Chapter 246

After standing on the balcony for a while, Li Heng returned to the room amidst a flurry of guesses.

"Teacher, Auntie is here." He walked to the sofa and asked a question he already knew the answer to.

"Mm." Yu Shuheng gave a light 'mm', her gaze never leaving the newspaper.

Li Heng reached into his pocket, took out the mutton-fat jade pendant, and placed it on the table, saying: "I drank too much last night."

This seemingly irrelevant sentence was explaining the reason why he shared a bed with her, and also explaining the reason for grabbing the mutton-fat jade pendant.

After a while, Yu Shuheng slowly raised her head, didn't look at the jade pendant on the coffee table, but quietly looked into his eyes, and asked after a long time: "Do you remember what happened last night?"

"What happened?" Facing each other, Li Heng inexplicably felt an invisible pressure and asked back dizzily.

He had blacked out from drinking; he really didn't remember anything. Could it be that he had slept with her?

But how could that be possible? When he woke up this morning, his clothes were neat and tidy; it was obvious they hadn't done anything.

Yu Shuheng stared at him for a while longer, then said: "Go help Teacher boil a pot of water; I'm a bit thirsty."

"Oh, okay!" Li Heng rose at the sound and went to the first-floor kitchen.

Hearing the footsteps gradually fade away in the stairwell, Yu Shuheng was dazed for a while, then pulled her coat tighter over her left chest with her right hand, trying to read the book and newspaper again.

But she couldn't focus at all now; a scene kept appearing in her mind: the black sweater on her left chest had balled up, and some threads had been pulled out.

The key was that this piece of clothing had just been bought not long ago, the price was very expensive, it was bought from an acquaintance, and it was only the second time she had worn it, so there wouldn't be any quality problems.

Moreover, she had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder; every time before changing clothes, she would carefully check her clothes and pants to avoid any mistakes.

Of course, these were not the most important things.

The main thing was that she vaguely remembered some scenes, and also noticed his situation this morning...

Yu Shuheng upstairs was pondering, and Li Heng downstairs was also recalling...

Why did Teacher ask that?

Where did he make a mistake?

After filling the water, just as he was about to put the teapot on the stove, he suddenly remembered something, something Zijin always teased him about in his previous life: saying that when he was fast asleep, he always liked to put his hands on her private parts.

Regarding this, he had always been skeptical because he had no sensation at all.

Later, he asked Song Yu, and Song Yu just smiled and never gave a direct answer.

He also asked Xiao Han, and this wife was even more extreme, asking back with a small dimple: Mr. Li, who have you harmed outside again?

Could it be true? Did he really have the habit of grabbing things while sleeping?

Seriously filtering through the events from last night to this morning, he suddenly felt a shiver all over, so scared that the teapot in his hand almost fell to the ground.

Damn it, don't scare people like this; he had to ask Zijin again later.

His mind was a bit messy, and Li Heng didn't know how he returned to the second floor, including pouring the boiling water, putting in the tea leaves, and serving it to her; it was all done in one go, but he had no consciousness of it.

Yu Shuheng seemed to notice his abnormality, but she just glanced at him a few more times and didn't say anything; she returned to her cold-as-ice normal state.

Actually, Li Heng admired her a bit. When giving lectures to everyone on the podium, she always had a smile on her face, spoke as gently as jade, and interacted very well with everyone, making the students feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze.

But once she turned her face and left the teaching building, her face almost had the words "strangers keep out" written on it, making those who were unfamiliar with her not dare to approach her rashly.

In short, it was one sentence: according to the needs of the occasion, she could switch between a smiling face and a cold face at will, with a huge contrast between the front and back.

On the other side, the 25th small building opposite.

Shen Xin, which was Yu Shuheng's mother, picked up the receiver and called the piano training institution, only to be told that Chen Siya had gone home for something.

Hanging up the phone, she took out a phone book from her bag, flipped to page 20-something, and dialed the landline number on it again.

"Ding-a-ling"

"Ding-a-ling"

The phone went through in two rings, and Chen Siya's voice came from the other side: "Hello, who is this?"

"Siya, it's me."

"Oh, Auntie Shen, good morning, why are you calling so early in the morning?"

Shen Xin asked: "Let me ask you something."

Chen Siya replied: "Go ahead."

Shen Xin asked: "Is Shuheng with you? I have something urgent to find her for."

Hearing that it was urgent, Chen Siya didn't think much and blurted out: "Auntie, I returned to my parents' house, Shuheng didn't come here. You should go to Lushan Village to see; she went back last night."

Shen Xin asked: "Are you sure she went back?"

"Sure, before I left last night, I met her in the alley with Fu Yanjie." Chen Siya replied as such.

It was no wonder she had no guard, because she had left in a hurry last night and only knew that her best friend had returned from home and seemed a bit unhappy, but time was tight and she didn't ask in detail before leaving in a hurry.

Shen Xin frowned, "I am at the 25th small building in Lushan Village right now."

"Ah?"

After an 'ah', Chen Siya reacted, then looked at her watch and said: "It's just past 7 o'clock now, Shuheng might not be up yet..."

Shen Xin interrupted her: "I've checked all the bedrooms, the bedding is neat, there's no one."

Chen Siya explained: "She shouldn't be at her own house; she might have spent the night opposite."

