0p0 Chapter 224 Celebrating Huo Haocheng’s Birthday
Chapter 224 Celebrating Huo Haocheng’s Birthday
In the following time, the family building and the school were in full swing. Ruan Ruan occasionally followed Huo Haocheng to their group to watch the selection of new members, and her life finally became leisurely.
Time soon arrived and it was the Lantern Festival, which happened to be Huo Haocheng's birthday. It might be because he was very busy recently, or he simply forgot his birthday. Anyway, on this day, he went to the group early in the morning as usual.
Seeing that he left without saying anything, Ruan Ruan looked at his back in surprise and said to the system, "Tong, what do you think would happen if I knew that today was his birthday but he forgot it and I pretended to forget it and didn't celebrate it for him?"
"I don't know what he will do, but host, if you really do this, I think you will regret it before tomorrow, and you will think about today for the whole year." The kitten said with certainty while eating the dried fish that Huo Haocheng caught for him.
Of course, he said this because he understood Ruan Ruan. You can also understand it as, being soft-hearted. Just because Huo Haocheng never forgets to catch dried fish for him during his daily training breaks, he can't let him miss his birthday.
Seeing him chewing the dried fish non-stop, every word he said was like a gentle knife, stabbing you lightly, and stabbing you again and again, making it hard to forget.
"......You're right." She didn't want to leave any regrets for them. She got up so early today just to prepare for his birthday. After thinking it through, she rode her bike out.
She first went to Gu's house and told her aunt that she would have dinner at her house in the evening. Then she hurried to the factory. After talking to Huo Haoshen and others, she went to the village. She found the village chief and exchanged a duck and a chicken in the village.
"Oh my god, I'm so thirsty." As soon as she entered the door, she guzzled a large glass of water and finally came back to life.
"Oh, after riding around like this, why do I feel more tired than in the previous training?" She lay on the sofa, looking up at the sky in silence. When did her physical strength become so poor?
After resting for a while, I saw that it was almost time, so I got up and prepared lunch.
At lunch, she said to Huo Haocheng, "Tell my second brother and the others to come to our house for dinner tonight."
“Okay.” Maybe I really forgot because I was too busy with training. When I heard my wife ask them to come to our house for dinner, I didn’t think much about it. I just thought that this was the end of our gathering. I wanted to get together again.
During the afternoon training, Huo Haocheng found them and told them that his wife asked them to come to her house for dinner in the evening. The others had the same idea as him, but Ruan Shaolin said, "My sister is the best. She knows that we have been training hard and wants to give us some supplements."
Others also agreed that his idea was correct. When they went there that time, Ruan Ruan cooked a large table of delicious food.
After Huo Haocheng left, Ruan Ruan got up, cleaned the earthen oven in the backyard inside and out, and then began to prepare to make the cake.
40 minutes later, the cake base was baked, and a thin layer of butter was applied on it. There was no fresh fruit in this season, so Ruan Ruan had no choice but to apply a layer of jam made last winter on it. She also made a human figure on it on a whim, and then wrote the words "Wish Brother a Happy Life" with ketchup under the human figure's feet. After doing all this, it was almost four o'clock. She put the cake on the shelf in the system room. "Tong, please help me keep an eye on it. Don't knock it over, okay?"
In fact, she wanted to put it on the table in their bedroom at first, but then she thought, if she put it there, wouldn't Huo Haocheng see it when he came back? So, it would be safer to put it in the system room. Under normal circumstances, he would not enter this room when he came back.
After putting the cake away, she began to prepare the chicken, duck and fish. She used the chicken to stew mushrooms, the duck to make roast duck, sliced the fish and made a pickled fish, stir-fried pork, and several other vegetarian dishes. After she finished everything, her waist was almost unable to straighten up.
"Ouch, my old waist, I can't take it anymore." She held her waist and stood up, pounding her waist a few times. After she relaxed for a while, she lit the fire and started stewing the chicken. She stewed the chicken first, then hung the marinated duck in the oven to roast. When she saw that the time was almost up, she started to cook.
