Dad Academy

Chapter 691 Photo Album (22)

PS: Updated for the four new cute protagonists. The 8,000-word update is completed today and the next chapter will be released early in the morning.

On the first floor of the originally dark and silent villa, a candlelight and two lights suddenly lit up, and then the birthday song was played.

This scene came unexpectedly, without any warning, and she was startled.

At this moment, she opened her hands slightly to protect Xiaobai and Xi'er behind her, her body tensed, and she stared closely in front of her, her face full of vigilance and a bit of surprise.

Behind her was Xi'er. Xi'er buried his head on her back, holding the hem of her dress tightly with his little hands, as if he was too scared to look at her.

Behind Xi'er is Xiaobai, who was pulled behind by Tan Jin'er. She is very courageous. Although she hides her body, she sticks her little head out and looks forward.

"Happy birthday to you~~~~"

The singing of the birthday song became louder and louder, people kept joining in, and the lights were turned on one by one, illuminating the faces of everyone behind the lights.

When Tan Jin'er saw Zhang Tan, her vigilance suddenly dropped, her face was filled with astonishment, and she didn't understand the situation in front of her.

When Zhang Tan approached her with a birthday cake cart and explained it to her, she realized that it was someone's birthday.

Xi'er came out from behind, holding hands happily and gathering them in front of her chest. Her happiness was beyond words, and she sang along with the crowd: "Pig, you are as fast as a monk, pig, my monk is as fast as day~~~~"

Tan Jin'er pulled her aside and reminded her in a low voice: "It's not your birthday."

"Pig, your sun is as fast as a monk, pig, my monk is as fast as a day~~~~" Xi'er said confusedly: "Huh?"

Tan Jiner emphasized again: "It's not your birthday, it's your birthday in May. It's already December and it's not here yet."

Xi'er thought for a while, and it seemed like ha. Hiahia smiled and put down her clasped hands. She saw Boss Zhang pushing the cake cart and passed her by without calling her to eat.

"Xiao Bai, after tonight, you will be 6 years old. I wish you a happy birthday." Zhang Tan said with a smile to the bewildered Xiao Bai.

Xiaobai was at a loss. He had never seen such a scene before. The protagonist was his own scene, so he wanted to run away, but he was surrounded by everyone and couldn't run anywhere.

"Where do you live? Where do you live?" Xiaobai shouted, "Xiwa, come and save me~~~"

Xi'er raised her head and asked her sister if she wanted to save Xiaobai.

"Did you save it? How many people here have you beaten?" Tan Jin'er said.

Xi'er glanced left and right, making sure that none of them could be beaten, so the old god stood comfortably at her sister's feet and watched the whole show.

"Today is your birthday, we are celebrating your birthday."

Zhang Tan comforted Xiaobai, who was a little excited, and Tan Jin'er was also explaining to Xiaobai. Xiaobai finally calmed down slowly, and then she felt a little happy. She didn't even remember that it was her birthday today.

Zhang Tan said: "Today is your birthday, December 1st, today is the day you turn 6 years old."

Xiaobai was dubious. She really couldn't remember when her birthday was. She had never made such a big fuss on her birthday before. Every time, her aunt or grandma boiled two red eggs for her and ate one immediately. Keep one in your pocket and eat it whenever you are hungry.

She didn't feel any difference between her birthday and other days.

If anything, she wishes she would grow up faster.

"My birthday?" Xiaobai asked uncertainly.

"Yes, it's your birthday." Zhang Tan said.

"It's your birthday, Xiaobai." Tan Jin'er also said.

"hiahiahia~ Xiaobai, you are older than me again." Xi'er was also saying.

Others, Teacher Xiaoman and Xin Xiaoguang, are telling Xiaobai that today is her birthday, her 6th birthday.

They learned the news yesterday and kept the whole process secret. Xin Xiaoguang and Teacher Xiaoman were secretly planning it in order to give Xiaobai a surprise tonight. However, it looked like Xiaobai was frightened.

