"What nonsense are you talking about, this is not a chicken, this is a white peacock."
Lu Xingyan took a closer look at the confused white peacock, and said to Shen Xingruo, "Do you have common sense? This is a white peacock seedling, but the moon is a little younger. It's really not a chicken. Look at the fan-shaped crown in front of it."
Said, Lu Xingyan pointed.
In fact, he felt that the feather crown didn't look like a fan when viewed horizontally or vertically, but the boss emphasized this when he gave him the science popularization, and he just told Shen Xingruo so seriously.
Shen Xingruo hesitated for a moment, then approached.
The little white peacock fluttered a bit, but actually stayed timidly in place.
It seems to be, a little different from chicken.
The figure is slightly slender.
Then there is a small feather crown on the top of the head, like a fan that has not yet grown neatly.
But it's so small, it really looks like a chicken.
"Is it still small?"
Shen Xingruo leaned over and touched the peacock feather crown with his hand.
The little peacock took two steps back.
Lu Xingyan looked down at the two white peacocks interacting, feeling inexplicably cute, and responded with a smile, "Well, it seems to be four months or six months."
In fact, there are also adult white peacocks in that store, but how can adult white peacocks have the fun of growing them
Of course, the key is because his mother wants to control his living expenses, and now he looks shy in his pocket.
The bigger the peacock, the more expensive it is. He thought it wouldn't be a hassle anyway, he could just feed it casually like a chicken, and since his mother has nothing to do all day long, raising a peacock is quite fashionable.
At this moment, Pei Yue heard the noise and came out of the kitchen.
Seeing the white peacock from a distance, she asked, "Lu Xingyan, what the hell did you bring back? Didn't you say you went to get a gift for Ruoruo?"
"This is a gift."
Pei Yue took a closer look, and without even thinking about it, she pushed Lu Xingyan's head, "You're acting like a monster again! There's too much money to spend, but you even got a black-bone chicken back, what a skill! I see you There is no need for living expenses!"
"No, it's a peacock, not a chicken!"
Lu Xingyan organized his language with his poor vocabulary, and explained it to Pei Yuehao.
Pei Yue took a closer look, and it was really a peacock.
I don't know what to think of, Pei Yue suddenly became nervous, turned around, grabbed Lu Xingyan and asked, "Where did you get this thing back, is it against the law? I remember the peacock is to protect animals, it's white, if it breaks the law, give it to me immediately." Go to the zoo, since you are underage, you should not be sentenced to prison!"
"Can you stop worrying about it? I've already asked the boss. Green peacocks are not allowed. White peacocks are a variant of blue peacocks. They are all artificially bred and are not against the law."
Lu Xingyan was speechless.
"Then why don't people dare to say anything in order to sell something now? Do you still say that if you die on the way, you will be compensated?"
"You know this as well… "
"I don't think you are reliable, let your dad ask about it another day."
While they were talking, Shen Xingruo had already squatted and interacted with Que Que for several rounds.
This sparrow was a bit shy, but it might be like attracting like, at first it hid from Shen Xingruo, but when Shen Xingruo patted it, it stopped hiding.
Pei Yue was busy, and after asking, she rushed to see the old duck soup she cooked carefully.
Lu Xingyan laughed, and now he had time to squat beside Shen Xingruo and asked, "How is it, do you like it?"
Shen Xingruo was lightly pecked at the cuff by the little peacock, and suddenly bent her lower lip, realizing that Lu Xingyan was squatting beside her, and she quickly straightened out again.
After a while, she nodded and then asked, "Is it male or female?"
"The male one, I originally wanted to buy a female one, but the store said that the female one doesn't open its tail. If you say that the peacock doesn't open its tail, what's the point of it? Then of course I bought the male one."
"Hey, speaking of it, you can mutate, and you can open your screen crazily anytime, anywhere."
Shen Xingruo reacted for two seconds before realizing that the "you" Lu Xingyan said was referring to herself.
She patted the little peacock's tail and said, "Peck him."
As if the little peacock could understand human speech, it just "chirped" on Lu Xing's extended hand.
Lu Xingyan hissed, "Damn it, it's really your son."
They are all ruthless sparrows.
The two squatted and looked at the little peacock for a while. Lu Xingyan remembered something and suddenly said, "Sister Que, give your son a name."
Shen Xingruo thought for a while, "Then it's called Yanyan."
"Delay?"
Shen Xingruo patted his head, and said calmly, "Good boy."
A son is recognized here, and her father is here again.
Shen Guangyao still remembered that Lu Xingyan and her had a birthday together, and prepared gifts for both of them.
But Shen Xingruo had an extra copy, Shen Guangyao said, "This is prepared by Jing Ran for you."
Shen Xingruo accepted it.
Fang Jingran gave her a necklace.
