Chapter 348

Teacher Yu often likes to drink a little when she is in a good mood.

Li Heng accompanied her to drink a glass of Erguotou, but didn't drink much.

After dinner, the two locked the door and walked along the path. During this time, they also went to the village head's house and some villagers' houses to get a general understanding of the village structure.

Bailu Village is mainly composed of Zhao, Zhan, and Cao surnames. There are 6 groups in the village. The Zhao surname is groups 2, 3, 4, and 5, the Zhan surname is group 6, and the Cao surname is group 1.

It can be said that the context is clear and the structure is distinct.

The reason for choosing this village to stay was that this village roughly coincided with the location of the story in the novel "Bai Luyuan."

When choosing the site, Yu Shuheng had also sought his opinion.

There were 6 villages as candidates, and Li Heng directly decided on Bailu Village. His explanation was: the novel was written based on the county annals and literature of this village.

Other villages didn't have such a sense of history, and this village first produced a revolutionary, Zhao Xiping, who held a high position after the founding of New China. The village still has the other party's former residence and revolutionary relics. In the novel, the corresponding character is Lu Zhaopeng, the eldest son of the Lu family.

"This is Zhao Xiping's former residence."

Led by the village head and the descendants of Mr. Zhao, Li Heng and Yu Shuheng visited the former residence and revolutionary relics.

In fact, the house was plain, with mud walls and tiled roofs, which could be seen everywhere in the countryside, and there was nothing special about its appearance.

But inside, ho! The two actually saw the legendary tunnel.

That's right, it was a tunnel used to escape searches and even carry out war ambushes during wartime.

Seeing Li Heng curiously shining a flashlight inside, the village head reminded: "It's very deep below, be careful."

The flashlight couldn't see the end at a glance. Li Heng bent over and muttered: "It turned for a long section."

Yu Shuheng was afraid he would fall, so her right hand couldn't help but pull his left wrist, and after a while said: "Let's stop here today. When there is time, come back during the day to explore it."

"Mm, alright."

After leaving the former residence, the two wandered around the village for another half circle. Li Heng sighed:

"It is worthy of being a loess terrace. It is as flat as far as the eye can see, even flatter than I imagined. You can't see this kind of terrain in the south at all."

Yu Shuheng looked around and said: "This kind of place is suitable for farming. If it's for daily life, I still yearn for the mountainous and watery countryside in the south."

Li Heng asked: "Yearn?"

"Mm," Yu Shuheng replied indifferently.

Alright, some things are understood as soon as they are heard. Li Heng thought for a while and said: "When there is time, I will take you to see it."

"Alright," Yu Shuheng didn't be polite at all, smiled and said alright.

Li Heng looked at her, then looked at her again, and only withdrew his gaze when she turned her head to look over, murmuring to himself: "Teacher, I always feel that you are planning carefully. Please tell me, I thought wrong."

"No, I just want to go to your hometown to see," Yu Shuheng said very simply, without explaining any reason.

When it came to this, the two suddenly fell into silence.

For a long time after that, they didn't speak again, just walking and walking silently along the path.

After circling back home, Li Heng didn't take a shower immediately, but hugged the basketball and went to the backyard.

The courtyard had just been hardened with cement not long ago, and the ground was still brand new, without any traces.

Li Heng said sincerely: "Teacher, thank you for your intentions. It wasn't easy to get cement for this place, right?"

Yu Shuheng hugged her arms and leaned against the back door watching him play basketball: "It wasn't as difficult as you thought."

Alright, hearing this, he knew the question was asked in vain.

For people like them, a mere bit of cement really wasn't a difficult thing.

He hadn't touched a basketball for a while during the winter vacation, so Li Heng was a bit itchy and played quite happily. For example, dribbling, layups, shooting—one person could play by himself for a long time.

Yu Shuheng didn't rush to leave either. Maybe she was tired of standing, so she moved a small stool later, poured a glass of red wine, and sat under the window lattice sipping wine in small sips, watching him play.

After a long time, she said: "I really didn't expect you to play basketball."

Li Heng said: "I often played on the playground last semester. Two professors in Lushan Village often teamed up with me to play."

Yu Shuheng shook her head: "I'm not talking about you playing basketball itself, but your temperament gives people a literary feel, not like someone who loves sports."

Li Heng showed off a little: "I also quite like this literary feel; this is a kind of cultural accumulation."

Yu Shuheng said softly: "Do you think the literary feel makes it easy to deceive girls?"

Li Heng did a fadeaway jump shot for two points, then gestured to his face with his right hand and joked: "For someone like me, do I still need to deceive girls? In this regard, my mother solved my worries from birth."

Yu Shuheng stared at his face for a while, shook the red wine in her glass, and said suddenly: "You didn't coax Chen Zijin much when you slept with her, did you?"

