PTGWD Chapter 24: Longing

After breakfast, Lu Jianchuan escorted Fang Xingzhou to the door.
The two of them hugged intimately and said goodbye, Fang Xingzhou did not mention the matter of the medical examination, but only urged him not to do strenuous exercise at home, not to eat takeout at noon, and to eat by himself if he was hungry in the evening.
It was as if they were back to their normal routines, the only difference being that there was an extra little life in their stomachs.
Lu Jianchuan smiling, watching his lover’s vehicle leave the garage, until the car’s taillights disappeared around the corner, the fake smile on his face slowly disappeared, covering his stomach and re-entered the kitchen.
He stopped in front of the stove, staring grimly at the clean white tile.
The smell of blood ……
The insidious, delicious, irresistible smell of blood ……
The sense of smell continues to be stimulated, along with the things in the stomach are also hyperactive. At breakfast, he had clearly eaten a large bowl of beef noodles, but now, his stomach was in spasms, unprecedented hunger tearing at his sanity.
So hungry.
Want to eat ……
Want ……
He inhaled deeply, capturing the residual sweetness into his lungs, his fingers trembled gently, and he couldn’t help but stick out the tip of his tongue and lick over his cold lower lip.
The brain stopped thinking and only the image when Fang Xingzhou showed him the scar remained. The long wound was perfectly stitched together by the surgical thread, but still slowly seeping out blood, even when he bent over, the viscous and beautiful blood would drip down from the wound and fill up the showy navel.
Saliva was completely out of control, he closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down, but it didn’t work well.
He even remembered some bits and pieces from long, long ago.
When he was ignorantly raised by Little Fang Xingzhou in the bed, he always liked to quietly climb out of the fish tank after the “master” was asleep, wriggling to Little Fang Xingzhou’s body, licking his skin, enjoying his body temperature, and then excitedly bit through his veins, frantically extracting the delicious red liquid, and then carefully repairing the wounds after a full stomach, and then returning to the inside of the tank unnoticed. Returning silently to the inside of the tank, he continued to pretend he was an obedient pet jellyfish.
At that time, he didn’t know what the loss of blood would bring to humans.
Soon, Fang Xingzhou began to lose weight and become weak, and quickly progressed to the point where he couldn’t get up. That was the first time in Lu Jianchuan’s long life that he had tasted fear, and the first time he had known that humans were more tender than imagined, so tender that the mere loss of some blood could lead them to death.
This deep fear was engraved in his consciousness until now, firmly suppressing his thirst for Fang Xingzhou’s blood.
For twenty years, there had been no more mistakes.
But now, the embryo in his stomach was breaking the balance little by little, attempting to influence the mother with its insane hunger, giving it the chance to take another taste of Fang Xingzhou’s blood.
Lu Jianchuan’s nails sunk into his palms as he slowly exhaled, turned around and left the kitchen, bringing disinfectant and rags from the tool room.
He used a large amount of disinfectant water to rinse the places where the blood stayed and then wiped them repeatedly, working diligently all morning to make sure that no blood cells remained in the kitchen.
At twelve o’clock, when Fang Xingzhou called back, he took his cell phone and stood in the polished and new kitchen room, inhaling deeply once again, with only the unpleasant smell of disinfectant water left between his nostrils.
Even if the world’s most apex forensic team was here, they would never be able to detect any blood residue – he thought proudly.
Lu Jianchuan hooked up the corners of his mouth, his face slightly white from hunger, but his voice was still smooth and unmistakable when he picked up the phone, and he said gently, “The morning surgery is over?”
“It’s over,” Fang Xingzhou said on the other end, “Did you have lunch?”
Hearing the word eat, Lu Jianchuan’s stomach spasmed painfully once again.
He suppressed his appetite and tried to say as naturally as possible, “Just about to eat, so hungry, Zhouzhou …… so want to eat with you.”
Fang Xingzhou gave a laugh over the phone.
“I will come back early in the evening to accompany you.” He said, “Don’t eat takeout, there are enough ingredients in the refrigerator.”
Lu Jianchuan: “OK.”
