1987 My Era

Chapter 379, A dad?
After standing there like a stone for a long time, Li Heng finally came to his senses from the teacher's actions and followed him up to the second floor.

Yu Shuheng made two cups of coffee in her own coffee cup, brought them to him, and asked with a half-smile:
"Pick a drink."

Li Heng was speechless and thought to himself, what a chicken to choose!
These two cups are what you usually use and never let outsiders touch them. Yet today you took them out to embarrass me.

Well, thanks to Aunt Shen Xin, he used it once last time.

Facing each other, with her meaningful eyes, Li Heng wanted to say "Can I not choose?" But he picked up a cup with his right hand.

"I guessed that you would take this cup. There are three candies in it," said Yu Shuheng.

Li Heng raised his eyelids and said, "I just picked it up."

Teacher Yu smiled and said, "I also have three candies in this cup."

Li Heng's mouth twitched: "Doesn't the teacher like the original flavor?"

Yu Shuheng slowly turned the coffee cup in her hand and said meaningfully: "The original flavor is a bit bitter. The teacher has been suffering for too long and wants something sweet."

After saying that, she stared into his eyes without blinking, her aura fully revealed.

After looking at each other for a moment, Li Heng, who could not bear the pressure, looked away without leaving a trace, picked up the coffee and tasted it slowly.

As the two drank their coffee, the living room on the second floor fell into silence.

As she slowly drank a cup of coffee, Yu Shuheng suddenly asked, "Do you still have the jade pendant that the teacher gave you?"

The jade pendant refers to the Hetian mutton-fat jade she used to wear.

Li Heng replied: "Yes."

Later he asked, "It's locked in the drawer. How about returning it to the teacher?"

Yu Shuheng put the empty cup on the coffee table and walked towards the corridor. As she walked, she said expressionlessly, "No need. Leave it to your children as a family heirloom."

Teacher Yu is gone.

Li Heng, who still had a sip of coffee left, sat stupidly beside the sofa, his mind full of "children, children".

After coming out of Building No. 25, Li Heng stood in the middle of the alley for a while, and then entered Building No. 27.

Mai Sui was still there, helping in the kitchen to wash and select vegetables. Zhou Shihe was chopping vegetables, as they were planning to make dinner.

After searching for a while, Li Heng couldn't find Teacher Yu. Then he remembered that Teacher Yu said she was going to arrange the recording of an album. She had obviously left Lushan Village.

He leaned against the kitchen door and said to Mai Sui, "The door of Teacher Yu's house is not closed. Comrade Mai Sui, you have the key, go and close it."

"Yeah." Mai Sui put down the food in his hand, stood up and went out.

His eyes lingered on the delicate figure for a moment, and Li Heng asked, "Comrade Shihe, can I order a dish?"

As his eyes moved away, Zhou Shihe felt much more relaxed and asked without turning back: "What do you want to eat?"

Li Heng said: "I want to eat Wensi tofu soup. Is it troublesome?"

Zhou Shihe said gently: "There is no tofu at home."

"It's okay, I'll go buy it." Li Heng said.

Zhou Shihe agreed.

The weather in Shanghai in June changes quickly, faster than turning the pages of a book. Just look, it was sunny in the morning, and then it started to rain heavily in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Bing is still guarding the roasted sweet potato stall at the school gate. His stall is filled with sweet potatoes of all sizes, some red, some orange, and some purple.
The rain was falling heavily and the wind was blowing even harder. The black cloth umbrella tied to the grill was crooked and not very effective. In the blink of an eye, Bai Wanying next to her was soaked through.

Seeing this, Li Hengshan didn't bother to fight anymore. He quickly ran across the road and pushed Bai Wanying's wheelchair to hide in the grocery store.

"Thank you." Bai Wanying was still as optimistic as ever and had never been defeated by life.

Looking at this radiant face, Li Heng couldn't help but sigh: In the past, he had doubts about the relationship between this girl and Zhang Bing, but now he was left with only admiration.

What a strong girl! If I were her, I would have collapsed long ago.

"Thank you is too polite. We are classmates and friends." Li Heng always spoke cheerfully every time he faced her. She brought sunshine to the people around her, and he could not give her wind and rain in return.

That would be so unfair!
After simply cleaning up the roasted sweet potato stall, Zhang Bing ran over in the rain, took off his shirt and threw it on Bai Wanying.

The clothes in this month are not thick, and it is easy for girls to expose their clothes when they get wet, so this can help them cover up their ugliness.

