Chapter 196: Bo Ke’s Birthday Party
In the dim living room, Bai Qiuwu lifted her hair from her ears, her face reflected in the warm candlelight.
She thought for a moment, and silently made a wish in her heart: "I hope everyone can be safe and sound."
After making the wish, she leaned over slightly and blew out the candles on the birthday cake.
The candlelight flickered, and then quietly dispersed in the evening breeze.
Ke Mingye subconsciously froze for two seconds. When he saw the candlelight reflected in Bai Qiuwu's eyes, he thought he saw the eyes of fire and was secretly surprised.
When the candlelight was blown out, Ke Mingye was slightly relieved when he saw Bai Qiuwu's eyes clearly in the darkness with the moonlight.
He shrugged, thinking that his mental state was really too tense recently because of the Gastello incident.
"What's wrong?"
In the darkness, Bai Qiuwu asked while turning her head to look at him.
"Nothing," Ke Mingye took a sip of Coke and explained, "I was just thinking about what wish you made."
While talking, Ke Yinzhi, who was leaning against the wall drinking a drink, raised his hand and turned on the light in the living room with a "click".
Bai Ziling tiptoed over and said expressionlessly: "Ding, ding, ding." As he said that, he took out the wreath hidden behind him and gently put it on Bai Qiuwu's head.
Bai Qiuwu gently lowered her head and touched a flower on her head. The fingertips felt light and cold.
She raised her lips, "It's actually a real flower?"
"Yes, I knitted it myself." Bai Ziling said, "I went to the flower shop with my third brother to buy flowers yesterday."
"Why didn't you call me?" Bai Zini asked.
"Because my sister can't keep secrets." Bai Ziling put his hands behind his back and said lightly, "If my sister knew, she would definitely be exposed in the next second."
Really? I think your sister's secret identity is the least known in the family except for your father. Ke Mingye thought, but luck played a big role.
"It's really flowery. It's not like our classmate Xiaomo's birthday, the wreath on his head is made of paper, so pitiful."
Ke Yinzhi took a sip of orange juice, curled his lips, teased and patted Ke Xiaomo's shoulder with pity.
"That's because there is no time." Bai Ziling paused and turned his face away, "Because I just remembered that it was my second brother's birthday, so the wreath can only be folded with paper from the homework book."
Hearing this, Ke Xiaomo lowered his head and took a deep breath, "Can you stop lashing at me? And Xiaoling, you don't have to explain."
"You guys are so critical." Ke Yongzhu pouted, "Can we start eating?"
While they were talking, he had silently cut the cake into seven equal parts with a plastic knife. Now he just had to finish his piece in one go, and then go upstairs to sleep.
"Oh. Let's eat."
Ke Mingye said expressionlessly, walked to the table, picked up a piece of cake, and quickly smeared it on the face of the elementary school student.
"Is it delicious?" he asked.
The elementary school student wiped off the cream on his eyes, expressionless.
The next moment, he picked up another piece of cake from the table with an absurdly fast movement and smeared it on Ke Mingye's face.
Then asked: "You will know if it tastes good after you eat it?"
Seeing this, Ke Xiaomo quickly picked up two pieces of cake and said lightly: "You can play as you like, and we, as brothers, will not participate if we are more mature."
Bai Ziling also held a piece of cake in each hand, imitating the tone of the second brother and said: "You can play as you like, and my sister Ni and I will not participate if we are more mature."
"That makes sense. It is worthy of our mature classmate Xiaomo, so my share can be..."
Ke Yinzhi lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, and was teasing casually, when Ke Xiaomo had already smeared the cake on his face.
"Ah, you are worthy of being my little sister..."
Bai Zini clapped her hands and was talking proudly, but Bai Ziling had already smeared the cake on her face.
The two stopped talking.
The next second, Ke Yinzhi and Bai Zini silently wiped off the cream and cake on their faces.
Ke Yinzhi had a terrifying smile on his face;
Bai Zini's expression had turned cold.
Then, the six people started a chase around the sofa.
Seeing this, Bai Qiuwu quietly protected her piece of cake and stood in the corner. She ate the cake quietly with a plastic spoon and looked at them with a smile.
A moment later, the figures with cream on their faces sat on the sofa in the living room for a meeting.
Bai Zini took a small notebook and counted: "First, the birthday song that the elementary school students didn't finish singing at the last party. This time it must be made up!"
"Second."
Bai Ziling said lightly and licked the cream on his lips.
