civilwarnovels Chapter 422 9th Birthday (Part )
Chapter 422 9th Birthday (Part )
Chapter 422: Nineteenth Birthday (Part )
Had dinner.
The two of them worked together to clean up the restaurant and kitchen, and were about to sit on the sofa and be intimate.
Zhao Huijuan called with a video call and asked Tang Wan to go back to her room.
It’s not that Lu You couldn’t bear to hear the conversation between mother and daughter, but Tang Wan wanted a quiet environment for chatting.
Lu You walked to the balcony, leaned on the handrail and looked up at the sky.
In the clear night sky, the round moon is like a disk, and the bright light it emits creates a pure area.
Many thoughts were running through Lu You's mind.
There are memories of the past and plans for the future, and Tang Wan's figure runs through them all.
A few minutes later.
Lu You gathered his scattered thoughts, shook his head, and sighed, "Oh, I feel like I'm almost falling in love!"
Walking back to the living room, Tang Wan still didn't come out.
Thinking of the big moon he had just seen, Lu You suddenly had an idea.
First, find a mat from the guest room and spread it on the balcony. Then put a small table and put fruits, moon cakes and melon seeds on it.
A small moon-viewing party for just two people was thus completed.
But before Lu You could start to enjoy it, his cell phone rang.
As expected, the caller was Shen Yuyin, and it was also a video call.
To be honest, Lu You really didn't want to answer the call. He had an innate resistance to video calls with his parents.
It’s not that I hate my parents, I just simply don’t like video chatting with them.
But after thinking it over again and again, Lu You finally pressed the answer button.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival and a birthday. It is really unacceptable if a mother is not allowed to see her son.
The call was connected, and after a brief pause, Shen Yuyin's always young face appeared on the screen.
Lu You sat on the sofa, leaning on the tissue box and holding his phone upright.
"Hey, Mom."
[Hey, son! ]
Shen Yuyin waved towards the camera with a bright smile on her face.
【Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 】
"You too, happy Mid-Autumn Festival."
【Have you had dinner yet? 】
Lu You held his chin with one hand and said speechlessly: "I sent you the photos of the dinner, and you still asked me if I ate?"
[Is seafood stew delicious? ]
"I made it myself, it's hard to imagine it not being delicious."
【Too! 】
Shen Yuyin fiddled with her bangs.
[With your skills, you can make a flower out of even a pile of papers. ]
Lu You let out a long sigh, his forehead aching slightly, and said helplessly: "Please understand, I know cooking, not magic."
[You have been in school for almost a month. Are you used to living in the dormitory? ]
"It's okay. After all, a four-person dormitory can't be much better."
[How is your relationship with your roommate? Have you met any weird people? I saw some college students complaining online that living in the same dormitory with people who have different values basically leads to a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every seven days.]
Lu You recalled the scenes of life with Zhang Zhichuang and the others over the past few weeks.
Everyone came from different provinces, and differences in living habits were inevitable, which led to one or two minor frictions, such as Lu You and Bi Yangde's morning exercises.
Since Bi Yangde slept on the upper bunk, the noise of him climbing down from the bed would inevitably affect Gong Qing who was sleeping on the lower bunk.
Gong Qing could tolerate it once or twice, but he couldn't tolerate it after four or five times, so he brought up the matter directly in the dormitory.
After a friendly discussion among the four, the matter was successfully resolved.
Zhang Zhichuang and Gong Qing exchanged beds, the morning exercise group slept on one side and the lazy sleep group slept on the other, and everyone was happy.
"My roommates are all very nice. They don't snore, grind their teeth, smoke, rarely stay up late, are tidy, have stable emotions, and can understand what people say."
[I was worried that you would be bullied because of your sullen personality, but I feel relieved after hearing what you said.]
Lu You chuckled and asked, "Do I look like someone who won't resist?"
