Chapter 7: Chance Encounters
Early the next morning, Zhao Ji drove to the homestay where Li Heng lived.
Zhao Ji made an excuse to himself and said that he wanted to meet Li Heng. In fact, in my heart, I always want to see Li Shi and see what she is doing.
Will she be as changeable and grotesque as she was the other day?
Zhao Ji originally wanted to call Li Heng and announce that he was going to go over first. But then I thought about it, and it would be good to go and see them suddenly, so I gave up the idea of calling in advance.
parked the car, pushed open the gate of the small courtyard, and when I walked in, I happened to meet Li Heng and Li Shi both sitting in the small courtyard basking in the sun.
"Yikes! - Why don't you go out today? ”
"I'm a little tired, it's good to sit in this small courtyard!"
When Li Heng saw Zhao Ji coming in, he hurriedly greeted him and asked him to sit down.
The hostess brought a cup of tea.
Zhao Ji sat down and saw that Li Shi was different from yesterday, it was like two people.
Li Shi is completely an ordinary girl, so ordinary that she can't be more ordinary, almost the same as a simple and pure country girl.
She wore her hair behind her ears and an old, outdated dress.
Sitting motionless on a small chair against the west wall, she was knitting her sweater honestly and quietly, as if she had never done anything else in her life except knitting sweaters.
She said almost nothing to Zhao Ji, calmly looking at her work from time to time.
Her heart was like water, but the expression on her face was so calm.
It's weird!
Looking at her slightly yellow, dull face, thinking of all kinds of thoughts yesterday, Zhao Ji didn't know why he felt a feeling of pity?
Zhao Ji didn't know what the reason was that Li Shi was changing rapidly, and today is not what it was yesterday.
No matter how you try to pay attention to her, Zhao Ji can no longer see the slightest shadow of yesterday's flirtatious style in her, and he can't see any posturing performance.
This time, Zhao Ji couldn't blame her for any naughty and unnatural words.
"Aha!" Li Heng saw that Zhao Ji was a little surprised, so he said lightly, "She regrets it!" The first few days were so naughty that it made you sullen and unhappy. ”
"It's okay, it's really okay!"
Zhao Ji didn't know what to say.
Li Heng asked Zhao Ji to go around the town and leave Li Shi alone at the homestay.
It wasn't until the evening that the two returned. Seeing that Li Shi yawned a few times without pretentiousness, he went back to his room very early.
Zhao Ji said goodbye to Li Heng, and after returning to his residence, he didn't think about anything.
On this day, Zhao Ji passed in a calm mood.
However, when Zhao Ji lay down to sleep, he couldn't help but whisper to himself.
"How much this girl looks like a chameleon!" After thinking for a while, he added: "Li Shi is by no means Li Heng's sister. ”
In the next two days, Zhao Ji went to see Li Heng and them almost every day.
Li Shi seemed to be avoiding Zhao Ji. Just like the first two days when they first met, she didn't dare to do any more of the joking actions that surprised Zhao Ji.
She seemed secretly distressed or embarrassed.
She smiled less, too.
Zhao Ji was observing her with a kind of curiosity.
But from all aspects, it can be seen that she may have grown up in the countryside since she was a child, and the education she received is exactly the old-fashioned one in the countryside.
For example, things like wearing sweaters and wearing shoe soles are exactly what rural girls like to do, while girls in the city never do this.
Although Li Shi did not grow up in the city since she was a child, her every move in her bones revealed an unstable atmosphere and factors.
She is ready to grow like a grafted wild sapling, or like a jar of fermenting wine, it is turning into a pure wine.
Born shy and timid, she resents her shyness. Because of her distress, she forced herself to try her best to be presumptuous and bold, but she was not always able to do so.
Zhao Ji asked her several times about her past experience.
She was not willing to answer Zhao Ji's detailed questions, or avoided talking about other things.
However, Zhao Ji heard from Li Heng's mouth that she had lived in the countryside for a long time before.
Once, Zhao Ji met her reading a book alone.
She sat in the little chair with a book in her hand, her head propped up with her hands, her fingers digging deep into her hair, and her eyes greedily reading the lines.
