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Chapter 130

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With this kiss, the small alley seemed to be isolated from the outside world, and an indescribable ambiguous atmosphere arose spontaneously.

Li Heng asked abruptly: "Guess what I'm thinking?"

Xiao Han faced the stone wall covered with moss, with her back to him, and said crisply: "You're thinking that I have today too."

Li Heng nodded happily: "Indeed, for decades I've been guessing you, but you're too sharp, and your mind is too heavy, I always can't guess what you're thinking."

Xiao Han turned her head, full of confusion: "Decades?"

Li Heng said: "If I said I often dream of you, and in the dream we lived together for decades, would you believe it?"

Xiao Han tilted her head and looked at him.

Looking at the person who had made her ponder, miss, and fantasize throughout her entire youth, she slowly tried to approach herself. She suddenly found that she had gained the Zen of silence, and didn't know how to prompt him?

She didn't know how to lead him to her side wholeheartedly, lovingly, and without taking detours.

But no matter what? Even if she knew he was fickle, she still had no courage to forget him.

She had secretly loved him for 6 years.

She had long since made loving him her whole life, during which she had felt self-pity, sadness, jealousy, and had secretly been happy because of some trivial matters.

Even a casual eye contact with him could make her little heart pound for a long time, and she would hide under the quilt and savor it all night, even if she had panda eyes the next day, she wouldn't regret it.

However, there was one point: even if he and Chen Zijin were loving each other to death in front of her, she didn't have excessive jealousy or resentment. Because they were truly in love, and she also longed for that day.

And now, even if Chen Zijin wasn't a thing of the past, she would make her a thing of the past, because she was truly moved and drowned in his hand-holding and kissing.

Even if it was just a kiss on the cheek, for her, this excuse was enough.

Regarding feelings, Xiao Han considered herself never a hypocritical person. The forced indifference in the past was because there was no reason to get close. Now, he was going to spend 4 years of college in Shanghai with her, and everything was developing in a good direction.

She would try her best to convince herself not to care about his past, and she would also use her own way to replace his past.

Seeing this girl with a hazy look looking at him again, Li Heng asked: "What? You don't believe it?"

Xiao Han had a small dimple: "Believe!"

Then she tilted her head slightly and asked: "Was Song Yu in the dream too?"

Li Heng froze a bit, and after a while, he said in a low voice: "I understand, it's really embarrassing to let you accept a me like this."

After a pause, he continued after a moment of silence: "But I still hope there won't be any misunderstandings between us. Being able to get close to your soul isn't something ordinary people can do, but I consider myself not an ordinary person. I'll leave the arduous task of making your soul more beautiful to me."

After saying this, Li Heng looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, leaving space and time for her.

Little did he know, Xiao Han, whose hands were tightly intertwined, had eyes filled with tears.

She pulled her right hand with her left hand, tried her best to control her emotions, and tried to smile:

"Mr. Li is worthy of being a big writer, really good at stirring up emotions. Tell me about your new novel."

"Okay."

For the next period of time, Li Heng kept talking about what he saw and heard in Beijing's Summer Palace, Gansu's Dunhuang, Mogao Caves, Crescent Lake, Dujiangyan, and the Liu Hou Shrine. He spoke very carefully and for a long time.

It took nearly half an hour in total.

Of course, he wasn't stupid, he only said what could be said. As for those that couldn't be said, sigh! Naturally, let them sink to the bottom of his heart.

For example, Chen Zijin, for example, meeting Chen Gaoyuan and Chen Xiaomi, etc.

Xiao Han didn't interrupt him in the middle, just listened quietly, until he finished, before moving to cross this long and narrow alley to buy a bowl of cool, refreshing jelly from the street outside.

The jelly was cold in her palm, sprinkled with sesame seeds and old balsamic vinegar, making her mouth water at a glance.

"Is it just one bowl?" Li Heng asked, taking the jelly.

Xiao Han said crisply: "My stomach is small, I plan to save it for wontons."

Hearing this, Li Heng scooped a spoonful and sent it to her mouth.

After looking at each other for a long time, she opened her mouth slightly, letting the spoon send the jelly into her mouth.

Li Heng said: "Eat it clean."

Xiao Han raised her eyebrows, obediently closed her lips, and licked the residue on the spoon clean.

But the next second, her whole body started to heat up, only to see Li Heng eating the jelly with great interest using the spoon she had eaten with, one spoonful after another, one spoonful after another.

Finally, he said: "This is the most delicious jelly I've ever eaten."

Xiao Han was fascinated, and when she came to her senses, she hurriedly turned her head away, thinking bitterly and happily: How can your skin be so thick? Are you praising the jelly I bought? Or are you praising my saliva?

Saliva...

Once she thought that her saliva had indirectly entered his mouth, Xiao Han almost couldn't stand steady, her right hand supported the mossy stone wall, and she said without looking back:

"Mr. Li, I'm hungry, let's go eat wontons."

"Don't shout, I'm right behind you."

Hearing this, Xiao Han narrowed her eyes and smiled, speeding up her pace.

"By the way, do you want another bite?" Li Heng asked.

"No, you eat it yourself."

Li Heng asked: "Disgusted by my saliva?"

Xiao Han smiled slightly and didn't respond, turning to ask: "When do you plan to set off for the Three Gorges?"

Li Heng said: "I'll leave in three days."

"Are you coming back during summer vacation?"

"Of course, I still have to come back to pick you up and go to Shanghai together."

The conversation stopped here, but both of them could feel that their hearts were closer.

Walking through the alley and walking two streets north, the Shimen station arrived. At this time, it might be because the market had just started and everyone had eaten breakfast, so there were almost no people in the wonton shop, just Yang Yingwen, Zhang Zhiyong, and Li Ran sitting there chatting with the boss's wife.

