The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

With a bang, the door of the clinic was knocked open, and a figure rushed in staggeringly, shouting at the same time.

Doctor, doctor, let me hide, Gwen's father is chasing me, hurry up and find a place for me to hide!

Schiller was walking down from the second floor, and when he saw Peter rushing in, he was stunned for a moment, but he still pointed to the kitchen. Peter quickly passed through, and then hid behind the island. Schiller walked to the door and faced I took a look outside and found that Sheriff George led a team of police officers and ran past the door.

After George's figure disappeared across the street, Peter crawled out from behind the island platform, let out a long sigh and sat down on the sofa.

Schiller walked over and poured him a glass of water, put it in front of him and asked, What's the matter? How did you get chased by Sergeant George?

Peter gulped down all the water in the glass, wiped his mouth with his hand, and said with a long sigh: It's rare to have free time today, so I'll be patrolling in a Spider-Man uniform to earn credits, and I'm going to find a place to change at the end of the day. As soon as I got out of the alley, I found someone chasing the thief.

I didn't think too much, I sprinted to catch the thief, but I didn't expect that the stolen person had already called the police. From a long distance, I saw Sergeant George running this way, so I started running .”

He probably thought I was a thief, so he started chasing me. I was afraid that he would see who I was, so I had to run quickly and keep a certain distance from him. No, I ran here.

Schiller sat across from him, looked him in the eyes and asked, Why did you run when you saw Sergeant George coming?

Because I'm afraid he will find out... Peter said with a sad expression, I don't think I can explain to him how I ran so fast, and how I pushed a thief who was much stronger than me into the ground. On the ground.

You know it's actually easy to explain. Schiller drank his saliva and said, You are doing a good deed, and he won't doubt it too much.

I always feel that he is suspicious, so I don't dare to face him at all. Peter scratched his hair irritably, and said helplessly on the sofa: I acted in front of him like a lazy, A taciturn nerd, he feels reassured that Peter Parker is that kind of person, and Spider-Man is the other extreme.

George dislikes Spider-Man so much that he thinks parents who teach Spider-Man should be punished for letting a kid who should be studying wander outside.

You know, he's the most traditional parent who thinks that you should do things at any age, that young people should follow the rules and learn from their elders instead of making a fancy tights and hanging around in New York. .”

Have you talked to Gwen about this? Schiller asked.

Of course it is impossible for Gwen to tell me that her father is not good. She is not that kind of person. I can understand Sheriff George, so I can only avoid him, because if he finds out my true identity now. The consequences will be very serious. Seriously, because I lied to him.

Peter covered his face with some breakdown, and said, I've never told such a big lie in my life, I'm really going crazy!

Schiller can clearly see many physical manifestations in stressful environments in Peter, such as tight upper arm muscles, arms always around the body, and a lot faster than usual when speaking. Obviously, the anxiety has been submerged he.

Do you think you should confess to George?

Someday.

So Gwen thinks you two should confess to George?

Peter turned his head to one side and said: I don't know, and I can't ask her this question so bluntly, because it is equivalent to putting pressure on her. If we confess and her father speaks bad words to me, Gwen will I feel like it's her responsibility.

And if there is a worse situation, for example, one day the two of us are really enemies, or one of us hurts the other, then Gwen will suffer double the damage.

But in the future I foresee, once George knows my identity as Spider-Man, he will definitely not show me a good face. Even if he knows that I have been hiding it from him for so long together with Gwen, he will definitely do it for his daughter. I feel sad for helping outsiders, and hate me even more.

By that time, Gwen was like a filling in a pie. Peter stretched out his hand and said, If I don't leave her, George will be sad, and if I leave her, I will be sad. , but she doesn't want to upset any of us.

Schiller thought for a while and asked again: So do you regret hiding from George with Gwen before?

Peter froze for a moment, as if he didn't expect Schiller to ask such a question. He thought about it carefully, and then said: Actually, I didn't think of any good time to speak up. I think whenever he knew about it, the result would be the same. .”

If he knew at the beginning that his daughter was going to fall in love with Spider-Man, then his anger would not be much less than it is now, and he might have added another layer of worry, worrying every day whether his daughter would get into danger because of Spider-Man .”

In this case, the deception between you and Gwen can be called a white lie, and you don't have to blame yourself too much for it.

Peter nodded, but Schiller could see that he was just perfunctory, and there were still countless logical knots in his heart that kept looping.

After being silent for a while, Peter still looked at Schiller with a begging look. Schiller smiled, and he stood up from the sofa and walked up to the second floor. During this period, Peter followed him all the time. When Schiller went upstairs, he even wanted to get up and follow him, like a completely insecure stray animal.

Schiller signaled him to be calm, and after a while he took out a pot of flowers from the bedroom on the second floor, saying that it was a flower was not accurate, it was a cabbage.

Schiller put the cabbage on the table, Peter stared at the cabbage, and asked a little strangely: Is this a new type of potted plant? But why does it look so much like a vegetable?

That's right, it's cabbage.

But why are you growing a cabbage in a pot?

