TGDS Chapter 57.2

Good Dad System (Arc 7) Chapter 57.2: After Being Abducted (22)

“I took all these photos. At that time, your mother and I were joking. I said that when you grew up, I would let you see how hard it was for your mother when she was pregnant with you. If you don’t obey, I will beat you.” Pei Naochun said softly. He could hear Yang Qiuping’s deep breathing as she tried to suppress her tears.

“It’s nothing.” Yang Qiuping adjusted her mood and flipped through the photos. “It’s not hard at all. Let’s look at the future. Yuanyuan is born and he’s so cute.”

Pei Yuanbo felt so sad that he took the initiative to reach out and hold Yang Qiuping’s thin hand. Suddenly, he had a different feeling – was it because of him that his mother became so thin? He tried to control his embarrassed look and said seriously, “Mom, thank you for your hard work.” When he was not around, his mother must be very sad, right?

“It’s not hard. I’m glad you’re back.” Yang Qiuping forced a smile and held her son’s hand tightly, with her fingers clasped together, just like from the beginning of Yuanyuan’s life, the mother and son were connected together.

“Later, you were born, Yuanyuan.” Pei Naochun flipped through the album. Maybe it was because of the weather, his eyes suddenly misted up. “When you were born, you were a fat boy, weighing eight pounds. I had a quarrel with your grandmother in order to name you. Fortunately, I won the right to name you. Your generation is Yuan in the family tree. I chose the character Bo for you, which means erudite. I hope you can be knowledgeable and well-informed.”

Pei Yuanbo’s ears moved, and he suddenly caught the key words. On the page of photos he turned over, there were two photos of a kind-looking grandmother who was holding him and standing at the head of Yang Qiuping’s bed with a smile: “Grandma? I have another grandma, right?” After he asked this, the couple fell silent at the same time.

Instead, Yang Qiuping spoke first. She nodded and said, “Yes, Yuanyuan, you still have a grandmother. She has always treated you like a treasure. When you were a child, your parents had to go to work, and your grandmother was with you almost every day.” She wanted to avoid mentioning the past when Yuanyuan was missing. As long as the child was found, she would no longer blame her mother.

“Yuanyuan, Dad wants to tell you something, about how you got lost…” Pei Naochun just opened his mouth when Yang Qiuping grabbed his hand. He shook his head gently at her. Even if he and Yang Qiuping could keep it a secret, what about the relatives and friends around them who knew about it, including Grandma Pei herself? There are always times when you accidentally let something slip. Now that the child is back, you still have to say what you should say.

“…Okay.”

Pei Naochun took out the case filing receipt from that year from his backpack – this was something the couple kept as a treasure. There were also several missing person advertisements that the couple distributed everywhere, and the surveillance screenshots from that year. Pei Yuanbo took these things with a heavy heart.

There weren’t too many complicated words on the case filing receipt. He could probably understand what it meant by looking at it, not to mention Pei Naochun’s explanation next to him: “That day, you complained that it was hot and wanted to eat a popsicle, so your grandma took you to buy one. When she was paying, a man rushed over, hugged you and ran away. The police said they were veterans. Later, we couldn’t find you at all.”

He gently flipped through the papers. On the missing person notice, there was his photo, photos of the clothes and shoes he was wearing on the day he disappeared, and a line of large characters that read “There will be a generous reward.”At this point, almost all of his questions were answered.

Seeing that her son had finished reading, Yang Qiuping snatched the papers, folded them up, and begged her husband to take them back. She prayed to all the gods and Buddhas in the heavens. As long as her son could come back, she didn’t want anything else. “Yuanyuan, grandma didn’t mean it. She has blamed herself for these years. Don’t blame her.”

“No.” Pei Yuanbo was stunned. When he looked at the photos and the missing person noticed just now, some fragments flashed in his mind, especially when he saw his grandmother in the photo. He couldn’t help but look at his father eagerly, “Dad, did you bring anything else?”

“Yes.” Pei Naochun was stunned by the question, but he still took out the innermost thing from his bag. It was a very small car, the kind that could rush out a long distance after rubbing it on the ground a few times. The shell was yellow and quite heavy. It was also Pei Yuanbo’s favorite toy back then. “This was your favorite toy when you were a child. I bought it for you. You may not remember it, but when you didn’t eat properly before, you would lie on the ground and play with this.”

The couple looked at each other and remembered the past. When Yuanyuan was three years old, although he was very well behaved, he sometimes didn’t want to eat. Every time his grandmother coaxed him, she would rub the car on the ground and watch the car run far away. Yuanyuan would immediately clap his hands and laugh happily, and obediently let others stuff food into his mouth.

“I…” Pei Yuanbo held the car in his palm, his eyes a little confused, he didn’t know if it was a temporary memory disorder or some past memories really came up. He seemed to remember this car – when he was a child, he told Lu’s father and mother coquettishly that he wanted a car, the kind that could run, so they bought him the most fashionable remote control car, but at that time he was still throwing a tantrum and rolling on the ground. He said, it’s not this kind.

“What’s wrong Yuanyuan?”

“I remember it…” Pei Yuanbo said this blankly, “The floor at home was off-white with black stripes.”

“Do you remember?” Yang Qiuping immediately became excited. She immediately took the photo album and flipped through it. She found a photo taken in the living room. Half of the floor could be seen. The living room was decorated with off-white marble tiles and a circle of black decorative strips. “You always played in the living room when you were a child.”

“I always feel like I remember it.” He couldn’t even say anything else, but suddenly he felt that it was all so familiar.