[Who knows? What if you are just pretending to be strong? ]
Lu You didn't want to waste words, so he replied: "Anyway, my university life is on track, every day is wonderful and fulfilling, so you don't have to worry."
[Hey, look at what you said! If you weren't my son, I wouldn't bother worrying about you! ]
"Is there anything else you want? If nothing happens, I'll hang up."
As he spoke, Lu You stretched out his right hand and pretended to hang up the call.
[Why are you in such a hurry? Don’t you want your birthday present? ]
Lu You took his hand back and asked, "What gift?"
Shen Yuyin changed her sitting position, and her expression seemed a little embarrassed.
【Is there anything you want in particular? 】
Upon hearing this, Lu You immediately understood.
She wasn't prepared at all.
"No, I have never had much need for material things."
In other words, the Lu family's favorable material conditions have already met most of Lu You's needs.
【Are you short of money? 】
"Are you questioning your husband's ability to make money?"
Shen Yuyin's face darkened and his voice became a little colder.
[You'd better give your mother a way out, otherwise you'll be in trouble.]
Lu You:......
There's really nothing we can do about the threat from our mother.
"Then just give me a red envelope as a token of my appreciation."
How much do you want?
"It doesn't matter, I don't care."
[You said this, don't accuse me of being perfunctory.]
"Isn't this considered perfunctory?"
【If I say it doesn’t count, then it doesn’t count. 】
Lu You remained silent.
Since others were blatantly being willful, he had no choice but to obey.
Going against a woman who has the power to control the family's finances will result in complete defeat.
[By the way, is my daughter-in-law here? Let her appear in the scene too! ]
Lu You glanced at the dark corridor and said, "She's not here. She went back to her room and called Aunt Zhao."
[What a pity. I haven't seen her for a few weeks. I miss her so much.]
"Hang up, remember to send the red envelope."
[Take good care of my daughter-in-law. If you lose her, I will cure you! ]
"In your words?"
[What's your attitude...]
Seeing that Shen Yuyin was about to have another outburst, Lu You decisively closed the video call.
The world suddenly became quiet.
No matter how loud the flood is, if I didn’t hear it, it didn’t happen.
Lu You came to the balcony again, patted his butt and sat on the mat.
The cool autumn breeze blew past, ruffling Lu You's hair and also rustling the green plants on both sides of the balcony.
If it were in the south, at this time of day, not to mention the autumn wind, you would have to put at least two floor fans at the back and set them to the maximum wind speed to barely make it possible for people to sit still.
Lu You took a snow skin mooncake, tore open the package, and took a bite without cutting it.
The outer skin of the frozen glutinous rice is slightly hard but still soft and sticky, and the purple sweet potato filling inside is soft and smooth with moderate sweetness.
Out of a full score of ten, Lu You could give it nine points in his heart, and the one point was deducted because of frozen teeth.
"Why don't you wait for me and start eating?"
Lu You turned his head and a smile appeared on his face.
"Did you finish the phone call?"
Tang Wan threw off her slippers and stepped onto the mat. She bent down and put the two gift boxes aside and replied, "Well, we're done."
Lu You's gaze lingered on Tang Wan's fair instep for a moment, and asked, "What did you talk about with Auntie?"
"What else can we talk about? Aren't we just talking about the same few questions?"
Tang Wan sat down next to Lu You, snatched half of the snowy mooncake from his hand, and threw it into her mouth without hesitation.
"Yeah, delicious!"
"Would you like to open a white lotus paste with double yolk?"
"No rush, let's finish the birthday process first."
Tang Wan handed the smaller rectangular gift box to Lu You and said, "Here, this is my birthday gift for this year. I hope you like it."
Lu You took the gift box, and the heavy feel made him feel confused.
"That's a bit heavy handed! What's in it?"
"I won't tell you, open it and see for yourself."
“It even adds a sense of mystery!”
After tearing off the outer wrapping paper, a pure black felt storage bag with a big eye logo printed on the upper right corner of the front appeared in Lu You's hand.
