1987 My Era

Chapter 468, Harvest

At first, neither of them slept.

After 40 minutes, Mai Sui, who seldom stayed up late, couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep.

Li Heng, who was used to staying up late, had no desire to sleep for a while because he was thinking about various things.

Instead, his stomach was rumbling. He touched his shriveled belly with his right hand, then tilted his head to look at the person beside him. Finally, he suddenly had an idea and secretly kissed her red lips.

Get up, get out of bed.

Li Heng finally couldn't resist the hunger, so he ran to the kitchen on the first floor and rummaged through the drawers and cabinets. Finally, he fried four eggs and ate them with sweet wine.

Time flies, and after all this trouble, it was already dawn outside. He came to the second floor with a bowl of sweet wine.

Later, he was not in a hurry to eat, so after putting the sweet wine and eggs on the coffee table, he ran to the bathroom, turned on the tap, and then washed his face.

He dried his face with a towel, and when he reappeared in the living room, he was stunned.

What do you think he saw?
I actually saw Zhou Shihe!

Okay, you see it, it’s nothing to be surprised about.

But this girl was standing sideways at the door of the master bedroom, listening attentively to something?

Who is sleeping in the master bedroom? Is it me and Mai Sui who are sleeping tonight?

Is she eavesdropping on what's going on in the room?
Thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind. Afraid of disturbing her or embarrassing her, Li Heng made a decision and decided to return to the bathroom quietly.

but!
But it's too late!

Just as he was moving his legs back, Zhou Shihe had already looked over. It was obvious that his movements just now had caught her attention.

The sudden staring at each other from a distance made the two of them feel a little helpless. You looked at me, I looked at you, and we were in a stalemate, and no one spoke for a while.

After a while, Li Heng came back to his senses and nodded at her. Then he sat down on the sofa, picked up his chopsticks and prepared to feast on the food.

Zhou Shihe watched his every move calmly, hesitated for a while, and finally walked to the sofa and sat down on the single sofa beside him.

In fact, the girl had just come in from the attic outside, and when she passed the door of the master bedroom, she stopped for some unknown reason.

But he didn't expect that he was caught red-handed by Li Heng after staying there for less than 3 seconds.

Seeing her eyes on him and the bowl, Li Heng took a bite of the egg and asked vaguely, "Are you hungry too?"

Zhou Shihe hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't resist the aroma of sweet wine and eggs, so he nodded.

Li Heng laughed, put down his chopsticks and stood up: "Wait a minute."

Zhou Shihe remained silent, his eyes moving as he did.

Li Heng went downstairs quickly, ran to the kitchen, got a bowl and a pair of chopsticks, and gave her two eggs.

He explained: "I just fried four eggs, let's have half each, don't be disgusted. This can be considered as sharing happiness."

Zhou Shihe smiled knowingly, reached out to take the bowl and chopsticks, and said thank you.

She asked, "Why don't you turn on the light?"

What she meant was simple. If the lights were on in the living room, she would not stay at the door of the master bedroom and make a fool of herself.

Li Heng replied: "The light is so bright, I can see clearly."

Zhou Shihe looked out the window and agreed with what he said.

Then the two of them ate their eggs separately, neither of them paid any attention to the other, and neither of them mentioned what happened at the master bedroom door.

He didn't ask and she didn't explain, they had a tacit understanding.

But he is a man, and he grew up in the countryside, so he is not particularly particular about eating and eats quite quickly.

Look, he finished eating two eggs and drank up the sweet wine soup, while Miss Zhou only finished one egg.

The way she savored the food slowly and leisurely, she looked like a lady from a noble family.

Noticing his movements, Zhou Shihe said gently, "This is my first time eating like this, and it tastes delicious."

Li Heng introduced: "Fried eggs with sweet wine is the way we eat in our hometown. I have been eating it since I was a child and I never get tired of it."

"Ah."

Zhou Shihe hummed softly and continued to eat the second egg. Halfway through, she asked, "You haven't slept yet?"

"No, I was chatting with Mai Sui before, and then she fell asleep, and I was hungry." Li Heng said.

Zhou Shihe looked at him strangely and took another small bite of the egg.

Li Heng was speechless: "Hey, don't look at me like that. Mai Sui and I haven't reached that stage yet... Uh, forget it, I won't explain."

There really is no need to explain. We've been sleeping in the same bed and it's hard to explain!
What's the point of explaining it?

