Silver Leaf Whale Chapter 34

quiet night

Chapter 34·Quiet Night

The snow stopped in the morning, and the sun was shining brightly. Occasionally I raised my head to cover up the dazzling halo, and I could see the blue sky without any impurities, as pure as the sapphire.

The men were bathing in the beautiful weather, shoveling the snow shovel after shovel. Even the turned-up snow, which was just piled on the roadside, was lined by the sun as if it were covered with a layer of gold powder.

Pang Jing and his son, each with a big shovel, opened the road ahead and shoveled side by side. The uncle and Qi Zhixuan continued to work on the road they opened, making the road wider and cleaner.

There were fireworks in the room, and the women were making various delicacies. Li Yunyao was holding a vacuum machine and was responsible for carefully sealing all the delicious food.

Nothing else. After so many days in the New Year, everyone will have to leave in less than two days. Those who work go to work, and those who go to school. People cannot take their home away, but they can pack all the taste of hometown.

“Hey, Xiaoyun, you’re so hungry. I only have this little gold hook left for you to nurse!”

Li Yunyao is packing up a small handful of gold hooks left over from her milk.

“I’d love it. This stew is so delicious.”

This was something she grew herself, so it was of course different from what she bought. School was about to start, and she had to follow her parents back to the county town. She might not be able to spare the time to come back in the last few months of her senior year, so where else could she eat such good food?

“Let her bring it! Bring it if you want to eat it!” Grandma came over with a large bowl of sticky corn and put it on the table. “She doesn’t have time to go to school. You and your wife will come back often when you have time. When the beans come out, you can bring them to her!”

As she said this, she began to distribute, “This sticky cornstarch is divided into various stores, and this one. Xiaoqi loves to eat sticky bean buns. You have to vacuum them when you bring them back to Beijing to avoid them getting damaged on the road.” She muttered while sorting, ensuring that every child who left home could taste the flavor when they missed it.

Several people outside the house were already out of breath from exhaustion. The four grown men were holding shovels as if they were handling giant fried yogurt. After working for a long time, they shoveled away the frozen snow on the ground layer by layer, and the road buried in the snow slowly revealed its original appearance.

“You’re tired, let’s take a rest.” Qi Zhixuan nodded, and Pang Whale took the snow shovel from his hand.

“Hey, good guy, warm up your sweaty pants for me.” The uncle also came over and gave Pang Whale a snow shovel while he was busy taking off his clothes to get some air.

“Here, go back inside when you’re done. It’s cold outside, and you’ll catch a cold easily if you’re sweating.” Pang Wei came over and took away the shovel from Pang Jing’s hand, patted his uncle and asked him to go back into the house.

Seeing the four people going back sweating, Meihua said “Ouch” and was busy pouring water for them. While wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, the uncle’s eyes widened when he caught a glimpse of the large and small bags piled half high in the room.

“Oh my god, I need to evacuate the house. How can I carry so much!”

Grandma was walking over with the red sausage. Hearing this, he raised his hand and patted him, neither lightly nor hard.

“Don’t nag, I haven’t installed much for you. You come back every month anyway. It’s easy for Meihua and others to install it, so it’s easy to come back twice a year.”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, mom, it’s too obvious that you favor girls over boys!” When the uncle heard this, he immediately became jealous and smacked his lips sourly.

Meihua was very happy when she heard this, and deliberately teased him: “It proves that your old son has no girls and attracts people. He is very jealous. You are not allowed to bring some food when you come to your parents’ house, so I will bring it.”

“Then you ask Xiaoyu to come to my house. My son is not popular with anyone anyway.”

“My son is much more popular than you.” Meihua showed no sign of weakness, “You are a petty person and are not suitable for raising a child at all. Why don’t you let me raise your daughter as soon as possible and ensure that everyone loves her.”

The brother and sister started fighting as soon as they opened their mouths. They fought back and forth all the time. Everyone was accustomed to doing their own business and no one paid attention to them. However, Qi Zhixuan found it new. He moved a bench and sat happily watching them go back and forth, as if they were talking about cross talk.

