After driving on the crowded road for ten minutes, the car turned into a small alley and finally stopped. Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi got out of the car and followed the middle-aged woman into a simple guesthouse.

At the front desk, the middle-aged woman greeted them and waived the registration. When she took the key to accompany her two children to the room, she kindly reminded Gu Mingxi: "There is no condom in the room. If you want to use it, go out and buy it yourself."

Gu Mingxi had a stern face and no longer planned to respond to anything, but Pang Qian blinked her eyes and asked curiously: "What's the condom?"

The middle-aged woman glanced at her and couldn't help but sigh: "Oh... I'm really a sin, such a young girl, ah..."

She took Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian to the second floor. The corridor of the guesthouse was dark and narrow, with a musty smell. There was occasionally a sound behind the doors of the room on both sides of the corridor. It was very abrupt, and there were also shirtless men walking past them.

When anyone saw Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian, he would look at him curiously. The eyes swept on Pang Qian, causing her to lower her head and hide beside Gu Mingxi. Gu Mingxi comforted her softly: "Pangpang, don't be afraid."

Pang Qian had never been to such a place before, so why wouldn't she be afraid? She could only follow Gu Mingxi without any hesitation. The middle-aged woman took them to a door at the end of the corridor and opened it. A sour smell came to her face. Pang Qian was not a spoiled lady, but when she saw the arrangement in the room, she knew that it was too simple.

The room is very small, only 7 or 8 square meters, with mottled walls, plastic floor mats on the ground, and a one-meter-wide bed against the two walls, and the white sheets are yellow. In the middle of the bed is a bedside table, with a desk lamp and two water cups. There is a TV on the table opposite the bed, and an old air conditioner is installed on the narrow window. Nothing is that there is no bathroom at all.

Gu Mingxi frowned in dissatisfaction, and Pang Qian pulled his sleeve: "Gu Mingxi, I don't want to live here."

Gu Mingxi turned around and said to the middle-aged woman: "There is no toilet here, how can you live there?"

The middle-aged woman turned around and opened another door in the corridor. It turned out that there was a bathroom opposite the door, with locks, squat pits, pools and water heaters. She said: "This bathroom is not public, it is for use in this room, and the room cannot be decorated. You are all at the end of the corridor. Except for cleaning, there will be no one coming. It is very safe. Moreover, you are both students, so you only charge you fifty dollars."

Gu Mingxi said: "Money is not a problem. Do you have a standard room? It doesn't matter if it's more expensive."

"Brother, you don't have an ID card. I dare not let you live in the standard room." said the middle-aged woman, "You must know that you can't even stay in other hotels. If the police come to investigate, everyone will be in trouble together."

Gu Mingxi vaguely knew what she was saying was true. He weighed the pros and cons in his heart, while Pang Qian was humming with her mouth pouting. After thinking for a while, Gu Mingxi said, "Okay, this room is fine, let's stay for one night."

The middle-aged woman left after handing the key to Pang Qian. Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian entered the house and put down their backpack. He closed the door and locked it as soon as possible, and then raised his foot to open the window.

The room was very stuffy. After the window opened, a hot air came in. Gu Mingxi sniffed and felt that in just a short while, the air in the room became fresher.

Pang Qian sat dejectedly on the edge of the bed, looking at the dirty floor mat and a spider web in the corner of the room, and couldn't help but complain: "Gu Mingxi, why do we live here? It's so bad."

Gu Mingxi was looking for the air conditioning remote control and said, "Who told you to refuse to call your father's friend? We don't have an ID card, and even better hotels will not allow us to stay in."

Pang Qian pouted and thought of Xie Yi. Xie Yi should be in Shanghai at this time. I don’t know where he lives and whether he has gone to the comic exhibition during the day.

Suddenly, Pang Qian had an idea in her heart and said to Gu Mingxi happily: "Gu Mingxi! Will we see Xie Yi tomorrow during the day? Then we can ask him to help us and book a room at his place. What do you think?"

Gu Mingxi finally found the remote control and was sitting cross-legged on the bed studying. Hearing Pang Qian's words, he looked up at her, and after a while, he said, "Whatever you want."

