The three boys sat on the bed, staring at each other. Now that the house was no longer leaking, they had no reason to go play in their stepmother's room.
Luo Li said with a pitiful expression, "Big brother, I'm so bored. I want to go find my stepmother to hear a story."
Luo Chen didn't say anything. Silly brother, did you think he didn't want to?
Luo Yang held up the book: "Go if you want. At worst, your stepmother will kick you out. At least she won't hit you now."
Luo Li muttered, "How does Second Brother know she won't hit me?"
Luo Yang said meaningfully, "My elder brother and I both know, only you don't."
Luo Chen pressed down on his second brother's hand: "Stop pretending, you want to go too, don't you? It's been so long since you've turned the page."
Luo Chen put down his book and glanced at his older brother with dissatisfaction. His stepmother had said that one should not expose what one sees, so why hadn't his older brother remembered that?
After closing the book and putting it into the wooden box specifically for storing books, Luo Chen got out of bed: "If you're not going, I'll go."
"Second brother, wait for me, I'm coming too."
Luo Chen got out of bed and said, "If you all go, it will be even more boring for me to stay here alone. I'll go too."
There was a knock at the door. Xiao Yunying was carefully putting together the puzzle: "The door isn't locked, come in."
Luo Yang pushed open the door and entered, followed by his eldest and third brothers.
"Come in, close the door, and talk. What's the matter?"
Luo Yang calmly closed his umbrella and shut the door, saying, "Ali said she was bored and wanted to come and play with Xin'er."
Luo Li hadn't expected his second brother to push him forward again, fearing his stepmother would be angry and kick them out: "It wasn't me..."
Then his older brother covered his mouth.
"Take off your shoes and come up."
The bed wasn't big enough for all five family members to sit on, especially since she took up the most space. So Xiao Yunying got off the bed and placed the puzzle on the table.
Luo Li, without any hesitation, took off her shoes, climbed onto a stool, and went to study Tetris puzzles with Luo Xin.
Luo Chen and Luo Yang watched Xiao Yunying put together the jigsaw puzzle with curiosity.
Luo Yang asked, "What is this?"
"puzzle."
Luo Chen picked up a piece of the puzzle and examined it closely. It didn't look like wood; it looked more like smooth, thick paper.
The two looked at each other quietly for a while, then Luo Yang asked, "Are we piecing these fragments together according to the picture on this?"
"Yes, are you interested?"
"I want to try it."
Xiao Yunying has a slight case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. She was about to finish the puzzle and didn't want to take it apart and mess it up now: "Wait a minute, I'll finish it and give it to you."
After she finished the puzzle, she stretched contentedly, took it apart herself, and made room for him to sit down next to her: "Why don't you give it a try?"
Luo Chen watched Luo Yang quietly as he worked on the puzzle, neither lifting a finger nor making a sound. Xiao Yunying, worried that he would be bored, taught him how to solve the Rubik's Cube.
The Rubik's Cube she took out was a very common one-color cube; you just need to rotate the cubes of the same color to face one side.
The children played their own games, and Xiao Yunying, having nothing to do, took out her brush, ink, paper, and inkstone to study the details of the house.
If the rain stops tomorrow, she needs to go into town to sell the snow fungus, and then find out where there are kilns that fire porcelain so that she can make the drainage pipes she needs.
There's a big difference between the house from blueprints to reality. I don't know how long the ceramic pipes need to be. Let's make them as long as possible. If there are too many, we can keep them for other things. If there are too few, we'll have to fire them again, which is troublesome.
Luo Chen, holding the Rubik's Cube, asked, "Is that so?"
The green side of the Rubik's Cube is solved, but the other sides are still in disarray.
This was Luo Chen's first time working with a Rubik's Cube, and it was already quite impressive that he was able to solve one side in such a short time.
"Yes, that's it. If you think it's easy, you can try to put together the second and third sides at the same time. The most impressive thing is to put together all six sides at the same time."
Luo Chen felt it was a bit difficult: "I'll give it a try."
Luo Yang also said, "I've finished."
"So fast?!"
Xiao Yunying leaned over to take a look: "How did you do that?"
She presented a plain landscape painting, with very few points for comparison, making it quite challenging.
"It's very simple. Just separate the pieces of the same color, put the edges together, and then fill in the rest. Start with the darker parts, as they are easier. Leave the lighter parts for last."
She thought there was some secret: "That's how I do it too."
Luo Yang scrambled the jigsaw puzzle and pushed it toward Luo Chen: "I've memorized the whole picture, so I don't have to look at the original picture every time I put a piece together to make sure I'm doing it right, like you do. It's such a waste of time. Do you want to give it a try, brother?"
Xiao Yunying: "You memorized the original image?!"
My goodness, what an amazing memory! This second son is incredible.
"Yes, there's no need for comparison, saving time and effort."
Xiao Yunying was speechless. How could the difference between people be so great?
I feel a little jealous. If she had a brain like that in her past life, she wouldn't have had to stay up all night studying for her college entrance exams.
Seeing the sour look on Xiao Yunying's face, Luo Yang said somewhat reservedly, "Everyone has different strengths. I just have a better memory. You don't need to be sad. Compared to Ali, you are already very smart."
Xiao Yunying glanced back at Luo Li, who was bent over on the bed arguing with Luo Xin about how to put the wooden block in their hands. What to do? Her heart sank even further.
"Hehe, thank you for comforting me."
She shouldn't be compared to Xin'er; she really should thank her.
He put away the paper and pens and said, "You guys play by yourselves, I'm going to cook."
Luo Chen, who was teaching Luo Yang how to solve a Rubik's Cube, said, "I'll go help you start a fire."
"No need. I'll make something simple tonight. I can do it myself. These toys are all educational; they can make people smarter. You can figure them out yourselves. I'll call you when I'm done."
Luo Chen knew that her stepmother didn't want anyone to see her while she was preparing the ingredients, so she didn't insist on going. Instead, she sat down and went to study the jigsaw puzzle.
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