Lu You raised his eyebrows. At this point, if he still couldn’t guess what the gift was, he might as well throw his brain into the cesspool.
"How did you think of giving me a keyboard?"
"There's no particular reason. The gifts I gave you in the past were all things I thought were good. This year I wanted to change direction and give you something you might be interested in."
Lu You lowered his head slightly, and his lips touched Tang Wan's forehead and then separated.
"Thank you, I like the gift very much."
"You said you liked it without even opening it?"
"I like everything you give me."
Tang Wan was very pleased to hear this, but the keyboard was not given away as a gift when purchased. A lot of thought went into its design, and Lu You was not sure what to do.
"I'm very happy that you can trust me, but I still suggest you take out your keyboard and take a look, otherwise my efforts will be in vain."
"Did you make some modifications?"
Tang Wan didn't explain, she just said, "You'll know when you open it."
Lu You didn't hesitate any longer. He opened the seal of the storage bag and took out the keyboard.
Just as Lu You guessed, the keyboard had indeed been modified.
The keycaps are not the original monotonous pure black or pure white with characters, but are transformed into a whole, forming a black and white ink painting.
The white background is used, and different shades of black cast the mountains, water and people.
A man and a woman stood on the left and right, looking at each other across the river.
From the outlines of the characters, it was not difficult for Lu You to tell that the man was himself and the woman was Tang Wan.
As for the characters that were originally supposed to appear on the front of the keycaps, they have been moved to the sides, which are commonly known as side-engraved keycaps.
Lu You stroked the keyboard gently, strong emotions rolling in his eyes.
Happiness, love, relief and so on are hard to describe.
"You had someone make the keycaps to order, right?"
"Hmm~ I specially asked someone to design it for us."
Tang Wan half-lay on Lu You's back and said, "Try pressing the space bar or the enter key twice again."
Lu You gently placed the keyboard on the table and pressed the space bar twice with his right index finger.
Click click click.
The sound is not crisp, but rather slightly dull, yet clean and neat, without any unnecessary noise.
Lu You was completely shocked and asked in disbelief: "You even changed the inside?"
"Of course!"
Tang Wan put on a smug expression and said, "I installed everything that can be installed, including the shaft, satellite shaft, shaft pad, sound-absorbing cotton, and positioning plate."
Lu You put his right hand on Tang Wan's cheek and said softly, "It took a long time, didn't it?"
Tang Wan rubbed Lu You's palm like a kitten and replied, "It will only take four or five days. Do it once every day at noon and at night. It won't take too much time."
Lu You had a lot of things in his heart, and after thinking about them again and again, he finally didn't say them out loud.
There is still a lot of time left, enough for Lu You to turn his thousands of words into practical actions and stay by Tang Wan's side.
"Thank you, the gift is very much to my liking, I will make good use of it."
"I hope you can use it to write a paper that will win the Fields Medal. That way, I can contribute to your life's ideals."
Lu You pinched Tang Wan's cheek and said with a smile: "Do you think the Fields Medal is a carrot in the vegetable market, and you can get it just by saying so? It's very difficult, isn't it!"
"How will you know if you don't try?"
Tang Wan got off Lu You and said, "No more talking, let's eat cake!"
Lu You put the keyboard back into the bag, while Tang Wan moved the cake to the table.
The cake wasn’t big, Lu You estimated it to be about two pounds, but it was not something they could finish in one go.
The outer surface of the cake is surrounded by a circle of white cream lace, and the inside is densely packed with mangoes, dragon fruits, kiwis and other fruits. You can tell at a glance that these are Tang Wan's favorite fruits.
Tang Wan took out two more number candles and stuck them in the middle of the cake, lit them with a lighter, and said with a smile, "Hubby, you can make a wish now!"
“No birthday song?”
"If you really want to listen, I can sing."