Seeing that he was a little unhappy, Pang Qian also became depressed. Gu Mingxi turned on the air conditioner, and the air conditioner made a clicking sound. The louvers turned on, and the sound of the whistle blowing sound came out.

Gu Mingxi walked under the air conditioner and looked up, murmured, "Why isn't the wind cold?"

He set the air conditioner temperature to 20 degrees, and the wind blowing was still swelling. Gu Mingxi gave up and said to Pang Qian: "The air conditioner is broken, so let's bear it for one night."

Pang Qian felt aggrieved and shouted to him: "It's such a hot day! Even if there is no air conditioner, you must have an electric fan! Otherwise, how can you sleep at night!"

Gu Mingxi lowered his eyes and thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go downstairs to ask if they have any electric fans."

Just as he was about to walk to the door, Pang Qian jumped up and grabbed the sleeve of his shirt, clenching his collar tilted to the side: "Gu Mingxi, I'll go with you!"

Gu Mingxi turned around, Pang Qian blinked her eyes and looked at him, and he gradually smiled: "Pang Pang, why don't we go out for dinner first and come back to make these things. It's past seven o'clock and there will be no food in a while."

Pang Qian nodded obediently, Gu Mingxi walked to his backpack, sat on the bed and unzipped his feet. He grabbed a bamboo stick from his toes to scratch itchy, which is his "not asking for help".

He tilted his head, clamped the itch between his cheeks and shoulders, and said to Pang Qian: "I'll go to the opposite side to go to the toilet first."

Pang Qian looked at him blankly, and kept pulling his clothes and following him to the door. Gu Mingxi said helplessly: "Pang Pang, I'm going to the bathroom. Don't follow me. If you stay in the room, no one will come."

Pang Qian asked softly: "Do you want me to help?"

"No, I can do it myself." Gu Mingxi smiled at her, then raised her foot to touch her calves as comfortedly, "I'll invite you to KFC later. There is a family at the intersection. I saw it when the car drove in."

"Didn't it mean that everyone eats half of the food?" Pang Qian said, "I brought five hundred yuan."

"It's okay, you can buy things at the comic convention tomorrow. Didn't you say that you had a crush on several comics last time?" Gu Mingxi smiled again after saying that, raised her foot and opened the door, and walked out.

Pang Qian had never closed the door. She lay on the crack in the door and stared at the bathroom door opposite. Gu Mingxi stayed inside for a long time. Pang Qian was anxiously trying to knock on the door. Suddenly, the door opened, and he still tilted his head and scratched itchy.

He didn't look anything unusual, but his feet in slippers were wet, and his trouser legs were also stained with water. Seeing Pang Qian lowered her head and stared at his feet, Gu Mingxi quickly explained: "This is water! I washed my feet, not... anything else."

They locked the door and walked to the intersection to eat KFC. Leaving the noisy environment of the train station, the small streets and alleys in Shanghai had a unique flavor. When night fell, there were many citizens in the alleys to cool off. This scene was a bit like City E, and Pang Qian's uneasy heart gradually calmed down.

She looked around curiously, thinking that she was actually in Shanghai, which was three and a half hours away from home, and would spend the night with Gu Mingxi at night. She couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in her heart and said to Gu Mingxi: "This is the first time I spent the night outside myself."

Gu Mingxi smiled and said, "Actually, it's my first time."

"Aren't you afraid?" Pang Qian asked, "I was so scared that I didn't want to get into that van at all."

Gu Mingxi smiled and didn't answer. In fact, he was a little scared. After all, he was just a fifteen-year-old boy, without his arms, and he must be uneasy when he left home to come to this strange city.

However, after seeing Pang Qian's little courage, this nervousness was suppressed by Gu Mingxi. He thought that what he had to face was nothing more than some life difficulties, such as going to the toilet, eating, taking a bus to buy tickets, etc. At worst, he would ask Pang Qian for help, and he would never fall into a desperate situation.

