Chapter 262: , such a Mai Sui, tonight is not peaceful (Seeking monthly votes)

In the study, Li Heng was struggling with a blank sheet of paper.

The fountain pen was writing with a rustle, and in a short while, it filled the white paper line after line.

Tonight he was writing the 41st chapter, which was the penultimate chapter. According to his earlier plan, there was only one chapter left to end, and *Cultural Bitter Journey*, which he had been writing for more than half a year, was about to end.

The study was busy, but the living room outside was very quiet.

Zhou Shihe looked at the cover of the single volume of *To Live* for a long time, and looked at the six characters "To Live" and "Written by December" for a long time. Then she opened the book and began to read intently.

Even though she had read this book before, today's feeling was completely different, and the fluctuations in her heart couldn't be calmed for a long time, so she read it from beginning to end again. And she read it more seriously and meticulously than in the past, as if she were in the college entrance examination, as if she were doing college entrance examination Chinese reading comprehension.

Lingering on her best friend for a while, Mai Sui, who had experienced it once, could empathize; at that time, her heart collapsed even more severely, but because Song Yu was there, it wasn't easy to express too much.

Somehow, at this moment, she suddenly had no heart to knit, stood up, went to the attic outside, and began to fiddle with the astronomical telescope.

Zhou Shihe looked up and glanced at her best friend's back, thoughtful, but then continued to read, quickly immersed in the world of the book.

For the next few hours, the living room and study were extremely quiet; no one spoke, Li Heng wrote, and Zhou Shihe read.

And Mai Sui was dazed under the astronomical telescope facing the night sky.

That's right, she was dazed!

Past 12:00 midnight.

Li Heng, who had drunk too much tea, set off for the restroom, but as soon as he went out, he was met by Zhou Shihe's attention.

At this moment, this girl was sizing him up with a pair of strange eyes, as if she wanted to re-recognize him.

He stopped and pointed to his face, asking: "Comrade Shihe, is there something dirty on my face?"

Zhou Shihe smiled warmly and shook her head.

Li Heng lowered his head to check his own condition, "Is it that my clothes are broken somewhere?"

Zhou Shihe stared at him intently, without making a sound.

After checking his clothes and pants again to make sure there were no leaks, Li Heng felt relieved, and only then did he notice that the book in Zhou Shihe's hand was the single volume of *To Live*.

Looking at each other from a distance, the atmosphere suddenly became strange.

After a long time, Li Heng couldn't help but walk to her front, looking down and asking tentatively: "Discovered?"

Zhou Shihe's eyelids blinked, and she looked up.

Li Heng reached out and waved in front of her; her eyebrows couldn't help but blink again. He sighed: "I'm so low-key, how did you find the clues?"

Zhou Shihe stared at his eyes quietly, still without making a sound.

Li Heng gestured with one hand and joked: "Is it because you feel I'm brighter than the stars in the night sky right now?"

Zhou Shihe pouted her little mouth, holding back a laugh.

Seeing this girl's mouth was tight and he couldn't ask anything, Li Heng looked around, "Where is Mai Sui?"

This time Zhou Shihe finally spoke, saying gently: "In the attic."

Hearing this, Li Heng first went to the restroom, then found a change of clothes to take a bath and wash his hair. After everything was done, he found a few bottles of beer from the kitchen on the first floor, went straight through the living room, and entered the attic.

"It's so windy outside, aren't you cold?" He came to Mai Sui's side and asked in a low voice.

Mai Sui turned her head and smiled tenderly, "Finished writing?"

"No."

"Not writing tonight?"

"Keep you company for a while first."

As he said this, he put a few bottles of beer on the wooden board, turned around and went into the room, found a new blanket from the three-door cabinet, and brought it over, "Come, let's wrap it together to keep out the cold."

"Okay."

Mai Sui wore a thick wool sweater in the middle, actually not too cold, but didn't refuse his kindness, obediently shrinking her body, letting him wrap her tightly with half a blanket.

The other half of the blanket naturally belonged to someone.

Opening a bottle of beer and handing it to her, he carefully instructed: "It's a bit cold, drink slowly."

"I'll go warm it up with hot water." Mai Sui wanted to get up.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she moved, she was held by a pair of big hands. Looking at each other at close range, letting each other's breath hit the other's face, neither of them made a sound for a while.

After a long time, Mai Sui's face rippled, a blush secretly climbed up, but she didn't struggle.

After a while, he let her go and said leisurely: "Drinking is just to help the fun, don't force yourself to drink too much, still have to write later."

"Mm." Mai Sui sat back and clinked with him.

Li Heng took a sip, held it in his mouth, and swallowed it after it got warmer, asking with concern: "Something on your mind?"

"No." Mai Sui said.

Li Heng didn't believe it, turning his head to look at her.

Mai Sui's charming eyes turned half a circle, explaining: "I just want to stay quiet for a while."

