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Chapter 105
Chapter 80 (Part 1)
Not long after moving to Tan Gong Villa, it was Qi Ji's twentieth birthday.
Although it was the first year of the second year, many unexpected things happened in the past year, but Qi Ji himself didn't really feel much about this kind of holiday or anniversary.
It's just that since the early morning, he has received various birthday wishes from different people.
Last night, Mr. Pei had a trans-oceanic video conference, and after sending Qi with him after midnight, he left first and won't be back until this afternoon. After breakfast in the morning, Qi sent Yuntu to work, and his phone was already full of blessing messages from classmates and colleagues. When he arrived at the company, he even said thank you and said dry mouth.
The New Year has passed, and the company has been idle for a short time. Everyone has nothing to do, so they have a little more free time. Many people they know come to visit the birthday party, and there is also a bouquet of charming and charming on Qi Ji's desk. flowers.
The flowers were sent by Li Anbei, and they took up more than half of the table. It was really eye-catching. When Qi Ji received it, he was a little dumbfounded.
After thanking the senior and asking the other person's opinion, Qi Ji took the bouquet apart. It happened that the outsourcing company he had cooperated with sent some glass bottles, so he put the disassembled flowers into the glass bottles and placed them on the desks of other colleagues in the office.
On the contrary, it added a lot of bright colors to the design department.
In addition to flowers, Qi Ji also received other gifts, and the large and small gift boxes were piled high. Qi Ji thanked his colleagues one by one, and made an appointment with everyone to have dinner together in the evening, which was considered a birthday party.
Not only colleagues from the design department came to give gifts, but also Qi Ji's seniors in the operation department. Brother Lin, who has the best relationship with Qi Ji, also came to visit. He chatted with Qi Ji for a while, and suddenly smiled: "Xiao Qi, you are more relaxed now than before. Is that the reason for doing the job you like?"
Qi Ji was stunned.
He didn't expect that his changes would be so obvious that people could point it out at a glance, but if he really looked back, the things he had experienced during this period of time had really changed him.
Qi Ji shook his head: "It turned out that there were some problems at home, and now they have been resolved."
"Is it resolved?" Brother Lin sighed with emotion, "Actually, we always felt that your burden, Xiao Qi, was a little heavy, but looking at it now, it is indeed much easier."
He thoughtfully didn't ask what was the matter, he just reached out and patted Qi Ji's shoulder: "It's fine."
Qi Ji had always thought that he was very skilled in disguise, but he didn't expect that his colleagues who approached had already seen some clues, but he didn't mention it again to put pressure on him.
Qi Ji's chest swelled slightly, smiled, and said sincerely, "Thank you, Brother Lin."
"Thank you." Brother Lin waved his hand and took apart the cake he had just brought from the refreshment hall, "Come and try this, the new product these days, strawberry flavored!"
At the end of the morning's work, Qi Ji did not stay at the company for dinner as usual, but took advantage of the lunch break to take a vacation.
It happened to be Friday, the weekend was coming soon, and the company was not busy. Qi Ji told Director Wu, and he was released smoothly.
Qi Ji came out this time because he wanted to go home for lunch, but after leaving the company, he did not go home directly, but instead went to No. 1 Middle School in S City.
He's going to pick the chef home.
It's nearly April, and it is the busiest sprint stage for the college entrance examination, and the atmosphere in the No. 1 Middle School of S City is quite serious.
However, Qi Mingyu has already obtained the recommended place in F University ahead of time. Compared with other high school students, he is much more relaxed. Moreover, the family finally ran out of debt, so Qi Mingyu insisted on sending Qi for his birthday. He also asked for leave in advance for the first self-study session on Friday afternoon, and wanted to go home and cook for Qi.
Qi Ji couldn't beat him, and he knew that his younger brother didn't need to worry about his studies, so he agreed to this matter.
Qi Ji arrived early, and he waited at the door for a while before school was over when he arrived at No. 1 Middle School.
It didn't take long for Qi Ji to notice the movement in the grass. He turned back and met a pair of black round eyes.
"Meow~"
"Hey, is that you?" Qi Ji laughed and stretched out his hand to the round-eyed kitten that emerged from behind the tree, "Long time no see."
