Chapter 274

Laying out the bedsheets and putting on the duvet cover all by oneself takes a bit too much time.

Once the bed was made, Mai Sui walked out of the bedroom and said, "It's ready, you can carry her in."

Li Heng raised his head: "You carry her, I'll help steady you."

Mai Sui was surprised and looked at him.

The reason she was surprised was that whether it was Yu Laoshi, or Manning and Ye Ning, he had carried them all himself; how come it was different when it came to Shihe?

Was he deliberately avoiding suspicion?

But the problem was, why didn't he avoid suspicion with the others, only with Shihe?

Could it be because Shihe was too beautiful?

This point truly could not be denied; in Mai Sui's heart, Shihe was a woman who could rival Song Yu, and it was understandable for a man to be a little timid in front of her.

But, Yu Laoshi from earlier was also breathtakingly beautiful, with that 100% scholarly temperament that even Mai Sui, as a woman, was secretly amazed and envious of.

Why didn't Li Heng have any reservations about Yu Laoshi and handled her directly, yet treated Shihe differently?

A thought suddenly popped into her mind.

Then she pondered, perhaps it had to do with weight; compared to Yu Laoshi's height of 172, compared to Ye Ning's tall stature of 176, and compared to Manning's 106 jin, Shihe was indeed much lighter.

Looking at each other, Li Heng offered no explanation and said directly, "You try, if you can't move her, I'll come."

Many thoughts were born in Mai Sui's heart, but the moment she heard his voice, they were all suppressed; no matter what, she had always trusted him.

She was willing to trust him.

Mai Sui reached out to move her a little and said, "It's fine, Shihe isn't as heavy as them, I can carry her."

"Mm."

Because he knew that Zhou Shihe was awake, he tried to speak as little as possible, just a simple "mm" would do.

"Slow down, don't twist your ankle." Seeing Mai Sui's body sway, Li Heng was startled and quickly steadied her.

"It's nothing, the cotton slippers were a bit loose just now," Mai Sui said.

What she meant by loose was that her foot had slipped out of the slipper, causing her to stumble.

Helping her into the master bedroom, Li Heng took a brief look and found that Zhou Shihe's boudoir was just like the person herself: simple but not simplistic, and arranged very comfortably.

Once Mai Sui had laid her flat on the bed, Li Heng said, "I'll wait for you outside."

"Okay."

Li Heng left, and to respect her privacy, he even closed the bedroom door on his way out.

Mai Sui helped her best friend take off her shoes, straightened her legs, covered her with the quilt, and after hesitating for a moment, sat on the edge of the bed to carefully examine the woman on the bed, only turning off the light and leaving after a long while.

Hearing the footsteps fade away, Zhou Shihe slowly opened her eyes, looked at the ceiling for a while, and then slowly closed them again.

"Why did you stay in the bedroom for so long? Were you sleepy?" Down on the first floor, he asked.

"No, I just felt that Shihe's features were too perfect, so I admired them for a while," Mai Sui said.

Li Heng tilted his head, "You're not bad either, you can just admire yourself in the mirror, why go far to seek what's near?"

Meeting his gaze, Mai Sui smiled softly and said meaningfully, "You can just fool me with those words, but don't fool yourself, otherwise why would you be so obsessed with Song Yu?"

Li Heng looked at her and said leisurely, "Meeting at Fengling Ferry for the first time, once you see Yang Guo, your life is ruined. I truly fell in love with Song Yu at first sight, and I could never forget her after that."

Mai Sui thought for a moment and asked, "Is this from Jin Yong's 'The Return of the Condor Heroes'?"

Li Heng turned his head: "Have you read it?"

Mai Sui said: "My father is a huge fan of Wu Xia, there are hundreds of various Wu Xia novels at home, even my mother was infected by him and loves to read them too. I've heard them discuss it before."

Arriving at the door, just as he was about to pull the bolt, Mai Sui suddenly asked from behind: "Do you love Song Yu's beauty, or do you love her as a person?"

