Chapter 537

Lushan Village.

Upon learning that Li Heng was returning today, Mai Sui had been calling Zhou Shihe to go buy groceries with her since high noon to prepare for dinner.

Li Heng loved duck, so Mai Sui specifically spent a high price to buy a local duck, also commonly known as a hemp duck, from a farmer's house.

He loved pork belly and fish, so she also bought pork belly and yellow bone fish.

He liked dried wild rabbit meat, so she found some cured goods from the cupboard as well.

As for vegetables, his favorites were long beans and baby bok choy, and these two items were also bought in full.

Seeing Sui Sui preparing so meticulously, Zhou Shihe, who was following beside her, felt a strange emotion arise in her heart: she always felt that Li Heng shouldn't be fickle, should break up with Xiao Han, should cut off contact with Yu Laoshi, and shouldn't be like that to her either...

Thinking to this point, she paused: she felt that Mai Sui was the best woman in this world, the woman who loved him the most, and Li Heng should just cherish Sui Sui alone.

After Mai Sui had prepared all the ingredients, Zhou Shihe asked gently, "What time will Li Heng get home today?"

Mai Sui replied, "Probably around 8 o'clock in the evening."

Zhou Shihe raised her right wrist to check her watch and said, "Then let's wash and chop the vegetables first, and start cooking around 6:30. Otherwise, it won't taste good if it gets cold."

Glancing at the prepared vegetables, Mai Sui asked, "Is an hour and a half enough time? This is a 3-year-old duck; this dish alone might take half an hour."

Zhou Shihe had a plan in mind: "Process the duck first, stir-fry it to dry out the moisture, then put it in a pressure cooker, stew it with beer for about 18 minutes, and then add the chili, garlic leaves, and other seasonings when it's time to put it back in the pot."

This dish was called beer duck; she thought it tasted good, so she had carefully watched Li Heng make it several times.

Mai Sui thought for a moment and asked, "Shihe, do you know how to make century egg with pounded chili?"

Zhou Shihe smiled gently: "I thought you had forgotten about this dish."

A flash of shyness crossed Mai Sui's face, and she said softly, "When he drinks, he likes this dish the most."

Zhou Shihe said, "I'll try to make it."

Hearing this, Mai Sui immediately found three century eggs from the cupboard below and began to peel them meticulously.

Zhou Shihe didn't move; her frail frame leaned against the kitchen cabinet, her gaze falling on Sui Sui's hands as she peeled the eggshells.

After a while, she suddenly spoke up and asked, "Will he go straight to the Shanghai Medical College?"

This question was a bit cruel, and she originally couldn't bear to ask it. But thinking of how Li Heng usually ran straight to Xu Hui every time he returned from outside, she offered a reminder.

To avoid the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

And she wasn't speaking without reason. Because before Li Heng left Shanghai last time, he didn't have much time to see Xiao Han, and based on her understanding of him, he would definitely make up for it the first chance he got upon returning this time.

No matter what, Sui Sui was the latecomer.

Xiao Han was his official girlfriend; they had known each other for many years, and their feelings were relatively deep.

The movement in Mai Sui's hands stopped, her gaze froze for a few seconds, and then she returned to normal, "It's fine."

The two words "It's fine" interpreted everything.

Interpreted Mai Sui's love that didn't fight or grab, and had no complaints or regrets.

Zhou Shihe naturally understood, and also felt this thick, pure emotion, and couldn't help but have those two sentences surface in her heart again:

I fell in love with Zhou Shihe at first sight.

Ask the world what love is, that it teaches people to pledge their lives to each other.

She suddenly felt lost and thought: if one day someone couldn't control themselves and made a move on her, ignoring Xiao Han and ignoring Yu Laoshi, just for Sui Sui's sake, she shouldn't give him a chance either.

Zhou Shihe deeply approved of Sui Sui's character and cherished their deep friendship, and didn't want to hurt Mai Sui.

Seeing that her best friend hadn't made a sound for a long time, Mai Sui, feeling a bit stifled, looked up: "Shihe, what are you thinking about?"

Zhou Shihe came back to her senses, "I was wondering why Manning and Ningning haven't come over yet?"

Mai Sui guessed, "They probably went to play billiards, didn't they say the school billiard club has an internal competition tonight? Manning has liked this entertainment activity since high school."

The two women chatted idly, washing vegetables and chopping vegetables, and when 6:30 arrived, Zhou Shihe began to cook.

