1987 My Era

Chapter 374, An Envelope, A Key

Wei Xiaozhu's aunt is Wei Yining, who is about 37 or 38 years old and is a professor at Fudan University.

First, he looked at Li Heng closely, then Wei Yining led the two to the sofa, poured two cups of tea and asked:

"Did you bring the photos? Let me see."

Hearing this, Li Heng took out an envelope from his pocket, took out the photo and handed it over.

Wei Yining took the photo and sat beside it to look at it. As time passed, she was a little distracted.

After a while, Wei Xiaozhu was afraid that Li Heng would get impatient waiting, so she took the initiative to ask for him: "Aunt, have you remembered?"

Wei Yining, who had just come to his senses after being interrupted from his deep thoughts, said to the photo with emotion: "They look alike! They look so alike!"

Li Heng's heart moved, "Where have I seen the teacher before?"

Wei Yining recalled the past and said: "She should be my junior schoolmate, about two years younger than me. At that time, I was preparing for the college entrance examination, but she had just entered our school.

But she is very beautiful like your mother and is very famous in school. That’s how I got to know her.”

At this point, Wei Yining paused, and then continued: "After graduation, I met her twice in Lianyungang. One time was at the funeral of my high school Chinese teacher. This Chinese teacher also taught us.

Another time we chatted for a while in the waiting room of a train station.”

Li Heng asked: "How long has it been since we last met?"

Wei Yining didn't answer at first, but after a long while he remembered: "Almost 8 years."

Li Heng was stunned: "So long?"

Wei Yining nodded: "I work in Shanghai. Apart from the New Year and other holidays, I rarely go home, so the number of times I can meet you is naturally small."

After talking for about ten minutes, Wei Yining put the photo back into the envelope, then put it on the coffee table and said, "I'll take the photo first and go back to help you find out. If there are any clues, I'll let you know."

"Okay, thank you teacher."

Li Heng expressed his sincere gratitude, then tactfully stood up and said goodbye.

Seeing this, Wei Xiaozhu also stood up and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, Wei Yining stopped her niece at this time: "Xiaozhu, wait a minute, auntie has something to tell you."

Hearing this, Wei Xiaozhu stopped and said to Li Heng with a smile: "Then you go first. We can have dinner together another day when Mai Sui comes back."

"Eh!"

Li Heng responded and walked out the door directly.

As soon as he left, Wei Yining closed the door and asked, "Are you guys secretly dating?"

Wei Xiaozhu was asked this question and didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Aunt, why are you asking such a question? He has a girlfriend."

Wei Yining nodded and changed the subject: "I heard that many boys are pestering you?"

Wei Xiaozhu replied helplessly: "Well, that's how it is in middle school. I'm used to it."

Wei Yining asked: "What about Liu An?"

Wei Xiaozhu was puzzled: "Auntie, why are you asking this person?"

Wei Yining said: "It seems that Liu An's mother also likes you, and she asked someone to let me do some ideological work on you."

Wei Xiaozhu said expressionlessly: "I hate him more."

Wei Yining frowned. In her impression, her eldest niece usually didn't express her emotions so directly. It seemed that Liu An had indeed annoyed Xiao Zhu.

Wei Yining said: "If you hate it, then keep your distance. Women in our Wei family don't indulge each other."

After leaving Yanyuan, Li Heng walked quickly in the heavy rain with an umbrella and returned to Lushan Village in a short while.

At this time, pleasant piano sounds came from Building 27. He paused at the door, and when he saw that the door of Building 27 was closed, he went back to his home without stopping.

He was too lazy to make a fuss about dinner, so he just cooked a bowl of noodles and paired it with some jar vegetables, and ate it with relish.

"clap clap"

Just when he was halfway through his noodles, there was a knock on the door on the first floor.

Looking up into the attic, I found Editor-in-Chief Liao and Editor Zouping standing outside the door.

Li Heng quickly went downstairs, opened the door, and asked, "Why are you here in such heavy rain?"

Editor-in-Chief Liao glanced at the noodles in his bowl and asked, "Is this your dinner?"

"That's right. I'm lazy and don't want to move." Li Heng invited the two to sit upstairs.

