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Chapter 16 The cardamom age, grow up together (3)

After hearing Gu Mingxi's talk about changing houses again, Pang Qian grinds Pang Shuisheng for a long time. She asked Gu Mingxi some important information. New and old employees of metal materials companies can apply for new dormitories, with qualifications, titles, positions, and contributions to the company as the review criteria. The conditions that no house owners need to meet are more stringent. Old employees who have benefited from sharing houses can apply for changing houses, but they need to hand over the old house and pay tens of thousands of yuan as compensation for small exchange for large houses.

Pang Qian actually didn't want to live in a big house, and she didn't know what her mentality was. After knowing that Gu Mingxi was about to move out, she felt uncomfortable and reluctant. She pestered Pang Shuisheng and asked him to apply for a house change. Pang Shuisheng really felt it was unnecessary. The house in the Jincai Courtyard was already big enough, and the location was in the city center. If you change to a place where birds don't poop in the west of the city, you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars more. Isn't this a waste?

In the end, Pang Shuisheng was so entangled by Pang Qian that he had no choice but to start talking to her.

"Dad can apply for it, but you have to promise me that you have to pass the high school entrance exam."

Pang Qian: "Ah?!"

Pang Shuisheng smoked a cigarette: "Two years later, if you get into the high school entrance examination, if you get into the high school entrance examination, we will move home. If you don't pass the exam, your father will take the application back and pretend that it is not true. Do you agree?"

Pang Qian gritted her teeth: "Dad, will you lie to me?"

Pang Shuisheng knocked her and said, "When did Dad deceive you? Why, don't you have confidence?"

Pang Qian thought seriously for half an hour and clenched her fists and agreed: "Who is not confident anymore! The deal is completed!"

A few days later, Pang Shuisheng submitted a copy of the house to the company, while Pang Qian knocked on the door of Gu Mingxi's house with her schoolbag.

When she walked into Gu Mingxi's room, the boy was extremely surprised. Pang Qian sat in front of him, and took out the textbooks from her schoolbag, saying, "Gu Mingxi, I will come to you every day from now on to do homework. If I don't understand the questions, please help me."

"Oh..." Gu Mingxi nodded and responded, unable to help but ask, "Pangpang, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." Pang Qian looked up at him with a look of death, "Gu Mingxi, can you let me pass the exam to the high school entrance exam?"

While Jin Aihua and Pang Shuisheng were watching TV together, they asked him: "Do you really want to change rooms?"

Pang Shuisheng glared: "How is that possible?"

"Then do you still apply for a change of room?" Jin Aihua was puzzled, "and said to Qianqian like that. I think the little girl has taken it seriously. She has been able to get the money these days."

Pang Shuisheng waved his hand and said, "You don't understand our daughter yet? With her level, three minutes of popularity, I have to set off firecrackers to pass the general high school entrance exam, and it's still heavy!"

Jin Aihua doesn't like to listen to this: "Qianqian is not stupid, what if she really passes the exam?"

Pang Shuisheng smiled: "If Qianqian can really get into the high school entrance exam, I'm happy to change this house! You have to retire in ten years, and I have to work for another nineteen years. The factory moved to the west of the city. It's very hard for us to go to and from work every day. It's better to live directly in the new dormitory. If you have good luck, you can still be neighbors with Guoxiang and Ahan."

Jin Aihua was silent for a while and said, "I don't want to be neighbors with Guoxiang and Ahan anymore."

"Why?" Pang Shuisheng was surprised, "Aren't you and Ahan like their own sisters?"

"Because Qianqian." Jin Aihua sighed, "I always feel that Mingxi likes our Qianqian very much. Qianqian has a fight with him, and he never gets angry. From now on, they are a little older, what should I do if they fall in love early?"

Pang Shuisheng laughed: "What are you talking nonsense? You're thinking too much. How old are they? They are still in love early."

"What are you laughing at?" Jin Aihua poked Pang Shuisheng's arm, "I'm serious, what should you do if Qianqian and Mingxi are dating in the future?"

