Chapter 102 Life is impermanent, never abandon it (1)
Pang Shuisheng found a familiar painter to help Pang Qian's living room with wall paint. The good new house was made like this before the wedding was held. Pang Shuisheng was very angry.
"It was really made by Gu Guoxiang's little daughter?" Pang Shuisheng couldn't believe it, "Miss is nine years old, and she is still so ignorant?"
"What's ignorant, it's intentional." Pang Qian was so angry that she thought of it. "It's okay to make a flower wall, but it also dirty Gu Mingxi and eight new drafts, which made him want to re-draw. He had to submit this batch of manuscripts 12 months ago, and the new book will be launched next year's Spring Festival. Now, he's going to work overtime day and night again."
"You have to persuade him, but your health is more important." Pang Shuisheng thought for a while and said, "Qianqian, you are going to get married on National Day. Don't be so irritated with Lao Gu. After all, he is Mingxi's father. He will definitely come to attend the wedding at that time. Don't be unhappy at the wedding."
"He was the one who provoked me first, okay?" Pang Qian was indignant, "I used to not treat Gu Mingxi as his son, and I felt embarrassed! I raised mistresses after mistresses on my back, and finally got my wish and had a daughter, so don't mess with us! Now I always say that I'm a family, brother and sister, to cultivate feelings, and hypocrisy! Gu Mingxi can support himself now. If he is poor, his father will look at him with a glance?"
Pang Shuisheng knew his daughter's temper and comforted her: "Okay, okay, don't be angry. This way, I'll send a wedding invitation next month. You two happen to be in Shanghai. You asked Mingxi to call his father and I'll send the invitation to Lao Gu in person. He said that you can't come back from school, so that you can't help but save you from being embarrassed when you meet. OK?"
Pang Qian smiled and hugged Pang Shuisheng's arm and acted coquettishly: "No one knows a daughter is better than a father, long live dad!"
Three days later, Ding Jiankang enjoyed the service of the airline's "summer check-in children" and flew from Guangzhou to E City. Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian went to the airport to pick him up, and soon saw the little boy taken out by the ground staff.
"Teacher Gu!" After seeing Gu Mingxi, Doudou rushed over. Gu Mingxi squatted on the ground. Doudou hugged him and cried and screamed, tears wet Gu Mingxi's face.
Gu Mingxi smiled brightly. After looking at Doudou, he found that the little boy had started to suck and said, "He's growing taller!"
Doudou was very proud, with tears on her eyelashes, and she grinned and showed it to Gu Mingxi: "I'm nine years old! Teacher Gu, look at me changing my teeth!" After that, he reached out to touch Gu Mingxi's face and said, "Teacher Gu, you seem to have turned white."
Pang Qian giggled. Gu Mingxi has been back in City E for more than a year, and her outdoor activities are much less than when she was in Sanya, so her skin naturally turns whiter.
Pang Qian asked: "Doudou, are you afraid of flying alone?"
"Not afraid! The aunt on the plane has been taking care of me." Doudou was so happy, "Aunt Crab, it's the first time I took the plane. There are chicken rice on the plane! It's so delicious!"
In the car home, Doudou and Gu Mingxi sat in the back seat. He opened his backpack and couldn't wait to take out the gifts he brought to Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian - two boxes of Cantonese durian crisps and a bag of Cantonese sausages. He also took out three test papers for Gu Mingxi to show: "Teacher Gu, look, I'm all over the door to 95!"
The three of them returned home together. Doudou was curious and happy to see Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian's new house. Gu Mingxi took him to the children's room because he couldn't guess the gender of the future baby. The children's room used pink and green children's furniture. In order to welcome Doudou, Pang Qian had already put on brand new bedding for him.
"Teacher Gu, is this your baby's room in the future?" Doudou asked restrainedly.
Gu Mingxi nodded: "Yes."
"Then it doesn't seem good for me to sleep here." Doudou scratched her hair, "I can sleep on the sofa outside."
Gu Mingxi smiled: "It's okay, the teacher likes you to sleep here."
