"Want to jump again?"
Shao Xiang shook his head: "I won't jump anymore, I won't jump anymore, but... ..."
He then sat down, hugging his knees, and remained silent.
He thought of his father and Chu Fang, and comparing the two, Shao Xiang felt an immense sense of loneliness.
Today, he pestered his grandfather to let Shao Bowen come to participate in the parent-child activity, but the result was quite disappointing.
"Why did you want to jump off the cliff?" Chu Jin asked, tilting her head to the side.
Chu Zhi calmly asked, "Is it because he's your father?"
Shao Xiang pouted.
Chu Jin thought for a moment and said, "Your father is indeed useless."
Among the many parents, the oldest was unable to do anything. He came to participate in the parent-child activity and worked in the car, with almost no interaction with the others present.
Three children sat on the mountaintop, looking down below.
"Chu Jin, Chu Zhiye."
Just then, Chu Fang's voice came from afar.
He finally found his two children and rushed over, shouting at the top of his lungs.
"What did you two do here? You scared me to death!" Chu Fang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the two children were unharmed.
Just now, he was so anxious that he didn't know what was going on. He was imagining that the two children had been kidnapped and that he had to go and raise money.
"Let's play here," Chu Jin said excitedly, snuggling into his arms.
"You can't do that again." Chu Fang flicked his daughter's forehead. "If you two disappeared, your father and mother would be heartbroken."
"How heartbroken were you, Dad?"
"I'm very sad."
How heartbroken are you?
Chu Fang rolled her eyes at her daughter.
Can you please ask your question properly?
Just then, the kindergarten teachers and parents arrived. Seeing that the three children were unharmed, everyone was overjoyed.
Chu Fang, holding his daughter, patted his son on the back of the head: "Let's go, let's go down the mountain."
The group then descended the mountain, and by the time they reached the bottom, night had fallen.
Chu Fang approached Shao Bowen's car and said, "Brother, your child has been found. He was just going up the mountain to enjoy the scenery. It's nothing serious. Don't be angry; it was just the child's curiosity."
He learned from his child that Shao Xiang wanted to jump off a cliff, but he didn't say it aloud; he just used a more euphemistic way of putting it.
Shao Xiang stood still, remaining silent.
Shao Bowen finally finished his work, looked up, got out of the car, walked in front of Shao Xiang, and then slapped Shao Xiang across the face:
"I've told you countless times, don't cause me any trouble, don't you remember?"
The slap was hard, and Shao Liang's face quickly became red and swollen. Tears streamed down his face as he sobbed softly.
"I'm already doing you a favor by accompanying you to this so-called event today. You're ungrateful for my kindness and have caused such a mess, wasting everyone's time and interfering with my work," Shao Bowen said calmly.
“Cry, cry, cry, still crying. As a man, the only thing you can think of is to cry. What value do you have? If you can only cry, then you don’t deserve to be my son, Shao Bowen.”
Shao Bowen lifted his leg, and seeing this, Chu Fang hurriedly stopped him: "Brother, brother, don't be angry. The child is so young, how would he understand these things?"
"What business is it of yours how I educate my own child?" Shao Bowen frowned and shook him off. "Don't think that just because you're doing so well here, you're all that great."
“I don’t think it’s impressive, it’s just that you can’t educate children this way,” Chu Fang said.
He has been a father for three years and has learned a lot from his experience. He believes that it is best to avoid using intimidation or violence when educating children, as every instance of violence can leave a lifelong pain in a child's memory.
He had never beaten Chu Fang's two children since they came into the world. If they misbehaved, he would talk to them and slowly teach them to understand the world.
Children are not stupid at all; on the contrary, they are quite shrewd. If you have a heart-to-heart talk with your child, they will understand.
“I don’t need you to teach me how to do it,” Shao Bowen said in a deep voice. “I’ve gotten to where I am today because of my own abilities and my understanding of the world. You’re just a rich kid; you’re not worthy.”
Among the many parents, Chu Fang was considered young and handsome, so Shao Bowen naturally assumed that Chu Fang was a rich second-generation and couldn't help but look down on him a bit.
Chu Fang frowned: "Although I am not old, I know how to be a person and how to be a father."
Since Shao Bowen said that this was suspected of being a personal attack, he naturally wouldn't give him any face.
"I think I'm the best father in the world!" Shao Bowen said. "I provide him with the best material conditions, food, clothing, and housing. It even cost hundreds of thousands to send him to kindergarten. Go and ask around, how many families can provide this kind of life?"
Chu Fang said softly, "My home."
Shao Bowen glanced at him, then smiled disdainfully: "If it weren't for your parents' contributions, you wouldn't even be worthy of standing here and talking to me. If you were to compete with me in business, I would beat you to a pulp."
He paused for less than a second, then continued, "Alright, I don't want to talk to a rich kid like you who doesn't know the hardships of life."
"I have achieved everything I have today through hard work, and you are not qualified to lecture me."
After saying that, Shao Bowen got into the car and called out to Shao Xiang, "Get in the car."
Shao Xiang got into the car while sobbing, and then the driver drove away.
Watching the car disappear from sight, Chu Fang couldn't help but curse, "Damn it! You're insane!"
He just didn't understand. He tried to persuade himself, so why did she start arguing with him?
"Why is his father like this?" Chu Fang asked.
Chu Jin shook her head: "I don't know."
Chu Zhi stroked his chin and said softly, "From a psychological perspective, when a person is in a high position, their tone of voice will naturally carry an air of arrogance when speaking to people of lower status."
"When Shao Xiang's father said those things, it meant that he..."
Chu Fang chimed in, "It means he looks down on me."
"That means in his eyes, you and Shao Xiang are on the same level," Chu Zhiye said.
Chu Fang scratched the back of his head: "So he thinks I'm his son?"
"Hmm... ...that's one way to understand it."
Chu Fang pinched his son's cheek: "You're no good, you never study well, stop reading those miscellaneous books."
They even mentioned taking psychology courses.
If I keep talking like this, I'll become Shao Bowen's grandson...
It was already dark by then, and many parents left one by one. Chu Fang said goodbye to the teacher, thanked her for her help, and then drove away with the two children.
On the way back, Shao Bowen stared at the computer screen, while Shao Xiang sat beside him, sobbing softly.
"Still crying?"
Upon hearing this, fear flashed in Shao Xiang's eyes, and he slowly stopped crying.
Shao Bowen couldn't help but think of Chu Fang's appearance and snorted; "What right does that kid have to lecture me? I've eaten more salt than he's eaten rice."
As night fell, the car slowly made its way home.
As soon as the car stopped, Shao Bowen strode out, and Shao Xiang's mother, Xu Yuexin, quickly came up and asked, "Did you enjoy participating in the event today?"
"Happy?" Shao Bowen turned his head and looked at his son sitting in the car. "Don't ask me for these kinds of events again, and don't go begging your grandfather."
"After what happened today, I hope you can mature and stop acting like a child. At your age, I've already taken on a lot of family responsibilities. If you continue to be so immature, I'll consider whether I'll give you a share of the family property in the future."
"I hope you will take care of yourself."
Shao Bowen strode into the villa.
Xu Yuexin didn't know what was wrong, and then she heard her son burst into tears. She comforted him, "It's okay, it's okay..."
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