Chapter 64: Surprise

When I think about it, it's been a long time since Lu Qingjiu has had a serious birthday. Although the company would take note of employees' birthdays and celebrate them together, it was just a small gift and a cake cut together. Because of his busy schedule, every time Lu Qingjiu thinks about it, either his birthday has not arrived or it has already passed.

The morning breakfast was prepared by the three of them, a bowl of long-life noodles which, from the looks of it, seemed no different from any other noodles and was topped with three oily, yellow fried eggs.

Lu Qingjiu sits down at the table, facing the expectant gaze of Zhu Miaomiao and Yin Xun.

"Happy birthday, wine." Yin Xun smiled. Yin Xun smiled, "It's been a long time since I've celebrated your birthday, I remember when grandma was around she would always give you the following, today I'm going to cook you a bowl of the legendary delicious chicken longevity noodles with chicken sauce"

Zhu Miaomiao said, "Try it."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Although he was sceptical about Yin Xun's cooking skills, he had to say that the bowl of noodles in front of him looked very attractive, with the clear soup topped with green onions and the rich aroma of chicken soup.

With such an expectant look in their eyes, Lu Qingjiu didn't say anything and ate the noodles in front of him. I must say that the chicken noodle soup tasted very good and the fried egg was a sweet egg, Lu Qingjiu felt his whole body warm up after eating it.

"Delicious, thank you." Lu Qingjiu said with a smile.

"We'll take care of the food today, so you can have a good day's rest." Zhu Miaomiao planned it this way, saying, "It's a nice day outside, so take Bai Yuehu and go for a walk in the hills."

Lu Qingjiu smiled, "No, I'll do it, it's my birthday after all, I'd like to treat you to dinner."

But Zhu Miaomiao did not agree, so Lu Qingjiu had no choice but to compromise and went to the fields with Bai Yuehu, leaving the kitchen to the three of them. Before he left, of course, he told them to be safe and not to set the kitchen on fire.

Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu chatted a little about the past in the field, Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu talked about some of their memories from when they were young. Bai Yuehu was a good listener and there was no need to worry about other people knowing what he was talking about, after all, most of the time he was too lazy to talk.

The vegetables in the field were lush and the pumpkins that had been planted shortly afterwards were also growing, and this was the first time that pumpkins had been planted this year.

Just halfway down the road, he felt as if something was wrong with his stomach.

"What's wrong," Bai Yuehu asked Lu Qingjiu.

"My stomach hurts a little." Lu Qingjiu's face turned white, "You hold it, I'll go back first," he said, dropping the pumpkin and running away, leaving Bai Yuehu in a daze.

Lu Qingjiu proved to be very prescient, for as soon as he arrived home he was dying and rushed into the toilet like the wind.

Twenty minutes later, Lu Qingjiu emerged from the toilet, his face as white as a sheet of paper, his legs so weak that he almost fell to the floor.

"What's wrong with you?" Bai Yuehu, who had just sat down in the courtyard, asked in confusion when she saw Lu Qingjiu in this state.

"I... I ate what Yin Xun made." Lu Qingjiu shuddered.

Bai Yuehu: ""The look on his face was telling Lu Qingjiu why he had to be so thoughtless.

Lu Qingjiu said, "But it looks good."

Bai Yuehu said, "That's what you said last time."

Lu Qingjiu was in pain, but the most horrible thing was not that, but that Yin Xun was still in the kitchen with Zhu Miaomiao, playing with his cooking skills, and before Lu Qingjiu could say anything, he was forced to go into the toilet again.

When Lu Qingjiu came out of the toilet a little better, his whole body was dehydrated, and Bai Yuehu handed him a cup of hot tea with pity in his eyes as he said, "They've cooked you a nice meal again."

Lu Qingjiu: ""His hand trembled slightly as he held the hot tea.

Bai Yuehu: "Drink this cup of tea."

Lu Qingjiu: "Good."

Who knew that Bai Yuehu's next words would be, "Get on the road early."

Lu Qingjiu almost choked to death as he finished his tea and dragged his heavy body into the house to see a nice table of food prepared for him by Yin Xun and Zhu Miaomiao. I have to say, if his bottom wasn't still sore, the table would have been very tempting, with meat and veggies, a big pot of fragrant chicken soup and even a very nice squirrel guppy in the middle.

Zhu Miaomiao complimented, "Yin Xun, you're good at this."

Yin Xun responded shyly, "I've been practising a lot at home, I didn't do so well before.

Lu Qingjiu thought to himself, "I haven't just come back, I've been in the toilet all morning, but unfortunately they were too busy cooking to notice the man who was dying in the toilet.

Lu Qingjiu said: " Yin Xun, I have something to do"

Zhu Miaomiao was completely unaware of this, and she enthusiastically waved at Lu Qingjiu: "What are you talking about? Come and eat, let's finish eating, it's getting cold."