She had just finished preparing the meat dishes when Huo Haocheng and his team returned from training.
Huo Haoshen and others also came back together.
"Wife, I'm back. Thank you for your hard work. I can take care of the rest." It was when he saw Huo Haoshen and the others at the gate of the staff quarters that he realized that Ruan Ruan had gone to ask them to come home for dinner in the evening. When they were almost home, he saw Commander Gu's family walking in front of them, so as soon as he entered the door, he went straight to the kitchen. Cooking for so many people at home by himself must have taken him a whole afternoon. He took the spatula from her hand and fried the next few vegetarian dishes.
After he took the spatula, she took the duck out of the oven, sliced it quickly, and put it on a plate, still whole.
"Brother, come quickly and help serve the dishes." After Ruan Ruan brought the duck to the table, he asked Huo Haoshen, Ruan Shaolin and others to help serve the dishes. He looked at the person waving the spatula, quietly brought out the cake and placed it in the middle of the table.
When the others saw the cake and the words on it, they understood everything.
"Oh... no wonder..." Lu Shuyan and He Yuwei looked at her with an expression as if they were shocked.
Seeing this, several grown men put the two original tables together. Fortunately, the room was big enough, and the two tables were just right when put together. It was just a little inconvenient to get in and out, but that was okay. When serving the dishes, they made two servings each, which was just enough to free one. If it really didn't work, they would have to get up and get the dishes.
When Huo Haocheng brought out the last dish, he saw that everyone, including Commander Gu and Teacher Shen, were standing there looking at him with a smile.
"What's wrong?" He wondered what happened to him again. Why did the scene, which was so lively just now, become silent as soon as he came out?
"Come here quickly!" Huo Haoshen and Ruan Shaolin were so anxious seeing him standing there without coming over that they immediately stepped forward, one took the plate from his hand, and the other pulled him to Ruan Ruan.
"Brother, happy birthday. Do you like this surprise?" Ruan Ruan looked at him affectionately and said happy birthday to him. Then she pointed to the cake in the middle of the table and the relatives and friends around them.
"......My, wife..." Huo Haocheng really forgot that today was his birthday. He has never celebrated his birthday since he came to the army. In the first year, he was on a mission on his birthday. In the second year, a comrade's wife gave birth to a child on his birthday, and he drove them to the hospital. In the following years, he was either on a mission or on duty. Over time, he no longer had the concept of birthdays.
At this moment, his wife brought the elders, brothers, and comrades around her to celebrate his birthday, and he didn't know what to say.
"Brother, happy birthday. This is our first birthday after we got married. Are you happy?" Seeing him choking with sobs, Ruan Ruan felt distressed. She had been away from home for so many years and had not been able to celebrate his birthday. This morning she even joked that he had forgotten.
"Happy, I'm very happy, thank you, wife." He took her hand, placed it on his face, and stroked it gently.
"Hey, hey, hey, you two, we're still here. If you want to be intimate, be together for a while. It's up to you after we leave. Huo Haocheng, come on, cut the cake. I haven't eaten this kind of cake before. It looks delicious."
Just when the two of them were looking at each other with affection, Ge Xiaotian's words ruined the atmosphere.
"Oh, can't you just hold back a little?"
"You deserve to be single"
"Xiaotian, listen to your brother's advice. Next time you encounter a situation like this, you must treat yourself as an invisible person and avoid making any sound if possible."
Seeing that the atmosphere was ruined, the two protagonists felt quite embarrassed.
"Everyone, everyone, sit down. Thank you very much for coming to celebrate my birthday with me." He said "accompany" instead of "celebrate". He knew very well that when Ruan Ruan invited them, she definitely did not tell them that today was his birthday, so they probably just found out about it. But it didn't matter. These were all his wife's thoughts for him, and he was very happy.