"That's good!" Zhao Ji said, walking in front of her, "You love to read so much!" ”
She raised her head slightly, smiled at the corner of her mouth, seemed to be sneering, and looked at Zhao Ji arrogantly and sternly.
"In your eyes, I just laugh and joke?" She whispered, and wanted to walk away......
Zhao Ji glanced at the book—a long novel about love.
"I can't compliment you, though, the book you chose wasn't very good!" Zhao Ji deliberately jokingly said that he wanted to ease the atmosphere.
"So what should I read?" She suddenly raised her voice and said, then threw the book on the table, seemed a little angry, and added, "You talk about me like that, I might as well go out and play." ”
So he ran into the garden.
That night, Zhao Ji read several essays.
At first, Li Shi just walked around them, but then suddenly stopped, paid attention to what he was listening to, and quietly sat down next to Zhao Ji and listened to his reading.
Two days later, when Zhao Ji hadn't really woken up, Li Shi suddenly became the one who had just known them for two days, and Zhao Ji didn't know her at all.
In short, Zhao Ji felt that she was almost an incomprehensible monster.
Compared with Li Shi, his brother Li Heng has a very different temperament.
In the past few days, Li Heng has been wearing an ordinary shirt and a simple dress, but he has always exuded a unique atmosphere of a rich family.
Li Heng and Li Shi seem to belong to two different kinds of people, and they are not children who grew up together at all.
Li Shi's self-esteem is extremely strong, even when Zhao Ji is annoyed with her, Li Shi is still unconvinced.
However, there is one thing that Zhao Ji is more and more convinced, that is, Li Shi is not Li Heng's sister.
Li Heng doesn't treat her like his brother treats her sister.
He was overly pampered and accommodating to her, and at the same time seemed a little unnatural.
A fortuitous adventure most clearly confirmed Zhao Ji's bold guess.
Zhao Ji went to visit Li Heng at the homestay, but he didn't call in advance.
Of course, Li Heng didn't know that Zhao Ji was coming.
Zhao Ji walked into the small courtyard and asked the proprietress, where is Li Heng?
The proprietress pouted towards the roof, meaning they were on top.
Zhao Ji climbed up the stairs, and when she was halfway through, suddenly, Li Shi's sweet voice came, and she was crying and talking to Li Heng.
The content of the conversation surprised Zhao Ji.
……
"Do you like Zhao Ji?"
"I ......," Li Shi wanted to say but stopped.
"I can see that you're in love with him."
"No, I don't love anyone but you, I don't love anybody, no, no, I'm willing to love you alone—love you all forever."
"Alright! Ashi, you have to calm down and don't disguise yourself. Do you know? You've changed a lot since you met him. Li Heng said, "However, I believe you." ”
……
Their voices came down from the roof platform, and Zhao Ji could hear them clearly.
However, they didn't notice that Zhao Ji was eavesdropping below.
Zhao Ji went up a few more stairs and secretly took one eye to aim.
"I love you, I love you alone." Li Shi muttered and repeated, and put her arms around Li Heng's neck, and with a convulsive cry of pain, she began to kiss his neck with her lips, burying her head in his broad chest.
"Okay, okay, Ashi, don't do this!" Li Heng repeated over and over again. While gently stroking her hair with one hand.
"I'm your brother! You can't be like this, you know, it's going to hurt us for the rest of our lives. ”
Li Heng suddenly pushed Li Shi away sensibly.
……
Zhao Ji remained motionless for a while...... Suddenly, my heart trembled.
"What now? Come to them? No...... Never! What an embarrassing scene it would be to appear in front of them at this time......"
Such a thought quickly flashed through Zhao Ji's mind.
"Run, the sooner the better! Otherwise, they will find out. ”
So, he walked downstairs quickly, ran to his car, hurriedly opened the door, got in and drove the car, and ran back to the inn where he lived.
Back in the room, Zhao Ji rubbed his hands back and forth.
Encountering such an unexpected conversation scene by chance fully confirmed that his sixth sense was not a conjecture out of thin air, and he never suspected for a moment that his conjecture would be wrong.
However, what he didn't want to happen, it really happened. This blow made his heart very painful.
That feeling was like a flame that was about to burn, and it was suddenly extinguished by someone else with water.