On the way to the hotel, I went to Keshamier Cake Shop to get the customized cake for Xueqi and ordered eighteen candles. Although the little boy Frescher seemed to understand what we said, he was very interested in the cake and looked like a greedy little greedy person. So I bought a small cake for the foreign boy alone, and at his request, I bought him a few candles. Seeing the boy's happy look with a mouth full of cream, I couldn't help but feel happy.

Yuezi was busy carrying cakes for Xueqi, while Xueqi ordered dishes in the hotel. To be honest, since childhood, Xueqi rarely met with outsiders, and she had very few times to eat in such a big hotel, so she was quite excited, but when she got the recipe, she was very worried because she had never tasted the dishes several times, she didn't know what to order. Finally, Xu Bin, Yuhui and Xueqi ordered a few dishes together. Xu Bin ordered a bowl of enoki mushrooms and mapo tofu. Yuhui ate it much more casually than I thought. She actually ordered a bowl of tripe blood, which was mixed in various places, including eel, beef tripe, bean sprouts, chicken blood

, tribute balls and vegetables, all of them are available. I really don’t know what she usually eats at home. Xueqi ordered her favorite shrimp, boiled hairy crab, mandarin fish and hand-teared cabbage, while Zhang Muyi said that she could eat anything. She only had a small plate of chicken. The little boy Frexiu seemed to have no appetite and ordered nothing. However, the james were more procrastinated than I thought. After choosing for a long time, she couldn’t decide what to eat. Finally, she couldn’t wait to go to the toilet and didn’t think about making up her mind. Finally, she frowned and said that it was enough to just bean milk and fried noodles. Perhaps the taste of foreigners is different from that of Chinese people.

The supper started soon. The eight of us gathered in the box, turned off the lights, and then brought the cake I customized for Xueqi, and put eighteen candles into the cake.

"Qiqi, light the candle quickly." I took out the ignition device and urged Xueqi.

"Yeah, OK."

Xueqi carefully took my igniter and then ignited the birthday candle one by one. The round little highlights gradually illuminated the dark box. In the box, I saw Yuhui's expressionless face, James' smiling face, and Frexiu's face sitting next to James, shaking his calves, holding his chin with his hands and opening his mouth wide, as well as Xu Bin's face who was a little embarrassed and Zhang Muyi's face who was smiling and not smiling.

This is probably the happiest birthday Xueqi has ever had in the past 18 years. In the spacious private room, unfamiliar people and familiar people gathered around Xueqi to lit birthday candles on the cake, and Yuezi and I took the lead in singing Happy Birthday with Xueqi.

"Qiqi, make a wish quickly, otherwise the candle will be extinguished, haha." After singing the birthday song, the confinement school sitting on my left urged Xueqi, whose little face was red by the flames. Xueqi's eyes reflected a bright candlelight. She looked so excited. She also clasped her hands and clasped her fists to pray. Learning from the scenes in the TV series, Xueqi really closed her eyes and muttered words.

At that time, everyone in the private room was quiet. I listened with my ears and wanted to be clear about what Xueqi was praying for.

Do you hope that your academic performance will improve and the college entrance examination will go smoothly, or do you hope that I will be healthy, or do you hope that... find a boy you like?

Thinking of the last possibility, I suddenly felt uncomfortable in my heart. I subconsciously looked at Xu Bin sitting next to Zhang Muyi, but saw Xu Bin also looking at me, and then subconsciously retracted his gaze.

After almost ten seconds, Xueqi opened her eyes. I took a breath slowly and asked with a smile:

"Qiqi, what wish did you make? Tell me it for everyone?"

Xueqi looked at me and opened her mouth slightly, but she looked a little hesitant. This expression was seen by Yuezi, and Yuezi immediately smiled:

"Brother, I can't tell you this. This is a girl's secret. You big man, don't ask about it. Moreover, if you say your birthday wish, it won't be accurate." Yuezi patted my shoulder and said.

"What is there a secret? Anyway, I don't want to become beautiful, and learning progress is to find the boy you like. Girls are always thinking about it." Zhang Muyi squinted his eyes and smiled. Zhang Muyi's words made Xue Qi blush, "Are I talking about it?" Xue Qi looked at Zhang Muyi, but did not answer. She just pursed her lips and hesitated for a while, and finally shook her head.

