Beijing Story (Lan Yu) - Chapter Five
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CHAPTER FIVE
THE SCORCHING summer was here again and it was a slow season for most business. But not the fashion business; it was booming. I had a very good plan, planning to take Lanyu to the Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, combining business with pleasure. And I had even taken care of the people in Immigration; they had promised that they could get Lanyu's passport ready in three days, and there was even no need to go through his school. But to my dismay, he told me he had found a job for the summer holiday, working at a construction site.
It was so hot it was like raining fire. I just wouln't go out, staying in my room all day. The weather report on the radio said it was 38 degrees, but actually it was over forty. Lanyu went to the site every day, from ten in the morning to ten at night. He said they had a deadline to meet, so everybody worked two shifts and he was in the white shift. He was never fair-skinned in the first place. After working like this for several days, the sun blackened him like he was a black man. I couldn't stand it. We had another fight:
"Why do you take this job? You think you will become a construction worker?"
"It is better to learn more on the site."
"How much can you make?"
"One thousand dollars for two months."
"Ha! One thousand dollars!" I scoffed, "The whores in the hotel would ask for at least two thousand." I blurt out without thinking, "Besides, is that work for a human being? Twelve hours a day, and outdoors in this heat." I saw that he didn't say anything and asked again. "Haven't I given you twenty thousand? That's not enough?"
"I plan to give you back that money. You are not thinking that you can play with me for a few months for twenty thousand dollars, are you?" He was very sensitive.
I wanted to belt him. How could he be so na?ve? I was really angry: "You are asking for a beating. You are taking yourself for such a cheapskate."
He was silent for a while. Then he raised his eyes to look at me. "You are still having a lot of whores at the hotel, are you?"
Jesus! He still couldn't put that out of his mind. "It's none of your business." I stared at him fiercely. But the fact was I hadn't seen Cheung Chian for more than a month.
"Then you don't poke your nose into my business."
And that was it. He said he wanted to stay at the site. I said then don't ever come back. So he still came back to 'Temporary Village' everyday. He would arrive home at almost eleven at night, looking extremely tired. That gave me a pleasure that was impossible to define. After bathing, I would start to caress him, to arouse him. Though very tired, he was young nonetheless and he would be aroused quickly. But after doing it for a few moments, he would want to end it quickly. And he would fall fast asleep a few seconds after he ejaculated. Looking at him sleeping so soundly, I couldn't be certain whether my heart was aching for him or if I was holding a grudge against him.
One day when I got home, I found a savings passbook in a pile of Lanyu's books. The passbook recorded the sum of $20,000 I had given him. There was not one single record of withdrawal.
"Good, Lanyu. You think that by not spending my money, I would respect you. That I was not playing with you. I will go on playing the game, and for free. I'm no gentleman." I thought grudgingly. I had never been so mad over a 'hustler' before.
That night, he came home before eleven. He was not looking well. There was some gauze on one of his fingers that had been put on carelessly. He said he had been cut by a piece of glass. I didn't say or do anything until he came out of the bathroom and lay down on the bed. Then I put my hand between his legs and rubbed up and down.
"Han-tung, I'm too tired today, play it tomorrow." He pleaded.
"I've been thinking of you a whole day!" I ignored his plea and went on kissing him.
He lay on his back with his eyes closed and let me feel him. I saw that he was falling asleep and shook him heavily, "Wake up, Hey! Wake up, that's no way to play."
He opened his eyes and I kissed him on the lips. He kissed with me reluctantly. After a while, his penis was hard. I straddled his face, knelt down and forced him to suck me. He did it quite seriously.
He saw that I was holding out on my ejaculation.
"Why don't you do it from behind?" He wanted me to have anal sex with him.
"No. This time I want to see that if you have what it takes to make me shoot." I teased him laughingly.
He jumped up with a flourish, was quite alert, and started to kiss me laughing, exerting a certain lovely feminine charm. A few minutes later, we climaxed almost simultaneously.
I got up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night. I looked at my watch. It was past two. I washed my face, returned to the bed and rolled Lanyu who was sound asleep over and covered him with my whole body. He was awakened.
"What are you doing?" He slurred, a little impatient.
"I couldn't sleep. Play with me for a while."
"Go to sleep. I have to go to work tomorrow."
"It's almost seven. Couldn't sleep much anyway."
"It's still dark." He said as he covered his face with a pillow, pushed me off and slept on his stomach.
I got up, turned on the small TV in the bedroom and played an X-rated movie, turning the volume real high and lit a cigarette. I felt abnormal even myself.
He rolled over, finally awakened by the noise and sat up. He just looked at the TV dazedly without caring about me.
"You are so young, and you're not even as good as an 'old comrade' like me. It's a shame. Are you trying to make me impotent?" I started to tease him again.
