Ever since the day, Jiang Li had spoken his nonsense with the sweet receptionist, my passage to his office has been extremely smooth and XQ employees looked at me full of awe and occasionally mixed with a trace of ambiguity and jealousy. I rarely get to enjoy such looks, and so like a villain, I sent him his lunch with more enthusiasm.
Time flew passed quickly and in a blink of an eye, Lunar New Year was coming. Most of XQ Network staff had already gone on leave. Jiang Li had also made his arrangements for his leave too.
So the day before Lunar New Year Eve, Jiang Li and I boarded a plane to L City.
K City is an ordinary place in the north of China, not far from L City. A car ride would take an hour and a half to reach. Jiang Li's parents have been staying in K City, all this while. I had looked forward to visiting K City because I especially wanted to see what was so special about the place where a human scourge like Jiang Li could be produced.
When we reached Jiang Li's home, it was already late at night. The surroundings were very quiet and we kept ourselves low-key. His parents stayed in an apartment in the building. A lot of the residents residing there were teachers and a few of them were language teachers.......
Nothing, it is alright, I am not afraid. My mother-in-law is just a language teacher, nothing to fear......
I followed closely behind Jiang Li and was thinking all sorts of nonsense to muster up courage.
Jiang Li's parents greeted us warmly but when I saw the beautiful language teacher, my heart sank. How could I compare to her?
After dinner, we talked for a while. I decided to retire for the night. Today was a rush and I felt tired.
But when I wanted to sleep, there was a problem. I had to sleep with Jiang Li on the same bed and use the same quilt.........
The bed was a standard double bed, much smaller than Jiang Li's bed. And .......we had never shared the same quilt before........
I stole a look at Jiang Li but he seemed indifferent.
Even if you do not feel anything for a woman but it does not mean I do not feel anything for a man!
Unconsciously, I blushed, bowed my head, pulling at the quilt and said. "That.....do you want to ask your mother for another quilt?"
Jiang Li's face was expressionless. "That is..... our mother"
"Okay....our mother" I swallowed my saliva, felt a little nervous, said. "That.....then.... is there a quilt....."
His answer almost made me choked. He said. "Our family is a bit poor, probably there is no other quilt."
I was taken aback and stood unsteadily.
That is a good one! Your family poor? Oh my God, as a dignified XQ founder, you cannot even afford a quilt?
Jiang Li thought for a moment and realized his statement was a bit unrealistic. So he said. "I will go and ask for one." He turned around and went out. Not long after, he came back again. "There are other quilts but my mother said, recently the quilts were attacked by moths and now the quilts are all being treated with mothballs."
I gritted my teeth. "It's alright, I don't mind." Anyway, the quilts had been treated with mothballs for a few days already. Lately, I have been having erotic dreams and had dreamed of Jiang Li kissing me. Just in case, during such erotic dreams, accidentally my beastly instincts was released and gave Jiang LI a scare, then what should I do?
"Are you sure." Jiang Li asked me mischievously. "Are you sure, you do not mind the smell of clove mixed with camphor which produces the smell of urine?"
I shuddered.What type of mothballs are these? Clove, camphor and urine?!
So I dropped my head and said. "Sorry, I really do mind." Well, a quilt and a bed, so what? I am not a person who had no restraint. Huh!
I lay on the bed and could clearly hear the sound of his breathing including the sound of my own heartbeat. I felt myself going crazy. Occasionally, I did feel lustful but I was definitely not a sex maniac. Moreover, my approach towards beauty had always been observing from afar and not in participation, but now......
I turned my back towards Jiang Li and tried to suppress the sound of my heartbeat.
I was deeply depressed that I could have such feelings for a homosexual. Because I was tired after a hectic day, so after having such mingling crazy thoughts for a while, I eventually fell asleep.
The next day, I got up early. Of course, Jiang Li woke up earlier than me and to be exact, his family of three got up early for their morning exercise...... so in actual fact, this habit of the pervert, Jiang Li, was a traditional habit observed by his family.
From morning till now, Jiang Li had been sneezing from time to time. So I enquire after him and did not expect to see his dissatisfaction. "It was all because of you. You grabbed the quilt in the middle of the night and kept tossing and turning the whole night."
I blushed and ignored him.
After breakfast, my parents-in-law took out their brush and ink to write couplets. For a long time I have not seen couplets being written and in my mind, now all couplets were bought instead of being written. Looking at this scholarly family of three gathering together over the couplets, I suddenly felt my knowledge was so lacking........
After finishing writing a pair of couplets, the beautiful language teacher raised her head, looked towards me and smiled kindly. "Xiao Yan, come over and join us."
I declined and shook my head solemnly. "Oh, I.......I don't know......."
She enthusiastically pulled me over and said. "Never mind, Jiang Li also doesn't know. Write a few words for the New Year and paste it up to bring good luck."
I looked at the big nice character 'Blessing' that Jiang Li had written and realized that she was indeed capable of lying and was also superstitious........
Forget it, I will write one since you insisted, as I am not a hypocritical person.
I had already told her that I did not know then why should I feel ashamed?
I lifted up the brush and with a wave of my hand, wrote four characters 'Wide Source of Wealth' on the red paper. My brush strokes were a mixture of thick and thin, some as thick as crayons and some as thin as matchsticks. After completing the couplets, I did not even have the heart to look at my own writing.
The beautiful teacher smiled, took the couplets and placed them on the side table to dry. I was embarrassed and sneaked a look at their facial expressions. As usual, my father-in-law was smiling and Jiang Li laughed scornfully. Feeling belittled, I said to him. "Actually, I wrote the characters in cursive form."
After I had said this, Jiang Li's father had a twisted expression on his face......
I felt even more embarrassed. Just then, the beautiful language teacher walked over and I hoped that she would help me out of this situation. However, she eagerly rushed over to write another couplet, the words written were 'Early Birth of Baby'. After completing the couplets, she happily took them aside to dry..........
I lowered my head very low, afraid to look at Jiang Li. My face was burning hot, very seriously hot and felt I should be sick, inexplicable sick.
Jiang Li and I were given the task of putting up the couplets. When I pasted the 'Wide Source of Wealth' couplet on his cupboard, I turned to look at Jiang Li and said. "My writing was terrible, right?" Actually, I wanted to hear some comforting words from him.
Sure enough, he did say some comforting words. "It was okay." (>_