I am very poor

Huo Yufei stood under the tall birch trees, looked up at the endless green crowns, and tried hard to find the position of the moon among the lush tree crowns.

The night sky in the mountains is still very blue.

The moon is bright and there is a slight wind.

Soon, a familiar voice and a familiar tone came from the phone's microphone.

"Yu Fei?"

"It's my birthday today."

Gu Cheng didn't hear clearly, and asked "What?"

Huo Yufei said happily: "Today is my birthday."

Birthday has never been a particularly important day for him, but when he mentioned it to Gu Cheng, he was very happy for some reason.

But he just wanted to say this, and after Gu Cheng said "Happy Birthday" to him in a surprised voice, he changed the subject.

He started chatting about Gu Cheng, asking him what he was up to yesterday and today, how his work was, and whether he had encountered anything interesting.

When Huo Yufei is happy, people can't help but keep chatting with him about any topic.

He is happy now.

A gust of night wind blew by, and the tall treetops swayed back and forth under the wind.Huo Yufei listened to Gu Cheng answer the series of questions that Huo Yufei just raised with very concise words, and then immediately turned the topic to something he was more interested in.

"I didn't even know it was your birthday today."

There was a little regret in Gu Cheng's voice.

He himself never had a birthday, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't even know when his birthday was.

When I was a child in an orphanage, the "birthdays" of children of the same age were on the same day, and this date was not completely fixed. Sometimes it was affected by the weather or other reasons. Finally, I chose a more suitable day and took them to a nearby one. For a "picnic" in the small park, each person will have an apple and a banana. This is the birthday present.

Later, when they were teenagers, the small park was converted into an underground supermarket, and they passed the age of clamoring for "birthday", so the matter was over.

Gu Cheng has never shown that he is particularly concerned about it, but in fact he still likes birthdays very much in his heart, even if it is the birthday shared by all the children of the same age in the orphanage, he cherishes it very much.

Because one day is an extra day that belongs to him.

On that day, he was important and different.

It's just that the bright colors in my childhood memory were quickly submerged in the jealous, repressed and inferior voices around me when I grew up.

He hasn't had a "birthday" in many years.

Gu Cheng paused for a moment, and his voice became more cheerful. He asked Huo Yufei how he was doing today on the phone?Have you eaten longevity noodles?Did you eat something delicious?Are there any friends with him?Do you have your parents with you?Have you received any gifts?

He was really curious.

He wants to know if the real birthday is like what is described on TV or in books, where everyone eats together, makes jokes about the protagonist, sings birthday songs together, cuts the cake, makes a wish and blows out the candles together.

When he was really like this, he was deliberating and asking questions one by one in that cautious and cautious tone, afraid that he would say something strange.

When he was eagerly urging quietly, wanting to hear the answer.

The happy look on Huo Yufei's face disappeared little by little.

His Adam's apple slid up and down.

It seemed that he didn't know what to say for a moment.

It seemed that after thinking for a while, he found the voice and the answer.

"Today... many friends came to the house..."

"Mom and Dad are here, and my elder brother is back too..."

"I ate a lot of delicious food at night...I'm so full..."

"I'm playing a game, I was still playing just now..."

Then I heard Gu Cheng's happy voice from the microphone, and said two words very sincerely——

"very nice."

Huo Yufei's voice suddenly disappeared for a few seconds, his chest seemed to be covered with an airtight pillow, stuffy, and he could hardly breathe.

Make his voice staccato.

Gu Cheng's voice slowed down. He was lying on the table, but now he sat up straight.

There are intermittent, rapid, out-of-tune breathing in the ears... Occasionally, there are one or two choked sobs that can't be heard without careful attention.

Gu Cheng's voice became very low, very low, and very gentle.

"Yufei..." He softly called the other person's name, "What's wrong with you?"

Huo Yufei felt extremely uncomfortable, but he couldn't express it.

He mumbled "It's okay", then raised his head, stared at the gnawed moon in the sky, and opened his eyes as wide as possible.Then take a deep breath.

After a moment-

"It's okay," he said with a smile in his voice, "just now... just a little sad."

"how?"

Gu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, but he still frowned slightly, and asked again in a different way, "Why are you sad?"

Huo Yufei's exaggerated sigh came from the other end of the microphone——

"Because I didn't eat cake today. How can there be no cake for my birthday? Are you right?"

