Chapter 581

On a rainy day, ten miles of road, and it was a bumpy, muddy, rural dirt road. The two of them picked their spots to step, and it took them a full 80 minutes to reach the small town.

Yu Laoshi had never been to a market before. Looking at the stalls all over the street, looking at the lively scene like the migration of wildebeests, looking at the firecrackers, couplets, and other things related to the New Year being sold everywhere, she exclaimed happily:

"The New Year atmosphere is very strong; it's much more interesting than in Shanghai."

Li Heng had never seen how a big family spends the New Year. Without comparison, it was hard to respond. But thinking about it, the other party never worried about food or clothing, which is always much better than the villagers who run around for their three meals a day.

Yu Laoshi was full of curiosity about the rural marketplace. Even for a stall selling rat poison or a mobile vendor selling Japanese red, she had to stop and take a look.

She asked: "What do you usually buy for the New Year?"

"In previous years, we would save up money to buy firecrackers, new shoes, and new clothes. After all, for the New Year, everything from head to toe must be new; these are indispensable. But now our Li family has enough to eat and wear, and we have most things at home. I guess if we buy anything, it will be some trendy items," Li Heng said.

The two of them walked and shopped all the way, and in the middle, they met Xiao Feng.

Seeing Yu Shuheng, Xiao Feng was stunned for several seconds before she reacted and greeted: "Li Heng, you're also here to shop at the market."

Li Heng nodded with a smile and introduced them to each other:

"This is my university teacher, Yu."

"This is my high school classmate, Xiao Feng."

Yu Shuheng smiled at Xiao Feng and recognized her. When she went to Peking University to secretly watch Song Yu before, she happened to run into this girl eating with Song Yu in the cafeteria.

However, it was Xiao Feng's first time seeing Yu Shuheng. After a few pleasantries, she found an opportunity to speak to Li Heng alone:

"Li Heng, you are really bold, daring to bring such a beautiful teacher home. Aren't you afraid that Xiao Han and Chen Zijin will fall out with you?"

Li Heng said without blushing or skipping a beat: "What's the big deal? She is my teacher."

Xiao Feng was not easy to fool: "Give it a rest. I've heard the rumors about you and the beautiful university teacher."

"Although those rumors can't be taken seriously, and it might be others being jealous of you behind your back, you still need to be careful about the influence. If Song Yu finds out, it might cause waves."

Knowing she meant well, Li Heng blinked, not wanting to mention this, and changed the subject: "Why didn't you go find Xiao Han?"

Xiao Feng told him: "I looked for her, but her whole family is not there. I asked the neighbors, and it seems they went to visit relatives."

Then she looked full of doubt: "She is your girlfriend, and you don't even know her whereabouts?"

Li Heng said: "I went out of town and only arrived home last night. I haven't had time to go to her house yet."

"Oh, I see. Then you go ahead and get busy; I'm leaving," Xiao Feng said, glancing at Yu Laoshi, who was learning to bargain for vegetables not far away.

"Wait."

Li Heng stopped her and asked: "Is Yingwen back? Or is he spending the New Year in the capital?"

"He's spending the New Year at the New Future School with Wang Ye. Before coming back, I also stayed at your training school for two days doing a part-time job. For the second session, your enrollment is so successful. You big rich man are going to make a fortune again," Xiao Feng said, her eyes full of envy.

Saying goodbye to Xiao Feng, Li Heng took Yu Laoshi to walk through the entire small town until evening, when the two of them returned home carrying large and small bags.

Going up to the second floor, Yu Laoshi said with lingering interest: "I like this atmosphere. If only I could spend the New Year here in the future."

Li Heng, walking behind, felt his heart move. His gaze lingered on her tall back for a moment, and then he hugged her from behind and whispered in her ear:

"Teacher, there will be a chance."

Yu Shuheng turned her head and looked steadily into his eyes.

Staring at each other, for a while, neither of them spoke.

At this moment, silence is better than sound; everything is in the unspoken.

