Chapter 268: You can't wake someone who is pretending to sleep, the masses are looking forward to it (Seeking votes)

Wang Runwen directly pressed the speakerphone button, crossed her arms: "Don't get carried away, you are feeding a tiger with your own body."

Yu Shuheng said: "Wrong word used, such a tender little boy is not my type."

Wang Runwen chuckled coldly: "Tender? Hehe, I'm afraid his emotional experience could beat you up. In the face of such a vast sea of stars as love, your self-righteousness might just be a rope around your neck, and when the time comes, you won't even know how you died."

Yu Shuheng looked at the coffee in her cup and said with a smile: "You are what they call 'being in the mountain, not knowing where the clouds are deep.' I told you long ago, Shaoshi is still too small, the young talents outside are like crucian carp crossing the river. Runwen, you really should come out and walk around."

Wang Runwen mocked: "Crucian carp crossing the river? Then why haven't you married yourself off yet?"

Yu Shuheng took a sip of coffee and said meaningfully: "Rest assured, I will definitely get married before you."

Wang Runwen was silent, then questioned: "What do you mean?"

Yu Shuheng chuckled and didn't respond.

Wang Runwen was so angry she couldn't speak, "Don't come over on New Year's Day, I can't afford to serve you."

Yu Shuheng said: "Fine, I won't go to Shaoshi, I'll just wait for Li Heng in Changsha."

Wang Runwen brushed her hair with her right hand, "Do you think he will abandon Chen Zijin and his family to come over on the 1st?"

Yu Shuheng turned her cup, "It's not for you to think, this is a matter between us teacher and student."

Wang Runwen adjusted her glasses with her fingertips, "I'm reminding someone, the bystander sees clearly, your behavior is very dangerous."

Yu Shuheng put down the coffee cup, stretched, and teased: "Runwen, I'm almost out of vinegar at home, you help me mail a bottle over, the 3-year-old aged vinegar is best."

Wang Runwen spat out one word: "Get lost!"

Yu Shuheng held up two fingers: "Second time you've cursed at me."

Wang Runwen was stunned and didn't make a sound.

Yu Shuheng said: "Let's leave it at this, try not to call me in the future, otherwise we'll really become plastic sisters."

Wang Runwen didn't make a sound and directly ended the call.

Yu Shuheng looked at the red receiver in her hand, put it back slowly, and after sitting quietly for two minutes, picked up the coffee again and went to the attic.

At this time, the night was deep, the sky was not filled with stars, and Lushan Village did not have the lights of ten thousand homes; in the pitch-black darkness, there was only the sound of rustling rain accompanied by gusts of cold wind.

But she didn't feel cold; standing by the railing, after her gaze drifted aimlessly for a while, it finally stopped on the 26th small building.

Across the door.

After Yu Laoshi left, Li Heng didn't sleep.

Or rather, having been used to staying up late reading and writing for the past half year, he was a bit unaccustomed to going to bed early when suddenly idle, feeling his biological clock hadn't reached that point yet.

The more he lay in bed, the more energetic he felt, the more uncomfortable he felt; finally, having no other choice, he climbed up again and went to the attic outside to get some air.

Just as he came out, he noticed the figure opposite.

She also noticed him.

After silently looking at each other across the distance for a long time, Li Heng returned to the living room, turned off the electric light, and then returned to the attic again.

Facing the little boy who hid himself in the darkness, Yu Shuheng was dumbfounded and smiled.

After pondering for a long time, she resolutely turned around, entered the living room, and walked toward the stairwell.

Before long, she appeared on the first floor, appeared at the entrance of the 26th small building.

She didn't knock on the door, just waited under the umbrella, still carrying a bottle of red wine and two special wine glasses in her hand.

5 minutes passed, no reaction.

10 minutes passed, still no reaction.

Until 15 minutes, the big door opened from the inside without any signs, revealing a very speechless face.

"Teacher, you really know how to play."

Yu Shuheng just smiled, handed the red wine and glasses in her hand to him, and began to bend down to change her shoes.