Li Heng stood with his back to her, and after a long time, spoke from his heart: "I love both!"

At this, the two fell into silence.

This was the first time this had happened since they had known each other.

After a while, he broke the silence: "What are you thinking about?"

Mai Sui said: "I'm thinking about that sentence just now."

"About Song Yu?"

"No."

"Meeting at Fengling Ferry for the first time, once you see Yang Guo, your life is ruined?"

"Yes."

Li Heng asked: "Do you yearn for this kind of love?"

Mai Sui gave a low "mm" and said with deep emotion, "Which girl wouldn't be obsessed with this kind of love?"

Li Heng turned around and looked at her silently.

Their eyes met, and Mai Sui suddenly gave a charming smile, "It's getting late, you should go back and rest."

"Okay."

Li Heng agreed, reached out to pull the bolt, and after opening the door a crack, he faced the cold wind blowing in and said, "It's too cold outside, you should stop here, go to sleep early."

"Mm, don't stay up late either," Mai Sui urged.

"Got it, I know."

Saying this, Li Heng slipped out and disappeared into the night.

Peeking out to look, Mai Sui then closed the door, latched it, and stopped there.

A moment later, her body slumped limply against the door panel, her forehead pressed against the wooden door frame, her whole body feeling weak, as if her bones had been removed.

She vaguely regretted saying those things just now.

Would he misunderstand her?

She shouldn't drink so much next time; she, who could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, warned herself.

Unless the situation was special.

Unless he let her drink.

"Thump, thump, thump."

Just as her thoughts were drifting in all directions, clear footsteps came from the wooden stairs; the person coming seemed to be making the sound on purpose, with the goal of letting the person on the first floor hear.

Mai Sui turned around and looked in the direction of the sound.

Before long, Zhou Shihe, wearing a beige wool sweater, appeared in her sight.

Looking at each other across the distance, you looking at me and me looking at you, the two women didn't speak for a while.

After a long while, Zhou Shihe asked: "Are you okay?"

Almost at the same time, Mai Sui said: "Why did you come down?"

Looking at each other, Zhou Shihe said gently and gracefully, "I originally wanted to sleep until dawn, but I didn't see you come up for a long time, so I was worried."

Then, she added regretfully, "I shouldn't have been soft-hearted, it won't be easy to pretend to be drunk in the future."

Mai Sui smiled, checked the latch, walked over, and grabbed her arm, "Let's go, let's go upstairs."

Going up to the second floor, Mai Sui said: "I'll sleep with you tonight."

Zhou Shihe nodded, stood at the entrance of the washroom, and watched her best friend wash up.

"He opened the door and left, didn't you hear it?" Mai Sui asked while brushing her teeth and washing her face.

Zhou Shihe smiled faintly.

How could she not have heard it?

If she hadn't been certain that he had already left, she wouldn't have come downstairs to check out of worry.

Returning to the bedroom, the two women lay down side by side.

"Shihe, are you ready? I'm turning off the light."

"Ready."

More than ten minutes passed, and a voice with natural charm suddenly rang out in the silent bedroom: "Are you asleep?"

"No."

"Can't sleep?"

"Mm."

Mai Sui asked: "Why can't you sleep?"

Zhou Shihe replied: "I drank too much, my head is aching slightly."

Mai Sui turned over, faced her best friend, and asked with concern: "Do you want me to go make you some hangover soup?"

Zhou Shihe squirmed: "No need, why aren't you sleeping?"

"I'm the same as you, I can't sleep."

"Thinking about something?"

Mai Sui said: "Thinking about a question."

Zhou Shihe turned her head.

Unfortunately, the curtains were drawn tightly, and the bedroom was pitch black, so she couldn't see anything.

She pondered for a moment and asked: "What question is worth such deep thought from you?"

Mai Sui was silent, and after a long while said: "I wish I were as beautiful as you."

Zhou Shihe was surprised, not expecting that this was the question troubling her best friend, "You are already very beautiful."

Mai Sui closed her eyes, "Not beautiful enough!"

