"Why?" Someone who has never received a birthday present would never say that, metaphorically to me. I didn't enjoy receiving gifts on my birthday since I was a child, and my mother boiled me two eggs on my birthday according to my grandmother's inherited convention, and that was the only difference between my birthday and other days. There is no cake either. At that time, the family's economy was not good, and cake was a pipe dream. So when someone wanted to buy me a cake or give me a birthday present, I felt awkward. Later, I heard the saying "Your birthday is your mother's Good Friday, and it should be your mother who should be given a gift", and after that, I was more comfortable with the ordinary birthday.

Only people who have received a gift and then haven't received it in a while will say something like, "I haven't received a birthday present in years."

"No one has given me birthday presents since five years ago," she said

I can't help but wonder if she fell into the water five years ago and became a water ghost? Now that I've figured out the cause of her death, I might be able to guess what she's looking for me.

I heard my grandfather say that ghosts' birthdays are different from people. People celebrate their birthdays on the day they are born, and ghosts celebrate their birthdays on the day of their deaths. Because that day is the "birth" of the ghost.

I don't know if today is her "birthday" or "death day", but one thing is for sure, she must have had a major change five years ago.

It's not good to mention something unpleasant that has happened on someone else's birthday. So, I avoided the important and said lightly: "Then I am really fortunate to be able to give you a birthday present."

"Thank you!"

I felt related and hurriedly waved my hand: "No thanks, it's really too cold." I'm glad you took it, and to be honest, I want to thank her. A girl invited me to dinner on her birthday, and she treated me alone, something I had never encountered in my life.

We chatted while eating sheep and scorpions. She likes to ask everyone in the company about gossip, whether the boss has an ambiguous relationship with a beautiful woman in the company, whether a male colleague and a female colleague are a couple, whether the people in which group are stiff with which group of people, and so on. This is exactly the same as the habit of ordinary girls who love to inquire. Then when it comes to celebrity gossip, which star once had an unknown story with which star, and which star was later involved, she is like a treasure, her mouth is like a river, and her interest is high.

When it came to the fact that so-and-so star was very good to so-and-so on the surface, but not like this behind the scenes, I asked casually: "Then how does your boyfriend treat you?" ”

She was shot in the chest, paused abruptly, opened her mouth, and stared at me blankly.

I didn't need her answer at that moment to know that she had a boyfriend and that he was not treating her well.

The emotional line of the palm can predict the joys and sorrows of a lifetime, and the expression on the face can show the joys and sorrows of each day.

Seeing her like this, I felt uncomfortable, so I waved my hand and said, "If you don't want to say it, forget it." I'm just saying it casually. The sheep and scorpions are almost finished, let's get some greens, and after that, I took a large handful of enoki mushrooms and put them in the boiling pot.

Her stiff movements immediately eased, and she lowered her head to suck the pith of the sheep's bones.

From that moment on, my sympathy for her far outweighed my defense against her. Although she had wanted to drown me in the pool.

Grandpa once said that the vicious wolf may know how to be grateful, the violent snake may know how to be grateful, you have been kind to it, it will remember and return it at some appropriate time in the future, but the water ghost does not know how to be grateful.