After doing all this, Zhang Bing finally had time to talk to Li Heng: "Old Li, it's raining so hard, where are you going?"

Li Heng said: "I went to the market to buy tofu. I suddenly wanted to eat tofu."

Bai Wanying raised her head and asked, "You still sell tofu at this time?"

Zhang Bing replied: "Yes, there is an old man named Zhang who would rearrange the two tables of tofu every afternoon. He was different from others and I was very impressed by him."

Li Heng nodded: "Indeed, I often go to buy from him at this time."

As he was talking, Li Heng saw a strange familiar person, Liu An. This guy was dressed very fashionably and ran over with a few boys.

Not long after, Li Guoyi appeared in the sight of the three people.

Li Guoyi seemed not to have noticed Li Heng and the other two. His eyes were fixed on the direction of Liu An in front of him. He also ran over quickly and soon disappeared.

Li Heng and Zhang Bing looked at each other, and the next second they both rushed into the rain.

Unfortunately, after just a short pause, the two of them lost sight of Li Guoyi, Liu An and others.

After searching around for a while, they couldn't find anyone. Li Heng and Zhang Bing even turned the whole vegetable market upside down, but still couldn't find any trace of him.

Li Heng frowned: "Hey, this is really weird, where is Lao Li?"

Zhang Bing asked worriedly, "Does this sound like a fight?"

Li Heng said: "Not really. Besides, do you think Lao Li is the kind of person who would challenge you to a serious fight?"

Zhang Bing shook his head. "It doesn't look like it. Let's look for it again. You go left and I go right. We'll meet here later. If we can't find it, forget it."

Li Heng said, and went to the left. When he passed by Lao Zhang's tofu stall, he bought two large pieces of tofu.

About 10 minutes later, the two met again. Li Heng and Zhang Bing sighed, gave up, and headed straight back.

Zhang Bing asked, "Old Li, do you think something will happen?"

Li Heng recalled Wei Xiaozhu's previous guess, "It's hard to say."

When they returned to Bai Wanying, she asked them, "Didn't you find it?"

Li Heng replied: "No."

Looking at the rain curtain covering the sky, Bai Wanying suddenly sighed: "Li Guoyi and Le Yao won't be together for long."

Li Heng was surprised, "What do you mean?"

Bai Wanying smiled and said, "I guessed."

Li Heng curled his lips deliberately: "Alas, you don't consider me a friend."

Bai Wanying thought for a moment and lowered her voice and said, "I've always felt that Le Yao was just a cover, and the one Li Guoyi really likes is Wei Xiaozhu."

Li Heng seemed to be thinking about something.

Zhang Bing scratched his head with his right hand, "Why do you say that?"

Bai Wanying analyzed, "Mr. Zhang, Li Guoyi came to the sweet potato stall to help you for 26 days, and most of his topics were about beauties. And Wei Xiaozhu appeared in his mouth much more frequently than his official girlfriend Le Yao."

Zhang Bing reacted and asked, "So, this time Li Guoyi stood up for Xiao Zhu, it wasn't all out of loyalty?"

Bai Wanying smiled again: "I guessed."

Li Heng asked with a tricky angle, "Do you still remember the number of days when someone came to help?"

Bai Wanying said embarrassedly: "I just remembered it because I was bored. This is all a favor, and Lao Zhang will pay it back in the future."

Li Heng's face fell, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? If you had told me earlier, I would have spared no food or drink and would have come more often."

Zhang Bing and Bai Wanying were amused by his appearance. Bai Wanying said, "Everyone can understand that you are a busy man. Besides, you have been here quite a few times, 22 times in total."

Li Heng finally asked: "Am I the one who has gone to the least number of dormitories among the two?"

Bai Wanying waved her hand: "No."

"Well, I'm satisfied. Let's go." After joking with Bai Wanying, seeing that the rain was a little lighter, Li Heng took the opportunity to run back to the school gate.

On a windy and rainy day, umbrellas are usually just decorations. After being soaked all the way, Li Heng ran home all wet.

Mai Sui reached out to take the tofu soaked in rain water and said with concern: "Go take a shower and change your clothes, don't catch a cold."

After looking around the kitchen and making eye contact with Zhou Shihe, he didn't act pretentiously and went back to his room.

Soon, Mai Sui followed him, and as soon as he came out of the shower, he went in to pick up his change of clothes and prepared to wash them.

