Chapter 76
The two of them only separated when they were eating. The moment they finished, Chi Xiangyue would hold her tightly again, afraid that her little cousin would run off on her own.
But who would want to be alone if they could be with her?
Her cousin had no intention of running away, but she also wouldn’t say it. It was very good to be watched over by her cousin at all times like this.
After they finished eating, Chi Xiangyue rarely stayed behind. She would say a few words to them and then leave, pulling her little cousin along at a brisk pace. She would close the door of her own house and say with her back to her, “Let’s go to bed early tonight. You… you don’t think too much. I wasn’t really trying to make you stay at Yugui’s house. It was just a joke, just a joke.”
Her cousin had reacted so strongly to her staying at someone else’s house. She had to say that she was just joking, lest her cousin really be so disappointed that she would do something wrong.
Chu Wantang knew that these words were not sincere. She just wanted her to stay at someone else’s house, to put some distance between them, so that she would no longer be a lesbian.
But… she was unwilling.
She was already deeply in love. How could she pull herself out?
She couldn’t pull herself out, and her cousin shouldn’t even think about it.
After bringing her back to her own house and even locking the door with a lock, Chi Xiangyue breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to turn her head to speak, she was pressed against the door by a slightly cool hand on her shoulder. The other looked up and kissed her. She couldn’t struggle at all and could only let out a muffled “mmm, mmm.”
Her lips, which had been a little better, were now even more red and swollen from being kissed. Chi Xiangyue’s face was blank, her heart like dead ashes. This was not the first time she had been kissed, but she didn’t even have the courage to push her away.
What if she pushed her away and her cousin showed that look of having lost everything again?
How could she bear to see her cousin like that? It would break her heart!
And she was also afraid that her cousin would do something stupid. From yesterday to today, she hadn’t dared to resist anything she did, including being kissed.
After a long while, the two of them finally separated. She lifted her hand to touch her red lips and found that there was another small cut on them. Chi Xiangyue’s body stiffened. She was actually a little angry in her heart. Kissing is one thing, but why do you always have to bite me! It hurt so much when she was eating today!
But she didn’t have the courage to question her cousin. Seeing her cousin get up from her, her originally cold and ugly expression much better, she even felt a sense of relief in her heart. “You… you don’t like to read? I’ll read with you for a while.”
Otherwise, if she just locked her in the room, there was nothing else to do. Tangtang probably wouldn’t go along with it.
Chu Wantang nodded demurely, looking no different from usual. But when she sat on the bed, she was different again.
Chi Xiangyue sat properly against the head of the bed, a storybook in her hand, her two strong, powerful legs stretched out. Chu Wantang took the travelogue she had been reading recently and, after getting on the bed, very naturally lay in her cousin’s embrace.
Her cousin herself: …
Is this a little inappropriate?
She looked at her cousin, then at herself, wanting to speak but hesitating. It wasn’t until her cousin glanced at her that she completely shut her mouth.
Since yesterday, her cousin had been like a madman. She really didn’t dare to provoke her. Forget it. It’s just lying down for a bit. The less trouble, the better.
Song Yugui watched the two of them leave and secretly gossiped with her wife, “I think they’ve already gotten together.”
Shen Xizhi also nodded vigorously. “Miss Chu bit her so fiercely. I couldn’t bear to bite you that hard.”
But after being bitten, the two of them were still inseparable, which was very telling of their current relationship.
Even if they weren’t together yet, they were close.
“It’s still Xiaozhi’er who feels sorry for me. Come, give me a kiss.”
There were only the two of them in the large room. She had long since gotten used to lowering her head to ask for a kiss at any time.
Shen Xizhi was stunned by the kiss, then her expression turned blank as she finished the rest of her words. “But you bit me very hard.”
Song Yugui: …
“Then… then biting in other places and on the mouth, how can they be compared…”
Her voice became softer and softer, more and more guilty.
After she finished speaking, she silently lowered her head.
She had indeed bitten a little too hard. She had no defense.
“Hmph, you’re not allowed to bite today.”
Song Yugui obediently followed her wife out of the kitchen, seriously raising three fingers and swearing, “I won’t bite. I definitely won’t bite you today.”
