Chapter 488

In the evening, when Li Heng was a little hungry while writing materials in the study, the study door opened, and half a head poked in from outside.

He turned his head with a tacit understanding.

Their eyes met, and Mai Sui smiled tenderly: "Are you hungry? It's time to eat."

"Hungry, I'm starving. You came back just in time."

Li Heng stood up in one motion and walked toward her: "Did you cook yourself today?"

"No, we ate at the canteen. The food tasted good, so I brought a portion back for you," Mai Sui said. They hadn't been to the canteen for a long time, so the three of them ran to the canteen.

Li Heng washed his hands, came to the coffee table, and took the food she handed him. He found it was stir-fried beef and steamed egg custard, both of which he loved to eat, so he lowered his head and started eating in large mouthfuls.

Mai Sui poured him a glass of herbal tea, then sat beside him, watching him quietly like a virtuous wife.

Only after he had eaten half a bowl did she suddenly speak, "I received a letter today?"

Li Heng asked casually: "A love letter?"

Mai Sui smiled softly, "At Fudan University, who would dare to write me a love letter?"

Her words were a bit self-deprecating, but more of a self-tease. Everyone in the whole school was spreading rumors about her and him. If there were many people writing love letters in the first semester of freshman year, there were absolutely none by the second semester.

Li Heng hummed triumphantly, "Good to know. If anyone dares to write you a love letter, I'll break their legs."

Mai Sui asked: "Does that count for the past ones too?"

Li Heng ate a bite of steamed egg: "Let's forget about the past. Spare them, otherwise it wouldn't be good to break the legs of hundreds of people at once; the hospitals and police wouldn't be able to handle it."

Mai Sui laughed, took a newly bought tissue from the coffee table, and wiped the corner of his mouth thoughtfully. After a long time, she said: "It was mailed from Peking University."

Li Heng was stunned and slowly raised his head: "Song Yu's?"

The expression on Mai Sui's face slowly became restrained and disappeared; she tacitly agreed.

Li Heng asked worriedly: "What did she write?"

Mai Sui gazed at him and didn't make a sound.

After looking at each other for a while, Li Heng gradually lost the mood to eat. He put down his chopsticks and asked: "Can I take a look?"

Mai Sui struggled internally for a while, then finally got up to go to the bedroom and handed the letter to him.

The letter was very thick, with a full 6 pages of paper.

The first page was mainly about daily life. Song Yu shared her life and study status with Mai Sui, which was all very normal.

From the second page on, Song Yu's pen turned, and she talked about the matters between the four of them: her, Mai Sui, Chen Zijin, and Li Heng.

The words under Song Yu's pen were as gentle as she was. Reading through the whole thing, it was like a memoir.

Song Yu said clearly in the letter: I fell in love with Li Heng, but I don't know when it started?

Perhaps it was love at first sight.

Or perhaps it was because I had more contact with Chen Zijin in the first year of high school. Every day, I would listen to Zijin nagging about Li Heng in my ear before waking up and going to sleep, and then subconsciously I started paying attention to him invisibly.

Originally, this was nothing. Song Yu said that at first, she didn't notice her own changes that had accumulated over time, and the days passed by as plainly as usual.

Until one day.

Until a dusk in the second semester of the first year of high school, when she and Chen Lijun were walking in the campus after a meal, she accidentally saw Li Heng and Chen Zijin kissing in a small woods in the southeast corner, and his hand even reached inside Chen Zijin's clothes.

At that moment, Song Yu's head instantly became dizzy, her breathing became heavy, and a sour feeling suddenly surged in her heart, which was quite uncomfortable.

That night, she tossed and turned in bed all night without falling asleep, her mind full of bits and pieces since she met Li Heng.

And as the night passed, his imprint in her mind became clearer and clearer.

Near dawn, Song Yu helplessly accepted a fact: she seemed to have him in her heart, and she seemed to have fallen in love with him.

Since then, she, who was calm and indifferent in the eyes of others, started to become awkward.

Every time she passed by Li Heng in the corridor or in a place where there was no one, her heart would throb faintly.