As time passed, an indescribable ambiguous atmosphere filled the space between the two. Li Heng couldn't hold back and couldn't help but lean over and kiss her.

This time, infected by the emotion, she didn't dodge for the first time ever, slightly parted her red lips, and kissed him.

Her lips parted and closed, and their mouths merged passionately.

However, she was a teacher after all, and she was a bit reserved about this matter.

When his red tongue wanted to break through the Great Wall and enter the Central Plains hinterland after a shallow taste of her red lips, she felt uncomfortable and took the initiative to retreat, leaving the man's mouth.

This was the closest chance; they were almost able to have a French wet kiss, but she retreated at the critical moment, dropping the chain.

Li Heng looked very depressed: "Teacher, are you fishing?"

Yu Shuheng laughed when she heard this, and a flash of triumph crossed her deep eyes: "Yes."

Then she asked tenderly: "Do you like it?"

Li Heng nodded: "I like it, but you..."

Yu Shuheng sealed his mouth with her hand, interrupting his words. After looking at each other for a moment, she took her hand away and kissed his lips with her red lips.

Their two mouths were pressed together, motionless.

After a while, she let him go, straightened her head, and said softly: "Little man, Teacher will be yours sooner or later."

Hearing these deeply touching words, Li Heng felt his heart move and wisely didn't ask any further.

After dinner, Li Heng took Yu Laoshi to his eldest sister's house.

Just as they entered the main room, they saw wood shavings flying and sawdust scattering. His eldest brother-in-law, Wu Shusheng, was making a pig feed trough. Several neighbors were watching with great interest, and there was a half-grown child on the ground playing with small wooden blocks.

Seeing Li Heng appear, the people in the main room didn't dare to put on airs and all stood up to greet him. This was the village's star of literature, who had long been deified by everyone's talk, to the point that they themselves believed it, believed that Li Heng was truly a star of literature descended to earth, and didn't dare to be negligent.

Seeing Yu Shuheng behind him, the crowd, who had just been chatting and joking about dirty jokes without restraint, all stopped, not daring to say anything big, just secretly sizing up Yu Laoshi.

Many villagers had never walked out of the small town in their lives, let alone the outside world, let alone a university teacher overflowing with scholarly temperament. They respected her from the bottom of their hearts, and they were conquered from the bottom of their hearts by Yu Laoshi's peerless beauty and aura.

Take the couple, eldest sister Li Yan, for example. In the past, as long as their parents were at home, they would basically run to her maiden home four or five times a day. But now, they didn't dare to come over, just because they felt they were just mud-legged people, didn't understand anything, had no culture, didn't know how to speak properly, and didn't know how to dress, so they didn't dare to show their faces in front of Yu Laoshi, not wanting to lose face for their younger brother.

Li Heng took out the cigarettes he always carried from his pocket and distributed them to everyone, regardless of gender or age.

Then he said to his eldest brother-in-law, Wu Shusheng: "Help me make a few bookcases, don't use iron nails, can you?"

Wu Shusheng looked a bit wooden, but he was very confident in his craftsmanship: "It's not a difficult thing."

"Done." Li Heng asked: "Are you making the bookcases at your own home? Or at my place?"

Wu Shusheng was a bit afraid of this brother-in-law: "I'm too lazy to take the tools; it's more convenient here."

Li Heng knew exactly what he was worried about. After responding, he immediately took out 1,000 yuan and gave it to his nephew who was playing with wood chips on the ground: "Uncle didn't buy anything, you take this to buy some candy."

The little brat was only a little over a year old, had just learned to walk, and was still babbling. How could he understand this? However, seeing the money, he reached out his little chubby hand and grabbed it.

1,000 yuan, in this rural area where the wage is only 2 yuan a day, is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.

The people around them all showed eyes of envy, jealousy, and hatred, wishing that this money was given to them, wishing that they also had such a capable relative like Li Heng. Not only is it face-saving, but the key is that the other party really gives money, real gold and silver.

