Boss, He’s Becoming a Father [Arc 1] Chapter 18.2: The Prodigal Son (34)
The shop had been open for a few days, and it was New Year’s Eve. Early that morning, Shao Yu suddenly said hello to Shao Xiaocao who was making a lantern, and then he walked out of the city as if by accident.
Before the New Year’s Day, there were more people on the street. Many people went into the city to buy New Year’s goods. Shao Yu went out against the flow of people, looking a little out of place.
Shao Yu already had a direction in mind, so he walked straight to the teahouse ten miles outside the city. After sitting down with his back to the official road, he bought a bowl of tea soup from the store. On the official road not far behind him, two ragged beggars walked over together.
Shao Dabao was dressed in rags, with dull eyes and his face was abnormally flushed. At this time, he was being supported by a beggar with the same sickly face next to him. A gust of cold wind blew by, and Shao Dabao shivered from the cold.
“Dabao, there is a tea house in front of us. We will take shelter there. If we are lucky, maybe we can get a bowl of hot water to drink.” A Mao gave Dabao a weak smile.
Shao Dabao twitched the corners of his mouth in annoyance. He didn’t understand why the guy next to him could always maintain such an optimistic and positive attitude, even though he was a beggar just like him.
At that time, Shao Dabao was ill and ran out of the camp. He wanted to return to Qingzhou, but he couldn’t see the road at night. As the officials said, he stepped into the canal.
It’s just that he was lucky and was trapped in the canal all night. When he woke up again, he had been picked up by Amao in a ruined temple.
Amao is about the same age as Shao Dabao, but he has been a beggar for fifteen years. After his mother passed away, Amao became a homeless little beggar.
Amao is different from Shao Dabao. Although he begs on the street, he never complains about others, but is always positive and optimistic.
Just picking up Shao Dabao was a real bad thing for Amao. There were many beggars in the ruined temple, and one more person meant one more position.
Amao was already sick, but now there was another Shao Dabao who didn’t look good. The group of beggars immediately united and started targeting the two of them.
Amao was loyal, but even if he tried his best, he failed to give Shao Dabao a chance to stay. Instead, the two were driven out by the beggars together.
It was extremely cold in winter and it was necessary to find a place to escape the cold. Amao had no choice but to take Shao Dabao to the nearby Nanzhou City to look for opportunities.
“I want to go back to Qingzhou.” Shao Dabao said sadly.
“Okay, okay.” Amao immediately coaxed.
“I’m going to Qingzhou!” Shao Dabao said again, as if he understood Amao’s bottomless indulgence of him, which was why Shao Dabao lost his temper like this.
Faced with Shao Dabao, who has a temper of a child, Ah Mao seemed to have infinite patience and said, “Don’t worry, Dabao, we will go to Qingzhou when spring begins.”
Shao Dabao stopped calling when he heard this. Although he was in a hurry to return to Qingzhou, he knew that A Mao was right, but he was still unhappy. As for A Mao’s care for him, It was also interpreted by him that Ah Mao wanted to benefit from him, maybe he was jealous of his parents and family.
Shao Dabao thought in his heart, when he saw Qingzhou City, he must think of ways to get rid of the troublesome Amao.
Amao didn’t know Dabao’s inner thoughts at all, and said, “Dabao, haven’t you read a book? Just think of a couple of auspicious words, I will go to the store to ask for water.”
Dabao snorted twice, and after racking his brains, he finally managed to squeeze out two simple words.
“Dabao is really amazing, it’s different after reading a book.” Ah Mao praised very sincerely.
After Shao Dabao heard this, if he hadn’t been sick at this time and his body was too heavy, he would have started shaking.
Amao supported him, found a place away from the wind, carefully placed him on the ground, and then walked into the tea room.
When the waiter in the tea house saw the ragged beggar, he immediately drove him away with a face full of impatience. Amao was not unhappy at all when he was scolded, but still smiled and said auspicious words.
Shao Yu heard a customer next to him stop the waiter: “You’re celebrating the New Year, please stop swearing.”
Before the waiter said anything, Amao said: “My dear sir, you will get rich in the New Year and have good luck.”
What Amao said were the auspicious words that Shao Dabao had been thinking about, and they were consistent with Shao Dabao’s true level.
The guest was a passing businessman. Businessmen naturally like to hear auspicious words such as “get rich”. He laughed and waved to him, and Amao walked over immediately.
The businessman pointed to the half bowl of red date soup on his table and said, “I can’t drink it. You can drink it.”
Amao was overjoyed when he heard this and said, “Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. I wish you good fortune and good luck in the New Year!”
Amao had never read a book, so he could only say these two sentences over and over again, but these two simple sentences made the businessman very happy.
Amao picked up the bowl of soup, took a small sip, and his eyes immediately lit up. He quickly ran to Shao Dabao and fed the remaining half of the soup to Shao Dabao bit by bit.
Shao Dabao had not had such soup for a long time, so he devoured it voraciously, and even couldn’t help but lick the bowl until he finished it.