"Your courtyard gate isn't locked."

"Hmm."

"Not locking it?"

Yu Shuheng changed her shoes, reached her right hand into her pocket, felt out a key, and handed it to him.

Li Heng didn't move: "Go yourself."

"I am a woman."

"I'm not lacking women."

"I am your teacher."

"I'm not lacking teachers either."

Hearing this, Yu Shuheng's smile bloomed even more, her eyes full of 'you know what I mean'.

Li Heng avoided her gaze, grabbed the key from her palm, put on a pair of shoes at random, and ran into the rain.

Not long after, he turned back and threw the key to her: "Only this once, no next time!"

When going upstairs, he couldn't help but ask: "In the middle of the night, Teacher, aren't you afraid I'll be hard-hearted and not open the door?"

Yu Shuheng walked forward, and after a good while said: "Didn't you already open it?"

Li Heng: "."

She asked: "Drinking or not?"

Li Heng refused: "Drinking ruins things."

Yu Shuheng didn't pay attention, poured two glasses for herself, and handed one to him:

"Little boy, a calm heart is naturally cool."

After a standoff for a while, Li Heng took the red wine, "Don't call me 'little', it doesn't sound good, I'm not little."

Yu Shuheng's gaze lowered, and after a turn, she drank the red wine in one gulp, then sat on the sofa.

Li Heng didn't follow, after watching her silhouette for a while on the spot, he suddenly said: "Teacher, you didn't turn off the living room light."

Yu Shuheng didn't reply.

However, Li Heng realized her thoughts belatedly; if she had turned off the living room light, he wouldn't have been able to see her actions of going downstairs and leaving the courtyard gate at all; she did it on purpose!

After another good while, her soft voice broke the silence: "Come over and keep me company drinking."

Li Heng said: "You really have forgotten the pain once the wound is healed."

Yu Shuheng poured a glass for herself unhurriedly, then put the red wine aside, signaling him to come over.

After pondering for a long time, Li Heng still sat over and handed the red wine glass in his hand to her.

Yu Shuheng glanced at it lightly, took the glass unexpectedly, filled the wine for him, and placed it in front of him.

She asked: "Not sleeping so late, something on your mind?"

Li Heng answered: "Can't sleep."

She nodded, shook the red wine in the glass lightly, and asked out of the blue: "Those three, who do you want to marry in the future?"

Li Heng answered: "Want to marry all of them."

Yu Shuheng laughed.

At this point, the two fell into silence again.

Each drank the red wine slowly, never clinking glasses, and never speaking.

Until a glass of wine was finished, Yu Shuheng's unfocused gaze gradually gathered, gathering on him.

Receiving her gaze, Li Heng's body tightened for no reason, but he didn't move, nor did he have any intention of speaking.

After looking him up and down, Yu Shuheng suddenly said: "Our misunderstanding, I will find an opportunity to clarify with Aunt Shen."

Li Heng said thanks.

Yu Shuheng laughed, "What are you thanking for?"

Li Heng indicated: "This is my politeness."

Yu Shuheng stared into his eyes and said eerily: "After I clarify it, if Aunt Shen still takes a fancy to you, then that's your business."

Li Heng: "."

He asked stunned: "Aunt is so unreasonable?"

Regarding this question, Yu Shuheng exerted her iceberg side and didn't give any reply.

As they talked, the two had nothing to say again, falling into silence for the second time.

This time she didn't break the deadlock again and poured herself another glass of wine.

After finishing, she got up and went to the secondary bedroom.

With a dull thud that wasn't too loud coming from the bedroom door, the two were completely separated, and the world was finally quiet!

Petrus, damn it! Don't know how much good wine like this Yu Laoshi has at home?

Having already drunk it, he didn't restrain himself anymore and slept only after finishing the remaining half bottle.

And don't say, because he drank wine, he slept very well, waking up only in the early morning.

But it was still because of his biological clock; when he woke up, the sky outside was just beginning to brighten.

The rain had stopped, the heavy twilight had disappeared, and the air was filled with the fragrance of soil.