The two chatted for a few moments, Fang Xingzhou’s voice likewise couldn’t be heard in any unusual way, as if he had already completely forgotten about the forged report from the Alien Research Institute, and was filled with nothing but his pregnant boyfriend at home.
Lu Jichuan smile widened, but after hanging up the phone, the corners of his mouth slowly solidified, his brows furrowed, and he reached out to hold down his stomach.
…… Gotta find something to eat.
He lifted the pot, inside was the beef stew that Fang Xingzhou had left for him in the morning, and there were three large chunks, about two pounds.
He couldn’t care about cutting it, even disliking the human’s way of eating as too slow, he directly threw out his tentacles from behind him and instantly devoured the beef like a meat grinder.
With the food cushion, not only did the hunger not ease, but it became even more intense.
He pulled open the refrigerator again, which was stuffed with all kinds of fresh ingredients by Fang Xingzhou, pancetta, frozen chicken, frozen dumplings, milk, green vegetables, tofu, tomatoes, strawberries ……
The tentacles couldn’t wait to climb into the refrigerator, starting from the freezer, layer by layer, all the ingredients were rolled into the mouthpiece, regardless of whether they were raw or cooked, and they didn’t even bother to tear open the packaging, and in the blink of an eye they emptied the entire freezer.
Then came the freezer.
Pulling open the door below, Lu Jianchuan frowned straight away as he looked at the frozen bonkers meat ingredients.
But he didn’t have the right to pick and choose, even if these meats had been frozen into bricks, at least the blood foam needed for the embryo was still retained inside, which was better than nothing.
The freezer emptied a bit slower, it took five minutes before and after. The tentacle ate the last piece of frozen dumpling and rolled into a ball in dissatisfaction, the sharp teeth in its mouthparts clicking and clacking, telling the main body with its actions – these things are hard to eat.
Not only were they hard to eat, also freezing.
Luckily, after digesting the entire food in the double-door refrigerator, the hunger finally eased.
Lu Jianchuan put the empty refrigerator door back on, went to the bathroom to take a hot bath to dispel the chill, and then tiredly collapsed onto the bed and drifted off to sleep, giving the restless thing in his stomach a good dose of coercion and warning it to be quiet for at least even an hour.
After the warning, he pulled the covers over him, sniffing the lingering scent of his lover, and quickly drifted off to sleep.
…… Unfortunately.
Before he could finish a dream, he rolled over and sat up from the bed, glancing at the time, just twenty minutes had passed.
So hungry …… His pupils unconsciously turned back to scarlet red.
Zhouzhou’s blood unexpectedly stimulated the embryo so much ……
Lu Jianchuan’s complexion sank, and after sitting on the bed for a moment, he took out his cell phone and made a call to his nominal father.
Lu’s father quickly picked up the phone, some surprise in his voice, cautiously asked, “Xiao Chuan, anything I can help you?”
“Father, good afternoon,” Lu Jianchuan said extremely politely
“Can I go to your farm in the western suburbs?”

Lu’s father had built a sizable farm in the western suburbs in his early years, feeding chickens, ducks, pigs and other poultry, and then providing them free of charge to Hope Primary Schools in the province as a charity program.
Lu Jianchuan would rarely call him, and on the rare occasion that he did, he was actually asking about the farm?
He froze, his heart jumped slightly and said, “Of course, what are you doing over there?”
Lu Jianchuan would not deliberately hide his non-human identity in front of Lu Father, and laughed softly, “I’ve been extremely hungry every day since I got pregnant, especially today, if I don’t ingest some more fresh blood and meat, I’m going to be unable to control myself.”
Father Lu: “……”
When he spoke again, his voice shook slightly, “Got it, I’ll call the person in charge of the farm. Will Xiao Zhou accompany you?”
Lu Jianchuan pinned his cell phone between his shoulder and ear, picked a long trench coat from the closet, and said, “He’s gone to work. Don’t worry, even if he’s not there, I’ll still have my measure. Can’t rob the students of all their lunches tomorrow, can we?”
Lu’s father exhaled slowly and said, “Good. Feel free to eat as much as you want, and I’ll make up for any shortfall by purchasing from the market.”
Lu Jianchuan thanked him, hung up the phone, changed into clothes for going out, picked a low-profile business car from the garage, and drove towards the suburbs with the wind in his face.
