My Mister Ostrich

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MY MISTER OSTRICH
Chapter 50 That Summer
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Chapter 50 That Summer
Translated by Twelve_Months_of_May

Gu Mingxi followed Pang Qian to the Class 8 classroom downstairs. Xie Yi walked out with Gu Mingxi’s backpack, smiling slightly. Gu Mingxi looked at him and his face reddened a bit.

Pang Qian’s face was still sour. She took Gu Mingxi’s backpack and put it onto her back. “Thanks.”

Xie Yi smiled, “You’re welcome.”

On the stairs, Gu Mingxi quietly bent his head and sniffed his shirt collar. He’d showered and changed his clothes, so there was no scent of cigarettes on him. Hi lifted his head and looked at the girl’s back. She was carrying his backpack. As she walked, there was a bounce to her step, and her ponytail swept from side to side.

For more than a month, he hadn’t had the chance to look at her like this. Although the two of them were deskmates, after class was over, Gu Mingxi always felt unsettled. He felt that classes were annoying, exams were annoying, teachers were annoying, and even Pang Qian was annoying. During math class, they had to use set squares (triangular rulers), protractors, and compasses. In the past, this wasn’t a problem for Gu Mingxi, but during this period, he was always impatient and even angry about something.

Other people had arms, so drawing was easy for them. He had to use his feet to use these tools, so inevitably, there were times that he wouldn’t be able to draw well. He started to wonder, why did he have to draw these things? Why did he have to work on these exercise problems? How did it relate to his job in the future, his life in the future? Why were others allowed to live freely and happily?

Gu Mingxi also wanted to be like Xie Yi, a boy who was free and untethered. But in the end, he’d become a hedgehog, hurting many of the people beside him. Yet, he didn’t seem to feel any happier.

He sat on a bench with Pang Qian in the park. She said, “Gu Mingxi, recently you’ve been acting unlike yourself. I started to suspect that you’d been possessed by something.”

Gu Mingxi dropped his head and didn’t respond.

Something cold suddenly appeared next to his mouth. With recognition, he sucked at it. A slightly sour, slightly sweet popsicle entered his mouth. In this summer season, it was a very satisfying feeling.

Pang Qian had a popsicle in both hands. As she ate one, she fed the other to Gu Mingxi. She looked off towards the lively vendors and the kids gathering around the stalls to buy food. She couldn’t help but remember when she was in primary school.

At that time, when she and Gu Mingxi headed home, she would always drag him to go buy food to eat. He didn’t have arms, whihc meant eating snacks as he walked wasn’t very convenient, so he wasn’t happy about it. Pang Qian would just pat her own chest and say, “I’ll feed you!”

She kept feeding him snacks. From primary school to junior high, from junior high to high school. Pang Qian had never seen Gu Mingxi eat food from any other classmates’ hands before, and it was rare that someone else held his water for him. She was much the same. In all her years, she’d never fed food to anyone but Gu Mingxi.

“Gu Mingxi, do you think it would be good for me to study science?” Pang Qian took a bit on her popsicle. She turned her head to look at Gu Mingxi, “Actually, my scores for history and politics are a bit better than for science, but I hate memorizing things.”

Gu Mingxi would definitely study science. Politics was his weakest subject. Their exams required so much writing, and since he wrote with his feet, he always felt rushed for time. After every major literature, history, or politics exam, his back would feel sore. His toes were sore, and his foot hurt from being bent for so long.