Li Heng stretched out his hand to stop her, "Mai Sui, I can do it myself."

Mai Sui asked softly, "Are you not going to write or read today?"

Li Heng said: "I want to take a break."

You look at me, I look at you, and after a while, she handed the socks in her hand to him, "You wash this, I'll put the clothes in the washing machine for you."

"Well, thank you."

After Li Heng thanked him, he felt something was wrong, and then he smiled and said, "This is the last time I'll thank you. Given our relationship, I won't thank you again in the future."

Mai Sui smiled softly, "Okay."

After she put the clothes into the washing machine, he asked, "Aren't you going to help Comrade Shi He?"

"I have already washed the vegetables. There are only four dishes. We will eat them three tonight," she said.

Li Heng asked: "Manning and Ye Ning are not coming?"

Mai Sui replied, "They have a lot of friends at school, and someone is treating us today."

Come to think of it, it seems so. These two girls are cheerful, their friends are all over the colleges and departments, and they have dinner parties every now and then. The key is that they don't have to pay. According to Sun Manning's words, eating and drinking for free, and listening to flattery, I would be stupid not to go.

Li Heng then asked, "We are both in the student union, so why didn't you go?"

After asking the question, he felt that it was a bit stupid and was a waste of time.

It's not that Mai Sui is not invited. If she is willing, people will line up to treat her every day. The problem is that no one can invite her. After all, she is Xiao Wang from Fudan University. She has a lot of fame and airs. Most importantly, a rumor is circulating throughout Fudan University: Mai Sui, the hostess of the evening party, has a crush on Li Heng.

At first, many people did not believe it and thought it was a rumor. But after a school year, after seeing Mai Sui always following Li Heng and seeing that Li Heng was always there wherever she appeared, everyone gradually believed it, and from then on, no boys bothered her anymore.

How does the saying go? You can't do the job without the right tools.

In terms of looks, he is not as good as Li Heng; in terms of talent, he is even worse than Li Heng. How can we compare them? There is no point in comparing.

In fact, there were girls who were jealous of Mai Sui’s beauty and her unique inner charm, secretly saying that she was a foxy girl who was good at seducing men, but so what? As long as she stood in front of those girls, the guilty gossipers would scatter like rats in a drainpipe.

It is said that people of the same sex repel each other, and that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Mai Sui did not take the jealousy of a very small number of girls to heart. She had gotten used to it from junior high school to high school.

Besides, no one is perfect. Even if someone is as beautiful as Song Yu and Zhou Shihe, there will still be girls who will go crazy and find fault with them.

For example, some people in high school said that Song Yu was too arrogant.

For example, some girls in the School of Management gloated that there were fewer boys pursuing Zhou Shihe than the other Xiao Wangs.

Look at what kind of crooked ways these are, and the angles from which they slander people are so damn tricky!
Why is she so proud? Don't you know what's going on? With her beauty, if she smiled and laughed at everyone who approached her, would there be any need for her to study in a school with so many people?

Why are there fewer men pursuing Zhou Shihe than other girls? That's because most boys don't dare to pursue her. The gap between them is too obvious. Even the handsome Hu Ping stutters when he tries to talk to her. How can other boys have the courage to pursue her?
Mai Sui's eyes flickered twice, and he raised his head and said playfully, "I have to help someone look after the house. If I hadn't kept an eye on it, the valuables in the house would have been lost long ago."

Li Heng nodded seriously, "Yeah."

After two "hmms", the two looked at each other and smiled happily. The atmosphere was very warm.

He jokingly asked: "In your opinion, which thing in this house is the most valuable?"

Mai Sui looked at the painting of a galloping horse hanging on the wall: "The painting your teacher gave me."

Li Heng pointed at himself, "Painting? Isn't it me?"

Mai Sui's ears felt hot, so she didn't look him in the eye, smiled, and stood up and left.

After dinner, the rain finally stopped, and the three of them went out as usual, strolling along the campus, under the pretext of digesting their food.

On the way, the three of them ran into Zhao Menglong, the president of the school student union. He looked very haggard and had a look of gloom in his eyes. Li Heng chatted with him for a few minutes before leaving.

After Zhao Menglong walked away, Mai Sui told him, "Since Senior Sister Ye went abroad, Senior Brother Zhao has become less talkative. I heard that he didn't drink much before, but now he gets drunk almost every three days and every two days."

Li Heng realized that the news about Senior Sister Ye having a crush on him was leaked because Zhao Menglong was tricked into revealing the secrets when he was drunk.

