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Chapter 597: , time belonging only to the two

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The first sentence after Zhao's mother woke up was to ask her daughter: "Where is your younger brother?"

Zhao Wanling's face was a bit sad: "Couldn't find him, ran away with Li Ran."

Hearing this, Zhao's mother almost fainted again.

The noodle shop was in a mess, and everyone was opening up Zhao's mother with seven mouths and eight tongues.

Later, the ambulance came, and for the sake of Zhao's mother's health, the Zhao family had to accompany Zhao's mother to the hospital first.

Watching the ambulance and the Zhao family go far away, Li Heng turned his head and patted Zhang Zhiyong on the shoulder, saying earnestly: "Old Yong, don't move knives and guns in front of Sister Chunhua in the future, she lacks a sense of security now."

Liu Chunhua's first child was miscarried due to domestic violence by her husband during pregnancy. Now she is 5 months pregnant and very sensitive to this aspect.

Zhang Zhiyong scratched the back of his head with his right hand and said honestly: "I know, I'll go serve you beef noodles."

Li Heng nodded and sat down again.

Zhou Shihe sat down as well.

At this time, there were no other diners in the shop, just the two of them.

Zhou Shihe's impression of Zhang Zhiyong before was average, even a bit bad, because the fool always spoke without a proper shape, and every sentence didn't leave dirty words.

In the early high school, Song Yu, Mai Sui, Chen Lijun, Sun Manning, and others also disliked the fool for the same reason, but they only changed their views after getting along for a long time.

However, the way Zhang Zhiyong stood beside Li Heng with two kitchen knives regardless of anything just now made Zhou Shihe look at him with new eyes, and when her gaze fell on the fool again, it was much more pleasing to the eye.

Two bowls of beef noodles were served, and Zhang Zhiyong asked Zhou Shihe stutteringly, "Anything, anything else needed?"

Zhou Shihe tried to make herself appear approachable, and said gently: "Not for now, thank you."

"Okay, okay, remember to call me if you need anything." Because Zhou Shihe was there, Zhang Zhiyong didn't sit at the same table as the two, but went to the kitchen to care about Sister Chunhua.

After people left, Li Heng sighed: "In my memory, this kid is a master who is not afraid of heaven or earth, but is only afraid of beauties like you."

Zhou Shihe ate two chopsticks of beef noodles in small bites, and asked coldly: "What kind of beauty do I count as in your place?"

Li Heng's heart tightened, feeling she was testing himself, and immediately became vigilant not to be fooled.

He smacked his lips and said: "Borrowing the words of our Fudan Principal Sun, you are the most beautiful woman in Shanghai and the surrounding areas."

Zhou Shihe glanced at him and didn't make a sound.

Receiving her look, Li Heng complained: "Hey, let's get along well, don't set traps for me."

Zhou Shihe smiled knowingly and continued to eat quietly.

For a time, the table fell into silence, and the two ate their breakfast.

Halfway through eating, two people entered the shop door. One of them was actually Le Yao.

Li Heng was surprised.

Le Yao was even more surprised, walked over and greeted: "Li Heng, Shihe, Happy New Year!"

Le Yao and Zhou Shihe were not familiar, but how does that saying go? Don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face. Because of Li Heng's face, she also enthusiastically said Happy New Year to Zhou Shihe.

Zhou Shihe politely returned Happy New Year.

Li Heng issued an invitation: "Classmate Le Yao, sit together."

Le Yao sat down generously. Her companion was probably her father, who didn't sit over, but sat at the door position.

Intuition told him that something had happened, so Li Heng asked: "Fourth day of the Lunar New Year, why are you appearing here?"

Le Yao teased: "I should be the one asking you two. How come you two are here on the fourth day? A great writer, a Fudan King, wouldn't it be a date? This is a big news that will shock the whole country."

Zhou Shihe looked at him quietly, without words.

Li Heng described the matter of going to Singapore to participate in the performance, and finally asked curiously: "You?"

Glancing at the two, Le Yao held her chopsticks and said: "My father and I are going to the dormitory to pack our luggage, I'm going abroad tomorrow."

Li Heng was surprised: "Going abroad? Studying abroad?"

"Yes," Le Yao said.

Li Heng asked: "Can you enter the girls' dormitory?"

Le Yao said: "The dormitory aunt and my aunt are cousins, my aunt said it in advance."