The secondary bedroom door was still tightly closed; it looked like Yu Laoshi hadn't gotten up yet.

Li Heng didn't bother with her; after washing up, he jogged out of Lushan Village, planning to play basketball as usual, and then buy breakfast back.

But just as he ran out of Lushan Village, he bumped into 2 Mercedes-Benz cars head-on.

The first car stopped, and half a head poked out from the passenger seat, "Little Li, running to exercise?"

"Yes."

Li Heng exhaled and greeted: "Aunt Shen, good morning."

It was his first time seeing Aunt Shen's flashy side, actually bringing bodyguards with her.

Shen Xin asked: "Is Shuheng up yet?"

Li Heng's mouth twitched, damn it! Really afraid of what comes!

Shen Xin thought he was too embarrassed to say it, smiled kindly, and then said: "Auntie is here to bring you guys some vegetables, I have something on later, you go exercise."

"Eh, okay."

Li Heng didn't go to explain anything; suddenly, an intuition told him that it seemed impossible to explain clearly at all.

How does that saying go, don't try to wake someone who is pretending to sleep.

This Aunt Shen, don't know if she really misunderstood? Or is she pretending to sleep?

Or, both?

And then she just went along with the flow?

If it really was like this, it would only get darker the more it was described.

Just as he ran toward the playground basketball court, Shen Xin walked to the end of the alley carrying two bags.

She first looked at the tightly closed courtyard gate of the 25th small building, then turned her head and stared at the second floor of the 26th small building in a daze.

Not long after, movement came from the 27th small building next door; Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe walked out of the door, the two girls planning to go eat breakfast.

They both knew this Aunt Shen, but hadn't spoken to her.

Because the other party generally came in the morning or evening, at most once or twice a week, and rarely stayed long, which resulted in both sides not having the opportunity for close contact.

Seeing the other party staring at the 26th small building, Mai Sui walked over and asked tentatively: "Auntie, are you looking for Yu Laoshi?"

Hearing this, Shen Xin withdrew her gaze, her eyes swept over the two girls, her eyes very amazed, amazed at Zhou Shihe's beauty and temperament.

She was also surprised by the charming, yet not vulgar, allure that Mai Sui exuded at such a young age.

After looking for a while, Shen Xin asked: "Do you know the person in this small building?"

Mai Sui said: "We are classmates."

Hearing this, Shen Xin checked her watch, then handed the two bags in her hand to Mai Sui, "Girl, trouble you to hand these to Little Li or Yu Laoshi for me, I have something on, so I'll go first."

Mai Sui didn't react for a moment: "Little Li?"

Shen Xin said: "Li Heng."

"Oh, okay." Mai Sui took the bags and responded.

Shen Xin smiled at the two girls, then really left.

Looking at the departing back, Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe looked at each other for a while, then their gazes fell together on the iron lock of the 25th small building's courtyard gate.

At this moment, many things were self-evident.

Zhou Shihe, who usually didn't talk much, spoke first: "It might be a misunderstanding."

"Hmm."

Mai Sui hummed, took out the key, and placed the two bags on the first floor of the 26th small building.

When entering the door, she saw Yu Laoshi's women's shoes at a glance; she had a deep impression of these shoes because the other party wore them often.

But she didn't think deeply about it.

After all, Yu Laoshi staying overnight here wasn't the first or second time, and she had even kept the other party company for half a month.

Moreover, Yu Shuheng was Li Heng's teacher; this status didn't even have room for misunderstanding. Mai Sui, who had always been relatively conservative in her thinking, thought so.

Of course, she didn't have a misunderstanding because there was another innate condition: Yu Laoshi was the best friend of the high school English teacher.

And in the three years of high school, Teacher Wang also took care of Li Heng like this, and even traveled all over China together during the summer vacation, but nothing happened in the rumors of high school, so she trusted him very much subconsciously.

Or rather, instead of trusting the two teachers, it was better to say she trusted Li Heng completely.

For no reason, she was just willing to believe him inexplicably!

