"That's right!" The lady boss echoed, "She originally wanted to throw it away, but then she realized that she had spent money to buy it, so she let him work in the store to pay off the debt."
"Work to pay off debts?" Su Luo frowned: "Is there such a thing?"
The lady boss nodded repeatedly: "Of course! Once the money he earns from working offsets the money he paid for, we'll kick him out!
If you ask me, it's a sin. Before I got pregnant, the family wasn't very nice to the child. They either beat or scolded her all day long and slapped her every day. She was a good child. When she was first bought, she was like a little tiger, very smart and chubby!
Now, he is scolded like a little mute. He doesn’t fight back when he is beaten, and he doesn’t talk back when he is scolded.
Even when I'm sick I have to come to the store to help.
Tell me, what can such a young child do after being kicked out? The biological parents who sold him must not be good people! "
Su Luo listened and felt scolded. She smiled awkwardly: "Yeah..."
Since this family was not nice to him, Su Luo had to take them away quickly.
She had lunch in town and wanted to secretly climb over the wall to see the child in the afternoon, fearing that he might get sick and faint with no one to take care of him. But who knew that the child actually came out by himself.
Eyes met.
Su Luo awkwardly retracted her feet from climbing the wall: "What..."
Gu Xiaoer casually withdrew his gaze and turned towards the restaurant.
Su Luo peeked through the crack in the door and saw that the yam and date cake that she had thrown in that morning was still lying there, motionless.
She looked at the child worriedly and followed him.
It was past dinner time and there were not many people in the restaurant.
When the boss saw him coming, he was so angry that he hit him on the back again: "Why didn't you come here earlier if you could get up! You little bastard, you pretended to be sick and didn't want to work in the morning, right? I was busy running around in the afternoon and I was exhausted, and you were sleeping at home!"
He hit it twice again, feeling unsatisfied.
"Stop hitting him!" Su Luo couldn't stand it anymore and rushed into the store: "He's just a child, why are you hitting him so hard?"
"Hey, what does it have to do with you how I discipline my son? Who are you?" The boss glared at her unhappily.
Su Luo was about to speak when she met the murderous gaze of Gu Xiaoer behind her, as if he would pounce on her and bite her if she said she was his mother.
Su Luo had no choice but to change her words: "I just can't stand you beating the child like this. He doesn't look well. If you have anything to say, you can talk to him properly."
"Talk? I talked to him till my mouth dropped but he wouldn't listen, what a stubborn bastard!" The boss was so angry that he raised his hand to hit him again.
Su Luo quickly stopped him: "Stop hitting me!"
The boss was interrupted by her twice and became a little angry. Business was already bad today, and now a nosy woman came in. He was so furious that he was about to raise his hand to hit her.
"Don't bother me!" Gu Xiaoer suddenly rushed out and pushed Su Luo away: "My parents beat me and taught me a lesson, what does it have to do with you? What right do you have to come here to make a fuss? Who do you think you are?"
Su Luo was pushed and was stunned for a moment. She said seriously: "But it is wrong for them to beat you like this. Even if they are your biological parents, they can't beat you like this, right?"
The words "biological parents" irritated the owner and his wife of the store.
The proprietress rushed out and said angrily, "Who are you? You are so nosy! Is it your turn to interfere with our son? Are we supposed to worship him like an ancestor?"
"That's right!" The boss said even more stubbornly, "We've been so good to him, how can we not give him a few orders? If it weren't for us, would he be alive today? He would have starved to death long ago!"
Gu Xiaoer stopped talking.
Su Luo wanted to say something else.
Gu Xiaoer glared at her coldly, as if he was going to tear her to pieces if she stayed any longer.
Su Luo had no choice but to leave the restaurant.
The child blames her and has a grudge against her.
She has to take it slow.
Su Luo didn't stay in the town for too long. The people from the chicken farm would deliver chickens in the afternoon, so she had to go back.
As she walked out of the restaurant, she could still hear the cursing going on inside.
"If it weren't for us, who would have fed and clothed you? You would have starved to death long ago!"
"If it wasn't us, who would you go to as a child? Who would want you? How could you stand here and be scolded by us?"
“Don’t think you’ll suffer just because we scold you and hit you a few times.
Let me tell you, there are so many miserable children out there!
Aren’t the children who dig coal in the mountains suffering?
Aren’t the children who pick up garbage miserable?
We just asked you to wash the vegetables, dishes, sweep the floor and clean the house. These are the chores that are done at home. How are you tired?"
“And it’s good enough that we give you one meal a day, at least you have something to eat, right?
You won’t starve to death outside, right?
Don't be ungrateful, okay?
Don’t think that just because someone suddenly comes out to stand up for you, you will really feel wronged. What are you wronged about?
We are the ones who feel wronged. We have to support an extra person for no reason. We have done our best by not kicking you out. You should work like a slave in the store. You will never be able to repay our kindness in your lifetime!"
"Do you think your parents who gave birth to you were kind to you, but we who raised you are not kind to you?
How difficult is it to make money nowadays?
Aren’t we getting up early and working late every day to open a shop and do business to make money all for this family, so that we can give you a shelter from the wind and rain and a hot meal?
We suffer all this because of you, all for you, you should work like a slave to repay us!
Don't have a dead face all day long. When you run a shop and do business, customers want to see a smiling face. Are you a dead person and can't you smile?"
Su Luo returned home, absentmindedly paid the chicken farm, and began to sort the chickens.
Gu Yi came back from Aunt Niu's house and was stunned to see her so absent-minded: "Mom..."
"Hmm?" Su Luo forced a smile: "Are you back?"
Gu Yi asked tentatively: "Are you unhappy? Didn't you find your brother?"
Su Luo's smile quickly collapsed: "I'm not happy. I'm so sad, baby. Although I found your brother, his new parents don't treat him well at all, and he refuses to come back with me. I'm so sad."
Gu Yi's eyes lit up: "Found it? I'll go and convince him! Mom, I'll go and tell him, he will definitely be willing to come back!"
Su Luo thought about it, shook her head and said, "I'll try it myself first, and then I'll call you if it doesn't work. After all, it was mom who sold him, so I have to show my sincerity and ask for his consent before I can ask him to come home, right?"
"Yeah!" Gu nodded crisply.
After they finished their work, they sold all the braised meat with great enthusiasm early the next morning and took the cart back home.
It was only 10 o'clock when Su Luo set out for the neighboring town again.
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