Qiao Zishun started the car and drove towards the direction of Shen Li's home in his memory.
Even in this situation, Shen Li remembered to let Qiao Lu sit in the passenger seat. She sat in the back seat and kept sending messages to Shen Tianyou to comfort him and ask about his situation.
Seeing that both of them were very anxious, Qiao Zishun asked, "What happened? Do you need my help?"
Shen Li found time to answer: "The zoo where the little monkey used to stay came to find him. It should be an informal zoo. They want to take the little monkey away now."
"Stolen? Breaking into the house? Did you call the police?"
Qiao Zishun asked about the situation, and Qiao Lu wanted to stab him for some reason: "Could it be you who tipped off? Do you know which zoo it is?"
Qiao Lu and Qiao Zishun look similar, but the difference can be seen when they are put together: Qiao Zishun has a confident and indifferent face, and Qiao Lu's face also looks cold, but there is a boyish childishness in him.
Qiao Zishun didn't know how to explain to his brother that when he followed Shen Li to the small animal rescue station , Qiao Lu was like a young leopard whose territory was invaded, irritable and restless. He didn't know how to convey his kindness to Qiao Lu.
Qiao Zishun could only answer indifferently: "No, you think too much." Qiao Zishun understood that Qiao Lu was angry at this time and did not want to conflict with him.
At this time, Shen Tianyou seemed to have said something important on WeChat. Shen Li became even more anxious and sent a voice message to Shen Tianyou: "Don't resist, let them take you away!"
"What's wrong?"
Shen Li was so anxious that she almost cried: "They broke the door open!"
Qiao Zishun was surprised: "You haven't called the police yet?"
Shen Li had a hard time saying, "The monkey originally belonged to their zoo. We have no reason to call the police!"
Qiao Lu's reaction was different: "The door has been broken open? What did you say? What do you mean by 'don't resist, let them take it away'? You let them take the little monkey away?" He stared at Shen Li, as if asking her to change her words.
Shen Li's face was red, and there were bloodshot eyes: "Then what do you want me to do? He is my own brother, and the other party is a group of people. You can't ask me to let my brother swear to protect the little monkey to the death, right? He...he is still a child!"
"Then at least..."
"Qiao Lu!" Qiao Zishun understood and interrupted his brother, "I wouldn't let you do that even if I were you!"
Qiao Zishun's true feelings came too suddenly, and the atmosphere was so tense at the moment that Qiao Lu didn't understand what his brother meant at all. He snorted coldly, "That sounds nice!"
Qiao Zishun tried his best to explain: "It's true. I don't want you to be in danger. You are my brother no matter what. I didn't go to the animal rescue station to mock you. I just want to understand you. I want to understand you!"
It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned the animal rescue station, but once he mentioned it, Qiao Lu got even angrier: "You want to know me, but you want to change the direction of your investigation? When did someone like you who won't give up until you achieve your goal learn to whitewash the truth?"
Shen Li was irritable. She was already upset because of what was happening at home, and Qiao Lu was not letting her go. She was even more irritated: "Qiao Lu, that's enough. Don't think so badly of everyone. He is your brother. Is it strange for him to do something a brother should do occasionally?"
"Oh." Qiao Lu responded sarcastically, "You two are now in cahoots with each other!"
Shen Li was furious: "Don't you just want them to admit their mistakes? Don't you just want them to understand what you did? Now that they have admitted their mistakes and given in, why are you so persistent? What kind of princess syndrome do you have? Do you still want others to beg you and serve you?"
Qiao Lu roared at Shen Li: "Shen Li! What does this have to do with you?"
The car stopped. Shen Li ignored Qiao Lu who was organizing his words to fight back and said, "You can do whatever you want. I don't care!" She slammed the car door, left the two brothers in the car, and ran away in a hurry.
Shen Li thought that the school was close to home, and with Qiao Zishun's car, the time to get there was reduced, so the situation at home might not be that bad. But she forgot that the group had been scouting the place for so long, and had visited the house before, and had figured out the structure of the house. As long as they found the right time, they would definitely hit the target.
So when she returned to the door of her house, she found that everything was quiet around her. Her heart was pounding and for a moment she was afraid to go any closer.
Shen Li was afraid of seeing a messy home, and she was anxious and afraid when she got out of Qiao Zishun's car. Qiao Zishun caught up with her and walked ahead of her.
The door was ajar, the chain-like door latch was broken by violence, and the "corpse" was lying on the floor at the door.
Shen Li's heart tightened. The door was like this, so what about Shen Tianyou?
