A ten-year rival in love

Chapter 73 birthday present.

"Ah, no." Li Xu said, "I'm going home today. Say happy birthday to your wife for me."

Li Yansheng smiled and said: "Hey, that's what you said. Let's meet again another day. I will thank you for talking about Xiao Lang."

Speaking of Shao Lang, Li Xu had to ask: "How is he now?"

"That's it." Li Yansheng said, "He can't get up or down. He recently got a prosthesis and is learning to walk again. His friend is very patient and has been helping him."

Judging by Li Yansheng's attitude, he doesn't know anything about Shao Lang and Li Yan.Even a bohemian person like Shao Lang would be afraid of making his family feel sad for him.

"It's 03:30 in the afternoon, less than two hours before the end of get off work." Li Yansheng patted him on the shoulder, "Happy birthday, Brother Xu."

Li Xu smiled and said, "Thank you."

He walked to his office, thinking back on what he said just now, he always felt that something was not right.He couldn't figure out what was wrong specifically, but he felt a strange sense of irritability in his heart.

While sitting on the seat, he seemed to hear someone whispering a word in his ear.

I want to give you a special gift.

He looked up at Xiao Zhang, who was burying his head in sorting the files into folders.

"What time is it?" Li Xu asked.

"42:[-]." Xiao Zhang said, "Lawyer Li, can I leave early today?"

His question squeezed the question that Li Xu wanted to say out of his head, and replaced it with another question: This is the first time he said that he would leave work early, what is he going to do?

"You can leave early after the work is finished." Li Xu said, "It happens that I have something to leave first, do you want me to give you a lift?"

Xiao Zhang showed a shy smile: "There is no need for Lawyer Li, I will take the subway by myself."

"Okay." Li Xu looked at him without blinking, "There are many villains during the festival, so be careful on the road, and be careful not to be targeted."

"..." Xiao Zhang's heart skipped a beat, "Thank you...Lawyer Li."

Speaking of holidays, today is his birthday.

In the past, he didn't pay much attention to birthdays. It was his mother who kept whispering in his ears how long his birthday would be, trying her best to get him some delicious food, and looking forward to his return home.If he is too busy, he will send food to his apartment, do housework and wait for him to go back.

Those troubles came back to his mind again.

Why can't there be the best of both worlds in this world, but have to make a choice?

At 04:30 in the afternoon, Xiao Zhang said hello and left work with a briefcase.Li Xu straightened his body to relieve the soreness in his limbs, and walked to the window to look outside.

There were other people walking with Xiao Zhang, and Li Xu saw that it was a certain female lawyer from the law firm. They talked and laughed all the way forward, and slowly left Li Xu's sight.

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"Come to Brown tonight?" Lu Hui said on the other end of the phone, "It doesn't matter if you come later, I'll wait for you."

Li Xu smiled and asked, "Do you want to surprise me?"

"It's not a surprise if you say it." Lu Hui didn't know what he was doing, and there was always the sound of something falling down.

"What are you doing there?"

It took a while for Lu Hui to reply: "Isn't it Christmas Eve tomorrow? I'm doing decorations for the event. The two newcomers have bad hands and feet."

Li Xu quietly listened to the movement over there for a while, but for some reason, there was always a strange feeling.He couldn't grasp that emotion, so he couldn't judge it, just like a prank child whistling past your ears like a gust of wind, leaving you standing there in a daze.

"Are you going home now?" Lu Hui asked.

"Yeah. I'm on my way and I'll be there soon." Li Xu looked at the road conditions outside, "Probably."

"Are you stuck in traffic again?" Lu Hui smiled, "Traffic jam started so early?"

"It's not like the usual traffic jam. There seems to be a traffic accident ahead." Li Xu turned on the radio and heard the radio host's magnetic male voice: "...At 23:23 p.m. In the collision incident, the vehicle was severely damaged, one owner was seriously injured, and the other was confirmed dead on the spot..."

"You listen to the news." Li Xu said, "Sure enough, there was a car accident."

"I heard." Lu Hui said, "He died again. I always feel uncomfortable when I hear the news of the dead. How far is your place from your parents' house?"

"Not far, about four kilometers away."

"It should be soon, be careful on the road." Lu Hui said, "Be careful."

It took nearly half an hour for the scene of the crash to be cleared and the road resumed operation.It was an hour before Li Xu returned home, and half of the city's news bulletins were released.

"Did you encounter a car accident on the road?" Li's mother asked when she came up to pick him up, "Did you see the scene? Was it scary?"

"I didn't see it." Li Xu knelt down to change his shoes, "What delicious food did you cook today?"

"Hey... You must pay attention when you go out in the future. The young people nowadays take driving as a joke, and don't take human lives as their lives."

"Why do you always say how old you are?" Li Xu said with a smile, "You are obviously still young."

"I'm getting old, I'm getting old, I'm going to be sixty soon, I'm looking forward to having a grandson in my arms and enjoying life—"

"Mom." Li Xu changed the subject helplessly, "Where's Uncle Yin?"

"He went out to buy wine, and he said he wanted to have a good drink." Li's mother said, "I had already bought a gift for your partner, a jade bracelet, which is so pretty, but she didn't have time to come over."

After she said that, she went to the room and took out a mahogany box, and handed it to Li Xu.

"You gave it to her for me, it's a sign of your heart."

