Shen Li didn't come back for several days. Shen Tianyou sometimes forgot to feed the little monkey. Shen's mother sighed to him, and Shen's father stared at the small garden in a daze, saying that the flowers there were originally planted for Shen Li... All of this made Shen Tianyou feel extremely uncomfortable. He endured it to the extreme and finally couldn't help asking: "Why don't you go and pick her up?" But all he got was silence.
For the first time, Shen Tianyou went to school on a smoggy day, rushed to Shen Li's class, blocked the door and called her out. A bunch of boys surrounded him like a sheep in a leopard's den.
"Who are you, kid?"
"I am……"
Before Shen Tianyou could say the word "brother", Shen Li rushed into the crowd and led him away. She pulled Shen Tianyou's sleeve until they were alone, then she let go and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"
Shen Tianyou's courage had already disappeared when he was surrounded by senior boys. He asked Shen Li guiltily: "When are you going home? The little monkey won't eat now."
"Just for this?" Shen Li raised her eyebrows. She didn't believe that Shen Tianyou would come to her for the little monkey, but she still gave an answer, "The little monkey will be taken away by its owner soon, and you don't have to worry about it anymore."
Seeing Shen Li was about to leave, Shen Tianyou asked, "What about you?"
"Me what?"
Shen Tianyou said stubbornly, "When are you going home? It's been more than a week. Even if you are still angry, you should calm down..."
Shen Li said calmly: "I'm not going home."
Shen Tianyou couldn't believe it: "What do you mean?"
"It means exactly what it says." Shen Li said and left Shen Tianyou behind.
Shen Tianyou held her tightly and refused to give in: "What a small matter it is that makes you run away from home..."
Shen Li thought it was ridiculous that Shen Tianyou was still talking about this matter in this tone. She stopped and pushed Shen Tianyou's hand away: "You think it's a small matter? Shen Tianyou, you still think you didn't do anything wrong, right?"
Shen Li's eyes were more unfamiliar than ever before. Shen Tianyou felt guilty unconsciously because of her anger, but he still argued in a low voice: "I...what did I do wrong?"
"Okay! You did nothing wrong!" Shen Li interrupted Shen Tianyou and gave up communicating with him, "It's me who doesn't want to stay in the same space with you! You win, you win completely, I'm leaving, I'm avoiding you, okay?"
Shen Li ignored the shocked Shen Tianyou and turned away. She had already discussed it with Li Zi's parents, who would help her communicate with her parents, and if everything went well, she would move to Li Zi's house this week.
This idea came to her when she saw Qiao Lu living in a dormitory. She also considered living in a dormitory, but there would be no beds until she was in her third year of high school. So she set her sights on Li Zi. She could live in Li Zi's house, sleep with Li Zi, live in a dormitory from her third year of high school, and move into a university dormitory after the college entrance examination... In short, reducing the time spent with her family might make it easier to get along.
She fully believed that she would be as indifferent as she said, until Li Zi exposed her mistake while she was sitting in a restaurant after school.
Shen Li asked Li Zi who was waving at her: "What's wrong?"
Li Zi poked her forehead and said with concern: "You asked me what happened, but you look so lost." Li Zi pushed the menu over and said, "You order the food. I don't know what happened to my mom. She wanted us to eat out even though she was at home today."
Shen Li smiled and said it was okay. Her phone kept vibrating. She took out her phone with one hand while holding the menu. After a casual glance, she ignored the messages and continued to order. However, the phone did not understand the owner's thoughts at all and kept vibrating. Until Shen Li could no longer bear it, she answered the phone: "What do you want to do? Shen Tianyou, I have made it clear to you !"
A low, weak voice came from the other end of the phone: "I've asked my parents, do you want to move out of the house? Not run away from home, but move away completely?"
Shen Li did not answer, but the other party's tone became urgent: "Did I force you to leave? Do you want to move to Li Zi's house and move out of your home because you hate me?"
Shen Li cleared her throat to dispel the moisture in her eyes: "There's nothing much to say about this matter. I want to eat. Let's hang up."
"Don't hang up!" Shen Tianyou's voice suddenly became anxious, and he shouted with a hoarse throat, "It's my fault, okay? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have framed you! If anyone wants to leave, it shouldn't be you. You stay and I'll go! Don't disbelieve me, I'll die..."
"Shut up!" Shen Li yelled at the phone, "What are you talking about!"
The screen lit up, indicating that the call had been hung up.
Shen Li stared at the phone in a daze and called out Shen Tianyou's name: "Tianyou?" She redialed, but only got a mechanical female voice with no answer.
Something must have happened!
Shen Li looked flustered and wanted to run out. Li Zi grabbed her hand and didn't say anything about Shen Tianyou's possible tricks. She patted Shen Li lightly and said, "Go ahead. I'll ask for leave from the teacher. Call me if you have anything."
