Huo Zhixiao and Ding Yinan did not follow Huo Xun back to the city but wandered around Sanyang Village with San Baisui.
The little dog returned to the place where he was born. He was so excited that he played around in the fields. Fortunately, Ding Yinan was holding a 10-meter-long retractable dog leash, so he didn’t have to run around with San Baisui.
The summer morning sun was already a little bit hot. Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao walked under the shade of the tree, and they held hands as they walked.
There were no other people around, only a strong breath of nature.
Thinking about it carefully, Ding Yinan’s heart was opened by Huo Zhixiao’s innocent kiss on such a night full of nature.
“Wife,” Huo Zhixiao suddenly called out.
“Hm?”
“It’s really great.”
“What?”
“Being with you.”
Ding Yinan smiled shallowly and shook the hands of the two of them with intertwined fingers, showing that he thought the same as Huo Zhixiao.
He didn’t know that if it was because of the atmosphere, Huo Zhixiao suddenly stopped and said to Ding Yinan, “Should we get married?”
“Married?” Ding Yinan was stunned, and various practical problems immediately appeared in his mind, such as where to get the certificate, what to do with Huo Xun… and so on.
“I’ll give us two photoshopped marriage certificates,” Huo Zhixiao said.
Ding Yinan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry for a moment. He was thinking about this question seriously for a moment, but his boyfriend’s brain circuit was still as whimsical as ever.
“Whatever,” Ding Yinan said.
As soon as the words fell, two dogs barking suddenly sounded in front of them.
Ding Yinan followed the sound and saw that San Baisui was fighting with another little male dog. The two little male dogs sniffed each other’s butts warily, but after smelling it, San Baisui suddenly rode on him and made indecent movements.
“San Baisui!” Ding Yinan hurriedly tightened the dog leash, trying to bring back his shameful son.
However, Huo Zhixiao raised his chin indifferently and said, “Let it play.”
“I told you not to let San Baisui look at us,” Ding Yinan frowned, “He is not yet an adult, and now he has learned to ride other little male dogs.”
Huo Zhixiao nodded thoughtfully, but what he said was: “As expected of our son.”
Ding Yinan was speechless; he didn’t know what to do with the father and son. He gave up struggling, handed the leash to Huo Zhixiao, and said, “Don’t say I know you.”
Huo Zhixiao smiled and pulled San Baisui back, as if afraid that others would think that way, and said to Ding Yinan’s back, “Wife, wait for me.”
The two came to the gate of the little boy’s house based on their memory. At this time, a woman was drying the bedding in the yard. Seeing Huo Zhixiao and Ding Yinan, she asked, “Who are you looking for?”
Before the two could answer, a figure flew out of the room and shouted, “Brother come to play with me!”
Ding Yinan rubbed the little boy’s head and said to the woman beside him, “We are the designers of the village library, coming to see him.”
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“I see,” The woman felt relieved and said enthusiastically, “Then come and sit in the room.”
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The little boy stretched his head to look into the box and asked, “Is there any difference?”
“There’s a big difference,” Huo Zhixiao said, “Do you know what protection of intellectual property rights is? If you play pirated versions, you are disrespecting other creators.”
The truth was this, but the little boy couldn’t understand it when he spoke so professionally. Besides, the children in the village didn’t have that condition, and they couldn’t afford genuine cards to play.
Ding Yinan knelt down and said to the little boy, “Big brother will play fan cards with you with this deck of cards. If you win, I will give you all of them.”
“Hey,” Huo Zhixiao behind him called Ding Yinan dissatisfiedly. Of course, Ding Yinan knew that Huo Zhixiao brought the cards here just to show off and had no intention of giving them away at all.
The little boy said “OK” and ran back into the house to get his card.
Ding Yinan stood up and said to Huo Zhixiao, “It’s okay; I’ll buy it for you if you lose.”
Huo Zhixiao raised his eyebrows unhappily and said, “How did you know I would lose?”
