Chapter 380

Wei Xiaozhu's aunt is named Wei Yining, about thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old, and is a professor at Fudan University.

First, she looked at Li Heng at close range, then Wei Yining led the two to the sofa, poured two cups of tea and asked:

"Did you bring the photo? Let me see."

Hearing this, Li Heng took an envelope out of his pocket, took out the photo and handed it over.

Wei Yining took the photo and sat on the side and watched. As time passed, she was a bit distracted for a while.

After a while, Wei Xiaozhu was afraid that Li Heng would be anxious, so she took the initiative to ask for him: "Auntie, did you remember?"

The contemplation was interrupted, and Wei Yining, who came back to her senses, sighed at the photo and said: "Like! It's really too like!"

Li Heng's heart moved, "Where did the teacher see her?"

Wei Yining recalled the past and said: "She should be my junior sister, about two years younger than me. When I was preparing for the college entrance examination, she had just entered our school.

However, she is as beautiful as your mother, and she is very famous in school. That's how I know her."

When the words reached this point, Wei Yining paused, and then continued to talk: "After graduation, I also met her twice in Lianyungang. Once was at the funeral of a high school Chinese teacher. This Chinese teacher taught us at the same time.

Another time was in the waiting room of the train station, and we chatted a few words."

Li Heng asked: "How long has it been since the last meeting?"

Wei Yining didn't answer at the first time, and it took a long time to remember: "It's been almost 8 years."

Li Heng was stunned: "So long?"

Wei Yining nodded: "I work in Shanghai. Except for the New Year and festivals, I don't go home often, so the number of times I can meet is naturally small."

After chatting for ten minutes, Wei Yining put the photo back into the envelope, then placed it on the coffee table and said: "I'll take the photo first, and go back to help you inquire. If there is a clue, I will notify you again."

"Okay, thank you, Teacher."

Li Heng thanked her sincerely, and then got up to say goodbye with great insight.

Seeing this, Wei Xiaozhu also stood up and prepared to leave together.

Unexpectedly, Wei Yining called her niece at this time: "Xiaozhu, you wait, Auntie has something to tell you."

Hearing this, Wei Xiaozhu stopped, smiled at Li Heng and said: "Then you go first, wait for Mai Sui to come back another day, and we will eat together again."

"Eh!"

Li Heng responded and went out directly.

After he left, Wei Yining closed the door and asked: "Are you secretly dating?"

Wei Xiaozhu was asked to cry and laugh: "Auntie, why do you ask this kind of question, he has a girlfriend."

Wei Yining nodded when she heard it, and changed the subject: "I heard that many boys are pestering you?"

Wei Xiaozhu answered helplessly: "Hmm, it was like this in middle school, I'm used to it."

Wei Yining asked: "What about Liu An?"

Wei Xiaozhu was confused: "Auntie, why do you ask about this person?"

Wei Yining said: "Liu An's mother seems to have taken a fancy to you too, and entrusted someone to ask me to do your ideological work."

Wei Xiaozhu said expressionlessly: "I hate him more."

Wei Yining frowned. In her impression, her eldest niece generally doesn't express emotions so directly. It seems that this Liu An really provoked Xiaozhu.

Wei Yining said: "Since you hate him, keep your distance. Our Wei family women don't get used to the other party."

Leaving Yan Garden, Li Heng shuttled through the heavy rain with an umbrella, and returned to Lushan Village in a while.

At this time, there was pleasant piano music coming from the small building No. 27. He paused at the door, and after seeing the gate of the small building No. 27 closed, he returned to his home without stopping.

He was too lazy to make a big fuss for dinner, so he cooked a bowl of noodles casually, paired with pickles in a jar, and ate with relish.

"Pa pa pa"

Just when he was halfway through his noodles, there was a knock on the door from the first floor.

Probing into the attic, he found Editor-in-Chief Liao and Editor Zou Ping standing outside the door.

Li Heng went downstairs quickly to open the door and asked face to face: "It's raining so heavily, why are you here?"

Editor-in-Chief Liao glanced at the noodles in his bowl, "Is this your dinner?"

"Isn't it, I'm lazy, don't want to move anymore." Li Heng greeted the two to go upstairs to sit.

