Gradually, gradually, the world became quieter and quieter. Gu Mingxi's face was no longer so panicked. His body gradually relaxed. At the end, he even closed his eyes.

Pang Qian just covered his ears with her fingers tense until the outside of the room was completely silent.

After confirming that there was no sound of quarrel outside the room, Pang Qian put down the hands that covered Gu Mingxi's ears. She sat down weakly and gasped. Gu Mingxi slowly opened her eyes, and the two of them looked at each other silently, with only the soundtrack of the movie coming from the computer speaker in her ears.

The exciting music doesn't match the atmosphere at this time at all.

Gu Mingxi's expression had returned to calm. He stood up and said, "I'll go out and take a look."

When passing by Pang Qian, she suddenly grabbed his sleeve, causing Gu Mingxi to stop.

Pang Qian stood up and said, "I'll go with you."

They left the room and walked slowly towards the living room along the corridor. The house was so quiet that there was no voice at all. Pang Qian was a little scared. She knew that Gu Guoxiang and Li Han had almost fought just now, and later there was a heavy sound of slamming the door, and I don’t know who left home.

When he walked to the kitchen door, Gu Mingxi saw his mother.

In the kitchen where the food was fragrant, Li Han was wearing an apron to prepare lunch, but at this time, there was only a mess left here. Li Han sat on the ground with his back against the refrigerator, wearing the apron, his hair was messy, his eyes were empty, and there were a lot of stains on his body.

The dishes were smashed, the plates were broken, the soup was spilled all over the floor, the casserole was tilted into the sink, and some fragments even fell in the living room a few meters away.

Gu Mingxi squatted beside Li Han and whispered to her: "Mom."

Li Han was silent for a long time, and Gu Mingxi called out a few more times before she gradually came to her senses.

Pang Qian was already picking up fragments in the trash can next to her, and Li Han called her: "Qianqian, don't do it, be careful to break your hand."

Pang Qian stopped and looked at her with some trepidation.

Li Han slowly got up, feeling extremely embarrassed, but his expression returned to his usual gentleness. She said to Gu Mingxi: "Mingxi, there is no food at home. Take Qianqian out for lunch. Mom wants to take a shower and clean up the house."

Before Gu Mingxi could answer, Pang Qian said, "No need! Auntie, it's almost time for me to go home."

Li Han said: "No, you come so far away, how can you not even eat? Mingxi..."

Before she could finish her words, Gu Mingxi spoke: "Mom, I'll stay at home with you."

Pang Qian nodded repeatedly: "Yeah, aunt, Gu Mingxi doesn't have to accompany me, I'll go home first."

She turned around and wanted to leave, but Li Han called her again. Her tone was very weak, and she begged a little: "Qianqian, Mingxi, you go outside for a while. Really, I want to stay alone for a while."

Gu Mingxi looked at Li Han carefully and asked, "Mom, does it really matter if you are alone?"

Li Han held his forehead with his hands and nodded with his eyes closed.

Gu Mingxi turned to Pang Qian and said, "Then... Pang Pang, let's go out for dinner."

Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi went out together, got off the elevator, and left the community, and no one spoke.

Standing on the street, Gu Mingxi looked around, looking for a small restaurant, Pang Qian pulled his sleeve: "Gu Mingxi, you'd better go back and accompany your mother."

Gu Mingxi looked back at her: "No, you can go after dinner."

His tone was very firm, and there was a stubbornness between his eyebrows. Pang Qian shut up and followed him obediently on the street.

However, they did not find any hotels. During the Chinese New Year, the small restaurants were on holidays, and the big hotels were far away. Pang Qian followed Gu Mingxi around the street for a long time, cold and hungry, and finally said, "Gu Mingxi, I want to go home."

Gu Mingxi still said: "No, we haven't had a meal yet."

"I can eat when I go home."

"no."

"You don't have a restaurant here, you don't even have a snack bar."

"Look for it again."

"I've walked several streets."

"There is a big supermarket in front, and there should be KFC there."

"I don't want to eat KFC!"

Pang Qian stopped and grabbed Gu Mingxi's sleeve. Gu Mingxi's down jacket was tightened by her. He did not look back, but just said, "There is a restaurant in front of you, and you will have it after you walk."

"Gu Mingxi, I'm so tired." Pang Qian's voice burst into tears, "I want to go home, so you can go home and accompany your mother."

A few minutes later, Gu Mingxi took Pang Qian to the bus station. The two stood side by side. At noon, the sky became darker and the wind became much stronger, whistling across their cheeks.

Pang Qian was wearing gloves and a scarf, and her hair was blown very messy by the wind, saying, "It seems to be raining."

"Yes." Gu Mingxi asked, "Did you bring an umbrella?"

Pang Qian pointed to the small backpack behind her: "Take it."

"I'm so embarrassed today." Gu Mingxi said, "I'll treat you to a big meal next time."

"Okay, I'm going to have a kebab."