It was also from this beginning that she had a sense of shame, secretly hating herself for being useless and falling in love with her friend's partner, and then started trying to avoid Li Heng, not being alone with him, and not meeting his eyes.

Even if they looked at each other inadvertently, she would secretly blame herself for a long time.

However, even though she was clearly awkward, her attention to him in private increased day by day. She would be happy for him when he did well in a subject; she would be anxious for him when he failed a subject.

Once, she, as the English class representative, was called to the office by Teacher Wang Runwen to help grade papers, and she specifically graded the multiple-choice questions.

In the middle, the Chinese teacher walked in. When he saw that Li Heng's English was only 63 points, he shook his head and said: "This Li Heng is a pity, he is destined to have no chance with a good university, sigh."

At that moment, she, who had always been a good baby in the eyes of others, felt an indescribable annoyance in her heart. She said to the Chinese teacher with a faint smile: "Li Heng is very good at math, he got full marks this time."

After the Chinese teacher was surprised, he said: "Is that so? Then it's even more of a pity."

After that day, the Chinese teacher, who was originally not bad, became the teacher she disliked the most. In the subsequent midterm exam, she deliberately failed the Chinese exam and deliberately wrote the essay off-topic.

Sure enough, the Chinese teacher was retaliated against. He couldn't show off her essay in front of other teachers as usual, and couldn't circulate her essay as a model essay in other classes. Instead, he stared at her test paper in a daze for a long time.

Looking at the Chinese teacher patiently guiding her in the office afterward, teaching her how to write and analyze such essays, the upright girl's heart twisted into a knot. It's so hard to secretly like someone.

Although she was awkward, as long as there was an occasion where he was present, such as eating, walking, or going to the city center for shopping. Once someone called her, she would gladly agree, and she would secretly look in the mirror before setting off.

Even if she deliberately didn't look at him, didn't talk to him, and deliberately kept the furthest distance from him while eating, walking, or shopping. But once he spoke, she would secretly prick up her ears to listen.

And she kept what he said, as well as his joys, angers, sorrows, and happiness in her heart.

Is this tiring?

Mai Sui, you should feel the same way as I do. Even if you don't talk or converse with him, just simple pretense is happy.

Hiding the love for someone in your heart, through the threshold of the soul, the world becomes so beautiful.

At this point, there were several ink spots on the letter paper where the pen had paused. Apparently, Song Yu hesitated for a while when writing here, or fell into memories, and then continued to write down:

Li Heng likes to play basketball. Maybe it's because he looks too good, many girls in the school like to watch him.

These girls either appear on the side of the basketball court or stand in the classroom corridor.

And whenever this happened, Song Yu would pretend to look elsewhere with a calm face, her gaze fixed on the distant skyline. The basketball hoop nearby became nothingness, and she could only see a group of blurry people through the corner of her eyes.

In this group of people, there was him, as well as Zijin and you.

Whenever he scored by shooting with a handsome posture, many girls would cheer and jump for joy. At this time, she would also turn her face to the side, and a faint smile would secretly appear in the corner of her eyes.

This happened many times, but once she slipped up and was caught by Chen Zijin, and then they didn't talk for a long time.

Specifically, it should be 14 days, two weeks without talking.

After suffering through 14 days, on the morning of the 15th day, Chen Zijin took the initiative to buy her breakfast, and the two of them didn't ask any reason and made up as before.

When they made up, Zijin said a sentence to her that made her remember it deeply: "Have you seen Xiao Han from the science class 206 who is as famous as you? That vixen loves him and often challenges me openly and secretly; Mai Sui also likes him, and Chen Lijun also has a crush on him. The one who reassures me the most is Manning, who likes to sit at the same desk as him."

Song Yu understood, because Manning was carefree and always seemed heartless.

That morning, she was eating the breakfast Chen Zijin bought, listening to Chen Zijin narrate how she discovered these clues?

After breakfast, Chen Zijin reached out to take her arm and walk. When they reached the small rockery, she suddenly looked up at the sky and said from the bottom of her heart: "Song Yu, do you know? Two weeks ago, I couldn't accept why Mai Sui and Lijun would like him; he was clearly mine. But now I accept it."