The one-hour journey only took forty minutes to drive, and he was so hungry that his face was so distorted that he was almost on the verge of developing an appetite for the pedestrians on the side of the road, and when he entered the farm, he coldly spoke to the person in charge, “Don’t let anyone in.” Then striding down to the pig pens.
The white, fat pigs had just finished today’s feeding and were comfortably huddled together for a nap, occasionally emitting lazy grunts from their noses, oblivious to what they were going to face next.
Lu Mee Chuan took off his hat and bent gentlemanly toward Mr. Pigs in apology.
“Good afternoon, friends.” He said, “I’ll speed up the action so you can end it without any pain.”
The words landed.
The tentacles had long been poised and eager to rush at the creatures in the pen ……
……
Five minutes later.
Lu Jianchuan opened the door of the pig pen.
The person in charge was waiting at the door with a smile on his face, not wanting to let go of the opportunity to get close to the boss’s son, he said enthusiastically, “You finished your inspection so quickly? How do you feel? This farm of ours is the largest farm in the entire district, and after satisfying the free lunch supply of the Hope School, it will also be sold to the market, with this year’s sales ……”
Lu Jianchuan interrupted him and said gently and courteously, “Well, I think the environment here is great, and the ingredients they are fresh and delicious, thank you.”
The person in charge was delighted in his heart and turned to point to the pig pens he had just inspected, “Our pig pens are the city’s demonstration pig pens, and they are considered ……”
The words came to an abrupt end.
His pupils contracted violently, staring unbelievingly at the empty room without a single pig, rubbing his eyes vigorously, his memory creating confusion.
Where were the pigs?
Where were all the pigs that were to be farrowed tomorrow?
But…..there…..
He turned his head to Lu See Chuan in shock, wanting to ask him if he had seen the pigs when he entered the door just now, but the handsome man who had been walking beside him just now had disappeared at some point, not even leaving his back behind.
A chill rose from the soles of his feet, and the person in charge winced, subconsciously hugging his arms tightly.
……
A large amount of fresh blood and meat finally fed the insatiable things in his stomach, but this kind of satiety was vapid, as if a starving person drank two tons of mineral water at once, briefly washing away the gastric juices and the desire to eat.
Lu Jianchuan went home with a piggy smell, his OCD flared up, so he took his third shower of the day and sprayed himself with perfume. Exhausted, he lay on the sofa for a while, then turned onto his side and curled up, clutching his stomach.
It’s half past six ……
Zhouzhouis not yet back ……
Do you have to go to this shift, the hospital is always too busy ……
He emptied his eyes and stretched out two tentacles to curl around himself, mind filled with the full meal his wife had made for New Year’s Eve, and counted the turns of the seconds one by one with difficulty.
Until a vehicle drove into the parking garage, the familiar sound of footsteps from far and near, stopped in front of the house.
Lu Jianchuan, who pretended to be a sculpture, quickly resurrected over, quickly rolled over from the sofa, rushed to the entrance door in big strides, and forcefully embraced Fang Xingzhou into his arms the moment he opened the door.
Then, the miracle happened.
…… His bottomless pit like haunted stomach quieted down without warning, as if he had just finished a satisfying full meal.
Lu Jianchuan was stunned in place.
Fang Xingzhou two hands carrying four big bags of newly purchased ingredients, rubbing the side of his lover’s face, the whole day’s unsettled heart finally fell into place, smiled and said, “What did you do at home today?”
Lu Jianchuan took the heavy weight in Fang Xingzhou’s hands, but still couldn’t let go and continued to maintain the hug, hooking up the corners of his mouth, vaguely seeming to understand something.
—The embryo inside him was still too small, too small to understand the difference between desires, too small to distinguish between hunger and longing.
It may be really hungry, and really crave Fang Xingzhou’s blood like Lu Jinchuan did decades ago, but …… more because it was frightened by Zhouzhou this morning, and worried about its other “father” all day long.
Lu Jianchuan inhaled hard, sucking the faint disinfectant scent of his lover into his lungs, and smiled gently, “I had a very pleasant day at home, it’s …… just that I miss you so much, baby, that the thought of a second is unbearable.”