My Mister Ostrich

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Chapter 67 Mountain of Books, Sea of Questions
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Chapter 67 ?Mountain of Books, Sea of Questions
Translated by Twelve_Months_of_May

Part 2. Love Letter from That Year

Ah? You’re really going to study accounting?

When Gu Mingxi walked inside the front door, his heart hadn’t calmed down, still pounding intensely in his chest. He went to the bathroom and sat down on a plastic chair, lifting his foot to open a low tap on the wall.

Water flowed out and he cleaned his feet. Then he bent his head down and used his right foot to scrub his face. The water in summertime was always hot, so Gu Mingxi wanted to wash his face off with some cold water to calm himself. But the more he washed, the more excited he became.

When he walked out of the bathroom, his clothes were dripping with water. Li Han was startled and she grabbed a towel to help him dry his face. She complained, “Your clothes are all wet.”

Gu Mingxi looked away and said quietly, “It was too hot so I wanted to cool down.”

They walked to the living room and Li Han picked up a box on the table for Gu Mingxi to see. “Mingxi, your dad came by.”

Gu Mingxi was shocked as Li Han helped him open the box. “Since it’s your 18th birthday today, he was going to pick you up to have a meal together. Your (paternal) grandparents haven’t seen you in awhile either. But you weren’t here, so he left this and left.”

Li Han held a bar-shaped Nokia cellphone in her hand. She said softly, “This is your father’s birthday present. He didn’t set up a number yet, but said for you to bring your ID and set it up yourself. He said you’re grown up, and since you’re heading to university next year, you should have a phone. But we’re not sure if it’s convenient for you to use.”

Gu Mingxi stared at the phone in his mother’s hands for awhile. he said, “I’ll accept it first, but I won’t use it for now.”

He returned to his room, and pulled off his shorts with his feet. He sat down on his bed with his legs crossed, and he shook his pants with his foot until a small picture dropped out of his pocket.

Gu Mingxi looked at the two smiling faces on the photo. He stroked the girl’s face with his big toe as his emotions calmed. He looked over to his desk. School would start in less than half a month.

At the same time, next door in Apt. 501, Pang Qian also had that photo in her hands. There was a missing picture on her photo sheet. It was the one with her standing side by side with Gu Mingxi. At the time, she’d wanted to delete it and retake the photo, but Gu Mingxi stopped her. He said he really like it, to leave it for him.

Pang Qian had the photo of the two of their faces next to each other. She was smiling happily, and Gu Mingxi looked a bit awkward. Pang Qian carefully cut out the two-inch photo and slipped it to her wallet. Her ID card covered it, so even with careful inspection, you wouldn’t see it.

And so, she hid away the photo, just as she did with her feelings. Pang Qian sat at her desk, zoning out. Then she pulled out a hardcover notebook from her drawer. This was a notebook she’d used for a long time. She didn’t write anything strange in it, and she left it out openly in her drawer, not at all afraid her parents would see it. Inside, she’d copied down popular song lyrics, some classical sayings, famous words, English poems, and there were also lots of newspaper and magazine cutouts… Pang Qian flipped to an empty page and wrote earnestly:

Target June 2003. Pang Qian, work hard!

She also drew a small crab. An oval with eight legs, waving two claws.