Chapter 420 Birthday Gift
"Oh, whose cute little darling is this——" It has been a long time since she last made a video call. Liu Wangxue missed these two children very much, but at this moment, only Youyou's face was in the camera. After she greeted this little cutie, she asked, "Where are Dad, Mom, and Brother?"
Youyou answered her question first: "Dad is washing dishes, Mom is cutting fruit, and my brother's clothes are dirty so he went to change them."
After saying that, he turned to the right and shouted: "Brother——"
Jinghe was just coming down the stairs. Youyou was sitting next to him when they were eating. After eating a chicken leg, she was going to wash her hands. When she climbed down from the chair, she lost her balance and held on to his leg, leaving a greasy handprint on it.
Jinghe walked over, picked up Youyou who was sitting on the carpet and sat on the sofa together, took the phone from his hand, and greeted Liu Wangxue.
Liu Wangxue praised online: "Long time no see, Jinghe seems to have become more handsome again!"
Youyou's natural curls are inherited from Gu Qingyue, but Jinghe didn't inherit them, and has straight hair like Shen Nian'an. The young boy in the camera is wearing a light-colored low-necked sweater, with a neat and delicate hairstyle. Compared to Xia Tian, he has grown up for the first time, and his temperament is exactly like Shen Nian'an.
The older child became a little shy when being praised. He smiled timidly and said "thank you" to Liu Wangxue.
Youyou twisted her body while sitting on his lap, and put her face close to the camera again: "Sister, what about me? What about me? I have become more handsome too!"
Liu Wangxue praised him again: "You are so cute and handsome, a charming little grapefruit!"
Youyou giggled happily.
At this time, Shen Nian'an came over with Gu Qingyue, carrying a plate of cut fruits. They sat down beside the child and greeted Liu Wangxue. What Youyou said just now about washing the dishes actually meant putting the dishes in the dishwasher.
Gu Qingyue picked up a piece of apple with a small fork and handed it to Youyou. Youyou took it and took a bite. After eating, she asked Liu Wangxue in an adult tone: "Sister, did you eat the birthday cake?"
Liu Wangxue answered him: "Not yet."
Youyou waved the remaining apple and said, "If you want a happy birthday, you must eat birthday cake if you want a happy birthday."
"Okay, we'll eat later." Liu Wangxue said.
Youyou handed the fork back to Gu Qingyue and leaned forward to take the painting on the coffee table: "Dad, a gift, a gift."
As Shen Nian'an helped him get it, he said to Liu Wangxue, "The two kids prepared a birthday present for you. They said they would let you take a look at it first and give it to you when you go back from vacation."
Liu Wangxue was surprised: "Oh, there are gifts!"
When the people chatting nearby heard this, they all looked over.
Xu Qingsong, who was sitting on the left side of Liu Wangxue, leaned over, put his head close to hers, and looked into the screen: "Let me see too, what's the gift?"
Youyou and Jinghe shouted together: "Uncle Xu!"
"Hey." Xu Qingsong waved at them.
As he moved, Wenxi on his right also came closer. Tao Huayu and the others stood up and walked around behind Liu Wangxue, wanting to take a look as well.
The two old people just sat in their seats without moving. Liu Nanshan had never seen Shen Nian'an's family. He heard Gu Xuelan mention them when he called back when he was still taking care of Uncle Liu Wangxue. Now the impression has faded, so he asked Gu Xuelan again.
"Everyone is here." Shen Nian'an and Gu Qingyue looked at the people crowded together in front of the camera and exchanged greetings again.
Liu Wangxue thought that Youyou was young and hadn't seen them for several months, so she probably forgot about the people she didn't see often, so she took out her phone and took close-ups of them one by one. It just so happened that the family of four had never met Liu Nanshan and Richard, so she introduced them to them.
The two children called people one by one. Youyou looked at the screen of her mobile phone again and again, and even tilted her head to look somewhere else through the camera: "Hey?"
Liu Wangxue asked him, "What's wrong, little grapefruit?"
Youyou was puzzled: "That's not right."
Everyone asked him in a mixed voice, "What's wrong?"
Youyou said, "Where's Brother Xiaoyu? And Uncle Yue, and Aunt Lan, where are they?"
Everyone was a little surprised. Liu Wangxue thought that she had underestimated this child's memory: "Oh, our little Youzi has such a good memory~"
Youyou puffed out her little chest in Jinghe's arms, her face full of pride: "Yes!" She asked again.
Liu Wangxue told him that the three of them were busy with their own things and didn't come: "But tomorrow, Auntie will be able to see Brother Xiaoyu and Uncle Yue Cheng. Let them call you via video tomorrow, okay?"
Youyou nodded obediently: "Okay, sister, don't forget them, I miss them~"
"Okay, I won't forget it."
Next, we start looking at the gifts.
The gift is a painting. The basic ideas and design were proposed by Youyou, and the scenery and improvements were completed by the two brothers together.
The painting styles are two completely different styles, one is realistic oil painting style, and the other is abstract oil pastel style.
Anyone who looks at the painting can tell it at a glance, and then they will have guesses in their minds - the realistic blue sky, rice fields, lotus ponds, houses and courtyards should be the scenery and paintings, the mutant pomegranate tree (the thick and short branches hold up a ball of green, and there is a huge open pomegranate on the top of the tree), a row of abstract stickmen and cats, dogs and birds that can only be identified by outline.
After watching, everyone praised Jinghe and said, "Jinghe can also paint oil paintings?"
"It's a great painting. At first glance it looks like a photograph."
“You must have learned this for many years, right?”
“The lighting and shadows are handled really well!”
"Do you want to apply to an art school in the future?"
"That means they are the future masters of oil painting!"
Jinghe was so embarrassed by all the praises, he hugged Youyou tightly. Actually, he didn't learn it for long, he just signed up for an interest class, and the teacher said that his skills still need to be improved through practice. He was happy but also felt unworthy when he was praised by this group of adults.
Gu Qingyue gave him some fruit to eat, and Shen Nian'an said with a smile, "Stop praising me, stop praising me. If you continue praising me, Jinghe won't be able to bear it psychologically."
Youyou waited and waited, why are they all praising their brother, why is no one praising him, he also drew this picture. So little Youzi sat up straight, stretched out his round hand, pointed at several places on the canvas, and said: "I drew it too, I drew it too, this, this, and this, all of them are drawn by me!"
That little expression clearly says "Praise me, after you praise my brother, it's my turn, come and praise me."
It was so adorable that the group of people who were praising him immediately got the signal and started praising little Youzi in the same way every time.
Youyou is so beautiful. She sits in Jinghe's arms and nods her head happily as she listens.
After looking at the painting, Youyou was reluctant to hang it up, so the family of four continued to watch the video, watched the birthday cake light the candles, sang the birthday song with everyone to the sound of guitar, and waited for Liu Wangxue to make a wish and blow out the candles.
Liu Wangxue felt it was a bit of a pity that the four people in the video couldn’t eat such a delicious cake.
But Youyou's attention was not originally on this. He didn't want to hang up the video because he wanted to wait until the adults were done with their work before making a request. He wanted to see the cat. He missed the cat so much.
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