This is actually the kitten Qi Ji met when Qi Mingyu's head teacher called him to pay the Imo fee half a year ago.
The kitten jumped over a few steps and rubbed Qi Ji's palm, feeling a little itchy. Qi Ji smiled and scratched its chin: "Have you grown up? It's bigger than the last time we met."
He also carried the original small dried fish from the refreshment hall, which happened to be fed to the kitten this time, which is considered to be a return for the last time the cat brought the dried fish to him.
"Mi woo!"
The kitten obviously likes dried fish quite a bit, and her eyes light up when she smells it. Qi Ji combed it's back with his hands, and seeing that it was digging its head down and eating happily, he took out another package of dried fish for it.
After unpacking the second package of dried fish, the school bell also rang. Qi Ji was thinking about standing up and looking at Qi Mingyu, but after a while, he saw several tall figures walking out.
"The last big question is two situations, right? Rakuten and I are calculating both."
It was a few tall boys who were walking and chatting together.
"I also have two kinds, but I haven't finished the calculation, and I don't have enough time in the end. Hey Mingyu, what kind of calculations do you have?"
The boy named did not concentrate on the discussion, but cast his eyes under a tree not far away.
There, a man and a cat were looking up at him.
"Ming Yu?"
There was another strange cry. Qi Mingyu threw the backpack on his shoulder: "Three kinds, and there is a special stress situation that needs to be considered."
"what?"
The other people were stunned for a moment, and then regained their senses, but Qi Mingyu had already walked in the other direction, and only left one sentence: "I'll leave first, and I'll talk about it in the afternoon."
"Hey!"
No matter how he called him, he couldn't stop, and some people couldn't help but wonder, "Why is Mingyu in such a hurry today? When he just came out, he packed his schoolbag before ringing the bell."
Someone on the side said: "I remember he seemed to say he had to come out early... so that he could go back and cook."
"Cook?"
Several big boys looked at each other.
The people being discussed have no longer heard their voices.
When Qi Mingyu walked over, he saw Qi Ji was stroking the tail of the cat that was sticking beside him. Qi Mingyu was silent for a while, and couldn't help but say, "Why do you look like someone from a stray animal shelter? You see one crutch."
"No kidnapping." Qi Ji looked up at him, "This is the one I met when I came here before, and it recognized me."
Qi Mingyu: "..."
Qi Mingyu: "Just change your name to Catnip."
After he finished speaking, the cat also cupped Gong Qiji's palm with its head quite cooperatively.
Qi Mingyu: "..." Forget it, I'm used to it.
Saying goodbye to the cat who was full of dried fish, the two went to the supermarket together. In fact, there are not many things to buy. Qi Mingyu got up early in the morning and finished it. When he got home, in less than half an hour, he set out a sumptuous lunch.
There are naturally hand-made meatballs that Qi Ji grew up with, and longevity noodles made by Qi Mingyu himself.
Different from Qi Ji's noodle cooking practice that was so rotten that it could stick to the wall, the longevity noodles cooked by Qi Mingyu were quite exquisite in appearance and tasted no less than the signature noodles sold outside. Qi Ji accepted his fate after taking a bite. There are some things that really cannot be made up for by hard work.
A satisfying lunch, four dishes and one soup, Qi Ji eliminated most of it by himself. Seeing that he ate so cleanly, Qi Mingyu's expression softened a lot. When he finally finished eating, he brought a plate of cut fruit over.
Qi Ji took a bite of the sliced ββmango. Seeing that Qi Mingyu was going to clean up the dishes, he couldn't sit still: "I'll come, you should go to school after a rest."
"It's all self-study in the afternoon, and it's fine to go late for a while." Qi Mingyu didn't let him touch it, he took all the tableware away, and gave him a leisurely look, "Even if we don't lose money now, we don't need to fall every day. Change the cutlery."
Qi Ji: "..."
He obviously only threw the bowl twice and scratched his hand once, but this kid actually remembered it for so long.
After finishing the dishes and eating the fruit together, Qi Ji started urging people to go out.
