Chapter 823 You Must Be a Qualified Dog
The blood in his mouth dyed the stone he was biting red.
My body aches, but I can't tell where the pain comes from. It seems to be in my back, chest, head, or throat... The pain rushes through my body along with the blood, running rampant.
Gu Wanqiu once said that Li Jinxing would come back to her one day, and when that time came she would make him kneel down and bark like a dog.
Gu Wanqiu always does what he says. There is no need to wait for "one day" as it is realized today. There is no suspense at all. The self-esteem of the poor is the least valuable and the poor are the easiest to bully.
Li Jinxing bit the stone, slowly turned around and continued to crawl forward. Even with his head down, he could feel the gazes full of mockery and ridicule.
Gu Wanqiu smiled softly. Her voice was very pleasant. Elementary school textbooks often used the word "oriole" to describe pleasant voices, but Gu Wanqiu's voice was even more pleasant than that of the "oriole".
"It would be nice if you had a dog's tail. You would look very pretty when you wagged it."
With such "praise" ringing in his ears, Li Jinxing bit the stone even harder.
He didn't know when the iron gate opened, and he carefully placed the stone in his mouth at Gu Wanqiu's feet.
Gu Wanqiu frowned slightly when she saw the blood on it, and she raised her foot and kicked the stone out again.
Li Jinxing was like a real dog at this moment. When he saw her kicking away the stone, he wanted to crawl over to pick it up, but was stopped by Gu Wanqiu.
"Stop." Gu Wanqiu looked at his head: "Come back and raise your head."
Li Jinxing did as he was told. She looked at the blood on the corner of his mouth and said, "You're vomiting blood. Are you sick? I don't want a sick dog."
"I'm not sick. My tongue was scratched by a stone." After saying that, Li Jinxing opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue. Sure enough, there was a bloody wound on his tongue, which was still bleeding.
Butler Wang finally spoke this time: "Miss, let's take him in and clean his wounds first?"
Gu Wanqiu ignored what Butler Wang said. She took the money and asked Li Jinxing, "Little trash, do you hate me?"
Li Jinxing shook his head, there was really no hatred in his eyes. Butler Wang was also watching carefully from the side. This man could not be forced. If he was pushed to the end, he would either go crazy or die. Even the most obedient dog would bite, let alone a human. Seeing that Gu Wanqiu was so troublesome, Butler Wang was really afraid that Li Jinxing would feel resentful and take revenge on others.
Being so young, he didn't know how to hide the emotions on his face. Butler Wang saw many emotions on Li Jinxing's face, including resistance, humility, pain, forbearance... but there was no hatred.
"You're right not to hate me. You have to know that you asked for this voluntarily for money. You sold your dignity and I gave you money. It's a buy and a sell, it's only natural. If you don't want to, just get out and I won't stop you. But if you stay with me and hate me, I will break your limbs, cut off your tongue, dig out your eyeballs, and throw you into the mountains to fend for yourself." He was so young but could say such cruel words.
This didn't sound like something that a nine-year-old girl would say, but she was right. He sold his dignity for money and stayed with Gu Wanqiu like a dog. It was a business deal. You had to pay for what you wanted to gain. He really had no right to hate the person in front of him.
Butler Wang was greatly surprised that Gu Wanqiu could say this.
Li Jinxing said, "I volunteered to stay with the young lady as a dog."
"If you want to be a dog, you have to stay by my side forever. Can you do that?"
Li Jinxing looked at the money in her hand and said, "Yes."
"Dogs represent loyalty. You can't betray me. From now on, you have to listen to everything I say and do whatever I tell you to do. You can't resist and you are not allowed to talk too much." Gu Wanqiu bent down slightly, scattered the money on the ground, and touched Li Jinxing's head.
It seemed intimate but was actually full of insults, because her action was like petting a pet dog: "Good dog, you performed well this time, pick up the reward, you are allowed to use your hands this time."
When training a dog, rewards should be given promptly for good performance so that the dog can remember and listen to the owner more.
The ground was covered with banknotes. Li Jinxing reached out to pick them up, one, two...
When he picked up the money, he found that the palm of his hand was injured. It was probably rubbed on the ground when he was crawling just now. The road outside the gate was a gravel landscape road. It was just a slight friction. The skin on the palm of his hand was stained with blood. Although the wound was not big, the injury was on the hand, and his ten fingers were in excruciating pain. He was shaking even when holding the money.
Li Jinxing's hands don't look like those of a ten-year-old child at all. Because he has been working and moving things for many years, his joints are larger than those of his peers. His hands are rough and there are calluses on his fingers.
Li Jinxing picked up the one thousand yuan. This was the first time he had taken so much money. He planned to find a place to hide it secretly and take three hundred yuan back every day to give to the man. Even if it was five hundred yuan a day, he could save two hundred every day. It wouldn't be long before he could take his mother away from that place.
The idea is beautiful, but the process of realizing it is difficult and cruel.
Gu Wanqiu was walking in front and saw the maid asking her to take down the new clothes she had bought today and let Li Jinxing change into them at the door. She was only allowed to come in after he was clean.
