Chapter 412: , The Night is Too Beautiful (Please subscribe!)

The simple-minded one came over.

But Yu Laoshi was scared, and didn't even care about picking the milk mushrooms all over the ground, retreating continuously to Li Heng's side before settling down.

The reason she was scared was because at this time, the simple-minded one had a snake wrapped around each of his hands.

And they weren't small snakes; the snake on his right hand was as thick as a hoe handle, estimated to be over two jin (1 kg).

The snake on his left hand was slightly smaller, but not by much; 1.5 jin was more than enough.

Li Heng had two fears: fear of ghosts and fear of snakes.

However, hindered by Yu Laoshi's presence, he couldn't show it, and couldn't help but ask: "The one on the right is a rat snake, I know it's non-venomous. What snake is the one on the left?"

Zhang Zhiyong raised his left hand, twisted his mouth and said: "Damn! You don't even recognize a black-banded snake? Grandmaster Heng, you were chased by this kind of bastard when you were catching frogs as a child, and you forgot?"

Li Heng shook his head: "There were many snakes that chased me, how could I remember so many?"

Speaking of it, it's all tears.

When he was a child, he originally wasn't afraid of snakes. When he met a snake, he liked to take a stick to tease it like other little partners, and often caught them with his bare hands, occasionally putting the snake on his shoulder to show off in front of girls.

This was also the reason why he was often chased by snakes, because he loved to tease them.

But the good times didn't last long. Once, when cutting cattle grass with neighbors, he saw with his own eyes a neighbor uncle bitten by a snake, and he died of poison within an hour.

According to the village barefoot doctor's statement, the neighbor uncle was unlucky and happened to be bitten by the snake on the main artery of his thigh, so the toxin acted fast. The scene at that time was very tragic, leaving him with an indelible psychological shadow.

From then on, he didn't touch snakes anymore, and would roll as far as he could when he saw one, running far away.

Seeing Yu Laoshi was afraid, the simple-minded one took the initiative to stay away from the two, shaking his head and swaying with a bit of pride:

"Grandmaster Heng, later I'll peel the snakes, you come and cook, the old master has been craving this for a long time."

"Okay, make a flavored snake, and also a ginger-spicy snake." Although he was afraid of snakes, he only feared live ones. He wanted as many dead ones as possible, and loved eating them.

Picking all the milk mushrooms on the ground, the three set off for home.

On the road, he asked Yu Shuheng, "Teacher, do you dare to eat snake?"

Yu Shuheng looked into his eyes, "Do you dare?"

"Delicious, you have to believe in my cooking skills." Li Heng blinked at her.

Yu Shuheng was infected by his emotions, thought for a moment, and said: "I'll try."

Returning home, Fatty began to slaughter the snake. He tied the snake to a tree with a rope, chopped off its head with a single stroke of a knife, then rummaged around the incision to find the edge of the snake skin. He then pinched the skin tightly and pulled hard toward the tail, and a perfectly intact snake skin was peeled off just like that.

The whole process was very smooth, seemingly very stress-relieving.

Yu Shuheng even took a photo for the simple-minded one who was peeling the snake and taking the gallbladder.

Pinching the snake gallbladder, Zhang Zhiyong shouted loudly: "Freshly baked snake gallbladder, no money, who wants to eat?"

"Me."

"Me."

"..."

Several people scrambled for it, and finally it was swallowed raw by a girl and a middle-aged man.

Yu Shuheng seemed to be listening to Arabian Nights, asking Li Heng in a low voice, "Not afraid of parasites?"

Li Heng nodded and shook his head, "The countryside eats like this, used to it. It is said that eating snake gallbladder raw is good for the body."

Hearing this, scanning the surrounding crowd, Yu Shuheng didn't speak again, but took the camera into the house.

Taking advantage of the Li family being in the courtyard outside, she used the camera to do a carpet-style scan of the first and second floors. Except for the toilet and the coffin, other spaces were photographed.

She didn't know why she did this either?

But she followed the voice in her heart and did it.

She wasn't sure if this was the last time she would come? She had to leave something as a souvenir.

Tian Run'e came back earlier than them. Since seeing Yu Laoshi and her son holding hands on the mountain, she had completely paid attention to Yu Laoshi.

Look, seeing Yu Laoshi's photography move didn't escape her eyes. Looking at the scholarly Yu Laoshi, Tian Run'e was a bit dazed: What virtue and ability does the old Li family have? What virtue and ability does Manzai have? To be able to get such favor from the other party.

