Chapter 822: Barking like a Dog

The maid saw Li Jinxing running hurriedly at the door. The iron gate outside was closed and could not be opened without the master's order.

Li Jinxing stood outside without calling anyone. He simply bent his legs and knelt on the ground.

The maid, who was far away, was frightened by his action and hurried back into the house.

It's six o'clock in the afternoon and it's not time for dinner yet. The chef is cooking in the kitchen and bursts of aroma are coming from inside. Tonight we will have seafood porridge and fried steak, A5 grade steak. The texture of the meat is like snowflakes and very beautiful. This kind of meat is fried in butter and tastes juicy and tender.

For the Gu family, this is just an ordinary meal, worth tens of thousands of dollars.

As soon as Gu Wanqiu came down, she saw the maid coming in and saying that Li Jinxing was back.

Butler Wang followed behind her. Hearing this, she felt a little proud and said that he would come back.

Butler Wang was a little surprised, but didn't say anything.

Gu Wanqiu asked, "Where is he?"

The maid replied, "He's kneeling outside the gate."

She was a bit self-aware, which she liked.

"Let's go outside and see the dog I'm going to get."

Gu Wanqiu walked in front, and the maid followed behind her. Butler Wang instructed the kitchen to fry the steak later. It was not known how long it would take to go outside.

It's a bit cold outside. I didn't feel anything when I stayed inside the room with the heater on. But now that I'm outside, I realize that the abnormal temperature is probably a sign of a change of seasons.

She had good eyesight, and as soon as she came out she saw Li Jinxing kneeling in the distance with his head lowered, like a stray dog.

Gu Wanqiu stood inside the iron gate. She pretended to know nothing and asked, "Little trash, why are you back again?"

Li Jinxing raised his head, and the bangs that were close to his forehead were blown up by the wind, revealing the wound on his forehead. It was a large blue patch with red in the middle, and it was very swollen.

Gu Wanqiu glanced at it and ignored it.

She knew that Li Jinxing would definitely come back.

The dignity and ambition that Uncle Wang talked about were a joke to her.

Although a person may be poor but his spirit is not poor, but with life-saving money right in front of him and his life almost gone, should he still care about his dignity?

Just like Li Jinxing's family situation, an alcoholic father and a paralyzed mother. He dropped out of school at the age of eight to work in a cement pit, working hard to make money every day and getting beaten.

He wanted to escape from that place, either by abandoning his mother or by making more money.

If he really wanted to abandon her, he would have done so long ago and would not have persisted until now. He couldn't make more money, so he could only kneel in front of her and give up his dignity to be a dog.

Meeting her was his blessing.

Li Jinxing asked hoarsely, "Do your words still count?"

"What?" Gu Wanqiu asked knowingly.

Li Jinxing didn't say it immediately. He seemed to be struggling, making a final fight, trying to leave with dignity.

The hands hanging at both sides of the body clenched and unclenched, but there was nothing to hold on to.

"Miss Gu, I have decided to sell myself out. I'm kneeling here and volunteering to be your dog."

"If you're a dog, then bark for me twice." Gu Wanqiu folded her arms.

Li Jinxing opened his mouth and tried to make a sound, but no sound came out. The "dog barking" seemed to be stuck in his throat. The wind outside was so cold that it made his ears numb, but he felt his face burning hot, which was the shame of being a human being.

Gu Wanqiu was quite tall when she stood in front of him, but when she lowered her eyes to look at him, he felt that this person was so high above him, as if no matter how hard he tried or how much he tried, he could not reach him.

Some people's starting point is other people's ending point, and perhaps they will never be able to surpass others even at the end.

Gu Wanqiu curled the corners of his lips sarcastically. It's useless to just talk without doing anything. If you don't have the ability to clean up the mess, don't indulge in fickle emotions.

She was a person with short patience. Instead of standing outside in the cold wind and watching him struggle, she might as well go back and enjoy her seafood dinner.

"Can't you call him out?" Gu Wanqiu turned around and said to Butler Wang, "Uncle Wang, let's go back and wait for him to kneel here alone."

Butler Wang gave Li Jinxing a complicated look. Just as he was about to turn around and accompany Gu Wanqiu in, a voice suddenly came from behind.

“Woof——”

Gu Wanqiu turned around and looked at Li Jinxing with smiling eyes: "Call me again."

“Woof woof woof…” Li Jinxing knelt on the ground with his head lowered.

Gu Wanqiu was not satisfied that he didn't look at her, so she stood at the iron gate again with great interest and asked Li Jinxing to look up.

Li Jinxing obediently raised his head and barked like a dog, but his eyes were filled with determination and unyielding spirit. He looked more like a wolf than a dog.

Gu Wanqiu was not frightened by his look. It was just an image of a wolf, not a real wolf that could threaten her.

Li Jinxing's voice was so pleasant that even his imitation of a dog's bark sounded nice. Gu Wanqiu squatted down, picked up a stone, threw it far away, and pointed to the distance: "Go pick it up for me."

She didn't treat Li Jinxing as a human being, but rather as a dog. Just as Li Jinxing was about to stand up, Gu Wanqiu scolded him, "A dog should crawl over, how can you try to imitate a human? You have to kneel on the ground, crawl over, pick it up with your mouth, and bring it to me."

Butler Wang on the side frowned, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Gu Wanqiu was spoiled at home and no one disciplined her. She always did what she wanted. If he opened his mouth to plead for Li Jinxing at this time, Li Jinxing would probably be in even worse shape.

Seeing that he didn't move again, Gu Wanqiu recalled the dog training videos she had seen before, which taught her to use snacks to lure the dog and then reward it when it completed the command.

Got it...

Gu Wanqiu snatched the wallet from Butler Wang again and took out the one thousand yuan: "Go pick it up, these are for you."

Li Jinxing really took action. He knelt on the ground again, gritted his teeth, and supported himself with his hands. He looked at the stone in the distance and moved towards it with difficulty.

It's just a simple crawl. It's not like I didn't crawl when I was a child and couldn't walk. It's not like I didn't learn to bark like a dog when I was young and ignorant. What's so unbearable about that?

What Gu Wanqiu held in his hand was money, money... Only with money could he leave that home, only with money could he take his mother to the hospital, and only with money could he have a new life. This was his hope to live.

Li Jinxing crawled forward with difficulty. There was clearly no obstacle, but he felt that the ground was covered with barbs. Every step forward brought blood. His back felt inexplicably heavy, even more tiring than when he was carrying cement. It seemed as if his spine was about to be broken. That empty and heavy feeling was called shame, and shame was eroding his pride.

The stone was right in front of him, and he could reach it if he climbed a little faster, but it felt like he had been climbing for a very long time. Finally, when he reached the stone, Li Jinxing's vision blurred. He thought of Gu Wanqiu's words, then bent down and bit the stone with his teeth. When he opened his mouth, a stream of blood flowed out from the corner of his lips.