And she had arranged the order; she made the beer duck and dried wild rabbit first, then the pork belly and yellow bone fish, and finally the vegetables.

At 7:10, Mai Sui, who had finished preparing all the side dishes, suddenly remembered something and said to her friend, "I'm going to the courtyard to sweep the snow."

She was afraid the ground would be slippery with snow and that Li Heng would easily fall when he returned.

Zhou Shihe glanced back at her friend and said quietly that it was fine.

Mai Sui picked up a broom and a shovel, swept all the accumulated snow from the courtyard entrance to the house entrance, and then ran out to the alley to sweep as well.

After sweeping, she still wasn't at ease and walked back and forth on it herself to see if it was slippery.

After clearing the snow, Mai Sui returned to the kitchen to chat with Shihe, occasionally helping out.

Around 7:40, Mai Sui left the kitchen again and ran out to the alley to watch, but after waiting for 5 minutes, she didn't see anyone.

5 minutes later, afraid that her friend would be bored alone, she returned to the kitchen.

At 7:58, Mai Sui left the small building at No. 26 and arrived in the alley 2 minutes early.

Zhou Shihe checked the time, looked at the washed baby bok choy in the basket, thought for a moment, and gave up; it would be fine to cook it when he returned.

Taking off her apron, Zhou Shihe washed her hands and also came out of the kitchen to the outdoors.

Just as she stepped out of the door, she saw at a glance that Sui Sui was stomping her feet at the courtyard entrance from time to time and blowing into her palms, but Sui Sui's eyes were fixed on the direction of the alley entrance.

The wind outside was very strong at this time, blowing Mai Sui's hair wildly in the air and making her clothes billow.

Zhou Shihe stood at the door, her gaze lingering on her friend's back for a long while, then she returned to the house, took out a long trench coat, handed it to her, and said, "It's so cold, you should wear another layer."

Mai Sui smiled delicately, took the coat, and put it on: "It wasn't this windy before."

Zhou Shihe accompanied her in the alley for more than a minute, but later, because her body was too weak, she couldn't hold on, so she returned to the house alone.

She didn't call her friend back inside.

Because she knew better than anyone that Sui Sui's heart wasn't in Lushan Village anymore; it had long since flown to someone.

About 10 minutes later, Mai Sui came in, her hair out of shape.

Zhou Shihe, who was reading a newspaper on the sofa, looked up at her and reminded her, "You should go comb your hair again."

Mai Sui touched her hair with her hand and then quickly went upstairs.

At 8:20, Mai Sui went outside again.

Zhou Shihe was infected by her infatuation and suddenly couldn't read the newspaper anymore; she got up and came to the window, her gaze moving quietly as her friend's figure moved.

Heaven rewards the diligent; after experiencing several disappointments, a few figures finally appeared at the end of the alley.

The ones walking in the front were vaguely Li Heng and Yu Laoshi.

Seeing Li Heng, Mai Sui was a little happy and couldn't help but run forward a few steps. But after running a few steps, she stopped again.

Zhou Shihe could guess why her friend stopped.

One was wanting to try hard to maintain restraint.

Two was realizing that Yu Laoshi was also there.

The fact was indeed so; Mai Sui suppressed the impulse in her heart because of restraint and Yu Laoshi. She stopped in place, watching Li Heng quickly approach from afar without blinking.

Seeing him, her heart instantly settled down.

Li Heng also saw Mai Sui from far away, instantly accelerated and ran over, made an emergency stop, stood in front of her, and asked with concern, "The wind is so strong, why did you run out?"

Mai Sui smiled charmingly and reached out to help take the luggage in his right hand: "I felt you should be coming back soon, so I came out to take a look."

Li Heng asked, "Have you been waiting a long time?"

"No, I only came out for about half a minute, I was in the kitchen accompanying Shihe to cook before." Mai Sui was afraid he would blame her, so she smiled softly.

Li Heng didn't believe it, touched her cold palms, and looked at her messy, irregular hair, and suddenly understood everything, but he didn't say anything, just held her hand and walked into the house with heartache.

Mai Sui felt a bit unnatural and muttered in a low voice, "Li Heng, Yu Laoshi is here."

Hearing this, Li Heng threw the luggage in his left hand at the courtyard entrance, and under her gaze, with lightning speed, he picked her up horizontally and strode toward the house.

Mai Sui, who was in the air, was very embarrassed and begged shyly, "Put me down, Shihe is in the house."

However, she said it too late; it was only a few steps, and Li Heng had already entered the house and was face-to-face with Zhou Shihe by the window.