From her heart, Tian Run'e felt that the old Li family wasn't worthy of her.

Even if her son is a great writer now, she doesn't feel he is worthy of Yu Laoshi, because he is too fickle!

Fickle to the point that she, as a mother, felt very guilty, feeling sorry for these girls who were all top-notch.

Dinner was very rich, not only green and red pepper stir-fried milk mushrooms, but also flavored snake, ginger-spicy snake, pagoda swamp eel, long beans, and crucian carp soup.

That's right, the main theme is local wild vegetable flavor.

This swamp eel was sent over by his eldest brother-in-law Zou Shusheng last night. Now he has finished his apprenticeship as a carpenter. Because his craftsmanship is okay and he is diligent and hardworking, his reputation has spread, and whenever someone in the nearby villages needs a carpenter, they can think of him. Now he can't finish the work at all.

Li Heng picked a piece of ginger-spicy snake for Yu Laoshi, "Teacher, try it, see if you are used to eating it?"

Yu Shuheng stared at the snake meat in the bowl, her chopsticks moved, then moved again, seemingly lacking the courage.

Li Heng smiled, picked up a piece of snake meat and put it in his mouth, personally demonstrating for her, and didn't forget to say after eating: "Very fragrant."

Under the attention of the table, Yu Shuheng didn't hesitate this time, summoned the courage to take a bite, paused, and then couldn't stop at all.

She said softly: "The taste is even better than I imagined."

Hearing Yu Laoshi say this, the atmosphere at the table instantly became better, plus the simple-minded one, the 5 people at the table ate and drank shaojiu, having a great time.

Regarding the interaction of picking dishes between Manzai and Yu Laoshi at the dining table, Tian Run'e and Li Jianguo, who knew the situation, pretended not to see and didn't break it.

As for Zhang Zhiyong, heh! Don't you see the nickname simple-minded? Can a name be called wrong, can a nickname be taken wrong? Because Yu Shuheng is a university teacher, this idiot didn't think much in that direction at all.

And in this guy's cognition, as long as it's a beauty, Grandmaster Heng gets along well with the other party, which is already not surprising.

Dinner, the simple-minded one shouted and drank a large vegetable bowl of shaojiu, at least half a jin, just as expected. After drinking, he fell down. Li Heng still carried him back personally.

Yu Shuheng accompanied him out for a walk and asked one more question: "Does Zhang Zhiyong have something on his mind?"

Li Heng sighed: "His sweetheart is pregnant with someone else's child."

Yu Shuheng was stunned, her brain didn't turn around for a while.

Li Heng changed to another way of saying: "His sweetheart married someone else."

Yu Shuheng glanced at the simple-minded one with his head drooping: "Are you saying he fell in love with a married woman?"

Li Heng nodded: "Saying it like this, it seems right."

Hearing this, Yu Shuheng looked at the simple-minded one seriously for the first time, "Also from your village?"

Li Heng pointed to Zhang's neighbor, "His neighbor, look, that pregnant woman with a showing belly."

Following his gaze, Yu Shuheng saw a woman who looked very ordinary. The other party was just taller than ordinary rural women, and her spirit was also good. Otherwise, she couldn't see anything particularly attractive.

Seeing Liu Chunhua, Yu Shuheng, who had lived for 26 years, truly understood a sentence: Radishes and cabbages, each has its own love.

Yu Shuheng teased: "Are you two birds of a feather in this place?"

Li Heng didn't understand: "Which place?"

Yu Shuheng said meaningfully: "Isn't Chen Zijin also your neighbor?"

Li Heng: "..."

He replied gloomily: "Sigh, Teacher, we are also neighbors."

Yu Shuheng was stunned. Only then did she react that this little boy seemed to like eating grass by the nest.

Sending Zhang Zhiyong home, Li Heng took Yu Laoshi for a slow walk on the road.

Regarding Yu Laoshi's gossip, anyway, the whole Shangwan Village had already spread it last night. He didn't have any taboos, was very generous and didn't cover it up, very bright.

Beauty is beauty, not to mention a woman with full scholarly atmosphere, not to mention a woman with such noble and elegant etiquette and demeanor. Along the way, wherever the two walked, the doorways and corridors of the farmhouses were full of people. Everyone looked at Yu Shuheng curiously, like looking at a Western scene.

