Secretly, Secretly; But Unable to Hide it (偷偷藏不住) by Zhu Yi (竹已)~ Chapter 13

At last the call is not hung. Duan Jia Xu doesn’t say anything more. His eyes rake on every goods shelves.

After a while, Sang Yan suddenly says again: “Bro.”

Duan Jia Xu is too lazy to mind him.

There’s a noise of a chair being pushed. Then Sang Yan says seriously: “If not I accompany you to buy it together?”

“….”

“Okay.” Sang Yan says depressingly. “I accompany you together to buy it, okay?”

—

He never have to that part of the supermarket.

Moreover it’s the first time he comes to this supermarket. He looks for it for a while and finally he finds it beside the detergent shelf. The time he wants to go there, he suddenly notices several women are standing there. There’s also a saleswoman promoting product for them.

He stops moving.

But the time he is thinking of Sang Zhi, who is waiting for him. He doesn’t have any time or way to consider too much. He just toughens himself and goes to the most left shelf and takes a pink box one.

After a while, Sang Yan also finds him and walks to his side.

That time Duan Jia Xu also picks up a blue box and passes to him. “If not this one?”

Sang Yan looks it. “What does this “daily” means, is it mean for afternoon?”

“…..”

“Isn’t it night now?” Sang Yan is confused and looks at the other direction. “If not just take the black one, it is written for the evening.”

Duan Jia Xu looks at it and says flatly: “400mm, it means 40 cm long?”

“……”

“Isn’t it too long?”

Sang Yan looks at it and frowns. “What does “dry net part” mean?”

Duan Jia Xu: “I don’t know.”

“It is also written “cotton soft surface layer–“

The several women start to leave. The sales assistant approaches them.

“Do you come here to buy it for your girlfriend?”

Both of them look at her.

This time Sang Yan should be the one that answers it. After all, Sang Yan is the most direct and closest one with him. Duan Jia Xu doesn’t take initiative to talk.

“No.” Sang Yan doesn’t follow the usual rule. He looks at Duan JIa Xu and points at him. “Don’t be deceive by his look.”

He continues calmly: “Actually he is a woman.”

“……”

Duan Jia Xu pauses.

The sales assistant’s expression turns stiff. “Ah?”

Sang Yan: “Don’t act like this. She just looks a bit rough but she is a woman.”

After a while, Duan Jia Xu raises up his head and looks him with affectionate gaze. Then he smiles. “Darling?”

In a flash, Sang Yan has a goosebump. “……….”

“Why should you explain that much.” Duan Jia Xu laughs and pinches his cheek. “You don’t need to say it to me, but I understand that in your heart, I’m the most beautiful one.”

“……”

—

The sales assistant finds this unusual but she starts to recommend stuff for them. Sang Yan forces himself to act calm. Then he just chooses two boxes for daily and night use.

The time they leave the supermarket. Sang Yan laughs coldly: “you are too disgusting.”

Duan Jia Xu raises his eyebrows. “Really?”

Sang Yan: “I almost throw up.”

“Didn’t you say that I’m a woman?” Duan Jia Xu laughs softly like a foxy seductive man. He says slowly: “I think If I were a woman, I also will be very beautiful right?”

“…….”

Then both of them go to the lingerie area to buy an underwear for Sang Zhi. Sang Yan chooses a box and goes to pay up.

Duan Jia Xu reminds him. “We should buy clothes too for her.”

Sang Yan just responds: “It even ruins her clothes?”

Duan Jia Xu just says “Em.”

Sang Yan nods and asks nothing else.

They both to the clothing area for women then Sang Yan looks around. He notices clothes that should be Sang Zhi’s size. Before he takes it, Duan Jia Xu suddenly points at a dress. “Just buy this one.”

Sang Yan looks at it. The size is okay.

The color is almost the same as what Sang Zhi wears today.

Sang Yan doesn’t ask for the reason, he doesn’t care about that. He just takes it and buys it.

Then two of them go to the restroom.

Sang Yan then calls a woman, who is about to get inside the restroom. “Hello, could you bring this for a little woman called Sang Zhi?”

The woman is startled. “Okay.”

Sang Yan: “Thank you.”