Let's not talk about this first, just poke it.

Peter didn't know why, he blinked suspiciously, but still instinctively leaned forward according to what Schiller said, stretched out his fingers and gently poked the cabbage leaves.

The living room of the clinic is not big, so the distance between the sofa and the coffee table is not too far. Peter leaned forward, and the tip of his nose was just above the cabbage. He heard a bang, followed by a scream of oh. He punched him on the sofa.

Spider-Man's nose is not a fortified wall, and when he hit him hard at close range, Peter immediately slumped on the sofa with his nose covered and screamed, while asking in disbelief.

How could it hit someone?!!

Now do you still wonder why I grow cabbages?

Peter rubbed his nose for a while, with tears in his eyes, and said in an aggrieved voice, This is amazing, where does a cabbage have such great power?

You see, when you find out that this cabbage can hit people, you don't care about why there is a cabbage in the flower pot, because a cabbage that can hit people is more powerful than a cabbage that appears in the flower pot of the clinic. Even more amazing.

Humans have limited brain capacity and memory. When a more alarming problem arises in front of them, they have no time to deal with other problems... How is Gwen recently?

Schiller's topic changed so suddenly that Peter didn't react at all. He held his nose and asked suspiciously, Huh?

I heard that Spider-Man Gwen has been pulling her to earn credits, and Nick has complained to me several times.

Peter nodded and said, That's true. When she's not busy, she's helping Gwen Spider-Man with tasks, either running errands or patrolling.

So she also wears the same costume as Gwen Spider-Man and does the same things as her?

Peter nodded, then froze, he opened his mouth wide and looked at Schiller and said, Doctor, don't you want to...

You say that Gwen is dating Spider-Man, and George definitely disagrees, but if you say that Gwen wants to be Spider-Man herself, then George definitely has no time to care who she is dating.

If George finds out that his daughter is in a relationship with Spider-Man, he will be very angry, but if he finds out that his daughter is Spider-Man, then he will probably feel scared, because Spider-Man has a precedent of sacrifice. .”

But, but this... Peter just wanted to say whether it is not good to provoke Sergeant George in this way, and Schiller continued: When this kind of authoritarian parent finds that the child's growth path is different from what they imagined, they It’s instinctive to feel that someone has lied to their child, rather than failing to educate themselves.”

If he finds out that Gwen is in a relationship with Spider-Man, then he will definitely feel that Spider-Man has confused her, but if Gwen is determined to become Spider-Man, he has no room to shirk responsibility and can only admit It's a problem with my own education.

But he must be very worried. Peter said with his head down, It will also be very sad, because Gwen has always been very obedient, and she is his pride.

Peter. Schiller called Peter's name, making Peter look at him: Do you think Gwen is safe when he's not Spider-Man?

Of course. Peter replied instinctively, How can it be unsafe to stay in the laboratory?

What is she working on in the lab?

She has recently been doing artificial solar energy experiments with Dr. Otto, and occasionally goes to Dr. Conners to help, but I don't know what the specific subject is, it may be animal experiments or the like.

Peter, you think she is safe now because you have professional knowledge. You think you go to George to talk about his daughter's work with words like 'artificial sun' or 'animal experimentation'. is it safe?

But that's just a misunderstanding of some ordinary people. Peter explained anxiously: The experimental process is controllable, and we are not building a big bomb or some evil monster.

Of course, of course. Schiller reassured, and said: But you can't ask every ordinary person to have the expertise of you and Gwen. It's normal for them not to understand what you are doing in the laboratory.

George doesn't have professional knowledge, he can only listen to Gwen's words that she is fine in the laboratory, but he understands how Spider-Man works as a vigilante, or he thinks he understands, so he is judging When it comes to whether Gwen is safe or not, he will ignore Gwen's own opinion and judge with his own understanding.

Many parents are like this. When they think they understand something, they will ignore their children's feelings and make choices for them, or worry about themselves and imagine the kind of things that are absurd in the eyes of professionals. Dangerous scene.

Peter was silent for a few minutes, as if he was thinking about how to express it, and then he lowered his eyes gently and said.

George has to do this. He is a single father, and his status is also very sensitive. Too many people think about his daughter. His rejection of me is just an instinct to protect his daughter that he has developed over the years.

Therefore, I can't stand on a high ground and reprimand him for being too authoritarian and unreasonable because he knows more than him, because it is his authoritarianism that blocked all disasters for Gwen on the way of growing up, and made her grow up. She grew up safe and sound and became a wonderful human being.

Peter raised his eyes to look at Schiller, and there was always a kind of childlike innocence in his eyes, with tenderness as the prelude and firmness as the ending.

He's a good guy, and a good guy always understands a good guy, so he knows Spider-Man is a hero.

Because of this, he understands how difficult this road is, so he hopes that his daughter will stay away from being a hero as much as possible, and live a stable and peaceful life.

How could I ask Gwen to goad her father and worry George when I didn't tell Uncle Ben and Aunt May who I was to hurt them?

Schiller looked at Peter and sighed again: You have really grown up, Peter.