No, when Shen Li entered the house, she found out that there was a mode called "Nightmare" which was more difficult than "Hard".
Three-court trial.
Father Shen and Shen Tianyou sat at one end of the sofa, and Mother Shen sat in the middle. She called Shen Li who wanted to sneak into the room, and Shen Li had to move to the living room no matter how reluctant she was.
Shen Tianyou sat on the single sofa on the left, like a quail, not giving Shen Li any hints. Shen Li looked up at the faces of the two patriarchs, unable to tell how bad their moods were, so she admitted her mistake: "I'm sorry, I was wrong."
Mother Shen asked in a dignified voice, "What's wrong?"
Shen Li had done too many wrong things recently, so she picked a less serious one and said to Shen's mother, "Are you late?"
Shen's mother glared at her. Shen Li shrank her neck and changed her words: "Didn't you hand in your homework?"
Shen's mother glared at her with eyes that were like knives, about to cut off pieces of her flesh: "Shen Li, you are too bold!"
Shen Li lowered her head, motionless as a pine tree, ready to listen to the instructions, but Shen's mother said, "Such a big thing happened at home, the little monkey was taken away, and you actually kept it a secret from us?"
Shen Li looked up in panic and shouted at Shen Tianyou: "Didn't I tell you not to say anything? You traitor!"
Shen Tianyou argued confidently: "Didn't you say that you should solve the problems that I can't solve? Why don't you let your parents solve the problems that you can't solve?"
Shen Li asked Shen Tianyou to cooperate and keep it a secret because she thought that Shen's parents thought the monkey belonged to the zoo and might even think it was just right that they took it away. If she wanted to get the monkey back, she had to do it as soon as possible. So she instigated Shen Tianyou to trick Shen's parents and say that the monkey was taken home by Qiao Lu. Unexpectedly, Shen Tianyou understood her worries and busyness during this period. After thinking about it for a few days, he finally decided to tell his parents about the matter and let Shen's parents solve the matter.
"Mom and Dad?" Doubt was written all over Shen Li's face and heart.
Father Shen suddenly laughed: "Do you think we are going to scold you?"
Shen Li asked doubtfully: "Isn't it?"
Father Shen motioned Shen Li to come over, opened her laptop, checked her "battlefield", and answered casually: "Of course!"
Mother Shen pushed her daughter aside and leaned in front of the computer to look at her "battle record", making clicking sounds.
Confused, Shen Li asked, "What exactly do you two want to do?"
Shen's mother glanced at her, as if mocking her for being tactless: "Don't you understand? Your father and I will take over this matter."
Taken over?
Shen Li was shocked: "You mean, can you help me get the little monkey back?"
"Why, you still don't believe us?"
Shen Li nodded repeatedly: "Xin! What do you need me to do?"
Shen's mother looked like you were talking nonsense and threw a stack of papers into Shen Li's arms: "Of course I need it!" Shen's mother's face suddenly changed, "I need you to make up all the test papers you didn't do! You are so bold that you don't even do your homework!"
Shen Li smiled slyly and wanted to say something to make amends for herself, but the door leading to the small garden was suddenly knocked violently. Shen Li subconsciously asked, "Who?"
Such ferocity made Shen Li suspect that the person came with bad intentions.
There was no answer from the person at the door, who just kept knocking until Shen Li got tired of asking questions, and then the person on the other end answered, "Shen Li, it's me, Qiao Lu."
Qiao Lu? Why is Qiao Lu here so late at night?
Although Qiao Lu left in a rage that day, he had never stopped running around for the little monkey in private. He watched Shen Li and Qiao Zishun's plan fail, and they were unable to find a way to call the police. Their online requests for help were smeared with slander. He suddenly remembered that he had recorded an audio, or more precisely a video, in his camera.
