Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

"Cough cough!"

The old lady lowered her head and coughed. Lin Ruoxi hurriedly wiped her face and patted her grandmother on the back.

After the old lady paused for a moment, she glared at him with a resentful look in her eyes, "What about me?"

It is said that a man forgets his mother when he marries a wife, but she is a girl in her family, how could she encounter such a thing?
"Grandma, you live with us." Lin Ruoxi smiled sweetly.

"Okay, okay." The old lady showed a relieved smile. Lin Ruoxi always kept her in her heart.

"Let's watch some TV."

"Well, I'm talking to Rui on the phone." Lin Ruoxi said as she put on the headphones.

……

At the same time, Gu Muxue had just returned home from the suburbs.

Along the way, Gu Muxue had her arms clasped across her chest, her head turned to the side to look at the scenery outside the window, looking angry.

Firstly, it can avoid the problems of old consultant Lin Ruoxi.

Secondly, she was really a little angry.

In Gu Muxue's opinion, Old Gu was too nosy. She had taken Old Gu's phone calls from Xue Rui more than once, and his frequency was higher than that of his calls to her.

After getting off the car, Gu Qingshan took a few steps and whispered: "Daughter, don't be angry, it's Dad's fault..."

The driver stood there in a daze holding the suitcase. How could Gu Qingshan act like a director at this moment?

Would it be awkward in the past?

It's not right for him to give it now, and it's not right for him not to give it...

“You are my only daughter. If you are not the best, who is the best?” Gu Qingshan suddenly felt very tired.

He had no experience in coaxing girls because his daughter had always been very well behaved and rarely acted rebellious like this.

You've only been away from home for a few months, and you've become so capricious?

It must be Xue Rui's fault.

As she walked, Gu Muxue stopped, as she remembered that she hadn't taken something.

Looking back, the driver gave her an awkward smile but showed no intention of taking the car over.

Gu Muxue glanced again at her father who was coaxing her, and suddenly understood something.

Gu Qingshan's unusual behavior made the driver confused, not knowing whether he should come over or not.

Gu Qingshan turned around and realized what Gu Muxue was looking for.

He immediately adjusted his expression and waved to the driver: "Take it in."

"Thank you, Master Li. Give it to me." Gu Muxue smiled politely at the driver and took the suitcase.

After entering the reception room, Gu Muxue greeted her mother and went straight upstairs.

“I’ll do it.” Gu Qingshan stretched out his hand to take it. She thought it was unsafe to carry the box up the stairs.

"It's not heavy. I can carry it by myself." Gu Muxue quickened her pace. She took the suitcase home to pack the teddy bear. There was nothing inside.

Gu Qingshan sighed secretly as he looked at Gu Muxue's back. He found that his daughter had changed and became much more independent.

Gu Muxue was raised by her wife to have the temperament of a young lady. It cannot be said that she needs others to serve her in everything, but she only does work in front of others.

This was also something he criticized from time to time, but now that he really had no choice, he suddenly felt uncomfortable.

Does this mean that Gu Muxue is short of people around her recently?

Even though other girls can carry their own luggage, it is not considered a hardship, but that is just because they don’t have the conditions. He feels that he was too narrow-minded before.

During the moment when Gu Qingshan was stunned, Gu Muxue skipped downstairs, in a very good mood.

I helped Lin Ruoxi's grandmother today, and was able to reunite with my parents after a long absence.

"Let's eat." Gu Qingshan said with a smile.

At the dinner table, the three of them ate quietly. Gu Muxue wanted to talk about something many times, but she held it back.

It's like this in her family, they rarely chat while eating.

But there are exceptions.

When Xue Rui comes, this rule will be broken.

Gu Muxue's eyes were dazed. No wonder she always felt like something was missing.

I've gotten used to having him in my life.

It's not a habit, it's more of a liking.

After dinner, Gu Muxue subconsciously cleaned up the dishes.

"Ms. Gu, why are you taking my job?" The aunt next to her smiled and was about to take it.

Gu Muxue smiled and said, "Your hands are dirty. I'll take them over and wash them at the same time."

Gu Qingshan finally couldn't help it anymore, he said to Zhao Lizhen in front of him: "Her mother, I'll listen to you and send the previous aunt over again."

Zhao Lizhen smiled and said, "Didn't you say I spoiled you before? Why do you feel sorry for me now?"

“I do feel bad.” Gu Qingshan did not refute.

When Gu Muxue came back after washing her hands, she saw her parents sitting on the sofa watching TV. She took off her shoes, squeezed in between her parents, and received two hugs.