Glancing back and forth between the two, Zhou Shihe smiled faintly, then turned and walked to the kitchen, intending to make the last dish.

Stir-fried baby bok choy.

Yu Shuheng, as well as Ceng Yun and Liu Bei outside, also saw that scene just now.

Ceng Yun and Liu Bei couldn't help but look at each other, then very tactfully put the things into the small building at No. 25, and then nimbly left the area.

Arriving at the alley entrance, Ceng Yun rarely asked, "You say, why does Miss Yu tolerate him so much?"

Liu Bei was different from Ceng Yun; she was a proper graduate of a military academy, had a high level of education, strong ability to handle affairs, and quick thinking. This was also the reason why Yu Shuheng valued her so much.

Liu Bei replied, "Because of love."

Ceng Yun sighed upon hearing this, "Have you noticed, Miss Yu keeps modifying her bottom line for him again and again."

Regarding these things, Liu Bei had long since figured it out, "Perhaps Mr. Li is her nemesis."

Ceng Yun asked, "You are smarter than me and see things clearly. You say, can they achieve a positive result in 3 years?"

Both of them knew Li Heng was fickle, and also knew about the existence of Song Yu, Chen Zijin, and Xiao Han.

And even vaguely knew about Huang Zhaoyi.

Liu Bei hesitated and said, "It's hard to say."

Ceng Yun widened her eyes and blurted out, "Why? Can he still fail Miss Yu?"

Liu Bei turned her head to vaguely look at the location of the small building at No. 27 and said ambiguously, "There is an old saying since ancient times: what is delivered to the door isn't fragrant, what is begged for is fragrant."

Ceng Yun didn't understand at first, but after a while, she realized, "Are you referring to Zhou Shihe?"

Liu Bei didn't answer.

But in her eyes, she always felt that only Zhou Shihe could deal a double blow to Miss Yu physically and magically, causing a real threat.

Song Yu could also exert pressure on Miss Yu mentally, but by comparison, her family background was her weakness. And this weakness was fatal and could not be made up for.

And the other one with family background and appearance, Huang Zhaoyi, age was a huge disadvantage, and at the same time, she had loved too humbly earlier, losing her innate advantage.

As for Xiao Han, her personal comprehensive conditions were not worse than Miss Yu's, but it was still that saying, her family was too different, not on the same level.

Liu Bei, who worked for the Yu family every day, knew better than anyone that the energy controlled by such a big family was unimaginable and could not be compared to a small town head.

Seeing Li Heng pick up Mai Sui and enter the house through the courtyard gate, Yu Shuheng, who was in the alley outside, stood in place for a moment, then entered her own home.

A scene involuntarily surfaced in her mind: in the room at Chuanzhusi, he unscrupulously placed her horizontally on his legs, lowered his head, and bit the clothes on her chest.

Now, this man was holding Mai Sui horizontally.

Entering the house, Yu Shuheng, who had been expressionless just a moment ago, leaned against the door frame to rest for a while, then went upstairs, first pulled the curtains, then found a change of clothes, and went to the shower room.

Under the spray of the shower, Yu Laoshi, while wiping on body wash, had her mind full of his big hands.

Coming out of the shower room, Yu Shuheng made a cup of coffee for herself, turned off the light, picked up the coffee with both hands, sat elegantly on the sofa, and stared blankly at the dark night.

From childhood to adulthood, she rarely stared blankly.

But after knowing him, she had stared blankly several times.

Shihe hid in the kitchen.

Yu Laoshi also tactfully didn't come over.

The first-floor living room was now left with only Li Heng and Mai Sui.

Their eyes intertwined, Mai Sui begged softly again, "Put me down, okay?"

Looking at the person in front of her, looking at the woman in his arms, looking at her charming eyes flickering weakly one after another, Li Heng suddenly realized: his feelings for her had long since unknowingly penetrated into his bone marrow, into the depths of his soul.

If there was no previous life, if there were no Xiao Han, Song Yu, and Zijin, he might have proposed to Mai Sui without hesitation in this life.

Sensing that something was wrong with him, Mai Sui stopped begging and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you? Is there somewhere in your body that's uncomfortable?"

Li Heng didn't make a sound, just held her tightly like that.

Seeing that he was reluctant to let go for a long time, Mai Sui seemed to realize something, stopped talking, stopped asking, and also hugged him back with both hands, the two of them hugging each other quietly.

After a long while, until the sound of cooking in the kitchen stopped, until there was no movement in the kitchen, Mai Sui raised her head slightly and said as gently as water, "Shihe is about to come out."

