Chapter 237: , Mai Sui's Intelligence (Please subscribe!)

After leaving the piano training institution, it was already past 10 o'clock when he returned to Fudan University.

Li Heng kept his promise and immediately ran to Building 12 to summon someone.

"Auntie, please help me call Mai Sui from 213."

As soon as he arrived downstairs at the women's dormitory, he put on a fawning, enthusiastic face.

The dorm aunt glanced at the clock on the table, cracked a sunflower seed, and asked, "What's wrong with you? Calling a female student this late?"

"It's her birthday today, I'm bringing her a gift." Li Heng's lie came out effortlessly.

The dorm aunt looked at him with half-belief for a long while, but finally turned on the small loudspeaker to help him call out:

"Mai Sui from 213, someone is looking for you downstairs! Mai Sui from 213, someone is looking for you downstairs!"

Hearing this, Li Heng leaned in closer, "Is it that no boys have been looking for Mai Sui lately?"

"Looking for what? Who in this school doesn't know you two are close? Which boy would be that stupid?" The dorm aunt cracked another seed, not offering a single kind word.

Look at how she put it, as if Mai Sui were his partner. Isn't it just that they have a good relationship? Is having a good relationship against the law?

Dorm 213.

Because she had been reading for too long at night, Mai Sui's eyes were a bit tired, and she was already lying on her bed, drifting off to sleep.

Hearing the loudspeaker call twice and seeing her best friend motionless, Zhou Shihe went to her bed and reached out to gently nudge her:

"Sui Sui, wake up, someone is looking for you."

"Mm."

Mai Sui turned over reluctantly, too lazy to even open her eyes, and asked vaguely: "Shihe, who is looking for me?"

Zhou Shihe looked at the others in the dorm and whispered in her ear: "The dorm aunt called you, it's probably Li Heng."

"Ah?"

Mai Sui opened her eyes wide, stared blankly at Zhou Shihe for a few seconds, then quickly sat up, "How long has it been?"

"Just now," Zhou Shihe said.

Getting out of bed and putting on her shoes, Mai Sui went to the mirror, took a comb to tidy up the sideburns she had messed up while sleeping, and then left the room.

Before long, she appeared on the first floor, in front of Li Heng.

"I was asleep just now, have you been waiting long?" As soon as they met, she said this.

Not wanting the dorm aunt to see that he had lied, Li Heng gave her a subtle wink and turned to leave the Building 12 area.

Mai Sui understood and followed closely behind him.

The dorm aunt inside the window saw this scene, bit down hard on a sunflower seed, and muttered to herself: "Birthday my foot, don't think you can fool me."

Walking forward about 100 meters to a deserted tree, Li Heng stopped and explained his purpose.

Quietly listening to him, Mai Sui didn't express her stance immediately.

Looking at each other, Li Heng probed: "Are you worried about Xiao Han?"

Staring at his eyes expressionlessly for a long while, she suddenly smiled tenderly:

"No, let's go. Don't keep Professor Yu waiting too long, otherwise, people will overthink, which isn't good."

Li Heng didn't move, adding: "If you're unwilling, don't force yourself. I have my own way to explain things to Professor Yu."

Mai Sui, who had taken two steps, turned back and asked: "Is this still you? Li Heng, why are you being so pretentious?"

Li Heng smiled warmly, revealing his neat, white teeth: "Because I can see that your words don't match your heart."

"Oh, is that so? Then I'm going back." With that, Mai Sui, wearing a smile, walked back in a feigned manner.

Seeing this, Li Heng instinctively reached out and grabbed her hand.

Stunned, he was stunned, and she was stunned too!

There was no one around, and the air suddenly became quite strange.

For a moment, you looked at me and I looked at you; neither of us made a sound.

After a long while, Li Heng calmly let go of her, breaking the silence: "Do you need to go back and get some clothes?"

"No need, I showered in the evening." Mai Sui turned around again and walked toward Lushan Village with her head down.

Along the way, neither of them spoke at first, walking one after the other.

Just walking like that.

Until they were about to enter Lushan Village, Li Heng, who was behind her, livened up the atmosphere: "Hey, girl in front, do you need me to explain?"

"Sure, I hope you can explain something brilliant," Mai Sui chuckled.

"Brilliant? What kind of flowers do you like?" Li Heng played dumb.

"Cherry blossoms," she replied.

"Hm? Have you seen cherry blossoms?"

"No, I've seen illustrations in books. I think real flowers must be very beautiful."

"I don't really believe that. Can they be more beautiful than you?"

Mai Sui didn't look back: "Is this how you used your nonsense to win over Xiao Han?"

"No," Li Heng said.

Mai Sui slowed her pace, waited for him to catch up, glanced at him, and asked curiously: "Then what did you rely on?"

Li Heng reached out to touch his own face. Seeing she didn't react, he touched the whole thing, from his brows to his mouth, from his mouth to his brows... repeating the cycle.

