Chapter 14: Jinling

When I went out, I brought a box of cosmetics my aunt had left with me. My aunt had come a few times after I sold the first cart of monkey head mushrooms and stayed with me for a few days. When she left, she didn't take her cosmetics. When I called to tell her, my aunt joked that if I liked any girl or wife, I should give it to them as a gift. I didn't expect it to really come in handy now.

Walking out along a dirt road for over a mile, climbing over a small hill, turning around a tea garden, and crossing a rickety small wooden bridge, I saw the gentle light from Jinling's window, hidden by green trees.

Before I could knock, Jinling opened the door as if she knew I was coming and welcomed me into the house.

The room was decorated very elegantly, looking very comfortable. On a small table were white wine cups, two pairs of chopsticks, and a bottle of red-looking grain-burned liquor.

Jinling invited me to sit down, went into the kitchen, and brought out a few dishes, one of which was a basin of wild rabbit meat with a rich fragrance. I suddenly remembered that she wanted me to come help kill the rabbit, so I hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, who killed the rabbit?"

Jinling pursed her lips and smiled: "If I waited for you to come, I don't know when we'd be able to eat. I killed it myself."

I said: "Aren't you afraid of killing?"

Jinling blushed and said: "Just eat. This is the first time in my life I've killed anything."

I smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, you have guts."

Jinling didn't answer me, pointed to the bottle of wine, and said: "Good wine, drink a few more cups."

I said: "You should eat too."

Jinling thought for a moment, sat down opposite me, took a small wine cup, poured herself a cup, and said: "I'll keep you company."

As the wine went down my throat, a heat wave rushed to my lower abdomen and quickly returned to my forehead. A layer of fine sweat broke out on my forehead.

After three cups, I examined the amber-colored wine and asked her: "Sister-in-law, what kind of wine is this? It has a medicinal smell."

Jinling picked up a chopstick of rabbit meat for me and said softly with her head lowered: "Tiger penis."

I was shocked: "Sister-in-law, where did you get tiger penis wine?"

"There is an old hunter in my mother's family. His grandfather killed a tiger that year, and this wine was soaked that year. It's been nearly a hundred years."

I said with a cheeky smile: "Sister-in-law, Brother Li is definitely vigorous; he doesn't need this wine to strengthen his yang."

As soon as the words left my mouth, I felt uneasy and hurriedly lowered my head, pretending to be very serious and eating the meat in my bowl fiercely.

Jinling sighed slightly and said: "I am a person who has been through it; mountain people don't have many rules. To tell the truth, it's your Brother Li. If he were really like what you said, would my mother still need to beg people for three years? She was almost about to kneel and kowtow. Four years, it's still barren here." She touched her belly and poured me another cup.

I didn't dare look at her. I took the cosmetics from my body and handed them to her: "This is for you."

Jinling took it, her face full of joy. Mountain women don't wear makeup and don't have cosmetics. The water in the mountains is good, and it can soak women to be more watery than any woman packaged by cosmetics.

Drinking cup after cup, I felt a bit dizzy. Actually, I had practiced a good tolerance for alcohol, and drinking two or three taels wasn't a big problem.

Jinling opposite me was as beautiful as a peach blossom, constantly pouring wine and picking vegetables for me.

"Secretary Chen has a lover, right?" Jinling asked very casually.

I shook my head and said: "No one wants me, sister-in-law."

"You don't like them, right?" Jinling looked at me with disbelief and said.

"No," I cried out, my tongue slurring.

"Then what kind of person do you want to find? Sister-in-law will help you keep an eye out," Jinling said with a smile.

I looked at her. Her high, firm breasts were trembling, calling to be released. Her peach-blossom-like face was full of smiles, and her waist, only a handful, was like a swaying willow branch, full of charm.

I stuttered: "If I want to find... I'll find one... find one like sister-in-law."

Jinling giggled and said: "What's good about sister-in-law?"

My eyes were fixed on her rising and falling breasts, and I said: "It's just good!"

Jinling clearly knew that my gaze was fixed on her chest. She seemed to puff it out unintentionally, and instantly, a surging sea appeared before my eyes.

I chuckled and said: "I just like someone like sister-in-law. If I marry, I must marry a woman like sister-in-law." I was incoherent. I knew I was drunk. I stood up and said: "I'm going back, thank you, sister-in-law."

"You're drunk, rest for a while before going back," Jinling said, supporting me: "With all the bridges and turns on this road, how can you walk back?"

I waved my hand and said: "It's fine, I'm not drunk. Sister-in-law, don't worry."

Jinling frowned and said: "Can I not worry? Why don't you lie on sister-in-law's bed and wait until you're sober before going back."

I was drunk and dazed, staring into her eyes, and said word by word: "Sister-in-law, I won't lie down. That's Brother Li's place."

Jinling pouted and said: "I say whose it is, it's whose." After saying that, she ignored my weak resistance, supported me, and moved step by step into the inner room.

Leaning against her warm, soft body and smelling the fragrance of her hair, I couldn't help but let my imagination run wild. I looked sideways and felt myself standing tall.

Jinling clearly felt the change in my body. She breathed out like an orchid and whispered in my ear: "Sleep peacefully, there is no one else here, only you and me." ===== CHAPTER 15 =====