Since Xueqi refused to say what she wanted, it was hard for us to ask about it, so the next time was our dinner time. However, with Xueqi here, some serious things were definitely not suitable for this occasion. As a result, after a while, the story between Xueqi and me was asked about it from the beginning of the confinement period.

"Boss Yang, why don't you tell us about your daughter? We all are a little surprised. How can you, a man who is so young and has not even gotten married? " Zhang Muyi said from the side.

This topic is a bit sensitive. In fact, the story I least want others to mention is this story because I am afraid that others will know the secrets deep in my heart, and I am afraid that the secrets I have hidden for eighteen years will be known.

I don't want anyone to know that Xueqi was picked up by me and then secretly adopted her.

Moreover, the purpose of my initial adoption of Xueqi was just to satisfy my inner evil thoughts when I was a student.

That is the perverted idea of ​​raising Xueqi and making her a maid.

Loli cultivation, this is my original plan.

Seeing me silent, Zhang Muyi coughed twice, and Yuezi seemed to see a little bit of my reluctance. At this moment, Frexiu suddenly screamed, and the soy milk on the table fell to the ground and fell into pieces, which scared everyone present.

Because Fresh was sitting in the second position on my right, I hurriedly looked over worriedly, but saw that the bottom of Fresh's seat was covered with soy milk, and even Fresh's feet were wet with soy milk.

"Is it okay? Have you been burned? Now, the towel is here, wipe it..." I hurriedly grabbed the wet towel at my hand and walked up to rub the soy sauce on Fresh's pants, but for a moment when my eyes fell on the ground under Fresh's seat, I was stunned.

Is it my illusion, but this is a bit...a bit coincidental?

I saw that the irregular soy milk that Freshe overturned to the ground actually formed a familiar face that was clearly black and white.

The moment I saw this face, I suspected that my own eyes were blurred.

That was actually the face of Jesus.

And below Jesus' face, the winding bean milk flowing miraculously and slanted into a line of alphabetic text:

iseeyou

Looking at the face and handwriting of Jesus on the ground, I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but the soy milk flowed very quickly, and Fresh stepped on it again, and I blinked and the pattern quickly blurred.

I came to my senses and hurriedly helped Fresh remove the traces of soy milk on the back of her pants and hands. Fresh looked at me a little apologetically, and said honestly with his big innocent blue eyes:

“t’msorry,mryang.”

"It's okay, it's okay." I smiled, "bemorecarful." Wipe Fresh's soy milk, I touched the head of the cute little boy and sat back on the seat, but the picture of Jesus that flashed and disappeared on the ground just now could not be removed in my mind.

Is it just a coincidence?

Probably, I thought about it and still breathed a sigh of relief.

Because I had to wash my hands and change towels, Freseau accompanied the next issue to the bathroom at James. The little boy was quite clean. But I sat back and told everyone the story about the relationship between Xueqi and I. Of course, this story cannot be a real version, but I made it myself.

Zhang Muyi toasted me with a glass of wine, and I poured him a glass, and then I began to tell the story of my childhood.

"Actually, you are right. Qiqi, it turns out that it is not my daughter. After all, I am not married yet. You guys say yes. Qiqi, she was adopted by my father. The family that gave birth to Qiqi is not in good condition, and both of them have leukemia. Later, my father adopted Qiqi. Later, when I was in high school, my father was hit by a car and I dropped out of school. I brought Qiqi up alone. At that time, Qiqi was still young, and I only had my relatives at home, so I called me dad. Later, I used to calling it that way. I am really her dad now."

When I finished speaking, I paid special attention to Xueqi's expression. Actually, I really don't want to mention Xueqi's birth. I am afraid of hurting Xueqi's heart, especially I am afraid that she would pick her up after she knew she was abandoned by someone else. I really don't know what she would think.

I looked sideways and saw Xueqi pursing her lips and listening to my story seriously. Her faint eyebrows were pulled into a horoscope, and her gloomy little face looked sad. It seemed that Xueqi was really interested in her birth, and it seemed that my story really made her a little sad, so I decided not to say it, but smiled, patted Xueqi's head, and said:

"Okay, it's almost twenty years gone by anyway. Anyway, we are all a family now, and our lives are stable. Don't think about that kind of thing anymore. No matter what, Qiqi is my daughter, and I am Qiqi's father, do you think so?"

