1987 My Era

Chapter 262: Such wheat ears, tonight is not peaceful (asking for monthly tickets!)
In the study, Li Heng was struggling with the white paper.

The pen wrote with a rustling sound, and soon the white paper was filled with line after line.

Tonight he is writing the 41st chapter, which is the penultimate chapter. According to his earlier plan, there is only one chapter left to finish, and the "Cultural Journey" that has been in writing for more than half a year is about to come to an end.

The study was busy, but the living room outside was very quiet.

Zhou Shihe stared at the cover of the single volume of To Live for a long time, and at the words "To Live" and "Written in December" for a long time. Then he opened the book and read it attentively.

Even though she had read this book before, she felt very different today. She was so upset that she couldn't calm down for a long time. She read it from beginning to end again. She read it more seriously and carefully than before, just like she was taking the college entrance examination, just like doing the Chinese reading comprehension test.

Her gaze lingered on her best friend for a while. Mai Sui, who had experienced it once, could empathize with her. She was even more devastated at that time, but because Song Yu was there, she couldn't show it too much.

Somehow, she suddenly lost the heart to knit. She stood up, went to the attic, and started fiddling with the astronomical telescope.

Zhou Shihe raised her head and glanced at her best friend's back, as if thinking about something, but then continued reading and soon immersed herself in the world of the book.

For the next few hours, the living room and study were extremely quiet. No one spoke. Li Heng was writing and Zhou Shihe was reading.

As for Wheat Ear, he was staring at the night sky through the Tianyuan telescope.

That’s right, I was just daydreaming!
It’s past midnight.

Li Heng, who had drunk too much tea, went to the bathroom, but as soon as he walked out, he was met with Zhou Shihe's gaze.

At this moment, the girl was looking at herself with a pair of strange eyes, as if she wanted to get to know herself again.

He stopped, pointed at his face and asked, "Comrade Shihe, is there something dirty on my face?"

Zhou Shihe smiled warmly and shook his head.

Li Heng lowered his head and checked his condition, "Is there something wrong with my clothes?"

Zhou Shihe stared at him without saying a word.

After checking the clothes again and making sure there were no leaks, Li Heng felt relieved. Then he noticed that the book in Zhou Shihe's hand was the single volume of "To Live".

They looked at each other from a distance, and the atmosphere suddenly became weird.

After a long while, Li Heng couldn't help but walk up to her and asked condescendingly, "Did you find out?"

Zhou Shihe blinked slightly and looked up.

Li Heng stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her. She couldn't help but blink again. He sighed: "I'm so low-key, how did you find the clue?"

Zhou Shihe stared into his eyes quietly, still without saying a word.

Li Heng gestured with one hand and joked, "Do you think I'm brighter than the stars in the night sky right now?"

Zhou Shihe pouted and tried to hold back her laughter.

Seeing that the girl was tight-lipped and he couldn't get anything out of her, Li Heng looked around and asked, "Where's the wheat ear?"

This time Zhou Shihe finally spoke, and said gently, "In the attic."

Hearing this, Li Heng first went to the bathroom, then found some clean clothes to take a shower and wash his hair. After everything was done, he found a few bottles of beer from the kitchen on the first floor, went straight through the living room and into the attic.

"It's so windy outside, isn't it cold?" He came to the wheat ear and asked in a low voice.

Mai Sui turned her head and smiled tenderly, "Have you finished writing?"

"No."

"Not writing tonight?"

"I'll keep you company for a while."

As he said this, he put a few bottles of beer on the wooden board, turned back into the house, and took out a new blanket from the three-door cabinet. "Come on, let's put it on together to keep warm."

"it is good."

Wheat Ear was wearing a thick sweater, so she wasn't actually that cold, but she didn't refuse his kindness. She shrank back obediently, allowing him to wrap her tightly with half a blanket.

The other half of the blanket naturally belongs to someone else.

He opened a bottle of beer and handed it to her, and carefully reminded her: "It's a little cold, drink it slowly."

"I'll go warm it up with hot water." Mai Sui was about to get up.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she moved, she was held by a pair of big hands. They looked at each other at close range, letting each other's breath hit each other's face. Neither of them said a word for a while.

After a long time, Mai Sui's face turned slightly red, but she did not struggle.

After a while, he let her go and said leisurely, "Drinking is just to cheer you up. I don't force you to drink too much. I still have to write later."

"Yeah." Mai Sui sat back and touched him.

Li Heng took a sip, held it in his mouth, and waited until it was warm before swallowing it. He asked with concern, "Are you worried about something?"

"No." said Wheat Ear.

Li Heng didn't believe it and tilted his head to look at her.

Mai Sui's charming eyes rolled half a circle and explained: "I just want to be alone for a while."