Doudou and Gu Ziyue are the same age, but in Pang Qian's opinion, these two children are completely incomparable.
When he went out to buy vegetables, Doudou took the initiative to carry the bag and browsed in the supermarket. Pang Qian told him to take whatever he wanted. He just walked beside Gu Mingxi obediently and never made any requests. If Pang Qian brought him some food, he would immediately go and check the price, and then said, "Auntie Crab, I don't like to eat this."
In fact, he just doesn't want Teacher Gu to spend money.
After returning home, Doudou was unwilling to sit in the living room to watch cartoons, and always wanted to sneak into the kitchen to help. After Gu Mingxi drove him out, he went to the bathroom to get a rag. While Pang Qian was collecting her clothes, she knelt on the ground with her butt sticking out and wiping the floor. When Pang Qian saw it, she almost knelt for him, and finally told him to sit down on the sofa.
She brought Doudou a bag of fresh lychees. Doudou found an empty bowl and peeled them out one by one and put them in the bowl. Pang Qian was interesting to see and asked, "Doudou, do you like to eat them all after peeling them all?"
Doudou shook her head: "No, I peeled it for Teacher Gu."
In the evening, Pang Qian asked Gu Mingxi to sleep with Doudou intimately, and let them talk. Doudou was very excited, and Gu Mingxi leaned on the bed and started chatting with him.
Doudou went to his mother's new family, and Gu Mingxi was very worried that he would be bullied, but Doudou said that his new father was very nice to him.
"Dad talks very little, never beats people, and it's delicious to cook." Doudou lay on the bed, shaking her legs behind her, and said to Gu Mingxi with scattered eyes, "Mom likes her younger brother, but her father likes her younger sister more. They said they won't have children anymore, they have three, and they have children and daughters, just right."
Gu Mingxi asked with a smile: "Then do you like your younger brother or your younger sister?"
Doudou thought for a while and said, "I like my sister. My sister is very obedient. My brother is a little naughty and always fights with me."
Gu Mingxi frowned: "You are your brother, and you won't have any face if you win a fight with your brother."
"He tore my homework book apart!" Doudou said angrily, "But my grades are better than him, and I am in the top three in the class every time, so my father will help me scold him, hehe."
Gu Mingxi felt comforted and was glad that Doudou met a good stepfather.
Doudou blinked her eyes and asked Gu Mingxi again: "Teacher Gu, is Aunt Crab treating you?"
Gu Mingxi smiled: "She is very nice to me, don't worry, you saw it just now. The teacher and Aunt Crab are very happy to be with you."
Doudou nodded and said angrily: "Teacher Gu, I came here this time just to see if you are good. If you are not doing well, let's go back to Sanya and I will stay in school with you. I have learned to wash vegetables and cut vegetables now, and I can help you."
Gu Mingxi: "..."
Doudou lay beside him, curled up and closed her eyes: "Teacher Gu, I always dreamed of when we were in Sanya. Once, I started crying and was still woken up by my mother."
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"Teacher Gu, I miss you, how much I miss you."
"The teacher misses you too." Gu Mingxi lowered his head, touched the back of Doudou's head with his broken shoulders, and said gently, "Go to sleep, Doudou, the teacher is with you."
Doudou stayed in E City for ten days until the Chinese Valentine's Day. She spent her 28th birthday with Gu Mingxi before taking a plane back to Guangdong.
For ten days, Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian often took him out to play, to children's parks, water worlds, museums, bookstores, and aquariums... They accompanied him to eat Western food, watch animation movies and children's dramas, and went to the supermarket for a walk every night to enjoy the cool air.
Pang Qian also took Doudou to his parents' house next to the building for dinner. Doudou was very sensible, and his grandparents called him very happily. After dinner, they helped Jin Aihua clean up the dishes. His hands and feet were so quick that he felt sad that he directly sealed him a small red envelope.
When he parted with Gu Mingxi at the airport, Doudou was strongly not crying. He brought the new clothes and new stationery that Gu Mingxi bought for his three siblings in his backpack, and waved hard at Gu Mingxi.