"Yes, what Boss Yang said makes sense. It's been so many years since he said it, and it's boring to mention it. What's the difference between raising a daughter? My uncle, who runs a restaurant in a vegetable market, has also been admitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to work. He sends five or six thousand pocket money to his parents every month, which is closer than his own son. It's a feudal superstition, so you don't have to listen to it." Zhang Muyi said in a real way. This is a sentence that makes me feel more comfortable and genuine.

But Xueqi's reaction made me a little concerned. After hearing my story, Qiqi frowned with some concern, her eyes became complicated and confusing. I saw her holding the wet wipes, looking like she was trying to speak but stopped.

"Qiqi, what's wrong?"

"Dad..." Xueqi grabbed the wet towel, hesitated for a while, and asked me, "You said my parents had leukemia, so how did they... go on? Do you know where they are from?"

I was stunned for a moment, but unexpectedly, my random words aroused Xueqi's thoughts about her biological parents. If I continue to say this, I may be exposed.

I hurriedly said:

"I've been doing this for so many years, and I can't tell you very clearly. When I finally found out about their whereabouts, I had just graduated from high school. I only knew that they were from other places, and later I didn't know how they were now."

"Is there any...phone number or something..." Xue Qi asked reluctantly.

"No, I was still using my big brother's BP machine in that era. I have been there for so many years. Even if they are still there, they may have changed their numbers." I said.

"Oh..." Xueqi stopped asking, but looking at her expression, I knew Xueqi must be thinking a little about her original parents. Since childhood, Xueqi has been a girl who doesn't hide her thoughts in her heart, but shows them all on her face. This is also because she has been locked up at home by me since she was a child and has been exposed to too little worldly.

The atmosphere of the birthday party afterwards was quite good. Confinement took the initiative to toast me two glasses of wine. James, a police detective who claimed to never drink, also made an exception to drink. As for Yuhui, although she looked quiet and didn't say a word, her alcohol tolerance was much better than I thought. She drank a bottle of Kuaiji Mountain and turned slightly blushed. Xueqi took the initiative to cut the cake and distributed it to everyone. Finally, at 7:30, dinner was over, and we all left the hotel one after another. When we left the hotel, it started to rain moderately. I felt that the sky was gloomy and was about to rain. Now it seemed that I felt right.

I drove everyone home again. On the way, I passed Xu Bin's house and I put Xu Bin at his door. Xue Qi took the initiative to wave to Xu Bin to say goodbye. Before the car started, I saw Xu Bin standing at the door of the house, waving at Xue Qi shyly, looking like she wanted to speak but couldn't speak.

After my inquiry, I learned that Zhang Muyi was originally from Beijing, and now it is not easy to go back to Beijing all the time. He can't buy a train ticket or a plane ticket, so I asked him to stay at my house first. As for the two foreigners Fresey and James, they don't have a passport and don't bring money, so of course they have no place to go. Before sending their passports to handle the procedures for going abroad, they can only temporarily stay at my house.

It doesn’t matter if she is confinement. She is just my sister who lives at my house. She just needs to find a way to ask her friends from abroad to send her passport. If she doesn’t help, she can go and get a new passport.

As for Yuhui, her house is not close to my house or far away. However, it was a good way when I went back, so I took Yuhui home first. When I arrived at the door of the apartment where Yuhui lived, the rain was even heavier. Yuhui walked out of the car door, and her short hair was quickly wet by the rain. I saw drops of rain dripping down her bangs, and then flowed down her face and gathered on her chin.

Yuhui is still expressionless and looks extremely quiet, just like when I first met her.

"Yuhui, then let's leave first. You go home and have a good rest. If there is any situation or something else, just call me." I said to Yuhui, who was standing in the rain in a long gown.

"Be careful..." Standing in the rain, Yuhui suddenly said these two words.

"Ah? Yuhui, what did you say?" Because the rain was too heavy, I didn't hear Yuhui's words clearly for a while.

Who knew that when I asked, Yuhui suddenly put her face in front of the driver's window, and then her mouth suddenly fell to my ears. Such a sudden action really scared me.

"Be careful of Zhang Muyi." Yuhui said in a tone as light as the wind in my ear.