…

No matter how early it was, as long as it wasn't raining, there were guaranteed to be people on the basketball court.

Li Heng warmed up and joined in as usual, forming a team to compete.

He was still the shooting guard, habitually using three-pointers to collapse the opponent.

Okay, this collapse was a bit exaggerated. The opponent's center was from the school team and was a bit tough; the two teams played back and forth, and the score difference couldn't be opened up.

But at the last moment, he was lucky, hit a mid-to-long-range three-pointer at the buzzer, and achieved a buzzer-beater!

"Clap clap clap!"

Enthusiastic applause rang out on the basketball court; the old rule, the winning side shouted for the other side to buy soda.

Li Heng, covered in sweat, didn't wait for the soda, grabbed the coat on the railing to wipe his head messily, and then walked toward the stone steps on the right; there was an acquaintance here, Wei Xiaozhu.

From a distance of four or five meters away, he shouted: "How many laps did you run around the playground today?"

"8 laps." Wei Xiaozhu answered.

Li Heng turned his head to find Dai Qing, who was still running, "What lap is that girl on?"

Wei Xiaozhu knew it like the back of her hand, "It's the 14th lap."

"Amazing!"

Li Heng was praising sincerely; if he were to run it himself, he might not necessarily have this level.

Wei Xiaozhu seemed to guess what he was thinking and said: "Qingqing's father used to be on the national team, she was trained from a young age."

So that was it, no wonder her thin torso actually had such endurance.

After he finished wiping, Wei Xiaozhu handed him a bottle of soda: "You're thirsty, drink some soda."

The soda hadn't been opened yet, Li Heng asked: "I'll drink it, then what about yourself."

Wei Xiaozhu took out another bottle from behind, "Qingqing and I can drink one bottle."

Seeing this, Li Heng, who was truly thirsty, didn't act coy anymore, opened the cap, and drank it in big gulps.

After finishing, he asked: "I remember Old Hu also accompanied you guys to run laps a while ago, why hasn't he come recently?"

Wei Xiaozhu smiled and didn't answer this question, but said: "Qingqing is almost done with this lap, you go, otherwise she will keep running."

Li Heng looked at the figure on the playground again and understood that what she said made sense.

Usually, Dai Qing seemed a bit afraid to see him; if he stayed here and didn't leave, she wouldn't be able to come over, nor would she be able to stop, so she could only keep running.

Li Heng raised the soda in his hand and said to Wei Xiaozhu: "Then I'm leaving, thank you for the soda."

Then he didn't spare a word of praise: "Your clothes today look very good, very stylish."

Wei Xiaozhu rested her chin on her right hand, smiled brightly, and said thank you.

Leaving the playground, Li Heng raised his left wrist to check, didn't hurry back to Lushan Village, but first went outside the school, and familiarly made a call to the editorial department of "Harvest" magazine.

"Ding-a-ling"

"Ding-a-ling"

After waiting for a long time, the call finally went through, and the voice of editor Zou Ping came from the other side: "Hello, hello, this is 'Harvest' magazine."

"Old Zou, it's me." Li Heng announced his name.

Hearing this soul-stirring voice, Zou Ping subconsciously raised his head to look at the calendar on the wall, then asked impatiently:

"Old Li, is 'Cultural Travel Notes' finished?"

"Finished." Li Heng answered.

"Then I'll come over in a bit."

"Done!"

The call was concise and to the point, less than 1 minute before and after, but everything that needed to be said was said.

"Boss, how much?"

"One yuan."

"Here!"

Li Heng counted out 1 yuan, slapped it on the counter, and then went to buy breakfast.

Don't know if Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe had eaten breakfast yet; relying on the boldness of having money and being stupid, he bought 4 portions of breakfast in one breath, filled both hands with bags, and then slowly hurried back.

It was a coincidence; he met the fake Daoist and Chen Siya at the entrance of the alley.

These two were quite interesting, ha; ever since they tasted the forbidden fruit, it was as if they had opened up their Ren and Du meridians, no longer caring about the eyes of outsiders, and lived together openly.