Every place had people whispering, whispering behind their backs:

"That woman is so tasteful, the daughter of Secretary Xiao in the small town is at most like this."

"I prefer this one, full of charm. Compared to this one, the one selling wontons at Shimen Station is nothing."

"Pah! Full of charm, is full of charm something you toad can talk about? Listen to me, she is from a big place in Shanghai."

"She is Li Heng's university teacher."

"A dignified university teacher, why would she come to this kind of rural place where birds don't shit with Li Heng? Don't the two have a leg?"

"If you say that, you should chew less tongue. Li Heng and Chen's eldest daughter are already a pair. If this talk spreads, it will bring big trouble, and you can't afford the consequences."

"Right, right, I agree with Old Zhou's words. This woman came back in a sedan car. I heard the secretary say that the car is super expensive, and there are bodyguards. Do you know what a bodyguard is? I'm afraid it's not someone we can afford to offend."

Hearing the intermittent discussion, Li Heng smiled: "Teacher, you are very popular."

Yu Shuheng asked curiously in a low voice: "What are they saying?"

Li Heng said: "Saying you are very beautiful."

Yu Shuheng looked at him mysteriously, and after a while looked forward and asked: "Then do you think Teacher is beautiful or not?"

"Beautiful!" Li Heng praised sincerely.

Passing by the village brigade headquarters on a walk, Li Heng saw the women's director and Liu Juan's mother and daughter washing Chinese cabbage by the threshold.

The women's director obviously had already heard of Yu Shuheng, raised her head and looked for a long time before joking in dialect: "Li Heng, are you going to change your partner?"

Li Heng waved his hand, "Auntie, this is my teacher."

Saying this, he turned to Liu Juan, who was peeking at him and Yu Shuheng, "Sister, if you want to look, look openly, there's nothing shameful."

As soon as this was said, Liu Juan's face was redder than a monkey's butt, lowering her head, not knowing what to do for a while.

Seeing her daughter was too useless, the women's director said: "Li Heng, you are a well-known great writer now, don't tease her. At first, I sent her to you for free, but you didn't want her. If this goes on, Juanzi's reputation will be ruined and she won't be able to marry."

Li Heng laughed happily and didn't take the bait.

Seeing him stop to chat with the women's director, Yu Shuheng stood by and listened very patiently, occasionally scanning Liu Juan. Her evaluation was that this little girl was too green, and compared to the women around him, she was too far behind, not in the same world at all.

After ten minutes, Li Heng and Yu Laoshi left.

Watching the back disappear, the women's director changed her amiable attitude just now and ridiculed her daughter: "If you want to look, look properly, what are you shrinking for? Isn't it shameful? With your ghost appearance, can he eat you?"

Don't look at Liu Juan being as timid as a mouse in front of Li Heng, but in front of her mother, she was also stubborn, immediately fighting back: "What ghost appearance? Isn't it the seed you gave birth to? Like mother like daughter."

The women's director pointed at her: "Didn't you see he is a great writer? You have also been to a big place like Shaoshi. Have you seen a woman more beautiful than this beautiful teacher? Anyway, I haven't. If I were you, I would study hard, get into a famous university, and don't fantasize about a toad eating swan meat all day."

Liu Juan was unhappy: "What is a toad eating swan meat, explain it clearly to me."

"This needs explanation? Li Heng is only 2 years older than you. He is a writer, he is a musician, he is studying in a famous university, and you are going to be a senior in high school, not even in the top 50 in Shaoshi No. 1 Middle School. If this isn't a toad, what is? Don't think I don't know what's written in your diary..." The women's director was angry that she didn't live up to expectations and chattered on.

Hearing her mother peek at her diary, Liu Juan was furious, akimbo and scolded: "Yes! I can't compare to Li Heng. But Li Heng's parents are both university students, both senior intellectuals. What are you and Dad? You are dirt farmers. You were born without the gene for reading, why compare me to him?"

The women's director opened her mouth, speechless, it was the first time she was ridiculed by her daughter like this, her face blue and red, but she couldn't find a rebuttal for a long time.

Leaving the village brigade headquarters, Yu Shuheng raised her right wrist to check the time: "Any activities tonight?"

Li Heng asked: "Teacher still wants to go out?"

Yu Shuheng's eyes revealed a hint of anticipation.

Li Heng said: "Go trap swamp eels and loaches? Or go catch frogs?"

Yu Shuheng thought for a moment, "Frogs."

