Sissy (Niang Niang Qiang) - Chap 7
Chapter 7
The boys didn’t go through the front door, but went around to slip into the back door.
A yellow-haired man who was squatting at the door and smoking looked up. As soon as he saw Li Wenxun greeting him, his face became angry, and he shouted, “My little ancestor[27], why are you here again? If your brother finds out…”
“Don’t worry, my brother is on a business trip and will not come back today. If you don’t tell, I won’t tell either. How would he find out?”
“Didn’t you say the same thing last time? As a result, not only did you get beaten, but I also got in trouble. You are a junior high school student. Why aren’t you going to school, instead of running around here day after day?”
Li Wenxun giggled: “Guo-ge, just let me in! It’s fun here. Don’t worry about my brother. If he finds out, I’ll say I sneaked in by myself, and it won’t cause you any trouble.”
“Forget about it. Your brother won’t believe a word you say. I’m begging you, just go home.”
“Oh, Guo-ge, don’t be like that. Let us in, let us in! If you don’t let us in, you won’t be my Ge[28] anymore!.”
The two pushed and shoved each other at the door for a long time, The man’s big yellow head swayed like a sunflower in the wind. But he finally gave up and let them in with a sad face. He personally took them into a box and instructed: “Don’t come out of here. If you want anything, tell the waiter. There is a toilet here too, so you don’t need to come out at all. Don’t let anybody see you, understand?”
“Yeah, yeah, I get it, go and do your job.” Li Wenxun waved him away.
The yellow-haired man sighed with resignation, closed the door for them and left.
As soon as the door closed, Big Li jumped up from the sofa: “Damn, A-wen, you really did it! You really got us in.”
Li Wenxun smiled smugly: “Nonsense, when have I not delivered on my promises!”
Big Li sat beside him, winked and said, “Hey, can we get a couple of girls in here?”
Li Wenxun laughed and scolded him: “Why are you so timid? How about asking for some guys?”
Shao Qun shouted at him: “Ew, you’re so disgusting! How dare you ask something like that?”
Big Li pouted in Li Chengxiu’s direction, and then laughed at Shao Qun: “Don’t you want to try?”
Shao Qun cursed: “Try what, my ass! Fuck off.”
The boys broke out in laughter.
Li Chengxiu didn’t understand what they were laughing about, and he was still in a state of panic.
When the yellow haired man took them through the hall and into the private room just now, he saw a group of people in the middle of the dance floor contorting their bodies like pretzels. Li Chengxiu’s ears were buzzing with loud high-decibel music, and it seemed that even his internal organs were shaking. On the way, he tried to make himself as small as possible and closely followed behind Shao Qun’s gang. He had no idea who maliciously grabbed his butt out of the blue. He squealed like a frightened rabbit and jumped up. Still, he didn’t dare to turn around and just continued to follow the boys. He really hated those guys but at this moment they were a reassuring presence.
He felt like a small animal who was thrown into a wolf’s den. The box they were sitting in was sort of a barrier now. Although he didn’t like being there, he didn’t dare to go out either.
He was thinking about the moment he could finally go home, when suddenly there was a loud “bang”, and a huge glass jar appeared on the table in front of him. It was filled with yellow and frothy beer.
Shao Qun pushed it towards Li Chengxiu: “Drink it.”
Li Chengxiu was very familiar with the smell of alcohol. His house was full of that smell all year round – even the walls and furniture had soaked up that smell so deeply, it couldn’t be eliminated anymore.
Still, this smell revolted him so much that his face contorted in disgust when he saw this beer.
Shao Qun took a sip first.
Li Chengxiu glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, and noticed his skinny arms that had just begun to develop some muscle. Shao Qun was holding a huge glass jar that looked unusually heavy. Suddenly Li Chengxiu wasn’t so scared of him anymore. He seemed like a child who had just stolen a shoe from an adult and was trying it on. It looked ridiculous, and made one laugh.