Li Heng didn't move, still holding her tightly, reluctant to let go.

In fact, Zhou Shihe hadn't left the kitchen at all; after plating the baby bok choy, she just leaned against the cabinet, frail and weak, her pure and simple eyes looking through the window at the paulownia tree outside that was rustling in the wind, lost in thought.

No need to guess, she knew what the two people whose feelings were at their peak were doing outside; she would naturally leave enough space for Sui Sui.

After another while, Mai Sui used a way that had no other way, and spoke for the third time: "Let me go, okay? I'll accompany you tonight."

These words worked.

Perhaps Li Heng had also calmed down, he hummed and let her go, and used his fingers to help her clear her messy hair: "I'll go take a shower, it'll only take a few minutes, you go call Yu Laoshi, I'll be down in a moment."

Mai Sui agreed and watched him go upstairs.

Waiting for a few seconds, Mai Sui touched her hair that had returned to its original state, took two deep breaths to suppress the happiness in her heart, turned around, and walked into the kitchen, "Shihe, I'm going to call Yu Laoshi."

This was a signal.

Her best friend coming in meant it was okay to leave the kitchen.

Zhou Shihe smiled warmly and said, "Okay."

Saying this, Zhou Gu Niang stood up straight, opened the lid of the thermal steamer, and began to serve the dishes kept warm inside to the table one by one.

Passing through the pitch-black alley, Mai Sui took a flashlight and entered the small building at No. 25; the door wasn't even locked, she just turned it and it opened.

Feeling her way to the 2nd floor, she said to Yu Shuheng on the sofa, "Teacher, the food is ready, we are all waiting for you to come over and eat."

The voice interrupted Yu Shuheng's soaring thoughts, she nodded at her with a smile, and stood up.

Mai Sui noticed at this time: the coffee in Yu Laoshi's hand was still full, but there was no heat, obviously she hadn't taken a sip.

Mai Sui was a smart person, and after using her brain a little, she knew what was going on, but she pretended not to know, turned around very considerately, and focused her attention elsewhere.

Noticing her movement, Yu Shuheng lowered her head to look at the coffee in her hand, smiled elegantly, bent down to put the cup on the coffee table, and then found a souvenir from her bag and handed it over: "I didn't know what to buy in Chengdu, so I bought this, I don't know if you like it?"

In Yu Laoshi's hand was a string of Hetian jade bracelets, specifically bought for Mai Sui, costing a lot of money.

Mai Sui took the bracelet and said happily, "It's really beautiful, thank you, Teacher."

Seeing that the other party genuinely liked it, Yu Laoshi picked up her bag and reached out to take Mai Sui's arm, "Let's go, let's go eat, don't keep them waiting too long."

This was the first time Yu Shuheng had taken the initiative to take the arm of someone of the same sex; in the past, other women had spontaneously catered to her.

Mai Sui put the bracelet into her pocket, turned her head, and asked, "Teacher, is Aba very cold?"

"Hmm, it's indeed very cold. Especially since the temperature has dropped these past few days, I had to wear 5 layers of clothes over there." Yu Shuheng recalled.

Mai Sui said, "With Teacher's figure, wearing 5 layers of clothes won't look bloated."

Yu Shuheng had always been confident in her figure, otherwise, someone wouldn't have held her for more than an hour that day, "Speaking of figure, your type is what men love the most."

Her words were both teasing and her true inner thoughts.

Mai Sui's inner charm attribute was bursting, and she exuded a kind of magic to men from the inside out; just a glimpse was enough to firmly hook a man's eyeballs.

Chatting, the two women walked into the small building at No. 26.

Ye Ning and Sun Manning seemed to have dog noses, smelling the scent and coming over, laughing and helping to serve rice.

Seeing Yu Shuheng appear, Zhou Shihe smiled gently at the other party, which counted as a greeting.

Yu Shuheng also smiled and returned the greeting.

Mai Sui closed the main door and asked Sun Manning, "Manning, did you win the billiard competition today?"

Sun Manning patted her chest and said very proudly, "Of course! A small competition, with this young lady going out in person, it was a piece of cake."

"Pfft! Why do you love bragging so much, you only got third place." Ye Ning complained.

Sun Manning retorted, "I let them! Don't you know I let you, my chest is so big, those people's chests are so small, if I don't let them, how can they live?"

Speaking of chests, this was simply a dimensionality reduction strike against Ye Ning.

