April 1st was Song Fuyu’s 19th birthday.
Yan Ziyuan came back from training early and the first thing he did was go back to his room.
Song Fuyu was still sleeping on the bed and showed no sign of waking up. Yan Ziyuan walked over, sat beside the bed, and called her softly.
"Wife, wake up~"
When Song Fuyu heard the sound, he waved his hands at the air and prepared to continue sleeping.
However, before her hand fell, he held it firmly and pressed it on the pillow. He then leaned over and kissed Song Fuyu, who was half asleep and half awake, and performed a compulsory wake-up service on her.
"Woo~"
"Yan Ziyuan, what are you doing? I'm still sleeping!"
Seeing that she was awake, Yan Ziyuan immediately stood up and stepped back a little, otherwise he would have been greeted with a beating from his wife.
"Happy birthday, wife."
"You ignored my unbrushed teeth, unkempt hair, and woke me up with such a strong mouthful, just to say happy birthday?"
"Um."
“I want to be the first one to wish you a happy birthday.”
"Yan Ziyuan, you are too childish."
"This isn't a parenting class where kids have to compete for first place and a little red flower."
She remembered that he had braved the heavy snow and rushed to Shanhe Village in the early morning just to be the first person to say Happy New Year to her. He seemed to be very persistent about this matter.
"I don't care. Anyway, I have to be number one here."
"Okay, little Yan Ziyuan, you are first today, great! Teacher Song will reward you with a little red flower later."
"Is it okay to give a compliment on your face?"
"OK!"
"Before that, go get me a set of clothes from the closet. Uncle Zhao and the others will come over for lunch at noon, and I won't wear pajamas."
I had been woken up by him and all my sleepiness was gone, so I just got up.
Uncle Zhao and Aunt Fang will come over for lunch today. Aunt Wu will have to prepare the food early. Although she can't work, she can chat with them.
"Okay~"
Yan Ziyuan helped her take out her favorite set of clothes and pants.
"Which sweater do you want to wear underneath? How about the one with the kitten in the middle? I think this one looks good."
"Okay, bring it here."
After she put on her clothes, Yan Ziyuan took out a hairpin from his pocket and clipped it in her hair.
“It’s so beautiful!”
"What is it?"
She removed the clip from her head and held it in her hand.
It is a slender butterfly-shaped hairpin made of white shell material, and is dotted with some tiny pearls on the edge, which is very delicate.
After admiring it, I clipped it back on my head.
“When did you buy it?”
"I went to the Overseas Chinese Store during the Chinese New Year and bought it because I thought it matched your temperament."
"It's been so long since I bought it? I don't even know where I hid it."
"I put it in the locker in Xiaobai's dormitory."
"You are amazing. You can hold it in for so long."
"Actually, I wanted to give it to you right after I bought it, but I was afraid I wouldn't find another suitable gift before your birthday, so I kept it until now."
"I really have good taste. Both the gift and my wife are very pretty."
"Are you praising me or yourself?"
“Haha, it’s both.”
When Wu Hong walked out of the room, she immediately noticed that Song Fuyu was different today, and quickly fixed her eyes on the hairpin in her hair.
"A gift from Ziyuan?"
"Um."
“It’s really beautiful.”
"What gift?"
Li Yunhua is a typical straight man. He didn't notice anything different about Song Fuyu today. He was only concerned about what to eat for breakfast.
In the past, he would not think about anything at all. He would eat whatever his wife cooked. If she didn't cook, he would just take some biscuits from the cupboard for breakfast.
But things are different now. Since my wife came over to help with cooking, she always comes up with different ways to make delicious food every day, whether it is breakfast, lunch or dinner. It is completely different from before at home.
This is enough to prove how low his status is in his wife's heart. Cooking for him is just a way to fool her, the main thing is to make sure she doesn't go hungry.
"Today is Xiaoyu's birthday, and Ziyuan carefully prepared a gift for her."
"Unlike you, every time it's my birthday, you either forget it or just say happy birthday and call it a day."
"Gift? Where is it? Why can't I see it?"
"......"
The three of them looked at him with the same speechless expression.
"Come on, let's go have breakfast."
"Your Uncle Li, this look is really not good."
"What on earth are you talking about?"
"Ziyuan, what gift did you prepare? Where did you put it? Why didn't I see it?"
"Haha, ignore him, let him look for it slowly."
Li Yunhua looked around the room but couldn't find the gift.
He seriously suspected that he was being treated differently, and the three of them were simply playing charades with him.
After dinner, he was still asking where the gift was.
"Didn't you see the dazzling hairpin on Xiaoyu's hair?"
"So it's a hairpin. Hi... I think you wore it yesterday too?"
"Oh... I'm right, aren't I? Your Uncle Li is hopeless. He can only see things in the army. If something in his office moves a centimeter, he will definitely notice it immediately. But in real life, he is blind and can't see anything."
"Wife, it's not as serious as you say."
"I noticed something different about you today."
"oh?"
"What's different about me today?"
Wu Hong looked down at her clothes. She was wearing the same thing yesterday, so there shouldn't be any difference.
"You look better today than you did yesterday."
“Ahem~”
Song Fuyu almost choked when he heard this.
If she remembered correctly, Ziyuan said this cheesy love talk to her before dinner the night before, which made her feel so embarrassed at the time.
Uncle Li was sitting on the sofa in the living room at the time. She took a sneak peek and saw that he didn't react, so she thought he didn't hear it.
As a result, not only did people hear it, they actually learned it exactly as it was.
"You old man, what are you saying in front of the child?"
These words made Wu Hong feel so embarrassed that she glared at Li Yunhua, then turned around and quickly went into the kitchen.
"Haha, Uncle Li, you are not good enough. You actually imitated me."
"What do you mean by learning from you? It's not you who invented it."
"Stop dawdling and get back to the training ground!"