Some people say that Chinese people's emotions are introverted and implicit. Couples rarely express their love, let alone parents and children.
"I love you" is just a small movement of the upper and lower jaws opening and closing, and the vocal cords making sounds. What is there to say? If you really want to do good for him, you should tell him that his parents love him. If you use "strict father" and "for the good of the child" as a shield and wantonly erase his nature, enthusiasm and preferences, then who can you expect to really treat him well in the future?
Love him more so that he can be more determined in his future path.
When Shen Li returned home, her parents were cooking in the kitchen. She vaguely heard her mother seeming to teach Shen Tianyou how to pick vegetables. She ran to the kitchen and saw that it was the little monkey squatting in front of the basin, picking vegetables with great enthusiasm.
After the little monkey finished, it brought it to Shen's mother and asked for praise. Shen's mother squatted down, kissed the little monkey, and touched its head. Shen Li's teeth ached when she saw it.
"Shen Tianyou, have you noticed that you have fallen out of favor recently? The Monkey King has become the third child in our family."
Shen Li ran to her brother insidiously to sow discord between them, but Shen Tianyou didn't buy her tricks at all: "Don't worry, your parents love you the most."
Such a simple sentence made Shen Li blush. She became a dumb cannon. She came excitedly but left hesitantly.
After Shen Li's family finished dinner, they began their daily activity in recent times - chatting.
Mother and Father Shen took the lead in explaining what they had been busy with over the past two days.
Mother Shen began to feel a little embarrassed and spoke hesitantly: "Lili, your father and I have learned recently that some children who have no basic knowledge but want to apply for art majors will start to participate in intensive training during the summer vacation of their second year of high school. The intensive training will continue until October of the same year. In November, they will start to go to schools all over the country to take exams..."
Father Shen was impatient and immediately said, "We want to ask you if you want to learn painting. If you do, you have to be able to endure hardships. After this semester, we will send you to a training class, but the intensity is very high, and it starts from scratch. You have to learn well in the training class and cannot fall behind in cultural courses. It can be said to be very hard."
Shen Li was unable to react and stared at them stupidly until she was bumped by Shen Tianyou. Then she came to her senses: "I'm not afraid of hardship! I'll go to the training class! I... I really love painting. For the sake of painting, I can endure any hardship!"
Father and Mother Shen showed relieved and relaxed smiles. After so long, they finally did something right for their daughter: "Okay, let's find a training class next weekend!"
Shen Tianyou followed suit and pretended to mind, saying, "I've already told you, you're the one my parents love the most."
After saying that, the little monkey climbed onto Shen Ma's legs and acted coquettishly, trying to interrupt the communication between Shen Ma and Shen Li. Shen Ma was at a loss as to what to do to coax the little monkey.
Shen Li laughed loudly: "Obviously, 'Monkey King' is the most favored one in our family!"
Shen Tianyou seemed to have thought of something, and he hesitated to speak: "Speaking of 'Monkey King', I recently discovered..." The other three people focused their attention on Shen Tianyou, but he stopped talking, "Nothing, nothing."
Shen Li hit him: "Just say whatever you want to say. When did you become so coy?"
Shen Tianyou pursed his lips and hesitated, then said in a fake and sincere tone: "I suddenly forgot."
Shen Li didn't take it seriously until late at night, when she felt something was wrong.
That night, Shen Li couldn't sleep because of the short holiday and she had been sleeping all day and all night for two days. Even though she had classes the next day, she still couldn't sleep after midnight. In a daze, she heard some noises and she happened to be a little thirsty, so she got up from bed.
After leaving the room and heading to the kitchen, Shen Li suddenly heard an unusual metallic sound coming from the security window behind her near the small garden. Shen Li suddenly realized that something was wrong, and she shouted, "Who?"
The sound outside the burglar-proof window stopped.
Shen Li took two steps toward the wall, reached out to turn on the light, and shouted loudly: "Dad! Get up! There's a thief!"
The first person to run out of the room was not Shen's father, but Shen Tianyou.
Shen Tianyou looked in the direction Shen Li pointed, his face suddenly turned pale, and he whispered, "Do they really dare?"
