Chapter 444: The Decision

It rained all night, and it didn't stop much.

But little aunt Song Shuyu and Sun Manning didn't return until dark, and even brought food for the two in the room.

After Li Heng's return, after the long hug in the room, and after the two poured out their hearts to each other, the tacit understanding between Li Heng and Song Yu was even greater than before, and feelings grew wildly between the two.

After eating, the four drank tea and chatted on the balcony for a while.

After 10 o'clock in the evening, Song Shuyu got up, "I'm a bit sleepy, you guys chat, I'm going to rest."

Seeing this, Sun Manning also stood up, "Little Aunt, I'll sleep with you tonight."

Song Shuyu glanced at her eldest niece who was sitting still, then glanced at Li Heng, stretched with a smile, "Okay, come on."

Once the two women left, the balcony, which was just lively, became quiet instantly.

Li Heng phrased it, "Stay and accompany me tonight."

He was opening his mouth tentatively, knowing the hope wasn't great, but still wanted to try. Not asking to sleep with her, just sleeping in the same room was a kind of satisfaction.

Without surprise, Song Yu instinctively wanted to refuse.

But after coming into contact with his hopeful gaze, she became very hesitant. After a long time, she sighed softly and said quietly, "Every time I face your request, after struggling, I always get lost and can't find myself."

Hearing this, Li Heng's upper body sat up rapidly, shouting happily, "You agreed?"

Song Yu looked at him with a faint smile, not saying she agreed, nor saying she refused.

After looking at each other for a moment, Li Heng crawled up, ran back to the room, found a change of clothes, and went into the shower room.

Noticing this scene, Song Yu's face had a slight blush. A moment later, looking at the pitch-black rain curtain outside, she slowly became lost in thought.

More than ten minutes later, Li Heng came out and ran over to ask, "Have you bathed yet? Do you want to bathe now?"

Song Yu stood up, "Not yet."

Watching her enter the shower room, Li Heng closed the door leading to the balcony, pulled the curtains, then put the two chairs together, and lay down halfway.

He planned to make do here for the night.

Even if the chair wasn't as comfortable as the bed, being with Song Yu, he didn't care about these anymore. Every second was happy.

Half an hour passed, Song Yu came out, and even brought her clothes to wash, not only washing her own but also his.

Seeing him flipping through a book, she first hung up the clothes, wiped her hands dry, then sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him. After a long time, she said softly, "Sleeping on the chair tonight?"

"Mm."

"Is it comfortable? Will it hurt your body?"

"It's fine, I'm a big man, and I grew up in the countryside, my body isn't that delicate."

Hearing this, Song Yu calmed down and didn't make a sound.

After another while, she took off her sandals, slowly raised her feet onto the bed, slowly lay flat, and covered herself with a thin quilt with her hands.

She entrusted him, "The air conditioning temperature is relatively low, remember to put your clothes on your stomach when you sleep, don't catch a cold."

"Okay," Li Heng replied.

"Then I'm sleeping, you get some rest early too."

"Mm, you sleep, good night."

"Good night."

Although they had stayed in the same room for one night at the hostel outside Peking University last year, that was two beds, and at that time, there was no little aunt or Maning next door, so she had many fewer worries.

But tonight, the moment she lay on the bed, it was destined that many things had been determined. At least in the eyes of the little aunt and Maning, the two were sharing a bed, and the relationship between the two had deteriorated.

And facing this, she couldn't defend herself.

Of course, with her indifferent nature, she wouldn't defend anything either.

But not defending was one thing, but she was a woman after all, and her heart wasn't as calm as it appeared on the surface.

At this moment, the fact that the two didn't speak was good proof.

Afraid of disturbing her, Li Heng closed the book at the right time, turned off the electric light, and then looked up at the ceiling in a daze.

The two had different thoughts, and for a time, the house was quiet.

In the middle of the night, Li Heng, who had finally managed to fall asleep after tossing and turning, always felt someone staring at himself in his confusion. After his subconscious warned him several times, he opened his eyes.

Turning his head to look, he was stunned.

He didn't expect someone to really be staring at him.

He didn't expect Song Yu to have sat up at some point, looking at him quietly.

Li Heng asked with concern, "Are you still not asleep? Or did you wake up?"

Song Yu answered the question irrelevantly, "The dinner dishes were a bit salty, I drank half a cup of water."

Then she asked, "Did I wake you up?"

Li Heng shook his head, "No, I woke up myself."

Looking at each other, after a while, she asked suddenly, "Do you often have dreams?"

Li Heng didn't deny it, "I have been having dreams all night tonight."

Song Yu asked, "Can you remember the content of the dreams?"

Li Heng recalled, nodded, and shook his head, "Some I can, some I can't."

Song Yu was silent. After a while, she lay flat on the bed again, hesitated for a while, and said to him, "Li Heng, come up."

"Ah?" Li Heng thought he was hallucinating.

After a while, she didn't make a sound again.

After waiting for a long time, Li Heng, who didn't wait for a reply, blinked and climbed onto the bed tentatively.