Shen Xin raised her head, looked toward the 26th small building, and asked suspiciously: "Opposite?"

"Yes." Chen Siya replied.

Shen Xin stood up: "The opposite you're talking about is the 26th small building?"

Chen Siya said: "Yes, Auntie, Shuheng has encountered some situations recently and has been spending the night there..."

Spending one or two minutes, Chen Siya told the whole story of her best friend encountering ghost-pressing-bed.

Listening patiently to the end, Shen Xin took a deep breath, and a face couldn't help but appear in her mind: Li Heng's face as he lied on the balcony...

"Okay, I see, thank you Siya." Shen Xin said.

"You're welcome, Auntie, then I'll hang up, I have something to do here." Chen Siya said.

"Mm, hang up."

With that, the call ended.

Putting the receiver back, Shen Xin steadied herself on the spot, calmed her emotions, then turned and went downstairs, heading straight for the 26th small building.

"Knock knock knock!"

"Knock knock knock!"

Two knocks of moderate volume came from downstairs, and Li Heng instinctively stood up and walked toward the stairs.

Seeing this, Yu Shuheng, who was holding a teacup and had been treating him as air, called out to him: "Don't open the door."

Li Heng stopped his steps, looking confused.

Yu Shuheng slowly blew on the rim of the teacup, took a small sip of tea, and spoke elegantly: "So early, even if Xiao Han got up and took the bus immediately, it would be too late. Seeing Mai Sui has a key, and Chief Editor Liao and the others wouldn't choose this time to visit; it's highly likely to be my mother."

Li Heng was stunned, and half-believing, he came to the attic and secretly peeked down.

With just one glance, he retreated into the room: "Auntie's complexion isn't very good; she probably knows you're here with me, Teacher."

"Mm."

"Then I...?"

Scanning him back and forth, Yu Shuheng suddenly pointed to the mutton-fat jade pendant on the coffee table and smiled: "If you're afraid she'll give you trouble, put it on, and then go open the door."

Then she added: "Wear it in a conspicuous place, where my mother can see it at a glance."

Li Heng: "..."

He was directly dumbfounded; what kind of operation is this?

After pondering for a moment, he asked: "Is Auntie urging marriage?"

Yu Shuheng took another sip of tea and asked back: "Why? Am I very old?"

He wasn't stupid and wouldn't answer such a question that wouldn't please either side.

Listening to the knocking downstairs for a while, he sighed: "Auntie knows I'm at home; playing deaf and dumb isn't the way."

Seeing his embarrassed look, Yu Shuheng's gaze lingered on his face for a long time, and finally, she put down the teacup and silently left the second floor.

Li Heng shouted from behind: "Teacher Yu, the jade pendant."

Yu Shuheng seemed not to hear, her elegant and intellectual back disappearing at the stairwell without haste.

Passing through the first-floor hall and coming to the door, she reached out to pull the door bolt.

With a 'creak', the door opened. She yawned nonchalantly upon meeting her mother and said: "Just got up, if you have something to say, let's say it at home."

Glancing at her daughter and scanning behind her, Shen Xin stood at the door for several seconds before turning to follow her daughter into the 25th small building.

Returning to the second floor one after the other, Shen Xin finally couldn't hold back and asked her daughter: "The whole building, just the two of you?"

"Mm."

"I heard from Siya that he is your student."

"Mm."

"If you're afraid of ghost-pressing-bed, from today on, Mom will come over to sleep with you at night."

"Okay."

"You dress up, change your clothes, and go out with me."

"It's too late."

"What's too late?" Shen Xin asked.

Yu Shuheng said: "I slept with him last night."

Shen Xin's eyes widened, and she didn't react for a moment: "Slept with whom?"

Yu Shuheng didn't make a sound, making tea for herself.

Staring at her daughter in a daze, it took a long time for her to recover and gasp, Shen Xin's eyes shrank, and her voice rose several decibels in an instant: "With that boy opposite?"

"Mm."

"How could you...! Isn't he your student?" Shen Xin was both angry and anxious, almost cursing.

Yu Shuheng turned around, facing her mother directly, not arguing, not speaking, sitting down to rest in a grand manner.

The situation was deadlocked for a moment. In a fit of impulse, Shen Xin really wanted to go opposite and grab Li Heng to ask clearly, but in the end, reason prevailed, and she sat opposite her daughter and asked:

"Is this threatening Mom? I introduce you to a partner, and you sleep with the boy opposite?"

Yu Shuheng smiled elegantly, still not speaking, focusing on letting her guess.

But this vague strategy was clearly very effective. Shen Xin noticed that the jade pendant her daughter had worn for more than ten years was gone: "Where is the ancestral jade pendant your grandmother left you?"

"Gave it to him."

Yu Shuheng said lightly, as if what she gave away wasn't a jade pendant, but a stone.

Shen Xin's mood, which had just calmed down, immediately began to surge again: "Using a student to put me off, this doesn't look like your style."

Yu Shuheng took out paper and pen from the coffee table, wrote a line of words, and moved it in front of her mother.

Shen Xin picked up the paper suspiciously, lowered her head to read, and after reading, her eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.

Yu Shuheng took off her coat, took off the black sweater underneath, and handed it to her:

"This one is broken; when you have time, go help me buy a new one."

(End of chapter)