“Mu Xue, let Auntie come over to cook in a few days.” Gu Qingshan said.

Gu Muxue was stunned for a moment and shook her head repeatedly: "No, I can cook by myself."

The current situation is too complicated and she doesn't want outsiders to interfere in her life, especially people her parents know.

"Your father is feeling unbalanced. He has only eaten a few dishes you cooked." Zhao Lizhen said in a low voice.

Gu Qingshan looked unhappy. It would have been better if Zhao Lizhen hadn’t said anything. He was really a little jealous now.

“No parent wants their child to suffer, so don’t do those chores if you can avoid it.” Gu Qingshan said in an uncharacteristic way.

"It's not like Xiao Rui won't do it." Gu Muxue felt that Old Gu was not romantic at all.

Doing housework with Xue Rui was not a torture. On the contrary, she liked the warm atmosphere.

“Xiao Rui is a boy, how can it be the same?” Gu Qingshan denied it outright.

"What's wrong with the boy? Xiao Rui is also Uncle Xue's child, why is he different?" Gu Muxue asked back.

Gu Qingshan didn’t say anything. Although what Gu Muxue said made sense, he didn’t agree with it.

He held Gu Muxue's hand and looked at it carefully, wanting to see how much his daughter suffered living with Xue Rui and compare it to how much she suffered at home.

Gu Muxue looked curious, wondering what Old Gu wanted to get from her?
Gu Qingshan kept rubbing her hands. Her daughter’s hands were as white and tender as ever, and there were no calluses on her palms and fingertips from long-term labor.

In fact, because of Gu Muxue's clear division of labor, one-third of the housework will not cause calluses.

“Why is there a small cocoon here?” Gu Qingshan asked in surprise.

Gu Muxue lowered her head and saw that it was the inside of the middle finger of her right hand. She explained, "I wrote too much in high school and the pen was worn out."

“Look at these fingertips, they’re harder than mine.” Gu Qingshan’s eyes were filled with heartache.

"Dad, all the hands are like this when practicing piano." Gu Muxue felt helpless. She analyzed it and felt that Old Gu seemed to be finding fault with Xue Rui.

So she frowned and said, "Dad, my hands have always been like this, didn't you know before?"

"is it?"

Gu Qingshan was getting nervous. He was trying to pick on Xue Rui, but why did he end up picking on himself?
As if he never cared before...

"Okay, okay, stop worrying about it. If Mu Xue doesn't want to, then forget it." Zhao Lizhen was laughing so hard that she was shaking with laughter.

Gu Qingshan touched his nose. The two women in his family were so smart that they seemed to see through his thoughts.

And it seems that these two people are on Xue Rui's side?

Although he was in his own home, he could sense a vague sense of exclusion...

"Girls are no longer in control of others when they grow up."

Gu Qingshan sighed in his heart. He looked at Gu Muxue's profile and felt that time passed too fast. In the blink of an eye, his daughter had grown up so big.

Maybe he was too harsh in the past, but if he doesn’t pamper her now, Gu Qingshan is afraid that he won’t have another chance in the future.

Gu Qingshan handed the remote control to Gu Muxue: "Here, watch whatever you want."

In the past, when she was having dinner, there was always a little girl who would gather around her to grab the remote control to watch cartoons, interrupting her from watching the "News Broadcast".

He thought that at his age, his daughter should prefer watching some romantic TV dramas, right?
"Just watch the news." Gu Muxue put the remote control back on the coffee table.

“Don’t worry about me, just watch whatever you want.” Gu Qingshan waved his hand.

Now that we have entered the Internet age, fewer and fewer people watch TV, and young people basically don't watch TV at all. If the power to decide which TV station to watch is not given to Gu Muxue, they will be like other children and immerse themselves in their mobile phones.

Even if we sit on the same sofa, there is still a gap between our hearts.

"Xiao Rui and I usually watch this." Gu Muxue said calmly.

“He also reads this?” Gu Qingshan was a little surprised, then he said: “He looks old-fashioned at such a young age.”

"I like watching it too." Gu Muxue said with a pout.

"My daughter has good taste. The news broadcast is very valuable. No matter what industry you are in, you should watch it more..." Gu Qingshan immediately changed his words. Speaking of the news broadcast, it was easy for people like him who were in the system to pick it up. Gu Muxue followed up and said, "Xiao Rui told me that the news broadcast is an official policy releaser. There are many potential information gaps. Behind a sentence, there may be a trillion-level market."