Mai Sui found it funny, "For other girls, I might believe it's the face, but Song Yu and Xiao Han are clearly better looking than you."

Li Heng hummed, "She liked me back in middle school."

Mai Sui's eyes widened in surprise: "Weren't you, weren't you dating Chen Zijin in middle school? How could she...?"

Li Heng said softly: "It sounds like I'm not doing that now."

Mai Sui was dumbfounded, looking at him from close range, forgetting even to walk.

Li Heng walked forward about 10 meters, found that the person beside him hadn't kept up, and had to turn back, waving his hand in front of her:

"It's not the first time you've known about my love life, why such a big reaction?"

Mai Sui asked confusedly, "Playing with fire like this, aren't you afraid they'll make a scene one day?"

Li Heng said: "I'm afraid!"

Mai Sui didn't understand: "Then why do you still...?"

Li Heng said: "That's why I have to keep getting stronger."

Mai Sui was speechless: "I thought you were going to choose one seriously, to marry one of the three."

Li Heng didn't answer directly, but threw the question back at her: "If you were me, who would you choose?"

Mai Sui subconsciously wanted to say Song Yu. But observing Xiao Han over the past two days, she swallowed the words back.

She next wanted to say to exclude Chen Zijin, because among the three women, Chen Zijin had no advantage in looks, but she gave up on that thought later.

Even if Chen Zijin had no advantage in looks, that was only relative to Xiao Han and Song Yu. If she were at Fudan, she wouldn't necessarily be worse than Senior Ye Zhanyan.

The reason she compared her to Senior Ye was that she felt Chen Zijin was similar to her in temperament.

Back in high school, Chen Lijun had told her privately: "I don't envy Song Yu, nor do I envy you, I envy Zijin."

Mai Sui asked at the time: "Why?"

Chen Lijun said: "There's no special reason, and I can't say why, I just simply like her face. If only I could grow up to look like that."

Well, although they shared the surname Chen, Chen Lijun could only be considered a little pretty, and the gap compared to Chen Zijin was a bit large.

If she hadn't left Shaodong County in her second year of high school, she would have been a frequent guest of praise from the English teacher.

Hey, mentioning the English teacher, Mai Sui suddenly remembered something. Since entering the third year of high school, the English teacher seemed to have never mentioned Chen Zijin again?

In the first and second years, because of Li Heng, Zijin, Song Yu, and herself all had a very harmonious relationship with the English teacher. Why was it suddenly like this?

Could it be that Zijin and the English teacher had a conflict?

But then again, she still admired Li Heng quite a bit. The girls he picked were almost all the best-looking ones at the time.

Chen Zijin in elementary school, Xiao Han in middle school, Song Yu in high school, university...

In university, this guy was still behaving himself for now.

"Why are you looking at me with such a strange expression? Did flowers grow on my face?" Noticing the anomaly, Li Heng couldn't help but ask.

Mai Sui asked the thought in her heart: "Did Chen Zijin and the English teacher have a conflict? How come after the third year of high school, the English teacher stopped mentioning Zijin? Not even a normal greeting."

Li Heng looked away and shook his head, "I don't know. If you hadn't brought it up, I wouldn't have noticed."

Mai Sui didn't believe him, "Why do I feel like you're lying?"

Li Heng spread his hands helplessly: "When I go back during winter break, I'll help you ask the English teacher, okay?"

Mai Sui asked: "You're going back to see the English teacher during winter break?"

"She hasn't been sick for long, of course I have to see her when I go home. She helped me a lot with my writing before," Li Heng said.

Mai Sui knew about the writing help, but still felt something was wrong.

Then she thought of something: she heard from Sun Manning that it seemed the English teacher had accompanied him throughout the summer vacation, traveling through more than half of China together...

Thinking and thinking, extending from there, a terrible thought suddenly popped into her mind, and then she was stunned by her own thought!

Shaking her head slightly, Mai Sui tried her best to exclude this unrealistic, messy thought from her mind. Because she could not believe the English teacher, but she believed Li Heng.

And this trust was unconditional.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have stayed overnight in Lushan Village, and that too as a lone man and woman.

Of course, this trust of hers could also have a necessary condition added, and that was the existence of Song Yu.

She had every reason to believe that ever since Li Heng met Song Yu, he had slowly lost interest in the girls who came later.

Even guessing more extremely, if it weren't for the fact that Chen Zijin and Li Heng's relationship happened before he met Song Yu, Chen Zijin might not even have had a chance.

As for Xiao Han, she didn't dare to speculate wildly. After all, her conditions were there. If the two women were rivals, even Song Yu wouldn't dare say she had a 100% chance of winning.

Therefore, based on this as a foundation, the women who appeared after Song Yu would find it almost harder than climbing to heaven to break into Li Heng's heart. She was like a mountain barrier, cutting off the path for those who came later.

