Chapter 127 Zhang Haotian’s birthday

Zhang Haotian looked along Shangguan Yumei's gaze, but he saw that the sunset was already backing the mountain. There were a few white silk clouds in the sky, painted with a layer of rays of rays, like bright and dazzling satin. The light left in the forest was like a glass of old Chen's red wine, with some clear golden yellow and a bit like watercolor hazy. Gradually the smoke spread. At this moment, the birds were traveling through the air and returning to their nests, and the whole mountain was returning to a kind of emptiness and tranquility.

At this moment, Zhang Haotian did not feel the sadness that Shangguan Yumei said. He only felt that the red light in the sky was like faded blood, and the figures in the forest were all wrapped in the blood.

We hugged each other and looked at the scenery of the sky and the mountains silently. Gradually, the night sky had fallen. The red sunset in the western sky turned purple, gray, and black, and finally escaped. A faint crescent moon had appeared among the floating clouds.

At this time, tourists from the observation deck also began to leave. Zhang Haotian felt a little hungry. When he came here just now, he saw a restaurant on the right side of the mountain. He said, "Sister Yumei, the sunset is almost gone. Let's go to the restaurant outside to eat something casually?"

Unexpectedly, Shangguan Yumei shook her head and smiled and said, "You're hungry, Haotian, come with me."

As she said, she bent down and picked up the cardboard box placed on the ground, and walked out of the observation deck. Zhang Haotian didn't know what she was selling in the gourd, so he had to follow her.

After getting off the observation deck, Shangguan Yumei did not go to the restaurant, but headed towards a corner on the west side of the top of the mountain. Not long after, she saw a not too slanted hillside. There were some smooth rocks on the hillside, and only occasionally a few pine trees grew out of the rocks.

Shangguan Yumei handed the cardboard box to Zhang Haotian's hand, took off her high heels, and walked down the hillside. She went down for about 40 or 50 meters before she stopped by a flat and smooth rock. She asked Zhang Haotian to put the cardboard box on the rock. Then she turned around, smiled and kissed Zhang Haotian gently on the face and said, "Haotian, happy birthday."

When Zhang Haotian heard this, he thought about what date it was today. He suddenly realized it. He patted his head and said, "Oh, today is my 22nd birthday. I forgot, Sister Yumei, how did you know?"

Shangguan Yumei looked at him and smiled and said, "I'm sorry, when I collected you something last time, I accidentally flipped through your ID card and remembered your birthday."

As she said this, she lowered her head and opened the carton. She first took out a box of exquisitely packaged birthday cakes from it. Then she took out two plastic boxes and opened them, but it was a box of fried meat rolls and a box of fried squid rings.

Zhang Haotian looked at the meat roll and the squid rings not very ornamental, and immediately understood, "You made it."

Shangguan Yumei said softly, "I know you have a birthday today, so I thought about celebrating with you alone, and then I bought a recipe and learned to make these two things. Don't you see that they are not good-looking, but the taste is OK. I have tried it, you can try it."

As she said that, she picked up a roll of meat with her snow-white slender hands and handed it to his mouth.

Zhang Haotian took a bite and the taste was salty and light, but it was not bad. He knew in his heart that Shangguan Yumei, who did not know the cooking skills at all, must have taken a lot of time to achieve this level and did not know how much broken meat had been poured. He was moved and ate the meat roll in a few bites, and then said with praise: "Okay, okay, Sister Yumei, you have such a good taste for the first time you cook. It's really rare. If you practice it again, you might be a chef."

Shangguan Yumei listened to her lover's praise, and her thoughts were not in vain. She laughed happily and said, "Really, you are not allowed to praise me so that I can be happy."

Zhang Haotian shook his head and said, "No, no, I am the most upholding principle. It tastes delicious and it tastes bad. I will never flatter you."

Shangguan Yumei smiled again, took out a pack of birthday candles, a bottle of red wine, and two glasses of wine from the carton, then untied the birthday cake and inserted candles on it. Zhang Haotian helped open the red wine from the side.

After getting ready, Shangguan Yumei took out a lighter to light a candle. However, the mountain breeze blew, and it took several times to light it. Zhang Haotian was about to blow it with his mouth, but was blocked by Shangguan Yumei's hand and said coquettishly: "Have you not blown your birthday cake? Why did you forget to make a wish?"

