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Cai Yinggang and Bian Liang worked together to move the big table in the dining hall to the center of the yard. The little devils circled around behind Lin Ruoping's buttocks, stealing a piece of bamboo shoots and a piece of meat. Good dishes are brought out and arranged on a plate.

There was a strong aroma of vegetables in the courtyard, and the children couldn't help but circle the dining table.

Cai Yinggang was tired from squatting and playing with his mobile phone. Seeing the little kids jumping around and full of energy, he wanted to tease him, "Ahem, come on, little devils, let's review it again." He clapped his hands to attract the children Attention, "Chu Chen will come in later, what should you do?"

Xiaopi excitedly raised his hand and said, "Happy birthday to Brother Xiaochen!"

Cai Yinggang nodded, "That's right, what then?"

"Sing Happy Birthday!" another child replied.

"Can you sing?" Cai Yinggang had fun teasing the children.

"meeting!"

"Brother Cai Cai can sing?" Huahua grabbed his trouser leg and asked.

Cai Yinggang nodded heavily, "Of course, your brother and I are nicknamed Cai Jielun, and the Chinese music library is guaranteed."

"Will Ultraman also sing? Will Pleasant Goat sing too?"

Cai Yinggang: "...Maybe."

"Wow I want to hear I want to hear!"

Bian Liang, who was out of place beside him, frowned.What a joy, a child's world.

The cold winter wind blows past the branches of the courtyard, and the night sweeps across the sky. It’s almost 10:30, solemnly holding his mobile phone, and always paying attention to Zhou Dize’s information. Finally, when the time jumps to [-]:[-], the conversation There are more messages in the box.

【City Master Baidi】: Let's get off the car.

Zhuang Yan immediately waved back after watching, "They are here, Aunt Lin, turn off the lights!"

Lin Ruoping hurriedly followed suit, and the whole yard was instantly plunged into darkness. Everyone returned to their positions according to the prior arrangement. A few children ran quietly behind the table and squatted, being careful throughout the process, for fear of making the slightest noise.

"If you had said earlier, I wouldn't have come with so many bells and whistles." Bian Liang shrank under the Christmas tree, his buttocks sticking out high, like a timid white-faced tortoise, and he said in a breathy voice: "It's too old, I can't see it." It turns out that a person like you actually has a girlish heart."

"Then get out now." Zhuang Yan elbowed him, "What's wrong with a person like me?"

He speaks with confidence, but he is actually introspecting himself. It seems that he is a bit too high-profile. Mobilizing a large group is actually just a birthday, and there is no need to go to war.

Zhuang Yan suddenly felt warm in his ears.

"It's nothing. It's all here." Bian Liang laughed softly: "To be honest, although I'm stupid, I can feel his heart, and I really want to know what Chu Chen's expression is."

Zhuang Yan also wanted to know, with an inexplicable expectation, he stared at the big iron gate with bated breath.After staring at it for two or three minutes, there was finally some movement outside. Fragmentary footsteps and small conversations were getting closer and closer. After a few seconds, the iron door was half opened. Because it was too old, the sound of pushing the door contained Feeling a little dull, Chu Chen supported the schoolbag strap on his shoulder with one hand, and the tall figure stood there.

Cai Yingang touched the socket at his feet, grabbed the plug of the Christmas tree and plugged it in. In an instant, the dark yard was suddenly enveloped in the light of the Christmas tree.

Several children came out from under the table one by one like pulling carrots, shouting loudly one after another: "Happy birthday, Brother Shen!"

Accompanied by the excited and naive blessings of these little devils, the colorful lights on the Christmas tree light up from the top of the tree to the bottom, very regularly, one light up every second, and another light up every second, red, orange, Small light bulbs of various colors, such as yellow, formed the words "Happy Birthday" in English, which were scribbled into the golden light together with many decorations in the shape of stars and moons.

The picture is unexpectedly harmonious and warm.

The distance was a little far, and Zhuang Yan couldn't see Shen's expression clearly at this time.Will he be happy?Or treat it with indifference?Although he spent a lot of time thinking about these things, would Chu Chen like them?

"Happy birthday to you! Little brother Shen!" Xiaopi ran over to hold Chu Chen's hand, and one big and one small came down to the dining table surrounded by several other children.

Lin Ruoping greeted Fang Wenqi and Zhou Dize at the door, "Come and sit down."

Bian Liang took out a small and exquisite flat-shaped gift box from his trouser pocket. It was for Chu Chen, but he glanced at the solemn direction first, "I don't have the nerve to come here empty-handed, I just bought it on the way here."

"Thank you." Chu Chen opened and closed his lips, repeated this several times, and finally murmured something like a mosquito.

"Hey, the gift-giving session is starting now? Okay, okay, I was going to talk about it after dinner." Zhou Dize was startled, and after talking, he rummaged through his schoolbag for a long time before he took out a black plastic bag, "Look It’s a little pocket-sized, it’s just a heart, the gift is light and the affection is heavy, happy birthday, happy birthday.”

Cai Yingang went to the lobby and wandered around, and when he came back, he was holding a large gift bag in his arms, "I'm really curious about what you gave? It's so shabby, and the gifts from the master are carefully selected. Take a look, don't they be generous?" Hypocritical."

"Get out of here, you bastard." Zhou Dize blushed and kicked him.

Chu Chen didn't open it to see what it was, he didn't even show interest in the gift, he accepted it step by step, thanked him mechanically, and then put the received thing beside him.

The night is the best cover, and under the joyful atmosphere in the yard at this time, no one can read what his real thoughts are under his calm appearance.Did you jump for joy when you received the gift?

