The Mid-Autumn Festival in 2018 is September 24, which happens to be Lin Zhixia’s birthday.

Lin Zhixia keenly realized that Jiang Yubai arranged a birthday surprise for her.

On the evening of September 23, Lin Zhixia pretended to know nothing and lay quietly on the bed.

The thick curtains blocked the moonlight tonight, and there was no trace of light in the bedroom. Jiang Yubai hugged Lin Zhixia tightly in the darkness. He asked her in anger: "Are you asleep?"

Lin Zhixia said shamelessly: "I fell asleep."

She heard Jiang Yubai laughing softly, and the laughter made her feel particularly happy. She groped Jiang Yubai's side face and quietly touched him and kissed him. He grabbed her finger and kissed her from the root of her finger to the palm. Her breathing gradually became faster and she couldn't help asking: "Will guests come to our family tomorrow morning?"

"You don't have to get up early." Jiang Yubai said in a vague way.

Lin Zhixia hooked his neck: "Look at the watch, it's eleventh.

There was no wall clock or luminous watch in the bedroom. Jiang Yubai kissed her on the cheek and asked her: "How do you know what time is now?"

"I guessed it." Lin Zhixia revealed.

Jiang Yubai turned on his phone without believing in the evil spirit, and the screen showed that the current time was 11:31 at night.

Lin Zhixia doesn't like staying up late, and Jiang Yubai can't make trouble. He silently put down his phone and patted Lin Zhixia's back: "I guessed very accurately, it's time to go to bed."

Lin Zhixia yawned: "Good night."

"Good night baby," he responded.

Lin Zhixia also added: "Baby."

This sleep was slept until eight o'clock the next morning. When Lin Zhixia woke up, Jiang Yubai was changing clothes in front of her. She knew that Jiang Yubai was deliberately changing to her. She couldn't help but sit up straight and carefully looked at his whole body like observing artworks.

Countless related memories appeared in my mind, and Lin Zhixia fell into a soft quilt. She rolled on the bed wrapped in a quilt until Jiang Yubai walked over and held her down.

Jiang Yubai skillfully stripped her out of the quilt.

But she said: "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, I want to stay in bed."

"What time are you going to be on?" Jiang Yubai reminded her, "At noon, there is a party at home and some guests are coming."

Lin Zhixia nodded: "I guess you invited my parents, brother, and your uncle and aunt. You want to organize a family gathering, but your parents are both talking about business abroad and will probably not return to China in September this year."

Jiang Yubai wanted to say "No, you guessed it wrong", but every sentence Lin Zhixia said was true. He sat by the bed, and Lin Zhixia put his chin on his shoulders, and the warm breath blew from behind his ears, inducing a throbbing feeling that seemed to be there and not be.

"Baby." Lin Zhixia called him like this again.

She seemed to have learned this word last night, and she repeatedly practiced it in Jiang Yubai's ear this morning.

"Xia Xia." He called her nickname.

"What are you doing?" Lin Zhixia asked back.

Jiang Yubai stood up without warning, and Lin Zhixia looked up at him.

He turned around and threw her onto the bed like a tiger going down the mountain. She had no time to react, so she could only grab the pillow and put it on his chest, and pushed him with a slight refusal. The two of them played with laughter and fuss for half an hour, and Lin Zhixia's cell phone ring suddenly rang.

The caller is Lin Zeqiu.

Lin Zhixia greeted him: "Brother, good morning."

Lin Zeqiu said directly: "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, and parents miss you very much. Mom went to the vegetable market, bought two kilograms of shrimp, and made a pot of shrimp dumplings for you. The dumplings are not delicious when they are cold. Parents want to go to your house now and send you dumplings, okay?"

Lin Zhixia asked back: "Come now?"

Lin Zeqiu answered the question irrelevantly: "Have you had breakfast?"

Lin Zhixia told the truth: "Not yet."

Lin Zeqiu said in confusion: "You haven't gotten up yet, are you?"

Lin Zhixia immediately jumped out of bed: "How is that possible? I've woken up long ago."

Lin Zeqiu attributed the responsibility to Jiang Yubai: "There is no breakfast at Jiang Yubai's house?"

Lin Zhixia turned on the hands-free function, and Jiang Yubai clearly heard their conversation. Jiang Yubai sneered in his heart, but said gently on the surface: "Your brother grew up with you, and he seems to know your taste better than me."

Lin Zeqiu took a breath, and it was a long time since he had lost it. This high-end green tea flavor with fresh and elegant appearance.

But Lin Zhixia just took this set.

She whispered to Jiang Yubai: "You are the one who knows me the best."

In order to welcome her parents' arrival, Lin Zhixia rushed into the bathroom and took a shower quickly. She picked a dress from the cloakroom and sorted out the instrument in front of the mirror. Then, she held Jiang Yubai's hand and went downstairs with him.

Lin Zhixia's happy mood deeply infected Jiang Yubai. When he saw his father-in-law and mother-in-law, he smiled and reached out to help his father-in-law carry things. His father-in-law asked him: "Xiao Jiang, are you busy with work recently?"

"It's okay," said Jiang Yubai, "I'm quite idle in the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday these two days."

My father-in-law said, "It's good to be idle. Have more rest. You and Xia Xia are still young, so you should sleep more and eat more. In a few years, you will become parents. Xia Xia and her mother can help you take care of your children and not delay your daily work."

After hearing this conversation, Lin Zeqiu's arms were a little stiff.