"The last time the second brother celebrated his birthday, the eldest brother was not there either." Bai Zini coughed twice and said seriously, "In order to punish the eldest brother, he must sing it alone!"
"I second the motion."
Ke Xiaomo hugged his shoulders and said lightly.
"Is it necessary?"
As he said that, Ke Yinzhi raised his hand to support his chin, yawned and said, "Although I hadn't come back at that time, I had heard from him that you helped him celebrate his birthday in front of the toilet. That night I laughed at him severely, which can be regarded as a sense of participation, right?"
"Still stubborn, your values are not correct." Captain of the Dragonfly, Bai Zini, made a ruling, "Sing two songs!"
"Okay, okay, two songs then." Ke Yinzhi spread his hands, "But let me declare in advance that I am tone-deaf. In order to make fun of me, you tortured everyone's ears and ruined the atmosphere of the birthday. Isn't it a bit putting the cart before the horse?"
Ke Xiaomo exposed it on the spot.
"Tone deaf, you mean that when you were in elementary school, you recorded a scary nursery rhyme with a female falsetto. You put the recorder at the door of Akeno's room in the middle of the night, scaring him so much that he didn't dare to go to the toilet by himself in the middle of the night for two months after that?"
Ke Mingye was taken aback for a moment, and then he was stunned: "Here I go, it turns out it was my eldest brother who was messing with me at that time?!"
Veins popped out on his forehead, and he almost burst the Coke he was holding.
Hearing this, Ke Yinzhi began to pretend to be stupid: "Is there such a thing?" He pondered while pretending to be deep in thought, staring at the ceiling, "Although I can't remember clearly, since it's all in the past, I Thinking back on it now, Akeno-san must think it was just an interesting and happy memory, right?"
"Happy sister, I almost peed myself with fright, okay? Next time on your birthday, I will wear black clothes and sing you a funeral song. Isn't it fun to see if you are still happy or not?!"
Ke Mingye cursed.
Ke Yongzhu snorted coldly and said: "The person who stole the panda is like this, what qualities do you expect him to have."
"Bad taste." Bai Ziling said.
"It's too much." Bai Qiuwu said.
"Keep up the good work." Only Bai Zini said this.
She covered her mouth with her hands, with a sly expression as if she had remembered something funny, and said gloatingly, "I still remember that my brother knocked on my door in the middle of the night and said that he didn't dare to go to the bathroom alone, so he asked me to guard him outside. ”
She paused and said, "When I was inside, I often asked, 'Have you left?' It's so rude, okay?!"
Hearing this, Ke Yongzhu said with emotion while holding up his chin: "You have such a good temper. I wouldn't be able to accompany him to the toilet. Just go back to the room and sleep."
"How old was I at that time? Is it normal for me to be timid?" Ke Mingye gritted his teeth, "What's abnormal is the big brother who plays songs from the underworld outside his brother's room in the middle of the night. Is this something a human can do? ?”
Ke Yinzhi imitated his tone and said quite innocently: "How old was I at that time? Is it normal to be naughty?"
"Go away, don't you act like a human being? You are already a 'pervert' instead of a 'naughty' one, okay?!"
After Ke Yongzhu finished drinking Wong Lao Kat, he threw it into the trash can and said contemptuously: "I think you all don't look like human beings. Do you know that?"
He paused: "This is the first time I've seen a genius celebrating someone's birthday at the door of the toilet."
Ke Mingye said: "It was Bai Zini's instigation."
"But I did it too." Bai Zini raised her right hand and pointed at Ke Mingye angrily.
"Yeah." Bai Ziling nodded, his tone indifferent and serious, "It's all my fault, Third Brother."
"Okay, okay, now it's my problem." Ke Mingye sighed, "By the way, can we forget about the last birthday and have to whip our poor second brother to death?"
"Didn't you mention it yourself?"
Ke Xiaomo said, rubbing Tianming point, thinking about how to make the birthday celebration in the toilet obliterated in the long river of history.
Ever since he mentioned this matter to Ke Yinzhi, he had to be teased by Ke Yinzhi every day, and it had almost become a meme in the family chat group.
He secretly made up his mind.
When it's Ke Yinzhi's birthday, he will also offer him a birthday cake the moment Ke Yinzhi finishes flushing the toilet and walks out of the toilet. It’s best if the cream on the cake is dark chocolate and has a shape similar to excrement.
With this in mind, he decided to let Ke Yinzhi go for the time being and shift the target of revenge to Ke Mingye for the time being.