Lu Qingjiu knew it was impossible not to say it, but in the face of Yin Xun's expectant eyes, he found it hard to say the words that were on his lips. Yin Xun knew that his grandma would make him a bowl of noodles for his birthday, so he woke up early and made a bowl of fresh chicken soup. He didn't have any special birthday gifts for Lu Qingjiu, so he could only do what he could to meet such a friend, and when Lu Qingjiu thought about saying that he couldn't eat the meal, he felt a bit intolerant.

"What's wrong, sake?" Yin Xun asks blankly when he sees Lu Qingjiu not moving.

Lu Qingjiu took a deep breath and finally said nothing, and with a fatherly look, sat down at the table and said, "Eat."

"I'll go and get Bai Yuehu." Zhu Miaomiao went out happily.

Bai Yuehu, who was called in, saw Lu Qingjiu sitting at the table again and picking up his chopsticks, raised his eyebrows slightly and sent a look to Lu Qingjiu asking what was going on.

Lu Qingjiu couldn't say that in front of Yin Xun, so he simply took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Bai Yuehu, saying that this was at least the result of Yin Xun and Zhu Miaomiao's busy morning, and that he would be disappointed if he said they couldn't eat it.

Bai Yuehu was silent for a long time, and only after a long time did he reply: You are really not afraid of death.

Lu Qingjiu closes his phone and pretends not to see it.

Pick up your chopsticks and start your meal.

The food was actually quite good, at least for Yin Xun, who rarely cooks, but it was superb. The atmosphere was good enough for everyone to have a drink and chat, but the thought of the hours that followed the meal made Lu Qingjiu's heart twinge and he even started to wonder if he should go next door to borrow the toilet.

After a good meal, Zhu Miaomiao took the poop cake out of the fridge and solemnly brought it to the table, and took out a candle he had found somewhere and lit it for Lu Qingjiu.

"Happy birthday, Sake" Zhu Miaomiao smiled brightly, "We made the cake together too, it doesn't look too good but it tastes good"

Lu Qingjiu's heart ached as he looked at the cake, thinking that he might have to sleep in the toilet tonight, but it didn't matter, there were still a few people here with him. The thought instantly relieved his heart and gave him a kind smile.

Zhu Miaomiao looked at Lu Qingjiu's smile and wondered, "Wine, why are you smiling like that?"

Lu Qingjiu: "Yes?"

Zhu Miaomiao: "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu thought to himself, "That's probably because I know I'm about to ascend to immortality and become a Buddha. Bai Yuehu sat watching the two interact with each other and smiled with a hint of amusement in his eyes.

Zhu Miaomiao, still unaware of what she had done, saw that Lu Qingjiu had no intention of explaining, so she gave all her attention to the cake, lit the candles and sang Lu Qingjiu's birthday song. Lu Qingjiu made three wishes on the cake and then blew out the flame on the candles with one breath.

The cake was cut into several pieces, and everyone ate it. Although the cake looked like a white pile of poop horizontally and vertically, it actually tasted good, at least like a dessert. Lu Qingjiu quickly finished the cake, turned around and headed out, Zhu Miaomiao looked at his determined back and asked in bewilderment, "Wine, where are you going?"

Lu Qingjiu: "I'm going to the toilet."

Zhu Miaomiao: "What are you doing in the toilet?"

Lu Qingjiu: "You'll find out later." He paused for a moment to give a warning to the three remaining fools who still didn't know what was going on, "I sincerely suggest that you go to the village and find a toilet right now, and don't come out once you're inside"

All three of them looked puzzled, but soon they understood the meaning of Lu Qingjiu's words.

"Fuck, fuck, Lu Qingjiu, get out of there, I can't." Yin Xun screamed like a chicken whose neck had been crushed.

However, Lu Qingjiu, who had just exhausted his fatherly love, was now as hard-hearted as iron: "If I can't get out, I'll stay inside today."

"Brother Lu, Brother Lu, please, please, please give me a chance." Zhu Miaomiao decided to go soft, "I'll let you have it when I'm done."

"Impossible." Lu Qingjiu said, "Don't even think about it." Zhu Miaomiao, he didn't know, didn't think she was a good talker, but if she got in, the toilet would be called Zhu.

Jiang Buhuan didn't have the heart to argue with Lu Qingjiu and went to borrow the toilet next door with a red face.

Yin Xun and Zhu Miaomiao, seeing that their plan had failed, both cursed a bit and went elsewhere to find a toilet. Lu Qingjiu finally became the king of the toilets, but couldn't smile at all.

So the four people who had become one with the toilet pit simply set up a group and started chatting.