Shen Li didn't hear clearly, and asked subconsciously: "What?"
Shen Tianyou pursed his lips. After about two seconds, he replied, "Yeah. It must have been robbed."
At this time, Father Shen came out of the room with a strong flashlight in one hand and a stick in the other, followed by Mother Shen. Father Shen shone the flashlight at the security window, but there was nothing outside. He inspected the outside of the house and comforted his wife and children, saying, "It might be a wild cat."
Although Shen's father said so, only Shen Tianyou knew the real situation, right? Shen Li always felt that he seemed to know something. Considering his strange behavior in the past few days, Shen Li couldn't help but ask Shen Tianyou.
Shen Tianyou looked confused: "What do I know?"
"You were clearly looking at the small garden two days ago." Shen Li remembered it clearly. When she asked Shen Tianyou what he was looking at, he just answered her vaguely.
Shen Tianyou waved his hand and said, "You remembered it wrongly, right? I'm sleepy and have to go to school tomorrow, so I'm going to sleep first." After that, he yawned and went back to his room. Shen Li, who was still hesitant, was also sent back to her room by Shen's father and mother to sleep.
From that day on, Shen Tianyou avoided Shen Li and didn't even dare to look at her, which made Shen Li feel even more suspicious. Despite the suspicion, Shen Li couldn't pry Shen Tianyou's mouth open. After five days, Shen Tianyou finally paid the price for his concealment.
That day was Saturday. Shen Li and Li Zi were taking extra classes at the home of their grade leader. It was around 11 o'clock in the morning when Shen Tianyou suddenly called and started yelling in panic, "Sister, come back soon!"
Li Zi looked at Shen Li and smiled: "Little babysitter, your brother is asking you to clean his ass again."
Shen Li gave Li Zi a reproachful look, apologized to the grade leader, and ran to the side to answer the phone: "What's wrong?"
Shen Tianyou on the other end of the phone said hurriedly: "Someone came to the house and wanted to take the little monkey away after leaving 2,000 yuan!"
"What do you mean? Forced buying and selling?"
Shen Tianyou's voice sounded extremely flustered through the radio signal: "Come back soon, Mom is about to agree!"
Shen Li didn't have time to investigate what happened. Her intuition told her that her brother was really panicking. She explained to the grade leader, grabbed her schoolbag and ran home, ending the tutoring for the week early.
No matter how hard she tried, she still got home late. Shen's mother was in the living room greeting guests, and there was a cage in the corner. Shen Li's brain was like a match, ignited in an instant.
She didn't even have time to change her shoes, and shouted at the uninvited guests: "What do you want to do? We don't sell our little monkey, get out!"
Shen Tianyou was sitting on the side with his head down. When he saw Shen Li, he was like seeing a savior and wanted to ask for help, but his arm was mercilessly hit by Shen's mother.
Mother Shen scolded her daughter with a fierce face: "Lili, how can you talk like that? This is a guest!"
Shen Tianyou shouted indignantly: "What guests? They want to take the Monkey King away, how can they be considered guests?"
Shen Li's heart was burning with anger. She saw a stack of pink bills on the table and burst into anger: "What does this mean? Mom, didn't you say that 'Monkey King' is your most beloved child? For two thousand yuan, you are going to sell your third child?"
Mother Shen wanted to explain, but Shen Li didn't give her a chance to speak: "Didn't you promise us to raise the little monkey? How can you go back on your word? Tianyou and the little monkey get along well, why do you want to sell it?"
An older man in a suit among the visitors interrupted with a smile: "We are not selling it. This monkey originally belonged to us."
His words were like a bomb, exploding into a haze in Shen Li's brain. Shen Li asked in disbelief, "What did you say?"
Mother Shen found an opportunity to speak at this time. Her tone was full of dissatisfaction with Shen Li: "Li Li, what's wrong with you? How can you hold someone else's monkey and not return it? We are not forbidding people to keep pets, so how can you secretly hold someone else's pet?"
What do you mean? Someone else's? But Qiao Lu picked up this monkey when he was traveling .
