Chapter 10: Why don't you call me Uncle Junior?

Lin Jian walked into the house quickly, and before the door was closed, Shen Ke entered the house right behind him.

The house was well heated, and in a flash it washed away the bitter cold of the early winter night that was wrapped around my body.

Lin Jian changed his slippers in the entrance hall on the first floor and walked into his room without looking back, without any thought of saying hello to Shen Ke.

Sister Pei heard the sound of the door closing and came out of the kitchen with a cup of warmed milk, not thinking that it was actually Shen Ke who came back, she hurriedly put the cup of milk on the round table and was going to make tea.

"Don't be busy." Shen Ke waved his hand, poured himself a cup of lukewarm water, sat down on the sofa, and said in a faint voice, "Drinking tea on a big night, you won't be able to sleep this night."

After saying that, she looked at the cup of hot milk, then looked at the half-hidden door of the room not far away, and asked Sister Pei about Lin Jian's recent situation during this period of time: "How are the past few days?"

"Especially good." Pei sister mentioned little Lin Jian is undisguised love, "can be good, never give others trouble, not picky, give what to eat, let eat as much as eat, sleep and get up and so do not have to worry about, I have not seen such a carefree child, there are several times also have to wash their own clothes and brush the dishes, then how do I dare to do it. "

Shen Ke thought of the scene in front of the fountain just now, and couldn't help but laugh, "And don't give too much food, especially at night, so small a child to prop up again."

Sister Pei nodded her head repeatedly and sighed, "This child beckons people to love him, and it turns out that he's had such a hard life that people can't help but want to give him all the good ones now, and they're still afraid that he won't have enough."

Shen Ke did not comment, and waited a few moments longer, the chill almost dissipating from his body, before rising from the sofa and casually picking up the glass of milk on the table.

Sister Pei let out an "ai" and said with some trepidation, "Young master, I'll just deliver it."

Shen Ke smiled without much concern and carried the milk towards the door of little Lin Jian's room, "It's better for me to go, lending a flower to the Buddha."

By the way, I was coaxing a child I hadn't seen in a week and was angry and ignoring when I saw her.

In the room, Lin Ma had already taken off his down jacket and was still wearing the blue sky and white clouds style housecoat, sitting on the floor, concentrating on a large, at least 10,000 puzzle pieces to start.

Hearing the knock on the door, Lin Jian looks up and glances in the direction of the door before lowering his eyes and placing the piece in his hand precisely where it belongs.

Shen Ke, unable to get a response, stood for another two seconds and pushed the door straight into the house.

Around the room's queen-sized bed, a glance at the dense patchwork on the floor, Shen Ke slightly stunned: "...... this thing, Song Zhi to get it?"

Lin Jian still didn't look at him, and only after a short while did he let out a "hmm".

Shen Ke felt that there was no way to get down, and simply sat on the floor like Lin Jian, and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "Song Zhi is really a talented person to let an eight-year-old child put together the painting of Riverside at Qingming Festival."

Lin Jian continued to ignore him, as if all his attention was focused on the jigsaw puzzle. Shen Ke was not annoyed by the child's airing out, but instead watched Lin Jian's jigsaw puzzle with great interest for a while.

And within a moment, Shen Ke's eyes turned a little bit more incredible when he looked at Lin Jian.

Such a complex composition, such a fragmented landscape, divided into countless small pieces is even more disorganized, but Lin Jian, before placing each piece of the puzzle, just scanning the leg side of the unfolding restoration model, if encountered very difficult to identify the location, but also just a few moments of quiet scrutiny, and then a steady, accurate and ruthless hand.

Even more mysteriously, in the little time Shen Ke had been observing, he hadn't misplaced a single piece.

The room was in a state of prolonged silence, and when Lin Jian had finished piecing together a small area, he finally deigned to look up at Shen Ke and ask, "Something wrong?"

Shen Ke came back to his senses, looking at such a cold and hard expression in front of him, he only felt a little funny, "Yes, I'm sending you milk." After saying this, he passed the cup in his hand in front of Lin Jian and urged, "Drink it quickly, it will get cold in a while."

Then Shen Ke saw that the little face, which had been so imposing just a moment before, suddenly collapsed and became sad.

Shen Ke deliberately asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Jian looked at the glass of milk without saying anything, half a long time, or shook his head, and then picked up the cup, tentatively brought to the mouth, this action is extremely slow, in the process of raising the hand, seems to hear the stomach dinner and the cup of millet Liao Shen in the process of collapsing and wildly roaring - no, you do not come over ah!

Shen Ke finally relented, backhanded the glass of milk, and then very unsympathetically inclined his head and burst out laughing.

Lin Jian's hands were empty and she froze as she looked at the person in front of her who was laughing as she drank the glass of milk.

Shen Ke dryly helped him solve a large glass of milk, looked at the frozen child, deliberately lowered his voice, profoundly said: "said, we have to keep it secret ah, can not let Pei sister know, otherwise every night even I have to follow you to drink milk."