Yin Xun said to Lu Qingjiu why he didn't tell them earlier that there was something wrong with the food, Lu Qingjiu said it was his intention, and Yin Xun, the shameless thing, said cheekily, "Yes, yes, it is our intention, so just eat it while we watch. "

Lu Qingjiu: "You may die with this punch from me."

Zhu Miaomiao was whining and whimpering, saying that she was dehydrated and that she had no problems with the ingredients, so why did she have diarrhoea?

Yin Xun: "Maybe it's a meal that's poured out with love."

Zhu Miaomiao: "But your love makes one's butt hurt."

Yin Xun: ""Can you, a girl, not say such misleading things?

Bai Yuehu was also in the group, but he wasn't affected at all, so he didn't say anything, and only when we were almost done talking did he post a fake smile in the group, causing Yin Xun to shiver.

It was a full day of cooking in the morning, eating at lunchtime and meeting in the afternoon for a group toilet chat. It was only when the sun was about to set in the west that we all gathered in the courtyard again, only we all looked like we had been emptied of our bodies.

"I don't think I can do it anymore." Zhu Miaomiao says, "All I have now is an empty skin."

Yin Xun: "Don't think too much about it, you have so much meat left."

Zhu Miaomiao: "Please shut up."

Lu Qingjiu slumped on the chair next to Bai Yuehu, feeling as if he had only one skin left, and the worst part was that his legs were so numb that they felt like they had been electrocuted, and he couldn't feel a single slap.

"What are we going to eat tonight?" Zhu Miaomiao asked, breathlessly.

Lu Qingjiu said, "You can still eat."

Zhu Miaomiao: "I'm a bit hungry, aren't you?"

Jiang Buhuan didn't say a word and collapsed on the chair next to him, like a dried corpse. He even thought he was going to die when he was squatting in the toilet this afternoon, but he actually pulled through.

Zhu Miaomiao looked regretful, she was really hungry. Lu Qingjiu was so impressed with her stomach that he now felt a pain in his stomach when he looked at the food.

Yin Xun The power of this lunch is just too great.

At the end of the night, Zhu Miaomiao gave Lu Qingjiu the present she had prepared for his birthday, a very expensive mechanical watch, which Lu Qingjiu thought was too expensive. Lu Qingjiu took it and gave Zhu Miaomiao a hug with his hand.

After losing so many family members, Zhu Miaomiao has become like a family member to Lu Qingjiu, a girl who is so thoughtful and warm, so willing to help her friends, that Lu Qingjiu is glad he met her. Of course, he is not only lucky to have Zhu Miaomiao, but also to have all the people and animals in the house.

Li Xiaoyu from next door, Xiao Hei Xiao Hua and Su Xi the fox from the house, and even Qin Yuan from the backyard gave Lu Qingjiu birthday presents, all of which were funny and had been thought of, and Lu Qingjiu took them all and thanked them with a smile.

Lu Qingjiu loved Shuifu Village, even though he knew it was different from what he had imagined, but he still had a love for it.

By nightfall, Lu Qingjiu's body had finally recovered, and after a long day of tossing and turning, he had intended to go to bed early, but was called by Bai Yuehu.

"There's something I want to talk to you about." Bai Yuehu went to Lu Qingjiu's bedroom and knocked on his door.

"What's wrong," Lu Qingjiu asked.

Bai Yuehu said, "I haven't given you my birthday present yet."

Lu Qingjiu said, "A birthday present." He didn't expect Bai Yuehu to have prepared a birthday present for him, so he was a bit surprised, "What is it?"

Bai Yuehu didn't say anything, just waved at Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu then followed Bai Yuehu out and the two left the courtyard in the direction of the hills.

The spring evening was a little cool, but not cold, and the wind tickled my face slightly, making me smile. The sky was clean, starry though moonless, and the noisy chirping of insects in the grass along the roadside added to the mood of the night.

Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu walk along the path, Bai Yuehu does not say where he is going and Lu Qingjiu does not ask. The two of them are silent, but the atmosphere does not seem awkward. As they walked deeper and deeper into the forest, the scenery around them was unfamiliar compared to the daytime, Bai Yuehu, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped and turned to Lu Qingjiu and held out his hand: "Come."

Lu Qingjiu held his hand.

Then Lu Qingjiu felt himself being pulled by Bai Yuehu and sat on top of something cold and hard, only it was shrouded in black mist and he could not see it clearly, but Lu Qingjiu touched it with his hand. stone.

This is probably the prototype of Bai Yuehu, Lu Qingjiu thought, a smile appearing in his eyes. The beast, shrouded in black mist, began to lift Lu Qingjiu slowly into the sky, as the ground shrank and the lights became fireflies. He reached the sky, side by side with the stars.

Bai Yuehu began to fly in the sky, but he flew steadily without wings, and a transparent barrier formed around Lu Qingjiu, helping to shield him from the harsh winds and cold temperatures of the air. As he looked down, he noticed a strange change in the landscape on the ground. The familiar village was gone, replaced by a sea of white clouds.