Zou Ping put a sack of reader letters next to the coffee table, and then specifically took out a letter for him: "This is a letter from Mr. Jin Yong in Hong Kong, specifically entrusted to us to pass on to you."

Li Heng asked subconsciously: "Which Mr. Jin Yong? The one who writes martial arts novels?"

Zou Ping nodded: "That's him."

Li Heng took the letter in surprise and opened it on the spot.

There was a letter paper inside, with two paragraphs written on it.

In the first paragraph, Jin Yong expressed his love and reverence for "Bai Luyuan", full of praise.

In the second paragraph, Mr. Jin Yong said that he wanted to visit Li Heng in person in the summer.

That's right, it's words like reverence and visit in person. Li Heng read it twice, and then handed the letter to the two, "You guys take a look."

After reading the letter, Zou Ping's eyes were full of ecstasy. This is Jin Yong, one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, who actually put his posture so low. This is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for "Bai Luyuan", which is currently full of criticism outside.

Can be used as a gimmick for refutation!

Editor-in-Chief Liao was also stunned, then smiled and said: "Very good! It seems that as the teacher expected, a good book like 'Bai Luyuan' will not lack people with insight."

Then Editor-in-Chief Liao asked him: "Then do you see him or not?"

Thinking of Mr. Jin Yong's fame, thinking of the overwhelming slander outside, thinking of the new sports brand about to be launched, how could Li Heng miss such a once-in-a-lifetime publicity opportunity, "See! But I have to wait until I finish writing 'Bai Luyuan' before talking."

Editor-in-Chief Liao and Zou Ping looked at each other and felt that it should be so.

This time the two came, one was to send reader letters, and the other was because the criticism of "Bai Luyuan" outside was getting fiercer and fiercer, fearing that Li Heng couldn't think about it, fearing that he was under too much pressure, so they specifically came to see his mental state.

As for the result, Li Heng can eat and jump, talk and laugh, so the two felt relieved.

After talking for half an hour, Zou Ping left the small building No. 26.

Editor-in-Chief Liao didn't rush to leave, waited for a while before opening his mouth: "Have you met Zhaoyi recently?"

Li Heng didn't know what medicine was in the other party's gourd. After pondering for a moment, he nodded and said: "Before Liu Yue went abroad, I saw her off."

Seeing this, Editor-in-Chief Liao automatically made up for the subsequent scene. It was nothing more than little Liu Yue being unreasonable, forcibly organizing a meal for Li Heng and Zhaoyi. Later, he took out a yellow-brown envelope from his briefcase and placed it on the coffee table: "This is what Zhaoyi asked me to give to you."

The envelope was not opened. Li Heng glanced at it and said: "Okay, thank you, Senior Brother."

After chatting for a while, Editor-in-Chief Liao also left. Li Heng took an umbrella and sent him to the alley entrance himself.

After the minibus left, he didn't rush home, but went to Dorm 325.

A week passed, although Watching Li Guoyi had been discharged from the hospital, he was mainly recuperating at his uncle's house now.

At this time, Zhang Bing was not in the dormitory, but was selling roasted sweet potatoes at the school gate.

And the other 4 people were neat and tidy, but the atmosphere in the dormitory was a bit heavy, all gathered around Hu Ping smoking, without saying much.

Li Heng entered the door and asked: "What's wrong with you guys?"

Seeing him come in, the lively Li Guang spoke first, "Brother Heng, you are back, Old Hu fought with someone."

Li Heng looked at Hu Ping, "With that junior student?"

Hu Ping took a few deep puffs of cigarettes, handed a cigarette to Li Heng, and helped him light it, before saying dully: "I can't swallow that breath."

Li Heng asked: "Is it serious?"

Hu Ping said: "The other party's little finger and ring finger were broken by me."

Li Heng was speechless. How much anger must be in his heart to break the other party's two fingers alive.

Because he was older and always regarded himself as the big brother, Zhou Zhangming spoke at this time: "Old Li, the other party has great power, Old Hu may be punished, or even..."

Zhou Zhangming looked at Hu Ping and didn't say the words behind.

But Li Heng understood, fearing being expelled from school.

He asked Hu Ping: "Who started it first?"

