Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

Chapter 159 Playing the Art of War with Children
"What did I do on purpose?" Xue Rui asked with a smile.

He called Gu Muxue to come just to show it to the old man, so that his grandfather could rebuild the house as soon as possible.

"Don't run." Gu Muxue bared her white teeth and chased Xue Rui in the alley.

Xue Rui was jumping around on both sides of the drainage ditch in the alley. Gu Muxue wanted to hit him but couldn't, so she angrily grabbed a handful of snow and threw it at him.

Gu Muxue pursed her lips, glanced to the side, and muttered softly: "Just classmates?"

"What?" Xue Rui tilted his ear. Gu Muxue's voice just now was too soft.

Gu Muxue tilted her head. She didn’t want Xue Rui to hear it.

When she greeted Xue Rui's grandfather just now, she hesitated for a moment and finally said that she was Xue Rui's classmate.

She was still thinking that Xue Rui would say something different, but in the end he also said that they were classmates. She couldn't tell how she felt, and she inexplicably felt a little disappointed...

"Nothing, what are you talking about firecrackers?" Gu Muxue stretched out her little hand.

She had never played with them herself, but had been scared by the children in the village. Because the children of her relatives were relatively quiet, she had no chance to play with these firecrackers. Now Xue Rui wanted to take her to play with them, and she felt a little excited just thinking about it.

"We have to go to your village to buy it." Xue Rui said.

"Why?" Gu Muxue couldn't understand. Didn't Xue Rui say that he had already bought it?

Xue Rui looked mysterious: "You will know when the time comes."

The two came to Dongguan Village, Gu Muxue's hometown. Xue Rui chatted with a few old men at the entrance of the village and, in exchange for a few cigarettes, found out how many small shops there were in the village.

At first, when Gu Muxue saw Xue Rui chatting with the villagers fluently in dialect, she thought Xue Rui was amazing.

But when he saw Xue Rui skillfully handing out cigarettes to the old men, he couldn't help but frown.

After Xue Rui said goodbye to those uncles, she walked up to Xue Rui and said, "No smoking."

Then, the girl reached out and confiscated the cigarette from Xue Rui's pocket.

"Did you see me smoking?" Xue Rui asked.

Gu Muxue was stunned. After thinking about it carefully, it was true. Xue Rui only sent it to others and did not click on it.

After thinking about it, she reluctantly returned the cigarette to Xue Rui.

The two came to a small shop at the entrance of the village.

As soon as she entered the door, Gu Muxue asked, "Boss, do you have firecrackers for sale here?"

When the boss saw the stylish girl, he smiled and said, "Yes, I want a few boxes."

Gu Muxue thought about those damn kids, no matter how many she threw at them, she would never be able to afford them all. "I want them all."

"Kid, are you kidding?" The boss was shocked. He had bought a large box, thinking he could sell it until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but he didn't expect it to be sold out on the first day of the first lunar month.

Seeing the boss bringing out a box of firecrackers, Gu Muxue was a little surprised. Are there so many?

Xue Rui interrupted and said, "Mu Xue."

"Xiao Rui, don't try to persuade me. I must buy it." Gu Muxue frowned. Those kids were so abominable. She couldn't understand their dialect and they even set off firecrackers to scare her.

But she had a hunch that the kids were saying bad things about her.

Now that she has so many "weapons" in her hands, she will definitely be able to get revenge.

"That's not what I meant." Xue Rui shook his head and said to the boss, "Boss, bring out all the firecrackers you can explode. We'll buy them all."

"Ah?" Gu Muxue was startled when she saw the rows of various kinds of firecrackers on the shelves.

She thought Xue Rui was going to advise her not to be so impulsive, but it turned out that Xue Rui's ideas were even more exaggerated than hers!
But those firecrackers seemed to have to be lit with a lighter, which she thought was very dangerous. What if they exploded in her hands?
"Ah?" The boss also questioned.

As Xue Rui slapped a few red bills on the table, the boss finally believed that Xue Rui was not joking.

Xue Rui and Gu Muxue each walked out of the store holding a large box.

"Xiao Rui, is it necessary to use so much?" Gu Muxue couldn't help but ask.

"It's not over yet. There are still two small shops left in your village. Go and clear out the stocks in those two shops." Xue Rui said with a smile.

"More buying?" Gu Muxue widened her eyes. What on earth did Xue Rui want to do?
She just wanted to scare the kids, but Xue Rui looked like he was going to blow those kids away...

Xue Rui put his hands behind his back, coughed lightly, and said in a pretentious manner: "Have you heard of Sun Tzu's Art of War?"

Gu Muxue nodded thoughtfully: "The food and fodder should be sent before the troops move? But we already have enough food and fodder, and we can't use it all."

Xue Rui shook his head: "It's like cutting off the firewood from under the cauldron. Let's buy all the firecrackers in the village and make them lose their supply."

It's not that he has never lived in the village. Few parents would buy piles of firecrackers for their children to play with. Instead, they would give their children pocket money and buy them little by little.

Even if children get lucky money on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they dare not spend it recklessly. If their parents see them buying a lot of firecrackers, they will most likely be scolded or even have to eat stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots.

Therefore, Xue Rui wanted to buy all the firecrackers in Dongguan Village.

Moreover, although there are hundreds of boxes in the pile, each box costs only fifty cents. Even if all the firecrackers played by the children in the whole village were cleared out, it would not cost much.