Qiao Zishun felt the danger and wanted to push her back, but Shen Li suddenly rushed out of his protective circle and dived in.
Qiao Zishun looked at Shen Li's back: "Hey, be careful!"
Shen Li swept her eyes around the room roughly, the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, and then rushed to Shen Tianyou's room. The door was pushed open with a bang: "Tianyou?"
Shen Tianyou curled up in bed, shivering and looking up at Shen Li, his eyes sparkling, and he rushed towards her with a crying voice: "Sister——"
Shen Tianyou knelt at the head of the bed, hugged Shen Li's waist, and poured out his grievances like water: "They took the little monkey away... I'm sorry, I didn't protect the house well..."
"Is just saying sorry enough?"
Hearing Qiao Lu's questioning, Shen Tianyou felt even more guilty. He cried so hard that his shoulders shook. He was too embarrassed to say a word to defend himself, which made Shen Li feel even more distressed: "He's just a junior high school student. How do you expect him to compete with others?"
Qiao Lu ignored Qiao Zishun who looked disapproving, and said to himself: "I can't count on it even if I try my best, but I can still delay time, right? I know what you mean. You raised the little monkey to play a prank on Shen Tianyou. Now that you have a good relationship with him, the little monkey is of course not important..."
"Qiao Lu!" Qiao Zishun interrupted him, "Don't be angry, I will help you, let's find a way to solve the problem together, okay?"
Qiao Lu couldn't listen at all: "If she hadn't made Shen Tianyou give up resistance, would it be like this now?"
Shen Li felt guilty, but Qiao Lu's persistence made her upset. The anger in her heart overwhelmed her guilt: "If you hadn't concealed the origin of the little monkey, would it be like this now?"
The two confronted each other. Shen Tianyou was in a bad mood. As soon as he opened his mouth, his sister signaled him to "shut up, I'll handle it." Qiao Zishun wanted to mediate, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Qiao Lu strongly refuted him: "You didn't remember you were your brother for the past ten years. Why are you pretending to be a good brother now? Don't meddle in my business. Get out of here!"
"'Pudding' is just a monkey!"
"'Pudding' is just a monkey? Even if it is a pig, it is still a more important pig than you in my heart!"
Hearing this, Qiao Zishun shut his mouth, walked to the door and patted on the marks where the door had been opened.
“Crack.”
The sound of the camera rang out between the two people's verbal battles. Finally, one of them calmed down and asked, "What are you doing?"
Qiao Zishun replied to Shen Tianyou: "Keep the evidence, and then find a way to solve the problem."
The sound was not loud, but it embarrassed the two people who were arguing. Shen Li suddenly realized that there was no point in arguing, so she took the initiative to come over and ask Qiao Zishun how he wanted to solve the problem.
Qiao Lu was left alone in the living room, angry: "Who asked you to solve it? I can find a way myself."
Shen Li was angry when she heard this, but Qiao Zishun stopped her: "It's great that you can solve it. It's not a big problem for me to help you solve it. This is what I should do, isn't it?"
What annoys people who want to get angry? When you throw a heavy punch, but the other person catches it softly without any damage, which makes your anger seem unreasonable.
Qiao Lu even suspected that this was Qiao Zishun's new trick to piss him off to death, but he didn't say any more unpleasant words. He said "It's up to you" in a stern voice and pushed the door open and left.
Qiao Zishun has changed, but he is still as cold, smelly and conceited as ever, but what he says confuses Qiao Lu.
Was Qiao Zishun reformed through labor or was he influenced by the angel sister? Suddenly he became so gentle and non-aggressive, could he trust her for once?
After Qiao Lu left, Qiao Zishun came on as a substitute, but he was much more reliable than Qiao Lu. He took photos to leave evidence that the door was violently broken into. He also took the surveillance video and their license plate number, and asked Shen Li to go to the police station to file a case.
Before Shen Li left, she comforted Shen Tianyou like this: "We have a lot of evidence in our hands. The little monkey will be back soon. Don't feel guilty."
It was 8:30 in the evening when Shen Li left the police station and returned home. She answered questions from Shen's father and mother and went back to her room.
Shen Li sat cross-legged on the bed, holding the little monkey's quilt and sighed deeply.
"Sister——" Shen Tianyou pushed open the door, poked his head in, and asked eagerly, "What's going on?"
How about it?