The necklace is very thin, made of silver, not expensive, but the style is good.
Shen Guangyao explained, "He bought it for you with the prize money from the competition."
Shen Xingruo didn't speak, after looking at the necklace, he took out the greeting card that Fang Jingran wrote to her from the gift bag.
Fang Jingran is young and small, and he is also very straight.
I don’t know what aesthetics are. After writing the greetings, I drew some fancy things nearby, just like the handmade “I send you my blessings” emoticon pack. The whole greeting card is filled with a strong atmosphere of elementary school students.
In fact, before Shen Guangyao and Fang Min were together, Shen Xingruo and Fang Jingran got along very well.
Fang Jingran's father left early, and he lived with his mother all the time.
When he first entered junior high school, after school, he would go to the language office in the first year of high school to do his homework while waiting for his mother to get off work.
Shen Xingruo often saw Fang Jingran in Fang Min's office.
At that time, she had a good relationship with Fang Min, and even had a good relationship with Fang Jingran.
Shen Guangyao's gift is much more expensive than Fang Jingran's.
Shen Guangyao gave her a violin probably because he heard that she was performing on stage at the school celebration.
The lo of a well-known luthier is on the case.
She also opened her eyes.
Shen Xingruo accepted both gifts, but he didn't show any extra emotions, so he said "thank you" just like Lu Xingyan.
Lu Shan Peiyue also knew about the relationship between Shen Xingruo and Shen Guangyao.
But from the adult's point of view, of course, I still hope that the relationship between father and daughter can be restored, so during lunch, I tried my best to match up with each other.
Lu Xingyan didn't get involved, anyway, he felt from the bottom of his heart that Shen Xingruo was miserable.
A real person is thrown here, half a year should be married and honeymoon, as if he suddenly remembered that he had such a daughter, and suddenly became attentive again.
However, those who are engaged in art, sometimes their thinking is out of touch, and it is normal for ordinary people to find it difficult to understand.
Anyway, Lu Xingyan couldn't understand, he only knew that if his mother married Wang Youfu suddenly, he might nail Wang Youfu's forehead with a kitchen knife.
Having said that, Pei Yue really didn't think of him as her own son anymore. On one side, she was matching Shen Guangyao and Shen Xingruo, and on the other side, she wanted to use him as a topic to demote Shen Xingruo's excellence.
"... He scored half of Xingruo's score in the first monthly exam, can you believe it, old Shen? I really didn't get mad at him when I went to the parent-teacher meeting."
Lu Xingyan was unhappy, "Didn't you have fun pretending to be Shen Xingruo's mother at that time? I didn't see you so angry."
"Look! Look at whether what he said is human language. Old Shen, you are lucky. Hey, you said that they were born the same at that time, so why is there such a big difference? Speaking of which, I really want to go to the hospital to check it out. , that child looks the same when she takes her to swim, maybe Xingruo is my daughter, and this Lu Xingyan is your son!"
Shen Guangyao also laughed, "What's wrong with Xingyan, grades are not the only criterion to measure a person's ability, maybe he is just not good at learning the knowledge in textbooks, maybe he will be a business wizard like Lao Lu in the future, that's not to say Surely not."
Although Lu Xingyan felt that Shen Guangyao was not a very good person, these few sentences were quite personal.
It was a lively birthday meal, Pei Yue was the one who talked the most during the dinner, Shen Xingruo didn't say much.
The exam was coming soon, and after dinner, Shen Xingruo and Lu Xingyan went upstairs to review.
Shen Guangyao and the others were chatting in the living room downstairs.
I still eat at home in the evening, but before eating, there is a double-layered big cake with 17 number candles on it.
After Lu Xingyan and Shen Xingruo washed their hands and went downstairs, Pei Yue put paper birthday crowns on both of their heads, then hurriedly ordered the dishes to be served and turned off the lights in the house.
The master light is pressed.
The room suddenly went dark.
Lu Shan lit the candles with a lighter, and Pei Yue began to organize everyone to sing birthday songs together.
Shen Xingruo originally just clapped along with their singing, but later hummed along unconsciously.
"hay birthday to you, hay birthday to you..."
Standing opposite her, Lu Xingyan raised his eyes inadvertently, and saw the warm light of the candle reflected on her fair face, as if reflecting some gentle arcs that were rarely seen in ordinary times.
After singing, Pei Yue urged the two to make a wish.
Lu Xingyan glanced at Shen Xingruo, then closed his eyes.
He made a promise quickly, opened his eyes within a few seconds, and subconsciously moved forward to blow out the candles.
Pei Yue quickly grabbed him, raised her chin, and signaled him to wait for Shen Xingruo.
Shen Xingruo clasped his hands together facing the candle, his eyes were tightly closed, only his eyelashes trembled restlessly occasionally.
