Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "I was forced to do it."
Li Pengfei clicked his tongue twice.
"I say, how many times are you going to express this sentiment?" Lu Yanhe teased. "When you can work harder, you won't keep asking me if I've been possessed."
"I'm not willing to accept this." Li Pengfei said indignantly, "Your grades were worse than mine before."
"That's because I didn't come to school."
"Do you think I'm really studying just because I come to school every day?"
"How dare you say that? Are you still so proud?"
Li Pengfei pouted at him, "Don't put the hat on me. You feel embarrassed not to come to school? And you're so proud? You're not that famous. Are you so famous that you don't have time to come to school?"
Lu Yanhe: “…”
Got checkmate.
Nothing to say.
The main reason was that what Li Pengfei said was so logical that he couldn't refute it.
"Huh?" Lu Yanhe's gaze suddenly paused, revealing a look of surprise.
"What's wrong?" Li Pengfei followed Lu Yanhe's gaze and saw a girl with a ponytail and bright eyes. She was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. She looked very ordinary, with no makeup on and a look of fatigue on her face.
"Do you know him?" Li Pengfei asked.
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "I met her at the school gate this morning. She said she was Xu Zijun's sister, Xu Fanxing."
Li Pengfei showed a surprised expression.
"Then why is she standing here? Waiting for Xu Zijun?"
"That should be the case, but Xu Zijun didn't seem to want to see her." Lu Yanhe explained, "As soon as I arrived in the classroom this morning, I told Xu Zijun that her sister was waiting for her at the school gate, but Xu Zijun didn't say anything and didn't come out to see her."
"Uh." Li Pengfei pondered for a moment and said, "Could it be because of that recommendation indicator?"
Lu Yanhe said, "I don't know. It's hard to guess."
"Then go ask her." Li Pengfei said this with an open-minded attitude, as if nothing was a problem. He walked straight towards Xu Fanxing and asked, "Are you Xu Zijun's sister?"
Xu Fanxing was startled by the sudden question and subconsciously took a step back, looking at the tall boy with some wariness.
"Who are you?"
Lu Yanhe had no choice but to go over as well.
"Hello, this is Li Pengfei. We are both classmates of Xu Zijun." Lu Yanhe explained, "I talked to Xu Zijun this morning. Didn't you see her?"
After seeing Lu Yanhe appear, Xu Fanxing's vigilance subsided a little.
She gave a bitter smile and said, "Zijun might not want to see me."
"Why?" Li Pengfei asked directly, "You are her sister. Did you do something to offend her that makes her not want to see you?"
Lu Yanhe: “…”
Li Pengfei was still as reckless as ever. He asked the question without any hesitation.
But this direct attitude made Xu Fanxing laugh helplessly.
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Ten minutes later, the three of them sat down in a small restaurant opposite the school.
Li Pengfei said, "Look at what you want to eat, tell me, and I'll pay for it."
They are all single-person rice bowls.
Lu Yanhe ordered a twelve-yuan stir-fried cucumber and pork, and Xu Fanxing ordered a ten-yuan tomato and egg dish. "You're Xu Zijun's classmates, so I'll treat you," he said.
Li Pengfei pushed Xu Fanxing, who was about to stand up to order, back to his seat.
"You're kidding! Who would pay for their own meal when eating with me?" He pulled the menu over domineeringly and went to the order counter.
Xu Fanxing hesitated for a moment.
Lu Yanhe said, "Sister Fanxing, have you been waiting for her at the school gate all day today?"
"Yeah." Xu Fanxing nodded, withdrew his gaze from Li Pengfei's figure, and sighed, "I'm sorry to trouble you. I also asked you to treat me to dinner."
Lu Yanhe said, "Although I didn't pay the bill, we're both happy to treat Xu Zijun's sister to a meal. It's okay. Actually, we're a little confused as to why Xu Zijun doesn't want to see you."
"Because I don't want her to give up her recommendation." Xu Fanxing sighed, "She gave it up for me."
"Huh?" Li Pengfei had just returned from placing his order, looking bewildered and surprised. "Are you from our school too? Did Xu Zijun give up her spot so you could have it?"
"No." Xu Fanxing shook her head. "I didn't go to college. I was working outside. Zijun gave up because Chu Saiying's family gave us 200,000 yuan and asked us parents to persuade Zijun to give up the place. Zijun refused to give up. She worked very hard to get into college and never slacked off. Later, our parents said that if she refused to give up, they would let me come back and get married, and earn the betrothal money to make up for the 200,000 yuan. She was forced to agree."
Li Pengfei's face was completely at a loss, and he was shocked by these words that seemed to have nothing to do with his entire life.
"Dowry money?"
Xu Fanxing said: "I didn't know about this before. Later, I saw someone send me a message and found out that she gave up the recommendation."
Lu Yanhe didn't know how to react for a moment.
"No, your parents are really wicked!" Li Pengfei reacted and immediately became furious. "For these 200,000 yuan, they forced you to come back and get married, just to earn the bride price? Are you crazy?"
Xu Fanxing looked at the boy in front of him with regular features and a face full of innocent anger. At first glance, he was a child who grew up under the love and care of his parents.
Only this kind of person would have the right to be angry at a time like this.
She had no intention of talking too much with Xu Zijun and her two classmates.
She said, "I wanted to persuade Zijun to give up this plan. She has been working hard to go to college since she was a child. I know how rare it is for her to have such an opportunity. I didn't want her to give it up for me, so I rushed back to see her, but she refused to see me."
Lu Yanhe said, "If I were Xu Zijun, I wouldn't see you in this situation."
Li Pengfei said, "But don't worry too much about this kind of thing. With Xu Zijun's grades, even without independent enrollment, he can still get into a good university."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
Xu Fanxing shook her head. "There's only one chance to take the college entrance exam. No one knows what will happen. If there's a safer chance, I don't want her to give up. I already have no chance to go to college, and she can't be delayed any further."
She suddenly took out a stack of folded papers from her bag, which looked like they were torn from a notebook.
She handed it to Lu Yanhe and said, "Could you please give this to her for me? I have to take the train back to Guangzhou tonight. I only have one day off, so please tell her to read it carefully."
Lu Yanhe took the stack of folded papers and felt that it was about four or five sheets thick. Looking at Xu Fanxing's eyes full of pleading, he couldn't bring himself to say no.