To this, she didn't move.

Li Heng lay down beside her.

She still didn't move.

It seemed he really hadn't heard wrong, she really called him up.

After he lay down properly and stopped making a fuss, Song Yu looked at him, "Do you know why I called you up?"

"You feel sorry for me," Li Heng said.

Song Yu wanted to speak but stopped. After a while, she asked calmly, "Do you often call my name in your dreams?"

Li Heng paused, and finally understood why she was sitting on the edge of the bed staring at him, and finally understood why she called him to bed.

Feeling sorry for him was one thing.

It was estimated that it also had to do with him calling her name in his dreams.

Regarding Song Yu, facing the woman he longed for, Li Heng didn't have the habit of lying, answering very frankly, "Yes."

Song Yu was choked for words, and after a while, she asked again, "Besides me, who else knows about the dreams?"

Her intention was to ask if Xiao Han and Chen Zijin knew about this?

At the same time, she also wanted to attack from the side, had he and Xiao Han had a relationship?

Actually, the fact that Li Heng and Xiao Han had slept together was known to all the women in Lushan Village. Including Sun Manning and Ye Ning.

It was just that Mai Sui and Sun Manning had once promised not to interfere with his private feelings, so even though the two women were Song Yu's girlfriends, they didn't reveal this news.

Li Heng replied, "My parents, and my second sister."

Hearing these unexpected names, Song Yu felt panicked for no reason, followed by a long silence.

After waiting for a long time without a reply, Li Heng asked, "Are you asleep?"

Song Yu said, "Not yet."

Li Heng asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Song Yu didn't answer.

Li Heng pursued, "Are you thinking about my family?"

Song Yu pondered for a while and asked, "When did they know?"

Li Heng thought for a while and answered truthfully, "It should have been a year ago, they knew about you."

She asked, "Also through dreams?"

Li Heng answered, "About the same."

Song Yu was silent for a long time, and finally said helplessly, "Li Heng, you are too greedy."

Li Heng said softly, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

After spending time digesting this news that had a significant impact on her, Song Yu asked, "Your parents, how do they view this?"

Li Heng told everything, "About the same as you, feeling I'm too greedy."

Song Yu asked, "Anything else?"

Recalling the past, Li Heng said, "Mom once talked to me, hoping I would choose Zijin, or choose you, and be consistent from beginning to end."

"No Xiao Han?"

"They didn't know about Xiao Han then."

Song Yu turned her head, "Then how did you reply to Aunt?"

Li Heng said, "I didn't make a choice."

Hearing this, a picture automatically appeared in Song Yu's mind. The picture of him wearing three scarves on the Spring Festival Gala. Perhaps, this was his choice.

This was his answer.

Song Yu, who learned the truth, was silent for the third time tonight, and then slowly closed her eyes. For a time, she had no interest in talking anymore.

After a while, she felt a hand approaching her.

About half a minute later, a finger tentatively hooked her right hand.

Song Yu endured it, not disturbing him.

After another minute or so, someone went further, one finger became five fingers, holding her hand.

Song Yu reacted this time, asking suddenly, "How far have you gone with Xiao Han?"

Hearing this, Li Heng almost lost his soul, wanting to let go of her hand, wanting to pull back the hand he was holding.

Song Yu smiled, her five fingers on her right hand tightened slightly, buckling him back, tightly.

Seeing this, Li Heng immediately became honest, opening his mouth obediently, "You guessed it all."

Hearing this news that she had guessed countless times, Song Yu was surprisingly calm, surprisingly calm beyond her expectations.

At this moment, she truly achieved no joy and no sorrow.

At this moment, she also completely understood his intention: first take down Zijin, then follow her to Shanghai to settle Xiao Han, and finally turn the muzzle to aim at herself.

Perhaps, just like his three scarves on the Spring Festival Gala, whether it was herself, Zijin, or Xiao Han, they were all his predetermined goals, all meat he had set his eyes on, and he wouldn't stop until he had thought of every way to put them all into his bowl.

And in this process, he even took advantage of the autumn harvest and included Mai Sui in his pocket.

Thinking of this, she suddenly thought of Zhou Shihe again, thought of the letter 4 months ago, thought of the reminder in that letter.

Reminding herself to be wary of Zhou Shihe.

Who sent it to her?

Xiao Han?

Or Zijin?

Mai Sui?

Or other secret admirers, wanting her to fight Zhou Shihe? Drive the tiger to swallow the wolf? Sit and reap the benefits?

Thinking and thinking, she first ruled out Mai Sui, who had the least possibility.

After becoming ambiguous with him, Mai Sui had been hiding from her. If she really had such wolfish ambitions, she wouldn't be the Mai Sui she knew.

Perhaps, she had never truly recognized Mai Sui. His first choice was Peking University, his second choice was Fudan University, and Mai Sui was the same.

Maybe from that time, or even earlier, Mai Sui had the intention of following him.

Remembering after the college entrance examination results came out, when she went to comfort her, Mai Sui once said with tears that she wanted to repeat the year, wanted to study at Peking University. At that time, Mai Sui's heart should have been very firm.