Seeing that he was talking incoherently, Zhou Shihe smiled faintly and lowered his head to eat.

Li Heng took the initiative to change the subject: "You didn't sleep all night either?"

Zhou Shihe said softly, "I can't sleep."

Li Heng knew that the person in front of him was used to having the same bed. When she was in the capital, she had a new bed and she spent almost the first half of the night counting stars with her eyes open.

At this point, the two seemed to have run out of topics to talk about and fell silent again.

Two minutes later, Zhou Shihe slowly put down his chopsticks, looked up at him, thought for a moment and said, "Aren't you going to make breakfast? I'll help you."

He is going to cook a big meal for Teacher Yu this morning.

What she meant was: It’s not a waste to eat such delicious sweet wine eggs, I’ll help you with it.

Li Heng asked: "Don't you want to take a nap?"

Zhou Shihe said: "I feel better now."

"Okay, then come downstairs with me." As he said that, Li Heng stacked the two bowls together and walked towards the stairs.

Zhou Shihe stood up without hesitation.

This was not the first time they cooked together. They had a tacit understanding and a clear sense of priorities. They knew what to do without being told. While cutting the hare, Li Heng suddenly asked, "Am I a playboy in your eyes?"

What he was asking was: Why did he take away the wheat ears in front of her and Sun Manning last night?

Zhou Shihe didn't give any face: "Yes!"

Li Heng's face fell, and he said depressedly: "Even if it is true, you should at least give me some face. We are old friends."

Zhou Shihe smiled gently, squatted down, and began to wash the wild mushrooms.

After a while, she said, "It's understandable. Sui Sui is indeed beautiful. After spending a long time with her, it would be hard for most men to resist her."

She almost said it explicitly, but the inner charm of wheat ears is too lethal to men.

It's like Wei Xiaozhu and Mai Sui are both great beauties, but the charm that Mai Sui exudes from the inside out is simply a deadly poison to men. It is much stronger than Wei Xiaozhu's pure temperament in arousing men's desire.

Another point is that Mai Sui has great potential for growth, and changes almost every day, which makes the breathtakingly beautiful Zhou Shihe feel that the other party's changes are more obvious.

Especially after Sui Sui and he broke the love paper, it seemed that Li Heng became the catalyst for Sui Sui's maturity, making Sui Sui's inner charm leap forward.

Li Heng did not deny that every time he was alone with her for a long time, his mind would involuntarily extend to erotic fantasies.

If he didn't have so many women, all of them extremely beautiful, he might have surrendered long ago. He would have taken the wheat ears without caring about anything and become her slave.

It was precisely because of the existence of Xiao Han, Song Yu and Zijin, and because of Huang Zhaoyi's unreservedness in bed, that he had some composure when facing Mai Sui.

Of course, the most important thing is that Mai Sui completely touched him deeply in his soul. She was lonely all her life in her previous life, and she is closely with him in this life. Who wouldn’t treasure such a woman?
Compared to these, what does that little thing in bed mean? It's not worth mentioning!
Just as the two were chatting casually, a voice came from the stairs, and soon, Mai Sui walked in.

As soon as he entered the kitchen, Mai Sui asked with concern: "Shihe, your sleep quality is generally not good, why do you get up so early?"

Zhou Shihe said: "I got up as soon as I woke up. It's okay. I can take another nap during the day."

Li Heng interrupted, "You played cards for too long last night. Let's stop talking. I think you two need to get a good night's sleep during the day."

The two girls smiled at each other and helped together.

While the two best friends were chatting, Zhou Shihe secretly observed Mai Sui's various reactions. As a result, she began to believe what Li Heng said. They might really not have reached the final step.

Especially since there were no spare clothes on the balcony on the second floor and Mai Sui did not get up to take a shower last night, this undoubtedly proved this point.

Thinking of this, Zhou Shihe, who had cut all the dishes, quietly glanced at Li Heng's back, then left the kitchen, leaving the space for them.

The breakfast was very sumptuous, with six dishes and one soup. In addition to Teacher Yu, there was also the fake Taoist couple at the table.

But when the meal was almost over, Chen Siya suddenly covered her stomach with her right hand and said, "Lao Fu, I think my water broke."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone at the table looked over at the same time, and within 5 seconds, everyone left their seats and started to help.

The amniotic fluid had indeed broken, and everyone rushed Chen Siya to the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, where she stayed until noon.

