Chapter 540 – Birthday Presen
“When is your birthday?”
I received a text from Xiao Qin on July 26th, even though she already knew the answer to her question.
Since I was born new years, even students from class 2-3 who weren’t familiar with , knew my birthday.
Basically, the real reason Xiao Qin asked was to remind that her birthday was coming up soon.
July 28, the beginning of World War I, it was easy to rember Xiao Qin’s birthday.
“I’ll call everyone over to celebrate your birthday.” I replied to Xiao Qin, “Just like Gong CaiCai’s birthday, how about it?”
Xiao Qin was overjoyed I had rembered her birthday after only a simple reminder.
“(^__^) hehehe… finally another birthday, I’m one year closer to the legal age of marriage…”
I don’t even need to ask, she must be planning to marry as soon as shes reaches 20 years old.
“Actually, a few days ago the class leader asked if I wanted to celebrate my birthday with a few classmates” Xiao Qin continued, “But I said I would be with my mother and celebrate at a relative’s ho, so I politely declined. “
“Huh, so then there’s nothing for to do.” I said while thinking if Xiao Qin’s so-called relatives will be Auntie Ren’s father, so gramps Ren.
“How would it work if Ye Lin classmate is missing?” Xiao Qin hurriedly said, “I lied to the class leader because I wanted to celebrate my birthday with Ye Lin classmate. I even told my mother I wouldn’t be ho because I was going to celebrate with my classmates.”
So in order to spend her birthday with , she lied to both the class leader and Auntie Ren?
“Then… what do you want to eat, I’ll go ahead and book a restaurant.”
“There’s nothing in particular that I want to eat… I ate enough cake last ti at Gong CaiCai’s party… can you take to an amusent park to celebrate my birthday? I’ve always wanted to go with Ye Lin classmate to an amusent park.”
Xiao Qin begged .
I don’t know why, but I felt a sense of guilt. Perhaps it was because I had been neglecting her since sumr break started.
I was still really uncomfortable with the identity of being “Xiao Qin’s boyfriend”.
“I’m fine with an amusent park. Wait for at the entrance of the largest amusent park downtown on July 28. I’ll be there at 9, right when it opens. Did you get all of it?”
“I… got it.” Xiao Qin repeated with insecurity.
“Umm… you will be there right? You will definitely be there right and won’t stand up?”
“Eh, what made you think that?”
“Because… Ye Lin classmate is petty and still rembers about the ti when I bullied you. That’s why you might stand up to break my heart…”
It’s not that I’m petty, but you’re bullying was inhumane. Plus, you took away my Swiss Army knife right before the break began, so I really should get revenge if I think about it.
But it would be too cruel to stand her up on her birthday because of that. I’ll think of another way to get back brother Optimus Pri and the Swiss Army knife.
“Don’t worry, I will be there on ti since birthdays are only once a year.”
“Well, I’ll be eagerly counting the days at ho. Please don’t miss our date or I’ll live at the entrance of the amusent park without going ho until Ye Lin classmates cos to claim .”
Stop embarrassing , do you think you’re a small dog or cat?
After promising Xiao Qin, it seems my dad heard so isolated phrases because I spoke too loudly on the phone, and said to at dinner:
“Is a female classmate’s birthday coming up? What gifts did you prepare?”
Ah, the gift, I would have forgot if my dad didn’t remind .
“Dad, you misheard, it was a salesperson from 10086. I had nothing to do so I had a chat with her.”
Dad, who was eating so fried noodles, choked, “But our family is using China Unicom’s family plan, your phone has a Unicom number.”
“Well… yeah.” I nodded, “That’s why a China Mobile salesman called, hoping we can change to their plans, since they’re competitors.”
After fooling my dad, I began to seriously consider what gift to give to Xiao Qin.
Usually, it would be sothing like a doll, accessories, or clothing.
But that would an I would have to go to gift stores or clothing stores where there are girls everywhere and ask the clerk to tie them up with a ribbon to announce “I have a girlfriend”.
Should I buy it online? But there’s less than two days before Xiao Qin’s birthday, so what if the delivery doesn’t make it on ti?
Also I really don’t know how to pick a birthday gift for a girl, so troubleso.
