Coming to the cafeteria of Xinglan Elementary School like a machine, handing over a meal ticket at the window of the meal, the rice aunt who had not had time to develop the spoon shaking culture filled the cabbage and pork soup on the plate, Hurley took the meal and mechanically followed Carol to find a free table and start eating.

"Hurley! Holly!! ”

As if a call came from afar, Hurley came back to her senses to find herself eating lunch, opposite Carol's concerned face.

"Carol, what's wrong?"

"You still ask me? I'm just going to ask you what's going on? You're going to have to eat the soup in the book! ”

Carol looked at her friend with a worried look on her face, and helplessly pointed to the thin booklet next to Hurley's hand, where there were already obvious traces of pork and cabbage soup.

"Ahh How so! ”

Hurley realized what she had done, and quickly took out her notebook, tore off a few pieces of paper, and wiped the thin booklet that was wet, only to see that the ink on the booklet began to blur as she wiped it, and the handwriting suddenly became blurry.

"Hurley, what's going on with you today? I think you've been in a daze this morning......"

Carol asked worriedly, sighing.

"This ...... It's my birthday, Carol, and come to my house for my birthday party in the evening! There will be a delicious cake to eat! ”

Hurley hesitated for a moment and changed the topic stiffly, but the birthday party and the cake successfully attracted Carol's full attention, making the girl show an excited look:

"Really? Hurley, you're going to have a birthday party? I've heard Aunt Elsa say that that's something that only happens in the homes of those who wear gowns, and a birthday cake at a banquet can cost dozens of silver mar! ”

"Well, it's actually pretty good! Nowadays, many people will have birthday parties......"

Hurley said with some embarrassment. Because of the birthplace of the custom of birthday parties, many customers like to hold birthday parties in Carl's cake shop, and the store will be very busy at that time, Hurley has long been not interested in birthday parties, but she did not expect her friends to be so interested in birthday parties.

"That's nice...... What the hell is Hurley's house for? There are horse-drawn carriages to and from school, and you can also hold a birthday party, I really envy you! ”

Carol said with envy on her face as she held the wooden spoon in her mouth.

"It's just a small business, my house is quite far from the new district, I'll send you home after school, and you'll stay at my house tonight!"

Hurley poked the potatoes on the wooden plate, skimming the topic vaguely.

After lunch, she took the plate and her own cutlery to the pool outside the cafeteria, cleaned and stacked it back to the place where she took the plate under the supervision of the aunt in the cafeteria.

The afternoon classes are annoying Chinese, mathematics and nature lessons, each hour of obscure lessons squeezes the mental and physical strength of these young children, although Arabic numerals are convenient, and it is relatively simple to use them for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but under the continuous indoctrination, it makes people feel that their brains are distorted with these numbers.

Finally after a day's lessons, it was finally time for the end of school, Hurley and Carol were all burned out, and the homework assigned by the teacher today was received into the school bag, and Carol couldn't wait to pull Hurley to run outside the school quickly.

When Hurley led Carol to her house in a carriage full of novelty and explained the birthday party and the stay, and after receiving the consent of Carol's parents, who were a little cowering, the two drove in a carriage through the new and western districts to the northern districts.

Carol is usually a child who can't be separated, and it is rare to have the opportunity to sit in the carriage, and she can't listen to Hurley's admonition, while holding the thin booklet, turning to the article to be memorized today, absentmindedly carrying the book, while lifting the curtain of the car window, and looking out, as if looking at the sunset street scene outside in the carriage can have a different feeling.

Looking at Carol's appearance, Hurley also suddenly remembered that when she first got into the carriage to school a few months ago, she seemed to be the same, and she didn't stop her too much.

"Miss Hurley, it's here!"

With a sweet smell coming into her nostrils, Hurley heard the coachman's whispered greeting, put away the books in her hand, pulled Carol and walked out of the carriage:

"Let's go! This is my home! ”

“…… Carl's cake shop, I see, Hurley, do you actually own a cake shop at home? No wonder your parents are willing to throw you a birthday party......"

Carol looked at the light emitted from the store with some trepidation, and was reluctant to take a step, a family like Hurley who can open a store alone in the North District to do business, at least at the level of a small workshop owner, although she was vaguely aware of this before, but Carol is still a little difficult to understand and accept, like Hurley's family background, why should she come to Xinglan Primary School to study.

"Don't worry! Carol is a good friend of mine, and my mom and dad will definitely welcome you! ”

Hurley saw Carol's worries and concerns, and took the initiative to hold Carol's hand and pull her home.

Because tonight was going to be her birthday party, Carl's cake shop closed early, and when she walked into the storefront, it was already decorated with colored paper and silk ribbons to look festive, and Bessie and Anthony, who had returned early, were busy decorating the last few paper crane hanging ribbons.

In Xia Lin's account, the paper crane symbolizes good wishes, and this origami craft is also what he taught to Hurley and Bessie when he returned home in his spare time, and it is also the secret of Carl's cake shop.

Through such and such small details to bring surprises to the guests, although the imperial capital has recently opened many cake shops, the business of Carl Cake Shop has not been affected.

"I'm back!"

"Came back so early today? Mom hasn't cooked dinner yet, this little girl is your friend, right? Go grab some confetti and play with her origami! ”

Bessie, who was standing on the herringbone ladder, looked back and saw the two of them walk into the store, and said with some surprise, noticing Carol staring intently at the paper string in her hand, a smile appeared on her face, and she took out a stack of confetti from her apron pocket for Anthony to give to Hurley.

"Well, thank you, Sister Bessie, let's go back to the room first!"

Hurley took the confetti from her eldest brother and dragged Carol to the back hall and ran down the stairs to the second floor.

Although there is an older brother in the family who has become a regular employee of the industrial park, so he has the opportunity to go to school, but the living conditions of Carol's family are obviously not as good as the Carl family, and when she came to the second floor and walked into the room, she heard Hurley say that this big room belonged to Hurley alone, and she would also sleep here with Hurley tonight, Carol's heart was full of surprise and envy.

In the heart of this nine-year-old girl who grew up in the slums, she never realized that the family could have their own room.

"And who are those rooms over there?"

Carol couldn't help but ask curiously.

"The room across the street was my father and mother's, and the room next to it was my brother Anthony and Bessie's ......"

At this point, Hurley paused suddenly.

"And what about the room next to your room?"

Carol continued to ask suspiciously, there were four rooms on the second floor, and Hurley had only introduced three.

"That room...... That room...... Anyway, I'll teach you origami first! My brother taught me this! That's interesting! ”

Hurley changed the topic and said, although Carol still had doubts in her heart, the girl's heart still made her quickly immersed in the magical world of origami.

(End of chapter)