Li Chengxiu was at a loss. Shao Qun’s face had flushed red after just one sip, and his eyes had widened. Yet, he was pretending really hard to be unaffected. This made it even more clear to Li Chengxiu that this boy was actually two years younger than himself. Why would this little boy scare him?
Shao Qun put the glass jug onto the coffee table with a loud bang again, and the sound made everybody jump up. He was buzzed after this sip of beer, and there was a bitter taste in his mouth. It wasn’t too unpleasant, but it definitely wasn’t very tasty either. The moment he drank it, he felt nauseated. As soon as he raised his eyes, he happened to see the little sissy looking at him from the corner. There was a strange smile in his eyes, as if he was mocking him. His anger flared up.
He pushed the jug right in front of Li Chengxiu, almost hitting his nose: “Drink it.”
Li Chengxiu pulled back, frowned and turned his head away.
Shao Qun’s temper exploded when he thought about that mocking smile again. Just seeing this boy who looked like a slut made him want to pour the beer all over his head.
You don’t want to drink? I’ll fucking force it down your throat.
Shao Qun put his knee up on the sofa, and gave Li Chengxiu a condescending and threatening look: “I’m counting to three. One, two…”
Li Chengxiu glanced at his ferocious expression and used both of his trembling hands to hold the jug filled with cold beer.
Shao Qun urged: “Drink.”
Others in the box also cheered him on: “Drink, drink! Men have to drink.”
Li Chengxiu had no choice, so he put the heavy mug to his mouth and took a sip. His face immediately contorted.
The thing that Shao Qun disliked most about him was the nerve of this sissy. He could see Li Chengxiu fastidiously holding the beer mug in his emaciated hands, looking like their female classmates, and taking a careful sip. Shao Qun nearly exploded, so he pushed Li Chengxiu down with one hand, grabbed his chin with the other and then poured the beer right into his mouth, which was wide open in astonishment.
Li Chengxiu twisted his hands and feet and struggled to get away. He was thin, that’s true, but he spent most of his time doing physical work, so his strength wasn’t negligible. Shao Qun underestimated him, and didn’t hold him down properly.
Li Chengxiu covered his head and retreated to the corner of the sofa, looking at Shao Qun in horror. There were wet stains on his cheeks – it wasn’t clear whether it was beer or tears. His hair was also wet, and he looked very pitiful.
Shao Qun didn’t look much better either. From his chest to his crotch his newly bought clothes were soiled with beer, making him shiver from the cold.
Suddenly, Shao Qun jumped up from the sofa, and slammed the mug in his hand onto the ground. Li Chengxiu let out a trembling cry, startled by the sound of breaking glass.
Shao Qun grabbed Li Chengxiu by the hair, and his fist was about to meet his face.
Li Wenxun hurried up to stop him: “Hey, hey, don’t fight, don’t fight! Don’t destroy your friendship with him, Shao Qun. Calm down.”
Big Li hugged Shao Qun from behind and moved him aside. The two of them whispered to Shao Qun for a long time before he finally let go of his rage.
Li Chengxiu shrank himself into a ball and looked at the three boys in fear, as if waiting for his own trial and execution.
Shao Qun glared at him, bent down, and took off his soaked T-shirt. He threw it on the ground, and then rushed over to Li Chengxiu.
Li Chengxiu timidly watched him approach step by step. Shao Qun dragged him up from the sofa by his arms and pointed at his own wet chest and abdomen: “Wipe it clean.”
Li Chengxiu was stunned for a moment, but then quickly grabbed the tissue box on the table, took out some wipes and diligently cleaned Shao Qun up.
Shao Qun put his hands on his hips and looked at him coldly.
Although Li Chengxiu was two years older than him, he was half a head shorter. Now that the two of them were so close to each other that he could feel Shao Qun’s breath on his face and smell Shao Qun’s fresh body odor that couldn’t even be covered by beer.
The young boy’s body already had a thin layer of muscle, his skin was delicate and fair, his chest and abdomen were hard and flexible. The longer Li Chengxiu rubbed his sturdy body, the more embarrassed he felt.
