By the time Shen Shu finished talking from "the beginning of people" to "Xi Xiangyuan", a long time had passed.

It was when the ice and snow were just beginning to melt, even if there was a charcoal fire in the house, a thick woolen carpet was spread on the ground, and the clothes worn by Brother Zhen were quite thick, and at this time he gradually began to feel a little cold. After listening to Shen Shu's words, when he continued to play dominoes, his hands were frozen a little stiff, not as sensitive as before, and it was quite difficult to pile up two pieces, and when he took the third piece and put it over, he accidentally knocked it down.

Dada~

A total of twenty or so dominoes, one by one, fell. This time there was a little improvement compared to before, two more pieces were poured, and the rest was still standing well.

Brother Zhen looked at his hand, and then looked at the fallen dominoes, at first he looked a little dazed, but gradually his eyes lit up, he climbed on the carpet with his hand on the top of the wooden box, and with one free hand, he pushed down the remaining dominoes one by one. With each fall, the curvature of the corners of his mouth rises by a point. By the time the last piece fell, he was already smiling.

Gathering all the dominoes and hugging them back, he began to place them from the beginning again.

And Cui Yijing, who was not far away, also sat cross-legged in front of the wooden box, rummaging one by one, feeling which one was similar, so he turned around and compared it with the scroll, and found that it was not, so he put it back and continued to look for it.

Shen Shu was reading the book on the soft couch next to her, and after hearing the clicking sound of the domino falling a few times in a short time, her eyes temporarily moved away from the book and fell to Brother Zhen'er, who happened to see him holding a domino and putting it down with a stiff movement. She was stunned for a moment, only to remember that in today's weather, her hands can easily freeze, and she moved her fingers, and sure enough, she felt a little numb.

"Brother Zhen, Brother Jing," Shen Shu called them, put down the book in his hand and beckoned, "The snow is almost starting to melt at this time, and the weather will be cold, so come over and warm up, and then continue to play." ”

When Brother Zhen heard this, he hesitated for a moment with the domino, and then he put down his things with some reluctance, ready to turn over and get up. Because I've been sitting for a long time, I didn't notice it when I was concentrating just now, but now that I'm about to stand up, I feel a little numb in my legs.

So he sat back all of a sudden, tilted his head slightly to look at Shen Shu, with an aggrieved expression, and stretched out his hands to her, "It hurts~Mother hug~"

Cui Yijing next to him somehow suddenly followed suit, and stretched out his hands towards Shen Shu, "It hurts~hug~"

Shen Shu: "......"

At this time, I really can't get used to it. Brother Zhen doesn't care, although he is a little chubby glutinous rice dumpling, he is not very old, but Shen Shu can still hold it. Cui Yijing is different, her height is almost the same as Shen Shu, she can only be a ghost if she can hug her, and she can't tell him "You have grown up and can't ask someone to hug you". But being looked at by such a beautiful child with such an expectant gaze is slightly more stressful.

Shen Shu finally asked Liuli and Amber to help the two of them up, brought them to the soft couch, covered them in the warm mattress, and took two delicate and small hand warmers, one of which was stuffed into each person's hand.

The soft couch is so big, but there are three people seated, Shen Shu on the left, Brother Zhen in the middle, and Cui Yijing on the far right.

Honestly, it looks a bit crowded.

Shen Shu quickly sensed this problem and simply got up to make room for it. She stood up, and saw that Brother Zhen seemed to want to climb out with her, so she turned back to him and said, "Be obedient, stay obediently and don't move, and come over to play when it's warm." ”

Brother Zhen was really obedient and didn't move, just like Cui Yijing next to him, staring at her with big eyes.

Shen Shu ignored their gazes, walked straight to the carpet, straightened her skirt and sat down, then moved the wooden box on the carpet a little, and poured out all the dominoes in the box next to her, colliding together, making a loud noise.

After gathering the scattered dominoes a little, she reached out and picked them up, putting them in the wooden box one by one.

Shen Shu was particularly obsessed with this thing for a period of time in the past, and the feeling of falling down one after another with a gentle push of her fingers was simply addictive. At that time, she bought countless dominoes, from the simple pile of the same size and weight at the beginning, to the later mixed up, and the position and distance of each piece had to be calculated. At most, almost all the rooms were filled, from one room to the other, and then to the next. The moment all the dominoes fall, a great sense of satisfaction grows in my heart and fills all the emptiness.

Shen Shu ordered ninety-nine eighty-one dominoes this time, which sounds like a bit much, but in fact, there are not many at all, and it can't be done if you want to make it a little complicated. is also because the number is too small and the difficulty is also very low, Shen Shu looked careless when he posed.

It didn't take long for the dominoes that had fallen on the carpet to be finished, in the shape of two simple flowers.