The time the woman is about to get in, Duan Jia Xu adds: “Oh right, she is a bit young, maybe she doesn’t understand about this.”

“Ah?”

Duan Jia Xu strokes his nape and says. “Could you please teach her for a while about this? She is shy, she might have any courage to ask.”

The woman understands and smiles. “No problem.”

—-

Sang Zhi has waited for a while in the restroom.

The restroom is designed very well, there are few chairs to sit down. But she doesn’t dare to sit down, she is afraid to ruin the chair.

She is embarrassed to call Duan Jia Xu to ask him to speed up, so she can only wait for him while standing up.

After ten minutes.

A skinny tall unfamiliar woman comes inside the room. She looks around and then notices Sang Zhi. She approaches her: “Xiao Mei Mei, are you Sang Zhi?”

Sang Zhi nods quickly.

“Your Ge Ge asked me to give these to you.” That woman passes the plastic to her. Then she says again. “Do you know how to use it?”

Sang Zhi takes the plastic and nods. “I know it, thank you Jie Jie.”

Looking at her red eyes, that woman consoles her: “It’s okay, everyone will experience this. Don’t cry. Change your clothes.”

Sang Zhi thanks her once again then goes inside the cubicle with the plastic. She looks everything is there and feels so relieved.

She cleans herself up seriously. Sang Zhi is clumsy when she uses a feminine napkin. But she is quick to finish. She doesn’t know how to face Duan Jia Xu. She washes her hands for a while and leaves the restroom.

She is surprised to see Sang Yan outside.

Sang Yan waves at her when he notices her.

Sang Zhi just comes toward him silently.

Looking at her red eyes, Sang Yan bends his waist and asks: “Xiao Gui, why are you crying?”

Sang Zhi’s tears start to fall even faster. “I’m embarrassed.”

Sang Yan: “What makes you embarrassed?”

“I’m embarrassed.” Sang Zhi wipes her tears with her hands. “Hu hu hu…. you gave me a transparent plastic…… everyone will see it…..”

“This plastic is from the cashier.” Sang Yan finds this is hilarious. “Why could you blame me, you should go and blame the cashier.”

“I don’t care….. huhuhu…..” Sang Zhi chokes and says stubbornly: “You must find not-transparent one….”

“Where should I find it?” Sang Yan is impatient. He stands straight and extends his hand to her. “Okay, I’ll bring it for you. Then I’ll be the one that be embarrassed. Okay.”

Sang Zhi looks at it and seems to agree with his suggestion. She stops crying and passes it to him.

Sang Yan holds it and holds one of her hand. He mocks her. “You said that you are not a little kid. But you always cry.”

Sang Zhi says nothing and just rubs her wet hand on his t-shirt.

It’s a rare chance for Sang Yan not to be angry. He just says: Don’t you think it’s dirty.”

Sang Zhi says: “I don’t rub my snot there.”

Sang Yan: “You dare to do it?”

Sang Zhi immediately clutches his lower hem of shirt. Then she blows her nose.

Sang Yan: “……..”

Those two refuse to budge for a moment.

Sang Yan is the first to lose at that battle. He controls his emotion and takes her to the restroom on the third floor to let her wash her face first.

The time all of them arrive at the restaurant, it’s almost seven o’clock.

Sang Zhi follows behind Sang Yan. She notices that Duan Jia Xu sits down beside Qian Fei on the table for four. Duan Jia Xu sits down near the wall.

He doesn’t sit straight, he always looks like he is lazy. His action makes him look like a idle young master.

But it’s attractive.

Sang Zhi doesn’t know why at last Sang Yan was in front of the restroom. She guesses that Duan Jia Xu should give Sang Yan a call. But she doesn’t feel awkward to know that he is not the one that bought everything for her.

Sang Zhi sits down beside Sang Yan.

Qian Fei says confusingly: “where did you guys go? I’m almost fulll.”

Sang Zhi opens up her mouth but she doesn’t know how to explain it.

Sang Yan puts the plastic on the chair beside him and looks at Sang Zhi. He makes a lie: “This Xiao Gui ran to play the doll machine. She didn’t want to come here.”

