Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian were standing by the empty road waiting for the bus. The station only had a sign, and there was no shed to block the sun. Pang Qian kept looking back and looking into the distance. There were not many tall buildings here, and a few streets away, the residential buildings of the Metal Materials Company that were more than 20-story high became particularly eye-catching.

Pang Qian looked at the light beige houses in the sun. Those houses were so beautiful and had elevators. Gu Mingxi said that each house inside was very large. When they were standing under the house before, they saw a park in the community through the railings. There was even a stream in the park. There was a pavilion and rockery by the stream, and there were many trees planted. Obviously, the Jincai Company spent a lot of money to build these residential buildings.

However, all this has nothing to do with Pang Qian.

Pang Qian couldn't figure out how this company was so ruthless? It had money to build the company's dormitory so high-end, why didn't it have the money to keep her father?

From TV and newspapers, Pang Qian understood what layoffs mean. Her father Pang Shuisheng entered the factory at the age of 18 and worked for 25 years. He originally thought that he would retire safely at the age of 60 like other state-owned enterprises. He was even a special job for a welder and could retire early at the age of 55.

But now? He is forty-three years old. Because he has been engaged in electric welding for many years, he has suffered from occupational diseases. He has no education and no other expertise. After losing this iron job, Pang Qian has no idea what his father should do in the future.

The bus staggered into the station, and Pang Qian and Gu Mingxi got on the bus. She insisted on sitting in the last row, and Gu Mingxi could only follow her silently.

The car slowly drove towards the city. Pang Qian sat by the window, looking at the bleak street scene outside the window, couldn't help but worry about Gu Mingxi and asked, "This place is so far from the city. Gu Mingxi, how do you go to school in the future?"

It was Gu Mingxi's first time here. His sense of direction is much stronger than that of Pang Qian. He understood that the location of the new house is indeed far from E City No. 1 Middle School, and even passes through an urban village like a junction of urban and rural areas in the middle.

At such a distance, you must not be able to ride a bicycle, which is too dangerous. Gu Mingxi thought for a while and said, "You can only take the bus."

"Are you taking the bus alone?" Pang Qian frowned at him, "and you have to transfer the bus. The buses were very crowded in the morning. Can you do it?"

"What do you think you should do?" Gu Mingxi stared at her and asked.

Pang Qian thought for a while and couldn't think of any solution.

Gu Mingxi asked: "Does your father still have room for negotiation about his work? Has he ever contacted my father?"

"I don't know." Pang Qian was depressed, "My father hasn't gone to work for more than two months. I go to school every day, but I don't notice it. After the high school entrance examination, I stayed at home, and my father pretended to go to work every day. I don't know where he would have gone in such a hot day. If I hadn't asked him about getting a new house, he and his mother wouldn't have planned to tell me."

Gu Mingxi said: "It's not long since I said this. I don't know if your father has completed the procedures. Let's do this. When I get home later, I'll ask my father to see if there is any way to recover."

Pang Qian looked at him in surprise: "Really? Will your father help?"

"My father and your father have been good friends since childhood." Gu Mingxi said confidently, "My father is now in the factory, and he should be able to help with this."

Pang Qian was very happy, and hope rose in her heart again, and she kept saying: "Gu Mingxi, you are so good, you are so good! You are so good!"

In the evening, Gu Mingxi stood at the door of Gu Guoxiang's study room, raised his foot and knocked on the door slightly.

Gu Guoxiang said: "Come in."

Gu Mingxi pushed open the door with his shoulder and walked in. Gu Guoxiang sat in front of the desk with a desktop computer on it. He asked someone to assemble it half a year ago and spent more than 10,000 yuan.

Gu Guoxiang didn't even look at Gu Mingxi, and kept typing on the keyboard with his fingers. Gu Mingxi walked to him and saw an article on the screen, full of words, and asked: "Dad, did you type these words?"

Gu Guoxiang turned over a page of the book at hand and did not look up: "Yes, I've all called it."

