"It's about ten kilograms." Gu Mingxi looked into his father's eyes, "Dad..."

"Okay, stop talking." Gu Guoxiang waved his hand powerlessly, "Your mother has been carrying the ten kilograms of rice from the supermarket and there are other things, and she has walked back all the way?"

Gu Mingxi nodded.

Gu Guoxiang suddenly laughed miserably, his body swayed for a moment. Pang Shuisheng hurriedly supported him. He reached out and pinched his eyebrows and said, "Shuisheng, look, look! I really gave birth to a good son."

Pang Qian actually didn't understand what the questions asked by Gu Guoxiang had to do with Li Han's illness, but she knew that the last sentence Gu Guoxiang said was a satirizing Gu Mingxi.

Obviously, Gu Mingxi knew it too, but he was as confused as Pang Qian. He stood there with his head down, his eyes a little at a loss and his face was very bad. His clothes were messy, with blood stains on it, and the short sleeves of his shirt were hanging by his side in an empty space, and his body was shaking slightly.

Two days later, Gu Mingxi got up, bit a "Buqiu Ren" in his mouth, lowered his head and pulled the elastic waist of his trousers with the small paws at the end of the stick, putting on his pants. Then he bit a T-shirt, sat on the bed, stretched out the hem of his clothes with his feet, bent down and put the clothes on his body.

Summer is here, and he is already very skilled in dressing. As long as he has a "no-seeking" team, he does not need help from others at all.

Gu Guoxiang has already gone to work. Gu Mingxi put on his clothes, went to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth, and did everything with his feet. It was a little slower, but he could do it all by himself. After washing up, he went to the refrigerator to bite out a bag of bread, bite the packaging with his mouth, put it directly on the table, and finished eating. Finally, he went to his parents' room, bent down to Li Han lying on the bed, said, "Mom, I'm going to school, are you okay?"

Li Han opened his eyes, smiled at Gu Mingxi, reached out to touch his hair, and said weakly: "Mom is fine, wait for your grandma to come here later, just take care of yourself."

"Yes." Gu Mingxi nodded, "Then I'll leave."

"Go, be careful on the road, stop riding a bike."

Gu Mingxi was stunned for a moment and nodded: "I understand, goodbye mom."

He put his schoolbag on his back and went downstairs and walked out of the corridor. He looked at the direction of the carport and saw his bicycle. After thinking for a while, he walked towards the gate of the courtyard.

It took forty-five minutes to walk from home to school. Gu Mingxi was strode on the street. He walked very attentively, barely squinted, and did not care about the strange gazes gathered on him by passers-by.

In early summer, the weather was slightly hot, and he walked a little fast, and slowly a layer of sweat emerged from his forehead. Gu Mingxi had walked this path more than once, but this time, he felt more and more strange as he walked, and a feeling of frizz in his heart gradually emerged. Finally, he stopped and turned around suddenly.

On the crowded street, a girl in a pink and purple dress with a ponytail was standing behind him five or six meters away. Seeing him turn around, she stopped and stood there with her schoolbag on her back and stared at him blankly.

Gu Mingxi looked at her calmly for a while, while Pang Qian tilted her head to look at him, and even stuck out her tongue and made a face.

The golden morning light spread on Gu Mingxi. He narrowed his eyes slightly towards the rising sun, and suddenly started to laugh.

The long-lost smile was so familiar that it hit Pang Qian's heart warmly. She looked at him in a daze, and then smiled.

The two children stood face to face on the street and laughed at each other. Pang Qian walked staggeringly in front of Gu Mingxi, looked up at him, wrinkled her nose and said, "Stop laughing, the tiger teeth are exposed again, so childish."

Gu Mingxi immediately closed his mouth, kicked the small stone on the ground, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" Pang Qian pretended to be stupid, "I'll go to school."

"Why don't you ride a bike?"

"I'm happy." Pang Qian asked him with her chin, "Why don't you ride a bicycle?"

He put away his smile, silent for a while, and said, "I rode home a few days ago and was hit by someone."

"Ah? Are you injured? I don't know!" Pang Qian reached out to pull his clothes, "Are you okay?"

Gu Mingxi twisted his body and hid for a while, whispering: "When he fell, a piece of skin was rubbed on his legs, and there was a big bruise, and nothing else."

"Why are you so careless! You're so stupid!" Pang Qian complained, and immediately squatted down to pick Gu Mingxi's trousers.

