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Chapter 4
Tang Xu’en turned around and left with Ji Wei with their arms around each other’s shoulders.
Before they could walk too far, the door behind them creaked open, “Big brother?”
It was the voice of his second younger brother, Tang Zheng.
Tang Xu’en looked back.
Tang Zheng was clearly still half asleep. His hair was like a bird’s nest and he wore a singlet that old men would wear and shorts. He looked over at him and asked, “Big brother, when did you leave? I was wondering what the noise was….Almost thought there was a thief.”
Tang Xu’en hooked his arm around Ji Wei’s neck and introduced with a smile, “I went out for a drink with Brother Ji.”
Tang Zheng, “Aren’t you going in the wrong direction? Big brother, your home is this way.”
“I’m not.” Tang Xu’en shook his head, “I’m going to Brother Ji’s place to continue drinking.”
Tang Zheng walked over in his slippers and reached out to grab him, “Stop drinking, big brother. Look at yourself right now yet you still want to drink? You’re going to end up in the hospital if you continue like this.”
“And don’t you need to open the store tomorrow?”
Ji Wei’s hand had already quietly slipped down under the cover of the night and it firmly held onto Tang Xu’en’s waist.
Tang Zheng tried to pull his eldest brother over but he didn’t budge. It was like he was pulling out a carrot that couldn’t be pulled out. His eldest brother even pushed him away in annoyance, “Children shouldn’t interfere with adult’s business.”
Tang Zheng, “Big brother, I’m not a kid anymore.”
Ji Wei at this time persuaded, “It’s okay. Your eldest brother is just going to hang out with me at my place. I’ll look after him.”
Tang Xu’en echoed, “That’s right. With Ji Wei around, what is there to worry about?”
Tang Zheng had no choice but to accept it, “Alright then.”
And so he could only watch as his eldest brother left with Ji Wei.
But he couldn’t help but feel uneasy. Tang Zheng ran over to the middle of the road and then raised his head and asked, “Big brother, when will you be back?”
Tang Xu’en didn’t even look back. He half raised his hand and waved softly, “I’ll be back when the time comes.”
Tang Zheng was speechless. Seeing him walk further and further away without looking back, he muttered to himself, “When is ‘when the time comes’….”
‘Bang.’
The taxi door was closed by Ji Wei. Tang Xu’en who had been dozing off as soon as he got in was woken up by the sound.
He seemed to have heard Ji Wei whisper, “I didn’t expect it to go so smoothly….”
Tang Xu’en was like a drunk cat, “What went smoothly?”
Ji Wei, “Nothing.”
‘Beep.’
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The fingerprint door lock unlocked.
Tang Xu’en entered while using the entryway cabinet as support, accidentally knocking into a fortune cat ornament when he did that. The miscellaneous items in it such as keys, lighters etc jingled from the impact.
This fortune cat was something he had gifted Ji Wei. It wasn’t a gift for a special occasion, he had just caught sight of it when he was shopping and bought it because he liked it. He also had the same one in his store.
Tang Xu’en is very drunk right now but even if he closed his eyes, he wouldn’t go the wrong way at Ji Wei’s place.
He was too familiar with it.
Ji Wei had bought a place near his workplace after returning from abroad but, because he was too busy with work and didn’t have time to check on the renovations, he had asked him to help out.
Tang Xu’en agreed without hesitation. In their relationship, Ji Wei had always been the one taking care of him more. With this rare chance of him being able to be of help to Ji Wei, he gave it his best.
Ji Wei said that he had trouble making decisions when it came to household matters like this so he would always ask him for his opinion.
Tang Xu’en didn’t find it troublesome. He liked taking care of others. It gave him a sense of fulfilment.
After taking a ten or so minute nap in the taxi, Tang Xu’en was no longer that sleepy.
Ji Wei brought over several cans of sparkling fruit wine. The alcohol content wasn’t too high, ranging from 4% to 10%. Although it was wine, it was probably closer to a juice.
Tang Xu’en’s favourite was the rose and lychee flavoured one. It was both aromatic and sweet.
There was also a plate of dried squid and peanuts to snack on.
The projector was turned on.
The lights were turned off.
Tang Xu’en leaned back against the sofa, his left shoulder leaning against Ji Wei. He asked, “What movie is this?”
Ji Wei answered, “Brokeback Mountain.”
Tang Xu’en nodded, “Oh, I’ve heard of it before. It’s very famous, but I haven’t watched it before.”
The flickering light from the projector reflected on Tang Xu’en’s face as he quietly watched. The round collar of his shirt was slightly skewed, exposing his collarbone and thin and slender neck.
Because he was always working, his body was neither bloated nor too thin. He however had a naturally smaller frame so he wouldn’t be able to get any bulkier.
From among those three brothers, all the bulkiness seemed to have all been absorbed by the second child.
Ji Wei turned to look at him. He watched in daze as the light flickered in his eyes.
Tang Xu’en said, “They don’t look like they’re gay.”
Ji Wei asked, “Then what do you think gays should look like?”
Tang Xu’en answered quietly while feeling a little ashamed inside, “Just, you know…a little more feminine….”
Ji Wei laughed, “You are stereotyping.”
“I know….” Tang Xu’en said, “Thinking back, Xiao Yuan has always been quiet and docile since he was young and didn’t like to play with the other boys. Maybe he has been gay from birth.”
