Chapter 14: I want to be a helpful, good husband

Peng Ci wagged its tail up and down, looking dejected. “Squeak——”

“Sigh, whatever…” An Xingzhou sighed, thinking of Peng Ci’s good-intentioned desire to help him share the burden. It was just that it accidentally did something bad, and after all, it all started with him…

He squatted down, wanting to check if the handle could be tied together and used somewhat, but then he saw Peng Ci look at him determinedly, kick its feet, turn its head, and start running.

“Hey! Peng Ci!” An Xingzhou had only just squatted down and then immediately stood up to chase it. But he was dizzy for a moment, and by the time he regained his bearings, he noticed that Peng Ci had already run far off, shaking its white and chubby butt from side to side.

An Xingzhou subconsciously ran forward a few steps and saw Peng Ci disappear from his sight. Seeing the empty road ahead of him, he was dazed for a few seconds before he turned around and walked towards the place where he had put down his stuff. Then he lowered his head, staring at the stuff he bought for Peng Ci at his feet, and felt a little bewildered.

Peng Ci left?

After tricking him into buying this much stuff, it ran away without a word? Just like how it didn’t even give him a chance and slammed straight onto its chest, calling him ‘Wife’?

An Xingzhou thought that he and Peng Ci didn’t know each other for long and didn’t have much of a relationship. But unexpectedly, he felt a little empty inside after Peng Ci ran away without a single word.

‘What sort of situation is this? It was clearly still calling me “Wife” a moment ago though?’

An Xingzhou felt a little melancholy and kicked a wall corner lightly. He started regretting it, thinking in retrospect, ‘Was I too fierce to him? Peng Ci looks like it was raised spoiled. With me constantly losing my temper, it’s probably just natural for it to want to leave…’

The more An Xingzhou thought, the more unhappy he was. What the heck was up with this jerk of a bunny!

He felt like he was whored out of nowhere. When it was whoring him, it would say anything nice: “Kisses, Wife! I love you”, “Wife is the sweetest”, “I’ll dote on Wife forever”, or whatnot. It was as if sweet talk was worth nothing with how it was pouring buckets and buckets of it. But now that it was done whoring him, it didn’t even say “goodbye” and took off, shaking that big butt.

An Xingzhou wanted to just throw out all the stuff he bought for Peng Ci, leave, and forget about it. But he felt the slightest bit of unwillingness. What if Peng Ci had something come up and didn’t have the chance to tell him? Didn’t demons have some summoning sorcery? Could it be that Peng Ci had just been summoned? After all, demons couldn’t be explained with common logic!

The more he thought, the more An Xingzhou thought this was the case and just leaned against the wall, preparing to wait a while to see if Peng Ci would come back.

He completely didn’t notice that he was actually making excuses for Peng Ci along with a reason for himself to stay and wait for Peng Ci.

An Xingzhou waited around seven or eight minutes and started getting a little impatient. Then he frowned, raised his head, and saw something move in the distant undergrowth that Peng Ci had just disappeared into.

An Xingzhou: “?”

Did Peng Ci come back?

He took several steps forward in a hurry and saw a red, white, and blue plastic bag appear from the undergrowth.

An Xingzhou was dazed for a few seconds, his anticipation dissipating——the bag was probably blown over by the wind.

An Xingzhou wasn’t exactly disappointed; he was just slightly at a loss. He walked back after retracting his gaze.

Who would have thought that a few seconds later, that bag drifted closer and closer in his direction.

An Xingzhou checked the time on his phone, thinking that Peng Ci probably wasn’t coming back, and put his phone back into his pocket, turning his head silently. At that moment, he widened his eyes in shock.

Nearby, a pinkish white little bunny was desperately biting onto a huge red, white, and blue plastic bag and hopping forward. It hopped twice and tripped, hopped twice again and tripped again. It was practically rolling along while crawling to hop forward, the white, fluffy fur on its body becoming a little gray.

Who else would that little bunny be aside from Peng Ci!

An Xingzhou’s heart tightened, and he ran in large strides to hurriedly pick up Peng Ci. He pinched Peng Ci’s cheeks and asked only after he patted its grayed fur gently, “What happened?! Where did you go?!”