Hearing this, Zhou Shihe thought of Xiao Han, thought of Xiao Han's exquisite and flawless features: "What kind of person is she?"

"Li Heng?"

"Xiao Han."

Hearing this, Mai Sui knew her best friend had misunderstood. But thinking of Li Heng's previous warning that she shouldn't interfere in his private feelings, she didn't explain, but followed along and said: "I don't know much about Xiao Han either."

"Li Heng came to Shanghai specifically for her?"

"Mm, otherwise he would have gone to Peking University."

On the other side, Building 26.

Li Heng, who had returned to the second floor, didn't go to sleep immediately.

Like Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe, he had no sleepiness at all.

Leaning on the sofa, he thought of many people and many things.

Including Song Yu, Zijin, and Xiao Han.

Including Li Jianguo, Tian Run'e, his second sister, his eldest sister, and his grandmother.

Also including the English teacher later on, as well as Mai Sui and Aunt Shen Xin, whom he had just parted from.

Later, feeling it wasn't enough, he went downstairs to find two bottles of unfinished beer, then boiled a pot of water, poured the beer into a vegetable bowl, and then let it warm up in the boiling water to drink.

Drinking sip by sip, the night grew deep without him knowing.

"Creak!"

A soft sound seemed particularly conspicuous in the silent night.

Li Heng looked over at the sound and found that the guest bedroom door had opened, and Yu Laoshi had walked out from inside.

Yu Shuheng took a look at the man on the sofa, then walked into the washroom to brush her teeth and rinse her mouth, appearing in front of him two minutes later:

"It's so late, why aren't you sleeping?"

Li Heng replied: "Can't sleep."

Yu Shuheng took a clean cup, poured a cup of hot water, put a pinch of tea leaves in it, sat down, and asked: "Something on your mind?"

Li Heng looked at her and took a sip of wine.

Yu Shuheng held the teacup with both hands, "Tell me about it."

Li Heng said: "You wouldn't understand even if I told you."

Yu Shuheng smiled: "Little boy, I am your teacher."

Li Heng raised his eyelids, "Teachers know everything?"

Yu Shuheng said: "You tell me first."

Li Heng smacked his lips and asked: "If a middle-aged aunt has taken a fancy to you and wants to scheme to make you her son-in-law, may I ask teacher, how should this difficult problem be solved?"

Yu Shuheng smiled slightly upon hearing this, "Simple, there are three strategies: upper, middle, and lower. Which one do you want to hear?"

Li Heng became interested, "What is the upper strategy?"

Yu Shuheng said, "Refuse!"

Li Heng asked: "How to refuse?"

Yu Shuheng said: "You have a mouth, hands, and feet; if you can't even manage this, living is a waste of food."

Li Heng's mouth twitched: "What about the middle strategy?"

Yu Shuheng teased: "Pursue the aunt's daughter's best friend, and make the raw rice into cooked rice."

Li Heng almost spat out a mouthful of old blood and took a fierce sip of wine, "The lower strategy?"

Yu Shuheng slowly rotated the teacup in her hand, "Reform yourself, keep yourself clean, and go to a temple to become a monk."

Li Heng was stunned: "Become a monk?"

"What's wrong with being a monk? You can cut off the red dust and sever karma, and the troubles you have tonight won't exist," Yu Shuheng said.

Li Heng squinted and asked: "Do you know my troubles?"

Yu Shuheng glanced at him: "A little boy acting all mysterious, isn't it just for a woman?"

Li Heng warned sternly, "I'm not little!"

Yu Laoshi's gaze dropped, circled a certain spot, and then she sipped her tea with a smile.

After a long while, she asked: "Which woman has turned you upside down?"

Li Heng said: "Teacher, aren't you boasting about being powerful?"

Yu Shuheng tapped the teacup lightly with her finger, looked at him, her eyes flashing with a strange light:

"There are so many women around you, do you really think I can't guess?"

Staring at each other for more than a minute, Li Heng blinked first and retreated in defeat.

She asked triumphantly: "Convinced?"

