TGDS Chapter 54.6

Good Dad System (Arc 7) Chapter 54.6: After Being Abducted (6)

He clearly saw that Yang Qiuping and his original body tried their best to integrate him. Pei Yuanqi reduced the frequency of his visits after knowing that he was back. As long as he occasionally made a suggestion, such as not liking fish or liking loose clothes, people around him would immediately make adjustments. However, this cautiousness did not make him feel that he belonged to this family. Instead, it made him move further and further away.

 

Isn’t that a little hypocritical?

 

Pei Yuanbo thought he was an open-minded person. He had been able to adapt to the environment since he was a child. He was used to compromising, giving in, and changing himself. His thorny lifestyle was more like his protective color. He could adapt to the Lu family who no longer loved him, and he could also adapt to going from school to society, but he could not adapt to this home that should belong to him.

 

Hearing that he was going home, many of his parents’ colleagues and friends came to see him and praised him: “Young man, you look very energetic. It’s not easy for your parents to find you.” Then they became concerned about his studies, work, and marriage. When many people heard that he graduated from a technical secondary school and studied auto repair, they subconsciously showed embarrassed expressions and hesitantly asked him to help find a job in a 4S store. Pei Yuanbo could feel that he was embarrassing others.

 

Dad and Mom often talked about current social affairs at the dinner table. They turned on the TV from time to time. They mostly watched international news, newspapers and magazines at home, and English academic journals, but he… didn’t understand any of them. Of course, the dirty jokes he and his colleagues occasionally made were not allowed to be brought to the table. They talked more about social news, such as people being stabbed here today and car accidents tomorrow, and international oil, gold, and leaders’ visits. What did they care about? Compared with academic journals, he knew more about car repair, but he also knew vaguely that talking about these would make his parents sad.

 

After staying at home for a while, he couldn’t sit still and wanted to go out to work. Although his parents always said that they had savings, Pei Yuanbo was not the type of person who relied on their parents for support. His parents wanted to help him find a job, but he didn’t intend to embarrass them – please, his father was a PhD and his mother was a graduate student, how could they find a job for him, a technical secondary school student? He didn’t want to make his parents beg for help.

 

Of course, he also encountered many setbacks in City B. It’s not that the technical secondary school is bad, but that City B has a large population and the relevant requirements are also high. For example, he used to repair Wuling Hongguang and Chery QQ, but in City B, rich people would often send him luxury cars for modification, so he had to start from scratch.

 

In the novel, Pei Yuanbo talked to his good friend on the phone. He was standing on the rooftop, with the cheapest wine and cigarettes around him. He was not used to drinking red wine or smoking good cigarettes. He had such a lousy life: “Brother, I really don’t think I should be here. I don’t belong here, you know?”

 

“My parents are good people, but I’m just an ordinary rotten person. I didn’t want to be successful, I just planned to live my life foolishly. How did it turn out like this?” He laughed and drank, the wine flowing down his neck. “They helped their relatives raise a child, and do you know where he studied? University in B City. Sometimes I look at me and wonder, are they wrong? How could I be, how could I be? ”

 

“They try so hard to be nice to me, but the harder they try, the more uncomfortable I feel. Why am I so incompetent? I’m just a mechanic who earns money with my own hands. When I save enough money, I’ll open a repair shop, and that’s it. I don’t know how to make progress, think about the future, or understand science and technology, or look at the long term.” He lay flat on the rooftop, and it was unclear whether it was wine or tears on his face. “In my life, I’ve had a home and then I didn’t, and now I have one, but it’s time to lose it again.”

 

He stayed outside for a long time that day, then bought a ticket and ran away – yes, he ran away and returned to where he came from. He called the original body and Yang Qiuping and just said that he really wasn’t used to it and that he would definitely go back during the holidays.

 

Do you want to ask him if he loves his parents? Of course he loves them, how can he not love them? They treat him so well, how can he not have feelings for them? But he really can’t stay there any longer.

 

The novel directly sets the story to ten years later. Pei Yuanbo, who seems “careless” to outsiders, runs into a human trafficker gang snatching children at the train station on his way home. He stands up and is stabbed. During the peak period of the Spring Festival travel rush, he was already dead when he was sent to the hospital. At the age of 30, his life came to an end. His parents, who had waited so hard to come back, lost their Yuanyuan again.

 

After their son’s death, Yang Qiuping and the original body suffered a huge blow. If Pei Yuanqi hadn’t been thinking about these two old people, something would have happened to them sooner or later. When they were dying, apart from giving a small sum of money to Pei Yuanqi, they donated all the rest of their savings to the anti-trafficking cause.

 

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“We’ve arrived at the station.” The driver stopped the car and shouted impatiently. This old-fashioned bus did not have any voice announcement system, it was all announced by shouting. The driver would usually shout everyone at once and make sure no one got off before driving away.

 

“Yes, we are going to get off.” Yang Qiuping had been paying attention and she raised her hand.

 

The driver was annoyed: “If you are going off, hurry up and click it. Can’t you see it’s waiting to be driven?”

 

“We’ll be off right away.” Pei Naochun walked in front and took down the luggage. The couple didn’t have much with them, just a small bag. They got off the bus in a hurry. The bus had already started and was driving very fast. Mud and water splashed all over the ground and got on their pants, but neither did nor his wife care about it.