it's okay if you're stupid

His thoughts wandered for a moment, and soon he had an answer—could it be that after Pei Xianyi's mother passed away, the relationship between father and son began to deteriorate?

The sound of rustling rain continued, and Pei Xianyi who hung up the phone stood by the window, opened the curtain and looked outside, his back muscles tensed, like an enraged lion.

Xie Zhi hasn't figured out whether to meddle in Mr. Pei's family's business, but his body has already walked over by himself.The room was covered with thick carpets, and the footsteps were very light, but Pei Xianyi still heard it, and turned her head, with a grievance on her face: "Sir."

Xie Zhi leaned against the window, raised his chin, and looked like a father who made decisions for his son: "Well, say it."

"Bad people bully me."

Xie Zhi raised an eyebrow, but before he could say anything, Pei Xianyi's cell phone rang again.It was still Pei Zhenghong's call.

Pei Xianyi lowered her head and stared at the name, her handsome face slightly darkened.

"Don't want to take it?"

Pei Xianyi muttered: "I don't like him, he hates him to death."

Xie Zhi crossed his legs, looked directly at him, and stretched out his hand in front of him.

Pei Xianyi froze for a moment, and handed him the phone.Xie Zhi took a glance and hung up immediately.A missed call popped up. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Pei Zhenghong also called.

No wonder Pei Xianyi was unhappy at that time.

Uncontrollably scrolling down with her fingers, in the call log, Pei Zhenghong actually made many calls, but they were all hung up.

Xie Zhi: "..."

No wonder the relatives who lived with him for two months and haven't seen Pei Xianyi called.

He thought for a moment, then slowly said: "I don't like meddling in other people's business, especially family affairs."

The sky was dimly bright outside, but the lights were not turned on in the room. Xie Zhi was in the backlight, so he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but he could guess that it was his usual indifference.

"I know..." Pei Xianyi smiled, and the words were just cut off by Xie Zhi's next sentence.

"But yours, I take care of it."

Xie Zhi raised his head slightly: "Just say what you want."

Pei Xianyi, who was seven or eight years old, could react so violently, what did his father do that is out of order?

Pei Xianyi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly leaned down, put her arms around Xie Zhi's slender waist, and rested her chin on his shoulder.This person's body temperature is always very high, through the thin pajamas, there is almost a feeling of direct contact... slightly itchy, and still very hot.

Xie Zhi dodged uncomfortably, warning: "Don't go too far."

Pei Xianyi sniffed: "Sir, it smells so good."

Xie Zhi is ready to kick people.

Then I heard Pei Xianyi say without warning: "My tenth birthday is next month, and my father will take my stepmother home..."

There is a bit too much information contained in a sentence of less than thirty words with ligatures and punctuation, Xie Zhi raised his hand to stop: "Your Excellency Gui Geng?"

What about the stepmother?

Pei Xianyi murmured: "I, I'm almost ten years old..."

He hugged Xie Zhi and rubbed it back and forth, Xie Zhi was pressed against the window sill, the tip of his nose was full of Pei Lianyi's smell, he felt like being hugged by a big dog acting like a spoiled child, he pushed him dumbfoundedly, and opened his mouth to speak , his complexion suddenly changed, and his thin earlobe turned red: "Mr. Pei!"

Pei Xianyi looked down at him, her brows were deep and black, her expression was bewildered, and her breathing was slightly heavy.

Xie Zhi felt his reaction at a close distance, his face turned back and forth between blue and red, his earlobes were so red that they were bleeding, he gritted his teeth: "Stay away from me."

Playing parent-child games, I almost forgot that this is a grown man.

Pei Xianyi was not very happy, but she still moved away a little bit according to the words, and when she saw Xie Zhi's red earlobes with her lowered eyes, she snorted and poked them with her fingertips, her face full of curiosity: "The sir's earlobes are familiar."

Xie Zhi pressed his finger against his forehead: "Get lost."