The movie at this moment depicted a vast grassy valley.
Tang Xu’en gradually became immersed in the movie. He then saw the two male protagonists enter a tent. The screen darkened and all that was left was the sound of chaotic breathing.
Tang Xu’en was able to guess what was happening but he couldn’t imagine the specific details. He asked straightforwardly, “Are they having sex?”
Ji Wei, “Cough. Yes, they are.”
Read from https://kktranslates.home.blog/Tang Xu’en was purely curious, “I can’t tell what’s going on….”
“It’s too confusing like this.”
Ji Wei, “Are you curious about how a man does it with another man? Didn’t you just want to know what it means for a man to like another man? Liking is one matter and having sex is another different matter.”
When he was asked this, Tang Xu’en realised that something wasn’t right. He reined in his horse and said awkwardly, “Y-yeah, you’re right.”
The two protagonists then broke up and each of them got married.
Tang Xu’en didn’t approve, “How can they do that? Isn’t this bad for the female party?”
“I really don’t understand these people sometimes.”
“—–Not just these two in this movie, but also some men and women we encounter in life, with the more common sexual orientation.”
“Why can they date and even marry someone they don’t love? How could it be considered love when they do that? If you already have a lover, how could you still sleep with other people? I really don’t understand.”
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Ji Wei laughed.
Tang Xu’en was unhappy. As he asked ‘Are you making fun of my naivety?’, he turned to look over—–
Ji Wei was staring at him. When Tang Xu’en’s eyes met his, he felt like his eyes were glued to the spot by honey. His heart beat loudly.
“I wasn’t. I was just thinking that we really are like-minded, Xiao Xu.” Ji Wei said, “I agree with your thoughts, I also think that way.”
Tang Xu’en felt as if he had become even more dizzy. In his dazed state, he thought to himself: Sure enough, he and Ji Wei were able to be good friends for so many years because they held the same values.
From all the classmates he had in junior high school and high school, as all those years passed by, he was only left with Ji Wei who was his closest friend. He seemed to also be Ji Wei’s closest friend.
The movie had reached the point where the male protagonist Jack was beaten to death.
Tang Xu’en asked, “Why is he dead? Don’t the people who killed him need to be arrested?”
After saying that, Ji Wei explained to him, “The setting of this movie is the United States in the 1960s. Homophobia was very serious at the time. Even if someone was beaten to death, no police would investigate it. Their sexual orientation was their crime. People think that they deserve to be beaten to death.”
Tang Xu’en shook his head, “Although he may be bad morally, killing him is taking it too far.”
Ji Wei suddenly said, “It wasn’t in the past. Do you know when same sex marriage laws were passed internationally?”
Of course Tang Xu’en said he didn’t know. Ji Wei asked him to guess, so he guessed thirty years ago.
Ji Wei smiled and said, “Twelve years ago.”
Tang Xu’en was shocked, “It hasn’t been long then.”
Ji Wei answered, “Yeah.”
At the end of the movie, when Ennis wore his own clothes over Jack’s shirt, as if struck by something, Tang Xu’en for some reason began to cry.
He had always been very empathetic. All the emotions that quietly gathered were like a deep well of water. As soon as it broke through his tear ducts, it flowed nonstop.
This time Ji Wei really laughed at him, “Why are you crying?”
Tang Xu’en wiped his face and said, “Because it’s very touching.”
Ji Wei handed him a tissue and teased, “Who was the one who said that they shouldn’t cry so easily because they’re a big brother?”
Tang Xu’en cried without restraint. He said as a matter of factly, “That’s in front of my brothers. There’s no need to do that in front of you. I can cry as much as I want.”
After eating for more than an hour and then watching a nearly two hour movie, it was almost six.
Tang Xu’en at this moment was both sleepy but also not very sleepy and drunk but also not very drunk. Faint sunlight filtered through the sheer curtains, falling into the room. It was extremely quiet.
The movie was playing the ending theme ‘He was a friend of mine’.
“He was a friend of mine. Every time I think of him, I just can’t keep from crying.”
“Cause he was a friend of mine. He died on the road, never reaped what he could sow.”
The lonely guitar chords and the bass vocals made it very emotional.
Seeing that he was still crying, Ji Wei wiped away his tears and said helplessly, “Stop crying.”
He had at some point moved closer. He asked, “With you crying like this, looks like you now know what it means when a man likes another man?”
Tang Xu’en nodded and then shook his head. He said, “Maybe it’s because I drank too much, that’s why I’m crying. I’m just throwing a drunken fit.”
Ji Wei chuckled in amusement. It made Tang Xu’en feel as if his heart was lightly tickled. He felt a little embarrassed.
Ji Wei looked at him quietly and didn’t speak.
The morning light was soft and gentle. Like a thin layer of frost, it coated over Ji Wei’s handsome features, making the light in his eyes appear even more intense.
Tang Xu’en noticed that Ji Wei was slowly getting closer to him. He however didn’t move, neither moving closer or moving away. Only his heart was beating wildly.
In any case, when Ji Wei kissed him, for some strange reason, he didn’t show any resistance and just quietly accepted it.
He thought to himself.
It must be because he had drank too much.
“Let me teach you what it means for a man to like another man.”
He heard Ji Wei say this to him.
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