Chapter 472

Looking at the various cured meats and game brought back, Mai Sui, who came upon hearing the sound, asked: "Did Yu Laoshi give these to you?"

"Yu Laoshi is coming over for breakfast tomorrow morning; don't go out to buy breakfast; I'll make it." Li Heng briefly recounted the ins and outs of these things and Yu Laoshi's gluttony.

After listening, Zhou Shihe on the side looked at Mai Sui, her pure and bright black eyes seemingly able to speak: Yu Shuheng is invading his life in this slow, frog-in-boiling-water way.

Mai Sui read her best friend's eyes, was silent for a moment, and said to Li Heng: "I'll come to help you tomorrow morning."

Li Heng said okay.

Just at this time, a shout sounded outside the door: "Li Heng, Li Heng!"

The three people in the room turned their heads together and found that Li Wang had rushed over in a flurry.

Li Heng greeted: "Cousin, why are you here so late?"

Mai Sui poured a cup of tea and handed it to the other party. Li Wang took it and couldn't help but praise: "Haven't seen you for two months; Mai Sui, you are getting more and more beautiful."

Mai Sui smiled and said thank you.

Drinking half a cup of water in one breath, Li Wang said to Li Heng: "Knowing you were back today, I specifically came to find you."

Li Heng understood that the other party had important matters to discuss, so he immediately led her to the second floor.

Sitting on the sofa, Li Wang took out a stack of materials from her bag and handed them to him: "The shoes of the Anta and li-heng brands were all launched last week; take a look."

Li Heng took the documents and carefully flipped through them one by one. When he flipped to the end, his eyebrows wrinkled straight up, "So unsatisfactory? Even the direct-sale stores in Hushi haven't sold many pairs?"

Li Wang was relatively calm: "Aren't new brands all like this? The advertisements won't be officially published on TV and newspapers until September 1st; currently, it's still in a state of 'streaking.' I'm already very happy that Hushi could sell over 500 pairs. I conducted a certain number of follow-up surveys on these 500+ buyers, and the satisfaction is still quite good; I am more confident now."

Li Heng checked the report on Hushi sales data again, then put it down and asked: "How are the agents in various places coming along?"

Li Wang said: "I sent out all the company's sales staff, and I personally led a team to run to Yangcheng and Jingcheng, but the effect wasn't particularly good; most of them refused; they hold a skeptical attitude toward new brands. Currently, only 6 agents have been recruited nationwide, and they are still in a wait-and-see attitude and may quit at any time."

Li Heng asked with a smile: "Why aren't you in a hurry at all?"

"Why should I be in a hurry? Besides, this kind of thing can't be rushed. By comparing international big brands like Nike and Adidas, our shoes are obviously more avant-garde and novel in style innovation, which is also the reason why those 6 agents are holding on to try."

After speaking, Li Wang waved her hand, heroically: "I am waiting for a soaring flight, waiting for the Hancheng Olympics in mid-September."

Seeing her little cousin so high-spirited, Li Heng didn't say any cold words, just instructed: "There is still some time before the Olympics; during this period, we should work hard on what we should do and cannot slack off."

"Rest assured, it's an opportunity that was hard to come by; to be blunt, I value it more than you, the major shareholder," Li Wang said seriously.

Hearing this, Li Heng smiled and nodded, and for the next hour or so, the two kept discussing the Anta shoe factory.

Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe also came, and the two women sat on the side listening quietly, not disturbing them.

Later, Sun Manning and Yu Shuheng also came up and sat on the side to listen.

As they talked, Li Wang asked with her eyes: Are these women reliable? Should we change places?

Li Heng nodded unobtrusively, indicating they were reliable.

Two of the four women had a foundation of feelings with him, and classmate Zhou Shihe's character was trustworthy. And Sun Manning, although seemingly careless, was actually not stupid and knew what should be said and what shouldn't.

Besides, the confidential matters had already been finished, and the rest were all trivial matters, so he was too lazy to avoid risks.

After 10:00 PM, Li Wang left.

Before leaving, she said to Li Heng: "In a few days, Li Xi will come from Xiangjiang; let's get together then."

Li Heng said: "Okay, I'll be the host, and we'll drink a little."

Seeing Li Wang off, Li Heng looked back at Yu Shuheng and Mai Sui, feeling a bit of a headache.

He loved Mai Sui from the bottom of his heart.

But Yu Laoshi's kindness to him and his current relationship with Yu Laoshi also made it impossible for him to avoid her.

The intelligent Zhou Shihe seemed to see his difficulty and also guessed that Yu Shuheng coming over tonight was probably to stay overnight. After thinking about it, she took the pen on the table, took a book, stood it up, and flipped to a page with a lot of blank space.

She wrote quietly: Manning, you tell Sui Sui that we are staying overnight here tonight.

The second line wrote two characters: Mao Die (octogenarian/nonagenarian).

After writing, Zhou Shihe tilted the book toward Sun Manning on the side and asked gently: "Manning, do you know this word? How do you read it? I'm stuck."

