The Sect Leader's New Daughter Has Her Hands on My Hips novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: The Riverbank

Meiqing said nothing at breakfast, which was louder than anything she could have said.

She buttered a roll with great care and passed the honey to Yuxi.

Then she asked, in a mild voice, whether the paper walls had kept them warm.

Wanning choked on her tea.

By noon the cart had reached a long green bend of the river.

Meiqing declared that she wished to rest in the shade of the willows and not be moved until supper.

At sunset she was asleep on a bed of blankets in the cart, with her herbs beside her and her shawl to her chin.

"She's tired," Yuxi said.

"She's cunning," Wanning said. "She's done that on purpose. Come on."

She took Yuxi's hand and led her down the bank.

The river ran wide and slow and shining beneath a sky going violet.

A flat gravel shore curved out into the water, with willows at its back and nothing at all in front but the dark.

There was no inn, no paper, no sect.

"Look up," Wanning said.

Yuxi looked.

The first stars were coming out, one by one, thick as spilled rice.

"No walls," Wanning said. "Make all the noise you like. Nobody will hear but the frogs."

She untied her sash and let it fall.

She took her time, as she had promised herself she would.

She peeled off the shirt, slowly, and the trousers, and stood in the last of the light with her sturdy brown body glowing.

Yuxi's mouth went dry.

"You're doing it again," Wanning said. "Staring."

"You're beautiful."

"I'm short and I'm scarred."

"You're beautiful."

Wanning walked to the water.

She waded in to her knees, and her thighs, and turned, with the river lapping at her hips.

"Come and wash me, jiejie."

Yuxi undressed.

She laid her clothes on a rock, folded, because she could not stop herself, and Wanning laughed at her.

The water was cool and silken.

She waded to where Wanning stood, and Wanning pulled her in by the waist, and pressed their wet bodies together.

"Slowly," Wanning said. "We've got all night."

"All night."

"Ten years."

Yuxi scooped water in her cupped hands and let it run down Wanning's shoulders.

She followed it with her mouth.

She kissed the droplets from her collarbone, and the swell of her breast, and licked a stream from the nipple.

Wanning arched into her, and her fingers dug into Yuxi's hair.

Yuxi took her time.

She washed Wanning's belly with her palms, and her hips, and the scar, and the strong thighs.

Then she sank down into the water until it lapped her shoulders.

Wanning's thigh slid between her legs.

"Wait," Wanning murmured. "Not here. I want to see you."

She pulled Yuxi out of the water by both hands, laughing and dripping, up the shingle to the grass.

Wanning's plain robe lay spread there already, under a willow, as if she had planned it.

"You did plan it," Yuxi said.

"I plan everything."

"You do not."

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