Xiaobai is still not used to this kind of battle. She celebrated the birthdays of other children. Several children gathered together hand in hand, surrounded the birthday girl in the middle of the circle, and sang happy birthday together. It was different from today.

But it doesn't matter. Under Zhang Tan's soft comfort, Xiaobai gradually accepted it. He was led by the hand and came out of the stairs and into the living room. Candlelight was everywhere. Zhang Tan waved and called Xi'er over, asking her to talk to her. Xiaobai holds hands together.

The cake was three-tiered and was carried by a small car. It was almost as tall as Xiaobai. She had never seen such a big cake and kept looking at it.

Under Zhang Tan's arrangement, Xiaobai stood in front of the cake, accepted everyone's blessings, sang a birthday song together, made a wish, blew out the candles, and divided the cake.

After having fun for a while, everyone was getting ready to have dinner. Only then did Xiaobai realize that he seemed to have eaten too much cake and was a little full.

As for Xi'er, despite her sister's constant reminders, she was full and giggled the whole time.

It was more like her birthday than Xiaobai, hiahia couldn't stop laughing.

"It's okay, let's have something to eat, and then I'll take you somewhere." Zhang Tan took Xiaobai to have dinner. In the evening, he ate fish soup, and now he ate cake. The food in his stomach was not digested for the time being. No more.

However, at Zhang Tan's insistence, Xiaobai still ate something to further cushion his stomach. Because he will take Xiaobai out later, and tonight's birthday is not over yet.

Xi'er curiously wanted to follow, but Tan Jin'er pulled her back. This time, only Zhang Tan and Xiao Bai went out, and no one else. The others were still having dinner and already knew Zhang Tan's itinerary. Only Xin Xiaoguang sent the two outside the villa, told Zhang Tan that everything had been arranged there, and gave him a shining little star.

Xiaobai caught a glimpse and was very curious. Girls are instinctively curious and fond of shiny things, so Zhang Tan gave her the little star.

"What is this?" Xiaobai asked curiously, playing with the glowing little stars, but Zhang Tan did not answer.

The little star is made of artificial jade, and its interior emits a faint warm milky white light. It absorbs sunlight during the day and releases it at night.

"Let's go." Zhang Tan said, holding Xiaobai's hand. She looked back at the brightly lit villa, then at the dark night outside the resort, and subconsciously stood still, not wanting to leave. But with Zhang Tan's soft comfort, he still let him hold her little hand and came to the snowmobile in the yard, climbed into the passenger seat, and sat on it. Zhang Tan sat in the driver's seat.

Tan Jin'er and Xi'er, one large and one small, came to the door of the villa and stood under a light, watching them leave. Xi'er kept waving, a little worried for her friends.

The snowmobile traveled through the night, two headlights illuminated the snow-packed road, and the whistling wind sounded in my ears, but there was no snow tonight and the weather was very good.

"Look, there are many stars in the sky." Zhang Tan said. Xiaobai raised his head and saw through the windshield that the stars were densely packed in the light blue night sky, like a beehive. Those little stars were the result of a hard day's work. The little bee that comes to sleep at home.

"Wow - there are so many stars?" Xiaobai asked.

Zhang Tan explained: "There are many stars in the sky, but we usually don't see so many. We can see some in Little Red Horse, but not many. Here, the altitude is high, the sky is clean, there is no light pollution, and the air is fresh , the stars all wandered out, don’t they feel so close to us?”

Xiaobai nodded, raised her pointed chin, and looked up at the swarm of bees on the night sky. The stars were twinkling like her eyes. Her face was no longer nervous and overwhelmed, and she was immersed in the starlight.

She has been fascinated by stars since she was a child.

In her home in Huangjiacun, there was a window next to her little bed. When the weather was nice at night, the moonlight would shine through her window, covering her little bed and enveloping her in it.

At this time, she often couldn't sleep, so she would get up and sit on the bedside, looking at the stars and moonlight for a long time.