Song Yu knew clearly that it was because of her that Zijin accepted the betrayal of other friends.

Or to put it another way, even Song Yu, who was perfect in everyone's eyes, couldn't help but fall in love. It became acceptable for Mai Sui and Chen Lijun to fall in love.

In the letter, Song Yu wrote: In this year of the second year of high school, I could clearly feel Zijin becoming anxious. I could clearly understand why she became more anxious? It was because of me.

It was even more because Li Heng was not as subtle as before, not as introverted as before. His gaze, I don't know when, dared to look at me openly. This discovery made me a bit at a loss, and made Zijin become more and more insecure.

I remember once, that day was Sunday afternoon, the school had a half-day holiday, and everyone went out to play. Because I twisted my foot, I was practicing math problems in the classroom.

Li Heng came to the classroom, sat beside me for the first time, and asked me for advice on English. And he brought me bruise ointment.

This time, I could clearly feel that his heart had crossed the center line and was gradually shifting toward me.

Just when I was biting the bullet and helping him review English tense grammar, Chen Zijin came, and also brought bruise ointment for me.

At that time, the three of us were very awkward in the classroom. I was uneasy and had nothing to say.

Later, Mai Sui, you and Manning also appeared. I guess you also brought medicine, but didn't take it out, right?

Afterward, Chen Zijin, who felt a huge crisis, talked to me and said sadly: "Song Yu, I can't hold on anymore. Why don't I give him to you."

I knew Zijin was saying angry words. Zijin couldn't, and wouldn't, leave him.

I knew Zijin was retreating to advance, using rhetoric to provoke me and force me to make concessions.

However, I felt guilty and remained silent for a long time before saying: "From now on, I will not be alone with him again, and I will not see him alone again."

Zijin gritted her teeth and said: "No need from now on, just don't accept him in high school and university."

I was a bit puzzled at that time.

Zijin puffed out her cheeks, cute and gritting her teeth, and said: "If I can't take him down completely in high school and university, he will definitely be poached by Xiao Han one day. If that's the case, it's better to fulfill you than to benefit that vixen Xiao Han."

Reading to this point, Li Heng frowned. No wonder in his previous life, no matter how he pursued Song Yu during college, no matter how he wrote love letters, she remained unmoved until she accepted him and started dating him after graduation.

So the crux of the matter was here.

However, Zijin didn't keep her promise later. In his previous life, every time he proposed to Song Yu twice, it was Zijin who messed it up.

Of course, he didn't blame Zijin, and he wasn't qualified to blame her. Because in the final analysis, the fault was his.

However, man proposes, God disposes. He was reborn in this life, and many things later moved toward unpredictability.

Sure enough, in the letter, Song Yu wrote: But things are unpredictable. Under the huge pressure of Xiao Han, Zijin made a decision and achieved good things with him during the following summer vacation.

As for what happened later, Mai Sui, you should have heard: good things turned into scandals, and Zijin had to leave her hometown and go to Beijing.

And since then, Li Heng seemed to have become a different person. During the third year of high school, especially in the second semester of the third year of high school, he not only took the initiative to persuade Manning to change seats and sit with me, but also repeatedly… to me.

At this point, the tactful Song Yu stopped her pen and wrote instead: You know what happened later. Our two sisters once agreed to come to Peking University together, but you eventually followed him to Fudan. From that time on, I had a premonition that this scene would appear today.

It's just that there is a slight deviation from the premonition: this scene came too fast, and it's only sophomore year now.

In the letter from the second page to the sixth page, Song Yu narrated all the emotions from high school to the present in a narrative way. The process was truthful, fair, and impartial, without any embellishment.

And in the final paragraph, Song Yu wrote: Mai Sui, looking forward to your reply.

Below is the signature and the date.

After reading the letter once, Li Heng closed his eyes and thought for a while.

Immediately after, he opened his eyes and read it silently again. Finally, he slowly put the letter on the coffee table and turned to look at Mai Sui.