So he turned his head and said seriously to Ke Mingye, who was drinking a drink: "I will give you a blue owl figurine for your next birthday."
"Cough... cough cough..."
Ke Mingye coughed twice and almost spit out all the coke he just imported.
The corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and he said in a sinister manner: "Haha, second brother, you are so good at joking. With the strength of that bastard hero, if he can become famous enough to do something, I'll just take it, okay?"
Bai Qiuwu took a sip of his drink and asked in confusion: "Well...you just look down on him so much?"
Bai Zini puffed up her cheeks and covered her mouth with her hands to suppress laughter.
In the end, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I closed my eyes and coughed twice, and then said disdainfully: "I agree with my brother, is that blue owl worthy of taking action?"
"Haha." Ke Mingye rolled his eyes at her.
Hearing this, Ke Xiaomo nodded with satisfaction and seriously agreed: "That's right. This blue owl is too inferior. It doesn't look like a company will launch a figure for him."
He paused and then asked: "Then what figure do you want?"
"It's a figure of Magical Girl Ashes." Ke Mingye said calmly, "Oh, preferably a swimsuit model, thank you."
Bai Zini stopped laughing immediately, and the tips of her ears turned slightly red.
She was stunned for a moment, then blushed and shouted: "No, absolutely not!"
"No... my second brother gave me some model figures as a birthday gift. What do you want?"
After a pause, Ke Mingye said sinisterly, "I understand, you also want a figure of Magical Girl Ashes. Don't worry, the second brother never favors any younger brother or sister, and he will definitely buy you a Miss Ashes as well. Figures: Mine is a bikini model, yours is a bathing suit model, they are invincible together.”
"You, you, you, you...are simply seriously ill."
Bai Zini stammered, too angry to speak, and her shoulders were shaking with anger.
"Xiao Ni said that just because she wanted it." Ke Xiaomo said, pretending to be 'I am the elder brother and I know best', "Then I will buy you one for your birthday. Don't worry, everyone will have it."
Bai Zini gritted her teeth and almost jumped up from the sofa.
"Brother, if I say no, I don't want it. Can you please stop interpreting my meaning?!"
Bai Qiuwu was stunned for a while, then turned to look at Ke Mingye, thinking that Mingye also knew that Xiao Ni was the magical girl Ashes?
Listening to the conversation between several people, Ke Yinzhi interjected casually, "Really, why do I remember that Xiaoni seems to like the magical girl Ashes?"
He raised his eyebrows and thought back: "Last month, she often sent us pictures of her, and asked us every day, 'Is she good-looking? She looks much better in reality than in the photos' and so on... "
"Where is that?! Why do you have such a bad memory, but you remember such trivial things so clearly -!"
Bai Zini screamed loudly, her face and ears were red, and steam seemed to be rising from her head.
"I'm not asking you. She obviously only tortured me, okay? She is obsessed with chasing stars and chasing demons. She asks me every day if her idol is good-looking, and she even loses her face."
Ke Mingye took advantage of the victory to pursue.
Bai Zini's face turned red, she took a deep breath, glared at him angrily, and then turned to face Ke Yinzhi.
"Who hasn't had an idol before? It's like, old man, you never had a crush on any magical girl or superhero when you were in school!"
After saying that, she blushed, turned to Ke Xiaomo and whispered softly, "Even if you want to buy it, it can't be a swimsuit... that's too erotic."
Hearing this, Ke Xiaomo silently turned on his phone, searched for "Magical Girl Ash Figure" on Taobao, and then showed the pop-up results to Bai Zini.
"Which one do you like?" he asked.
Bai Zini reluctantly raised her head, her eyes quickly scanned the search results displayed on Taobao's page, her mouth opened wide, first in disbelief, and then she gritted her teeth in anger.
Finally speechless.
It's like bowing to the world.
She put her hand on her forehead and sighed deeply. While she was complaining about the money-making methods of these unscrupulous merchants, she said: "Then I'd better buy a swimsuit for my brother. It's normal in there."
"Actually, I'm joking, who likes figures like this?" Ke Mingye said.
Ke Xiaomo heard what Ke Mingye said, so he asked Bai Zini, "What about Xiaoni?"
"don't want!"
Bai Zini raised her palm and decisively refused.
She frowned, thinking, I have the time to look in the mirror more after I transform. What kind of figure should I buy? Second brother, just tell me if you are sick. !
"Then forget it." Ke Xiaomo said calmly.
