A Dog Out of Nowhere Chapter 59

“I want to…” Fang Chi froze. “What do… what?”

“How much did you drink?” Sun Wenqu laughed and stretched while looking at him. “Already drunk?”

“Not even close, just four bottles of beer,” Fang Chi said. “I haven’t even tasted it yet.”

“Oh?” Sun Wenqu said. “You sound pretty impressive. Someone who didn’t know would think you could drink two jin. I still remember how drunk you were during the New Year.”

“That’s different,” Fang Chi said, a little embarrassed. “Today it’s beer.”

“Then are you sleepy?” Sun Wenqu narrowed his eyes at him.

“I’m… not really sleepy,” Fang Chi hugged him and pressed closer. “Are you tired?”

Sun Wenqu closed his eyes and laughed. “Hey…”

“What ‘hey’?” Fang Chi buried his face in the hollow of his shoulder and rubbed against it.

“No,” Sun Wenqu said with a smile. “If you want, I’ll help you.”

“I didn’t say I wanted that,” Fang Chi clicked his tongue and said in a muffled voice, “I just… well, I’m young, right? A chive spirit who drank beer.”

Sun Wenqu laughed uncontrollably. After laughing for quite a while with his eyes closed, he pushed him lightly, turned over, and hugged him. “I’ll help you.”

“You don’t want it?” Fang Chi asked.

“I’m not as young as you, didn’t drink alcohol, and I’m not a wild dog turned from a chive spirit,” Sun Wenqu said quietly, rubbing his hand over Fang Chi’s lower abdomen a few times before sliding it into his pants.

Fang Chi tilted his neck back slightly and softly inhaled.

The fat eunuch Chief Huang, who no longer had his balls, jumped from the bed to the table at Fang Chi’s suppressed low moan, looking disgusted as he swept one of Sun Wenqu’s pens to the floor with his tail.

“In the future maybe we should do this while hiding from Chief Huang,” Sun Wenqu’s finger hooked lightly at Fang Chi’s lower abdomen. “Too stimulating.”

“Serves him right for always giving me attitude,” Fang Chi pulled out a few wet tissues and grabbed Sun Wenqu’s hand to wipe it. “Let him be mad. In the future I’ll… make him even madder.”

“Even what?” Sun Wenqu asked.

“Just…” Fang Chi sat up while tidying things. “Nothing.”

Sun Wenqu smiled without speaking.

“Don’t you need it?” After cleaning up, Fang Chi lay back down pressed against Sun Wenqu, quickly reaching forward and touching him. “You’re hard.”

“No need,” Sun Wenqu lightly squeezed his hand. “If you lie down properly, maybe I could get motivated again.”

Fang Chi froze for quite a while before realizing what Sun Wenqu meant. His face instantly burned; the cool air from the air conditioner passed over his face and turned into warm air.

“Shameless.” Fang Chi said.

“If you want to keep your face, then don’t think about these things.” Sun Wenqu laughed.

Fang Chi hugged him without speaking. After a long silence, when Chief Huang jumped back onto the bed, stepped on Fang Chi’s face, and settled down beside Sun Wenqu’s arm, he finally asked quietly, “Hey, you and your ex-boyfriend… you did it, right?”

“Why ask that?” Sun Wenqu said.

“Just asking.” Fang Chi kissed his shoulder.

“Mm,” Sun Wenqu responded. “I’d like to say no.”

“I wouldn’t be jealous,” Fang Chi hesitated and spoke very quietly. “I just wanted to ask… that… before… you were… um… were…”

Sun Wenqu listened to him struggle to form a sentence for a long time and laughed so hard his shoulders shook. “Both.”

“…Oh.” Fang Chi responded.

“What’s wrong?” Sun Wenqu turned over so they were lying face to face. “Do you want to top me or do you want me to top you?”

“I… f*ck.” Fang Chi froze and stared at him for quite a while.

“Isn’t that what you were trying to say?” Sun Wenqu tapped his lips with a finger. “If I waited for you to circle around and stutter it out, it’d probably be morning before you said it.”

