Proud Gu Mingyu

Chapter 4 Bedtime Stories

"Come on, panda, come to me." Mingyu carried some leftovers soaked in water in a small bowl. They were eating in a restaurant, and Gu Mingyu asked the boss for it.The boss also raised a dog in the shop, and told Gu Mingyu that the dog should not eat too salty, and must be soaked in hot water before feeding it.

Zhou Cheng squatted far away, wanting to approach but not daring.He was bitten by a dog on the butt when he was very young, and there is still a scar on it.Although the puppy is very cute, Zhou Cheng is still afraid.

The puppy was so hungry that it smelled the aroma of the food and ran over to eat it wagging its tail. Chen Lingling stood at the door talking to Gu Huaili. The door was ajar and they couldn't be seen inside.

Not long after, Gu Huaili left. Before leaving, he waved to Gu Mingyu at the door. Seeing that his son was just teasing the dog without raising his head, he felt that his status in the future might not be as good as that of a dog.

Chen Lingling found a cardboard box, spread out Zhou Cheng's father's old clothes for the puppy to use as a nest, and then told the children to wash up.

Zhou Cheng's father, Zhou Ming, planted a few acres of lotus in the countryside. Summer is the time when white lotus is produced, so he is busy in the fields. Zhou Cheng's father simply lives in the country, and will not go home until after this time.

Zhou Cheng’s house is a rented house, with only one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. Chen Lingling and his wife live in the bedroom. The living room is divided into two spaces by a curtain. A sofa and tea table are placed near the gate, and a mosquito net covers the other side. A small bed and a children's desk are Zhou Cheng's room.There is a back door in the living room, which is connected to the kitchen and bathroom in the backyard. When someone is at home, the door can be opened for ventilation. The screen door is installed on the door to prevent mosquitoes from coming in.

The breeze blew up the white cotton yarn, Gu Mingyu got into the mosquito net, and threw herself on the bed: "It's so cool, you don't even need to turn on the fan!"

Zhou Cheng took off his shoes and squeezed to Gu Mingyu's side, proudly said: "I don't need an electric fan at home. My father said that if I blow too much electric fan, I will catch a cold and become stupid." In fact, Zhou Cheng's family couldn't afford an electric fan. The son thinks that other people's families have their own and will not feel inferior.

After all, Gu Mingyu is a child, and he is very upset to hear this. There are four small electric fans in his house, one for the living room of his brother, sister, parents, and a ceiling fan in the dining room. Doesn’t it mean that they have all been fanned into fools?Just about to refute, she saw Chen Lingling took a book and lifted the gauze curtain and sat on the edge of their bed, smiling and asking, "What story does Mingyu want to hear?"

This is a bedtime story. Gu Mingyu has only heard of such a treatment when he grows up.His parents were too busy, his grandparents passed away early, and his grandparents refused to take him with him. Before he was four years old, he was brought up by a nanny, and after four years old, he lived in a room with his elder sister.

Gu Mingzhu is very serious about her studies, and she has to read until late at night every day. However, due to her limited qualifications, she failed to enter high school and had to go to a medical school in the urban area.It happened that Gu Mingyu slept with her when she was in middle school, let alone telling stories, Gu Mingyu would be stared at if she made any mischievous noises.

Xu Gang wanted to sleep with his younger brother, but he didn't sleep well, and Gu Huaili was afraid that he would kick Gu Mingyu onto the bed in the middle of the night.

After Gu Mingzhu, Hu Zhen and others left home, Gu Huaili put Gu Mingyu in his room, and the father and son slept in the same room.It's just that Gu Huaili dotes on his son, he is a man after all, how could Chen Lingling be so gentle and careful.

Gu Mingyu was a little flattered, but he really didn't have any impression of fairy tales in his mind. He had long forgotten the ones taught in the kindergarten, and after learning how to read, he would peek at the romance and martial arts novels of his brothers and sisters.He looked at Zhou Cheng, hoping that he could choose a good story, but Zhou Cheng had listened to this book of fairy tales over and over again on weekdays, and it was no longer new. Yu picks one he likes.

Gu Mingyu couldn't figure it out after much deliberation, but when she saw the lotus leaf and a few tadpoles painted on the pages Chen Lingling opened, she said she wanted to listen to the tadpoles looking for their mother.