"I said it was someone who hit me, not me!" Gu Mingxi couldn't hide, and her trouser legs had been caught. She saw the scar on his calf, which was really a big piece.

"Have you gone to the hospital? Did that person pay for it?" Pang Qian asked anxiously, touching the broken bruise with his fingers. Gu Mingxi took a step back in pain: "It hurts very much! Don't press!"

He gently kicked Pang Qian with his toes, "Get up, stop watching."

Pang Qian stood up with a stern face and asked him again: "Have you caught the person who hit you?"

"How do I catch it?" Gu Mingxi shrugged, his empty sleeves shaking, "The man hit me and ran away all of a sudden, smashing my car."

Pang Qian pouted: "You didn't say that."

"Who do you tell me?" Gu Mingxi smiled again, "It's nothing serious, it'll be fine in a few days."

"Then you'll be walking to and from school these few days?"

"Um."

"That's going to be a long time!"

"Fortunately, I can recite English text silently on the way."

"You're really out of salvation!"

Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian walked on the road together. After a while, Pang Qian said, "Gu Mingxi, let's go to and from school together in the future."

After school, Pang Qian and Sun Mingfang went downstairs together. Sun Mingfang was petite and introverted. She worked with the carefree Pang Qian for several months, and the relationship between the two became very good.

Usually, the two girls rode their bikes home together, but on this day, Pang Qian said that she didn't ride a bicycle and wanted to take the bus back.

Sun Mingfang went to the carport, and Pang Qian hummed a song and walked out of the school gate. She walked west along the street, looking around while walking. After walking for a few minutes, a boy's voice came from the side: "Pang Pang."

Pang Qian turned around and found that Gu Mingxi was actually waiting next to a bicycle repair stall. She couldn't laugh or cry: "Why are you standing here?"

"It's not easy to be discovered here." Gu Mingxi looked up at the dark canopy on his head, walked to Pang Qian, and smiled slightly, "Let's go, go home."

Pang Qian still laughed: "We are like spy agents like this."

"Don't you like others saying we were the two of us?" Gu Mingxi said lightly, "Just don't let them see it."

Pang Qian opened her mouth and wanted to tell him that she actually didn't care anymore. Xie Yi was right. Her relationship with Gu Mingxi for so many years since she was a child, how could she be affected by the boring boys in the class? But looking at Gu Mingxi's light eyes, Pang Qian felt that she would look pretentious if she said it, so she shut up.

While waiting for the bus at the bus stop, Pang Qian ran to a roadside convenience store to buy a popsicle. She walked back while licking. Gu Mingxi stood in the station waiting for her. Looking at her greedy look at her popsicle licking, she laughed out loud: "Pang Pang, do you refuse to go home without eating anything every day on the way to school every day?"

"Nonsense! I don't have it!" Pang Qian patted his shoulder, "I'm just thirsty today."

In the past, she often had such intimate actions towards him, pinching him, hitting him, and yelling him. When they were a little younger, they would even roll around on the bed together, fighting and making fun. Gu Mingxi never avoided Pang Qian, nor would he deliberately hide his incomplete body in front of her. But this time, for some reason, after Pang Qian hit him, he took a step back and stayed away from her.

Pang Qian was stunned for a moment, her hand was still waving in the air, and finally took it back in disappointment. She continued to lick the popsicle as if nothing had happened, and Gu Mingxi stopped talking. A few minutes later, the popsicle was finished and the bus arrived.

The buses were crowded during the evening rush hour, and Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi had no seats when they got on the bus. Pang Qian threw in two coins and walked into the car with Gu Mingxi.

In this weather, Gu Mingxi was wearing short-sleeved sleeves. His incomplete body was very eye-catching. The driver drove a reminder to give up the seat, and a female voice echoed in the carriage: "Please give up a seat to passengers in need, thank you."

It was fine if the prompt sound was not loud. After it rang, many passengers began to look at Gu Mingxi, but no one gave up their seats.

Gu Mingxi had no special expression on his face, but he just found a pillar to lean on him and stood firm.

The car started, Gu Mingxi sideways, presses his shoulders against the pillar, and spreads his feet slightly to maintain balance. Pang Qian stood beside him and carefully protects him, holding the pillar with one hand and gently putting his hand around his waist.

Gu Mingxi was a little resistant and moved to avoid her hand. Pang Qian glared at him and whispered: "Don't move, do you want another bruise to fall on your feet?"