"Okay."

Li Heng agreed, went home to change into boots, took a flashlight and a urea bag, and set off with Teacher.

"Teacher, you take the urea bag, follow behind me." After walking 200 meters, the two came to a pond, and he handed the urea bag to her.

"Okay." Yu Shuheng also took a flashlight in her left hand and took the urea bag with her right hand.

After the division of labor was clear, Li Heng started searching with the flashlight. Before long, he found a big frog in the green grass, visually estimated to be 2 liang (100g) heavy.

Using strong light to shine on the frog's eyes, it didn't move. Li Heng walked over quietly, aimed at the time, covered the frog with his right hand, and then grabbed it and put it into the urea bag. The action was done in one go, clean and neat.

Looking down at the frog jumping around in the bag, Yu Shuheng hurriedly pinched the bag mouth with her hand and asked: "Are frogs all so easy to catch?"

"Try it later." Li Heng said.

Yu Shuheng was eager to try.

In this era, there is no pesticide damage, and the ecological environment is excellent. Various frog species by the pond are piled up, green, yellow, and earthy, as well as toads, all of them. However, he preferred green and yellow ones.

Uh, he didn't know what the yellow ones were called in Mandarin? In dialect, they are called tree frogs, they don't grow big, and they are the only frog species that can be eaten without peeling. It is said that the nutritional value is extremely high, but the price is also very expensive. In the market, it is 3 times that of ordinary frogs.

In places with water and cover, there is about one frog every three steps, two every five steps, and occasionally two or three in one place. Whenever he encountered this kind, Li Heng caught the big ones and released the small ones, picking the biggest ones to catch. There is no way, he could only catch one, and the rest would definitely run away if frightened, so he maximized the profit.

Before long, Li Heng was tired of catching, catching at least 3.5 jin.

He turned to Yu Shuheng and said: "Teacher, I'll take the bag, you walk in front, let's catch for a while and then go back."

Yu Shuheng nodded, passed him and walked in front, starting her first wild show.

The result was not bad, better than expected. If she encountered 10 frogs, she could catch seven or eight. Every time she caught one, she had a sense of achievement, and every time a big one ran away, she would sigh slightly, then reorganize and continue forward.

Catching and catching, the plastic bag became heavier and heavier. The jumping inside had become another world. Li Heng weighed the bag, and the weight was estimated to be about 5 jin.

Another one was in hand. From the pond side to the river side, then to another pond side, Yu Shuheng had a harvest as soon as she bent down.

It's just that she hadn't had time to be happy this time, and when she stood up, she was startled by the "ghost shadow" in front. For that moment, her whole body felt cold, and her soul seemed to have left her body!

Li Heng was always paying attention to her movements, mainly to prevent poisonous snakes from hurting her, so his attention was always quite concentrated. Seeing her suddenly scared out of her wits, he lunged over, hugged her, hugged her behind him, and then shone the flashlight forward.

Damn!

Li Heng was also scared by the scene in front. A woman was floating in the pond in front, disheveled, very terrifying in the dark night!

"Is she dead?" Teacher's voice was a bit cold, and a bit shaky.

Li Heng's voice was also a bit shaky: "In the middle of the fish pond, floating up, can she not be dead?"

No need to say, Li Heng turned around, grabbed Teacher's hand, and ran back, shouting loudly after running to the main road: "Something happened! Something happened! Duan Liguo, someone died in your fish pond!"

There were 4 fish ponds in a row in front. The two had just caught in the first fish pond, and the corpse was in the second pond.

There were many people nearby, many were catching swamp eels and loaches in the fields. Hearing his shout, they rushed over one after another.

Everyone looked forward, whoa! Not a scarecrow, someone really died.

And the deceased wasn't someone else, but Duan Liguo's wife, about 35 or 36 years old. According to neighbors, it seemed the man lost money gambling and lost the two cows at home. The deceased couldn't take it and quarreled with Duan Liguo, and as a result, she was beaten severely. She couldn't think straight for a moment, so she drank pesticide first and then jumped into the fish pond.

Seeing the soaking wet corpse, Duan Liguo was dumbfounded, sitting on the ground without saying a word, regardless of how the relatives who rushed over and the woman's family beat and scolded him, he didn't speak, nor did he fight back, letting himself be beaten. Until the police came, Duan Liguo staggered up and followed them away.