Once, Qiao Jianliang decided to travel to Linshi by car, which disrupted Qiao Lu's long-planned holiday activities. Qiao Lu was upset and held his camera without communicating with anyone at home. On the way, they signed up for a one-day tour, one of which was to go to the zoo to watch a circus performance. At that time, Qiao Lu forgot his camera in the first row and recorded the sound of zoo staff abusing animals after the tourists left. It was also because of that audio that Qiao Lu took in the escaped monkey.
Now, the little monkey has been taken away by the zoo staff, and this audio clip proves that the zoo will not treat the little monkey well, nor will it treat other small animals well. They can use this audio clip to get the little monkey back!
With this in mind, Qiao Lu sneaked back home, took the camera, and looked for technicians to see if he could recover the video he had deleted. Finally, that afternoon, he got something: the video was recovered!
After hearing what Qiao Lu said, Shen Li immediately took the USB drive and plugged it into the computer: "I'll post it on Weibo now!"
"Wait." Father Shen held Shen Li down, "How do you prove that the recording in this video is real?"
Qiao Lu's enthusiasm was dampened by Shen's father's words: "Uncle is right , I only have the audio here, because the camera was put upside down and the picture was not recorded. If they deny it or turn the tables, we can't do anything to them."
Shen Tianyou looked at the people in the room who were in trouble and couldn't help but yelled, "This won't work, that won't work, what should we do? I don't believe that they only abused little monkeys!"
The first half of Shen Tianyou's sentence was a complaint, but the second half reminded everyone.
Shen Li came to her senses and said, "Yes, they must have abused more than just the little monkeys. As long as we can find other evidence, we can overthrow their zoo as well!"
"Well said!" Father Shen praised, "Shen Li, Shen Tianyou, Qiao Lu, listen to me!"
The three children had wide eyes and looked full of energy, as if they were soldiers being called out in front of a battle line, waiting for their general to issue orders.
Father Shen said in high spirits: "Those who haven't finished the test papers should finish them, and those who have finished the test papers should go to bed!"
The three kids said in unison: "Boring!"
Father Shen winked at them and said, "There will be a time when you will be needed!"
The Little Sunflower Zoo has been very worried recently because their zoo has to generate income.
The circus was originally a useless department in their zoo. It was a wild circus that was set up after they established cooperation with travel groups. Later, it got a bad reputation for abusing small animals, and some small animals died under unknown circumstances. Many people refused to watch the circus performances, which made the circus employees very upset.
But everything changed since the escaped "star monkey" was found.
Since no one comes to the zoo to watch the circus performances, they start a live broadcast. The little monkeys perform a few shows and the rewards come pouring in like torrential rain in the Amazon River.
The zoo was even more annoyed because the circus employees were too ambitious and wanted to start a live broadcast and run their own business. When they were really annoyed, the family who made the little monkey famous came to the zoo and blocked the door, insisting on seeing the little monkey.
Shen Li, along with Shen Tianyou, Qiao Lu, Qiao Zishun, Shen's father, Shen's mother and Qiao Jianliang, blocked the entrance of the zoo and tried to communicate with them in a nice way, but the other party had something wrong and called many people to help.
Shen Li had a verbal fight with them, but she didn't get angry, leave, reconcile, or let them go. Meanwhile, while all the staff were arguing and no one was paying attention, Qiao Zishun sneaked into the area of ​​the zoo circus that was off-limits to tourists.
As for why it was Qiao Zishun who sneaked in instead of others, Qiao Jianliang said: You are the older brother.
Qiao Zishun, who was covered with a big hat, was not angry at all, but happily sneaked in. Qiao Zishun turned around twice but couldn't find the little monkey. He was getting very annoyed, and when he turned around, he found that the staff were processing the body of a tiger in a hidden small room.
Regardless of what caused the tiger's death, they were now skinning the tiger and were about to remove its bones. Qiao Zishun instantly understood their intention: they wanted to make another fortune with the tiger's corpse!
Qiao Zishun recorded everything and quietly returned along the same route.
