Chapter 33 Zhao Zhao Cried

Night fell.

After putting Zhaozhao to sleep, Lu Cheng mysteriously gathered the whole family together, saying he wanted to hold a family meeting.

Yes, it's the whole family.

Even Lu Xun and Lu Qi, who weren't home, were forced to video chat online.

At this moment, a cell phone was standing upright on the table, with two large heads appearing on the left and right sides of it.

This was Lu Cheng inviting his eldest and second eldest children to connect via video call in the family group chat.

The others sat together, along with a cell phone, creating a rather eerie scene.

"Why are you being so mysterious? What are you trying to say, kid?" Lu Wenyan yawned and couldn't help but complain.

“If you’re telling us you don’t want to go to school anymore, then you might as well give up on that idea. You have to finish high school!” Yin Song was guessing what Lu Cheng might say. Judging from his son’s past behavior, he probably wouldn’t say anything nice.

"How could that be? Mom and Dad! Don't make wild guesses!" Lu Cheng exclaimed excitedly.

He then rummaged in his pants pocket for a while and pulled out a crumpled piece of paper.

Lu Yuan: "What is this?"

Lu Cheng slowly unfolded the crumpled paper; it was a graded exam paper.

In the video, Lu Qi says, "Didn't you just finish your exams? The results are out so quickly? Did you fail or what happened?"

"No, this is a practice test I did before the exam, and it was Mr. Gao who corrected it for me."

The "Little Teacher Gao" that Lu Cheng mentioned is named Gao Li, who is the tutor that Yin Song specially hired for Lu Cheng. All the workbooks or test papers that Lu Cheng usually does are handed over to Gao Li to review.

"The full score is 150 points, and you got 101 points on this test. That's an improvement from before. Last month, you could only get 80-something points. Are you trying to get us to praise you?" Yin Song said with a smile.

Lu Wenyan followed up, saying, "Really? Then it seems you've indeed improved. But this test paper... can't you show it some respect? Crumpled up like this, when you take it out, I thought it was just scrap paper!"

Lu Yuan kept observing Lu Cheng's expression and felt that things might not be so simple.

"What exactly are you trying to say?" Lu Yuan asked directly.

Lu Cheng quickly pointed to the multiple-choice section, "Look at the parts marked with pencil ticks, I didn't draw those, Zhao Zhao did..."

“When I was doing a test at home, Zhao Zhao was next to me. I saw that he was very interested in the test I was doing, so I let him do some multiple-choice questions as well.”

"And guess what happened?"

"When Teacher Gao was grading my papers that day, she said that if I had just checked the boxes, all the multiple-choice questions would have been correct. I was absolutely terrified!"

Lu Cheng spoke all at once this time, his words unusually dense.

Lu Yuan finally managed to interject, "So what conclusion did you come to?"

Lu Cheng held her head in her hands and exclaimed excitedly, "Our family has produced a lucky charm! Aren't you all surprised? Zhao Zhao must be just like the characters in novels, a lucky baby with a koi fish constitution!"

The whole family: "..."

Lu Yuan was sweating profusely, clutching his forehead.

This guy would rather believe that Zhao Zhao was just lucky than consider that Zhao Zhao is a little genius?

"Hey! Why aren't you surprised at all? Do you think I'm lying to you? I'm telling the truth!"

Lu Yuan held down Lu Cheng, who was easily ignited and explosive, and said, "I know what you're saying is true."

He took out his phone and showed Lu Cheng a video.

That is, the few clips that Guo Hongfa had given him about Zhaozhao being different from ordinary people.

Lu Cheng took the phone and looked at it for a long time, then fell into a deathly silence.

He stared wide-eyed at Yin Song, then at Lu Wenyan, pointing at his phone and saying, "You...you've all seen this? Zhao Zhao? How does he know all this? Who taught him?"

The master tapes Guo Hong sent to Lu Yuan included not only clips of Zhao Zhao playing with Rubik's Cubes and nine-linked rings on the bed, but also scenes of Zhao Zhao climbing onto the computer chair to tinker with the computer, and...

At the end, there's a scene where the little guy secretly takes the phone and plays with it for a while, after which the screen displays a "victory" sign for the game.

"Holy crap! This...this...I knew I was wondering how I could still win when I AFK'd halfway through the game that day. I never expected that Zhaozhao would take over the game after me?!"

When Lu Cheng saw the game record showing that they had won that match, he mentally gave his teammates a thumbs up, thinking that it was because the teammates they were matched with that time were really good.

The video now claims it's related to Zhao Zhao?

This part wasn't filmed very clearly; it only captured the little guy picking up the phone and frantically swiping the screen with his hand, and finally the camera panned to the word "victory" on the screen.

Even Guo Hong didn't see exactly how Zhao Zhao did it.

At the time, he thought it was just a coincidence, since PGW is a game that requires teamwork.

But now that all the coincidences have come together, it can no longer be a coincidence.

Everyone has to admit that Zhao Zhao does have some extraordinary abilities.

Lu Xun, who hadn't spoken in the video, finally spoke up: "Wait, didn't any of you consider that Zhao Zhao might have inherited it from her maternal grandfather?"

These words stunned the whole family.

Lu Qi nodded repeatedly in the video: "Yes, yes, yes! Grandpa is so amazing, Zhao Zhao might be like him!"

Lu Wenyan: "Hey! You know what, you really have to say... Xun's mind works the fastest."

