【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

Two days later, it was Lin Pin'er's birthday. After eating boiled eggs in the morning, she went out. Zijuan told her to go directly to the banquet hall in the main building to eat after school.

Lin Pin'er was quite well-behaved. After school in the afternoon, she followed Li Shuirong, Jia Baoyu, Su Miaoyu, Wu Qing, and Qin Zhong directly to the banquet hall in the main building.

Today, they all carried school bags and wore school uniforms. They were neat and tidy, and each of them was a good boy with excellent temperament.

The formal school uniform of No. 4 Middle School is a black suit jacket, a plaid skirt and a white shirt. Boys wear black pants.

Lin Pin'er is the best-looking one in the school uniform among the group, because her back is always straight. She simply ties her hair into a high ponytail, and the ends of her hair sway gently behind her when she walks.

After waiting for a while, Grandmother Jia arrived accompanied by Wang Xifeng, Li Wan and two little cuties. Later, Jia Yingchun, Jia Tanchun, Jia Xichun and Shi Xiangyun also arrived.

"Today we are dressed like we are attending a school uniform party!" Shi Xiangyun said hurriedly when she saw everyone's outfits.

The other sisters also thought that they did look alike, as almost all young people wore school uniforms (Jia Yingchun was about to graduate from college, so she didn't wear a school uniform). They were just from different schools. It was a coincidence.

"How about we take a group photo in school uniforms?" Jia Tanchun suggested.

Over there, Jia's mother pretended to put on a stern face and said to Wang Xifeng in a sour tone, "I think Pin'er only wants to celebrate her birthday with her brothers and sisters today. She doesn't plan to invite us old people. Let's not be so tactful! Let's eat something and then go back quickly!"

Pin'er came over to Jia's mother with a smile and said coquettishly: "You are not old, you are all young! Let's go over and take a photo together." After that, someone brought stools over, and Jia's mother sat in the middle, while Wang Xifeng and Li Wan stood beside her. The other children squatted or stood around her like petals.

After taking the photo, Wang Xifeng asked the waiter to serve the dishes. Today's small family dinner was arranged by Jia's mother, but it was Lin Pin'er's idea. She didn't want it to be too ostentatious, so she only invited her sisters, brothers and friends. It was not to celebrate a birthday, but just to have a meal together. Therefore, the dishes designed were all based on everyone's taste. Everyone ordered a favorite dish, which was discussed in the group in advance.

This is a medium-sized banquet hall, with a large round table that rotates automatically and flowers placed in the center. All kinds of delicious food appear even more delicious under the crystal lamp above.

Looking at those delicious dishes, there really is everything.

There were several trays of steamed dumplings, one or two in each basket, salmon and oyster sashimi, clay pot rice, fried chicken pizza, white mushroom and shrimp casserole, and someone ordered half a roasted lamb.

"You kids are so cunning and weird. This table of food is neither Chinese nor Western. It's neither northern nor southern. I looked at the menu the day before yesterday and someone wanted to order conch noodles, but I deleted it."

Shi Xiangyun raised her hand silently: "We agreed to order what we like the most, why did you delete my snail rice noodle?"

Wang Xifeng suppressed her laughter and continued, "After many changes, they finally came up with something tricky. Here, it's the plate of baked steamed buns with stinky tofu."

Unexpectedly, several children were craving for this dish and praised Shi Xiangyun for her good order. Several people over there spread stinky tofu on the baked buns, toasted and took photos together before eating them together.

Grandmother Jia knew that Wang Xifeng was afraid that a high-end hotel would damage her reputation by serving such dishes, but Grandmother Jia found them novel and interesting. Many of the things she would not normally eat were just the right opportunity to satisfy her cravings.

"I think the fried chicken is pretty good. The brown sugar rice cake is also delicious."

"As long as the old lady likes it, I asked the chef to improve it. It's naturally better than the ones sold outside." After saying that, she picked up a piece of tiger skin chicken feet for Lady Jia. She knew that this one was cooked soft and tender, suitable for Lady Jia to eat.

After dinner, everyone drank some tea and then wanted to go home, saying they had to go to school the next day.

Lin Pin'er wanted to play with them for a while longer, and was curious why Jia Baoyu and Shi Xiangyun, who usually played the most games, didn't try to do something fun.