Returning home, Tian Run'e asked with concern: "Yu Laoshi, are you okay? Do you want me to invite a Taoist priest to collect your shock?"

"I'm fine." Teacher smiled reluctantly, obviously scared quite badly, and hadn't returned to her soul yet.

Li Jianguo pulled his wife's sleeve, the couple looked at each other, and went out.

Half an hour later, the most famous Taoist priest in the neighboring village came to the old Li family and collected a "shock" for both Li Heng and Yu Laoshi.

The ceremony was quite complicated, killing chickens and sprinkling blood, drawing talismans and jumping gods, beating gongs and drums and chanting scriptures, crossing the incense burner, and it took nearly 3 hours to finish.

Finally, the Taoist priest handed a bowl of divine water with talisman ashes to Li Heng and Yu Laoshi: "You drink it."

Seeing the paper ashes in the water, how could Yu Shuheng dare to drink it? She was stuck there for a while, drinking wasn't right, not drinking wasn't right.

Seeing this, Li Heng took the bowl, drank half a bowl in one go, and then stuffed the bowl into Teacher's hand: "Teacher, it's not clean, but drinking it won't make you sick. Close your eyes and drink."

With him setting the example, Yu Shuheng didn't want to leave a bad impression on Tian Run'e and Li Jianguo's couple here, so she hardened her heart, really took the bowl and drank it, drinking it dry in one gulp.

After drinking, the Taoist priest held a bell and shook it in front of their foreheads, chanted for a while, and finally gave them a triangular talisman each, instructing them to put it in their pockets and not leave their bodies for 7 days.

At this point, "collecting shock" was considered over.

Tian Run'e handed over a big red envelope, the Taoist priest touched it, was very satisfied, chatted for a while, and left.

When the person left, Li Heng checked his watch: 12:43.

He opened his mouth: "Dad, Mom, Teacher and I are going upstairs first, you guys rest early too."

"Manzai, don't sleep too soundly at night, take good care of Yu Laoshi." Tian Run'e instructed.

"Eh, I know." Li Heng responded, and then took Yu Laoshi upstairs to the second floor.

Watching the figure disappear at the stairwell, Tian Run'e turned to look at her husband and whispered: "It's also bad luck, the two met such a thing when they went out."

"Who could predict this? I hope it won't leave a psychological shadow on Yu Laoshi." They didn't worry much about their son. In the countryside, such things don't happen every year, but they always happen every few mountains.

Drinking pesticide to die, hanging oneself, burning oneself to death, jumping into the river at night, they had seen all kinds. In the end, there were two reasons: one was poverty, and the other was emotional discord.

In this era, for rural people whose thinking wasn't fully open, divorce was a big scandal, and very few people would divorce. Even if there was domestic violence, even if there was cheating, even if there was poverty, they would grit their teeth and persist. If they really couldn't persist, extreme cases like tonight would appear.

Li Heng felt a bit self-blaming. Actually, he had heard of this incident in his previous life, but the time was too far away, and such things happened from time to time in the countryside, so he didn't think of the incident at this time point for a while.

Going up to the second floor.

This time, without Yu Laoshi's hint, out of worry, he spontaneously followed into the same bedroom.

Seeing his cautious appearance, Yu Shuheng smiled refinedly and sat on the edge of the bed: "Don't worry too much, Teacher has seen corpses."

Li Heng closed the door, "Morgue?"

"Mm, not just the morgue, I have also witnessed the scene of several elders passing away with my own eyes. At that time, Dad took us to keep vigil." Yu Shuheng recalled.

Hearing this, Li Heng's hanging heart let go of more than half, and then his body fell, falling onto the mat.

Looking at him on the floor, Yu Shuheng suddenly asked: "What was the little tune you hummed when picking mushrooms on the mountain today?"

Li Heng said: "It's called 'Mountain Songs are Like Spring River Water', it's from Liu Sanjie. Teacher hasn't heard it?"

"I've heard it, but can't remember the name. Can you sing the whole thing?" She asked.

Li Heng nodded.

Hearing this, Yu Shuheng found her pajamas to change in the room next door and came back, turned off the electric light, and lay on the bed, saying: "Sing a complete one for me to listen to."

Li Heng was a bit uncertain, "Sing in the middle of the night?"

Yu Shuheng said: "You lower your voice."

Li Heng thought for a while and didn't refuse. After clearing his throat, singing came from the darkness:

Sing mountain songs...

Sing from this side, harmonize from that side...