Fang Chi smiled.

“You haven’t answered me yet.” Sun Wenqu said.

“I…” Fang Chi felt the cool air from the air conditioner blowing over him, yet he was still sweating from nervousness and embarrassment. “I don’t know. I’ve never… tried it… I guess…”

Sun Wenqu curled the corner of his mouth, a faint smile on his face.

“I guess…” Fang Chi bit his lip and quickly said, “I want to top you. Anyway, when I dream about you, you’re always on the bottom.”

Sun Wenqu laughed, leaned over, kissed the tip of his nose, then turned over to face the wall and hugged Chief Huang. “Sleep.”

“Will you allow it?” Fang Chi felt that after saying that his face had thickened quite a bit; even asking this follow-up didn’t make him blush.

“If you want to, then sure,” Sun Wenqu said. “I’m just afraid that even if I let you do it now, you wouldn’t dare. Wait until you can’t hold it in anymore.”

Fang Chi clicked his tongue and reached out, pulling him hard into his arms and hugging him tightly.

Sun Wenqu wasn’t wrong. He really didn’t dare… not to mention they were still at home. Even if they went to get a hotel room now, he felt he would still be at a loss, maybe even get laughed at by this old man Sun Wenqu… thinking of the mocking smile that sometimes hung at the corner of Sun Wenqu’s mouth, he irritably threw a leg over him and wrapped Sun Wenqu up in his arms and legs.

“Hey… ow…” Sun Wenqu sighed softly in resignation.

***

Fang Chi woke up the next morning from the noise of laughter and chatter downstairs. When he opened his eyes, he found Sun Wenqu had already gotten up and was standing by the window holding a cup of tea and looking down.

“Why so early?” Fang Chi rubbed his eyes and sat up, tugging at his pants.

“These classmates of yours, did they take drugs or something?” Sun Wenqu tapped his cup. “Not even six o’clock and they’re already up.”

“They were all squeezed together sleeping on the living room floor,” Fang Chi got out of bed, walked behind him, hugged him, and rested his chin on his shoulder. “Once one person wakes up, nobody else can keep sleeping.”

“What’s your plan today?” Sun Wenqu took a sip of tea.

“Going into the mountains,” Fang Chi said. “Last semester we said after exams we’d go into the mountains to play. Today I’m taking them in to wander around, probably all day. We’ll carry food with us.”

“That’s great.” Sun Wenqu said.

“What’s great about it?” Fang Chi turned his head and bit his earlobe.

“I can have a whole day of peace and quiet,” Sun Wenqu said. “If you jerk off eight times a day like this I can’t handle it.”

Fang Chi laughed. “When have I ever jerked off eight times in a day?”

“If I didn’t stop you it feels like you could go from morning till night,” Sun Wenqu clicked his tongue. “Your physical condition really is good though.”

“I’m not that h*rny!” Fang Chi pinched his waist. “It’s just… I like you too much. When I see you I just want to.”

“Stop looking at me and hurry up and take this flock of magpies into the mountains. They’re noisy.” Sun Wenqu laughed.

“Mm, I’m going downstairs,” Fang Chi kissed him, walked over to the door, opened it, then turned back. “Don’t drink tea so early in the morning. It’s bad for your stomach.”

“This has milk in it,” Sun Wenqu lifted the cup. “Milk tea.”

“…Alright,” Fang Chi nodded. As he was about to close the door he stuck his head back in. “Tomorrow morning I can cook chocolate breakfast for you.”

“It’s still this morning right now.” Sun Wenqu glanced at him.

Fang Chi chuckled twice and closed the door before going downstairs.

***

Taking a bunch of classmates who were ready to go crazy playing into the mountains was much more troublesome than taking a normal outdoor group. None of them had experience, their backpacks were stuffed with random things, two or three were wearing sandals, Xu Zhou even had a pair of slippers on, and Lin Wei was actually wearing hot pants.

“You two,” Fang Chi pointed at them, “why don’t you just stay home and help my grandparents tidy the vegetable garden.”

