Chapter 190: , One Big King, Three Small Kings

"You're here."

"Mm."

Seeing Li Heng, Chen Siya immediately shook off Fu Yanjie and stood up to pour him a cup of tea.

Fu Yanjie looked longingly at the tea in his hand, and it took a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "I've been here no less than 50 times, and I've never had this treatment."

Aiyo, look at how sour that sounds!

Li Heng took a sip and instantly felt the tea was very sweet: "You can learn from me, sign up for piano lessons."

Fu Yanjie's eyes lit up.

Chen Siya said mercilessly: "Too old, not accepting."

Fu Yanjie deflated and asked Li Heng: "I heard you went on a business trip with Yu Laoshi next door?"

Chen Siya was Yu Shuheng's good friend, and she even had shares in this piano training center, so she instantly became interested: "You went to Changsha with Shuheng? Why didn't I hear her mention it?"

Li Heng asked: "Teacher Fu, who did you hear that from?"

"Hi, just guessing! That day I saw her holding a plane ticket and going to the 26th small building to find you, but you weren't home after knocking for a long time. Later, you both disappeared one after another." Fu Yanjie adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, speaking very refinedly.

Judging that these two should be familiar with Yu Laoshi, Li Heng didn't lie: "Yu Laoshi's best friend is my high school teacher. It can't be considered going together; we just happened to run into each other."

Chen Siya asked: "I heard Teacher Wang is sick and hospitalized. Was the surgery successful?"

Li Heng nodded: "Not bad."

Chatting for a while over a cup of tea, Li Heng started learning piano later.

This learning lasted for two hours. The fake Daoist didn't leave and listened the whole time.

After two hours, Fu Yanjie couldn't help but ask: "Li Heng, did you learn piano before? How did you progress so fast? Even a half-baked person like me feels you're too terrifying."

Li Heng said modestly: "How could that be? It's all because Teacher Chen teaches well."

"Calling me Teacher again, call me Sister." Learning of his relationship with Yu Shuheng, Chen Siya became directly attentive and, for the first time ever, poured two glasses of red wine.

"Eh, thank you, Sister Chen." Li Heng was very giving of face.

"Siya, you're really treating us differently. Pouring tea is one thing, but there's wine, and such good wine. No, my teeth are all sour. I'm envious." Fu Yanjie grinned, very greedy.

"If you want to drink, pour it yourself."

Chen Siya leaned against the piano, glanced at him, and then said to Li Heng: "Your progress is indeed beyond my expectations. Come more often when you have time, let me see where your limit is."

Li Heng joked: "Money is tight recently, have to be careful."

Chen Siya said generously: "It's fine, you can owe it first, pay me back when you have money."

Li Heng said casually: "Aren't you afraid I'll run away?"

Chen Siya swirled the red wine glass in her hand, not panicked at all: "I don't believe a powerful character who can live in the 26th small building of Lushan Village for a monthly rent of 40 yuan can do such a thing."

Grandma's bear!

Both at Fudan University, the other party had indeed figured out his background.

Just as he was muttering to himself, Fu Yanjie stretched his neck and asked: "By the way, how did you manage to snatch the 26th small building from a crowd of big-shot professors?"

Li Heng probed: "Yu Laoshi didn't tell you?"

Both shook their heads in unison.

Seeing this, Li Heng, having figured it out, said half-truthfully: "What ability could I have at my age? Of course, someone helped."

Chen Siya said she would treat him, dragged Li Heng to a high-end restaurant, and ordered a bunch of food, but after eating, she drove him away in the Jeep 212, leaving Fu Yanjie confused in the restaurant.

Sitting in the car, Li Heng looked around and said: "Isn't it too cruel for us to do this?"

Chen Siya laughed: "It's fine, one meal won't make him poor."

Was I talking about the meal?

I clearly feel that I have the potential to be a kept man. Don't let Comrade Fu Yanjie pick up an axe and split me in half later.

Damn it, eating has risks! Eating with women requires even more caution.

It wasn't early when he returned to Fudan University; it was already 5:35 in the afternoon.

Chen Siya asked: "Where are you going? Dormitory? Or Lushan Village?"

Li Heng pondered and said: "Please send me to Lushan Village, I'm going back for a trip."

The road wasn't far, and before long, the car arrived at the entrance of Lushan Village.

Li Heng got out and thanked her: "Thank you, Sister Chen."

Chen Siya nodded and instructed: "You have a talent for piano, come practice more when you have time."

"Eh, alright!"

Watching the car turn around and leave, Li Heng hummed a little tune and walked all the way to the end of the alley.

Eh? The main door is open. Is Seeing Mai Sui here?

Too lazy to even take out his keys, Li Heng took a quick step into the small building.

When he saw the brand-new layout in the room, he was a bit dumbfounded, looking left, looking right, looking horizontally and vertically, thinking he had entered the wrong door?

After confirming at the door that it was number "26," Li Heng entered the room again and shouted:

"Seeing Mai Sui? Comrade Seeing Mai Sui?"