This wasn't it, Ye Ning, whose heart had been poked, immediately refused to do it, stood up with a "whoosh", rolled up her sleeves, and cursed: "What? Is having a big chest amazing! Haven't you heard that big chests have no brains!" Hearing this, Sun Manning reached out and pulled Yu Laoshi, and then pulled Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe: "Listen! Listen! The airport is scolding you, can you endure this?"

Zhou Shihe pursed her lips and smiled, serving herself a bowl of scallion egg soup.

Mai Sui and Yu Shuheng also didn't get involved, watching the show with relish on the side.

This move by Sun Manning could be called a critical hit against Ye Ning, Ye Ning was so angry that she yelled: "Not eating anymore! This rice can't be eaten! My chest is small and I'm not worthy of eating with you big-chested ones!"

Li Heng happened to come down from upstairs at this time, and hearing this, he comforted her: "Comrade Ye Ning, rice still needs to be eaten, if you don't eat, you'll never catch up."

Mai Sui: "....."

Zhou Shihe: ". ….."

Yu Shuheng glanced at him and smiled meaningfully. She had personally experienced how much someone loved that part.

Sun Manning clapped her hands and laughed out loud: "Great Writer Li, you are really talented, these words are beautiful."

Ye Ning was so angry that she put her hands on her hips and stomped her feet: "Li Heng, I am a woman, how can you say this?"

Li Heng didn't change his expression, "Forget it, you two tell dirty jokes in front of me every day, I've long been immune. Here with me, I've long since treated you as buddies."

These words left Ye Ning speechless, with no way to refute.

Because what Li Heng said was right. Over the past year, she and Manning had talked about all kinds of peach-blossom news, Li Heng would avoid it a bit at first because of the difference between men and women, but after a long time, he got used to it and was too lazy to move.

Looking at the table full of hard dishes, Li Heng said sincerely to Zhou Shihe: "Comrade Shihe, you've worked hard."

Zhou Shihe smiled knowingly and said with dignity: "It's all Sui Sui's credit."

Li Heng turned to Mai Sui, "You've also worked hard."

Mai Sui hummed and greeted everyone: "Everyone is hungry, right, let's start eating quickly, otherwise the food will get cold."

Everyone was indeed a bit hungry, and they were all old acquaintances, so they didn't know what politeness was at all, and they all picked up their chopsticks and started eating and drinking.

Because the food was good, a group of people didn't say much at the beginning, all burying their heads in picking up food and eating.

After eating a bowl of rice to pad their stomachs, Ye Ning suddenly poked her head out and asked Li Heng: "Great talent, the newspapers are all reporting that the pure music album earned over 850,000 pounds overseas in just over a month, is it true?"

Li Heng's mouth was full of pork belly, he chewed and swallowed before asking: "Has this made the news?"

"Yeah, not just the news, now everyone in China knows you are amazing, you can go abroad to earn the pounds and dollars of the foreign devils, hehe! Now many juniors in the student union worship you to death." Ye Ning drew a circle in the air with both hands, speaking very admiringly.

Li Heng said happily: "Don't, don't say it like that. The credit isn't mine alone, it's Shihe's and Yu Laoshi's, without them, I couldn't turn the sky over by myself."

Yu Shuheng interjected at this time, "Actually, it's more than 850,000 pounds, it's just that the album distributor and taxes took a large part."

Yu Laoshi said this implicitly for Zhou Shihe to hear, to avoid the other party becoming suspicious.

At the same time, the reason why Yu Shuheng disclosed the news in China was to further increase Li Heng's fame and shape his personal reputation. Stimulate the domestic market, hoping that the pure music album and Anta footwear industry could usher in another wave of consumption.

This meal was talked about by everyone, and they ate very happily.

After the meal, Li Heng asked Zhou Shihe: "Are you staying overnight here in Lushan Village tonight?"

Zhou Shihe said: "Yes."

Li Heng said: "Then I'll come find you with Yu Laoshi in a while, there's something."

Zhou Shihe said okay.

Watching Zhou Shihe go to the small building at No. 27 next door, Sun Manning and Ye Ning caught Li Heng and kept asking about the situation in Aba, asking if it was fun? Asking if ethnic minorities eat mutton and beef every day, and if they can't finish the meat? Asking if the Tibetan temples are as legendary as they are, all made of gold? And asking if the women in Aba are beautiful? Are there any romantic encounters or something?

Li Heng was between laughter and tears, accompanying them to brag and fart for a long time before satisfying this girl's curiosity.