"So amazing."

Gu Mingxi admired sincerely, Gu Guoxiang looked up at him and asked, "Is there anything to do with me?"

"Yes." Gu Mingxi stood beside Gu Guoxiang, lowering his eyebrows and looking at him, like an obedient student facing the strict teacher. He asked, "Dad, will I disturb you?"

"No." Gu Guoxiang took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, and said, "I just happened to be a little tired."

Gu Mingxi smiled: "That's right, Dad, during the day today, Pang Qian told me that Uncle Pang is laid off. I think Pang Qian is very sad, so I want to ask you if there is still room for maneuver on Uncle Pang's affairs."

When Gu Guoxiang heard his son's words, he was so surprised that he forgot to wear glasses in his hand. After a while, he laughed and asked, "Is it Pang Shuisheng who asked you to say it, or Pang Qian?"

Gu Mingxi was stunned and shook his head: "It was not what they asked me to say, it was what I wanted to ask myself."

Gu Guoxiang looked at him coldly: "You think that dad has a little status in the factory now, and keeping your Uncle Pang is a simple task, right?"

"Not..." Gu Mingxi found that his father was a little angry, but he didn't plan to give up. He continued, "I just think Uncle Pang is very powerful. Didn't he be an advanced worker every year before? Is he welded my bicycle for me? I'm still very silly now..."

"What the hell do you want to say?" Gu Guoxiang put on his glasses, got up and went to the corner to get a folding chair, opened it and put it in front of him, "Mingxi, sit."

Gu Mingxi sat down with some anxiety. Gu Guoxiang took the tea cup on the table and took a sip of tea, and said leisurely: "Dad hasn't talked to you for a long time. In a blink of an eye, you have grown so old."

His hand stroked Gu Mingxi's shoulders. Through the fabric, he gently held his round shoulders. There were broken bones under his palms, which grew vigorously under the flesh, stretching out the boy's young skeleton and gradually growing. Gu Mingxi said: "Dad, I want to say that Uncle Pang's work ability is definitely fine. Why would he be laid off? You..."

He looked at Gu Guoxiang hesitantly and plucked up the courage to continue, "You and Uncle Pang have been good friends for so many years. From elementary school to now, Pang Qian has helped me a lot. Uncle Pang encounters such a thing. If possible, can you help him? Dad."

Gu Guoxiang listened quietly to Gu Mingxi and occasionally took a sip of tea. After listening, he laughed softly and shook his head and said, "Mingxi, you are really a child."

Gu Mingxi was almost sixteen years old and had already reached 176 cm in size. Of course, he was not happy that his father would treat him as a child. But at this time he couldn't refute, just sat obediently with his lips pursed, and pressed his toes against each other. This was his habitual movement.

Gu Guoxiang said: "I know Pang Qian is very special to you. Maybe in the future, you may also develop something. But Mingxi, you have to know that this society is very cruel and realistic, and some things cannot be just looking at the surface. Take the next door for example. Pang Shuisheng's job is fine, but what about you, do you love Aunt Hua? You love Aunt Hua graduated from junior high school and are making a fortune. This year, forty-two, the factory equipped her with a computer to learn to use a computer to make accounts, but she can't learn it no matter how much she learns. The factory restructuring requires many manual years to buy it out.

Leaving the factory, you Aihua is the first to be affected. The factory can hire a college graduate to make a living, know computers, and know English, and have a high efficiency in doing things. After I knew this, I asked you Uncle Pang to have a good talk. We unanimously decided to reconcile it, leave you Aihua, transfer your Aihua to the warehouse management position, and retire after seven or eight years. In order to avoid criticism from outsiders, only you Uncle Pang left, because you Uncle Pang has the skills and can do it in another unit, and your salary may be higher than before."

