My Mister Ostrich

Chapter 11

After she finished speaking, she started accelerated her peddling and charged ahead.

"Pang Qian-" Gu Mingxi called from behind, unable to chase after her. It already wasn't an easy feat for him to ride a bike. He wasn't going to impulsively play around with his life on the line.

Following his own pace, Gu Mingxi peddled slowly to school. After he arrived, he realized Pang Qian was waiting for him at the gate. He got off his bike, bent over against the metal stand on his bike and pushed it forward with his shoulders. Pang Qian watched him, pouting. When Gu Mingxi walked over to her, he lightly kicked her on the leg with his heel, "Let's go, we'll be late."

Pang Qian didn't move, and was unable to stop herself from laughing.

After the two of them parked their bikes, they walked up the building. She kept on asking, "Gu Mingxi, are you sure you don't know what a wet dream is? I heard Teacher Jia say that boys will usually start having them when they're 11 or 12. I just don't know what it means."

Teacher Jia was the male host of "Warm Harbor." Nearly at the point of collapse, Gu Mingxi thought for a moment. He spoke very quietly into Pang Qian's ear, "It's a physiological issue for males. You don't need to understand it. Pang Pang, you're a girl. In the future, don't go asking these questions to other boys. It will make people think you're...very low class."

"You're the low class one!" Pang Qian jumped. "I really don't understand! On the radio, people always ask, 'Teacher Jia, I have wet dreams every night.' Or else, it's 'Every day, I have morning wood.' I don't understand and it's so annoying!"

She was in an uproar. Gu Mingxi looked around nervously. Then he glared at her, "Be quiet. Don't you know how to be embarrassed!"

The innocent knows no fear. Pang Qian didn't know what he was afraid of. She said righteously, "What's there to be embarrassed about?! It's not like I've never seen a birdie (slang for penis) before. Gu Mingxi, don't forget, when we were younger, we bathed together every day. I've even played with your birdie before!"

Gu Mingxi: ⊙o⊙

Their noisy, lively days continued. Their evening study sessions also continued. And one day, during a unit test in math class, Pang Qian looked at her sheet of questions and suddenly realized that they weren't that hard.

This time, she scored 87 points, her position jumping up to the middle ranks. She was elated. At lunch, she generously treated Gu Mingxi to a can of Jianlibao (soft drink).

As a result, she no longer refused to go to Gu Mingxi's house to study. After all, under his supervision, her homework (scores?) had gradually increased. Everyone started learning English in junior high, everyone had the same starting line. As Pang Qian was about to fall behind, Gu Mingxi pulled her back up. Every day, he would make her recite things and practice dictation. He even told her about the grammar rules. After awhile, Pang Qian didn't feel like her teacher was speaking in some other-worldly language during English class anymore. And occasionally, when she was called on to answer a question, she could actually do it just the same.

There was also another important reason. Pang Qian loved to go to Gu Mingxi's house, and that's because- Li Han would always prepare a place of fruit and snacks and a warm drink. To Pang Qian, that was the world's most difficult thing to resist!

The weather started to gradually cool. Winter would soon be arriving.

After eating dinner that evening, Pang Qian was worried that her hair wouldn't dry if she washed it too late. So she washed her hair and bathed first, before bringing her homework over to Gu Mingxi's house.

When she went in his room, she felt that it was abnormally warm. Then she realized that Li Han had pushed a space heater into Gu Mingxi's room, to give them some warmth.