"Who are you?"

"Brother, you don't remember me anymore. It was a few months ago, on the bus, and you helped me..." The girl blushed halfway through her expression.

"Oh, it's you!" When the girl mentioned this, Li Rui remembered that it was the girl who happened to have come on the bus when he returned to Nanqiao for the first time. She remembered that she had bought her sanitary napkins. No wonder she looked so familiar. As long as she had not been harmed by her, she would come to find the account.

"Brother, what a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet you again. Do you live here?" The girl glanced at the black alley, remembering that the last time Li Rui took a tricycle into the Li Family Courtyard Alley here.

"Yes, you live nearby too?" Li Rui asked with a smile.

"Yes, my family lives in the next door to the county party committee family courtyard. Last time I saw you go in, I paid attention to it several times, but I didn't expect that I really met it today." The girl was shy and had a hint of excitement, and smiled purely.

"Really? You can't go to my house to sit?" Li Rui drank a little more today, and showed his nature. He heard that such a beautiful girl was very concerned about him. He was flattered and quickly invited him.

The girl was stunned for a moment, looking at the dark alley, and seemed a little scared. Seeing this, Li Rui slapped her head, and was so numb. She was so funny, and hurriedly said, "It's okay, it's okay, I just said it casually. Look, I drank some wine with my friends at night, and my reaction was a little slow. Anyway, we are neighbors now, so let's talk about it if you have the chance in the future."

As soon as Li Rui finished speaking, he heard the girl say, "If it's convenient, then I'll go and sit down."

This surprised Li Rui and hurriedly said, "It's convenient, convenient. Be careful, this section of the road is darker."

The girl nodded softly, pushed the bicycle and followed Li Rui into the depths of the alley.

Li Rui walked in front and was still thinking in his heart that girls are brave nowadays. They only helped her a little favor a few months ago and dared to follow me to the house at night. If I transform into a midnight demon, then...hehe!

"By the way, you are a student of Pengzhou Institute of Technology, are you? Why are you back after not having a holiday now?" Although it was only a few dozen meters away, the alley was too dark. Li Rui was worried that the girl would be afraid and asked without words.

"Huh, how do you know?" the girl said in surprise.

"You forgot that when we met that day, there was a school badge on your chest." Li Rui said with a smile.

"Oh!" The girl felt a little embarrassed when she remembered what happened that day and whispered: "Brother, I haven't thanked you well that day."

"What a thank you, what a big deal!" Li Rui waved his hand.

“Oh, we are social practice now.”

"Social practice? How old are you?" Li Rui also organized social practice for students when he was in the Youth League Committee of Yenching University, which was usually targeted at senior students. The little girl in front of him looked only seventeen or eighteen years old.

"I am sophomore this year. Our Pengzhou Institute of Technology has a tradition. Every grade must arrange social practice for students. Our former President Li said: 'The university is a small society. Entering a university is equivalent to entering half of the society. We are no longer a flower in the ivory tower that cannot be hit by wind and rain. Through the tempering of social practice, we deeply realize that social practice is a wealth. Society is a comprehensive university that can train people more. Only by correctly guiding us to go deep into society, understand society, serve society, and devote ourselves to social practice can we discover our own shortcomings and create good conditions for going out of the school gate and entering society in the future; we can make us learn something, become talented in practice, grow in service, and effectively serve society, reflecting the value of college students.' I participated in social practice when I was a freshman last year, but that time was arranged by the school. This time I wanted to find a difficult place to experience it myself, so I came back."

The girl followed behind and chattered, and the Dean Li she mentioned was Li Rui's grandfather. Thinking of his grandfather who had raised her since childhood, Li Rui felt a little sad.

"By the way, I heard from my dad that our President Li lived in this Li family compound before his death. Brother, you must know him, right?"

"I know each other, I have known each other since I was a child."

While talking, the two walked to the door of the old house. Li Rui opened the door and turned on the lights in the courtyard. When the decoration was being renovated, there were a lot of lights in the courtyard, which he rarely turned on. Today, when the guests came, the lights around him were lit up, the entire courtyard was exposed in front of the girl.

"Wow! So beautiful." The girl couldn't help but exclaim as she looked at all in front of her.

Li Rui was also quite proud. He joked that when he was decorating his old house in his previous life, he specially hired a Hong Kong designer to do the overall design. I dare not say that the decoration is 100% replicated now, but it is almost ten years away. The time span is more than ten years, so this decoration style is rare and surprising.

"Come in and sit down." Li Rui smiled and invited the girl to enter the living room of the main house.