After staring at each other for a long time, Li Heng instinctively reached out, wanting to help her smooth out the hair blown messy by the wind, but when he reached halfway, he suddenly stopped in the air, then retracted it calmly, "If you encounter something, you must tell me."

Following the movement of his right hand just now, Mai Sui said softly: "Okay."

After drinking several mouthfuls of beer in a row, she broke the silence: "Shihe knows about your writer identity."

"I know."

"She guessed it."

"Mm."

"I was stupid."

Li Heng smiled, "It doesn't matter."

Hearing the words "It doesn't matter," Mai Sui let out a sigh of relief for no reason, looked up and said: "I miss home tonight, miss Mom and Dad."

Li Heng looked up at the night sky, "Soon, bear with it, there's more than a month until winter break."

Mai Sui asked: "Do you miss Song Yu?"

Li Heng replied: "Yes."

"What about Chen Zijin?"

"Miss her too."

"You are really sentimental."

"Ah, you should ask about Xiao Han again."

Mai Sui couldn't help but look at his side profile, playfully saying: "Not asking about her."

Li Heng asked back: "Why?"

Mai Sui said: "No reason, intuition tells me she will come next week. You see each other several times a month, it's so unfair to Song Yu and Zijin."

"Mm!!" Li Heng gave a hum that wasn't light or heavy.

Mai Sui reacted, smiled charmingly, "I broke the rules, self-punishment of three mouthfuls."

After speaking, she really drank heartily for three mouthfuls, finishing a bottle of beer directly; he couldn't pull her back.

Li Heng frowned, "Drinking like this, hope you don't catch a cold."

Mai Sui winked: "No, my body is better than you think, I used to take cold showers in winter."

Li Heng was surprised: "I've heard of boys taking cold showers in winter, girls too?"

Mai Sui said: "At that time, Mom and Dad weren't home, I got up late and found there wasn't enough time to boil water, so I hurriedly took a cold shower and went to school."

Li Heng asked: "How many did you take in total?"

"Many." Mai Sui replied.

"Really lazy. How can you be my friend if you're so lazy?" Li Heng joked.

Mai Sui smiled and said: "I was young then, loved to sleep in in junior high, but liked taking showers, so it was like that."

She asked: "Have you taken one?"

"Me? Definitely. I was even more excessive, taking a bucket and pouring it on myself, later my mom saw it, chased me with a stick for more than a mile, later I hid at Heartless's place to escape a disaster." Recalling the things when he was little, he was very nostalgic.

Mai Sui looked at him with bright eyes, her eyebrows and corners of her eyes overflowing with smiles.

Just as the two were drinking beer and chatting about interesting things when they were little, a burst of heart-piercing roars suddenly erupted from Building 24 diagonally opposite!

One listen and it was Old Fu's voice.

The voice was really loud! Cursing and swearing, like spring thunder, it was particularly conspicuous in this quiet night!

Mai Sui was startled, "What's wrong with Old Fu?"

Li Heng listened for a while and couldn't help but laugh: "Old Fu is catching ghosts in the nude."

At this time, Building 24 didn't have lights on at all, it was pitch black and nothing could be seen clearly; hearing his words, Mai Sui was full of doubts.

Zhou Shihe was also awakened, returned to her senses from the world of books, then put down the book, and subconsciously came to the attic to check the situation.

But as soon as she came out, she bumped into the two wrapped in a quilt; she was stunned, and the next second she wanted to immediately return to the house, return to the living room, and not be the one in the way.

Li Heng called her, "Comrade Shihe, since you're here, let's drink some wine together."

Zhou Shihe didn't move, but looked at the two with strange eyes back and forth.

Mai Sui reached out and pulled her best friend, "Come on, it's lively for three people to drink and chat."

Seeing this, Li Heng consciously gave the blanket to them, then poked and ran to the bedroom, took out a slightly older one, and wrapped it around himself.

Just like that, Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe shared a blanket, Li Heng had one alone, and they chatted in the night about the situation of the fake Daoist catching ghosts diagonally opposite.

"Hey, actually this idea was mine, I originally wanted to tease him, Old Fu also showed disdain at the beginning, especially despising my local method. Unexpectedly! Unexpectedly, our Teacher Fu used it in the blink of an eye..." Li Heng told the story of returning from Blue Sky Restaurant this morning.

The two girls laughed in unison, laughing softly.

Diagonally opposite, he was still catching ghosts!

Old Fu's unique thick voice and violent temper resounded through this night sky:

"Run! What are you running for! I'm going to catch you for wine today! I'm going to cut you into a thousand pieces! I'm going to splash you to death with dung!"

"I want you to die without a burial place! I want you to go to the eighteenth level of hell! I want you to be unable to reincarnate! You blind ghost thing, dare to run into my house..."

Old Fu's voice was very loud, but unfortunately, he was a city person after all, and no matter how he cursed, he didn't have the energy of a rural shrew, but combined with the hysterical violent tone, it had a different flavor.

