1987 My Era

Chapter 635, The Death of the Ginkgo Tree: Xiao Han Almost Died of Anger
the other side.

Upon returning to Lushan Village, Li Heng first placed two boxes of chocolates in the drawer under the TV cabinet.

I usually keep the chocolates here; when Wheat wants some, it comes to get them automatically.

Sun Manning and Ye Ning would sometimes try to freeload off each other.

He then subconsciously wanted to go next door to find Mai Sui, but it seemed that Miss Zhou didn't particularly like him today. After hesitating for a moment, he turned around and went into the study.

Around 1:30 a.m., when he finished writing 5200 words and came out to get a drink of water and prepare for bed, he found Mai Sui lying casually on the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Hearing a noise at the study door, she took a few moments to come to her senses and turned to look.

Li Heng was taken aback for a moment, then asked with a surprised look, "Hey, it's so late, why aren't you asleep yet?"

Mai Sui gazed at him tenderly, without saying a word.

Sensing that something was wrong with her expression, Li Heng quickly went over, sat down next to her, and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Why are you spacing out in the middle of the night?"

Mai Sui slowly spoke: "I just had a dream."

Li Heng asked, "What dream?"

Mai Sui hesitated for a moment, then suddenly leaned forward and fell into his arms, her head pressed against his chest. She said in a muffled voice, "I dreamt that you didn't want me anymore."

"Huh? Why are you saying such silly things?"

Li Heng exclaimed and looked down at her: "What exactly did you dream about? Tell me in detail."

With her plump, adorable cheeks, Mai Sui hesitated for a long time before saying, "In my dream, Xiao Han, Chen Zijing, Song, and Song Yu joined forces to force you to stay away from me and to abandon me..."

She closed her eyes halfway through her sentence, unable to look at him.

Li Heng felt a chill run down his spine.

That's fucking amazing!
Isn't this the script from a past life?

In his past life, the three of them conspired to prevent him from seeing Mai Sui, and it took him many years to realize what was happening.

Li Heng asked, "What else happened in the dream?"

"That's all. I've wanted to see you so many times, but I couldn't. I was so anxious that I was in tears." As she spoke, Mai Sui wrapped her arms around his body and nuzzled her head affectionately.

Li Heng held her tightly in his arms, sighed inwardly, and then said with a smile, "Look at yourself, this dream of yours doesn't look real at all."

Let's not talk about Zijing for now. Do you think Song Yu would do something like this? Didn't you two make up at your uncle's house in Chengnan Park last time?

Besides, Xiao Han is a very smart person. She already knew about me and you, but she didn't cause any trouble for you. You're just overthinking it.

You were even more capable than me in high school, so how did you get so confused by this rootless dream?

Mai Sui said, "But I've had this dream many times before, but this one feels the most real."

"Several times? When did it start?" Li Heng asked in surprise.

The wheat stalks were shy and kept silent, as if they had something difficult to say.

Seeing this, Li Heng felt sorry for her and didn't press her for answers. Instead, he picked her up and carried her to the bedroom.

“I’ll sleep with you tonight,” he said.

Wheat ears (default).

“Don’t worry about these unfounded dreams. I’ll take you with me wherever I go from now on,” he said.

"Really?" Mai Sui looked up at him, her eyes full of hope.

Li Heng lowered his head and affectionately kissed her forehead. "Of course it's true. My parents and I both say so."

She remained silent.

Well then, Li Heng had no choice but to recount in detail his desire to marry Song Yu and take her with him wherever he went.

After listening, Mai Sui asked softly, "Then, what did Auntie say?"

“What else can I say? She only has one son, so of course she agreed. Otherwise, why would my parents have come to Lushan Village to keep you company last time? They even bought groceries and cooked for you, and took you for walks around the campus…” Li Heng comforted her.

Recalling the past, Mai Sui finally believed it. She then grabbed his clothes on both sides of his waist with both hands, lay flat on the bed, and let him do whatever he wanted to her.

More than ten minutes later, Li Heng, who was in a great hurry, suddenly stopped all his movements, put his hands on the bed sheet, and quietly looked at the person beneath him.

After confronting him for a while, Mai Sui finally softened and said, "If you really can't resist, I...I...will...take me."