Li Heng took a sip of wine: "A good man doesn't fight with women."

Yu Shuheng smiled elegantly and sipped her tea.

For a time, the living room fell silent, both were busy with their own things, and neither spoke for a while.

It wasn't until Li Heng's gaze drifted aimlessly and accidentally drifted to her chest that the woman opposite reacted.

She raised her head and asked meaningfully: "Little boy, is it better to look through a layer of gauze, or through a door?"

Li Heng quickly withdrew his gaze and said apologetically: "Sorry, this is a man's instinctive reaction to beautiful things, it wasn't intentional."

Yu Shuheng said: "If apologies were useful, what would we need the police for?"

Li Heng: "."

He shook his wine glass and said: "Human good and evil often lie between a single thought, teacher, you shouldn't refuse a person's sincere apology."

Yu Shuheng pressed: "What is the consequence of refusing?"

Li Heng pointed to the guest bedroom, "You will like it here in the future."

Yu Shuheng glanced at him several times, "Little boy, you are very narcissistic."

Li Heng didn't speak, just drank wine.

Seeing him drinking so happily, Yu Shuheng asked: "Is there any more wine at home?"

"No, that was the last half bottle," Li Heng replied.

Yu Shuheng didn't fight him for it, and only after he finished drinking did she speak gently: "You have to catch a flight tomorrow morning, go to sleep early."

Li Heng looked at his watch, got up and went to the washroom, and when he came out, he saw Yu Laoshi still sitting on the sofa motionless, "Aren't you sleeping?"

Yu Shuheng said: "I've woken up, I'm not sleepy."

Li Heng nodded and entered the master bedroom.

After drinking wine, it was easy to sleep, and he entered dreamland without knowing it.

In his dream, a graceful figure he had dreamed of was entwined with him, making him feel like he was dying of pleasure, making him unable to stop.

It was like being in a fairyland on earth, he had never been so happy.

When he woke up from the dream.

When he suddenly opened his eyes, he was stunned to find that Yu Laoshi was actually in his room, sitting on a chair like a stone statue looking at him.

Li Heng was a bit confused and asked groggily: "Teacher, you didn't sleep all night?"

Yu Shuheng replied: "Tea is refreshing, I have insomnia."

Li Heng glanced at the master bedroom door, "Then, then why are you in my room?"

Yu Shuheng looked at him with a half-smile, "You have to ask yourself that."

Li Heng's voice raised a few notches: "Me?"

Yu Shuheng asked: "Did you have a dream?"

Li Heng recalled, "I had several."

Yu Shuheng asked: "Did you dream of Song Yu?"

Li Heng paused and said yes.

Yu Shuheng asked: "Besides Song Yu, who else do you remember dreaming of?"

Li Heng's eyes flickered, and he didn't speak.

Looking at each other for a while, Yu Shuheng stretched in front of him until she successfully attracted his attention, then suddenly leaned over and asked gloomily:

"Little boy, is my real figure better, or is my figure in your dream better?"

"Ah?"

Li Heng was dumbfounded, and after he came to his senses, he closed his eyes and lay flat, not looking at her.

Damn it! I finally had a wet dream, and I didn't expect to be caught red-handed by the owner of the dream, this is really social death!

Social death!!!

Even if my skin is thick, it's social death!

Yu Shuheng stood up, looked down at him for a while, then walked away in high spirits, leaving the master bedroom.

At the door, she didn't forget to ridicule with a smile: "I started timing you from the moment you called my name, 34 minutes and 31 seconds in total, not bad."

Li Heng: "."

As the footsteps went downstairs and away, Li Heng swore fiercely, damn it! I must lock the bedroom door when I sleep in the future, being watched live, it's just too.

It's just too!

Sigh! Yu Laoshi, oh Yu Laoshi, you are born so well, and you have a full score of scholarly temperament, why can't you just be a decent person?

May I ask, what man doesn't have wet dreams?

Can a man who doesn't have wet dreams be a man?

Lifting the quilt to take a look, he looked at the mess in depression.