“Businessmen’s vision is inevitably narrow. Mu Xue, what are you focusing on?” Gu Qingshan asked with a smile.

Gu Muxue felt unhappy. They were obviously talking about the same thing, but when it came to Xue Rui, Gu Qingshan always found fault with it.

She felt that Xue Rui was a very nice person. Apart from the fact that he had lied to her once, he was always very caring and considerate towards her. He could interpret her mood at every moment.

He is also very gentle and cares about the left-behind children in the neighborhood.

But these old customers won't listen and will only care about her.

Thinking of this, Gu Muxue smiled slightly: "I actually don't like the news broadcast, I just like to watch it with Xiaorui."

Gu Qingshan's smile gradually froze, what happened?

Today, Gu Muxue always stabbed him in the heart...

But he had no way out.

"I'm going to the bathroom." Gu Muxue put on her slippers, turned on her phone and walked to the bathroom.

Zhao Lizhen had been listening quietly and couldn't help but find it funny.

Her husband obviously cares about her daughter very much, but he is secretly competing with her because she has a boyfriend. He is as childish as a child.

Man, that's it.

“Why would I take my phone to the toilet?” Gu Qingshan muttered to himself.

Zhao Lizhen glared at Gu Qingshan: “You’re asking even though you already know the answer.”

What else could it be? I called Xue Rui.

She pushed Gu Qingshan: "Hubby, don't mention Xiao Rui all the time. Wait for her to come back and ask her if there is anything happy at school recently and what she wants to eat tomorrow."

“I forgot.” Gu Qingshan slapped his forehead. In fact, he knew everything, but when they started talking, the topic would go off track unconsciously and he needed his wife to remind him.

In the restroom.

Gu Muxue made a voice call to Xue Rui. She wanted to ask Xue Rui what he had talked about with Old Gu recently, whether there were any conflicts, and why he was always concerned about Xue Rui's problems as soon as he came back. Didn't he call him usually?

However, Xue Rui's WeChat voice call was busy.

Gu Muxue's mouth drooped slightly, she knew why.

Lin Ruoxi sticks to Xue Rui every day and even has to sleep with the phone on, otherwise she will feel like she has lost her soul.

Just as Gu Muxue grabbed the door handle and was about to leave, the phone suddenly rang.

"Mu Xue, why don't you just call me? WeChat voice chat is just for fun." Xue Rui said with a smile.

He saw the notification that Gu Muxue's call failed and chose to call Gu Muxue back immediately.

In fact, Gu Muxue has the ability to interrupt WeChat voice calls. These days, telephone permissions are very high. When a call comes in, WeChat voice calls will automatically hang up.

But Gu Muxue didn't do that. This is the gentleness of a little girl.

Gu Muxue smiled, indicating that Xue Rui had been paying attention to her news, but she still didn't let Xue Rui off: "I don't want to interrupt you and your girlfriend talking on the phone."

"That's wrong. Xixi and I are just boiling water, but you and I are just making porridge." Xue Rui explained.

He and Lin Ruoxi had nothing to talk about on the phone. Most of the time, they just waited for time to pass quietly. He was the type of person who was just boiling water when there was no rice in the pot.

As for the little girl, there is no need to explain. Just hang up and come back to explain that there is a call coming in.

But the little girl had too many thoughts, so when he was talking to the little girl on the phone, he would turn on the always-on mode of his phone screen and put it aside to display Gu Muxue's chat interface.

"You are so funny. Let me ask you something. Have you and my dad had any conflicts recently?" Gu Muxue's tone became serious.

"Contradiction? Why does Lord Gu say that?" Xue Rui asked in a puzzled tone.

"It's just very strange. Something has been wrong since I came back..." Gu Muxue quickly told Xue Rui what had just happened.

Xue Rui laughed after hearing this: "Mu Xue, I'll have someone send some fish to your house."

"Huh? Why are you suddenly saying this?"

"Uncle Gu is so good at picking out fish bones. It would be a shame not to eat fish. Let him help you pick out fish bones." Xue Rui said with regret.

"Xiao Rui! I'm talking to you seriously." Gu Muxue's voice was angry.

"Mu Xue, you know, Uncle Gu and I naturally stand on two different sides. Who can accept that their own daughter was abducted by someone else?" Xue Rui said helplessly.

The way the father-in-law looks at his son-in-law is good enough that he doesn't bring any knife, so what's the big deal about picking on some thorns?
"Is that why?"

