BHBF Chapter 101.1

Boss, He’s Becoming a Father (Arc 6) Chapter 101.1: My Son is an Unparalleled Good Man (2)

Shao Dachun was filled with shame by Shao Yu’s words, as if he was realizing for the first time that he had become the kind of person he despised the most.

“I…I…” He couldn’t help but look at Liu Guizhi.

Liu Guizhi still had feelings for him, and seeing her husband like this, she felt a little sorry for him. Just as she was about to speak, Shao Yu stopped her.

Shao Yu looked at his son and continued operating on him, asking, “Speak up, why won’t you explain?”

In the end, Shao Dachun could only shake his head in dejection. He couldn’t explain it at all, and he didn’t even dare to look at Liu Guizhi.

“So what are your plans for the future?” Shao Yu asked.

Shao Dachun opened his mouth, but still didn’t know what to say.

Shao Yu then looked at Liu Guizhi, who was standing to the side, and asked, “What do you want him to do?”

Liu Guizhi looked at her husband, but Shao Dachun’s eyes were full of pleading. In the end, Liu Guizhi could only say, “I want him to treat me better, as long as he treats me the same way he treats the people outside.”

Shao Yu glanced at Shao Dachun.

Shao Dachun quickly said, “I’ve always treated her very well. I’ve never hit or scolded her…”

Liu Guizhi agreed with this, since the reason she had tolerated her husband for so many years was because, under normal circumstances, her husband had a good temper.

He never hits or scolds her , and occasionally even says a few comforting words. It is precisely because of this that Liu Guizhi has been able to endure so many years of hardship with her husband.

“You call not hitting or scolding her good to her?” Shao Yu said sarcastically.

Shao Dachun looked somewhat bewildered and asked, “Isn’t this good enough?”

Shao Yu said, “Look at your wife’s clothes. These are the clothes she wore when she married into the family. It’s been so many years. Have you ever seen her buy a new dress? She’s been married into the family for so many years, and she’s thinner than when she was a girl. She doesn’t eat well and doesn’t have warm clothes. You call this treating her well?”

Shao Dachun lowered his head in shame upon hearing this, while Liu Guizhi, who had initially been able to comfort herself that she was doing well, couldn’t help but want to cry again after Shao Yu spoke these words.

“You’re a man with a proper job, how come you haven’t bought your wife a new dress for years?” Shao Yu asked.

Shao Dachun couldn’t explain it clearly, and all he could think about was how careless he had been.

Shao Yu then asked, “You give everything to Xiao Zhao, so who is Xiao Zhao?”

Before Shao Dachun could answer, Liu Guizhi spoke up first: “That’s the widow from the east end of our village.”

Zhao the widow and her children were orphans and widows. Liu Guizhi had once felt sorry for her, but later Liu Guizhi realized that her sympathy was ridiculous. Zhao the widow’s husband had died, but it was as if her husband had also disappeared.

“You’ve really made something of yourself, even getting involved with widows,” Shao Yu said.

Shao Dachun quickly explained, “No, we have no relationship. I just felt sorry for her family of orphans and widows, and I’m a cadre.”

“You’ve become even more successful. You know you’re a cadre, yet you still get entangled with a widow,” Shao Yu said.

At this moment, Shao Dachun felt that he was speechless, and it seemed that Shao Yu could agree with anything he said. He quickly pulled Liu Guizhi over: “Wife, please help me and explain to Dad.”

Liu Guizhi could only say helplessly, “Father, Dachun and that widow don’t have that kind of relationship.”

“Does it matter whether they have that kind of relationship or not?” Shao Yu asked rhetorically.

The honest couple were stunned, not understanding why Shao Yu said that.

“Dad, what do you mean by this?” Shao Dachun asked blankly.

“If you continue like this, and someone with ulterior motives reports you to higher authorities, you might lose your job,” Shao Yu said.

Shao Dachun was furious upon hearing this and said, “I have done nothing wrong. Even if someone reports me and investigates, I can explain myself clearly and I will still be innocent.”

“Explain? You can’t even explain it to me, so how can you explain it to the people from above?” Shao Yu asked.