Pang Shuisheng didn't understand what she was worried about and said, "Let's not mention that this will happen more than ten years later. Even if Qianqian wants to have a date with Mingxi, it's nothing. Mingxi is such a good child. My family and his family know each other well. I don't think there is any problem."

Jin Aihua couldn't believe it: "Are you crazy about Pang Shuisheng? Gu Mingxi has no arms! Even if he goes to college in the future, he may not be able to find a job after graduation. Do you know, Ahan told me that Mingxi has many things to help with in life, and he can't go to the bathroom by himself even when he goes out! Do you want us Qianqian to marry him to be a nanny? Look at us Qianqian, we will do a few housework so far, and I don't want her to marry Mingxi to suffer for the rest of her life."

At this time, the door of the room was pushed open, a little head came in, and said in a flattering tone: "Mom, I've finished my homework. Can I watch the TV for a while? I'll be fine if I watch it for ten minutes."

Pang Shuisheng couldn't help laughing and waved to her: "Come in, by the way, there is a box of chocolate cones in the refrigerator. If you want to eat, go get one."

Pang Qian cheered: "Long live Dad!"

She went to get the cone happily, and Pang Shuisheng whispered to Jin Aihua: "You really don't think about those things. Look at how old our daughter is now. Did she not even come? You said you were worried about something, Qianqian is still a child."

Just as Jin Aihua was about to refute, Pang Qian had already jumped in. While licking the cone, she sat next to Pang Shuisheng, watching the TV series on the screen, and soon asked about her father's previous plot.

Jin Aihua looked at Pang Qian's dancing eyebrows and finally kept silent.

Pang Qian has indeed not had her menstrual period yet.

But until the end of the first year of junior high school, Pang Qian's menstrual period did not come. She did not take this matter seriously because she was all her energy on the final exam. In the last month, Gu Mingxi gave Pang Qian a surprise tutor. Pang Qian took the 26th place in the class, eleven places higher than in the midterm exam, and her grades in several main courses exceeded those of Hu Tianli.

Pang Qian raised her eyebrows and was proud. Now no one said she had cheated anymore. But her grades have also become a strange phenomenon. In the four major exams in the first grade, she jumped from the 41st to the 23rd to the 37th to the 26th class, and the jump was incredible.

On the way home from school, Pang Qian excitedly said to Gu Mingxi: "Next semester, I must be in the top 20 in the class!"

Gu Mingxi poured cold water on her: "If you want to take the high school entrance exam, you must at least take the top ten in the class, and you must keep it in the top ten."

Pang Qian was speechless, but she knew that Gu Mingxi was telling the truth and that Yuanfei Middle School had a poor admission rate. She suddenly realized that it was not as simple as she thought to get into a high school entrance exam.

"Gu Mingxi, what should I do if I can't get into the high school entrance exam?" Pang Qian said with a little discouraged and depressed. She and the boy around her were riding home together, sweating profusely under the sun above her head.

Pang Qian did not tell Gu Mingxi the agreement between her and Pang Shuisheng. This was too embarrassing. How could he know that she wanted to take the high school entrance exam in order to move with him.

Gu Mingxi never asked Pang Qian the reason. This silly girl would never know. Gu Mingxi was so happy when she heard her say she wanted to take the exam for a high school entrance exam.

Seeing that Pang Qian was quite unconfident, Gu Mingxi comforted her: "There are two years left, and nothing can be said. Then maybe your grades are better than mine."

Pang Qian was happy: "Ah? Better than you? How is that possible! I'm not Xie Yi."

"What's impossible?" Gu Mingxi blushed when he heard the name of "Xie Yi", and said, "When my hands just disappeared, they said that I couldn't go to school and could not learn to take care of myself. Am I fine now?"

Pang Qian: “…”

During the summer vacation, Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian's parents both had to go to work, and the two children were alone at home. They were not young anymore, so the adults would not bother the elderly to take care of them. They would cook more food the night before and put them in the refrigerator to let the children eat hot at noon the next day.

For convenience, Pang Shuisheng and Li Han agreed that the two families would take turns cooking every week to let the two children eat together, but because Gu Mingxi was inconvenient, the task of hot rice was taken on Pang Qian.