He asked her in a deep voice: "I remember you have been writing letters to Song Yu for the past few days. Did you mail them?"

Mai Sui shook her head and said softly: "No."

Hearing this, Li Heng breathed a sigh of relief and didn't ask her what she wrote in those letters. After thinking for a while, he asked again: "How many times have you read this letter from Song Yu?"

Mai Sui lowered her head and replied: "11 times."

Li Heng was stunned, but could understand it later. After a long while, he asked: "Did you understand it?"

Mai Sui looked up at him, her red lips opened slightly several times, but closed gently again, wanting to speak but stopping.

In the confrontation, at a certain moment, Li Heng reached out his hands toward her.

After hesitating for a long time, Mai Sui leaned her upper body forward, fell into his palms, and was pulled into his arms by him.

Li Heng lowered his head to smell her hair, and finally whispered in her ear: "You are not allowed to quit, you are not allowed to make promises. I am not a commodity, you are not allowed to let me go back and forth."

Hearing this, Mai Sui buried her head deeply in his neck, and it was a long, long time before she murmured in response: "Okay."

After a long time, she finally calmed down and asked with a slight lift of her head: "Then should I write back?"

Li Heng leaned over and rubbed his face against hers: "As long as you don't leave me, you can follow your heart for the rest."

"Mm."

Getting his affirmative answer, Mai Sui straightened up and came out of his arms, and handed him the chopsticks on the coffee table, "Finish your meal, I'll tell you something later."

Li Heng asked: "What is it?"

Mai Sui smiled charmingly, "You eat first."

Li Heng smiled, looked at her, then looked at her again, took the chopsticks, and continued to eat.

It took about 4 minutes, and Li Heng ate the remaining food completely, not even sparing the garlic sprouts and chili bits.

After eating, he looked at her calmly, waiting for the matter in her mouth.

Unexpectedly, Mai Sui suddenly said: "I regret it, I'll tell you later."

Li Heng: "..."

He wouldn't give up: "Must it be later? Can't it be today?"

Her dark eyes flashed weakly twice, Mai Sui stood up and walked toward the stairwell, and her soft voice came: "Don't sit after eating, I'll accompany you for a walk."

Li Heng stared at her back for a while, then stood up and followed her downstairs happily.

Walking in the alley, he asked: "Where are Manning and the other two?"

Mai Sui told him: "Manning and Ningning went to the student union for a regular meeting tonight. Shihe is making up for sleep in the bedroom of the small building at No. 27. She had insomnia last night and didn't sleep well."

Li Heng asked: "You are also a member of the student union, why didn't you go to the regular meeting?"

Mai Sui smiled at her, turned around, and left him a delicate and charming back.

Li Heng watched from behind and was fascinated. At one moment, he really wanted to hug her from behind. But it wasn't dark yet, and the road was full of people coming and going, so he didn't dare to move.

"Old Heng! Master Heng! Mai Sui!"

Just as the two walked out of the alley, a rhythmic shouting came from the entrance of the alley ahead. The two looked over when they heard the sound, and a cheap-looking figure immediately came into view.

Who else could it be but the simple-minded one?

Seeing him, Zhang Zhiyong was particularly excited. He ran over with lightning and sparks all the way and punched him on the shoulder, still using the familiar foul language: "Damn it! Old Heng, you're so awesome now! Once your album came out, everyone in our school knew you were my buddy. Many girls took the initiative to approach me and ask me for your personal information.

Damn! Am I the kind of person who is easy to fool? If they treat me to a meal, I'll eat it for free, and after eating, I won't mention a word about you, hehe... guess what? Not only did they not resent me, they even treated me to more."

These words made Li Heng and Mai Sui laugh.

Mai Sui rarely joined in and asked: "So you are a celebrity now too?"

"That's for sure! It's a must! Sister-in-law, you don't know, I can run rampant now under the name of my Master Heng. Everyone has to look at me with high regard." Zhang Zhiyong patted his chest, spitting everywhere, his exaggeration overflowing, looking very excited.