The decoration of the living room is in the style of Ming and Qing dynasties, but the living room is very comfortable, which is a perfect combination of classical and modernity. The girl looked around curiously. When her eyes saw the word "Accumulating goodness and virtue" hanging in the center of the living room, she noticed that the signature below was actually the late old dean of Pengcheng Institute of Technology, and was stunned for a moment.

"So this is our Dean Li's home! So you are a descendant of Dean Li?" the girl asked in surprise.

Li Rui soaked two cups of coffee and brought it up, nodded and said, "My name is Li Rui. Your Dean Li is my grandfather. I don't know what you call me?"

"My name is Xu Xiyuan." The girl replied crisply.

"Xu Xiyuan?" Li Rui felt that the name sounded very familiar, and seemed to have heard it often.

When the girl saw Li Rui's face was confused, she quickly added: "Two people, Xi of Chenxi, and a Yuan next to the girl's character."

"It sounds nice. You must be the daughter born in the morning. It seems that your father is quite educated." Li Rui smiled.

"It's normal, Brother Li, your name is also good. Li Rui, I guess you are not Xiangrui's Rui, but wise Rui, right?"

"So smart! That's right, it's the wise Rui." Li Rui smiled. Compared to the last time he met, Xu Xiyuan was much more lively. She was so sunny, youthful, and beautiful girl who would like her whenever she met her.

Xu Xiyuan looked inside and outside the house with a coffee cup, and sincerely sighed: "Brother Li, your layout here is so beautiful, is it newly renovated?"

"Yes, the last time you met me, I came to clean up this old house. It was all designed by me." Li Rui sat comfortably on the wooden sofa, shamelessly plagiarizing the works of a designer invited from Hong Kong in his previous life.

"Really! Brother Li, you must be learning design, right?" Xu Xiyuan exclaimed.

Li Rui likes to see Xu Xiyuan's surprised expression on her face and her eyes full of admiration and her heart full of pride. This feeling was the feeling he had when he was visiting those female students on the Yanjing campus. However, at this time, he did not have the evil thoughts he had back then, but he just enjoyed the feeling of being worshipped by young girls.

He shook his head and said proudly: "I am not a design student. I am purely a self-loving person, it's just a matter of nature."

"This is pretty average. I just learned design, but I definitely can't design such a good work." Xu Xiyuan sighed and couldn't help but feel discouraged.

"Take it slowly and learn to see more. This kind of design is nothing. It just needs to pay attention to the combination of ornamentality and practicality, the combination of classicality and modernity, and try to integrate decoration and buildings." Li Rui showed off what he heard from the designer back then.

Xu Xiyuan thought for a while, then looked at Li Rui's eyes and said, "Brother Li, what you said makes sense, it's better than what our teacher said." As she said that, she shook her head and sighed, "I'm not a material to learn design."

"Then why do you choose this major? Can you choose the major you like?"

"Oh! The college entrance examination results are not good! I originally wanted to take the broadcasting and hosting major of Yanjing Radio College, but the college entrance examination score was not enough, so I chose the decoration design major of Pengcheng Institute of Technology."

"What? Do you still want to be a star?" Li Rui said with a smile.

"I don't want to be a movie star. My dad likes to watch the news. I have been watching it since I was a child. When I saw the hosts on TV broadcasting major events at home and abroad, I was very envious of being one of them. This is my ideal since childhood." Xu Xiyuan tilted her head and said with longing.

"What's there to envy this? It's just that the leaders are busy every day, the people in China are very happy, and the people abroad live in dire straits. I'm afraid they don't even believe what they say. I think the design is quite good, and opening a design studio by themselves will definitely have a future." Li Rui said.

"Puchi!" Xu Xiyuan couldn't help laughing when she heard the fallacies Li Rui said: "Brother Li, what you said is so funny! But what you said is really vivid. Think about it, this is the case in the news every day. The first ten minutes are reporting on the activities of leaders, the middle ten minutes are all achievements of all walks of life, and the next ten minutes are really riots in the local area, where are wars and so on."

"Right? There are a few sentences over and over again: there are no meetings that are not grand; there are no ones that are not victorious in the closing; there are no speeches that are not important; there are no applauses that are not enthusiastic; there are no leaders that are not paying attention to; there are no progress that is not smooth; there are no completions that are not complete; there are no achievements that are not huge; there are no work that is not solid; there are no efficiency that is not obvious; there are no resolutions that are not passed; there are no people’s hearts that are not incorrect; there are no decisions that are not wise; there are no women that are not unliberated; there are no well-offs that are not achieved; there are no sacrifices that are not tragic. In the final analysis, it is just one sentence: living in China is really happy, living abroad is too terrifying, and the whole world envys us!"
Chapter completed!