Zouping put a sack of readers' letters next to the coffee table, and then took out a letter specifically for him: "This is a letter from Mr. Jin Yong from Hong Kong, and he specially asked us to pass it on to you."

Li Heng subconsciously asked, "Which Mr. Jin Yong? The one who wrote martial arts novels?"

Zouping nodded: "It's him."

Li Heng took the letter in surprise and opened it in front of him.

There was a piece of letter inside with two paragraphs written on it.

In the first paragraph, Jin Yong expressed his love and admiration for "White Deer Plain" with full praise.

In the second paragraph, Mr. Jin Yong said that he wanted to visit Li Heng in person during the summer.

That's right, it was words like "respect" and "personal visit". Li Heng read it twice, then handed the letter to the two of them, "Take a look."

After reading the letter, Zouping's eyes were full of ecstasy. This was Jin Yong, one of the four great talents of Hong Kong, and he was so humble. This was undoubtedly a shot in the arm for "White Deer Plain", which was currently facing a lot of criticism.

Can be used as a gimmick for rebuttal!
Editor-in-Chief Liao was also surprised, but then smiled and said, "Very good! It seems that just as the teacher expected, a good book like White Deer Plain will not lack knowledgeable people."

Then Editor-in-Chief Liao asked him, "Will you meet him?"

Thinking of Mr. Jin Yong's fame, the overwhelming slander outside, and the upcoming new sports brand, how could Li Heng miss this golden opportunity for publicity? "See you! But we have to wait until I finish writing "White Deer Plain" before we talk."

Editor-in-Chief Liao and Zouping looked at each other and felt that this was the right thing to do.

The two men came this time, one is to deliver a reader's letter, and the other is because the criticism of "White Deer Plain" outside is getting more and more fierce, and they are afraid that Li Heng will be depressed and under too much pressure, so they came to check on his mental state.

As a result, Li Heng was able to eat, jump, talk and laugh, so the two of them felt relieved.

After chatting for half an hour, Zouping left Building 26.

Editor-in-Chief Liao was not in a hurry to leave. He waited for a while before speaking: "Have you met Zhaoyi recently?"

Li Heng didn't know what the other party was up to. After thinking for a moment, he nodded and said, "Before Liu Yue went abroad, I practiced for her."

Seeing this, Editor Liao automatically imagined what would happen next. It was nothing more than Xiao Liuyue being rude and forcing Li Heng and Zhaoyi to have a dinner together. Later, he took out a brown envelope from his briefcase and placed it on the coffee table: "This is what Zhaoyi asked me to give you."

The envelope was not opened. Li Heng glanced at it and said, "Okay, thank you, Senior Brother."

After chatting for a while, Editor-in-Chief Liao also left, and Li Heng personally saw him off to the alley entrance holding an umbrella.

After the van left, he did not rush home, but went to dormitory 325.

A week later, although Li Guoyi has been discharged from the hospital, he is now mainly recuperating at his uncle's house.

At this time, Zhang Bing was not in the dormitory, but was selling roasted sweet potatoes at the school gate.

The other four people were all neat and tidy, but the atmosphere in the dormitory was a bit solemn. They all gathered around Hu Ping, smoking and not talking much.

Li Heng walked in and asked, "What happened to you?"

Seeing him come in, the lively Li Guang spoke first, "Brother Heng, you're back. Old Hu had a fight with someone."

Li Heng looked at Hu Ping, "With that junior?"

Hu Ping took a few deep puffs of his cigarette, handed another to Li Heng, and lit it for him before speaking in a dull voice: "I can't swallow that breath."

Li Heng asked: "Is it serious?"

Hu Ping said: "I broke the other person's little finger and ring finger."

Li Heng was speechless. He must have been really angry to break two of the other person's fingers.

Zhou Zhangming, who always regarded himself as the elder brother because of his age, said: "Old Li, the other party is powerful, Old Hu may be punished, or even..."

Zhou Zhangming looked at Hu Ping and didn't say the rest.

But Li Heng understood and was afraid of being expelled from school.

He asked Hu Ping: "Who of you started it first?"