At eight o'clock that evening, a storm gradually took shape on the Internet. Compared with a monkey, people were more concerned about a zoo deboning a tiger!
After this video was released, more voices emerged, using pictures and videos to prove the fact that the zoo was abusing animals.
This reversal was the third reversal after Shen Li posted a microblog asking for help that the little monkey was taken away. People had already started to get fed up with the zoo, until they saw the video of the tiger being skinned, and they were completely furious. That microblog instantly became a hot search on Weibo, and "Little Sunflower Zoo" also became a hot search term.
On Sunday morning, the first thing Shen Li did after getting up was to pick up her phone and check Weibo. When she saw the State Forestry Administration reposted the Weibo and expressed its intention to seriously investigate the "Little Sunflower Zoo", her brain was like fifty-four "Orange Island Fireworks Festivals" were opening at the same time!
"Ah—the little monkey can go home now!"
Shen Li woke everyone up, including Shen's father who drove for four hours yesterday. Everyone was holding their phones and looking down at their phones, including Shen's mother who was cooking with a spatula in one hand and a phone in the other. Every piece of information about the current situation of the zoo could make them excited.
Qiao Lu was forced to establish contact with his father. There was no other way, Qiao Jianliang stayed in Lin City yesterday, and he had first-hand information about the zoo's dynamics!
So Qiao Zishun, who came to eat for a free meal, and Qiao Lu, who came to broadcast live, got along strangely yet harmoniously in the living room of Shen's house.
Qiao Lu was still dissatisfied with Qiao Zishun who was sitting opposite him, and said: "Why did he have to call me? Where's your cell phone?"
"He" refers to Qiao Jianliang, and "you" refers to Qiao Zishun.
Qiao Zishun said as if it was a matter of course: "My phone is tired. I spent so much time recording videos for you yesterday. I need to rest today."
Shen Li had nothing to say about Qiao Zishun's serious nonsense. She skipped the process of persuading him to reconcile and directly asked Qiao Lu: "Call your dad quickly!"
Qiao Lu was cunning. After dialing the number, he turned on the speaker and placed the phone on the dining table so that everyone could listen together.
"Good news. The Forestry Bureau discovered that the license of the 'Little Sunflower Zoo' had expired, and the one posted online was a fake one."
Qiao Jianliang's first-hand "report" excited them, and news came one after another: "They are still evading taxes. An employee came forward to report that the zoo would sell the fur, teeth and bones of dead tigers."
Everyone held their breath and stared at the chattering mobile phone. The news from it made them excited and angry at the same time. The little monkey was not the first victim. Many more animals who could not escape the clutches of the circus died. Some were exposed, while others had already been skinned and their bodies were gone.
Qiao Lu's phone had only two states throughout the day: talking or charging.
From early morning to dusk, everything was finally settled. The "Little Sunflower Zoo" was ordered to close down, and the animals were transferred to other qualified zoos. Those who violated the law will be held accountable...
"And what about the little monkey? When will you bring it back?"
Shen Li asked excitedly, Shen Tianyou was just as concerned about this issue as she was.
Some people were unhappy: "They have to give people a break, right? It takes two hours to drive back home!"
Qiao Jianliang's leg healed not long ago, and he had been running around the zoo all day today. It wouldn't be too much for him to rest for a night before coming back.
Shen Li and Shen Tianyou simultaneously looked at Qiao Zishun and said, "That makes sense."
Qiao Zishun looked interested: "Why are you looking at me? I didn't say that." His gaze drifted towards Qiao Lu.
Everyone at the table focused their attention on Qiao Lu. Qiao Lu felt awkward and said fiercely, "What are you looking at! I'm just concerned about the little monkey!"
Everyone started to cheer: "Oh——"
The voice came from the phone again: "Listen to me, listen to me, little monkey..."
"Uncle! You and the little monkey should rest in Linshi for one night. Qiao Lu is worried about you!" After Shen Li finished speaking, there was another burst of good-natured laughter. Qiao Lu's face was red, and it was unclear whether he was happy or angry.