Before Shen Li could figure out what was going on, she heard her mother apologize to the two men on her behalf: "Mr. Huang, I'm so sorry. Our child is still young, and we don't know what misunderstandings there may be, but the child definitely has good intentions and doesn't want to take the monkeys in your zoo for himself."
Mr. Huang, dressed in a suit, smiled kindly: "I understand. Mrs. Shen's family has a strict family tradition. This was an accident. We are also very grateful to the two children for taking care of the little monkey. The money on the table can only express one ten-thousandth of my gratitude to you..."
Adults know how to deal with each other in a nonsensical way, while children often speak without restraint.
Seeing that his sister was unable to react and had not helped to save the situation, Shen Tianyou was furious. He jumped up, pointed at Mr. Huang's nose and said, "What kind of zoo is this? You are a black-hearted zoo! You were the ones who abused the little monkey in the first place, and your zoo often has small animals dying of unknown causes. I won't let you take the little monkey away!"
Shen's mother yelled at him angrily: "Shen Tianyou!"
Mr. Huang smiled falsely: "What do kids know?"
Only a glimmer of clarity flashed through Shen Li's mind: "Black-hearted zoo?"
Mr. Huang immediately changed the subject: "That's completely false! It's slander, absolutely slander! There is a real estate company that wants to buy our zoo and is trying every means to ruin our reputation, right, Xiao Zhang?" The young man next to Mr. Huang also echoed.
Mr. Huang and Xiao Zhang performed in a flowery way, singing in unison to divert Mother Shen's attention.
Shen Li had no choice but to wink at Shen Tianyou. Shen Tianyou's eyes moved around in the air, as if he had received instructions from his sister. He started to act like a rogue and made a fuss, refusing to listen to anything she said.
Mother Shen was a little embarrassed for a moment. Seeing the two guests' changed expressions, she wanted to teach her son a lesson but was afraid of irritating him. She had a hot potato in her hands, which she couldn't drop but was difficult to hold.
Seeing that Shen's mother had no intention of stopping Shen Tianyou, Mr. Huang's face suddenly turned cold: "Mrs. Shen, you have to know that this monkey belongs to our zoo. Your family is illegally occupying other people's property."
Where does Shen's mother work? How could she not know all this? But she really can't do anything about her son who is throwing a tantrum and making trouble.
At this time, Shen Li stepped forward and advised Shen Tianyou to take the little monkey back to the room first. She turned to face the angry Mr. Huang and explained: "If the monkey belongs to your zoo, we will of course return it to you, but you haven't shown any evidence, and we dare not believe your words."
Mr. Huang hesitated for a second, and Shen's mother figured it out and said with a smile: "Yes, I forgot to check the certificate. Or you can bring the certificate and we will let the little monkey go with you after we confirm it is correct?"
Mr. Huang certainly didn't want to see something change just after they had agreed on it. Shen Li added, "You guys preparing the certificates is also giving my brother some time to relax. He's a little stubborn right now and can't get over it. We also need some time to persuade him."
Mr. Huang and Xiao Zhang looked at each other, talked for a while, and finally nodded in agreement with Shen Li's statement, giving them some buffer time.
The two uninvited guests finally left. During lunch, when Mr. Shen heard what happened from Mom Shen, he immediately expressed his attitude and asked his two children to send the little monkey back.
Shen Tianyou was so angry that he threw his chopsticks and went back to his room. Even Shen Li was given a cold shoulder by him. She wanted to catch up with Shen Tianyou and teach him a lesson, but Shen's father grabbed her and said earnestly: "Lili, you can't take other people's things, do you understand? Even if it's a pet!"
"But……"
Father Shen interrupted with a sullen look on his face: "That's someone else's too!"
Shen Li felt wronged and said in a muffled voice, "I know."
Father Shen had things to do all day, and happened to come back to work near his home at noon, and had to go out again after lunch. As soon as Father and Mother Shen left, Shen Li pushed open Shen Tianyou's door.
Shen Tianyou looked angry: "What are you doing here?"
Shen Li responded angrily: "What do you think?"