With such a big movement in Building 24, Yu Shuheng opposite was also awakened, and appeared on the balcony with her best friend Chen Siya to look out.

Old Fu followed Li Heng's words: no lights on, running wildly in the house in the nude, from this corner to that corner, and from that corner to another corner, holding a fruit knife in his hand, slashing back and forth in the dark night. Because the emotion was too intense, he didn't feel cold for a while!

Unable to see the specific appearance of the building next door, Chen Siya asked with concern:

"Li Heng, what happened in Old Fu's house?"

Li Heng replied: "Doing a ritual to drive away ghosts."

"Where did the ghosts come from? Believe in science." Saying this, Chen Siya turned and went downstairs, opened the courtyard door, and walked toward Building 24.

She had the key to Fu Yanjie's house, so she didn't need to knock and walked in.

Not long after, the lights next door turned on, and then a "Ah!" came, a scream that shocked the world.

Then came Chen Siya's scolding: "You dead pervert!"

Then!

Then there was no then, the lights went out again.

Li Heng, Mai Sui, and Zhou Shihe waited expectantly, staring fixedly diagonally opposite, but waited for a long time and didn't wait for Chen Siya to come out.

Yu Shuheng stood by the railing and waited for a long time, also waiting for a loneliness.

"Could it be that the two of them are together like this?" Li Heng muttered to himself.

Hearing this, Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe looked at each other, the air was a bit subtle. After all, the two girls were insiders, knowing from Li Heng that Old Fu was likely not wearing clothes, and Chen Siya didn't come out.

Phew! How many scenes unsuitable for children can be imagined...

"I'm a bit sleepy, I'm going back." Glancing at Li Heng without a trace, then glancing at her best friend, at a certain moment, Zhou Shihe said this.

"I'll accompany you." Mai Sui stood up.

Li Heng originally wanted to keep the two girls to stay in the second bedroom, but swallowed the words, "I'll send you over."

After tidying up the sheets, the three went downstairs in turn.

As they entered Building 27, Mai Sui turned back and said to him: "Don't stay up too late, I'll bring you breakfast tomorrow morning. What do you want to eat? Anything you particularly want to eat?"

Li Heng thought about it and said, "Help me buy a scallion pancake, heard the scallion pancakes here in Shanghai are good, I haven't tasted them yet."

"Okay."

Mai Sui entered the house, looked back at him twice, and then closed the door.

Zhou Shihe watched her best friend's state the whole time, but didn't disturb her.

Going up to the second-floor living room, Mai Sui asked: "Shihe, do you want me to sleep with you?"

She was worried that the movement in Building 24 opposite would scare her best friend tonight, so she asked this.

Zhou Shihe said okay.

After dinner, the two girls had already taken a bath, and now they just needed to wash up simply and lie on the bed.

"Aren't you sleepy?" Seeing Zhou Shihe's eyes open, Mai Sui asked this.

"Mm, past the bedtime." Zhou Shihe gave a hum, and didn't explain the reason why she said she was sleepy in the attic before.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Thinking about the character plot in *To Live*."

"Lying, you are thinking about how he wrote it?"

Zhou Shihe smiled, saying quietly: "Reading *To Live* for the first time, I only felt it was written very well, and the emotions rose and fell with the plot in the book.

Reading it tonight, I feel every character is very vivid. They all say art comes from life and is higher than life; how did he do it?"

Mai Sui told her what she knew: "The prototype of Fugui seems to be his second uncle, heard that the family was also a landlord before, and later the family fell..."

Although the two girls got along very well, they used to talk about life, study, and their respective hometown customs. Now it was the first time talking about literature, but they were surprisingly compatible in their worldviews.

Listening patiently to her friend finish, Zhou Shihe asked: "School leaders should know he is the writer December, right?"

"Know, on the train to Shanghai when school started, we happened to meet Principal Sun." Mai Sui said.

It really is so, then everything is explained, Zhou Shihe thought.

Downstairs, Li Heng was full of energy and looked around in the alley for a while, but unfortunately, Old Fu was not helpful, and there was no clanging sound of iron beating in the house.

It was Professor Yu who walked out of Building 25.

Li Heng greeted her and asked with concern: "Teacher, what's wrong?"

Yu Shuheng turned around and locked her courtyard door, smiling and saying: "Going to your house."

Li Heng understood in seconds, "Not giving Chen Jie a chance to come back?"

Yu Shuheng didn't answer, leaving him a tall back that could cause infinite reverie, and walked into Building 26 first.

That proficiency, it's like it's her own home.

Going up to the second floor, she went straight into the second bedroom, the door closed, and the world was instantly quiet, as if she hadn't come.

Hey! A good woman, clearly can melt gold and break iron when she smiles, but she carries an iceberg on her face, Li Heng slandered, and also went into the study.

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