However, he didn’t watch for a long time when a call came from his cell phone, interrupting his front row viewing.

“Hello, Doctor Yu… It’s almost time. I’ll be back in Beijing in a few days… Okay, okay, you’re welcome, Doctor Yu. Okay, bye.”

After hanging up the phone, Meihua and the others were already busy. Qi Zhixuan was still a little regretful that the brother-sister cross talk ended.

“Who is it?” Pang Whale, who was working, came up curiously and asked.

“An old doctor who loves painting came to me to frame paintings and asked me when I would be back.” Qi Zhixuan replied casually. Pang Jing nodded without asking any more questions, turned around and continued the work at hand, and the buzzing sound of the vacuum machine sounded again.

In fact, Qi Zhixuan was in a trance. Time passed so fast. This call from work seemed to bring him back to Beijing and he would go to work tomorrow. But he was still here, and he could still hear everyone chatting, eat the food cooked by his grandma, smell the unique smell of Northeast China, and look at the excitement in front of him. Before he left, he felt a lot of reluctance.

He couldn’t help but take a deep breath. Pine wood was always used to burn the kang at his grandma’s house, and there was a fresh scent of rosin floating in the air all year round. He really hoped that this smell could stay in his heart for a while, so that he could remember this rare relaxation and warmth.

Qi Zhixuan was closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, trying to retain the scent of pine wood for a little longer. The big iron gate outside the courtyard was suddenly knocked open with a clang, followed by the sound of rapid footsteps rushing into the courtyard, followed by a series of curses: “You run again! If I don’t beat you to death today, I’m incompetent!”

There was a lot of excitement in the yard, and everyone stopped what they were doing and hurried out to see what was going on.

As soon as he stepped out of the house, someone rushed over and threw himself into my uncle’s arms.

The uncle picked up the person and saw that it was Wu You, the grandson of the Wu family next door.

“Ouch, Youyou, what’s wrong with you?” The uncle righted the man upright, followed by Wu You’s father, who flew over with a broom and headed straight to his door.

Wu You turned around just in time and closed his eyes in fear. Fortunately, Pang Jingyan next to him quickly caught him with his quick hands.

“Ouch! Old Wu, what are you doing? You want to beat the child to death!” The uncle was also frightened, pushed the child into the house, and rushed over to argue with his father.

Wu You was pulled into the house, while his uncle and the other adults were chatting with his father outside.

When Li Yunyao arranged Wu You to sit down, he discovered that there were several slap marks on his face.

“Oh my God, what’s wrong with you? Why did you receive such a heavy beating!”

Wu You was in the same high school as her, she was a senior, and Wu You was a sophomore. They were from the same village, and were neighbors. They had played together since childhood. In her eyes, Wu You was a cheerful and lively child, a very good person, but she couldn’t figure out why he could be beaten so hard.

Lao Gao, whose face was swollen from the slap, said nothing, as if he had been panting due to excessive exercise.

It wasn’t until Pang Jing broke off a few ice skates from the yard, wrapped them in a towel and handed them to him to apply on his face, and Qi Zhixuan poured a glass of warm water and handed it to his hand, that his tense shoulders slumped slightly, but his eyes were filled with tears, which fell silently.

When he had cried enough, he pulled Li Yunyao and said, “Sister Xiaoyun, my dad found out that Dong Mingwei and I were in love. He didn’t let me get along with him. He is so powerful and good. Why don’t I get along with him? Why don’t I get along with him? I just like him!”

Li Yunyao was so shocked that he couldn’t speak for a long time. He felt that there was something wrong with his ears. There was no doubt that Dong Mingwei was great. He was the student with the best grades in their class and among the top academic leaders in the city. But, he was a boy.

“Uh… um…” She suddenly remembered that during the Chinese New Year, she saw Dong Mingwei setting off fireworks in their village. At that time, she thought it was strange. The top student’s home was obviously quite far away, but it turned out that it was because of Wu You…

The quarrel outside the house gradually became quieter. The adults finally figured out the whole story and persuaded Old Wu to be better. Then they sat in the same room with Wu You.