Shen Li's eyes were hot from the sudden shock of this situation. She nodded blankly and ran out of the restaurant. When she stopped a car on the side of the road, she was still dialing and sending messages on her mobile phone, but there was no response at all.
Shen Tianyou, what on earth do you want to do?
Death? How is that possible? How could Shen Tianyou mention "death" so easily for such a trivial matter? He clearly knew how difficult it was for him to survive. The medicine he drank and the needles he had when he was a child made him cherish his life very much. He would not joke about his life, and he would not easily say "death"!
But the phone was indeed not connected, and even the parents' phone was unanswered. Shen Li panicked, but she didn't dare to think about it, not even the worst. She called Shen Tianyou frantically, and the moment she got in the car, she didn't even hear Qiao Lu calling her from behind.
No matter how much she hated Shen Tianyou, she had never thought of him dying!
Is he...is he stupid?
It wasn't too far to walk from the school gate to home, and it only took about ten minutes to take a taxi, but during these ten minutes, Shen Li felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, and even breathing became a punishment for her. When she arrived at the door of her house, she paid the fare before the car stopped, and as soon as it stopped, she opened the door and ran out, and she almost used her hands and feet to climb up the stairs in the small garden .
"Shen Tianyou!" Shen Li knocked on the door while taking out the key. She tried several times to match the key to the keyhole but failed. She finally opened the door, but saw Shen Tianyou lying at the door of the room with his cell phone on the ground. The little monkey was squatting beside Shen Tianyou and poking him from time to time.
The room was extremely quiet. All sounds disappeared from Shen Li's ears. She seemed to be covered in a glass cover. She took several deep breaths and whispered, "Tianyou, stop playing."
Her voice was weak, and she could hardly find the vocal part: "Shen Tianyou, stop playing and get up."
"I'm scared by you. You win. You win. Get up and stop playing."
Shen Li slowly moved into the room, waiting for Shen Tianyou to suddenly jump up and scare her, but he didn't, never. Shen Tianyou was lying on the cold tiles in his cropped pants and denim jacket, without shoes, his ankles and face were as white as the floor.
Shen Li slowly squatted down beside him, tears falling uncontrollably. She pushed her brother, her lips trembling with fear: "Tianyou..."
Shen Li felt Shen Tianyou's warm skin and burst into tears: "Shen Tianyou, stop pretending, wake up!"
Shen Li bent her waist, put her hands under Shen Tianyou's armpits, and tried hard to pick up her brother. She cried and tried her best to move Shen Tianyou out. Little by little, rubbing the cold floor, but she couldn't pull him out . She was almost desperate.
Where are her parents? Where are her neighbors? What should she do?
"Shen Li? What's wrong? What happened to him?"
Shen Li looked up, her face blurred by tears. She discerned Qiao Lu's face from the blurry vision, and she cried out as if she had finally found a savior: "Qiao Lu, help me, my brother, my brother..."
Qiao Lu walked in quickly, pushed Shen Li away, asked her to lay Shen Tianyou flat, and said: "I have learned a little first aid, he needs CPR immediately in this state." As he said that, Qiao Lu pressed one hand on Shen Tianyou's chest, interlocked his fingers, pressed down at a right angle, once, twice, three times...
"Wow!" Shen Tianyou's face turned pale. He pushed Qiao Lu's hand away and vomited. He wowed several times and almost vomited bile.
Shen Li knelt on the side and patted Shen Tianyou's back. When she wanted to direct Qiao Lu to pour some water, Qiao Lu pulled her to stand up.
She was confused: "What's wrong?"
Qiao Lu wiped his nose awkwardly: "Your brother doesn't look like he has cardiac arrest or something, it seems like he didn't eat and fainted due to low blood sugar..."
"What?"
"What I mean is, he wasn't saved by me, but I..." Qiao Lu made a pressing gesture, "pressed him awake."
The two looked at each other, then turned to look at Shen Tianyou, who was unable to vomit anything but bile, and turned their faces away at the same time.
It's such a shame.
Shen Tianyou was helped to rest on the sofa, and he comforted the two of them, saying, "I'm fine, I just forgot to eat."
At Shen Li's signal, Qiao Lu asked, "Why did you forget to eat? Where are your parents?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen them since I came back from school." Shen Tianyou looked at his sister who was neither sitting nor standing, and comforted her, "Sister, I'm fine."
Hearing this address, Shen Li trembled all over and accepted it in a strange manner: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not worried about you! I came with Qiao Lu to pick up the little monkey, and I bumped into you by chance. And it was Qiao Lu who woke you up, so thank him if you want to thank someone."