Gu Mingxi stopped moving, turned away from the window, the busy streets, the bustling shops, the tired but vivid faces of passers-by... He tried his best to divert his attention, but the skin on his waist was too sensitive, and the thin fabric could not stop the temperature of Pang Qian's palm. He could even feel her hand holding his clothes, and his fingertips rubbed against him as the carriage swayed.

He was a little distracted and then felt ashamed of his thoughts.

Pang Qian quietly looked at Gu Mingxi's side face. His hair was cut very well, not as long as Xie Yi, and his hair was not as soft as Xie Yi, but short and broken, with a fluffy on his head, and a healthy luster in the sun. And his side face... Pang Qian found that he had not looked at Gu Mingxi well for a long time. Is it really a beauty that distance produces? At this time, seeing his smooth facial lines, straight nose bridge and bright eyebrows, Pang Qian had to admit that Gu Mingxi was really handsome.

Then, she made another magical discovery.

"Gu Mingxi."

Pang Qian called him, and the boy had to turn around, his face was a little unnatural, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Have you grown taller?" Pang Qian stood on tiptoe and said in surprise, "Ah, you really grew taller! I was still here in your ear last semester, but now I only reach my chin, you are almost taller than my father!"

Gu Mingxi's face was a little red and she whispered: "It seems to be a little taller. My mother said that it is easiest to grow in spring."

Pang Qian smiled foolishly: "Will you look as tall as your father in the future? That would be so handsome!"

At this time, the bus driver stepped on the brakes, and Gu Mingxi couldn't grab the pillar, and his body shook violently. In desperation, Pang Qian hugged his waist and helped him stabilize his body.

Finally, a passenger realized that the boy without arms was dangerous standing, so he stood up and gave him a seat for Gu Mingxi. Gu Mingxi's face was red, and Pang Qian thought he was embarrassed because someone else gave up his seat. She pushed his waist and let him sit down, and piled up the schoolbags of the two people on his legs.

Pang Qian felt that Gu Mingxi was weird and didn't talk much, so she just looked out the car window. After arriving at the station, the two of them got off the bus and had to walk ten minutes to reach the Jincai compound. Gu Mingxi finally spoke: "Pangpang, I'll go home and tell my mother that my feet didn't hurt much anymore. In the future, let's ride a bike to and from school."

Pang Qian asked strangely: "Why?"

"It's too troublesome to take the bus." Gu Mingxi answered her very seriously, "If you walk, you're walking too slowly again."

Pang Qian: “…”

Gu Mingxi smiled and said, "Don't worry, my car has been repaired and can be ridden."

Pang Qian asked worriedly: "What if you fall again? You have fallen several times before," she said.

Gu Mingxi looked gentle: "It doesn't matter if you have ordinary wrestling, just don't tell my mother."

When he talked about Li Han, Pang Qian couldn't help but ask: "By the way, is your mother a little better?"

"It's much better." Gu Mingxi's eyes darkened a little and he replied, "The doctor asked her to rest in bed for a few days, saying there was no big problem. My grandma is taking care of her these days."

"That's good." Pang Qian was still scared when she thought of what happened that night. She had never seen such a scene. Gu Mingxi and Li Han were covered in blood, and the floor of his house's bathroom was covered in blood, and Gu Mingxi's blood footprints were still left on the living room floor tiles, extending all the way outside the door, and finally staying on the gate of Pang Qian's house.

He hit the door with his body and kicked it with his feet. Jin Aihua later washed it with detergent for a long time before washing the blood on the door.

There was a problem that Pang Qian had never figured out. She didn't like to hide it in front of Gu Mingxi, and asked: "Gu Mingxi, why did your father say that way that day? What did he mean?"

Gu Mingxi was silent for a while and said, "My mother's baby is gone."

"I know." Pang Qian still didn't understand, "My mother said it was an accident and it was not your business. Why did your father say it to you?"

"You know, my dad always wanted to have another baby." Gu Mingxi said calmly, "He must be disappointed if the baby is gone. Moreover, I am a little responsible. If I didn't mention going to the supermarket, my mom wouldn't have bought rice. If she doesn't buy rice, maybe nothing will happen. And... If I had hands, I could help my mom carry things, so she wouldn't have any trouble."

Pang Qian didn't understand: "What does this have to do with buying rice? It has to do with... or do you have hands?"

Gu Mingxi glanced at her and said "tsk": "You are still a child, you don't understand."
To be continued...