After some time, her phone rang. Xu Li waited for a while before picking it up slowly. It was an unknown number. She picked it up.
The person on the other end of the line said, "Xu Li, this is Lu Peian."
Xu Li was not in the mood to talk, and her attitude was cold. "What's the matter?"
Lu Peian paused for a moment before saying, "I picked up a few medical journals by the roadside. Are they yours?" What he didn't say was that when he passed by her house, he saw a middle-aged man who looked a little like Xu Li giving these medical journals to an old man who collected scraps.
Lu Peian could not help but think of Xu Li's desolate expression when she talked about studying medicine. He did not know why, but after Xu Baifu left, he stopped the old waste collector and spent money to buy those magazines back.
When Xu Li heard Lu Peian's words, she felt as if her soul had been injected into her body. "Wait for me!"
When Lu Peian heard the voice on the other end, he couldn't help but remind her, "Slow down."
"Okay." Although she said that, Xu Li did not slow down at all. She ran down three steps at a time.
Lu Peian was waiting outside the villa. He held his phone in one hand and a stack of magazines in the other. Seeing Xu Li come out, Lu Peian handed the magazines to her. "Take good care of them in the future."
Xu Li took it. "Thank you." She lowered her head. Lu Peian was taller than her, so he could not see her expression clearly. However, from her voice, he could tell that she was very excited and happy to have regained what she had lost.
Lu Peian was not a meddlesome person, but at this moment, for some reason, he suddenly asked, "Is it your father? Why don't your father let you study medicine?"
Xu Li's hand froze as she flipped through the magazines. A faint smile appeared on her lips. "Why else? My family has such a big company waiting for me to inherit."
Lu Peian's intuition told him that Xu Li was lying, but he did not probe further. After all, everyone had their own secrets. He took down this bag and took out the magazine that Xu Li had asked him to keep. "And this."
After returning home, Xu Li ran three rounds upstairs and downstairs, but she still could not find a suitable place to store the books. After thinking for a while, she took out her phone and called Lu Peian.
Lu Peian had not gone far when he heard Xu Li's request and returned with the magazines.
At night, Lu Peian came out of the shower. His hair was still dripping with water. He picked up a towel and wiped it casually. His gaze fell on the magazines on the table. There were a total of seven of them. There was a long gap between them. The earliest one was from three years ago. The Medical Weekly was published once a week, and according to Xu Li's appearance, she had probably bought every issue. As for why there were only seven left, it was probably because her father had thrown them all away.
Lu Peian was drying his hair with a hairdryer when he accidentally touched a glass of water on the table. Although he quickly picked up the magazine, the magazine at the bottom was still a little wet. It was the one from three years ago. The cover was a little old, and it could be seen that it was often flipped through. Lu Peian looked at it and found it familiar. He went to the bookshelf in the study and found an identical magazine. This magazine was a sample magazine that was sent to him after he had submitted an article to the magazine at that time.
Lu Peian blew on the wet spot with the hairdryer and placed it on the balcony to dry. He placed the rest on the study table and went to sleep.
On Sunday, Xu Li thought that Meng Qingqing would sleep until noon before getting up. Who knew that she would come to her house at eight in the morning to lift her blanket!
Xu Li clutched the blanket tightly and refused to get up. She had stayed up all night playing games last night and was extremely sleepy now.
Meng Qingqing: "Xu Li! Get up quickly! Wen Heng is already at the internet cafe!"
Xu Li yawned and lay on the bed for a while before slowly getting up. She had a bad morning temper. Only Meng Qingqing was bold enough to wake her up.
Xu Li did not have breakfast at home. When she took a taxi to the internet cafe, she bought a rice ball at a stall. Meng Qingqing went to the convenience store next door to buy Coke. When she came back, she said to Xu Li mysteriously, "Xu Li, guess who I saw at the convenience store?"
Xu Li took a bite of her rice ball and took a sip of her coke. "Who is it?"
Meng Qingqing passed the unopened Coke to her. Xu Li glanced at her and bit into the rice ball. Then, she helped her open the Coke.
Meng Qingqing took a sip of coke before saying excitedly, "It's the boy who was rumored to have his girlfriend snatched away by Wen Heng. He's buying cigarettes in the convenience store! Do you think he's going to the internet cafe later? Will he bump into Wen Heng? Will there be a show to watch then?"