Ding Yinan said, “I won’t be your adviser this time.”
Huo Zhixiao obviously got excited and took out all his genuine cards from the metal box.
The little boy on the other side also brought a bunch of cards over. After rock-paper-scissors, the two started a “genuine vs. pirated” battle.
However, within a few rounds of playing, several people discovered that Huo Zhixiao’s genuine cards were too heavy, and they couldn’t slap them at all. On the contrary, the little boy’s cards were light and easy to slap. Even if Huo Zhixiao’s level was good, he won several cards from others.
“You cheated again,” the little boy was unhappy, “Last time you let that pretty brother take command, this time you used such a heavy card to trick me again.”
“I cheated on you?” Huo Zhixiao frowned, “Brother is a man with a wife, what will cheating a primary school student benefit me of?”
“Then don’t use this broken card,” the little boy said.
“Broken card?” Huo Zhi frowned, picked up a shiny golden card from the ground, and said, “This limited edition card costs more than one hundred yuan each; do you know what it is?”
“Huo Zhixiao.” Seeing Huo Zhixiao arguing with the elementary school students, Ding Yinan found it funny. He grabbed the person beside him and said, “He’s still young; why are you fussing with him?”
Ding Yinan was like a tranquilizer, instantly calming down the irritable big dog. Huo Zhixiao let out a breath and said, “Forget it.”
He put the gold card on the ground into a box, handed it to the little boy, and said, “Take it, I’ll give it to you.”
“Isn’t this very expensive?” The little boy was sensible, and didn’t immediately reach out to take it. “You don’t want it?”
“This is because you are ignorant, so I’m giving these to you to increase your knowledge,” Huo Zhixiao said.
The little boy curled his lips, showing no interest in it.
Ding Yinan knelt down, rubbed the little boy’s head, and said, “Actually, big brother liked to play with you very much, so you should keep this one well, and when the library is built, he will come over next time and teach you another kind of game.”
The other way of playing was, of course, the genuine way of playing, which was much more interesting than fan cards.
The little boy accepted it awkwardly and said to Ding Yinan, “Thank you, brother.”
After finishing speaking, he looked at Huo Zhixiao again and said, “Although you are very bad at playing, you are also a good brother for helping us repair the library.”
“Very bad?”
“Okay, okay.” Ding Yinan grabbed Huo Zhixiao’s arm, waved to the little boy, and said, “Then we’ll go first, see you next time.”
The little boy also waved to the two of them and said obediently, “Goodbye, brothers.”
Ding Yinan went to the courtyard gate to pick up San Baisui and walked towards the entrance of the village with Huo Zhixiao.
Huo Zhixiao put his hands in his trouser pockets, and he was still muttering dissatisfiedly, “The children in the countryside just don’t know much.”
Ding Yinan laughed softly, “Did you forget that I was also a rural child?”
These words made Huo Zhixiao speechless; he changed the subject and said, “Did you really take your sister to blow up a cesspit when you were young?”
“Really.” Ding Yinan said, “You can’t even imagine the games played by rural children.”
“Then is your sister as wild as you?” Huo Zhixiao asked again.
The “wild” here, of course, referred to the character. Ding Yinan thought for a while and said, “Her personality is similar to mine; she is quite sensible.”
Speaking of this, Ding Yinan’s cell phone vibrated suddenly. He took out the cell phone and saw that it was an email from the judging committee of the top design awards in China.
“The library you designed passed the pre-selection.”
Ding Yinan raised his head to look at Huo Zhixiao, with a smile in the corner of his eyes, unable to hide his joy.
Huo Zhixiao only turned his head to glance at the logo on the screen and immediately understood what was going on. “You voted for me for this award?” he asked.
Compared with the famous international awards, the gold content of this award was not particularly high, but as far as the country is concerned, if you could win this award, you didn’t have to worry about not having business.
“Yes.” Ding Yinan said, “A vote is a vote.”
