Chapter 38:

The house of Shen Zhan's house is a bit scary. Entering from the first courtyard gate, the field of vision is wide, and a large green lawn is in front of you.
Go further, you have to go up the stairs.
There are two huge pots of evergreen trees on both sides of the stairs. On the left hand is a pergola covered with green plants, and on the right is a mountain-view pool with several small red carps swimming around.
It was Zhang Ma who came to open the door.
He was a little older, with his hair all over his head meticulously, and a white apron around his waist.
She smiled at herself first, then moved her gaze to Shen Zhan's face, "Xiao Zhan hasn't come back for a long time, your mother is so happy today."
"Is it Shen Zhan?" A voice came from the kitchen.
Mom Zhang turned her head and opened her voice in response: "Yes--"
Lin Jiayin timidly followed Shen Zhan and entered the door. Zhang Ma took out a pair of brand-new pink slippers from the shoe cabinet: "Your Aunt Tang bought them for you."
"Huh?" Lin Jiayin was a little frightened.
At this time, a rush of slippers whispered from far to near.
"Sister is here!" Tang Ye came over and took her hand. She carried a pure white paper bag in her hand at the same time. The logo was a black swan.
Lin Jiayin handed it to her: "A little bit of heart, I hope Auntie likes it."
"I like it! Of course I like it! But don't buy gifts next time, it looks rusty!" Tang Ye cast his mouth, but he was happy.
Tang Ye enthusiastically took Lin Jiayin to the living room, and Shen Zhan lazily followed behind him.
Mother Zhang brought a plate of fruits, Tang Ye held her hand to talk to her and fed her the fruit with a silver fork. Lin Jiayin's enthusiasm was bewildered.
She had an inexplicable feeling that an aunt was taking her daughter.
On the side, Shen Zhan was lying on the sofa, looking down at the phone.
After a while, he raised his eyelids, "Mom, don't you frighten people, is there a way?"
Tang Ye squinted at him and continued to chat with Lin Jiayin. If Zhang Ma asked her if she could still do the pearl shrimp, the two would be able to talk to nothing.
Lin Jiayin wanted to follow her to help, Tang Ye pushed her to sit on the sofa, "Don't worry, you won't want to enter the kitchen when you enter the house later."
Lin Jiayin: "..."
Tang Ye saw her face suddenly reddened, and thought it was especially funny, "If you feel bored, let your brother take you to his bedroom for a while."
"Brother's bedroom." Tang Ye raised his eyebrows, as if suggesting something.
Shen Zhan put down his phone and glanced at Tang Ye.
Mom is boring enough.
"Let's go." Shen Zhan stood up.
Lin Jiayin bit her lip and nodded.
"I'll call you after dinner," Tang Ye said.
Shen Zhan walked forward: "I see."
Shen Zhan's bedroom is on the third floor. To be precise, the entire third floor belongs to Shen Zhan.
The display screen in the living room was as big as half a wall. Shen Zhan explained that it was used for playing games. Lin Jiayin shook his head incomprehensibly.
Shen Zhan walked over, pressed the switch key, and did not respond for a long time.
"Broken," he said.
Lin Jiayin: "Broken?"
Shen Zhan walked back: "Well, after a long time, the circuit board has accumulated dust."
"How long have you not played?" Lin Jiayin asked.
Shen Zhan thought for a while: "Four or five years."
"Really long enough." Lin Jiayin said.
It's been a long time, I haven't played after studying abroad.
Shen Zhan took Lin Jiayin to visit the study and storage room.
The books on a few walls of the study made Lin Jiayin's scalp numb when she saw it.
There is no cave in the storage room.
When Shen Zhan turned on the light, there were only countless train tracks that filled the room in his sight.
Look carefully, in addition to the tracks, there are also trains, planes, cars, parking lots, gas stations, service areas...
She entered the world of Lego.
Lin Jiayin also played with building blocks when she was a child, but she was limited to playing with a car or a small villa. The most difficult thing she had ever had was a three-story villa with a garden. After all her summer vacation, she was still helped by her mother. Just completed.