But later everything changed.

After he failed the exam and went to Fudan University, Mai Sui never mentioned repeating the year again. Even when she asked with concern, Mai Sui pushed it away.

High school past events were vivid, as if they happened yesterday. Zijin had plans, Xiao Han had calculations, and Li Heng had long ago formulated strategic goals and cast his net, even the gentle and kind Mai Sui thought about going to the same place as him.

Ma Weidu herself...

Ma Weidu she herself, when facing his confession of love, out of ethics and morality, out of respect for her girlfriend Zijin, not only refused twice, but also when he asked her where it was good to fill in the college entrance examination application, she implicitly refused his heart again.

Thousands of thoughts flashed through her mind, she asked reservedly, "For the college entrance examination application, did you think about going to Fudan University from the beginning?"

Li Heng was stunned, then answered, "No, Peking University."

Song Yu said, "Even if it's one point short, you still want to?"

Li Heng said, "Never changed."

Two questions and two answers confirmed her guess. It was her implicit refusal that made him change his mind and follow Xiao Han to Shanghai.

In the second half of the night, Song Yu, whose heart was blocked, didn't speak again, and didn't fall asleep, just listening to the wind and rain outside the window until dawn.

In the middle, she tried to pull out her right hand, but it was in vain; he was gripping it tightly.

In the second half of the night, Li Heng didn't close his eyes again, and didn't disturb the person on the pillow. Various complicated thoughts hadn't been sorted out yet, and the noise gradually came from the streets outside. There were sanitation workers, and people getting up early to do things, sparse and scattered, all sorts.

6 o'clock sharp in the morning.

I don't know if this time had anything special, but when the hand reached this mark, Song Yu moved and said to him, "Let's get up, the 7 o'clock early bus."

Li Heng said, "I don't want to leave."

Song Yu looked at him, "What's the reason?"

Li Heng turned over and looked at her at close range, "I don't want to lose you."

Hearing this, Song Yu lowered her eyelids. After thinking for a while, she said lightly, "My right hand has been dragged by you all night, it's numb."

Li Heng realized, let go of her, and helped her knead.

Seeing this, Song Yu said "Ai" in a very, very small voice.

Li Heng stopped his movements, then excitedly hugged her into his arms, whispering in her ear, "I'm really a wooden man, really stupid enough."

"Yes, wooden men are all one-track minded, always thinking about one-through-three."

After the words fell, she smiled beautifully, tilted her head slightly in his arms, "Now, should I change the name to one-through-four?"

Li Heng was ashamed and shut up wisely.

Hugging for about a minute, she said quietly, "Let's stop here, this long time should be enough to make you feel at ease."

Li Heng said warmly, "Thank you."

Song Yu avoided his eyes full of love, came out of his arms, slowly sat up halfway, then took the bag on the bedside table and took out a letter for him.

Glancing at the brown envelope, then glancing again, Li Heng was still terrified. Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope, he didn't take it.

Song Yu smiled, "This is not a letter I wrote to you."

Saying this, she found she was holding it upside down, so she changed the front to the top, and there was handwriting on the envelope.

Li Heng identified it for a while, shook his head, "Whose handwriting is this?"

Song Yu thought for a while and told him, "Someone mailed it anonymously to me 4 months ago. If you have time, go and ponder it. Tell me when you have a result."

Confirming it wasn't a letter she wrote, Li Heng took it and immediately wanted to tear it open.

However, Song Yu stopped him, "Time is not enough, let's wash up and have breakfast, I'll send you to the station later."

"Ah? Really driving me away?" Li Heng muttered.

Song Yu didn't pay attention to the person who got the benefit and still sold well, and went straight to the washroom.

There was no way, Li Heng followed her to the bed, and also entered the washroom.

Brushing teeth, washing face, washing hair in one go. After doing all this, Li Heng asked seriously, "Why don't you go to the capital with me?"

Song Yu was quiet for a while and asked, "Are Uncle and Aunt over there?"

"Yes," Li Heng nodded, "Last month my mom and dad went to Jiangsu, later my second sister's shop was too busy, so they ran to the capital to help, and haven't come home yet."

Song Yu asked meaningfully, "Aren't you afraid that if I go to the capital, I'll occupy the dove's nest?"

Li Heng felt a chill in his heart, but corrected her calmly, "You are not a dove."

Facing each other for a while, Song Yu moved her eyes away unobtrusively, passed him, and left the washroom.

Helping him tidy up his things, she changed her words, "I'll send you to Changsha."

Li Heng opened his eyes wide, looking at her brightly.

Unable to bear his enthusiasm, Song Yu turned and left.

At the moment she opened the door, Li Heng said from behind, "In the future, I must come to Dongting Lake every year. If you object, you have the ability to tie my legs up."

He was using her words from last night to express his heart.

Hearing this, Song Yu stepped out with her right foot with a faint smile in her eyes and walked out of the room.

PS: Updated first, edited later.

11,000 words updated.

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