After saying that, she covered her face with her right hand, looking extremely embarrassed.

Li Heng laughed, got off her, then hugged her and whispered in her ear, "I don't like to use protection the first time. What if you get pregnant?"

Wheat Ear: "....."

Li Heng continued to tease her: "If you get pregnant tonight, will you give birth to my child?"

Wheat Ear: "....."

Li Heng asked, "Then do you want to have my child?"

Mai Sui turned over, her back to him, and said with a flushed face, "I'm sleepy, let's go to sleep."

That night, Li Heng was unusually well-behaved, holding her from behind and sleeping soundly until dawn.

The next morning, when he opened his eyes, his arms were empty; the wheat ears were gone.

However, the faint sound of conversation could be heard coming from the living room.

The sun was already high in the sky when he glanced at the watch on the bedside table.

9:48
Damn it, is it already this late? I instantly woke up.

As Li Heng put on his clothes and yawned as he walked out of the second bedroom, he was met by two pairs of eyes: Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe.

Seeing him come out of Mai Sui's bedroom, Zhou Shihe glanced at him subtly, then at her best friend beside her, before picking up the newspaper she had just bought that morning from the coffee table and starting to read it.

Mai Sui stood up and said to him gently, "You're awake. Quickly wash up and have breakfast. Breakfast is steaming in the kitchen; I'll go get it for you."

Li Heng responded and went into the washroom.

Washing my face, shampooing my hair, and brushing my teeth—it all took less than 10 minutes.

When he returned to the living room, the coffee table was already laden with a sumptuous breakfast, including three kinds of pastries, crab roe soup dumplings, tofu pudding, and layered pancakes.

Finally, there was a stir-fried noodle dish.

Li Heng asked in surprise, "You went to the Blue Sky Hotel?"

"Yes, these were brought back from the Blue Sky Restaurant, and these were bought outside the school gate," Mai Sui said, pointing to the tofu pudding and fried noodles.

Li Heng woke up late and was a little hungry, so he sat down and began to eat and drink without any restraint.

Mai Sui thoughtfully poured him a cup of warm tea, saying, "Eat slowly, eat slowly, no one will take it from you."

While eating, Li Heng asked, "Where are Manning and Ye Ning? Why aren't they here? It doesn't feel lively without them."

Mai Sui said, "They went shopping and won't be back until around noon."

Li Heng asked, "Why don't you go shopping together?"

After asking the question, he realized he had asked in vain.

It's probably because Mai Sui was worried that he wouldn't have breakfast, so she bought breakfast and went home to watch him get up.

After serving him two crab roe soup dumplings, Mai Sui suddenly asked, "Your new book is almost finished, right? How much is left?"

Li Heng thought to himself, "Miss Zhou asked about it yesterday, and now Mai Sui is asking about it again. What a coincidence."

He replied, "There are probably nine more chapters to go, but Chapter 51 hasn't been revised yet."

Mai Sui leaned forward and started flipping through the calendar. "Today is April 18th. There are only 12 days left in this month. Can you still finish the book on time?"

Li Heng glanced at the calendar and muttered, "If I can't finish writing, I can't finish. We've come this far, there's no rushing it. I need to prioritize quality."

Mai Sui thought that made a lot of sense, and then changed the subject, "Today, Shihe and I don't want to go anywhere, we'll just stay home and keep you company while you write."

"it is good."

Li Heng glanced at Zhou Shihe and instantly realized that accompanying him in writing was a pretense; his real purpose was to review the manuscript.

Zhou Shihe seemed to sense his gaze, but her expression remained calm as she flipped through the newspaper with her right hand, as if she hadn't heard their conversation. She also showed no intention of speaking to him.

And that was indeed the case; Li Heng and Mai Sui chatted throughout the entire breakfast session.

Zhou Shihe kept her head down and read the newspaper the whole time without saying a word.

It wasn't until Li Heng entered the study and Mai Sui brought out a thick stack of manuscripts that Zhou Shihe finally let go of her reserve, glanced at the closed study door, found Chapter 34, and started reading.

Wheat asked, "How come you've only read up to chapter 34?"