With a click, the overhead light went out, and the room plunged into the darkness before entering.
"Huh?" Lin Jiayin subconsciously turned to look at Shen Zhan.
Shen Zhan reached out to stop her: "Don't look at me, look ahead."
Lin Jiayin turned back again.
The originally dark room was lit up again. The light did not come from the overhead chandeliers, but from the railway station, transfer station, gas station, airport, service area... and the three-dimensional winding track all over the room.
"drop--"
The train whistle sounded, and the green lights next to the track came on one after another.
After the red Thomas train departed, a green leather car on the opposite side honked its whistle and drove slowly forward from the platform.
The third column, the fourth column, the fifth column...
It's like a rail city.
Numerous small neon lights flashed alternately, as if she had entered the fairy tale world she had imagined when she was a child.
Lin Jiayin was stunned, and it took a long time before she recovered.
When he recovered, Shen Zhan had stopped all trains, the overhead lights were turned on again, and everything was calm.
The orbital city seems to fall asleep.
"It's amazing." Lin Jiayin asked Shen Zhan: "How long have you been fighting for?"
"It's a winter vacation." Shen Zhanman mocked casually, "I'm quite naive in junior high school."
"..."
A winter vacation? naive?
Lin Jiayin thought with a bit of anguish, if she let her now fight it, it might not work for ten years.
"Do you want to see the bedroom?" Shen Zhan asked.
"Look." Lin Jiayin looked up at him.
"Let's go then." Shen Zhan closed the door and led her forward: "Actually, the bedroom is nothing beautiful."
Compared with the study and Lego world, Shen Zhan's bedroom is very simple.
There is just a bed and a desk, and a wardrobe that blends with the wall.
On the desk are various model decorations belonging to boys, three-wheel drive racing cars, and four-wheel drive aircraft.
Lin Jiayin recalled her desk, with Barbie dolls, puppets, music boxes, crystal glass on it...
In contrast, Shen Zhan's toys are really advanced.
"Is this taken in your junior high school?" Lin Jiayin stepped on the bright yellow wooden floor and walked over, pointing to the picture frame standing on the bookshelf.
Although the people in the frame look handsome, they are full of childishness.
He is holding a golden trophy, his narrow eyes are drooping down, and the corners of his mouth are flat, with an extremely reluctant, reluctant smile.
You can tell at a glance that you are forced to take pictures.
Lin Jiayin could think of that scene. As long as the light flashes, the person in the frame will drop his hands in awe, then turn around and leave.
"My mother took it." Shen Zhan followed her gaze.
This is the math competition trophy.
Shen Zhan walked over, opened the drawer, and put the photo frame in it.
He remembered that there were no photo frames on the bookshelf, probably his mother took them out and put them on.
"Hey, wait." Lin Jiayin grabbed his wrist.
There are two photo frames in the drawer, one is a shot of Shen Zhan playing basketball, and
One is a family portrait.
Before Lin Jiayin could see enough, Shen Zhan reached out and took it away.
"Nothing to look good." He said.
Lin Jiayin turned her head too far: "You and your father really look alike."
Shen Zhan didn't speak.
Lin Jiayin suddenly remembered that she hadn't seen Shen Zhan's father since entering the house.
"Where is your father?" she asked.
Shen Zhan closed the drawer, his tone was light: "I don't know, I'm on a business trip."
"Oh." Lin Jiayin said.
"You can still play Rubik's Cube!" The Rubik's Cube was blocked by the airplane model. Lin Jiayin would not have found it if it weren't for the bright colors.
She took it in her hand and looked at it, "Hey, why is this different from the Rubik's Cube I played?"
"SQ1." Shen Zhan said.
"SQ1?" Lin Jiayin had never heard of it.
"A kind of Rubik's Cube." Shen Zhan explained.
SQ1 is cubic like the most common Rubik's Cube, and each side has different colors, but each layer is not made of small cubes. The top and bottom layers are kites and triangles. The sides are divided into different sizes. rectangle.