Oh, harmonize from that side...

Just the first two sentences, Yu Shuheng found the feeling of listening to him sing on the mountain. Her soul was very quiet, and she couldn't help but fantasize about a world in her mind: inside there were mountains and water, inside there was a spring with hundreds of flowers blooming, there was a fishing boat, he sang mountain songs on the bow, and she watched him on the stern...

The singing continued:

Mountain songs are like spring river water, lei lei lei...

Not afraid of dangerous shoals, with many bends...

Oh, with many bends...

Listening to him finish singing, Yu Shuheng, immersed in the lingering charm of the singing, had her heart surging, unable to calm down for a long time.

For a time, no one spoke. The room was silent, and a needle could be heard falling.

After a while, Yu Shuheng's voice broke the silence in the dark night, saying softly: "You come up."

Li Heng thought he had heard wrong and turned his head to look at the bed.

Although he couldn't see anything, he still looked very seriously.

After another short while, her voice came again: "A little sleepy, but can't sleep."

Her voice wasn't loud, buzzing like a mosquito, but Li Heng understood, and could also understand this situation of "obviously very sleepy, but just can't sleep."

Because he had had it, and more than once.

Li Heng understood that tonight's corpse incident still caused an impact on Yu Laoshi.

After hesitating for a moment, he climbed up, walked to the edge of the bed, and then lay down by groping.

Lying side by side, at first the two were upright, neither crossing the line. Knowing that the other party was within the distance of an arm's reach, it was as if they were separated by the ends of the earth, not daring to take a step across the line.

After holding on like this for about 20 minutes, just as Li Heng was about to turn over, his left hand was suddenly covered by a hand, and then her fingers curled, tightly interlocking with his fingers.

This scene was familiar, like a repeat of last night.

The only difference was that the two were on the floor last night, and today they changed to the bed.

She gave an explanation last night, but she said nothing tonight, everything was in silence.

With the experience of the previous time, and the ripples in the mountain valley, Li Heng didn't resist, didn't repel, but didn't take advantage of the situation either.

However, he was a man after all, a normal man full of vigor. Lying beside such a great beauty, whether it was her wonderful body or her taboo identity, it brought him a strong mental stimulation.

At this very moment, Li Heng was undoubtedly suffering from a severe challenge and torture.

Look, as time passed, the breathing in the room gradually became heavy. At one moment, he turned over suddenly, reached out with his right hand, pulled her into his arms, and hugged her tightly.

Facing the sudden wild action, Yu Shuheng seemed to see the wildness and strong desire in his eyes. Her body became stiff, not bending, and she just lay straight in his arms like that. 【41

Sensing the thick, ambiguous atmosphere and the subtle, delicate balance in the room, Yu Laoshi made no move this time; she didn't speak, didn't reach out to stop him, and didn't entice him either.

Quietly listening to his breathing growing heavier and heavier, listening to his heartbeat racing wildly, Yu Shuheng felt surprisingly calm, even to the point where she eventually closed her eyes slowly, using her senses to experience everything.

At the same time, she wondered: what actions would he take next?

Just as she had anticipated, after another ten minutes or so passed, the belt of her pajamas was finally pulled open. A hand slipped inside, slowly covering her lower abdomen, and then remained motionless. It seemed as if he was struggling intensely, and also as if he was testing her reaction.

She had no reaction to this, maintaining her composure; she didn't push him away, nor did she guide him.

After waiting for a while, that hand moved forward. Not long after, Yu Shuheng could no longer maintain her calm. Her long, slender eyelashes trembled incessantly, her hands, which had been lying flat, gripped the thin bedding tightly, her red lips parted slightly, her head tilted back, and her legs tensed and stretched, as if her whole body had grown a little taller.

After another while, Yu Shuheng suddenly went still.

That hand left, and the man beside her also lay back down, lying shoulder-to-shoulder with her on the mat.

If not for his heavy breathing still lingering, she would have thought he had been snatched away by someone.

Time ticked away second by second. A long while later, the breathing beside her slowly eased. Yu Shuheng's eyelashes no longer showed any abnormality, and she opened her eyes.

Once everything was calm and peaceful, she felt around in the dark to retie her disheveled pajama belt, and parted her red lips slightly: "Asleep?"

Li Heng made no sound.

She said: "Just now, I thought you had made up your mind."

Made up his mind about what?

Made up his mind to have her, made up his mind to marry her.

