Siheyuan: Banggeng and I are classmates

Li Muhua was standing downstairs of the girls' dormitory. Dong Shuwan, who was called out, had a look of surprise on her face and looked at Li Muhua with caution.

"You came to see me for something?"

She and Li Muhua often met at school, but they rarely waited for each other downstairs of each other's dormitory. Li Muhua even less often came to the dormitory to find her. She couldn't help but be on guard when something unusual happened.

Seeing that Dong Shuwan was guarding against him as if he were a thief, Li Muhua smiled and said, "I suddenly remembered that we haven't seen each other for more than a week. Today, the setting sun is as red as blood. It's a good time to have dinner together and reconnect with our brotherly relationship!"

Dong Shuwan's guard dropped slightly after hearing this, and she curled her lips and said, "Speak human language!"

"I want to treat you to a meal and then ask you something!" Li Muhuatian said with a smile.

"It's rare for you to treat me to a meal." Dong Shuwan walked in front and asked, "What's the matter? Tell me!"

Li Muhua followed and asked directly: "Are you still in contact with Yang Liu?"

"Yes!" Dong Shuwan's face flashed with some doubt, but she still nodded and said, "Why are you asking her?"

Li Muhua asked again: "What about me and Zhou Ru——"

When Dong Shuwan heard Li Muhua asking about this, a look of unnatural embarrassment flashed across her face.

"Well, I told her the truth."

Without waiting for Li Muhua to ask, Dong Shuwan explained, "Last year, I was so angry at your changing of heart that I told her the truth!"

"I think it's unfair to Zhou Ru to keep hiding this from her!"

"Zhou Ru has never found a partner, but you change partners every day. Do you think this is fair?"

After hearing this, Li Muhua was so angry that she wanted to curse. It turned out that the root of the problem was still Dong Shuwan.

But he still had something to ask, so he could only hold back his anger and continue to ask softly: "She is going to study for a master's degree at our school, did you know about this?"

"Yes, she wrote to me yesterday!" Dong Shuwan nodded, looked at Li Muhua strangely and asked, "How do you know this?"

"I don't think I had time to tell you yet!"

Having said that, Dong Shuwan's face was already full of suspicion.

"Something is wrong. You insisted on hiding your divorce with Zhou Ru from Yang Liu. Yang Liu also often asked about you and Zhou Ru, and didn't pay much attention to Hu Lai, Zhao Quan, and Han Lu. You and Yang Liu were still in contact behind her back."

"Tell me the truth, you are not keeping in touch with Yang Liu behind our backs, right?"

Dong Shuwan's eyes flashed with scrutiny, as if she had found something fishy about Li Muhua.

"We haven't been in touch!" Li Muhua said helplessly, "She only wrote to me once last year, asking me what I thought of the situation over there."

"I wrote her a letter to remind her to be safe, and then she suddenly sent me a letter today saying that she wanted to come to our school to study for a master's degree!"

"Really?" Dong Shuwan asked in disbelief, "If you can meet people, why didn't you tell us when you wrote to her?"

"There's nothing much to say. It's all my opinion on the situation in South Vietnam. Not even a polite greeting!"

Li Muhua spoke frankly, and Dong Shuwan believed it unconsciously.

Li Muhua asked again: "Besides my divorce with Zhou Ru, you didn't tell me anything else, right?"

"This..." Dong Shuwan said with some embarrassment on her face: "When she knew that you were divorced, she wrote to me and asked me why you two were divorced. How are you doing now?"

Seeing Dong Shuwan's guilty look and her voice getting lower and lower, Li Muhua concluded that she didn't say anything good about him.

"So you just put me down and told her everything?"

Hearing Li Muhua's words belittling him, Dong Shuwan looked up and explained: "No, it's not really belittling. We still don't know why you and Zhou Ru divorced in the first place."

"There was nothing out of the ordinary afterwards. It was just after I went to college last year. I just talked about some stupid things you did!"

"How's the arm?" Li Muhua asked.

Dong Shuwan lowered her head and said, "For example, the dumbest girl in Beijing University is your sister, she changes her partner every month, and she makes a promise with an old man to find the best cigarettes in the world—"

Li Muhua's face turned pale when he heard this.

Dong Shuwan talked and laughed with me in front of me every day, but she criticized me like this behind my back.