She had no choice but to follow everyone home suspiciously. When they arrived at the gate of Jia Baoyu's courtyard, Jia's grandmother said, "I'm tired. Let me go to Baoyu's place to drink some tea." After that, she walked into his courtyard.

Lin Pin'er was just about to ask her grandmother to come over for tea, but before she could open her mouth, Li Shuirong pulled her back.

"Hey, where are Xiangyun and the others?"

"They have agreed to go to Miaoyu's place for tea."

"Aren't we going?"

"We still have things to do." At this moment, only Li Shuirong was left leading Lin Pin'er.

Pushing the door into the yard, there are many light pink candles of different heights placed on the ground, guiding the path that extends all the way to the door. There is a large statue opposite the wishing pool in the garden.

When I got closer, I found that it was made of wire, and the elf girl with wings on her back was holding a huge dandelion, like a dandelion-shaped microphone. The statue was also slowly rotating, and the base emitted a slight music box-like music.

"It looks like a flower fairy in a fairy tale. It must have been made by Lan'er. He likes making statues like this the most. It's just that how could it be made so cleverly? Not only can it move but it can also make sounds. Is it plugged in?" Lin Pin'er admired it carefully.

"Lan'er said that it uses the principle of a music box. It does not need to be plugged in, just wind it up." After she admired it and took pictures, the two of them went into the house.

"Zijuan hasn't come back, and I don't know where Xueyan went?" Lin Pin'er changed her shoes and walked inside, but was stunned by the scene in front of her.

The entire living room is decorated with blue and white balloons and flowers of the same color. The table in front of the sofa and the carpet are piled with various gifts of varying sizes.

"It's so beautiful! Did you decorate it?"

"Yeah, a birthday surprise."

After that, they sat down on the sofa. Lin Pin'er asked Shui Rong to take a picture of her first, and then she used her mobile phone to take pictures after the film was finished.

Li Shuirong put down his phone and picked up a pink gift box made of Lego from the table. There was a white bow on the box.

"Congratulations on growing up on time. I've been looking forward to your growing up every day! Wait another year and you'll reach the legal age for marriage. Then we'll get married, okay?"

When you open it, it is a simple version of a short diamond necklace, but if you look closely, it is not simple at all, because each diamond is heart-shaped.

"I've thought about it for a long time. You'll be attending many banquets in the future. You'll inevitably need to wear an evening gown. I'll help you buy jewelry slowly. Just buy whatever you like. This gift is more practical."

Lin Pin'er was almost moved to tears. First, she was moved by what he had just said about waiting for her to grow up, and also by these arrangements. Now she was also moved by what he said about preparing them for her slowly. These words sounded very much like what her grandmother often said.

"Did you build this box?" she asked with a nasal voice. I remember going to his room during the Chinese New Year and seeing these small pink blocks. I thought he was building some dolls or something.

"Yeah, it took two months."

Li Shuirong answered while helping her put on the necklace, then took out his phone: "They have another task for you. They deliberately hid out today so that I could surprise you, but they also prepared these gifts. They said you can only accept the gift if you guess who sent it correctly. If you guess wrong, you have to return it to them tomorrow."

Lin Pin'er was almost shocked. She had never heard of giving out gifts and then returning them. Wouldn't that be very embarrassing for them?

So Lin Pin'er was not in a hurry and just waited for Li Shuirong to pick them up one by one for her to guess.

Li Shuirong also started with the simple ones. He first took out a doll wearing a school uniform. The doll had two pigtails, a short skirt school uniform, and half socks, which looked very much like Lin Pin'er.

"I guess this is from Qiaojie."

"Okay, congratulations on receiving a doll gift." After saying that, Li Shuirong also sent a message in the group: Sign for the gifts from Qiaojie and Lan'er.

Then I picked up a Montblanc box and opened it to see a very beautiful fountain pen.

"It should be given by Sister Tanchun."

"Smart." Li Shuirong gave a perfunctory compliment, and then posted in the group: I have received Tanchun's gift.

Lin Pin'er then stood up and began to direct: "Open this box and take a look, open that box and take a look.

"The incense seal tool set must have been given by Baoyu. He has been studying this recently. The tea leaves and teacup set must have been given by Su Miaoyu."

Li Shuirong was helping her open the gifts while reporting the news in the group, which kept him very busy.

"What good does it do you to help them?"

"It's obvious. It gives us some space to be alone..."