Chiba Salted Fish Legend

Chapter 126

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?"

Natsuki felt that Ms. Shiraishi would probably be angry because her best friend didn't even remember her birthday.This is so hurtful.

"Uh...I didn't forget! 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."

"Humph. Xia Zhi, do you remember? You must repay Lihua well in the coming year."

"I know, I know……"

Xia Zhi took out his mobile phone and recorded July [-]th in the calendar notepad.The mobile phone is indeed an extremely convenient electronic product, especially for recording and communication.

"You didn't write it down with your heart, but on your 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 number clearly, the date on the ID card was not strictly his birthday.After all, there is no lunar date on the ID card, and it seems that the vast majority of people celebrate lunar birthdays in China, 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 doesn't know when his birthday is.Although I tried to check, it seems that the daily difference between the two calendars is not fixed. The best way is to look at the calendar.

"Oh, by the way, my birthday is June [-]th."

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 it down."

Before she could finish, Xia Zhi put the phone away.Just in time, Li Huacai had an expression of watching a play, and before she could finish her sentence, Xia Zhi put away her phone with an expression of 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're so bullying, I'm going to cry."

Despite these lines, Tachibana Aya didn't look like she wanted to cry at all.

"Ha, man. You will regret it later."

“We’ll talk about it when the time comes, and visit less Chinese websites.”

"Oh, man" has come out, and Zhenxiang's warning is probably not far away.

"So, Xia Zhi, what's 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 used monetary threats.The effect is minimal.

"I haven't spent all the money yet, so don't worry."

Xia Zhi looked through the calendar.Although I don't remember the exact date, it should be in August or September...

"Oh, it seems to be September 22nd this year, which is the [-]th day of the eighth lunar month. 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 a 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 considered a birthday. ”

"...No matter how you put it, this is too shabby."

"You should choose your words. Wouldn't it be better to say it's simple?" Xia Zhi's mouth twitched.

"No. 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 meaning. Besides, it's not a birthday, nor is it the last birthday, so why is it such a pity... Why do you think you are better than me? Still care.”

Same for most people, 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 as I grow up, I feel that there is less and less need to pay attention to it.While birthdays are certainly a joyful event, you'll calm down when you realize that they aren't worth celebrating.

This is just proof that the body continues to grow and 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, right?Although I don't know if it's good or bad, at least it hasn't brought any bad effects on 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 mooncakes 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 moon cakes, and not eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival will not cause any changes in your body. If you don’t celebrate your birthday, just celebrate it next time.It’s just such a simple thing. If you treat these as rituals, it 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 very few people do this to 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."

Natsuki understood why Yamamoto Ryoko asked this question, but this was the first time he was evaluated as a philosopher.When he was still in China, if he said this to his friends, Xia Zhi knew their expressions and lines 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. If you talk about the truth, it will be regarded as just pretending. It is really sad.

"So, Xia Zhijun, where are your parents? They won't forget your birthday, right?"

Baishi 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 make sure."

Then, as a standard operation, I opened the Penguin first and took a look, and sure enough, it wasn't there.But don't panic. In recent years, for whatever reason, WeChat has become very popular. Many Penguin users have chosen to use WeChat, and Xia Zhi's parents are one of them.After opening WeChat and waiting for a while, the first thing I saw were numerous official accounts that were updated all the time. Then there were some system notifications from WeChat. Then, it was Xilin Summer (Xilin Xia). Dream), there was only one message, it was sent when it was almost twelve o'clock, and it only had four short words-Happy Birthday.

Next came my father's, with two pieces.I clicked it and looked at it, and there was a message saying Happy Birthday, son.One is 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 200 yuan.

But where the hell am I going to use this 400 yuan! ?There is no WeChat Pay 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 now, 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 that you are a little pitiful." by Tachibana Aya.

"Shut up, you shameless person. How could an angel who came to earth say more than five words of birthday wishes to an ordinary person!?"

Tachibana Aya gasped.

"I didn't realize it before. Didn't I expect that you are already in the advanced stage of sister-in-law?"

"Huh?" Xia Zhi looked confused.

"Well... although Xia Zhijun's sister is indeed very beautiful. But brother and sister can't be together."

Shiraishi Rika tried to bring Xia Zhi back on the right track of life.

Natsuki knew that his character had once again been ruined by Tachibana Aya.He gritted his teeth and looked at Tachibana Aya.

"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

"Damn, you're poisonous!"

Tachibana Aya's expression changed drastically, and she almost threw the cup with coffee in her hand.

(End of this chapter)