Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

Chapter 158: Don’t Start a Bad Start

Xue Rui patted the snow off his butt and stood up.

However, Gu Muxue, with a smile on her face, grabbed Xue Rui's hand, deliberately lowered her buttocks, and pulled Xue Rui's body up.

Xue Rui leaned his face closer, and Gu Muxue subconsciously took a step back. She felt that Xue Rui was going to take advantage of the situation.

However, Xue Rui put his face close to her ear and said, "I'll help you brush off the snow."

Gu Muxue was startled and quickly stretched out her little hands to slap herself. If she didn't slap herself again, Xue Rui would slap her butt.

"Bastard!" Gu Muxue cursed through gritted teeth.

"What? Can't hear clearly?" Xue Rui could tell from Gu Muxue's mouth shape that she was scolding him, but he still deliberately put his ear close to her.

Gu Muxue stood on tiptoe and put her face close to Xue Rui's ear: "I said bastard!"

Gu Muxue's voice was very loud, even more deafening than the fireworks outside. Xue Rui felt his eardrums were itchy.

Since he is being treated so harshly, it's no wonder that he takes advantage of him.

The two were very close to each other. Xue Rui stretched out his arms and hugged Gu Muxue, slightly lifting the furry earmuffs with one hand.

Gu Muxue squinted her eyes nervously, ready to face Xue Rui's revenge. After waiting for a long time, she found that Xue Rui did not scare her as much as she did.

A sly smile flashed across the girl's eyes and she bit Xue Rui's shoulder.

Xue Rui only felt a piece of flesh on his shoulder being bitten, and Gu Muxue seemed to be saying something? In short, he felt the vibration from his vocal cords.

He thought that this girl was probably saying something shameful or insulting him again.

While Gu Muxue was struggling on his shoulder, Xue Rui stuffed a red envelope into Gu Muxue's coat pocket.

After a long time, Gu Muxue finally vented her feelings. She just felt that the new year was so wonderful. She smiled and said, "Happy New Year!"

"Well, Happy New Year." Xue Rui replied.

It was already past midnight and she had to go home quickly. She had already secretly hung up on Lao Gu twice.

"My dad urged me to go back."

Gu Muxue thought about it, took off the earmuffs and put them on Xue Rui's head, because Xue Rui still had to walk a long way back, and she could walk home in just a few minutes.

After she ran a few steps, she found that Xue Rui did not follow her, but was cleaning up the fireworks that had been set off in the wheat field.

She suddenly felt a little guilty. How could she have forgotten about this matter? Xue Rui was more careful...

Gu Muxue turned back and helped Xue Rui clean up...

……

Xue Rui was riding his tricycle and humming a little tune when he leisurely returned to the village. He found that his father was still setting off firecrackers at the door.

"Dad, aren't you tired? I've been watching it all night." Xue Rui was speechless.

The previous fireworks were set off by his father, and now it’s almost one o’clock and Xue Jianfeng is still setting off fireworks.

"Come, there are still more than a dozen boxes, please put them away for me." Xue Jianfeng lit a cigarette and handed it to Xue Rui, staring at Xue Rui's fingernails.

Xue Rui took the cigarette indifferently, and Xue Jianfeng nodded with satisfaction. Although Xue Rui's gesture of taking the cigarette was very natural, there was no yellow oil stain on his fingernails, which showed that he did not smoke much.

"Why do we buy so much every year?" Xue Rui complained.

Xue Jianfeng sighed, "This is how we set off firecrackers in previous years. If I don't set off more firecrackers this year, people will think our business is failing, and the villagers will gossip about us."

Xue Rui's mouth twitched. His father was a very worldly man. He set off fireworks just to show off his wealth.

Because fireworks are always a luxury item no matter when.

"Then you shouldn't have set off so many fireworks from the beginning." Xue Rui looked haggard, as he had only set off fireworks today.

"You're right. For some things, we just can't start off on a bad note." Xue Jianfeng felt that what his son said made sense.

If he hadn't been so pretentious when he first became rich, he wouldn't be setting off firecrackers until one or two o'clock now.

He wasn't afraid of his own reputation, but he was afraid that people would gossip about his old man behind his back, saying that his business was not doing well.

Xue Jianfeng yawned and went back to sleep, leaving Xue Rui alone at the door to set off firecrackers until half past one...

"I've become the person I hate." Xue Rui muttered and put the lighter in his pocket.

He suddenly touched a red envelope and thought, had he just secretly put it into Gu Muxue's pocket?

He touched it briefly and found it was thicker than the one he had given.

There was a line of words written on the cover of the red envelope: We grew up together in the New Year. You are half a year older than me, so I’m giving you New Year’s money as a New Year’s gift.

Xue Rui was very familiar with this handwriting; it was written by Gu Muxue.

Xue Rui smiled bitterly and shook his head. This little girl actually secretly gave him a red envelope and even said it was for him to receive New Year's gifts. Was she trying to make him grow slower?
But he was so sleepy now that he just wanted to lie down on the kang and sleep.

……

Early the next morning.

After breakfast, Xue Rui felt his throat was hoarse and he drank several glasses of water before he could recover.

"Grandma, don't heat the kang so hot next time. I'm almost dry." Xue Rui frowned. He didn't know if it was because of the snow, but grandma heated the kang so hot. Last night's room was like a large dryer, and his nostrils were so dry that they hurt.

