My Mister Ostrich

Chapter 52

As he was cooking, he said, “Pang Pang, add salt.”

Pang Qian opened the salt container and scooped a spoon of salt. “Is this enough?”

Gu Mingxi glanced over at her, “Yeah, that’s fine. Add it in.”

A bit later, he said, “Add the MSG.”

“Is this enough?”

“Too much. Get rid of a third of it. Oh… That’s fine, add it in.”

And a bit after that, he turned off the fire and returned his right foot to the ground. He turned to Pang Qian, “Okay, help me plate it.”

After he cooked the winter melon, Gu Mingxi didn’t have any faith that Pang Qian would be able to cook tomato and eggs or seaweed and shrimp soup.

So the two of them ate the fried winter melon along with the edamame and sausage that Li Han had made, and also a bowl of rice.

Pang Qian tasted the stir-fried winter melon that Gu Mingxi made and said with surprise, “It tastes really good! You can actually cook!”

“If no one’s there to help me, I can’t do it.” Gu Mingxi smiled, “After all, I can only use one leg. And after cooking, I can’t plate the food either.”

“Then you have to make sure to find a wife who can cook in the future.” Pang Qian started to worry about Gu Mingxi. “Like your mom. Her food is really delicious. My mom won’t do though. The things she cook taste terrible.”

Gu Mingxi bit his lips and looked at her without responding.

Pang Qian ate a few mouthfuls of rice and then asked him, “Gu Mingxi, did your parents stop fighting?”

His bright and clear eyes suddenly went dim in that moment. He thought for a moment and then answered, “It’s true that they don’t fight. They don’t even talk to each other now.”

“Ah…”

“My dad often doesn’t come home.” Gu Mingxi picked up his chopsticks with his toes and poked around at the rice in his bowl. “Each week, there’s always three our four nights that he doesn’t come back.”

Pang Qian asked, “Where does he go?”

Gu Mingxi lifted his head and looked at her, “What do you think?”

Pang Qian didn’t respond.

Although she was only 16 years old, she still had an inkling about the answer to that question.

She asked, “Will they get divorced?”

“I don’t know.” Gu Mingxi shook his head. “If they do, I’m definitely staying with my mom. But I don’t wish that they’ll get divorced.”

Pang Qian was truly angry. “Your mom is so great. She’s pretty and nice. Why is your dad this way?!”

“Actually, before we talk about whether there are some problems about how they feel about each other, the way my dad treats me can’t be considered bad. He supplies food and clothes for me, he sends me to school. On the weekends, I can even go to art lessons. That’s really expensive. Whenever there’s something I want to buy, he usually won’t reject. The spending money he gives me each month isn’t little. But… He just won’t go to a parent-teacher conference. And he won’t go outside with me. He… He just can’t accept that I’m disabled, and severely at that.” Gu Mingxi smiled briefly as he continued, “Pang Pang, sometimes I wonder if my mom had taken advantage of her youth and had another child when I was first injured, if my dad had another child, he wouldn’t think of leaving my mom now.”