Big Li watched him finish wiping Shao Qun’s chest, leaned over with a wicked smile, and pulled at the elastic band of Shao Qun’s trousers with one finger: “Hey, it’s also wet inside here.”
Shao Qun slapped his grabby paws away from himself: “You want to lick me clean or what?”
Li Chengxiu thought that Shao Qun was talking to him. He looked up in horror and disbelief.
Shao Qun was also stunned for a moment. When he finally understood what exactly he had just said right now, his face turned red. In order to hide his embarrassment, he yelled loudly: “Fuck you! What the hell are you even thinking?”
Li Wenxun and Big Li held onto their stomachs, rolling from laughter. Shao Qun got angry and kicked Big Li’s ass, when he was least suspecting it. He pointed at the untouched beer on the table and said: “Today, I will graciously spare you, if you can drink this whole mug at once!”
Li Chengxiu’s cowardly eyes wandered between the beer and Shao Qun for a moment. Finally, he grabbed the mug and opened his mouth.
Shao Qun was calmly sitting on the sofa, as he watched Li Chengxiu’s little face twisted in pain. It seemed like he had been injected with poison.
Li Chengxiu’s skin turned red from the top of his head to the hem of his clothes. After a short moment, tears flowed out of his tightly closed eyes, while the beer was pouring out of his mouth onto his chin and then into his collar. It looked pitiful, yet it was also strangely touching.
Shao Qun looked at Li Chengxiu’s twisted pale and tender face, at his Adam’s apple that kept sliding up-and-down, at his chest, at his slender waist and at his slightly upturned butt that looked prominent on his otherwise very slim frame. Shao Qun suddenly couldn’t stop staring.
He felt that there was something wrong with him. He shouldn’t consider another man’s waist “nice to look at”. And he definitely shouldn’t think that this pitiful contorted face is…cute. Shao Qun was shocked and wondered if he was under a spell – he had heard that “this kind of people” were proficient in seducing other men.
Shao Qun got angry yet again, because he felt that he had accidentally been infected by this terrible virus called “homosexuality”. It made him feel genuinely disgusted.
He shouted viciously: “I will fucking kill you if you leave even one drop.”
Li Chengxiu took a few more sips, and after a short break, he continued to pour the contents of the mug into his mouth. He felt like his whole body was about to burn from the inside. Especially his throat all the way to the stomach felt hot and uncomfortable. He felt that something was coming up and he was about to vomit. His eyes were dim, and his head felt heavy. Although he was still conscious, he stand on his own two feet anymore.
He couldn’t help but wonder, why would anyone enjoy drinking alcohol at all. It was unpalatable and nasty.
What made him even more uncomfortable than drinking itself was the feeling of complete helplessness and the embarrassment of being forced to drink.
With difficulty and disgust, he finally managed to finish the large jug of beer. Li Chengxiu’s legs softened, he fell down on the sofa and started to cry, covering his face.
Shao Qun scolded him: “You’re crying again! For fuck’s sake.”
Li Chengxiu took a long breath and didn’t dare to make another sound. He just shrunk into the corner of the sofa and closed his eyes tightly, as if he wanted to isolate himself from the world through this action.
Shao Qun didn’t like to be ignored like this. He stood up and walked over to Li Chengxiu. He was about to say something when the door of the box was suddenly kicked open from the outside. The door hit the wall with a loud bang, which startled the boys. They stared blankly at the door.
A tall young man rushed in looking angry like the devil. As soon as he came in, his eyes looked for someone.
Li Wenxun called out: “Older brother!”
Then he covered his head and jumped into the corner.
The young man reached him in a few steps, twisted his ear and pulled him up.
Li Wenxun cried out in pain, “Brother, brother, it hurts. Let me go!”
Li Wenxun’s brother forcefully shoved his head: “Fuck you, you bastard. Are all my words falling on deaf ears? How many times have I fucking told you that you are not allowed to come to this kind of place? If you don’t study hard and get yourself involved in all kinds of messes, you’ll grow up to be a gangster. Do you want that? Don’t you believe I won’t kill in that case?”