Shen Tianyou's eyes widened: "Are you really going to let them take the little monkey away? Do you have any conscience?"
Shen Li hit her brother on the back of the head: "I have no conscience? Shouldn't you explain to me the origin of the little monkey?"
"Qiao Lu didn't let me tell you!"
Shen Tianyou covered his mouth in annoyance. Shen Li stared at him, her mind blank for two seconds: "Is the 'Monkey King' really a monkey in the zoo?"
Since he had already let the cat out of the bag, Shen Tianyou didn't hide it: "When the 'Monkey King' first came to our house, I searched for relevant information on the Internet. I thought it was just a monkey that looked similar. Later, Qiao Lu said he wanted to take the little monkey away, so I used this to scare him in a hurry, and the result was..."
"It turns out the little monkey really did escape from the zoo."
Shen Li remembered that day, Qiao Lu said Shen Tianyou threatened him. She asked him what he threatened him with, but Qiao Lu avoided the question and refused to tell the truth. Also, some time ago, someone on Weibo said that he had lost his monkey. When Shen Li told Qiao Lu about it, Qiao Lu's expression was not right!
Now that she thought about it, she was fooled! Qiao Lu had never intended to tell her the origin of the little monkey from the beginning!
Shen Tianyou spoke out his suspicions all at once: "This zoo is definitely not a good thing! A few days ago, someone suddenly stopped me on the road and asked if I had a monkey at home. I felt something was wrong at the time, and later I vaguely felt that someone was following me, and that night someone was sawing the security window..."
Shen Li shuddered. The security window did show signs of being sawed when viewed from the outside. She even recalled the last time Shen Tianyou was looking out of the window. After she went out, she felt that she was being followed. At that time, she thought it was Qiao Zishun, but considering what was happening now, the person following her was actually someone from the zoo?
A creepy idea slowly formed in her mind. Shen Li looked at her brother's indignant face and slapped him in anger, "Such a big thing, why didn't you say it out?"
" I..." Shen Tianyou wanted to argue with her, but he still felt guilty, "I... I forgot..."
Shen Li slapped him on the back again and pointed at his nose: "You are still hiding this from me along with Qiao Lu!"
Shen Tianyou received two slaps in the face but didn't dare to complain. He pouted and looked at his sister bitterly. Even so, Shen Li glared at him hatefully for several times.
Qiao Lu was really capable. She helped him shoulder such a big blame, and when someone came to her house, she didn't know what happened. This wouldn't do. She had to go find him!
Shen Li rushed to the school angrily, greeted the uncle at the message room, and continued to rush towards the dormitory.
A car stopped outside the school gate, and a familiar voice inside questioned the uncle: "If she can get in, why can't I?"
The man in the reception room: "She is a student of this school, are you?"
Qiao Zishun said as a matter of course: "Yes, I am. I used to be!"
Shen Li didn't pay attention to this little episode. She was really angry. If Qiao Lu had told her earlier that the little monkey had escaped from a black-hearted zoo, she would definitely have been more careful and would not have been followed or had her security window sawed.
If anything happens, he will be unforgivable!
The building manager was probably taking a nap, so Shen Li rushed all the way to the second-year dormitory floor. She stood at the entrance of the corridor and yelled at the rooms on both sides: "Qiao Lu, get out here!"
No one paid any attention.
Shen Li continued to roar: "Qiao Lu!"
A boy with a bunch of weed-like hair came out, pointed to the next door and said, "He lives over here, stop shouting, you're disturbing his sleep!"
Shen Li was embarrassed for a moment, then ran to knock on the door angrily. As soon as she reached the door, it opened. Qiao Lu also looked sleepy. When he saw Shen Li, his expression was not very good, but he still motioned for her to come in: "Why are you here? Come in."
Shen Li realized at that moment that this was the boys' dormitory. She stood at the door and asked, "Why didn't you say it? The little monkey ran away from the zoo!"
Qiao Lu was holding back his anger, but before he could vent his anger, Shen Li got angry at him first.
