royal family

At night, the Shao family's old house located in the middle of the mountain is quiet and beautiful.

Outside the window are the hazy shadows of the dense forest, the mountain wind howls, and the leaves make chaotic crackling sounds from time to time.Shao Wenqing couldn't sleep, so he got up and gently opened the dense curtains in the room. Outside the window was the front yard of the old house, which was empty enough to run a horse.Neat gardening and greening are built in two rows on the spacious roadside, and there are lotus ponds and plum gardens planted by Mr. Shao on the middle of the mountain. It takes a lot of effort from three gardeners just to take care of these.The Shao family has more than ten housekeepers, servants, cooks, drivers and gardeners, but this huge mansion still makes people feel dead and silent all the time.

Shao Yan's family felt better when they lived here before, but now that the old man has gone, Dafang left with his driver and helper, and immediately made Shao Wenqing, who didn't think the house was too big, feel desolate.

Every time at this time, Shao Yan's appearance would always pop up in his mind without warning.From the doormat-like face before to the last time he saw each other in school, Shao Yan's change has really reached the point where he can't help but look sideways.

The previous bloated and clumsy has disappeared at this time. Shao Wenqing recalled the scene of seeing Shao Yan running a few days ago. The other party was wearing a large sportswear with the zipper of the jacket open. Extending from the neckline of the shirt.His skin was almost dazzlingly white, and his facial features, which were five points similar to Shao's mother, became more and more colorful. When he was exercising, his body was full of lingering vitality and handsomeness.He never knew that Shao Yan would also have the ability to make people feel excellent by relying on his appearance. When the other party ran away, he hopped briskly, like a sparrow spreading its wings, making people who saw his figure People can't help but lighten up with their mood.

This change in just a few months made Shao Wenqing lament that life is really the best catalyst.

"Kang!" Such a crackling sound in the silent night seemed very frightening.

He turned his head and looked in the direction of the door for a while, struggling for a moment, then turned around and opened the door.

Although the old house is big, the main house used for living is not blindly pursuing spaciousness. After the door was opened, the quarrel between Shao Yubo and Liao Heying downstairs suddenly became clear.

"Can you stop making trouble for no reason?" Shao Yubo's voice was exhausted, as if he had been drunk.

"I'm making trouble for no reason?! Why don't you talk about yourself? You don't even look at what time it is, and you spend your days away from home, pretending that I don't know what you are doing?" Liao Heying never cared about her husband's late return in the past. The current style has become much more aggressive. Shao Wenqing doesn't want to admit it, but he can easily guess that all this is due to the recent changes in his grandfather's family.The Liao family, who had been unknown in province A for many years, finally had ample funds to manage. With enough qualifications, it would not be difficult to take advantage of the wind and take advantage of the wind.

"I'm very tired and I don't want to quarrel today."

"Do you think I want to quarrel with you? What do you think of this family? What do you think of me..." Liao Heying's voice turned into a cry, followed by a series of aggressive questioning and noise, Shao Yubo felt agitated for a while, The wife has become more and more ignorant these days, and her natal family has some skills, so she wants to intervene in everything about her husband's family. Some time ago, she even proposed to go to the group as a cashier in a whimsical way.He is already worried enough, this woman is still looking for trouble for him all day long.Zhu Shilin is now in the group all day long with the posture of being a dragon, and it is blatant to take advantage of it. When drinking today, he always said that a watch made by a foreign brand is so good, and the subtext in it is self-evident.Zhao Weibo's arrangement is not as simple as he thought before. Shao Gange's old restaurants are complicated, and the new restaurants in his hands are not much better. Zhao Weibo used to manage, but now After digging over, it is impossible to just let him flip the spatula. Can Zhao Weibo agree?But as soon as he was asked to take care of the new hotel, those high-level executives in the hotel began to talk about him.These are the old ministers left behind by the old man. Shao Yubo can't move now. Judging from their posture, it is quite possible to wear shoes for the paratroopers. Thinking of Zhao Weibo's complaint calls every three days in the future, Shao Yubo's scalp is numb. .

What made him even more distressed was the folk rumors that were gradually infiltrating outside the province these days.

