When the doorbell rang, the hollow vase in the entrance had been wiped repeatedly nearly six times. The housekeeper, who was over fifty years old, straightened his clothes again before opening the door, adjusted his facial expression, and took a deep breath to ensure that he would not reveal any flaws due to tiny details later.
"Uncle Tao?" The boy outside the door was thinner than when he just left home. Without asking, you could tell that he must have suffered a lot outside. However, his face still looked pitiful, and there were dried tear marks on his cheeks, which were red from the wind. Uncle Tao opened the door expressionlessly and motioned Shen Yannuo to come in by himself.
Sniffing his nose as he walked into his long-lost home, Shen Yannuo put the suitcase at Tao Bo's feet. Without noticing the slightly changing expression of the housekeeper, he went upstairs on his own. He had been feeling depressed all the way. When he left the airport and didn't see Shen Yunshu coming to pick him up, he cried for a long time before taking a taxi home. Now he just wanted to lie down on the little bed he had missed for a long time and have a good sleep, but before that he had to take a shower first.
But as soon as he stepped into the house, Shen Yannuo was stunned by the strangeness in front of him.
The living rooms of ordinary families are mostly used to entertain guests, but Shen Yunshu almost never brought people home, so this place was just sitting there idle. So after Shen Yannuo entered junior high school, he fortunately turned it into a game room. There was a huge multi-functional screen hanging on the wall, an interactive carpet on the floor, and various series and models of game consoles were arranged in a circle. There were several rows of cabinets behind the sofa to display his cartridges.
Most of the time, Shen Yannuo played alone. Shen Yunshu would occasionally accompany him to study new games when he had time. It was not until Shen Yannuo went to high school that he started to bring some classmates to his home to play, but mostly to show off.
But now, except for the screen on the wall, everything else is gone, even the sofa.
"Where are my things?" Shen Yannuo turned around and saw no one behind him. He ran back to the entrance and found that Tao Bo had been standing there and had not caught up with him. "Tao Bo, why are all the games in my living room gone?"
"Well, the original things have been disposed of, and the new furniture will arrive in a few days." After that, he handed the handle of the suitcase back to Shen Yannuo, and then stepped into the room, "I will take you to the room first, and also tell you about the future work content and precautions."
After Shen Yannuo heard that his things were disposed of, he didn't listen carefully to the rest of the conversation. He pushed the suitcase to the ground and said, "What do you mean by disposed of? You threw away all my games?"
There were many out-of-print cassettes in those cabinets, which could not be bought even if you had money. Shen Yannuo shouted angrily at Tao Bo's back, asking why they touched his things without permission, and whether Shen Yunshu hid them and deliberately deceived him. However, the other party did not answer any more questions about these, so Shen Yannuo followed Tao Bo all the way, and only when he reached the end of the west corridor on the first floor did he begin to realize that something was wrong.
"Someone has already cleaned the room. On the left is the utility room, and on the right is the warehouse." This means that he is the only one living in this corridor.
"What...what do you mean?" Shen Yannuo stared at Tao Bo's wrinkled face, trying to find some joking in it, "Did my dad say that? He punished me to sleep here and hid all my things."
Shen Yannuo grabbed the two plush balls on the knitted hat with both hands, frowning and obviously dissatisfied with this arrangement.
The content is not yet finished, continue reading on the next page. Tao Bo then turned around and faced Shen Yannuo, and said in a serious tone: "You should call him Mr., because from now on, you need to stay here and work until you pay off the money you owe Mr. Shen. This is clearly stated in the debt contract."
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"The contract is in a foreign language and I can't understand it! What does it say?"
Perhaps he had guessed what questions Shen Yannuo would ask, so Tao Bo pulled out the prepared contract translation from his tablet and handed it to Shen Yannuo. The young man read it word by word, very slowly, until he saw the bold amount, and shouted in shock: "Sixty-eight million! How could it be so much?"