Usually, when the two of them were intimate, her snowy white, perky bottom would either be covered in one red palm print after another, or with teeth marks from being bitten. Today, with someone watching, Song Yugui was well-behaved and only used her fingers to gently and tenderly do it once. It wasn’t like before, when the water would soak through her old clothes, and she couldn’t even hold it in. Today, only one palm was wet.
The two of them had gone a little too far yesterday. She had just gone down to look and felt that the little bean was still a little plump, as if it hadn’t been well-raised. Of course she didn’t dare to go too far.
Shen Xizhi’s eyes were filled with contentment. She just lay in her arms and was bullied, her red lips slightly parted, occasionally letting out a few delicate sounds, extremely alluring.
The two of them were now sleeping earlier. After they finished eating, they would just mess around there. No matter what time it was when they were done, they would wash up and then hold each other to sleep.
Getting up the next day was not too difficult.
She got up when the sky was still dark, pushed her cart, and went to slaughter and sell meat.
What was surprising was that the window of the house next door was also open at this time, and a head with scattered long hair was poking out. The first time she saw it, it scared Song Yugui so much that her three souls left her seven spirits.
She thought she had gotten up too early and had run into a ghost.
It wasn’t until the head heard the noise and turned slightly to look at them.
Only then did she realize, Damn it, it’s actually the female lead, who has no will to live.
Why are you pretending to be a ghost and scaring people first thing in the morning? It’s a good thing it’s summer and the days are longer. If it were winter, it would still be pitch black at this time, which would be terrifying. She would probably be so scared she would stop working for a day.
Xizhi’s courage was also like a little kitten’s. The first time she saw the head, she was so frightened she hid in her wife’s embrace.
Song Yugui held her wife on one hand and asked the other with a helpless expression, “Miss Chi, why are you up so early, pretending to be a ghost and scaring people?”
Chi Xiangyue’s expression twisted for a moment. Before she could speak, a slender, jade-like hand reached out from inside, held her shoulder, and pulled her back. In her place was another delicate face.
Even in a place like the countryside, her whole body exuded a noble temperament, not at all like a ghost.
She nodded to the two of them and said warmly, “You can go to town. I won’t let my cousin disturb you.”
After she spoke, she closed the window.
Song Yugui turned her head with a look of surprise. “Did they not sleep all night?”
Shen Xizhi hung delicately in her wife’s arms, pressed her lips together and thought for a moment, then nodded seriously. “It seems so. Oh my god, aren’t they sleepy?”
…
Perhaps they were sleepy, but there were some things that hadn’t been resolved.
In the room, Chu Wantang had a cold expression and looked down. “What, you don’t want to touch me?”
Her upper body was neat enough to go out at any time without needing to be tidied. But her lower body…
She wasn’t wearing anything. Just now, when Chi Xiangyue had seen her poke her head out, she had almost died of fright. Fortunately, she had only said one sentence before she had closed the window.
But the lingering aftertaste of fear remained in her heart, which made her a little angry. She gritted her teeth and said, “You’re crazy! What if someone saw?!”
Chu Wantang glanced at her coldly. “It was my cousin who opened the window. I thought my cousin wasn’t afraid of me being seen.”
Chi Xiangyue had just been fierce for a little while when she immediately became guilty. “Then… then I only dared to open it after I had wrapped you up. I wanted to get some fresh air.”
Fake. She wanted to escape reality for a bit, wanted to turn into the wind and blow away. The thought that she had actually defiled her pure and innocent cousin! She felt that she might as well be dead, that she had no face to see anyone anymore.
“Hah, is my cousin unwilling to be with me?”
She had always been elegant, generous, and bright as the moon. Ever since her feelings had been discovered, she no longer pretended. Taking advantage of the fact that her cousin had always doted on her, she bullied her every day, forcing her to lie down and be kissed. And yesterday, she had been leaning against her cousin’s embrace, but her cousin’s body had been stiff all along. She had just gone down to pour some water and could sense her cousin letting out a huge sigh of relief.
Is she that repulsed by me, that unwilling?
The anger in her heart suddenly rose. She couldn’t hold it in and forced her cousin to want her.
Of course her cousin was unwilling.
But she had said that her cousin doted on her, pitied her, and would always be soft-hearted toward her. If she was soft-hearted, there was an opportunity to be taken.
Hearing her cousin’s cold words, Chi Xiangyue was so scared she was about to die, afraid that she would say she didn’t want to live in the next second, and also afraid that she would force her to want her again. She wished she could just disappear on the spot.