"Okay, let's talk about tadpoles today." Chen Lingling let the two children lie side by side, and covered them with a towel.

"'Mom, mom!' The little tadpole saw a turtle swinging its limbs and swimming in the water, and hurried to catch up. The turtle smiled and said, 'I am not your mother.'" Chen Lingling had a soft and sweet voice, and she patted the turtle while telling the story. Gu Mingyu's body, soon he fell into a dreamland.

At a certain moment, Gu Mingyu thought, it would be great if Chen Lingling was his mother.

Chen Lingling sent them to school in the morning, and it happened that Zhou Cheng and Gu Mingyu were in the same school and grade but in different classes, saving her from making an extra trip.Gu Mingyu went to the first grade at the age of five, but because she was not old enough, she was not able to enter the county's key primary school, but was forced into the second primary school because of Gu Huaili's relationship with the principal of the second primary school.

Except for the key primary schools, school-age children in the [-]s were not so strictly restricted to school, and they usually entered the first grade at the age of six, and Gu Mingyu was a year earlier, because the family was too busy to take care of them, and seeing the children again Smart and precocious before being sent to school.

Facts have proved that Gu Mingyu is really smart. After entering the school, she scored [-] points in each test, and she never failed to keep up because of her young age.

When he learned that the eight-year-old Gu Mingyu was in the third grade like himself, and got [-] points in the last exam, Zhou Cheng was a little bit surprised, and then blushed, and said something dryly.

"Mingyu is really amazing." Then she kept silent.

Chen Lingling sent them to the school gate, asked Zhou Cheng to pick him up from Mingyu's class after school, and told them to be careful when crossing the road before rushing to work.

Gu Mingyu nodded to Zhou Cheng, greeted her and walked to her class, Zhou Cheng followed behind him.

"Why are you following me? Class is about to begin. Class [-] is upstairs, right?" Gu Mingyu is in Class [-], Zhou Cheng is in Class [-]. There are four classrooms on the first floor.

"I... I'll find out." Zhou Cheng didn't know why he followed Gu Mingyu, probably because they had studied so close to each other for three years, but they didn't know each other before, and they felt a little unspeakable melancholy .

Class [-] is the same as Class [-]. Does it need to recognize the door at the top of the stairs?

Gu Mingyu didn't bother to pay attention to him, walked into the classroom and sat down, opened the schoolbag and put the stationery and textbooks for the first class on the table.Suddenly a chubby hand beside him poked his shoulder, Gu Mingyu looked up, and saw a girl with a big head and dark skin with two braids standing in front of his desk.

"Mingyu Mingyu, who is that? Is that your brother?" The girl's name is Gao Minmin. She has been in the same class with Gu Mingyu since kindergarten, and is still in the same class as elementary school. Although Gu Mingyu is arrogant and difficult to get along with, Gao Minmin is not afraid of him.

Zhou Cheng followed Gu Mingyu over, and after Gu Mingyu came in, he leaned on the window and looked at him with pitiful eyes like a puppy.Many people in Gu Mingyu's class looked at him curiously, and Gao Minmin was one of them. Others didn't dare to come and ask, but Gao Minmin dared.

Gao Minmin's mother and Hu Zhen used to be workers in the same trade union. After the union collapsed, she worked as a salesperson in the non-staple food company opposite Hu Zhen's night snack shop. Gao Minmin grew up with Gu Mingyu. She knew all of Gu Mingyu's relatives. Never met Zhou Cheng.

Gu Mingyu glared at Zhou Cheng outside the window, just as he was about to ring the bell, Zhou Cheng didn't dare to stay any longer, and ran away quickly.

With a snort, she lowered her head and did not look at Gao Minmin, Gu Mingyu opened the textbook on the table and asked slowly, "How can you tell that he is my brother? He is not taller than me."

Gao Minmin sat down in her seat, anyway, she and Gu Mingyu were separated by an aisle.

"Huh? Didn't Mingyu say that you are the youngest cousin in your family?"

Gu Mingyu turned her head and looked at Gao Minmin seriously, "So, when did I say that he is my relative?"

