After the Qingming Festival holiday, on the first day of school, teachers of each subject announced the results of the previous monthly exam, which caused many people to complain.
Shen Li happily took a photo of the test paper with her mobile phone and immediately sent it to the family WeChat group, which earned her praise from the two leaders and a cold eye from Shen Tianyou. She had recently achieved great success in her family, studies, and Weibo serialization "career", and she didn't care at all about Shen Tianyou's petty mood.
Some people are very proud of themselves, but some people were called to the office twice, once by the head teacher and once by the subject teacher. Qiao Lu was miserable! When school was over, he was notified that the grade leader wanted to see him. Qiao Lu was very sensitive to the fact that something was wrong and he slipped away without making a sound.
When Shen Li ran into Qiao Lu, their squad leader called his name behind him, but he acted as if he didn't hear it, rushed out with a sullen face, and even pulled Shen Li to cover him.
"I say, Qiao Lu, why do you feel like someone is chasing you every time you see me?" Qiao Lu's hands were like iron clamps, grabbing Shen Li's schoolbag and forcing her to walk with him.
"My second brother is here, and he wants to get me back from school." Qiao Lu analyzed in an orderly manner, "It's common for grades to fluctuate, but the last time all the teachers cared about my grades was when my eldest brother came back to school to give a speech."
"Qiao Er and your elder brother?"
Qiao Lu walked out of the campus smoothly, then he relaxed his guard, let go of her hand, made an apologetic gesture to Shen Li, and said, "My eldest brother and second brother also graduated from this school. They are the kind of students that the school uses as a signboard for admissions. Every time they come to school , the teachers pay special attention to me!"
Shen Li seemed to understand, and was pushed into a Hong Kong-style tea restaurant by him to sit down. She was still thinking about the reward from Shen's father and mother: "I don't eat out, my parents made chicken legs for me!"
Qiao Lu pushed the menu over and said simply, "It's my treat."
Shen Li snatched the menu and said rudely, "Why didn't you say so earlier!"
The exquisite menu attracted Shen Li's attention. Before she knew it, she ordered milk tea, main course, and dessert. When she looked up, she found Qiao Lu smiling at her. She tapped the table with her fingers: "Partner, you are not feeling bad, are you?"
Qiao Lu joined Shen Li's creative team, and the co-created "Monkey Playing with Bear Child" caused a heated discussion on Weibo. At first, it was in the form of a strip comic, and later a comic platform actually found them and asked them to serialize it on their mobile platform, and they both agreed. In addition to the funny stories of the little monkey, the two also created a lot of stories. In this way, one wrote the script and the other drew the comics, and the two made "Monkey Playing with Bear Child" very vivid. Shen Tianyou sometimes envied and muttered a few words, saying that he was the prototype of the comic character and should be given some character setting fees.
“How can I feel bad about treating my partners to a meal?”
It’s boring. I can’t even see Qiao Lu’s cold face.
Shen Li still remembers the time when Qiao Lu came to her to talk about the little monkey, and she was so angry that she changed her face. After they became familiar with each other, she became shameless.
Shen Li shook her head and went back to the topic: "You haven't said it yet. Your eldest brother and second brother have good grades. What does that have to do with you being called in for talks all the time? Could it be that they think that you should have good grades as a matter of course?"
Qiao Lu glanced at her and pouted , "Whenever the teachers at school see me, they will ask, 'Is your brother Qiao Zishun? Is your brother the top scholar in our city? Is your eldest brother the one who got into Fudan University?'"
Qiao Lu learned it vividly. After the meal came, Shen Li was reluctant to pick up the chopsticks to eat. She suddenly realized: "How can a brother with good grades cause trouble to his younger brother?" Could it be that the eye roll that Shen Tianyou sent in the WeChat group also meant that he was troubled?
Qiao Lu didn't realize what Shen Li meant by thinking about Shen Tianyou, and he just kept complaining about his own troubles: "The teachers always think very highly of me, but when they find out that I'm not as good as they thought, they get very disappointed. It's ok to ridicule me, but they always pull my elder and second brothers out to step on me for everything."
