Chapter 18 My Hand is Bleeding
Looking at his younger brother's sleeping face, Lu Yuan's lips curled into a faint smile.
He gently laid Lu Yinzhao down on the sofa and covered him with a small blanket.
Their sofa can be folded down to become a small sofa bed, which is perfect for children to take a nap.
Just as Lu Yuan had settled Zhao Zhao in, a clanging and shattering sound came from the kitchen.
The baby, who had just settled down to sleep, shuddered at the sudden noise.
Lu Yinzhao's eyes opened slightly.
Lu Yuan quickly covered his ears, gently stroked his hair, and said in a deep and pleasant voice, "It's okay, Zhao Zhao, go back to sleep."
Touch its fur, it won't scare you.
Amidst such a reassuringly soothing hypnotic voice, Lu Yinzhao's slightly open eyes slowly closed again, and she drifted off to sleep once more.
Once the little one's breathing had completely stabilized, Lu Yuan stood up and walked towards the kitchen with a cold face.
In front of the kitchen sink, the broken pieces were scattered haphazardly on the floor.
Lu Yuan felt a surge of breath, but he held it back tightly. He closed his eyes, and only managed to utter one word, "You..."
The boy sitting on the ground suddenly looked up pitifully, "Third brother, my hand is bleeding, waaaaah~"
Lu Yuan: "..."
Lu Yuan swallowed back what he wanted to say.
Seeing the almost invisible cuts on his foolish younger brother's fingers, Lu Yuan sighed and pulled him up from the ground.
He turned and left the kitchen, then rummaged through the cabinets on the other side for a while.
When she came back, she threw Lu Cheng a band-aid with a cartoon dog pattern printed on it.
Lu Cheng pouted slightly, pinching the band-aid, "Don't you have any for adults? This is for kids."
Lu Yuan knew, of course, that this was for children.
Because he thought that the only person in the family who might get hurt was his youngest brother, the supplies in the first-aid kit were all prepared for Zhaozhao.
Who would have thought that Lu Cheng, even at his age, would still be so reckless?
"If you don't want to use it, just throw it away. Your wound is almost healed anyway," Lu Yuan said ruthlessly.
"It won't heal that quickly. I bled a lot just now, and I licked it clean myself," Lu Yuan said pitifully, looking quite dejected.
"..."
Lu Yuan didn't want to waste any more words. He personally put on kitchen gloves, took the trash can, and used his hands to put the large pieces of debris into it, while sweeping away the smaller pieces one by one with a broom.
After carefully inspecting the trash bag to make sure there were no stray pieces left, Lu Yuan carefully affixed a "Contains debris, please handle with care" label to the bag.
Lu Yuan regretted it a little; he shouldn't have placed any hope in Lu Cheng. He shouldn't let Lu Cheng into the kitchen so casually in the future.
His younger brother has never suffered any hardship since childhood. He's always been waited on hand and foot, and apart from being good at video games, he's useless at everything else.
After cleaning the kitchen, Lu Yuan sat down opposite Lu Cheng.
"Is there anything you'd like to say?"
Lu Cheng shrank back and began to recount her "crimes" like beans spilling from a bamboo tube: "You asked me to wash the dishes, and I only realized there was a dishwasher when I was halfway through. I wanted to carry all the plates and bowls over, but I didn't notice there was water on the floor, and I slipped when I went over..."
Why is there water on the ground?
"I turned the water on too high when I was washing the dishes, and it splashed out."
Lu Yuan was speechless at Lu Cheng's stupidity.
Pointing to his own nose, he said, "Is it my fault? Is it my fault for not reminding you that you have a dishwasher?"
Knowing he was in the wrong, Lu Cheng didn't dare to refute his third brother's words at all, and weakly said, "I'm too clumsy and can't help you."
Lu Yuan rubbed his forehead, thinking that he had indeed helped, but in a way that made things worse.
When he asked Lu Cheng to wash the dishes at the dinner table, he only meant for him to tidy up the table and put the dishes in the dishwasher. Little did he know that doing such a simple task would lead to his injury.
"Is there any other injury?" Lu Yuan was tough on the outside but soft on the inside. No matter how clumsy he was, he was still his younger brother, and he didn't want his brother to really get hurt.
Lu Cheng shook his head, then said confidently, "That's all. I have a lot of fat on my butt, so it doesn't hurt when I fall. This little injury on my finger won't affect my ranked matches, hahaha!"
"Keep your voice down, Zhao Zhao is asleep."
"Okay, bro, I'm going to do my homework." Lu Cheng said and made a quick getaway.
Lu Cheng is currently a first-year high school student at a well-known private international school in the area. Due to his special circumstances, he needs to work with the club and cannot balance his studies with his classes. After a friendly discussion with the school, they agreed that he could study at home and would not need to go to school to report for classes.
However, you cannot miss any of the important mock exams each semester.
Midterm exams are just around the corner, and Lu Cheng's homeroom teacher sent him a bunch of test papers and notes, telling him to make sure he finishes them properly.
Lu Cheng would do it whenever he had free time when he wasn't training or competing.
Having not touched books and homework for so long, he is still a little unaccustomed to picking up a pen now.
Yin Song hired a tutor for him who would come regularly to grade his test papers and correct the questions he got wrong.
Before leaving home, Yin Song specifically reminded him not to forget to do the test paper. While respecting their child's dreams, his family also pays attention to his cultural and academic education.