“Aren’t you afraid that I won’t win the award and embarrass you?”
“You are not afraid of losing to Zhao Yang, what should I be afraid of?”
It was still the same sentence Huo Zhixiao said, each according to his ability, and of course, he must fight for it.
“Okay, I’ll follow my wife’s arrangement.” Huo Zhixiao said.
“There are still a lot of materials to be handed in,” Ding Yinan said.
“No problem.” Huo Zhixiao hooked Ding Yinan’s shoulder, “Just leave it to your husband.”
The two continued to walk forward, but at this moment Ding Yinan’s cell phone vibrated again. But this time it was no longer an email, but a phone call.
Ding Yinan glanced at the names on the screen and said to Huo Zhixiao, “My sister.”
He picked up the phone and said, “Dongdong?”
Ding Yinan’s younger sister’s name was Ding Dong, and her nickname was not creative at all, it was Ding Dong’s Dong Dong.
“Brother, I’ll go play with you tomorrow weekend.”
“You want to play with me?”
Ding Dong went to university in their hometown, hundreds of kilometers away from the city where Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao lived.
“I’ve finished my part-time job, and I still have a while before school starts.” Ding Dong said, “I’m meeting netizens in your neighboring city now, and I’ll take the train back tomorrow afternoon.”
“Meet a netizen?” Ding Yinan raised his chest in one breath, “What netizen are you seeing?”
“It’s just a friend you can chat with online.” Ding Dong said, “A girl, we’ve already met.”
“Do you know how dangerous this society is now, you little girl…”
“Oh, I knew you were going to be long-winded.” Ding Dong interrupted Ding Yinan, “I’ll go directly to your house to find you tomorrow morning, so that’s the deal, bye.”
Ding Yinan wanted to say a few more words, but Ding Dong had already hung up the phone.
He suddenly thought of the question Huo Zhixiao asked him just now, whether his sister’s temperament was wild or not, how did he answer it? Sensible? It was simply not at all.
“Is this the younger sister of your video tutoring homework?” Huo Zhixiao asked.
In fact, Ding Dong’s academic performance was very good, and she didn’t need Ding Yinan’s homework tutoring at all. If he hadn’t made up this excuse, he was afraid Huo Zhixiao would be so angry that he would come to the bar in pajamas and flip-flops to arrest him.
Ding Yinan exhaled and said, “My sister will come to see me tomorrow.”
Speaking of this, a white light suddenly flashed in his mind.
Ding Dong said that she would go directly to his house to look for him, but his house had been…
“Ah.” Ding Yinan looked at Huo Zhixiao, “My house is now an office, my sister doesn’t know that I’m living with you.”
“She doesn’t know your sexual orientation?” Huo Zhixiao asked.
“Of course, she doesn’t know. How can a little girl like her understand this?”
Ding Yinan realized that he liked boys only after he went to college, and he was no longer living with Ding Dong at that time.
“It doesn’t matter if she knows it.” Huo Zhixiao said, “Will your sister’s acceptance be higher than my father’s?”
“That’s hard to say.” Ding Yinan frowned, “She hasn’t even had a boyfriend, so she probably doesn’t even know that there are gay in the world.”
“Then what should we do?” Huo Zhixiao asked.
“I thought of it,” Ding Yinan calmed down and said, “Let’s say we are starting a business; you are my business partner, and my house is used as an office, so I live in your house.”
This statement was completely in line with the facts, and Ding Yinan didn’t have to worry about revealing his secrets.
Huo Zhixiao tilted his head and pondered for a while, then said, “Okay.”
Thanks for the update
Thanks for the chapter!
Wonder if the little sister already knew though, and she herself is meeting up with a girl? (potential partner question mark) 👀
Plot twist the sister is actually a lesbian who knew her brother was gay before he did
Oh ho. The little sister will know for sure. I bet she’d take one look at the two of them and know
I think Ding Dong isn’t as clueless as big brother thinks she is 😉
Thanks for the chapter 💞