Next to the boss's wife was a girl she didn't recognize, not big, about 20 years old, who should be the boss's wife's daughter.

Don't ask why.

Because the two of them, whether in appearance or figure, were almost cut from the same mold.

Seeing Li Heng and Xiao Han enter the shop together, the boss's wife stood up and asked: "Eat wontons, or noodles?"

Li Heng shouted familiarly: "Two bowls of wontons, large, one spicy, one medium spicy."

Seeing Li Heng order two bowls of wontons skillfully without asking Xiao Han's opinion, and the girl didn't have any reaction, the boss's wife looked at Xiao Han several times, guessing the relationship between the two in her heart?

Actually, the boss's wife knew Xiao Han.

After all, a person's name is like a tree's shadow, and Xiao Han's beauty, which exceeded the small town, was something she, as a local, naturally heard of.

The boss's wife looked at Xiao Han, then looked at her daughter, without comparing, she had already extinguished the idea of introducing her daughter to Li Heng.

Li Ran was seeing Xiao Han for the first time today.

Having traveled north and south for so many years, this was the second time she had seen such a beautiful woman.

The first time she saw such a beautiful woman was 2 years ago, when she went to admire the scenic spots with Sun Aimin at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an. At that time, the other party came in a small car, full of nobility, and she judged that she was a tourist from out of town. She was amazed at the time.

It was truly a deep memory!

She didn't expect! She really didn't expect to have the honor of witnessing a miracle again in this mountain corner town.

That's right, at this moment, the amazement Xiao Han gave Li Ran was exactly the same as 2 years ago, although the temperament was different, but each had its own merits.

After looking at Xiao Han carefully for a while, Li Ran couldn't help but ask Li Heng:

"Li Heng, your sweetheart?"

Li Ran was really different, damn it, she had never seen anyone so direct.

In this day and age, someone who spoke so unreservedly could be considered a weirdo. Anyway, she was the only one in Li Heng's circle.

Zhang Zhiyong and Yang Yingwen looked at Li Heng together, especially wanting to know how he would answer in front of an outsider?

And Xiao Han looked at her fingernails, as if there were flowers on them, as if she hadn't heard this.

Li Heng didn't hesitate at all, nodded with a smile, and then asked: "How's the wonton flavor here? Are you used to it?"

"It's quite delicious, I just like this spicy kick." Li Ran said about the chili, but her eyes were still fixed on Xiao Han.

Seeing this, Li Heng was speechless: "Eh, you're a well-known reporter anyway, having seen the world, don't stare at people like that."

"What? You're protecting her already."

Li Ran withdrew her gaze, looked at the distant mountains, and said: "The feng shui of your small town is weird, producing big writers, big beauties, and provincial top scorers."

Zhang Zhiyong volunteered: "You praised all three of them, what about me? What about me? What about this old man?"

Li Ran was already quite familiar with him, and there were no taboos in joking: "Yours is also not bad, specifically producing scumbags."

"Grass! Can't you say something nice? You say my dad is a cheap woman, I won't refute it for him, there are whores everywhere, but this old man is still..."

Zhang Zhiyong didn't dare to continue, because the eyes of Li Heng and Yang Yingwen had hidden murderous intent.

When the dim-witted one said "whore," Li Heng secretly paid attention to the boss's wife's movements.

Sure enough, the boss's wife's face was a bit unnatural, a bit awkward.

The wontons were up, and Li Heng picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

When he was halfway through, Yang Yingwen said: "Li Heng, I'm not going to play with you guys anymore."

Li Heng looked up at her, without much reaction.

Yang Yingwen explained: "After the admission letter comes down, I still have to go through the procedures for moving my household registration, and I might have to go back to the village by then."

"Okay, it's fine if you don't go. Xiao Han will have a companion at home, so she won't be bored." Li Heng knew this wasn't Yang Yingwen's real thought.

But since the other party didn't say it clearly, he was too lazy to ask.

After eating the wontons and rushing to pay the bill, Li Heng said to the boss's wife: "Auntie, the time hasn't come yet, please keep it a secret for me."

The two had talked for a long time at the shop entrance, plus his special status, so his words were still quite effective, and the boss's wife agreed readily.

Watching the group walk away, the boss's wife's daughter stared at Li Heng's back and asked: "Is this Li Heng?

That big writer who is rumored to be god-like in the small town?"

The boss's wife sighed: "Who else could it be? If I had known he and the secretary's daughter were dating, Mom wouldn't have called you back just now."

Originally, the boss's wife's daughter was visiting a classmate's house.

As a result, the boss's wife saw the dim-witted one enter the shop and guessed that Li Heng might come later, so she inexplicably called her daughter back secretly out of some unspeakable emotion.

The daughter followed the boss's wife back, actually out of curiosity, without any special ideas:

"Isn't it said that he got together with the Chen family girl, how come he changed to the secretary's daughter in the blink of an eye?"

"That's what's said, but who knows the inside story?" The boss's wife shook her head and told her daughter not to spread it outside.

"I'm not stupid. For such an offensive thing, as long as there are rumors, people can guess it's us." The daughter's logic was very clear.

Leaving the wonton shop, the five people strolled for a while and then separated.

Li Heng, Zhang Zhiyong, and Li Ran were going to the county town.

Xiao Han and Yang Yingwen continued to stroll around the street, while waiting for Xiao Feng to come down from Shiqiaopu. Today was the day they had agreed to meet for the market.

Before parting, Li Heng said to Xiao Han: "I might leave directly from the county town. Wait for me at home, I'll come pick you up at the end of the month."

Saying such cheesy words in front of everyone, Xiao Han was secretly happy, but she couldn't stand it, her face was red, and she didn't say a word, just watching them leave.

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