Yin Song's father, Yin Zhuoxian, was an academician of the Mathematical Academy before his retirement. He is 72 years old this year. Although he has retired, he is still occasionally called to the academy to conduct mathematical research.

Because the research institute is located in Jianghai City, the elderly couple has always lived near their workplace.

If it weren't for the special nature of Yin Zhuoxian's work, the elderly couple might have moved to Xingbei City with their daughter.

However, having lived in Jianghai City for so many years, the old man never mentioned this matter again after he retired.

Yin Song recently visited his parents and stayed there for almost a week before returning.

“You haven’t visited your grandparents in a long time, so let’s make the family trip we were talking about happen in Haishi. We can take you to see them while we’re at it,” Yin Song said.

Lu Yuan: "Okay."

Lu Xun: "I think it's okay."

Lu Qi: "You're making me miss my grandparents. I miss the rice cakes I ate at my grandma's house when I was little."

When everyone almost accepted the possibility that "Zhaozhao inherited from her maternal grandfather".

Lu Cheng, however, stroked his chin and said in a strange tone, "Maybe Zhao Zhao drank watered-down Meng Po soup in her past life? I just watched the video again, the part where she fixed Third Brother's computer... it doesn't seem like she learned it, it seems like she hasn't forgotten it completely."

Lu Yuan kicked Lu Cheng under the table, "Would it kill you to read less novels?!"

Yin Song and Lu Wenyan also glared at Lu Cheng.

Yin Song scolded, "You just keep spouting nonsense. Even if Zhao Zhao has memories of his past life, he's still my son in this life, our family's good baby."

Lu Cheng touched her kicked leg with a wronged expression. "What's wrong? I was just joking. Of course I believe Zhao Zhao is a genius! I should have just copied his answers. I even got three questions wrong myself."

If Zhao Zhao is truly a genius, Lu Cheng feels he doesn't need to hire a tutor; it would be better to have Zhao Zhao tutor him directly.

While everyone was earnestly holding a family meeting, not a single person noticed that the bedroom door had been quietly opened a crack.

The villa area was exceptionally quiet at night; even the slightest sound could be heard clearly in the living room.

Lu Yinzhao didn't know why he suddenly woke up while sleeping today.

He never got up at night. When he woke up, he felt the urge to urinate, so he climbed out of bed to go to the toilet.

Just as he was passing by the door, he vaguely heard his fourth brother shouting.

Out of curiosity, Lu Yinzhao opened the door a little and peeked out to listen.

He couldn't hear most of what was being said, but he did hear the last sentence his loud-voiced fourth brother said.

Things like "watered-down Meng Po soup" or "not completely forgotten from the previous life".

Lu Yinzhao was so frightened that the hairs on his body stood on end.

Could it be that... his soul-transmigration has been discovered?

The next second, he heard his parents and third brother's words again. They scolded his fourth brother and said that no matter what, he was still their little darling.

Lu Yinzhao felt a lump in her throat, and for some reason, she felt like crying.

He is actually very easily moved to tears, but those seemingly ordinary words seeped into his heart like spring rain.

Waaaaah! What an amazing family he was born into!

Lu Yinzhao blinked, and tears fell like pearls.

Right now, he really wants to tell his family "I love you" and kiss each and every one of them.

His family members have always stood by him, believed in him, and built a fortress of love for him.

Lu Yinzhao had never been loved unconditionally like this before.

At that moment, he only felt how wonderful it was to have his parents and family.

He no longer had to get soaked in the rain alone, nor bear all the loneliness and fear of the unknown alone.

"Huh? Is the door to that room open? Is Zhao Zhao awake?" Lu Cheng's gaze was fixed on the area of ​​the room. He caught a glimpse of something and couldn't help but stand up and crane his neck to look.

"Really? Zhao Zhao is awake?" Yin Song got up and walked over, gently pushed the door open, and saw the little one standing barefoot a step away from the door.

Is she... wiping away tears?

Yin Song immediately panicked, pressed the light switch next to him, and squatted down to check on Zhao Zhao's condition.

"What's wrong, Zhao Zhao? Why are you crying?" Yin Song looked his son up and down, but couldn't see any wounds. He then pressed his forehead against the little guy's head.

My temperature is normal, and I don't have a fever.

Lu Yinzhao had been holding back her tears, but when she saw her mother arrive, she broke down in tears again.

The little one didn't cry loudly like other children, but just sobbed softly like a kitten.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened to Zhao Zhao?" Lu Cheng ran over.

Lu Wenyan and Lu Yuan also came along.

Everyone was shocked to see Zhao Zhao crying.

In their memory, Zhao Zhao never cried even when she was hit by a car and had a nosebleed. If she cried now, it must be because something terrible had happened.

Yin Song picked up the little one, gently pressed his head into her arms, and softly stroked his head. "Okay, okay, baby, don't be afraid, Mommy's here."

Lu Wenyan: "Wife, what's wrong with Zhaozhao...?"

Yin Song whispered to everyone, "It must be a nightmare. Children are very scared when they wake up from nightmares. It seems we still have to take Zhao Zhao to our room to sleep."

At this moment, Lu Wenyan dared not say "no." Although he longed to be intimate with his wife, he would not have that thought if something happened to his son.

"Okay, Zhao Zhao will sleep with us tonight, right next to us."

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Author's Note: Zhao Zhao: I'm so touched~ [crying] (I can't believe it either!)