Chapter 8 Brother
After entering the store, Shen Xingzhuo did not see Lu Ran.
There was a large fence in the middle of the store, and some puppies of two or three months old were playing in the fence.
An old dog, Da Huang, was also inside, allowing the puppies beside him to climb on him and gnaw on his tail and ears.
Occasionally, when he encountered a puppy that was playing too much or trying to escape, he would get up and limp to take care of it.
Its hind leg was not seriously lame.
But it was completely different from the way it looked when Shen Xingzhuo took him out a few days ago.
With a limp, it looked a little old.
Shen Xingzhuo looked away.
He looked around before he saw Lu Ran.
Lu Ran was wearing an apron and cleaning up the cat litter in the cat room in the compartment.
He was squatting on the ground with his back hunched, looking surprisingly small, not at all like the ferocious look he had shown at the Shen family three days ago.
While he was busy, a kitten took him as a climbing frame and climbed up with its claws hooked on his coat.
Once his sweatshirt was pulled tight, the outline of his thin back was revealed, so thin that even his spine was slightly protruding.
He scooped up the cat litter and walked out with the trash can.
Some of the kittens clung to his feet, trying to play with him, and some took advantage of the gap when he opened the door to try to escape.
Lu Ran could only open the fence first, take out the cat litter, and then hurriedly catch the few that had escaped.
When he got out, he pulled the cats that had "grown" on his body off and stuffed them back into the fence.
The kitten was naughty, so the whole process went through several times.
Shen Xingzhuo has never had patience with others.
He knocked on the counter beside him and interrupted, "Hey, how are you doing business? Didn't you notice someone coming?"
He spoke in a bad tone.
Lu Ran immediately looked up, and the helpless tolerance on his face towards the cat disappeared in an instant.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"Buy a dog." Shen Xingzhuo pointed at the big yellow dog in the fence and said, "I want that one."
He said self-centeredly, "Give this dog to me, and it has nothing to do with you in the future. In short, the
Shen family is not allowed to keep dogs, and you are not allowed to keep other dogs, otherwise you keep one and I take one away." The tone of the Shen family is always like this.
The self-centered commanding tone, as if others should unconditionally meet their righteous demands.
Lu Ran was no longer surprised by this tone.
He looked calm, and left the cat room, and even went into the puppy's fence to change the diapers inside.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Shen Xingzhuo couldn't help it, and urged: "Hey, give me a price."
"Shen Xingran wants you to kill my dog again, right?" Lu Ran asked.
Shen Xingzhuo subconsciously retorted: "It has nothing to do with Ranran, Ranran..."
"Don't say Ranran, Ranran in front of me." Lu Ran was a little impatient, "Why do you think your brother has nothing to do with me." Shen
Xingzhuo wanted to retort.
Lu Ran suddenly raised the diaper in his hand.
Shen Xingzhuo turned around quickly as a conditioned reflex, hugged his head with both hands, and squatted down.
The set of movements was so skillful that it made people feel distressed.
It was not until Lu Ran threw the urine pad in his hand into the trash can
that Shen Xingzhuo slowly turned around. There
was still a trace of lingering fear on his handsome face.
Seeing that Lu Ran went to another cage to clean up the urinal, Shen Xingzhuo's tone became much more respectful: "I don't want to do anything to your dog. Give me Dahuang, and I will take it to my villa in the suburbs and take good care of it."
As if he was afraid that Lu Ran would not believe him, he emphasized: "I have a bought dog house there, and I have everything..."
Hearing this, Lu Ran turned his head and looked at him, sneering: "Shen Xingran wants you to kill the dog, does he know that you are two-faced and secretly took the dog away to take good care of it?"
"If he knew that you were taking good care of my dog like your grandson, he would go crazy."
Shen Xingzhuo froze.
But he still insisted: "He won't know."
"It's okay." Lu Ran waved his phone at him, "I'll send him the recording right away."
Shen Xingzhuo was stunned: "Recording? What recording?"
He reacted quickly and was furious: "Lu Ran, you actually recorded? Are you shameless, you actually want to provoke the relationship between me and Ranran?"
"Oh, yes, yes, yes! I am shameless, I just have ulterior motives and want to make trouble in your Shen family!" Lu Ran glanced at him, "Isn't that what you think of me?"
Shen Xingzhuo was so angry that he couldn't speak.
Lu Ran didn't pretend to be calm on the surface.
When he saw Shen Xingzhuo coming, he was actually not calm at all.
Lu Ran almost had PTSD about the Shen family coming to his workplace. When he saw Shen Xingzhuo, he thought of how the Shen family made him drop out of college and lose every job in his previous life.
In the end, he even had a car accident and lay in bed for ten years.
Lu Ran walked towards Shen Xingzhuo with the diaper in his hand.
"Are you Shen family members all idiots? You still want to buy my dog? If you want to buy it, I have to sell it?"
"What? You prepared the doghouse." Lu Ran suddenly realized, "You don't like dogs so much and have always wanted to have a dog, but you didn't dare to do it because of Shen Xingran?"
Shen Xingzhuo's secret was exposed, and he stretched out his hand to block the pet diaper in Lu Ran's hand.
He argued, "Shen Xingran is my brother! What's wrong with me putting myself in a difficult position for my brother?"