Hu Ping said: "The other party started it first, but I didn't let them."

Tang Dailing said: "Let them go! At worst, be expelled. Anyone can't swallow this breath."

After speaking, the atmosphere in the dormitory fell into a stalemate again.

Li Heng comforted: "How did that sentence go? We don't cause trouble, but we are not afraid of trouble. If you are bullied to the head and don't fight back, that's a coward. It's no big deal, the other party is at fault first, maybe they won't report to the school."

Hearing him say this, Zhou Zhangming, Li Guang, and Tang Dailing all breathed a sigh of relief.

Hu Ping rubbed the cigarette with his fingers and said with a gloomy face: "I have already thought about it. If the school only gives me a punishment, then forget it. If I am expelled, I will find him to settle the account later, damn it! Don't read books."

Li Heng: "..."

Zhou Zhangming: "..."

Li Guang: "..."

Tang Dailing raised his hand: "Old Hu, I support you, the men of 325 should be like this, can die but not cowardly! Call me if you need help, count me in."

Watching Li Guoyi had an accident, and Hu Ping also had an accident, and both were for Wei Xiaozhu. Li Heng secretly sighed, damn it, this is the legendary red face disaster reflecting reality.

In order to broaden Hu Ping's heart, he stayed in the dormitory to blow cowhide and talk about women with them until 9:30 in the evening before returning to Lushan Village.

At this time, it was late at night, and the piano music had long stopped.

Li Heng, who was walking in the middle of the alley, looked up unconsciously, and happened to see the pitiful figure on the attic, and asked: "Are you alone at home?"

"Hmm." Zhou Shihe gave a hmm.

Looking at each other across the air, Li Heng asked again: "Do you want to go to my house for a while?"

Zhou Shihe pondered for a moment, said okay, then turned and went downstairs. In a while, she walked out of the courtyard gate and appeared beside him.

Seeing that she didn't bring an umbrella, Li Heng took the initiative to move the umbrella in his hand over to help her cover the rain: "No umbrella at home?"

"My umbrella was taken away by Manning and Ningning." Zhou Shihe said so, fearing that his right shoulder would be drenched in the rain, she moved a small step closer to him and followed him into the small building No. 26.

Closing the door and going up to the second floor, Li Heng briefly described Mai Sui's going home, and then said to her: "We are not outsiders, you are familiar with this place anyway, please feel free, I'll take a shower first."

After Zhou Shihe watched him enter the shower room, she slowly looked around, and finally sat on a separate sofa. The coffee table was habitually placed with newspapers from the past few days. She picked up a newspaper and read it.

As usual, the front page headline was news about him and "Bai Luyuan". After reading a report roughly, there was not a good word, all of which were literary criticisms criticizing the writer December for being willing to degenerate, writing yellow books, not loving himself, and not knowing what to say.

Change a newspaper, still.

Change another newspaper, again.

Changing to the 4th newspaper, Zhou Shihe flipped through it, and there was still news criticizing him.

At this point, she looked up at the shower room, faintly worried for him. Such a big wave of "Writer December" made her feel that someone was organizing damage behind her back.

More than ten minutes later, Li Heng walked out of the shower room. Seeing her looking at himself, Li Heng asked: "What's wrong?"

Zhou Shihe asked gently: "Have you read these newspapers?"

Li Heng understood her meaning in seconds, and smiled indifferently: "Hi! I thought it was something, don't worry about me, I have a big heart, a few stinky farts and bugs can't disgust me. History has its own public opinion, and it will be divided in the future."

As he said, he sat over and asked: "I remember I still owe you a 'The Last of the Mohicans' that I haven't played for you to listen to. It's been almost half a year, why don't we cash it in now?"

Zhou Shihe was a bit moved, but raised her right wrist to check the time and said: "It's a bit late today, it will disturb other teachers, why not tomorrow."

"Okay, that's fine." Li Heng just suddenly remembered this, and then asked on a whim. Seeing her so calm, he didn't force it.

Zhou Shihe asked: "Is there any clue about your little aunt's matter?"

Li Heng talked about the matter in the Red Building of Yan Garden, "It's hard to say for now. Teacher Wei hasn't seen her for 8 years. Where is she now? Is she still in Lianyungang? All are unknowns."