Hu Ping said: "The other party started the fight first, but I didn't give in."

Tang Dailing said, "Let him go! At worst, he can be fired, but no one can swallow this humiliation."

After that, the atmosphere in the dormitory fell into a deadlock again.

Li Heng consoled him, "How does that saying go? We don't cause trouble, but we're not afraid of it. If you don't fight back when you're bullied, you're a coward. It's no big deal. The other party was wrong first, so maybe they won't report to the school."

Hearing him say this, Zhou Zhangming, Li Guang and Tang Dailing all breathed a sigh of relief.

Hu Ping rubbed his fingers on the cigarette and said with a gloomy face: "I have already thought about it. If the school only gives me a punishment, then forget it. If they expel me, I will come back to settle the score with them. Damn it! Don't even bother to study."

Li Heng: “.”

Zhou Zhangming: “.”

Li Guang: “.”

Tang Dailing raised his hand: "Lao Hu, I support you. This is what the men of our 325 should be like. They can die but not be cowardly! When you need help, call me. Count me in."

Li Guoyi got into trouble, Hu Ping also got into trouble, and it was all because of Wei Xiaozhu. Li Heng secretly sighed, this is the legendary beauty who brings disaster reflects the reality.

In order to ease Hu Ping's mind, he stayed in the dormitory with them and talked about women until 9: in the evening before returning to Lushan Village.

It was late at night and the piano music had long stopped.

Li Heng, who was walking in the middle of the alley, looked up unconsciously and happened to see the pitiful figure in the attic. He asked, "Are you home alone?"

"Yeah." Zhou Shihe hummed.

After looking at each other from a distance, Li Heng asked again: "Do you want to come to my house and sit for a while?" Zhou Shihe pondered for a moment, said yes, then turned and went downstairs. After a while, she walked out of the yard and appeared beside him.

Seeing that she didn't have an umbrella, Li Heng took the initiative to move the umbrella in his hand over to help her shield from the rain: "Don't you have an umbrella at home?"

"My umbrella was taken away by Manning and Ningning." Zhou Shihe said so. Afraid that his right shoulder would get wet by the rain, she took a small step towards him and followed him into Building 26.

After closing the door and going upstairs, Li Heng briefly told Mai Sui about her return home, and then said to her, "We are not strangers. You are familiar with this place anyway. Please make yourself at home. I will take a shower first."

After watching him go into the shower room, Zhou Shihe slowly looked around and finally sat down on a separate sofa. There were newspapers from the past few days on the coffee table as usual. She picked up a newspaper at random and started reading.

As usual, the front-page headlines were all about him and "White Deer Plain". A cursory read of the report revealed not a single good word, and it was full of literary criticism of the writer December for being self-degrading, writing pornographic books without self-respect, and making no sense.

Change the newspaper, or.

Change another newspaper, and it’s the same thing.

Zhou Shihe turned the fourth newspaper and saw the news criticizing him.

At this point, she looked up at the shower room, feeling worried about him. With such a huge wave against "Writers' December", it felt like someone was organizing something to sabotage it from behind.

More than ten minutes later, Li Heng walked out of the shower room and saw her looking at him. Li Heng asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Shihe asked gently: "Have you read these newspapers?"

Li Heng understood what she meant immediately and smiled, "Hey! I thought it was something else. Don't worry about me. I have a big heart. A few stinky reptiles can't disgust me. History will have its own judgment, and the winner will be determined in the future."

As he spoke, he sat over and asked, "I remember I still owe you a song called 'The Last of the Mohicans'. It's been almost half a year since I played it for you. How about I fulfill it now?"

Zhou Shihe was somewhat tempted, but raised his right wrist to look at his watch and said, "It's a bit late today, and it will disturb other teachers. How about tomorrow?"

"Okay, that's fine." Li Heng just suddenly remembered this and asked on a whim. Seeing that she was so calm, he didn't force it.

Zhou Shihe asked: "Have you found a solution to your aunt's matter?"

Li Heng talked about what happened in the Red Mansion in Yanyuan. "It's hard to say at the moment. Teacher Wei hasn't seen her for 8 years. Where is she now? Is she still in Lianyungang? All of these are unknown."