Gu Mingxi was completely stunned. Gu Guoxiang drank all the tea in the cup and smiled and said, "What? I didn't expect? I knew it was Qianqian who asked you for advice. Two furry children don't know anything. Mingxi-"

He patted his son's shoulder again and sighed long, "You are still too honest. Actually, how careful you should be? You said Pang Qian has helped you a lot? Why don't you think about how you lost your two arms at the beginning? Why don't you think about it? If you didn't have you, Pang Qian's grades would have improved so well in the past few years? Can she be admitted to the high school entrance examination?"

Gu Guoxiang's tone was full of disdain, and Gu Mingxi was once again shocked on the spot. The family has not mentioned the matter when he was injured for many years. This time Gu Guoxiang mentioned that Gu Mingxi only realized that his father, who was far away in France, had always been upset.

"Dad, that's really not Pang Qian's responsibility." Gu Mingxi looked into Gu Guoxiang's eyes, "She was only five years old at that time, and that was a complete accident."

Gu Guoxiang looked at his son in confusion: "Mingxi, dad has always been very strange. Do you really don't hate Pang Qian at all?"

"Why should I hate her?" Gu Mingxi said lightly and slowly. "At that time, Zhu Huiqiang's frisbee flew to the transformer. We didn't understand. We must climb up and take it down. If I didn't go to get it, Zhu Huiqiang would go, or go east, Xiaojian would go, or even ask Pang Qian to go. No matter who goes to get it, there is a possibility of something happening. I just lost both hands. I am lucky. If I want to change to someone else, maybe my life will be gone."

Gu Guoxiang felt that Gu Mingxi's explanation was incredible: "Do you still think you are lucky?"

"Dad, it's been ten years." Gu Mingxi looked at Gu Guoxiang and said, "I think now that without hands, the impact on life is not particularly great. I can do whatever you do with your hands."

"Did you ever think about what to do when you go to college, find a job, and find a partner in the future? Do you know how cruel the outside society is? Survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest, everything depends on your ability! Now college students are not assigned to graduate, and everyone depends on themselves to find a job. Even if your father can arrange a job for you, the employer will not be a charity. If it pays you a salary, you have to create value for it. What your father may say when he is on the job is a little heavy, but what should he do if his father retires? It has only been more than ten years!"

Gu Guoxiang stared at his son's eyes and said earnestly, "Mingxi, you are only sixteen years old. Even if you live to be seventy years old, you still have more than fifty days to go. For more than fifty years, your parents will be gone by then. What should you do?"

Gu Mingxi casually replied: "I'll go to the nursing home."

"Ha!" Gu Guoxiang couldn't believe it, "You're just that little bit of a success?"

Gu Mingxi lowered his head and stopped talking.

Before leaving the study, Gu Mingxi looked at Gu Guoxiang's computer again. Thinking of Gu Guoxiang's talk about Jin Aihua, he asked: "Dad, can you teach me how to use the computer?"

"Don't your school have computer classes?" Gu Guoxiang said, "I have read your course schedule. From the first year of junior high school to now, there is one class every week."

Gu Mingxi bit his lip and told the truth: "Dad, actually... I have never taken computer classes before. The teacher said I don't have hands and can't use computers, so I've studied by myself in the classroom."

Gu Guoxiang was silent for a long time and asked, "You can't even turn on the computer?"

"Yes." Gu Mingxi nodded embarrassedly, "I have never touched a computer."

Gu Guoxiang frowned: "I understand. Let Dad think about how to let you learn computers."

Gu Mingxi couldn't tell Pang Qian the "truth" that Gu Guoxiang told him. This was too cruel. Pang Shuisheng's incident had already made her unable to understand. If she knew that it was because of Jin Aihua's badness that caused her father to be laid off, how should she face her parents?

Just as every parent wants their children to be outstanding, every child also wants their parents to be strong, excellent, omnipotent, and able to shelter themselves from the wind and rain. Gu Mingxi does not want to destroy the image of Pang Shuisheng and Jin Aihua in Pang Qian's mind. When Pang Qian asked him, he said: "I'm sorry, Pang Pang, my father really has no choice."