Zhou Shihe said, "I don't like reading, it's too tiring, so I stopped for a while." Mai Sui asked her best friend this because she sometimes has to go to school to host various campus events, and she is often not at home at that time, so she doesn't know what Shihe does at home.
Based on past experience, Li Heng would send each new chapter to Shi He almost immediately, so she was quite surprised to find that her best friend had almost 20 chapters she hadn't read.

Mai Sui found Chapter 48 and started reading it too.

As she looked at him, she suddenly asked, "You...you and Li Heng, you didn't have a fight, did you?"

After asking the question, Mai Sui felt it was a bit silly: if Shi He really had a conflict with him, given her best friend's personality, she probably wouldn't have entered the door of Building 26.

Zhou Shihe raised her head.

Mai Sui smiled gently and explained, "Don't look at me like that. I just noticed that you guys haven't been communicating much lately."

Zhou Shihe smiled sweetly and teased gently, "From Monday to Friday, you and Teacher Yu are here. On weekends, he either goes to Shanghai Medical University or Xiao Han comes over. Do you expect me to be so tactless as to interrupt your conversation?"

When the topic of Li Heng's affair with three women came up, Mai Sui, the person involved, blushed instantly and fled in panic, never to mention it again.

Out of the corner of her eye, Zhou Shihe saw her best friend engrossed in the world of "Dust Settles," and for no apparent reason, she felt a sense of relief and began to read attentively.

Reading and music are her two greatest hobbies in life. She had been holding back from reading her favorite book, "Dust Settles," for more than 40 days. Now, with the manuscript in her hand, she could no longer suppress her restless heart.

...

At noon.

Li Heng, whose wrists were tired from writing, came out of the study to rest for a while.

Seeing that only Zhou Shihe was on the sofa, but not Mai Sui, he walked over and sat opposite her, quietly watching her.

At first, Zhou Shihe was engrossed in her book and didn't react, unaware that Li Heng was secretly observing her.

After a moment, her beautiful eyelashes fluttered, and her heart split in two. One half was silently wary of the man opposite her, while the other half continued working on the manuscript.

Li Heng asked, "Where are the wheat-ear people?"

Zhou Shihe remained silent.

Li Heng asked again, "Did she go to buy lunch?"

Zhou Shihe remained silent.

His gaze shifted from her to the manuscript in her hands, and noticing that her fingernails were unconsciously digging into the paper, Li Hengwen asked gently, "You seem nervous? Are you afraid to be alone with me?"

Zhou Shihe lowered her head, her small mouth slightly pouting, and remained quiet.

She now had a strong feeling that Li Heng seemed to be increasingly powerless against her. Especially when they were alone together, his willpower would be completely shattered, and the love and desire hidden deep within him would be amplified infinitely.

Zhou Shihe felt a little uncomfortable, and her fingernails dug deeper silently, piercing right through the manuscript pages. But she dared not move an inch, afraid that any movement would trigger a chain reaction and cause him to pounce on her.

At that moment, Li Heng looked at her, and she looked at the manuscript pages; the room was completely silent.

A complex feeling began to spread between the two.

Children were playing and laughing in the alley, but the two couldn't hear them; birds were chirping and singing in the treetops outside the window, but they couldn't hear them either.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Heng, who was in a stalemate, suddenly made a move.

He took two steps forward, moved from the sofa to this side, and sat down next to her.

Noticing his movement out of the corner of her eye, Zhou Shihe's frail body tensed instantly, her long eyelashes trembling. She could clearly hear the man's breathing gradually becoming heavier. Her heart pounded faster as well.

Zhou Shihe knew that if things continued like this, he would lose control.

Just as she was in a state of utter confusion, just as she was hesitating whether to leave this place of trouble, Li Heng stood up, then turned and left.

The rhythmic thumping of footsteps on the wooden floor slowly reached the stairwell, then hurried downstairs, finally fading into the distance…

As the footsteps faded away, Zhou Shihe finally raised her head, glanced slowly toward the stairs, and then fell into a daze.

It took her a long time to fully recover, and she gently stroked the manuscript she had torn with her right hand.

The manuscript had two small holes torn in it, made unconsciously by the thumb and forefinger when turning the pages. There were also several deeper fingernail marks nearby.

After leaving Building 26, Li Heng went directly to Teacher Yu's house across the street.

At this moment, Yu Shuheng was in the courtyard, preparing lessons on a stone table while sunbathing her back.

