"So, your name is Shao Chen?" asked Yao Tengfei who had already calmed his emotions.
After Shao Chen put his clothes back on, he was taken to a simple room that had a table and three chairs surrounding it.
Shao Chen nodded in response.
"Do you know where is this?" asked Yao Meilin.
Shao Chen shook his head.
"Shao Chen, you already know the name of that body right?"
Shao Chen nodded. He opened his mouth to reveal the name of this body but he closed it again. "I forgot," he said afterward.
Yao Meilin repeated his son's name patiently. "Yao Yusheng. Remember that properly! You are in my son's body now, so you would often be called by that name."
Shao Chen nodded and obediently repeated the name many times. "Yao Yusheng, Yao Yusheng…," he muttered.
The two of them waited for Shao Chen to end his muttering patiently. This was the first time they had to take a long time to talk to their son.
Yao Yusheng was a very smart beautiful man. Everyone who has met him will be dazzled by his beauty at the first sight and will be amazed at his intelligence a second later.
Seeing the face of their son who suddenly wore a dazed and stupid expression made their hearts hurt. For several times, Yao Meilin nearly fainted but she pulled herself together.
"This morning, Ah Sheng was confirmed dead and just a few minutes from that statement, you woke up," explained Yao Meilin.
Shao Chen listened with empty eyes and an open mouth like usual. It made the two elders doubted whether Shao Chen heard them or not. The answer was listening but the information wasn't entering his brain.
Shao Chen was unable to answer all of the questions that the two elders asked him during the explanation. In the end, they gave up.
"The point is, as long as you are here, your name was Yao Yusheng! We will also call you that so answer when you hear that name being called!" Yao Tengfei put a lot of emphasis on his words. He hoped that this stupid man would at least remember this and not cause them any trouble.
Shao Chen's brain began to digest the statement. Finally, he nodded. After he has repeated the name of Yao Yusheng more than 50 times and confident that he had remembered it, he started to repeat the sentences that he had to respond when the name came out many times like he was chanting a spell.
The two elders could only sigh.
"After you memorize them, go take a bath! The servants will help you!" ordered Yao Tengfei who could not help seeing his son that suddenly turned stupid. Even to change his own name!
The two of them left while planning to invite some psychics experts around here to check on their son.
*****
"Madam! This is bad!" exclaimed a servant girl. Her eyes were already full of tears.
Yao Meilin, who was calming herself down with a cup of tea, almost choked on the scream. The stress returned to strike her.
"What is wrong?!" she asked. She became more frustrated when she saw the girl was the one she had assigned to take care of her son for a bath.
"The—The Young Master ... hi—his hair!" The girl was about to pass out. She was afraid that she would be blamed for this incident.
Yao Meilin's face turned pale when she heard the word hair. She immediately ran to her son's room without caring about the manners and elegance that a woman should have.
When she entered the room, she almost fainted at the sight of her son.
Shao Chen who had worn his clothes stood in front of the mirror with a pair of scissors in his right hand. his black hair had become short and the remaining of his hairs were scattering around his legs.
"Ah Sheng! You can't cut your hair! This is insolence!" Yao Meilin shouted. Her face was dead white.
In this country, they were not allowed to cut their hair. Hair was a symbol of obedience to parents and also to the country. This is the policy made by the palace that had stood for a long time. The hair would only be cut as humiliation and punishment for those criminals who made mistakes against the country or those who were unfilial to their parents.
Shao Chen neither knew this fact nor did he care. He had been insolent from the start.
Yao Meilin hit her son on the shoulder. "Why are you doing this?!"
"It's so hot after all," Shao Chen grumbled. He didn't like his hair cover his body. It made him stifling especially in this hot summer.
Yao Meilin wanted to explode all of her anger and frustration but all of the words could not come out. The image of her son being insulted by the local people began to fill her mind make her burst into tears.
"What is the fu—" Yao Tengfei who came because of the commotion immediately froze on the spot when he saw Shao Chen's figure.
Blood immediately rose to his head. With large strides, Yao Tengfei approached his son, grabbed the short hair, and hit his son with all his might.
"My Husband!" Yao Meilin cried. She tried to hold her husband by hugging his arm tightly.
"You really want to be an unfilial son?!" Yao Tengfei shouted angrily.
"Forget everything and change your name and now what?! Cutting your hair?! You still not satisfied, hah?!" Yao Tengfei didn't know how to deal with his son anymore. If he knew his son was going to be like this, it would be better for his son to be dead and left clean without humiliation.
Shao Chen felt excruciating pain in his body. He didn't like this pain and he even didn't understand why he had to be hit like this.
'What's wrong with cutting my hair?!' he thought irritably. He always had short hair on his old body.
Having lost his money, he also had to receive this kind of treatment from the two people he just met. Nothing was more annoying than this. With a frown, he stomping his feet like a child.
Yao Tengfei glared at him. "It's rude to stomp like that!" He wanted to hit his son again but was immediately held by his wife.
Shao Chen snorted in annoyance. He didn't know such rules. If there were indeed these rules, he didn't care and didn't remember.
"I can cut my hair whenever I want to and I can stomp my feet as much as I want to! There aren't any rules for that! If you don't like it, then I'm out of here!" After saying this, Shao Chen began to walk away.
"Go! Get all the way from here you devil who took my son's body!" Yao Tengfei shouted.
Yao Meilin wanted to pull Shao Chen back but Shao Chen's figure had gone.
"My husband! What if he doesn't know where to go and gets lost?!" Yao Meilin exclaimed anxiously. Even though the soul of the body was not his son's, the body was still his son's. what's more, the soul that contained that body now was too stupid that she could not help to feel insecure.
Yao Tengfei waved his hand indifferently. "Forget about him! I have no son anymore! Yao Yusheng has dead," he said sadly.
Yao Meilin approached her husband. She was no less sad than him. While gently stroking her husband's arm, she said softly, "I don't familiar with this man that had been inside Ah Sheng's body but I'm worried. He's too clueless of our country's rules whereas, the body he's using now is our smart son's. I'm afraid he will be in trouble. So, let's be patient with him and teach him all over again."
Yao Tengfei looked at his wife then sighed. He felt that his wife was too soft and forgiving but that was what he loved about her. Finally, he nodded slightly.
"I will have someone to look for him and bring him back."