After a pause, he glanced at the big kid in front of him without saying a word, "Go to the bathroom and take a cold shower. I'll go down first."

Pei Xianyi followed his gaze and looked at herself in bewilderment: "Oh."

The topic about Pei Xianyi's stepmother ended.

But Xie Zhi can guess something.

He lost his mother suddenly, and within two years, his father brought a strange woman home.Pei Xianyi lacks a sense of security, so she doesn't like this stepmother, and her relationship with her father has been cold since then.

That makes sense.

In the next few days, Xie Zhi took Pei Xianyi to class as usual.

Regarding his past, Dong Min and Song Dan jointly took action to clean it up and minimize the influence, and most entertainment tabloids and online media did not report with embellishment.The entertainment industry is changing rapidly, and there are new things every day. The photo of Li Jia and Zong Ming kissing at the corner of the stairs was taken by the paparazzi, who helped Xie Zhi carry the banner and distracted the attention of Yuji.

Most likely, Li Jia deliberately helped him divert the topic, but Zong Ming did not expect Zong Ming to cooperate.

Because of this matter, Xie Zhi owes Li Jia a meal, but unfortunately Li Jia has been running between the crew and the reality show recently, and she is too tired to close her eyes, so she really has no time to honor it.

September 25th was gradually approaching, and after class, Xie Zhi took Pei Xianyi for a walk by taking advantage of the time to hide from the paparazzi in circles.

City A is as prosperous as water, changing every few months.In the past few years, he was either filming or resting at home. He rarely had the opportunity to wander around, and he felt a little strange to this city. He didn't know where Pei Xianyi often went, so he could only go to places he was familiar with before—— — Kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools.

The university was in S City, and in the summer just at the end of his senior year, his life suddenly became chaotic, he didn't have time to attend the graduation ceremony, and he never went back.

Xie Zhi has never been good at expressing words, so he drove by a place with Pei Xianyi, and pointed to it: "The kindergarten I went to when I was young."

Pei Xianyi's eyes lit up: "I also went to kindergarten here!"

——If it wasn't for Xie Zhi's tugging, he would almost rely on himself as "Pei Bao" and run over to break into the garden, dragging Xie Zhi to look back on the time when he dominated the kindergarten.

Xie Zhi's forehead twitched: "Take a break, Mr. Pei."

You wake up so ashamed of yourself that you want to jump into the river and kill yourself.

Kindergarten is not allowed to go in casually to review, Xie Zhi sighed—he found that he sighed more and more recently, and drove to the place where he went to elementary school.

Once here, Pei Xianyi couldn't stop again: "Ah! Today is not a rest day, is the officer here to send me to school? It's too late."

Xie Zhi was taken aback: "Your primary school... is also here?"

Pei Xianyi was surprised: "Of course."

Xie Zhi pursed his lips, did not speak, and drove to the next stop.

City A No. [-] Middle School.

When he got here, Pei Xianyi stopped making noise, just stroked his chin, and said wonderingly: "It looks so familiar, it feels like this is my territory."

Xie Zhi rubbed his forehead and understood.

The two of them went to the same school from kindergarten to elementary school?

But in the past, when they were ignorant, they didn't have time to know each other, and Pei Xianyi was three years older than him, and always went to school and graduated one step ahead of him, so he didn't even notice.

As he thought about it, he casually glanced at the snack street behind the high school street, and his eyes froze.

In the past, after class, the students in the class would always go to the snack street together.

He was also curious about the taste of those street snacks, but his family would send someone to pick him up every day, and his parents would come to pick him up if they were free, and he was not allowed to eat those unclean snacks.

Probably because of giving birth to such a child of Yuxue Tuantuan, Xie Zhi was exceptionally beautiful and outstanding since childhood. Xie Zhi’s parents really held it in their mouths for fear of melting, and held it in their hands for fear of falling. Their love for him and their desire to control him exceeded Like ordinary parents, they are always suspicious and frightened, afraid that their little Xie will be abducted by some bad guys, and even suspect their classmates.