Not to mention that he is now worth hundreds of millions, so why would he care about a few hundred dollars?
His dad spent thousands of dollars on fireworks last night, so how could he just get that?
Gu Muxue couldn't help but laugh: "Xiao Rui, you are playing the art of war with a child."

She herself had not thought of this. She thought Xue Rui was so interesting that he could actually compete with a child in wits and courage, making it seem like a war.

Xue Rui pretended to be serious and said, "Be serious. This is a protracted war." "Okay, Commander Rui." Gu Muxue saluted cooperatively.

Gu Muxue was wearing a pink sportswear today, which made her face look even more rosy. Xue Rui subconsciously reached out to pinch Gu Muxue's face.

However, the little girl didn't pinch him, but bit him instead.

"Hiss~" Xue Rui thought that maybe he was used to pinching Lin Ruoxi and forgot that Gu Muxue was not so easy to bully.

The driver looked helpless, thinking that these two people were really interesting, but his task today was to accompany Gu Muxue, so he took the initiative to stuff two boxes of firecrackers into the trunk.

"Master, please help us clear out the firecrackers from those two stores and the store in the nearby village." Xue Rui handed over more than a thousand yuan in cash, with a pack of unopened soft Zhonghua cigarettes underneath.

The driver ignored Xue Rui and instead looked at Gu Muxue behind him.

As Gu Muxue nodded slightly, the driver took the things handed over by Xue Rui and said, "I'll go back and change a car. You guys just play in the village and don't run around."

"Don't worry, Mu Xue won't suffer a single loss." Xue Rui assured.

The driver nodded and thought that the boy was quite mature and there shouldn't be any big problem since it was only in the village anyway.

After returning to the countryside, Gu Muxue was unfamiliar with the place and had some language communication barriers, so this time she had to follow Xue Rui's arrangements.

Xue Rui opened a box of firecrackers and threw them on the ground, making crackling sounds.

Gu Muxue was shocked and thought that Xue Rui was much more cruel than those kids. Those kids just threw things one by one, but Xue Rui smashed them handful by handful.

"Hey, let's just squat at the door of the convenience store. There will definitely be children coming to buy things." Xue Rui said with a smile.

The children had just finished breakfast and their supplies would soon run out. They would come for resupply soon, and then we could go out for a sneak attack.

"Will they be hurt?" Gu Muxue asked. She knew Xue Rui would know how to handle the situation properly, but she still couldn't help but be startled when she heard the noise of firecrackers exploding.

"No, this thing just sounds loud, but it's actually not very powerful. It won't explode if it hits your clothes."

As he spoke, Xue Rui crushed a firecracker on the ground with his foot, which made a dull sound under his feet.

This thing can only be used to scare people, where does its power come from?

"I remember that idiot Qiu Mengze. When I was in elementary school, he peeled off the paper shell of firecrackers with his bare hands in the classroom. It exploded directly in his hands and nothing happened..."

Gu Muxue couldn't help laughing when she heard this, thinking, are all little boys so naughty? Xue Rui was almost the same when he was a child, and he even poked a hornet's nest.

Not long after, Gu Muxue found a familiar little boy: "He was the one who scared me with firecrackers last night, and the taller one who tried to wipe his snot on me two years ago."

"..." Xue Rui took a breath of cold air. Is this little girl so vindictive?

This group of little boys are only about ten years old, and the oldest is probably in fourth or fifth grade.

But since Gu Muxue has pointed it out to him, he must take action.

The two men looked at each other, grabbed the firecrackers and chased after him.

"Don't run. I'll let you scare me!" Gu Muxue smiled and threw a firecracker, scaring the children away.

"Don't leave if you dare. Wait for me!" the little boy shouted.

Gu Muxue frowned. She probably understood the child's dialect: "Is he threatening me?"

"Yeah, that's what I mean." Xue Rui took big strides and chased after him, throwing a handful of firecrackers at the feet of the child who made the threats.

Looking at the child running away in panic, Xue Rui smiled and asked, "Did you vent your anger?"

"Not enough, I only fell twice." Gu Muxue said with a smile. She could understand why a child would scare her.

This kind of teasing behavior is inexplicably refreshing.

She is going to get all those debts back today.

"There won't be a truce before lunch." Xue Rui knew that the kids would never give up. The kids in a village formed a small group and would definitely come in groups to seek revenge.

Especially when facing a strange face like him, these children can unite as one to "fight".

Xiguancun Brigade.

A group of little boys gathered together, and the leading little boy sat on a high place. He said, "Xiao Chao, did you buy the firecrackers?"

"Brother Ergou, all the items in the village stores are sold out, and the ones in the neighboring village are also sold out. All that's left are firecrackers." Gou Wa said as he took out a string of firecrackers.

"It can be put back even if it's taken apart." Ergou said.

"I...I don't dare." Xiao Chao took a step back.

He had seen people take apart firecrackers to play with. The fuse of the firecrackers was very short and burned very quickly. If you didn't throw it away in an instant, it would explode in your hand...

The little boy named Ergou looked proud as he took one off the firecrackers, lit it with a lighter, and threw it away.

Snapped!
The firecracker exploded in the air, only a dozen centimeters away from the little boy's fingers.

He dares to do what others dare not do, and he is the recognized king of children in the village.

Now people from other villages have come to "grab the territory", and he wants to go and calm the situation down.

(End of this chapter)