Chapter 273.

My sister’s birthday is always before or after New Year’s Day, sometimes during the New Year’s Day holiday. But Dad and Mom were only free on New Year’s Day holiday, so they were uniformly on the holiday as well.

Cheng Ming’s birthday, after the New Year and right after the start of the school year, was only one day away from Jing’s birthday.

When they still lived in the compound, the two families spent time together and celebrated together, and Cheng Ming was considered to have dipped into Jing Jing’s light.

Cheng Ming’s birthday after he moved was basically a bowl of longevity noodles, a green onion, and two red eggs.

I was also a bit more pretentious in my youth, saying that I didn’t really want to have a birthday, and that I wouldn’t go out of my way to tell anyone what day my birthday was.

But then internally there’s that tiny bit of expectation that someone will ask what day your birthday is, or in hindsight say, “So it’s your birthday.”

My sister always remembers, sometimes when my mom is busy and forgets, she remembers, and will give Cheng Ming his birthday present on the evening of his birthday.

Cheng Ming’s old thought that his sister hadn’t finished her winter vacation homework, and he ended up being hammered with a set of small pink fists.

But there have been experiences of receiving gifts and then doing winter vacation homework together.

Preparations for my sister’s birthday began on the morning of the first day of the New Year’s Day vacation, and Rei wanted to celebrate her birthday before going home.

In addition to Jing Jing’s family, but also invited Suzume Suzuru they, the two families have been quite close recently, mom will go to the store to sit after each pregnancy test.

Sister Qiaoyun has been liberated from the back kitchen and has been turned into the general manager, taking over the previous job of Sister Shen Shin, who has other work to do.

Sister Qiaoyun is poorly educated, not even graduating from elementary school.

At first it was a strong refusal, Cheng Ming let her accompany her two daughters from elementary school, not only can accompany the children, they can also learn knowledge, two birds with one stone.

That was a reluctant yes.

Cheng Ming has too few available, creditable people, and it sounds pompous for a high school student to have to train his own class or something.

But it’s not as if the candidates who are going to hold the line and watch the house need to be more talented; loyalty is instead paramount.

Cheng Li counted the birthday gifts he received from his classmates, mostly greeting cards, and wrote down who sent what gift in his notebook, so that he would be ready to return the gift when the time came.

“Why don’t you invite your classmates over to our house when you’ve received so many gifts? Have a cake together.” Lai Ying asked as she looked at the gifts on the sofa.

“Eh, the relationship is not that good, if we ask one female classmate to come to our house, what about the other female classmates? If I invite them to play at home, they will invite me to their home later, if I don’t go, I won’t give them face, it’s so troublesome, I just want to stay at home on Sundays.”

Li Ying nudged Cheng Li’s forehead and laughed, “Little wit, saying so much, it’s just laziness, just like your brother.”

“I’m just learning from my brother.” Cheng Li playfully spat out her little tongue and said.

“But I’m also Xiao Li’s female classmate.” Zhao Ren said, pointing at herself.

Cheng Li pinched Zhao Ren’s face and said, “Little fool, you’re different, we’re family, not like them.”

“Didn’t even see Xiaoli bring her friends to play at home, I was worried that you didn’t have a single friend in school outside of Ren, now it seems that I was overly worried.” Cheng Ming crossed her arms and said with emotion.

“I wouldn’t dare ask my classmates to come over to the house to play, what if my brother reaches out to them?”

“What do you take me for?”

Cheng Ming hurriedly covered his sister’s mouth, but fortunately, his mom had already gone to the kitchen.

“Isn’t my brother’s favorite middle school girl? It’s not like I’m wrong.” Cheng Li broke off Cheng Ming’s hand and said with a small mouth.

That’s true, yes, but it’s a big problem.

In the late afternoon, the family received a call from Chen Ziyi.