The police at the police station were very excited after listening to their description and looking at the photos and surveillance. They thought it was a big case and asked them to explain it in detail. So they started from the beginning, including that the little monkey had escaped from the zoo, and that the zoo had come to their house but did not take the little monkey away, and now they came to their house to snatch the little monkey away directly...
Before he finished speaking, the police officer's expression became reluctant: "It is indeed wrong to break into a house and steal a monkey, but nothing was stolen from your house except the monkey, and the monkey belongs to someone else. In this case, even if you want to investigate, you can only find the person and apologize, which is probably not enough to file a case."
The two had come to the police station with full confidence, but they lost heart when they heard this. Shen Li quickly added that the zoo staff had scouted and tracked her brother in order to achieve their goal, and even harassed him.
The police thought the situation was serious and suggested: "If this is the case, we can find the person and ask them to make corresponding compensation. I think your original intention was to take the monkey back, but I am afraid that this is impossible. After all, the monkey belongs to someone else."
After all, the monkey belongs to someone else.
Shen Li's heart sank when she heard this. Now, looking at her brother's hopeful eyes, she couldn't say anything that would hurt him.
Shen Tianyou was a thoughtful and sensitive person, and he immediately realized that there was probably no way to make up for the consequences he had caused.
He huddled down against the wall beside Shen Li's bed, then sat on the ground with his head down, not saying a word. After three or five seconds, he let out a heavy nasal gasp.
Shen Li froze for half a second after hearing the voice. She raised her hand in the air. After a while, she sighed and put her hand on Shen Tianyou's head. Shen Tianyou's prickly hair didn't feel that hard to the touch. Instead, it felt soft like a young bud when she stroked it. "Forget it, as long as he's okay."
"But... I'm sorry..." Shen Tianyou raised his head, with some guilt in his eyes.
Shen Li could imagine what Shen Tianyou felt guilty about. It was nothing more than his inability and cowardice. But how old was he? How could he compete with a group of people who could break the doorknob for the little monkey? Even if he didn't keep the little monkey well, Shen Tianyou shouldn't be blamed.
Shen Li comforted him, "Tianyou, I don't blame you. It's not your fault. You tried your best. Sister knows."
Sister. When these two words came out of her mouth, Shen Li seemed to be shaken by her soul.
She is Shen Tianyou's sister.
This was the first time in recent days that Shen Li willingly admitted that she was Shen Tianyou's sister.
The Shen Tianyou in front of Shen Li was the same as the Shen Tianyou in kindergarten when he was four or five years old. The little fat boy who would call her sister in a baby voice, the "little cannonball" who would rush over to hug her after school... She was a sister. Responsibility was not something that could be said. Shen Li looked at Shen Tianyou's still guilty face and she felt that she had figured it out.
They are siblings, not mortal enemies. The relationship between relatives is so contradictory. You will hate him, but you will also feel sorry for him. Time and distance cannot cut off the blood relationship. The moment you touch body temperature, all the previous grudges are put aside.
Shen Li smiled persuasively: "Take a rest, sister will take care of these things."
I will handle the problems you cannot solve for you one by one.
Failure on the first day.
The next day, Shen Li saw Qiao Zishun waiting for her at the school gate after school. She thought Qiao Zishun had done his best yesterday, so when she saw him again today, she felt an inexplicable warmth flowing in her heart. She asked, "Why are you here again?"
After Shen Li finished speaking, she felt that she was a bit ungrateful. After all, the other person came to help, and it was very disrespectful to speak like that.
Qiao Zishun didn't mind her words at all, and replied calmly: "I have to solve the problem thoroughly for my unworthy brother."
Shen Li was stunned. She knew Qiao Zishun was a proud man. It was hard to please someone who didn't like him. Qiao Lu scolded him so harshly, but he still chose to help his brother solve the problem. Shen Li suddenly said, "I have changed my mind about you. I didn't expect you to be such a good brother."
At this time, Shen Li received a WeChat message. The screen lit up, showing that the message was from "brother". Qiao Zishun pointed at the screen and said, "Same here."
Shen Li blushed, quickly adjusted her expression, and asked, "So, Brother Qiao Er, calling the police is useless, what should we do now?"
"The gods and Buddhas of the universe, look within yourself."
Three question marks appeared above Shen Li's head: "What do you mean?"
Qiao Zishun pointed at her phone and said, "It's better to rely on yourself than on others. After all, you are a Weibo blogger with tens of thousands of fans. Is it difficult to make a big deal out of this?"
They have evidence in their hands and the video as proof, so they can simply post the matter on Weibo. By then, under pressure from public opinion, how would the zoo dare not return the little monkey?