The radio waves carried Qiao Jianliang's emotions intact, and he sighed: "Kids, the little monkey can't come back now."
The excitement of the whole day made everyone think that Qiao Jianliang was just playing a game of first suppressing and then praising.
"Uncle, please stop making trouble!"
"Dad, please stop scaring your little son."
Although it was difficult for Qiao Jianliang to speak, he still had to say: "I'm not kidding, the little monkey can't come back, we have to send it away."
The room was frozen in disbelief. No one dared to speak, fearing that opening their mouths would break the thin ice. However, someone had to break the ice: "We have to send the little monkey away."
"I disagree!"
"Why?"
Although Shen Li was angry, she still looked reasonable; Shen Tianyou's face turned red and he didn't know how to say a complete sentence; Qiao Lu was so angry that his head was about to smoke and he no longer listened to any opinions.
Qiao Lu questioned Qiao Jianliang on the other end of the phone: "You promised me that you would bring the little monkey back!"
How can you not count what you promised?
Shen Li also yelled at the troubled Shen's father and mother: "You said you could help us solve it! You would bring the little monkey back!"
The adults are stumped by the question. No one is perfect. Although they always want to give their children the best and what they want, there are no fairy tales in the world and they are not as omnipotent as they appear to be.
Mother Shen tried to persuade them: "We are not qualified to adopt the little monkey. It should be taken better care of. You also want the little monkey to live a better life, right?"
Everyone understands the truth, but no one wants to admit it. Once they admit it, it means they have nothing to do with the little monkey anymore.
Can I be willful?
Can I not accept it?
This house is full of traces of the monkey's life. Memories and habits have changed because of the monkey. Shen Tianyou's loneliness, Shen Li's resentment, Qiao Lu's ideals, the relationship between family members... those subtle things that no one noticed, but were extremely important, have changed because of the monkey. If it was just an ordinary pet, they would certainly be willing to let it live a more suitable life, but it is not, the monkey is their family!
Qiao Lu gave his father one last instruction over the phone: "If you don't bring the little monkey back, I will never come home again! You decide!"
After being a sensible and well-behaved child for more than ten years, can I act like a rogue this time?
They have carried too many expectations. Can their parents give them a satisfactory answer this time?
Qiao Jianliang's dilemma was in the air. Before he could make a decision to comfort his son or to order him not to be willful, his battery-depleted cell phone helped him make the choice. The phone beeped several times and then shut down completely.
The phone showing the call ended quietly looked at the heavy room. Everyone in the room understood that the matter had come to an end. Protests or rogue behavior could not save anything. Stories don't always have a happy ending. No matter how reluctant they were, the little monkey had nothing to do with them anymore.
one year later.
Shen Tianyou could no longer use his illness as an excuse to not go to school. Shen Li was admitted to several art academies and was just waiting for the college entrance examination results to come out and fill in the application form based on the academic performance. As for Qiao Lu, he hated Qiao Jianliang for not being able to bring the little monkey back home and refused to move back home, living in the school dormitory until the college entrance examination.
Qiao Lu and Shen Li's comics were temporarily suspended because of the senior year of high school, and Shen Tianyou took over the daily Weibo. Fans all knew that the little monkey was sent away. Although they understood that monkeys are national second-class protected animals and cannot be raised by private individuals, when they saw "Kiwi" appearing on Weibo - Shen Tianyou's first cat, some people still murmured that they were fickle.
Even love cannot guarantee fidelity, let alone raising pets?
Shen Li and Qiao Lu did not make any excuses for this statement. They just took a shower, changed into new clothes after partying all night at the graduation party, and took a car to the airport amid Shen Tianyou's excited shouts.
Shen Li insisted that her car could only seat four people, and forced Qiao Lu into Qiao Zishun's car. Qiao Lu used trickery to sit in the back seat, and then Qiao Ziyao opened the door and sat next to him, Qiao Lu was instantly frustrated.
