Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

Chapter 161: Don’t Be Losing
Accompanied by a slightly dull sound, Xue Rui reached out to catch the flying stone. The sound of the stone hitting his palm was drowned out by the sound of the whistle.

"Hiss~" Xue Rui grimaced. The stone made his palm hurt.

"What's wrong with you?" Gu Muxue was startled by the sudden honking of the horn. She turned around and found Xue Rui looking in pain.

Xue Rui endured the pain and said, "It's nothing, my hand is cramping."

"I seemed to see Ergou running over just now." said a little boy.

The driver just opened the car door and found that the stone was caught by Xue Rui. He suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Xue Rui with gratitude. If it weren't for Xue Rui, he would have been derelict in his duty today and had caused Gu Muxue to be injured in the village.

Xue Rui looked at the empty corner. The boy named Ergou ran away the moment he threw the stone and now disappeared without a trace.

Is human nature good or evil?
Xue Rui was too lazy to think about this problem, he only knew that the boy deserved a beating.

He had already seen that the boy was the village king. Generally, boys who could get this title in the countryside were brave and aggressive.

But he didn't expect that this child was not only cruel, but also evil to the core. He let the child scare Gu Muxue for no reason and threw stones into the crowd. No one knew who he wanted to hit.

But none of this matters anymore. The most important thing now is to beat that guy up.

Xue Rui walked to the side of the Audi, and under the driver's gaze, he pressed the stone with his palm and scraped a white mark on the hood...

The driver looked surprised. What was Xue Rui doing?
"Master, that kid scratched your car with a stone. Let's go to his house to settle the score." Xue Rui said calmly and threw the stone on the ground.

The driver reacted instantly. So this is what Xue Rui meant?
He smiled and nodded, thinking that this boy is really good.

If he just said that he was hit by a stone and came to seek justice, and there were no obvious injuries, and the other party was just a child, it would seem that he was being unreasonable. This kind of thing can't be made a big deal, it's like eating a dead fly, it may not kill you but it will make you sick.

But if the car is scratched, compensation must be paid. If interests are involved, parents will most likely teach their children a lesson.

However, Xue Rui didn't want to suffer this loss, so he went to the door to ask for an explanation with this reason.

"He scratched the car?" Gu Muxue asked in surprise. No wonder the driver suddenly honked the horn just now.

"Yes, a kid just threw a stone and scratched the car. It seems to be the kid they call Ergou." The driver glanced at Xue Rui and said cooperatively.

Gu Muxue was stunned. She had never dealt with this kind of accident before. It was usually handled by the adults in the family.

"Ergou is going to get beaten." The kid who was bullied by Ergou gloated over his misfortune, thinking that Ergou would definitely be beaten by his father if he got into trouble. He was looking forward to it...

"Hey, come on, take me to the door." Xue Rui said with a smile.

Gu Muxue was shocked. Why was she going to be beaten? Where did this come from?

"Who wants to beat Ergou?" Gu Muxue couldn't understand.

Xue Rui smiled without explaining too much. He thought that Gu Muxue lived in a loving family and of course could not understand the current situation of an ordinary poor family.

A group of children were leading the way, and Xue Rui and Gu Muxue were following behind.

In front of a bungalow, the children stood at the gate of the yard and shouted Ergou's name loudly.

"What's wrong? What do you want from me?" Ergou said, pretending to be calm.

In fact, he was very panicked inside. He threw the stone and ran away. He didn't know what the stone hit. Were these people here to settle a score?
"The stone you just threw hit the car. Call your parents out." The driver walked forward and said calmly.

When Ergou saw a man in a suit standing at his door, his heart skipped a beat.

Thinking back to what just happened, a car did honk after he threw the stone. Did he hit the car?

"I didn't!" Ergou tried to argue, his eyelids slightly contracted due to nervousness, and his expression looked very unnatural.

