Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

The old lady slammed her chopsticks on the table with a "pop" sound.

"Did I ask you this?" The old lady had a gloomy expression, her dry eyelids drooping, and her eyes were fixed on her granddaughter's reaction.

It was only after she saw Gu Muxue that she thought of Xue Rui, who often had red marks on his arms when he was in high school.

Although she is old, she is not ignorant of the thoughts of young people. A girl who can leave red marks on Xue Rui's arm is naturally not a simple friend.

Lin Ruoxi didn't know how to face it at this moment. She buried her face in the bowl and kept stuffing rice into her mouth until her cheeks were as big as a hamster, thinking that this way she wouldn't have to speak.

Thinking back to my panicked and deliberate answer just now, it was simply "there is something fishy here to cover up one's mistake".

From a psychological perspective, this is an avoidance response to trauma.

In fact, even if grandma knew, it wouldn't matter...

Haven't you accepted it yet?
Yes, she always cared about it.

But Xue Rui will be unhappy.

As Lin Ruoxi thought about this, her nose felt sore. She quickly raised her head and blinked her eyes...

When she lowered her head again to eat, some water droplets fell into the rice, which she stuffed into her mouth and ate.

Seeing this, the old lady sighed, picked up the soup and brought it to Lin Ruoxi, reached out and pulled out a few strands of hair from the corner of Lin Ruoxi's mouth, smiled and touched Lin Ruoxi's face. This girl is getting more and more beautiful, but she looks like she will never grow up, and she even eats hair in her mouth.

She knew very well that her granddaughter was being bullied, but she had no way to do anything. She even had to get Xue Rui's permission to leave the nursing home.

What this girl is eating now is not food, but a belly full of grievances.

Thinking of this, the old lady swallowed her words of reproach, and couldn't help wiping away her tears, her voice trembling a little:
"Eat slowly, silly girl. Don't choke."

"Ah."

Lin Ruoxi choked up and nodded hard.

This was not the first time she had told others about herself and Xue Rui, and Yu Minlan also knew about it.

But it felt so strange when I told my loved ones about it. The grievances that I had never noticed, and the worries about the future, at this moment, turned into crystal clear pearls pouring out...

The old lady felt more and more distressed as she watched, and couldn't help but pull Lin Ruoxi's hand and sob.

The old man not far away kept pointing with his chopsticks:

"Look how good this child is. He hasn't seen Old Lady Wang for two months and he's already crying." An old man said with emotion.

"I don't know how they taught me that. I'll have to ask later..."

Some people regard Lin Ruoxi as a "parenting model".

"dong dong dong"

Old man Li tapped the table lightly, waved his hand to signal everyone to listen closer to him, and said in a hoarse voice:
"That child has a very hard life. He lost his mother when he was young, and his father is a bastard. He has to study and work at the same time..."

"So don't ask nonsense questions, lest you poke at other people's sad memories."

"I'm old, and my eyes don't work anymore."

"Cuihua, don't cry. If you cry, I will want to cry too."

The two old ladies who were bickering just now were wiping their eyes with the same pack of tissues in their hands.

Lin Ruoxi quickly swallowed what was in her mouth. She nodded to thank Old Man Li from a distance, and then whispered to her grandmother:

"Grandma... am I really heartless?"

“They’re praising you.”

The old lady had a complicated expression on her face, thinking that this silly child couldn't understand what was being said, good or bad.

"Well... that's it..."

Lin Ruoxi glanced at her grandmother and said softly:
"They feel sorry for me, but I don't feel sorry for myself at all. Besides, I don't miss you, Mom and Dad. You always scold me for being so heartless and trying to please Xue Rui..."

Lin Ruoxi felt that the way she saw herself was very different from how the world saw her.

"Is... is it my problem?"

Lin Ruoxi asked uncertainly, and then she remembered Xue Rui's doting eyes, and immediately dispelled the idea in her mind.

She only cares about how Xue Rui sees her, and it doesn't matter what others think of her.

The old lady raised her eyes and looked at Lin Ruoxi. In her beautiful and clear almond-shaped eyes, she could only see her own old face.

The old lady subconsciously turned her head away, not daring to look her granddaughter in the eye.

She had lived with her granddaughter for more than ten years, but her granddaughter only smiled after she met Xue Rui...

As for Lin Ruoxi's parents?

One is a mother whom I have never met, and the other is a father who drinks and beats his children all day long. No one would miss her.

And she, as a grandmother, is actually not competent.

Although Xue Rui's boyfriend is not competent, he seems "extremely competent" when compared with her family.