After chatting about the little aunt for a while, Zhou Shihe finally opened her mouth: "Can you let me see the follow-up manuscript of 'Bai Luyuan'?"

Li Heng laughed, and asked meaningfully: "Did you keep thinking about how to open this mouth just now? Or let me take the initiative to open it?"

Facing each other, Zhou Shihe smiled, and didn't deny it.

The reason why she came to his house tonight was for the follow-up manuscript of "Bai Luyuan". She had wanted to see it for a long time, but seeing him so busy, she pressed the words on her lips back several times.

"You wait, I'll go get it."

After saying that, Li Heng got up and went to the study, and soon came to the coffee table again: "Give! You have already read the first 12 chapters in the magazine, here it starts from chapter 13."

"Hmm, thank you." Zhou Shihe said thank you, took the manuscript and read it.

Zhou girl is very focused, and soon immersed in the world of the book.

Li Heng didn't rush to read or write tonight, but sat quietly on the sofa and thought about things for a while, and only picked up the yellow-brown envelope on the coffee table after his mood completely calmed down.

There was no handwriting on the envelope, it was blank.

Li Heng pinched the corner of the envelope, observed for a while, and slowly tore it open.

Somewhat unexpectedly, there was only one letter paper inside, and the content was very, very small, just two lines of words.

The first line is an address, a property address in Yang Pu.

The second line is even more concise, a string of numbers, a landline phone number.

Besides that, there are no other traces.

Li Heng tasted it twice, what does this mean?

Could it be that the big Qingyi bought a new property in Yang Pu?

Hinting that he can go over when he is free?

Can find her at any time?

And a man going to find a woman alone, a woman who has had a relationship, and this woman has feelings for the man, even a fool can read the deep meaning in it, right?

As for the phone number, Li Heng vaguely felt that there were two meanings: one is that she is on call; the second is that he can seek help from her through the phone if he has difficulties.

In fact, he really guessed right.

It has been a week since the relationship happened. During these days, Huang Zhaoyi didn't go anywhere, and even pushed two Peking opera performances, fearing that he would suddenly want to find himself but couldn't find anyone.

But after waiting for a week, the result was wishful thinking. She was a little disappointed, but after the disappointment, she understood that this was reality.

After all, Li Heng has no feelings for her.

And he is not short of women around him, even if he wants a woman, there are other places to go,

So after thinking about it, Huang Zhaoyi gathered the courage to write a letter and entrusted Editor-in-Chief Liao to pass it to him.

The property in the letter was newly bought by her, not far or near from Wujiao Square, which is convenient for him to go over and also keeps secrets for him.

Huang Zhaoyi's thoughts are very simple. She didn't think about monopolizing him, nor did she think about exposing this relationship, just hoping to continue the relationship, and the best ending is to stay by his side if there is a chance in the future.

In fact, reason tells her that the possibility of Li Heng coming to find her in a short time is slim, but she still has a fluke, and bought a new house with longing.

Scanning the property address and phone number again, Li Heng folded the letter paper along the old traces and planned to stuff it back into the envelope.

Hmm?

Is there anything else inside?

When he picked up the yellow-brown envelope, he suddenly discovered that there was something else in the envelope. When he poured it out, it was actually a key.

Whose key is it?

What is the key used for?

It goes without saying.

The key fell on the coffee table, making a crisp sound when it touched the glass.

Although the sound was not loud, it was very eye-catching in the living room where you could hear a needle drop.

Isn't it, Zhou Shihe in the world of the book was awakened. She subconsciously raised her head and looked over, just in time to see Li Heng picking up the key.

"Did I disturb you?" Li Heng asked.

She shook her head gently, and the moment her pure and bright black and white met his eyes, she retreated quickly.

At this time, Zhou Shihe's face was slightly flushed, and there was some abnormality. It was obvious that she was influenced by the plot about the two sexes in the book.

Li Heng, who has lived for two lives, is so sharp that he figured out the cause and effect without much brain movement, "Which chapter are you reading?"

Zhou Shihe said quietly: "Chapter 15."

Get it, he has an impression of Chapter 15, which has a large description of bed affairs, no wonder Zhou girl, who usually has excellent psychological quality, also had waves.