Shao Dachun was stunned for a moment, but Liu Guizhi became anxious and said, “Dad, Dachun risked his life to get this job, we can’t lose it.”

Shao Yu said, “Da Chun isn’t worried, so why are you? Anyway, you’ve never seen his salary. Even if he loses his job, he can still come back and help you with the housework.”

Even so, Liu Guizhi did not want things to come to this point. After all, she could not just give up such a good job.

Shao Dachun said, “They…they will investigate.”

“What if that widow Zhao insists that there’s something between you two?” Shao Yu asked.

“Impossible, Xiao Zhao isn’t that kind of person,” Shao Dachun said.

Shao Yu chuckled and continued, “If she could bring you down, she would get a reward for reporting you. Do you think she would report you?”

Shao Dachun still looked innocent, but Liu Guizhi’s expression changed. Women understand women best, and she felt that Widow Zhao really would do such a thing.

“Dachun, please stop associating with that widow Zhao,” Liu Guizhi pleaded.

But Shao Dachun remained stubborn, saying, “They are an orphan and a widow. If I don’t take care of them, who will?”

“Who are you to her that you have to interfere in their affairs?” Shao Yu asked.

Shao Dachun said, “Dad, they’ve come to our door. How can I, a cadre, ignore them?”

“Then why don’t they care about the other cadres?”

“She didn’t ask anyone else for help,” Shao Dachun said.

“Why not ask others? Is it because you really didn’t ask, or because you couldn’t see it?”

Shao Yu’s series of questions stumped Shao Dachun.

Shao Yu continued, “Is she a widow without hands or feet, unable to do anything, so she needs you to support her?”

Shao Dachun said, “They are an orphan and a widow, and their health is not good…”

“Your wife isn’t in good health either, did you know that?” Shao Yu asked.

Liu Guizhi’s complexion was so bad that a normal person wouldn’t think she was in good health just by looking at her.

Shao Dachun turned his head and glanced at her. It seemed like he hadn’t looked at his wife properly in a long time. Only now did he notice that her face was sallow and she looked like she hadn’t had enough to eat for years.

“Your daughter isn’t in good health either, I guess you don’t know that,” Shao Yu added.

Shao Dachun looked at Niu Niu, a four-year-old child with dry, yellow hair and a pale face, looking like a sick child.

“You’re stingy with your own family, but you’re so generous with strangers,” Shao Yu said.

Even with the miserable state of his wife and children right before his eyes, Shao Dachun couldn’t help but say, “Dad, food and clothing are just external things, they’re not important.”Shao Yu nodded and said, “That’s right, food and clothing aren’t important.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Guizhi felt a chill in her heart.

But Shao Yu continued, “Then don’t eat, and don’t wear clothes, just take them off.”

In front of so many people, Shao Dachun was unwilling to take off his clothes, and immediately said pitifully, “Dad, please don’t joke around.”

“Are you kidding me? I think you’re joking. Life is nothing more than food, clothing, shelter and transportation. But you’re the opposite, acting like none of these things matter.”

Shao Dachun felt a little wronged and said, “Dad, isn’t this all what you taught me?”

“Don’t call me Dad, I didn’t teach you those things.”

“Dad, you told me to be a good person…”
Shao Yu said, “When I said be a good person, did I mean you should give away all your belongings and leave your wife and children to starve?”

Upon hearing this, Shao Dachun said in a low voice, “Isn’t being a good person about forgetting yourself?”

“Have you forgotten only yourself? You’ve even forgotten your wife and children. What do you take them for? Just accessories to yourself?”

Shao Dachun explained, “Shouldn’t a family stand together through thick and thin?”

Shao Yu said irritably, “Advance and retreat together? Did you advance? You led them all backward!”

Shao Dachun lowered his head.

Shao Yu said, “I’m teaching you to be a good person, but is that teaching you to be irresponsible towards your wife and children?”

“How can a grown man not only fail to love his wife and children, but also fail to avoid becoming a burden? How can he still have the face to live?”

“Dad……”

“Don’t call me Dad, I don’t have a son like you!”

