It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road are sad.
At this time of year, Duan Yelin would go to the mass grave to pay tribute to the brothers who had died on the battlefield with him. There was no tombstone at the mass grave, he just brought a few pots of good wine, poured them on the ground, and drank the rest himself.
When he returned to Jinyan Tang at night, no light was allowed anywhere. When the maid, Chan Yi, in the upper room, saw Duan Yelin, she hurried over to lead the way: “The Commander is here? Would you like some cold food? There are some in the cabinet in the small kitchen. The Head of the Household has already eaten.”
“He’s asleep?”
“Yes, it’s strange today, he went to bed early!”
There are not many servants in Jinyan Tang, there are only two maids and two servants, all of whom were newly recruited four years ago. They are very tight-lipped and signed a life-and-death contract. Most of them understand the relationship between their master and the commander but dare not gossip about it outside.
Duan Yelin came after dinner and went straight into the room. No lights were turned on during the Qingming Festival, so the room was dim, but fortunately it was not too late, and he could still see a little clearly.
He saw a figure lying on a chair from a distance, with one hand hanging outside the chair, a book in his other arm, and breathing steadily. He slowed down his pace and approached slowly, Xu Hang did not wake up either.
Xu Hang rarely sleeps so soundly.
Duan Yelin looked down at him and couldn’t help but reach out to touch his cheek. Suddenly, he felt something icy and cold, like water stains.
He cried?
This thought suddenly flashed through his mind, but the next moment, he rejected it. With Xu Hang’s personality, how could he cry?
He didn’t even cry when he was tossed and turned like that four years ago. Instead, he turned over and vomited on the bed. He looked like he was going to vomit out all the bile.
Feeling disgusted after being touched by him like this is a great humiliation for Duan Yelin.
So the way Duan Yelin treated Xu Hang was to start from then on, he pulled him to bed from moonrise to sunrise every day, like two balls of dough kneaded together, without any separation.
At first, Xu Hang would still vomit.
In the first few days, when Duan Yelin pressed him down on the ginkgo wood desk and put his hands under his body, he began to feel the sour water, which would choke his nasal cavity and throat while lying on his back on the desk, and his entire head would shiver for a while. Duan Yelin would hold his breath and wait for him to finish vomiting before continuing.
Later, when Duan Yelin was about to leave his mark on his body, he would twitch like a fish being electrocuted, his back arched, and his adam apple moving up and down. At this moment, Duan Yelin would tightly cover his mouth and nose, blocking him from sobbing and feeling nauseous until the devastating event was completed.
Later, he was finally able to hold on until everything was over. Xu Hang would occasionally have the strength to crawl to the bathroom to vomit, but every time he did so, Duan Yelin would stand at the door and watch him coldly, then walk over, turn on the faucet, and press Xu Hang, who had no strength left to vomit, on the marble countertop to tease him.
“We still have plenty of time. I don’t believe that I can’t cure you!” Duan Yelin said this when Xu Hang begged him for mercy for the first time.
Habit is the best medicine. After a few months, Xu Hang no longer vomited.
Xu Hang wouldn’t even shed a tear after going through something like this with someone, what a stubborn temper.
Duan Yelin recalled for too long, and he’s also touching him with his hand for too long as well. Xu Hang felt the rough touch on his face in his sleep and slowly woke up. He was startled when he saw the figure, but when he clearly saw the military uniform, he calmed down a lot.
He sat up straight: “You’re here?”
“En,” Duan Yelin said with a smile, “You knew I was coming, but you still went to bed so early?”
“It’s hard to open my eyes when I read, so I took a nap.”
“I asked Qiao Song to tell you something. Why don’t you go to Xiaotong Guan? Why are you angry again?”
Xu Hang stood up, went to the table, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it slowly: “I don’t like the cigarette factory opposite Xiaotong Guan. The lights there are dazzling.”
Duan Yelin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Just because of this?”
Xu Hang stopped talking, found a face towel and washed his face in the water. The sound of clear water in the dark room was actually very irritating to the eardrums.
As Duan Yelin watched, he couldn’t help but hug him from behind. His lips and tongue extended to Xu Hang’s ear, and his earlobe was bitten lightly. It was a kiss with strong suggestive meaning.
Xu Hang pushed him: “Today is the Qingming Festival.”
“You… are the most difficult person to serve in the world.” Duan Yelin sighed.
His words were not groundless. Xu Hang’s thoughts were always hard to guess. Four years ago, when he wanted to open the medical store, Duan Yelin gave him a lot of prime storefronts, but he didn’t choose any of them. He chose an abandoned factory that no one else wanted and converted it. When asked why, he said he liked the sugar rice cakes made on that street corner.
Because he hated opium, Xu Hang even spent a huge sum of money to buy an opium den two streets away from Jinyan Tang. However, he blew it up completely with a thunderbolt and then left it there to be abandoned, neither used nor sold.
In his words, if someone who was addicted to opium passed by his door, he would feel like he was reeking of opium.
Just because of this sentence, Duan Yelin ordered his men to burn down the ten acres of medicinal opium poppy fields outside the city. Since then, for four years, he hasn’t even been able to enjoy smoking a cigar at all.
It’s hard to guess what he’s thinking.
Three days later, the military gave the order, and the cigarette factory began to be demolished. The sign was taken down, and the building was deserted.
The new sign is Fangfei Cosmetics Company.
