Tang Li entered the room alone and spoke softly to Jiang Chengbao.
Jiang Chengbao huddled in the corner, showing no reaction to her words.
The child refused to communicate with the outside world.
Tangli's demonic power has recovered a little, and he can sense human emotions in the past two days.
She felt a strong negative emotion emanating from him: inferiority, depression, anger, sadness, all mixed together. If this continued, Jiang Chengbao would most likely go to extremes.
She is not a professional psychologist and cannot provide professional psychological counseling.
I can only...
You can only use magic directly.
Tang Li glanced outside the door and used a trick to prevent Mrs. Mu from seeing what was happening inside.
She walked towards Jiang Chengbao, stretched out her hand, and placed her palm towards Jiang Chengbao's head.
Green light surrounded Jiang Chengbao, dispelling those negative emotions.
After a while, she withdrew her hand, and most of Jiang Chengbao's negative emotions disappeared, including inferiority, cowardice, depression and other emotions.
"Chengbao, you are actually a kind child. When you bully your classmates, you feel very uncomfortable, right?" Tangli asked.
Jiang Chengbao looked at her and felt that she was very gentle, giving him a very reassuring feeling, which made him let down his guard and want to tell her what was on his mind.
"Yes, I feel very uncomfortable and I don't want to, but Qi Yaowen is my only friend. Everyone else looks down on me and despises me, but he is the only one willing to talk to me. I don't want to lose this friend..." Jiang Chengbao said.
"Friends gained by flattering are not true friends. Only by changing yourself and making friends on an equal footing can you make true friends." Tang Li said.
Jiang Chengbao was a little confused.
"Did Qi Yaowen ask you to bully your classmates?" Tang Li asked.
Jiang Chengbao looked a little hesitant, then nodded.
Tang Li didn’t know who Qi Yaowen was, but he was definitely not a good person.
"He has evil intentions. People like him are not worth making friends with." Tang Li said.
Jiang Chengbao nodded: "Yes, he is a bad guy. I'm sorry..."
"Are you feeling sorry for the child you bullied?" Tang Li asked.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Jiang Chengbao held his head and muttered softly, his voice full of guilt.
"Since you're sorry, why don't you apologize to them?" Tang Li's voice was gentle and persuasive.
"Okay." Jiang Chengbao nodded.
"Chengbao, you are a good boy who can correct your mistakes."
He is a...good boy?
From childhood to adulthood, his father always scolded him, and the teachers also called him stupid. No one ever praised him, and no one said he was a good boy.
Jiang Chengbao looked at Tangli, his eyes shining slightly.
"Shall we sit down and talk?"
Jiang Chengbao nodded and became particularly docile.
The two sat down on the chairs, facing each other. Jiang Chengbao no longer lowered his head, but raised his head and looked at Tang Li.
This meant that his vigilance towards Tangli had completely dissipated.
"Those who look down on you don't deserve to be your friends, and you don't need to care about their opinions." Tang Li said, "Only those who understand your heart and see the good in you are worthy of being your friends."
Jiang Chengbao nodded.
He felt that Qi Yaowen was the only person in the county school who smiled at him, and he desperately wanted to keep this person he thought was his only friend. In fact, Qi Yaowen did not regard him as a friend at all, and had been using him all the time. He was deceiving himself too much.
Jiang Chengbao came to his senses and let it go.
"What do you think of your father?" Tang Li continued to ask.
Tangli has two goals: to enlighten Jiang Chengbao and ease the relationship between them, in order to repay the kindness that Master Jiang once showed her.
"My father...he doesn't like me," Jiang Chengbao said. "Since I was little, he's had high hopes for me. He wanted me to be a scholar and pass the imperial examinations. But I'm really dumb. I couldn't understand what the teacher said. I tried really hard. I took the county exam five times. Every time, I slept very little and just read books over and over again, but I couldn't pass."
"It was indeed my father who found someone to get me into the county school. He felt he was making an exception and was expecting more of me. But I didn't want it at all."
"He's busy with his business all day and doesn't care about me at all. The servant bullied me, but my father said it was my fault!"
"No matter what I do, it's wrong in his eyes. I'm just a piece of crap, and no one likes me."
Jiang Chengbao became emotional and started crying, covering his face.
Tang Li vaguely understood why Jiang Chengbao became like this.
Some parents have too high expectations for their children, which become a mountain weighing down their children.
Once you can't bear it anymore, you will be crushed.
Under long-term suppression, I lost confidence and felt like a waste.
That's why he is so self-deprecating and feels that he is useless.
People with such humble personalities will cherish any kindness shown by others as if it were honey and are easily deceived.
This child is so pitiful.
Mrs. Mu had been listening quietly outside.
She didn't expect that the child who had always been silent would be willing to express his true feelings in front of Tangli.
Xiaotang, she really did it.
It was also the first time for her to understand this child. She knew that this child had so many things hidden in his heart. The more she listened, the more heartbroken she felt.
When she heard this, she couldn't bear it anymore and rushed in.
"Chengbao, you are already very good. It is your father who is confused. Wait for your aunt to have a good talk with him! When he was studying, he was as stupid as a pig. His parents used to chase him and beat him, but he hid behind me. You are much smarter than him. How can he have the nerve to scold you?!" Mrs. Mu snorted.
"Chengbao, we are not afraid of him. Let's go and scold him!" Madam Mu took Jiang Chengbao's hand.
Jiang Chengbao looked at Madam Mu and saw that her face was full of heartache.
Aunt...are you feeling sorry for him?
Mrs. Mu was impatient, so she took Jiang Chengbao's hand and went to find his brother.
As soon as he entered the room, Mr. Jiang just woke up from his sleep, sweating profusely and with a look of fear on his face.
He had just had a dream in which Chengbao jumped into the river. He jumped in too and tried desperately to fish him out, but in the end, he only pulled out a cold...
The feeling was so terrible that the surging despair overwhelmed him!
"Chengbao! Chengbao!" Master Jiang shouted at the top of his lungs.
When I looked up, I saw Chengbao in the house, safe and sound.
"Chengbao..." Master Jiang breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it was just a dream.
Although she said she was going to scold him, seeing his expression, Mrs. Mu softened her heart.
"Brother, are you okay? How are you feeling?"
Master Jiang shook his head: "It's okay."
But his eyes were fixed on Jiang Chengbao.
Jiang Chengbao lowered his head and hid behind Madam Mu.
“Brother, since everything is fine, let’s talk about Chengbao.”
Madam Mu hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was not appropriate to say some things in front of Chengbao. Seeing this, Tangli took Jiang Chengbao out, leaving only the brother and sister.
"Brother, Xiaotang said Chengbao is sick. It's not a physical illness, but a mental illness. You're putting too much pressure on him..." Madam Mu repeated what she had just heard outside the door. "Brother, you can't treat Chengbao like this anymore. The child will be depressed. If he is forced into a corner, who knows what he will do."
Do something...
Mr. Jiang was still frightened when he thought about the dream, and his body began to tremble unconsciously.
"Little sister, I was wrong. As long as Chengbao is fine, I will never force him again."
"Okay, then you should have a good talk with Chengbao and resolve the knot between father and son."
Madam Mu called Jiang Chengbao in.
Mr. Jiang stared at his son intently, afraid that he would disappear in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Chengbao thought about what Tangli had just said, his lips moved, and then he said, "Dad, I'm sorry."
Miss Tang said that her father was bedridden because of his anger, and he was wrong about this, so he had to apologize first.
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