Pang Qian often acts wildly in front of Gu Mingxi, but when faced with serious matters, she is not the kind of girl who is irritating and will not take off her anger at Gu Mingxi for such a thing. She just shrugged and said, "I knew that this matter was no longer saved."

During the summer vacation, Gu Guoxiang got the key to the new house. He borrowed a car and planned to take his wife and children to the west of the city to see the house. That day was Sunday, which happened to be Gu Mingxi's 16-year-old lunar birthday. He hesitated and asked his father if he could call Pang Qian to go with him.

Gu Guoxiang said: "As long as Qianqian is willing."

Pang Qian felt very annoyed about Gu Mingxi's invitation, but in the end he couldn't resist him, so he went there reluctantly.

All the way to the west of the city, Pang Qian's unhappiness had disappeared. After getting off the car, she followed Gu Mingxi's family into the new community curiously. The house had just been delivered, and many owners came to inspect the house, many of whom were familiar faces in the factory. When she saw Gu Guoxiang, she would greet him politely.

Gu Mingxi's new home is on the 16th floor. When Gu Guoxiang opened the door with the key, the windows in the room were not closed, and the hula wind suddenly came out. Pang Qian widened her eyes and looked at the 120-square-meter house. Although it is just a gray unfinished house now, she could still feel that the house was really big.

Gu Guoxiang and Li Han began to inspect the house carefully, but Gu Mingxi and Pang Qian didn't care about the details. They ran around each other excitedly.

The master bedroom has a large terrace, and there is also a balcony in the living room. In addition, there are three rooms, one is smaller and the other two are similar in size, one facing south and the other facing north.

Pang Qian stood in the south-facing bedroom and said to Gu Mingxi: "Please choose this room as your room! Look, it's so bright!" She lay down by the window and looked downstairs, her hair was chaotic by the strong wind on the 16th floor. "You can also see the park downstairs, and the other room can only look at the main road. Oh, Gu Mingxi, I'm right, so I chose this one!"

Gu Mingxi kept looking at her with a smile. He stood beside Pang Qian, looking up at the strange room, his eyes shining brightly. Pang Qian ran to the middle of the room, turned around in circles, and pointed at her fingers and said, "Your bed is placed here, this is a bedside table, this is a wardrobe, and this is a bookshelf. The desk is placed by the window. You can also see the scenery outside when doing your homework!"

After saying that, she envied again: "What a big room, it's bigger than my parents' current rooms, and it's still on the 16th floor!"

Pang Qian is really a girl who is very happy. She doesn't mind the bad things about her parents' work. Seeing Gu Mingxi moving to a new house and living in a big house, although she was reluctant to leave, she was still happy for him.

Unexpectedly, after Gu Guoxiang and Li Han looked around, they took Gu Mingxi to the bedroom Chaobei. Gu Guoxiang held Gu Mingxi's shoulder and said, "Mingxi, this is your room in the future."

Just as Pang Qian was about to interrupt, Gu Mingxi stopped her with his eyes. He nodded and said, "Okay."

Pang Qian swallowed the words into her stomach and felt a little angry with Gu Mingxi. His parents had already made a decision for him without asking him any advice. What is this!

After reading the house and going downstairs, Pang Qian asked Li Han: "Auntie, will the room next to your room be the uncle's study in the future?"

"No." Li Han replied, "The study room is the small room facing west."

"What is that south-facing room for?"

Li Han smiled and said, "That's ready."

Pang Qian didn't understand even more, why they would rather have a room than let Gu Mingxi live there.

On the way back to the city, Gu Mingxi said to Pang Qian: "Pang Pang, today is my birthday, and I will have dinner with my grandparents and the others tonight. Come and come together."

"Ah?" Pang Qian was a little surprised. He looked at the back of Gu Guoxiang and Li Han in the front seat. Neither of them expressed his opinion. Pang Qian said, "Forget it, your family members have dinner, I won't go."
Chapter completed!