"Old Fu, Sister-in-law Fu, good morning." Li Heng smiled brighter than the sun.

"Hi! You brat, really flashy with money. Not long ago, Mai Sui and Shihe just bought breakfast and went back." Old Fu heard his teasing tone and directly retorted with 'you brat'.

Hearing this, Li Heng went with the flow and asked: "Have you guys eaten?"

"No, share half with me and your Sister Chen." They were all old acquaintances; Old Fu reached out for breakfast carelessly, not knowing what politeness was at all.

"Fine, here." Li Heng handed over the one in his left hand.

Chen Siya took a cup of tofu pudding and asked: "Did Shuheng sleep at your house last night?"

"Hmm." Some things happened too many times, naturally they couldn't be hidden from the people around, Li Heng didn't cover it up at all.

Chen Siya joked half-truthfully: "I saw Aunt Shen come over today, she kept staring at your small building, staring for a long time."

"She even brought things to give you, is she treating you as a future son-in-law?"

If it were before, seeing Shen Xin come over, Chen Siya would have gone out to greet her immediately, but this morning she hid in the 24th small building and didn't come down.

The reason was that in this day and age, thinking was relatively conservative; she and Old Fu were living together before they were officially married, and she wasn't used to facing the eyes of outsiders, appearing a bit embarrassed.

Mentioning this, Li Heng was very distressed; the other party was arrogant and domineering, and he estimated that even explaining would be useless, so he immediately sprayed the fake Daoist, the culprit of the incident:

"I said Old Fu, Old Fu, now the misunderstanding has reached this point, it's all your pot; you don't go fishing in broad daylight, but insist on going at night. You tell me what kind of thing you've made."

Old Fu took a bite of a bun, baring his teeth: "You brat, don't get the benefit and still sell it; in this huge Hushi, how many people are rushing to want Yu Laoshi to sleep in their house, how many big families are thinking about Yu Laoshi, you see who has succeeded?"

"You should just burn high incense, anyway you're a man, and you won't lose a layer of skin, what are you being coy about?"

Li Heng rolled his eyes and complained, "Sister Chen, you should manage him well, this old thing is not a good thing; if he encounters this kind of opportunity in the future, he will probably climb up the pole, it's not allowed, must be disciplined!"

"Makes sense."

After these words, Chen Siya pretended to pull Old Fu's ear and left.

Old Fu was as obedient as a pug, hee-hee-heeing there.

Walking 10 meters away, Chen Siya turned back and said: "Have time to come practice piano more."

"Done."

Returning home, Mai Sui wasn't there, and Zhou Shihe wasn't there either.

Even Yu Laoshi was nowhere to be seen.

After searching, he found a note on the coffee table, it was Mai Sui's handwriting.

It said: We went to the library, breakfast is kept warm in the steamer below.

Library? What a distant name, damn it, I haven't been there since I came for so long.

Comrade Mai Sui, you said you'd call me together last time, didn't expect to leave me behind again.

Muttering, muttering, he crumpled the note into a ball and threw it into the trash can, eating breakfast with peace of mind.

The red wine bottle was still there, looking at him on the coffee table like a wife waiting for her husband. Li Heng thought of Yu Laoshi and her daughter when he saw it, and immediately reached out and tapped it depressedly.

Damn it!

Don't think that because your family is big and powerful, you can't be touched or felt, but I can still tap you from behind.

Past 10 AM.

Li Heng, who was lying on the desk listing books to buy, was awakened by the shouting from downstairs.

"Old Li! Old Li!"

This form of address was unique; except for the few people in room 325 calling him like this, only editor Zou Ping remained.

"Eh, coming!"

Li Heng responded by the window and quickly hurried downstairs.

Outside the door, there was not only editor Zou Ping but also Chief Editor Liao Hua; this was his god of wealth, couldn't be neglected.

Opening the door, Li Heng greeted enthusiastically: "Uncle Liao, Old Zou, long time no see."

"I wanted to come over, just afraid of disturbing you; today I heard from Little Zou that your book was finished, so I followed over immediately."