The car drove out of the city and onto the airport highway. Qiao Ziyao finally stopped paying attention to Qiao Zishun's driving and turned his attention to his youngest brother: "How did you do in the exam?"
Qiao Lu didn't answer with a sullen face. Qiao Zishun took a look in the rearview mirror and said, "Brother, this is wrong. You asked about the results right after the test. You didn't let people get excited for two days."
Qiao Ziyao is not actually cold. If you get to know him for a long time, you will find that he is actually dull and not deliberately bringing up irrelevant issues.
Qiao Lu rolled his eyes at Qiao Zishun, with a little pride: "Anyway, the Agricultural University that belongs to the '985 Project' and '211 Project' institutions can't escape."
After a year of preparation for the college entrance examination, Qiao Lu still wanted to be a veterinarian, and all his college entrance examination mock applications were for agricultural universities. Although this was not good enough in the eyes of the "city champion", and he was prepared to be criticized by his two brothers, he unexpectedly received a "not bad" from Qiao Ziyao.
Qiao Lu didn't laugh, but his originally stinky face couldn't get any more stinky.
In another car, a family of four laughed and talked happily. The relationship between the two siblings reached a harmonious peak when Shen Li went to the training camp, but when she returned home, they started to quarrel . Shen's father and mother were not surprised by this, and they no longer thought about taking sides. Instead, they watched them deal with each other like a good show.
Two cars stopped in the airport parking lot. They were going to pick up an important person today.
The gate for foreign arrivals was surrounded by young girls holding banners and cameras, and it was impossible to get through. The airport security personnel tried their best to maintain a passage for people to walk through, but with the movement of hundreds of people, the passage became narrower and narrower.
Shen Tianyou exclaimed: "Such a grand scene!"
Shen Li pressed his head down like a chicken: "Of course, don't you see who you are picking up!"
The group walked in, but there was always a wall of people between them and the gate. Father Shen carefully protected Mother Shen, Shen Li and Shen Tianyou were in the middle, and the three young men from the Qiao family followed closely behind.
Qiao Zishun would come over and talk from time to time: "Do you know who is coming?"
Shen Li was about to answer when hundreds of little girls screamed in unison, drowning out her answer.
The person the girls were expecting did not come out, it was just a feint.
The airport broadcast sounded, and along with it, more than a dozen passengers came out of the gate, including Qiao Lu's father, Qiao Jianliang.
As a middle-aged man with a childlike heart, Qiao Jianliang had never had the experience of being greeted by hundreds of people at the airport. When he saw the little girls forming a human wall and standing on both sides of the aisle, he waved to the people on his left as if he was parading a military parade, as if he was saying, "Comrades, you have worked hard."
A certain little girl was unhappy. She was there to pick up her idol, and she rolled her eyes at Qiao Jianliang: "Uncle, why are you being so sentimental? We are not here to pick you up!"
Qiao Jianliang was not angry. He pointed at his family members standing outside the human wall and said, "Little girl, why are you being so sentimental? I was waving to my son! Hey, please make way. The road is blocked!"
Qiao Jianliang pushed the luggage cart through the crowd, walked up to his sons, and said smugly, "I'm so embarrassed that you've mobilized so many people to pick me up!"
The three sons of the Qiao family didn't want to make their old father sad. Shen Tianyou rushed over and bent over to greet the pet airline box on the luggage cart: "Who is picking you up? Everyone is here to pick up the little monkey! Let it out quickly!"
Mother Shen felt that something was wrong: "Tianyou, let's go to the parking lot and let it out. There are too many people here."
Uncle Liao came out from behind Qiao Jianliang, pushing a luggage cart with several airline boxes on it. He smiled and said, "It's okay. It's been trained and won't be scared by the crowd."