"Goodbye Teacher Gu! Goodbye Aunt Crab! I will definitely study hard and come to E City to study in college!"
After seeing off Doudou, Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi began to prepare for their trip to Shanghai.
They went there more than a week in advance, driving and luggage, preparing to rent a house next to Gu Mingxi's school. Although they had learned about it in advance, Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi still did not expect that their schools would be so far away. Fudan University is in Yangpu District, while Gu Mingxi was going to attend was in Songjiang University Town outside the city. Pang Qian tried to drive the car. It took her more than 50 kilometers from Fudan to Songjiang University Town, which took her more than two hours.
She called Wu Feiyan and asked how long it took to take the subway. The reply she got was that it would take buses to subway, then to subway and then to buses... It would take about two hours.
Pang Qian was desperate.
"What should I do?" She was so depressed that she lay on the steering wheel and had no idea.
Gu Mingxi comforted her: "It's okay, wife, I can take care of myself, live in the dormitory or rent a house."
Pang Qian gritted her teeth and thought for a while, shook her head: "No, I promise you that you will live with you. Let's rent a house, and I will run to the city every day from now on."
After two days of intermediary, they finally found a satisfactory house. Three bedrooms and one living room, and a simple decoration. The landlord agreed to convert one of the rooms into a studio, and Pang Qian directly paid the rent for one year.
One week in Shanghai, they were inseparable from each other, tidying up the small house and adding some furniture and daily necessities. Pang Qian also invited Wu Feiyan, Xue Wenwen and Yang Lu to have dinner. This time, Yang Lu finally came.
Yang Lu is no longer the silly girl who loves Sheng Feng wholeheartedly. She has become very beautiful and confident. After seeing Gu Mingxi, she smiled and said, "I'm really sorry that I didn't come to have a meal last time. Feiyan told me that Crab's boyfriend is so handsome. I don't believe it yet. Now I see you, it's really worthy of your reputation."
Pang Qian stretched out her left hand to them, and the diamond ring on her ring finger shone: "What boyfriend, I am a certified person now."
The three girls were shocked: "Ahhh? Are you registering with crab?"
Pang Qian opened her bag, took out three invitations with a "brush" and smiled: "Red bomb! On October 2, in E City, is anyone willing to be a bridesmaid for me?"
The girls rush to the top: "Oh! I, I, me!"
On the last weekend before the start of school, Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi returned to City E. They made an appointment to take wedding photos on that day. After taking the interior scene, they went to the scenic spot to take two sets of outdoor scenes. The group went to the last stop - City E No. 1 Middle School.
Pang Qian had made an appointment with the school in advance, and a teacher on duty helped them open the classroom door, which was the classroom where Class 1 (2) of high school was located.
The classroom is no longer what they were when they were studying. They have installed air conditioners and water dispensers and projectors. The desks and chairs have been replaced. The school has just started, and the blackboard newspaper in the back row of the classroom is a content to welcome new students.
Gu Mingxi was wearing a white shirt, dark blue jeans, and a pair of white sneakers on her feet. Compared with the suit and ties she looked like when she was taking photos before, she looked a little more student-inspired.
He stood by the back window and stared at the desk in the corner. It was an ordinary double desk, with many traces painted on the table, and some books were left in the drawer of the table. Under the half of the table against the wall, there was also a pair of football spikes, which obviously belonged to a tall boy.
Gu Mingxi looked into the playground through the window. The school had a new plastic track. The red track reflected the green stadium, which looked particularly eye-catching. The woods on the side of the playground were still there, and the trees were much taller. Gu Mingxi gradually laughed. He remembered that on the first day of school, they formed a circle in the woods to introduce themselves. At that time, Pang Qian was so poorly speaking, but now, she can communicate with foreigners fluently.
A voice came from behind him. He turned around and saw Pang Qian who had changed her clothes. She was wearing a white shirt that was the same style as him, a dark blue denim skirt underneath, a slender waist, a pair of long and straight legs, and a pair of white sneakers on her feet, like a vibrant female student. Pang Qian smiled as bright as a flower, and a thin white gauze draped on her hair, telling everyone that she was a bride.
Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi stood on both sides of the blackboard, smiling at each other. On the blackboard were six words written by the photographer in chalk: We did not have early love!
They took the last set of photos on the playground. In the end of summer, the weather was clear. Under the blue sky and white clouds, Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi sat side by side in the stands of the playground, kissing gently with their eyes closed. The breeze blew the white veil behind Pang Qian's head and also the empty sleeves of Gu Mingxi. He heard her say in his ear: "Gu Mingxi, do you know? Ten years ago, I fell in love with you here."
Ten years ago, on a hot summer day, the school playground was setting, and he and her were sitting side by side.
With the arrival of the school season, the Songjiang University Town in Shanghai became lively. The originally empty streets and sparsely populated campus main roads gradually became crowded.
Pang Qian accompanied Gu Mingxi to register for school, completed a series of procedures, and also completed a new mobile phone number in Shanghai. Xu Shuanghua's friend was a teacher at school and was entrusted by Xu Shuanghua to help Gu Mingxi arrange the dormitory.
Gu Mingxi's physical condition is not convenient to live in an ordinary four-person room. In order to take care of him, the school arranged a two-person room for him in the teacher's building. The other boy in his class, 22-year-old Fu Qinfeng.
Fu Qinfeng was a somewhat introverted boy. After seeing Gu Mingxi, he didn't say much. He helped Pang Qian clean the dormitory together and helped Gu Mingxi get the bed.
Pang Qian asked him to take care of Gu Mingxi during his school days, mainly to make meals in the cafeteria, go to the toilet, carry painting tools, hold umbrellas, and rest at noon. Fu Qinfeng nodded and replied: "Don't worry, wrap it on me."
After attending the opening ceremony, Gu Mingxi returned to the rental house in the evening. During the meal, he talked about the daytime affairs with Pang Qian.
"As soon as I entered the classroom, the children were stunned when they saw that I had no arms. Several thought I was a teacher or counselor, and they called me hello to me." Gu Mingxi thought of the scene during the day and wanted to laugh, "I told them that I am actually a freshman like them."
Pang Qian listened with relish: "What?"
"Then, I was so nervous before, all of them were dumbfounded." Gu Mingxi took the meal and said, "Later, the counselor came, everyone introduced themselves, and soon, I had a new name."
"What's the name?"
"Old Gu." He answered very seriously.
"Puff!" Pang Qian laughed so hard that she almost spit out her mouthful of food: "Why are you Lao Gu?"
"They are all eighteen or nine-year-old children. Why don't they call me Lao Gu?" Gu Mingxi also smiled, "Fu Qinfeng said that he had been admitted to undergraduate for three years before he was admitted to the undergraduate degree. He thought he was 22 years old and must be the oldest student in the class. To be honest, he didn't expect that there was a twenty-eight-year-old here."
Pang Qian was so happy: "It's not too big at the age of twenty-eight. There were many people who came to graduate school in my thirties in my school."
"You are a graduate student, you can't compare." Gu Mingxi frowned slightly, "Pang Pang, I really didn't feel that I was old, probably because I have always been in school. When I was in S City, I often went to the Academy of Fine Arts to teach, and later I kept teaching in elementary school. I still felt that I was quite young. But today I looked at the children in the class and realized that I was really old. Look, there were wrinkles at the corners of my eyes."
He held chopsticks on his toes and used them to tap the corners of his eyes to show Pang Qian.
"Please!" Pang Qian picked up a chopstick and a loofah and stuffed it into his mouth, "You were in Sanya. Look at Xie Yi, it's a legend of immortality. Changing your school uniform to high school can definitely scare girls in high school. Okay, I'll go buy you some skin care products tomorrow. I really didn't see that Gu Mingxi, you want to look good."
"How can I look good?" He raised his eyebrows, "To be honest, there are still girls in the class who come to ask me for my mobile phone number today, and several ask me if I have a girlfriend."
Pang Qian asked with interest: "What do you say?"
"I said, there is no girlfriend, but there is one tigress in the family."
Chapter completed!