"Can I disrupt?" she asked.
Shen Zhan nodded.
The cubes on the upper and lower polar faces are cut into small pieces that can be rotated at 30 degrees. The scrambled cube is very fan-shaped.
Lin Jiayin twisted it a few more times, and it was completely irreparable.
She looked at Shen Zhan eagerly.
Shen Zhan took the Rubik's Cube in her hand and glanced at it. His slender fingers turned quickly, and the movements were smooth and flowing in one go. Lin Jiayin couldn't understand and was dazzled.
In less than three minutes, the shape of the Rubik's Cube recovered and the color blocks recovered.
Lin Jiayin applauded: "Wow."
"..." Shen Zhan returned the Rubik's Cube to her.
Lin Jiayin played with the Rubik's Cube in her hand, and suddenly found that a small piece of the blue face was missing, revealing a white background.
"Did you fall?" Lin Jiayin asked, rubbing corners.
Shen Zhan raised his eyebrows slightly, and said "Yes".
"How did you fall? It fell so big." Lin Jiayin was surprised.
The angular gaps are like the gaps of broken memories. Unpleasant scenes suddenly appeared before him. In fact, he didn't remember anything at first, as if he had forgotten.
Forgot that his dad who always respected him rushed into his bedroom without knocking on the door for the first time.
He was lying in a chair playing with the Rubik's Cube, killing time, his brain was empty and twisted randomly.
Dad rushed over and yelled at him, asking him why he did that and why he could sit here and play Rubik's Cube happily after he was wrong.
He uttered, without lifting his eyelids, he continued to spin the Rubik's Cube.
Dad asked him to apologize, to blame Jing, to kneel in front of Zhao Ye's parents and kowtow to beg their forgiveness.
He shook his head, so angry that his father grabbed the Rubik's cube he gave him and threw it on the ground.
Fortunately, the quality is good, only one corner is broken.
He thought he was right, but everyone said he was wrong, classmates, teachers...everyone. Even the father who knew right and wrong was so angry, the mother who spoiled him unconditionally did not talk to him in the first few days.
He had been very sane all the time and became very confused, like a split personality. Then, he began to doubt and deny himself, constantly brainwashing himself.
I was wrong.
It was wrong.
Then he came to the door and apologized, begging Zhao Ye's parents for forgiveness, but he didn't kneel down or kowtow.
"I fell off the table." Shen Zhan replied, waking up from the memory.
"Oh." Lin Jiayin put the Rubik's Cube back in place, "It's too careless."
"Play this." Shen Zhan called her.
"What?" Lin Jiayin looked at the white windmill in his hand, only the size of a palm.
"Four-wheel drive aircraft." Shen Zhan found the remote control handle and installed the battery.
The aircraft flew up and flew very steadily, hovering over Lin Jiayin's head, and the wind blew all the bangs on her forehead.
For fear that the aircraft would hit his head, Lin Jiayin sat on the edge of the bed, not daring to move, his eyes raised, wanting to see where it was.
Shen Zhan deliberately lowered the aircraft again and swept it over her head.
"Shen Zhan." Lin Jiayin shrank her neck and called his name aggrievedly.
Shen Zhan lazily said: "Don't move, I haven't played for a long time, the technique is not very good."
"..."
Lin Jiayin was so angry that she wanted to cry.
Fortunately, Shen Zhan didn't tease her for long, and the aircraft landed steadily on the tabletop.
Lin Jiayin finally dared to straighten her neck, the first thing to stand up was to rush over to beat Shen Zhan.
Shen Zhan raised his hand against her head.
Lin Jiayin's hand was not as long as his hand, and after waving a few times, he found that he could not even touch his clothes.
Shen Zhan let out a chuckle from his chest, dull, the laughter of a subwoofer.
"Ah! Why are you so bad!" Lin Jiayin roared.
"What's this?" Shen Zhan removed the big palm that covered her head, raised the end of his eyes, and said in that lazy and relaxed tone: "I could be worse."
The author has something to say: This is a watch. The author who has been off by math for his younger brother.