After eating, Chen Jiayu started to clean up the mess, and because she slept for several hours, Cai Jiayi was not so sleepy, she thought about it for a while and decided to go to the living room to watch TV.

"What's in this bag?"

As soon as she arrived in the living room, her eyes fell on the small gift bag on the coffee table and asked curiously.

Chen Jiayu walked out, glanced at it, and replied without any change in his expression: "It's nothing, a gift for someone."

"Did you say you were out there to buy gifts for others?" Cai Jiayi took out the shopping invoice from the paper bag, "Write music four seasons weaving, snow toon...... Oh, it's a fountain pen, I know, it's good for girls."

She glanced at the price again: "A fountain pen of more than 500 yuan is really not a small number for ordinary students-classmate Chen Jiayu, you are so generous, and I don't know which lucky person can get such a good gift...... Well, I guess, it's Shen Nianchu."

「……」

Her tone was clearly very careless, very cloudy and breezy, but Chen Jiayu heard a certain sour taste from it.

Chen Jiayu asked rhetorically, "Are you jealous?"

She smiled and put the paper bag back in its place, "No, I'll just say it casually, how can I be jealous."

Chen Jiayu: "Well, that's good."

silently added in his heart: It's weird.

After a while, she asked casually, "What are you buying her a gift for?"

Chen Jiayu hesitated for a moment, and in the end, he still told Shen Nianchu about asking him to celebrate his birthday together today. However, he still emphasized it twice not too deliberately, emphasizing that Shen Nianchu was not just inviting him, but had other friends.

"......I see," Little Green Tea opened her eyes and bit her lip lightly, the guilt in her expression was so thick that it almost turned into substance, "Then it's so late now, you shouldn't be able to go to the appointment, right?"

Chen Jiayu: "Hmm." "I called her before and said I couldn't go."

"Well, if it weren't for my illness, you wouldn't have missed her birthday party. You must be very uncomfortable right now, right?"

She lowered her head, her eyes faintly watery.

"It's all my fault, when it's not good to get sick, I just picked this time......

Chan Ka Yu, "......"

He couldn't help but say, "Don't think I don't know, you're already snickering in your heart."

The water in her eyes brushed back, "You really know me."

「……」

This was the end of the topic of gifts, and Chen Jiayu went to make her a cold powder again.

After pinching her nose and drinking, Cai Jiayi leaned forward, put the cup on the coffee table, and reached out to take the remote control next to her: "Let's watch TV together for a while."

"You'll wait." Chen Jiayu didn't go over immediately, but went back to her bedroom first and hugged the quilt, "You cover the quilt and look, the living room is cold, and it will be troublesome to get cold later."

"Okay." Cai Jiayi smiled again, "You think so thoughtfully."

After she covered the quilt, Chen Jiayu walked next to her and sat down.

She asked, "What are you looking at?" ….

"I'll do whatever you like."

"Variety show, how's it going?"

"Hmm."

Cai Jiayi held the remote control and pressed it for a long time, and finally got tired of pressing it, but she didn't choose anything, just leaned closer to Chen Jiayu's side and said, "I suddenly don't want to watch TV again, let's talk for a while."

"Chat? What are you talking about?"

"Anything." She thought for a moment, "Why don't you talk to me about your childhood?"

"I wasn't anything special when I was a kid, just an ordinary kid."

"That's okay, I just like to hear stories from ordinary children...... By the way, what was the happiest thing you did when you were a kid?"

Chen Jiayu was quiet for a while, and his eyes fell on a variety show on TV.

It was a parent-child variety show called "Dad is Back".

He lowered his eyes, and suddenly thought of some past.

Some things that have been gone for a long time.

"It's fun for me, it might be boring for you, do you want to know too?"

After being silent for a while, Chen Jiayu asked.

"Yes." She nodded, in the affirmative.

For the person you like, there is nothing boring, no matter how boring you are, you will like to listen to it.

"That's good...... I'll tell you about it."

Chen Jiayu slowly raised his head, his gaze fell on the white ceiling, and he fell into memory.

"I don't remember much about what happened when I was a child, but what I can say for sure is that I was very happy at that time."

"My dad was a long-distance truck driver, and at that time, he was still very profitable and very diligent, so when I was six years old, my family bought the current house."

"Although my dad can't be home five or six days a week because of work, he is very kind to my mom, me and my sister, and every time he comes back from a long run, he brings us gifts."

"Well, that's the happiest thing I ever did when I was a kid, as long as my dad came home, I could see my dad and get gifts."