He yawned, smiled philosophically with tiredness. He was surprisingly tame and easygoing. I had been joking to make it tough for him, but now I was really aroused. I let him lean on me watching the TV so that I could caress him easily. He was once again aroused. It was easier than arousing a tired woman. We shot our loads in just a few minutes.
We couldn't fall asleep again. He looked outside the window:
"It's so dark."
"It's only three. Go back to sleep. I'll wake you up on time."
"You, really...!" He smiled helplessly, having uttered a 'Beijing cuss' he had just learned.
We chatted and watched TV until after five before we could sleep again. In the morning, I heard in my grogginess that he was washing, making very little noise. I noticed that the door of the bedroom was closed. He must have been afraid of waking me up. Then I heard him close the door lightly on his way out...
Lanyu came back at half past eleven. His face, which had been handsome, was gaunt and dark. He said he had fallen asleep on the bus and didn't wake up until he reached the terminal. He had to take a taxi back. I never realized that he had been going to work taking busses. I hated his stubbornness. He went to bed without even taking a shower. With all that sweat on his body, it was disgusting.
"Get up! Get up! Go take a bath! Don't you behave like a cheap laborer." I said as I reached out to pull him up.
He was not happy, muttering something going into the bathroom groggily. He came out less than five minutes later and dropped down on the bed again. Looking at him, I had this strong urge to get even and to torture. I finally opened my mouth:
"Lanyu, I think this is no fun at all. Why don't we just split. You can go on with your studying, be a decent person, find yourself a girlfriend in the university. Don't mess with me anymore."
He frowned slightly, raised his tired eyes and looked at me with puzzlement, then just sat on the bed.
"Go to Liu Qsing if you need money. He will give it to you." I was trying to hurt him deliberately.
His eyes were showing bewilderment, seemingly lost. He still didn't utter a sound.
"I always play this kind of game less than one year at a time. We've been together long enough. I'm tired of you." I thought it would be amusing if he would bawl or make a scene hysterically like a girl.
But he was just silent.
"I'm going out tonight. You pack your things and leave tomorrow. Don't ever come back. " I was afraid I would laugh out with amusement so I dared not look at him, just pushed open the door and stepped out, then slammed it shut heavily.
It was very hot outside, but I was happy. I finally got even. I drove aimlessly along the newly paved "Liu Wan', and the further I went the heavier I felt.
"HE'S STILL working at the site." Liu Qsing told me. I had asked him to check on Lanyu.
"Fuck! This boy is such a rare breed."
"Forget about him, Han-tung. It would be worth all this only if he was a girl. You are wasting your feelings acting this way." Liu Qsing could figure it out even though I hadn't told him the details.
"Who's having feelings with him? I just feel that I have not fixed the kid." I laughed, trying to sound tongue in cheek.
"It's so easy to fix him. Just give him a car and go to American to have some fun. Or just find somebody to beat him up. See if he's not fixed." Liu Qsing was actually amused and laughed at his own joke.
SINCE LANYU had gone, I had not stayed at 'Temporary Village' and didn't want to stay at the hotel. I had gone home to stay a few days. Mom seemed to have noticed that I looked unhappy. That night, after my old man had gone off to meet his war mates and my younger sister had gone on a date, I was left alone with my mom and I was enjoying her 'cucumber poached in oil', she said to me:
"Tung. How come you want to stay at home these couple of days?"
"Because I missed you and Pop!" Ever since I had grown up, I was always teasing her, trying to make her happy.
"Didn't work out with your girlfriend?"
"No. She won't leave even if I tried to drive her away."
My mother laughed. She knew that her handsome and rich son was never short of women.
"I heard from Liu Qsing that you have a very close girlfriend."
"Yes. And she is holding on to me for dear life."
"Cheung Hai-hung came for you again yesterday. She's a nice girl. Her father got a promotion again this year. And could be in charge of matters concerning foreign trade."
"How come you only have eyes for that girl? I don't want to sell myself for power. There are lots of good girls outside."
"You can make it with anyone you like, just don't stall anymore. You should straighten up yourself. Just like little Liu Qsing. It's so nice to have your own family." With that, Mom went into the kitchen again to tell the maid what to do. I was thinking about her words: 'you can make it with anyone you like'?
If I wanted to make it with Lanyu, it would kill her..
Things between Lanyu and me was becoming more and more absurd, ridiculous. I even thought of a funny word: 'Love'. I wouldn't be so absurd as to falling in love with a boy, would I? I was quite sure that I was a normal man. It was just that I liked to play the game in too many different ways. So be it. Just split like this. Pull up the horse before the edge of the cliff. It was good for both him and me.
But I still couldn't help thinking of him.
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