Chapter 5: Happy Birthday
Section 1:
A few days after Yushi and Zhuo Tian met, everyone's lives seemed to have returned to the past, and nothing happened like Baoyan had worried before. Gradually, Yushi also felt that everything in the previous days seemed to be just an "adventure", and it had turned the page.
Before I knew it, today was Yushi's eighteenth birthday, and it happened to be the weekend, so my father was already waiting for Yushi at the school gate early to get her home from school in order to take her home as soon as possible to prepare for the birthday party, but in fact, when they arrived home, both the layout and catering had been prepared by Yushi's mother.
Dad soon returned home with Yushi, and Mom immediately commanded:
"Yushi, go to the room and take a shower and change clothes, Chairman Fu and they will be over soon."
Yushi was also very much looking forward to her official adult birthday dinner today, so she happily went to the room after listening to her mother's words.
At around 7 p.m., Bao Yan arrived at Yu Shi's home with her parents, Fu Rong, president and chairman of YF Group, and his wife, Fu Xiong. Yushi and Baoyan deserve to be good girlfriends, and they both wore a little princess-style dress, and the two looked at each other and smiled after seeing each other, and then held hands and chatted hotly.
Since this is Yushi's eighteenth birthday and a small day ceremony, there are several leaders of Yushi's father's unit and Principal Liang of Yushi's school who attended the dinner this time.
With the piano four-hand performance of Yushi and Baoyan, the dinner officially began.
This dinner, Yu Shi's mother can be regarded as having a hard time, and specially invited the chef of the five-star hotel to go home to take charge of the dishes of the dinner, which naturally received unanimous praise from the guests.
Although it was a celebration dinner for Yu Shi, the whole dinner was a discussion of flattery and business, but Yu Shi was also accustomed to it, and she and Bao Yan chatted happily at the banquet, and after the meal, they didn't have to participate in the adults' topics, so Yu Shi took Bao Yan to the room and continued to whisper.
After a few hours of joy, Yushi's mother pushed a two-tiered birthday cake and came to the living room with Baoyan's mother, Yushi pulled Baoyan and stood in front of the cake.
"I am very grateful to all the distinguished guests who can attend my little birthday dinner today, after today I will be an adult, I will definitely not forget my original intention and continue to work the road of university and society in the future."
Of course, Yu Shi's biased words were also said smoothly under the guidance of his mother.
After singing the birthday song, Yushi folded her hands in front of the cake and made a wish to cut the cake, she was responsible for cutting, and Baoyan was responsible for loading the cake and distributing it to each guest.
"Shishi, tell me what wish you just made?"
"I won't tell you, hee-hee."
Bao Yan continued to chat with Yu Shi while eating cake.
"Ding-dong...... Ding-dong"
Just as the dinner was coming to an end, when Chairman Fu's family was about to leave, the sound of the doorbell suddenly came from outside the door.
Aunt Mei, who had worked in Yushi's house for many years, opened the door, and everyone, including Chairman Fu's family, who was walking towards the door and was about to leave, stopped and looked at the visitor.
As soon as the door opened, a young man in a yellow sweatshirt and blue jeans stood outside the door, holding a bouquet of hydrangeas in his hand.
"Hello, I know that today is Xiaoyu's birthday, and I am here to give a birthday present."
Section 2:
"Zhuo Tian?! How are you? ”
When Yu Shi also saw this visitor, she suddenly screamed.
"Xiaoyu, happy birthday."
Zhuo Tian didn't seem to be frightened by Yu Shi's screams, revealing his trademark slightly evil forehead smile while saying joy to Yu Shi, and walked straight to Yu Shi.
Until he walked in front of Yushi and handed the bouquet in his hand into her arms. Yushi was so frightened by his action that she didn't know what to do, so she only knew that she cooperated to take the bouquet and actually said thank you.
Although Yu Shi's mother felt that Yu Shi's "friend" was a little impolite, she was very dissatisfied with Yu Shi's behavior of being a little "early love".
However, due to the inconvenience of other VIPs here, he could only squeeze a little fake smile and ask:
"Yushi, is this young man your classmate?"
"Uh.... Mom...."
"No, Auntie, my name is Zhuo Tian, and I'm Xiaoyu's friend."
Before Yu Shi could respond to her mother, Zhuo Tian replied first, and then gave Yu Shi's mother a harmless smile, then turned to Yu Shi and continued:
"Xiaoyu, I still have to give part of the money from my part-time job to the family, so I can only buy you such a small bouquet of flowers and a birthday card as a gift, which was originally intended to be given to you when school is over, but your father picked you up, and I can only come directly to your house after work from the part-time job to give gifts."
"Huh...? Thank.. Thank you. ”
Yu Shi was more and more overwhelmed by his series of words and actions, and continued to nod her head in thanks.
Yushi's mother became more and more ugly after hearing their words.
Although Baoyan was also a little dazed, she reacted immediately, thinking about breaking this somewhat subtle and embarrassing scene, taking advantage of Yushi's mother not having a seizure, she took her father's hand and said with a smile:
"Mom and Dad, it's not too early, it's time for us to go home, the driver is already waiting in the car, goodbye uncle and aunt, happy birthday Shishi, goodbye."
"Oh, okay, okay, then old Shen, Mrs. Shen, let's go first."
is worthy of being the chairman of the listed group, Chairman Fu immediately understood Baoyan's intentions and agreed.
Yushi's father was also a little dazed, but he immediately walked over and sent Chairman Fu's family out with an embarrassed smile.
Yu Shi's mother finally couldn't help it at this time, and walked over from Zhuo Tian's side and pulled Yu Shi, who was stunned in place, to the door and saw off Chairman Fu together.