At least Xue Rui cares about Lin Ruoxi more than anyone else.

The old lady listened to the people around her praising Lin Ruoxi. Somehow, Xue Rui's voice rang in her ears:
"What Xixi lacks is the affirmation and praise from her family. This is the source of her inferiority complex..."

What Xue Rui said two years ago kept echoing in the old lady's ears.

At this moment, the words of praise for Lin Ruoxi fell into the old lady's ears, making her feel full of guilt.

She enjoyed everything her granddaughter brought her, but she never said a word of praise.

She never said it in the past ten years, but now she is no longer worthy of it.

"Xixi, this is not your problem. Those words were just made up by grandma. No one is better than you."

The old lady was groping for her cane as she spoke. The moment before, she was still enjoying everyone's envious gazes, but now she really wanted to escape.

"Well, that's fine."

Lin Ruoxi's eyes curved, and Xue Rui also said that there was nothing wrong with her.

The relatives around her understand her, and that's enough.

"You..." The old lady's words came to her lips, but she quickly swallowed them back.

This girl is so carefree, she's laughing again now?

"Well, what's wrong with me?" Lin Ruoxi asked with her head tilted.

"It's nothing, go back."

The old lady walked back with a hunched back and a staggering gait.

Before Lin Ruoxi could figure it out, she heard old man Li muttering to himself behind her:

"Why does Old Lady Wang seem a little worried?"

Lin Ruoxi looked back, and the old lady paused.

After leaving the cafeteria, Lin Ruoxi asked without hesitation: "Grandma, Grandpa Li said that you are worried."

The old lady's face twitched and she blurted out, "Silly."

"I... I'm very smart, not stupid at all." Lin Ruoxi pouted and retorted.

In the Hedong dialect, when "Hanhan" is used as a noun, it generally refers specifically to a group of people with intellectual disability certificates.

Used as an adjective, it means a person who has a poor brain.

Lin Ruoxi felt that, at least this word was not suitable for her.

"Xixi, you look even more stupid when you speak."

The old lady laughed, and when she reached out to touch Lin Ruoxi's head, she found that she couldn't reach it at all. Her granddaughter only grew in height but not in mind...

Lin Ruoxi said nothing and squatted down silently to let her grandmother touch her head.

Xue Rui also often touched her head, but today Xue Rui was not around, and she missed him very much.

The old lady's eyes were full of doting: "Let's go, stay with grandma today."

"Well, I've been living in a nursing home these days."

After returning to the room, Lin Ruoxi sat quietly on the chair, playing with her mobile phone, chatting secretly with Xue Rui, and looking up at her grandmother from time to time.

Lin Ruoxi was very conflicted.

Grandma was worried today, and Lin Ruoxi guessed that it was related to her feelings, so she couldn't mention Xue Rui.

But if she didn't mention Xue Rui, she found that she couldn't speak anymore...

The only sounds in the room were the ticking of the second hand and the old lady's occasional sighs, which made Lin Ruoxi feel very uncomfortable.

Lin Ruoxi bit her lip and sent a message to Xue Rui: [Rui, grandma knows about Mu Xue. ]

Xue Rui was stunned for a while after receiving the message. Why didn’t he receive a call from the old lady?

Given the old lady's personality, she would definitely call him and scold him.

Why do I feel a little nervous?
Xue Rui: [She didn’t scold me? ]

Lin Ruoxi: [No.]

Xue Rui: [Something is wrong. Please take good care of the old lady. Please don’t go to work for the time being.]

In fact, what Xue Rui was thinking was: either explode in silence or perish in silence.

The old lady was a radical, and he always felt that she was planning something big.

Let him cry, make a fuss and even threaten to hang himself?

Who can stand this!

Lin Ruoxi's heart tightened when she saw Xue Rui's message. She put down her phone and asked tentatively:

"Grandma? Why...why don't you scold Xue Rui?"

The old lady's eyes widened slightly, and she asked back, "Do you want to hear me scold him?"

"I don't want to." Lin Ruoxi shook her head quickly.

"Then what are you asking?" the old lady asked unhappily.

She thought her granddaughter had become smart, but it turns out she was just looking for trouble.

It’s not that the old lady didn’t want to scold Xue Rui, but she was reviewing what happened today in her mind.

Xue Rui first told her that a leader was visiting her and told her not to talk nonsense. Xue Rui really didn't lie to her. She had never seen Dean Qin be so humble, like a pug.