Qiao Lu knew that Shen Li had taken Qiao Zishun to the small animal rescue station. He knew that Shen Li had good intentions, but the feeling of having his most private parts peeped into by Qiao Zishun was too terrible! He felt that he was about to be exposed, and his family, especially Qiao Zishun, would definitely use this to humiliate him!
Qiao Lu's silence was seen by Shen Li as a guilty conscience, which made Shen Li even angrier: "Do you still want to play dumb?"
Qiao Lu turned his head and looked at her in surprise, but quickly hid his emotions: "Who told you that? Nonsense."
"Ha!" Shen Li taunted, "Shen Tianyou has already confessed!"
Hearing this, Qiao Lu realized that he couldn't deny it, and said angrily: "I knew this kid couldn't control his mouth."
Shen Li wanted to kick him twice: "He is very loyal. He was followed for a week and our security window was sawed in the middle of the night without telling anyone!"
Qiao Lu was dumbfounded: "What?"
Shen Li was furious: "You were pretending, why don't you pretend anymore? Now you know something big is going to happen, right?"
Qiao Lu pulled her into the room and said, "I'm the only one in my dormitory. Tell me, what's going on?"
The door was open, and the two men sat on small stools and talked about what had happened.
After hearing this, Qiao Lu fell silent. He knew that the little monkey belonged to the zoo, but he didn't expect that the people in the zoo would do such a thing.
Qiao Lu's calm "I didn't expect it" made Shen Li so angry that her heartbeat became irregular: "You didn't expect it? Ha, it wasn't your house that had its security windows sawed in the middle of the night, and it wasn't you who was followed, so of course you didn't expect it!"
Qiao Lu's face turned cold: "Don't say such harsh words."
Shen Li stared: "I said something harsh?" She pointed at Qiao Lu, "You are a good person, a saint. You helped the little monkey escape from the zoo. I took all the risks and consequences for you. Do you think I said something harsh?"
"Your original intention of taking in the little monkey wasn't that good, was it?"
What was Shen Li’s original intention in taking in the little monkey?
It’s just to make trouble for Shen Tianyou.
The little monkey was certainly cute, and they developed feelings for each other, and Shen Li had forgotten her original intention. But the reason why Shen Li took the little monkey in was so shameful, and Qiao Lu's words were equivalent to tearing off Shen Li's last fig leaf.
I was so naive once, and I once held so much jealousy and hatred. Even after becoming intimate with the little monkey, I still couldn't forget my original purpose.
Shen Li was left speechless by Qiao Lu's words, so their family deserved everything that happened to them?
Qiao Lu knew that his words were too harsh, so he wanted to add a few words to smooth things over: "Raising a pet definitely involves risks, both for you and me."
Qiao Lu said it in a tactful way, but it sounded like sarcasm to Shen Li: "If you had told me the origin of the little monkey earlier, I wouldn't be so passive, right? Our house wouldn't have had its security windows sawed off, and we wouldn't have had people come to our door, right?"
Qiao Lu's face turned pale and blue, and he didn't understand Shen Li's complaints at all: "To be honest, are you willing to support me? You are just afraid of trouble!"
Shen Li was so angry that her face turned red. She kept saying, "I'm afraid of trouble? I'm afraid of trouble?" The more Shen Li thought about it, the angrier she got. She wanted to poke Qiao Lu, "If I were afraid of trouble, I wouldn't have gotten involved in this little thing in your family! Your whole family is coy and nagging, but you, with your self-esteem, run away from home at the slightest thing..."
Qiao Lu looked angry: "Did I ask you to take care of our family's affairs? You also took Qiao Zishun to the small animal rescue station. Did I ask you to do that?"
A swear word was pressed under Shen Li's tongue, but Qiao Lu's angry look made Shen Li completely understand what "a good person is not appreciated" meant.
Who is she doing this for? Now she is in a difficult position!
They all have very little life experience, having been locked up in ivory towers and never been out of the field. It was already difficult for them to cope with such a thing, and now they have to endure each other's resentment. It is not surprising that internal strife is coming.
Qiao Lu knew that what Shen Li said was the truth. If they had been more careful and handled the origin of the little monkey properly, or if he had paid more attention to the condition of the zoo, such a thing would not have happened.