Since Lu Cheng loves playing games, he should study e-sports in the future. His family and Lu Cheng have discussed this thoroughly, and Lu Cheng has agreed. He promised his parents that he would study hard for the three years of high school.
After Lu Yuan finished cleaning up the kitchen, he returned to the living room and saw the boy sitting cross-legged on the floor, biting a pen on the coffee table.
On the sofa next to him, Lu Yinzhao was sleeping soundly.
"Why don't you write in your room?" Lu Yuan asked.
"I can't stand being alone in the room." Lu Cheng just wanted to be close to the little guy.
"Then you stay here and watch over Zhaozhao. I'm going back to my room to work." Lu Yuan had promised to use this vacation to make his own music album, and he had all the necessary equipment in his room.
"Okay, you go ahead and get busy. Don't worry about Zhaozhao, I'll take care of her."
"..." Hearing that made me a little uneasy.
But there are surveillance cameras everywhere in the house, so nothing serious should happen.
Lu Cheng was so engrossed in doing the test that he completely forgot he was recording a TV show.
While doing his homework, he sighed, clutching the two tufts of white hair on his head.
"Is this a first-year high school math problem? Why is it so difficult?" Lu Cheng couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Many people use the "three long and one short" or "three short and one long" rule when faced with multiple-choice questions they don't know how to answer. Lu Cheng doesn't like to use this guessing method when doing practice tests in private.
Unless you're really in the exam hall and have no other choice, you won't resort to the mystical guessing method.
He promised his parents he would study hard, and he wasn't just saying it for show.
Don't let his seemingly carefree and unreliable demeanor fool you; when he's committed to something he's decided to do, he's incredibly serious, just like when he's studying games.
Lu Cheng put down his pen after doing one question.
Let's check the textbook first. We've missed several lessons; maybe the answers are in the book.
After looking at it for half an hour, Lu Cheng got dizzy from the pages full of x, y, z. He turned to another page and got dizzy from sin, cos, tan.
Lu Cheng patiently did the exercises in the textbook; he could still do the basic questions.
After reviewing the notes the teacher had given him, Lu Cheng roughly understood the key points.
Putting down his textbook, he confidently picked up his pen again and plunged into the sea of problems.
Lu Cheng quickly calculated the answer, and this time it went very smoothly. However, when she saw that the number she calculated did not exist in any of the options A, B, C, or D, she was dumbfounded.
That's impossible! I followed the formula exactly!
Could there have been some minor error in the calculation?
Yes, that's right, it must be a calculation error. My solution method is correct.
"Should we choose...A?" Lu Cheng rubbed his chin. "Or should we choose C?"
"Forget it, let's choose B. This answer is closer to my calculation."
Just as Lu Cheng was muttering to himself, preparing to put pen to paper, a chubby little hand reached out and slowly poked him with its index finger.
My finger just happened to move over "Option D".
Lu Cheng's pupils widened, and when he turned his head, he saw that the little one had woken up at some point and was standing next to him.
"Zhao Zhao, you're awake?" Lu Cheng said with a smile. "Did you come to see your fourth brother doing his exam? This is your fourth brother's homework."
Lu Cheng thought Zhao Zhao would smile and nod as usual, calling him "Fourth Brother".
However, what they saw was a baby with a furrowed brow.
Lu Yinzhao woke up ten minutes ago and watched as Lu Cheng wrote half a page of draft paper, only to find that the final answer was wrong. His little fists clenched in frustration.
Why does a problem about "vector dot product" take this long?
Lu Yinzhao, who once scored a perfect score in the college entrance examination mathematics, simply couldn't stand it.
Choose D!
The answer is D!
How could you possibly miss the only correct answer and choose one of the other three?!
Lu Cheng saw Zhao Zhao constantly poking his test paper with her hand and thought that the other party was just having fun.
"Zhao Zhao, you can't ruin your brother's test paper." Lu Cheng said this, but she didn't stop Lu Yin Zhao from doing so.
In his eyes, everything his younger brother did was adorable.
I couldn't resist leaning over and kissing him.
Lu Yinzhao raised his left hand to cover Lu Cheng's mouth, while his right hand remained on "Option D".
Lu Cheng finally realized what was happening.
"Zhao Zhao! You're choosing the answer for me?" Lu Cheng's eyes lit up with surprise.
Lu Yinzhao nodded, her sweet, childlike voice escaping urgently, "Hurry up and do it!"
Lu Cheng laughed and picked up the pen, "Zhao Zhao, can you even read ABCD? Hahaha!"
Lu Yinzhao: "..." I know more than you do.
Although he knew his younger brother had chosen the wrong answer, Lu Cheng was willing to spoil Zhao Zhao, "Okay, okay, I'll choose the answer you pointed to, alright?"
Lu Yinzhao felt a little better after watching Lu Cheng write down the correct answer.
He knows he has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
If he finds obvious wrong answers on the test paper that are not corrected, he will feel really uncomfortable.
It's fine if he doesn't see it, but once he does, it's hard for him not to care.
Thinking that his fourth brother usually neglected his studies and probably couldn't do many of the questions, Lu Yinzhao couldn't help but sigh.
Why did he wake up? He should have continued sleeping.
This baby shouldn't have to endure all this!
A note from the author:
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Third Brother: My stupid little brother! [Cracks]
Zhao Zhao: My stupid onii-chan! [crying emoji]
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