Shen Shu took her finger and gently pushed it.

Da Da Da ......

One domino after another fell, and it seemed to bloom in a moment in a row.

"Ahh

"Wow!"

The pronunciation is different, but they all mean to express amazement. The four people in the room, except for Shen Shu, all had wide eyes, Liuli and Amber only opened their mouths slightly, and Brother Zhen and Cui Yijing opened their mouths wide, and they could almost stuff eggs.

"Mother, do it again!" shouted Brother Zhen.

Shen Shu glanced back at him, "Sit down obediently." The latter sat very obediently on the soft couch and did not move, but looked at her with more and more expectation.

The left and right were also bored, so Shen Shu poured the dominoes out of the wooden box, and then continued to put them in the box. This time it's no longer flowers and plants, but words.

At the beginning of man, three words.

The dominoes were pushed again, and after a clattering sound, the three words poured out of the wooden box.

Shen Shu pointed to the first word and asked, "Brother Jing'er, do you remember what this word is?" Cui Yijing, who was named, couldn't react for a while, and looked at it a little blankly.

Seeing his expression, Shen Shu reminded again, "We just learned this word, Brother Jing, think about it." ”

Cui Yijing thought about it honestly and obediently, and then his brows became more and more wrinkled, and he couldn't say the answer in the end.

In this regard, Shen Shu was not disappointed, smiled, and said to him, "This is a human character, which refers to human beings in general. Come, Brother Jing read with me, man. ”

"People. Cui Yijing read along.

Brother Zhen next to him was not to be outdone, and said, "Mother, I know this, and I will read it too!"

When Shen Shu heard this, she praised him and had the heart to test him, so she pointed to the second word and asked him, "Does Brother Zhen know how to pronounce this word?"

Brother Zhen tilted his head and thought about it, and then replied, "Yes, Zizig!"

Shen Shu continued to praise him and asked the third word. This time, he thought for a little longer, and finally said the answer a little hesitantly, "Yes...... At first?"

After all, it didn't take long for Brother Zhen to remember, and it wouldn't be unbelievable. However, there was still some surprise, because Shen Shu knew how bad he was teaching.

"Brother Zhen is amazing!" Shen Shu's tone of praise became more sincere.

Cui Yijing's speech was not as smooth as Brother Zhen'er, and after Shen Shu's voice fell, he also chimed in, "Amazing!"

When Brother Zhen heard this, he raised a big smile, and he couldn't see his eyebrows.

For a long time after that, his interest in dominoes not only did not diminish, but slowly increased. Cui Yijing also has a soft spot for puzzles, although the speed of completion is very slow, very slow, but his patience and perseverance are very good, a little bit every day, a little bit every day, a three-character scripture is being spelled out at a slow speed.

It was about the attraction between the children, Brother Zhen and Cui Yijing had a good time, and later attracted Brother Yan'er. Perhaps seeing Shen Shu's unhappiness, although Brother Yan'er's nurse obeyed Xie Changning's instructions and brought the child to live in the East Courtyard, she would hardly come over to disturb Shen Shu, if it weren't for the fact that they would come over every three or five days to ask for peace, Shen Shu would probably forget about the child's savings.

After Brother Yan came over, the building blocks that had been left out in the cold finally came in handy. And there was also a small figure on the wool carpet in front of Shen Shu's soft couch, quietly and obediently building blocks, using concentrated cubes to combine all kinds of strange things.

The two children are playing, and the three children are also playing, as long as it is not particularly noisy, Shen Shu doesn't care.

Occasionally looking at these three children, as well as Sister Hui'er, who is learning to be a housekeeper, Shen Shu will feel that Xie Changning is really lucky, and the children are so well-behaved. Shen Shu felt that among the three children, if one of them had half of the noise she had when she was a child, she probably couldn't stand it for a long time.

Regarding the question of Sister Hui'er's housekeeper, Xie Changning talked to Shen Shu after recovering from Yu Yanqiu's matter. In this regard, Shen Shu's answer to him was that children always have to grow up, and sooner or later they will have to deal with it one day, and it will not hurt to get in touch early. She also said that she would watch from the sidelines, as long as nothing went wrong. Of course, this is just for Xie Changning, others see Sister Hui as an eight-year-old child, but Shen Shu knows her details, and she doesn't need to take care of her all the time.

In the end, he told Xie Changning that either Sister Hui would take care of it, or she would hand it over to Aunt Zhou, in short, she would not take over.

Xie Changning didn't say anything in the end, it was a tacit acquiescence.

Time passed quietly unconsciously, and the dull was mixed with fulfillment, and more than a year passed in a blink of an eye.

Xie Changning's three-year term is about to expire.