Eldest sister Li Yan hurriedly snatched the money from the child's hand and stuffed it back, saying: "Brother, it's too much. My husband and I have already used a lot of your money. You take it back; we don't lack food or drink now."

How could money that had been given away be taken back?

Li Heng first declined, but later he became impatient and simply glared. The eldest sister immediately stopped, at a loss, and finally put the money into her pocket with an embarrassed look.

Everyone was watching the two siblings pushing and pulling, and even Wu Shusheng and his parents-in-law didn't dare to make a sound, just looking at them eagerly.

It wasn't until Li Yan finally accepted the money that the atmosphere eased. Then the eldest sister's mother-in-law reacted, serving tea and moving stools, and even sent the Wu family's younger sister to catch a chicken, preparing to make a big meal for her daughter-in-law's family.

Li Heng hurriedly stopped her: "Auntie, don't be so polite. Teacher and I came after eating; our stomachs are only so big, and no matter how many good dishes you make, we can't eat them, so don't bother."

After much persuasion, Li Jianguo and Tian Run'e arrived later, and only then did they stop.

Feeling that with Yu Laoshi there, everyone couldn't let go, he took the teacher and left after sitting for half an hour.

Leaving the Wu family, Yu Shuheng looked at the dim electric lights in the dark night and couldn't help asking: "Do I have a fierce face? Why is everyone so afraid of me?"

Li Heng laughed when he heard this: "Teacher, your aura is too big. The people in the village haven't seen much of the world; it would be a ghost if they weren't afraid."

Yu Shuheng asked: "When we first met, were you afraid of Teacher?"

Li Heng recalled: "To be honest, I was a bit scared. You came to my house to get clothes, and I remember there was a pair of underwear stuck on my second-floor window. At that time, you were expressionless, all in black, and so beautiful, and had such a temperament. The key is that you were tall. How could I not be intimidated?"

Yu Shuheng smiled slightly.

Recalling the underwear incident, she felt a bit embarrassed and also sighed. She never expected that she would hopelessly fall in love with this student who was 7 years younger than her.

Walking along the village road for a while, the north wind became stronger and stronger. Her whole body felt like a sieve, and the wind blowing in was very cold. Yu Shuheng pulled her collar and said: "The weather has changed again. Let's go home."

"Okay." Li Heng turned around and walked toward the crossroads with a flashlight.

Back home, the two took a bath one after another and then entered the bedroom.

They naturally entered a bedroom.

These days, Li Heng sleeps with her from time to time. It's not intentional; it's just that sometimes he stays in her room and doesn't leave, sleeping on her bed.

Yu Shuheng has no reaction to this. She has never hinted at him, nor has she reminded him that he should leave. When it's time to be sleepy, she turns off the electric light, takes off her coat, and lies on the bed.

Occasionally, his big hands will make trouble under the quilt. Every time this happens, Yu Shuheng holds her breath and concentrates, enduring it and letting him be.

Even once or twice, someone would roll onto her. At first, she was relatively calm, but later, when she felt it, she couldn't help but passionately hug the little man back and clumsily cooperate with him physically.

But even so, no matter how exciting it was, the two always stepped on two red lines and did not cross them.

The first red line: the innermost pants were not taken off.

The second red line: they didn't dare to have a deep kiss.

As for the others, both of them understood without words.

Tonight, Li Heng flipped through the literature materials and checked them carefully.

Seeing this, Yu Shuheng asked: "Are you going to write?"

Li Heng nodded: "I've been home for a week and haven't touched a pen yet. I'm afraid that if I drag it on, I'll lose the feeling and become rusty."

Yu Shuheng reads a lot and knows this is a fact, so she stayed quietly on the side, found a book to flip through, and didn't disturb him.

After about an hour and a half, Li Heng unscrewed his fountain pen, laid out his notebook, opened the ink bottle, and pondered for a while to brew his emotions.

Later, he picked up his pen and wrote on the white paper: Chapter 23, The English Lady.

My uncle and sister are back.

Uncle from Calcutta, India. Sister from England.

Sister first arrived at Uncle's India, then passed through XZ with him to return to their hometown...