Qian Fei doesn’t think too much about, he even doesn’t notice that she changes her clothes. He just says curiously: “Then you didn’t get any doll?”

“That’s right.” Sang Yan says gradually. “It makes her cry.”

“Ah.” Qian Fei looks at Sang Zhi and consoles her. “Xiao Mei Mei, it’s okay. Later on after dinner, Ge Ge will help you to get one.”

Sang Zhi pretends to not listen, just in time her gaze meets Duan Jia Xu, who is sitting on the opposite of her.

She suddenly just looks at another direction.

Qian Fei doesn’t continue to talk about this matter, he points at the menu. “Do we need to order more?”

“Okay.” Sang Yan passes Sang Zhi the menu. “Order what you want to eat.”

Qian Fei eats and chews his food, he asks: “Sang Yan, will you drink today? Let’s order a pitch of beer. It’s too boring if I drink alone.”

Sang Yan is blunt: “no, later on I need to drive.”

Qian Fei rolls his eyes. “Dang! You don’t drink, Duan Jia Xu also doesn’t drink. How could you guys eat barbecue without drink any beer?”

Sang Yan: “Don’t you see that now?”

Sang Zhi raises her head to look at Duan Jia Xu again, he is pouring a warm water into a glass. When he raises his head again, Sang Zhi is quick to turns away.

Duan Jia Xu places the glass of water in front of her.

Sang Zhi says: “Thank you.”

Sang Zhi orders the food and passes back the menu to Sang Yan.

Sang Yan looks at her and the time he looks at the order lists. He asks her: “you want these?”

Sang Zhi: “Right.”

“You should be responsible for your decision.” Sang Yan says. “Don’t say that I don’t mention it to you.”

Sang Zhi is unhappy but she is too embarrassed to fight with him in the public. She just mumbles in low voice. “It’s okay to eat a bit, I just order a stick.”

Sang Yan is impatient. “Don’t think that you just order a bit, I have no effort to take care of you, Xiao Hai.”

Qian Fei starts to fin fault with Sang Yan: “Sang Yan, how could you not let your Mei to eat a bit? It’s okay, Xiao Mei Mei, just order it. Ge Ge will treat you.”

“Shut up.” Sang Yan is unhappy too: “She is allergic to beef and sheep meat.”

“Ao…” Qian Fei immediately changes his attitude. “Then Xiao Mei Mie, you should order other food. It’s not good to be sick.”

It’s just a slight allergic reaction, it’s okay if she just eats a bit.

But Sang Zhi has no power to decide, she can only submit to these men. She drinks her glass of water and listens to three other men’s conversation with disinterest.

After a while.

Sang Zhi cannot hold it anymore, she pokes on Sang Yan’s arm. “Ge Ge.”

Sang Yan looks at her: “What?”

“I’m so hungry.”

This restaurant is too slow in serving their food.

Sang Yan looks at the table and places a plate of beef rice noodles in front of her. “Just eat this first to stuff your belly.”

Sang Zhi: “Oh”

Then she just picks up her chopsticks.

The time she wants to take it to her bowl, she suddenly notices there’re several slices of beef. She feels like she just discovers a treasure. Her first reaction is to look at Sang Yan then Duan Jia Xu and Qian Fei.

These three men don’t look at her.

Just like a thief, she takes a slice of beef and hides it under the rice noodle. She plans to eat it all together so no one will notice that she eats the beef. No one will know that she eats a slice of beef tonight.

— it’s a flawless manipulation.

When she is just about to eat the rice noodle.

This time Duan Jia Xu suddenly calls after her.

“Xiao Hai.”

Sang Zhi looks at him. “Ah?”

Duan Jia Xu looks at her and smiles. “Give a bowl for Ge Ge?”

She stops and puts down her chopsticks. “Oh.”

Then she pushes the plate of beef rice noodle in front of her.

The other two men are busy chatting so they don’t mind them.

Duan Jia Xu tears open new chopsticks and flips around the rice noodle. Sang Zhi watches his action.

Then she notices that he doesn’t take any rice noodle from the plate, he takes slices of beef on the plate and puts it on her bowl.

He picks all the beef. Then he places the plate back to her. “Okay.”

“……”

“Eat it.”

“………”