Shen Li picked up the chopsticks and started eating, saying as she ate, "I couldn't stand it either." The image of Shen Tianyou being scolded appeared in her mind, with his head drooping, looking pitiful. Should she find time to give him extra lessons?
"Actually, after all, the problem lies with my elder and second brothers." Qiao Lu smiled self-deprecatingly, looked at Shen Li and said, "They are different from you. You are a good sister."
As time goes by, Shen Li can now speak in a nice way: "There will always be bumps and bruises in life."
Qiao Lu put the last crab roe siomai into Shen Li's bowl and said calmly, "Do you still remember that I misunderstood you for leaving your sick brother at home and going out to play by yourself?"
Shen Li rolled her eyes: "How could I not remember? You scolded me and then apologized saying it was because your brother did the same thing to you."
"We both participated in the same competition. He was in the junior high school group and I was in the elementary school group. He won first place and I didn't even qualify. People in the same group knew that I was his younger brother, so they laughed at him for having an idiot brother. He got really angry and shut the door and scolded ."
“Actually, I failed the exam that day because I was not feeling well. I told him the truth, but he thought I was lying and said I was acting. In the end, he slammed the door and left me at home to go out and play…” Although nothing happened later, he still felt unconvinced by his parents’ way of handling the matter.
Qiao Lu didn't expect to get comfort from others. Seeing Shen Li's moist eyes, his heart suddenly warmed up. He approached mysteriously and said, "But I finally got him a hand. He might still be sitting in the grade leader's office!"
Shen Li also came closer and whispered, "Do you doubt that he can't wait until Friday?"
Qiao Lu laughed sarcastically: "He will never hand over the initiative to me."
"It seems you know me very well!"
Suddenly, someone came uninvited. Qiao Zishun pulled out a chair and sat down. He put his hand on the dining table, then jumped up again as if he had received an electric shock. He looked at the greasy stains on the table with disgust and said sarcastically, "Qiao Lu, since you know me so well, you should know what will happen if you don't follow my arrangements."
The two people who were caught red-handed suddenly became quiet. Qiao Lu's face was gloomy and he watched Qiao Zishun speak nonsense.
Qiao Zishun was fed up with this troublesome brother. He was also surnamed Qiao, but he didn't speak or act like a member of the Qiao family. He took a piece of paper to wipe his hands and glanced at Qiao Lu lazily: "It's understandable to be rebellious during adolescence, but you have to have a limit. We have prepared a cage for you to keep monkeys at home. We have taken a step back, and you should take a step back too. Being a doctor is not bad..."
Shen Li asked with a smile: "The cage for the monkey is ready, is the cage for the human ready?"
Shen Li's smile was just a sugar-coated bullet. Qiao Zishun was dazzled by her at first and didn't hear the content clearly. He nodded and said, "Yes, a cage for raising monkeys... for raising people? What do you mean?"
Qiao Zishun pursed his lips into a straight line, and his extremely aggressive gaze hit Shen Li's face: "What do you think our home is?"
Shen Li smiled without changing: "You are such a cannibal! Listen to your tone of kindness, he is your brother, not your dog!"
Qiao Zishun looked at her scrutinizingly, then retracted his gaze after two seconds, stood up and urged Qiao Lu: "Go pack up your things in the dormitory and come back with me."
Qiao Lu shook his head firmly: "I won't go back."
"Qiao Lu, I'm warning you once, my patience has its limits."
Qiao Zishun's eyes became sharp. Shen Li was extremely disgusted by his self-centered appearance and interrupted his performance: "You are too nosy, aren't you? Qiao Lu lives well in school! And that cage, I tell you, we don't like it! Keeping a monkey in a cage? Why don't you keep yourself in a cage?"
This was the first time that Qiao Zishun was scolded like this. He was so angry that he couldn't help but feel frightened. "Who are you? Why do you care about our family's affairs?"
Shen Li slammed the table and said, "Is it not okay for me to stand up for what is wrong? Why do you have the right to care about Qiao Lu's affairs? Look at your tone. Isn't Qiao Lu a child of your Qiao family? Is he just a second-class citizen?"
Qiao Zishun was shocked by Shen Li's sharp tongue. The string of words that came out of his mouth left him no room to react. He subconsciously replied, "I'm doing this for his own good."