What Pang Qian had to face was a psychological fear. Gu Mingxi obviously felt the girl's dependence on him, which was amazing, and he felt a little happy. Then, he felt that he was not afraid at all.

Pang Qian packed dinner at KFC and carried it in her hand to return to the guesthouse with Gu Mingxi. Gu Mingxi asked at the front desk if there was an electric fan. The other party said impatiently that no. Pang Qian was so scared that she pulled Gu Mingxi's clothes, and the two of them returned to the room helplessly.

They had dinner in the room. Pang Qian opened the burger box and spread it on the table. Gu Mingxi stood in front of the table, bowed his head and bent down, and ate the burger directly in the box, occasionally looking up to take a few sips of Coke.

He has always disliked eating Western fast food because it was really inconvenient for him to eat without tableware. But Pang Qian liked it very much, so he followed her.

After eating, Gu Mingxi asked Pang Qian to take a shower opposite and go to bed early. Pang Qian was very obedient, so she brought her clothes to change her clothes and went to the towel. The bathroom was very narrow and the water was not hot at all. Pang Qian was too lazy to care about it. She gritted her teeth, shivered and took a shower. After that, she went back to the room.

Gu Mingxi was watching TV. When he saw Pang Qian wearing pajamas, her hair was wet, and asked, "Is the water hot?"

She said angrily: "It's not hot, it's so cold."

Gu Mingxi thought for a while and said, "It seems that he must have to live in another place tomorrow night."

"Um."

"Then I'll go take a shower." He stood up and began to pack up his things. He recalled the layout of the small bathroom in his mind. Gu Mingxi turned around and said to Pang Qian, "There is no place to sit there. I want to take off my clothes and trousers here first."

While wiping her hair, Pang Qian said casually: "Oh."

Seeing that she was unaware of it, Gu Mingxi had to say, "You turn your head first."

"What are you doing?" Pang Qian glared at him, "It's just a little bit, do you want me to face the wall? It's okay, you'll take it off. I played with you little sparrow when I was a child..."

Gu Mingxi was going crazy and said gritting his teeth: "Can you stop mentioning the little sparrow?"

Pang Qian snorted, turned her head angrily, and looked at the white wall: "Hurry up!"

Gu Mingxi quickly took off his clothes. It was very simple to take off his shirt. His shirt was not unbuttoned and the collar was very loose. He shook his shoulders, bent down, pulled the collar out with his right foot, and took off his clothes.

It’s easy to take off the trousers, and the elastic waistbands are pulled a few times with your feet alternately, and then you will take them off after a while.

Gu Mingxi bit his clean panties with his mouth, put a towel on his shoulder, and itchy under his cheeks. He said to Pang Qian: "I'm going to open the door, your eyes are closed!"

Pang Qian shouted: "You are so troublesome!"

Gu Mingxi rushed out quickly, but he forgot to bring the key.

Half an hour later, when Pang Qian was lying on the bed watching TV, the door was knocked. She suddenly became alert, got out of bed and walked to the door, and asked, "Who?"

"Pangpang, it's me, open the door!"

Hearing Gu Mingxi's voice, Pang Qian immediately opened the door, and complained while opening: "I also said that whoever goes to the toilet will bring the keys, but I don't bring it..."

Then, she was stunned.

Gu Mingxi stood in front of her, with a faint wall lamp in the corridor. Pang Qian saw at a glance that he was naked and only wearing a pair of underwear.

Pang Qian hasn't seen Gu Mingxi's incomplete body for many years. The last time she saw her, she was about nine years old, she went to Gu Mingxi's house to play. Ten-year-old Gu Mingxi was wearing a small white vest that a little boy often wore at that time. Her two round shoulders were eye-catchingly exposed, along with the surgical scars that meandered under her armpits.

What did Pang Qian say at that time? She vaguely remembered that she said his scar was so terrible.

Since then, Gu Mingxi has never exposed her stern shoulders in front of her again.

Pang Qian almost forgot about this, but the moment she saw Gu Mingxi's body, she remembered it. Gu Mingxi was a little embarrassed. Pang Qian turned sideways and let him enter the door. He also put a towel on his shoulder and changed underwear, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I forgot to bring the key."