"Bah!" Lu Ran spat at him, "It's your business if you want to be a lapdog for Shen Xingran, I don't want to. I want to keep Da Huang, Shen Xingran can't stand it, let him go!"
At this time, the door to the back of the store opened.
The owner looked at Lu Ran and Shen Xingzhuo, whose face was covered with urine, and was a little confused: "What's wrong with this..."
Lu Ran pointed at Shen Xingzhuo and shouted, "Owner, this man abuses dogs, he broke Da Huang's leg, and he still came to the store to buy dogs!"
The shop owner was a girl in her early twenties. When she heard this, her face changed immediately.
"Okay, you look like a handsome guy, but I didn't expect you to abuse dogs?" She walked over to block Lu Ran and pointed at the door of the shop, "Get out of here. People who abuse animals are not welcome here." "
No." Shen Xingzhuo frowned, "I must take that dog away today!"
"Hey, you still refuse to drink the toast? I will beat the handsome guy too!" The shop owner was angry.
As she said that, she picked up the mop and was about to chase people away.
Lu Ran didn't let the shop owner take action, and blasted Shen Xingzhuo out himself.
When they were outside the store, Shen Xingzhuo calmed down.
He straightened his clothes, and the anger of being hit in the heart faded away, and he returned to the usual ease that only rich kids have.
"Lu Ran, I'm not kidding you."
Shen Xingzhuo was very serious. He looked at Lu Ran and said, "Compared with the dog and my brother, my brother is definitely more important."
Lu Ran ignored him.
In his previous life, Lu Ran saw Shen Xingzhuo treating Shen Xingran like this, he was envious and had some expectations.
He thought that he was also Shen Xingzhuo's brother.
Later he found out that Shen Xingzhuo's only brother was Shen Xingran.
Shen Xingzhuo did not stay in the store.
On the way back by car, he was still thinking about how to deal with this matter.
The dog named Dahuang was indeed cute.
But as Shen Xingzhuo said, nothing is more important than his brother.
There are many ways to make a dog disappear.
He was still a little worried that Shen Xingran would be angry after hearing what he said in the store.
After returning to the Shen family, he found Shen Xingran waiting for him in the living room.
As soon as he saw him coming, Shen Xingran came up to him and looked at him cautiously.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that to you."
Shen Xingzhuo felt relieved.
He reached out and touched Shen Xingran's head: "It's okay, you can say whatever you want, brother doesn't care."
Shen Xingzhuo was still concerned about Lu Ran's recording, and asked tentatively: "Ranran, you... are not angry?"
"Why should I be angry?" Shen Xingran said softly, "I know that you are the best to me, and I also hope that you can stop being angry and be happy every day."
Shen Xingzhuo felt relieved, but couldn't help laughing at Lu Ran's naivety.
What recording.
Did he think those trivial matters would affect his relationship with Ranran?
Ridiculous, Ranran didn't care at all.
The two brothers went upstairs together.
When they got to the second floor, Shen Xingran couldn't help but ask indirectly: "Brother, that dog..."
Shen Xingzhuo paused, but didn't refuse: "Don't worry, brother will take care of it. If you feel annoyed recently, you can go to the resort next to your school to stay for a few days, just to relax."
Shen Xingran was a little dissatisfied.
If he can take care of it, it means he hasn't taken care of it yet.
Why is Shen Xingzhuo so slow this time?
But he couldn't get angry at this moment, so he could only hold it in.
Shen Xingzhuo went back to his studio in the afternoon and planned to stay in the apartment at night.
But thinking of Shen Xingran, he went back to the Shen family.
Shen Hongyuan and Mrs. Shen went to live somewhere else.
In the evening, Shen Xingzhuo thought his warning would work.
Unexpectedly, Lu Ran actually brought the dog back to the villa again.
Shen Xingzhuo didn't go downstairs, but stood on the railing on the second floor and looked out.
He was holding a cigarette between his fingertips and making a phone call.
"Yes, it's that pet store. Hasn't the location been sent out?"
Downstairs, Lu Ran was helping Da Huang with his feet.
Da Huang was very obedient and would lift whichever foot he was told to.
When he lifted his leg, it was not stable and the whole dog collapsed on the grass.
The boy downstairs laughed and then pounced on the dog, rubbing it into a pancake.
The man and the dog were fighting, so childish.
The other end of the phone was still talking.
"Brother Zhuo?"
Shen Xingzhuo paused for a moment, then smiled as usual: "Anyway, these are things you are familiar with. Don't touch anything else. That lame dog..."
Da Huang was rubbed and rolled on the grass.
It seemed to have caught a glimpse of someone upstairs, and its pair of black eyes reflecting the warm light of the street lamps looked at Shen Xingzhuo curiously and gently.
Shen Xingzhuo noticed that the dog's tail wagged.
It was not known whether it was because it was having fun playing with its owner, or because it saw him.
"...Just bring it out." Shen Xingzhuo said.
The person on the other end of the phone excitedly suggested something.
Shen Xingzhuo turned around and leaned against the railing, with his back to the scene under the balcony.
He said coldly: "Work? It would be better if he got rid of it."
After explaining all this, Shen Xingzhuo took a shower and went to bed.
He was not used to the bed in the Shen family villa, and he had not slept well these days. He
was a little tired today, but he slept well.
It seemed that Shen Xingzhuo had an unexpected dream because he saw the boy and the puppy playing on the grass before going to bed.