After talking about Li Muhua's messy account, Dong Shuwan raised her head and said, "But I also praised you for being able to write basic civil engineering textbooks, argue with the instructor about the right and wrong of the course, and provide our mechanical department with a complete set of building machinery design!"

Seeing that Dong Shuwan was getting more and more proud, Li Muhua interrupted helplessly: "Is this what you are talking about?"

"I don't care. You are the one who brought this trouble upon me. You have to treat me to dinner tonight!"

"Disaster?"

Dong Shuwan asked in confusion, "Are you talking about Yang Liu coming here to study for a master's degree?"

Li Muhua nodded, feeling a little heavy-hearted. She actually hoped that Yang Liu came here for the reputation of Hua University.

Dong Shuwan didn't say anything. After thinking for a while, she asked, "Are you and Yang Liu hiding something from us?"

"I think she cares too much about you and Zhou Ru, and you also care too much about her, or you should say you are too wary of her!" Dong Shuwan carefully considered her words.

Li Muhua was a little conflicted, not knowing whether he should tell Dong Shuwan about Yang Liu's identity.

Logically speaking, he and Zhou Ru had divorced long ago, and he had dated several other girls since then, so there was no need to hide the fact that Yang Liu was his elementary school classmate.

But she had followed him to the educated youth camp, and the friendship between them made Li Muhua feel embarrassed to speak up.

After thinking for a while, Li Muhua asked back: "Tell me something first, and then I will think about whether I should answer you this question."

"Just ask!" Dong Shuwan said simply.

"Does Yang Liu have a partner or is she married?"

Dong Shuwan looked a little embarrassed after hearing this, and said hesitantly: "I don't know, probably not, I've never heard her mention it."

Li Muhua was a little worried, fearing that Yang Liu was not married and came for him again.

Dong Shuwan pressed on, "Why are you asking this? Are you really interested in Yang Liu?"

"There wasn't any in the past!" Li Muhua said bluntly: "In the future, I don't know, there shouldn't be any in the future!"

"That's better!" Dong Shuwan looked at Li Muhua and said, "Yang Liu is my third best friend. I don't want you to have anything to do with her."

Li Muhua was a little surprised to hear that Yang Liu was Dong Shuwan's third best friend.

They only communicated occasionally. Not to mention Dong Shuwan's childhood classmates, even if she included herself, Yang Liu shouldn't be ranked third.

"Now your best friend should be Han Lu, and the second is Zhou Ru. Is it not too much for me to be ranked third?" Li Muhua counted on his fingers.

Dong Shuwan hurriedly said: "You are fourth, fourth is not bad!"

Hearing that he was ranked fourth, Li Muhua put away his fingers and agreed reluctantly.

"Well, fourth is fine. At least I'm ranked high enough for you to treat me to a meal!"

"Of course, it's just a meal, no big deal!" Dong Shuwan said with some pride.

But then she leaned closer and asked in a low gossiping voice: "Then tell me about you and Yang Liu. I think you are hiding something from me!"

"You two are weird!"

Dong Shuwan looked at Li Muhua with some suspicion, suspecting that there was something going on between him and Yang Liu.

But after thinking hard for a long time and recalling what happened at the educated youth center, I still couldn't figure out that the two of them were doing anything fishy.

Li Muhua didn't want to say anything, so she just said, "I don't know either. If you don't believe me, you can ask her later!"

I know very little about Yang Liu, so I'd better wait for Yang Liu to talk about these things herself and see what she thinks!

Seeing that Li Muhua refused to say anything, Dong Shuwan turned back in frustration and muttered, "What?"

"You called me down and said you were going to treat me to a meal and ask me a few questions, but now I've told you everything. And I treated you to a meal, but you didn't even tell me one thing!"

It’s no wonder that Dong Shuwan felt resentful. From her perspective, Li Muhua was neither honest nor generous, and was not like her at all.

Li Muhua was helpless and found it difficult to speak, so she had to find a way to change the subject.

"Hey, Shuwan." Dong Shuwan looked at Li Muhua following the voice.

"I remember when we were in the countryside, you liked to marry your best friend to me the most. Why do you not want me to have anything to do with Yang Liu?"

Dong Shuwan was stunned when she heard this question and turned her head away.

"If you're willing to listen, I'll tell you later!"

"That's not necessary. I'm afraid if I take it seriously, I'll abandon you as my third best friend and both of us will be left without friends."

Li Muhua spoke sincerely.

The displeasure on Dong Shuwan's face quietly faded away and a smile appeared on her face.