Because of a joke, the three girls began to sympathize with Xia Zhi.
"What's that expression on your face? I was just joking."
Xia Zhi felt that he shouldn't make this joke with them, and he regretted it a little.
I don’t know if it changed their inner thoughts, but the topic was finally over.
"But speaking of birthdays, Lihua, when is your birthday?"
"...Is it appropriate for you to ask her in front of her?"
Xia Zhi felt that Miss Shiraishi would probably be angry because her best friend didn't even remember her birthday. This was so hurtful.
"Uh...I didn't forget it! I just couldn't remember it for a moment! Let me think about it...it seems to be the middle of July? The day before half of July, July 14th?
"
Yamamoto Ryoko looked at Shiraishi Rika as if asking for confirmation, and the latter snorted angrily: "It's a good thing you remembered, otherwise you would be dead."
"Hmph. Xia Zhi, have you remembered? You must repay Lihua well in the coming year."
"I know, I know……"
Xia Zhi took out his mobile phone and recorded July 14th in the calendar notepad. The mobile phone is indeed an extremely convenient electronic product, especially for recording and communication.
"You didn't memorize it with your heart, but on your mobile phone?"
"Don't ask for so much. I didn't even remember my own birthday."
Xia Zhi told the truth. Although he remembered his ID card number clearly, the date on the ID card was not strictly speaking his birthday. After all, there was no lunar date on the ID card, and besides, it was celebrated in China.
It seems like lunar birthdays should account for the vast majority of them, right?
Although he was embarrassed to say it, he still didn't know how to calculate the daily difference between the lunar calendar and the lunar calendar. Therefore, he really didn't know when his birthday was. Although he tried to check it, it seemed that there were two
The daily difference between calendars is not fixed, the best way is to look at the calendar.
"Oh, by the way, my birthday is June 17th."
So Natsuki recorded Yamamoto Ryoko's birthday by the way.
"Anyway, that's it. Do you want me to give you a gift?"
Xia Zhi asked Shiraishi Lihua.
"Do you want to confess to me? Yes, my birthday is..."
Xia Zhi's face turned dark.
"You can pull him down."
Before she could finish, Xia Zhi put away the phone. Just in time, Tachibana Aya looked like she was watching a show, and before she could finish, when Xia Zhi put away the phone, she looked in disbelief.
"Are you serious about putting away your phone?"
"Ah."
Xia Zhi didn't even want to hehe anymore, so he solved it with a hehe.
"You are so bullying, I'm going to cry."
Despite these lines, Tachibana Aya didn't look like she wanted to cry at all.
"Oh, man. You will definitely regret it later."
“We’ll talk about it when the time comes, and stop visiting Chinese websites.”
"Oh, man" has come out, and Zhenxiang's warning is probably not far away.
"So, Xia Zhi, where is your birthday?" Shiraishi Lihua asked.
"My own? Let me take a look."
The mobile phone that had just been put into the pocket was taken out again, and Tachibana Aya wanted to make trouble again. Xia Zhi, who was aware of this, said to himself: "Even if you tell me, I won't remember it. Peace of mind."
Bar."
"Haha. Don't forget, I bought your cup of coffee."
Tachibana Aya used monetary threats. The effect was minimal.
"I haven't spent all the money yet, so don't worry."
Xia Zhi looked through the calendar. Although he couldn't remember the specific date, it should be in August or September...
"Oh, it seems to be September 22nd this year, which is August 13th in the lunar calendar. Well...it turns out that my birthday falls on the days of the school trip..."
Xia Zhi rubbed his chin.
“This feeling of growing up by one year without even realizing it is really amazing.”
"Generally speaking, would this be the reaction to knowing that your birthday has passed without knowing when?"
Ryoko Yamamoto complained.
"There's nothing we can do about it, it's all over anyway. Besides, for our family's birthdays, except maybe buying cakes when we were young, now we don't have to prepare anything specially. We can just go out for a meal or something as a family and it's just a birthday.
Already."
"...No matter how you put it, this is too shabby."
"You should choose some words. Wouldn't it be better to say it's simple?" Xia Zhi's mouth twitched.
"No way. It's my birthday anyway, why don't you feel any pity at all?" Tachibana Aya was confused.
"What's such a pity, it's just a birthday. I'm not a special person, and birthdays have no commemorative significance. Besides, it's not my eighteenth birthday, nor is it my last birthday, so why is it such a pity... How do you feel?
You care more than me."
Most people are the same, right? Although when I was young, I felt that celebrating birthdays was a relatively sacred thing, and I would be happy for my growth at that time, but when I grow up, I feel that I pay less and less attention to it.
It's necessary. Although celebrating a birthday is indeed a joyful thing, you will calm down when you realize that it is not worth celebrating.
