Good Morning, Miss Undercover

31

After switching on all the lights in the house, the living room was brightly lit. I held on to Kang Zixian, talking endlessly and telling him jokes. "There was a 50-year-old woman whose bike tire was flat. She went to a repair shop and shouted to the boss: Boss, my old lady* (referring to her bike) wants an abortion* (Inflate a tire has the same pinyin as abortion). Isn't this funny? *Ha, ha, ha*..."

I laughed but the man sitting opposite still had an expressionless face, obviously difficult to please.

I touched my nose and tried to make more persistent efforts.

"A person went into McDonald's, after eating the chicken wings, she was very happy and said to the Manager. 'Your Kentucky chicken wings are better than McDonald's, even pigs would be disgusted with McDonald's chicken.' Then the Manager with an expressionless face said. 'I can see the pig eating the chicken from McDonald's is very happy.' Isn't that funny? *Ha, ha, ha*..."

My shoulders trembled with laughter on the cold joke that I made up myself but the man opposite me still frowned, sat like a statue looking at me coldly as if I was a monster that had escaped from an experimental laboratory.

How could this man be so hard to please? I felt a little annoyed. "Still not laughing? Okay then, I'll tell you a real story. In high school, I had a female college mate who came from the North. She was brave and courageous, with a particularly loud voice. Once during an emergency, she entered the male toilet by mistake, so she turned around and came out. Just then she met two men dressed up like a sissy walking in. She did not feel shy but also warmly told the two men. "Yo, sisters.....you have the wrong place, this is the male toilet.....*ha, ha, ha*......."

I rolled onto the sofa laughing, Kang Zixian finally expressed interest in this real story, with eyebrows lifted, smiling asked. "Later?"

I lay on the sofa playfully tossing a pillow around. "Later? Later, the two 'sisters' chased madly after her. Like the old saying.....they must fight to become friends. After graduation, she married one of the sissy men and had a son. When the son sees the father, he'd call him 'Mother' and when he sees the mother, he'd call her 'Father', the couple almost went crazy......"

Outside the thunder had stopped and the rain had begun to pour. Unconsciously the man had listened to my fragmented ramblings for nearly an hour. It was late at night, I finally felt sleepy, barefooted, curled up like a lazy cat on the sofa and my eyes slowly closed.

I felt the sofa sagged, he had sat down beside me on the sofa. He looked at me gently, his voice low and intoxicating. "Go back to your room to sleep. You'll catch a cold here."

"Your voice is so nice." With my eyes closed, I praised him. "My mother said my father's voice was also very nice."

Before falling asleep, my drowsy brain was still a bit clear, barely opening my eyes, rubbing my sleepy eyelids, I said. "Well, I'm going back to sleep." I threw him a sidelong glance and blinked at him naughtily. "Really, I'm afraid to be attacked by a wolf in the middle of the night."

Kang Zixian smiled. "You'd better lock the door." He said and looked down at my slippers on the floor. Placing the slippers neatly in front of me, he looked at me with a smile and said. "Although the wolf has the key to the door."

"Help! .....the wolf is here! ! !" Without putting on my slippers, I jumped up and fled barefooted.

With a bang, I shut the bedroom door.

In the middle of the night, I was awakened by the sound of thunder. Not being awake was better than being awake. I shrank into the quilt, revealing only a pair of deer-like frightened eyes. In a panic, I looked around the pitch dark room, my mind unconsciously conjuring up the scenes from the horror movie, The Curse.