Han Meimei was not lying when she said this.

Although Han Meimei's grades were not very good before, and her parents were rather busy, always on business trips or on their way to business trips, they had always been very concerned about Han Meimei.

For example, in important meetings like parent-teacher conferences where school teachers and students' parents communicate, Han Meimei's parents have always insisted on attending if they can. Even if they can't, they will ask Han Meimei's grandparents to sit in on the meeting. After they are done with their work, they will actively communicate with the school.

The two chatted as they walked out of the teaching building and went to the carport. After Li Lei pushed his mountain bike out of the carport, the two of them walked out of the school together.

"How are you going back? Or take a taxi?" Li Lei asked casually as the two of them walked on the road leading to the main road from the school gate.

Han Meimei nodded gently, and the ponytail behind her head swayed gently with her movements, as if it was a puppy's tail wagging to its owner. "How about you take me back?"

When they said this, Han Meimei and Li Lei turned around at the same time and looked at the back seat of Li Lei's mountain bike, which was bare with only a fender at the back. Then their eyes met again unexpectedly.

After exchanging glances, Li Lei looked away awkwardly, because he seemed to understand the meaning behind Han Meimei's eyes. What do you mean by asking this question when the back seat of your car is like this? Are you planning to let me ride home with your car, or are you planning to let me sit on your fender and give me a ride?

Of course, Han Meimei would not choose either of these two options. Not to mention that she doesn't know how to ride a bicycle at all. Even if she knew how to ride a bicycle, she was wearing a skirt today and could not ride it at all.

As for the second one...

So after Han Meimei asked this question, Li Lei awkwardly freed up one hand, touched the tip of his nose and explained to Han Meimei, "Well, don't mind Han Meimei, I just asked subconsciously and casually, just to be polite, I didn't even think of giving it to you, don't..."

When he saw Han Meimei staring at him with her eyes wide open, Li Lei immediately realized that he had said something wrong. "No, you misunderstood me. What I meant was that you were thinking too much. How could I possibly send you off? I..."

"Li Lei, go to hell!" Han Meimei interrupted Li Lei before he could finish his words and glared at him fiercely. Then, still not satisfied, she stepped hard on Li Lei's foot and angrily walked along the roadside towards home.

Seeing Han Meimei being driven away by his clumsy mouth, Li Lei came to his senses and ignored the pain coming from his feet. He quickly pushed his mountain bike forward to chase Han Meimei who was already ten meters away from him. "Han Meimei, wait for me, I really didn't mean that! Really, I was wrong, and it's okay if I'm wrong!"

Li Lei, who caught up with Han Meimei, was so anxious that he explained, but Han Meimei just stood aside in silence, sulking alone. When Han Meimei waved to stop a taxi, Han Meimei finally spoke again, "Where's your notebook?!"

ah???

notebook???

What's the meaning???

"What...what notebook?" Li Lei was caught off guard by Han Meimei's question. Seeing Han Meimei's impatient look, Li Lei asked carefully, "Which subject is it? Math, English, or something else?"

Han Meimei looked at Li Lei and sighed deeply, as if she was completely speechless about Li Lei's dullness.

"Take it and use it. Remember to tell me when you're done. Oh, and congratulations on your good grades in the exam!"

Without asking any more questions, Han Meimei congratulated Li Lei and took out a beautiful-looking notebook from her schoolbag and stuffed it into Li Lei's hand. She also rolled her eyes at Li Lei before getting in a taxi and speeding off towards Han Meimei's home.

Watching the Death Barbie pink taxi gradually moving away, Li Lei looked at the taxi for a while, then looked at the notebook stuffed into his hand by Han Meimei, looking a little at a loss.

After standing there for a long time, Li Lei finally remembered what he had complained about yesterday afternoon when he gave his notebook full of wrong questions to Han Meimei for review: "The notebooks are not enough and I have to buy more notebooks." Then he realized that Han Meimei had kept his words in mind. With mixed feelings, he stuffed the notebook back into his schoolbag, got on his mountain bike, and rode home in the opposite direction.

Riding under the scorching midday sun, Li Lei was already sweating all over when he returned home.

"Mom, I'm back!"

After returning home, Li Lei was changing his shoes at the entrance while shouting into the house as if he was doing an NPC task.

"Dad, where's my mom?" After changing his shoes and coming to the living room, Li Lei didn't see his mom as usual. After throwing his schoolbag on the sofa, he walked to the kitchen. He found that only his old father was busy in the kitchen, so he asked curiously, "My mom hasn't gotten off work yet?"

Father Li, who was busy in the kitchen, didn't notice his son coming home until Li Lei entered the kitchen. He was shocked when Li Lei suddenly appeared at the kitchen door and spoke. "Oh my god, you scared me! How come you walk without making any sound?!"

Li Lei immediately complained, "I didn't make any sound?! I shouted 'Mom, I'm back!' after I got home! It's you who didn't hear me!"

It would have been fine if Li Lei hadn't said anything. As soon as he said this, Father Li immediately became unhappy. "You came back, so why are you shouting 'Mom, I'm back!'? I've never seen you shout 'Dad, I'm back!' after you came home! Have I ever been bad to you?!"

Li Lei waved his hand, leaning against the kitchen door and watching his old father stirring the wok, he joked, "Dad, it's no use calling you sister! I call my mom, and make her happy, so she can give me pocket money! What about you, what can you give?! You still have to get money from my mom to buy cigarettes, and I can't even say anything to you!"

My son has grown up and his words have started to hurt my heart.

Li Lei's words were like a knife, piercing his father's heart. His face darkened immediately. "Damn it, I knew my son was unreliable. I said at the beginning that I wanted a daughter! If I had a daughter, maybe now she would be the one to cheat money from her mother to buy cigarettes for me. It's not like now..."