So there was such a relationship, Li Heng asked again: "Where are you going to study abroad?"

Le Yao said: "Japan."

Without waiting for Li Heng to ask, she added: "I have a relative who opened a company in Japan, it's more convenient for me to go to Tokyo."

Li Heng nodded after hearing this, and sent his blessings: "Studying abroad is also good, I wish you a bright future and everything goes well."

He was speaking from his heart. After a mess of things with Li Guoyi, Le Yao continuing to stay at Fudan University was not a good thing, and going abroad to distract herself might welcome a different life.

He actually guessed right.

Le Yao's parents considered this relationship, and were trying every means to send their daughter abroad to study, just to prevent their daughter from being obsessed with Li Guoyi.

Of course, Le Yao also figured it out herself before accepting her parents' arrangement.

Dai Qing once privately persuaded Le Yao: "Are Li Guoyi's mother and sister trying to curry favor with you? Are they hoping you will change your mind and marry Li Guoyi as his wife after graduation?

If it's true. I think you need to consider it clearly, the Li family might not really welcome you, just using your belly to give birth to a child to inherit the incense."

Why say inherit the incense?

Because Li Guoyi only has one egg left, the Li family is anxious!

At the same time, the Li family knew what kind of personality Li Guoyi had, and were afraid that he would take revenge on Liu An in the future, and then fall into an unrecoverable place.

Therefore, the Li family wanted to win Le Yao's favor.

When Le Yao heard this from her best friend, she was sad for a long time, and finally ran to ask her sister Wei Xiaozhu, who was also very close, "Xiaozhu, what do you think I should do? Is it good to go abroad to hide?"

Wei Xiaozhu countered: "Have you let go of Li Guoyi?"

"Half," Le Yao said.

Wei Xiaozhu asked: "What is half?"

Le Yao lowered her head and said: "I know Li Guoyi is not my good match, but he is my first man, I can't forget it in a short time."

Hearing this, Wei Xiaozhu said: "Perhaps it is correct for you to go abroad for a period of time. When you completely look down on this relationship in the future, come back, Qingqing and I will wait for you in the country."

The two sisters with the closest relationship both said the same thing, completely firming Le Yao's heart to study abroad, temporarily staying away from this sad place.

Le Yao ate the noodles, stirred the noodles with chopsticks and said: "Li Heng, thank you. By the way, can I ask you something?"

Li Heng said: "You say."

Le Yao looked at Zhou Shihe, hesitated to speak, but asked it out in the end: "Dai Qing likes you very much, if you don't have a girlfriend, would you accept her?"

Li Heng stopped his chopsticks and thought for a moment, joking: "Sigh, you asked this question too late, I was born so handsome, how could I not have a girlfriend."

Le Yao sized him up and agreed with a smile: "Indeed very handsome, and also very temperamental. It's a pity, our dormitory sisters don't have the blessing to enjoy you."

This dormitory sister of hers also included Liu Yanling who secretly loved him at the beginning.

After eating the noodles, Le Yao left.

Before leaving, she said to the two: "Wish you a smooth performance in Singapore. If there is a chance to perform in Tokyo in the future, I will definitely come to support."

Li Heng and Zhou Shihe looked at each other and watched the other party leave with a smile.

After people walked far away, Li Heng crossed the road and asked Zhou Gu Niang: "Why are you so patient? Not even a little bit curious?"

Zhou Shihe smiled skillfully: "I have heard about the things between Le Yao, Li Guoyi, and Li Guang."

Li Heng was stunned, and then slapped his forehead fiercely, suddenly realizing: "That's right, with these two gossip queens Sun Manning and Ye Ning, how could the things in this one-third of an acre of land in the school be hidden from you guys."

Entering the school, Zhou Shihe said playfully: "If you are afraid of the atmosphere being cold, you can tell me about Li Ran."

Li Heng: "..."

He said: "Then let the atmosphere be cold, it's very tiring for me to find things to say, there are so many women who like me, do you really think I must curry favor with you?"

For a moment, she couldn't tell whether his words were true or false. Zhou Shihe's delicate little mouth pursed slightly. After thinking about it, she took out a White Rabbit creamy candy from her pocket and handed it to him.

Handed it to him.

Li Heng was astonished: "Why do you have this ghost thing? I remember you don't seem to like eating snacks?"

Zhou Shihe explained: "My aunt stuffed it to me, saying this flavor of creamy candy is very delicious, let me taste it."

