Chapter 2: I Didn't Cry Today 1
After taking two subways and walking a long way, Shen Li did not rush to take out her keys when she returned to her home. Instead, she lay at the door and eavesdropped on the noise inside. When she heard the "ping pong" sound inside, she unconsciously revealed a look of joy.
Shen Li cleared her throat and knocked on the door: "Shen Tianyou, open the door! I forgot to bring my key!"
There was another noise inside, and after a moment, the door opened from the inside.
Shen Tianyou looked dissatisfied: "Didn't I tell you to come back earlier? Why are you back just now?"
Shen Li didn't look at him carefully, and only answered: "Is your classmate Xiao Ming living in the south of the city? Do you know how far it is from our home to the south of the city?"
Shen Li stepped on something hard and when she lifted her foot, she saw that it was the remote control. The destructive power of the "Monkey King" seemed not to be underestimated.
She looked up and saw Shen Tianyou's back: "Haha, Shen Tianyou, what is that yellow sticky stuff on your pants? Are you having a personal problem and can't take care of yourself?"
Shen Tianyou turned back to check his pants in surprise, but Shen Li saw his face clearly: a cat-like face. Red and yellow jam had been stained on his face without him noticing. Shen Li pointed at his face and laughed.
Shen Tianyou turned around and looked at himself in the mirror. Only then did he notice the changes on his face. His face was blue and yellow. He said angrily, "Damn monkey!"
Shen Li put her hands on her hips and asked, "Damn monkey? Shen Tianyou, you only like it for a short time, don't like it anymore?"
Shen Tianyou immediately regretted his words: "I didn't!" His eyes lingered on the little monkey, and he looked both fond of it and annoyed. He sighed and said, "When I feed it, it is very well behaved and cooperative, but when it gets mad, it turns hostile and refuses to acknowledge me. Before, when I feed it, it would be quiet for a while, but now it doesn't work. "
Shen Li sneered. If the "Monkey King" is so easy to talk to, can he still be called the "Monkey King"?
"Sister , do you think this monkey has any quirks?"
Shen Li picked up the remote control, but before she could answer him, the little monkey got upset and jumped onto Shen Tianyou to play with his hair. Shen Tianyou had been tormented by the little monkey for a whole day and couldn't stand the torture any longer. He immediately called for help and shouted, "Sister, sister, it's messing with me again, take it away!"
Shen Li did not lend a helping hand, but instead watched coldly: "Monkeys also have self-esteem. Of course, they will be unhappy if you say bad things about them in front of them!"
"What should we do then?"
Shen Li said seriously: "Apologize!"
Shen Tianyou's face fell and he said, "Apologize to a monkey?"
"What's wrong with the monkey?" Shen Li said righteously, "The monkey is also a life. Do you keep it just for you to play with and watch it perform monkey tricks for you?"
"What else?"
Shen Li was speechless for a moment and stared at Shen Tianyou blankly. Why would he think like that?
Shen Li sneered and said, "Have you ever thought that pets also need company? They will accompany you only when you need them now. When they get old and ugly, they will also need you one day."
Shen Tianyou had never thought about such complicated things. He just said based on his own temperament: "It's not that long-term. I won't throw it away or not feed it..."
"According to what you said, your parents gave birth to you and just made sure you didn't starve to death. Why would they let you go to school, go to the hospital, or see any doctor?"
Just give me money! What do you want family affection and care? If I am happy, I will tease you. If I am unhappy, I will kick you aside. I have done you a great favor by giving birth to you. I have arranged for you to take care of your younger brother, so you should be obedient and do your job. What about painting? What about parent-teacher seminars? How can you ask for so much?
Shen Li was filled with anger, her eyes were red, and the moisture in her eyes unwillingly turned into tears.
If one can be the innocent and lively Shen Tianyou, who would want to be the gloomy and thoughtful Shen Li?
Shen Tianyou was frightened. He had never heard such serious words before and was stunned. The little monkey was clever. Seeing that Shen Tianyou no longer resisted, he grabbed him and made faces, making him look ugly, and motioned to Shen Li to watch.
Shen Tianyou looked pitiful , and the "Monkey King" looked like he was begging for praise. A ray of light seemed to shine into the heavy atmosphere, and Shen Li smiled bitterly.
Shen Li exhaled, and a mouthful of filth was exhaled. She touched the little monkey's head as a sign of praise, and walked past Shen Tianyou to clean up the "battlefield".
"Sister!" Shen Tianyou made an ugly face, holding the little monkey and tremblingly asked for help, "Please don't leave, what should I do?"
Shen Li threatened him: "I told you to apologize!"
Shen Tianyou was skeptical: "Yes...I'm sorry."
Shen Li tidied the sofa and said slowly, "Not sincere enough."
"sorry!"