Facing him, Chief Editor Liao had no airs at all, spoke very kindly, and even brought some things, "These are some mountain goods from my hometown, venison and roe deer meat, you try it."

"Yo! These are good things, Uncle Liao went back to his hometown?" Li Heng took the bag, immediately couldn't help but open it to take a look, beaming with joy.

"The old man had his 70th birthday a few days ago, went back for a trip." Chief Editor Liao was from Heilongjiang, never lacking mountain goods.

"The old man is blessed."

Li Heng said, inviting the two to the study on the 2nd floor, and poured them two cups of hot tea.

Then he didn't dawdle, opened the drawer lock, took out all the manuscripts of "Cultural Travel Notes" from inside, and placed them in front of them:

"The whole book has 42 chapters in total, the rest are all here."

Chief Editor Liao's eyes lit up, took a big sip of tea, put down the cup, and couldn't wait to read it.

Zou Ping was the same, starting to do serious work.

For the next period of time, the study fell into absolute silence, with only the occasional sound of turning pages and the sound of Li Heng writing.

Two were reviewing manuscripts, one was listing books, they didn't bother each other, no one disturbed anyone.

About an hour later, Chief Editor Liao took off his glasses, reached out to rub his slightly tired eye sockets, and praised endlessly:

"Good! Good! Didn't expect that I would have the honor to witness two classic works within a year."

Which two?

Of course "To Live" and "Cultural Travel Notes"!

Two 'good's in a row, one sentence 'classic work', fully expressed Chief Editor Liao's love, admiration, and respect for "Cultural Travel Notes"!

Li Heng was very satisfied with Chief Editor Liao's intoxicated expression, even with a bit of smugness, but kept a steady composure on the surface.

This made Chief Editor Liao and Zou Ping look at him and secretly sigh: As expected of the talented December, mature for his age, truly rare.

With a leader like Chief Editor Liao here, Zou Ping tactfully didn't talk much, just kept turning the manuscript pages, his mind full of the golden editor dream.

Okay, now the golden editor dream was no longer a dream.

Last month, he represented "Harvest" magazine to attend an industry meeting, oh my! Many people who were high and mighty in the past took the initiative to greet him; his seat was moved from the back to the front, not to mention that everyone at the meeting politely called him Mr. Zou, the attitude was so good, oh! It was truly unprecedented, he was so satisfied!

For the past 6 years, no one asked, he was a small transparent in the literary world, didn't expect to meet a tough guy like Li Heng, he finally made it out, his status in the industry rose suddenly, making others envious! Jealous!

Whoa! Almost floating up!

Every time this happened, Zou Ping would rejoice, rejoice that when other magazine offices were secretly poaching him, he kept his original intention, didn't leave "Harvest" magazine, didn't leave Li Heng.

Now he often reminds himself that Li Heng is his big thick leg, his noble person, must not have two hearts, must not forget his roots.

Putting down the manuscript in his hand, steadying his mind, Chief Editor Liao put his glasses back on and talked about the serious business: "Very good, we will finish publishing it in the December issue."

It was already December 21st, actually "Harvest Magazine" had been waiting for his completion news, causing the layout to be delayed again and again, and didn't dare to come and urge.

Because Chen Laoyezi Ba had given instructions, "Cultural Travel Notes" had been glorious for half a year, the finishing work was very important, don't disturb.

The outside world was very expectant of "Cultural Travel Notes", even many news media had already written praise manuscripts in advance, just waiting for the final chapters of this masterpiece to come out.

A novel, truly achieved the masses looking forward to it!

Even inside "Harvest", they were waiting, waiting for the sales record after the 12th issue was published.

The October issue broke 2.75 million copies.

Can this issue break 3 million copies?

Everyone was waiting, everyone was expecting! Expecting a brand new record to arrive.

PS: Seeking subscriptions! Seeking monthly votes!

Afraid of everyone waiting, updated first, edited later.

Uh, let me say, every time I modify, the system will automatically swallow the comments behind it, it's not that Sanyue deleted them.

(Still have)

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