Li Heng asked: "Then have you tasted it?"

Zhou Shihe said: "Ate one."

Li Heng asked: "How is the taste?"

After speaking, he felt he asked a nonsense question. If the taste wasn't good, how could Zhou Gu Niang carry it with her?

Thinking of this, Li Heng made a final struggle: "With such good things, why not share them with me earlier?"

Zhou Shihe took back her hand, reached into her pocket, took out all the candies, and handed them to him again.

Her pure and transparent black and white seemed to be saying: Originally I wanted to let you taste it last night, but you didn't follow the rules in the study, so I didn't give it to you.

Li Heng understood her fatal look, accepted the White Rabbit creamy candies sheepishly, counted them roughly, and there were 5 in total.

Later he returned one to her: "Here, give! Our hometown custom, when taking things from others, must leave a portion for the host, this is called leaving wealth and joy. The meaning is wealth begets wealth, wishing the host a rolling source of wealth."

Hearing this, Zhou Shihe stretched out her slender fingers and picked up the return gift White Rabbit creamy candy from his palm.

Li Heng peeled one candy, threw it into his mouth and chewed, saying: "Um, the taste is indeed not bad, is there any more at home?"

Zhou Shihe said quietly: "Yes."

Li Heng said: "Take some more for me later. Of course, I won't eat for free, I'll satisfy your gossip heart."

Zhou Shihe agreed.

On the way back to Lushan Village, Li Heng roughly told the story of Li Ran.

Hearing that Li Ran was addicted to bed affairs, Zhou Shihe glanced at him several times.

Li Heng felt uncomfortable being glanced at, "No, what do you mean by this look?"

Zhou Shihe looked at her toes and didn't answer, just smiled.

She smiled imperceptibly.

Li Heng's eyelids jumped: "Don't think of me as bad, I'm not addicted to bed affairs, otherwise could you have been intact in the capital for more than a month in the same room with me?"

Before and after the Spring Festival Gala, there were 5 rehearsals, plus the formal performance on the Spring Festival Gala. The two stayed in the same room for more than 40 days.

Recalling those days, recalling his strange looks when he secretly glanced at her many times, and the scene when he called her name in his dreams, Zhou Shihe's eyelids couldn't help but lower, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, suddenly restraining her smile, showing a bit of inexplicable restraint, and then tried to avoid his gaze, her cheeks flushed red.

She was shy.

Rare to see in her first 20 years of life.

Lao She once said: There are not many true words in this world, a woman's blush is better than a long confession.

Li Heng looked at her shy self, and there was an indescribable beauty. He couldn't help but be a bit infatuated, and for a time had no words.

Feeling his gaze stopping openly on her face, Zhou Shihe's cherry red lips opened, opened slightly, and finally ended up with nothing.

The two were originally talking happily, but were abruptly interrupted by an indescribable force, each walking toward Lushan Village, silent.

Walking along the bluestone road to the end of the alley, Zhou Shihe, who was walking in front, stopped first, looking at the woman who appeared at the door of the small building No. 26, Li Ran.

Li Heng was stunned, and shouted to Li Ran across the air: "Ah! Why are you still here? Aren't you afraid they will come looking for you?"

Li Ran walked over gracefully: "I'm about to start a big escape, came to say goodbye to you."

Li Heng: "..."

He asked: "Escaping where?"

"Don't know, the world is big, escape wherever it counts, sigh." Li Ran sighed in her mouth, but didn't have any decadence, as high-spirited as before.

Li Heng looked around, asked: "Zhao An? Didn't come with you?"

"Went to the bank to withdraw money, escape needs money," Li Ran said.

Li Heng was dizzy: "I thought you would leave him behind."

"I want to too, but seeing that he stood up for me today, I'll let my compassion overflow once. I have a premonition that I won't live long." Li Ran said.

Li Heng was astonished: "Why say such depressing words? This doesn't look like you."

Li Ran gestured with her fingers: "Don't need the Zhao family to find trouble with me, if I keep holding it in like this, if I can't find a man to quench my thirst halfway, I will burn to death from five internal organs."

Li Heng: "..."

Zhou Shihe: "..."

Well, this conversation can't go on.

Li Heng changed the topic and asked: "Tell me, what do you need me to do?"

"Don't need you to do anything, I really just came to say goodbye to you. Every time I just stand firm at the New Future Training School, I have to run away. I feel sorry for your trust."