After a long while, the surroundings were silent. She finally accepted the reality that she couldn’t escape and quietly opened her eyes. Her cousin was still staring at her coldly. Her heart tightened, and she could only say dryly, “No, I’m not unwilling. I just feel that… we’re cousins, after all. I’ve always seen you as my younger sister.”
She said this sisterly argument again, but Chu Wantang only asked one question. “When I kissed you, did you feel like throwing up? When I let you touch me, did you feel that I was disgusting, that you resented me?”
Hearing her belittle herself, Chi Xiangyue’s brow furrowed enough to crush a mosquito. She immediately refuted, “Of course not! Don’t talk nonsense! How could I think you’re disgusting, let alone resent you?”
Who would think my pure and innocent, fairy-like cousin is disgusting! Who would want to throw up at such a person? My cousin has no mother since she was little. I can’t dote on my cousin enough. Even if… even if my cousin did this kind of thing to her, she wouldn’t resent her cousin.
Chu Wantang looked at her calmly and quietly.
Chi Xiangyue suddenly understood why she had asked this, and her face stiffened. She stammered in her defense, “This… this doesn’t mean anything.”
“Then would you kiss Miss Song?”
Chi Xiangyue was stunned. There were two Miss Songs among the people she knew, Yugui and Xinyu. But no matter which one, she couldn’t bring herself to kiss them.
“If she insisted on kissing you, would you also not refuse and willingly be touched by her?”
Just thinking about it made the hair on her body stand on end, and her heart was a little disgusted.
She saw them as friends. How could she cross the line with them!
Seeing her cousin’s faintly disgusted expression, Chu Wantang understood it all too well.
She lowered her eyes and smiled lightly, laughing at herself for winning the bet, and also laughing at her cousin for not daring to admit her feelings.
She clearly likes me, yet she has to reject me. Is the secular world that important? Even cousins can marry. My cousin is an idiot. She’s so slow to understand. But it’s alright. As long as she understands, my cousin will compromise sooner or later.
The woman gently lay down, resting on her beloved cousin’s chest, and made a gentle request. “Do it one more time, good sister. Otherwise, I’ll take poison and die today.”
Chi Xiangyue: …
Is this reasonable?
“You… you don’t always threaten me with death!”
She was extremely uncomfortable and subconsciously felt very repulsed by her cousin’s words of taking her own life.
“Mmm, but if I don’t say it like this, you’ll never do as I wish.”
As she spoke, her waist gently twisted in her embrace, as if urging her, her tone slightly coquettish. “Hurry up. Otherwise, I’ll have Liuzheng go and buy me some poison right away.”
These words were enough to make Chi Xiangyue both angry and alive. She fiercely turned her over and pressed her down, her expression serious. “Tangtang, if you want something, just tell me properly. I may not really not do as you wish. Don’t say those words of seeking death again. Otherwise, I’ll really be angry!”
She was clearly already very, very angry, yet she was still calling her Tangtang.
A hint of softness suddenly appeared in Chu Wantang’s brow, and the corners of her lips also curved up slightly, imperceptibly. “Mmm, then you can do me one more time. Just one more time is fine.”
The two of them looked at each other for a moment. Chi Xiangyue pouted her lips with reluctance, and that hand finally, little by little, lifted her thin silk garment.
The beautiful girl’s private parts were a little pale and tender…
Chi Xiangyue glanced at it and didn’t dare to look again. Her small face was always tilted up, her thin lips pressed together, as if she were some kind of gentleman.
If it weren’t for the fact that Chu Wantang had lost her strength from being done, she would have definitely laughed at her heartily.
She stretched out her swan-like, long, slender, snowy white neck, her face like a peach blossom, and couldn’t say a single word.
She could only think happily in her heart, My cousin’s storybooks were not read in vain. If she hadn’t chased me here, I wouldn’t have known that my cousin would also secretly read lesbian storybooks… and not just the ones with words, but also the ones with clear illustrations. She was too embarrassed to even look at such things, yet my cousin… still dared to say she wasn’t a lesbian. Hmph, who would believe her.
When she returned from selling meat today, Song Yugui found that the two of them seemed to have made up.
Her little cousin’s expression was not as cold as it had been yesterday, but was extremely gentle. Seeing them, she even smiled and nodded in greeting.