I also heard there was a list of taboos for gifts for girls. For example, you would get a beating if you gave a fat girl a treadmill. That’s relatively easy to understand, but there are other taboos too.
You can’t give an umbrella, because the word umbrella is an homonym for the word ‘to break up’, which ans you want to break up.
You can’t give shoes either, because it ans you want her to leave, which also implies you want to break up.
But I did give a shoe as a present before, did I subconsciously want to break up with Xiao Qin? But Xiao Qin was rather happy instead of being sad.
I looked online and it seems opinions differ greatly about taboos. No one was able to reach a consensus, for example wind chis, so people say it implies a breakup while so other people say it ans you miss them…
It wasn’t this troubleso when I used birthdays with Brother Gang or with captain Guo SongTao along with the rest of the basketball team. It wasn’t popular to give gifts between boys, we would just get together to have a good ti, eat so barbecue, steal so beer, and everything would be OK.
The next day, I still hadn’t thought about what to give Xiao Qin for her birthday.
Tomorrow is the 28th, so I had to get things done today.
I was determined to go to the jewelry store to pick sothing out, but before I entered, I was dragged into a black car parked on the street.
After I got into the car, I found Xiao Qin’s biological father, Huo ZhenBang, sitting in the passenger seat with a sickly look on his face and looking at through the rear view mirror.
The ones who dragged into the car were, of course, his n, Uncle Tiger (Hu), Uncle Leopard (Bao), and the one-eyed Uncle Long, who sat in the driver’s seat.
“My daughter’s birthday is coming up.” Huo ZhenBang muttered to himself, “Every year, I would mail birthday gifts to Xiao Qin, but they were all returned by her mother…”
It seems that Auntie Ren really hated her ex-husband. I guess it was an unforgivable sin to cheat and also conceal his ties to the triads.
“If I’m not mistaken.” Huo ZhenBang slightly turned his head back towards , “Xiao Qin is planning to spend this birthday with you, right?”
I nodded silently.
“As expected.” Huo ZhenBang took out a beautifully wrapped gift box and handed it to , then he looked in the eye and said, “This is the gift I prepared for Xiao Qin this year, I’ll have you pass it on to her.”
I reached out and took it. It felt quite heavy, but I didn’t know what was inside.
“But don’t say it’s from , or her mother will get angry.” Huo ZhenBang laughed bitterly and then coughed.
Although Huo ZhenBang lost his wife and daughter because he was fooling around with other won, and now he was also infected with AIDS, I couldn’t help but feel a bit of sympathy for a triad boss standing at the end of the road.
“Um, Mr. Huo, I will pass on your gift to Xiao Qin, but I don’t think it’s right to pretend it’s my gift.”
“It’s perfectly fine.” Huo ZhenBang’s expression instantly fierce up, “Just give this box to Xiao Qin, don’t do anything unnecessary and buy another gift. It would prevent Xiao Qin from getting suspicious, she doesn’t know I’m here and I don’t want her to know either.”
I couldn’t figure out what Huo ZhenBang was thinking, but could only nod my head in agreent when faced against a triad boss.
After all, it was a gift from a terminally ill father to his beloved daughter. It must have been carefully selected and definitely more exquisite and significant than the impromptu gift chosen by an amateur like .
Huo ZhenBang nodded with satisfaction after I agreed to give Xiao Qin his gift. He also gave two tickets in return.
“Ye Lin, I heard you like fighting. Are you interested in watching so underground fights?”
Eh, underground fights that Peng TouSi once was devoted to? It’s surprising it exists in Dong Shan city.
The tickets were very different from tickets for normal theaters and cinemas. It had detailed printing but it was very thin and very easily damaged, as if they were designed to be easily torn up in case of ergency.
“These two tickets were given to A Long by an old custor from the mainland.” Huo ZhenBang glanced at Uncle Long who was in the driver’s seat, “We’ve seen this kinds of competition many tis and aren’t very interested in them anymore, but if you haven’t seen it before, you can go and broaden your horizons.”
I took the ticket and I began to imagine fighters in a ring all as strong as Peng TouSi.
“The other ticket isn’t for you to take Xiao Qin. After her birthday, choose a friend you trust and take him with you, but underground boxing isn’t a legal sport, so you must be careful of cops. If you get targeted, tear up the ticket and swallow it, okay.”
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