BHBF Chapter 53.3

Boss, He’s Becoming a Father (Arc 2) Chapter 53.3: The Bitter Heroine (53)

Shao Yu glanced at him and said, “Old Li, you should quit smoking. It’s not only harmful to your health, but also costly. Calculate how much you spend on cigarettes every year.”

 

Before Mr. Li could figure it out, his wife started to make a scene, saying, “You smoke so many cigarettes a year, but it doesn’t seem to help you at all! And you cough every day, it’s so annoying!”

 

Shao Yu didn’t expect that a class he taught would cause a quarrel among several couples in the neighborhood. He didn’t blame himself and continued, “Wine and cigarettes, these are actually unnecessary expenses, but if you calculate it carefully over the year, you will spend a lot of money on them.”

 

“Rich people also smoke and drink,” someone retorts.

 

Shao Yu said: “That’s because they have money, they can do anything. Do you have money?”

 

The man stopped talking immediately.

 

Shao Yu added: “If you want to be rich, the fastest way is to do two things at the same time: save money and find ways to make more money.”

 

The girls listened attentively, but the adults were mostly skeptical until they saw the actual results.

 

The whole night was filled with excitement, and Shao Yu’s first class came to an end like this.

 

The neighbors didn’t have much to do at night, and Shao Yu was willing to use his home electricity to give classes to everyone. The neighbors were happy to join in the free fun, and some even continued to discuss Shao Yu’s class until they returned home after the class.

 

“Old Shao has a lot of reasons, and he doesn’t live a good life either. Don’t listen to him and use the money at home to buy gold bars.” Old Zhao warned his wife.

 

His wife was immediately unhappy when she heard this and said, “What do you mean he’s not living a good life?”

 

Old Zhao was stunned. He didn’t expect his wife to react so strongly.

 

Old Zhao goes out early and comes back late every day, so he doesn’t know what’s going on in the alley, but his wife knows it very well.

 

“Do you know that noon every day is the most difficult time for the women in this alley?” asked the wife.

 

Lao Zhao: “Ah? What do you mean?”

 

“Do you know what Shao Yu eats every day and what I eat every day?” asked his wife.

 

The alley was compact and narrow, so if someone had eaten something delicious, the whole alley could smell it. Shao Yu was particularly good at cooking, so all the women in the alley would be drooling over it.

 

“Today the eight-treasure duck, tomorrow the old hen, and the day after tomorrow the big carp. Liu Cuifen and Yingniang don’t give him any money, but he eats delicious food and drinks spicy drinks at home every day. What about you? Can you do that?” the wife asked.

 

Old Zhao looked puzzled and asked, “Where does he get so much money to buy good food? Doesn’t Liu Cuifen care about him?”

 

“Liu Cuifen doesn’t care what he does. She doesn’t need to give him money anyway, and she can eat delicious food with him.” The wife said that she knew that Shao Yu often took lunch boxes to the western restaurant to deliver meals. “Liu Cuifen doesn’t care what what are you doing. Anyway, you don’t need to give him money, and you can eat good things with it.”

 

Old Zhao looked even more confused and said, “Shao Yu doesn’t have much income. He just stays at home to take care of the kids. Where does he get the money?”

 

“Can they tell you if they have other income?” the wife asked back.

 

Old Zhao couldn’t help but touch his nose, and then said, “That’s not right. Didn’t he say he wanted to spend less? Why does he still eat a lot of meat and fish every day? Isn’t this contradicting himself?”

 

My wife said quietly, “Maybe this is their normal expense.”

 

The women in the alley had already calculated the Shao family’s accounts in private several times. In their opinion, someone like Shao Yu, who ate lavishly every day, would go bankrupt in a few days, but his life had been getting better and better over the past few months.

 

They didn’t understand at first, but after listening to the class today, they all understood that Shao Yu must be secretly making a lot of money somewhere else.

 

“How can Lao Shao be like this? There is a chance to make money, why didn’t he tell me?” Lao Zhao said a little aggrievedly.

 

His wife immediately said, “Why should he tell you? If you have the opportunity to make a lot of money, would you tell others? Maybe you won’t even tell me and secretly have a second wife outside.”

 

Old Zhao suddenly felt as if he could never wash himself clean even if he fell into the Yellow River, but deep down he was no longer filled with resentment towards Shao Yu as he had been before.

 

“So according to you, we still have to exchange yuan for gold bars?” asked Lao Zhao.

 

His wife rolled her eyes and said, “If you want to change, you have to see if you have the money to do it. Didn’t you hear what Shao Yu said? Even if you want to change, you have to save enough yuan to last for three months before you go to change!”

 

Old Zhao sighed and could only give up.

 

Shao Yu originally predicted that the price of gold bars would increase within ten days, but in fact the price of gold bars went up the next afternoon. It was eighty yuan in the morning, but it rose to eighty-one in the afternoon.

 

Some neighbors who went to exchange gold bars in the afternoon, upon hearing the news, immediately beat their chests and stamped their feet in anger, as if they had lost 100 million.