Misplaced Relationship - Chapter 64

Chapter 64
: Uncovering the Truth
Zhao Qiu was not someone who would make a scene in public. Sitting on the side of the road and crying was her limit.
On the way back on a late bus, Li Li called her several times but she refused to answer.

This move obviously frightened Li Li, and the other party called her more and sent her many messages in succession. Zhao Qiu looked at her son’s message with tears in her eyes.
I finally typed a few words slowly to express my concern and care for you – I’ll call you back when I get home.

Back in the small room, it was already past midnight. Zhao Qiu put down his luggage and sat on the stool for a long time, waiting for his phone to ring.
I came to my senses only when the warning sound rang.

—Mom, aren’t you home yet?

Zhao Qiu stared at the line of words for a long time before dialing Li Li’s number.

The call was connected after only half a ring. Li Li’s anxious voice came from the other end, “Mom, where did you go? Why?
I called you but you didn’t answer? What happened? ”

Zhao Qiu opened his mouth, his mouth full of bitter taste, “Lili…”

Even though she only called her name, Li Li could tell from her voice that she had been crying, and now she was even more anxious, “What’s wrong? Mom, are you hurt?
Someone bullied you?”

Zhao Qiu closed her eyes, tears rolling down her cheeks. She said hoarsely, “In the evening, I went to your school.”

There was total silence over there.

“I saw you, Lili.” Zhao Qiu’s tone was full of pain, “I saw you get into a man’s car, and I also saw you being…
…” She couldn’t utter the following words no matter what she did. Slowly, slowly, only sobbing sounds came out.

The call continued, one side was crying softly and painfully, and the other side was silent. After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Qiu spoke again with difficulty: “Lili,
Don’t do this anymore, okay?”

“Mom…” Li Li called out, her tone suddenly becoming anxious again, “I’m going back now, don’t let your mind wander, have a good sleep, and we’ll go back.
Let’s have a good chat.”

The call was disconnected, and the hand holding the phone fell limply. Zhao Qiu certainly couldn’t sleep well. She couldn’t even stand up from the stool, so she could only sit there.
The lights in the house were dim, the room was small, and there were many things to put in it, so the shadows were overlapping and messy, just like her.
The life I’ve experienced in the past few years is the same.

She sat quietly for an unknown amount of time. Before the darkness outside dissipated, she heard the door lock being turned, and then Li Li hurried in.

Zhao Qiu finally moved, his empty eyes fell on his son, and he found that he was not wearing the same clothes he had seen in the evening.
It felt like a knife stabbed me, bloody and painful.

“Mom, I’m back.” Li Li looked at his mother anxiously, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed that there was nothing wrong with her.
He appeared very calm, not at all flustered after being exposed, all the panic was just because he was worried about his mother. He even went to pour a glass of water for his mother.
He coaxed her gently, “Drink some water first, okay?”

Zhao Qiu is not a person with a bad temper. She has never lost her temper since she was a child. She is not good at rejecting other people’s kindness, let alone this is her son.
So she really took the cup of water, noticed the dryness on her son’s lips, and said, “You drink too.”

“Okay, I’ll go get another cup.” Li Li poured a cup of warm water and drank it, then took a small stool and sat in front of his mother.
After cleaning it, he quickly took the glass from her hand and put it aside.

There were many questions in her heart that she wanted to ask. Those questions had been filling her mind for several hours and were difficult to dispel, nor did they make her feel at ease.
After seeing his son, the first thing Zhao Qiu asked was, “It’s so late, why did you come back?” There was some heartache in his tone.

Li Li said: “I took a taxi back.”

He didn’t plan to stay overnight at Yanwen’s place tonight. After the two of them finished their meal and made love, they took a shower and prepared to leave. On the way home, he sent a video message to his mother as usual.
When no one answered, I called, but when I still didn’t get a response, I started to worry. Finally, when I saw a reply like that, I vaguely realized that something was wrong.

In fact, he didn’t wait for Zhao Qiu to get home. He took a taxi back as soon as he received the message.

Zhao Qiu said softly, “It’s so late now. It’s so dangerous to take a taxi back so far alone. If you run into a bad guy…” She spoke slowly, and her previous
As much as I wanted to confirm it, I wanted to deny it now, so I couldn’t help but delay. It seemed that if I delayed for a moment longer, the truth of the matter would not be revealed.
Become like that.

Li Li interrupted her and asked directly: “Why didn’t you tell me that you went to my school?”

The air seemed to be stagnant at that moment. Zhao Qiu looked at his son’s pretty face and whispered after a long while: “I want to give you a surprise…
…”

But I didn’t expect that the surprise turned into a shock.

The doubts that had long arisen in her mind were also confirmed.

Li Li said: “I’m sorry.”