Gu Qingshan’s arrival could have been avoided, but she couldn’t figure out why Xue Rui wanted Gu Qingshan to come?

Use the title of "big leader" to pressure her?

Knock her?
No, no.

Where does she, an old lady from the village, get support?
Xue Rui had never been afraid of her from the bottom of his heart, and even often "educated" her because of Lin Ruoxi's growing environment.

Perhaps, it was really to find a "backer" for her?
Because ever since that leader came, the staff's attitude towards her could be described as flattering.

In fact, it was all thanks to Xue Rui that she could now enjoy her old age.

But the little girl named Gu Muxue was also very confused. Why would she let her father visit the family of her "rival in love"?

Condescending pity?

The old lady kept shaking her head. It could be seen from Gu Muxue's temperament that she had the confidence of a lady from a wealthy family. Village girls didn't have that kind of style.

From the perspective of marrying someone of equal social status, Xue Rui and Gu Muxue are the right match.

Maybe Gu Muxue never regarded her granddaughter as a rival, because when it comes to marriage, the world is like a scale, and Xue Rui's family background is like the weight on the scale. Her granddaughter is alone, and she feels so light on the scale that the weight doesn't move at all. Only a family like Gu Muxue's can stabilize the scale.

"Why did our family offend him..."

The old lady let out a sigh of relief, as if she had aged several years in an instant.

"Grandma?" Lin Ruoxi squatted in front of her grandmother, looking concerned.

She knew her grandmother, and even though she often bickered with Xue Rui, she was actually very satisfied in her heart.

But what she just said sounded like regret from the bottom of her heart.

So Lin Ruoxi said softly: "Grandma, meeting him is my greatest luck, I don't regret it."

"You are still young and don't understand the adult world." The old lady shook her head slowly. Her granddaughter was very bad except for her intelligence when studying. She was even worse than her who could not read.

She said earnestly: "Xixi, there is a woman named Wenwen in the nursing home. You can ask her tomorrow. She has become a shrew since she met a boss in the nursing home. She has been complaining all day long that people look down on her.

You say that for a couple, the husband earns millions a year, and the wife earns a few thousand a month, does the wife's words still count at home? "

Lin Ruoxi nodded: "Well, it's in the book, productivity determines production relations..."

The old lady narrowed her eyes, thinking that her granddaughter must have become stupid from reading too much.

"What I mean is that his family is rich and powerful, and his mother is kind and doesn't look down on our family. But his father, although he doesn't say it, his eyes won't lie..." The old lady hesitated for a long time and said in frustration:
"Why don't we find someone from an ordinary family? You'd be a treasure in that family if you look like you. People with less money have their own way of living. You live your life for yourself, not for others to see. There's no point in having so much money."

"Give him the money back and I'll move back to the village."

The older woman's tone grew calmer as she spoke.

"Grandma, he's the only one I recognize."

Lin Ruoxi knelt beside the bed, grabbing the corner of the old lady's clothes with both hands, and tears suddenly burst out of her eyes.

She didn't care about Xue Rui's family conditions, but Xue Rui's family was just that good...

"It's grandma's fault that she's incompetent." The old lady covered her chest with her hands, feeling unhappy.

If she wants to break up, she should do it sooner rather than later, as she is afraid that her granddaughter will not be able to bear the blow.

Lin Ruoxi wiped her tears, choked up and shook her head, saying: "I...I am working hard to make money so that I can be worthy of Rui."

"It's difficult..."

The old lady's eyes were filled with heartache. How could her granddaughter, relying on her granddaughter's efforts alone, be able to match the family status that had been built up by several generations of the whole family?

Just because of such a simple girl?
Even if it succeeds, how much suffering will it take...

"No matter how difficult it is, I will not give up." Lin Ruoxi said firmly.

"Ah!" The old lady sighed inwardly. She knew she couldn't persuade Lin Ruoxi, so she changed her words and cursed:

"It's not that grandma doesn't support you, he's just a playboy, a shameless bastard..."

"Well, if you don't support me, I won't either..." Lin Ruoxi quickly covered her mouth and didn't continue talking. She was afraid of angering her grandmother.

"What did you say?" The old lady was full of surprise. Her always obedient granddaughter actually refuted her?
"Nothing... nothing." Lin Ruoxi crossed her hands and kept rubbing her fingers.

Just now, when her grandmother told her to find "someone else's home", she felt scared and inexplicably angry at the same time.

I'm just very angry.

But there was nothing she could do, so she thought she would be fine after a good night's sleep.

"No, I have to give him a call."