Gu Cheng was silent for two seconds, then said "En", and finally couldn't help but confirm with him: "Is the cake important?"

"Of course it's important!" Huo Yufei said confidently, "If I can't eat the cake, I'm so sad that I'm about to cry."

Then I heard Gu Cheng's muffled laughter.

I heard him say, "Going back to school tomorrow? I'll take you to eat cake."

Huo Yufei took a deep breath, still with a smile in his voice: "How can that be? Can today be the same as tomorrow? Only today is the birthday, and today's cake is the birthday cake."

Gu Cheng asked him gently: "Then what should we do?"

Huo Yufei gripped the phone tightly, and asked him with a smile: "I'm looking for you now, is what you said still valid?"

"Now?" Gu Cheng took the phone away to look at the time, and said amusedly, "It's nine o'clock now."

Then Huo Yufei's muffled voice sounded in his ears, as if he was talking to him very close -

"This is a once-in-a-year opportunity! If you celebrate my birthday with me, I'll treat you to a cake. OK?"

Gu Cheng smiled: "But now I treat you to a cake?"

"Then..." Huo Yufei's nose was a little sour, "Then count it as my birthday with you? You invite me to eat cake, and I invite you to celebrate your birthday... okay?"

Huo Yufei said with a smile in his voice, "You will share half of my birthday."

Without the bustling lights of the city, the stars in the sky are particularly conspicuous. The sky is as clean as a flawless sapphire, and the densely packed stars form a milky white highlight.

Huo Yufei hung up the phone, and as soon as he turned around, he was startled.

"Brother!" His eyes followed the ash falling from the flickering red light of the cigarette held between Huo Yushou's fingers, and landed on a small pile of cigarette butts at his feet.

"Smoking is harmful to your health. Are you... a little troubled at night?"

Huo Yufei hesitated a little when he asked.

He originally wanted to ask "Are you feeling troubled at night", but the last few words abruptly changed to "Is there anything bothering you."

But even if he asked this way, Huo Yushou didn't follow his lead and replied, "It's a small matter, it's okay."

He didn't answer directly.

Huo Yufei hooked the corner of his mouth, didn't say anything, and was about to pass by, when suddenly he heard Huo Yushou asking him: "Are you in love?"

Huo Yufei: ...?

"Big brother?"

Huo Yushou crushed out the cigarette butts in his hand and threw them on top of the small pile of cigarette butts, "What's your little girlfriend's name?"

"Where is your little girlfriend from?" Huo Yufei smiled, "I'll leave first if I have nothing to do, and I'm still in a hurry to go back to the city."

"If you're so anxious, aren't you talking about love?"

Huo Yufei felt that his ears were broken, why did he feel that Huo Yushou was laughing, and he still laughed at him.

He looked back, Huo Yushou just lowered his head, took out a bunch of things from his pocket and threw them to him.

It's a bunch of car keys.

"In the garage, your birthday present this year."

Huo Yufei grabbed the key and turned it twice in his hand, curiously said: "Didn't you give it to me this year?"

"Ishishangshui was given to you last year."

Huo Yufei hesitated for a moment.

Then I heard Huo Yushou say: "This car has authority. It can go down the mountain and go back to the city directly from here on the predetermined route on the navigation. There is no need to take a shuttle bus."

Huo Yufei didn't hesitate immediately, and hugged Huo Yushou with a smile: "Thank you, brother, please help me with my sister."

The courtyard suddenly became quiet, passing through the lush branches and leaves, inside the glass wall, Zhou Jianda was holding Caesar in his arms and doing a ballroom dance.

This is Huo Yufei's friend.

Or maybe not.

Huo Yushou wanted to smoke again, he lifted the cigarette case, saw the words "harmful to health" on it, and put it down again.

Huo Qidong also mentioned the matter of Song Yulai's classmate to him, not because of how much it affected him or how much his family attached importance to it, but to take the opportunity to remind him.

Huo Qidong did not allow Song Yulai to have too much contact with Ying Xiaofang's family because he wanted her to "learn to control her guilt". In fact, he first said this sentence to Huo Yushou.

Huo Yushou lowered his head and fumbled for the floating Yangwen on the cigarette case, and thought of it was indeed Huo Yufei's little girlfriend.

He was a little curious.