“Xiaoming, come to my house to pick up the birthday gift my mom and I gave to Xiaoli, Uncle Liu sent my dad out, it’s too cold, I don’t want to go out on my bike.”

“Brother, hurry up and go get my birthday present back, gogogo!” said Cheng Li, who was eavesdropping on the call from the sidelines, raising his hand high.

“Aren’t you coming with me?”

That’s a rarity.

“Forget it, I’m the birthday girl today, I have to receive guests at home.” Cheng Li said reasonably.

“Is it really? It’s not the electric heater that’s too cozy?”

To the left and right of the couch were two electric heaters, one a small sun like a fan and the other a new floor standing heater with a couple of red lamps that filled the room with red light.

In January, a new wave of cold snaps hit the city, and snow fell in the country places and high mountains of South Minnesota.

But half a snowflake is still missing from the downtown area of Nanming City.

Cheng Ming went out in the cold wind and rode directly into the municipal compound, nodded and greeted the doorman, and was considered an old acquaintance here.

Cheng Ming rang the doorbell.

“Coming coming.”

Chen Ziyi opened the door at lightening speed, rather unkempt from her holiday.

Her hair was disheveled, with two or three sleep-aroused strands, and she wore a thick, bloated nightgown and pajama pants, and in her arms she carried a large and a small, delicately wrapped gift box.

It’s still rare to see such a scruffy and unkempt Chen Ziyi.

“The big one is my gift, the little one is my mom’s, so don’t get confused.”

Cheng Ming buckled the helmet in his hand on Chen Ziyi’s head and said, “Let’s go, gifts have to be given in person to be sincere, right?”

“Can I go?” Chen Ziyi asked back, flattered.

“Why can’t you? If I only bring your gift over and not you, my mom will ask later and I’ll have to be scolded for taking the blame, Xiao Li is Auntie Chen’s goddaughter, and you’re my mom’s goddaughter too.”

“Trying to take advantage of me again, you’re hopeless as a sister-controller, wait for me, I’m going to change my clothes, I didn’t plan on going out today.”

Chen Ziyi glanced down at her outfit, turned her head and ran into the house, and immediately ran out again, as if remembering that she had forgotten something.

Chen ZiYi pulled Cheng Ming’s cold hand into the house and said, “Why are you standing outside, aren’t you cold? Frozen into a fool, go inside and wait, there is hot coffee on the table, I just brewed it, you drink it to warm up your body.”

“Oh, then I’m welcome.” Cheng Ming covered this cup of hot coffee, the palm of his hand gradually warmed up, took a sip, so sweet that he had a headache, and was almost carried away directly.

“Your coffee is too sweet, isn’t it? How much granulated sugar did you add? Do you want to get sick of it?”

“How can you drink coffee if it’s not sweet? It’s all bitter and astringent, so if you don’t want to drink it, leave it, I’ll drink it myself.”

“Coffee is meant to be bitter to be refreshing.”

“That’s a grown-up smell, and I’m still a kid.”

Waiting for a woman to change her clothes was quite an ordeal, Chen ZiYi ran up and down the stairs, and then looked at the mirror in the bathroom for half a day.

Only then did she stand in front of Cheng Ming twirling her skirt and swaying her body from side to side and asked, “How about this outfit of mine?”

“It’s fine, it’s very fine, you look good in anything.” Cheng Ming rested his chin on one hand and said perfunctorily, he was already sleepy.

“Hmph, it’s Ri’s birthday today, I can’t clamor for attention, it’s best to be moderate, let’s go.”

“Yeah, finally we can go out.”

Without realizing it, he had been at Chen Ziyi’s house for almost an hour.

Cheng Ming drove Chen Ziyi back home, there was a small car parked downstairs, it was Dad’s, the quiet family stepped out of the car.

Chen Ziyi and Lin Jingyi locked eyes and immediately let go of Cheng Ming’s waist and jumped out of the car at light speed.

“Uh ……”

Cheng Ming’s back was cold, was it that cold today?