The old lady was holding back her anger. It was useless for her to interfere in this matter, because in the end, all the grievances would still be piled on her granddaughter, and Xue Rui would not be unlucky at all.

So she took out a bunch of plastic bags from her thick cotton jacket, peeled them off layer by layer, took out a mobile phone and called Xue Rui.

After the call was connected, the old lady cursed: "You bastard! You son of a bitch..."

All she could do now was to curse a few more times.

"Whose daughter is Gu Muxue?"

Lin Ruoxi's eyes widened. Her grandmother's attitude changed so quickly. She looked listless just now, but now she was so energetic when scolding people.

"They say that beauty is hard to find in life. One is enough, but when you get two..."

"What the hell is this about red beauties and green beauties? Are you bullying the old ladies in the village because they are not well educated?"

"Old lady, please scold slowly and don't get yourself angry because of me." Xue Rui said softly.

Why did he feel so at ease when he heard the old lady scolding him?

Xue Rui came to a conclusion - people are just mean.

"I'm angry because you paid for my medical treatment."

"Of course, you are Xixi's grandmother. I will be responsible for the rest of your life." Xue Rui was very humble.

You always have to put yourself in the right position in front of others. Even if the old lady is not important, she is still the only relative to Lin Ruoxi and must not be looked down upon.

"Does your mother know about this?"

The old lady felt a little better, at least Xue Rui still took her seriously.

"She knows that I was beaten a lot. Do you feel more balanced now?"

"It's unbalanced. I plan to find a good family for Xixi. There are a lot of people in the nursing home who want to introduce me to a good family."

The old lady spoke in a hoarse voice, and then winked at Lin Ruoxi, indicating that Lin Ruoxi should cooperate.

However, Lin Ruoxi was so anxious that she rushed to the side and said in a panic:

"Rui, grandma is talking nonsense. I'm not going to anyone else's house. I'm going to ours."

"Hey~ Xixi is so good."

"Yeah! I'm very good."

"No more talking. It's a waste of phone money." The old lady decisively pressed the hang-up button.

She thought the child was hopeless, and if she continued talking to him for a few more words, she would get angry again.

"There are skills to getting along with men. You can't be so humble. Now he is begging you." The old lady taught.

"but I……"

Lin Ruoxi was just about to argue when her cell phone rang. It was a message from Xue Rui.

【Just follow whatever grandma says and don't argue with her.】

Lin Ruoxi changed her words and said, "Well, I'll listen to grandma."

"Let me think... If there is any misunderstanding between you, you should clear it up immediately if it is not in your favor. Don't be a dumb person and suffer the injustice."

Lin Ruoxi followed up the conversation and asked, "Well, what about the benefits?"

The old lady smiled slightly: "If it is beneficial to you, you can pretend not to know. It will put a stone in his heart. He will feel guilty and will naturally be good to you..."

The old lady told Lin Ruoxi about her experiences for most of her life.

"Yeah! Okay."

"Also, Gu Muxue is a girl who thinks highly of herself. Self-confidence is her weakness..."

"Yeah! I remember."

Lin Ruoxi agreed readily and thought her grandmother was very smart.

Lin Ruoxi tilted her head and thought about it, and to use Yu Minlan's words: the boss who can survive to the end of the palace fighting drama.

"besides……"

……

"Yeah, remember!"

Lin Ruoxi kept repeating the same few words over and over again until the old lady was so thirsty.

Lin Ruoxi hurriedly got a cup of hot water for the old lady: “Well, grandma, drink some water.”

"Xixi, if you really make that much money, what are you going to do?" the old lady asked with a smile.

Who doesn’t want to hear nice words about their children being filial?

Given Lin Ruoxi's personality, she would most likely say: Buy good food and drinks for grandma, and take her to live in a big house.

Her beloved son had said similar things before, but unfortunately he became a different person after growing up.

But she still knew what her granddaughter looked like.

He can't say nice words, but he will quietly keep his head down and do his work.

Just like a cup of hot water in winter, it may look insignificant, but it warms your palms when you hold it, moistens your nose when you smell it, and warms your stomach when you drink it.

The old lady took a deep breath of hot air and took a sip slowly. Before she swallowed it, she heard the voice she had been expecting, a soft and pleasant voice.

"Well, I made some money... um..."

"I want to support Xue Rui and build him a big house. If he likes to play games, I will make an e-sports room. If he likes to swing, I will..."

"puff!"

The old lady couldn't hold back and sprayed the hot water all over Lin Ruoxi's face. (End of this chapter)