Grandma once told her that her deceased relatives would appear in the sky and turn into stars.

She often thought that her old man and mother must be some two stars in front of the window, secretly watching her.

At that moment, she saw a large field of stars. She had never seen so many stars at once. How many mothers of babies must this be?

Thinking of this, she felt a little sad.

Zhang Tan felt something was wrong in the atmosphere in the car. He glanced at Xiaobai and saw that she was leaning back in the seat, with her little face raised, staring wordlessly at the starry sky outside the windshield, the light in her eyes following. With the stars twinkling.

The little man at this moment actually felt melancholy in a way that only adults would feel.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Tan asked in a low voice, as if he was worried that the loud voice would ruin the child's mood.

Xiaobai glanced at Zhang Tan who was driving, and saw that he was looking ahead and not paying attention to himself. He pouted his mouth and sighed, and then said in a slightly relaxed voice: "Oh~~~I don't even think about it." Know how to squeal."

"Children, don't sigh."

"So, am I going to die?"

"..."

"Still sighing."

"Children, be happy and don't sigh."

Xiaobai was silent for a while before saying: "Oh~"

The snowmobile was driving in the silent snowy night. Everything was quiet, not even the chirping of birds or insects. The temperature outside the car reached more than 20 degrees below zero, and it was as cold as a knife.

"Boss Zhang, where are your old man and Mama?" Xiaobai asked suddenly.

Although the question was abrupt, Zhang Tan quickly responded: "They are all dead."

"...You are so rich and pitiful." Xiaobai looked at him with pity, "Where is your grandma?"

"She passed away too."

There was a little more pity in Xiaobai's eyes.

"Where are you taking me?" Xiaobai looked outside the car, but except for the starry sky above his head, it was pitch black all around and he couldn't see even the beautiful scenery.

Zhang Tan said: "We will be there soon and will take you to see the stars."

The snowmobile drove on the road for less than twenty minutes and finally came to a valley. The dark snowfield finally had a few lights here. They were distributed in the snow in a long and narrow shape, separated by a certain distance. Under the shining of these lights Below, you can barely see a quiet river flowing slowly in the night.

Zhang Tan stopped the car, took out a hat from his bag and put it on Xiaobai, as well as gloves, and then put her in his coat.

"Don't move yet."

Zhang Tan got out of the car. There were two different worlds inside and outside the car. The temperature dropped sharply. Even though he was prepared, he still shivered several times and had goosebumps on his body.

He exhaled a cloud of mist, walked quickly to the passenger seat, opened the car door, took Xiaobai out of the clothes, closed the car door, and walked to the house a few meters away.

If it weren't for the light shining through, it would be hard to tell that this was a door, let alone that there was a spacious space in this snowdrift.

Zhang Tan waved the little star made of artificial jade in front of the door. With a beep, the door opened. He pushed the door in, closed it again, put Xiaobai down, smiled and asked, only revealing a pair of She asked with her eyes: "Is it cold?"

Xiaobai shook his head and looked around curiously.

This is an igloo. The room is about 15 square meters, crystal clear, and the roof is a glass dome. You can look directly at the sky, and the stars seem to have fallen one after another on the roof.

Xiaobai looked around excitedly, reaching out to touch and pat there.

Zhang Tan put down his luggage: "We are staying here tonight. I know you like to watch the stars. This is the best place to watch the stars. You can watch them all night."

The igloo not only has a bed, but also cabinets for storage, just like a hotel. Zhang Tan boiled water, poured a steaming cup for himself and Xiaobai, sat cross-legged on the comfortable big bed, took out a photo album from his bag, and read through each page carefully.

Xiaobai noticed the movement and came over curiously to look at it: "What are you looking at?"

Zhang Tan raised his head and looked at her: "Your grandma lent it to me when we came to play. Look, there are many photos of you since you were a child."

"Claws? I'm Kangkang."

Xiaobai came to Zhang Tan's side and stayed close to him. Zhang Tan put the album in his arms and admired the photos with her.