lake garden moon

It is quite special for two children in the family to have the same birthday.Before the age of seven, Kang Zhier spent his birthdays at Lake Garden and Elvis.

Kang Zhier likes to be lively.At that time, he felt that celebrating his birthday was the happiest thing.Every birthday, there will be a lot of friends and adults rushing from all over the place to give him and Elvis gifts and sing birthday songs, and celebrate their birthdays with them.

At that time, he was small and stupid, and he didn't notice anything. He just felt that there were so many people and presents, and he was very happy in his heart.

Elvis was his opposite.The more people there are, the less happy he is.

But one of his great strengths is that he can hide his dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction without letting anyone know.

Anyone, naturally including Kang Zhier.

When did Kang Zhier discover this?

It was the day after his fifth birthday.

He accidentally found a workbook in the desk drawer where Elvis was doing his homework.On the first page it opened, it read:

I hate birthdays;

i hate singing

I hate laughter;

I hate noise;

I hate shaking hands;

I hate taking pictures;

……

Kang Zhier knew Elvis' handwriting.On this piece of paper, with an angry pointed pencil, he wrote a whole page of what bothered him.

In the last line, he wrote: I hate Kang Zhier the most.

To this day, Kang Zhier still has a deep memory.At that time, he was sitting behind a high desk, pointing at the word "hate" repeatedly with his fingers, hoping that they would become meanings he didn't know, or that there would be an extra word "no" in front of them.

Later, Kang Zhier put the book back in the drawer, and walked out of Elvis' bedroom with the biscuits in his pocket.

Before that, what did he want to do.

Oh, and he wanted to surprise Elvis by hiding the cookies in the drawer.

Kang Zhier did not tell this secret to others, including Elvis.

He was afraid that Elvis would grow to hate him even more if he knew he was secretly looking at his exercise book.

Kang Zhier sometimes felt tired, he was only five years old, such a small body, but already contained such a big secret.

He still likes to play with Elvis as before, sharing a lot of interesting things with him every day, and giving him fun gifts, hoping that Elvis can become happier.

Elvis treated him no differently than before.It's just that maybe he has become smarter, or he has learned to observe.

He found it quite obvious that Elvis hated his performance.For example, when Kang Zhier shared biscuits and chocolates with him, his first reaction was to frown.

Frowning expresses resistance and dislike.

Or Kang Zhier went with him to watch the sunset on the grassy slope, and he always walked ahead by himself, ignoring Kang Zhier behind him.Also, when Kang Zhier held his hand, he would frown.

And sometimes when he was unhappy during the day, Kang Zhier would come to his bedroom with the doll at night, he would lock the door, and then Kang Zhier would knock on the door for a long time outside.

Soon it was his birthday again, Kang Zhier's favorite day of the year.

If it was normal, Kang Chi Er would be immersed in the birthday song and the house full of balloons, happily watching everyone come to wish him a happy birthday.

This is what he saw when he was five years old.But at the age of six, he learned to see more.

He saw everyone come over and say "Happy Birthday" to him, put down their birthday presents, and then turned and walked over to Elvis.

They did not turn to look at him behind them.

Only then did he realize that those people were not here for him.He's just a foil to Elvis.

On the night when the birthday party ended, he lay on the bed, his self-awareness suddenly awakened.

Originally, the Kang family's arrangement was to let Kang Zhier return to middle school after the summer vacation, because they knew that Kang Zhier liked to play with Elvis, so they wanted him to stay here for a while longer.

However, to everyone's surprise, on the second day of his birthday, Kang Zhier proposed to return to Central China with them.

During that summer vacation, Kang Zhier stayed at home and suddenly felt unprecedented love and care.His older sister watches anime with him and reads to him every day.They responded to everything he said.

And his friends in the middle of the country often come to him to play Lego, play badminton, and bring many different flavors of biscuits to his home.They often lamented that they couldn't find Kang Zhier when they came to their door in the past.

In this way, a year passed, and soon it was the first ten days of July of the second year.

