Living room, no.

bedroom, no.

The kitchen, neither.

Even in the few guest rooms and utility rooms on the second floor, there were none.

Jiang Yu found the upstairs from the downstairs, and found the downstairs all the way from the upstairs.

Finally, after digging through the bottom of the sofa and the drawers but still couldn't find it, and didn't even hear a response, he sighed silently, took the mobile phone, and sat on a chair in the living room with his legs crossed.Single sofa.

"Stupid bird," he threw the phone on the coffee table in front of him, rested his elbows on the edge of the sofa, tilted his head and looked up at the bird stand diagonally above, and ordered, "Call the cat."

The parrot that had been hanging upside down on the bird stand silently, watching him rummaging around was obviously often called to do this kind of thing. After receiving the order, he immediately let go of his paw and patted it on his shoulder.Wings shouted happily.

"Silly cat, silly cat."

Without shouting twice, the sharp-eyed man saw the golden gradient jumping out of nowhere, and immediately flapped his wings and turned his direction. While flying higher, he raised his voice and shouted in panic and panic.

"Help, help!"

"Stop!"

Jiang Yu raised his hand to hold down the big cat who was passing by him, and was about to rush up the bird stand to catch the bird aggressively. He rubbed his furry head and pointed at it warningly, and said: "There is still a cat."To attack people with your face, I told you to yell for a long time without saying a word, don't you know which corner you can't hide in? You should be scolded."

It is also obvious that Jin Jianlayer often suffers from the owner who completely disregards the dignity of the cat, and always uses the stupid bird in the sky that can only see but not eat to lure himself out of the drawer or deep in the closet in a violent way.He tilted his head dissatisfied with the treatment, and rushed to the green parrot that had already landed on Jiang Yu's shoulder. Looking down at it, the green-skinned parrot bared its teeth threateningly, and then shrank its body to get out of Jiang Yu's claws.Get out and get away from this pair of bird people who always love to play tricks.

But Jiang Yu forced him into his arms.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore," Jiang Yu held the cat in his arms, and while comfortingly smoothing its fur, he stood up, "Today is my birthday anyway, and you always feel wronged and wronged.I'll hold you for a while, okay?"

Jin Jianlayer has been with Jiang Yu since he was very young. Although he can't speak, he is a proud and difficult ancestor.

But in fact, he is a little more humane than the silly bird on Jiang Yu's shoulder. Hearing this, he raised his head from Jiang Yu's arms, and stared at him with a pair of big round eyes as if inquiring.Seconds later, he realized that the condition on Jiang Yu's face was really not very good, so he didn't struggle any more. Instead, he turned his head with the tip of his furry ear and swept it in the palm of the shit-shoveling officer who was barely a cat's heart, and took advantage of the opportunity to wipe the whole thing.The hairy heads followed and rubbed against each other non-stop.

As if silently comforting him.

That's why Jiang Yu was willing to be his excrement shovel officer for several years, and every time he entered the door, he liked to look for it first - except today.

After all, this kind of creature with its own cute attribute is arrogant and arrogant. At critical moments, healing is also true healing.

Jiang Yu's originally depressed mood improved a lot, and he was about to go to the bedroom with the cat in his arms.

But he was stopped by the sudden message notification sound.

Suddenly something came to mind, Jiang Yu turned his eyes, his first reaction was not to look at the phone, but subconsciously looked at the ticking clock by the wall.

The time was displayed as 12:03 in the morning.

"..."

Jiang Yu stared at the wall clock silently for a while, then suddenly let out a laugh that didn't make sense.

"I bet, it must be you who are far away from home. Unfortunately, you forgot that yesterday was my birthday, and you happened to be 'busy until now to remember'.'Mom and Dad." He lowered his head and pinched the cat's paw with a teasing tone, and he seemed to be asking a serious question, "Do you believe it?"

The parrot perched on his shoulder immediately started screaming loudly.

"A cash dispenser, a cash dispenser."