However, this sentence was like a pot of gasoline, suddenly spilling onto Shen Li's fire, and the flames rushed up, furious: "For his sake! You are just satisfying your own desire for control!"
Shen Li fired like a Gatling gun, attracting , and the store manager also came to understand the situation. Qiao Zishun wanted to scare Shen Li away with a frown, but she became even more fearless, relying on the fact that she was in large numbers and said that she would not let Qiao Zishun take Qiao Lu away.
The people who were dining didn't know the truth and thought Qiao Zishun was harassing Shen Li, so they booed Qiao Zishun, making him look like a nose without a nose and eyes without eyes. He glared at the "troublemaker" Qiao Lu fiercely, said something, and turned away.
Qiao Lu was stunned for only a second after hearing this, and then returned to normal. Instead, Shen Li panicked, her eyes locked on the direction where Qiao Zishun left, and asked Qiao Lu in disbelief: "What he said is not true? Your father was hit by a car?"
Shen Li was very annoyed. Her gums bled when she brushed her teeth, and even two pimples popped up. Facing the mirror, she couldn't help but let out an irritated and powerless roar. Amid Shen's mother's questioning, she quickly washed her face and hid in the room.
The little monkey sat on the bed and patted the place beside him in a very domineering manner, meaning: Come here.
Shen Li burst out laughing: "Where did you learn this domineering CEO look?" She sat down on the bed and took the "domineering CEO" into her arms. "I meant well but ended up doing something bad. I thought I was upholding justice and helping your former master drive away the annoying brother, but who knew he was here to announce bad news."
The little monkey put his arm on Shen Li's shoulders and listened to Shen Li's troubles, as if he could really respond to her.
"The most helpless thing is Qiao Lu. Your former master refuses to believe what Qiao Er said. What if something really happens to the uncle who abandoned you? Qiao Lu won't even be able to see his father for the last time, right?"
Shen Li sighed: "Monkey King, what do you think I should do? I really hope someone can help me analyze it. Monkey King, can you help me analyze it?"
The little monkey moved, pushed Shen Li away, opened the door and went out. Three minutes later, it pulled Shen Ma into Shen Li's bedroom.
Shen Li stared at the little monkey that had returned to her arms in amazement: "I really wonder if you have become a spirit."
Shen Li found it a little difficult to start talking, but she still told her mother about her problem. After the mother and daughter finished reading bedtime fairy tales when Shen Li was six years old, they had their first bedtime talk again when she was sixteen.
The next day, Shen Li, encouraged by Shen's mother, found Qiao Lu and said, "Although you can't be sure that your father was hit by a car based on just one sentence, you can't deny it directly. If something really happened, aren't you afraid that you will regret it?"
"That's because you don't know my brother and my father." Qiao Lu said confidently, "You can believe half of what my father says, but my brother is even better than me, so you can't believe even half of what he says!"
Shen Li was frustrated by his stubbornness: "Hearing is believing, seeing is believing, just go to the hospital to see him, he won't do anything to you!"
Qiao Lu continued to stretch without caring, and said leisurely: "If I go, it will be called walking into a trap. If you want to go, you go. I have to go to physical education class, so I'm leaving first!"
"Hey you……"
Qiao Lu was more stubborn than Shen Li had expected. Although she had never heard him talk in detail about their family affairs, it seemed that Qiao Lu had a deep grudge against his family members and the conflicts were quite intense.
Shen Li still decided to continue intervening. She talked to Shen's mother last night, and they mentioned the previous incident again. Shen's mother felt more guilty than ever before. She said, "It is said that parents are the best teachers for their children , and children are also the teachers of their parents. I never knew I had done so many mistakes, so I need you to teach us how to be a qualified parent."
Shen Li thought, maybe the situation in Qiao Lu's family is the same as her own family, the elders are wrong but don't know they are wrong? Maybe someone needs to remind them.
Shen Li was serious in the previous second, and was stunned in the next second when she found that her idol sent her a WeChat message.
Her male god!
He was admitted to Fudan University and recently gave a speech at the school! He has an ordinary appearance, but he exudes the aura of a top student! Even his notes have become a secret in their school!