“What are you going to do with this damn child!! He is the only child in our family! His mother has died a long time ago. How can I tell her when I go down next time! Do this for me, isn’t it going to poke someone’s spine?! I have to…” As soon as Old Wu entered the house and saw Wu You, he got angry and took off his shoes to beat her again.

“Ah!” Wu You was so frightened that she hid behind her grandma and the others. Pang Wei and his uncle stepped forward to stop them. “Hey, eh, eh, old Wu, don’t say goodbye. I just told you to talk to your children. Don’t keep doing things. What’s the use of doing things!”

“I have nothing else. As long as he breaks up with that kid, I have nothing to say.” Old Wu threw his shoes heavily, stirring up a cloud of dust on the ground.

“I don’t! I just like him! We both agreed to go to the same university! Why should we break up! I won’t stop!” Just now Wu You was so scared that he wanted to hide behind others, but now he seemed to be a different person, holding his neck and facing the difficulties.

“You…” Old Wu was so angry that he trembled and stood up, about to explode, but was suppressed again.

There were too many people in the room and it was difficult for the two of them to talk. Meihua called everyone out and left her uncle inside to watch and not let anyone get hit.

Grandma was also surprised by this kind of thing. Remembering that there was an old man next door, Li Yunyao accompanied her to see Grandma Wu next door. She must have felt uncomfortable when the father and son were fighting here.

“Oh! What do you think this is?” Everyone was sitting in Li Yunyao’s room, and her aunt sighed. She and Wu You’s mother were very familiar with each other back then. Before the child was brought up, he fell ill and died, and the couple only had one child. How could anyone accept this?

“Isn’t that right?” Meihua also sighed, “There are so many people talking and the two children are still so young. It will be difficult to go forward.”

After another half an hour, the uncle came out of the house and said that the father and son wanted to talk alone.

“Why do you think this kid can fall in love with this kid? Old Wu only has one son, and he will never have a queen in the future.” The uncle picked up the peanuts on the table and ate them, shaking his head, not understanding today’s young people.

“Stop saying a few words.” Meihua glared at him, “Anything that can’t be mentioned is all for later. The most important thing right now is that if this matter spreads, the two children will be drowned in saliva!”

Qi Zhixuan watched with fear all afternoon. After hearing this, he unconsciously moved his back against the wall, but his elbow happened to hit the giant whale next to him.

He raised his head and looked over. Pang Jing saw deep fear in his eyes, which made his heart tense. He couldn’t help but quietly raised his hand, wanting to hold his hand to comfort him, but Qi Zhixuan subconsciously avoided it.

This farce ended with the Wu family father and son returning home with cold expressions. Grandma came back from next door and said that Grandma Wu had been crying at home all afternoon and she lay down when she was tired from crying. Everyone in the room was so disturbed by this that the food in the evening was tasteless. After hastily cleaning up, they went to sleep.

Under the quilt, Pang Jing lay on his side and stared at the people around him. Qi Zhixuan had not spoken much since the afternoon and only had two bites of dinner. Pang Jing was worried when he thought of his scared eyes.

He knew very well what Qi Zhixuan was afraid of.

If he were with someone else, Qi Zhixuan might not need to think so much at all, but he is different. His family is very traditional, so I’m afraid they won’t be able to accept it easily. If you choose him, you will have these troubles.

“Xiao Xuan.” Pang Jing gently lifted Qi Zhixuan’s quilt, got in, and hugged his waist from behind, his voice a little aggrieved.

Qi Zhixuan was facing the ceiling when he was suddenly hugged by someone. He froze in fright. He looked around in a panic. He realized that there was no one else in his room, so he turned around and raised his hand to touch Pang Whale’s head.

“My parents, I will take care of it.” Pang Whale buried his face in his neck and said dullly, “Don’t worry.”