When Xie Zhi got closer to which classmate, Xie's father and mother were frightened, and took the initiative to find that classmate's house, took the other's parent's hand, and had a sincere and earnest conversation-then Xie Zhi had no friends.

Because of his parents' weird behavior, no one dared to approach him.Throughout his middle school career, Xie Zhi was the one who attracted the most attention, but also the one who was the loneliest, often being pointed at behind.

Except for Li Jia whom he met later, he had no friends.

Xie Zhi got a very good score in the college entrance examination, and he can go to the S University he wants to go to.Xie's father and mother were extremely opposed, and even tried to secretly tamper with his wishes.

They think that Xie Zhi is a doll made of ice and snow, and once he leaves their shelter, he will not be able to live.

That summer vacation was very unpleasant, and in the end Xie's father and Xie's mother reluctantly compromised, and the request was to buy a house there, with a housekeeper and aunt and errands, and take care of Xie Zhi every step of the way there.

Xie Zhi also left his parents, only to realize that apart from studying and music, he was almost raised to be a useless person who could not do without his parents, and his parents' desire to control him... was almost neurotic.

These memories are definitely not good, but compared to losing them completely, they seem to be not much worse.

Xie Zhi looked away, feeling an indescribable exhaustion in his heart: "Go home."

Seeing that he was about to start the car to return, Pei Xianyi hurriedly raised his hand: "Sir, I'll go down for a while."

"Want to go in?"

"No," Pei Xianyi unbuckled his seat belt, with a smile in his eyes, "You wait for me here, I'll be back soon."

Xie Zhi was worried, put on his sunglasses, opened the car door and wanted to follow, but was pushed back into the car by Pei Xianyi: "Sir, you are a public figure, don't come out."

After finishing speaking, he raised his long legs and ran towards the snack street with no regard for his image.

"..."

Xie Zhi maintained the movement of being pushed down on the seat for three seconds, straightened up and silently raised his phone, and took a photo of Mr. Pei's sassy back.

Then he played with his phone, planning to make a call if Pei Xianyi didn't come back within 10 minutes.

At the last second of the 10-minute timer, Pei Xianyi stepped on the dot and appeared in sight, holding something in his hand.

As soon as he got in the car, the heavy smell of oily smoke mixed with other smells filled the car. Xie Zhi was so smoked that he moved to the side. He lowered his eyebrows and saw octopus balls, grilled gluten, fried yogurt, ice powder, lamb skewers... …a bunch of student favorite snacks.

Pei Xianyi handed it over as if offering a treasure: "Sir, I have been looking over there for a long time, I want to eat but I am too embarrassed to ask, I bought it!"

——Because he was afraid that Pei Xianyi would spend money indiscriminately, Xie Zhi personally funded it and gave Pei Xianyi a hundred pocket money every week.

I bought these snacks and still have a lot left.

Xie Zhi stared at these cheap street food, suddenly smiled and shook his head.

Pei Xianyi asked carefully: "Don't you like it, sir?"

"No, I like it very much." Xie Zhi glanced at the school gate again, "Thank you."

Under the setting sun, "A City No. [-] Middle School" shines brightly, reflecting dazzling brilliance.The get out of class bell of the teaching building in the distance rang twice, the door opened, and a group of energetic students poured out, playing and surrounding each other.

Many years ago, Xie Zhi also walked alone in that crowded crowd.

It's just that after class, he is accompanied by someone.

Although I don't know how long I can stay with him.

If only... If only I had known Pei Xianyi earlier.

Sitting in the afterglow of the setting sun, Xie Zhi finished eating the octopus balls quietly.

The author has something to say: Chapter 19 is finally unlocked, the fate of this book is too twists and turns, thank you for your support, otz sent a small red envelope to the first fifty of this chapter~