So, for a whole summer vacation, except for weekends, Pang Qian was almost every day with Gu Mingxi. Even if a good friend asked her to go out for fun, she would push her because she had to cook for Gu Mingxi.

On this day, it was Pang Qian's turn to Gu Mingxi's house for dinner. It was too hot outside and the temperature soared to 38 degrees. Gu Mingxi turned on the air conditioner in his parents' room and asked Pang Qian to bring the food to the small table in the room. The two of them were watching TV while eating.

It was very natural for Gu Mingxi to eat with his feet in front of Pang Qian. His right toe was very flexible. He was very skilled in using a spoon or chopsticks. Pang Qian had long been used to his meals. The table was low and Gu Mingxi could still pick up food by himself. Pang Qian smiled foolishly and basically didn't have to worry about him.

After dinner, Pang Qian refused to go home because her parents' master bedroom was locked. After she went back, she had no air conditioning or watching TV. She would be hot and bored.

Gu Mingxi had no objection to Pang Qian staying at his house. The only thing that was unhappy was that Pang Qian would compete with him for TV. Gu Mingxi wanted to watch the replay of the French World Cup, but Pang Qian wanted to watch "My Fair Princess". Gu Mingxi couldn't help but say, "You have watched it twice but haven't watched it enough!"

"If you don't read enough, you won't read enough!" Pang Qian grabbed the remote control and was proud. Seeing that she was so arrogant, Gu Mingxi suddenly stretched out her foot to grab the remote control. Pang Qian swung her hand and avoided it, and said with a smile: "If you want to be fair, we should use scissors and stone cloth!"

Just one sentence made Gu Mingxi very angry.

He sat there with his knees bent and said nothing, put his shoulders in his mouth, and lowered his eyes. Pang Qian knew that he had gone too far again, so she glanced at him a few times, and then handed the remote control to his feet: "Okay, I won't look at it anymore, I'll show you."

Gu Mingxi didn't show off in front of her, so he immediately looked up at her and said, "Pangpang, can you stop joking with me in the future?"

Pang Qian looked at him blankly and couldn't speak for a moment.

From childhood to adulthood, she and Gu Mingxi were together, and countless times she heard others teasing him for his weakness. The naughty children in the Jincai compound also gave Gu Mingxi a nickname, calling him "little disabled", "missed hands", and "empty sleeved monster"... Pang Qian had fought with them because of this, but Gu Mingxi never cried because of these things.

She always thought he didn't care, because he is really amazing now. When Pang Qian was with him, she rarely noticed his difference from ordinary people. She was really used to it. But now it seems that Gu Mingxi still cares...

As if she knew what she was thinking, Gu Mingxi spoke again, and his tone was gentle: "I don't care no matter what others say. I just don't like you, and it's not interesting to me because of this."

Pang Qian nodded: "Oh, I get it."

Gu Mingxi laughed, leaned his back against the wall, kicked Pang Qian's calf with his right foot, and said, "By the way, I have bought a few new games. Do you want to play?"

"Okay." Pang Qian replied.

Gu Mingxi stood up and walked to the TV cabinet, opened the drawer with his right foot, took out a few game cartridges on his toes, and asked Pang Qian: "You can see it yourself, what do you want to play."

When Pang Qian went over and saw that they were all games that she had never heard of before, she felt that she was not very interested and said, "Play Super Mary."

"Hello……"

"Crazy tanks are OK."

“…”

At this time, Pang Qian found several CDs next to the game cassette. She took them out and saw that the image of the male and female protagonists in the Japanese comic "Incredible Game" was printed on it. She was very happy: "Oh! Gu Mingxi, you actually have this cartoon! I have always wanted to watch it!"

Gu Mingxi had no impression of these CDs. After thinking for a while, he said, "I don't know, I haven't seen it..."

Pang Qian shouted excitedly: "I want to see!"

When Gu Mingxi was connecting the VCD machine, Pang Qian went to his refrigerator to get two cream ice creams.

She licked the ice cream and sat on the floor with satisfaction. After Gu Mingxi pressed the play button, she came over and sat next to her. Pang Qian handed him another ice cream. He clamped it with his right foot, crossed his legs, and slapped his body and ate slowly.

