Chapter 18: Birthdays
Four days passed quickly, Shen Yanzhi set off home with Lan Jiali, and You Li followed Fang Lan back to her grandmother's house.
This little long vacation has passed, and the two have returned to their normal study life.
"Do you two have time this weekend? I want to invite you to my house for my birthday, by the way, little pear, you call Brother Shen and Brother Xu Jiang together. Dou Huaisheng asked You Li and Su Yan.
For You Li, who had to make up for the excitement, he agreed without hesitation: "Okay, I'll go back and talk to my brother." ”
"Then let's say so, come to my house at five o'clock in the afternoon this Saturday, and you don't need to prepare gifts or anything." Dou Huaisheng said happily, seeing that Su Yan didn't speak, he continued to speak: "And you, Su Yan must come, how can you be absent from the little pears and they are all here." ”
Su Yan gave Dou Huaisheng a roll of his eyes, but he understood that this was what Su Yan meant.
Shen Yanzhi had no opinion on helping Dou Huaisheng celebrate his birthday, after all, they were all friends, and after informing Xu Jiang, the four of them made an appointment to go together.
Although Dou Huaisheng said that there was no need to bring gifts, everyone still prepared tacitly, after all, people celebrate their birthdays.
"It's good that people are coming, and you have to prepare a gift for me." Although Dou Huaisheng said this, his mouth was almost grinning to the back molars.
"Okay, okay, put away your smug expression, you're the oldest on your birthday today, and how long are you going to let us stand at the door?" Yuri said as if she was squeezing into the house.
"I'm sorry, I'm so excited, I forgot." Dou Huaisheng scratched his head embarrassedly.
You Li prepared a small crystal ball, there were five villains in it, representing the friendship of the five of them, Dou Huaisheng was moved to almost tears when he received it, "Little pear, I am so moved." ”
Compared with You Li, the two boys gave it more direct and practical, Xu Jiang gave an MP3, and said unconfidently: "Don't dislike it, I know you can definitely buy something better than this." ”
"How can you dislike it, this is what my brother gave." Dou Huaisheng said as if he was short.
Shen Yanzhi gave a game disc that has been very popular recently, and only Su Yan was left, only Su Yan was left, and I saw the little girl take out a small white voice recorder from her sleeve and said, "Here, this is the English word I recorded myself, you can listen to it more if you have nothing to do." ”
"You're here to get angry with me today, you know that I can't study well, and you gave me this thing." Just when Su Yan thought that Dou Huaisheng would not want to ask for it and wanted to reach back, a big palm instantly took the recorder back, and said with a little reluctance: "Forget it, for the sake of you, I will accept it." ”
Dou Lian knew that Dou Huaisheng would invite many friends to his house on today's birthday, so he instructed his aunt to prepare a lot of barbecue, fruits, small pastries and the like.
Dou Huaisheng's mother did not survive this hurdle during childbirth, so Dou Huaisheng has only seen his mother in photos since he was a child, fortunately, the aunt in the family is good to Dou Huaisheng, and it can be regarded as making him feel a little bit of maternal love, but this is always different.
Usually Dou Lian loves his son more, but sometimes he hates to beat him with a feather duster, every time Dou Huaisheng makes a mistake, Dou Lian wonders if he cares too little about the child, so that he is worried about smoking.
This birthday is the happiest birthday Dou Huai has ever had so far, because the house is very lively, friends sit around eating and chatting, and there are cherry balls on TV.
"Thank you for coming to celebrate my birthday today, in fact, I haven't told anyone, I haven't had a mother since I was a child, my family hasn't been so lively for a long time, I don't have any best friends, the only one who can talk is you, let's toast with juice." Dou Huaisheng said to everyone from the bottom of his heart.
This matter is indeed the first time everyone has known, when you first came in, You Li was still puzzled why she didn't see Dou Huaisheng's mother, was it bad for him? So that the explanation will make it all clear.
It was Shen Yanzhi who reacted first and took the cup in front of him to touch the juice that Dou Huaisheng had raised, and said in a slightly comforting tone: "We will all be in the future." ”
Yu Li chimed in and said, "Yes, yes, we will always be." ”
Su Yan and Xu Jiang didn't answer, but silently took their juice to clink glasses, which was equivalent to acquiescing to what Shen Yanzhi said.
"Okay, okay, now let's get out of the way and let's go play board games together." Dou Huaisheng diverted the topic and said.
A group of people came to the living room with a box of "Three Kingdoms Killing" on the table, "Do you guys play this game?" Dou Huaisheng asked everyone.
"It seems that only me and Yeon-yeon can't." You Li said with an embarrassed smile.
"It's okay, I'll tell you the rules first, the whole game has four identities, namely the lord, the loyal minister, the thief, and the traitor."
"The lord can win as long as he eliminates the thief and the traitor, and the duty of the loyal minister is to protect the lord, on the other hand, the thief only needs to eliminate the lord, and the traitor needs to eliminate the thief and the loyal minister first, and finally fight with the lord."