But the others just wanted to have fun, and didn't care about him. The only one who hung his heart from the moment he entered the door, and his eyes didn't change for a moment, as if he was nailed to him, only had the solemnity behind the excitement.

It was rare for him to hold his breath at this moment.

A group of people formed a circle around the dining table.It was late when Zhuang Yan went, and the two places next to Chu Chen had already been taken by two little devils.He couldn't grasp the thoughts in Chu Chen's heart, and he was a little angry, so he took the next best thing and chose the position opposite Chu Chen, so that he could see the face of the person opposite him clearly through the light.

Stiff as always, the line of the lips was drawn straight, and the contours of the face showed no sign of softening.Ever since he came in, Chu Chen's gaze never fell on Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan seemed to be strangled by something, his heart was heavy, and it was difficult to breathe. He was suddenly a little discouraged, feeling like a joke, reckless and shameless.

The proud young master would not reveal the slightest bit of sadness in front of outsiders. He closed his eyes, forced himself to straighten his back calmly, and was about to switch to the business mode of forcing a smile when he saw Chu Chen who was sitting on the opposite side Stand up suddenly.

Solemnly and calmly, he fiddled with the empty water glass in his hand, but he remained calm for less than half a second, and couldn't help but hold the empty water glass in his hands as if drinking water, and slightly raised his eyelids to observe inadvertently.

In just such a time of lowering his head and raising his head and blinking his eyes, Chu Chen had already left his original seat, came behind him, and then naturally pulled away the chair next to him and sat down.

At this moment, the courtyard was not as silent as in the past.Lin Ruoping's Fang Wenqi, who was standing outside the two, was distributing bowls and chopsticks. Zhou Dize, who was sitting next to them, was the first to get the chopsticks, and picked out a piece of meat and put it in his mouth without stopping. !"

Cai Yinggang, who sat across from him, accepted the children's feeding with a smile, and he didn't hesitate to take every bite.Bian Liang stared straight at the side, lamenting that this skinny monkey is quite popular with children.

The fingers holding the cup were slightly curled up, clasped on the cup, the fingertips exerted a little force, the knuckles were faintly white, solemnly fixed his gaze, but he couldn't ignore the existence of the person beside him.

As long as this person exists, for him, every second is a temptation.

"Did you buy this tree?" Just as his face was red, such a sentence suddenly came from his ear.

Zhuang Yan raised his eyelids and saw that Chu Chen's brows were soft and his lips were curled up. Although shallow but obviously happy, the haze in his heart disappeared instantly, like a child waiting for praise, "How is it?"

"It's too exaggerated." Chu Chen turned his head and let out a little smile from his throat. He glanced at the colorful Christmas tree, which was enough to blind the eyes. name.

"solemn."

"Ok?"

"Thank you." Chu Chen said.

Zhuang Yan's heart beat faster, suddenly.

He should be happy, right?Then it's all worth it.

"You guys eat first, I'll go to the kitchen to look at the soup." Lin Ruoping hurried to the kitchen to bring out the stewed chicken soup, "The clear stewed chicken soup, just put some ginger and garlic, nothing else, Xiao Shen's taste , try it too."

"Oh, it smells so good." As soon as the lid of the pot was lifted, Cai Yinggang couldn't wait to put a piece of chicken in his mouth.The meat is fresh and tender, and the soup hidden in the meat bursts with one bite. The soup is rich in flavor and still has a little fragrance of ginger and garlic.

Fang Wenqi smiled and said, "Of course, stewed soup is our mother Lin's specialty, so don't grab it."

A few people couldn't hear it, Zhou Dize picked up the soup bowl and ran away, Cai Yingang chased him for most of the yard.

Zhuang Yan sent a piece of stir-fried baby dish to Chu Chen's bowl, "I washed this dish, you can taste it."

"Did you wash it?" Chu Chen raised his eyebrows lightly.

"What kind of contemptuous eyes do you have?" Zhuang Yan was angry, "Do you know how difficult it is to wash vegetables? I changed the water several times before I washed them clean. If I can't control the water temperature, the vegetables will be boiled directly, okay?" !"

Tingting answered on the sidelines: "That's right, brother Xueqiu is very powerful, he killed a chicken with one blow."

Chu Chen's face turned green: "...shot to death?"

It was a very satisfying meal.A few children quarreled while eating, and the topic was the cartoons they watched in the afternoon, and the new words they learned today.On the other hand, the topics of the adults on the other side are relatively more mature, ranging from worrying about the upcoming final exam to complaining about someone in a certain class pretending to be a big guy who overturned the car, saying that the boy was wearing a certain big-name clothing for a few times in school. People debunk it as a fake.

After the ridicule was over, the topic quickly turned to another direction. Zhou Dize, as the monitor of the first class, listened to all directions and watched six directions every day. If he vomited all the gossip in his head, he would probably be able to circle the school twice.

This time the gossip focuses on a certain young couple in the class next door who were caught by Yuan Datou on the spot when they were dating in the woods behind Boxue Building two days ago.

"It is said that they have already been ordered to break up." Zhou Dize looked regretful, "The parents of both sides came to the school and had a quarrel in the political and educational department, forcing the two to get along."

"Naturally, we are only sophomores in high school, and dating now is considered puppy love." Cai Yinggang said, "Once it is exposed, it will definitely be death by light, and there is no need to discuss it."

"I heard that the woman's parents disagreed, thinking that the man's family was too poor," Fang Wenqi said.

Bian Liang interjected: "Objectively speaking, the older generation is like this. Subjectively speaking, this kind of concept is disgusting."

Zhou Dize shook his head and said, "Last week, I saw someone handing a love letter to Chu Chen. I was so moved, can you believe it? There are still people who are willing to write that thing seriously these days. Looking at the thick stack, I don't know. How long have you been writing?"