Chapter 91 I Love You
"Zhang Shuai, I want you to promise me that you'll never gamble again in your life! Look me in the eye!"
"Brother, I hope you are safe, happy, healthy and worry-free! From now on, you are my brother!"
"From now on...I will be...your only relative!"
Zhang Shuai's consciousness was sometimes clear and sometimes confused. These words appeared in his dreams along with the pictures!
He reached out to grab Tian Xin's hand, but couldn't. He wanted to call her "Boss", but couldn't make a sound.
He didn't know where he was. Tian Xin was blurry in front of him. He could only tell it was her by her slightly curly short hair, but he couldn't see her face clearly.
He shouted anxiously and stretched out his hands to reach her.
The man seemed to see his anxiety and walked towards him step by step, and there seemed to be another person beside him.
He watched her speak silently, put the hand of the person next to her in his, and then turned and left.
He wanted her not to leave. In a panic, he suddenly grabbed the man's hand and woke up.
"Boss..." Zhang Shuai called softly.
There was a person sitting in front of the bed, but he wasn't the boss. He looked... a little familiar...
who is she?
I haven't seen it before. But why does it look so familiar?
"Son, you're awake!" Zhang Shuai's mother grabbed Zhang Shuai's hand and asked, "How are you?"
son?
Is she calling me...? Son?
"Who are you?" Zhang Shuai suddenly spoke, feeling a little difficult to breathe.
"I... I am your mother! Don't you remember?" Zhang Shuai's mother burst into tears as soon as she opened her mouth, holding Zhang Shuai's hand tightly.
“…”
Mother?
Zhang Shuai closed his eyes for a few seconds, then quickly opened them again.
He stared at the person for a few seconds, turned his head and closed his eyes. After a few seconds, he opened them again, stared at them for a few more seconds, and closed them again.
After repeating this three times, he finally confirmed that this was true.
"Is it really...Mom?" He asked her nervously, feeling uneasy, afraid that what he saw was just a dream.
"Yes, I am your mother!" Zhang Shuai's mother held her son's hand and cried inconsolably: "I'm sorry, son, I'm late... I'm sorry for you..."
"Mom...Mom..." Zhang Shuai muttered to himself, his lips trembling uncontrollably and his eyes quickly turning red.
"Oh..." Zhang Shuai's mother responded, tears streaming down her face.
Hearing this response, Zhang Shuai burst into tears and cried out:
"Mom...it's really you...mom..."
"I missed you so much... where have you been?"
"Why... did you come back just now?"
"I...I miss you so much..."
Zhang Shuai cried and expressed his longing for his mother. Both mother and son could not stop crying.
"It's Mom who's sorry for you... You've suffered so much over the years..."
Zhang Shuai shook his head gently: "No... You didn't let me down... It's... It's my dad who let you down..."
"Let's not talk about him, son. Let's not talk about him." Zhang Shuai's mother reached out and touched her son's face wrapped in gauze: "From now on, Mom will be by your side. You don't have to live alone anymore!"
"Really...? You... aren't leaving?" Zhang Shuai asked tremblingly.
"I'm not leaving. Mom will never abandon you again. As long as you're fine, I'm willing to do anything!" Zhang Shuai's mother looked at her broken son with guilt, and her heartache was beyond words.
After so many years, she finally reunited with her son, but he became like this. It was her fault as a mother.
"Mom..." Zhang Shuai called out in a long voice, closed his eyes tightly, and cried with his whole body shaking.
He won’t leave. From now on, he will finally have a child with a mother!
He no longer had to be bullied, no longer had to pick up other people's discarded food to eat, and no longer had to be surrounded by a group of kids who beat him up and laughed at him for being a wild child.
Zhang Shuai was only 3 years old when his mother left home.
At that time, his family was very poor. He lived in a dilapidated cave with his grandparents and relied on the little harvest they had.
Ever since he could remember, his grandparents had been telling him, "You're the child your parents didn't want. Your mom ran away on her own and left you, a burden, to us. Your dad's never home, and he's lost all our valuables! You're all troublemakers, here to collect your debts!"
He didn't know what his mother looked like, he only knew that other children had new clothes and candies during the New Year, but he could only wear clothes discarded by his relatives' children.
There was a photo of his mother and father at home. He secretly cut off the mother's half and hid it in a box. Whenever he missed her, he would take it out and look at it secretly.
When children in the village got sick, their mothers would accompany them to get injections and give them candy. But he didn't dare get sick because if he did, he would have to spend money, his father would beat him, and his grandparents would scold him.
He always wore tattered and dirty clothes, so the children in the village would throw stones at him and tell him to get out.
His childhood was miserable!
Later, his grandparents passed away and no one cared about him anymore. At that time, he had just graduated from junior high school.
He wanted to learn a craft like other kids, so his father threw 100 yuan at him and told him to figure it out on his own.
What can you do with 100 yuan?
He took the money and went to the county town, hoping to find a job. When he saved enough money, he would learn a skill.
But people looked down on him because he was young and knew nothing, and no one wanted him to be an apprentice. He went to several places and was eventually fired.
He doesn't know what he can do?
He went back to cultivate his family's land, but it had been barren for years. He had been working on it for a long time, but he didn't even have money to buy fertilizer! He couldn't make any progress, and no one helped him. The harvest was poor, so he could only muddle through.
During famine years, when there was really nothing to eat, I would just wander around the village, eating at one house and then having a full meal at another.
When his grandparents were alive, they were always abusive and had a bad reputation. His father was away all day and his mother ran away, so no one in the village liked him.
He didn't dare to get into a conflict with anyone. If he did, they would scold him, and the words that would be spread were extremely unpleasant. If he couldn't stand it and argued with others, he would be called a "wild child without any discipline!"
Gradually, his image in the village became a "thug", "rogue", "hooligan" and "hooligan"!
He no longer cared after being scolded so much. If someone bullied him again, he would fight back, pretending to be very strong, trying to protect himself in this way.
After five years of this kind of life, he met Tian Xin!
She took him to the city, taught him to be self-reliant, found him a job, and pulled him out of his misery!
"Mom, where is Tian Xin?" Zhang Shuai calmed down, looked around, but did not see Tian Xin.
"I'm here!" Tian Xin came in from outside and sat down beside the bed.
When the mother and son recognized each other, she was watching outside. Seeing Zhang Shuai finally meet his mother, she was also very moved.
"Boss..." Zhang Shuai called out, extending his other hand, which still held the instrument.
Tian Xin walked around the bed and held the hand.
Both hands were held at the same time. Zhang Shuai closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I... I love you..." He said, "In this life... as long as I have you... that's enough!"
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