Chi Xiangyue found a place to sit down, but her hand was still holding her cousin’s wrist, not letting go for a moment. Looking at the seat closest to her, she asked, “Aren’t you going to sit?”
Her little cousin shook her head and said gently, “I’m about to get my period.”
“…Oh.”
Hearing her say this, Chi Xiangyue understood. She sat in this position for a while, and after confirming that it was warm, she immediately got up, helped her little cousin sit down, and sat down in the closest position herself, but her heart was actually greatly relieved.
She’s about to get her period. It’s good that she’s getting her period. It’s good.
Her face was almost filled with undisguised relief, which was too easy for people to see.
Chu Wantang was angry and pressed her lips together, secretly glaring at her cousin.
What’s so good about it? When my period is over, I’ll definitely make you pay me back several times over.
Today, she had braised yesterday’s beef, and it was spicy. The pancake was drizzled with a little soup, and it was delicious even without tomato sauce.
But Xizhi loved to eat tomato sauce, so she had still put a lot of tomato sauce on it.
Today, they had also bought two more pots of fanshi from the town, specifically to eat the fruit.
“When we have time, let’s get some fanshi seeds and plant some at home.”
“Where in the house can we specifically plant fanshi? If you like to eat them, we can just go to the street and buy two more pots tomorrow.”
“But five pots feels like so little. We can’t eat much.”
Shen Xizhi was conflicted and hesitant. She inched into her wife’s embrace, her beautiful eyes widening as she looked at her, as if waiting for her to make a decision.
Song Yugui shook her head helplessly. “Then why don’t we not plant cabbage and plant fanshi instead?”
Cabbage was also delicious, but it wasn’t as expensive as fanshi. You could buy a large head of cabbage for two wen outside.
Shen Xizhi nodded vigorously, her dark, smooth hair falling to her sides, her eyes slightly narrowed. “Tomorrow we’ll go and buy the seeds. When we’re done with this batch of cabbage, we’ll plant fanshi!”
“Alright.”
Song Yugui rubbed Xizhi’s waist, not paying attention to her awkward cousin beside her, and chatted with her about the Qixi Festival in a few days.
She had never celebrated Qixi with anyone before.
The opportunity was rare, and she also found it novel. She had to go to the street to join in the fun.
Shen Xizhi was also the same.
In the past, she had had to do housework at home. No matter what festival it was in town, it had nothing to do with her. She had never participated and had never seen such a lively scene. But now it was different.
Celebrating Qixi with Yugui-jiejie will definitely be very, very different.
Shen Xizhi was very much looking forward to it.
Hearing the word ‘Qixi’, Chi Xiangyue’s heart moved, but she quickly didn’t dare to move. She and her cousin had become so awkward because of this damn Qixi.
Chu Wantang also heard the two of them talking and looked at her cousin faintly. “How is my cousin planning to celebrate the Qixi Festival?”
Chi Xiangyue’s heart was like dead ashes. “I’ll just lie at home.”
Little cousin: …
Her face instantly darkened. The gentle smile from just now had completely disappeared. She said coldly, “What, you don’t want to celebrate because you can’t be with Song Xingchuan?”
Song Yugui sat up straight. Oh my god, are they going to fight at my house?
She subconsciously held her wife, her arms tightening. Shen Xizhi also obediently let her hold her, sitting sideways in her wife’s lap, her ears pricked up to listen to the gossip.
Chi Xiangyue’s hand fumbled as she explained, “No, what are you talking about? How could it be like that? I just… I just don’t want to go out. I want to rest at home for a while. On Qixi, it’s always lovers who go out together. I…”
At this, she realized she had said the wrong thing again and silently closed her mouth, knowing that her cousin was about to get angry.
Song Yugui also recited a sentence, It’s over.
Her cousin, as expected, completely turned cold. The hand she had been holding was fiercely shaken off, her expression cold and beautiful. “Alright, you invited Song Xingchuan. Did you see him as someone you have feelings for?”
It was the first time Chi Xiangyue was so at a loss. She really didn’t know how to explain herself. “No! I’ve told you before! I don’t know why I would say those things! I don’t like Song Xingchuan either! I get annoyed just seeing him! Don’t you know? Why do you have to slander me like this?”
She actually looked a little wronged.
