Chapter 29 - Have You Finished? Im Tired (1/2)

Chapter 29: Have You Finished? I’m Tired

Translator: Jacquelin

In the depth of night, Dong Ci was aroused from her sleep by a knocking at the door. She got up and opened the door, and then she saw Ji Jing in red clothes hang herself by the neck with a rope. She was dead with both hands down naturally and her eyes rolled back. Her clothes were redder than her overhanging tongue and her facial expression was horrible.

Ji Jing’s hair was so long that it reached to her knees. Dong Ci thought that Ji Jing could use her long hair as a tool to hang herself instead of the rope. Although Ji Jing had killed herself, Dong Ci had a lingering fear.

When a woman liked a man, she would miss him terribly and couldn’t restrain the impulse to see him. When she was dating with him, she couldn’t restrain the impulse to have a deeper exchange of body and soul with him. So, if you followed her out several times, you could easily find out who her lover was. Ji Jing’s lover was a thin and withered man who ran a dyehouse in the town. He had deep-set brown eyes and long eyelashes. Ji Jing often took some white cloths to the dyehouse to dye. She liked green and purple. These two colors were not suitable for most people, but Ji Jing looked beautiful in green or purple. If Ji Jing was not in Nima Mansion, she must be in the dyehouse or be on the way to the dyehouse. Her maid, Yan, was well disposed towards Dong Ci, so she told Dong Ci everything about Ji Jing.

‘You can keep nothing a secret from your maid,’ Dong Ci thought.

Ji Jing and her lover went into a room on the ground floor of an inn. Outside the window the weeds ran riot. Dong Ci squatted in the weeds with two leafy, big branches in her hands and a hat made with twigs on her head. ‘I look like a tree,’ she thought.

The sun was high in the sky, blazing down on her. Fortunately, the big branches and the hat shaded her from the sun. Dong Ci was holding up the branches with a triumphant smile, like a proud lizard.

She looked through a leak in the window and saw clearly what happened in the room. ‘Maybe I can use him to deal with Ji Jing,’ she thought to herself.

Dong Ci waited a long time outside. In the room, Ji Jing and her lover were making love in different postures. Dong Ci got tired of their uncreative love-making postures. She had got up early this morning in order to follow Ji Jing. At noon, she had gone to Autumn Wind Teahouse and bought some snacks. Dong Ci had a bad habit of sleeping after meals. Looking at the man moving up and down on Ji Jing, Dong Ci felt sleepy, as her eyelids drooped. She leaned against the wall and gradually drifted into a light sleep.

After a short nap, she felt refreshed. The sound of gasps and moans was wafted to her ears from the room.

“Have you finished? I’m tired.” Ji Jing’s moans died away because she was exhausted.

The man said, “What’s the hurry? The sun hasn’t set yet.”

Things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme, no matter how much pleasure they have brought you. For example, when you were hungry, eating could make you happy; however, you might die from overeating. When you were thirsty, drinking water could refresh you; however, consuming too much water would put you at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known as water intoxication. When you were sleepy, sleeping was a good way to regain your energy; however, too much sleep would make you feel dizzy and cause a lot of health problems. For another example, when you had sex with your lover, endlessly thrusting would scrape the skin off your private parts.

That man said, “I will show you how strong I am.”

It was finally over. The man grunted in relief as his body trembled, feeling the convulsions of the orgasm suck him dry. He lay down on the bed, exhausted. Outside the window, Dong Ci also felt tired from crouching in the weeds for such a long time.

Ji Jing got dressed and left in a hurry. Dong Ci pushed the door open and went in the room. The man looked at Dong Ci and asked, “Who are you?”

Dong Ci strewed the bed with banknotes and said, “Come to Nima Mansion this afternoon and tell Nima everything. Only in this way can you live on. If you refuse to do that, I will personally tell Nima what happened between you and Ji Jing. By then you will lose the money and even your life.”

“Who the hell are you?” The man sprawled on the bed without trousers.

“It doesn’t matter who I am. I’ll wait for you in Nima Mansion. You’d better think carefully before you make a decision.” Dong Ci cast a glance at Ji Jing’s lover’s magnificent, erect penis.

‘Men cannot be judged by their looks,’ she thought.

At dusk, the man went to Nima Mansion and told Nima the whole story between him and Ji Jing. Nima’s colour came and went as he listened. Finally, he turned livid with rage as he knew that Ji Jing’s stillborn baby was not his. That shameless woman cuckolded him!

Ji Jing knew that she wouldn’t outlive this night. So she hung herself at the door of Dong Ci’s bedroom.