He despised his vice-president, you kid are too disappointing, guests came to the house last night, do you know what a guest is, is this how you treat guests?

If you give two hundred million at once like this, even if my family fortune is thick, it won't be enough for you to squander.

Phew! What a spendthrift!

Throwing his shorts into the trash can and taking a shower, Li Heng finally felt refreshed and alive again.

Then he didn't dare to delay any longer, simply packed a few changes of clothes, and carried the trash bag downstairs.

He had to throw this thing away himself, otherwise if Comrade Mai Sui saw it, he would have to suffer social death again.

Coincidentally, he met Yu Laoshi and Chen Siya as soon as he went out, the former also carrying a bag.

"Yu Laoshi, Sister Chen, good morning." I didn't check the calendar when I went out, damn it, I bumped into them again, he really wanted to dig a hole and drill into it.

"Good morning," Chen Siya greeted.

Yu Shuheng glanced at the bag in his hand, and a hint of indescribable smile appeared on her expressionless face, almost making someone's face turn red.

When the three of them were about to reach the alley entrance, they happened to meet Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe who were returning from buying breakfast.

Mai Sui looked at the time and quickly handed him a breakfast, "There's still time, eat on the way."

"Mm." Li Heng didn't act coy and took it to eat.

Mai Sui was a meticulous person and naturally bought one for Yu Laoshi too, "Yu Laoshi, are you going to Shaodong County?"

As for Chen Siya, of course, she would share one from the girls, and go back to buy more later.

"Yes," Yu Shuheng took the breakfast and said thank you.

Mai Sui said: "Say hello to Teacher Wang for me and Li Heng."

Yu Shuheng glanced at Li Heng and agreed.

After chatting for a while, they saw a familiar figure get off the passenger seat of a Mercedes-Benz, Shen Xin.

This was the second time seeing this aunt sitting in the passenger seat, could it be motion sickness? That's why she sits in the front row?

Seeing this, Yu Shuheng said to Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe: "The car is here, the three of us are leaving first, it's cold outside, you guys go back too."

"Okay," Mai Sui responded.

Zhou Shihe also nodded.

Before leaving, Li Heng urged, "Sleep at home, you two remember to close the doors and windows tightly."

"Mm," Mai Sui responded.

Zhou Shihe didn't speak, just let her gaze wander between Aunt Shen and Li Heng. She noticed that this aunt who had just gotten off the car didn't talk to Yu Laoshi first, but walked towards Li Heng.

With outsiders present, Aunt Shen still paid attention to propriety and didn't use the tiger-wolf words that were a bombshell as soon as she opened her mouth like yesterday noon.

Aunt Shen said with a full face of smiles: "Shuheng said you are going to the airport to catch a flight this morning, so Auntie came specifically to see you off."

"Eh, thank you Auntie," Li Heng squeezed a smile on his face.

So that's it, I said, how could it be such a coincidence?

Meeting Yu Laoshi and Sister Chen as soon as I went downstairs, they probably followed me downstairs when they saw me go down to the second floor.

Phew! The alley is too narrow, there's really no privacy at all, it seems that in the future when there are women at home, I have to pull the curtains.

Li Heng and Yu Laoshi sat in the back seat, and Aunt Shen continued to drill into the passenger seat.

After the car started, Shen Xin asked: "How many days are you staying in Beijing this time?"

This question reminded him of the return flight ticket Yu Laoshi gave him, the morning of the 1st.

Li Heng thought for a while, "Don't know yet, have to see the situation."

Along the way, it was Li Heng and Shen Xin chatting, lively and harmonious.

Aunt Shen lived up to being the hostess of a big family, she knew how to liven up the atmosphere and find topics, and there was basically no cold scene.

On the contrary, Yu Shuheng didn't say much from beginning to end, sometimes looking out the window, sometimes closing her eyes to rest, occasionally glancing at the little boy beside her.

In front of people, during the day, this Yu Laoshi returned to her cold-as-frost side.