Pang Qian: “…”

"Don't look at me, just turn around first, I'll put on my clothes."

As he said that, he was already standing by the bed, lifting his foot and taking a clean T-shirt from his backpack. Pang Qian didn't listen to him and quietly looked back at him. Gu Mingxi stood on one leg, his upper body swaying slightly, and his right foot kept pulling in his bag.

Pang Qian looked at his back and suddenly realized that Gu Mingxi, who had always been thin and thin in his impression, has grown a lot now. He is tall, has broad shoulders, and is not as skinny as before. His ribs are revealed, as if his muscles have grown. His legs are long and straight, and his lines are smooth, as if they are full of strength.

She saw his missing shoulder again. Gu Mingxi's amputation surgery seemed to destroy the hair follicles under his armpits, so his armpits were clean on both sides, and there was no hair at first glance. The scars under his armpits were still there, slightly lighter as they changed their age, but the shape did not change at all.

Pang Qian stared at his shoulder, wondering why she thought the scar was terrible at the beginning. Now it seems that she doesn't feel that way at all. She often patted and stroked his shoulders, and when she touched her hands, she never felt that something strange was there.

Pang Qian had been secretly looking at Gu Mingxi, but Gu Mingxi didn't notice it. At this time, he suddenly turned sideways and was about to put on his clothes. Pang Qian saw the position of his little sparrow at a glance. The small, soft little thing in his memory is now a big lump covered in underwear!

Pang Qian's face gradually turned red. Gu Mingxi seemed to feel something. He suddenly turned around and his eyes suddenly became opposite to her.

Pang Qian opened her mouth and slowly turned around under his gaze, thinking about her mistakes against the white wall. It was quiet for a while behind her, and then the sound of her clothes sounded again.

A few minutes later, Gu Mingxi whispered: "I'm fine, you can turn around."

The fluorescent lights were on in the room, Pang Qian pulled up the curtains, and lay on the bed with Gu Mingxi and watched TV.

There are several TV stations in Shanghai that cannot be seen in City E. Pang Qian felt curious and kept wandering around these stations. Gu Mingxi couldn't help but say, "Can you stop changing the station? Just find a station to watch it. It's time to go to bed in a while."

"You are really annoying, Gu Mingxi." Pang Qian said, but she did not change the channel. A Shanghai TV station was broadcasting local news. After talking about a few social news, the host talked about the Shanghai Comic Exhibition that opened during the day.

Pang Qian sat up from the bed, climbed to the end of the bed and looked closer to the screen. The comic exhibition was opened by the leaders of the city's cultural department, and some literary and artistic performances were arranged for primary and secondary school students. Then the camera was pulled into the exhibition hall. In addition to the bustling crowds of visitors, there were also famous cartoonists from all over the country who were holding autograph meetings.

Pang Qian was so focused that she saw it that several flashes of shots appeared on the picture. It seemed that there were exhibition halls stationed by various comic clubs, and there was also a Cosplay performance on the stage.

"Ah!" Pang Qian shouted excitedly, "Xie Yi must be here!"

Gu Mingxi: "..."

After the news was broadcast, Pang Qian got out of bed and went to the table to flip through her backpack. Gu Mingxi asked in confusion: "What are you doing?"

Pang Qian found a pack of potato chips: "I'm hungry."

Gu Mingxi really didn't know what to say about her. Pang Qian sat cross-legged on the bed holding the potato chips, wiping the floor while wiping the floor and pursing the book "Cartoon King" with information on the comic exhibition, and said to Gu Mingxi: "There is the address of the exhibition center on it. I don't know if we can find it tomorrow."

Gu Mingxi said lazily: "I can find it."

"Really? Do you know how to take the bus?" Pang Qian thought about it very seriously and said, "My father said, if you really can't find it, just take a taxi."

Gu Mingxi turned over on the bed and pointed his back at Pang Qian: "I know how to go, go to bed early, I'm sleepy."

Pang Qian also asked: "How did you know?"
Chapter completed!