Chapter 625: Taken down by his son

Ye Yaodong patted Ye Chenghu on the shoulder and said earnestly for once, "Son, let me tell you, we need to be low-key in what we do. If you're too high-profile, it's easy to steal the spotlight from others and invite hatred. Do you know what 'making a fortune in silence' means?"

Ye Chenghu looked at his father blankly and shook his head.

"It means avoiding letting others see the benefits you've earned. We shouldn't be too high-profile in how we conduct ourselves. When you're desperately showing off everywhere, you might invite jealousy, and in the dark, you'll dissipate your own fortune."

"There are mountains beyond mountains and people beyond people. What you're proud of might be nothing but fur to some people, and they might very well be looking at you like a clown."

"For example, the shark fin you showed off yesterday. In the eyes of the poor in our village, it's indeed a good thing, and it's worth showing off if you can eat it. But if you take it to your school and talk about it, you might just get slapped in the face. When a cadre's child looks at you with disdain and calls you a country bumpkin who hasn't eaten anything, and says this is worth talking about, what will you do?"

Ye Chenghu glared forward, his hands clenched into fists, "Beat him up!"

Ye Yaodong: "..."

Was his effort wasted?

But thinking about it, it didn't seem wrong; he should indeed beat him up!

"No, son, let me tell you, those who live high-profile lives and can't help but show off to the whole world the moment they have a little achievement are all short-sighted. They don't know how big the world is, just like frogs at the bottom of a well. We can't become people like that, can we?"

Ye Chenghu looked at him with a confused face, "Then how big is the world? Can't I just show off and chat a few sentences with friends in the village? They also told me they ate canned food yesterday and drank soda today, and I was so envious I drooled! Others show off to me too!"

Ye Chengyang licked his lips at this moment, "Dad, do you know what soda tastes like?"

"Of course, your father here has drunk so much he doesn't even want to drink it anymore."

"You're bragging! I've never seen you drink it!" Ye Chenghu didn't believe a word his father said. Who could drink so much soda they didn't want it anymore?

"Pfft~ Could I let you see me when I'm drinking it? If I let you see, would I have any left?"

Ye Chenghu was half-believing.

Ye Chengyang didn't think much of it, just looked at Ye Yaodong longingly, "Then Dad, can you let me have a sip next time you buy it?"

"Depends on my mood!"

Lin Xiuqing looked at the father and son speechlessly. This father was really something. Wasn't he teaching the child? How did he get led astray by the child and end up talking about drinking soda?

"What are you talking about? Weren't you teaching the child?"

"Ah, right, you little brat, you nearly fooled me!"

Ye Chenghu giggled, "No, I didn't say anything. You're the one who said you've drunk so much soda you don't want it anymore."

Ye Yaodong was stunned for a moment. That seemed to be the case?

"No, what I just told you, did you listen to it?"

"Yes, you secretly buy soda to drink outside every day and don't tell us, don't let us know. Now we all know."

This little brat!

Ye Yaodong knocked him on the head, "Don't bicker with me. I told you to change your habit of showing off. Did you hear me?"

"Why? Others show off to me, so I can only watch them enviously, but I can't let others watch me enviously? That won't do, that's so unfair. I also want everyone to envy me for having a good dad and a good mom, better than their parents."

Hearing this, the couple felt extremely comfortable inside.

Ye Yaodong was also happy. He was indeed a good dad!

"Then just let others show off. Don't envy them, isn't that enough? Just look at them like they're idiots."

"But I really am envious. Others have things I don't, others have eaten things I haven't. I still don't know what soda tastes like. Yesterday, Shitou told me how sweet and delicious it is, and it bubbles, and it sizzles in the bowl. It's so magical."

"There's nothing to be envious about. Whatever others have, you come back and tell me, and I'll get it for you! I'll buy you soda when we go back!" Ye Yaodong said domineeringly.

Isn't it just a bottle of soda? What's there to be envious of others for?

Other people's kids have things to eat, why should his kids drool watching others eat?

He might not have the ability to get other things, but he could still get his own kids a bottle of soda so they wouldn't have to envy others.

Ye Chenghu jumped up instantly, surprised and shouting loudly, "Really? You'll buy me soda to drink when we go back?"

They were waiting for the bus home on the roadside in Jinjia Town. There were a few other people waiting not far away, and they were all attracted by Ye Chenghu's surprised shouting and looked over.

"Keep it down. It's just a bottle of soda, what's there to be excited about?"

Lin Xiuqing also gave Ye Yaodong a reproachful pat, "I just told your son not to show off so much, how did you end up supporting it while talking?"

"How am I supporting it? A bottle of soda, why would they need to envy others..."

"And you're still not supporting it? You even said if others have it, he should come back and tell you, and you'll get it for him! If this isn't supporting it, what is? You're supporting him in showing off back. Where did that low-key talk go? You're an adult, and you're actually being persuaded by a child. If he envies others for having stars, will you pluck stars for him? If others have the moon, will you pluck the moon for him?"

"That's two different things."

"Whose child can have whatever they want? He's one of sixty or seventy kids in his class. Everyone has something he doesn't, and he envies them, and you get it all back for him? How can you spoil him like that? You just told him not to show off so much, and now you're preparing to be his backer."

"Uh..."

He thought about it and felt that what Aqing said seemed right; it seemed to be the logic.

He couldn't be the capital for his child's showing off, nor his backer. He couldn't just get everything back for him so he wouldn't envy others and could show off back. That wouldn't do.

"Forget I said anything. If you envy what others have, then you work hard to study and earn money to realize what you want. You can't rely on your parents for everything. When you study and achieve something, you can buy these things yourself."

Can't he buy them?

By the time he achieves something, it will be more than ten years later. If he doesn't achieve anything, it will also be more than ten years later.

Ye Chenghu was instantly on the verge of tears. He was happy for nothing. His mother was so hateful. His father had clearly agreed just now, and now it was gone.

"Dad, you can't go back on your word."

He had a slumped face and was about to cry.

By the time he achieved something through studying, it would probably be difficult in this lifetime. So he wouldn't be able to drink soda in this lifetime. Tears...

"What did I say? I taught you to make a fortune in silence, to envy others less, and just look at others like they're idiots. Did you listen?"

Looking at others like they're idiots, that's definitely no problem.

"I listened, I'll definitely do as you say. If people show off to me, I'll definitely look at them like they're idiots. But the soda you promised, you can't forget it." Ye Chenghu was fixated on the soda his father had just promised, still brooding over it.

Kids are just like that; they will firmly remember the things you promise them.

Lin Xiuqing always felt that when her eldest son described looking at others like they were idiots, she automatically replaced this "idiot" with Ye Yaodong in her mind.

Teaching the child, he had only taught a few sentences, and before seeing any effect, he had already lost a bottle of soda?

She didn't know how he taught it. At the beginning, that long-winded speech he gave, she felt he spoke quite well, and it was rare for him to speak so reasonably and with such a high level, but she didn't expect him to be so vulnerable and be taken down by his eldest son. ===== CHAPTER 626 =====