After chatting about his aunt for a while, Zhou Shihe asked, "Can you show me the follow-up manuscript of White Deer Plain?"

Li Heng laughed and asked meaningfully, "Were you thinking about how to start the conversation? Or how about letting me start the conversation?"

Facing each other, Zhou Shihe smiled and did not deny it.

The reason she came to his house tonight was to read the follow-up manuscript of "White Deer Plain". She had been wanting to read it for a while, but he was so busy that she put the words back several times.

"Wait a minute, I'll get it."

After that, Li Heng got up and went to the study. After a while, he came to the sofa again and said, "Here! You have read the first 12 chapters in the magazine. Start from Chapter 13 here."

"Well, thank you." Zhou Shihe said thank you, took the manuscript and started reading it.

Miss Zhou was very focused on her work and soon immersed herself in the world of books.

Li Heng was not in a hurry to read or write tonight. Instead, he sat quietly on the sofa and thought for a while. He waited until his mind had completely calmed down before picking up the yellow-brown envelope on the coffee table.

There was no writing on the envelope, it was blank.

Li Heng pinched a corner of the envelope, observed it for a while, and then slowly tore it open.

It was somewhat expected. There was only a piece of letter inside with very little content, just two lines of words.

The first line of text is an address, a property address located in Yangpu.

The second line was more concise, a string of numbers, a landline phone number.

Apart from this, there are no other traces.

Li Heng tasted it twice. What does this mean?
Could it be that the lady in blue bought a new property in Yangpu?
Implying that you can come over when you are free?

Can I go see her anytime?
If a man goes to find a woman alone, a woman he has had sex with before, and the woman has feelings for the man, even a fool can understand the deep meaning.

As for the phone number, Li Heng vaguely felt that it had two meanings: one was that she was always available; the other was that if he had any difficulties he could ask her for help over the phone.

In fact, he guessed it right.

A week had passed since they had sex. During this time, Huang Zhaoyi did not go anywhere and even turned down two Peking Opera performances, fearing that he would suddenly want to find her and not be able to find her.

But after waiting for a week, the result was just wishful thinking. She felt a little disappointed, but even then she realized that this was the reality.

After all, Li Heng has no feelings for her.

And there is no shortage of women around him. Even if he wants women, there are other places to go.
So Huang Zhaoyi thought about it again and again, and mustered up the courage to write a letter and asked Editor-in-Chief Liao to pass it to him.

The property mentioned in the letter was the one she had just purchased, which was neither too far nor too close to the Pentagon, making it convenient for him to go there while also keeping it a secret for him.

Huang Zhaoyi's mind was very simple. She never thought of monopolizing him, nor did she think of exposing this relationship. She just hoped to renew their past relationship. If she had the chance to stay by his side in the future, that would be the best outcome.

In fact, her reason told her that the possibility of Li Heng coming to see her in a short period of time was very slim, but she still bought a new house with hope and anticipation.

After scanning the property address and phone number again, Li Heng folded the letter along the old traces and planned to put it back into the envelope.

Ok?
Is there anything else inside?

When he picked up the brown envelope, he suddenly found that there was something inside the envelope. He poured it out and saw that it was a key.

Where is the key?

What are keys used for?

It goes without saying, okay?
The key fell on the coffee table and made a crisp sound when it hit the glass.

Although the sound was not loud, it was very noticeable in the living room where you could hear a pin drop.

Just then, Zhou Shihe in the world of the book was awakened. She subconsciously raised her head and looked over, just in time to see Li Heng picking up the key.

"Have I disturbed you?" Li Heng asked.

She shook her head gently, and the moment her pure and clear black and white eyes met his, she quickly retreated.

At this moment, Zhou Shihe's face was slightly flushed and a little abnormal, obviously influenced by the sexual plot in the book.

Li Heng, who had lived two lives, was extremely perceptive. He figured out the cause and effect without even having to think about it. "Which chapter have you read?"

Zhou Shihe said quietly: "15 chapters."

Well, he remembered Chapter 15, which contained a long description of sex. No wonder Miss Zhou, who usually had a very good mental state, would also be troubled.