A brainless "Sister-in-law" tore their relationship apart. A blush rose on Mai Sui's face, red and glowing, with an indescribable charm, which was very beautiful!

Suddenly, the simple-minded one was stunned.

Li Heng kicked him angrily.

Zhang Zhiyong was in pain, bent over holding his thigh, baring his teeth to show dissatisfaction: "Damn! Why are you jealous? No matter how beautiful Mai Sui is, she can't compare to Sister Chunhua."

Li Heng rolled his eyes: "Liu Chunhua is about to give birth."

"So what if she gives birth? If she helps me give birth to one now, the old master can give birth to one less in the future, saving money and effort, why not do it?" Zhang Zhiyong looked indifferent.

Li Heng: "..."

Mai Sui: "..."

Li Heng had seen brain-damaged people, but he had never seen such a brain-damaged one. He wished he could slap this idiot to death.

Mai Sui couldn't help but ask: "Is Liu Chunhua very beautiful?"

Zhang Zhiyong pointed to the sky: "Beautiful! In my heart, she is the Chang'e in the sky."

Chang'e my ass, Li Heng secretly slandered, but didn't say it out loud. In the Statistics Class 2, Liu Chunhua could rank at most 8th out of 32 girls.

Because he didn't know which nerve of the simple-minded one was wrong?

There are so many women in the world, but Old Yong only loves this one.

Li Heng asked curiously: "Before coming to Shanghai, did you go to see Liu Chunhua again?"

Zhang Zhiyong scratched his head with his right hand, grinning foolishly: "She cooked a meal for me."

Li Heng raised an eyebrow: "Did you eat at home?"

"Do you have a brain? Isn't this nonsense? If not at home, how could she cook for the old master?" Zhang Zhiyong said.

Li Heng resisted the urge to beat him and asked: "What about her husband?"

Zhang Zhiyong raised his chin, acting like a big bad wolf, and didn't tell the two of them.

Li Heng extinguished the thought of hitting someone again and asked: "Coming here at this hour, are you looking for me for something?"

"Yo-shi! Damn, talking to you made me forget the main thing. I'm here to deliver a letter to you." As he said this, Zhang Zhiyong felt his pocket and took out a folded envelope from inside.

Li Heng asked subconsciously: "Whose is it?"

The simple-minded one peeked at Mai Sui and mumbled without making a sound.

Mai Sui was so smart that she recognized the handwriting on the envelope at a glance, and then said to Li Heng: "You guys talk first, I'll go to Yanyuan to see Xiaozhu."

The simple-minded one touched his empty belly and shouted at her back: "Hey! Sister-in-law, I haven't eaten yet."

Mai Sui said: "There are noodles at home, do it yourself."

After saying that, she left without looking back.

The simple-minded one touched the back of his head, "Why is she so unsympathetic? I already called her sister-in-law, what else does she want? A bowl of noodles and I have to do it myself? The old master has never suffered such a big loss!"

Li Heng ignored his words, stared at the envelope and asked: "How could Song Yu write you a letter?"

"Bullshit! I also thought she was writing to the old master to ask how I was. Damn it, my little heart was beating thump-thump-thump at that time, but when I opened it, it was all about you.

Damn! I knew it, miracles never happen in this world without warmth, and fairies in the sky never pay attention to ugly people like us." The simple-minded one stood with his feet apart and hands on his hips.

Li Heng asked: "What did she write?"

"Don't you have eyes? Can't you see for yourself? Hurry up and give me money, I'm starving, I'm going to buy something to eat." Zhang Zhiyong reached out for money.

Li Heng asked: "You didn't bring money today?"

"I came all the way to deliver a letter to you, why should I spend my money to fill my stomach? Do I look like a fool to you?" Zhang Zhiyong's eyes widened like lanterns, even bigger than a cow's eyes.

Li Heng laughed, took out a few bills from his pocket, didn't even look at them, and stuffed them into his palm.

Having received the money, Zhang Zhiyong ran happily to the school gate to eat.

Li Heng picked a clean patch of grass nearby and started to open the letter.