There was no other way. Childbirth was not that quick and the hospital delivery room was quite crowded. They had nowhere to stay, so they could only come back first, thinking of visiting again after the baby was born.

After 1 p.m., Yu Shuheng left to arrange the release of her music album.

It was at this time that Editor-in-Chief Liao and Editor Zou Ping came over.

After leading them to the study and pouring them tea, Mai Sui tactfully left. Zhou Shihe and Sun Manning, who were living in the same living room, went to the kitchen again to prepare a meal to entertain Editor-in-Chief Liao and his companions.

Editor-in-Chief Liao took two sips of tea and glanced at Zouping, who understood and took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Li Heng:

"Old Li, in response to the market and readers' requests, Harvest magazine is ready to launch a single volume of White Deer Plain. Here is the publishing contract. Please take a look and see if you have any comments."

These are all expected and commonplace. After the completion of "White Deer Plain", it received a great response in society. Both "Harvest" magazine and Li Heng naturally could not miss this opportunity to make money and gain fame.

After receiving the document, Li Heng spent more than ten minutes patiently reading it twice.

He found that all the terms in the agreement were basically the same as the contract for "Cultural Journey", with no changes. His personal royalties were still 8%, of course this was after-tax income.

After confirming that everything was correct, Li Heng quickly unscrewed the pen and signed his name on the agreement, then put his fingerprint on it with his thumb.

Seeing that he did not raise any objections and that he was so happy, Editor-in-Chief Liao and Zou Ping looked at each other, feeling relieved and their faces beaming with enthusiasm.

Before the two came, they had imagined that Li Heng would make additional requests as his fame grew, so Harvest magazine made thorough preparations in all aspects.

result…!
Wow! Li Heng signed the agreement without saying a word.

In fact, it’s not that he doesn’t know how to ask for things, but he understands one thing: his success today, his ability to survive the storms and his further social fame are all inseparable from the strong support of Mr. Ba and Harvest magazine.

As a human being, we should not forget our roots and be too greedy. It is not a bad thing if we can have a bite of good food ourselves and share the rest with others.

After the rebirth of Li Heng, he has seen through many things after experiencing this series of events. In the literary circle, it is too tiring to fight alone. He needs friends, and the more friends the better.

After the single-volume agreement was signed, Zouping took out another document from his briefcase and handed it to him.

Li Heng asked curiously: "What is this?"

Zouping looked at Chief Editor Liao, and seeing that the latter had no intention of speaking, he immediately explained: "This is an authorization agreement. Currently, many countries have applied to the magazine to publish a foreign language version of "To Live"..."

This is good news. Li Heng happily asked, "Which countries are they?"

Zouping seems to be more excited than the author that To Live can be published overseas. He twists his finger and talks about it: "The most active countries with the most applications are Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Spain. In addition, countries such as France, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and the United States also have strong publishing intentions. At the same time, Boyi Publishing House in Hong Kong and Maitian Publishing House across the strait have been contacting us, hoping that we will authorize them to publish."

Li Heng was overjoyed. "I didn't expect so many countries and regions would apply. How did they know about the book 'To Live'?"

At this time, Editor-in-Chief Liao interrupted and said, "Since Nixon's visit to China and the normalization of Sino-US relations, our country has set off a wave of establishing diplomatic relations with countries around the world. Although some of these countries have not yet formally established diplomatic relations with us, we are in warm contact.

The leaders above like your book very much and are unanimously optimistic about it. When negotiating cultural exchanges with various countries, they recommended your book to others. Unexpectedly, the effect was very good.

The New York Times also published a column on To Live, praising the book for its depiction of the full picture of China in the 20th century. It tells the history of China in the 20th century in Fugui's voice and is a model of contemporary Chinese literature.

Li Heng felt a little elated after hearing this, and suddenly began to look forward to the influence of "To Live" overseas. He then spent more than 10 minutes reading and signing the contract.

After the two contracts were signed, Zou Ping disappeared and left the study room with a random excuse, and Editor-in-Chief Liao took over the topic.

Liao Hua said, "Junior brother, there are two more things I need your consent for."

Li Heng said: "Brother, you say."

Editor-in-Chief Liao took out a letter from his bag and placed it in front of him: "This is a letter from Mr. Jin Yong from Hong Kong. He asked us to pass it on to you. His purpose is to visit you in the mainland."

ps: Change first and then change.

(End of this chapter)