kvmb Chapter 221 Monkey (猢狲)
Chapter 221 Monkey (猢狲)
With the monkey owner shouting, the crowd quickly gathered around again, and the two sisters finally stopped feeling like monkeys.
They turned and headed towards the inn, wanting to leave as soon as possible and not wanting to see any more of the commotion!
Tonight's events taught them a lesson: those who love to watch the drama unfold will eventually become the ones being watched...
"I didn't steal it." It was a clear, cold voice that the two sisters recognized.
They exchanged a glance and nodded.
Forget it, I'll figure out the reasoning next time!
Then they started searching around...
Got it!
Less than fifty meters away at the alley entrance, there is a shop that has already closed.
The two ran over in a few steps, then used the stone blocks at the doorway to leap onto the roof.
He put down his basket and sat down on the ridge.
The entire shop was pitch black; you wouldn't be able to see anyone up there unless you looked very closely.
What a quiet and undisturbed spot for watching the show!
No matter what happens in this life, the Chinese people will continue to watch the show...
When they first came here to see the monkey show, why didn't they think of such a good spot! They were running around jumping around and causing all sorts of trouble!
The two women stared wide-eyed, searching through the chaotic crowd for the person whose familiar voice they had heard...
Found them! In the center of the crowd, where a ring of fire is burning, two people are facing off.
One was the monkey's owner, in a great hurry, pointing at the person opposite and cursing.
One was Han Zhou, whose expression was obscured by a mask, standing there motionless.
"Sis, there are two monkeys on Hanzhou's shoulders, right? Are they the two that performed jumping through fire hoops tonight?"
Lin Chunyi hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
The monkey's owner had nothing with him and was pointing at Hanzhou, accusing him of stealing his things; these must be the two monkeys.
It's unclear whether it was someone who stole from someone else or someone who robbed someone else.
The two sat cross-legged on the roof with curious expressions, and casually took out a snack from the basket on their backs, eating as they watched.
The monkey's owner pointed at the man's shoulder and shouted, "Look everyone! This is the guy, he looks all respectable. He didn't say a word, and just snatched my precious monkey!"
Han Zhou pursed his lips and said, "I told you, I didn't steal it, they jumped up on their own." He even demonstrated for everyone, reaching out to try and pry the little creatures off his shoulder, but he couldn't get them off no matter what he did.
He was truly helpless and wronged!
He had no idea what was going on; he just happened to be passing by and glanced at it out of curiosity, and then he got entangled in them and couldn't get rid of them.
He tried to save someone, but the person then clung to him and then tricked him into "selling out" him!
I glanced at the acrobatic performance and was inexplicably entangled by the long-haired little guy who knew nothing about it!
What is this all about...
When he tried to pull them off, they clung tightly to his clothes, squeaking and yelping in his ear...
The person who accused him of stealing tried to grab them back, which made the animals even more agitated. They bared their teeth and claws, scratching the person until they bled; nothing could get close.
The monkey's owner had several scratches on his hands and was in excruciating pain, so he dared not approach it again. He could only stand a little distance away and say:
"Give them back to me right now! I've raised them with so much care and attention, feeding and caring for them the best! It wasn't easy to train them to be like this; I am their rightful owner!"
Those around him weren't blind; most were afraid of the sword on Han Zhou's body and only dared to whisper among themselves. But Han Zhou heard them clearly—they were all cursing him for stealing and robbing.
He exuded a chilling aura and reached out to grab them with some irritation: "Get down here, or I'll kill you!"
The two monkeys trembled a few times in fright, but they still clung to him tightly and refused to leave.
"..."
Enraged, the monkey's owner grabbed a short whip and lashed it at Han Zhou, yelling, "You two heartless beasts! I've raised you for so long, and now you want to run off with someone else! I'll beat you to death!"
"Chirp!" The two monkeys saw the familiar short whip, and fearfully shrank behind Han Zhou's neck, covering their heads and making cries like children.
"Sister, do you think those two monkeys are often beaten and have developed a stress response, so they try to run away whenever they get a chance..." Lin Lanshan, sitting on the roof, felt a little sorry for them and forgot to eat the pancake in her hand.
"If that's really the case, then it's quite pitiful. I've heard before that most monkey performances are achieved by their owners beating them like this."
Monkeys are highly intelligent and are more or less related to human ancestors.
Therefore, Lin Chunyi felt that monkeys were actually quite similar to human children and shouldn't be treated like livestock. (Of course, even livestock shouldn't be beaten or scolded arbitrarily based on a person's mood!)
Especially that human-like gesture of covering its head and the sound of wailing... it felt like they were really abusing a child!
"What should we do? If these two monkeys are caught and taken back today, will their owner beat them to death?"
Let alone monkeys, even cats, dogs, or other animals, unless they maliciously harm or eat people, shouldn't be slowly tortured to death.
If you're going to kill or torture someone, at least give them a quick death.
"Let's see," Lin Chunyi said.
But she secretly held a small piece of broken tile in her hand, intending to help the little monkey escape if things went wrong.
Han Zhou had already instinctively grabbed the short whip, and with a tug and a flick, it was thrown to the ground.
What can we do if we don't arrest him? The whip is about to hit his face! How can this person attack randomly? He's such a big guy, can't he see him?
Through the mask, Han Zhou gave the monkey's owner a death stare: "You want to fight me?"
The man's face stiffened: "I, I, they were disobedient, I just wanted to teach them a lesson."
The two monkeys were still wailing loudly behind Hanzhou, making his ears ring. "Stop making noise, or I'll throw you back!"
They immediately stopped making noise and started shaking him while grabbing his clothes.
Hanzhou turned his head to look at this one, then at that one.
Although their bodies were still trembling slightly, they blinked their adorable big eyes at him. Then they clenched their paws and massaged his shoulders, making "chirp" sounds as if trying to please him.
Are you going to be so heartless as to throw them back, let them continue to be beaten, or even starve them and let them be beaten to death?
Han Zhou sighed. It seemed that today's money would be earned for nothing...
He tried to soften his tone as he said, "Boss, they really don't want to go down no matter what. How about I buy them from you?"
The monkey's owner rolled his eyes, then glared at them fiercely. "How much money can you give me? I've put so much effort into raising them, and you think you can just run away without earning me any money? No way!"
The two monkeys were so frightened that they quickly hid back inside.
Han Zhou thought for a moment and then gave a smaller amount, "Thirty taels."
"Thirty taels?" The monkey owner's voice suddenly rose. Thirty taels was far more than he had earned from dancing with torches in the streets and alleys over the past few years...