"Forget it, I won't listen."
Tang Wan's singing ability is not bad at all.
Lu You closed his eyes, counted silently in his mind for ten seconds, then opened his eyes again and blew a breath at the candle.
The weak flame flickered a few times and then went out, leaving only two thin streams of green smoke floating up.
clap clap-
Tang Wan clapped her hands vigorously and said excitedly: "Congratulations, Lu You, you have taken a solid step on the road to becoming an adult!
I wish you happiness every day in the future, a worry-free life, and everything you want. Please give your girlfriend more pocket money!"
"Hmm, I seem to hear something wrong?"
"No, you're overthinking it."
Tang Wan thrust a plastic knife into Lu You's hand without hesitation and urged, "Birthday boy, stop dawdling and cut the cake!"
The cake was divided into sixteen equal parts.
Lu You took out two of them, gave one to Tang Wan and kept one for himself.
For Tang Wan's portion, Lu You even scooped up a lot of fruit.
Tang Wan held a fork in her hand and ate the cake bite by bite, with a look of satisfaction on her face.
The right amount of sweets can always bring people a full sense of happiness.
With Tang Wan's voracious eating, a piece of cake was quickly eaten up by her.
Immediately afterwards, Tang Wan scooped up the second portion.
"By the way, husband, what wish did you make just now?"
Lu You stretched out his finger to wipe off a little cream on the tip of Tang Wan's nose and replied, "You really want to know?"
Tang Wan rolled her eyes and pretended not to care: "I don't really miss it. It's up to you whether you want to say it or not."
Lu You saw through Tang Wan's playing hard to get at a glance, and didn't bother with her. He took a bite of the cake slowly and said, "My wish is very simple, it can be summed up in four words."
"What four words?"
"The world is perfect."
Tang Wan was stunned for a moment. These four words were really beyond her expectations.
"Why did you think of making this wish?"
Lu You put down the empty paper plate and replied, "If you are rich, you should help the world; if you are poor, you should take care of yourself. My current life is already very good, so naturally I hope that other people who are still suffering can live a good life."
Tang Wan looked at Lu You quietly.
At a certain moment, the clouds dispersed, the moonlight poured down, and Lu You seemed to be covered with a layer of holy light.
After a long while, Tang Wan came back to her senses and said seriously, "Lu You, you are a good person."
"What do you mean?"
"Literally."
Lu You waved his hand and said disapprovingly: "I'm not a good person. A good person is willing to sacrifice himself for others. I'm not a bad person at best, but I'm far from being a good person."
Tang Wan raised the corner of her mouth, put some cream on her hand and smeared it on Lu You's face, saying: "I don't care, if I say you are you, then you are!"
Lu You frowned and said expressionlessly: "You know what I hate the most? When someone scratches my face."
Tang Wan put the paper plate aside, grabbed Lu You's arm and said coquettishly: "Don't be angry~"
"Why don't you help me clean it up?"
Tang Wan blinked her eyes, stood up slightly and sat in Lu You's arms, wrapped her arms around his neck, and leaned forward with her soft body.
Lu You only felt a distinct warmth and wetness on his cheeks.
It’s like when I went to a pet store a few years ago, picked up a puppy that was only two or three months old, and was licked on the face.
After a while, the warmth and moistness disappeared.
Instead, there were Tang Wan's eyes, which were sparkling and filled with affection.
"Honey, are you having a happy birthday today?"
"It's OK. This is the best birthday I can remember."
Tang Wan's eyes lit up and she said, "Can I ask for a reward?"
"Sure, what do you want?"
"I don't want to have my period for ten months."
Obviously, Lu You would not agree to such an unreasonable request.
“Can the delivery be delayed for three years?”
"Pay the deposit tonight?"
"no problem."
After they finished speaking, their lips pressed together.
In the distant sky, the bright moon pulled through the surrounding clouds and covered its blushing face.
(End of this chapter)