Li Jinxing has even been treated as a dog and has long lost all his dignity. Does he still care about taking off his clothes in public?
He didn't care about other people's eyes and took off the dirty clothes at the door and changed into the clothes brought by the maid. The clothes were not the ones he wore before. Li Jinxing didn't ask much. They fit him well, as if they were tailor-made for him.
This should have been prepared by Gu Wanqiu when he left. She had long expected that he would come back and kneel down to beg her.
The maid brought Li Jinxing in. Gu Wanqiu was already sitting at the table. Seafood porridge was served. There was a lobster bigger than her face on the table. A servant was responsible for peeling the lobster and placing the best shrimp meat on the plate in front of Gu Wanqiu.
The chef is still frying the steak, and the servants have to wait until the master has finished eating before they can eat. They eat the staff meal, which they cook themselves.
Gu Wanqiu was full after eating a few bites of shrimp. The fragrance drifted to Li Jinxing's nose along with the hot steam. He stood against the wall, deliberately not watching Gu Wanqiu eat and ignoring the fragrance around him, but he could not control his body's instinct.
He had a steamed bun and leftovers at noon and hadn't eaten anything since then. Now was the time for growth, and his energy was consumed quickly, so he was very hungry and his stomach growled uncontrollably and loudly.
Gu Wanqiu put down the knife and fork in her hand and wiped her mouth. At this time, the chef came out with a steak, which was a top-notch steak cooked medium-rare.
Gu Wanqiu was full from eating just the shrimps. The steak was served too late, so she picked up the plate and walked over to Li Jinxing.
The tender beef appeared in front of Li Jinxing, but he lowered his eyes and ignored it.
"Want to eat?"
Li Jinxing hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Would Gu Wanqiu be so kind as to give him dinner? Before he could come up with an answer, he saw the plate tilt and the steak fell directly to the ground.
"Eat it."
Li Jinxing squatted on the ground along the wall and picked up the steak. He could eat other people's leftovers that were soaked with saliva, so this steak that was spilled on the ground was nothing to him.
He had never eaten such delicious meat before, and Li Jinxing could only comfort himself in this way.
Gu Wanqiu watched him eating with big mouthfuls, turned around with satisfaction, and met the disapproving gaze of Butler Wang.
She said nonchalantly, "What's wrong with a dog eating food from the floor?"
It's not a big deal, but he is a human being. Even if you insult him and treat him like a dog, he is still a human being.
A dog will be grateful to you for the food you give it, even if it falls on the ground, but people are different, they will hold grudges.
What Butler Wang wanted to remind Gu Wanqiu was that she should not be too presumptuous or trample on others, and should always leave some room for others.
She can enjoy a high and mighty life, enjoy the respect of others and the envy of those around her...but as a human being, she must have kindness, love, compassion and empathy.
Gu Wanqiu refused to listen. She was very smart and understood the principles, but she didn't want to put them into practice. Her parents didn't care about her, so she didn't want to listen to the housekeeper.
Housekeeper Wang choked on his saliva and coughed repeatedly. Gu Wanqiu's eyes flickered. She asked, "Uncle Wang, are you catching a cold? The temperature difference has been huge recently. You should take care of yourself."
Gu Wanqiu doesn't seem like someone who cares about others. Butler Wang doesn't know why she said this. Looking at her smiling face, his heart skipped a beat. The young lady is up to something bad again.
Before Butler Wang could even open his mouth, Gu Wanqiu had already diagnosed him with a cold.
"Uncle Wang, I remember you had a sore throat and went to the hospital to get cephalexin. If you want to take the medicine, don't drink alcohol. Cephalexin and alcohol can be fatal."
The doctor did prescribe cephalexin for his previous sore throat. Gu Wanqiu didn't need to remind him that he knew he couldn't drink alcohol after taking cephalexin, as excessive cephalexin and alcohol could cause poisoning.
Why did she suddenly bring this up? Butler Wang nodded, puzzled, but he didn't think too deeply about it.
Li Jinxing swallowed the last bite of beef. Will cephalexin and alcohol kill people?
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that Gu Wanqiu's words were directed at him.
"Miss, can I come here during the day and go back at night?"
Seeing that Gu Wanqiu looked at him without saying anything, Li Jinxing explained: "My mother is still at home. She is paralyzed. I have to go back to take care of her at night."
"You mean you want to go back now?" Gu Wanqiu asked.
It was indeed dark outside.
Li Jinxing nodded. He was unsure whether Gu Wanqiu would agree or not, or whether she would get angry and think of something to trample on him.
"Okay, then go back and come early in the day to be my dog."
Gu Wanqiu suddenly became easygoing, but then she changed the subject and warned Li Jinxing, "You'd better clean up your mess at home. I want a dog that will always be with me, not one that appears during the day and disappears at night."
In addition to playing with their owners, dogs also have to guard the house. What are they good at if they don’t guard the house?
"I see."
Gu Wanqiu didn't say anything else and called the driver to take him back.
Passing by a pharmacy, Li Jinxing asked the driver to pull over as he wanted to buy some medicine.
Not long after he went in, Li Jinxing came out with medicine in his hand. The driver took a closer look and found that the bag contained cephalexin.
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