Lin Jian realized what he meant by that after he froze, and the corners of his mouth lifted very slowly, but that smile could not widen before it dissolved again, and he flattened his eyes elsewhere and muttered softly, "It won't happen, and you're not coming back."

Shen Ke looked at him with a smile, thinking that this child is really hard to coax.

With a "Ta" sound, Shen Ke placed the cup on the bedside table, sighed, and smiled, "So just because I didn't come back in the past few days, you didn't even say a word to me when you saw me, and turned your head away, tsk, you're not that big, but I didn't realize you're not that small in temperament."

His mind was pierced by a single glance, Lin Jian was rarely stunned, but quickly returned to his normal self, he lowered his eyes and muffled his defense, "No."

"Not what?" Shen Ke asks, "Not because I haven't been back to see you for the last couple days, or are you still mad?"

Lin Jian did not speak again, the original clear and pure eyes, but suddenly more guarded, just as when we first met.

Shen Ke unconsciously frowned.

"Kid." Shen Ke called him, his voice also slightly sank, "according to reason, some reason should not I teach you, some things when you grow up a little more, after experiencing the natural understanding, but parents, inevitably can not see the child fall down and suffer after the growth."

Lin Jian turned his head and looked at Shen Ke in a daze, somewhat confused for a moment.

"The first thing I'm going to teach you today is that adults and children alike need to learn to live with the consequences of their choices."

Shen Ke not anxious, light voice: "When I brought you back to the Shen family, my parents want to leave you around to take care of, but you do not agree, have to come back with me, I was with you how to say to come, did not forget it?"

Lin Jian sat quietly on the ground for a long time before letting out a soft "hmm".

Shen Ke nodded his head and then said, "So, since you know that I inevitably don't have that much time to take care of you, not to mention that I can't come back to play with you from time to time and take you out like other people's families raise their children, yet you still would rather go back to your hometown than to come back with me, I'm going to take it as a given that you have already mentally prepared yourself for this."

"Child." Shen Ke casually leaned back a bit, his spine loosening up as he got next to the edge of the bed, his whole body radiating a sense of laziness after exhaustion, and asked with a wry smile, "So what's with the emotions you're getting into right now? Since you made a choice, you have to accept the results."

In Shen Ke's opinion, he naturally does not have the time and so much energy to personally take care of an eight-year-old child every day, what he can do is just to give as much support as possible in terms of life, to ensure that he is clothed and fed, and grow up peacefully in a favorable environment, to send him to a very good school, and so on the child can be independent, if it is true that a few points of kinship, can be treated as a family member to get along with, if the child wants to leave, he naturally will not be forced to stay, but also to make up for some of the deficiencies between fathers. If the child wants to go, he naturally will not be forced to stay, after all, it is also considered to make up for some of the shortcomings between the fathers.

Little Lin Jian had no reaction for a long time after listening to Shen Ke's words, so long that Shen Ke couldn't help reflecting on himself, had he used the wrong way to reason with an eight-year-old, or did the boy simply not understand what he meant?

And just as Shen Ke was about to explain further, Lin Jian slowly curled his legs up, wrapped his arms around his knees, and muffled, "No."

Shen Ke asked, "Not what?"

Lin Jian raised his head slowly, hesitating and struggling for a long time, and finally, as if he had made some kind of determination, he said softly, "I know you don't have time to care about me, and I'm not mad at you because of that."

Shen Ke raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with interest, "And why is that?"

Lin Jian The corners of his mouth were taut, his big eyes blinked twice unnaturally, and when he opened his mouth again, his voice was like a mosquito: "The ...... toilet in the restroom is the sit-down ...... I, I didn't know how to use it at first ...... is ...... not used to ......"

It was Shen Ke's turn to freeze, the smile on his lips lagging for a moment, caught off guard by the sudden turn of events, "...... And?"

Lin Jian's voice was even smaller, his whole face almost buried in the crook of his arm, and it took a great deal of effort to make the sentence complete, "At first ...... just, just the other day, I, I went to the toilet ...... to poop, couldn't poop out ......"

Shen Ke: "......"

Lin Jian 搭在膝盖上的小手都clenched into a fist, said intermittently, "Aunt Pei found that I was a few days all ...... Then one day I suddenly had a stomachache, Aunt Pei called your family's doctor, and the one who came was a female doctor, and told Aunt Pei that I might be a little on fire, and that I needed to pay attention to my diet, also , also ......"

Shen Ke had a bad feeling and asked tentatively, "And what else?"

Lin Jian practically busted out, "And took a vial of ...... something called, something called corkscrew ...... that thing - "

Lin Jian couldn't say any more and raised her head, her eyes cool, but her snow-white cheeks tinged with a thin blush of shame, "...... You know how that one's going to work, don't you?"

Shen Ke really didn't know what to say, so he nodded along and said sincerely, "I know."

Lin Jian : "But I won't ...... you don't come back either, there's only the doctor and Aunt Pei at home, just ......"

Shen Ke silently added in his mind: there would be no way out.

