It looked like it was about to throw the fruit at Lu Zishu’s head, and Lu Zishu was so scared he hurriedly wrapped his arms around his head and tried to burrow straight into Ruan Qun’s arms next to him, only to be wordlessly squeezed away by Yu Rou’s elbow.

"Little Ancestor, I was wrong, I was wrong, okay? Hurry up and tell them to put their hands down, I’m scared..." Lu Zishu was terrified and howled.

Ruan Jiaojiao snorted, then finally said to the monkeys, "Forget it, let’s be generous and forgive him this time. Do you guys want to come down and play? But you have to be gentle, okay."

Hearing this, all the monkeys looked at Duan Xi; seeing that he wasn’t reacting strangely, they finally got excited but still very cautious, and all climbed down from the tree.

At the start, the Ruan Family brothers didn’t dare relax either, tightly circling Ruan Jiaojiao in the middle.

Only when a leader monkey directed a few little monkeys to hand them apples one by one did they feel the goodwill and slowly relax.

In front of Lu Zishu stood a little monkey only as tall as his thigh. It had a pointy mouth and cheeky face, looking especially fierce. After it’d been holding its hand up for ages and Lu Zishu still didn’t seem inclined to take it, it immediately bared its teeth ferociously, scaring Lu Zishu into hastily grabbing from its hand that skinny, tiny, very green apple that looked more like a date.

"Jiji..." The little monkey made an eating motion, indicating that just taking it wasn’t enough—he had to eat it.

"..." Lu Zishu.

He could only helplessly lower his head and take a bite; it was so astringent his brows furrowed up tight.

He turned his head and very unwillingly glared at the others’ apples, which were clearly way better than his. Why?! Why was his the one that was small, green, and sour!

After dealing with this whole circle of unimportant people, the leader monkey finally cupped in its arms a pile of big, red apples and peaches you couldn’t even buy outside. Especially that peach—you could smell its rich fragrance from far away.

"Jiji..." The monkey’s eyes burned as it looked at Ruan Jiaojiao, then dumped the fruits in its arms all at once into her embrace.

Ruan Jiaojiao was overwhelmingly moved.

The others, however, all felt a little sour. Comparing people to people—wasn’t this gap just a bit too huge?

They glanced at the small, spotty, basically so-so apples in their own hands that could be held in one palm, then looked at the big, red, overflowing fruits in Ruan Jiaojiao’s arms, some even falling out, all exuding a strong fruity aroma, and collectively... shut down.

"This is a bit too perfunctory, isn’t it." Ruan Wei turned the apple in his hand and couldn’t help complaining.

As soon as he said that, he offended the whole Monkey Nest. The monkey standing in front of him bared its teeth at him ferociously. How could there be such a greedy human by Little Cutie’s side! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"You guys still have it good. Just look at mine." Lu Zishu was endlessly aggrieved. How was this an apple? It looked about the same as a date, and the most outrageous part was that the monkey had even forced him to take a bite.

Ruan Jiaojiao’s fruits were truly huge and fragrant, and she couldn’t even hold them all. She wanted to put some into the arms of Yu Rou, who was already stunned speechless at her side, but when she handed one over, the leader monkey immediately snatched one back, and when she passed two over, it bared its teeth at Yu Rou in anger, scaring Yu Rou so much she was on the verge of tears again. She waved her hands frantically at Ruan Jiaojiao. "Forget it, forget it, Jiaojiao, don’t give them to me. I’m really scared, I feel like it really will hit me."

Ruan Jiaojiao had no choice but to pull them back and pass them into Duan Xi’s outstretched arms. This time the monkey didn’t dare show any objection.