I don't know what she is wishing for.
After waiting for a while, Lu Xingyan thought that this young lady was asking too much.
He suddenly felt that he was really at a loss for not paying enough.
While the candle was still alive, he closed his eyes and wanted to continue making a wish.
But if there are too many farts, will it be ineffective
never mind.
After waiting for a while, Shen Xingruo finally opened his eyes.
The two went forward together and blew out the candle.
Immediately, the ceiling lights in the house were turned on again, and everyone cheered and blessed
"Happy birthday!"
"Happy birthday, happy birthday! Good grades on the final exam tomorrow!"
"Xing Ruona will definitely get a good grade in the test. If Lu Xingyan can get a score of 400 in the test, it will be regarded as a manifestation of the ancestors!"
Lu Xingyan took off the crown that was forcibly worn on his head, and put it on Pei Yue's head by taking advantage of his height, "Mom, today is my birthday, can you stop and stop hurting me?"
"Okay, after dinner, go to the kitchen and help Aunt Zhou wash the dishes."
"People who are all 17 or 18 years old still don't smell fragrance with four hands. If you don't go into the kitchen, you may not even know the difference between detergent and hand sanitizer."
"..."
After eating, Lu Xingyan was really driven by Pei Yue to the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Shen Guangyao still had something to do, so he had to rush back to Huize overnight, and he didn't stay any longer after eating.
In order to give the father and daughter some time to be alone, Lu Shan and Pei Yue deliberately did not send them off, but greeted at the door, and asked Shen Xingruo to accompany Shen Guangyao all the way out.
Shen Guangyao asked, "Ruoruo, what are your plans for the summer vacation? Going back to Huize?"
"No, the school should organize tutoring, and there won't be a lot of holiday time."
Shen Guangyao thought for a while, then nodded, "Alright, there's only one year left, hurry up."
"Dad knows that you don't need anyone to worry about your studies. But you still have to pay attention to your body and don't put too much pressure on yourself."
"Um."
The two chatted one after another, and soon reached the front of the car.
Shen Guangyao stopped and looked at Shen Xingruo with emotion.
He reached out and stroked Shen Xingruo's hair, "My Ruoruo is seventeen years old."
Shen Xingruo didn't speak.
After a while, she stepped forward to help Shen Guangyao open the car door and said, "Dad, get in the car and be careful on the road."
Shen Guangyao nodded.
Until Shen Guangyao's car drove away from the villa area, Shen Xingruo kept looking at the direction where the car disappeared.
On the night of her seventeenth birthday, the wind in Luoxing Lake was a bit cool, the night sky was clear and the stars were bright.
It was also the first time that she felt so clearly that some things were broken, and no matter how glued they were, they would never return to their original state
When walking back, Lu Xingyan called her from the balcony on the third floor, "Hey, Teacher Shen, do you still have tutoring tonight?"
Shen Xingruo looked up.
Lu Xingyan should have gone upstairs to take a shower after washing the dishes. He was wearing a black T-shirt, standing there loosely, with a towel in his hand to wipe his hair.
Shen Xingruo said, "Come up immediately."
Tomorrow I have Chinese and political exams.
Language is accumulated over time, and you can't grind out any shiny guns before the battle, but politics can grasp the key points and memorize them by rote.
Shen Xingruo entered the room and brought a pile of political materials.
Lu Xingyan asked, "What did you and your dad talk about?"
"nothing."
"Then you forgive your father?"
Shen Xingruo didn't speak, he pulled out the chair and sat down, then put the materials on the desk.
After pulling off the cap of the marker pen, she said, "I'm just such a relative. If he wants to feel better, then I will compromise, but compromise is not forgiveness."
After all, some damage has already been done.
Her father has the right to pursue love, and she also has the right not to accept it, and never to be able to act as if nothing happened.
In fact, when she was in the fourth grade, Shen Guangyao and Song Qingzhao had often quarreled, but they deliberately avoided her and maintained the illusion of blooming flowers.
By the sixth grade, this illusion could no longer be maintained.
Subconsciously, Shen Xingruo understood that sooner or later they would separate.
Most of the time she doesn't want to think about it, but every time she thinks about it, the balance in her heart is actually in favor of Shen Guangyao.
Because of Song Qingzhao's extreme personality, he even broke Shen Guangyao's piano when he attacked Shen Guangyao.
On the contrary, Shen Guangyao most of the time appears as a loving father.
Later, Song Qingzhao passed away unexpectedly, and she lived with Shen Guangyao, not because she never thought that he would remarry.
What she couldn't accept was not the remarriage from the beginning to the end, but the object of his remarriage, her teacher Fang Min.
Lu Xingyan was confused by her, "So to forgive or not to forgive, or not to forgive?"