Shao Dachun looked to Liu Guizhi for help, as if he wanted his wife to say a few words for him.

But Liu Guizhi had finally gotten her father-in-law’s support, so how could she hold him back at this time? She simply told Niu Niu to go out first, not wanting the child to see her father in such a sorry state.

Seeing that his wife wasn’t helping him, and his father’s scolding was getting more and more intense, Shao Dachun felt a chill run down his spine and whispered, “Dad, you’re sick, and my second brother is so busy. I’ve taken good care of you…”

Shao Yu asked, “Are you taking good care of them?”

Upon hearing this, Shao Dachun felt a surge of grievance and asked, “Didn’t I take good care of you?”

Shao Yu said matter-of-factly, “I want to live in a big house, I want to eat meat, what kind of life is this!”

Shao Dachun immediately said, “Dad, if you want to live in a big house, I can only send you to my second brother’s place. But if you want to eat meat, wait for me, I’ll go buy it now.”

Shao Dachun hurriedly got up, it was unclear whether he really wanted to buy meat for Shao Yu or wanted to escape Shao Yu’s scolding.

“Where is there any money left at home?” Liu Guizhi couldn’t help but ask, a bad feeling creeping into her heart.

Shao Dachun said nonchalantly, “If Dad wants to eat it, then just sell my sewing machine.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Guizhi’s resentment surged again, and she said, “The sewing machine was sold? How am I supposed to get jobs then? Niu Niu and I might as well jump into the river together!”

Upon hearing this, Shao Dachun glanced around and said, “Sell it now, and I’ll buy it back when I get my salary.”

Liu Guizhi couldn’t hold back any longer and cried out, “I can’t live like this anymore! You’re forcing me to die! I might as well be dead…”

But she was silenced by Shao Yu as soon as she let out a cry.

“Stop crying!”

Liu Guizhi was momentarily stunned by Shao Yu.

“Your man is out of his mind, but how much better are you?” Shao Yu said.

Liu Guizhi was terrified and whispered, “Dad, what did I do wrong?”

“Which wife doesn’t manage the accounts? Did you manage the money?” Shao Yu asked.

Liu Guizhi said with a wronged expression, “My family doesn’t have any money for me to manage, and they never give me a salary…”

Shao Yu said, “If he doesn’t give you the money, don’t you know to ask him for it?”

“What can I do if he won’t give it to me?” Liu Guizhi said.

“He wouldn’t give it to you, so you just took it? Aren’t there any knives in the kitchen?” Shao Yu asked.

The honest Liu Guizhi couldn’t help but ask, “Dad, what am I doing with a knife?”

“If you can’t put it on his neck, won’t you put it on your own? If he doesn’t give you money, just die in front of him. If you really die, he’ll be the murderer. Anyway, we can’t make a living, so we might as well all suffer together,” Shao Yu said.

Liu Guizhi never expected that Shao Yu would say such a thing.

“This……”

“You can’t even make ends meet, and you don’t even dare to do this little thing?” Shao Yu asked.

Hearing Shao Yu casually describe the incident of slitting her throat with a knife as a trivial matter, Shao Dachun said softly from the side, “Father, are you delirious from your illness? How could you let Guizhi do such a thing…”

“I think you’re the one who’s confused. Your wife and kids are in this state, and you still think you’re not wrong,” Shao Yu said irritably.

Shao Dachun hesitated for a long time, unsure how to talk to his father. He had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

Liu Guizhi stood to the side, her head bowed, her expression unreadable, and it was impossible to tell what she was thinking.

Shao Yu glanced at Shao Dachun and said, “We don’t need to sell sewing machines.”

Liu Guizhi looked up at Shao Yu.

Shao Yu continued, “Go find your second brother and ask him to buy me some meat.”

Shao Dachun looked troubled and said, “Father, my second brother has had a hard time too. If you want to eat meat, I’ll figure something out. Don’t make things difficult for him.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Guizhi clenched her fists.

Shao Yu stopped trying to persuade him and instead asked Liu Guizhi, “Do you want his second brother to buy meat, or do you want your husband to sell his sewing machine?”