Chapter 2235 Childlike
"Correct."

Zhuge Yun gave Xiao Xiao a thumbs up.

Then he glanced at Zhao Luzheng, "It's so easy to guess."

Zhao Luzheng: ...

"What's wrong with the paper crane?"

Zhao Luzheng looked curious.

……

"It makes me angry just talking about it."

Zhuge Yun's tone was quite angry, "I will go home after school on Thursday."

"The first thing I did when I got home during those days was to go back to my room and look at my paper cranes."

"That day was no exception."

"result……"

Zhuge Yun took a sip of tea and said, "My paper cranes have all been taken apart!"

"what?"

Zhao Lu was surprised, "Who is so boring?"

"Yeah, who's so boring?"

Zhuge Yun gritted his teeth and said, "When I saw the papers all over the table, I felt like I was struck by lightning."

"I made paper cranes for a week."

"I'm going to take it to school tomorrow..."

"It's all ruined..."

"I was like—"

"Cough cough~"

Zhuge Yun's voice stopped abruptly.

What happened next was a bit embarrassing, and he was about to skip it -
"You just cried?"

Xiao Xiao naturally received it.

"how do you know?"

Zhuge Yun was shocked.

Then he looked annoyed.

Isn't he confessing himself?
……

"It's okay, brother."

Zhao Luzheng comforted Zhuge Yun, "He's just a child."

"My third brother and I both understand."

Zhuge Yun: ...

Ok.

Now that the most embarrassing thing has been said, he has nothing to hide.

"My tears literally flowed down my cheeks at that moment."

"The crying was earth-shattering."

“My family was shocked.”

……

"Later, my grandmother remembered that in the afternoon, the grandmother next door came to visit with her grandson."

"Maybe that's when..."

"The other party is just a child who has just learned to walk."

"Even if we know he did it, it's useless."

“My family members comforted me.”

"And help me make paper cranes."

"But that's what I do in a week. How can one night be enough?"

"The teacher said there is no limit on the number of paper cranes, and my family also said this many is enough..."

“But I’m not willing to give up.”

"I had folded so many paper cranes the night before, and suddenly I was back to the time before liberation."

“It would be hard for anyone to accept, right?”

"But even if I wanted to fold all the paper cranes back, children can't stay up late, and I don't know when I fell asleep."

"My last impression was that the jar was only one-third full of paper cranes."

……

"My mom said that when I woke up that day, I was saying Thousand Paper Cranes."

"She said she had never seen me take any assignment so seriously before."

Zhuge Yun shrugged his shoulders and said, "Thinking about it now, I seemed a little stubborn at that time."

"But like the youngest one just said, they are just kids."

"Sometimes being stubborn can be really annoying."

"I don't remember screaming, but the first thing I did when I woke up was look at the glass jar on the table."

“I thought I’d see a glass jar that wasn’t filled with paper cranes.”

"but."

"What I saw was a glass jar filled with paper cranes."

"Just like before."

"I was terribly surprised."

"Very happy too."

"I thought my family had done it for me overnight." "I was so overwhelmed with joy at the time that I didn't notice that my family members looked a little strange."

"After a long time, when I was in the third year of junior high school, I talked about this matter at the dinner table. That's when I learned from them that the jar full of paper cranes was not made by them."

"I was so shocked and asked them why they didn't tell me at the time?"

"they said"

“I was so happy to see the jar full of paper cranes”

Zhuge Yun was a little embarrassed, "I was probably too excited at the time."

“My family never corrected me.”

"Besides, I was in a hurry."

"There isn't enough time in the morning to have 'extra' conversations."

"But after this delay, they forgot about it later."

“I never knew about it.”

“I didn’t know about this until many years later.”

"I didn't mind too much that they didn't tell me the truth at the time."

"I'm more curious, if they didn't do it, what happened to the jar full of paper cranes?"

"I could not understand."

"My family doesn't know about it, and they don't care about it. After all, it's been a long time."

"so."

"This incident has become an unsolved mystery for the Zhuge family."

"Pfft~"

Zhao Luzheng couldn't help laughing out loud.

Still a mystery?
is not-
cough cough.

Noticing Zhuge Yun's unfriendly look, Zhao Luzheng touched his nose.

……

Zhuge Yun withdrew his gaze.

"My mom joked that maybe Santa Claus saw that I was so pitiful and came to my aid."

Zhuge Yun frowned and curled his lips, "It's not winter yet, and there's no Santa Claus."

"If you want to make up a story, you can't make up a better one."

……

"but……"

Zhuge Yun reached out and knocked his head. "If it's not my family, if it's not Santa Claus, then who else could be so kind?"

"If I knew about this, I would definitely thank him."

"I still vaguely remember the surprise I felt when I woke up that morning and saw the jar full of paper cranes."

"It was a surprise."

……

"Could it be like what they say in fairy tales, that the elves helped you?"

Zhao Luzheng suddenly had an idea.

Zhuge Yun rolled his eyes.

"Youngest, that's right. People should keep a little bit of childishness."

Zhao Lu was smiling awkwardly.

He just talked casually.

"Didn't your family fold it for you after you fell asleep?"

Zhao Lu looked serious.

No matter how you think about it, this is possible, right?

Just as my second brother said just now, he cried so miserably at that time, and was very stubborn in wanting to restore the thousands of paper cranes to their original state, until he couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep.

Most parents would not have the heart to disappoint their children when they see them so sad, right?

In his opinion, it was basically certain that his second brother's family had stayed up all night to help him fold a thousand paper cranes.

But they didn’t want their second brother to know that they were doing this.

As for why...

Adult's face?
Or do you not want to make your second brother feel burdened?
……

"Uh……"

When Zhao Luzheng asked this question...

Zhuge Yun touched his chin and said, "I actually suspected the same thing."

"But there's nothing I can do if they don't admit it."

Zhuge Yun smiled a little embarrassedly, "In fact, I kind of hope that there really is some elf helping me..."

Zhao Luzheng glared at Zhuge Yun speechlessly.

Then why did you just laugh at him for being childish?

"Second brother, I think you are the one who still has a childlike heart."

……

Zhuge Yun argued, "What's wrong with having a childlike heart?"

“This shows that I am a pure person.”

"Besides, this is not called childishness, it's called the heart of a child."

　ps: Thank you Cangqiong Qianjue for the reward~(*︶*)!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)