Section 22 I spend my birthday
That night, I fell asleep on Lu Xu's broad shoulders and had a series of dreams like a TV drama. I probably cried loudly in my dream, wiping my nose and tears all over Lu Xu's several thousand yuan Armani suit. Because in my dream, I remembered Gu Xiao Bei again, and how he also carried me up the mountain when we went to Mount Emei in Sichuan together before. That time, I was particularly arrogant, insisting on not taking the cable car and wanting to climb up myself like a fool, but ended up being unable to make it halfway up the mountain and begging Gu Xiao Bei to carry me. At first, Gu Xiao Bei was unwilling, but later he was "violently persuaded" by me.
He panted heavily and carried me up like a train. He said that my kind of son only knows how to oppress the good people, he said that in the future when I'm old, I'll have to carry him back as repayment. I said you're stupid, when we're old, we'll sit in wheelchairs, who still uses carrying? Wherever you want to go, I'll push you and take you on a tour of Beijing. Gu Xiaobei threw out one sentence that almost choked me to death, saying "What's with the pretentiousness? If you have what it takes, push me up Emei Mountain." I threw a punch at him and said "Do you have any humanity? Asking an old lady to push you up Emei Mountain?" After we reached the Golden Summit, he lay in bed and wouldn't move, pretending to be dead, sleeping for a whole day and night, couldn't even be woken up by beating.
It was just that at first, the person who said he wanted to grow old with me, a few days ago, grabbed my hand and let his girlfriend slap me twice, how could I not cry?
That night was always a blur in my memory, with only one detail that I remembered particularly clearly: I threw up on Lu Xue's Armani, but he didn't react at all, just like I had thrown up on some cheap clothes from the street stall. He continued to carry me on his back, walking swiftly. The scent of cologne on Lu Xue smelled familiar, similar to the shampoo my sister used, so I fell into a deep sleep.
The butterfly is my family's little Pekingese dog, soft and afraid of the hard like me. When seeing a strange child, it barks wildly thinking itself as a wolf dog, but when seeing a strange tall man, it runs to the corner of the wall and can't be pulled out.
After that, I was always busy and never cried or felt sad. Occasionally, I would suddenly feel melancholic, especially when I was alone and quiet. This state continued, and Lu Xue and I still fought in the office. Sometimes we went shopping together and cooked in his kitchen because I didn't want to dirty mine.
That day I just got home and received Wenjing's call, I was quite happy because it had been a long time since we last contacted each other. I fell onto the bed and settled into the most comfortable position to prepare for our phone marathon. As a result, Wenjing stammered on the phone for half a day without being able to say one clear sentence, I was certain that she had done something wrong to me and was feeling guilty. So I said magnanimously, whatever it is just say it, I absolutely won't blame you, who are we to each other anyway?
Wen Jing still dragged on for half a day before stuttering out the words clearly, actually just one sentence: Gu Xiao Bei's birthday, he wants me to go.
I was taken aback when I picked up the phone, it had been a long time since I last thought of Gu Xiao Bei, and I almost forgot his birthday. I held the phone for half a day without saying a word.
I asked Wen Jing, was it Gu Xiao Bei who called you to be a traitor? Why didn't he come find me himself?
Wen Jing smiled mischievously on the other side, but didn't say anything.
I said that inviting someone in person is what matters, having others pass on the message is insincere. After saying that, I hung up the phone.
I put down the phone and sat on the couch, feeling a little sad. In the past, it was still a month before his birthday that I would think about what to give him, racking my brains to make him happy. But now, even birthdays need to be reminded by Wenjing.
I was immersed in painful memories of the past when the phone rang. I picked it up and heard Gu Xiaobei's voice, saying, "Lin Lan, it's my birthday, you must come, you must come."