Shen Xingruo tapped on the table, "Can you stop caring about family ethics and emotional soap operas, do you think you can take the 750 exam at the end of the semester?"
How can you not care about it.
This directly determines his attitude when facing his future father-in-law.
After Lu Xingyan finished thinking about it, he also pulled out the chair and sat down beside Shen Xingruo.
"There are three multiple-choice questions on current affairs this time. You don't need to memorize them, just read the contents of these two pages. I circled them for reading, and marked them with a gray marker for memorization. Remember?"
"Well, I remember."
Lu Xingyan lazily responded.
He looked at the key points of Shen Xingruo's painting, then picked up a pen casually, spinning it around in a daze.
Suddenly he remembered something, said "Hi", and asked again, "Shen Xingruo, what wish did you just make on the cake, it took three minutes to make the wish, I see that your posture is that you plan to celebrate your birthday in the next seventeen years Already."
"Hey, what did you promise, tell me, maybe I can help you achieve this."
Shen Xingruo didn't look at him, continued to highlight the key points, and said calmly, "It's nothing, I will make a wish. Lu Xingyan can finish a math five and three book this semester, practice five small questions, and ten sets of college entrance examination papers. After finishing the four-level vocabulary, you can get 400 points in the final exam, so don't be a mouse shit to lower the average score of the first class."
Mouse Shit was silent for three seconds, "Pretend I didn't say anything."
After another three seconds, Lu Xingyan couldn't help rubbing her head, "It's unscientific, you know, maybe you can fight for a score of 400 at the end of the semester, but this semester is over, where can I get it?" You write so much?"
Shen Xingruo "Speaks as if you can finish writing next semester."
Lu Xingyan "..."
Shen Xingruo finished drawing the key points, and suddenly stopped writing, "Oh, by the way, I'll go back to my room to get something, just wait a minute."
Although she said that she would never return the gift, she recently saw a birthday gift that was especially suitable for Lu Xingyan, and she bought it without spending a lot of money.
She also bought a bronzing wrapping paper by the way, wrapped it up and tied a bow when she had nothing to do.
The gift is instantly upgraded.
With that said, Shen Xingruo got up and walked out.
Lu Xingyan glanced at her back inadvertently, and paused suddenly.
Wait, that bloodstain on her white skirt, that's a bloodstain... He subconsciously glanced at the stool that Shen Xingruo sat on, and suddenly understood something.
After a while Shen Xingruo came back.
Seeing that she hadn't changed her clothes and was holding a delicately packaged box in both hands, Lu Xingyan's mind was confused for a moment.
It's like a birthday present
It should be a birthday present, since White Peacock is such a face-saving person, if he gave her a gift himself, she would prepare a gift in return.
So should he remind now
Reminding this white peacock, will he become angry and refuse to send gifts
Then wait a second and remind me after receiving the gift
OK, wait a second.
Lu Xingyan coughed twice, pretended nothing happened, and put on a surprised look, "What is this, a birthday present for me?"
Shen Xingruo said "Yes".
"So much weight, what is it?"
Lu Xingyan took the box from her hand and weighed it.
Shen Xingruo was still keeping things secret, "You will know when you open it."
Lu Xingyan nodded, and carefully opened the package along the edge.
There is a carton wrapped in gilded wrapping paper, and the carton is opened—
"Five-Year College Entrance Examination and Three-Year Simulation" (Mathematics)
"Small Questions Practice Advanced Edition" (full set)
"Ten Years of College Entrance Examination Questions" (full set)
"Level 4 words with a smile"
Lu Xingyan was dazzled by the orange, yellow, blue and green cover, and became dizzy for a while.
This fuck, it seems to be what she just said, birthday wish? ?
Shen Xingruo admired his rigid expression for three seconds, and then asked, "Do you like it? By the way, what wish did you just make? Did you wish to get 400 points in the test? If you can finish these, I don't think 400 points will definitely be worth it." No problem, in this way your wish and mine will all come true."
Giving a birthday gift and fulfilling two birthday wishes by the way, she is really clever and clever.
Lu Xingyan stared at the purple-yellow cover of Wusan on his face, and said blankly, "No, my wish is to find a girlfriend before I turn eighteen."
In fact, he doesn't want to look for it anymore.
No, you can't dislike it because of this little thing.
It's very tangled, hey.
Shen Xingruo didn't know what he was thinking about, so he said objectively, "I think it's a bit difficult with your IQ, but it might be quite easy with your looks and financial resources."
Lu Xingyan glanced at her with a dull expression on his face.
never mind.
The person you like, if you send some questions, then do it, what else can you do.
He pulled the air-conditioning quilt from the bed in silence, then approached Shen Xingruo, wrapped the air-conditioning quilt around her waist, and fastened it tightly—
"I understand the truth, but your aunt is already bleeding like a river, don't you feel it?"