river bank, river bank

Bai San stared at the blank space in the top cabinet, completely stupefied.

How could his good birthday gift suddenly disappear? It took a lot of effort to write it, and today is Jiang An's birthday. If the gift is lost, what can he give in the meantime.

Bai San closed the cabinet with a dazed face, before he recovered, he was immersed in the thought of losing the gift, he was slow, when he got off the chair, his feet were unsteady, and he sat on the ground all of a sudden.

No pain, just bewildered.

He looked at the cooking table with a dazed expression. He sat on the floor and couldn't get up. He lay down slowly, hugged his knees tightly, and buried his head like a lump of dry rice cake.

Hearing the sound of him falling to the ground, the little milk dog barked and ran down the stairs suddenly, ran to Baisan's legs in two or three steps, shook his head, and fell on Baisan's legs with a snap, his little head was still comfortable rubbed twice.

is a fool.

At the same time, Jiang An also heard the sound, and slowly sat up from the bed. He didn't move, and his consciousness returned to the cage. Hearing the little milk dog's eager barking, he looked at the small box next to the pillow and the clock hanging on the wall. .

Sudden suffocation, there is a bad feeling.

Five twenty in the morning.

According to past experience, the little guy won't get up so early, but accidents are inevitable, coupled with the barking of the little milk dog.

Jiang An thought for a while, didn't take the small box, and planned to go downstairs to see the situation first.While changing his clothes, he thought about all the possibilities that if something unexpected happened, the little guy woke up early and found that the small box in the wall cabinet was missing, and quickly thought about the solution.

Going down the stairs, before entering the living room, he stood on the stairs, watching the little guy slumped on the ground like a dead fish, and at the same time, there was a little white dog who didn't know why, but thought it was very funny.

His eyelids twitched suddenly, and the most impossible idea really happened and became a reality.

Bai San was caught in the three questions of life, raised his head in a trance, and stared at the river bank in a daze.

It took three or four minutes for him to react. He got up suddenly from the ground, rubbed his face, bit his lower lip, hesitated for a long time, and said hello to Jiang An as usual.

Jiang An was a little strange today, he didn't tell him to 'eat well', but just said "good morning" like him.

Afterwards, Jiang An looked up at him, "What happened?"

"it is me……"

The moment Jiang An asked, Bai San almost blurted out, but suddenly regained his senses, he bit the tip of his tongue and swallowed the words back.

Originally, he wanted to give Jiang An a surprise, but now he lost the surprise.

Bai San pursed his lips tightly, shook his head, and moved the chair back to the table, thinking that in the past few days, only he, the little white dog and Jiang An were at home, and no outsiders had come.

It was a strange thing that the little box suddenly disappeared.

"That..." Bai San hesitated for a while, and decided to ask tentatively, "Mr. Jiang, have you ever seen a small sky blue box?"

Jiang An frowned in thought, and repeated in a low voice, "A small sky-blue box..."

don't see, don't see, don't see...

Although he had already asked the question, Bai San still hoped that Jiang An hadn't seen it, so that he could continue to maintain a sense of mystery and give Jiang An a surprise when he didn't expect it.

"Didn't see it."

After hesitating for a few seconds, Jiang An smiled and opened his mouth, pretending to be ignorant, looking down at Bai San with a perturbed expression, and asking at the same time, "Is it something important?"

Of course!

Bai San shouted Gao Sheng in his heart, that was the birthday present he was going to give him, and it was the most special one.

But in reality, Bai San shook his head quickly, and said firmly, "It's not important, it's not important at all, and it doesn't matter if you lose it."

Jiang An's hand holding the glass to catch the water suddenly stopped, and his eyelids jumped again.He drank half a glass of cold water in one breath, calmed down, licked his lips, turned around, and looked as usual.

"How can your things be unimportant? Put them well at home and never lose them."

Bai San hung his head and said nothing.He is really stupid, now he is fine, he lost all his birthday presents, and has no face to see Mr. Jiang at all.

Just as he was pretending to be dead, Jiang An tapped on the table with his fingers, and said again, "Have you been out these few days?"

Bai San was very grateful to Jiang An for not directly asking what was lost, although it was already lost, and it was useless to talk about it.

Hearing Jiang An's question mark, he pulled his hair and was silent for a moment, but he still had good memories.

"The morning before yesterday, at eleven o'clock, I took the little milk dog for a walk outside. At noon the day before yesterday, I went out to eat with my friends, and I reviewed it. It should be around four o'clock in the afternoon when I came back. Yesterday also I went out, at [-]:[-] am and [-]:[-] pm, I took the puppy out to play, it should take an hour each... But I checked carefully when I went out, it must be locked well, no thieves will come in, Besides, even if you come in, it’s too strange to just steal my small box without taking so many things, it’s simply impossible.”

Bai San's expression was firm, but when he heard what he said, Jiang An, who was a little flustered suddenly, calmed down and went out, as long as he didn't go out, it would be difficult for him to find an excuse.