Bai Zini breathed a sigh of relief, sat down next to Ke Mingye while drinking a drink, and asked him in a low voice: "By the way, second brother knows that you are the owl hero?"
Ke Mingye said: "What is an owl hero? My name is 'Blue Owl'. Are you a junior high school student and don't know how to pronounce 'owl'? Xiao, do you understand?"
"A genius doesn't know how to read. Even if he doesn't know how to read, he will look it up on Baidu."
"Oh, it seems I wrongly blamed you."
"It's just that your naming taste is terrible, bro. I don't miss it."
"So ashes sound good?" Ke Mingye said, "It sounds like cannon fodder, magical girl cannon fodder. I'm really afraid that you will die suddenly just like your name."
"Go to hell."
Bai Zini paused for a while and asked in a low voice: "So the second brother really knows?"
"What if?"
"How does he know... Could it be that you told him without telling me?"
Hearing this, Ke Mingye took a sip of his drink and smacked his tongue secretly. He said to himself that he is so possessive of your brother. Sister, if you have a boyfriend in the future, you will force him to commit suicide by caesarean section.
Thinking like this, he sighed and explained: "It's bad luck. I forgot to hide the diary and he peeked at it. Otherwise, the devil will tell you, and you won't even want to know."
When the words fell, Bai Zini was about to continue to argue against this sentence. Suddenly, with the sound of a key opening at the entrance, the door of the house was pushed open.
Ke Youqing walked into the living room, turned to look at a few people, and then looked at today's date. Finally, his eyes swept around the children's faces and slowly rested on the wreath above Bai Qiuwu's head.
He took off the cigarette from his mouth and said in a gentle voice: "Happy birthday, go to bed early." After saying that, Ke Youqing walked up to the second floor, leaving only a tired figure.
"Does Dad know you are a blue owl?"
Bai Zini glanced at her father's back, then at Ke Mingye and asked.
"I don't know yet, why should I tell him?" Ke Mingye said, "He is exhausted from working overtime every day, and he has to worry about a superhero son, let alone a magical girl daughter."
"Haha, he only needs to worry about you, okay? His daughter is so strong, what danger can there be?"
"Oh." Ke Mingye didn't take it seriously, "That's how parents are. No matter how strong you are, they will worry about you, no matter what kind of superhero or magical girl you are, do you understand?"
Hearing this, Bai Zini silently added in her heart, there is also a big stupid dragon!
She glared at Ke Yongzhu while thinking about it.
Ke Yongzhu sneezed, felt inexplicably and glanced back at Bai Zini, and then continued to play with his mobile phone.
"So only my second brother and I know about it?" she asked again.
"Um."
Ke Mingye nodded.
Bai Zini pondered for a while and seemed to feel that the result was quite acceptable.
So he said: "Brother, you are the only one in the family who knows my identity. Remember to keep it a secret from them."
Ke Mingye sighed and thought to himself, your sister also knows your identity, so why are you pretending?
"Okay, okay, I understand."
As he spoke, he glanced at Bai Qiuwu from the corner of his eye.
Bai Qiuwu took out his mobile phone from his coat pocket and glanced at the screen. Then he silently got up from the sofa and walked to the corner of the living room.
In the shadow of the living room, Bai Qiuwu stood against the wall, taking a sip of Coke and looking down at the information on the screen.
[Mr. Weird Stuff: Are you having fun? 】
[Bai Qiuwu: You lied to me, saying it was a 'serious matter', but it turned out to be a birthday party? 】
[Mr. Strange Thing: This is called a surprise, don’t tell me I lied to you. 】
[Bai Qiuwu: So what happened to my sister and my brother as you said before? 】
[Mr. Strange Thing: A group of people who call themselves "blood hunters" are eyeing them. As for the rest, I am not in a position to tell you. 】
[Mr. Strange Thing: Anyway, it’s best to keep an eye on them recently and don’t let them sneak out, otherwise you’ll be responsible for the consequences. 】
"What could it be?"
Bai Qiuwu hugged his shoulders while thinking, looked up from his phone, tilted his head slightly, and stared uneasily at Ke Mingye and Bai Ziling sitting on the sofa.
Then, as if she remembered something, she picked up her phone again, turned it on, and entered the message.
[Bai Qiuwu: By the way, thank you for celebrating my birthday. The fireworks... were actually quite beautiful. 】
[Mr. Strange Thing: Oh, no need to. We are friends, aren't we? 】
[Bai Qiuwu: Yes, we are friends. 】
Asking for a monthly ticket!