After eating the ice cream, Xiao Ningchan went into the kitchen to help peel garlic and pick beans. After finishing, the two brothers and sisters went out. Before they could think of what to do, they heard the sound of cars coming from the yard.

"Dad is back." Xiao Ningchan turned to look at the door.

Xiao Anting was a little puzzled and said: "Why is it so late? Didn't we say that he was coming back when we called him? It's already half past six."

Xiao Ningchan guessed: "Maybe I can help my mother get the express delivery."

Xiao Anting nodded seriously. This was very possible. After all, he had a mother who was a shopping addict.

After a while, Xiao Junhui came in with three boxes. Xiao Anting and Xiao Ningchan looked at him with serious expressions and asked casually: "Dad, what did mom buy?"

Xiao Junhui put the box on the coffee table, said he didn't know, and then called his daughter excitedly: "Sister, sister, come here quickly."

"What's wrong, Dad?" Xiao Ningchan leaned over in confusion.

Xiao Junhui opened the top box, and a snow-white and fluffy little puppy was revealed. The little black bean eyes looked at the person who suddenly appeared in front of him with bright and fearful eyes.

When Xiao Ningchan saw the little puppy inside, her eyes lit up for a moment, and she shouted excitedly: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, daddy! Dad! Is this what you bought? It's super cute!"

Seeing how excited his sister was, Xiao Anting came over curiously. When he saw the little puppy with a bigger hand, he also liked it very much and praised: "It's very cute!"

Xiao Ningchan carefully took out the puppy, petted it and asked, "Dad, why do you suddenly want to buy a dog? You never bought one when I asked you to do so."

"Weren't you a senior in high school earlier? We didn't have time, and your mother and I didn't have time. Now that you're in college, you can buy one when you have time. Do you like it as your birthday gift? "

Xiao Ningchan nodded wildly: "I like it very much, thank you dad!"

Seeing his daughter happy, Xiao Junhui was also happy and said that it was fine if he liked it. He picked up the instructions and precautions in the box and told them how to raise a dog.

Bai Jingshu heard their chirping and slightly excited voices in the kitchen, and curiously asked them what happened.

Xiao Ningchan carried the little puppy into the kitchen, "Mom, Mom, my dad bought it for me. It's so cute. Look at it. It's so cute. It's so small."

Bai Jingshu turned around in her busy schedule and saw the fluffy little puppy in her daughter's arms. She was amused and helpless and said, "Why do you suddenly want to buy this?"

"My birthday gift." Xiao Ningchan responded proudly.

Bai Jingshu smiled and said, "I thought he had prepared some big gift, but as long as you like it, okay, take it out and pet it until the fur comes to the dish."

Xiao Ningchan heard this and hurriedly went out with the puppy in her arms, "Brother, dad gave me a gift, what about yours? Where is your gift for your dear sister's eighteenth birthday?"

Xiao Anting shook his head with a shameless expression: "Tsk, tsk, I've never seen such a shameless person. He actually asked for gifts."

Xiao Ningchan raised her foot and kicked me over, and said angrily: "I have the nerve to say that you don't chase me for gifts every birthday. You are three years older than me, and you are even more shameless."

"You have no shame!"

"You don't."

The two siblings started arguing childishly again, and finally Xiao Anting took out the gift and ended the kindergarten-style quarrel.

Xiao Ningchan held the box and wondered for a moment, then realized that it was the latest model of a mobile phone made in China. She looked at her brother in surprise, "Is it for me?"

Xiao Anting nodded with a calm expression, "You haven't had your cell phone since junior high. If I didn't think you shouldn't use it too much in high school, you should have eliminated it long ago."

Xiao Ningchan looked excited: "Thank you, brother!"

Xiao Anting said with a bit of showoff and credit-seeking tone: "My scholarship has almost been used up."

Xiao Ningchan looked at him with emotion, "I know I'm the best, I'll give you the biggest hairy crab later." After saying that, she couldn't wait to open the box and look at her new mobile phone.

Xiao Anting shook his head amusedly and helplessly, sitting aside and playing with the furry little puppy.

In the suburbs, the setting sun gilded the large manor surrounded by trees and green grass. Two tall boys were playing ball on a small sports field.

The thin and fair boy put the ball into the frame and asked breathlessly: "I heard they said you left before you even finished your meal. Where did you go after that?"

The boy who seemed to have a more perfect figure said solemnly: "Who told you that?"

Ren Zhuangbin smiled with a small tiger tooth and said proudly: "Old Zhou and the others, isn't that Chu Xinyue very good? Why don't you like her?"

Ye Yanxia glanced at him and said, "Then why don't you like it?"

Ren Zhuangbin said seriously: "She doesn't like me."

Ye Yanxia said calmly: "I don't like her either."

Ren Zhuangbin: "..." Suddenly he didn't know what to say.

Ye Yanxia jumped up and the ball hit the frame. The afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the person in a layer of light gold, making the whole person look warm and distant.

Ren Zhuangbin thought to himself: What kind of person could accept this monster?

Time flew by, and as it approached eight o'clock in the evening, Bai Jingshu shouted in the kitchen: "Brother and sister have eaten, come and wash your hands."

Xiao Ningchan quickly put down her phone and muttered in a low voice: "I was salivating when I smelled it just now. This pork rib has been stimulating my taste buds."

Xiao Anting looked at her funny and disgusted, and complained: "Foodie."

Xiao Ningchan clenched her fists and glared at her brother fiercely.

