Nice to meet you, Zhu Yuntao

"You slept until noon again." Zhu Huan sat by the bed and looked at me.

"I really shouldn't think too much." I said, "Last night, my mind was all messed up. In my dream, I turned into a koi, and I was caught and walked for a whole day by my brother, but the grass chicken (so tired) can't stand) me."

"Hahaha! Brother, koi is good luck, you will recover slowly." He said.

"Ding", the fan suddenly stopped.Zhu Huan glanced at it, and said without surprise: "The switch tripped again in the house. It's okay, I'm used to it, these few days."

"What word order, what are you?" I laughed.

"I don't know much." Zhu Huan also smiled.

"Hey," I suddenly remembered, "You said you came later, right? Then who passed?"

"What came and went?" Zhu Huan asked.

"Didn't you come from Big Brother's refuge?"

"Oh——you said this! Yes, there are eight of us in one room. I brought Zhu Jinmo over here, and Zhu Jingxiu and Zhu Wei went to the elder brother's place."

"Who is this..." I fell on the bed.

"Haha, it doesn't matter if you don't remember. When the typhoon passes and we get together, you can hear one of them playing the piano and the other singing."

"So lively?"

"Ouch!" Zhu Huan slapped his thigh, "These two people are so good at talking (lá twice, meaning 'chatting'), and they just happened to be talking to my elder brother."

"Boom, boom, boom." Someone knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Zhu Huan asked.

"Pancakes!"

"who are you?"

"Do you have pancakes?"

"I asked who you are!" Zhu Huan went to open the door dumbfounded, "What do you call 'pancake', are you a pancake?"

"I'm not." The buddy replied truthfully.

"Hahaha..." I laughed.

"Second brother, you still laugh at me. I just want to eat pancakes, and you still laugh!" The buddy said aggrievedly.

"But we asked who you were just now," I said. "What's your name?"

"Look, look, he doesn't remember me, and he still laughs at me!" The buddy shook Zhu Huan's sleeve more melancholy, "Hurry up, there are pancakes, let me eat something to calm down."

"It's amazing, 'sunshine' has changed to 'cloudy'." Zhu Huan ran to get pancakes while talking.

"Brother, I'm Yuncheng." The buddy got the pancake and immediately recovered his lively state, "I'm here to see you."

"Oh, sorry?" Zhu Huan smiled, "You obviously came to ask me for pancakes."

"You're the one who's being mean!" Yun Cheng gestured to elbow Zhu Huan, "At first, Jing Xiu and I chatted quite speculatively, but when you came, he took Zhu Wei and ran away, leaving me behind. "

"You can also ask Zhu Wenzhao (zhāo) to come over, and then Yun Sheng will switch with him, so that you will have a story to listen to."

"Wow, I don't want to hear him tell ghost stories!" Zhu Yuncheng slipped into my arms, "Scary..."

"That's right." Zhu Huan scratched his head, "Last time Yunzhou wasn't here, so he insisted on taking over this shift and coaxing Yun Xiao to sleep, but it scared Yun Xiao so much that she couldn't fall asleep."

"Poor Yunxiao." I spread my hands and said.

"Children, the first reaction must be fear." Yun Cheng said, "If you don't believe me, look, how come Zhu Jingxing doesn't react at all when he listens to his stories?"

"People don't want to talk about these ghosts and gods." Zhu Huan said.

"No, out of respect, he will still listen to Wen Zhao." Yun Cheng raised a finger and shook, "It's just that he doesn't like ghosts as much as Wen Zhao does."

"After all, the 'God of Learning' knows a little bit about everything. —Hey, it's true, every time the exam is approaching, he will receive an odd (very) lot of apples!"

"I bought them all from Zhu Yunsheng." Yun Cheng laughed.

"Self-produced and sold?" Zhu Huan also smiled.

"I said, this is unscientific." Yun Cheng thought for a while, "Why do you give him apples for all the exams? Shouldn't you be the one for mathematics?"

"To be precise, it's about geometry." Zhu Huan looked at the silver jewelry in his hand, "After all, I was also someone who dared to calculate pi with bare hands..."

Zhu Huan took off the bracelet and showed me the lettering on the inside.It was densely packed with several rows of numbers, starting with "3", irregular, and I don't know what they were used for.

"You counted so many people?" I asked.

"No, no!" Zhu Huan repeatedly waved his hands, "I only counted to 3.1416. Someone else did it later, but I like these very much, so I engraved it on the bracelet."

"How do you calculate?" Yun Cheng asked.

"This is a circle." Zhu Huan took the pancake, "I divided it into many, many polygons, and then calculated their areas. For example, this is a hexagon..."

........................

"Uh, sorry, it's torn." Zhu Huan put down the pancake, looked at Yun Cheng, and then at me.

"I'm used to everything." Yun Cheng said without any surprise.

"Wen Zhao should be writing lyrics for Zhu Jingxiu right now," Zhu Huan said, "Brother usually likes to sing a few lines."

"You mean big brother's creation?" Zhu Yuncheng smiled, "The '□□ poke and jump'?"

"I'm serious, not doggerel!"

"Ahem!" There was a sudden sound of throat clearing at the door, the three of us were startled and looked back quickly.When I saw it, it was Yunzhou standing at the door, and said with a smile, "Shall I tell Big Brother?"

"Hey... brother brother, be merciful!" Yun Cheng rolled the pancake into a pipe shape, passed it to Yun Zhou, and "lit it up" (dipped in some sauce) in a decent manner.

"Well, this is a non-smoking area, you 'smoking' go out and 'smoking' ha!" Yun Zhou came over and pushed Zhu Huan towards the door, "Hey, you can avoid it for a while, Yun Tao and I have a good word."

"Hey! What are you doing, you are allowed to chat, but I am not allowed to speak plainly?" Zhu Huan said reluctantly, holding a burrito in his mouth, "Why is there a first-come, first-served one?"

"That's fine, you stay, I'll take Yun Cheng out for a walk. There are so many people in this room, it's too (hot)."

Only Zhu Huan and I were left in the room.

"I just looked at this map last night." I said, pointing to the ceiling, "I felt that it came down from the sky, became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into something bigger than a palm. ——Oh no, maybe If it’s smaller, it won’t be a problem to hang it around your neck.”

Zhu Huan's eyes suddenly became alert: "Brother, are you talking about this?"

"You! Hahaha, you really hang the map around your neck!" I laughed while playing with the necklace that Zhu Huan took off.

"We all have them!" Zhu Huan said, "We seventeen—er, no, sixteen brothers all have this thing. It was given to us by the elder brother. Zhu Yansheng's necklace was taken back by the elder brother, and he They are inlaid together." Zhu Huan explained, "Our map necklace can be put together, and it will be a complete home after being put together."

"Do I have it too?" I rubbed my neck, "...huh?"

"Huh?" Zhu Huan was also surprised, "Did you lose your necklace? Was it washed away by the sea when you came back?"

"I don't know." I scratched my head.

"It's also possible that the rope is broken because it's too old." Zhu Huan comforted me and said, "It's okay, as long as he comes back. Brother won't blame you. When you see him, we'll explain it to you. ——Alas , I don’t know when I can see my eldest brother. The eldest brother won’t say anything, but the last thing he wants to see is that his brother has an accident. He will be relieved when you come back.”

"..."

"Huh? Yun Tao, why are you silent? What's the matter?" Zhu Huan asked anxiously, shaking me.

"I... I think of some, very fragmentary things."

"What is it?"

"About that letter."

"Did you write an apology letter to Brother Quan?"

"No, it's not an apology letter. It's a..."

"One, last letter..."