Until Chairman Fu's family was sent to the private car, Bao Yan poked her head out of the car window and showed a disturbed smile to Yu Shi, and Yu Shi also replied with a helpless pout, and then the car slowly moved away, gradually disappearing from Yu Shi's sight.
The rest of the guests, including Principal Liang of Yushi School, also looked at each other for a while, and when they saw that Chairman Fu's family had left, they all seemed to have discussed it in advance, and they made an appointment to say goodbye to Yushi's parents together, and then left the Shen family a little "scrambling".
Yushi's parents were suddenly a little unable to send it, and they didn't have time to shake hands with every guest and thank them, so they only hurriedly took the hands of a few people. The words of thanks and apology did not stop:
"Walk slowly, please forgive me for not greeting well, welcome to come again next time."
Yushi was also pulled by her parents and kept repeating this sentence at the door to bid farewell to other guests.
When the last guest left the Shen family and saw him away from their sight, Yu Shi's mother didn't care about closing the door, and pulled Yu Shi with a serious face to go back to the young man standing there just now to ask about the situation.
But no matter how they looked at it, the young man seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and could not be found. Yu Shi also felt very surprised, could it be that Zhuo Tian also mixed in and walked together while a group of people were leaving?
Section 3:
Although Zhuo Tian "disappeared out of thin air", it was a sure thing that he ran to Yushi's house to give gifts so abruptly today.
It is conceivable that Yushi must be questioned by her mother repeatedly. In the face of her mother's relentless interrogation, she didn't hide much, and basically told them what they knew. Of course, the specific plot has also been modified in a way that is acceptable to the mother, so as not to cause too much anxiety and conjecture on the mother.
So the version in my mother's ears was streamlined, and the story became that Yushi accidentally lost her student ID during the bus, and Zhuo Tian picked it up "kindly", giving full play to his good quality of helping others, and deliberately took it to the school to return it to Yushi, and then chatted for a couple of sentences and found that it was the same graduating student, and that's it just an ordinary cross-school classmate relationship.
Such a story is also reasonable, so the mother listened to Yushi's explanation and knew that her daughter was not in early love, and she was finally relieved. In addition, she was really busy and tired for today's party, and when she saw that it was late, she stopped blaming and questioning Yu Shi, and let Yu Shi go back to her room to rest with a heavy sigh.
"Aunt Mei, come, clean up with me."
Yushi's mother took care of her daughter's affairs, and then returned to the state of the hostess of the family and instructed Aunt Mei to clean up the family banquet with her.
Compared with Yushi's mother's "return to normal", Yushi's father is a little abnormal.
Although he also cooperated to send off all the guests, from the moment he saw Zhuo Tian's face, his whole heart seemed to be pinched, and an indescribable sense of familiarity made him feel nervous and excited, and at the same time with self-blame and uneasiness.
Twelve years later, he thought he had let go, but when he saw this familiar face, all the past rushed like a flood without a levee, and swept his entire mind with lightning speed.
As a result, during the entire interrogation of her daughter by Yushi's mother, he didn't react to listen to her daughter's explanation, so he would only mechanically close the door, and then quietly pestle aside and fell into contemplation.
Yushi's mother and Aunt Mei are tidying up the dining table and removing balloons and ribbons stuck to the wall. When they picked up the items that were glued higher, they suddenly thought of calling Yushi's father to help. This is the person who has been in place since the door was closed.
"Husband, have you drunk too much? Seeing that the two of us are working so hard, they don't come to help. Just now, too, I didn't send it to your company leaders properly, it was all that kid who harmed it, and the whole banquet ended in a mess. ”
Yushi's mother may be tired, or maybe she is really affected by Zhuo Tian's "that kid" The image of the Shuli family they have been building has been, and she began to chatter and complain.
Yushi's father's thoughts were interrupted by her series of complaints, and for some reason he suddenly became angry and yelled at Yushi's mother:
"Got it, is there an end?!"
After that, he snatched the balloon ribbon that Aunt Mei was reaching for a little bit with her hand, and quickly tore off the balloons stuck to the higher wall one by one and threw them aside.
Because his movements were too rough, several balloons were frightened to explode one by one at the moment they were torn down. Yushi's mother completely broke the defense now, and her eyes burst out uncontrollably, together with the fatigue of today's whole day and the blows and grievances from Zhuo Tian's arrival, like a child, she cried out with a "whoosh". It may be that he cried so much that he couldn't even speak clearly, and only vaguely heard some vague sentences mixed with crying such as "whoa, woo, wow".
Seeing this, Aunt Mei immediately dropped the work in her hand, and walked over quickly to support Yushi's mother, who had collapsed and fallen down due to crying too hard, and comforted her.
Yushi heard the sound, and hurriedly ran down from the room on the second floor in her changed pajamas, rushed to her mother's side and hugged her. Seeing her daughter, Yushi's mother was already crying and collapsed, so she also hugged Yushi and sobbed in her daughter's arms like a child, no longer having the momentum of the ghost crying wolf at the beginning.
Yu Shi's father also stopped what he was doing, let out a long sigh, walked to Yu Shi's side and squatted down, stroked Yu Shi's hair and said:
"Baby, I'm sorry, Dad drank too much, and he didn't control his temper for a while, was he scared? It's okay, Dad just take a shower and get some sleep. Well, help mom into the room to rest. ”
After speaking, he gently grabbed Yushi's mother's hand and went upstairs by himself.
This is the first time that Yushi has seen such a thing and such parents since she can remember. Mom and dad have always been a model couple, and they are also loving and respectful of each other in front of Yushi. This eighteenth birthday has indeed brought her a lot of "incredible".
Could it be a gift from heaven to her for adulthood? A chance to get to know the adult world?
That night, when Yushi could lie down in bed and rest, it was almost two o'clock in the morning.