"Who are you saying sorry to?"
"Oh, 'Monkey King', I'm sorry."
"Be nicer..."
Shen Tianyou held the little monkey and circled around Shen Li until she had tidied the whole house. Then, under Shen Tianyou's expectant eyes, he took the mischievous little monkey away from his arms. After being freed, Shen Tianyou wanted to run away immediately, but was grabbed by the collar by Shen Li.
"What are you doing?"
Shen Li was surprised by the change in Shen Tianyou's attitude: "Shen Tianyou, I just rescued you, and now you turn your back on me?"
Shen Tianyou touched his head guiltily, and felt the jam on his head. He immediately made a bitter face: "I just want to take a shower quickly."
"Hmph!" Shen Li said without comment, "After you take a bath, check the monkey's habits and quirks. It must be that we don't know how to raise it, so it feels uncomfortable."
“Why should I check?”
Shen Li glared at him: "Don't you want to raise it?"
Shen Tianyou was dumbfounded. At that moment, he felt that his usually honest and easy-to-buy sister had become difficult to deal with. It was clearly his sister who was supposed to be raised, and his parents were only willing to keep the little monkey because of him. How could...
"Hey, Shen Li, did you make a mistake?"
Shen Li held the little monkey upside down and pretended to put it on him: "Do you want to check it?"
"Okay, okay!" Shen Tianyou stepped back in fright.
Shen Tianyou was now exhausted both physically and mentally. He really didn't have the energy to teach the little monkey a lesson anymore. He couldn't afford to provoke it, but he could afford to hide from it. He turned and went into the room.
Shen Li, who was holding the little monkey, felt something unreal for the first time.
Shen Tianyou was driven away by her just like that?
A subtle emotion surged in her heart, a sense of satisfaction or something else. For a moment, she felt that her relationship with Shen Tianyou was somewhat like that between Li Zi and her brother.
But she and Shen Tianyou? How is that possible?
The get out of class was over, but the teacher hadn't come to announce the end of the school. Some students were chatting, some were collecting their schoolbags. Shen Li chatted with Li Zi, sharing with her the story of the little monkey and Shen Tianyou.
Shen Li didn't even believe it herself, let alone Li Zi. She told Li Zi what happened that day, and Li Zi was also surprised: "He just gave in like that?"
Under the high pressure from Shen's father, Shen's mother, and old lady Shen, Shen Li had never spoken loudly to her brother like this, let alone asked him to apologize to the little monkey for playing tricks on him.
Li Zi was dumbfounded and kept asking Shen Li about the subsequent developments. When he heard Shen Tianyou apologize to the little monkey seriously, he almost fell off his chair : "I say, did you draw? If this content is posted online, many people will definitely like it!"
Shen Li smiled mysteriously and said, "How do you know I didn't draw?"
"Did you really draw it? Come on, show it to me! I want to see it!"
Li Zi grabbed Shen Li and searched her body: "Is it in your phone? Did you post it on Weibo?"
Shen Li has a Weibo account called "Pear King and Cat King". At first, she just recorded stories about her domestic cat "Kiwi", posted photos, and talked about interesting things. She actually attracted a lot of fans who "raise cats online". However, after Shen Tianyou fed "Kiwi" sick, "Kiwi" was sent to her grandmother's house. Shen Li could only share some blurred focus photos taken by her grandmother, and some fans were lost because of this. But Shen Li doesn't care about this. She opened Weibo not to become a celebrity or "Internet celebrity", but purely to record her life and post her own paintings.
After Shen Li started serializing "Monkey Playing with Naughty Kid", her Weibo gradually became active again, with comments and reposts appearing one after another like leeks. The monkey is of course the little monkey, and the "naughty kid" is her "baby" brother Shen Tianyou. For some reason, the few Weibo posts about the "naughty kid" being played with by the little monkey were liked by many people, and the number of reposts was higher than the others. Perhaps everyone's anger towards the "naughty kid" was the same.
Li Zi searched for Shen Li's phone for a long time but couldn't find it. Shen Li was also puzzled. Usually, the phone would vibrate constantly because of Weibo reposts, comments, and the increase in fans, but today there was no sound. Shen Li searched for it, and searched through her backpack and drawers but couldn't find the phone.
"Did I leave it at home?" Shen Li felt a little strange, but didn't take it seriously. "You can check it on my Weibo."
Li Zi asked: "What's your Weibo name?"
Shen Li noticed something was wrong and pulled Li Zi's clothes to ask, "Jiang He Li Zi, don't you and I follow each other on Weibo?"
Li Zi chuckled and said, "Last time there was a movie, didn't you watch it before me? I was worried that you would spoil the plot on Weibo, so I unfollowed you."
