Chapter 17: Above the principle, you can do whatever you want.

Lin Jian was sitting on the sofa in a daze, his consciousness was dazed, his heart was beating fast, his hands and feet were suddenly cold, all the thoughts in his head faded away for a while, and the only thing that lingered over and over again was one sentence---.

He saw it. How did he see it?

Lin Jian lips slightly open, trembling, but can not send a voice, only feel a cold air from the top of the head to the heels, not long, the whole person actually a little shivering.

This is obviously scared, but the principle, Shen Ke did not want to spoil him. And can be scared that there is still save, otherwise only eight years old, dare to reach out to the knife edge clutch, really to 14 or 15 years of age rebellious period how to control, grow up will be bewildered into what kind of?

"Let me guess what you think." Shen Ke raised his hand and rubbed the back of his stiff neck, dissecting him slowly, "There was a conflict with a classmate at school, got physical, and the other guy got hurt, so why don't you just do one thing or the other, and just get hurt worse than him, so that no matter whether or not you take advantage of the situation, and no matter what the cause of the conflict is, the one who ends up getting more blame and punishment is definitely the other guy, isn't it? "

Lin Jian hastily averted his eyes and bit his lip to say nothing.

Shen Ke cross-examined, "What do you call this, hurting the enemy a thousand times and losing eight hundred times? Or would you rather be shattered than be destroyed?"

"I ......"

"Don't you think you're so smart that you can fool everyone by making a cut?" Shen Ke didn't raise his voice too high, and his voice wasn't exactly stern, but the words that came out were straight to the point: "Put away that old-time chivalry you've picked up from the books these days, and let me tell you, it's just plain foolish to punish someone else at the expense of hurting yourself, no matter what the reason."

Perhaps because she had seen Shen Ke's cold and resolute behavior at work, the tone of his lecture was not too fierce, but Lin Jian felt shivering from the bottom of her heart; after all, she was only an eight-year-old child, and no matter how tough she pretended to be on a regular basis, she was still panicked.

He blinked, trying his best to keep his voice from shaking, and recanted with sincerity, "I'm sorry, I really do know it's wrong."

Shen Ke asked, "Do you still dare?"

Lin Jian shook his head quickly.

Shen Ke long sigh, and then got up and received a cup of lukewarm water, placed in front of Lin Jian, long legs a stride, he sat directly beside him, light voice commanded: "Drink a cup of water, drink and then be scolded."

Surprisingly, it is not finished, there is a follow-up. Lin Jian shivered and picked up the glass of water with his right hand, not daring to condescend, and obediently drank most of the glass.

Shen Ke looked at Lin Jian's dared not to raise his eyes, and couldn't hold back a "tsk", he pinched his wrinkled brow for most of the day, and felt exhausted, he hadn't been so tired even after working for thirty-six hours in a row - what's all the fuss and turmoil in the sea of business compared to bringing up a child? The business world is not worth mentioning when compared to bringing up a child.

Lin Jian hung his head in silence, a posture of listening and waiting to be scolded.

Shen Ke looked at him for a few seconds and suddenly asked, "Wasn't it a bad time at school before?"

Lin Jian was first stunned, and then his eye lashes quickly flickered a few times, but the water vapor with heat was not forced back this time, instead, it had the tendency to roam up to the bottom of his eyes, and he raised his head slightly, finally dared to look directly at the person in front of him, and just in the quiet confrontation between the two, his eyes actually slowly reddened.

Obviously, when he was being lectured, he was able to act reserved and calm, and a question that wasn't considered gentle completely broke down the child's mental defenses.

"Tell me why you're not happy anymore." Shen Ke lifted his hand and patted the back of his head, not exactly a soothing gesture, but the tone of his voice lightened a little.

Lin Jian sucked in his nose, swallowed the sourness in his throat, and told him a little bit about his situation at school these days.