"No way?!" Gao Minmin's eyes widened, expressing her disbelief, "If you have such a bad temper, wouldn't your relatives be so nice?"

"..."

Gu Mingyu almost choked on her words, the second time the bell rang, the teacher entered the classroom, Gu Mingyu stood up as the class monitor and shouted: "Stand up!"

"Hello teacher!"

That whole morning, Gu Mingyu ignored Gao Minmin, and when school was over at noon, Zhou Guo actually came to look for him. Gu Mingyu followed Zhou Cheng home, ignoring all the probing eyes behind him.

After lunch, Gu Mingyu squatted on the ground to play with the panda, while Zhou Cheng sat on the sofa with his legs tucked up, afraid that the puppy would bite his feet.

"Mingyu..."

"Huh?" Gu Mingyu was very busy, he pushed the puppy on his back and stroked its belly.The little guy struggled to get up, but was pushed down by Gu Mingyu again, and groaned aggrievedly.

Zhou Cheng hesitated for a long time, closed his eyes as if going to the execution ground, and said quickly: "My classmates said they came to play with us after school!"

"Us? How does your classmate know me?" Gu Mingyu stopped teasing the panda, and raised his head to look at Zhou Cheng. His eyes are round and the eyelashes are long and curled up, which is especially beautiful when looking up.

Zhou Cheng was a little afraid of his eyes, he rolled around on the sofa, jumped down from a place far away from Gu Mingyu and the panda, and ran towards his "room": "Anyway, it's already agreed, I want Take a nap, Mingyu, come and sleep too!"

The panda was finally able to turn over and get out of Gu Mingyu's "clutch", and didn't dare to stay with him anymore, chasing Zhou Cheng's feet with its short legs and tongue sticking out.

"Ah! Panda, don't come here!"

Zhou Cheng likes Gu Mingyu very much. Gu Mingyu is good-looking and cool, and he is excellent at studying. During his spare time in the morning, Zhou Cheng is showing off to his classmates. In a debate, Zhou Cheng described Gu Mingyu as a more powerful figure than Nezha in Naohai.

Such a person is his younger brother, and Zhou Cheng earned enough envious looks from his friends.

Then he frantically waved his hand when they said they wanted to see Gu Mingyu, and invited them all to come home to play.

It's not good until he calms down. He hasn't figured out Gu Mingyu's temperament yet, and Zhou Cheng has no idea how he will react.To him, Gu Mingyu is like a newly discovered treasure, which seems to be within reach, but in fact, it is unknown how many traps are inside.

No matter what Gu Mingyu's attitude was, and how worried Zhou Cheng was, the time to leave school in the afternoon was coming soon.Seeing a group of Hulala people following them, Gu Mingyu walked ahead alone with her mouth pursed in silence.Zhou Cheng was dragged by his partner, chattering about Gu Mingyu.

When they arrived at the compound rented by Zhou Cheng’s family, a group of nine and ten-year-old boys and girls unloaded their schoolbags and threw them in the corner. Then someone asked, “Are you playing marbles?”

"I brought a skipping rope and sandbags."

"Shall we go catch loach in the river?"

At that time, there was a lack of entertainment, and every family was not rich. There were very few toys for children, and most of them were cheap or handmade gadgets.

Gu Mingyu looked up at them and said to Zhou Cheng, "I'm going to do my homework."

Then he opened the door and entered the room without giving them another look.

The children looked at each other in blank dismay, and someone whispered, "That's cool!"

Zhou Cheng was relieved, because he suddenly thought of the scene where Gu Mingyu was playing with other people.I don't know why, but that picture made him feel very obtrusive, wishing that Gu Mingyu would ignore them.

Gu Mingyu didn't care about those people outside, he sat at the desk and did his homework seriously, with the panda lying at his feet.Suddenly, the sound of being hit by something came from the window of the living room outside, which startled the panda, and then there was the sound of a group of children laughing.

Gu Mingyu twirled the pen in her hand, listened for a while, then lowered her head to do her homework.

It's not that Gu Mingyu doesn't want to play with them, it's just that he's used to loneliness, he doesn't know how to face so many peers, he's afraid that he won't perform well, he's afraid that his bad temper will make people hate him.He doesn't care about one or two, but what if everyone hates him?

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