Li Heng was stunned for a moment, not expecting her to ask such a question abruptly.

Seeing him stop his movements and look at her, Yu Shuheng took a very elegant sip of red wine: "I thought of that horoscope. Master Zou said that you lost half of your life when you slept with Chen Zijin."

Li Heng came to the outside of the three-point line, then smashed the basket with force, and the basketball spun rapidly in the rim and turned out: "I don't believe this."

Yu Shuheng asked: "Was she willing?"

"Of course, she is the person with the purest and most selfless feelings for me in this world," Li Heng said, standing in place.

Yu Shuheng asked: "What about Xiao Han?"

Remembering his loving married life with Xiao Han in his previous life, Li Heng said after a while: "About the same. It's just that Xiao Han has slightly higher requirements for me."

Yu Shuheng asked: "For example?"

Li Heng said: "For example, she hopes that I will put more attention on her. Also, she is a bit jealous."

Yu Shuheng asked: "If you had to choose one between Xiao Han and Chen Zijin, who would you rather choose as your wife?"

This sparked Li Heng's memories.

In his previous life, he originally intended to marry Zijin first because she was pregnant.

But the Chen family absolutely disagreed. No matter how Zijin let go of her dignity to beg, Zhong Lan just wouldn't allow it. She even mobilized the Chen family's power to prevent the two from being together, and put her daughter under her nose, not letting them meet.

After going to the Chen family to communicate and trying several times to no avail, the disheartened Li Heng stayed at Song Yu's house for a few months. During this period, receiving her meticulous care, his frustrated heart slowly regained its vitality.

He liked being with Song Yu the most in his heart, and seeing her every day, his thoughts inevitably became restless.

Once, taking advantage of the wine, he tentatively asked Song Yu: "Are you willing to marry me?"

Song Yu asked back: "Do you really want to marry me?"

Li Heng said yes.

Song Yu pondered for a moment and said: "Wait until Zijin's child is one year old, then bring this up to me again."

The subtext of Song Yu's words was: Zijin is currently taking care of an infant, and she is unwilling to take advantage of someone's precarious position, but she agrees in her heart. She agrees to marry him.

It was because of this delay that Chen Zijin directly used her child and her status as a best friend to grasp Song Yu's lifeline and weaknesses. Coupled with Xiao Han's efforts, it led to Li Heng's two subsequent marriage proposals ending in failure.

The later situation was simple yet complex.

The complexity was that, seeing Li Heng caring about Song Yu, Chen Zijin rarely reached a short-term reconciliation with Xiao Han and joined forces to deal with Song Yu.

Because they were both in Beijing, Chen Zijin was responsible for attacking her heart and attacking Song Yu.

Xiao Han found an excuse to trick Li Heng back to Changsha, and then played the emotional card, using her body as bait, successfully restraining him and no longer giving him the opportunity to go north.

Xiao Han had always been in a spiritual relationship with him and had always been cautious about bed matters, thinking about giving it to him after marriage. But Li Heng's marriage proposal to Song Yu and Chen Zijin's childbirth made her feel a huge crisis, which changed her mind.

So after successfully tricking Li Heng to Changsha, she weighed it and gave him her first time in advance.

As for the matters between men and women, once there was a first time, there was no need to worry about the second. Under Xiao Han's deliberate catering, Li Heng experienced the happy time of "the king not attending the morning court from now on."

Regarding that period of time, Xiao Han, who had already married him, later proudly used an idiom to describe him: "Happy and forgetting about Shu."

The above is the complexity.

And the simplicity is: because Comrade Li Jianguo was critically ill, in his last life, his greatest wish was to see his son start a family.

At that time, Li Jianguo was lying on the bed, grabbing Li Heng's wrist with a pale face, and said with difficulty: "If I could see you start a family with my own eyes, I would die without regrets."

At this point, there is one thing that must be mentioned.

During Li Jianguo's hospitalization, Xiao Han, as a doctor, took the most care of him. It was also taking advantage of this opportunity that she and the Li family got along well.

Originally, Song Yu had already asked for leave and planned to go with Li Heng to take care of and accompany her future father-in-law in his final days, but once she entered the ward of Xiangya Hospital, she slowly changed her mind.

Because Song Yu went late.

There was no room for her in the ward at this time. Whether it was Li Jianguo or other members of the Li family, they only had Xiao Han, who was busy around, in their eyes.

Looking at the happy laughter of Xiao Han and Li Jianguo's couple, Song Yu stayed for half a day and then returned home, returning to Beijing in a lonely manner.

On the plane, Song Yu's mind was full of a sentence from the second sister Li Lan. Li Lan said to Xiao Han: "Hanhan, hurry up and pick a time to marry my brother. Dad doesn't have many days left. If you drag it on, accidents are easy to happen."