Li Ran said, took out a sealed bag from her pocket and handed it to him, "My mom is almost lovesick for your dad, she will definitely find various excuses to be a guest at your house during the summer break. Help me pass this thing to her."

Zhou Shihe looked at Li Heng, looked at Li Ran, feeling she heard an incredible piece of gossip, then took small steps, took out the lock to open the door, and entered the small building No. 27.

Li Ran stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "You and Zhou Shihe...?"

Li Heng interrupted her, "Don't think blindly, do you think she would fancy me?"

Li Ran tilted her head and thought for a while, finally nodded fiercely: "That's true, if I had her tragic beauty and temperament, I wouldn't fancy you either. You are really too much of a bastard, playing with best friends, seducing female teachers, being fickle.

Seriously, a philanderer like you is most suitable to get on my bed, dying on my skin is the best destination."

Li Heng couldn't listen to this, directly pushed her shoulder with his hand, and then told the other party exactly what happened at the noodle shop just now.

At the end, he said: "I still suggest finding a psychologist to take a look, maybe this is a psychological illness, maybe seeing a doctor will have a miraculous effect."

Hearing this before, Li Ran was very resistant, but today she didn't refute, stuffed the sealed bag to him, and said: "I'll contact you when I find a place to settle down, let's leave it at that, leaving."

After speaking, Li Ran passed him and quickly disappeared at the other end of the alley.

Li Heng weighed the sealed bag in his hand, stood there for a long time, and then entered his own house.

He first put the sealed bag in the bedroom, then washed up simply, cleaned his hands and mouth from breakfast, and then brought his erhu to the building next door.

At this time, Zhou Shihe was already waiting in the piano room. Li Heng automatically closed the door when he entered and sat in the old position.

The repertoire they performed in Singapore was "The Street Where the Wind Lives."

This piece, they liked relatively much, don't know how many times they had played together. Look, the two just had a simple eye exchange, and each entered the state, practicing silently.

Zhou Shihe is very beautiful, belonging to the kind of breathtaking beauty. After staring for a long time, it seems like it can drain a person's soul.

But she, sitting dignified in front of the piano, is the most beautiful form.

Li Heng gazed at her, feeling a piece of peace in his heart, without any noisy sounds, as if he had come to the depths of the universe, surrounded by silence, only the wonderful piano melody came.

At a certain moment, Li Heng moved, holding the instrument with his left hand and pulling the bow with his right hand. In an instant, the piano room sublimated, and the music was exceptionally pleasant.

Zhou Shihe looked at him, feeling that his craftsmanship hadn't rusted, and immediately felt relieved.

All morning, the two almost didn't speak, relying entirely on eye contact. The ensemble practice lasted from 8:30 in the morning until about 1:00 in the afternoon before stopping.

Don't know how many times they played during the period. Li Heng was already satisfied long ago, but Zhou Shihe was striving for perfection.

She didn't relax, and he couldn't rashly drop the burden, so he had to accompany her to practice to the end.

The moment he let go of the erhu, Li Heng had a sense of relief, sighing: "Before when releasing pure music albums, I didn't see you so strict. You are risking your life, ouch, my little arms and legs can't stand you tossing like this."

Zhou Shihe smiled gently: "Different."

Li Heng asked casually: "Where is it different?"

Zhou Shihe said: "When releasing pure music albums, we were in the recording room. If one time doesn't work, there can be a second time, with countless opportunities for correction and trial and error. But we are performing in public in Singapore, and there can't be any omissions."

"Okay, what you said makes sense. I just feel that when we were on the Spring Festival Gala, you weren't this serious." Li Heng said like this.

Zhou Shihe looked at the score and said: "At that time, Yu Laoshi was the pillar, I was just a handyman."

Li Heng: "..."

The words are rough but the reason is not rough. Piano is the main responsibility for "The Street Where the Wind Lives," erhu is secondary, it's Yu Laoshi's turn to be a handyman.

In addition, Singapore is Master Wu Yili's special performance, and it is also Zhou Shihe's first appearance internationally, and it is her "debut" performance, so the meaning is naturally different.

This is also one of the reasons why she attaches great importance to it.

It is also one of the reasons why she ran to Lushan Village on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

After digesting the rich information in her words, Li Heng put down the erhu and asked: "Hungry? Shall we go eat?"

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