"Of course, the main public game has to show its identity, and the rest need to hide their identities and use experience to find their companions, and each round of a military general in the Three Kingdoms is divided into 6 stages: the beginning of the round, the judgment stage, the draw stage, the card stage, the fold stage, and the end of the round stage. Each person starts with four cards in their hand, starting with the main player and playing cards in counterclockwise order, and each person can draw two cards from the pile during the draw phase. ”
"The main thing is to cooperate, I've finished talking about the rules, do you still have any questions?" Dou Huaisheng took out the cards in the box.
"Wait, it's too round, I'll watch you play one game first, and join in the next game." You Li sat on the side, eating watermelon, and said leisurely.
Shen Yanzhi sneered: "You just don't want to use your brains." ”
In the first game, Xu Jiang drew the "main father", everyone looked at the role in their hands and began to touch the cards silently, starting with two cards in their hands, from the "main father" Xu Jiang began to play cards.
"I'll throw a "out of nothing" first, and I'll draw two cards for myself first. Xu Jiang thought he said wittily.
Shen Yanzhi watched this childish idea from the sidelines. The four of them went back and forth, leaving only Shen Yanzhi who was holding the "anti-thief" card, holding a "Ten Thousand Arrows" on his mobile phone, and finally Xu Jiang, the "lord", was gone. "Anti-thief" Shen Yanzhi won the victory.
"I said, Lao Shen, you are too thief, no wonder you won the role of "anti-thief". Xu Jiang said lightly with his elbow against Shen Yanzhi's arm.
Unexpectedly, Shen Yanzhi did not refute and said, "Keep coming." ”
In the next few sentences, no matter what kind of role Xu Jiang gets, he was killed by Shen Yanzhi ruthlessly, and he can see that he is a fool, and Shen Yanzhi is targeting it again.
"Lao Shen, Lao Shen, don't take you like this, didn't I just say that you are a "thief", why are you attacking me now? ”
Shen Yanzhi didn't speak, just stared at Xu Jiang quietly, put up goosebumps on Xu Jiang's eyes, and said from the heart: "Okay, okay, just kidding, my old Shen is the most magnanimous, I'm a thief, I'm a thief." ”
Seeing Xu Jiang's active explanation, Shen Yanzhi's face softened slightly.
"This eldest young master is too vindictive, it seems that he will have to provoke him less in the future, otherwise he won't know what he didn't have that day." Xu Jiang muttered psychologically.
Dou Huaisheng laughed when he saw this series of operations, "Brother Xu Jiang, you are too humble." ”
Xu Jiang replied to Dou Huaisheng's ridicule with a look that you don't understand.
"Little pear, by the way, you've watched us play several games, will you?" Dou Huaisheng asked out loud.
In fact, at the end of each game, let You Li join in, she began to make excuses and said, "Next game, next game, it must be." ”
"If you don't come again, your reputation will be damaged in the future," Xu Jiang said angrily on the side, he couldn't beat Shen Yanzhi and couldn't tease You Li.
It turned out that it really didn't work, because Shen Yanzhi opened his mouth to relieve the siege and said, "Let's change it." His eyes searched the surroundings and finally settled on the very side of the shelf, "Let's just put the flying chess over there." ”
"Oh, no!" Dou Huaisheng wasn't done yet, but under Shen Yanzhi's slightly "threatening" eyes, he still gave in and picked up the flying chess on the shelf.
Su Yan also felt that this was a bit monotonous, so she proposed: "That's it, pure dice shaking is a bit monotonous, whoever loses drinks a glass of juice, and see who can't help but go to the toilet in the end." ”
Everyone started with no opinion, because there were only four positions, Xu Jiang was just tired of being beaten by Shen Yanzhi, so he took the initiative to apply to pour juice on the side.
After a few rounds, Dou Huaisheng looked at You Li's good luck with three chess pieces, and then looked down at his side, not a single chess piece came out, and said dejectedly: "It's my birthday today, is it so bad luck?" ”
"Ah, another six, okay, okay, don't question yourself, I've sent you this six, you can make a chess piece." You Li said kindly to Dou Huaisheng.
In this way, Dou Huaisheng struggled out of his first flying chess, and after a few rounds, You Li turned out to be the one who won the most, and the juice went into Dou Huaisheng's stomach, "No, no, I can't hold it anymore, I'll go to the toilet first." As he spoke, he ran into the bathroom.
In fact, Shen Yanzhi wanted to go to the toilet for a long time, but he kept holding back in order not to lose, and saw that Dou Huaisheng had already gone. He got up and walked to the bathroom leisurely, not seeing the urgency of "urinating" at all.
Su Yan whispered to You Li on the side: "This brother of your family can really bear it, but you can't see Dou Huaisheng's endurance." ”
Dou Huaisheng, who had just come out of the toilet, heard his name and thought that Su Yan had said something bad about himself again, so he asked out loud: "What are you talking about me, talking so energetically?" ”
"It's nothing, saying that you lost, and thinking of ways to punish you." Su Yan diverted the topic without any weakness.
After a day of playing, everyone was tired, and Dou Lianding's cake was also delivered, which was a delicate two-tier cake with the words "Happy birthday to my baby son!" ”
Dou Huaisheng also knew that his father's was not easy, and he endured the pain of losing his wife and tried his best to raise himself. Then he turned around and gave Dou Lian a big hug, choked up and said, "Thank you, Dad." ”
The cake was cut by Dou Huai, but You Li would not let go of such an opportunity to be trick-or-treated.