Huo Yufei sat in the car happily and started the car, only to realize a very serious problem, he did not have a domestic driver's license.

He touched his nose helplessly, then reluctantly got out of the car, and finally took the shuttle bus in the park down the mountain.

Please ask the park to send a car to take him.

The car quickly circled around the foot of the mountain, and the plants on both sides of the road gradually thinned out from lush, until it finally rushed into the continuous bustling lights of City B.

Then the stars in the sky were no longer visible.

Except when he was very young, Gu Cheng never had much interest in the stars in the sky.

No matter how beautiful the fairy tales in the sky are, they are not as good as the real things in hand.

So he hurriedly changed into his coat, took his wallet and keys and went downstairs without even looking up at the sky.It happened to be the time for P's evening self-study and get out of class. The students came out of the teaching building in all directions, chatting and laughing happily. Gu Cheng was in the opposite direction to them. He went upstream and walked out of the school gate briskly.

Huo Yufei got off the car at the school gate and called Gu Cheng, only to learn that he was not at school.

He asked where Gu Cheng was, and then joked happily, saying that the other party didn't wait for him obediently and asked him to make a trip for nothing.

Gu Cheng looked at the beautiful and exquisite cakes in front of him, and asked him: "Didn't you say that you want to treat you to a cake?"

It was past ten o'clock now, and the store was about to close. Gu Cheng hung up the phone without reporting his location, and then picked the most beautiful one from these beautiful cakes.

Because the pastry chef is off work, there is no way to help write Huo Yufei's name on the cake.

Although the cake is very beautiful, and the fruit cream and some small snacks decorate the whole cake like a bride's tiara, Gu Cheng still feels that something is missing.And it's missing the tastiest thing.

Probably his childishness amused the young clerk, and he finally found a slender chocolate plate from the kitchen, usually decorated with white jam cream and cursive English on it.

Gu Cheng was wearing gloves and holding a cream pen in his hand, thinking about what to write.

Suddenly remembering Huo Yufei's cheating "I invite me to eat cake, I will accompany you on your birthday", he smiled mischievously, and carefully drew such a sentence on it.

Huo Yufei was waiting for Gu Cheng downstairs in the shopping mall.It was already eleven o'clock, and the central city of City B was still as bustling as it was during the day.Some stores end their business day at this time, while others, this time is just beginning.

Huo Yufei was waiting for Gu Cheng downstairs.

He lowered his head to grind the tiled ground with his toes, and looked up at the barely visible stars in the sky.

When he lowered his head again, he saw Gu Cheng standing in front of him with a smile.

Huo Yufei made a frightened look, put his hands in his pockets, jumped back a step, and was immediately attracted by the cake in his hand, his eyes lit up, "My cake?"

Gu Cheng switched the cake to the other hand, and pulled him with his free left hand: "Let's go, let's find a place."

Huo Yufei was in a bad mood just now, and now he is trying to make "myself" happy.

Deliberately shifting his gaze to follow the transfer of the cake box, he asked anxiously, "Do you want me to carry it for you?"

Gu Cheng couldn't help laughing.

How can it be so cute?

But he disagrees.

"You want to eat that much?" As they walked, Gu Cheng turned his head and laughed at Huo Yufei, "It's like you've never eaten before."

Huo Yufei nodded again and again: "I really want to eat it, of course I really want to eat it. Do you know? When I was a child, every birthday, Song Yulai and my elder brother would take away my cake and eat it all. The two of them couldn't finish it. I would rather I was not allowed to taste it when I gave it to other people. Of course, I can still eat it, but how could it taste the same as a birthday cake?"

He saw Gu Cheng frowned, then smiled, and actually handed the cake box to him: "Since the whole thing is yours today, why don't you carry your own things?"

Then Gu Cheng asked him again: "Didn't you eat today?"

The corners of Huo Yufei's mouth curled up, and he continued to accuse Song Yulai: "Yes, today my sister helped me celebrate and called many friends, but no one remembered to bring the cake? It's too much, why did they come to give I celebrated my birthday, obviously I came here to eat, drink and have fun."

Gu Cheng didn't say anything, just grabbed his shoulders, and said in a gentle voice, "Isn't it time to eat now?"

The farther you are from the commercial center, the darker it gets. Huo Yufei doesn't know where Gu Cheng is going to take him.