Lin Zeqiu always felt that he was still very young and he was not ready to be his uncle. Especially in his impression, having a baby was a very painful thing, and Lin Zhixia was extremely low tolerant of pain. When she was two or three years old, she accidentally knocked her down while walking and cried for several days, and the whole family took turns to coax her.

Lin Zeqiu showed a worried expression.

Jiang Yubai also shirked: "Let's talk about it in a few years, we are not ready yet."

He bypassed the topic of children and talked with his father-in-law about the courses at the senior citizen university. His father-in-law and mother-in-law both signed up for several training classes at the senior citizen university in the community - his father-in-law likes history and traditional culture. He signed up for a tea art class, often listening to storytelling and practicing Tai Chi.

"I have collected a few new ancient books," Jiang Yubai said generously, "I'll give it to you."

My father-in-law was about to agree, but then he thought about it and quickly refused: "Is that thing very expensive? Keep it, keep it, don't give it to me."

Jiang Yubai changed his words: "Then you go to the study with me later. If you like it, I will lend it to you and return it to me after reading it."

The father-in-law immediately responded: "Okay, okay."

Jiang Yubai remembered Lin Zhixia's catchphrase "Okay", and it was indeed a family, so he couldn't help but curl his lips and smile.

Even though Lin Zeqiu came to Jiang Jubai's house a few times, he would still be stunned for a few seconds when he entered the door.

He stood at the door, looked up at the high ceiling, and Lin Zhixia ran over by his side and followed his mother tightly: "Mom, the shrimp dumplings you made are the best."

Lin Zhixia is mature and calm in front of outsiders, and acts decisively. When she arrives in front of her mother, she is almost the same as when she was a child. In the eyes of her parents, some children may never grow up.

Mom took Lin Zhixia to the kitchen. She carried the insulation bucket and said as she walked, "Mom was about to discuss with you. Mom doesn't work now, and she has a lot of time every day. Your school is so close. I go to the school every day at noon..."

Of course, Lin Zhixia didn't want her mother to work so hard. She said: "No, the food in the teacher's cafeteria is very good. Our school hired a chef from a five-star hotel."

She hugged her mother's arm: "Lin Zeqiu and I are completely independent. You and Dad can start to enjoy life. I'll sign you up for a tour group. Where do you want to go?"

"Hey, how about Sichuan?" said my mother, "Your dad wants to go to Sichuan to eat hot pot, and Sichuan snacks are very famous."

Lin Zhixia agreed: "Okay, okay."

While Lin Zhixia was chatting with her mother in the kitchen, her father followed Jiang Yubai to the study.

My father talked about his life experience in front of his son-in-law for the first time: "I am at home, the fourth place. My family is a poor peasant, and I have only two dirt houses, and the kitchen is built in the yard. Xiaojiang, have you ever seen that kind of dirt kang?"

He gestured with his hand: "The bedding is lifted up, and it is a kang. There is no table at home. I lay on the kang to write, read, and borrow books from educated youth in the countryside - that book, there are traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. During the years I studied in middle school, I learned well in Chinese and history courses, and my mathematics did not exceed ten or ten, and I had a paper of one hundred points."

Jiang Yubai's grades in various subjects in middle school have always been stable at more than 90. He dared not imagine what kind of talent he and Lin Zhixia's daughter would have.

My father-in-law was still remembering the bitterness and sweetness. Jiang Yubai opened the bookcase, took out a few old-blocked antique books, and handed them to his father-in-law.

My father-in-law sighed: "In the countryside, the educated youth had such books in their hands. They could not even buy them on the market."

He held the book and read it carefully.

Jiang Yubai greeted his father-in-law and left the study. When he came to the restaurant, he saw Lin Zhixia and Lin Zeqiu eating shrimp dumplings. The nanny from Jiang Yubai's family also squeezed a glass of fresh strawberry juice for Lin Zhixia.

Lin Zhixia ate two dumplings in a row and drank strawberry juice happily. She saw Jiang Yubai and asked him, "What should we eat at noon?"

"Seafood barbecue," said Jiang Yubai, "After returning from Hainan, you always mention seafood barbecue."

Lin Zhixia put down her chopsticks.

Jiang Yubai sat next to her: "There is also a strawberry cake."

Lin Zhixia slapped the table: "It's perfect."

"What drinks do you drink? Do you have any wine at home?" Lin Zeqiu suddenly interrupted.

Jiang Yubai said with ease: "My home has red wine, white wine and beer, which one do you like to drink?"

The brother and sister Lin Zeqiu and Lin Zhixia have one thing in common - they both have poor alcohol tolerance and never admit that their wine is not good.

Lin Zeqiu wiped his mouth and praised him: "Come on some white, red ones are fine, it depends on how much you can drink."

Lin Zhixia was a little confused: "Lin Zeqiu, is your alcohol content very good?"

Lin Zeqiu asked her: "Why do you call me my full name?"

"Call me casually," said Lin Zhixia, "Don't you often call me my full name?"

Lin Zeqiu was speechless.

After a few seconds, he said, "I am your biological brother to your father and mother after all."

Lin Zhixia copied his words intact: "After all, I am your father and mother's sister."

In fact, since Lin Zhixia moved to Jiang Yubai's home, she and Lin Zeqiu have fewer opportunities to meet.

Lin Zeqiu missed the days when he and his sister were bickering. However, he and Lin Zhixia were both adults in their twenties. Even if there was a dispute, they would only have a few quarrels at most. They would not yell at the top of their voices like when they were young, and they would go back and forth.
To be continued...