Speaking until his mouth was dry, Sun Manning held a vegetable bowl and drank a large bowl of water, then sneakily pulled Li Heng into the alley outside, "Li Heng, I have something I want to ask you."

Li Heng asked: "What is it?"

Sun Manning confirmed that there were no followers behind, then lowered her voice and asked: "Has Chen Lijun contacted you?"

Li Heng was surprised, "Why did you mention her?"

Sun Manning said "Ouch": "Don't worry about it, answer me first."

Li Heng thought for a while and said: "She wrote me a letter last year, saying she was going to the army. After that, there was no contact."

Sun Manning confirmed and asked: "No contact anymore? Not even a letter?"

Li Heng shook his head, "What exactly is the matter?"

Sun Manning ignored him and asked for herself: "In that letter, did she confess to you?"

Li Heng was a bit confused: "Confess what?"

Sun Manning raised her eyebrows: "Don't tell me, you don't know that Chen Lijun secretly had a crush on you?"

Li Heng was speechless, he really didn't pay attention to this in high school, because his mind was all on Song Yu and Zijin.

Even if it was Mai Sui, if it weren't for the memory of his previous life, if it weren't for this girl coming to Fudan University with him, he also wouldn't have noticed that Mai Sui liked him.

Seeing his ignorant look, Sun Manning couldn't help but ridicule: "Yo! Yo yo yo! Who was the great lover? Actually couldn't even see through such a simple matter?"

Li Heng rolled his eyes and countered: "I really didn't notice Chen Lijun. But someone, in the first and second year of high school, and the first semester of the third year, was like a little bully, not allowing others to sit with me, I thought she liked me back then, heh."

"Hehe!"

Thinking of the glorious past, Sun Manning said with a smile: "Your math is good, I want to learn math from you. Facts have proven that it is still useful, otherwise I might not have been able to get such a high score in the college entrance examination, and might not have been able to be in the same school as you."

Li Heng asked: "Then have you ever liked me?"

"Pfft! Can you have some face? Do you really think you are the only man in the world? Are all men dead? Why should I like you? Who are you? If I like you, can you give me 10 million?" Sun Manning put her hands behind her back with a look of disdain.

Li Heng said happily: "Very good, I appreciate this unruly look of yours. Then tell me, why mention Chen Lijun?"

Sun Manning looked back, then reached her right hand into her pants pocket, took out a folded yellowish-brown envelope from inside and gave it to him: "This letter is ostensibly written to me by Lijun, but it's actually written to you. She once asked me, are Mai Sui and you together? I told her at the time, yes. So, you understand now?"

Li Heng understood.

Because of Mai Sui, Chen Lijun didn't write to him directly, but entrusted Sun Manning to pass it on privately.

The purpose was not to let Mai Sui know.

Li Heng stared at the envelope for a long time, but finally reached out and took it.

He asked: "Did she write you a letter?"

Sun Manning nodded fiercely: "Yes, of course! If she didn't write to me, how would I know this letter was written to you? Look at the back of the envelope, there is a five-pointed star drawn with a ballpoint pen, this is the mark, she was afraid I would open the wrong letter."

Li Heng turned the letter over and sure enough saw a five-pointed star the size of a rice grain in the lower right corner on the back.

He asked: "Do you know what's written in the letter?"

Sun Manning curled her lips: "Do you think I'm a god? Or should I help you take a look?"

Li Heng pushed her hand away, "Alright, thank you for delivering the letter."

Sun Manning's gossip heart flooded, and she asked: "Why did Yu Laoshi accompany you to Aba? And stayed for 40 days, not even attending class?"

Li Heng said: "Who said she was in Aba the whole time? Yu Laoshi has business abroad, she went abroad, okay."

Sun Manning gave him the middle finger, "Aunt Shen Xin said so, you damn liar!"

Li Heng was speechless and asked: "When did Aunt Shen Xin say that?"

Sun Manning said: "Just a while ago. Shen Xin came to help Yu Laoshi dry the quilt, and chatted with us by the way, saying Yu Laoshi accompanied you in Aba. She also said with a worried face, hoping you would be restrained, and hoping you wouldn't get a child so early...."

Li Heng was depressed, this was completely the way Aunt Shen Xin could speak.

He asked: "What else did she say?"

Sun Manning said: "She said a lot, anyway, it's saying that you and Yu Laoshi are secretly dating, and also saying that if Yu Laoshi gets pregnant, you can only get married early or something..."

Ignoring this girl's fiery eyes, Li Heng tentatively asked: "How many people were there at the time?"