However, a group of children started to make a noise: "The adults saw it, I also saw Ergou wandering over, and you can see that his face was red, he must be feeling guilty."

"Who is it?" A rough man came out with a blush on his face.

Xue Rui walked forward and smelled alcohol: "Your child scratched the car at the door."

The man saw the familiar-looking driver and recognized him immediately; he was the Gu family's driver.

"Hey, let me take a look." The man nodded and bowed. When he passed by Ergou, he kicked him and said, "You're causing trouble for me again."

Gu Muxue frowned instantly. What kind of father is this? He didn't even look at the evidence and kicked the child first?
She immediately understood what these people meant by being beaten.

Xue Rui thought that Ergou was probably a lawless kid, and his father was so skilled at beating him.

The big man walked in front of the Audi and instantly noticed the white mark. He then looked at the car logo with four circles and the leopard license plate with four 9s, and immediately he lost all his drunkenness.

"Boy, I'm going to beat you to death today!" The big man picked up a stick from the roadside, walked over the crowd and hit Ergou.

Xue Rui quickly reached out to stop him: "Don't hit the child!"

Of course, he was just pretending, Ergou couldn't avoid being beaten.

"No, if I don't beat him for three days, he deserves to be punished." The big man hit him hard. The stick hit the thick clothes, making a dull sound, like thunder but little rain.

Seeing that the two men had unchanged expressions, the big man gritted his teeth and hit Ergou's legs with a stick. From the sound of the stick, it could be heard that the hit was definitely solid, but the big man didn't really use all his strength. It was a solid peach wood stick and it could really cause harm.

"Dad, I was wrong!" Ergou was beaten so hard that his tears and snot were running.

"Stop hitting!" Gu Muxue said. She was terrified. Why would someone hit a child like this?

Xue Rui thought that he was calling for outsiders to see, hoping to pay less money.

But he did not agree with Gu Muxue, instead he sighed: "Gu Muxue, he threw firecrackers at you, and you still spoke for him, you are really kind-hearted."

Gu Muxue frowned. What happened to Xue Rui? Why did he suddenly call him by his full name?

The big man's heart trembled. The girl's surname was Gu? This kid even messed with a girl from the Gu family?
He kicked and stomped his fists, venting his anger. Xue Rui felt that it was enough, and now he felt much relieved. He exchanged a glance with the driver, and went up to pull the big man away: "Alright, alright, why are you beating a child on New Year's Day?"

The big man angrily threw the stick to the ground, thinking that the process was finally completed, and the next step was to negotiate compensation.

“You see, my family didn’t make much money this year. I wonder if five hundred yuan is enough…” The big man hurriedly took out five hundred yuan from his pocket, with a few fifty-yuan bills in it.

The driver took a quick glance and waved his hand, saying, "He's just a kid, we're all from the same village, and Mr. Gu won't take him in, so forget it this time."

Gu Muxue didn't understand, but he thought the man was terrible for beating the child so cruelly. Fortunately, Xue Rui persuaded him to stop.

"Thank the old man for me." The big man put on a flattering smile.

Xue Rui looked at Ergou's unconvinced look and thought that this kid was really stubborn. He just didn't remember being beaten and had no memory at all.

"Ergou, come here, I have something to tell you." Xue Rui waved his hand.

Ergou stood there, looking at Xue Rui with vicious eyes, until he was kicked by the big man, then he walked up to him reluctantly.

Xue Rui leaned down, got close to Ergou's ear, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "What's the point of you being brave and aggressive? What's the point of bullying other kids? I don't even need to do it myself if I want to beat you up."

"Actually, you didn't hit anything. I made that mark."

Xue Rui felt that Ergou was a child who was often beaten and had never learned his lesson, so he prepared to give Ergou a mental blow.

Ergou's pupils trembled violently. He had never thought that the truth was like this. When he saw the mark, he kept thinking, shouldn't a stone hitting the car leave a white spot? Why is there such a long mark?
Now he knew clearly that he was framed by Xue Rui, but no one would believe him if he told them, and he would probably be beaten by his father...

