A House on Mount Linux

Part 6: Now They Are Both Lost

Part 6: Now They Are Both Lost

Liu LiZhong's healthy morning sleep, which lasted until noon, was disturbed by fondling steady fingers running through his hair.

(Liu ShanShun:) - I will go and see how the things are going on there. We must tell your sister, she is sure worried to death... Put a chair to the door or somebody may come in.

Having stepped out, he immediately came back and commanded in whisper:

- Get dressed at once!

(Liu LiZhong:) - Yeah, yeah.

Liu ShanShun looked at the boy sitting in his bed and the fact he was going somewhere totally slipped his mind. Somebody might not see a sleepy, disheveled, muscular naked man, unshaved for three days, as a particularly cute object, but for Liu ShanShun he has always been and will be his dear bright-eyed boy, Xiao Rou. BaoBao.

Naturally, that little piece of shit (half a head taller than Liu ShanShun) didn't even care about getting himself dressed.

When Liu MiLi came in, he was sitting in bed in his birthday suit, beaming with joy and smelling of carnation oil, having shyly covered his nuts with bed linen.

Liu MiLi rushed to her little brother happily but halfway she figured out what had happened in the bedroom, so she ran in the opposite direction and cried with terror. Liu LiZhong beamed even brighter.

Liu MiLi bolted to her uncle to seek protection but she didn't go all the way either because finally she got the full picture in her innocent mind. There were two men in that picture. She wished they only "were"... And she wished they were at least wearing clothes...

All that time Liu MiLi was crying without a break changing the direction of her run and the pitch of her voice in accordance to the ideas starting up in her head:

"Aaaaaaaah! Oooooooooooh! AAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Liu ShanShun saw his dear niece's terror he had caused and his heart filled with despair. That's why he said (meaning that if Liu MiLi thought there had been some assaultive actions taken place in the room, she was wrong):

"I haven't done anything!"

"Indeed you haven't. Three times don't count," Liu LiZhong supported him wholeheartedly keeping a sympathetic expression on his face and enjoying the scene secretly and immensely.

Liu ShanShun collapsed on the bed burying his face in the palms. The next moment he wished he hadn't: Liu LiZhong crawled over to his side and embraced his shoulders tightly. And laid his head on the uncle's shoulder.

"Ouch," he complained. "My back hurts... Sports injury!"

Liu MiLi burst into tears as loudly as she could.

"How are the things outside?" asked Liu LiZhong paying no attention to his sister. "Have they caught me yet?"

(Liu ShanShun:) - They are all looking for you, the Imperial Guard and the police. Though I can't say they are actually doing their best...

He looked sideway.

(Liu LiZhong:) - Why wouldn't they do their best?.. Hey, why are you shy all of a sudden?

(Liu ShanShun, not sure he should say that to Liu LiZhong:) - You see... In your regard, I have...

(Liu LiZhong, eager to help:) - ... seen me starkers in your dreams?

(Liu ShanShun, gives the nephew a reproachful look, his eyes pointing at crying Liu MiLi, bashfully:) - I have strangled you and threw the body into a chasm.