Shen Li was furious. She grabbed Li Zi's ponytail and teased her, "Jiang He Li Zi! Would I do something as unethical as spoiling the plot?"
Li Zi begged for mercy guiltily. When the two were fighting, the head teacher came in. Shen Li reluctantly returned to her seat. The head teacher said a few words and dismissed the class. The "prospective senior high school students" still had half a year to upgrade to senior high school students, and the teacher couldn't force them to stay in school for extra classes. At six o'clock, they were finally released.
Shen Li and Li Zi were mixed in the crowd of people leaving school, and they were almost walking forward involuntarily, with no room to choose their own direction.
Suddenly, Li Zi pointed in a direction ahead and said, "Look, that boy who approached you that day!"
"What boy? How could a boy approach me?" Shen Li disagreed. Her gaze paused and stopped on the profile of a boy, who was the owner of the "Monkey King"!
Shen Li ducked down almost instantly. How could he be in this school, wearing the same uniform as hers? Could he have transferred to their school for the "Monkey King"?
Shen Li's panicked guess was totally unfounded. Li Zi admired the boy's face and realized that something was wrong with Shen Li: "Shen Li, what's wrong with you? Why are you bending over?"
"My stomach...my stomach seems to hurt a little." Shen Li perfunctorily said to her, using Li Zi's body to block the boy's sight. The boy seemed to notice something and suddenly looked in the direction of Shen Li.
Li Zi seemed to be thinking about something, and said, "Why do I feel like he's looking for you? The timing of your stomachache is too coincidental!"
Shen Li felt guilty. She couldn't tell Li Zi that the owner of the "Monkey King", and she couldn't hand over the "Monkey King". If there was no "Monkey King", she couldn't teach Shen Tianyou a lesson like a "sister". The other person was a fox using the power of a tiger, but she was a "human using the power of a monkey". No one spoke for her, whether it was her father or her mother. Couldn't she find a monkey to help her?
Shen Li made up her mind and lied without blushing: "No, didn't he ask me for directions at the barbecue restaurant last time? I pointed him in the wrong direction, and it seemed that he would not be able to find his destination. I was afraid that he would think I did it on purpose..."
Li Zi asked in confusion, "Did you ask for directions last time?" He waved his hand and said, "How can a boy be so stingy? You didn't mean it. Let's go, he's gone."
Shen Li stretched his head out to take a look, then stood up straight with confidence. Suddenly, he wondered what kind of feelings the former owner of the "Monkey King" had for the "Monkey King"? Would the "Monkey King" be reluctant to part with him? The balance in his heart swayed left and right, and Shen Li sighed. What is the "Monkey King" doing now?
"Monkey King, bow!"
"'Monkey King', shake hands!"
"'Monkey King'..."
Today's weather was heavily polluted again, so Shen Tianyou was naturally detained at home by Shen's mother. The adults went to work, Shen Li went to school, and after breakfast, Shen Tianyou began his day with the little monkey.
The little monkey has understood that Shen Li and Shen's father and mother will go out after breakfast. In the past few days, Shen Tianyou just held it and talked to it, or fed it, but today his attitude changed.
The little monkey held the banana and looked at Shen Tianyou with a puzzled look, not interested in his instructions. It turned around and climbed onto the sofa holding the banana, not wanting to pay any attention to this inexplicable human.
Shen Tianyou scratched his head in confusion: "That's not right, isn't he a circus monkey? How come he can't do anything?"
Shen Tianyou looked at the little monkey. It was willing to do anything to be nice to its sister, so why did it ignore him when he asked it to bow or shake hands?
Shen Tianyou returned to his room, put his hand on the mouse, and the computer screen lit up. The search engine displayed questions such as "How to raise a monkey", "What quirks do monkeys have", and "What kind of monkey is this". The first related link was a news article with the title "Circus star monkey lost".
Several photos published in the news all showed a little monkey wearing cute clothes. Looking at the monkey's face alone, Shen Tianyou felt that it was difficult to distinguish it from his own "Monkey King". Looking at the "star monkey" without clothes, Shen Tianyou was completely sure that their "Monkey King" was the "star monkey" that had gone missing from the circus.
Shen Tianyou leaned back, his eyes passed through the open door and stopped at the tail of the "Monkey King". He wondered, "Why doesn't it know any tricks?"
He scrolled down the news with his mouse, and when he read to the end of the news, there was a sentence that said, "If you have any news about the 'star monkey', please contact the circus immediately. Contact number: 1376677****." Shen Tianyou stared at this sentence and fell into deep thought. Finally, he moved his arm, moved the mouse to the upper right corner, and clicked the "×".
In addition to the "star monkey", the circus also has "star horse" and "star rabbit", but their family only has one "king monkey". "Kiwi" has been taken away by his grandmother, if even the king monkey is taken back, how lonely will he be?