As for Amao who only took a sip, Shao Dabao didn’t care about it at all. He even thought that when the bowl of soup was brought there was only half a bowl, Amao must have drank it.
“Is there more? I still want to drink.” Shao Dabao asked confidently.
Amao was a little embarrassed. After all, this kind of sudden kindness from customers didn’t happen all the time.
At this time, the waiter from the shop also came over and asked very viciously: “Stinky beggar, have you finished drinking, return the bowl to me soon after drinking.”
Amao took the bowl from the reluctant Shao Dabao and handed it over.
The waiter gave a disgusting look and muttered, “The bowl is now soiled by you.”
Amao didn’t care at all after hearing this, but Shao Dabao said impatiently: “You are still chattering when someone gives you money?”
Amao hurriedly grabbed Shao Dabao and signaled him to stop talking, and then apologized profusely to the waiter.
Seeing that he had such a good temper, the waiter was embarrassed to continue sarcastic, so he turned around and left.
Amao took advantage of the situation and sat next to Dabao, squinting his eyes and looking up.
The sun shines on them, clearly they are two beggars, but they give people a sense of lazy comfort.
“Dabao, do you know what kind of soup this is?” Amao asked curiously.
“This is red date sweet soup. You are such a rubbish. You don’t even know this.” Shao Dabao said angrily.
When he said this, A Mao was not at all unhappy, but said: “It’s so delicious, it’s like drinking the sun into your stomach, it’s warm, if I can drink sweet red dates soup for a lifetime, how good would that be?”
Shao Yu, who was not far away, paused slightly when he heard these words.
Amao’s heartfelt emotion would be uttered by Shao Dabao to the general’s father countless times in the future, reminding the general again and again that he once begged outside and spent so many years of hard life in exchange for the general’s favor.
Shao Yu didn’t expect that Shao Dabao not only took over his identity, but also directly stole his words.
At this time, Shao Dabao’s disdainful words also sounded in his ears: “Red date sweet soup is nothing, you have no knowledge.”
Amao wasn’t angry when he said that, but instead laughed twice.
The two beggars sat outside the teahouse all morning. Perhaps because of the New Year, the passers-by were more kind to the beggars, and at the end of the day they also collected five coins.
Shao Dabao stared at the five cents of money in A Mao’s hand and said, “I’ve been hungry for so long, hurry up and take the money to buy something to eat.”
As an experienced beggar, A Mao shook his head and said, “You don’t need to buy it, today is New Year’s Eve, as long as you beg sincerely, there will definitely be kind-hearted people who will give you food. “
Shao Dabao was unhappy, and said with disgust: “You still let me eat leftovers for the New Year, and starve me like this, do you still want to be my brother?”
Amao has no relatives, so he treats Shao Dabao, who he picked up, as his own younger brother. He doesn’t get angry when he hears this, but patiently persuades him: “Dabao, five cents of money can only buy some steamed buns, but if you go to beg for food, maybe you can beg for meat.”
Amao has rich experience and knows that during the Chinese New Year, people are most generous. If he is lucky and meets a kind person, he will give them a piece of meat.
When Shao Dabao heard the word “meat”, he felt saliva rising from the root of his teeth. He never thought that one day he would be so greedy for meat.
But Amao was still carefully describing the taste of meat to him at this time. Amao might only eat meat once a year, so he spent a whole year carefully recalling the taste of meat, so that he could describe it in extremely detail.
“When I take a bite, my mouth squeaks with oil, and my mouth is filled with fragrance, which goes all the way to my stomach…”
Shao Dabao had never thought that someone could describe the taste of meat in this way. He even felt that all the meat he had eaten was in vain.
“Are you going to the city now?” Shao Dabao even asked eagerly.
Before Amao could answer, the two beggars sitting on the ground were shrouded in a shadow.
One person stood in front of the two people with his back to the sun.
Shao Dabao squinted his eyes. He felt as if a century had passed before he could see this man’s appearance clearly.
The rickety old man, for some reason, now looks extraordinarily tall.
“Dad…” Shao Dabao heard his own voice, full of unreal illusions.
When Amao heard this, he glanced at Shao Yu and then at Shao Dabao, feeling sad and happy at the same time. He felt envious and happy for Shao Dabao.
“You look a lot like my son.” Shao Yu said.
Amao was stunned. For some reason, he felt that Shao Yu was looking at him when he said this.
Shao Dabao also fully reacted at this time, and was about to pounce on Shao Yu, crying and shouting: “Dad, you finally found me!”
But Shao Yu ducked to the side very quickly, and Shao Dabao jumped directly into the air.
“Dad?” Shao Dabao asked in surprise.
Shao Yu looked at him and said, “I don’t know you.”
Shao Dabao lay on the ground, his heart was half cold, and he said, “Dad, this is not a joke.”
Shao Yu no longer looked at him, but turned to stare at Amao, and said again: “You look really like my son.”
Empressyue Corner
Well, now we know how Shao Dabao has been doing and that he’s also still a huge scumbag. Amao is such a sweetheart.
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