Chapter 108 Birthday Gift
"Let me think of other ways and see if I can start from other aspects." Huo Beiyan was a little distressed and couldn't figure it out.
He could see that Lu Qijun was obviously interested when he was looking through the information, so why did he refuse so bluntly?
"Well, I'll keep an eye on other candidates." Ji Linshen said and hung up the phone.
As for the reason for Lu Qiyun's refusal, he only guessed that it had something to do with him.
The next day.
Lu Shiman went to pick up the gift customized for his fourth brother early in the morning. It would be more accurate to say that this gift was given by him together with his other brothers rather than by himself.
Take the gift and drive to the laboratory
Fourth Brother’s laboratory is located in a science and technology park on the outskirts of the city. The silver building emits a cold metallic glow in the early winter mist.
When turning the last corner, a heavy transport truck with big red silk flowers hanging on it suddenly came into view.
The wheels rolled over the dead leaves on the ground, and she stopped the car next to the giant instrument covered with dustproof cloth. Fine water droplets condensed on the metal shell in the morning dew, like a dormant giant beast.
"Miss Lu." As the automatic glass doors slid open, a round-faced girl in a white coat trotted over, her badge flashing silver as she moved.
He is the fourth brother's assistant.
Lu Shiman turned around when she heard the voice and said with a smile: "Is my brother in the office?"
The assistant nodded and smiled: "In the lab, I need your help..."
"Don't disturb him, I'll just wait." Lu Shiman interrupted hurriedly.
As he spoke, his eyes swept across the hall. The blue indicator light of the incubator flickered at the end of the corridor, and the scent of disinfectant mixed with the metallic smell of precision instruments wafted over.
"Okay, then Miss Lu needs to see me." The assistant opened the office door and welcomed Lu Shiman in.
The moment I pushed open the office door, the dark red silk flowers on the transport truck suddenly flashed in my memory: "Wait, what's going on with the equipment outside?"
"Mr. Huo sent it this morning." The assistant's voice suddenly dropped, as if sharing some confidential information. "It's about a joint development of a targeted drug for Alzheimer's disease with Ji's Pharmaceuticals."
"Teacher Lu was interested when he was looking through the materials, but when he heard Mr. Huo mention the Ji family, he immediately returned the materials and refused."
"Ji's medicine..."
Lu Shiman didn't listen to anything that came after that, and tried to piece together the fragmented content in his mind.
Huo Beiyan and Ji Linshen had a targeted drug project and wanted to cooperate with the fourth brother, but the fourth brother refused.
Why did Fourth Brother refuse?
"Oh, Teacher Lu asked me to contact someone to send the equipment back. Miss Lu, I have to go get busy first."
The assistant hurried out of the office, muttering quietly, "This model of mass spectrometer is so hard to order. Someone gave it to me and then returned it."
She was the only one left in the office, and Lu Shiman began to feel doubtful.
Sitting in front of her fourth brother's desk, she took out the gift and placed it on the desk, next to the computer screen.
It is a hand-carved ornament. In front of an exquisite villa, there are five cartoon dolls placed on the green grass. The images of the dolls are exactly the five brothers and sisters of the Lu family.
Lu Qiyun in the middle was wearing a laboratory dust-proof suit and holding a reagent in his hand. The four dolls of them surrounded Lu Qiyun.
The office door was pushed open. Lu Qiyun was writing something down. When he saw Lu Shiman, surprise flashed in his eyes: "What's the matter?"
When Lu Shiman saw Fourth Brother, a bright smile immediately spread across his face: "Fourth Brother, happy birthday~"
Lu Qijun lowered his eyes, a smile flashing across his eyes: "Yeah."
"Fourth brother, I have prepared a gift for you. Come here quickly. I have thought about this gift for a long time." She walked forward and pulled Lu Qiyun's arm towards the desk.
"Dangdangdang~" Lu Shiman said proudly, "I asked a craftsman to hand-carve our house, and these little figures are also specially designed by someone else."
"Does Fourth Brother like it?"
Lu Qiyun looked at the ornaments on the table, his expression remained unchanged, but it softened noticeably.
"By the way, this is not just a decoration~" Lu Shiman said, poking his doll's head with his finger.
Her voice came from the doll: "It doesn't matter if the experiment failed again. Even gods can fail when refining elixirs. Fourth brother is not a god, so failure is normal. In my heart, fourth brother is the best~"
She poked the doll with her older brother's image again, and the doll spoke in his voice: "When the weather is nice, go out more often. Take care of yourself, get more sun and exercise."
"Fourth brother, I asked my brothers to record this. This gift also shows their thoughtfulness."
She poked her second brother's doll again: "Don't bring the virus home. Take care of yourself. You will die if you don't do experiments for a day. Go home and rest tonight. I will beat you all night long."
"Second brother is so fierce." Lu Shiman stood on tiptoe to poke his tense shoulders, but saw the shadow cast by his eyelashes under his eyes suddenly tremble.
She withdrew her hand and went to poke Lu Jianheng's doll again.
The third brother's voice echoed in the office: "Sleep more, worry less, eat well, and rest well."
"Happy birthday, fourth brother!" Lu Shiman put his hands behind his back, tilted his head and looked at Lu Qiyun with a smile.
Lu Qiyun's Adam's apple rolled, and the sourness formed a lump in his throat.
He loosened his collar to let in some air, and his Adam's apple made a slight sound as it rubbed against the stiff collar.
"Childish." When this syllable brushed against his dry lips, the ending tone opened up a moist crack.
His drooping left hand unconsciously touched the pocket of his dust-proof coat, and the aluminum film of medicine hidden there was pinched into tiny wrinkles.
"No matter what, you must like it." Lu Shiman poked his arm: "Brother asked you to go home early for dinner."
"good."
"Then I'll leave, Fourth Brother, and not disturb you from doing your experiments."
Lu Qiyun looked at her back. The snow had stopped falling at some point. The sunlight shone through the window, and the mist broke into thousands of stars, falling on the pearl hairpin swaying in his sister's hair.
The office returned to silence. Lu Qiyun stood in front of the desk, his eyes fixed on the exquisite ornaments.
His bent knuckles were suspended in the air, and his skin, soaked in disinfectant, glowed an unhealthy pale blue in the warm sun.
He poked the doll's head one by one, and his Adam's apple rolled as he swallowed coffee grounds or something else. His throat felt burning and painful, and he almost cried.
"In my heart, fourth brother is the best~" When his sister's voice sounded for the umpteenth time, Lu Qijun finally sank into the swivel chair.
Outside the window, the withered branches of the sycamore tree suddenly broke, and the accumulated snow fell onto the red silk of the transport truck.
The glazed tiles on the eaves of the ornaments emitted a golden glow as they trembled.
The subtle astringency from his heart flowed up through his blood vessels, and a rare warmth rose from his palms, which had been in contact with low-temperature reagents for years.
The sunlight climbed up the eaves of the sculptures and wandered around. The shadows of the five little men were stretched and cast on the genetic map on the wall, and were also engraved in Lu Qiyun's heart.
Lu Qiyun's neck rested against the headrest of the swivel chair, and his Adam's apple rolled slowly under his pale skin.
An almost inaudible sigh was filled with indescribable emotion: "Lu Shiman, this is a birthday present, I love it!"
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