“F*ck, don’t!” Xu Zhou shouted. “How about you lend me a pair of shoes? Our feet are probably about the same size.”

“Get them yourself,” Fang Chi said, then looked at Lin Wei. “Are you planning to wear my pants?”

“It should be fine, right?” Lin Wei twisted unwillingly. “It looks good in photos.”

“My grandpa’s in the backyard,” Fang Chi said and turned to walk outside. “Let’s go.”

“Wait for me! I’ll change my pants!” Lin Wei shouted while running upstairs. Just after going up they heard her scream, “Ah!”

Then came the sound of a cup shattering on the ground.

“What’s wrong with you!” Liang Xiaotao asked from downstairs.

Fang Chi frowned and ran upstairs. He saw Sun Wenqu standing at the door of his room. On the ground was the cup he had dropped and shattered, along with milk tea spilled everywhere.

“I didn’t know someone would come out,” Lin Wei waved her hands, her eyes scanning Sun Wenqu’s face back and forth. “Sorry.”

“It’s fine.” Sun Wenqu said, going to grab the broom from the hallway.

“I’ll do it,” Fang Chi took the broom from him, then glanced at Lin Wei. “Aren’t you going to change?”

“Oh!” Lin Wei jumped, waved at Sun Wenqu again. “Sorry, handsome.”

Sun Wenqu didn’t respond.

After Lin Wei went into the room, Fang Chi asked quietly, “You didn’t cut your hand, right? Were you going downstairs?”

“No,” Sun Wenqu said quietly as well. “I heard you say you were leaving, so I was going to the rooftop. As soon as I came out she ran upstairs.”

“She’s always causing trouble.” Fang Chi clicked his tongue with a frown.

Sun Wenqu smiled and gently patted his face before turning back into the room.

***

Fang Chi led them into the mountains along the hiking route used by the aunties. With the way these people were dressed, as if they were going shopping, if they took other paths he figured they’d just spend the whole time falling.

Everyone was excited. One moment they were climbing rocks, the next running through the stream, then squeezing into grass to look at bugs. They walked and stopped repeatedly; after more than an hour they still hadn’t reached the top.

“Let’s rest a bit,” Fang Chi stopped beside a pond that the hiking aunties had forcibly widened. “At your speed it’ll still take another hour to reach the top.”

“Great, it’s so cool here!” Xu Zhou threw down his bag and jumped toward the pond after taking off his shoes, but he slipped and slid straight into the water.

Everyone burst into loud laughter. Watching him crawl out dripping wet, they couldn’t stop laughing.

Xu Zhou took off his wet clothes and spread them on a rock to dry, while everyone started digging through their bags for food.

“Let’s first have a little wild picnic.” Liang Xiaotao happily clapped her hands and took out a pile of snacks from her bag.

“Are you a camel,” Xiao Yiming said, “you can really carry a lot.”

“It’s all for eating.” Liang Xiaotao said with a smile.

“Hey Xiaotao, give me a small bread,” Lin Wei said. After catching the small bread Liang Xiaotao tossed over, she sat down beside Fang Chi and nudged him with her elbow. “Fang Chi.”

“Mm.” Fang Chi answered.

“Who was that guy?” Lin Wei asked.

“Who.” Fang Chi glanced at her.

“The handsome guy I bumped into just now,” Lin Wei smiled ambiguously. “The handsome guy you slept in the same room with yesterday.”

For the last sentence Lin Wei deliberately stressed her tone, and after saying it she continued laughing.

“A friend,” Fang Chi said.

“What kind of friend?” Lin Wei stretched an arm past him again and pushed Xiao Yiming, who was sitting beside them, from behind. “Little Mingming, are you jealous?”

Xiao Yiming glanced at her and didn’t say anything.

“Are you sick?” Fang Chi said with a frown.

“Lin Wei, why are you saying this stuff again.” Liang Xiaotao was sitting there eating chips; she turned her head back and glanced at her sideways.

