Chapter 25 (2/2)

And more importantly…

Shen Yu has blocked her cell phone number! Just how can she call him?

The security guard had already waited for half a day but didn't wait any more for Jenny Yang's reply. He jeered as the corners of his mouth rose and waved, “Okay, you go out, don't stand in the way.”

“Wait a minute!” Jenny Yang grit her teeth and said, “Do you have a video phone here?”

A minute later, Jenny Yang told the driver to pull over. She got out and followed the security guard to the security booth.

When she dialed the Shen's video phone, Jenny Yang was so nervous that her palms were sweating. She took a deep breath and stared at the black screen as the phone remained unconnected.

What should she say to Shen Yu later?

She didn't know if Shen Yu would waiver after talking to Elder Shen

Jenny Yang's thoughts were tangled up, when suddenly, she noticed that the original dark screen, was filled with a delicate small face.

It's the Tang kid!

He seems to be called Tang Li.

Jenny Yang was shocked by the sudden appearance of his face and subconsciously stepped back two steps.

After regaining her composure, she quickly painted on a kind smile and said in a softly voice, “Chestnut, I'm Sister Yang, is Brother Shen Yu at home?”

Tang Li looked at her with a dead expression. His phoenix eyes were half closed; his pupils were like a knife instantly staring at Jenny Yang.

It was a strange sensation, but even as an adult who has experienced the storms of life, when Jenny Yang was being looked at by a child, a chill went up her spine.

Now it was no longer just her illusion, she really felt the child's hostility towards her.

Just when Jenny Yang thought that Tang Li would not answer her, she heard the other side say, “Brother Shen Yu has gone out and has not come back yet.”

“Well…” Jenny Yang was disappointed as she didn't expect Shen Yu to be out.

“Did you come to see big brother Shen Yu?” Tang Li crisply asked, the clear and melodious boy's voice and his face covered with a layer thin ice formed a sharp contrast.

“Yes.” Jenny Yang said, “I have something to talk about with your brother Shen Yu.”

Tang Li showed a strange expression, and then raised his lips and laughed, “Do you want to come in and wait? It seems inconvenient to wait outside.”

Janie Yang was overjoyed, naturally she wouldn't miss this opportunity. She nodded her head and said, “Okay.”

Tang Li said, “Wait for me at the security booth. I'll come pick you up now.”

Jenny Yang laughed so hard that you could not see her teeth [2]. “Thank you, Chestnut.”

Tang Li laughed even more brilliantly: “You're welcome, Aunty.” [3]

The smile on Jenny Yang's face froze instantly: “…”

Tang Li didn't seem to see Jenny Yang's sudden green face, and quickly hung up the video phone.

Janie Yang sighed and rubbed her eyebrows with some irritation.

Sure enough, she couldn't like that child…

Fortunately, Shen Yu only temporarily took the child in. He should not keep him in the Shen family for a long time. If she and Shen Yu really succeeded as a couple, they would not need such a child in the family.

Jenny Yang called the driver and sat in the security booth and waited.

As a result, the wait was more than an hour.

Jenny Yang was looking at the autumn scenery for a long time, but still she did not see Tang Li. She was impatient to wait and dialed the video phone seven or eight time, but no one answered them.

Jenny Yang nearly collapsed, but also gradually understand -that demon child was making a fool of her!

Letting her wait for so long in vain, in fact, this demon child didn't intend to come to pick her up!

Jenny Yang, who was finally aware of this, began trembling in anger.

Her whole face was as black as the bottom of the pot. She gritted her teeth and cried out the name of Tang Li.

She knew it!

That child is absolutely terrible!

At the age of 10, he even dared to pick up a knife and stab his uncle. Just how good can such a child be?!

Perhaps his so-called stomachache that night was also deliberate.

No…

She can't watch Shen Yu be cheated by such a demon. She had to let Shen Yu clearly see the bad nature of that child.

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December.

The weather was getting colder and colder.

Although the sun is s.h.i.+ning today, the wind was still cold enough to send s.h.i.+vers up the arms of the people walking outside.

Shen Yu excused himself to go to work and instead went to the mall with Uncle Zhang.

In three days, it will be the eleventh birthday of the villains.

As early as a week ago, Shen Yu ordered Uncle Zhang and Aunt Chen to start preparing for the event. They bought a lot of things to decorate. They piled them all up in the warehouse, ready to wait until that morning when Tang Li went to school before they began to decorate the home.

As Shen Yu himself liked the quiet, and he knew that the little villain is not a lively person, he did not intend to invite people to the birthday party, even Grandpa Shen is not on his list.