"Eat whatever you want." Gu Mingxi smiled.

The bus came, Pang Qian got on the bus, found a seat by the window and sat down, and looked out the window.

Gu Mingxi was still standing under the stop sign, tall and quiet. He kept looking at Pang Qian, and Pang Qian waved to him: "You go back quickly."

Gu Mingxi smiled again: "I know, be careful on the way."

When the car started, Pang Qian leaped by the window and kept looking at Gu Mingxi who was getting farther and farther away from the window. The street was very empty and there were almost no people on the road, so Gu Mingxi's figure was particularly obvious.

It was not until he could not see him that Pang Qian turned around and sat in her seat and became stunned.

Li Han's voice came to his mind:

"If you go find that vixen, I will die for you! I will die with my son!"

"Are you fascinated by that vixen? Gu Guoxiang! Do you even want our home?"

"Where is the best place for the vixen? Young? Beautiful? The kung fu in bed must be very good!"

"The people in our company call you General Manager Gu! Gu Guoxiang, I warn you, if you don't break off a relationship with that vixen, I will write a letter of reporting to it! Say you are messing with a relationship between men and women! Everyone in the All Metal Materials Company knows it! You are a fucking beast! You are a beast! I want your reputation to be discredited! Also, don't forget that we have been married for many years, and I know everything about you that is shameful!"

The wind blew the clouds, and the sky quickly dimmed. After a while, heavy rain poured down, accompanied by thunder and lightning.

The window glass of the bus was covered with rain, and the lights were turned on on the road, and some of them jumped double. Pang Qian thought, it took less than ten minutes, and I don’t know if Gu Mingxi had arrived home.

Because it rained, the road was a little blocked. It was already an hour and a half when Pang Qian arrived home. She was very hungry, but she didn't dare to tell her parents that she hadn't eaten lunch. She pretended to be greedy and asked Pang Shuisheng to cook a bowl of sweet potato soup for her, and hid in the room and ate it voraciously.

The rain fell from noon to evening. When it was almost dinner, the phone rang at Pang Qian's home. Pang Shuisheng answered the phone and called Pang Qian: "Daughter! Mingxi's phone number!"

Pang Qian walked out of the room and felt strange. When she picked up the microphone, she heard only a shower and the sound of a car driving.

"Gu Mingxi?" Pang Qian asked in confusion, "Are you outside?"

Gu Mingxi didn't say anything, just gasped.

"Where are you?" Pang Qian became anxious, "I'll ask you! Where are you?!"

He finally spoke: "I'm next to your house."

"ah?"

"Pangpang, can you come out?"

"Yes, tell me the address and I'll come out right away!"

"Don't tell your parents about my family."

"I know!"

"Well, then I'll wait for you."

Pang Qian changed into her coat and was about to go out with an umbrella. Jin Aihua grabbed her and said, "It's time to have dinner. It's raining so heavily outside, where are you going?"

"I..." Pang Qian asked her father for help, "Dad, I'll go see Gu Mingxi, you guys have dinner first, don't wait for me!"

Pang Shuisheng was stunned and pulled Jin Aihua away: "The child probably has activities, so let her go."

Jin Aihua muttered, "What the hell is Mingxi doing? Didn't Qianqian go to his place for lunch? Why did he come over again?"

"Don't worry about the child's affairs." Pang Shuisheng also told Pang Qian who was changing his shoes, "It's raining, help Mingxi hold an umbrella and don't let him catch a cold when he gets in the rain, do you know?"

Pang Qian nodded and left home anxiously.

She carried an umbrella to a commercial street next to the Jincai compound. As she walked, she ran away, regardless of the puddles, sewage splashed on her body. Gu Mingxi said that he was waiting for her at the convenience store next to the station. After walking for ten minutes, Pang Qian finally saw him. As she thought, Gu Mingxi was soaked all over, and she looked like a drool. He had a bus IC card on his chest, and he was actually carrying a backpack on his back, which was bulging. I don’t know what he had put, but the big bag was already wet in the rain.

"Gu Mingxi!" Pang Qian ran to him, angry and anxious, looking him up and down, "What are you doing? What happened? Are you running away from home?"

Gu Mingxi looked at her with a breath, the water dripping from her hair fell down, her face was wet, and her lips were frozen purple. Pang Qian took out a tissue to help Gu Mingxi wipe off the rain on her face. He was silent for a while and finally said: "Pang Pang, my mother has returned to her hometown. She booked her own ticket for the plane tonight and has left."

Pang Qian: “…”

"My dad...I called him and he said he had gone to another place and hadn't come back these days."

“…”

"He told me to go to my grandparents' house, but I don't want to go." Gu Mingxi lowered his head, "In winter, I can't stay at home alone. I wear too much clothes and I can't take it off myself. I can't cook, and there is no restaurant next to me. I told my mother that I can go back to my hometown with her. I haven't seen my grandparents for a long time, but my mother just cried, kept crying and ignored me."
Chapter completed!