Sun Manning followed her pen tip and looked, a bit confused; she didn't know what medicine Shihe was selling in her gourd?

But this girl had always trusted Zhou Shihe and knew there must be a deep meaning, so she came back to her senses and said: "It's called Mao Die, describing an old person of eighty or ninety years old."

The two women started a topic extending from the word Mao Die for a while. Suddenly, Sun Manning turned to Mai Sui, who had stood up: "Sui Sui, where are you going?"

Mai Sui said: "I'm going to boil a pot of water."

Sun Manning took off her sandals, sat cross-legged on the sofa, and shouted: "Help me get a cup of sugar water; by the way, Shihe and I aren't leaving tonight; we'll stay here with you overnight, and we'll play cards in a while."

Saying this, Sun Manning didn't give Mai Sui any time to react and turned her head to Zhou Shihe on her right: "Don't go back tonight; we sisters haven't played cards for a long time; let's play cards and have fun."

Zhou Shihe smiled, "Okay."

Things had reached this point; Mai Sui wanted to speak but stopped, and finally extinguished the thought of going to the 27th small building to stay overnight.

Hearing this, Yu Shuheng, who was chatting with Li Heng, glanced at Zhou Shihe, then glanced at the book in Zhou Shihe's hand, her eyes narrowed quietly, and a thought suddenly popped up in her heart: if one day the little man lost his mind and pursued Zhou Shihe, the other party would become the biggest obstacle on her emotional path.

Even to a certain extent, Zhou Shihe, who had a deep background, was more dangerous than Song Yu.

She had seen both women. In Yu Shuheng's eyes: in terms of personal conditions, Song Yu and Zhou Shihe were equal existences; there was no such thing as who was better? No such thing as who was stronger? Both women had a characteristic, that is, they passively attracted Li Heng, which was an advantage other women didn't possess.

Had Li Heng already pursued Song Yu?

Would he launch an offensive against Zhou Shihe one day?

Looking at the charming and naturally harmonious Zhou Shihe, Yu Shuheng really had no bottom in her heart.

Feeling the gaze cast by Yu Shuheng diagonally across, Zhou Shihe remained unmoved, flipped through the pages of the book nonchalantly, browsed unhurriedly, not afraid at all, and had the demeanor of a king.

Li Heng, who noticed the strange atmosphere, was speechless.

Damn it, these two women are secretly fighting again; I don't know how many times they have been competing secretly this summer. He really never expected that Zhou Shihe, who usually looked harmless and had a weak temperament that made people feel sorry for her, would be so resilient.

Honestly, he couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong between the two women, but it should have been Yu Laoshi who started it first, and then it was endless.

Yu Shuheng didn't make things difficult for Li Heng, nor did she make things difficult for Mai Sui. After talking with Li Heng for a while, she left and returned to the 25th small building across the street.

Li Heng personally sent her to the alley and watched her open the door and go in before he felt relieved.

Opening the courtyard door, Yu Shuheng paused, turned sideways, and said: "When I was dozing off on the sofa this morning, Teacher had a nightmare; why don't you come over to accompany me tonight?"

Having a nightmare in the morning was true, and this was also the reason why she, who was frightened, wanted to stay there tonight.

But testing him was also true.

She wanted to see who was more important in his heart, her or Mai Sui.

"Ah?"

Li Heng said "ah" in a daze, then followed her into the house under the faint starlight. As soon as he entered the door, before he had time to turn on the light, he hugged her from behind, "Teacher, don't tease."

Yu Shuheng asked with a clear laugh: "Where am I teasing?"

Li Heng didn't do anything, turned her over from his arms, lowered his head, and pecked her corner of the mouth.

Although the light was very dim, Yu Shuheng still saw his solemnity clearly, was silent for a while, and said: "You go back."

"Then you tonight?"

"If you regret it, you can carry Teacher upstairs." Saying this with a smile, Yu Shuheng's body was close to him, biting the word "Teacher" relatively heavily.

What it meant was self-evident; it was purely teasing him.

Hearing this, Li Heng automatically ignored the first sentence, bent down, and did a princess carry, really carrying her from the first floor to the second floor, and didn't turn on the light the whole way, coming up in the dark.

He admired his own ability.

Yu Laoshi wasn't light; after all, her net height of 174 was there, and she weighed a full 108 jin.

Being laid flat on the sofa, Yu Shuheng asked with a smile: "Little man, do you still dare to cause trouble in the future?"

Li Heng knew what she meant and was ashamed.

Yu Shuheng said half-truthfully: "If you don't have the diamond drill, don't take on the porcelain work; I feel that you are having difficulty dealing with these few now; don't add more later, so as not to make it difficult for Teacher in the future."

The meaning in her words was very simple: don't add more, otherwise, if it goes too far, she might not be able to help but take action in the future.

She did this to provide a preventive injection in advance, with the purpose of preventing him from provoking Zhou Shihe.

Why prevent it?

Because through nearly a year of observation, she was clearer than anyone else that Li Heng had long been poisoned by Zhou Shihe silently, but it just hadn't broken out yet.

What she had to do was to press down all unstable factors and not allow them to break out.

