Chapter 370

The person who opened the door was Wang Yue. Although Pei JianGuo and Lu Keqin had divorced for a long time, Pei Shuangshuang had never moved back. There were only the mother and son living at home.

She was used to being free and was more willing to live in the dormitory instead of coming back to be restrained by her mother and brother.

This also gave Wang Yue a headache. Her daughter was almost 30 years old and still refused to get married. No matter what Wang Yue said, she wouldn't listen. Instead, she was completely focused on An ZhiXian, which was really worrying.

"Brother Pei, are you here to find JianGuo?" Because Wang Yue was sure he couldn't be here to find her.

Ever since she divorced from Pei Yong, they hadn't had any connection.

"Is he here?" Pei Jing nodded and asked.

"Yes, please come in and sit down first. I'll go upstairs and call him." Although Wang Yue didn't lower herself to fawn over them, she didn't object to her children having connections with the Pei family. Of course it wasn't because of that ridiculous blood relationship. She knew clearly that without the Pei family's support, neither she nor her son could accomplish anything.

However, Pei Jing didn't want to go inside. He just stood straight at the door. "I won't come in. Waiting for him here is fine."

Wang Yue looked displeased on her face. She also knew she couldn't make a scene in front of Pei Jing. Instead, she had to force a smile on her face. "That's fine too. I'll go call him directly."

With Pei Jing standing at the door and Wang Yue not closing it, she turned and walked inside. The house was originally distributed by Pei Yong. In order to take care of the family, Wang Yue had transferred to work at the hospital. Back then, Pei Yong had a good income from the army, so the house he distributed was not bad either. It was a two-story small building. Pei JianGuo lived upstairs.

Wang Yue ran upstairs and opened the door to say, "JianGuo, your uncle is here looking for you."

Her attitude towards Pei Jing was very different from before. That was naturally because Pei Jing was no longer comparable to the past.

More than ten years ago, Pei Jing was just a deputy regimental commander in the army. Later he was promoted to regimental commander, but now he was the highest commander of the special forces.

Although not even 40 years old yet, he already held such a high position that anyone would try to get on his good side.

However, Pei JianGuo was different this time. He lowered his head in thought and didn't want to go downstairs.

The conversation with An ZhiXia earlier in the day - he admitted he had been impulsive. And now his uncle had come to find him at night. He was afraid things were not looking good.

"What are you dazing off for? Didn't you always like your uncle the most?" Seeing Pei JianGuo in a daze, Wang Yue was no fool. "JianGuo, don't tell me you made some kind of mistake?"

"No, I just go to work and come home every day. What kind of mistake could I make!" Pei Jianguo quickly shook his head.

"That's good then, that's good. Small mistakes can be forgiven, but as you know what kind of temperament your father and two uncles have. Uncle Xiao Fang definitely won't nitpick with you over minor issues, but if you cross their bottom line and break the law, they will have no choice but to disown you."

"I know, Mom. I'll go out and see first."

Perhaps with his increasing age over the years, Wang Yue was no longer as arbitrary and domineering as before. On the contrary, Pei JianGuo had become more mature and nitpicky, and was not as magnanimous as before.

Pei JianGuo was also afraid that Wang Yue would see him being scolded in an embarrassing state, so after going out he decisively closed the front door.

"Uncle, shall we go somewhere further to talk?"

Without giving Pei Jing a chance to respond, Pei JianGuo walked ahead after speaking.

Upstairs, Wang Yue opened the window overlooking them and watched as the uncle and nephew walked away before going back downstairs.

After turning the corner, Pei JianGuo consciously stopped. Only then did Pei Jing ask him, "I heard you were transferred to the Construction Bureau. Has work been going well recently?" "It's been alright. With Jincheng pushing urban construction projects, they needed more people in the Construction Bureau. So I transferred over there." Pei Jianguo explained, still clinging to the hope that his uncle didn't know about what had happened during the day.

"Moving up in the bureaucracy so quickly that you now dare to aim your blade at your own family members. Is that right?"

Clearly, Pei Jing had no intention of letting him get away with fooling him.

"Uncle, please let me explain. Don't just listen to one side of the story." Pei JianGuo was a little impatient. "I just went to ask my aunt for a small favor, a very minor issue that she could have resolved with one casual sentence. But no matter how I persuaded her, she refused to help. I lost my temper because of that. And I just casually said those words. I would never dare do that even if you gave me eight times the guts!"

"You don't dare, but from the looks of it now, there seems to be nothing you don't dare to do!" Pei Jing didn't show the slightest bit of anger, as if he had just casually kicked Pei JianGuo. Yet Pei JianGuo knelt down on the ground, not getting up for a long time, with cold sweat pouring down his forehead..

It was a good while before he finally recovered.

"I knew it. In your eyes, I'm just a worthless person who can't accomplish anything, not even worthy of the Pei surname. Even after I got transferred to the Construction Bureau and gained the appreciation of high-level leaders, you guys still think I'm worthless!" Pei JianGuo was unwilling to resign himself to it either. He had wanted to have a good life and work hard at one point too. And he had made efforts, but things had still turned out this way. Yet what choice did he have?

They only knew to condemn him. Had anyone ever tried to understand him, or even give him a word of encouragement? He was now completely oblivious to the fact that every time Pei Jing had come back, he had exhorted Pei JianGuo to live properly.

Everyone had their own families now in their 30s. No one could always tail him and teach him how to be a proper human.

And people like him were typical of being forgetful. They would behave for a few days after a scolding session but soon revert back to their original bad habits. Even a deity wouldn't be able to do anything with him.

This was not Pei Jing's first time feeling disappointed in Pei JianGuo, but it was the first time he felt that the man before him was simply not worth disciplining at all.

Some people were just born to be like that.

He was now convinced that everyone thought he was worthless. Yet he never considered whether anyone in the Pei family had ever looked down on him for having a lowly position that leaders were not interested in.

The reason they looked down on him was because he lacked integrity and a sense of responsibility, on top of being incorrigible!

The leaves on the trees rustled as Pei Jing encountered perhaps the only person in his life who made him feel so helpless.

"The family has never looked down on you. If you insist on thinking like this, then no one can do anything. Pei JianGuo, no one is a saint. You can occasionally be a bit selfish, but you can't be so all the time. No one is obligated to always coax you. You're not a child anymore either. Do what's right for yourself."