"You don't know?" Xu Wei looked surprised, "I think you guys were fine last time. Why didn't he come with you for his birthday?"
"Birthday?" Xia Lin opened her eyes wide in surprise, and then she understood the decorations in the box and some unknown people. It turned out that they were all here to celebrate Ling Yizhou's birthday.
And she didn't know anything.
Suddenly, she remembered that Jia Fei asked her that night how sincere she was towards Ling Yizhou.
Xia Lin lowered her head, especially when Xu Wei asked her jokingly, "Don't you even remember your birthday in another continent?"
Xia Lin didn't know if she heard it correctly, but she could hear a hint of contempt in her tone.
"I..." She didn't know what to say, because she really didn't remember, or in other words, she never asked when Ling Yizhou's birthday was.
"Xia Lin, this is your fault. When a woman gets married, she should put her husband first in everything. Grandma Ling doesn't know you are like this, right? She loves Yizhou very much."
The more Xia Lin listened, the lower her head became. She felt less and less like an "outsider" like Xu Wei.
Someone over there suddenly called Xu Wei and asked her, "Why hasn't Yizhou come yet? Xu Wei, do you know?"
Xu Wei didn't say she didn't know, but glanced at Chu Yan, who turned away and said, "What do you think I'm doing? I don't know what he's been up to lately. I conveyed this birthday party to him yesterday, and he looked like No interest."
"It's been so many years, why am I suddenly no longer interested? It would be great to have a drink together and reminisce about old times." The person over there complained.
Xia Lin suddenly felt that maybe she was their outsider. Everyone here wanted to talk harmoniously without any sense of disobedience, but she didn't even have the chance to interrupt.
After a while, Chu Yan went out to make a phone call. After the call, he pulled Xia Lin out and gave her the phone, "Tell Lao Ling you are here and tell him to come here quickly."
"Ah?" Xia Lin hesitated. She never remembered his birthday and was too embarrassed to call him over.
Chu Yan directly picked up the phone and put it on her ear, "Can you move faster? A group of people are waiting for him."
Xia Lin then said into the microphone: "Hello?"
But the sound here was too noisy, and she couldn't hear clearly whether Ling Yizhou was speaking or not, "Teacher Ling?"
Still unable to hear the sound, Xia Lin raised his head and said to Chu Yan: "Chu Yan, it's too noisy. I can't hear the sound over there clearly."
"Can't you hear?" Chu Yan pressed the phone against her ear with his left hand and covered her other ear with his right hand. "Can you hear clearly now?"
Only then did Xia Lin clearly hear what Ling Yizhou said on the other end of the phone: "The place is too messy, sit in the box and don't run around."
"Teacher Ling, happy birthday."
"Yeah." After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Chu Yan took back his hand and asked her, "How are you, are you coming?"
Xia Lin shook his head, "He didn't say anything."
Chu Yan was furious, "Then what were you talking about just now?"
Xia Lin scratched his head and felt embarrassed, "He died before I had a chance to ask him."
"Oh, we should be able to come, let's go in first." I don't know where Chu Yan got the confidence.
When he opened the door again and went in, Chu Yan briefly introduced her, "We are all friends who grew up together when we were young. You don't know the others who came back from abroad."
Xia Lin said "Oh" and just when she was about to sit back next to Xu Wei, she saw a tall man waving to her, "Sister, come here."
Xia Lin was like a new student who had just joined a group. She walked over and faced Ling Yizhou's friend, who was still a little frightened. She smiled and said, "Did you call me?"
"Yes, how long have you been dating Chu Yan?" He kept saying nothing.
Chu Yan, who was drinking beer, spat it out unambiguously, and it just hit the tall man. The man screamed, "Chu Yan, I'm going to tear your mouth apart today!"
"I'm going to tell Lao Ling that you molested his wife. Not only will he tear your mouth to pieces, but he will also pull out all your teeth. Do you believe it?"
The man was stunned for a moment, and several people around him were also stunned. They just saw that Xia Lin was brought by Chu Yan, and she went out with him once. The woman who thought she was Chu Yan didn't ask any more questions, but it turned out to be Ling Yizhou!
"Oh my god, we haven't seen each other for a year, and Ling Yizhou actually has a woman!"
"Xu Wei, why are you still sitting so calmly? Shouldn't you come up and roar twice?" Someone else teased Xu Wei.
Xu Wei replied to them with the word "go away" and nothing else.
The real embarrassment was Xia Lin. She really felt like she was being treated like a monkey. For the first time, she was looking forward to Ling Yizhou's appearance.
"Sister-in-law, sit here quickly and let's chat." A group of grown men suddenly wanted to dig up inside information while Ling Yizhou was not here.
Xia Lin had no choice but to sit down, a little cautious.
Chu Yan raised his head and smiled: "Don't worry, with Lao Ling's backing, they won't dare to do anything to you."
Xia Lin chuckled and relaxed a little.
"Sister-in-law, tell me secretly, do you need a bed in a foreign country?" They started to get along with each other from the beginning.
Xia Lin thought for a while, "It shouldn't be bad..."
"Are you sure? You were fine on your first day, too?" They began to take strong drugs, and this was basically how they played around together. Occasionally, it was normal for them to make some dirty jokes.
If Xia Lin could answer this question truthfully, they planned to ask about the place and time of the first time.
But it didn't go as they expected. Just when Xia Lin was hesitating, Ling Yizhou suddenly barged in.
After entering, he glanced around the box. After seeing Xia Lin, his eyes calmed down a lot and he walked directly in her direction.
A group of people were booing and waiting for him to come. Now when the game in question has reached a critical moment, he has appeared and interrupted it. It is really uncooperative.
Two of them came over to stop him, "Ling Yizhou, you are so disrespectful. We came back from abroad specially and you were late. Let's go outside and talk first." They wanted to trick him into continuing the game outside.
However, Ling Yizhou didn't accept this trick. He could probably guess what Xia Lin was surrounded by. Coupled with the crimson look on her face, Ling Yizhou's guess was not running away. She needed someone to help her.
"No, it's noisy outside. If you have anything to say, talk here." Ling Yizhou pulled them away.
They were really good friends. Xia Lin could tell that Ling Yizhou spoke to them completely differently from others. He was not polite, but casual.
"No." The two of them stopped Ling Yizhou from going to Xia Lin's side. "You left your wife alone among our wolves. Do you think you should be punished?"
Ling Yizhou nodded without hesitation, "Yes."
He finally sat down next to Xia Lin and knocked on the table with his wine glass, "What's the punishment?"
The past few days have been dark and busy as before, with headaches and breakdowns. However, the dark sky suddenly brightened up when I heard her "Happy Birthday".