Qiao Lu thought it was funny. She was clearly crying out of fear just now, gasping for breath and begging him to save her life, but now she turned against him and denied it: "Hey, I don't know who was scared and crying!"
Shen Li's face suddenly turned red, and she was furious. She turned her face to Qiao Lu and said, "Who is scared? You're crazy!" Then she picked up the little monkey and slammed the door into the room.
Qiao Lu smiled, took out a box of pudding from his pocket and handed it to Shen Tianyou: "I don't have any chocolate here, you can eat some of this first to relieve your hypoglycemia." Shen Tianyou was still staring at Shen Li's door, and only took it after being reminded by Qiao Lu.
"Actually, your sister is worried about you." Qiao Lu whispered, and patted Shen Tianyou's head again, "If she is your sister, why don't you just call her sister? Your arrogant look that day was really unpleasant."
Shen Tianyou lowered his head, his bangs obediently sticking to his forehead, his face was still pale, but not as domineering as before.
The adults in the family were not at home, and my sister was still angry. She closed the door and ignored everyone. After all, she was just a ten-year-old child, and she had just fainted, so it was normal for her to be afraid.
Qiao Lu couldn't help but feel compassion, and he acted like an older brother, and persuaded him kindly: "I heard from Li Zi that you called your sister to apologize? But no matter what, you shouldn't say anything like ' life or death ', and you shouldn't say 'I'm the one who should go'..."
Shen Tianyou raised his neck, turned his head and asked, "What do you mean by 'die or not die'?"
"Didn't you threaten your sister by saying that if she didn't come back, you would die in front of her or something?"
"when?"
"When you were on the phone! You passed out after you finished talking!"
Shen Tianyou tilted his head and thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what he said at that time. Could it be that because he didn't say "shi" and "si" clearly, Shen Li heard it wrong?
Shen Tianyou and Qiao Lu both reacted. They looked at each other silently, then turned their backs and smiled silently.
The door suddenly opened, and Shen Li stood at the door and yelled at Shen Tianyou: "You! Call mom and dad!"
Shen Tianyou followed Shen Li's instructions honestly and replied to her after a moment: "No one answered."
Even if she had known this would be the answer, Shen Li couldn't help but glare at Shen Tianyou. She got even angrier when she saw Shen Tianyou's confused look, but she couldn't really leave Shen Tianyou alone at home like this.
Shen Li let out an irritated roar, and the little monkey followed suit. She looked down at the "Monkey King" nestled in her arms, and was at a loss as to what to do.
"Monkey King" and Shen Dabao, they are all living ancestors!
Shen Li rolled her eyes helplessly and said in a gruff voice, "Order takeout! Do you want to eat?"
She has no intention of cooking for baby Shen!
Qiao Lu had no objection. Shen Tianyou raised his hand tremblingly to ask for the hot pot. Shen Li interrupted without giving him face: "You eat whatever I order! You don't get to choose!"
Normally, Shen Tianyou would have definitely gone against the grain and even complained to Shen's mother afterwards, but now he was unusually obedient and answered silently with "Oh", which made Shen Li wonder if the sun had risen from the west.
The delivery boy was very quick. Not only did he deliver the food to their doorstep, he also prepared the stove and food for them. Shen Tianyou stretched his neck to look and saw "Haidilao" written on the delivery boy's shirt. He couldn't help but complain: "Hotpot!"
Shen Li glared at him: "What's wrong with hot pot?"
Shen Tianyou quickly shook his head: "Nothing, nothing!"
Qiao Lu couldn't help laughing when he saw the simmered soup base in the restaurant. He was hard on the outside but soft on the inside! As expected, Shen Tianyou was helped by Qiao Lu to the dining table, and no matter how dissatisfied he was, he could still eat the clear soup pot.
Shen Li gave the takeaway boy money. Qiao Lu poked Shen Tianyou with chopsticks, looked at Shen Li's back and said to him: "Actually, your sister treats you very well."
Shen Tianyou was caught off guard by such a sentence, and for a moment he also looked up at Shen Li, was she good to him? The past was like catkins, sticking to the tree, unnoticed, and suddenly there was a wind, and they fell densely, landing on Shen Tianyou's heart, making his heart soften, and he couldn't react at all, and could only stare at Shen Li stupidly.
So Shen Li turned around and found herself being stared at by a fool, and asked curiously, "Why are you looking at me?"
Shen Tianyou smiled at her for the first time, which made Shen Li shiver. She sat on a separate chair to the left of Shen Tianyou and Qiao Lu.
Holding the chopsticks in her hand, the small hot pot was bubbling. The red soup was oily, and the chili peppers and peppercorns were rolling in the hot oil. The clear soup was white with tomatoes and garlic floating on it. Shen Li picked up two chopsticks and looked up and said, "Why are you all looking at me? Eat!"
"okay!"