A few days ago, Xiao Junhui and Bai Jingshu asked her daughter if she wanted to invite her classmates to a dinner party for her eighteenth birthday. Xiao Ningchan refused without hesitation: "No, it's just a birthday. It's nothing. Don't make it so big." This is not in line with her usual behavior.

I'm a low-key person.

A family of four sat together around the dining table. Xiao Junhui, Bai Jingshu, and Xiao Anting all raised their glasses to Xiao Ningchan and wished her a happy birthday.

Xiao Ningchan was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you are happy too, brother, it's yours." Then she gave him the biggest hairy crab in the middle of the plate.

Xiao Junhui and Bai Jingshu looked at her with sour eyes, oh, so I am not your favorite person, sad.

Seeing this, Xiao Ningchan felt very tired as she hurriedly picked up one for each of them.

The four of us ate the meal with gusto and contentment. After finishing the meal, we sat at the dining table for about ten minutes before clearing the table. Then the family sat on the sofa, chatting and watching TV.

Bai Jingshu hugged the newly bought puppy, rubbed the puppy's head, and suggested: "Give it a name. What is it called?"

"Prosperous wealth!"

The father, mother, and brother all turned to look at the excited person, their eyes full of disgust. Fortunately, you are still a liberal arts student who just finished the college entrance examination. This name is too boring to complain about.

Xiao Ningchan blinked innocently and said innocently: "Aren't all dogs' names like this? Wealthy Goudan Gouzi, which one do you like?"

Bai Jingshu hugged the little puppy and stayed away from the expectant person, "I don't dare to take it out with such a vulgar name."

"Wherever you are, you will be rich and have a lot of feelings."

Bai Jingshu looked at her sideways, "The green flowers and spring flowers are also very beautiful. Do you want to change it?"

Xiao Ningchan thought about it, Xiao Cuihua, Xiao Chunhua... and then she made herself laugh.

When Xiao Junhui and Xiao Anting heard Bai Jingshu's words and thought about the names, they couldn't help laughing, and they instigated someone to change their names as if they were watching the fun and not taking it too seriously.

Xiao Ningchan sat upright and said calmly: "If you want me to change it, you can change it, you guys have changed it too, Erzhu, Tiedan."

"Pfft~"

The family burst into laughter.

After chatting for a while, Bai Jingshu took out the cake, and several people gathered around the coffee table to tinker with it, quickly creating a birthday atmosphere. Bai Jingshu, Xiao Anting all encouraged Xiao Ningchan to make a wish.

Xiao Ningchan smiled, put her hands together and closed her eyes to make a wish. Xiao Junhui and the others sang happy birthday to her. The scene was warm and beautiful.

Not long after the meal, everyone was not hungry, so they ate some symbolic cakes, and then took out their mobile phones to post on Weibo in the WeChat Moments space. After a while, the protagonist Xiao Ningchan received a lot of blessings and red envelopes.

Xiao Ningchan held her cell phone and sighed: "I just want to celebrate my birthday, do you want to be so exaggerated?"

Bai Jingshu smiled and touched her head, and said softly: "It means they like you and are thinking of you."

Xiao Ningchan thought about it and laughed. This is good.

The family chatted and laughed until about ten o'clock (22:00), and then they washed up and went back to the room one after another. It was already after eleven o'clock when Xiao Ningchan finished washing and went back to the room.

She usually goes to bed after midnight when she studies in high school, and it’s around this time after vacation, so Xiao Ningchan is in good spirits. Thinking of her eighteenth birthday today, she should cherish this time, so she takes out her new phone to check the messages.

As a good student, Xiao Ningchan has no hobbies except reading. She occasionally plays games with Xiao Anting. She has a heavy workload in high school and reads online novels during the holidays. But after the college entrance examination, she read them all in one go. She read them for more than a month.

, it feels like there is nothing left to see.

The messages in the work group on her mobile phone kept flashing. They were all chatting about the unknown university and where they went on their graduation trip. During the three years of high school, Xiao Ningchan got along well with her classmates, but she didn’t like to show her dissatisfaction in the class group.

It's the same, so I look at other people's messages to save face, but I don't say a word.

"Dong dong dong~"

There were three knocks on the door, followed by Xiao Anting's voice, "Sister, have you slept? Second sister said no one answered your call."

Xiao Ningchan stood up in confusion: "No one called me."

Xiao Anting showed her the page on his mobile phone. Xiao Ningchan remembered that she had closed WeChat and hurriedly opened it, "Oh, I closed WeChat. What's wrong with my second sister?"

Xiao Anting said nonchalantly: "How do I know? Just see for yourself."

Xiao Ningchan nodded and followed him to the living room on the second floor. Then she sent a voice call to her second cousin, but she quickly hung up and then sent her a video call.

Xiao Ningchan picked up the phone with a blank look on her face, and soon saw Xiao Xinyu with a smile on her face.

"Happy birthday, little sister. You are eighteen years old and can fall in love."

Before Xiao Ningchan had time to talk to Xiao Anting next to her, she said sullenly: "If you fall in love at the age of eighteen, I'll break your legs."

Xiao Xinyu burst out laughing, "Don't be so serious, have a vigorous love affair while you are young, don't be like your brother, who is still single in his 20s."

"I'm only 20, okay."

Xiao Xinyu glanced at him with disgust, then smiled and said to Xiao Ningchan: "Our little girl is eighteen, just right."
Chapter completed!