Last time, Li Zi bravely asked for her WeChat account. After adding her as a WeChat friend, Shen Li was so timid that she didn’t dare to say a word. She didn’t even have the nerve to send a message to say hello during the holidays. Now her idol actually sent her a message?
Although the male god only sent one word and a symbol: "Are you there?"
The typing sound of Sogou input method kept ringing, and Shen Li immediately replied with a long string of text, and ended with a cute expression.
But the male god only replied her one word: "Answer it."
Pick up? Pick up what?
The WeChat video call rang so suddenly.
My male god, my male god wants to video chat with her?
But there is no Wi-Fi in school, so I can only use data traffic!
Shen Li pressed the answer button without thinking. For the sake of video chatting with her idol, overspending on data traffic was nothing !
While the screen was not lit, Shen Li even fixed her hair, wanting to leave a good impression on her idol. When the video was connected, Shen Li greeted him sweetly, "My idol, you..." Her smile froze completely, and she asked the person on the other side of the screen, "Why is it you?"
Qiao Zishun instantly became arrogant: "Qiao Ziyao is your idol? Don't you know? He is the elder brother of Qiao Lu and me!"
"Qiao Ziyao is Qiao Lu's brother?" Shen Li exclaimed in surprise. How many times had she missed the chance to get the male god's notes? Qiao Lu, Qiao Zishun, Qiao Ziyao, who would have thought that the owners of these three names were actually brothers?
Qiao Zishun mocked her: "Why call him 'male god'? Don't you like to give people nicknames? Just call him Qiao Da!"
"Is it your business?" Shen Li was angry. "What does it have to do with you? Who told you to contact me using his WeChat ID?"
Qiao Zishun touched his nose awkwardly, trying to get back to the point: "Well, I want to talk to you about something."
"I have nothing to say to you!" After saying that, Shen Li wanted to turn off the video, but was stopped by Qiao Zishun. He turned the camera and let her see a middle-aged man lying on a hospital bed.
"I'm not lying. My dad is really in the hospital."
White walls, white sheets, an infusion bottle hanging on the head of the bed, unfamiliar instruments emitting monotonous and indifferent sounds, a middle-aged man lying on the bed, Shen Li vaguely remembered his face.
It was that uncle, the one who threw the little monkey to her.
Shen Li asked in a daze: "Was he really hit by a car?"
"Is this a joke?"
Shen Li felt guilty. She had previously suspected whether this was a self-torture trick devised by Qiao Er, but now it seemed that she had been judging others by her own standards.
The man on the bed was awakened by Qiao Zishun's movements. He struggled to support himself and asked, "Zishun, are you talking to Qiao Lu on the phone? What...what did he say?"
Shen Li looked at the middle-aged man on the other side of the screen and felt a little sad. Qiao Zishun did not appear on the screen and his voice sounded very embarrassed: "No, I went to school to find him, but he didn't believe me."
The middle-aged man was not angry, but felt even more disappointed: "He doesn't believe it. Well, it's normal for him not to believe it. Who told me to be so domineering to him before? Now, I am old and my son has also turned away from me."
"Dad, why are you saying this?"
The cell phone was placed somewhere by Qiao Zishun, and the camera was facing the hospital bed. Shen Li saw Qiao Zishun help the middle-aged man up. She clearly saw that the man who was energetic not long ago had now become old due to the car accident and pain.
Do we really have to keep on fighting like this ? How long can we have time to argue and have a cold war? Will we be so stubborn as to refuse to give the other party a chance and refuse to give in until it is too late to regret?
No! She would not let Qiao Lu continue to make mistakes.
When Qiao Zishun picked up his phone to video chat with her again, before the other party could speak, Shen Li said directly: "Give me the address, I will take Qiao Lu to the hospital!"
Qiao Zishun smiled and said, "Thank you in advance."
The middle-aged man on the hospital bed asked, "Who... who is talking?"
After Qiao Zishun explained to him , he strongly requested to talk to Shen Li. Shen Li looked at Qiao's father's face on the screen and made a solemn promise.
Suddenly, tears welled up in Qiao's father's eyes, and he said with moist eyes: "Okay, okay, I'll leave it to you."