At this moment, Ergou felt mixed emotions: grievance, shock, fear...

Ergou's young heart was struck by the darkness of adults. He was swallowed by a feeling of powerlessness. He wanted to reach out and hit Xue Rui, but he found that his hands and feet were almost powerless.

Xue Rui is too scary. When his father beat him just now, the first person to stop him was Xue Rui. He acted so well...

Ergou didn’t know what was wrong with him. He didn’t dare to look at Xue Rui and subconsciously took a step back.

"Everyone else has apologized, what about you?" Xue Rui said with a smile.

Ergou glanced at Xue Rui and felt that his smile was like a huge mouth in the abyss that would eat people without leaving any bones.

His throat tightened, and he turned to Gu Muxue with a trembling face, lowering his head and saying, "Sister, I'm sorry."

Seeing that Ergou had a good attitude, Xue Rui patted his shoulder with satisfaction.

However, the moment he touched Ergou's shoulder, Ergou shuddered violently.

"Mu Xue, look, he knows he was wrong." Xue Rui said in a low voice.

"I feel like something is not right..." Gu Muxue couldn't tell what was wrong. Ergou's transformation was not because he was beaten, but it seemed like it was because Xue Rui whispered something in his ear.

But she thinks that a good child is one who admits his mistakes and corrects them.

"It's okay, sister doesn't hold grudges."

……

While Gu Muxue was chatting with the kids, Xue Rui walked over to the driver and handed him a roll of cash: "Master, this is the repair fee."

"No need." The driver hurriedly refused. Xue Rui had helped a lot today. The best result was that Gu Muxue was not injured. There was just a scratch on the hood.

Xue Rui did not force it. When he arrived at the door of Gu Muxue's house, it was almost time for dinner. Xue Jianfeng was about to drive back to the village, so Xue Rui got in.

Gu Qingshan stood at the door to see them off. After they walked away, he wiped Gu Muxue’s face and said, “You’re as dirty as a kitten. Go wash up and have dinner.”

“Old Gu, throwing firecrackers is really fun!” Gu Muxue said as she took out a handful of firecrackers from her pocket and threw them next to Gu Qingshan’s feet, then hurried into the house.

She felt that today was so much fun. Xue Rui came and made all the children in the village behave themselves.

Gu Qingshan was startled by the falling firecrackers and gnashed his teeth and said, “Xue’er has been led astray!”

After saying that, he followed Gu Muxue in.

"How did Xue'er get so dirty?" Old Man Gu in the yard said with a smile.

"Grandpa, today all the kids in the village call me Sister Muxue." Gu Muxue said with a smile and skipped back to the house.

The old man was a little surprised. His granddaughter was always unhappy when she came home in previous years, but she was so happy this year? He decided to go out and ask the driver what was going on.

When he walked to the door, he found a scratch on the hood of the car. The old man joked, "Xiao Li, don't you always brag about your driving skills? You said you couldn't crush a single stone, and now I've caught you."

"Everyone makes mistakes." The driver smiled awkwardly and decided to keep the secret for Xue Rui.

"It wasn't you who did it?" The old man saw that something was wrong at a glance.

The driver and the old man looked at each other sharply, as if both of their hearts were seen through. He sighed and thought to himself that he knew he couldn't hide it.

He thought about it and felt that the relationship between the Gu family and the Xue family was very special. It didn't matter if he told them, and Mr. Gu hated it most when someone hid things from him.

"This morning, Miss Mu Xue was playing with Boss Xue's son. They..."

After hearing the whole story, the old man waved his hand and said, "Okay, come in and have dinner too."

"Don't worry, leader. This won't happen a second time." The driver said respectfully.

The old man put his hands behind his back, looked into the distance, and muttered with a smile: "Neither the father nor the son can afford to suffer a loss..."

(End of this chapter)