He said that he was embarrassed when he introduced himself on the first day of transferring to another school, he said that he didn't fit in with his classmates, he said that he had been ostracized during this period of time which seemed to be light but was actually deliberate, and he also said that the bullying happened in the swimming pool the other day and appeared in the cafeteria at noon today.

Shen Ke listened quietly, but his brow, which had already relaxed and flattened, wrinkled up again little by little.

Lin Jian didn't even think that he would actually be able to say so much in one breath one day, he clutched the corner of his coat tightly with his uninjured hand while saying in a broken voice, "I didn't even care about them before, but today, he robbed me of my pocketknife, which my dad bought for me, and when I asked him to return it, he even said it was ... . it's garbage ......"

Shen Ke face grave, but did not interrupt him, he knows that this child heart heavy, can be so similar to the "complaint" general breath said so many words, must be held in the heart for a long time. So good, let him all pour out, save these bad things in the heart of the fire.

Later on, Lin Jian seemed to have no more words to say, but once again lowered his head not to look at the expression of the person in front of him, Shen Ke was also quiet and silent, only in the seconds when Lin Jian was silent and lowered his head, he lifted his hand and slowly smoothed a few strokes on his back.

Only when the thin body under his hand stopped trembling and completely calmed down did Shen Ke get up again. There is also a lounge in the office, which has a small restroom. Shen Ke occasionally sleeps in the lounge late at night when he doesn't feel like tossing and turning, so his daily necessities are fairly complete.

Lin Jian did not care where Shen Ke went, the wound on his hand hurts, and said a long time, at this time exhausted, thin eyelids down still feel heavy, simply closed up.

After a few moments, footsteps sounded, Shen Ke resumed his seat beside him, and Lin Jian first smelled a vapor steaming out of the water, followed by a warm towel covering his face.

Lin Jian opened his eyes in confusion, his slender eyelashes did carry a little bit of extremely hard to detect water vapor, and when he looked through the water mist, the figure of the person next to him was also hazy.

Shen Ke to wipe his face hand paused for a moment, and then sighed, said, "I like you so big when is naughty, beckoning cats and teasing dogs on the wall to climb the cottage, fell down but also always have to howl at the top of his voice, every time he cries, my father said 'let him cry, do not cry do not remember', but every time he cries and then always let my mom dip a wet towel to wipe my face."

At the sudden mention of his parents at this time, Lin Jian's already reddened eyes gathered heat once again, and he inclined his head to avoid it for a moment, choking down his voice and whispering, "Don't bother, I'm not crying--and my father he-- "

"Your father is gone." Shen Ke put one finger against the side of his face, turned the man back, towel back over him, and said, "But you're not without a home."

--But you're not without a home.

Lin Jian froze.

Shen Ke did not speak again until he had wiped the dust and wretchedness from that little face, and only then, while wiping his hands, did he continue slowly and methodically, "Remember the words that kept you from being scolded just now? I'll go on, and you'll listen attentively and memorize them in your heart."

Lin Jian stared at him blankly.

"Child, I didn't bring you from your great aunt and lead you home to be aggravated here."

"Your father is gone, but don't think you're just a child with no home and no one to take care of you, the Shen family is your home, and the Shen family is what you rely on. In my place, as long as it's above principle, you can do whatever you want."

Lin Jian's heart trembled.

Shen Ke said, "For more than two months, being aggrieved at school and bullied by classmates, and then going home and not saying a word about it, and then finally having to cut themselves in retaliation - I really don't know what kind of little kid can be so supportive."

Shen Ke slowly turned his head, raised his hand and rubbed the top of his hair for a moment, a bit of hopeless pity in his expression, "...... Whose child is like you?"

Lin Jian s voice was too low to be low, "I am ...... afraid of giving you trouble."

"This shit is going to change from today." Shen Ke sighed helplessly, his tone finally gentle as usual, "I don't care what kind of life you had before, but from now on you remember-"

"Home is where you can cry at will, and family, who will never be too much of a nuisance."