“Wi… huff huff… Wife…” Peng Ci lay in An Xingzhou’s embrace, its body quivering. It spoke as it panted. “I… I found the baggie huff…”

An Xingzhou listened as Peng Ci panted and lowered his head to glance at the huge bag that could hold a dozen Peng Cis, feeling his heart soften considerably. He also felt a little heartache and hurriedly smoothed Peng Ci’s back, saying, “Enough, enough. Rest for a while. Where did you find the bag?!”

“Huff huff… The… convenience store…” After Peng Ci finished speaking, it spat out its tongue. “So twired… huff huff…”

“Here, let me see.” An Xingzhou tugged the huge bag into his hand, returning to where he’d just left the stuff, squatted down to place Peng Ci on his knee, and pinched Peng Ci’s soft little cheeks apart.

“Uwahhh…” Peng Ci’s cheeks and mouth were all pinched apart, its speaking unclear. “Whut are yuh dwin…”

“I’m looking at your teeth.” An Xingzhou pulled apart Peng Ci’s little mouth and reached out his fingers to touch Peng Ci’s teeth, asking, “How did you bite onto it and drag it over? Do your teeth hurt?”

“Slurp——“ Peng Ci sucked in its saliva. “Dwesn’t hwurt… slurp——“

“Does it really not hurt? The convenience store is pretty far from here, right?” An Xingzhou still wasn’t at ease and carefully touched its gums. “It won’t fall off, will it, Ci Ci? If it falls off, you’ll have a lisp when you talk in the future…”

“It wun’t!” Peng Ci was forced to open its mouth, its tongue licking its gums and then licking and licking An Xingzhou’s fingers. It licked while it sucked in its saliva. In the end, it finally couldn’t suck it in anymore, and a long string of translucent drool dripped along its open mouth, flowing onto An Xingzhou’s hand that was pinching its face.

An Xingzhou: “…”

An Xingzhou finally retracted his hand. Peng Ci sucked and licked its mouth, swallowing its saliva. It felt An Xingzhou touch it again, but when it turned to head, it noticed that it was An Xingzhou secretly wiping the saliva onto its back.

Peng Ci yelled, “Wife!”

“Yeah.” One couldn’t see the slightest trace of embarrassment on An Xingzhou’s face. He placed the plastic bag into the red, white, and blue plastic bag Peng Ci brought back, holding Peng Ci with one hand and slinging the plastic bag over his shoulder with his other hand. He said to Peng Ci, “In the future, you can’t just run off without saying a word, okay?”

Peng Ci nodded its head obediently, its long ears shaking a few times. “I’m super useful, aren’t I?!”

“Yes, yes.” An Xingzhou said, “But you’re just a little bunny, okay? I was kidding. You staying obedientlyis good enough.”

“But I’m still Wife’s husband…” Peng Ci said, “I want to be a helpful, good husband!”

“Just not making me worry is helping me a lot.” An Xingzhou said as he turned into the convenience store, saying at the checkout counter, “Sorry, grandma 1 . This bag was taken from here, right?”

“Oh, it’s Xiao An. 2 ” The grandma. who was sitting at the checkout counter and eating sunflower seeds, saw An Xingzhou holding Peng Ci and smiled. “Yes, this little one ran inside and slammed the table, startling me. Then it came up with the bag, making gestures. I couldn’t understand, so I just let it take it. So it was looking for a bag for you.”

Peng Ci, lying in An Xingzhou’s embrace, squeaked a few times to express its approval of the grandma.

An Xingzhou rubbed it a few times. “Yes, I’m sorry it scared you. How much is the bag?”

“You don’t need to pay. You don’t need to pay.” The grandma waved her hands and rubbed Peng Ci again. “When this little one came, it spread out its belly and let me rub it already. That was the payment!”

An Xingzhou: “…”

An Xingzhou quietly glanced at Peng Ci, his expression saying, ‘Using your sexual appeal, huh?”

Peng Ci: “…”

“Hmph hmph!” Peng Ci flipped over with a slap and covered its face with its long ears, pretending it didn’t hear anything.

Author’s Note:

My goal is to finish this day within 20 chapters (?)

Footnotes

a form of address for female elders, biological or not. “xiao,” which literally means little, is added in front of people’s names to address them affectionately, kind of like a nickname.