At the airport, Li Heng's flight was half an hour early, and after watching him check in and leave, Shen Xin took a ticket out of her pocket and gave it to her daughter, encouraging: "You go in too."

Yu Shuheng glanced at the ticket and remained unmoved: "I'm going to Changsha."

"Stubborn, how can a best friend be better than a tender man?" Shen Xin criticized her daughter.

These words directly broke Chen Siya's defense, who was originally here to see her good sister off, and didn't expect to see such a scene.

Alright, watching the play is fine, Aunt Shen, what do you mean by this? Does it mean that my 15-year friendship with Shuheng is not as good as Li Heng, whom she has known for less than half a year?

Shen Xin patted Chen Siya on the shoulder to comfort her, then said to her daughter:

"Beijing is far from Fudan University, you can put down the burden brought by the identity of a teacher, and relax with Li, maybe you will have different thoughts."

Yu Shuheng seemed not to hear, bypassed her mother directly, and walked towards the washroom.

"Shuheng, wait for me," Chen Siya's curiosity exploded, and she quickly ran after her.

Entering the washroom, Chen Siya scanned the surroundings and asked in a low voice: "What does your mother mean by this?"

Yu Shuheng asked: "Didn't you guess it long ago?"

Chen Siya said in surprise: "Guessing is guessing, but how could Auntie be so attentive to Li Heng? Isn't it a bit too proactive?"

It's no wonder she asked this, because neither Old Fu nor Yu Laoshi had revealed Li Heng's identity as a writer to her.

Yu Shuheng washed her hands, "She prides herself on long-term wisdom. But I think it might be a turtle looking at a turtle, they caught each other's eyes."

Chen Siya said: "How can you describe Auntie like that?"

Yu Shuheng smiled.

Chen Siya asked gossipingly: "When did it start?"

Yu Shuheng replied: "Half a month ago."

On the plane, Li Heng basically dozed off until a flight attendant handed him a note.

He raised his head, full of confusion.

The flight attendant pointed with her right hand: "The lady by the window asked me to give it to you, sir."

Li Heng looked in the direction of her finger, he didn't know her at all, so naturally he wouldn't take the note.

The flight attendant went back, and after a while came back again, with an extra note in her hand.

Li Heng was speechless.

The flight attendant was also a bit speechless, but still handed the note to him and whispered: "Sir, I'm sorry, I can't afford to offend that person."

Li Heng asked: "Do you know her?"

The flight attendant nodded, "She often takes our flight."

She didn't say one thing, twice she was personally accompanied by company leaders, and they were quite, quite polite and respectful.

Li Heng said: "You tell her, I'm going to Beijing to surrender, if she has the heart, go to the prison to visit me. Since she is so powerful, she should be able to find out which prison I'm in."

The flight attendant tried her best to hold back her laughter, holding it very hard, but didn't dare to laugh out loud.

Li Heng asked: "Is it impossible to finish the errand?"

The flight attendant nodded again.

Li Heng said, "Then I'll write it down for you?"

The flight attendant respectfully handed over paper and pen.

Li Heng took the pen and wrote down what he just said word for word, "Go finish the errand, you can throw those two notes away secretly yourself."

The flight attendant didn't dare, still put the two notes in front of him, turned around and left.

Li Heng was too lazy to even look, directly crumpled them into a ball and threw them into the trash bag.

When the plane landed, when he got off the plane and was about to leave, a fashionable woman came to about 5 meters away from him, stared at him for a while, and left.

Crazy, he thought.

Walking out of the gate with the crowd, the flight attendant from just now chased after him and asked: "Sir, where are you going? I can give you a ride."

Li Heng asked: "Are you a local in Beijing?"

"Yes, someone is coming to pick me up," the flight attendant said.

Li Heng said: "Thank you, I'm going to my father-in-law's house, my brother-in-law and my wife are waiting for me outside."

"Not going to prison anymore?"

"That works too."

"Then sir, see you again if fate allows," the flight attendant left tactfully.

Watching the other party walk away, Li Heng reached out and touched his face: What day is it today? How did I become Tang Monk meat?

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