Li Wenxun cried and begged: “Brother…”
The young man pushed him again, pointed at his nose and scolded: “I’ll teach you a lesson today you will never forget…” Suddenly he made a “huh?” sound, as if he saw something that surprised him. Then his eyes locked on Li Chengxiu who was huddled in the corner behind Li Wenxun.
Shao Qun was still in a stunned state, when he noticed the young man staring at Li Chengxiu.
Suddenly the young man’s face contorted with anger. He cursed loudly, rushed up in three steps, passed by Shao Qun and grabbed Li Chengxiu up from the sofa. Before anyone could react, he knocked Li Chengxiu down on the ground with a heavy slap.
“You shameless slut! Who the hell hired you? What’s fucking wrong with you that you’re willing to sell it to a bunch of underaged bastards – are you poor, crazy, or just horny? This is my brother! If you touched him, I’ll fucking chop you up in pieces right now!” The man kicked Li Chengxiu’s stomach again.
Li Chengxiu was in so much pain that he curled up into the shape of a shrimp. He couldn’t say a word, and even his cries couldn’t escape his lips, buried deep inside his body.
The young man raised his foot and was about to kick Li Chengxiu again when Shao Qun suddenly rushed up and shoved him away.
Shao Qun squatted in front of Li Chengxiu, staring at the man fiercely: “Yao-Ge, he is our classmate.”
Li Wenyao[29] was stunned for a moment, his cheeks were puffed up, as he tried to suppress his anger: “You stinky brat…”
Li Wenxun rushed to grab his brother’s arm: “Brother, he really is our classmate.”
Li Wenyao glanced at him suspiciously, and then took a closer look at Li Chengxiu, who was crying in pain while holding his stomach. Indeed, he saw that it was just a child in front of him.
He got so angry at first because when he saw a person dressed like that in the dim light he automatically assumed he was a prostitute. Upon closer inspection, it turned out he was mistaken.
Li Wenyao pouted and muttered, “What the hell is he wearing?” He stopped paying any attention to Li Chengxiu and grabbed Li Wenxun’s arm, “Come on, let’s go home now, so I can deal with you.”
Li Wenxun showed a sad face, as he was dragged out of the room.
Big Li and Xiao Sheng just came back to their senses and were just standing there awkwardly.
Shao Qun silently helped Li Chengxiu up from the ground. Looking at his crying face, he felt a little uncomfortable.
He turned his head to Big Li and Xiao Sheng and said, “Let’s go home. I’ll take you back first.”
“Rather not. If I get into the car with you, I’ll also smell like beer. My mother will definitely notice! Xiao Sheng and I will walk around for a bit to get rid of the smell, and then we’ll take a taxi back. Him…” Big Li looked at Li Chengxiu who was not even moving anymore and added: “Take him home. He really got the short end of the stick…”
Shao Qun nodded and didn’t look at the boys again.
When they left, Shao Qun sat next to Li Chengxiu for a while. Finally, he took away the hand that covered Li Chengxiu’s face and saw that half of his cheek was swollen. There was even blood at the corner of his mouth. He pulled up his clothes and saw large bruises on his waist and abdomen. He knew that Li Wenyao was a merciless person – he was an actual gangster. Being beaten up by him would be painful even for an adult, let alone such a thin child like Li Chengxiu.
Shao Qun felt some guilt and sympathy in his heart. In more than ten years of life, this was the first time that he actually felt guilty towards someone.
However, this feeling was too short-lived and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Instead, he suddenly felt that if it wasn’t for him, Li Chengxiu would have been beaten by Li Wenyao to death today. So actually Li Changxiu should be grateful to him. Besides, it was his own fault for looking like a slut.
He lightly patted Li Chengxiu’s face: “Hey, are you alright?”
Li Chengxiu was in so much pain that he couldn’t speak. He had never experienced such pain in his life before.
He could only cry. There was nothing else he could do about the pain.
He could neither make the pain go away, nor make the person responsible pay for what he did to him. There was no other way to vent – only tears.
Xiao Sheng (who we forgot even existed) chilling during this whole ordeal in the nightclub