Cai Jiayi leaned beside him and listened carefully.

Chen Jiayu glanced at her, and his gaze happened to meet the gaze she was looking at him,

This gaze made him unable to describe it accurately.

Quiet, focused, gentle......

It is like a turbulent sea, calm and gentle, but it hides the power that can contain everything and soothe everything.

Being stared at by her like this, Chen Jiayu involuntarily continued to recall.

"I have always felt that I am a happy child, although my family is not very rich, but my parents love me and my sister very much."

"Every time my dad comes back from the car, he will rest at home for a day, at that time, my parents will take me and my sister to the nearby park to play, I remember the park very clearly, there is a very tall stone sculpture, I like to let my father pick me up, put it on the top of the stone sculpture, and then proudly say, Dad, look, I am taller than you!"

Speaking of this, a trace of remembrance appeared in Chen Jiayu's eyes, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curled.

Although he was very young at the time, he didn't know that this was "happiness", but he felt very happy.

But now, when he recalls, he already understands. ….

That's happiness.

Chen Jiayu's definition of happiness has always been simple.

He never felt that he had to be successful with a net worth of tens of billions or more than 10,000 people in order to be happy.

For him, a hug full of love, a simple but warm dinner, and a little warmth that comes to mind when he recalls it is enough to be considered happy.

It was almost seven o'clock, and the night outside the window was slowly sinking, the lights of the city were lit up, and the moon was climbing up from the skyline. The entire living room was shrouded in silence, and only Chen Jiayu's soft words remained. Cai Jiayi was by his side, listening quietly and not saying a word.

"Of course, I had some not-so-pleasant memories of my childhood."

Chen Jiayu didn't know what to think of, and laughed.

"Actually, I was very naughty when I was a child, I often bullied my sister, and I would make my mother angry, and I especially liked to run out and play crazy."

"I remember when I was in elementary school, I made an appointment with my friend to go to the river, well, the river we we've been to."

"My dad was at home at the time, and my mom told me not to play too late, let alone play in the water, so I casually agreed and ran out."

"After all, I was still a child, and as soon as I started playing, I forgot all my mother's instructions, and we were catching frogs and touching screws by the river, but I stepped on the moss on the rocks, and accidentally slipped my foot and fell into the water."

"Huh?" Hearing him say this, Cai Jiayi let out a subconscious exclamation.

Although Chen Jiayu happened to be sitting beside her at this moment, it was obvious that the final outcome must be thrilling, but Cai Jiayi's heart still couldn't help but tighten, and asked, "What happened later?"

"Luckily, the water wasn't deep where I fell." Chen Jiayu said, "It only flooded my chest, and I slowly climbed up on my own."

She breathed a sigh of relief, "Great."

"However, my clothes were all wet with water, so I didn't dare to go home for fear that my father would beat me." Chen Jiayu curled the corners of his mouth and fell into memory, "My dad is usually very good to me, but he is also very strict, and he will really spank me when he loses his temper."

"What did you do after that?" She asked curiously.

"I just hung out and around, wandering around, trying to wait for the clothes to dry and then go back, and before I knew it, I was wandering late."

"When I went back, my dad was furious when he saw me, and he hit me very angrily, very hard. I cried so badly that I kept crying out in pain."

"I thought my dad hit me when he saw that my clothes were wet, but he cried while hitting me."

"It was the first time I've seen my dad cry."

"He said do you know that your classmate came to our house and said that you fell into the water, your mother and I were frightened, and immediately ran to the river to look for you, but we couldn't find anything, and thought something happened to you, your mother is still looking for you by the river, you stinky boy, I really want to kill you!"

Speaking of this, Chen Jiayu paused.

When he was a child, he still couldn't understand his father's feelings. It wasn't until he grew up and experienced it firsthand that he understood the pain of losing someone close to his loved ones.

After a moment of silence, he continued, "After the fight, my dad gave me medicine, and he took me in one hand and my sister in the other, and went to the river to find my mother. My ass hurts to death, and I can only limp along."

After hearing this story, Cai Jiayi wanted to laugh a little, but her eyes were slightly moist.

She whispered, "You can see that your parents really love you."

"Hmm." Chen Jiayu nodded.

He once heard someone say that the heart of a parent hurts as hard as they hit their child.

He didn't know if all parents were like this, but he thought that the pain in his father's heart at that time should be greater than the pain in his flesh.

"That was the first time I really felt that my dad loved me so much."

lq.

I'm on fire this year