Hearing the sound, Seeing Mai Sui drilled out from the kitchen, still clutching a bunch of celery in her hand.

"Did you do this?" Li Heng pointed to the layout in the room.

Seeing Mai Sui looked around and replied: "You complained that the walls were too old, so I bought some wallpaper to put up, and slightly changed the furnishings and layout in the room, adding some things."

"More than slightly, it's a major surgery. I love it so much! Seeing Mai Sui, I love you to death! How did you know I liked this style?" Li Heng reached out and touched things everywhere, muttering incessantly.

Going out for a trip, he didn't expect such a surprise upon returning, and he was genuinely happy in his heart.

Seeing Mai Sui wanted to open her mouth, but hearing his tiger-wolf words, she smiled softly and stood in place watching him toss things around.

Running a circle upstairs and downstairs, Li Heng asked with satisfaction: "I noticed you added a lot of furniture and ornaments. It must have cost a lot, right? Tell me the number, I'll reimburse you."

Seeing Mai Sui poured him a cup of warm water: "You've been shouting for so long, you must be thirsty, drink some water."

Li Heng was indeed a bit thirsty, took it, and finished it in one gulp: "How much money?"

Seeing Mai Sui tilted her head and asked with a soft smile: "Really want to know?"

Li Heng waved his hand and said boldly: "Speak! This master is not short of money."

Seeing Mai Sui said: "1159 yuan and 4 mao. We are acquaintances, I'll wipe the zero for you, just 1159."

"What??? So much? 1159?" Li Heng almost jumped up.

Seeing Mai Sui blinked and reached out to him.

Li Heng took a step back and waved his hands fiercely: "Just treat what I said just now as a fart, okay? Forget it! Hurry up and forget it!"

This money is too much. The budget for building a new red brick house in my hometown only cost 2000-plus.

Besides, how can you be so stingy, only wiping 4 mao?"

Hearing this, Seeing Mai Sui withdrew her hand and asked with concern: "How is the English teacher's health?"

Li Heng said: "The surgery went quite smoothly, and it's not bad so far."

After a pause, he said: "I bought flowers and fruit for you. The teacher asked me to say thank you."

"Mm."

Seeing Mai Sui gave a soft "Mm" and walked toward the kitchen, saying: "You haven't eaten yet, right? I'll go cook."

Li Heng found it strange and followed her into the kitchen: "You said yourself you only know how to fry eggs? How come you're stir-frying dishes?"

Seeing Mai Sui pointed to the cookbook on the stove: "I went to the bookstore and bought a cookbook, following it."

Li Heng walked over, picked up the cookbook, and flipped through it; it looked like the real deal.

He said: "I've already eaten, make a little less, just make enough for yourself."

Seeing Mai Sui looked at him and continued picking celery: "Manning went to buy beer and will be over later, you can drink a little with us."

Li Heng squatted down to help: "What's the good day today? Cooking and buying beer?"

Seeing Mai Sui told him the reason: "We've been pasting wallpaper for several days and are a bit tired. Today it's just finished, Manning said we should celebrate."

So that was it. Li Heng hurriedly expressed his loyalty like a dog: "It should be! It should be! Today I'll risk my life to accompany the gentleman, I'll drink well with you two."

When cutting the beef, Li Heng found her clumsy, so he asked: "Do you want me to cut it?"

Seeing Mai Sui put down the knife and took the initiative to yield.

Li Heng was speechless, picked up the knife, and said: "Moving so fast, why do I feel like you were just waiting for me to open my mouth to jump into the trap?"

Seeing Mai Sui stood on the side, not speaking, just smiling.

Li Heng taught her: "Cutting beef has its rules. Cutting with the grain makes it look beautiful and not easy to break, but the texture is harder. Cutting against the grain makes the texture soft and tender."

"If you can't tell the grain, cut a piece first and pull it apart to distinguish."

He taught very meticulously and demonstrated it himself.

After a long while, he asked: "Did you learn it?"

"Mm."

Seeing Mai Sui didn't expect there were so many rules to cutting beef, so she leaned two steps closer and watched carefully.

When stir-frying, the girl's clumsiness made his blood pressure soar: "You really haven't touched a kitchen at home, heavens! Whoever marries you in the future will have to eat out every day."

Seeing Mai Sui smiled embarrassedly and lowered her head to continue stir-frying.

After a while, Li Heng's obsessive-compulsive disorder flared up, and he snatched the spatula: "Don't dare let you stir-fry anymore, if you stir-fry any longer, this beef will be too tough to eat."

Seeing Mai Sui was squeezed back two steps, then untied the apron from her body and helped him tie it on.

Smelling her faint womanly scent at close range and looking down at the seductive red lips within reach, Li Heng froze for a moment, then said: "I'll do it myself."

Seeing Mai Sui raised her head, looked at him for two seconds, and really let go of the thin straps, leaving without a sound.