Her thoughts returned to Xiao Han, Mai Sui asked: "So, Xiao Han liked you before you became a writer?"

Li Heng replied that it was so.

Mai Sui stopped talking. The liking before becoming a writer and the admiration after becoming a writer had a huge gap, which could even be described as worlds apart. To put it bluntly, the former was pure love, while the latter was more or less mixed with vanity.

Entering Lushan Village, the two hadn't returned home yet, but saw Professor Yu and Chen Siya in the courtyard of the neighboring Building 24.

It seemed a situation had occurred.

Professor Chen Mohan was also there, confronting Chen Siya across a stone table. Even though neither side spoke, the smell of gunpowder in the air was very heavy.

The fake Daoist was explaining non-stop on the side, but unfortunately, the two women surnamed Chen weren't listening at all.

But Yu Shuheng was different. She sat on a stone stool on the other side, unhurriedly watching the whole scene. Well, it felt like she was watching a play, and the expressionless kind at that.

Seeing Li Heng appear, the fake Daoist, who was spinning in circles with anxiety, seemed to have seen a savior and hurriedly pulled him aside to ask:

"Li Heng, I've been doing everything according to your ideas. Now that I've run into this, do you have any good solutions?"

Li Heng was confused: "When did I ever tell you to have a foot in two boats? Am I such a bad seed? Would I incite you to do this bad thing?"

The fake Daoist grabbed his arm, "Hey, you kid, you're not admitting it, right? What's going on with Mai Sui and Xiao Han? I was just following your lead, and it was only after adding weight to both sides that things went wrong."

Li Heng was even more confused: "You wouldn't really have a foot in two boats, would you?"

"That wouldn't happen, how could that be? I, Old Fu, am not that kind of person. I just used Professor Chen to deal with Siya a little bit. Who told her to ignore me for 8 years? I had no other choice, didn't I? I'll be 40 in a few years." The fake Daoist said this with a face full of anxiety and confusion.

Li Heng broke free: "Old Fu, are you really stupid or just pretending? Everything requires a degree. Do you know what a degree is?"

"Degree my foot! Didn't you also bring Mai Sui home to stay overnight? At least I didn't do anything that extreme, I just invited Professor Chen for a late-night snack, where did I go wrong?" The fake Daoist argued like a stubborn donkey, but his heart was even more panicked.

"Pfft! Get lost, don't drag Mai Sui into this. Mai Sui isn't that cheap in my heart."

It was the first time Li Heng had cursed at the fake Daoist; it was really because this person was too much of a dog.

Being sprayed, the fake Daoist didn't care at all and whispered: "You're a great writer, I specifically bought your books to read. You've grasped the ways of the world in your books. Teach me how to handle the problem in front of me first, and I'll treat you and Mai Sui to a big meal later."

Li Heng scolded: "You still owe us a Western steak meal."

"Heh, don't play dumb, kid. If Xiao Han hadn't come on Friday, could I not have treated you two? I had already bought the best steak that day." The fake Daoist was furious.

"Really?"

"Of course really, if I'm lying, may I be struck by lightning!"

"Then treat us tomorrow."

"Fine."

Li Heng glanced at the two fighting cocks in the courtyard and asked meaningfully: "Have you studied politics?"

"Although I, Old Fu, specialize in mathematics, how could I not have studied politics when I was able to get into Tsinghua back then?" The fake Daoist grinned, indicating he had asked a stupid question.

"Don't mention Tsinghua to me, if you mention it again, I'll turn around and leave without discussing anything with you." Didn't you see I didn't get into Peking University? Yet you keep talking to me about Tsinghua, be careful I'll cut you.

The fake Daoist seemed to have guessed his thoughts, grinned, and asked urgently: "Tell me, why can emotional matters be related to politics?"

"Naturally, they can. Do you understand what a primary contradiction is? Do you know what a secondary contradiction is? If you figure that out, it won't be hard to solve," Li Heng drew a circle for him.

The fake Daoist thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up, "Fine, you kid have some skills. No wonder your house only has that little girl Xiao Han these past two days."

Seeing the fake Daoist return to the courtyard, Yu Shuheng glanced at Li Heng outside the door, thoughtful, then got up and walked out, leaving the space for the three involved parties.

Li Heng and Mai Sui also tactfully stayed away from Building 24.

Walking to the end of the alley, Mai Sui called out: "Professor."

Yu Shuheng smiled slightly, "Mai Sui, sorry to trouble you."

Mai Sui said, "No trouble, the weather is good tonight, it's just right to observe outer space."

Yu Shuheng nodded and said to her: "Come into my room and sit for a while, I need to take a shower first."

Some things are understood as soon as they are heard. This Professor Yu didn't dare to go home alone in the dark and needed someone to accompany her.

The two women entered Building 25, Li Heng didn't go.

Why would he go? She was going to take a shower.

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