Zhou Shihe rarely interrupted, "Since he likes Senior Ye so much, why doesn't he go abroad to pursue her?"

Mai Sui glanced at someone obscurely: "Senior Sister Ye didn't dare to pursue me when she was still in school, so it's even harder to go abroad. In addition, it is said that Senior Zhao's family conditions are not very good. He has parents and younger brothers and sisters to take care of at home, so it is not realistic for him to go abroad."

Li Heng had heard Liu Yue mention this before, but he wisely chose to keep silent and refused to take the blame.

While walking around, I met Tang Dailing and Wei Sisi again. They were very affectionate and were hiding under a tree, snuggling and chatting.

Seeing the three people passing by, Tang Dailing was like a frightened bird. He jumped away immediately and accidentally bounced Wei Sisi onto the grass.

Wei Sisi got up and stretched out her hand to pull his ear, angrily scolding: "What are you afraid of? Li Heng is still in a relationship, and he dared to hold hands with Xiao Han in the school cafeteria. You are such a coward."

Tang Dai Ling was always very loyal and arrogant. If any of his roommates were bullied, he would always be the first to stand up and help fight. Don't be fooled by his thinness, he was very fierce when fighting, perfectly interpreting the style of Guangxi wolf soldiers. But now he was being led by the ears by a woman, and he was laughing and didn't dare to resist.

Li Heng and the other two found it funny, but they did not stay long, giving Old Tang enough face.

Mai Sui said, "This guy is quite interesting. I saw him being bullied by Wei Sisi several times."

"They say beating is love and scolding is care. The more you beat, the closer we become." Li Heng said.

Zhou Shihe agreed with this and said gently, "They should be able to be together after graduation."

Li Heng tilted his head: "Do you feel the same way?"

"Ah."

Zhou Shihe hummed, "There are several couples in each class of our School of Management this year, but these two give me the best impression."

Hearing this, Li Heng thought of Bai Wanying's comments on Li Guoyi, and then asked casually: "What do you think of our dormitory Lao Li and Le Yao?"

Zhou Shihe looked at him, then at the wheat ears, smiled faintly and said nothing.

Li Heng was confused.

Mai Sui said for him, "One time when Shi He and I went to Jing'an, we met Li Guoyi and a girl on the bus. The girl kept pestering Li Guoyi."

Hearing this, Li Heng immediately thought of Li Guoyi's senior schoolmate, and then asked: "When did you go to Jing'an? How come I didn't know?"

Mai Sui said, "Aunt Shihe worked in Jing'an. I went there with her once. At that time, you were in northern Shaanxi."

While Hu Tianhai was chatting, it was already dark without him noticing. After returning to Lushan Village, Li Heng went straight into the study.

Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe took out their books and went to the library.

Before leaving, Mai Sui said to him, "We won't be back tonight. We'll stay in the dormitory because our roommate has something to do."

Li Heng nodded: "Okay."

After the two girls left, he was the only one left at the end of the huge alley.

Ever since Chen Siya became pregnant and lived in her parents' home, the fake Taoist priest basically went there after class every day, and would only come back to stay for two nights a week at most.

I don’t know if Teacher Yu will come back tonight?
Looking at the pitch-black attic opposite and recalling Teacher Yu's words and actions this afternoon, Li Heng's mind suddenly popped up Teacher Yu's figure.

Hey! After a long while, he sighed inexplicably, spread out his writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone, and immersed himself in reading and writing again.

That night, Li Heng wrote more than half of Chapter 38 in one go and did not go to bed until three in the morning.

During the break, he looked at Building No. 25 opposite again, and it was still dark.

That night, Li Heng, who finally lay down on the bed, had a dream.

For the first time ever, I dreamed of Huang Zhaoyi.

She came to find him, bringing a little boy with her. As soon as they met, the boy called him dad.

A childish "Dad" instantly woke Li Heng up from his dream.

He suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the gray ceiling and wondered: Why did I have this dream?
Is the dream the opposite of what it means? Or should it be what it means?
Could it be that the hit rate was so high that she got pregnant after only three times in the car that day?

But didn’t she say it was a safe period?
Instinctively, he didn't believe it was such a coincidence, especially since it was just a dream.

The problem is, I have been reborn, and such an outrageous thing has happened. How can I dare to say that the dream is absurd? Is it all fake?
Thinking of this, Li Heng slowly sat up and leaned against the head of the bed until dawn.