After tying the apron, Li Heng explained while stir-frying: "Pay attention to the heat when stir-frying this thin sliced yellow beef. Stir-fry over high heat, no more than 20 seconds, otherwise it will be tough and not tasty..."

Seeing his skilled craftsmanship, Seeing Mai Sui suddenly asked: "How old were you when you started cooking?"

Li Heng recalled: "Third grade, it should be around then. The scene I remember most deeply is standing on a small stool to cook."

Moving his gaze from the pot and lingering on his profile for a while, Seeing Mai Sui asked: "Is rural life that bitter?"

"Bitter, how can rural life not be bitter? But thinking about it now, it was also happy. A few wooden houses, a winding dirt road, vegetable plots on both sides, parents working in the vegetable plots, and myself and a group of little friends chasing each other inside—that was childhood, sigh," Li Heng sighed.

Whenever people get old, what they miss most is their hometown, and what they can't forget is their childhood—those innocent laughs, those simple little friends.

Seeing Mai Sui's memories were stirred: "I feel time passes so fast."

"That's right, time is ruthless. Remember how I taught you to cook, and when you look back, you'll have graduated from university," Li Heng joked.

Seeing Mai Sui learned for a while and asked: "I know Song Yu and Chen Zijin can't cook, can Xiao Han?"

Li Heng said: "About the same as you, can boil an egg."

Thinking of it, it's all tears. None of the three women had really been in the kitchen, and the dishes they made were one worse than the other.

Seeing Mai Sui laughed: "Then what are you after? Taking them out to eat every day?"

Li Heng's face twitched: "Don't be so vengeful, okay?"

Then he asked: "Are all beautiful women like this, not touching the spring water with their hands?"

Seeing Mai Sui thought for a while and couldn't find anyone to refute.

After the dishes were done, Li Heng said: "I don't have that much money right now, I'll give it to you in a day or two."

Seeing Mai Sui said alright.

Li Heng took off the apron and threw it to her: "Cleaning the kitchen is up to you, I hate this thing."

Seeing Mai Sui caught the apron, watched him walk out, and finally picked up a rag to clean.

Sun Manning returned. This girl threw her bicycle aside and brought four bottles of beer into the house. But as soon as she saw Li Heng, she shouted that the beer was bought too little and started organizing to go back and buy more.

Li Heng stopped her: "Alright, alright, I've already eaten, just share one bottle of beer with me."

Sun Manning circled him and then sniffed: "Aiya, I don't smell Song Yu's scent, but I smell Chen Zijin's body scent."

Li Heng pushed her away, thinking to himself, are you a dog? You can even smell this.

After putting the three dishes and one soup on the table, Sun Manning asked: "Li Heng, did you see Song Yu?"

"Of course."

"I bet you definitely saw Chen Zijin too. Did she make a scene with you?"

"Adult matters, children shouldn't ask."

Sun Manning pulled Seeing Mai Sui's arm and said with a laugh: "We've been busy to death these past few days, how are you going to reward us?"

Li Heng said: "How about I treat you to watch a movie at the Chinese Department tonight."

"Pah, who cares, no sincerity at all." Sun Manning wrinkled her nose.

Seeing him look over, Seeing Mai Sui explained: "After dinner, we have to go to the Student Union meeting."

"Oh, I forgot, you have the Student Union meeting every Sunday." Li Heng remembered and asked: "How is your practice for the gala host going?"

Seeing Mai Sui said: "It's okay."

Li Heng was full, put down his chopsticks after finishing one bottle of beer, and accompanied the two women to chat on the side.

After dinner, the two women rode their bicycles to the Student Union, and Li Heng could only walk miserably by himself.

By coincidence, he actually ran into Zhang Bing in the Xiyuan. He was pushing Bai Wanying in a wheelchair and walking forward slowly. The two were chatting and laughing, looking very harmonious under the setting sun.

Li Heng wanted to greet them, but after calling out twice into the air without response, he extinguished the thought of going over.

Passing by the School of Management, he looked up at the teaching building and finally walked in, intending to go to the counselor's office for a stroll to brush up on his presence.

But just as he reached the second floor, he heard Liu Wei from the next class and a group of boys lying on the railing looking down, muttering: "As expected of the Big King, the temperament is truly absolute."

Seeing Li Heng appear, Liu Wei waved at him repeatedly, pointing at the brown back moving away: "Li Heng, come quickly to see the beauty."

Li Heng was speechless: "Be careful Xia Wei sees you."

Liu Wei put a cigarette in his hand and took out a lighter to light it: "Damn! Looking at a beauty is of course done secretly, how can I let Xia Wei know, heh."

Li Heng looked in the direction of his finger: "Who is that? Worth you guys making such a fuss?"

A boy next to him stared at him like he was an alien: "Li Heng, are you from Mars? You don't even recognize Zhou Shihe?"

Zhou Shihe?

He was sick of hearing this name. Li Heng stared for a while, but the back view was getting further and further away.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 191 =====