"...... Well, use it, huh?" Shen Ke asked very subtly.

"How can it be!" Lin Jian turned his head to the side, a rare bit of aggravation and disbelief in his voice: "I didn't let ...... And, where is this style ah ......"

Originally in Lin Jian old home school, the class male and female students do not sit at the same table, he a little boy ...... even doctors and aunts can not ah.

It wasn't really anger at being left out, after all, that was something he used to take for granted, it was simply a secret shame at being in a new environment and being faced with a situation where there was nothing he could do.

If Shen Ke had been at home at the time, if Lin Jian could have had a contact number for him, at least he would have been able to struggle a little bit, just off, so inch.

Children's self-esteem is often in some very subtle points, reflected in the most, the disease is not to avoid the doctor is said to adults to listen to the truth, for an eight-year-old child, in the aunt's hard persuasion and "escort", almost by the family doctor squeezed the Keseru thing, can be classified as the most shameful thing in the child's life, and there is not! One of the most humiliating things a child can do, and there isn't one.

Lin Jian seldom said such a long paragraph in one breath, and when he finished, he closed his mouth tightly and didn't intend to speak any more, while Shen Ke sat against the bed, with a complicated expression on his face, seemingly unable to come up with a good word to comfort him.

Just awkward.

After a long time, Shen Ke inclined his head and coughed softly, cleared his throat and asked in a low voice, "So what ...... happened in the end?"

"Eat medicine." The child's mouth is cold and hard, numb, "The doctor brought a bottle of some kind of capsule, let a meal to take a capsule ...... I took three capsules at a meal."

And then I got an upset stomach.

Shen Ke "Oh" a sound, said this child is really willing to do to himself, thought, and then asked, "That sit potty ...... now used to use?"

Lin Jian dropped his eyes and nodded lifelessly.

"That's good." Shen Ke breathed a sigh of relief, and as an afterthought, the bedside took a note pad, wrote a string of numbers on it, and handed it to Lin Jian in front of him, "This is kind of an accident, but being secretive and not following medical advice are not good habits, Pei Sister doesn't have my phone number, and usually if something happens, it's all about getting in touch with Song Zhi, so this is a number you can keep, and if ...... cough, I mean if, again this kind of thing happens, just use the landline at home to call me directly-"

Before he finished speaking, Lin Jian looked up abruptly, like a small adult, aggrieved and stifled, but his voice was cool: "How can there be a next time?"

Shen Ke immediately raised his hands to show his position: "Just an analogy." Then he said to himself three times in his heart. Then in his heart, he said to himself three times, "This is how to raise a child, you have to cajole, you have to cajole, you have to cajole, you have to cajole.

Lin Jian pinched the note and did not say anything, Shen Ke looked at him for two seconds, suddenly laughed out: "Okay, children, people are not big but thin-skinned, do not be aggravated, to give you a thing want?"

Lin Jian was alarmed, "What?"

Shen Ke smiled and didn't say anything, he got up and walked out of the room, not long after he folded back with a document in his hand, he squatted down in front of Lin Jian and handed him the pages in his hand.

Lin Jian received it and scanned it twice, before jerking his head up with astonishment in his eyes.

One was a family foster care agreement that had been stamped, and the other, an enrollment letter from a private elementary school.

Shen Ke said in a warm voice, "All the paperwork is done, and the agreement clearly states that you are to be fostered at my parents' house, but that's okay, if you still want to stay with me, you can still stay as long as you don't get mad at me for not having the time to care for you."

Lin Jian froze and shook his head very lightly in the middle of the day.

"Then live at ease." Shen Ke smiled, and then said in a rather serious tone, "Kid, before you become truly independent, that original home won't be going back, and there's nothing to hold on to, is there? But what you want to do when you grow up is your freedom, you can go home and recognize your relatives, I don't care about you, my parents won't interfere either."

Life is too long and uncertain, who knows what will happen in the future? What happens in front of us is determined in front of us, and what happens in the future is left to fate.

Lin Jian's eyes fell back to the pages in his hands, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Shen Ke flexed the school enrollment notice in his hand and added: "The school has also found a good, public schools have too many children, and the procedures for transferring to another school are a bit complicated, so in the end, I picked a very good private, and it's close to this side as well, so you can go to report to the school on Monday, and then I will send a driver specifically to take you to and from school. "

The surprise was so sudden that Lin Jian opened his mouth but could not speak.

Shen Ke look at his expression of desire to speak is really interesting, as if until this time, this child's face only showed a trace of the childishness and ignorance that should belong to this age, he raised his hand, originally wanted to rub the top of the child's hair, but suddenly thought of the child's taboos, so he lost his smile and shook his head, and dropped his hand down again.

It was a long time before Lin Jian mumbled, "Thank you."

"What should be done, don't say this." Shen Ke sized him up twice and suddenly laughed, "But if you have to thank ......"

Little Lin Jian: "Hmm?"

"Great nephew." Shen Ke's eyes abruptly curved at the end and said, "Why don't you call me little uncle to hear it?"