“Ah, I’m just joking,” Lin Wei said, fanning herself with a small fan. “But I think the two of them match pretty well. Standing together they’re quite pleasing to the eye.”

“Enough already,” Xu Zhou said from the side, “you know they don’t like hearing you say that.”

Lin Wei looked a little embarrassed. She kept fanning herself, and after a while awkwardly added, “Can’t even take a joke. I really don’t understand why you’re like this.”

“Believe it or not, I’ll throw you into the water.” Fang Chi said.

Lin Wei lost face and her face flushed red. “Then throw me! What’s wrong with saying you two match, and…”

Before Lin Wei could finish her sentence, Fang Chi grabbed her and hauled her up, dragging her toward the pool of water. Before she could even struggle to stand steady, Fang Chi pushed her into the water, and she stumbled and sat down with a splash.

Liang Xiaotao couldn’t hold back her laughter. “Oh my god!”

Lin Wei screamed, “Fang Chi, are you crazy!”

“I’ll say it one more time,” Fang Chi looked at her. “Even if I am gay, even if he and I are a pair, I still don’t like people standing around saying it over and over. If you say it again, I’ll throw you off the mountain.”

“Throw her in front of us?” Xu Zhou laughed from the side. “Then we’d be witnesses.”

“Then I’ll throw you together with her.” Fang Chi said.

“Hey!” Xu Zhou immediately hugged his chest. “Lin Wei, hurry up and shut up!”

Fang Chi then pulled Lin Wei up out of the water. This time Lin Wei didn’t say anything more.

Liang Xiaotao had carried a lot of things like a camel, and had even thoughtfully brought a pair of quick-dry pants as backup. She took Lin Wei to the back of a big rock to change her pants.

Fang Chi sat back down beside Xiao Yiming and took out a piece of chocolate, biting into it.

“You’re basically,” Xiao Yiming smiled slightly and said in a low voice, “coming out in a roundabout way.”

“Does it count?” Fang Chi paused. Only then did he realize what he had just said.

“I guess it counts,” Xiao Yiming said. “But it’s nothing really. Look, they didn’t have much reaction.”

“Seems like it.” Fang Chi took another bite of chocolate.

“So sometimes you don’t have to be so nervous,” Xiao Yiming said. “Maybe the only people who really feel it are ourselves. The ones who would react… are probably only family.”

Fang Chi let out a light sigh.

It was quite hot at noon. Sun Wenqu didn’t have much appetite, but Grandpa had made flatbread and cooked a vermicelli meatball soup. It looked pretty refreshing to him, so he still went downstairs to eat with Grandpa and Grandma in the backyard.

“Grandpa, with your skill at making flatbread you could open a shop.” Sun Wenqu said while eating.

“That’s right,” Grandpa said proudly with a smile. “Fang Chi likes to eat it too. In summer he always says it’s too hot and he has no appetite, but whenever I make flatbread he comes running.”

“You get one compliment and you have to shake out ten sentences along with it.” Grandma said.

“A compliment is still a compliment.” Grandpa said cheerfully.

“Grandma’s noodles are delicious too,” Sun Wenqu smiled. “Did Fang Chi learn how to cook noodles from you?”

“That was self-taught talent. At home there’s no need for him to cook,” Grandma said with a smile. “You’ve even eaten noodles he cooked?”

“Mm,” Sun Wenqu paused. “Once or twice. They were pretty good.”

“That little b*stard is quite attentive to you,” Grandma said, then looked at Grandpa. “He’s never cooked noodles for his parents, has he?”

“There’s no one at home who needs him to cook,” Grandpa said with a smile. “How about tomorrow we let him cook a meal for us.”

“I think that works.” Sun Wenqu nodded.

“Shuiqu,” after finishing the meal, Grandma pulled Sun Wenqu aside to chat beside the vegetable patch, “this bone you’re wearing, Fang Chi gave it to you, right?”

“…Mm.” Sun Wenqu touched the little bone hanging at his chest. His heart felt a little uneasy. He didn’t care, but Fang Chi wasn’t ready yet, and he couldn’t let Grandma sense anything from him. “He… lost a bet with me. Lost it to me.”