Jin Jianlayer didn't make a sound, just raised his head and stared at the squeaking silly bird above his head as if he was too noisy, and glanced at Jiang Yu's expression, which was obviously contrary to the tone of his words, and his mood was gradually sinking,Silently rubbing against his arms again.

"Tsk, sure enough, I still love you in vain."

Jiang Yu patted its head, and slapped away the heartless stupid bird whistling in its ear, bent down and opened the blacked-out phone screen, and sure enough, he saw the message above the screen, printed with a familiar yet slightly unfamiliar remark—Mom.

And the content of the message below is as short and formulaic as ever, just six words plus a sentence of explanation: Happy birthday Xiaoyu.I'm sorry, I'm so busy that I suddenly remembered, sorry/embarrassed.

Attached below is a screenshot of a transfer record that is considered a huge amount to him—it is really huge, and it takes a whole hand to count it, the five-figure type.

It's not the lowest five-digit amount.

And then...it's gone.

Not even a word to show any closeness or concern.

As soon as he saw that the main "script" that made people completely unhappy hadn't changed at all, Jiang Yu laughed almost mockingly immediately, picked up the phone, and went back in the same formula as before:/ Rose Thank you, Mom and Dad.

They called back almost immediately, and the content was pretty much the same as in the "last life".

"What time is it?" Mo Xianyu's slightly reproachful voice came from the other side of the receiver, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

Only then did they look like a normal mother and child.

And this kind of friendly tone of reproach does not sound like someone who is away from home all the year round, except for holidays and occasions, basically seldom actively contact Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu unconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth, and replied in a flat voice, "Because I went out to have dinner with my friends."

After thinking about it, he added an explanatory sentence: "By the way, a farewell to Pei Ben."

"Farewell party?" Mo Xianyu was startled as expected, "Xiao Ben... is he leaving so early?"

Jiang Yu's tone still didn't fluctuate much, holding the phone and nodding, "Well, it's tomorrow."

"That……"

Mo Xianyu's voice paused for a moment, and it took several seconds before he tentatively asked, "Shall I hire another person for you?"

Because Pei Ben's grandma had passed away, and now that even he himself had left the country, there was no one in the family who could help them take care of Jiang Yu.

But Jiang Yu obviously didn't really need this kind of care from someone else.

So he immediately refused.

"No," he said lightly, "I'm already different from when I was a child. Even if no one takes care of me, I won't starve to death."

After finishing speaking, he felt that his tone at this time seemed a little inappropriate, too sharp, and meaningless, so he paused, and then softened his tone a little to make up for a few sentences.

"I'm already sixteen." He said softly as a reminder, "and I usually spend most of my time at school, so I don't need it."

But obviously it didn't have much effect, and it didn't comfort the other party.

Mo Xianyu was obviously stung by what he said just now, and remained silent for a long while on the other side of the phone, before saying "Oh" in an unnatural tone.

He asked again: "But now that Grandma Lu is gone, and you are at school again, who will feed the birds and cats for you?"

"..."

This is indeed a problem.

But not particularly large.

"There will always be someone," Jiang Yu said almost without thinking too much, "I will figure out a way by myself."

"Then... okay," Mo Xianyu knew that no matter how much he said, it wouldn't be too helpful, so he didn't continue, but said, "But now you know that you are sixteen years old, and you are already going to be responsible.At the age of full criminal responsibility, since you want to learn to be independent, you have to slowly start to learn to be sensible. Let me and your father rest assured, and stop thinking about fooling around with those unruly children outside.do you know?"

Jiang Yuxin said don't say no, I just did it, and I haven't seen you let go of your psychological burden, come home to educate me, or control me.

But he still responded lazily, and replied obediently: "Understood, I have a measure."

"It's fine if you have a sense of proportion," Mo Xianyu probably thought that his behavior at this time was barely tolerable, not particularly out of line, and the previous work was indeed too tiring, so he didn't say anything more, just raised his eyebrows.Putting his hands on the brows of his tired face, he planned to end the chat, "Then let's do this first, it's getting late, you go to bed early."

