out to play on their own! Shi Jiaojiao handed the microphone in front of her to "Silk Flower" and replied: "It's good to be like this, feel at ease." Xia Lei smiled knowingly, and pushed Shi Jiaojiao to order a song.

After an afternoon, it was past eight o'clock in the evening when the dinner ended. Because Shi Jiaojiao was sure to take Xia Lei's car back, she actually stood at the door of the hotel like the host, and was forced to act as a background board for sending off guests. The stars above the neon were already clearly recognizable, and after the crowd dispersed, Shi Jiaojiao finally had the opportunity to talk to Xia Lei alone, "Oh my God, I can finally go back now, it's over, I don't know what time I will get home!" Xia Lei smiled mysteriously, "Silly girl, the night has just begun, and the fun is still to come!" "What?"

Xia Lei is about to fulfill her wish: as an adult, go to a bar in a dignified manner! Shi Jiaojiao was a little scared and a little curious, and finally let go of her psychological burden completely after Xia Lei called her parents to report her safety. "Don't even drive, otherwise you won't give our birthday face!" In addition to Shi Jiaojiao's five girls, plus the four boys later, "they are already in the bar." Yuan Cun said that there were no less than twenty boys and girls in total.

As soon as they entered the flickering lights, even if the booth they chose was far away from the stage and the lights were dim, Shi Jiaojiao also realized how different she was from this place! Xia Lei sat down next to Shi Jiaojiao, and before she could sit down, a piece of clothing was handed over, and when she looked up, she saw that it was a round inch, and he said with a smile: "I brought it on purpose, I'm afraid that your legs will be cold, and the air conditioning here is very low!" Xia Lei took the clothes and threw them on the empty table behind the seat, and said, "Why don't you wait for me to get cold before taking it out, when I am a child, it's really a lot of things!" The others coaxed together, touched their heads, licked their lips and picked up a glass of wine, "I'll start the show, okay?" Xia Lei raised her neck, smiled provocatively, and looked at Yuancun and drank three glasses in a row!

Shi Jiaojiao kept sitting in the corner with her face in her hands, watching Xia Lei laugh and scold with the others. The two of them had an agreement before: Xia Lei is crazy, but she will never drink and hang; Shi Jiaojiao can hide at will, as long as she stands behind Xia Lei all the time.

"Hem, go away, you're all too old-fashioned, look at what I learned from Korea, Deep Water*!" A slender girl with slender eyes snapped her fingers and whispered a few words to the waiter. I saw small cups with spirits falling into the big glasses, the bubbles really rose like mushroom clouds, and the excited half of the adults shouted wildly, so that the elderly people in the booths next to them couldn't help but sigh, "Young is restless!" ”

Someone repeatedly teased Shi Jiaojiao to drink a little, but Xia Lei forcibly blocked her, "I said it a long time ago, she is allergic, no one is allowed to ask her to drink!" Slowly, everyone forgot about her in the corner. After a while, the momentum went down a little, and everyone was gossiping on the sofa, when they heard the hoarse voice of the male singer on the stage in the distance. Yuancun leaned back on the sofa and quietly handed a look to the "Silk Flower Girl", the silk flower understood, pulled another short-haired girl to speak, and the two pulled Xia Lei over.

After a while, Xia Lei handed Shi Jiaojiao a glass of soda and said, "I went out with them, and I don't know what is mysterious and mysterious, I can't hear it here." Right at the door, come back soon! Shi Jiaojiao took a sip of water, looked up and smiled sweetly, and waved her hand, "Go, I won't run around." Xia Lei grabbed the fine hair on the top of Shi Jiaojiao's head and went out with the two of them. Walking to the door to usher in a man, Xia Lei looked back several times, always feeling that she had seen it somewhere.