In the sea of clouds, there was a flash of light, and when he looked closely, he realised that the lights were fish travelling through the sea of clouds, and some other animals that Lu Qingjiu did not recognise. Lu Qingjiu was a little afraid that he would slip, but he found that he did not feel weightless and could still sit firmly on Bai Yuehu's body.

As they got closer to the sea of clouds, there were more and more strange creatures around them, including fish with six bodies, large birds as beautiful as phoenixes, and even a giant bull that they had seen before.

Here was another world, a world Lu Qingjiu had never seen before, and he stroked the huge beast beneath him, feeling something ferment in the part of his heart so much that he finally couldn't help but lean down and press his cheek against Bai Yuehu's back.

The scales on his back were neither warm nor soft, but in this moment Lu Qingjiu even found them more fascinating than the furry fox's tail, even making him want to kiss it for a moment.

Bai Yuehu seemed to notice Lu Qingjiu's movements and his body stiffened slightly, but then slowly relaxed because of Lu Qingjiu's gentle movements.

There was light coming from beneath the sea of clouds, at first faint, but as Bai Yuehu descended, the light became more and more dazzling, and the clouds around him began to fade, Lu Qingjiu saw the azure sky behind the clouds, and beneath it, the clear ocean, the sea was different from what Lu Qingjiu had seen before, it was a bright blue like the sky, and he could see that there were Various fish and animals could be seen in the sea, and he

They swim between the sky and the sea, as if the whole world had become one.

The water was so clear that even from a distance, one could see the sand and coral at the bottom of the sea. Bai Yuehu still had a black mist attached to his body and the animals around him seemed to be a little afraid of him and started to dodge around whenever they saw him. Not caring about the other animals, Bai Yuehu leapt straight out of the sky and into the azure waters.

Lu Qingjiu was taken aback but soon found himself enveloped in a transparent bubble in which he could not only breathe but also see inside the ocean, Lu Qingjiu was stunned.

"Scared?" Bai Yuehu's voice came through.

Lu Qingjiu now looked back and smiled, "I'm not afraid."

Bai Yuehu's voice was rarely gentle, as if he was afraid Lu Qingjiu would be worried, and he explained, "It won't flood you, just wait a little longer."

Lu Qingjiu said, "It's okay, it's beautiful here and I love it."

Bai Yuehu said, "I like it."

"Like it." Lu Qingjiu said, "Did you live here before?"

Bai Yuehu is silent for a moment before he softly hmms.

"Lu Qingjiu was actually very curious about Bai Yuehu's past and was struck by the view of his homeland, so he couldn't help but ask more questions.

"Yes." Bai Yuehu said slowly, "There used to be a lot of them, but now there are very few."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Rarely."

Bai Yuehu: "Hmm." But instead of explaining why, he digressed and began to introduce Lu Qingjiu to the strange-looking creatures around him.

Many of the animals here are unrecorded in the Shanhaijing, some ferocious, some beautiful, swimming in the azure waters like a grotesque and beautiful dream, and Bai Yuehu is the messenger of the dream, bringing Lu Qingjiu here.

As he enters the sea, Bai Yuehu dives deeper and deeper, seemingly swimming into an abyss, and the light fades as the animals around him begin to fade.

The deep sea is out of reach of even the sun, and the surroundings become quiet, with only the faintest sound of the currents rushing by.

Lu Qingjiu was a little tired of sitting, so he lay down on Bai Yuehu's body, his face pressed against Bai Yuehu's cold black scales, and wondered, "How deep is it here?"

Bai Yuehu replied, and he seemed a little uncomfortable, his tone twisting up, "It's very deep."

Lu Qingjiu said: "How deep is it?"

Bai Yuehu said, "It's the place that connects to the heart of the earth."

Lu Qingjiu is a little curious: "My birthday present is right there."

"Well." Bai Yuehu said, "It's right there." He could have taken it out and given it directly to Lu Qingjiu, but on reflection he chose to bring Lu Qingjiu over to pick it up in person. A strange feeling was driving him, and he somehow wanted Lu Qingjiu to see the world he lived in, to see his beloved homeland.

"Good." Lu Qingjiu smiled and reached out to touch the scales, "I'm looking forward to it already."

Bai Yuehu gave a soft murmur, his long tail sliding freely through the water with a muffled sound, the darkening light telling Lu Qingjiu that they were diving deeper, but in this moment, Lu Qingjiu was not afraid.

What the author has to say: Bai Yuehu: I have a surprise for you.

Lu Qingjiu: What

Bai Yuehu: Let you touch the most important part of my body.

Lu Qingjiu: Oh, taking off your trousers is letting me touch your tail, etc.