How did he get through this period? He didn't feel great sorrow or joy, nor did he feel the panic and anxiety he imagined. He thought about a lot of things over and over again. But when he looked back and summarized, it seemed that there was nothing.

At daybreak, Li Heng washed up first, then went to the study and found the brown envelope she had sent from the bottom drawer of the desk.

There was a key and a piece of letter inside.

Opening the folded piece of letter, Li Heng stared at the phone number for a while. After reciting it silently several times, he stuffed the letter back into the envelope and put it in the drawer.

After restoring everything, Li Heng thought about it again and again, and finally left Lushan Village and ran straight to the off-campus grocery store, which had a new telephone installed.

I arrived early and there were two girls in front of me waiting in line to make phone calls.

Since phone charges were very expensive these days, no one dared to spend the money on long phone calls. Li Heng waited for less than 6 minutes before the receiver fell into his hands.

After silently reciting the number, Li Heng reached out and pressed a series of number keys. After a series of "ding ding ding" sounds, he withdrew his right hand and waited silently.

He didn't know what he felt at the moment, his head was empty, until he heard a middle-aged woman's voice in his ears, and he gradually came back to his senses.

"Hello."

Li Heng frowned and thought carefully. The voice didn't seem to be Huang Zhaoyi's.

The voice of the big blue-clad lady was like that of a nightingale, very spiritual and pleasant to the ear. If it weren't for his preconceived notions, he would even like to listen to her voice a little.

Especially that day in the car, her suppressed low voice was so comfortable that it opened the top of his head and he continued to dig the well without caring about anything.

Li Heng said in a hoarse voice: "Hello, looking for Huang Zhaoyi."

Few men call my little sister's house, and the voice sounds very young. Huang Xuqing suddenly became curious: "Who are you?"

Li Heng rolled his eyes and said, "I'm Zou Ping, the editor of Harvest magazine. I have something to discuss with her."

Huang Xuqing knew that her younger sister had a good relationship with some editors of Harvest magazine. Although she was surprised why they didn't use the local Shanghai dialect, she didn't think much about it:

"Wait a moment, she's outside in the yard, I'll go call her."

"Okay, thank you." Li Heng now figured out that the person answering the phone should be Huang Xuqing, Liu Yue's mother.

Ever since Teacher Yu installed a color TV at home, Mai Sui, Zhou Shihe and Ye Ning would watch TV from time to time. Many times he had watched with them, and during that time he had seen Huang Xuqing on the Shanghai News Broadcast more than once.

Going down to the courtyard on the first floor, Huang Xuqing called to her younger sister who was watering the flowers and plants: "Zhaoyi, your phone is on."

"Who?" Huang Zhaoyi was in a good mood today. There was a tape recorder on the stone table next to her playing instrumental music, which was "The Original Scenery of Hometown".

Huang Xuqing was no longer surprised by her younger sister's condition. Fortunately, this song was enjoyable to listen to, and she would not get tired of it even after listening to it so many times: "Editor Zouping, he said he has something to talk to you about."

"Oh, okay." Huang Zhaoyi poured out the last bit of water in the kettle, then stood up, put down the kettle and walked towards the gate.

Huang Xuqing asked: "Oh, by the way, you and Zouping usually speak Mandarin when you talk on the phone?"

The reason she asked was that she just remembered that when she heard her younger sister chatting with Editor-in-Chief Liao, they seemed to be speaking Shanghainese.

Huang Zhaoyi paused for a moment, and a figure immediately emerged in her mind. Could it be him?

Would he really call himself?
She didn't know if it was because she was too excited, but she suddenly felt nervous for no reason. At that moment, it was as if a 17-year-old girl's heart was beating there. This was a feeling she had never had before.

Facing the elder sister's gaze, she was throbbing inside but appeared very calm on the surface: "Sometimes I speak Mandarin, sometimes I speak Shanghainese."

Then, she pointed to a patch of flowers on the far right and said, "There's still some flowers and plants there that haven't been watered yet. Can you help me water them?"

Why the far right?

Because the far right side is farthest from the gate, the purpose is to get my sister away.

Huang Xuqing often did this when her younger sister was not around. Thinking that her younger sister was in a hurry to go out again, she did not ask any questions and walked towards the kettle.

Her gaze lingered on her elder sister's back for a while, then Huang Zhaoyi covered her violently beating heart with her right hand and walked into the gate.

ps: change first and then change

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