He, Aunt Chen, Uncle Zhang, and other servants are enough.

The rest of the preparations are almost ready, but Shen Yu's gift to the little villain and the birthday cake are still missing.

Shen Yu has never been innovative in choosing gifts. In the past, when his friends and cla.s.smates celebrated their birthdays, he sent red envelopes directly to those people so they could buy their own birthday gifts.

However, this method cannot be applied to the little villain.

Shen Yu thought about this matter for several days, and he went to four or five shopping malls in succession. Finally, he asked Uncle Zhang to send him to a well-known custom jewelry store.

This jewelry store only receives VIP customers. Fortunately, the Shen family has a good reputation. Even if Shen Yu is not a VIP customer, the staff warmly welcomed him into the shop.

Under the introduction of the staff, Shen Yu selected a gold pendant with the appearance of Tang Li in mind. The image of a mouse was temporarily designed and painted on by the painters. After three days of urgent processing, the finished product will be sent to the Shen home on the evening of Tang Li's birthday.

When he paid the deposit, Shen Yu was almost blinded by the string of zeros on the bill.

Fortunately, he kept calm and waved to Uncle Zhang to pay by swiping his card.

Later, Shen Yu and Uncle Zhang went to the cake shop again.

They carefully selected a three-layer fruit cake with a blue whale leaping out of the water. Shen Yu thought about it and asked the baker to add a sentence in the blank area of the bottom layer of the cake.

By the time Shen Yu and Uncle Zhang arrived home, it was eight o'clock in the evening.

The deep night sky is permeated by seemingly nonexistent starlight, a shallow crescent moon hung in the horizon, a film of light moonlight covered the quiet land.

The night breeze blew slowly, and the coldess immersed itself in the bone marrow.

It looks like it's going to snow.

Shen Yu went back to his bedroom and took a hot bath.

As soon as he had dried his hair, he heard Aunt Chen knocking at the door: “Sir, dinner is ready.”

Shen Yu, sitting in his wheelchair, opened the door and asked, “What about Chestnut?”

“Young master Tang Li went back to his room after dinner. The English teacher is giving him an extra lesson online.” Aunt Chen laughed. “No wonder Master Tang Li did so well in school. After all, he worked so hard in private.”

Shen Yu nodded happily: “That's good.”

Watching children grow…

How can it be bad?

Shen Yu's exigent can't be contained, it was a kind of “my child's first growth” satisfaction.

Before going to bed, Shen Yu went to Tang Li's bedroom door in his wheelchair. He hesitated for half a day, but he still couldn't help knocking on the door.

It would be bad to disturb the study of the little villain.

Shen Yu didn't know if the little villain remembers his own birthday is in three days.

Shen Yu remembered everything he had prepared secretly with Uncle Zhang and Aunt Chen and began to look forward to the reaction of the little villain when he got home from school. He hoped that all he had done would make the little villain get rid of his past resentments sooner.

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In a twinkling of an eye, it was Tang Li's birthday.

Shen Yu, who had always loved lounging in bed, got up early and watched Uncle Zhang drive Tang Li to school. Then, he and Aunt Chen got busy.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, a strange number appeared on Shen Yu's mobile phone.

It was the bakery staff who had brought over the birthday cake.

Shen Yu asked Aunt Chen to go to the security booth to get the cake, and then continued to decorate the living room with the servants.

At that moment, Shen Yu's cell phone, which was placed on the tea table, rang again. He handed the decorations to the servant and picked up the cell phone. He found that it was another strange call.

Although Shen Yu never told his personal number to outsiders, there were still a few unwanted calls in his daily life.

Usually, Shen Yu would choose to ignore it directly. However, he thought that maybe the cake delivery staff had changed their mobile phones and were trying to call him.

So, he answered the phone and said, “h.e.l.lo.”

An unexpected silence from the other side of the line lasted for a long time before a slightly hoa.r.s.e middle-aged male voice rang out: “h.e.l.lo, is this Mr. Shen? I'm Lei Yumeng's father…”

Tang Li is a child with a quick mind.

Despite Shen Yu's intention to hide it, he had already guessed what Shen Yu was going to do today.

Moreover, the door of the warehouse was never locked up. So, he could easily see what Shen Yu, Uncle Zhang and Aunt Chen had prepared by sneaking into the warehouse to look around while others were not paying attention.

Nevertheless, Tang Li still pretended to know nothing. He forcibly suppressed the joy that almost overflowed from his chest and followed Uncle Zhang to school as if nothing had happened.

Tang Li is in a very good mood.

Even when faced with several girls who often pestered him, he was not as cynical as before.