It was precisely based on this reason that she had tacitly allowed all his actions.

Her voice held neither joy nor sorrow. Li Heng could not detect any emotion, nor could he guess her thoughts, and he still remained silent.

Having spoken twice with no reply from the young man, Yu Shuheng reached out her right hand, grabbed his left hand again, and comforted him: "Don't feel any pressure. Teacher will treat as if none of this ever happened. Sleep."

After saying this, she pulled her hand away, turned over to face the wall, and after struggling to adjust her mindset, she eventually fell asleep.

She fell asleep, but Li Heng suffered from insomnia.

Looking up at the ceiling, he stared blankly for a long, long time, and finally, with great willpower, he left the bed and returned to the floor.

Since Yu Laoshi had fallen asleep, she shouldn't be afraid anymore. Thinking this way, Li Heng tried his best to think of other things to distract himself.

For instance, how should the final two chapters of "White Deer Plain" be written? How could they be made perfect?

For instance, how was Li Wang doing in the capital? Did the Great Qingyi help? After so many days, there must be a result by now, whether good or bad, right?

Song Yu had returned to Dongting Lake; he had to write her a letter.

He missed Zijin a bit. Sigh, unfortunately, she said in her letter that she had wanted to come back during the summer vacation, but she couldn't get away because of family matters. Was Zhong Lan behind this? Forget it, regardless, he had to go to the capital in August.

His thoughts wandered further and further, becoming more and more scattered. By the time late night arrived, and Yu Laoshi's temptation toward him had been successfully suppressed, he took the opportunity to close his eyes as well.

A night passed.

The next day, when the sun shone through the window and hit his backside, Li Heng was awakened by the sound of firecrackers from across the river. Coincidentally, in the same production team, one family was holding a birthday banquet, while another was holding a funeral.

The problem was that the happy event and the funeral were not far apart, and were even in the same courtyard. Just thinking about it was off-putting.

After waiting a while, until his consciousness was clear, he turned his head to look at the bed. No surprise, it was empty.

Just like yesterday, Yu Laoshi had gotten up early.

Looking at the bed and thinking about what he had done last night, his head became dizzy again. He didn't know how he had left the bedroom.

Going down to the first floor, he saw Fatty at a glance. This guy was burning wood in the stove, while Li Jianguo was stir-frying vegetables.

Li Heng asked: "Why did you come so early?"

"Early my foot! This old scholar set an alarm to crawl over here to mooch a meal. I didn't expect your family's food hadn't even hit the pot yet. I'm about to starve to death." After eating at the same table as Yu Laoshi yesterday, Fatty had the courage to come over to mooch meals again, his main strategy being thick-skinned.

Before Li Heng could speak, Li Jianguo was amused and instructed: "Zhiyong, lower the fire."

Zhang Zhiyong obediently used iron tongs to pull out a burning piece of wood and inserted it into the ashes.

Li Heng washed up and then asked: "Where is Yu Laoshi?"

Li Jianguo said: "She went to your eldest sister's house with your mother."

Hearing this, Li Heng didn't ask further and also went out to his eldest sister's house.

His brother-in-law, Zou Shusheng, was not at home; he had gone to work. Only his eldest sister and her mother-in-law were at home taking care of the child.

When Li Heng entered the house, Yu Laoshi was squatting on the ground teasing the child, Tian Run'e was chatting with the in-law on the side, and his eldest sister was sewing buttons on clothes.

Seeing him appear, the in-law hurriedly stood up to move a stool over, then poured him a cup of tea, asking enthusiastically: "Why didn't Xiao Heng sleep more?"

It was already past 8 in the morning, what was there to sleep for? Diligent people had already been up working for 4 hours. Li Heng said thank you, took the tea, and said: "I came over to see you all."

For the rest of the time, he teased the boy with Yu Laoshi while chatting.

He asked: "Does Teacher like children?"

"It's alright." Actually, she hadn't liked children before, but today, seeing this little boy, she surprisingly felt no resistance, so she teased him for a while longer.

His eldest sister was not very eloquent and was not a person good with words. Li Heng often ran out of topics after chatting with her for 10 minutes or so. It was like that in his past life, and it was still like that in this life. Sometimes he felt depressed thinking that if it weren't for blood ties, they probably wouldn't have much interaction.

But he knew that his eldest sister was kind-hearted. When you were successful, you would often overlook her, but when you were in trouble, her presence would be stronger than anyone else's. People, in this life, had many choices they could make, but the only things they couldn't choose were their parents and siblings. Being able to gather together was fate.