This accident was the fear that Li Jianguo would die prematurely.

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional. This sentence was originally whispered by Li Lan to Xiao Han outside the door, but it was clearly transmitted into the ward. Not only did Song Yu hear it, but Li Jianguo and Tian Run'e also heard it together.

Hearing this from her second daughter, Li Jianguo and Tian Run'e looked at Song Yu, who was pouring tea, at the same time, their eyes full of shame.

Song Yu felt the unusual gaze of the couple, but she pretended not to know, endured the suffering in her heart, and pretended to be calm to pour tea for the couple.

At this time, Li Heng was not in Xiangya Hospital; he had returned to his hometown for an emergency. Because someone robbed graves, robbing more than a dozen graves, including the Li family's ancestral graves.

The ancestral mausoleum was robbed and the bones were scattered outside. This was a major event. Li Jianguo urged Li Heng to go home to deal with it, which led to him not having time to take care of Song Yu.

After a while, the ward door opened, and Xiao Han and Li Lan walked in together.

Xiao Han first talked to Li Jianguo and his wife for a while, then pointed the spear at Song Yu, and said crisply: "Let's talk alone."

Song Yu guessed what she wanted to talk about, but still put down the teacup and followed her out.

Coming to a deserted place, Xiao Han turned to look into her eyes and said: "I'm pregnant, I want to marry him."

In fact, Xiao Han was not pregnant at all at this time; she was just mentally blackmailing Song Yu.

With Xiao Han's fox-like shrewdness, she calculated that throwing out this bombshell of pregnancy under such circumstances, which were extremely unfavorable to Song Yu, the proud and reserved Song Yu would definitely not be able to hold on and would definitely soften her heart and make concessions.

Sure enough, everything was in Xiao Han's calculations, and Song Yu agreed.

Facing each other, Song Yu endured the sadness in her heart and simply said one word: "Alright."

After saying "Alright," Song Yu didn't stay long before saying goodbye to Li Jianguo and his wife, left Changsha, and returned to Beijing.

Song Yu had suspected the truth of Xiao Han's pregnancy, but after seeing everything in the ward, these were no longer important. She knew that the Li family tended to have him marry Xiao Han.

Receiving the implicit signal sent by the Li family, Song Yu didn't struggle at all and very neatly fulfilled Xiao Han and Li Heng.

At that time, Chen Zijin originally disagreed, disagreed with Xiao Han and Li Heng getting married, but after flying to Xiangya Hospital in person and seeing Li Jianguo, who was as thin as a skeleton on the hospital bed, the heart that had been fighting for more than ten years finally loosened at this moment.

Chen Zijin only made one request to Xiao Han: "You can get married, but 12 months a year, he must be in my house for 4 months."

Hindered by Chen Zijin's trump card of having a son for Li Heng, Xiao Han used a delaying tactic and agreed.

Xiao Han's idea was very direct: after marriage, it won't be up to you anymore.

The facts were indeed so; marriage is a watershed.

Before marriage, in the ten fights between Chen Zijin and Xiao Han, Chen Zijin could win 6 times.

But after marriage, the situation immediately reversed. Xiao Han, who was good at summarizing the experience of struggle, began to suppress Chen Zijin step by step.

If it weren't for Song Yu, if it weren't for the fact that Song Yu, the biggest rival in love, was watching, Xiao Han would have canceled the two "Five-Year Plans."

The so-called two Five-Year Plans were that Xiao Han was prepared to use 10 years to clear away all traces of Chen Zijin in his heart.

Originally, the implementation of the first Five-Year Plan went very smoothly, until one time when she and Chen Zijin made a big fuss and couldn't get along, she suddenly looked back and found that the bastard had run to Song Yu's house without a sound.

For this reason, Chen Zijin mocked Xiao Han: "You really thought he didn't know your wolfish ambition? He is besieging Wei to save Zhao, standing on my side."

Chen Zijin was really right. Li Heng was intentional. You two fight, both palms and backs of the hands are meat, and I can't beat you both. However, through the means of running to Song Yu's house to stay, he successfully dispelled Xiao Han's idea of dominating him alone.

The reason why it was successful was that Xiao Han reflected in seclusion for two days and realized a truth: if she continued to fight with Chen Zijin, Song Yu would be the final winner. It would also force Chen Zijin to Song Yu's side.

Xiao Han drew a triangle on the paper with a pen, stared at the triangle for a long time, and finally folded the paper into a heart shape, put it in an envelope, and mailed it to Li Heng.

She just mailed a triangle, and there were no other text annotations.

After Li Heng received the letter, he handed it to Song Yu, then packed his luggage and returned to Changsha.

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