Sun Manning counted with her fingers: "Me, Shihe, and Mai Sui."

Li Heng asked, "Just the three of you?"

"Oh, and Sister Siya." Sun Manning added.

Li Heng asked: "Ye Ning wasn't there?"

Sun Manning said: "That day Ye Ning had a fellow villager's birthday, went to dinner, wasn't there."

Li Heng asked: "Then did you tell Ye Ning about this?"

"Pfft! Do you think I'm stupid, you're almost making Teacher pregnant, how would I dare to gossip about such an unfilial thing? No matter what, you're my brother, okay, the relationship has been so many years, you're definitely closer than Ye Ning." Sun Manning's small mouth opened and closed, outputting crazily.

Li Heng's eyelids jumped, and he wanted to beat someone after hearing it.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Sun Manning stretched her head over: "Do you want to beat me?"

Li Heng rolled his eyes.

Sun Manning patted her own head with her hand and provoked: "Come! Come beat me, beat me to death! After beating me, I won't have any psychological burden, and I can widely publicize the matter of you, a dog man, seducing a teacher."

Li Heng endured and endured, finally endured, and said angrily: "Hey, get lost quickly, I don't hit women."

Seeing his constipated look, Sun Manning laughed triumphantly: "Do you want me to ask, what was Mai Sui's expression at the time?"

Li Heng acquiesced.

He had an intuition that Aunt Shen Xin wasn't just saying it for Mai Sui to hear, the main target should be Zhou Gu Niang.

Mai Sui was probably in the situation of being plucked along the way.

Because Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe were almost inseparable, where there was Mai Sui, there must be Zhou Shihe; similarly, where there was Zhou Shihe, one could definitely find Mai Sui.

Therefore, even if Shen Xin didn't want to accidentally hurt Mai Sui, there was no way.

He was pondering: have I already revealed myself so obviously to Zhou Shihe? Making Yu Laoshi and Aunt Shen Xin so defensive?

Yu Laoshi is fine. After all, when the three of them practiced pieces together, he did interact with Zhou Shihe most of the time.

Then Aunt Shen Xin? Why did she see it?

Could it be that Yu Laoshi told the other party?

Also, have I really been poisoned by Zhou Shihe silently?

Thinking of this, Li Heng cut off the thought of continuing to think. Honestly, he didn't want to, nor dared to extend this kind of thought, really afraid that one day he would lose control.

Seeing him standing there like a stone statue for a long time without speaking, Sun Manning waved her right hand in front of him, "Hey! What are you thinking about?"

Li Heng's eyelids blinked unconsciously following her hand: "Nothing, what was Mai Sui's expression at the time?"

"Mai Sui? What expression could she have, you fickle radish being half-hearted isn't a matter of one or two days, you harmed 4 in high school, it wouldn't be right not to harm one in college, on the contrary, there is a Yu Laoshi on the pirate ship, I feel relieved for her. No longer have to worry about you going to hit Shihe's idea." Sun Manning didn't give him any face at all.

In Sun Manning's view: with the suppression of Yu Laoshi, this young man Li Heng shouldn't dare to mess around outside, should have settled his heart from now on!

For a period of time, she doubted the relationship between Li Heng and Zhou Shihe, doubting whether Li Heng would unknowingly fall in love with Zhou Shihe, whose charm value was bursting.

But later through observation, she found that she thought too much, the relationship between Li Heng and Shihe was very clear, without any ambiguity.

Look at this trouble, Aunt Shen Xin is really a tiger.

Fortunately, Yu Laoshi is reasonable and not like Aunt Shen Xin, otherwise he might not be able to handle it.

Seeing this girl staring at him intently, Li Heng asked: "Why haven't you left yet?"

Sun Manning stretched her right hand in front of him.

Li Heng asked: "What do you mean?"

Sun Manning pouted and threatened: "I have mastered such a heaven-defying handle now, shouldn't you bribe me? Shouldn't you use money to smash me into silence?"

Li Heng shook a fist in front of her: "No money, do you want a fist?"

Sun Manning looked disgusted: "No, your hand touches women, it's dirty."

Li Heng: ". …."

Seeing his expression getting worse and worse, Sun Manning involuntarily took a step back, but her hand was still stretched in mid-air, "Like this, there's no chocolate at home, you are a millionaire now anyway, help me out."

Li Heng asked: "What about the two boxes I bought for Mai Sui last time? Did you finish them all?"