Looking back, Xue Yao saw a piece of toilet paper stuffed in her nostrils.

"Brother, you sleep against the wall tonight." Xue Yao said with a dark face.

"Nosebleed?" Xue Rui gloated.

The house in his hometown has not been rebuilt, and the old man thinks it is a waste of money, which results in not enough space during the New Year every year. He, Xue Yao and Xue Xiaying squeeze on a kang, and Xue Yao foolishly occupies a spot against the wall, which is the hottest place.

"Grandpa, let's build a new house for our family. My dad said he will pay for it." Xue Rui said.

He is already an adult and cannot always live with two women. What will happen when he starts a family in the future?
Sooner or later there won't be enough houses.

"Why spend that money? It's not like a family can't sleep together. Just make do with it for a few days during the New Year. You don't come back during normal times." The old man waved his hand and ignored Xue Rui's suggestion.

He thought that his sons and grandchildren would not be able to live, so he never thought about what might happen in the future?
In short, he saved all the money Xue Jianfeng gave him, thinking that he would give it all to his sons and grandchildren when he was no longer able to do so. This would also be a guarantee for his younger generations while he was alive.

"This won't do. Have you ever thought about what will happen when I get married in the future?" Xue Rui complained.

"Hiss~" The old man lit a cigarette, smacked the cigarette holder and fell into deep thought.

After hesitating for a while, the old man said, "Wait until you find a wife before building a house."

Xue Rui said leisurely: "It's too late to look for it now."

“Then bring one back and let me see it, and I’ll build it right away.” The old man said happily, thinking that his boys were sensible and knew how to plan their lives early on.

"Do you keep your word?" Xue Rui said with his head tilted.

"It's a promise!" The old man patted his chest.

Xue Rui turned around with a smile and called Gu Muxue: "Muxue, how about you come to our village to pick me up? I bought a lot of firecrackers, let's go and get revenge on the kid."

"Really? I'll come pick you up right away." Gu Muxue shouted happily.

She had long disliked those bastard kids, but every year they chased her, either scaring her with firecrackers or threatening her by wiping their snot on her...

As the phone call was hung up, the old man felt something was wrong. What did Xue Rui mean by that call just now?
"Dad, I won't be home for lunch." Ren Qunfang greeted Grandpa Xue Rui with a smile.

"Go ahead." The old man smiled and didn't care. It was just a meal.

Xue Rui thought that his mother was really addicted to mahjong and played from the first to the fifteenth day of the lunar month.

Ren Qunfang noticed her son's disdainful look and immediately darkened her face. She pulled Xue Rui out of the gate and said, "Why don't you go spend the New Year with Xixi this year?"

Xue Rui was speechless. How could he go there every year? Would the old man and the old lady be happy?
"I went there yesterday." Xue Rui said.

He thought that Yu Minlan would definitely be there for her during the New Year this year, so Lin Ruoxi wouldn't be so lonely.

"I'll go to Xixi's place at noon and come back in the evening. Please tell your grandma too." Ren Qunfang waved the car keys and left in a leisurely manner.

Xue Rui stood at the door and watched his mother go away. As soon as Ren Qunfang left, an Audi stopped at his door.

The driver was someone he was not familiar with, and he should be from Gu Muxue's grandfather's family.

"Xiao Rui, let's go quickly. I just saw those kids. If it's too late, we may not be able to find them." Seeing that Xue Rui was unmoved, Gu Muxue got out of the car and pulled Xue Rui's arm.

"Don't worry, my grandfather is still in the yard. I'll say hello to him before I leave." Xue Rui clamped Gu Muxue's arm with his arm.

Before Gu Muxue could react, she was already standing in Xue Rui's yard.

Her eyes were dull. Had they entered Xue Rui's hometown already?
Although she often went to Xue Rui's house, it was another matter to go back to her hometown in the countryside. It always brought a different feeling, as if she was going to introduce her to her family...

The old man was smoking a cigarette. When he saw Xue Rui coming back with a little girl, he almost choked: "Fang Fang?"

This girl looks a lot like his daughter-in-law when they were young, giving him the illusion that he was going back in time.

But when he saw the person standing next to him, he was sure that the girl just looked like him.

"Hello Grandpa, I am...Xue Rui's classmate." Gu Muxue greeted Xue Rui's grandfather openly.

However, she secretly stretched out a hand and pinched Xue Rui's waist.

Why didn't you introduce her earlier? She came out in a neat sportswear to get revenge on those little brats, and she didn't bring any gifts!

"Hello, hello. Whose child is this?" The old man spoke in broken Mandarin. The girl looked like a city girl. She had fair skin and tender flesh and spoke standard Mandarin.

"Grandpa, don't ask anymore. This is my classmate. I went out to play with her." Xue Rui endured the pain in his waist and walked out after saying this.

The old man muttered to himself. Xue Rui said they were classmates, but the two looked like they had lived together for many years. The girl pinched Xue Rui's waist and even held his arm...

"Old lady, take out the passbook at home and build a house after the New Year." The old man walked into the house and said.

"Dad, have you thought it through?" Xue Jianfeng asked in surprise.

"Well, let's not talk about this. Xia Ying, when are you planning to get married?" The old man saw his daughter and thought of his grandson, and suddenly he became very angry.

If Xue Xiaying slows down any further, the family will be in trouble!
……

"Asshole! Asshole! You did it on purpose!"

(End of this chapter)