"That's right, you can find it, don't worry," Jiang An patted him on the shoulder reassuringly, "Didn't I tell you before that there will be regular cleaning here, it's my fault that I forgot to tell you, it just happened the afternoon before yesterday Someone contacted me, so I asked her to come, maybe I accidentally took it away, I will contact her again, can I bring it back to you around ten o'clock in the morning, will there be any delay?"

When he heard that the small box was accidentally taken away by others, and it could be taken back again, Bai San immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Early in the morning, after experiencing such turbulent waves, he felt that his mind was at peace, and he nodded calmly towards the bank of the river, with the appearance of "I want to go back and have a rest and think about life".

As soon as he took a step, Bai San suddenly thought of a very serious problem. He turned around and looked at Jiang An solemnly.

"Mr. Jiang, you must bring it back to me."

Jiang An responded, "Okay."

"Mr. Jiang, you are not allowed to open the small box when you get it."

Jiang An smiled lightly and said "hmm".

"Must be sure, don't look at it secretly." Bai San tried hard to emphasize.

Jiang An responded seriously and promised, "I will bring you back the original, and I won't look at it when I get it." But it doesn't include what I saw before.

Bai San nodded in satisfaction this time, a lock of slightly curly hair on the top of his head was lifted up and swayed in a circle.This is just a small episode, insignificant, comforting himself like this, Bai San happily took the little milk dog back to the room, ready to catch up on sleep again.

At half past nine, Jiang An truthfully brought back the small box, the outside of which was intact and untouched.It took a long time, Bai San took a deep breath, and put the accident that happened in the morning behind him.

"Mr. Jiang, are you going out tonight?" He held the small box with his hands behind his back, poked his head out of the door frame, and asked in a muffled voice.

In fact, he never thought about celebrating his birthday with Jiang An. After all, Jiang An usually leaves early and returns late. He must be very busy. Correspondingly, there will be many colleagues, friends, and family members.

Bai San just felt that he would be satisfied if he could give him a small gift on his birthday.

Jiang An smiled and said, "Today is Saturday, I have finished my work during the working day, and I will stay at home from now on."

"Oh."

Baisan responded dryly, and a small firework exploded in his heart.

Before again, Bai San also participated in classmates' birthday parties, some in hotels and some at home, but they were all different from now.

During lunch, he went out and brought back a small cake, enough for two people.After thinking about it, he still decided to celebrate Jiang An's birthday at noon and give out gifts along with it.

Although Jiang An said that he would stay at home for the rest of the day, accidents were inevitable. Maybe Jiang An also had friends who prepared surprises like him, who would call Jiang An out at night, or parents.

Taking advantage of Jiang An's time upstairs, Bai San quickly took out the cake, put it on the table, thought for a while, put in three candles, and put the long-prepared small sky blue box in front of the table where Jiang An often sat .

Changing into home clothes, Jiang An went downstairs and looked up at the table. He paused, his expression gradually changed from doubt to surprise, and then he walked step by step with a smile in his eyes.

Bai San had been waiting for a long time, when he looked at him with a smile, he was slightly startled, his cheeks slowly warmed up, and he said a well-prepared 'Happy Birthday', which was full of air, and then he uttered it lightly, with the softness of a boy.

So, Jiang An walked over and hugged Bai San gently as he had rehearsed countless times in his mind beforehand, tilted his head, kissed him on the cheek, and told him, "I'm very happy."

Baisan felt slightly hot and turned red in a second. He bit his lower lip, kept his eyes away and said nothing, his heart beating fast.

After obtaining his permission, Jiang An pulled the ribbon, opened the small sky blue box with his own hands, and took out a copy of "The Little Prince" that Bai San had copied overnight.

The cake is soft and the juice is sweet.

Jiang An didn't like sweets, so after a small piece of cake went into his stomach, Bai San ate the rest.At this moment, he was lying on the sofa covering his swollen belly, not even wanting to move his fingertips.

Seeing Jiang An approaching, he propped his arms back, moved with difficulty, then rubbed against him, and fell on Jiang An's lap in the blink of an eye.

Maybe it's the mild sunshine outside the window, or maybe it's a good day today.

Jiang An slowly helped him rub his stomach, and suddenly talked about the past.

"This is the first birthday I have ever celebrated since I can remember." He was still smiling under Bai San's surprised eyes, as if he was staying out of it, talking about other people's affairs, "When I was young, my parents were busy, let alone me. birthdays, and even their own, don’t have time to celebrate.”

Bai San still raised his head and looked at the river bank, puffing his cheeks, "I must be lonely."

Hearing Bai San's question suddenly, Jiang An was startled, then smiled, without denying it.

"At that time, I would think, it would be great if I had a younger brother."

Bai San blinked his eyes, a little unresponsive, and let out a stupid "ah".

Jiang An didn't say any more, he squeezed the flesh that the little guy had grown during this time.

It was just a naive idea at that time.