Perhaps because he was well-prepared early in the morning, or perhaps because he had a strong sense of freshness after stopping for a period of time, his inspiration was particularly good tonight. His pen moved like a dragon, and the tip of the pen brushed across the white paper, writing line after line of words.

I don't know when it started, but Yu Shuheng had stopped reading and was sitting quietly on his left side, sometimes looking at the beautiful words under his pen, sometimes looking at his side face. Her heart was very stable, and for no reason, she had a special sense of satisfaction.

She clearly perceived that the mark of this little man in her heart was getting deeper and deeper, to the point where she couldn't let go.

She was obsessed with him.

She suddenly thought of Runwen. Runwen was the first person to accompany him, and the writing process of the book "Cultural Bitterness" made her best friend completely fall.

Even after a year and a half, she could still remember Runwen's showing off and pride in her heart at that time.

Every time she received a letter from Runwen, she just smiled faintly, thinking that it was absurd for a teacher to fall in love with her student. However, she had good self-cultivation and didn't say it out loud, just silently reading the yellow-brown registered letters from her best friend one after another.

Suddenly one day, her best friend said that Li Heng didn't get into Peking University and wanted to study at Fudan, asking her to do a favor. Only then did she carefully check his information and accept her best friend's entrustment.

Unexpectedly, it was this acceptance that got herself involved.

Thinking of the words she once used to tease Runwen, and then thinking of herself now, how similar they are. Thinking of this, Yu Shuheng suddenly leaned over, put her red lips on his left cheek, and pecked him passionately.

Li Heng stopped writing and turned his head.

Yu Shuheng was completely immersed in the love she had framed for herself at this time. She was a little woman lost in love, completely lacking the boldness of the eldest lady of the Yu family for a moment. She brushed her hair with her right hand, then brushed it again, clearly feeling a bit unnatural being watched by him.

After looking at each other for a while, Li Heng stretched his head over and closed his eyes.

Yu Shuheng smiled elegantly, leaned over, kissed his lips twice, and then said softly: "Teacher was wrong; I shouldn't have disturbed you. You hurry up and write."

"Hmm." Li Heng resisted the urge to hold her and go to bed, took a breath to steady his mind, and continued writing.

Seeing that his writing state had recovered, Yu Shuheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She was very afraid that her momentary loss of mind would affect him.

Pondering for a moment, she quietly stood up and slowly exited the room, leaving the space alone for him.

Yu Shuheng understood that she was not suitable to stay inside now, fearing that in a state of confusion, she would spontaneously lie in his arms to ask for kisses and hugs.

Coming to the corridor outside, looking up at the pitch-black night sky, her woman's heart was very strong tonight, and she really wanted to kiss him properly once.

Staring blankly at the dark night, in a daze...

In the end, these thoughts all became bubbles. She still carried the identity of a university teacher, and he didn't want to marry her like Song Yu...

She didn't know why she had to be so angry?

But she gave all her love to him. She didn't want to be a substitute for another woman and wanted to fight for herself...

Li Jianguo and Tian Run'e returned. After Yu Shuheng was stunned on the corridor for a long time, she went down to the first floor.

Tian Run'e was surprised and went up to greet her: "Yu Laoshi, is there no hot water?"

Yu Shuheng smiled elegantly, shook her head, and said: "Li Heng is writing, and I shouldn't disturb him, so I came down to walk around."

Tian Run'e understood. That kid must have occupied Yu Laoshi's room, leaving Yu Laoshi with nowhere to go.

Yu Laoshi looked around and asked: "Where is Grandma?"

Tian Run'e pulled her to sit on the sofa: "It's almost 11 o'clock now. The old lady sleeps early and has gone to bed to rest."

Yu Laoshi nodded slightly and then chatted with the couple.

During this time, she probed and asked: "When will Lanlan be back?"

Tian Run'e said: "According to the original plan, she should have arrived home yesterday, but I'm afraid she won't be able to make it back this year."

Yu Laoshi was surprised: "Did something happen?"