Reading | Childhood in the puzzle

When I was a kid, I had followed my parents to a big city of the coast to spend summer vacation.

I remember that summer, I also ate a meal in a local restaurant with my parents and uncle. At that time, the Western Restaurant had just opened, and various marketing activities were hot. I was very lucky to gain a set of puzzle toys.

I was so happy that after taking the puzzle home, I couldn't wait to open the packaging. Before starting the puzzle, I have fully felt the beauty of the puzzle — a cartoon little pig on the puzzle, standing with a smile and waved to me; behind it is a small house with red tiles, in front of the room, in front of the room, There is a small river, and behind the room is a colorful world of flowers. The beauty and cuteness of the puzzle made me feel a wonderful fairy tale world.

In the reference map, I started my first puzzle journey. At that time, I was still young and I didn't know how to puzzle. In the face of a bunch of irregular graphics scattered films, I didn't know where to start. I picked up a piece of loose pieces one by one and tried it one by one. Due to insufficient patience and nothing, I declared giving up. Later, my parents spent a day with my auntie with my little aunt.

The puzzle was very small, 20 cm wide and 30 cm long, but my heart was still very satisfying, and it was used as the most beloved toy. Because I like it so much, I am reluctant to scatter the puzzle. However, it is inevitable to accidentally bump, and it must be repaired frequently. After several consecutive repairs, I was brave, and I simply dismantled all the puzzles, trying to fight back through my own efforts. After spelling for more than an hour, and before a corner, I couldn't help asking the elders for help. My parents said to me, "You have to learn to overcome difficulties yourself. We have already helped you fight it once, and you will patiently complete this puzzle yourself."

I had to pick up a piece of scattered films to try. It took more than a day, and the puzzle finally "broken the mirror" under my efforts! Because it is my own work, I think the second puzzle is more meaningful. Moreover, the experience of this puzzle also made me understand a truth: I ca n’t give up in difficulties, and I can find a way to overcome difficulties before I can achieve success.

I carefully put the fighting picture in my own small bookcase, and I like to take it out if I have anything to do. If you get more times, you can't avoid small accidents. So later, I spent this puzzle many times back and forth. After many times, the picture is familiar with the heart, and the speed of the puzzle is getting faster and faster.

Sometimes my friends come to play at home, and I will show off my technology to them -the puzzles are dismantled in front of them, and then the entire puzzle is restored in about 10 minutes. Sure enough, everyone eats me very much. Every time I look at me with enviable little eyes and ask, "How did you do it?"

Because there are too many puzzles, there are several scattered pieces that do not know where to fall, and a few corners are also folded in repeated disassembly and restoration, which greatly affects the overall beauty of the puzzle. So I bought a new puzzle with the pocket money. It was a landscape painting: a river flowing into the distance, and there was a castle on the distant mountain peaks, which looked very comfortable and beautiful. Compared to the first cartoon style, this puzzle is also more three -dimensional.

As I grow up slowly, my interest in puzzle has gradually retreated, especially after the popularity of the Internet and smartphones, it seems that I have no intention to play puzzle. But every time I opened the bookcase, I still can't help but pick up the two puzzles to see, although they have no longer the beauty of the year, especially the earliest puzzle, the red tile house lacks several horn, and the river flows. There are also several vacancies on the edge. But I know that these puzzles that are slightly yellowed and accumulated with dust are like my childhood. It used to be so colorful.

Wen: Qiu Junlin

Source: "Reading", No. 8, 2022

Editor -in -chief: Zhang Chu

School pair: Guo Yanhui Meng Yahe (intern)

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