The content of the letter was far less than imagined. It only asked about one thing: about Zhao Jing and Li Ran, mother and daughter, asking if this mother and daughter really "eat men"?

Read it once.

Read it silently again.

When reading it for the third time, Li Heng realized: just as the simple-minded one said, this letter seemed to be written to Old Yong, but it was actually written to him in a roundabout way.

It seemed to be asking if Zhao Jing and her daughter eat people, but it was actually reminding him to maintain restraint in Mai Sui's bed.

Of course, these were not the most critical points.

The most critical point was, probing the purpose of his mother coming to Shanghai?

Probing his relationship with Professor Yu?

Probing whether his past promises were still valid?

Holding the letter paper, Li Heng's fingers gradually turned pale.

He knew that his actions in Shanghai had finally reached her ears, and he hadn't been able to hide it from her after all.

Sitting alone on the grass for over half an hour, until the simple-minded one returned, he slowly stood up and took out the key from his pocket and handed it over: "You're covered in sweat, go take a shower first."

The simple-minded one didn't take it, his lips curling, "Take a shower my ass, even if I take a shower, there's no place to sleep tonight, your room has been occupied by women."

Li Heng said: "There is still a room on the first floor."

The simple-minded one pointed to his nose and jumped and scolded: "You want someone as affectionate as me to sleep in the utility room? Has your conscience been eaten by a dog?"

Li Heng made a gesture to take back the key, "Then get lost, hurry back to school."

The simple-minded one hurriedly reached out and grabbed the key: "Utility room it is, at least it's a nest."

On the way back, Li Heng suddenly thought of his father: "Eh, by the way, what about your father and the landlady of the wonton shop?"

"Damn it, don't mention it. Now that pair of scumbags are living together in Shaodong, and even opened a new wonton shop."

Zhang Zhiyong said indignantly while walking: "That butcher was useless last time and didn't stab them to death. After I return to school, I will write a letter to that butcher and tell him what that pair of scumbags did in Shaodong and their address."

Li Heng frowned: "You will cause lives to be lost if you do this."

"Bah! The old master is not afraid of anything! This world is too dirty and needs to be cleaned up. It's better if they die! If they die, the money of that bitch will all be mine." Zhang Zhiyong fully displayed his reckless nature.

Li Heng wanted to persuade him again, but was blocked by this guy's words, "If you persuade me again, the old master will break off relations with you! Damn it! My mother is at home every day in tears, in tears..."

Li Heng followed up: "Washing her face with tears."

"Don't teach me, do you think the old master doesn't know such low-level vocabulary? The old master is a college student." The simple-minded one retorted arrogantly.

Li Heng: "..."

Zhang Zhiyong was very depressed, "My yellow-faced mother is at home washing her face with tears every day, but he is outside holding a wild wife and singing all night. I can't swallow this breath.

If you are my brother, don't ask me about this again. When that bitch dies, I'll take you home to eat the funeral feast. Others only give one scoop of beef topping for noodles, the old master will give you three scoops."

Li Heng: "..."

He was thinking, was there such a scene in his previous life?

Unfortunately, it was decades ago, and he couldn't remember clearly.

However, his father seemed to have always been full of energy. Even in his 60s, he was still playing poker in the toilet with a widow from a neighboring village. When he was caught on the spot by the mother-in-law, he still boasted in front of dozens of people: "This land is so fertile, your family has no man to use it, so you won't allow me to use it?"

At that time, this caused a great sensation, and it was spread in ten miles and eight villages. For a time, Father Zhang became a "celebrity," and even three-year-old children knew him.

But having said that, Father Zhang, who had been a rascal all his life, also paid the price for this. The mother-in-law couldn't get over it, so she climbed over the mountains in the middle of the night to come to Shangwan Village to put rat poison in their family's well, and even set fire to the old Zhang family house.

Without realizing it, they reached the end of the alley. With his thoughts gathered, he said to the simple-minded one: "You go take a shower first, I have something to do with Professor Yu."

"Go, don't worry about me," the simple-minded one said.

ps: Updated first, edited later.

(Don't know if there is any more)

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