What kind of quarrel between brothers, what kind of dispute over a century-old inheritance, messy remarks are rampant, and many people are very interested in such a biased division in the old man's will.After all, Shao Gange had never had any bad deeds when Mr. Shao was alive, and Dafang had a pretty good relationship with Mr. Shao, and he had never seen any obvious partiality from the outside.These messy voices made Shao Yubo toss and turn for several days.Especially seeing the controversy caused by the Shao family's family recipes.

When he thought of this, his heart turned cold, and when he looked at the face of his crying wife, he felt particularly disgusting.

Shao Wenqing didn't want to listen anymore, he closed the door silently, and when he was lying on the bed, he stared blankly at the glimmer of light coming from the gap between the not fully drawn curtains.

When he arrived at the school the next day, he stopped downstairs in the literature department for a long time, but still mustered up the courage to walk towards the small classroom of the literature class.He has something to say to Shao Yan.

There were a dozen or so students sparsely in the small classroom, and the old professor with a mustache had a hoarse voice. Shao Wenqing knocked on the door, and the whole classroom fell silent. The old professor asked him, "Who are you looking for?"

Someone in the classroom had already recognized who he was, and whispers continued all the time.

Shao Wenqing didn't find any trace of Shao Yan inside, so he hesitated for two seconds before asking, "Is Shao Yan not here today?"

"He asked for leave." The sheep-bearded old man squinted at him, and suddenly realized after a while, "Oh, you are Shao Yan's brother, right?"

Shao Wenqing was stunned for a moment, feeling a little happy for some reason: "...Yes."

"Call him, his dad called today to ask for sick leave. We're going to class now."

"I'm sorry." Shao Wenqing thanked him, closed the door, and took out his mobile phone all the way back. Shao Yan asked for sick leave?What's up with him?When the phone screen lit up and he subconsciously clicked into the address book, he stopped suddenly.

He never kept Shao Yan's phone number.

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Where did Shao Yan get sick? He was also drunk when he heard Shao's father call the school in front of a group of people in the morning, saying that his son was sick and anxious.

He originally thought Shao's father was a decent person based on his appearance, but he didn't expect that he was not good at learning and failed to discover the unreliability hidden in his character.

Although there is an old saying that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen, Shao Yan never objected to cooking from the very beginning.In the earliest days, he couldn't even guarantee his basic food and clothing. He entered the Imperial Catering Supervisor so that he would not struggle in the extreme cold. Later, he was lucky. He made his way to the top with his culinary skills, and until his death, who in the entire palace would dare to laugh at him for turning around the stove?

Although after coming here, he cooks mostly out of interest and basic needs of life, but he can't just turn a blind eye to the distressed situation in Shao's father's restaurants.Even if he didn't really consider the Shao family and his wife as his parents, Shao Yan was a person who would repay his kindness, whether it was the maids who helped him in the palace, or the boss who selflessly taught him the skill of making a tripod. After he gained power, he repaid all of them, not to mention the Shao family and his wife who have been caring for him since he came to modern times.

I don't know what the current situation of the Shao's restaurants is.He currently runs around the school and home, and he has limited contact with things. He only knows that the Shao family seemed to be very prosperous in the past. When the head of the Shao family passed away, for some reason, only the poor family wealth of the eldest son's family was left.In Shao Yan's view, this is an unbelievable thing. The disorder of the young and old seems to have become a new rule accepted by everyone in this dynasty.But even so, Shao Yan still occasionally hears people who are surprised at the unfair division of the Shao family's property. One can imagine how embarrassing the current situation of Shao's family is.