This was also the reason why Li Heng patiently accompanied his eldest sister, chatting about this and that.

Half an hour later, Fatty came to call them for dinner.

Li Heng left 1,000 yuan for his eldest sister. For his net worth, this amount of money wasn't much. But in the countryside, where wages were 2 yuan a day, this counted as a huge sum.

His eldest sister refused to take it no matter what, and it wasn't until his own mother, Tian Run'e, made the final decision that she finally tucked it into her pocket.

His eldest sister looked embarrassed: "Brother, I haven't helped you with anything, nor do I have anything decent to give you, yet you give me so much money. I, I thank you."

Li Heng patted her arm: "We are all siblings, don't say these things. It's hard for me to come back once a year. You must take care of yourself at home, take care of my little nephew, and buy more nutritious food for him."

"I know, I know." As his eldest sister said this, she ran to the paddy field outside and caught a duck and a goose, saying she wanted him to slaughter them for Yu Laoshi to eat.

This time, Li Heng didn't stand on ceremony. He threw the big goose to Fatty, while he himself carried a duck and leisurely returned home.

Before leaving, Yu Laoshi gave a red envelope to his eldest sister's son, which again caused his eldest sister and her mother-in-law to thank her profusely.

Where had Yu Shuheng ever seen such a rural scene of pulling and tugging? It wasn't until Tian Run'e came to the rescue that she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Leaving his eldest sister's house, Li Heng whispered: "Teacher, you are a guest from afar, actually there was no need to give a red envelope."

Yu Shuheng smiled and didn't answer.

Li Heng asked with concern: "How did you sleep last night?"

Yu Shuheng looked at him meaningfully and said elegantly: "Quite well."

Quite well, how well? Did she sleep until dawn?

Also, what kind of look was that? Li Heng felt his heart pounding from being stared at.

After breakfast, Li Heng hid in the study to write 3 letters, addressed to Song Yu, Zijin, and Yang Yingwen respectively.

Yu Laoshi, who had been inseparable from him for the past two days, seemed to have guessed who he was writing to, and tactfully didn't come in to disturb him, instead staying on the second-floor balcony to enjoy the cool air and read.

After the letters were written, Li Heng nimbly took three yellowish-brown envelopes from his bag and affixed stamps to them one by one. He usually had too much correspondence, so these were all habitually kept in reserve.

Writing to Old Mabu was mainly to tell her that he was coming to the capital in August, and when the time came, they would gather together to talk about founding "New Oriental."

After checking once to confirm there were no problems, Li Heng put the letters into his pocket, then secretly went downstairs to find Fatty, who was helping to slaughter the goose: "Old Yong, do me a favor."

"What favor? Master Heng, you say it." Zhang Zhiyong was extremely straightforward.

Li Heng handed over the three letters: "Keep it secret."

"Got it, understood! No need to worry about any leaks!" Fatty gave him a military salute with a sneaky look, then quickly hid the letters under his clothes and turned to go home.

Not long after, a walking tractor that hadn't been started for a long time began to chug-chug-chug on the road, emitting black smoke.

Li Heng was speechless: "Wouldn't it be faster if you rode a bicycle?"

Fatty twisted his mouth: "What the hell do you know? It's fast going down on a bicycle, but coming back is all uphill, and this old scholar would have to push it with effort. Isn't this thing more energetic?"

Then this guy asked something stupid: "Are you going to town?"

Li Heng shook his head.

Unexpectedly, Yu Laoshi appeared behind him at this moment and agreed for him: "Teacher hasn't been to a rural market yet, let's go take a look together."

Li Heng said: "Yesterday was market day, today is not."

Tian Run'e, who was plucking goose feathers, heard this and chimed in: "Today is market day in the neighboring town. You can take Yu Laoshi out to relax. Anyway, it's not far, just be back in time for dinner."

Li Heng: "."

If he could roll his eyes at his own mother, he would definitely roll hundreds of them.

Why didn't he want to go to town?

Because his black-bellied wife was in town. If they went and Yu Laoshi and Xiao Han bumped into each other, what would he do?

This idiot Fatty was really asking for a beating. Why did he secretly give him the letters? Why didn't he have any sense of the situation?

If there was a next time, he definitely wouldn't call him Fatty anymore.

He really was a damn idiot!

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