Is the beginning of a catastrophe? The little farm cook is raising a family with a full warehouse.

"What? I said my name is Shaobing!" The little beggar seemed to be angry and embarrassed. He stomped his feet and shouted.

Cheng Yuntao was startled by his sudden emotional outburst and staggered back two steps. She felt a push on her back and turned her head to see that it was Jiang Yu who was giving her a hand.

"Thank you."

After seeing her stand firm, Jiang Yu withdrew his hand, stepped aside and kept some distance.

"nothing."

After stabilizing himself, Cheng Yuntao said calmly, "Okay, Shaobing, I'll remember your name."

Shaobing was a little surprised to see that Cheng Yuntao didn't laugh at his name out loud, and his attitude became more serious than before. At least he no longer looked at people with sidelong glances.

"Aren't you curious why my name is Shaobing?"

"If you want to share, I'd love to listen."

"..."

The other party's attitude was beyond Shaobing's original expectations. Not only was he not ridiculed, but he was also not questioned maliciously, which made him a little uncomfortable.

He rubbed his nose with his hand somewhat awkwardly, his eyes wandering, not daring to look at others, with an indescribable sense of shame and uneasiness in his eyes.

After hesitating for a moment, he spoke and slowly explained the reason: "I am an abandoned child." This short sentence contained a huge amount of information.

"That day, my mother bought me a whole pancake. I still remember how it tasted. It was crispy and had some meat scraps inside. It was delicious!"

When the little beggar was reminiscing, a smile unconsciously appeared on his face, as if he had returned to the past.

"My mother told me that she had to run some errands and it was inconvenient for her to take me with her, so she asked me to wait for her by the sesame cake stand. When she had almost finished eating the sesame cakes, she came back."

As the topic changed, the little beggar's mood began to gradually become depressed.

"It was the first time I had such delicious pancakes. I thought I'd save half for my mother when she came back. But I stood by the pancake stall, waiting and waiting. The sun went down, and the owner of the pancake stall packed up and went home, but my mother didn't come back."

Gradually, the little beggar's tone became tinged with anxiety.

Through these words, Cheng Yuntao seemed to see a child, holding tightly in his hand the remaining half of a cold pancake, standing beside the pancake stall, looking for his mother among the crowd.

He tilted his little face up, stretched his neck as far as he could, and opened his eyes wide, filled with anxiety and anticipation.

Every person who passed by would make his eyes light up for a moment, then dim again, and so on and so forth, with disappointment and hope alternating on his young face.

But his feet seemed to have taken root, firmly fixed in place, without moving at all, and he held the pancake in his hand even tighter.

"I remembered that my mother said she would come back after she finished eating the sesame cakes. I had been waiting for her all day and was hungry, so I ate the remaining cakes. But after I finished the cakes, my mother still didn't show up."

"My mother is gone, my sesame cakes are gone, and no one wants me anymore... From that day on, I started wandering around. I was even kidnapped and sold, and ended up here."

"As the days passed, my memory began to blur. I couldn't remember my name or where I came from. All I remembered was the sesame seed bun I held in my hand that day. I was afraid that even this would be forgotten, so I just called myself Shaobing."

After hearing this story, even Jiang Yu, who had previously disliked him very much, relaxed his expression and no longer looked disgusted and averse as he did at the beginning.

"Stop pretending to sympathize with me, you vicious weirdo!"

This tender moment didn't last for three seconds before Shaobing started to retort, completely driving away the few feelings of guilt that Jiang Yu had in his heart.

"You! You little bastard! You deserve a beating!"

"If Yun Tao hadn't stopped me today, I would have beaten your butt to a pulp!" Jiang Yu crossed his arms in front of his chest and turned his head away speechlessly.

"Shaobing, I know you must have suffered a lot and been wronged a lot over the years."

"Can you tell me why you stole this worthless purse?"

Cheng Yuntao raised the purse in her hand and asked softly. She always felt that there must be other reasons behind this.

"This purse is very special, different from the ones sold on the market. I remember my mother had a similar one, so I..."

Shaobing didn't finish his next words, but Cheng Yuntao could already understand the implication of his words.

"I understand, but this doesn't justify stealing other people's property."

"When people are in dire straits, struggling to make ends meet, they may accidentally take the wrong path. Stealing food to fill their stomachs, stealing clothes to keep warm, these bad actions driven by the instinct for survival are understandable, but when they go beyond that, it's the desires of the heart that are at work."

These words left Shaobing stunned. He raised his head and blinked his eyes, but he didn't even respond to the sharp rebuttal he had made before.

Jiang Yu felt it was a little strange and couldn't help but stare at him a few more times. As a result, he got another glare from Shaobing, which made him so angry that he had nothing to say and felt that they didn't get along with each other.

"My sister loves this purse. She'll be upset if you steal it, not to mention that you deliberately bumped into her and caused her physical pain. You must come back with me, return the purse to her in person, and apologize to her."

"If she's willing to forgive you, then I won't hold it against you and will let you go. If she refuses to forgive you, then we'll hand you over to the authorities so that you'll learn a lesson and never steal from others again."

Cheng Yuntao leaned over, moved closer, stared at Shaobing seriously and said.

"What? I have to go and apologize to her in person?"

Perhaps because he felt it was troublesome or embarrassed, Shaobing stood there awkwardly, unwilling to move.

But Cheng Yuntao refused to give in at all, acting in a businesslike manner: "If you don't even have this little sincerity, you should just send it directly to the government."

Shaobing was actually not afraid of going to the government office because he knew that the people there were very busy and had no time to care about a petty thief like him.

But when he caught a glimpse of Cheng Yuntao's serious expression, an idea suddenly popped up in his mind. He felt that he could not let others down like this.

"I'll go with you..."

"what?"

"I said I'll go with you to apologize."

After saying this, Shaobing turned his head to the side, as if this was his biggest concession.

Cheng Yuntao smiled with relief and did not dislike him. She took the initiative to hold his hand and led him towards the tea stall.

"Let's go now without further delay."

Now not only Shaobing was surprised, Jiang Yu was even more stunned.

"You know, I'm the boss here. If my brothers see me, how am I going to survive in the future?!"

Shaobing's hands struggled slightly, but he kept shouting.

Cheng Yuntao remained calm on the surface, but was actually laughing in her heart.

This kid is so stubborn.