Uncle Liao handed the car over to Qiao Zishun and Qiao Ziyao who came to help, walked up to Qiao Lu and said, "I have finally lived up to your trust."
It turned out that the "Little Sunflower Zoo" was ordered to close down at that time because they had too many animals, so they had to be sent to several zoos separately, and some old zoos simply did not have the capacity to receive such animals.
Qiao Jianliang noticed this and went to the zoo he had taken over, asking them to hand over the baby monkey and other monkeys to him for breeding, and he would provide a place and food. However, the zoo was unwilling to do so, because in addition to a place and food, breeding monkeys also required a veterinarian with relevant qualifications, which Qiao Jianliang could not provide.
Qiao Jianliang had never been so eager to do something for his son, not because of Qiao Lu's threat, but for the friendship between his son and the little monkey.
Qiao Jianliang stayed in Linshi for half a month. He learned from Qiao Zishun about Uncle Liao and his small animal rescue station. He suddenly had an idea and came up with a solution.
Qiao Jianliang funded the construction of a larger animal rescue station, and brought the monkey and its companion back with the help of Uncle Liao's qualification certificate. When the Forestry Bureau reviewed the situation, they saw the dogs Uncle Liao had adopted and suggested that these healthy dogs and smart monkeys could become people's "new helpers."
So the dogs and monkeys that have been trained abroad will soon appear in shelters, nursing homes and children's hospitals as "comfort dogs."
When Uncle Liao released the little monkey, Shen Tianyou rushed over to comfort the "Monkey King" who had been on the plane for more than ten hours. The "Monkey King" hummed and groaned in his arms for a while, and then resolutely threw himself into Shen Li's arms.
Shen Tianyou was stunned: "Why? Doesn't the Monkey King like me anymore?"
The "Monkey King" didn't even want to show him the back of his head. He buried himself in Shen Li's arms and acted like a spoiled child. Shen Li laughed at him, "The 'Monkey King' must be angry because he knew that you had another cat after he left!"
Shen Tianyou, who took Kiwi back home to raise, was in tears: "Since when did monkeys have dog noses?"
Everyone laughed in good faith. As more and more people came to the airport, several adults ordered everyone to leave. Qiao Zishun and Qiao Ziyao pushed the luggage cart in front, the four members of the Shen family walked in the middle holding the little monkey, and Qiao Lu, who didn't know what to say to Qiao Jianliang, was left at the end.
Coming out of the airport lobby, the sky was as blue as if it had just been washed. After leaving the air-conditioning at the airport, the heat surrounded them again.
Qiao Jianliang kept his word . Qiao Lu hesitated and didn't know how to start his speech.
Qiao Jianliang looked at his son, changed his childish demeanor, and asked, "Son, I've got the little monkey back. Can you move it back home?"
Qiao Lu breathed a sigh of relief, but still maintained his stance: "Why move? I'm going to college in two months!" After saying this, he left Qiao Jianliang and joined the team fighting for the little monkey.
Qiao Jianliang stood there in a daze for a moment, but Qiao Zishun came over and reminded him, saying, "We moved back a long time ago, on the first day after the college entrance examination."
Qiao Jianliang paused for two seconds and laughed: "A bunch of brats!"
Where are the perfect kids?
Tell me, if he has good grades, can make money, and never makes mistakes, then what is the role of parents?
Where are the perfect parents?
Tell me, who hasn’t made mistakes when becoming a first-time parent?
Imperfect parents, imperfect children, all the imperfections make up a perfect family.
Learn to be tolerant and learn to communicate.
He is not perfect, so he cannot satisfy all your wishes, but he will definitely give you the best he can.
You are not perfect, so you cannot get full marks in all nine subjects and your ranking is not high, but you tried your best and he said he is happy.
Even if you are not well behaved or even if you act like a spoiled brat, it doesn’t matter. There must be someone in this world who hopes that you can live a happy life despite your imperfections.
Don’t be afraid of imperfection, don’t be afraid of being an imperfect child!