Volume 1 The Boy Chapter 48 The New Year is coming
Today is the New Year of the Five Domains, the eighth day of Carlo's death.
In the past, every New Year's Day, the bustling merchant mansion was surprisingly deserted, most of the servants went home on vacation, and only a small number of homeless people continued to stay in the merchant mansion to do some chores.
Several of Shang Hao's uncles also rushed back from other places, and the merchants have been in business for generations, and several of Shang Hao's cousins did not have the slightest magical talent, and they also began to take over the family business very early.
And in the past dozens of generations, Shang Hao, the only one who has awakened his magical talent, pinned the expectations of the entire Shang family, and the elders of the Shang family are naturally extremely concerned about Shang Hao's affairs.
In the face of the death of this elf who brought great help to the Shang clan, the opinions of several elders were unanimous, and the entire Shang clan saw him off in silence.
After experiencing the initial sadness, Shang Hao quickly cleaned up his emotions.
The dead are gone, and the living are like this.
Sitting in the room, Shang Hao was sorting out his cultivation plan for the next stage when there was a sudden knock on the door. Shang Hao put down the pen in his hand, and just as he was about to speak, the door had been pushed open, and a small head poked in from outside the door, looking a little similar to Shang Hao.
Shang Hao looked at the child's appearance, smiled a little happily and asked, "Shang Yi, why did you come here again, you can't practice martial arts well, uncle knows it's time to train you again."
"It's Brother Shang Ming who asked me to call you to lunch" Shang Yi pushed open the door and walked in, staring at Shang Hao with two big eyes, and quickly walked to Shang Hao's side.
Shang Hao smiled and picked up Shang Yi and sat on his lap, and asked, "Is Brother Shang Ming back too?"
"Brother Shang Hao, you stay in the room every day and don't go out, Brother Shang Ming came back yesterday, you don't know" Shang Yi looked at Shang Hao and pouted and said.
"Okay, okay, it's me wrong, right? let's go eat" Shang Hao smiled and touched Shang Yi's little head, put Shang Yi off his lap, and got up and walked outside.
"You've grown so tall, it's time for your magic to awaken this year, right?"
"That's right, I'm going to test it again after the New Year, but it's probably useless, the magic talent of our Shang bloodline is already very low, and it's already very good to be able to produce Shang Hao, Brother Hao, you have a high talent!"
Although Shang Yi is not very old, only six years old, but when he speaks, Shang Hao couldn't help but pat Shang Yi's head and said with a smile, "Uncle is counting on you to fight for a breath."
When Shang Yi was three years old, he was playing with his mother in the back garden, and when his mother chatted with Lin Nan, he was not paying attention, and Shang Yi walked to the edge of the pool and fell down. The pool in the back garden of the Shang Mansion was still very deep, but when Shang Yi fell, the huge pool was frozen in an instant.
The cold qi released around Shang Yi's body even covered the flowers and plants around the pool. When the family hurriedly picked up Shang Yi, he had fallen into a coma, and the cold disappeared, and then Shang Yi was in a coma for three days, with a high fever that did not go away.
The family invited many doctors to diagnose it, and they all said that this was a precursor to the awakening of magic power, which made Shang Hao's uncle Shang Yun very happy, and invited a teacher to teach Shang Yi to rest some basic magic knowledge and train him.
But until now, Shang Yi has not awakened any magical talent at the age of six. At that time, Carlo also checked for Shang Yi when he lived in the Shang Mansion, but he couldn't find any problems.
Shang Hao and Shang Yi chatted and walked towards the restaurant, and when they walked to the restaurant, there were already three tables of people. The two tables on the outside are a group of elders, and the innermost ones are a group of juniors.
As soon as Shang Yi arrived at the door of the restaurant, he let go of Shang Hao's hand and ran to the innermost table with a slightly chubby man, who held Shang Yi on the side of the seat, and then waved to Shang Hao with a smile.
"Shang Hao, come on, just wait for you to come over and start dinner!"
The one who beckoned was Shang Ming, the son of Shang Hao's uncle's family, the oldest in Shang Hao's generation. Shang Hao smiled and waved in response to Shang Ming, then looked at the elders sitting at the outer table.
Most of the family is in the field to take care of the family's industry, usually rarely go home, Shang Hao is also difficult to see these elders, Shang Hao's uncles have treated Shang Hao very well since childhood, and they greeted several elders very warmly.
"Hao'er hasn't come out recently, and the uncle hasn't seen you for two days since he came home"
"Hao'er has a future, I heard that Hao'er won the first place in the freshman competition of Tianfeng Academy, and our Shang clan finally has someone who has attainments in magic. ”
"Those two stinky boys in my family can't do it, even if they don't have magic talent, they don't do a good job of taking care of the industry, the accounts went wrong a few days ago, and I was angry"
Facing the words of the elders, Shang Hao was also a little helpless. It was the second brother Shang Que who relieved Shang Hao.
"Dad, don't dislike me every day, let Xiao Hao come over for dinner, he hasn't come out to eat this morning."
As soon as Shang Hao heard Shang Que speak, he immediately broke away from the concern of several uncles, and walked quickly to sit next to Shang Yi. After Shang Hao sat down, he found that there was one more person than in previous years, and looked at the woman sitting next to Shang Ming with some curiosity.
Shang Ming noticed Shang Hao's actions, looked at Shang Hao and chuckled, "This is your sister-in-law, Jia Sophie, we will be married in two years"
In fact, without waiting for Shang Ming to explain, Shang Hao probably guessed the identity of this woman, he had already heard his family talk about Shang Ming's fiancée, but Shang Hao had never seen it.
"Xiao Hao, we also heard from my aunt about Mr. Carlo, don't be too uncomfortable, after all, Mr. Carlo is also happy to finish the last period of his life" Shang Que, who was sitting on the side, opened his mouth to comfort Shang Hao.
"Third brother is fine, I'm fine" Shang Hao is now very relieved about Carlo's departure, at this time, Shang Hao is more concerned about the affairs of the Seven Clans League, only by making himself strong first, can he better understand Carlo's past.
"You too, Hao'er, this is not good, why are you talking about these unhappy people, come on, come on, it's the last day of the year, everyone is together, forget all the unhappiness of this year" Shang Ming, who was the eldest brother, took the lead, raised his wine glass, and greeted the others.
"Yes, don't talk about these unhappy people, Hao'er hasn't come out to accompany us in the past few days, so you have to drink some today" Shang Que also looked at Shang Hao with a smile with a wine glass.
"You kid, you know that there is trouble, a few younger brothers and sisters can't drink enough, you let them drink less!" As soon as Shang Que's voice fell, the second uncle at the table next to him raised his voice, and Shang Que was immediately stunned.
Rolling his eyes helplessly, Shang Que said, "I know, Dad, I'm not young anymore, you always save me some face!"
Then Shang Que leaned into Shang Hao's ear and whispered, "Leave him alone, let's continue drinking."
Everyone laughed, Shang Hao's second uncle and Shang Que are both very easy-going people, they are noisy at home on weekdays, but the relationship between the two fathers and sons is very good.
With this commotion, the atmosphere that originally talked about Carlo was a little low again, Shang Hao took advantage of everyone's inattention, and quietly poured a little to the little Shang Yi next to him, Shang Yi's face was flushed after drinking, very cute.
After a while, Shang Yi fell asleep in Shang Ming's arms, although there was no big business in previous years, but this New Year's family party was still very lively.