Riding on their mother's bicycle, they were home before they knew it, with the wind blowing against them.
Father hadn't returned yet, and their eldest and second brothers hadn't come back from school either. The house was quiet.
Jiang Yu stopped the bicycle, then carefully lifted her and Little Lu Yang off it one by one. Finally, she took the key and went to open the front door.
It was just a simple home.
The door opened, and the things inside the house were even simpler, yet there was a profound sense of happiness.
But while happy, Lu Wanqing inexplicably thought of the six children left behind in the interstellar era. How wonderful it would be if the children could visit here too.
Lu Wanqing wished her parents could see her children.
As Lu Wanqing pondered, she suddenly thought of painting.
Lu Wanqing grew excited, dropped her schoolbag, and went back to her room. She wanted to paint. If she could paint the likenesses of Lan Lan, Xiao Yi, Cui Cui, Shu Shu, and Harvey, and Vivi, wouldn't her parents be able to see the children's faces too?
"Qing Qing, what do you want to do?" Little Lu Yang watched Lu Wanqing become inexplicably excited after returning home. He was a little puzzled.
"I want to paint," Lu Wanqing replied.
As she said this, Lu Wanqing suddenly thought of Cui Cui and Vivi. These two children were her and her third brother's biological children. Her third brother... even the third brother when he was little, would probably like them, right?
Lu Wanqing smiled, a very happy smile.
Little Lu Yang had been watching Qing Qing and suddenly noticed that his little sister was smiling, and her smile was... rather beautiful.
Lu Wanqing opened her small schoolbag and immediately took out paper and a pen.
Since she had started kindergarten, her parents had bought her a schoolbag, pencils, and a box of colored pencils for drawing.
The drawing tools were somewhat simple, but for Lu Wanqing, they were more than enough.
Lu Wanqing took out a sheet of paper. She glanced at her third brother and began by drawing Cui Cui.
Little Lu Yang didn't leave. He moved a stool over and watched his sister Qing Qing draw.
Lu Wanqing drew quickly. In just a short while, Cui Cui's outline emerged. Although it was just a simple sketch, anyone who knew Cui Cui could recognize her immediately.
Little Lu Yang didn't recognize her. As he watched, he thought his sister Qing Qing was truly amazing. Sister Qing Qing... could draw people!
As Lu Wanqing concentrated on drawing Cui Cui, many memories of living with Cui Cui in the past floated into her mind.
The beautiful Cui Cui was a pampered little princess in front of her father, Wei Xingzhou, but in front of her mother, she was a child who desperately craved her mother's care and affection. After inheriting the empire, she became even stronger, a valiant Empress!
As Lu Wanqing drew, time passed unnoticed. The curve of her lips grew higher, filled with happiness.
When Lu Ming and Lu Ze returned, their first instinct was to find their sister. Then they discovered... their sister was drawing?
Little Lu Yang was watching Lu Wanqing draw, and Lu Ming and Lu Ze also came to look. But upon seeing it, both brothers were stunned!
"Wow, Qing Qing, did you draw this? How can you draw so beautifully!" Lu Ze was the most easily impressed and immediately exclaimed.
"Mom, Mom, our sister can draw, and she draws super beautifully!" Lu Ze finished watching and excitedly ran out, shouting as he went.
Outside, Jiang Yu heard her second son's call and was a bit surprised. "Qing Qing can draw?"
Lu Ze ran over, grabbed Jiang Yu's arm, and pulled her into the room. "Yes, Mom, come quickly and see, our sister draws super beautifully!"
Jiang Yu was washing vegetables, preparing dinner. But her son's excited demeanor made her curious. What had Qing Qing drawn?
Jiang Yu wiped her wet hands on her apron and followed her son into her daughter's room. But when she reached her daughter's desk and saw the portrait her daughter was drawing, she was also stunned!
The picture in the notebook was so lifelike, just like a real child!
"Qing Qing, when... when did you learn to draw?" Jiang Yu's heart raced, a mixture of nervousness and uncontrollable excitement.
Lu Wanqing suddenly heard the commotion and was startled. Fortunately, she quickly recovered. She put down her pen and looked up at her mother, asking, "Mom, why did you come in?"
Jiang Yu reached out and picked up the drawing Lu Wanqing had made. The more she looked, the more astonished she became.
"Qing Qing, have you ever learned to draw from anyone before?" Jiang Yu asked.
Lu Wanqing: "..."
Oh no.
She had drawn so well, it didn't look like something a three-year-old child could produce. Would her mother suspect something was wrong?
"A grandpa in my dreams taught me," Lu Wanqing thought, deliberately lying.
Jiang Yu: "???"
Lu Wanqing thought for a moment and continued, "I often have dreams. In my dreams, there's an old grandpa who teaches me to read and draw."
This time, not only Jiang Yu, but also Lu Ming and Lu Ze were stunned.
When Lu Yizhi returned from work and his wife told him about this, he was also shocked.
Then the whole family pursued Lu Wanqing, bombarding her with questions, asking her to recognize characters, to do calculations. Finally, when they realized she could do it all, they vaguely believed that their daughter was truly extraordinary.
In their daughter's dreams, an old grandpa taught her to read and draw.
Good heavens, could their daughter have encountered an immortal? A venerable immortal was teaching their daughter to learn?
It was the scientific era now, and they shouldn't be superstitious, but their daughter was only three years old and already knew so much... it was hard not to believe in the supernatural occasionally!
However, supernatural or not, their daughter was intelligent. At such a young age, she could read, write, calculate, and draw so well. They were happy, they were proud, they were boastful!
That evening, their father went out again and bought a pound of meat. The whole family cooked a delicious meal together and ate with great joy.
After eating their fill, when it was time for bed that night, the entire family gathered around her room, staring intently at the portrait of Cui Cui she had just finished. The more they looked, the more magical it seemed.
However...
After looking for a while, Jiang Yu seemed to notice something.
"Hey, Old Lu, don't you think the girl in the painting looks a bit like Qing Qing, and also... a bit like Yang Yang?" Jiang Yu said, a hint of confusion in her voice.
As soon as Jiang Yu said this, Lu Yizhi began to observe her seriously.
Lu Ming and Lu Ze also looked from Lu Wanqing to Lu Yang, and then back to Cui Cui in the painting.
Lu Wanqing had drawn Cui Cui as a child, looking rather cute. Coincidentally, Lu Wanqing and Little Lu Yang were also currently in their child forms. Thus, the more they looked, the more they resembled each other!
"She really does look alike!" Lu Ze chimed in.
"Her name is Cui Cui, and she is my and my third brother's daughter!" Lu Wanqing stated directly.
"Mom, I dreamed of Cui Cui. In the distant future, Cui Cui will be born. She is a very proud and very obedient girl, very cute!" Little Lu Wanqing said earnestly, her adorable three-year-old head held high.
"Pfft," Lu Ming was the first to chuckle. He couldn't help himself.
Beside him, Little Lu Yang's ears turned bright red. Sister Qing Qing... was too unreserved. Even if she liked him... she shouldn't be thinking about such things so early.