After staring at each other for a while, Li Heng instinctively reached out his hand, wanting to help her smooth down her hair that was messed up by the wind, but when he was halfway there, his hand suddenly stopped in the air, and he took it back calmly a moment later, "If you encounter any problems, be sure to tell me."

Her eyes followed the movement of his right hand, and finally Mai Sui said softly, "Okay."

After taking a few sips of beer, she broke the silence: "Shi He knows about your identity as a writer."

"I know."

"She guessed it."

"Ah."

"I was being stupid."

Li Heng smiled and said, "It's okay."

Hearing the words "It's okay", Mai Sui breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, looked up and said, "I miss home and my parents tonight."

Li Heng looked up at the night sky and said, "It's almost time. Just bear with it. There's still more than a month left before winter break."

Mai Sui asked, "Do you miss Song Yu?"

Li Heng replied: "Yes."

"Where's Chen Zijin?"

"also want."

"You are so sentimental."

"Ah, you should ask Xiao Han again."

Mai Sui couldn't help but glance at his profile and said playfully, "Don't ask her."

Li Heng asked back: "Why?"

Mai Sui said, "No reason. My intuition tells me that she will come next week. You have to see her several times a month. It's so unfair to Song Yu and Zi Jin."

"Hmm!" Li Heng hummed neither lightly nor heavily.

Mai Sui reacted and smiled softly, "I broke the rules, I will punish myself with three bites."

After she finished speaking, she drank three gulps of beer generously and finished the whole bottle of beer. He couldn't stop her.

Li Heng frowned, "Don't catch a cold if you drink this way."

Mai Sui winked and said, "No, I'm in better shape than you think. I've even taken cold showers in winter before."

Li Heng was surprised: "I've heard that boys have taken cold showers in winter, do girls also take cold showers?"

Mai Sui said: "My parents were not at home at that time. I got up late and found that I didn't have enough time to boil water, so I hurriedly took a cold shower and went to school."

Li Heng asked: "How many have you washed in total?"

"A lot of them." Mai Sui replied. "How lazy. How can you be my friend if you are so lazy?" Li Heng joked.

Mai Sui said with a smile: "I was young at that time, and I loved to sleep in during junior high school, but I also loved to take a bath, so that's it."

She asked, "Have you washed it?"

"Me? Definitely. I went even further. I took bucket after bucket and poured it on myself. Later, my mom saw me and chased me for more than a mile with a stick. I only escaped by hiding in the home of an idiot." Thinking of his childhood, he felt nostalgic.

Mai Sui looked at him with bright eyes, with smiles on her eyes and eyebrows.

Just as the two were drinking and chatting about interesting childhood memories, bursts of heart-wrenching roars suddenly erupted from the small building No. 24 diagonally opposite!

I knew it was Lao Fu's voice the moment I heard it.

The sound was really loud! The cursing sounded like spring thunder, which was particularly conspicuous in the quiet night!
Mai Sui was startled, "What happened to Lao Fu?"

Li Heng listened attentively for a while and couldn't help laughing: "Old Fu is catching ghosts naked."

At this time, there was no light on in Building 24. It was pitch black and nothing could be seen. Hearing his words, Mai Sui was full of confusion.

Zhou Shihe was also awakened. He came back to his senses from the world in the book, then put the book down and subconsciously went to the attic to check the situation.

As soon as Ke Bu came out, she met two people wrapped in a quilt. She was stunned for a moment, and the next second she wanted to go back home immediately, to the living room, and not be in the way.

Li Heng called her, "Comrade Shihe, now that you are here, let's have a drink together."

Zhou Shihe didn't move, but looked back and forth between the two of them with a strange look.

Mai Sui reached out and pulled his friend over, "Come on, the three of us will have a good time drinking and chatting."

Seeing this, Li Heng consciously gave the blanket to them, then ran to the bedroom, took out a slightly older one, and put it on himself.

In this way, Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe shared a blanket, and Li Heng slept alone. In the dark, they chatted about the fake Taoist priest catching ghosts across the street.

"Well, actually, this idea was mine. I just wanted to tease him. Mr. Fu showed disdain at first and especially despised my folk remedies. Unexpectedly! Unexpectedly, our Teacher Fu put it into use in the blink of an eye." Li Heng talked about what happened when he came back from the Blue Sky Restaurant in the morning.

The two girls laughed at the same time, laughing softly.

There's still ghost hunting going on across the street!
Lao Fu's unique deep voice and violent temper resounded through the night sky:

"Run! Why are you running? I'm going to catch you and use you as a drink! I'm going to chop you into pieces! I'm going to throw shit on you and kill you!"

"I want you to die without a burial place! I want you to go to the eighteenth level of hell! I want you not to be reincarnated! How dare you come to my house, you blind ghost."

Lao Fu's voice is very loud, but unfortunately, he is a city man after all, so his cursing lacks the energy of a country woman. However, when combined with his hysterical and furious tone, his voice does have a unique flavor.