Hearing his son’s apology, Zhao Qiu felt as if his heart was being torn apart. The tears that had been controlled for a long time could not be restrained and fell from his eyes again.
Soon, the tears covered her cheeks. Sadness and grief attacked her, even more than when she first encountered the misfortune. “Don’t apologize to me,
Mom and dad should apologize to you. Lili, it’s because mom is useless and incapable that you went down that path…” She grabbed her son’s hand,
She looked at him with tears in her eyes, “Please don’t do that again, okay? Let’s go get your dad back and live like before. I can work and
I won’t feel tired while taking care of him, not at all. I will work hard to save money for you to have the surgery and graduate smoothly. When you finish your studies, everything will be fine.
Everything will be fine…”

Li Li hated to see Zhao Qiu cry the most. He had been closer to his mother than his father since he was a child. After his father got into trouble, what he was most worried about in his heart was Zhao Qiu’s condition.
He was sensible at that time, and he wished that he could grow up one day, so that he could earn enough money and shoulder enough responsibilities, so that his mother could continue to be her little princess.
Lord, you will never know the sufferings of the world. But reality is so cruel. No matter how hard he tries, he is still small, so small that he can only do simple things for his mother.
Share a little.

And now, he can share enough, so he has no regrets.

But he didn’t know how to refuse his mother’s request, so he could only remain silent.

“I know your father’s rehabilitation treatment is not a support program at all. It’s all self-funded. We can bring him back, so we can save money.
I will save a lot of money. With my salary, it is enough to support our living expenses. I will save a little, very little, and I can also do part-time jobs.
I can do whatever I want to do when doing handicrafts, but Lili, you can’t do that, you will ruin your life…” Zhao Qiu said, his eyes filled with tears.
The room is already filled with begging.

Her hands were sore from being grabbed, and the gentle mother would not care about the severity of the situation in the midst of pain and collapse. Li Li had seen her mother cry many times, but she had never seen her cry like this.
Like this. He couldn’t bring himself to talk about the contract, and he couldn’t even say no, so Li Li finally said, “Mom, you take a rest first.”
Zhao Qiu looked at him with wide eyes, panic in his eyes.

Li Li said, “Let’s go see Dad when it’s daybreak, okay?”

Zhao Qiu was persuaded by Li Li to go to bed, but neither of them could fall asleep in the space between them, and their eyes were blue after dawn.
The physique of the trace, even though she cried so much, the swelling in her eyes had subsided after a few hours. They didn’t have the mood to eat breakfast, so they packed up and went out together.
Instead of taking the bus, I hailed a taxi and went directly to the hospital.

The mother and son didn’t speak during the trip. When a nurse greeted them at the nurse’s station, Li Li smiled and responded, “Yes, I came to visit my dad. I don’t know.
How is he doing?”

“I’m doing acupuncture and electrotherapy now. I should be back in ten minutes or so.”

The mother and son waited in the ward. The patient in the next bed was replaced by someone else, whom Zhao Qiu did not recognize. In the past, she would have greeted the person and established a good relationship with him, but
But now they didn’t want to do anything. They really only waited for more than ten minutes until the nurse and the caregiver pushed Li Heping up.

Zhao Qiu’s eyes fell on her husband’s face.

Seven or eight years of paralysis is enough to change a person’s appearance and complexion. When he lived in the small house, Li Heping’s complexion was already very gray and his skin was
His skin became loose, his muscles atrophied, and he looked like he was 20 years older. In just three months at the rehabilitation hospital, the physical therapy and environment changed him a lot.
He also received counseling from a psychologist. His face no longer had a look of self-abandonment, but instead had a bit of vitality. When he saw his wife and children, his face was even more cheerful.
Revealing a rosy excitement, “Xiao Qiu, Lili, why are you here?”

Li Li stepped forward to help the nurse, smiling as usual, “Mom said she missed you, so I came with her to see you. Dad, how do you feel recently?
Sample?”

Li Heping did not answer directly, but raised his right hand, which had been unable to move before, and grasped his son’s arm bit by bit with some difficulty. After holding it tightly,
He also gasped with difficulty, and then smiled more happily, “It feels good.”

His actions shocked the confused Zhao Qiu. He hurried over with a look of surprise on his face, followed by extreme joy.
“Honey, can you move your right hand?”

Li Heping smiled with his teeth showing, tears in his eyes. “The doctor said that if I persist, I may not have to lie down all the time and can achieve
Sit up.”

He was hit so hard that his spine was almost completely shattered. It cost a lot of money just to save his life, and there was no more money for follow-up treatment.
Treatment could only keep the condition as it was. But now, with rehabilitation treatment, it is slowly getting better.

Li Heping was obviously very happy and full of hope for the future. Zhao Qiu was also infected by him and laughed many times. The mother and son stayed in the hospital for half a day.
I watched Li Heping have lunch and then waited for him to take a nap before leaving.

As soon as he walked out of the hospital, the smile on Zhao Qiu’s face froze.

She understood why her son brought her here.

My husband’s rehabilitation treatment cannot be interrupted. If we take him home at this time, it would be like completely extinguishing the fire of hope in his heart.
It will be a devastating blow to him.
But could she have just been enjoying the fruits of her son’s selling of his body with a clear conscience?