Time on the VCD passed by second by second, but the TV screen was still pitch black, with occasional snowflakes flashing. Pang Qian was impatient and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know." As soon as Gu Mingxi finished speaking, the TV screen suddenly lit up, and Pang Qian widened her eyes. She never expected such a picture to appear on the screen... It was really incredible.

Pang Qian was already half open, and even forgot to eat the ice cream in her hand. The cream dripped down her hand. Gu Mingxi's reaction was much faster. He didn't care about the ice cream on his feet and threw it directly on the floor. He stood up and rushed to the front of the TV. He was confused for a moment, not knowing whether to turn off the VCD or turn off the TV. In desperation, he simply stretched out his foot to hold the power cord of the TV and pulled it hard. The TV became dark and the collapsed sound disappeared.

He was sweating in the cold end, and he breathed a sigh of relief and turned around, but saw Pang Qian sitting there, her body was stiff and motionless. Her face turned red and white. Gu Mingxi's face was also very hot, and she couldn't even speak smoothly: "Big, maybe it was the plate, the wrong place, then, don't..."

"Gu Mingxi..." Pang Qian grabbed the ice cream that was constantly dripping with cream in her right hand, and grabbed the hem of her T-shirt with her left hand. She interrupted him and said stammeringly, "I, I...I, I, it seems...that, that's coming."

Gu Mingxi: "..."

He went to the bathroom for a walk, and in the small cabinet where toilet paper was placed, he couldn't find his mother's sanitary napkin.

Li Han usually pays attention to these things. Many women's supplies are stored well and will not be exposed in front of his son. Gu Mingxi found nothing. He went back to the room and said to Pang Qian who sat like a stone, "That... I don't have one at home, I can't find it. You either go back to your house..."

Pang Qian's eyes turned red, she shook her head and said pitifully: "I don't want to stand up."

Gu Mingxi was very embarrassed: "What should I do? Do you have one at home? Or, I'll get it at your home?"

"Oh, right! I have it at home!" Pang Qian took out the keys at home and handed it to him, "In the toilet, there is it in that cabinet."

Gu Mingxi took the key out of his mouth and went out. After arriving at Pang Qian's house, he went straight to the bathroom, raised his foot to open the cabinet door, and really saw several packs of unopened sanitary napkins.

Gu Mingxi had never studied this before. At most, he had seen it in a TV commercial. He didn't know which one to take. After thinking about it, he bit a pack of five-piece pink sanitary napkins with his mouth and prepared to go home.

Unexpectedly, when standing in front of Pang Qian’s door, Zhong Xiaolian on the upstairs happened to go downstairs. Seeing Gu Mingxi holding his right foot and clamping the key while shaking the door of Pang Qian’s house, he couldn’t help but laugh: “Oh! Mingxi, do you even have the key to your wife’s house?”

Gu Mingxi was already nervous, but now he was even more shocked. He didn't clench his teeth, and the sanitary napkin in his mouth fell to the ground.

He turned his head and looked at Zhong Xiaolian. Zhong Xiaolian was the one who came here. He stepped forward to help him pick up the sanitary napkin and stuffed it into his beach pants pocket.

"Who is Qianqian coming?" she asked.

Gu Mingxi nodded with a red face: "She is at my house, I'll help her get it." After a while, he said, "Aunt Zhong, don't tell my parents, okay?"

Zhong Xiaolian is a famous gossip, and what she knows can spread throughout the courtyard at once. Zhong Xiaolian smiled slightly: "I don't talk so much, what's there to say about this? Go in quickly."

Gu Mingxi breathed a sigh of relief, pushed open the door of his home. Just as he was about to go in, Zhong Xiaolian called him again and said with a smile: "By the way, Mingxi, remember to tell your wife not to eat iced or spicy food, don't lose cold water. She is a big girl now, do you know if you have to take good care of her?"

Gu Mingxi's face was so hot that he almost made a pancake. He said, "Goodbye Aunt Zhong" and hurried into the door.
Chapter completed!
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