Kang Zhier's parents asked him for his opinion, asking him if he went to Lake Garden for his birthday as in previous years.

This time, Kang Zhier refused.Every year after that, his birthday was spent at home in the central part.

Afterwards, Kang Zhier began to tidy up the table and put those gifts back into the box one by one.

Halfway through, he picked up a hand-assembled globe.It was his birthday present to Elvis when he was six years old.Kang Zhier remembered that he enthusiastically gave him not only a gift, but also other things: building block car models, his favorite set of museum coins, and his——

Kang Zhier's hand froze in mid-air.

In the next second, he began to reach out and take out the gifts that had been put in, repeatedly checking, and finally touched and looked at the big empty gift box several times, almost feeling bald, and didn't realize that he wanted to looking for something.

"Hahahahaha..."

Erin laughed for 3 minutes on the phone.

Kang Zhier lay motionless on the couch in the bedroom, his soul had already left home with memories.

"I'm talking about Xiaozhi," Irene said with a smile, "What do you think? You actually put a photo of yourself in the gift, or an inch photo taken when you were one year old! Do you want Elvis to take it with you every day?" Is your jade photo near you?"

"Don't talk about it." Kang Zhier felt uncomfortable and couldn't bear to look back on the past.

He is regretful now, and deeply ashamed at the same time.If there is a time shuttle, he must go back and burn the one-inch photo inside the gift to ashes.

Irene couldn't hold back after speaking, and laughed again on the other end of the phone.Hearing her laughter, Kang Zhier wanted someone to bring her an oxygen bottle.

After she calmed down her smile, her voice finally sounded a little more normal. .

"Why are all the presents there, but the photo is missing?" She asked Kang Zhier puzzled.

"Perhaps Elvis thought it was an eyesore, so he threw away the inch photo." This was the only reasonable answer he could think of so far.

Well," Irene thought for a moment, then analyzed with him, "It's also possible that Elvis didn't see this photo at all.Think about it, didn't you say that you gave him a bunch of presents?The photo is small in size and light, and it might fall into a corner when it is blown by the wind. "

"It's possible," Kang Zhier replied wearily, "it's not impossible."

As soon as the voice fell, as if possessed by an evil spirit, he heard the sound of bubbles on the other end of the phone, similar to when the tab of a soda can was opened.

"puff……"

Kang Zhier hung up the phone before Irene laughed again, and then closed his eyes in peace.

At dinner time, Elvis sat directly opposite Kang Zhier.

Kang Zhier kept staring at him, the chopsticks in his hand were stuck in the rice grains, and he hardly moved.

He thought to himself that he also grew up eating whole grains, how could there be such a big difference between people.

Although Elvis has a bad personality and is not gregarious, he has ideas since he was a child, and his behavior is decent and dignified, so that people can't catch the pain. He can even eat a meal with personal dignity.

And he——Kang Zhier, actually gave his first-year-old photo as a birthday present to others.

This is really a heavy stroke in the history of black material.

On the opposite side, Elvis noticed his gaze, raised his eyes, looked at him and asked, "Kang Zhier, what are you doing looking at me?"

Kang Zhier ignored him, lowered his head, and began to pick up the rice in his own bowl.

Seeing that he was silent, Elvis couldn't find a reason to get angry, so he had to give up and continue eating his meal.

As soon as he started to eat, Kang Zhier quickly reverted to his old ways, raised his face, and silently looked at Elvis's face—the expressionless face.

A few minutes later, perhaps because he did it undisguisedly, the meaning was too obvious, Elvis finally couldn't bear it anymore, put down the bowls and chopsticks, leaned back on the back of the chair, and stared at him with a bit of arrogance.

"What, do you have something to tell me?" He asked Kang Zhier.

Kang Zhier withdrew his gaze, picked up a mouthful of rice with chopsticks, put it in his mouth, and chewed it silently.

That's right, he thought to himself, it's not missing, Elvis must have pulled out his photo and thrown it away.