It is really!
The truth is that she rarely comes into contact with this kind of thing before. The first time she touched it, she was immediately poisoned.

Being stared at by him, Zhou Shihe, who had experienced the gazes of many opposite sexes, felt a little uncomfortable. She knew that he must have noticed her strangeness. Thinking of the time when they lived in the same room in Beijing, he would occasionally admire her quietly like this, her heart was suddenly a little confused.

In the past, Zhou Shihe would subconsciously attribute his actions and erotic dreams to living in the same room for too long.

As for her own charm, she had a deep understanding of it since she was a child, and he was a normal man, so even if he tried to suppress it all the time, he would inevitably doze off sometimes. Therefore, she never took it to heart.

I thought that after leaving the capital, these things would disappear with the passage of time.

This was indeed the case. In the past six months, Li Heng had been too busy to pay much attention to her, so Zhou Shihe misunderstood that he had forgotten everything that had happened in the capital.

This was also the reason why she felt comfortable coming with him to Building 26 tonight.

Just as they were afraid that the air would suddenly become quiet, the two parties were in a delicate atmosphere and did not speak for a while.

Zhou Shihe didn't dare to do that, for she was afraid that breaking the balance would bring about the opposite effect.

Li Heng was completely caught up in the situation and was unaware of it. It was not until a long time later that he realized that it was a bit rude to stare at others like that.

After taking two deep breaths, Li Heng stood up and then turned and went into the study. He was neat and tidy throughout the process, without saying a word.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Zhou Shihe slowly raised his head, his eyes lingering on the sofa where he had just sat for a while, and then lingering on the tightly closed study door for a while, and his anxious heart gradually calmed down.

After what happened just now, she couldn't concentrate on reading. She stared blankly at the night outside the house for a while with an empty mind.

Then she stood up, hesitated for a long time, and finally put the manuscript in her hand on the coffee table, and closed all the doors and windows of the living room to prevent the manuscript from being blown away by the wind.

After doing all this, Zhou Shihe glanced at the study door again and walked towards the corridor entrance.

He went downstairs, passed through the main house on the first floor, and soon appeared in the alley outside.

It was still raining heavily and the southeast monsoon was blowing. She ran only ten meters away and half her body was wet.

Returning to the gate of his own courtyard, Zhou Shihe glanced back at the lighted study on the second floor, took out the key with his right hand, opened the door, and walked in lightly.

The room was a bit deserted and not as cozy as the small building next door. Zhou Shihe stood quietly in the middle of the room for a long while before going upstairs.

After changing her clothes, she did not go to the bedroom, but went to the piano room and sat in front of the piano. Scenes from "White Deer Plain" echoed in her mind from time to time, and her eyes fell on the left side of the piano and then on the right side of the piano.

Once upon a time, this was a regular place for him and Teacher Yu.

That night, Li Heng stayed up all night and didn't go to bed until 9 o'clock the next morning.

Although he was tired, he gained a lot. He finished writing Chapter 37 of "White Deer Plain" and revised it.

Zhou Shihe didn't sleep much that night. It was the first time that she suffered from insomnia in her familiar bed. Her mind was filled with scenes of living together in Beijing and skiing in Northeast China, as well as the indescribable look he gave her.

The next day, Li Heng didn't wake up until after three in the afternoon.

Zhou Shihe was no less rested and also took a nap. She left Lushan Village at noon and returned to the No. 9 girls' dormitory building.

As for the promised performance of "The Last of the Mohicans", he once again stood her up. She didn't ask and he didn't mention it.

In the next few days, Dormitory 325 was waiting for notification from the school. The result was just as Li Heng had expected. Hu Ping was fine, the school did not cause any trouble, and there was no news from the school's Academic Affairs Office. Everything was calm, as if nothing had happened.

Wednesday, May 5rd.

The sky is clear today. After several days of rain, it is a rare sunny day.

Around 5pm, Yu Shuheng came back.

Hearing the noise, Li Heng quickly ran out and asked, "Teacher, where is Mai Sui?"

Yu Shuheng looked at him and said softly, "Let's talk inside."

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