Li Ze was surprised to see his wife reading an article on killer whales.
He didn’t understand the reason why she was crying, so he began to read it carefully.
“The largest artificial rearing killer whale in the world is Tilly and weighs about 5 ton, with a body mass of 6. 7 meters. It was born in the oceanic waters off Iceland and was captured in 1983 at about 2 years old. It was also the first dead whale after Orlando ocean world in Rory, Florida announced the ban on feeding killer whales in March 2016.
Tilly was not a good friend of human beings, but as the netizens said, it was free now. After it had been caught, people lay over lanolin on it for long-distance transportation without water. Then it was stuck in the cement groove of an ocean park in Iceland for a year, and there it was only permitted to circle or aimlessly swim to the surface. However, when it was in the ocean it could swim up to 160 kilometers with other whales every day. The most important of that killer whale is animal of herb.
Later, Tilly was transferred to the Pacific Ocean World in Canada, imprisoned in a narrow pool and was forced to perform for hours, eight times a day, and seven days a week. Sustained pressure and fatigue also lead to stomach ulcer in the whale. When the Ocean Park is closed for the day, the whale is usually locked with two other female whales at odds in a narrow water tank for up to 14 hours until the next morning when the park is opened again. If Tilly does not complete the performance, the three whales will be forbidden meals, which made the relationship between them even tenser and leads to Tilly being attacked by the other two. Tilly lived with teeth and blood marks for a long time.
Later, the American Marine World bought Tilly. Besides performing, its sperm cells are also extracted for artificial propagation of whales. Now 54% of the oceanic world’s whales have Tilly’s genes. In the marine world, its pool is less than one-thousandth of its habitat in nature, which equals to imprisoning one in a bathtub. Because of its aggressiveness, it also causes multiple accidents. The pressure of its confinement also leads to an abnormal pattern of repeated behaviors, such as chewing on the concrete edge of metallic doors and edges of pools, which leads to its teeth are breaking.
The average life expectancy of a killer whale is 50 years and 90 years at most. However, the ones in the oceanic park often live for only twenty years. This animal needs a great deal of activity as gregarious ones, and they are used to living with their mothers all their lives. So the ones in oceanic parks were living a tragic life, and Tilly traded his miserable life for legislation…”
Just as Li Ze finished reading, his wife murmured, “Sometimes I feel that humans are truly cruel.”
“It’s all due to the benefits they get from it.”
“For their own benefits, they captured the whales and abuse them in different ways,” she said. “Just if they don’t want to perform or if the performance is not up to the keeper’s standards, the keeper won’t give them enough food, or even cut their food support. The keeper may even use violence if they are not obedient. It wasn’t just the big whales that were treated like this, even many of the weaker ones were not left out as the news showed. Mothers mistreated their daughters due to their preference for boys, husbands abuse wives due to alcohol consumption, most of the abusing involves domestic violence. Hubby, do you know what I find most intolerable?”
Li Ze had sat beside his wife hugging her, “What?”
“The abuse of the elders in the nursing home.” Ding Jie said, “Those old people are too weak to be independent and they have to be cared for by the staff there. But some of the workers treat them as if they were dying cats and dogs. It’s rare for them not to be abused, let alone being taken good care of. Ridiculously, there was even an old woman who got pregnant after being raped. It seems to me that I can’t send my parents to the nursing home unless I was forced to. The old ones are eager for love. As they are sent to nursing homes, they might feel more lonely.”Hearing his wife’s words, Li Ze also had a deep impression, “anyway, we will never do that.”
“Husband,” she murmured nestling into her husband’s arms, “I miss my parents.”
“I’ll go back with you when we have time to spare,”
“It’s fine,”
“Don’t you miss them?” Li Ze said, “Why don’t we visit them together this weekend?”
“Not this weekend, because Liao Junchao is imprisoned, and the general manager position is still vacant, I am afraid that the branch office would suddenly be busy during the weekend, so I had better stay in the city this weekend. It seems that they are traveling for the golden week, so we might probably not meet them. Husband, sometimes I’m really scared that our daughter will marry a man with a violent disposition. I’m even more afraid that she will run back in fear after marriage.”
“It would never happen,” said Li Ze. “We must investigate her boyfriend carefully.”
“However, we could figure it out with good observation. What’s more, sometimes many men become violent only after marriage.”
“Advise her to divorce then.”
“She might be taken as a second-hand material.”
“As divorce rate is getting higher and higher, by the time our daughter gets married, divorce must have become the norms in the society. Then the society might never take divorced women with prejudice.”
“Why did one get divorced since he has chosen the other party?”
“That must be some unreconciled contradictions,”
“Hubby,” Ding Jie murmured as she leaned over and put her arms around his waist, “Never divorce me.”
“Of course we won’t divorce, as long as we haven’t done anything betraying each other.” Li Ze continued as he looked at his wife’s tear-stained eyes. “If we do something that’s bad for each other, even worse than cheating, then this marriage won’t last anymore.”
“Hubby, you’re not going to do anything wrong.”
“And you?”
“Of course I’m not, my dear husband.”
She hugged her husband and kissed him on his lips.
Of course, Li Ze wasn’t firm in his confession.
To be precise, he had already lost confidence in his wife after so many matters. The reason why he pretended to love her was that the hope had not been completely extinguished. If their daughter was not his child, it might even transform into anger. At that time, he would not only divorce her, but he will also be eager to kill his wife and the man who had made him a cuckold.
“Hubby, how is Teacher Sun?”
“She went back to Zhangzhou with her cousin this afternoon,”
“It’s really a pity when trying to quit drugs,” Ding Jie said. “It’s like an animal in a cage without any dignity.”
“Like the killer whale, right?”
“That’s right, so never get in touch with drugs,” Ding Jie said. “I hate drugs!”