Chapter 124: Only Qin Song can make Pei Xingzhi be himself again
"In order to help me lighten the burden, Xingzhi has been in a state of being overly sensible these years. Since he was eight years old, he has never shed a tear, and never complained about being tired in front of me. He always reported good news but not bad news, and refused to tell me any difficult things."
"I remember when he was in middle school, he was bullied by the hooligans in his class because his grades were too good. The hooligans thought he was pretentious and that he thought he was superior and looked down on those with poor grades, so they found a group of hooligans from outside the school, and when he got out of school, they blocked him in an alley and beat him up."
"Ah?" Qin Song's heart instantly tightened when he heard this.
Mother Pei patted the back of her hand to comfort her, and smiled bitterly: "I was too busy with work those days, and Xiaoxuan happened to be sick again. I was running back and forth between the hospital and school, so I didn't notice Xingzhi's abnormality."
"It was later that Xiaoxuan recovered and was discharged from the hospital. My tense nerves relaxed a little, and then I realized that Xingzhi had a lot of injuries on his body and face for a long time."
"I became a teacher right after I graduated from university, and I knew what was going on with these injuries. But when I asked him the answer, he refused to tell me the truth."
Qin Song frowned, and his words were trembling: "Xingzhi doesn't want you to worry about him, so he refuses to tell you the truth?"
"Yes." Mother Pei nodded, her red eyes were covered with moisture in the blink of an eye, "Xingzhi was afraid that I would worry about him, and was afraid that he would be beaten somewhere, so he didn't want me to know a word."
"But I'm his mother. How could I not be worried when I saw him become like this? He refused to tell me the truth, so I contacted his class teacher and secretly went to his school to watch him. I watched him for several days before I found out that he was being bullied."
"There were so many people, and they just grabbed him and beat him up. But he wasn't stupid, he knew to grab the gang leader and fight back hard, and with a few punches, he knocked out all the kid's front teeth."
"It's good that you know to fight back." Hearing this, Qin Song secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ah..." But Pei's mother shook her head, the sadness in her eyes becoming more and more serious. "He knows how to fight back, but that's all he can do. I brought him home from school and asked him earnestly for several hours why he didn't go home and complain as soon as he was beaten, but he refused to explain a single word."
"I was so angry that I threatened him that I would not care about him anymore! He was frightened and spoke reluctantly, but his words almost broke my heart."
"What did he say?" Qin Song asked with red eyes.
Mother Pei blinked quickly, trying to hold back the tears that were about to burst out, but she couldn't hide the sob in her voice no matter what.
"He said these were minor matters and he could handle them himself. He really didn't want me to worry about the trouble he caused when I was so exhausted."
"He also said that the most important thing for him right now is studying, and he won't let any troubles delay his studies. He doesn't take other people's bullying to heart. He just wants to study hard and make progress, so that Xiaoxuan and I can live a life without having to worry about our livelihood."
Pei's mother's words were like a belated steel needle. After the dimensional wall was broken, it passed through the barrier of the long river of time and pierced Qin Song from another world.
Qin Song felt that his heart was about to be broken by Pei Xingzhi.
Mother Pei raised her hand to wipe her eyes and continued, "Xingzhi used to be a crying, fussing, and unreasonable kid, but ever since his father and I divorced and he ran away with all the money in the family, he went from a little brat to a little adult overnight."
"He doesn't care what people around him think of him, and he doesn't care who wants to bully him or beat him up. He just buries himself in his studies, as if he doesn't care about anything."
"After that incident, he went to school as usual and didn't let his studies fall behind. But since then, he has never let me know about his situation in school. If I asked him, he would just smile and say everything was fine."
"Yeah." Qin Song nodded, curling his lips and smiling gently, "This is indeed in line with Xingzhi's personality."
Pei's mother: "His personality is all forced out by himself. Over the years, he has always been very calm and composed, as if he wouldn't even frown even if the sky fell. His friends always say that he is relaxed and indifferent, but I don't think that's the case."
"Xingzhi is not relaxed at all. On the contrary, he has kept himself very tight. For so many years, he has been tying himself up with shackles, making himself calm, sensible and easy-going."
“But the real him is not like that at all.”
"What is that like?" Qin Song asked curiously, "What should the real Pei Xingzhi be like?"
Mother Pei looked at her and suddenly smiled from the bottom of her heart: "The real Xingzhi is what you see now."
"......Ah?" Qin Song was stunned.
Mother Pei wiped away the tears from her eyes, and her heavy tone gradually became light: "The real Pei Xingzhi is what you see now. He is like a childish and difficult to coax little brat, and also like a little hedgehog covered with thorns."
"The car accident must have scared him. He was so scared that he didn't want to be as tense as before. He just wanted to use the injury as an excuse to release his true self."
"Xiao Song, thank you."
"Thank, thank me?" These three sudden words made Qin Song confused, "Thank me for what?"
Mother Pei smiled and held her hand: "Thank you for letting Xingzhi be his true self. He has been tense for more than 20 years, and even I can't make him relax. Only you have the ability to do this."
"I..." This credit was so great that Qin Song didn't know how to respond for a moment.
"I, I don't think I did anything."
Mother Pei: "You don't need to do anything special. As long as you can stay with Xingzhi, give him a little more sense of security, and give him a warm home, it will be enough for him to open up to you."
"..." Qin Song looked confused, as if he understood what Pei's mother said, but also seemed not to understand it very well.
Mother Pei looked at her sideways; "Xiao Song, although it's not good to bring up the past at this time, I still want to say a few more words."
Qin Song nodded: "You go ahead."
Mother Pei: "Do you know why, no matter how badly you treated Xingzhi in the past, he still shamelessly begged you to stay?"
Qin Song said truthfully: "I don't know. Maybe he has a strong sense of responsibility and doesn't want to end this marriage so easily?"
"No." Pei's mother rejected her long-standing speculation.
"Xingzhi is so stubborn in wanting you to stay, not only because he wants to save your marriage, but also because he wants the child in your belly to have a complete and happy family."
"Xingzhi grew up in a broken family. He didn't want his children to follow his old path in the future, so he would rather give up his dignity and work hard for his children."
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