Gu Muxue felt that it was not that simple. Old Gu should have been mentally prepared. He had even spent a week in Chang'an during the National Day holiday, and he had never seen Old Gu being so stingy.

"Of course more than that."

It was as if ten thousand alpacas were running through Xue Rui's heart.

From Gu Muxue's perspective, nothing has happened since National Day.

But in Gu Qingshan’s eyes, it was different. He had taken advantage of Gu Qingshan’s little cabbage.

In fact, he just smelled something, and then suffered such a great injustice for no reason.

But he couldn't possibly explain it this way to Gu Muxue.

"What is that?" Gu Muxue kept asking.

"Actually, he is just afraid of losing, so he is being competitive."

Xue Rui thought that the girl still didn't understand Gu Qingshan. To put it bluntly, Old Gu was just a daughter slave and he just pretended to be better at it.

Even though Gu Muxue rarely disobeyed Gu Qingshan's orders, in her previous life she was even sent abroad by Gu Qingshan to study.

But in the final analysis, it was because Gu Muxue was obedient and rarely disobeyed the decisions of her family.

If Gu Muxue really wanted to rebel to the end, the only one who would give in would be Gu Qingshan.

The reason is simple: those who are loved are always fearless.

Especially his appearance made Gu Qingshan have a strong sense of "loss", and his daughter-slave nature gradually emerged.

"Xiao Rui, are you competitive? I told you to read more." Gu Muxue couldn't help laughing. She felt that Xue Rui's description was not appropriate at all.

"He is just competitive and thinks his love is greater than mine." Xue Rui explained.

Gu Muxue asked slowly: "What do you think? Whose...love is more?"

When she mentioned the word "love", her heart beat faster and her tone became unnatural. She had never said such a word to Xue Rui before.

Xue Rui's heart skipped a beat. How could he bring up this topic?
But then I thought, this question is not about Lin Ruoxi, so why is it so difficult to answer?
"We all love you, but Uncle Gu's love is stronger. Love can be described as a pledge of love, but fatherly love is a mountain in itself and will never change..."

Xue Rui chose a pleasing answer.

There was a buzzing in Gu Muxue's ears, and her mind went blank, so that she could not hear clearly what Xue Rui said next.

"I...I know." Gu Muxue stammered.

"So, you don't have to do anything deliberately. Uncle Gu also lacks love. Just be a little clingy, and he will make up for it in his mind." Xue Rui said with a smile.

If he also had a beautiful and clingy girl, wouldn't he listen to whatever he said?
Hiss! Damn it, he is also a potential daughter slave?
"Okay, got it. I'll go out and tell him right away." Gu Muxue stood in front of the mirror. Her cheeks were flushed at the moment, and the bottle of facial cleanser in her hand was wrinkled.

Why did I suddenly become a little unlike myself?
"Okay, wait for me to get back." Xue Rui said and waited for Gu Muxue to hang up the phone.

There was no way. He talked on the phone with Lin Ruoxi for more than ten hours at night. Did he have the right to hang up Gu Muxue?

The answer is no.

"Hang up, let's talk later."

Gu Muxue put her phone aside and turned on the faucet to rinse her hot cheeks.

It's so weird. They are together all the time, and she has gradually gotten used to Xue Rui taking advantage of her. Why would she blush just because of a single sentence?

Maybe, this is love.

Gu Muxue stared at the mirror for a while. When she wiped the water stains and was about to leave, she found that the phone was still on.

Did Xue Rui forget to hang up?

Suddenly, an idea flashed through her mind.

"Xiao Rui, did you forget to hang up?"

Gu Muxue pretended to talk to herself, but she was actually testing whether Xue Rui was around.

Xue Rui heard it clearly at this moment, but he felt that it was not that simple. How could he talk to himself and even use a nickname?
So he really pretended to forget to hang up the phone, wanting to see what tricks the girl would play.

After twenty seconds of silence on both sides, Xue Rui heard the sound of a cell phone being picked up.

Gu Muxue took a deep breath, put the phone next to her lips, and said in a small voice:
"I love you too."

When Xue Rui heard the clear voice coming from the headphones, his ears and heart began to itch.

The little girl is still the same little girl, who likes to express her emotions secretly behind others' backs.

He smiled and responded, "Love you, I want to hear it next time... Hey? Why did you hang up?"

……

"Asshole!" Gu Muxue's face turned red.

She said this when she was sure Xue Rui couldn't hear her, and ended up embarrassing herself again... (End of this chapter)