From the main road, they turned around and walked through several small alleys, and finally stopped in front of a night bar converted from a courtyard house.

The name is nice, called "Ten Years of Knowing You".

Gu Cheng took him in familiarly, greeted people all the way, and sat down to order.Gu Cheng explained to him: "I used to work here."

"Have you had dinner, right?" Gu Cheng asked for his opinion, and then ticked a few ticks on the list.

When the store delivered snacks and drinks, they also gave them an extra fruit plate.

Huo Yufei concluded: "It seems that you have a good reputation."

There are very few people here, and there are only a few tables where they sit quietly, drink something, and chat in a low voice.

They were sitting in the innermost corner, the light was dim, Gu Cheng knelt on one knee to open the cake box, the ribbon was tightly tied, he carefully lowered his head to untie it, the sweet fragrance that warms the heart came out of the box one after another drilled out of the gap.

He unwrapped the box, and then replied casually, "Probably I'm more dedicated."

Like a flower petal, the pale pink cake box was unfolded in all directions, revealing the beautiful appearance inside.

A burst of sweet aroma.

Huo Yufei exclaimed, "It's so beautiful!"

Gu Cheng was a little proud: "I have chosen the one for a long time."

Huo Yufei really wants to eat now.

The twelve-inch cake was quietly pressed on a hollowed-out table paper.Huo Yufei rummaged through another bag for cake knives and small trays, but found a beautiful card.

He unfolded it and saw that there were familiar handwriting on it——

Happy birthday Huo Yufei!everything goes well.

The uninspired congratulatory words are like a casual sentence.

Huo Yufei closed the greeting card with a smile, removed the paper bag of the cake knife, and enthusiastically gestured on the cake where to cut the knife.

Gu Cheng was looking down at the candles, when he saw Huo Yufei's movement, he laughed dumbfoundedly, and confiscated the cake knife.

"Eat a snack if you're hungry."

He pushed the fruit plate next to him, and inserted the counted candles one by one.

"Do you really want to insert twenty?"

Gu Cheng also hesitated a little: "It should."

He compared it on the cake, it seems that the area is still enough?

"Then what will I do when I'm 80?"

"Then order a very big cake. As you grow older, the cake will also grow, right?" Gu Cheng said.

Huo Yufei obviously thought of something else.

"80 years old! I may not have the chance to eat it." He sighed.

"Why not?" Gu Cheng started to insert the candles one by one, then paused, and corrected seriously, "It must be possible."

Huo Yufei touched his nose and smiled: "I mean, I was worried that I would get diabetes at that time. The doctor forbade me to eat such sweet things."

"Then let's eat sugar-free ones." Gu Cheng continued to insert the remaining candles, found the matches sent by the cake shop, and carefully lit them one by one.

The rising fire light suddenly lit up the area, and made the faces of the two of them feel warm.

Huo Yufei finally saw that the piece of chocolate stuck on the cake was actually written on it.

Then he chuckled: "Why is there your name in front of this happy birthday?"

Gu Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you say you wanted to invite me to my birthday?" Seeing Huo Yufei collapsed on the sofa with a smile, he couldn't help but also smiled, and then urged the other party to make a wish.

"Half an hour left."

Gu Cheng glanced at the time.

Huo Yufei smiled and pulled the other party to his side: "You come here."

Gu Cheng:?

"It's agreed to give you half of your birthday." Huo Yufei urged him, "Hurry up, there will be no more shops after this village."

Seeing Gu Cheng's hesitant look, he smiled and said, "I'll teach you, come on, close your eyes, and say in your heart what you want to achieve three times, and then blow out the candles. Wait a minute, we should sing birthday first happy song."

Then he coughed twice, held back his laughter, and sang in English solemnly: "happybirthdaytoyou! happybirthdaytoyou! happybirthdaytogug! happybirthdaytoyou!"

His English speaking voice is very different from his usual speaking voice, as if one is talking and the other is singing.

And now he sings with a singing voice.

Good to hear.

Gu Cheng was very nervous.

I was a little flustered.

Huo Yufei's bright eyes had flames jumping, and he sang the happy birthday song repeatedly to urge him to close his eyes and make a wish, and even took out his mobile phone to show him the time on the screen—23:49 in a very anxious manner.

Their cake and low-pitched happy birthday song startled the rest of the quiet dwellers in the small space.