Qiao Zishun clapped his hands twice as if to encourage him, and said, "Let's take action. You write a long Weibo post, and I'll contact the self-media and ask my friends to see how we can make things work in our favor."
Shen Li subconsciously prepared to execute his instructions. Catching the key words, she paused again: "You contacted the self-media? Do you know what self-media is?"
Qiao Zishun rolled his eyes at her. He was not an old man who was conservative. Even if he didn't know how to use Weibo, he could always use Baidu. He could look up their Weibo accounts and create a small account to follow them. How difficult could that be?
Shen Li looked at him with a suppressed smile and praised him, "Brother Qiao, you are doing your homework to understand Qiao Lu. You are really becoming more and more competent. It's a pity that your brother treats your kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs."
Qiao Zishun was originally a little uncomfortable, and seeing that Shen Li was still angry with Qiao Lu, he couldn't help but say: "It was just a moment of anger, he will understand."
Shen Li choked him: "When did you become so easy to talk to? Get to work!"
The two worked separately and first contacted several Weibo bloggers with many fans who had been communicated with Qiao Zishun to discuss how to create momentum from the public opinion perspective.
This time they are determined to win.
Soon, the long Weibo post released by Shen Li caused a "huge uproar". This wave may not even make it to the hot searches on Weibo, but in the eyes of Shen Li's fans and people who love small animals, this was a major event that aroused public anger.
The police believed that they could not file a case, but netizens believed that the zoo staff could not use such methods as tracking, sawing through the anti-theft windows, and breaking into the house to take back a monkey. Even if the monkey originally belonged to them, how is such robbing different from banditry and robbery? How is breaking into the house different from burglary?
They couldn't let the little monkey be separated from Shen Li, nor could they let the little monkey stay in the hands of the "bandits"! They typed on their keyboards, searching everywhere, and found the zoo's official Weibo account and criticized it verbally under their Weibo account.
However, the zoo was not itchy with too many lice, nor worried about too many debts. Seeing that everyone was following its lead, it simply started a Weibo live broadcast and let the little monkeys perform shows in the live broadcast.
The zoo's behavior angered Shen Li, but it also attracted a wave of fans who didn't understand what was going on and were simply attracted by the live broadcast. These fans formed a force of mutual resistance with the fans who supported Shen Li. What's even more terrible is that the other party took out a certificate proving that the little monkey belonged to their zoo!
As soon as the certificate was released, netizens were shaken. Some "righteous people" came from nowhere and read Shen Li's Weibo from beginning to end, intercepting some of her "sweet complaints" when taking care of the monkey as evidence, and accused her of not being able to raise the monkey well and just wanting to use the monkey to become famous.
Shen Li and Qiao Zishun both agreed that these were all made up by the zoo and no netizens would believe them. However, the fact is that many people turned against the zoo and became supporters of the zoo.
Within half an hour, Shen Li and Qiao Lu's comics received more than 100 negative comments, and the comments were full of curses. The number of viewers of the zoo's Weibo live broadcast continued to rise, and the one-sided situation was almost a foregone conclusion. The hard work of several days did not get the corresponding reward at all, and the possibility of them taking the little monkey home was getting smaller and smaller.
Shen Li was still typing back at the keyboard. It was already dark outside the coffee shop. Qiao Zishun held her hand and advised, "Go home first."
Qiao Zishun sent Shen Li to her home. The car was turned off, but Shen Li didn't unbuckle her seat belt for a long time. She pulled the seat belt unconsciously, and suddenly looked into Qiao Zishun's eyes in the rearview mirror: "Little Monkey can't come back, right?"
Qiao Zishun didn't look at her. The street lights outside the car were on silently, and no one dared to make a promise easily.
Shen Li couldn't get a response, so she unbuckled her seat belt and got out of the car with her things.
The car door slammed shut and Shen Li ran up to the steps of the small garden.
Qiao Zishun leaned over and leaned under the passenger window and called out to her, "Let's try again. There must be a way!"
What else can they do? The Internet is their last resort.
"Don't give up, okay? Shen Li, don't give up on the little monkey."
Shen Li didn't look back. She nodded with her back to Qiao Zishun, her face already covered with tears.
Just like Shen Tianyou couldn't stop a few strong adults, Shen Li couldn't control public opinion and make a group of adults bow their heads. In a transparent world like glass, they imagined everything to be "Easy Mode", but after a long time of attack, they realized that the difficulty here is "Hard".
Is life often in "Hard" mode?