The modern division of status is not based on scholars, farmers, businessmen, but on assets and influence.Shao Yan has also guessed what kind of class his family should be in. From various comments, it must be impossible for a wealthy family, and the middle class is a bit off the mark, but Shao Yan can occasionally hear some hostile people when he goes to the cafeteria. Some people secretly talked about him, and from those words, he could feel that the Shao family's big house seemed to be a little far away from the middle class.Li Liwen told him that the rich people now only look at cars and watches, and the low-key ones only look at money and houses.Shao Yan himself didn't wear a watch, and Shao's father didn't seem to either. The watch that Shao's mother wore was also made of smooth cowhide, and it wasn't as luxurious as Li Liwen said.As for the cars, every time I go out, the streets are full of traffic jams. Cars in this world don't seem to be as expensive as the horse-drawn carriages in the past. With so many cars, there is probably one for each person. The Shao family's one looks like It's more beautiful, and probably a little more expensive.Money... Shao's father didn't seem to have given him any money since he gave him a card. Shao Yan had few places to spend money, and he never asked for it.On the contrary, Mother Shao saw that there was no cash in his wallet and stuffed some for him. Shao Yan counted only a dozen or so, similar to Li Liwen's and the others.Once when I was buying water at school, people in the first class clamored for treats, and a pile of mineral water made a piece of [-] pieces very small. From this point of view, the purchasing power of ten pieces of money is also very worrying.As for the house... Except for the place where I live, I don't seem to have heard Shao's mother talk about collecting rent from tenants, and I don't think I have bought any other properties.

The more Shao Yan thinks about it, the more pitiful he feels. The current financial situation of the Shao family's big house is probably enough for what people call a well-off society today, right?

Thinking of what Shao's father had told him to say that his family had been difficult recently so that he should not spend money recklessly, Shao Yan sighed, and basically came to a conclusion in his heart.

The car finally stopped, and the driver in front quickly got out of the car and opened the door. Shao Yan heard him say: "Sir, madam, the Tianfu store is here. Yanyan get down, be careful of the door."

Shao Yan didn't like the name the Shao family called him very much, but after all, as a newcomer, he couldn't overthrow the tradition casually, so he could only smile at the driver, and quickly got out of the car - the Shao family's car might really be expensive One point, it is more comfortable to sit in than many cars he has sat in outside.

What they arrived seemed to be a downtown area surrounded by high-rise buildings, which was much more prosperous than the vicinity of University A and Shao’s residence. People were bustling with people, and there was even a super-large TV installed on one of the buildings. Few foreign women were walking up and down, not knowing what they were performing.

Shao Yan rubbed his chin and stared at those foreign women for a while, and immediately lost most of his interest when he found that they had no breasts and no buttocks.He turned his head, Shao's father and Shao's mother were already walking together, and they were greeting him: "Yanyan, come here!"

Shao's father also looked very kind today, he didn't even ask Shao Yan to go to Shao's mother, but held Shao Yan's hand himself.His fingers were very rough, not at all in line with the pampered life of a rich man in the past. When he clenched his fingers, he would unconsciously tremble slightly.Shao Yan wanted to break free, but stopped when he saw the reddish corners of the opponent's eyes.In his previous life, he didn't have the chance to feel his father's love. Father Shao's duplicity of intimacy was strange and precious to him.

Shao's father was obviously not used to holding hands. After taking Shao Yan into the elevator, he let go, and turned to pat and pinch his son's body: "It's really grown up, look at this strong arm."

Shao Yan let him touch while he looked around. The building they entered could be described as resplendent and resplendent. The hall was extremely tall, and the hanging crystal lamps were quite large in size. There were transparent windows all the way in. , the slim plastic figures in the window are wearing various skirts, the walls and elevators seem to be pasted with gold foil, and there is a warm yellow and orange light everywhere.

He also felt that the Shao family's assets seemed to be different from what he had inferred, so he couldn't help but ask, "Does this building belong to us?"

"How?" Father Shao was surprised at first, but then he was relieved when he thought about Shao Yan's situation, and explained patiently, "Our old restaurant is on the top and second floors, a revolving restaurant with a sky garden and landscape. Every building can be used as a hotel! The Shao family doesn’t run a hotel.”

Zenith and Zenith second floor?Shao Yan recalled that the height of the building he saw outside was at least [-] or [-] floors. Does his own house only have two floors?Comparing it like this, I suddenly feel that it is so little, like renting a side garden in a back alley in a magnificent and luxurious mansion.

Sure enough, it's still well-off.

Shao Yan sighed, forget it, if you are poor, you can be poor, as long as your family is harmonious.Money can always be earned, but such a good family as Shao's father and Shao's mother may not be able to meet again.

The author has something to say: Shao Yan: "I was born in a poor family again... Oh, forget it!"

Li Liwen: [staring at Shao Yan's whole body with luxury equipment] [staring at the Bentley car delivering meals] [staring at the driver in a black suit] [staring at the American Express black card] "All friends."