I frowned and asked softly when Yuhui retracted her head:

"What's wrong with him?"

"Social news, it's evening." Yuhui glanced at Zhang Muyi who was drunk in the back seat, and then gently reminded me.

“What news?”

"Look at it for yourself."

Before I could understand Yuhui's meaning, Yuhui had already retreated to the rain. Her deep and empty eyes were still looking at me without blinking. She waved her hand at me and finally disappeared into the rain curtain.

In the end, I didn't understand Yuhui's meaning, but I still trust Yuhui quite a lot. She is a girl who will never lie and deceive people. She asked me to pay attention to Zhang Muyi. There must be a reason, so I kept my mind. I secretly looked at Zhang Muyi in the back seat, and he was also looking at me. When he met my gaze, he just grinned and said nothing, and I forced a smile back.

At this time, the rain was getting heavier and heavier. Many raindrops came in from outside the car window, so I had to close the window and start the car and leave.

But just as the driver's seat window slowly rose, I was stunned again.

Because on the car window, the winding rainwater flowing down again coincidentally turned into two vague, twisted but clearly distinguishable Chinese characters:

"Hello"

As the car drove into a darker road, the handwriting on the car window was hard to see clearly. When I got home, the handwriting on the car window had disappeared, and there were rain marks on the window, which was no different from when it rained normally.

When I got home, I arranged a place for everyone to live. My villa has four floors. The first floor is the hall, the second and third floors have bedrooms, and the fourth floor is the activity room. The second and third floors have two rooms and a storage room. Usually I sleep in Room 1 on the third floor. Because my family suddenly had confinement, James, Zhang Muyi and the little boy Frexiu, and the room was redistributed. I slept in Room 1 on the second floor. James and Frexiu slept in Room 2 on the second floor, so I took care of each other. Xueqi slept in Room 2 on the third floor. Now Zhang Muyi has no place to sleep. It is always a bit unreasonable to let him sleep in the hall. He didn't have an ID card when he went to the hotel, so I cleaned the storage room on the third floor overnight and moved a single bed in my room into the storage room. The single bed was slept with me when Xueqi was a child.

When Xueqi was in elementary school, she slept with me in the same bed. When she arrived in junior high school, she had two beds in one room. After high school, Xueqi fell asleep in her room. After all, she was a girl, so there were always some secrets that I didn’t want me to know.

"Qiqi, help me move the chairs and cartons, and put them in the activity room first." In the evening, Xueqi and I cleaned the storage room together. I took the broom as the main force, and Xueqi followed me to help me carry the miscellaneous items.

"Oh, OK, dad." Xueqi was sweating on her forehead. She watched her help me carry it in a hurry. Sometimes when the transparent gel or old disc on the box fell off, she would show a panic expression. Her cute appearance really made me, a dad, feel a little pity.

Looking at the background of Xueqi walking clumsyly holding a big box, I couldn't help laughing because I couldn't help but think of the scene when Xueqi learned to walk when she was over one year old. At that time, Xueqi walked like this, and it was very funny.

Unexpectedly, as time goes by, seventeen years have passed, and Xueqi has gone from a small girl to a graceful and graceful girl.

What did I gain and what did I lose in the rapid disappearing time?

While sorting out the cabinets, I accidentally discovered the records of children's dance songs I bought for Xueqi when I was a child. Each record evokes my memories, including "Mr. Elephant", "Popular Tree", "Teacher, Thank you", Lion King's "Do you feel my love tonight", "Spring is Coming", "Thank God" and other records. These records record Xueqi's growth trajectory from a baby to elementary school, and are one of the most precious memories between me and Xueqi.

Looking at these records, I couldn't help laughing. I moved the old electric fan at the top of the wardrobe and covered these records with a box of colored glass beads that Xueqi played when she was a child with fabric. These are the life testimony of Xueqi and me. No matter how many years have passed, no matter whether Xueqi and I are still in this world, they will witness that we have lived, walked, been happy, moved, and sincerely paid.

"Boss Yang, you don't have to clean up the rest. I am a very casual person. Just sleep for a night." When I finished sorting out the marbles and planning to organize Xueqi's childhood clothes in the closet, Zhang Muyi, who came back from the bathroom, said behind me.
To be continued...