The money Shen Yannuo owed at the casino plus the cabinet of famous liquor he smashed, all added up to no more than three or four million. After he entered high school, his monthly pocket money increased to half a million. In addition, he usually begged Shen Yunshu for rewards, so he had a lot of savings hidden in his small treasury. If the deposit in his account had not been swindled away by that B@st@ard Jiang Shangyi three months ago, this amount of money would be nothing to him.
But 68 million is not a small amount. Just deducting pocket money would take 150 months! No, 130 months? How many years is that? Shen Yannuo's brain was working fast. He had never spent so many brain cells on money.
"Of course, these are not just what you owe to the casino. This is also clearly written in another contract." Tao Bo gently swiped the tablet in Shen Yannuo's hand, waiting quietly for him to finish reading.
"Sever, the, father-son, relationship, agreement." Shen Yannuo read the big words at the top of the contract word by word, mechanically and without emotion. After reading it, he seemed to not understand it. He raised his head and asked innocently, "What does this mean?"
"Literally, you need to repay Mr. Shen for part of the child support he has paid over the years."
Severed, father and son, relationship, father and son relationship, severed, these words were repeatedly pieced together in Shen Yannuo's mind. When he understood what they meant, he suddenly realized: "Oh~ It means that I am not his son anymore, right?"
Tao Bo did not respond, but stared at Shen Yannuo calmly, alert to his next behavior. When he saw the boy smash the tablet in his hand to the ground, he quickly caught it before it fell to the ground and disintegrated, then counted down to three seconds in his mind. As expected, the boy's tragic cry echoed in the empty corridor.
On the other side, Shen Yunshu had just finished a high-level meeting. He had accumulated too many project documents during this period, so he rushed back to the company as soon as he returned to China. He glanced at the time and knew that Tao Bo would call him soon. He read a few documents in time, and the phone on the table rang.
"Hello, sir?"
"Well, go ahead." The boy's groaning and sniffling sounds could be clearly heard on the other end of the phone. Shen Yunshu put down the documents in his hand and focused all his attention on the call.
The content is not yet finished, continue reading on the next page "Sir, he said he wants you to, uh, tell him in person."
"Give me the phone! Let me listen!"
Shen Yunshu had already imagined Tao Bo holding up his phone while struggling to talk. He tapped his fingers on the desk and waited until the other end was a little quiet before he spoke: "Tell him that both contracts are legally binding. If he wants to continue living at home, he must follow the above."
"Shen Yunshu, what do you mean?!" The phone was finally snatched away by Shen Yannuo, and he yelled hysterically at the microphone, "I don't like this kind of joke, it's not funny! When will you come back?"
"Shen Yannuo, you are already an adult, do you think I will still spend so much energy playing with you?"
"What do you mean? You don't want me anymore? Why did you pick me up if you didn't want me?" There was silence on the other end of the phone. Shen Yannuo didn't wait for a response, and anger attacked his brain. "I say it again, I don't like this kind of joke! Shen Yunshu, you are too much!"
"Too much?" Shen Yunshu raised his eyebrows. "If you feel that staying in the casino is better than staying in my house, I am willing to take you back anytime."
"Where do you want to send me back to? Why don't you send me back to the orphanage?"
The fingers on the table paused. If Shen Yannuo was facing Shen Yunshu now, he would be able to see the terrifying gloom in the man's eyes, but at this moment there was a cell phone between them, so he could only hear the other person's slightly heavy breathing and his own sobs that gradually became unstoppable.
Without waiting for a response from the other side, Shen Yannuo threw the phone back to Tao Bo in anger, turned and entered the room, slammed the door with a loud bang, and then his trembling voice came from inside the door: "Tell him that I will die in the room soon, and he will have no son! When I die, he can send me wherever he wants! It's up to him, I will never talk to him again!"
There was no need for Tao Bo to convey the message, as Shen Yunshu heard it clearly. He frowned and gave Tao Bo an approximate time of arrival, and then told him not to pay attention to Shen Yannuo and let him just stay in the room and cry.
After hanging up the phone, Tao Bo touched his shirt wet with sweat. There was a muffled crying sound in the room. The child should be lying on the bed with his face buried in the pillow. Tao Bo sighed and felt that the difficulty and pressure of his work would reach an unprecedented level in the future.
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