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Chapter 4 Daren's Dreams and Responsibilities

Chinese Wang Daren was secretly returning to school with Karon at this time.

Wang Daren studied in a local high school. Although Wang Daren's grades are pretty good, he ranks well in the school - exams are considered the first talent of Chinese people. At this point, Wang Daren, who often skips classes, completely embarrasses the Chinese people.

Wang Daren often skips classes and doesn't care about going to school at all, which not only causes headaches for the school teachers, but also causes great headaches for his stepmother Lores.

The school in Portugal ended very early in the afternoon. Wang Daren picked up his younger brother Wang Dayi, a dark-skinned yellow-black mixed-race boy at the school gate.

This is Wang Daren's half-brother.

However, when it comes to this younger brother, Wang Daren is always a little uncomfortable. Wang Dayi, who is only eleven years old this year, has completed his pre-high school course early and is now in his third year of high school. Daren, who is six years older than Dayi, is only in his first year of high school...

This comparison always makes me look very stupid. My eleven-year-old brother is in the third year of high school, while my 17-year-old brother is in the first year of high school...

With this comparison, Wang Daren is even more reluctant to go to school. His eleven-year-old brother is going to college, and no matter how hard he works in his studies, he can't keep up.

Why not go out to work early to make money...

"You skipped the class again!!" The black boy Wang Dayi ran out of the school gate and shouted in Chinese when he saw Wang Daren for the first time.

Wang Daren took out a bag of marshmallows from his bag and stuffed them.

Wang Dayi immediately smiled and said, "Just one pack?"

Another bag of marshmallows stuffed over, and Wang Dayi was completely satisfied.

"You're so sweet!"

Daren lifted Dayi's schoolbag.

"Do you want so many books in your senior year?"

"No, I'm already studying college courses in advance." Wang Dayi said while stuffing marshmallows into his mouth.

"Let's go, go home!" Wang Daren rolled his eyes. He was always under a lot of pressure with such a younger brother.

"Not waiting for my sister?" Wang Dayi hurriedly followed.

"She will go back..."

Wang Daren carried his heavy schoolbag on his shoulders and walked out of the school gate with Dayi.

"Hehehe, has my dear brother abandoned his beautiful sister like that?!"

After hearing this voice, Wang Daren's face became obviously bitter.

"Sophia, who knows if you will go to another party..." Wang Daren spread his hands and said to a girl in a short skirt and school uniform.

The girl's dark skin is very obvious in black and white. The seventeen-year-old girl has a bulge in front and a curvy back, a delicate face, a high nose bridge, and even a little freckle on her nose looks so delicate. No wonder this school gate where people come and go, they always attract countless eyes.

"You want to call me sister, my dear brother!" Sophia was a few centimeters taller than Wang Daren, and she bounced her fingers on Daren's forehead.

"Damn it, you'll be the best of me for one day!" Wang Daren protested.

Wang Daren was born on October 28, 1995, while Sofia was born on October 27, 1995, and the dates of the two were only one day apart. Wang Guangzu married his current wife Lores in Portugal. The two lonely hearts were combined and brought their own children at the same time. They were a combined family. Wang Dayi was the child of Wang Guangzu and Lores.

"It's also my sister a minute older..." Sophia looked proud.

The three siblings were playing and going home.

......

"Mom, we're back."

In a small house in the poor area, Wang Dayi pushed open the rust door and shouted at it.

A middle-aged woman with a fat figure and brown skin stuck her head out of the kitchen with a spatula.

"Mother."

"Mom Loreth."

The three children went up and gave Lores a hug, as well as a Latin-style face-to-face gift.

When Lores saw her three children come back, his eyebrows and eyes turned into crescent moons.

"Wait a little longer and you'll have to eat." She wiped her sweat with the hem of her apron. This Chinese food is really hard to learn, but Lores can still cook some cooking after all - the taste of Wang Daren and Wang Guang's grandfather and son is still in Chinese.

The lighting of this house is not good. Lisbon is a mountain city, and the houses are built against the mountains. In a low and concave area located halfway up the mountain, the low houses are blocked by the tall white high-end community in front of them. The rippling sunlight shining from the mouth of the Tejo River, making the houses in this area always appear dim - otherwise how could this place become a gathering area for poor people?

In a dim room, there were several unsuitable old sofas in the hall, and a lame TV cabinet with a domestic color TV on it.

Wang Daren walked into his room.

It is said that it is my own room, but it is actually a room with Dayi. A wooden bunk bed frame in the house takes up most of the space. If you put on a desk, there will be no space in the room.

Wang Daren opened the squeaking drawer of the desk and took out a small box from the inside of the drawer.

Wang Daren opened the box, and there were a stack of banknotes inside. Euro banknotes of one hundred yuan, fifty yuan, twenty yuan, ten yuan, and big and small coins.

He carefully put the money he earned in the past few days into the box.

This money is not just his own. As his partner, half of the money belongs to Caron. However, since Wang Daren once discovered that Caron looked at the envious eyes of the black boys in the nightclub smoking marijuana, he did not dare to let Caron keep his money himself - otherwise the money would be spent on marijuana, alcohol, women, and even drugs like most black boys in this slum area.

Put the box in the innermost part of the drawer. The feeling of having money in hand made Wang Daren feel very happy. He had already thought it clearly that he would not go to school after graduating from high school - the tuition for college is expensive, just let Dayi go to college - anyway, this kid is so smart, he must go to college. The tuition for college is so expensive, and as the eldest son, he also has to bear the responsibility of supporting his younger brother to go to school.

As for Sofia... Humph, she always thinks about being a model and a big star. This is what children from poor families can think of? Ignore her!

There is also Lores' mother. When she makes money, she doesn't have to go to the supermarket to work early in the morning, and then she has to take care of the whole family's food and worry so much all day long.

His father has leg disease. Wang Daren plans to graduate from high school, so he let his father go home to retire. At that time, he will go to manage the leather shoes store at home. It is really a stupid business to sell leather shoes in the poor area. Where can anyone buy leather shoes in this place? Everyone is a pauper. Is there any pauper who can wear leather shoes to work?

Wang Daren decided to wholesale cheap sportswear, sneakers and other things from his hometown in China, which are what the poor people in this area are willing to consume.

Wang Daren is very satisfied with his business mind.

And he has helpers. He and Karon are best friends who grew up in slums together. When they graduated from high school, Karon, the black boy, must not find any decent jobs. He can take him together and have a helper. Karon will not be unemployed, otherwise Karon will definitely contribute to the crime rate in Lisbon like the black guy around him...

Wang Daren fell into a longing for the future.

He pulled out a box from under the bed, took out a football from the box, and stared at it for a long time.

The football is already very old, the patterns on it are no longer visible, and only the white ball skin is left.

This is his first soccer ball and the last one so far.

Like that money, this is something he has kept for a long time.

Perhaps, more precious than money...?

Compared to opening a small shop to make money, maybe football is his dream, but the price of this dream may be full of thorns, which may add a greater burden to this already poor family...

Daren, who has experienced a lot since childhood, sighed in his heart. He has so much responsibility on his shoulders.

He wanted to revitalize his family business, he wanted to earn money to support his younger brother's schooling, and he wanted to move out of this dark slum area and let his family live in a big house.
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