Boss, He’s Becoming a Father [Arc 1] Chapter 1.2: The Prodigal Son (2)
Shao Xiaocao has been helping the family for as long as he can remember. The Shao couple has worked hard for many years, and the older they get, the worse their health becomes. Shao Xiaocao is considerate of her parents and has been helping to lay lanterns since she was eight years old. Today, 80% of the lanterns in the entire shop were all made by her day and night.
Because she was worried about the shop at home, even on her wedding day, she had no intention of stopping her work.
The Shao family has no land, and has lived on a lantern shop for many years. The profit of the lantern shop is meager, and the Shao couple are old. If Shao Dabao is really studying peacefully, relying on Shao Xiaocao to make lanterns to make ends meet day and night, it is indeed possible to support her brother.
But Shao Dabao has never been a serious scholar.
He is obviously five years older than his sister, but when he is at home, he is not engaged in making lanterns, and he is half-hearted when he goes out to study. He has been studying for many years, and has not even passed the exam. Instead, he was taken into a gambling house by a bad classmate, and in the end he owed a gambling debt.
The Shao family was not rich in the first place, and all the family assets had been squandered by Shao Dabao in the name of studying. Now the only valuable thing is the paper lantern shop.
The gambling house was full of vicious people, and they gave the Shao family two options, either to hand over the shop or to hand over their daughter.
Uncle Zhang, the owner of the gambling house, had fallen in love with Shao Xiaocao early on, so he made this game.
Faced with such a dilemma, the Shao couple were reluctant to give up, but in the end they still married their daughter under the coaxing of their son.
The Shao couple are illiterate, and their ideas are very simple. Daughters will always be married, no matter who they marry, and sons are the lifeblood of the old Shao family. With the shop in hand, even if the son has no hope of studying in the future, he will return home. The family can still rely on the shop to make a living.
Even though Shao Xiaocao cried and made trouble, with her parents’ coaxing, she finally married into the Zhang family with a small package.
The uncle of the Zhang family has a violent temper. Although he tried every means to get Shao Xiaocao, he did not cherish her at all.
Shao Xiaocao is actually his third wife.
Like the previous two wives, Shao Xiaocao did not escape the fate of being tortured to death by her husband.
Five months after Shao Xiaocao married into the Zhang family, she died.
She was still four months pregnant when she left, but she was hastily buried with only a roll of mat.
Although the Shao family favored their son, and didn’t care about their daughter at all. After being cowardly for so many years, the couple finally had a moment of courage when faced with the death of their daughter. The old couple went to the Zhang family together to demand an explanation.
But instead of seeking justice, they were beaten up by the Zhang family servants. The couple was already old and in poor health, so they both died soon after and were buried casually after their deaths.
Shao Dabao, who was always a bastard, had his sister and parents die in a short period of time, and he once again lost his shop to his brother-in-law. Without any support, Shao Dabao could only live on the streets and fight and grab food with beggars in the ruined temple.
If this were the case, good and evil would be rewarded, but in the third year when Shao Dabao was begging on the street, he picked up a wolf tooth pendant from his dead beggar companion.
After that, his life turned upside down. A month later, the General’s Mansion came to look for his son.
Shao Dabao used this wolf tooth pendant as a token and transformed into the young master of the general’s mansion who was living abroad.
The general has been in the army for many years, and all his sons have died in the battlefield, leaving only this single seedling living outside. Naturally, he taught him carefully. After the death of his biological parents, Shao Dabao, who had tasted the warmth and coldness of the world, also lost his impetuousness. Start appreciating everything you have.
One father and son patiently taught the other one to study diligently. Shao Dabao, a rotten piece of wood, became promising. He was arranged by the general to start as an imperial guard. Under the emperor’s deliberate promotion, he eventually grew up step by step to become an important minister of the emperor.
In the first half of his life, Shao Dabao was a confused bastard, but in the second half of his life, he was prosperous and wealthy, with many descendants.
As for his parents and sister who died tragically, to Shao Dabao, they were just a few sighs in the dead of night.
Even though he enjoyed all the glory and wealth in Beijing, Shao Dabao never thought of returning to his hometown to take a look. Even the bones of his parents and sister were not willing to be re-interred.
Shao Yu’s thoughts returned to reality. In front of her, Shao Dabao, who would be prosperous and wealthy in the future, was still patiently persuading his sister: “Cry less. If you cry too much, you won’t be beautiful.”
“Your sister can cry if she wants to.” Shao Yu suddenly said.
Everyone present was stunned.
Shao Dabao immediately said: “Dad, my sister’s eyes are so swollen. When Uncle Zhang sees her at night, he may think she is reluctant.”
“I’m also unwilling. There’s nothing to hide.” Shao Yu continued to say under Shao Dabao’s dumbfounded gaze: “Your sister is not getting married.”
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