My Mister Ostrich

Chapter 44

He bent over to help Gu Mingxi up. Seeing the blood seeping out of his leg, he immediately said, “Kid, can you walk? If you can walk, I’ll take you to the store and help you stop the bleeding.”

Gu Mingxi lifted his head. The person was about 27 or 28 years old. He wasn’t tall, but he was very sturdy looking. His face was also a very honest-looking face. His skin was dark, and hanging from his neck was a golden chain as thick as a child’s finger.

He already saw that Gu Mingxi didn’t have arms. He sighed, “This place just keeps getting worse. In the past, those scumbags only blackmailed the passing students. Now they’re even trying to take lives.”

Gu Mingxi didn’t want to return home in this state either. He didn’t want his mother to worry. Although this man didn’t look particularly friendly, he had saved his life. Gu Mingxi nodded, “I can walk. Thank you.”

The man helped him collect his backpack, stuffing the school books back inside. He carried it over his shoulder as he and Gu Mingxi walked out of the alley. He had a barbecue shop nearby. Their business was mostly at night, so they only opened when it was dusk out. There weren’t any customers inside, just two guys deftly preparing meat skewers.

Since the people working at the barbecue place often injured their hands from skewering food or grilling, the man had a first aid kit prepared to stop bleeding. He let Gu Mingxi sit down in a chair, and then he crouched down in front of him to help take care of the wound. The young boy felt very awkward. His clothes were extremely dirty, and some parts were even torn. The two empty sleeves hanging at his side caught the attention of the two kids working.

The man asked Gu Mingxi, “Kid, what’s your name?”

Gu Mingxi hesitated a moment and then said, “Gu Mingxi.”

“Xiao Gu.” The man helped bandage up his leg. He smiled as he said, “My last name is Sha. You can call me Shayu (Shark).” He pointed to the two kids in the back. “That’s Clam and Oyster.”

Gu Mingxi chortled. Shark gave him a strange look. “What are you laughing at? Are our names very funny?”

“No,” Gu Mingxi said. “I just thought of my friend. A lot of people call her Crab, and she’s a girl.”

Shark laughed out loud, “Kid’s got a big heart. He can even laugh at a time like this. I like that.”

He sent Gu Mingxi to the bus stop on his bike. He waited with him, and then asked Gu Mingxi how he lost his arms. Finally, Shark said, “Kid, in the future when you take the bus to school, and you have to cross through the factory area, you just let anyone who’s looking for trouble know that you’re Shark’s Barbecue’s boss’ Shark’s brother. I don’t know about elsewhere, but at least in the factory area here, no one will dare touch you.”

Gu Mingxi got onto the bus to go home. When he got home, Li Han was making dinner in the kitchen. Gu Mingxi went into his room to change his clothes. He made sure to hide away his bloodied clothing, planning to throw it out the next day.

When he took off his pants, he realized that his leg was bruised, and the bruise was pretty big. He bent over and touched the wound with his toe, then felt a biting pain.

Gu Mingxi sat on his bed, in a bit of a daze. He looked down at his right ankle again. Shark helped him disinfect and bandage the cut. He said the wound wasn’t very deep, so it shouldn’t be a big problem.

Gu Mingxi’s sight caught onto the chain around his ankle. From the moment that Pang Qian helped him tie it on, he’d never taken it off. Fortunately, it wasn’t cut off. That’s what Gu Mingxi thought.