This is just proof that the body continues to grow, and there is nothing to worry about. I don’t know when this idea took root in my mind. Perhaps, this can be regarded as a price of growth? Although I don’t know if it is
Good or bad, but at least it hasn't brought any bad effects to myself now, and that's probably enough.
The so-called growth is the process of repeated alternation of gain and loss, isn't it?
"But wouldn't you feel sad if you didn't even care about your birthday?"
Shiraishi Rika asked.
"I didn't say I didn't care. I just don't care about these things. Just now, when I knew that my birthday had passed, I felt a little pity, but my insignificant pity will eventually be
Overwhelmed by the joy of growing up, that’s enough.”
In the final analysis, celebrating a birthday should actually be something that makes one feel happy, but many people regard birthdays as a ritual, just like eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, and celebrating birthdays.
.If there are moon cakes to eat on the Mid-Autumn Festival, it will really make people feel happy. It is also a good thing to eat rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival. There is nothing wrong with celebrating your birthday, but if not, don’t worry too much.
You can still celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival without mooncakes, and you can still celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival without eating rice dumplings. If you don’t celebrate your birthday, just celebrate it next time. It’s just such a simple thing. If you regard these as
Rituals, on the contrary, will make you unhappy during the festival when you should be happy.
In that case, wouldn’t the festival lose its meaning?
"As expected, Xia Zhi, you are very interesting. Are other Chinese people like this?"
Tachibana Aya's expression was like that of a naughty child who found some interesting toy.
"No, I think there are very few people like me... I just want to be lazy."
Because I'm too lazy to celebrate, it doesn't matter whether I eat moon cakes or rice dumplings, and it doesn't matter whether I celebrate my birthday or not.
"Xia Zhi, have you ever said that you talk like a philosopher?"
"This is really a strange comment."
Xia Zhi also understood why Yamamoto Ryoko asked this question, but this was the first time that he was evaluated as a philosopher. When he was still in China, if he said this to his friends, their expressions and lines would be different.
They all knew it clearly - he said with a look of disgust: "Pretend! Keep pretending!"
It seems that it is indeed deeply influenced by the place where the sand sculpture culture originated. Talking about the truth will be regarded as just pretending, which is really sad.
"So, Xia Zhijun, where are your parents? They won't forget your birthday, right?"
Shiraishi Lihua asked curiously.
"It should be, right?"
Xia Zhi said to himself uncertainly.
Xia Zhi, who was immediately surrounded by caring eyes, immediately noticed something was wrong.
"Don't look at me with that look. You should remember it. Let me confirm."
Then, as a standard operation, open Penguin first, and you will see that it is not there. But don’t panic. In recent years, for whatever reason, WeChat has become very popular. Many Penguin users choose to use WeChat, and Xia Zhi’s parents are also one of them. Open
WeChat, after waiting for a while, the first thing I saw was the numerous official accounts that were updated all the time. Then there were some system notifications from WeChat. Then, it was Xilinzhixia (Little Dream).
), there was only one message, it was sent just before twelve o'clock, and it only had four short words - Happy Birthday.
Next came the father's, there were two. I clicked on it and looked at it. One was Happy Birthday, son. The other was transfer information, two hundred yuan.
Next came my mother, who was also the first to wish Xia Zhifa a happy birthday. The content was a bit long so I won’t go into details. Finally, she also sent a transfer of two hundred yuan.
But, where the hell am I going to use these 400 yuan!? There is no WeChat payment in Japan!
"Well, who said they forgot? Isn't that right?"
Xia Zhi put the phone on the table and pointed at the three messages.
"Even if you show it to me, I won't understand it..." by Shiraishi Rika.
"I can understand it for the moment, but why is it two hundred yen? Oh no, this is the unit of RMB..." by Ryoko Yamamoto.
"When I see the four words your sister sent you, I always feel you are a little pitiful." by Tachibana Aya.
"Shut up, you shameless person. How can an angel come to earth say more than five words of birthday wishes to an ordinary person!?"
Tachibana Aya took a breath of air.
"I never noticed it before. Didn't I expect that you are already in the late stages of being a girl-obsessed person?"
"Huh?" Xia Zhi looked confused.
"Well... although Xia Zhijun's sister is indeed very beautiful, brother and sister cannot be together."
Shiraishi Rika tried to bring Xia Zhi back to the right track of life.
Xia Zhi knew that his character was once again ruined by Tachibana Aya. He gritted his teeth and looked at Tachibana Aya.
"嘤嘤嘤."
"Damn, you're poisonous!"
Tachibana Aya's face changed drastically, and she almost threw the cup with coffee in her hand.