Chu Wantang furrowed her brow and flicked her wide sleeve. “Your thoughts, how am I to know? The words you say to me, who knows if they’re true or false? I only know that you invited Song Xingchuan to celebrate Qixi with you, but you’re unwilling to celebrate with me!”
Chu Wantang’s heart was also extremely wronged, the corners of her eyes turning a faint red. Song Yugui and the others are all going to celebrate Qixi together!
“You don’t believe me?”
The two of them each had their own grievances and glared at each other, looking as if they were about to flip the table. Seeing that the situation was getting a little out of control, Song Yugui quickly put her wife down and let her sit on her own for a while, then went out to mediate. “Don’t argue, don’t argue. Miss Chu, what Miss Chi said is the truth. She’s just not very good at talking. Don’t be angry. If you get angry and hurt yourself, Miss Chi will feel sorry for you. Miss Chi, Miss Chu is just a little jealous. Lesbians are all prone to jealousy. She just said some angry words in the heat of the moment. She’s always listened to you. Whatever you say, she believes. How could she not believe you? She’s just duplicitous, just like Xizhi. You should just coax her properly at a time like this.”
There’s no need to argue. There’s really no need. Arguing hurts feelings so much!
She could see the strangeness, and it was also within the two cousins’ expectations. The two of them didn’t hide it. Chi Xiangyue had wanted to hide it, but her cousin had insisted on letting others see it openly.
But no matter how much it was expected, hearing the word ‘lesbian’ still made one’s face turn red.
When Chu Wantang heard that, If you get angry and hurt yourself, Miss Chi will feel sorry for you, her expression softened.
That’s right. My cousin is so good to me. I know that. All the outrageous things I’m doing now are because I know my cousin is good to me, that she can’t really not want me, that she can’t be angry with me. That’s why I dare to do them.
Hearing that she was just jealous, Chi Xiangyue was still very uncomfortable. More than ten years of sisterhood had suddenly turned into that kind of relationship. Her whole body felt wrong. Coax, coax her? But Tangtang is not as easy to coax as before. Can I still coax her now?
Chi Xiangyue was not confident.
But Shen Xizhi was fuming on the side. “I’m not duplicitous! What I say is what I think!”
Wait, I’m getting into a fight here too?
“Xiaozhi’er, don’t learn from them. We’re not arguing.”
She said helplessly on one hand, and reached out to take her wife’s hand on the other.
Shen Xizhi struggled a couple of times but was still held.
Her own wife was indeed much easier to coax than Miss Chu. Song Yugui, taking advantage of the fact that the other two were not paying attention to them, lowered her head and kissed Xizhi. When she looked up, the two of them were still standing opposite each other, not saying a word. She raised an eyebrow. “Miss Chi, aren’t you going to coax Miss Chu? The longer you drag it out, the harder it will be to coax her. Don’t you two throw a tantrum. Just coax each other, and once you’ve talked it out, it will be fine. Miss Chi has no other intentions toward Song Xingchuan. I can guarantee that to Miss Chu.”
Chu Wantang didn’t speak, just looked at her cousin in silence. Of course she knew her cousin didn’t like Song Xingchuan. It was just that she had been too angry just now, and an inexplicable sourness had eroded her reason, making her say the wrong thing. Now there was no way to back down…
Being urged by Song Yugui, Chi Xiangyue finally remembered that she should be coaxing her. She pressed her thin lips together and just extended a hand, saying one sentence, “Are you coming or not?”
Song Yugui: … Widening her eyes.
Can you coax someone like this? If I dared to coax Xizhi like this, my skull would be pried open!
But Miss Chu, who had been so angry today, was not angry at all when she received such a perfunctory coax. She obediently gave her hand and was pulled to her side by Chi Xiangyue, her expression just a little wronged. “Then I’ll go back with Tangtang first. I’ve troubled you today.”
“We don’t have to say that between us. You can go now. Coax Miss Chu properly today. Don’t be perfunctory with her.”
Otherwise, they’ll fight even more fiercely tomorrow, and no one will have any peace.
“Mmm.”
Chi Xiangyue glanced at her cousin. Her cousin lowered her head and just stared at her embroidered shoes. She paused, then replied softly.
Hearing this, Chu Wantang finally breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Song Yugui: Butcherer, Sex Pest, and now Lesbian Couples Counselor!