At noon, Tang Li and his two cla.s.smates were eating in the dining hall when they suddenly saw a boy who loved to gossip running over in panic. He was panting, looking around and yelling, “Not good!”

A lot of people looked around.

Tang Li bowed his head and concentrated on his meal. There was no reaction from the little villain.

Instead, the cla.s.smate sitting next to Tang Li urgently said, “What's wrong? Speak quickly!”

The male cla.s.smate patted his chest and slowly breathed, then turned his eyes to Tang Li, and anxiously opened his mouth: “Lei Yumeng cut her wrist in the bathroom to commit suicide and was sent to the hospital by her teacher.”

Hearing this, the people around him burst into nervous chatter and turned their eyes to Tang Li.

Tang Li, who had been eating all this time, finally responded, but still, he did not show any panic or worry. Instead, he frowned impatiently, looked up and asked the male cla.s.smate, “When did it happen?”

The male student answered, “Just before the first cla.s.s this morning.”

Tang Li: “Is she all right?”

The boy shook his head. “I don't know that. I heard that the toilet lid was covered with blood. While Lei Yumeng was being carried away by her teacher, the blood on her hand dripped all the whole time.”

Tang Li said lightly, “Oh.”

Then, keep eating.

Others saw Tang Li's indifferent att.i.tude, so they dared not continue to talk about this topic.

With a sigh, the boy touched his nose embarra.s.singly and turned quietly away.

Although Tang Li didn't care about it, the heavy news had spread all over the elementary and middle school by the afternoon, and even the middle schools far away heard the news.

Before the end of school, the information pa.s.sed to Tang Li was more complete.

It is said that Lei Yumeng was bullied for a month by several middle school girls who dragged her to the small playground almost every day for two beatings. At first, the girls only kicked a few times, and then it developed to the point of slapping her ears and burning her arms with cigarette b.u.t.ts.

Lei Yumeng's head teacher knew what was happening to her, but for this year's excellent cla.s.s moral and his own evaluation, the head teacher chose to ignore it.

Deeply bullied, Lei Yumeng did not dare to seek help from the outside world. She could only bear it silently. Until this morning, she decided to commit suicide by cutting her wrist in the school bathroom.

As for the reason why Lei Yumeng was bullied——

There are also divergent opinions.

Only the students in Tang Li's cla.s.s knew the whole story. They thought that Tang Li would be affected by it, or they would be called to the office by the head teacher for accountability.

However, when the bell rang, Tang Li was like a normal person, and with an air of composure, packed up his schoolbag and got up to walk out of the cla.s.sroom.

After a long and murmured argument, one of Tang Li's cla.s.smates carefully asked him, “Are you going to the hospital to see Lei Yumeng?”

Tang Li looked straight ahead and asked in a strange way, “Why should I go to see her?”

The cla.s.smate said, “She was bullied by those girls after she started clinging to you…”

Tang Li turned his head to his cla.s.smates and fixed his black eyes on them without any emotion. He pulled up the corner of his mouth and said, “What does that have to do with me? Did I let those people bully her? Or did I let her commit suicide?”

“…” The cla.s.smate was stared at by Tang Li. He opened his mouth and could not spit out a word.

Tang Li looked at his cla.s.smate's fearful face and suddenly squinted and laughed, “Do you know what kind of person is the most stupid?”

The cla.s.smates dared not ignore the: “… Who?”

The chilling voice of Tang Li rang out: “Parrots who repeat things without thinking.”

Subconsciously, the students retreated, swallowed their saliva, and watched Tang Li turn and walk away. Only then did they breathe in relief, with cold sweat dripping down their backs.

Tang Li trotted out of the school gate and soon found Uncle Zhang's car.

Thinking of Shen Yu, who was waiting for him at home, Tang Li felt that his depression had been swept away. He was like a happy bird, bustling into the car.

“Uncle Zhang.” Tang Li cried in a clear voice.

However, Uncle Zhang did not respond as respectfully as before. Instead, he looked at Tang Li in a very complicated way through the rearview mirror and gave a low-pitched hum.

Tang Li immediately noticed something was wrong. He blinked blankly and asked in a low voice, “Uncle Zhang, what's wrong?”

“Nothing.” Uncle Zhang took back his gaze and slowly started the car. “When we return home you can ask that again.”

[1] When he originally says, ”I'm sorry” he uses 对不起, which only means ”I'm sorry”. But the second time he apologizes he uses 抱歉, which can mean ”pardon me” as well as ”sorry” and is a bit less formal and gentler in tone.

[2] Meaning her teeth go in and out of view with the movements of laughter. I think…

[3] He's calling her aunt instead of sister, implying she old.

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