Li Xu looked at the box in his hand, not knowing what expression to make: "..."

"...Thank you Mom."

Before his stepfather came back, Li Xu made a video call with Yin Huishan on his mobile phone.Yin Huishan was there happily wishing Li Xu a happy birthday, and then Li's mother started chatting with her.When mentioning that Li Xu didn't bring his girlfriend back, Yin Huishan said with a smile: "Don't worry so much, Xuzi has grown up and has her own ideas about what to do."

Before Li's mother finished complaining, she heard the old man coming back outside, and hurriedly asked Li Xu to turn off the video, and she went out to talk to the old man by herself.

Li Xu and Yin Huishan looked at each other in the video, Yin Huishan was distressed and funny, and couldn't say a word.

Li Xu said, "Sister, thank you."

"What are you thanking us for? You..." Yin Huishan wanted to sigh, but she was afraid of bringing bad emotions to Li Xu, "Okay, be happy, it's my birthday, and I'm one year older."

Li Xu smiled and said, "It's one year older again."

Yin Huishan also laughed, and after a while she said, "Hang it up, lest my dad be upset when he sees it."

After the video was over for a long time, Li Xu was still thinking about the loneliness in Yin Huishan's voice: I'm afraid this is also my future fate.

Lu Zhao sat on the bar and swayed his legs: "Should I sing happy birthday or today is a good day? Ah... let's sing Little Apple, you are my little little apple~"

Lu Hui was fiddling with the radio in his hand. It had been useless for a long time, and it went up and down. He didn't know which nerve was wrong, so he suddenly wanted to fix it.

"What is this?" Lu Zhao jumped off the bar and patted the little black thing, "Is this a brand? Don't move around by yourself, find a shop to repair it. I remember it can still record, but I don't know How to record."

"So advanced?" Lu Hui stopped his hands, "Then help me take a look."

Lu Zhao took it and put it in his hand to play with: "When will my sister-in-law come over? It's so boring."

"It might be later, he's still at home with his parents." Lu Hui said, "Has the cake arrived yet?"

"It's here!" Lu Zhao jumped up and down, "I'll go get it out!"

It was just after ten o'clock when Li Xu came.The bar is not open today, only some of Lu Hui's friends from the gay circle sat quietly in the dark, waiting for the arrival of another leading man.

Normally, the brown at this time of day should already be noisy, but today it is lifeless and without light.Li Xu stood at the door, trying to figure out what Lu Hui wanted to do with his heels.

It was finally time to face Lu Hui's friends... Li Xu took a deep breath, it was inevitable, but he needed to socialize more.

Having prepared his heart, he stretched out his hand and pushed open the door, stepping into the darkness that hides the excitement.

The light flooded his whole body in an instant.

Li Xu spent the whole night in a dizzy atmosphere. He couldn't remember how many people blessed him, how many people stuffed him with gifts, and how many people laughed and dismissed him and Lu Hui. Lu Hui smiled and reprimanded him.

This is a world completely different from reality, where all the people gathered here are his and Lu Hui's kind, no one will look at them with strange eyes, no one will lament how difficult their road ahead is.

Lu Hui sang a sweet love song to him on the stage, and he didn't want to look up because of the ambiguous or envious eyes of the people around him.

Like a sudden midsummer night's dream, his mind was numb and there was no room to think about it.

They were heckled to share a bar of chocolate while the birthday cake was being cut.Lu Hui refused: "What kind of young people are you going to learn when you're in the middle of the third year?"

But that group of people watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal, so they made a fuss to let them finish eating the chocolate.Lu Hui half pushed and half agreed: "Don't make trouble."

A few discerning people slowly took the topic away. Lu Zhao picked up a piece of cake and smashed it with the boys. The room was filled with screaming and laughing.

The birthday party just ended in the middle of the night, and when the last few couples were sent away, Li Xu almost collapsed on the sofa chair.

"Aren't you used to it?" Lu Hui sat next to him, "I've already told you that you don't like to make trouble like this, but they still can't restrain themselves, really."

"It's okay." Li Xu said, "It's fine, I'm very happy."

There was a sudden shock below them, and a blast of heavy metal music burst out, startling them.

"Sorry about my phone!" Lu Zhao stretched out a hand, took the phone and looked at it, "My boss's."

Lu Hui: "What is your boss calling you in the middle of the night?"

Lu Zhao didn't listen at all, she jumped away long ago.The younger sister couldn't help it, he sighed in his heart, and continued to lie on the sofa with Li Xu.

His gaze swept to the leftover chocolate roll next to the cake, and he suddenly asked Li Xu, "Do you want to eat chocolate?"

Li Xu: "Huh?"

Lu Hui stuffed the chocolate roll into his mouth, bent down and grabbed the other end.Li Xu understood that Lu Hui really wanted to play this kind of "little young" game.

Chick, naive to death.

"If you're shy, close your eyes." Lu Hui reached out to cover his eyes, because the words in his mouth were a little vague, "I started?"

Because of these words, Li Xu felt a little nervous in his heart.

Lu Hui's teeth broke through the chocolate little by little, and gradually reached Li Xu's lips...

Li Xu pushed him away violently.

"..." Lu Hui was a little caught off guard, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know." Li Xu was also a little confused, he looked at his hands, "Subconscious... I don't know either."

He looked at Lu Hui again: "I didn't do it on purpose."