Chapter 587 — The Rain Family Girl
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"Heh heh, let me see what you have drawn!" The boy bounded over to her in a few quick steps and made a grab for the sketchpad on her desk.
Startled, the girl clutched the sketchpad with both hands and would not let him snatch it away. But she was no match for the boy's strength, and she grew cross in spite of herself. "Let go!"
The boy would not let go, and tugged hard at the sketchpad.
Fearing he would ruin the work she had spent nearly a month on, the girl had no choice but to let go, though her lovely eyes were full of fury as she glared at him.
"Ha! And you say you were not fantasizing — look, they are even holding hands in the drawing! Hahahaha!" The boy burst out laughing.
"None of your business!" Catching him off guard, the girl snatched the drawing back from his hands and closed the sketchpad.
It was a very lovely sketch. In the picture, a girl and a young man ran happily hand in hand across a meadow of singing birds and fragrant flowers — and the girl was unmistakably herself.
"Little sister, Dad just took a phone call and it sounded like someone's name came up..." The young man grinned at the girl.
The girl's heart tightened ever so slightly, but she said, "Whose name? What does it have to do with me?"
"You don't want to know? Fine then, forget it - pretend I never came." With that, the young man turned to leave.
"Brother, hurry up and tell me - what did Dad say?" The girl grew anxious, glaring at him. "If you don't tell me, I'll never speak to you again!"
"Dad just took a call - it seemed like Auntie was asking whether our Yu family knows anyone named Wei Zhao... That's all I heard, I don't know anything else!" The young man hastily relayed what he had overheard.
"Auntie? Calling Dad?" The girl was momentarily taken aback, unable to understand why her aunt would suddenly bring this up. "What did Dad say?"
"He said he didn't know anyone..." The young man shrugged. "Even if he did know, he'd probably pretend not to..."
The girl very much wanted to pick up the phone right then and call her aunt, but that would only make matters more complicated. In the end she set the phone back down and said softly, "Brother, help me."
"Of course I'll help." The young man grinned. "Wei Zhao is my brother - I'd be more than happy to have him as my brother-in-law! Don't worry, leave it to me! I'll keep digging for you!"
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Fat Lai kept anxious watch outside Wei Zhao's door, with no idea how Wei Zhao was faring. He didn't dare go in and ask, afraid of interrupting the healing process.
"Old Lai, who's in there? Why are you so on edge? How could you just bring a stranger into our house?" Fat Lai's wife looked at him, puzzled.
"What do you know? That's my boss! From now on I'm riding his coattails!" Fat Lai glared at his wife. "Less talk - go make me something to eat, I'm starving to death!"
Seeing how terrifying Fat Lai's manner was, his wife dared say nothing more and hurried off to cook. In truth, she was afraid that Fat Lai had dragged home some half-dead, blood-vomiting patient - if this man died in their house, there would be no explaining it away.