Shen Li also knew that since she had agreed to raise a little monkey, what she had to do was definitely not as simple as eating, drinking and playing with it . A pet is a life, and the little monkey's IQ is like that of a six-year-old child. She had to take care of it like a parent.
But even though both parties knew this, they couldn't talk properly. Qiao Lu couldn't stand Shen Li's ridicule and complaints, and Shen Li couldn't accept him exposing her past. The two teenagers argued endlessly, as if if they said one more word, the "blame" called mistake would be thrown on the other's head.
One didn't want to admit his mistake, the other refused to let go. The two couldn't reach an agreement, so they snorted and called a truce. In fact, they didn't know that even if the little monkey wasn't the "celebrity monkey" that escaped from the zoo, the zoo staff would take the little monkey away for other reasons. The little monkey was so popular on the Internet that the zoo staff could certainly see the business opportunity. It would be best if it was their lost monkey, but if not, they would find ways to make it one.
There was silence in the dormitory for a while. Even though complaining was not the solution to the problem, they were unable to make the right choice, such as stopping complaining and finding ways to solve the problem.
Sometimes you still want to immerse yourself in your emotions, but troubles come one after another, forcing you to feel suffocated and have to face them.
The phone vibrated and they both looked for their phones. Shen Li rolled her eyes at him and said, "Don't look for it. My phone is ringing."
When she saw that it was Shen Tianyou calling, she pressed the speaker without thinking. Shen Tianyou's panicked voice seemed to be crying, and it was played out through the speaker, and the echo spread in the room: " Sister! They want to break in and take the little monkey away!"
The two were shocked and asked in unison: "What happened?"
Shen Tianyou replied: "They pretended to be couriers and tricked me into opening the door. I locked the door when I realized something was wrong, but now they are banging on it!"
Shen Li was like a fire burning in the fire: "Didn't I tell you not to open the door and not let anyone in?"
Shen Tianyou felt very aggrieved: "He was wearing the clothes of the courier company, so I thought it was real! When I realized something was wrong and wanted to close the door, it was already closed!"
Qiao Lu finally calmed down: "When did it happen?"
The sound of "bang bang" of kicking the door came from the phone, answering Qiao Lu's question.
Shen Tianyou was shocked and frightened, and asked: "Sister, what should I do now?"
Qiao Lu was about to answer something when Shen Li fearfully held the phone in front of him and replied, "Don't do anything, just stay in your room! If they break in, don't argue with them or fight them!"
Qiao Lu was anxious: "What about the little monkey?"
Qiao Lu's words reminded Shen Tianyou, but Shen Li stopped Shen Tianyou from resisting: "We will be there soon. Just take care of yourself, they can't take the little monkey away!"
After saying that, Shen Li hung up the phone. She glanced at Qiao Lu and resisted the urge to curse: "I'll settle the score with you later!"
Qiao Lu realized the seriousness of the problem. This time he did not make any excuses. Instead, he followed Shen Li and rushed out of the school one after another.
The two hurried downstairs and happened to meet Qiao Zishun who had sneaked into the school by bypassing the message room. Qiao Zishun was not mentally prepared and met his brother face to face. He was a little embarrassed: "Are you in school?"
Even the punctuation marks of these five words were awkward. If it wasn't for the urgent matter, Shen Li would have stopped to make fun of the city champion's embarrassment. But now she really didn't want to do that: "I have something urgent to do, you guys chat slowly."
Qiao Lu didn't want to be left behind: "I'll go home with you."
Qiao Zishun seemed to have an overheated brain, repeating word by word: "You. Go. Home. With. Her?"
Shen Li was getting annoyed and glared at him fiercely: "Something happened in our family, he came home with me to check the situation!"
Qiao Zishun reacted and began to think with his brain cells called "brother". He stopped the two of them and said, "I'll go too! I have a car and I'll take you there!"
Shen Li was so angry: "Brother Qiao, stop it! You're giving us your two-wheeled bicycle?"
Qiao Zishun raised the key in his hand: "Add two wheels, it will be a four-wheeled car, the kind that requires a driver's license!"