Shen Tianyou pushed the chair away and walked out. The empty and quiet room seemed less lonely because of the humming of the little monkey. Shen Tianyou thought about it and walked towards Shen Li's room. He knew where Shen Li hid her junk snacks. He knew that he couldn't eat them, but the "Monkey King" could eat them, right?
When the little monkey saw Shen Tianyou enter Shen Li's room, he immediately jumped off the sofa, took two steps at a time, and climbed onto Shen Tianyou's shoulders by clinging to his clothes.
"Hey, 'Monkey King', I'm here to find food for you!"
The little monkey didn't understand what Shen Tianyou said. When he was playing with it, it grabbed his hair and ears, urging Shen Tianyou to move forward as if giving orders.
Shen Tianyou had no choice but to carry the little monkey on his back and become the little monkey's mount. He pulled out a few books from a compartment in the bookcase and took out a corn sausage. There was only one left. Shen Tianyou sighed, put the book back in place, and then helped the little monkey peel the sausage.
The little monkey knew that the food was for it, so it took it without any hesitation and ate the corn sausage. Shen Tianyou didn't mind it eating on his shoulder, but instead looked around Shen Li's room, expressing his opinions while looking around.
The vibration sound coming from somewhere attracted Shen Tianyou's attention: "What could it be?" Shen Tianyou said to the little monkey. After pushing aside the books on the desk, he saw Shen Li's cell phone.
Shen Tianyou held the vibrating phone and chuckled, "Hey, Shen Li forgot to bring her phone! Now it's in my hands!"
Without three hundred or five hundred yuan, don't even think about getting her phone back. Shen Tianyou narrowed his eyes and thought about how to blackmail Shen Li. His phone vibrated again, prompting someone to become a fan of "Pear King and Cat King".
Shen Li has a Weibo account that records "Kiwi". Shen Tianyou knew about this, but he didn't know that after "Kiwi" left for so long, Shen Li's Weibo still had fans following it.
Shen Tianyou became excited. He took Shen Li's cell phone and sat down on Shen Li's bed. He took two quilts as cushions and leaned back. His feet in slippers naturally stepped on the edge of the bed. He didn't think Shen Li would be angry about this at all.
The little monkey had jumped to the side when he was about to lie down. Now the man and the monkey put their heads together, staring at the phone.
Shen Tianyou tapped on his phone and asked the little monkey: "How could she be followed by so many people?" The little monkey gnawed on a corn sausage, tilting his head stupidly.
"There must be something fishy going on!" Shen Tianyou was determined to check the information on Shen Li's phone, but when he turned on the screen, he was prompted to enter a password. Shen Li's password? Shen Tianyou touched his chin and quickly entered four numbers.
Unlock successful.
"Tsk, how can someone be so narcissistic as to use his own birthday as a password?" Shen Tianyou shook his head. Just like his parents, their passwords are all his birthday, and his cell phone password is the birthday of his favorite basketball star. There is no such thing as someone who uses his own birthday as a password.
Shen Tianyou pouted as if he couldn't stand it, and the little monkey followed suit. Shen Tianyou was amused by it, and after calming down, he continued to explore with his phone: "Let's see what Shen Li is doing."
When I opened the Weibo, a bunch of message reminders really showed Shen Li's popularity. The number of her fans has increased to more than 10,000, with more than 1,000 reposts and 680 comments. Is this really Shen Li's Weibo?
Shen Tianyou continued reading curiously until he saw Shen Li’s popular Weibo post, which was posted last night and the content was - "Monkey Playing with Naughty Kids".
Monkey teasing naughty kid?
Monkey? Shen Tianyou looked at the little monkey and immediately thought of who the naughty kid was!
Shen Li actually drew a cartoon about the little monkey and herself and posted it on Weibo!
Shen Tianyou read the Weibo posts one by one in frustration . The contents were all vilifying himself. Either he was being played a prank by a little monkey, or they were his own "stupid" stories.
How could she vilify herself like this?
The comments and reposts under Shen Li’s Weibo posts are all like “hahahaha” or “the naughty kid deserves it”!
How could they say that about him? How could Shen Li do such a thing?
Shen Tianyou kicked the stool beside the bed away angrily. The little monkey was frightened and jumped onto Shen Li's bookcase, but Shen Tianyou did not rush over to comfort it immediately, but continued to read those damn comments.
A book fell to the ground with a "clatter". I don't know when it started, but the little monkey took out the books one by one and threw them on the ground. It was looking for something, but it couldn't find the corn sausage it had eaten before.
Shen Tianyou's lips were tightly closed, and his pale face was tinged with red due to anger. He looked at what the little monkey did, and then saw Shen Li's treasure in the glass cabinet above the little monkey. Suddenly, he laughed in anger.