Sun Manning puffed out her chest: "I ate to grow my chest, why are you so stingy as a big man!"

"I'm not stingy, I'm not threatened." Li Heng originally wanted to call himself "Laozi", but thinking that there was a female comrade in front of him, he changed "Laozi" to "I" when the words reached his lips.

Saying this, he casually took out two banknotes from his pocket and stuffed them into her hand without looking: "This money is definitely more than enough, help me bring back two catties of braised food, remember to want some duck necks and duck frames."

"Alright, Master Li, the little one is going now, hehe." With money, Sun Manning immediately transformed into a dog-leg look, ran away with a smile, and didn't forget to call her best friend Ye Ning before leaving.

After people went far away, Li Heng looked at the envelope in his hand solemnly.

For a moment, he was curious and wanted to open it.

The reason for his curiosity was that he had never figured out why Chen Lijun gave up Renmin University and went to the army, even if her uncle was doing well in the army, logically she shouldn't have.

After all, Renmin University in this era is not comparable to later generations, its popularity and strength are close to Qingbei, and the name is very loud.

However, after hesitating for a while, he finally gave up.

He didn't intend to open this letter.

Because he couldn't guess the content of the letter. Afraid that he wouldn't be able to give a clear reply at that time, it's better to be hazy like this.

Thinking and thinking, Li Heng put the letter in his pocket, went to the study on the second floor, looked around, and then took the letter out and locked it in the desk drawer.

Mai Sui had already finished showering at this time, came to the study door and asked: "I'm going to Shihe's side, are you coming with me?"

Li Heng didn't make a sound, turned around and stared straight at her.

Meeting his gaze across the air for a moment, Mai Sui trembled for no reason, her heart seemed to have a deer bumping into it, as if she had been scorched by the heat coming toward her, hesitated for a moment, she walked into the study obediently, and closed the study door by the way.

Then she stood at the door like that, staring at him anxiously.

Li Heng walked over in two or three steps, didn't kiss her passionately as she thought, but put his right hand on her left cheek, stroked it gently back and forth, and said in a low voice after a long time: "My Mai Sui has lost weight."

Mai Sui smiled charmingly, pressed her cheek tightly against his palm, and enjoyed this pampering very much: "Lost two catties."

"Dieting?"

"Hmm."

"You weren't fat before, why do you want to lose weight?"

"I'm also at a standard weight now."

Li Heng's gaze was like an infrared ray, constantly patrolling and wandering on her, from top to bottom, and from bottom to top, as if he had encountered a peerless treasure, and appreciated it seriously.

After doing this several times, Mai Sui's body was numb from being watched.

Li Heng leaned into her ear and said: "Keep this level in the future, don't lose any more weight, I like it with substance."

Hearing "with substance", Mai Sui's eyes flickered like stars, her cheeks suddenly dyed with rosy light, like a rose bud blooming in spring, shy and with an indescribable tenderness, which was heart-moving.

Observing her change, Li Heng couldn't hold back anymore, lowered his head uncontrollably, and kissed her charming red lips.

Mai Sui was a bit at a loss at first, but as he continued to exert force, she gradually immersed herself in it.

I saw her back against the study door, her hands couldn't help but grab the clothes on his waist, raised her head slightly, and for a moment, two red tongues were entangled and inseparable.

Five minutes later, the two separated, but after looking at each other for less than 10 seconds, the two kissed again tacitly.

Ten minutes later, the two mouths separated again, Mai Sui said softly: "Don't you have something to find Shihe for? Yu Laoshi should be waiting for you."

Li Heng hugged her waist: "Sleep with me tonight."

Mai Sui refused: "No."

"Ah?" Li Heng said ah.

Thinking that this girl didn't keep her word, it wasn't like this before.

Mai Sui seemed to have guessed his thoughts, smiled delicately, stood on tiptoe and kissed the corner of his mouth, then nimbly opened the study door and walked out.

Li Heng touched the corner of his mouth with his right hand and followed out happily.

Just as Mai Sui expected, Yu Laoshi was indeed admiring the flowers in the courtyard waiting for the two to go downstairs.

Hearing movement at the door, Yu Shuheng turned sideways and looked at the two with a smile.

Facing Yu Laoshi's deep gaze, Mai Sui, who felt seen through, was a little uncomfortable, "Teacher."

Yu Shuheng nodded and said elegantly: "Mai Sui, accompany Teacher to a place in a while."

Mai Sui didn't ask where to go, and agreed very graciously.

ps: update first, revise later.

10,000 words updated.

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