Although Shangguan Yumei was unintentional, she was right. Zhang Haotian never blew up a birthday cake in the past. The birthday on his ID card was the date when his adoptive father picked him up. From childhood to adulthood, Zhang Shizhong brought him up very diligently, hoping to be able to eat and wear warmly. Things like birthday cakes are really luxury goods, and he has no habit of celebrating his birthday.

Listening to Shangguan Yumei's words, he closed his eyes. However, when he was thinking about his wish, his life experience was actually flowing through his heart. What kind of person his father and mother are, where his roots are, all along, this may have been his greatest wish.

Thinking of this hidden pain, Zhang Haotian felt depressed and quickly opened his eyes and blew out all the candles in one breath. Shangguan Yumei clapped his hands to congratulate him one year older, and then asked him to cut the cake.

Looking at Shangguan Yumei who was celebrating for him, Zhang Haotian was unwilling to think about his worries, so he smiled and cut the cake, put it on a paper plate, and handed it to her. Shangguan Yumei took it and stretched out her hand, but the first mouthful was fed to his mouth.

After eating the cake, the two sat on the smooth stone. Shangguan Yumei raised her glass to congratulate him again. Zhang Haotian naturally drank it all, and was moved in his heart. Only then did he realize that a woman's affection could indeed turn a hundred steel into a soft finger.

After drinking a bottle of red wine, the two boxes of meat rolls and squid rings brought by Shangguan Yumei were also fed by her and Zhang Haotian had almost eaten. The two of them packed the remaining things into the carton and snuggled tightly on the big stone.

The wilderness on summer nights is peaceful and refreshing. The distant mountains, jungles, and mounds are all blurred, as if they are covered with a veil. The night is not all the same. The mountains, trees and hills have different colors, including ink black, thick black, light black, light black, and black gray like silver, which is as thick and thin as Chinese paintings. The night sky is full of stars, and the moon is like a fishing boat, as if sailing in a wide silver river, and looks like chrysanthemum petals floating in the blue water.

It was late summer at this time, and all kinds of insects were chirping beside the two of them, and from time to time, one or two crickets jumped onto them naughtyly.

Shangguan Yumei's body had completely snuggled into Zhang Haotian's arms. Looking at the crescent moon, she had a long time of divination before sighing quietly: "People have joys and sorrows, and the moon has phases and waxing. This matter is difficult to be complete in the past. Haotian, do you think we are sad or happy in the future, and will it be cloudy or sunny."

Zhang Haotian understood that Shangguan Yumei was inspired, but he could not predict the future of the two, and even his own. At that moment, he whispered: "Sister Yumei, I dare not give you any promises for the future, because I am afraid that I can't do it."

A trace of gloom flashed through Shangguan Yumei's eyes, but she nodded quickly and said, "I understand, Haotian, I really understand, I know that you are a person who keeps your promises, so you dare not make promises easily, and I also know what kind of path you are taking. Now, I just want to ask you, can you turn back and stop taking this path of no return, and work with me to do some small business in another city, and live a normal life peacefully."

Zhang Haotian immediately shook his head and said, "No, because I have promised others that I am destined to not live a peaceful and normal life. Sister Yumei, I'm sorry."

Shangguan Yumei was not disappointed and shook her head slowly and said, "You don't have to say sorry, because this is my luxury. I am five years older than you, and women are older than men. It's nothing now. But ten or twenty years later, I'm already old, but you are in your prime, and I believe that by that time, you have become a very great person and are respected by others. There will be too many young and beautiful women around you, and I may not even have a memory in your heart."

Listening to Shangguan Yumei's tone, she was very sad, and even began to feel unconfident in herself. Zhang Haotian lowered his head, kissed her smooth cheeks, and whispered: "Sister Yumei, do you remember the first time we asked me to promise something? I will remember that thing forever."

Before Shangguan Yumei gave him to Zhang Haotian, he did make him promise to keep his place in his heart forever. Unexpectedly, Zhang Haotian said it again tonight, which proves that he has always remembered it firmly.

In the faint moonlight, looking at the young and handsome man, Shangguan Yumei's eyes suddenly became moved and confused. She murmured: "Haotian, thank you, thank you for remembering what you said to me."
Chapter completed!