Everyone looked at them in a very good mood, and gradually many people sang together.

The sound is getting louder.

They all thought that the birthday person today was Gu Cheng.

Gu Cheng clearly felt his heart being gently pinched a few times.

He closed his eyes a little embarrassed, and quickly made a wish in his heart,

When he opened his eyes again, he saw Huo Yufei's bright smile like a blooming flower.

He saw the other party jumping up and cheering, and said "thank you" to the others with a smile.

Then squatted down like a child, leaned close to him, and whispered in his ear, "Happy birthday."

The author has something to say: Huo Yushou: ... You tell me this is not a relationship? ?

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"I see him"

He, a wandering artist.

I, a family backed businessman.

I've known him since I was 17

The sun is handsome and has excellent grades.

I stood in the shade outside the basketball court, looking at his youthful smiling face.But I know this will all change.

quickly,

His father was imprisoned for corruption, and his family plummeted.

There was a trace of melancholy on his young and handsome face.

He becomes silent.

I watched him from a distance, and then chose the same university as him.

In his sophomore year, he fell in love with someone.

I watched him quietly escort that girl to and from get out of class, work part-time until two or three o'clock in the morning, and only eat one meal a day, just to buy a gift to make her look good.

I can see that he is earnest and eager to show his whole heart to the other party.

But so forbearing.

He pinned all the missing feelings on one person.

Silently done so much, so much.

But never asked for lifelong company.

He is so young, yet so mature, and even more so proud.

Because he has nothing.

That was his first love.

At the age of 22, he lost his love.

In senior year, the girl had a new boyfriend, and he had to delay graduation because of tuition fees.

I watched him get very drunk at the graduation party.

The hand holding the cup tightened and tightened, and finally turned his eyes away.

At the age of 23, he took a leave of absence from school, worked part-time, and made money.

He has been excellent since he was a child, and he is extremely stubborn, and he is [-]% more proud than others.The word money made him stand taller than anyone else.

Young, fearless and most unmerciful.

I saw him living in a cold and damp basement, working three or four odd jobs a day, and only sleeping three or four hours.

I saw that he bought boxes of instant noodles from the supermarket that were about to expire, but he was only willing to eat half of a package every time he opened it.

I saw that his face became more and more handsome, almost hurting people like a blade.

So, I often go to the bar where he works to drink.

At the age of 23, he finally paid off his debts and moved out of the basement,

Get your degree and start looking for a job.

This year, under the pressure of my family, I finally parachuted into a company under the name of my eldest brother.

At 24, he had a job.

And I am already the president of a listed company.

He has nothing now, but I know that he will achieve something in the future.

It's just a lot of suffering, a lot of suffering.Compared with that, what I have encountered and endured in the past few years is not worth mentioning at all.

I don't know if I can keep watching like this.

Until that girl appeared back then.

Catch up with him, chat with him, and ask him for a favor.

I seem to have seen what is about to happen.

Sitting in the car, I lit a cigarette with unsteady fingers.

Across the street, I couldn't see his expression clearly while sitting in the cafe.

But I know that it must be a mixture of tenderness and firmness.

It seems to be indifferent to others, but in fact, I can't wait to show my whole heart to the other party.He is like this, if he likes someone, he can like it for a long time, and he is devoted to it.

So he will suffer a lot.

I seem to have seen a crystal clear heart aperture, which is about to be ruthlessly knocked to the ground.

Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore.

With a "bang", the car door slammed and strode over.

He was alone at the table.

Look silent.

Yet he was a little childishly dazed.

He's still too young, he hasn't gone through bone-scraping and heart-burning, and he has a copper-skinned iron bone. He is like a transparent shrimp, and he doesn't even know how to put on armor.

"I like you."

I am the person who loves you the most in this world.

"I want to take care of you."

I am the person who knows you best in this world.

"with me."

I feel sorry for you,

I just feel sorry for myself.

I saw his surprised expression.

Then, the same expression soon appeared on my face,

He looked at me for a long time in bewilderment, and then said "OK".

But immediately said, "Can you wait any longer?" He said, "Give me some time, I want to make some money."

I said, "No."

For the first time, I saw embarrassment and embarrassment appear on his young and handsome face.

I heard his low voice, like a feather falling on the tip of his heart.

"But, I have liked you for a long time, and I want to raise you."