A cup of coffee is also comfortably placed on the stone table.

Li Heng walked over and observed for a while, then said, "Oh, teacher, you're preparing lessons too?"

Yu Shuheng retorted, "Have you ever seen a teacher who doesn't prepare lessons?"

Li Heng bent down and whispered in her ear, "Have you ever seen a teacher this beautiful?"

Yu Shuheng smiled slightly: "Weren't you writing? Are you finished?"

Li Heng said, "My wrist is a little sore, I'll rest for a while."

Yu Shuheng asked, "Where are you in the new book? You've been writing for so long, it should be almost finished by now, right?"

Li Heng replied, "It'll be soon. I'm writing Chapter 52, and there are about seven or eight more chapters left to finish it off."

When this was mentioned, Yu Shuheng stopped writing and asked, "Zhou Shihe has been reading it all along?"

Li Heng shook his head: "She's only read up to chapter thirty-something, but Mai Sui has caught up to the latest chapter."

Yu Shuheng sensed something was wrong and looked him up and down: "Wasn't Zhou Shihe the first one to follow along? How come you've suddenly fallen behind by so many chapters?"

Something's fishy going on, little brother. Did something happen between you two? Did you develop feelings for her, causing her to deliberately ignore you for a while?

The reason she cared so much about this was because when this young man was in Aba, Chengdu, he had promised to make her his first reader.

As a result, Zhou Shihe won first place in every chapter.

Teacher Yu is unwilling to eat other people's leftovers, so he has been waiting patiently for "Dust Settles Down" to end.

Seeing that Teacher Yu guessed correctly right away, Li Heng was a little scared. This guy's intelligence is terrifying!
Can the slightest clue lead directly to the bullseye?

Although his guess was right, Li Heng refused to admit it, saying half-truthfully, "You're asking me? Who should I ask? I've been so busy lately, I haven't had time to think about anything else."

Yu Shuheng stared at him for a while, then changed the subject and asked, "You have guests at home, but you came out to find me. What's the matter?"

Li Heng looked up at his house. The curtains on the second floor were open, so the woman in front of him must know exactly what was going on with Miss Zhou in his house.

He thought to himself, "I'd like to borrow the phone."

Upon hearing this, Yu Shuheng waved her hand and said, "Go yourself."

Li Heng turned and went inside.

Just then, Xiao Han suddenly arrived.

Seeing that the gate to the courtyard of building number 26 was only closed, she put the key she had taken out back into her bag, and then pushed the gate open and walked in.

After taking only two steps, Xiao Han's face, which had been in a great mood, instantly twisted into a pretzel.

Are the ginkgo leaves turning yellow?

It's lost its leaves?
1、2、3、4、5、6、7
7 leaves.

Looking at the seven remaining yellowish leaves at the top of the sapling, Xiao Han narrowed her eyes, her anger rising within her as she silently screamed:
Mr. Li! I haven't even officially married into the family yet, and you're already planning to swap wives?
Which vixen did this? If I catch her, I'll tear her mouth apart and chop off her hands.

Stealing my man is bad enough, but daring to defecate and urinate on my head is intolerable!

Unable to bear it any longer, Xiao Han looked around and saw Yu Shuheng leisurely drinking coffee in the opposite courtyard.

Xiao Han looked at the other person.

Yu Shuheng was not intimidated at all and looked over from a distance as well.

One sat leisurely with a coffee cup in his hand, while the other stood with his hands behind his back and head held high on the lawn in the yard. For a moment, they stared at each other, neither of them looking away first.

Unwittingly, a silent war began.

Well, it can't be said to be inexplicable.

For the sake of a man, the two women were bound to face each other sooner or later. Even without the ginkgo tree, there would have been other triggers for the conflict. It just so happened that the ginkgo tree was there.

Or rather, this is a continuation of the contest that took place a month ago.

In front of everyone, Li Heng chose to take Xiao Han away hand in hand. This gave Xiao Han a victory over Yu Shuheng.

This also left Yu Shuheng with a lingering resentment.

A knot that's hard to untie.

And at this time...

P.S.: It's my mom's birthday today, so I went back and had a family gathering, which is why I'm only updating now. Sorry!

(End of this chapter)