He couldn’t see Qi Zhixuan’s unworthy look, especially because of him.

Qi Zhixuan just touched his fish head gently. Today’s incident did make him a little panicked. The child was not old, but Pang Jing was only nineteen years old. Even if he was not with him, would he face such beatings and criticisms if he fell in love with any boy in the future?

He couldn’t imagine Pang Whale being scolded by someone poking his spine, and he couldn’t imagine the disappointed eyes of the Meihua couple falling on Pang Whale. He was very scared, afraid that Pang Whale would suffer these grievances.

Pang Whale couldn’t stand the way he looked at her, as if he were looking at a pitiful puppy.

“I will slowly convince them. I didn’t know I liked men before, but now I know. This is something that cannot be changed. You will have to face it sooner or later. Don’t worry about it. Why don’t you think about it…when will you promise me?”

He deliberately put his arms around Qi Zhixuan and rubbed against the person’s neck. His furry stubbly hair tickled the person. Qi Zhixuan couldn’t help laughing and shrank back, but Pang Whale took it one step further and rubbed him even more happily. Seeing that he had been worried all afternoon, it was not easy to see a smiling face.

“Ah…haha…stop rubbing it, I can’t do it…haha…it’s so itchy!”

Qi Zhixuan was so itchy that he wanted to run away, but was hugged by Pang Jing. He lowered his head and held his face cherishingly, repeating word by word: “I’m serious, Xiao Xuan, don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

Qi Zhixuan looked at him. He was still so young. It was obvious that he might be criticized and not understood. It was obvious that he was just a child and he should have taken more care of him. But he always thought more and comforted himself. Qi Zhixuan felt very warm. He took his hand away and followed his example to hold his face.

“Pang Xiaoyu, why are you so nice?” Qi Zhixuan squeezed his face together and gently pressed his cheek with his fingertips. Pang Whale wanted to say something, but couldn’t make a sound. His plump lips opened and closed, and now he really looked like a goldfish.

By some strange coincidence, Qi Zhixuan kissed the goldfish on the lips.

The goldfish suddenly stopped moving and opened its eyes roundly.

Seeing that he was motionless, Qi Zhixuan let go of him nervously.

Pang Jing finally came to his senses, immediately turned over and pressed Qi Zhixuan on the bed, looking at him with burning eyes.

They got closer and closer, Pang Whale’s breathing was heavy, and his trembling hot breath sprayed on his face. When Qi Zhixuan felt that he was about to melt in his eyes and breath, his kiss covered her.

A little raw, but very eager. Although she could only lick and suck his lips repeatedly clumsily, the sound of the sticky fluid exchange was particularly clear in the quiet night, making people blush.

Qi Zhixuan closed his eyes and felt hot all over. He didn’t know if he had fallen asleep on the kang again. It was hot, so hot. His whole body seemed to be burning.

He couldn’t breathe. He opened his mouth for a breath of fresh air, but a wet and sticky tongue occupied his mouth. “Hmm…” An unbearable groan escaped from his throat. The tip of his tongue was caught, and his hand was caught. They were intertwined and very close to each other. The delicious smell of the sea swept over him, and he almost wanted to drown in the ocean.

“Ho-” At this moment, Pang Jing suddenly stood up, took a breath, glanced at Qi Zhixuan in a panic, pulled something out of his clothes, covered himself and ran out as if running away.

After finally getting new oxygen, Qi Zhixuan gasped and watched the man run out in confusion.

After breathing enough, he fell down weakly. He stared at the ceiling, a little dazed. He really hadn’t felt this way for a long time, as if a dead tree that had been dead for many years had been watered into sprouts, and the throbbing desire to break through the soil was about to grow.

Pang Jing didn’t know when he came back. He didn’t dare to get into Qi Zhixuan’s bed again. He just hugged him across the quilt. It was so embarrassing just now. He just kissed him…

He didn’t dare to think about it anymore, Qi Zhixuan didn’t ask, and the two of them fell asleep quietly that night in tacit agreement.