In the final analysis, after tonight, her vigilance against Zhou Shihe rose to a new level, surpassing all rivals and reaching an unprecedented degree.

She even suspected that Sun Manning coming home to make a call earlier was hinted at by the other party, specifically to destroy her good deeds.

Another meaning is: Zhou Shihe is far more troublesome than imagined, and her ability to use force to strike is played to perfection, making her not have full confidence in dealing with her.

Of course, she had another deeper, implicit meaning in saying this: I want to marry you formally, not be a mistress.

If everyone is a mistress, what qualifications do you have to manage other women? Her goal was very clear.

But then again, the reason she spoke so tactfully and implicitly was mainly because she was afraid of scaring him, putting too much pressure on him, afraid of being counterproductive, and afraid that he would alienate her because he couldn't bear the pressure.

Because she had already tested it out, the person this little man most wanted to marry at present was Song Yu; what she did was just to insert a needle first, bury a seed in his heart first, and wait for it to take root and sprout in the future.

Li Heng, who had lived two lives and had rich experience with women, wasn't a fool, but the situation was stronger than the person, so he didn't express anything, just asked with concern: "Why don't I call Sister Siya over?"

Yu Shuheng waved her hand, "No need, I'll call myself; it's not early, you go over first."

Li Heng didn't move until she finished the call and the voices of Chen Siya and the fake Daoist came from downstairs before he got up and went downstairs.

"Li Heng, going back? Don't want to sit for a while?" At the corner of the stairs, Chen Siya hugged her pregnant belly and asked him.

Nodding to Old Fu, Li Heng raised his left wrist and pointed to his watch: "It's not early; Yu Laoshi said she wants to rest."

Watching him leave, the fake Daoist muttered in a low voice: "This kid really has ability; Shuheng's heart is all tied to him."

Everyone is a neighbor, the relationship is very good, and they interact closely, so many things are quietly seen in their eyes.

Chen Siya said: "Don't be sour; if you had his talent, Shuheng would also look at you differently."

The fake Daoist grinned and said: "Hi! I don't need Shuheng to look at me; I, Old Fu, am satisfied with you two."

Chen Siya teased: "If you hadn't messed around in the beginning, I might have taken a fancy to Li Heng too."

The fake Daoist didn't care and said generously: "Then it's fortunate that I messed around early; otherwise, you could only watch that kid dryly, but you couldn't eat it."

Chen Siya smiled and glanced at him, but rarely didn't refute, because this was the truth; even Shuheng hadn't conquered Li Heng yet, so ordinary women could only watch.

Back to the 26th small building.

Li Heng found that the three women had already set up the card table and were just waiting for him.

The four people drew cards to pair up; Li Heng drew a spade A, Zhou Shihe was a club A, and the two teamed up to play "Upgrade."

He didn't know what kind of mentality he was holding; he kept making mistakes and holding them back all night.

Zhou Shihe seemed to have guessed his thoughts; after a few hands, she also started playing cards chaotically, so much so that Mai Sui and Sun Manning had reached K, while the two were still stuck at 6.

When playing A, the happy Sun Manning threw out a "tractor" and laughed loudly, "Played cards with Shihe so many times, this is the first time I've seen her lose."

Zhou Shihe smiled gently, "The cards aren't good tonight."

That night, they played two rounds, and in both rounds, Li Heng and Zhou Shihe lost, each losing more than 3 yuan.

After 2:00 AM, Mai Sui, who was lying in bed, suddenly asked Zhou Shihe: "Shihe, did you have a conflict with him?"

Zhou Shihe said: "No."

Mai Sui was puzzled, "Then you guys?"

Zhou Shihe smiled knowingly and said: "Maybe you guys lost too much before; he seemed to want to let you win once, so I cooperated with him."

Mai Sui followed with a soft smile: "Why don't I return the money I won to you?"

Before Zhou Shihe could speak, Sun Manning, who had finished showering, pushed open the bedroom door and came in, catching them and asking, "Shihe, why are you staying overnight here tonight?"

Zhou Shihe didn't answer directly, "You ask Sui Sui."

Mai Sui looked ignorant.

Sun Manning recounted the whole story and urged at the end, "Hurry up, tell me."

After listening, Mai Sui understood instantly and understood why Li Heng didn't want to win tonight.

Just as Zhou Shihe and Mai Sui were using evasive methods to fob off Sun Manning, a knock sounded outside the door.

Sun Manning shouted: "Come in, we haven't taken off our clothes yet."

Li Heng pushed the door open, poked half his head in, and said to Mai Sui: "Mai Sui, can you three squeeze into one bed?"

Then, without waiting for the three women to react, he continued: "You go to my room."

Mai Sui blushed instantly.

Sun Manning shouted and yelled with the mentality of watching a play; she didn't feel it was abrupt, after all, they had slept together in Shaodong, so what was wrong with sleeping one more time?

Zhou Shihe was surprised, looked at Li Heng, then looked at Mai Sui, and suddenly became quiet.

PS: Posted first, edited later.

(End of this chapter)