Grandma laughed. “That little b*stard. When he was little he even lost more rounds of rock-paper-scissors than he won, and he still makes bets with people.”

Sun Wenqu smiled.

“That’s his treasure. If he’s willing to lose it to you, it means he truly treats you as a friend,” Grandma said. “Shuiqu, that child Fang Chi, we basically raised him wild since he was little. His parents didn’t care much about him, and your Grandpa and I didn’t understand anything either. We just knew to make sure he had enough to eat and wear and wouldn’t suffer any grievances.”

“You’ve already raised him very well,” Sun Wenqu said. “Fang Chi is very sensible.”

“Yes,” Grandma smiled happily. “But when he’s outside alone and runs into something, there’s no one to discuss it with. If he tells us, we don’t understand either. Shuiqu, you’ve seen a lot and you’re educated. I can tell Fang Chi admires you. When you have time, help him more.”

“Mm, I will.” Sun Wenqu nodded.

Grandma’s words made him relax a little. At least she hadn’t noticed anything else. But those words also made him somewhat uneasy.

This counted as asking him to help Fang Chi. If Grandma later found out that the help had gone all the way to the bed… what would she think? So he didn’t even dare say, “Grandma, don’t worry.”

Originally he had planned to live here until this set of works was completed. But now it seemed that he would probably have to leave when Fang Chi’s summer vacation ended. Otherwise, the longer he stayed with Grandpa and Grandma, the deeper the feelings would become, and the harder it would be to deal with later.

Or… he might not even be able to wait until the end of summer vacation. With them staying together every day like this, and Fang Chi’s habit of clinging to him whenever there was nothing going on, there was no telling when they might be discovered.

Before Fang Chi was ready, that kind of situation would undoubtedly be a catastrophic disaster.

Sun Wenqu returned to his room and called Ma Liang. “Help me find a place to live.”

“Wh-what kind of place?” Ma Liang asked.

“A place to live. What else would it be.” Sun Wenqu said.

“You… living by yourself?” Ma Liang knew the progress between the two of them, and sounded a little surprised. “Aren’t you staying at your so-son’s place?”

“He hasn’t planned to tell his family yet. If I keep staying here and the old man and old lady find out, it’ll be impossible to deal with,” Sun Wenqu said. “Find me a place.”

“Wh-when do you need to live there?” Ma Liang asked.

“You rent it first. When I want to move in I’ll go straight there.” Sun Wenqu said.

“Young master, an unemployed drifter like you is really good at wasting money.” Ma Liang clicked his tongue.

Fang Chi and those classmates didn’t come back until after six in the afternoon. Every one of them was sweaty from the heat, their faces red, and as soon as they entered they shouted that they were exhausted.

The girls went into the bathhouse to shower, and the boys all rinsed off in the backyard using the hose for watering the vegetables.

Sun Wenqu watched the chaotic scene at the window for a while. Before long, he saw Fang Chi running into the house while wiping his hair with a towel.

About ten seconds later, the door to his room was lightly knocked twice.

“It’s not locked.” Sun Wenqu turned around and leaned against the desk.

The door opened. Fang Chi rushed in with droplets of water still on him, bringing in a gust of wind. As soon as the door closed he rushed in front of him and wrapped him in a hug.

“Using me as a towel?” Sun Wenqu leaned back to dodge.

Fang Chi chuckled twice, held him tighter, and kissed his face, mouth, and neck all over. “Missed you. I kept thinking about you the whole way. Thought about you all day.”

Sun Wenqu raised a hand and wrapped it around him, ruffling through his wet hair.

“You know,” Fang Chi whispered by his ear, “like this, when the time comes for me to go to school, what am I supposed to do?”

Sun Wenqu didn’t say anything. He tilted his head and kissed the corner of his mouth.

He had originally planned to talk with Fang Chi today about no longer staying here. But after Fang Chi said that, he couldn’t bring himself to speak.

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