"It's time to go to class, and I have to go to the company too."
Qi Mingyu muttered something, looking reluctant.
Qi Ji didn't hear clearly: "What's wrong?"
Qi Mingyu did not speak again.
After Qi Ji asked again, Qi Mingyu frowned and said, "What kind of memory do you have, the gift hasn't been received yet."
"Gift?" Qi Ji wondered, "What gift, isn't it lunch at noon?"
Qi Mingyu: "..."
He didn't count on Qi Ji anymore, he stretched out his hand and pulled out a book from the cushion on Qi Ji's back and put it in front of him.
It's so difficult to give a gift, Qi Mingyu suddenly doesn't hold much grudge against the big brother, the CEO, who must be more difficult than him.
Qi Ji was stunned when he saw the book.
In front of him is a rather old memorial book, the cover is typical of the style of more than ten years ago, and even slightly yellowed.
But this memorial book was well preserved, even the outermost plastic cover was not broken.
"This is..." Qi Ji blinked, "Is this the book I bought for you ten years ago?"
Qi Mingyu snorted: "Okay, I don't really have to forget about it."
Qi Ji laughed, stretched out his hand and gestured: "You were so tall back then, you were still a little kid."
Ten years ago, Qi Ji was ten years old and Qi Mingyu was seven. The brothers, who have been separated from each other for many years since their birth, finally began to live together for a long time for the first time, and Qi Ji was still a little nervous.
Taking advantage of his younger brother's start of school, Qi Ji used the New Year's money he had saved to buy two thick books for his younger brother to use when he went to school. This book was fashionable at the time, and Qi Ji himself was not willing to buy it.
But after he gave it to his younger brother, he didn't see him use it much. Qi Ji thought that his younger brother didn't like it, and he was quietly sad for a while. In the end, when Qi Zhi was on his tenth birthday, the gift that Qi Mingyu gave him was a book full of memories.
That memorial notebook was one of the two notebooks that Qi sent to his younger brother.
The book was filled with Qi Mingyu's messages. At that time, his handwriting was still very immature, but it had already begun to show its edge. When Qi Ji opened the first page, he saw that it was written on it.
[The woman on the cover of this book is so ugly, I would be too lazy to use it myself. γ
The next paragraph was written the next day.
[I told him that this girl was ugly, but he was not happy, and said that girls can't be said to be ugly. γ
[But it's ugly! I wouldn't agree with him if he wasn't about to cry. γ
[Next time when he stops crying, I will tell him, ugly! γ
Xiao Qiji was frightened and cried when he opened the first page. He thought that his younger brother had an opinion on him, so he cried and went to his father with the book in his arms. In the end, he was comforted by his father before continuing to look down with tears in his eyes.
The tone of the text that followed was still not very polite, but it was full of what Qi Mingyu wanted to say to Qi Ji. Qi Ji always felt that his younger brother was being dragged, but he didn't expect that he had so many things to say to him.
Looking at it, Qi Ji stopped crying. When he turned to the last page, he saw another paragraph.
[My brother's birthday is coming soon. I don't know what to give him. Dad always told me not to kill him. He also told us to talk more. I didn't hate him, I just talked a little louder.]
[Otherwise, I will give him this book, so I can talk to him, right? γ
[This time is his tenth birthday, if he accepts it, I will fill up another book for him next time]
He also added a sentence in clear handwriting.
γIf you don't accept it, it's fine.γ
After Xiao Qi sent it over, she wiped away her tears, ran to Qi Mingyu, and said crisply, "I've accepted your gift, thank you."
"Oh." Qi Mingyu put his pocket in his pocket and said with a small face, "You're welcome."
Xiao Qiji blinked her wet eyes, and didn't forget to remind him, "Next time, remember to write another book and send it to me."
"..." Qi Mingyu was reluctant to admit it, he just said, "This time is your tenth birthday, next time you will be at least twenty years old."
Xiao Qiji was a little disappointed, but after thinking about it, they would be together at the age of 20, so she nodded seriously: "Okay. Then you must remember."
In the blink of an eye, ten years have really passed.
And Qi Mingyu actually kept that memorial book.
He always remembered.