"Thank you so much."
Out of politeness, Joseph did not mock Lu Li, even though he thought this behavior was indeed too pedantic.
"Where did you hear about me?"
"Uncle Johnny, the landlord."
Then, Lu Li added ambiguously: "In fact, in order to return the things to their original owners, I hired a carriage and drove around East London for a long time before I found the right place."
Subconsciously, Joseph wanted to express his true thoughts: In order to rent this house, I have almost exhausted all my savings, and now I have no extra money to give you. If possible, these four books will be regarded as rewards.
Thinking of this, the crappy doctor thought more and more that it was feasible, because he had already seen that Lu Li was not short of money.
And, like a pedantic old-school gentleman——
Wearing dark clothes and trousers, only wearing a bow tie, there is an air of decadence all over his body, and he does not look like a high-spirited young man at all.
Nowadays, pea green, orange and pink gloves are popular in the foggy city, paired with dark red suspenders and kaleidoscopic shirt decorative buttons. It is best to embroider dahlias, skulls, sunflowers and ballerinas on the clothes...
If not for his financial strength and his awkward age, Dr. Joseph would also like to follow the trend and buy a brightly colored hat and an exaggerated cane.
Of course, Lu Li didn't know this, let alone what the crappy doctor thought of him.
"To tell you the truth, these three medical books contain too many errors and omissions because they are too old. In addition, there are serious missing pages. Apart from being cumbersome, they have little value."
After euphemistically expressing the meaning that they were discarded garbage, Joseph added: "But this book is different, it carries too many stories."
Hearing this, Lu Li picked up the milk jug on the coffee table, poured a glass and handed it over, "I would like to hear the details."
Seeing the unexpected visitor who did not treat him as an outsider, Joseph was speechless, but he still said slowly:
"That was seven years ago."
"Because I couldn't afford the high college fees in my hometown and my father's job was transferred, I went to America on the other side of the ocean to continue my studies there."
“Out of curiosity about the medical field and the hope of a better life in the future, I applied to Harvard University.”
"Unfortunately, the interview situation was not ideal. I was unable to give clear answers to the questions raised by the examiner. At the same time, I did not have a good recommender."
Lu Li nodded silently, indicating that he was listening carefully.
Dr. Joseph was also infected by his own emotions, no longer obsessed with other things, and talked about the past in a deep voice.
“That period was extremely painful. I prayed day and night, hoping that Harvard would open its doors to me, but as time went by, the hope became increasingly slim.
However, just when my family and I were about to fall into despair, the postman knocked on the door and delivered a letter sealed with fire paint. "
Hearing this, Lu Li felt a little weird. He had had a similar experience before:
Unsatisfactory results - waiting for notification - despair - the postman comes to your door.
"At that time, under the urging of my parents, I woke up from my excitement, gently scraped the paint open with a knife, and found that there was indeed a gold-plated admission notice inside."
As he spoke, Dr. Joseph shook his head and spread his hands and said, "Unfortunately, I was too happy at that time. The school that extended an olive branch to me was not Harvard, but Miskatonic."
"In fact, I have never applied to this school, let alone what it is."
"So... did you go?"
Lu Li finally spoke. At this moment, he could almost conclude that Dr. Joseph had the same experience as him, entering an extraordinary world from the secular world.
"I went." Joseph smiled self-deprecatingly and said helplessly: "In that case, I only have two choices, either wait until next year and come back again, or go over and have a look."
"And this university gave me a very convincing reason. The University of Michigan is not a pheasant university. It is a fraternity school with Harvard, and its predecessors are almost the same. They are both seminaries. Even now, there is no difference between the two. There are extensive academic exchanges.”
"Because of this, the Harvard interviewers gave my application materials to the University of Michigan. They believed that it would be more suitable for me to grow up there."
This nonsense...
Which school would send unwanted garbage to sister colleges?
But Mr. Joseph just believed it.
[Dear student Heide Joseph, you have been admitted to the medical school of our school. Please arrive at Arkham within three weeks after receiving the letter. All the teachers and students of the school are waiting for your arrival. 】
To this day, the contents of the notice are still fresh in my mind.
The crappy doctor pointed to the book with the mysterious coat of arms printed in his hand, and sighed: "This weird five-star is the school emblem, and there is a weird eye on it. I don't know why the school founder designed it like this in the first place."
"Where did you learn your medical skills?" Lu Li said calmly.
"Yeah, lame, right?"
Joseph seemed to have read through the visitor's mind and added: "The medical field is indeed the weak point of UM, but in the fields of literature, art, philosophy, etc., it is very competitive in America and even the entire Western world, no less than at Harvard.”
"In addition, the president specifically opened the School of Medicine and Architecture in order to build the University of Michigan into a comprehensive college. I was among the first batch of students."
"Correspondingly, professors are not very reliable. They have no passion at all during class, as if teaching students is just a business."
Without Lu Li's guidance, Joseph couldn't help but start complaining: "Medicine is not witchcraft, it is a branch of science, just like Darwin's biology.
But those professors disagreed. They seemed to worship theology more and expressed to me many times whether they wanted to understand the truth of the world. "
"You agree?" Lu Li was a little excited and interrupted Joseph's memories.
"How can it be!"
Joseph's voice couldn't help but raise a few points, as if he had been stepped on, and retorted: "Only a three-year-old child would believe such a ridiculous thing..."
There are some fierce words in the speech.
However, Lu Li could hear a bit of lack of energy from it.
"Your retort is correct. What is science? Steam engines are science. What is the truth of the world? I believe astronomers and historians can answer."
Lu Li said this deliberately.
On the opposite side, Joseph regained his composure. He first apologized for his gaffe, and then continued to talk about the past: "That's what I was doing at the time. I talked about science and biological evolution with the professors, trying to correct that misconception."
"But these old stubborns say that the theories of Darwin and Haeckel cannot stand scrutiny at all. They think they have found the truth, but they don't know that it is a deliberate falsehood."
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