The two boys who had been staring at Shen Li finally got the courage to start eating after she picked up her chopsticks.
Shen Li shook her head and felt that both of them were seriously ill.
The hot pot was delicious. Although it was a 2-pot, Shen Tianyou was very honest and didn't dare to stretch his chopsticks to the red soup, which saved Shen Li a lot of trouble. But the two boys seemed a little restless, always flirting with each other when Shen Li lowered her head to pick up food or eat. Every time Shen Li looked up, she always looked like "we didn't do anything".
There's something wrong with these two people!
Shen Li judged that there was something wrong with these two people, but she could not find any evidence. Just as she relaxed and took out a bottle of sesame oil from the kitchen, she saw Qiao Lu pick up a piece of beef from the red soup pot and put it into Shen Tianyou's bowl.
"What are you doing?" Shen Li yelled, scaring Qiao Lu so much that he loosened his chopsticks and dropped the meat on the table. The two looked at her, especially Shen Tianyou, whose eyes were shining, as if he was expecting something.
Shen Li thought she was overreacting, so she tried to save herself awkwardly, saying fiercely: "Eat your own food, don't worry about him, he's not without hands!"
When the two heard her say this, they did not show a bad expression as Shen Li expected . Instead, they looked at each other tacitly, then pursed their lips and smiled.
"What the hell are you two doing?"
Shen Tianyou looked innocent: "Nothing!"
Qiao Lu said seriously: "What happened?"
This performance was so poor that even the supporting actors couldn't stand it. Shen Li didn't know how Qiao Lu and Shen Tianyou developed such a good relationship in just a few hours and a few encounters. The two of them actually had a "secret" in front of her and acted as if she was blind. As soon as she put down her chopsticks, the atmosphere immediately became cold: "You said bad things about me?"
They both shook their heads: "No!"
Shen Li examined it for two seconds, picked up her chopsticks again, and heard the two people talking again. She looked up and they stopped talking again. Shen Li was furious and pointed at Shen Tianyou's nose, ready to lose her temper.
At this moment, the little monkey suddenly rushed over, jumped onto Shen Tianyou, hugged his neck, waved its claws and patted his head twice. After that, seeing that Shen Li seemed still angry, it waved its claws and patted twice again, humming and scolding Shen Tianyou fiercely.
Qiao Lu burst out laughing and teased the little monkey: "Are you helping Shen Li vent her anger? Okay, it seems that Shen Li is much more important than me now!"
Shen Li was neither angry nor not angry, especially when the little monkey jumped into her arms and stroked her arm as if to calm her down. Shen Li smiled for the first time, and she was no longer bothered with Shen Tianyou. After lunch, Shen Tianyou didn't have any major problems, so Qiao Lu asked to leave because he had to go back to school. Shen Tianyou seemed to have just understood the ways of the world and offered to see Qiao Lu off.
Of course Qiao Lu didn't want to: "Aren't you suffering from hypoglycemia? Don't go out, stay at home. Shen Li, shall we go?" After that, he whispered to Shen Tianyou, "Believe it or not, she won't leave at all."
Shen Tianyou was skeptical and glanced into the living room. Shen Li was sitting on the sofa watching TV, ignoring their conversation.
Qiao Lu raised his voice and asked again: "Shen Li, aren't you leaving? You still have classes in the afternoon."
Shen Li responded with a nonchalant voice, "You go ahead. Li Zi asked for leave for me. I don't want to go to school anymore."
"Really not going? If you go back to school now, you'll miss at most one class..."
Shen Li was annoyed and yelled at Qiao Lu: "If you want to leave, just leave now! I've already taken the day off and I'm too lazy to go!"
Qiao Lu stopped trying to persuade her this time. He lowered his head and said to Shen Tianyou, "She is actually worried about you." Shen's father and mother never answered the phone or went home. How could Shen Li leave Shen Tianyou, who had just fainted, alone at home?
Shen Li couldn't hear what the two people were whispering at the door, but she felt that they were not saying good things about her: "Qiao Lu, are you going to leave or not?"
Qiao Lu raised his hands in surrender and whispered, "Hard on the outside, but soft on the inside."
Shen Tianyou couldn't help laughing, but was glared at by Shen Li who came out. He immediately behaved himself, but couldn't help looking at Shen Li with curiosity.
Shen Li came over and pushed Qiao Lu out, closing the door. She turned around and saw Shen Tianyou looking at her with puppy-like soft eyes, which gave her goose bumps. She said angrily, "What are you looking at?"
The only response she got was Shen Tianyou's suppressed laughter.
Shen Li glanced at him and said, "Psycho!"
Growth always seems to come quietly and silently, and when you realize it, everything has changed. Regardless of whether it is good or bad, life is long, and whether it is family or friendship, time will always reveal a person's true character.