After complaining, Father Li answered his son's question while shaking the spoon, "Your mother just received a call from the unit, saying that there was a small problem and she had to go and deal with it!"

Father Li glanced at the time and said, "It's almost time for him to come back. Call him later and ask him."

After Li Lei responded, he left the noisy kitchen, took out his mobile phone, and skillfully dialed his mother's number. After learning that his mother was on the way back, Li Lei returned to his room.

After returning to the room, Li Lei did not take advantage of the lunch time to do two more questions as he did in the past. Instead, he sat at the desk, staring blankly at the notebook that Han Meimei had stuffed into his arms not long ago.

While his mind was full of random thoughts, Li Lei was unconsciously stroking and playing with this exquisite notebook in his hands.

However, after a while, Li Lei began to notice something was wrong.

In addition to looking exquisite, the feel of this notebook was much better than the three-dollar notebooks he bought at a stationery store outside the school. This made Li Lei immediately doubt the value of this notebook.

In the past, Han Meimei had given Li Lei all kinds of small items, including pens and decorations.

However, when Li Lei discovered that the pen Han Meimei gave him was actually a pen worth hundreds or thousands of dollars that Han Meimei took from home, Li Lei hurriedly returned the thing Han Meimei gave him.

After that, Li Lei would ask the price of anything Han Meimei gave him before accepting it, and he would also return Han Meimei with a small gift of equal value.

This time when Han Meimei gave Li Lei the notebook, the reason why Li Lei accepted it so directly was, firstly, because at that time all he could think about was that this time it was all over, he was tongue-tied and said the wrong thing, which made Han Meimei angry, and Li Lei did not react at all that he would receive a gift from Han Meimei.

The second reason is that Li Lei subconsciously thought, how expensive can a notebook be? !

It’s just a few dozen dollars at most!

At worst... At worst, I can find some time on a Saturday afternoon next time, take out the pocket money I've saved over the years, and treat Han Meimei to a meal of fried chicken at the KFC next to People's Square!

The more critical point is...

Han Meimei actually wished me good grades in the exam!

When a delicate little girl says such words in front of you, I wonder if you are confused or not!

No matter you were confused or not, at least Li Lei was completely dazed at that time.

So Li Lei accepted Han Meimei's gift in a daze, and returned home in a daze. It was not until just now when Li Lei took out the notebook again that he discovered something wrong.

This notebook... looks like it costs more than a few dozen bucks? ! ! !

broken!!!!

Li Lei's heart shuddered, and he quickly walked to the study and turned on the computer. While waiting for the computer to start up, Li Lei was also carefully weighing the dark blue notebook in his hand.

The more Li Lei touched the cover of the notebook, the more he felt something was wrong. Why did the cover of the notebook feel so comfortable? It was like it was made of... some kind of animal's leather?!

Thinking of this, Li Lei finally couldn't hold it anymore.

He is not a fool who only knows how to study. The Internet has become more and more developed in recent years. Through this extremely wonderful information age, Li Lei has also learned more and more knowledge, including various kinds of luxury goods.

Originally Li Lei thought he had learned enough, but looking at the notebook in his hand, Li Lei's eyes became a little complicated.

My horizons are still a little narrow. I should have thought of it earlier. Rich people have money, so they must be very particular about the things they use, including pens, ink, paper and inkstones! Fountain pens are luxury goods, so why should I think notebooks are not!

After finally waiting for the computer to start up, Li Lei quickly opened Baidu and entered the gold-stamped logo on the notebook cover into the search bar letter by letter.

"S, M, Y... Bismarck?" After typing all the letters into the search bar, Li Lei finally saw the brand name of the notebook. "Smeissen? From abroad?"

Following the Taobao link recommended on the homepage, Li Lei clicked on it with some doubt. After he saw the same model of laptop as the one he had in his hand as well as the price and product introduction, Li Lei could no longer sit still. He quickly dropped his computer, ran back to the room with the laptop, closed the door, and called Han Meimei.

'Beep...beep...'

The phone rang twice before it was connected. Before the person on the other end could speak, Li Lei couldn't wait to whisper, "Han Meimei, are you crazy?! You just stuffed a notebook worth more than 600 yuan into my hand?! What do you want to do?!"

After two seconds of silence on the other end of the line, a magnetic and powerful voice was heard from the other end, "Meimei, what notebook? Is this your classmate's phone number?"

Then Li Lei heard Han Meimei's slightly flustered voice coming from the phone, "Oh, Dad, it's nothing. This call was indeed from my classmate, but there is a reason for this. Listen to my excuse... No, listen to my explanation!!"

Then Li Lei heard a "click" sound, followed by a busy tone.

Li Lei was stunned for a moment, and recalled the two simple conversations on the other end of the phone. Even if he was in a state of turmoil, he could understand that the phone call he made in a hurry just now seemed to be a mistake in some sense? !

Thinking about the questions Han Meimei would face from her parents and the fact that he would meet Han Meimei again in the afternoon, Li Lei couldn't help but feel guilty and flustered. He didn't even notice his mother coming back and seemed absent-minded during lunch.

During the meal, facing his parents, Li Lei told them the news that he had scored 673 points, ranking second in the school and 15th in the county, as if he was handing in an NPC task.

Li Lei's parents were extremely happy when they heard the news. They wanted to call their relatives and friends immediately to share the good news. However, Li Lei had something on his mind and was wondering how he would face Han Meimei in the afternoon, so he just ate the rice in the bowl in silence.

When they saw their son's strange behavior, Li Lei's parents looked at each other, and then Li's mother spoke first in tacit understanding, "Son, what's wrong? Why are you not happy despite such great improvement in your grades? Have you encountered any difficulties?!"

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