The noise in Building 24 was so loud that Yu Shuheng, who lived opposite, was also woken up. She and her best friend Chen Siya appeared on the balcony to look out.

Old Fu followed Li Heng's words: He didn't turn on the lights, and was running around naked in the house, from one corner to another, holding a fruit knife in his hand, slashing back and forth in the dark. Because he was so excited, he didn't even feel cold for a moment!
Unable to see the specific appearance of the building next door, Chen Siya asked worriedly:
"Li Heng, what happened at Lao Fu's house?"

Li Heng replied: "I am performing rituals to exorcise ghosts."

"Where did the ghost come from? We must believe in science." Having said that, Chen Siya turned around and went downstairs, opened the gate, and walked towards Building 24.

She had the key to Fu Yanjie's house, so she opened the door and walked in without even knocking.

Not long after, the light in the next room came on, followed by a loud "Ah!" and a scream of horror.

Then came Chen Siya's curse: "You pervert!"

then!

And then nothing happened, the lights went out again.

Li Heng, Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe were eagerly waiting, staring at the opposite side, but Chen Siya didn't come out for a long time.

Yu Shuheng stood by the railing and waited for a long time, but also waited in vain.

"Are these two just going to be in love?" Li Heng muttered to himself.

Hearing this, Mai Sui and Zhou Shihe looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little subtle. After all, the two women were insiders, and they knew from Li Heng that Lao Fu was most likely not wearing any clothes, and Chen Siya did not come out.

Wow! So many inappropriate images can be associated with it..
"I'm a little sleepy. I'll go back." Zhou Shihe said this at a certain moment, glancing at Li Heng and then at her best friend.

"I'll accompany you." Mai Sui stood up.

Li Heng wanted to let the two girls stay in the second bedroom for the night, but he swallowed the words and said, "I'll take you there."

After tidying up the bed sheets, the three of them went downstairs one by one.

When entering Building 27, Mai Sui turned around and said to him, "Don't stay up too late. I'll bring you breakfast tomorrow morning. What do you want to eat? Is there anything special you want to eat?"

Li Heng thought for a moment and said, "Please buy me a scallion pancake. I heard that the scallion pancakes in Shanghai are pretty good. I haven't tried them yet."

"it is good."

Mai Sui walked into the house, looked back at him twice, and then closed the door.

Zhou Shihe noticed her best friend's condition the whole time but did not disturb her.

Going up to the living room on the second floor, Mai Sui asked, "Shihe, do you want me to sleep with you?"

She asked this question because she was worried that the noise from the building No. 24 opposite tonight would scare her best friend.

Zhou Shihe agreed.

After dinner, the two girls took a shower and now they just needed to wash up briefly before lying down on the bed.

"Aren't you sleepy?" Mai Sui asked when he saw Zhou Shihe with his eyes open.

"Yeah, it's past bedtime." Zhou Shihe hummed, without explaining why he said he was sleepy in the attic before.

"What are you thinking about?"

“I’m thinking about the characters and plots in To Live.”

"You're lying. Are you wondering how he wrote it?"

Zhou Shihe smiled and said calmly, “When I read To Live for the first time, I felt it was very well written, and the emotions followed the ups and downs of the storyline.

Watching it tonight, I felt that every character was very vivid. It is said that art comes from life and is higher than life. How did he do it? "

Mai Sui told what he knew: "The prototype of Fugui seems to be his second uncle. I heard that his family was also a landlord before, but later fell into poverty."

Although the two girls got along well, they had previously talked about life, study, and the customs and practices of their respective hometowns. This was the first time they talked about literature, but surprisingly, they had similar views.

After listening patiently to his friend's words, Zhou Shihe asked, "School leaders should know that he is the writer December, right?"

"I know. We met Principal Sun by chance on the train on the way to Shanghai for the start of the semester," said Mai Sui.

If this is true, then everything can be explained, Zhou Shihe thought.

Downstairs, Li Heng looked around the alley for a while with great energy, but unfortunately, Lao Fu was not very helpful and no clanging sound of iron hammering could be heard from the house.

Instead, Teacher Yu walked out of Building 25.

Li Heng went over and asked with concern: "Teacher, what's wrong?"

Yu Shuheng turned around, locked the door to her yard, and said with a smile, "Let's go to your house."

Li Heng understood almost immediately, "You won't give Sister Chen a chance to come back?"

Yu Shuheng did not answer, leaving him with a tall back figure that could arouse endless reverie, and then she took the lead and entered Building No. 26.

She was so familiar with it, it was as if this was her own home.

Going up to the second floor, she went straight into the second bedroom, closed the door, and the world suddenly became quiet, as if she had never been there.

Alas! Such a good woman, whose smile could melt gold and break iron, but her face was like an iceberg. Li Heng complained in his heart and went into the study.

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