"Well," Jiang Yu didn't intend to talk to her any more, and started to walk towards the bedroom with the cat in his arms, still saying in a formulaic manner, "You guys go to bed early too, don't work too hard, and by the way, tell Boss JiangSay hello."

Then, the moment the phone was hung up, he threw the phone on the bed in a gentle and desperate manner, and kicked the door of the bedroom without looking back..

...Two seconds later, with a slightly tragic bird call, it reopened and let in the green parrot that he had accidentally slapped outside the door.

"It hurts."

As soon as the silly bird entered the door, it circled around Jiang Yu's side, chattering in his ears like a complaint.

Jiang Yu stood there expressionless, letting it fly around him for two minutes, and finally raised his hand unbearably, and pressed the back of its fateful neck, restraining its flightTool, hooked it over, lowered his head and threatened with a serious expression: "Keep making noise, let's put it in the pot and wait for you!"

Jin Jianlayer in his arms seemed to understand, and immediately raised his head with bright eyes.

Silly bird: "..."

After a while, under the double gaze of Jiang Yu and Jin Jianlayer, he spoke again weakly, calling in a soft voice.

"Shut up, shut up."

Jiang Yu loosened his grip on it.

The silly bird regained its freedom, glanced vigilantly in his arms and was still staring at it covetously, there seemed to be a golden gradient flashing in his eyes, silent for two seconds, and fluttered his wings as if complainingFlying to the highest curtain rack, screaming and screaming.

"Hate, hate. Frighten birds, frighten birds."

Jiang Yu: "..."

He seriously doubts whether this silly bird is secretly watching some new weird TV series with the cat at home behind his back.

Because he remembered the word scaring birds as if he had never taught it.

But that doesn't matter, what matters is that it's really loud.

Jiang Yu looked up angrily, touched Jin Jian's head and warned again: "If you don't shut up, I'm going to let the cat go."

The silly bird shut its mouth immediately, shrank on the railing and didn't dare to make a sound again.

Stop this source of noise pollution, and the world seems to be much quieter all of a sudden.

Jiang Yu shook his head and sighed, then turned back with the cat in his arms and closed the door.

In one day today, too many things happened one after another.

Until now, Jiang Yu finally had the time and leisure to calm down, sort out the whole story of these things, and by the way, think about how he would apologize to Pei Ben.

He threw himself and the cat together on the bed, closed his eyes and took it easy, concentrating on his thoughts, and was about to seriously start thinking.

The mobile phone next to him rang again indifferently.

Jiang Yu ignored it at first, and just closed her eyes and thought about going to Pei Ben to ask for peace, embarrassingly but proudly where to start——

The phone rang again.

Perhaps it was because they had encountered similar situations many times before, so Sha Niao and Jin Jiancai didn't react too much when they saw Jiang Yu's first sound and didn't move. They just stared at two pairs of puzzled and curious eyes.Standing silently on the curtain rod and quilt, looking at him seriously.

But after the second sound, the two reacted differently.

Almost immediately, one began to flap its wings and fly down from the railing, and the other stretched out its furry paws and gently pushed Jiang Yu's face that was not completely buried in the quilt.

"Mobile phone, mobile phone."

"Meow~?"

"Shut up!"

Jiang Yu grabbed the flesh pad that Jin Jianlayer was pushing and pressing on his face, and without opening his eyes, he gave a low scolding, and then raised his hand to block the parrot before it landed on his head, and waved it aside, groping to pick up the phone from the side.

I thought to myself: It's all over now, who would send me a message so blindly.

As a result, he pressed the screen to look, and his impatient gaze turned to a blank stare, and he unconsciously stuck to the WeChat message that symbolized surrendering first and seeking peace.

It took me a long time to tear it off.

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I came back late, just finished coding, sorry

PS: want to explain the background plot clearly before, and after a few more chapters, we will have a formal confrontation. love you, okay?