It is really!

It is really that she usually doesn't come into contact with this kind of thing, and when she touched it for the first time, she was poisoned instantly.

Being stared at by him, even Zhou Shihe, who has experienced the baptism of many opposite-sex gazes, was a bit unnatural. She knew that her abnormality should have been noticed by him. Thinking of when she lived in the same room with him in Beijing, he would occasionally appreciate himself quietly like this, her heart was suddenly chaotic.

In the past, for his actions and spring dreams, Zhou Shihe would subconsciously attribute them to the reason that they lived in the same room for too long.

And for her own charm, she has had a deep understanding since she was a child, and he is a normal man. Even if he suppresses it all the time, it is inevitable that he will doze off. Therefore, she has never taken it to heart.

Thinking that after leaving Beijing, these things would disappear with the passage of time.

The facts are indeed so. In the past six months, Li Heng has been too busy to pay much attention to her. This led Zhou Shihe to misjudge that he had forgotten all the past events that happened in Beijing.

This is also the reason why she was relieved to come to the small building No. 26 with him tonight.

Just afraid that the air would suddenly be quiet, the two parties were in a subtle atmosphere, and neither opened their mouths for a while.

Zhou Shihe didn't dare, she was afraid of breaking the balance and causing the opposite effect.

And Li Heng was purely in the game without knowing it, and it took a long time to react that it was a bit rude to stare at people like this.

Taking two deep breaths, Li Heng stood up, then turned and entered the study. The whole process was clean and neat, without saying a word.

Hearing the sound of closing the door, Zhou Shihe slowly raised her head, her line of sight stayed on the sofa position where he just sat for a while, and then stayed on the closed study door for a while, and her hurried heart finally calmed down gradually.

After the disturbance just now, she couldn't read the book. First, she was empty-headed and stared at the night outside for a while.

Then she stood up, hesitated again and again, put the manuscript in her hand on the coffee table, and closed all the doors and windows in the living room, so as not to be blown away by the wind.

After doing all this, Zhou Shihe scanned the study door again and walked to the stairwell.

Ceng ceng ceng went downstairs, passed through the main room on the first floor, and appeared in the alley outside not long after.

It was still raining heavily at this time, and there was a southeast monsoon. In just ten meters, she ran over and her whole body was half wet.

Returning to the gate of her courtyard, Zhou Shihe looked back at the study with lights on the second floor, took out the key with her right hand, opened the door, and walked in lightly.

The house was a bit cold, far less warm than the small building next door. Zhou Shihe stood in the middle of the house for a long time before going to the second floor.

After changing clothes, she didn't go to the bedroom, but went to the piano room, sitting in front of the piano, fragments of "Bai Luyuan" echoed in her mind from time to time, and her eyes fell on the left side of the piano for a while, and on the right side of the piano for a while.

Once upon a time, this was the fixed place for him and Teacher Yu.

This night, Li Heng stayed up all night and didn't sleep until 9 o'clock the next morning.

Although exhausted, the harvest was gratifying. He finished writing Chapter 37 of "Bai Luyuan" and refined it.

This night, Zhou Shihe didn't sleep much, and suffered from insomnia for the first time in her familiar bed. Her mind was full of scenes of living together in Beijing and skiing in the Northeast, as well as the indescribable look he looked at her.

The next day, Li Heng didn't wake up until after three o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhou Shihe was no exception, and made up for a sleep, leaving Lushan Village at noon and returning to the girls' dormitory building No. 9.

As for the promised playing of "The Last of the Mohicans", she was released again. She didn't ask, and he didn't mention it.

In the following days, Dorm 325 was waiting for the school's notice. As a result, as Li Heng expected, Hu Ping had nothing to do. The school didn't come to find trouble at all, and there was no wind from the school academic affairs office. It was calm, as if nothing had happened.

June 1st, Wednesday.

The blue sky was washed today. After several days of rain, it ushered in a sunny day.

Around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Yu Shuheng returned.

Li Heng, who heard the movement, ran out quickly and asked, "Teacher, where is Mai Sui?"

Yu Shuheng looked at him and opened her mouth softly: "Go into the house and talk."

PS: Updated first, edited later.

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