Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

Chapter 3 White Moonlight? Cut in line first
Time always passes quickly in dreams.

In the blink of an eye, it was already lunch time.

"Xue Rui, let's eat!" Qiu Mengze woke Xue Rui up and asked seriously, "Tell me the truth, did you secretly go to the Internet cafe behind my back last night?"

"What's it got to do with you?" Xue Rui cursed. After stretching, he found that half of the classroom was empty, and Qiu Mengze had already gone to eat with several boys in the class.

He looked around and no one seemed ready to join him in the cafeteria.

After the second year of high school, most people still choose to form small circles with their former classmates from the first year of high school, so everyone talks and laughs with their companions.

Only Xue Rui was standing there alone in a daze. He subconsciously looked for Lin Ruoxi, but the girl who seemed to have stolen someone else's school uniform was gone.

"I'm isolated? Did I forget to tell her not to leave after school?" Xue Rui scratched his head. He always felt that something was wrong. He shouldn't be at the bottom.

"Brother Rui, why haven't you gone to find Gu Muxue yet? I just saw her going to the cafeteria." Someone ran into the classroom and reminded.

Xue Rui was speechless. Did he spend every day with one person in high school? No wonder Qiu Mengze didn't intend to wait for him.

But he had no intention of looking for Gu Muxue. He strode to catch up with Qiu Mengze and his group, put his arm around Qiu Mengze's shoulders and pressed him hard.

"Who is it?" Qiu Mengze was so shocked that his chest felt stuffy. He turned around and saw that it was Xue Rui. He asked in surprise, "The sun is rising from the west, and you are actually having dinner with us?"

Listening to the young Qiu Mengze speaking a whole sentence fluently without coughing or pausing, Xue Rui couldn't help but sigh that youth is good for health. He said seriously, "Smoke less in the future, otherwise you won't be able to speak clearly."

"Are you still trying to tell me to play less games?" Qiu Mengze leaned back slightly. He could even guess Xue Rui's next words.

"Correct."

"Why are you pretending to be a good kid in front of me? Let me ask you, are you going to cut in line for dinner later?" Qiu Mengze asked a very realistic question.

“I never cut in line.”

Xue Rui waved his hands and smiled calmly. The sun was shining above his head. His smile was sincere and kind, like an angel descending to the earth.

He wanted to set a good example for his childhood friend.

Qiu Mengze suddenly felt that Xue Rui was sick. It was very likely that he was rejected too many times by Gu Muxue and his spirit finally began to collapse. He sighed in his heart.

Several people came to the cafeteria. Xue Rui looked at the sea of ​​people and the endless line, and suddenly he regretted the boast he had just made.

"You said not to cut in line." Qiu Mengze said proudly. He turned around and found an acquaintance in the line. He shamelessly squeezed in and ran forward at least dozens of meters.

Xue Rui was disheveled in the wind.

"I can't even call out the names of my classmates, whose line should I cut in?" Xue Rui looked at the line ahead that was at least half an hour long and there were people squeezing in from time to time. He felt inexplicably irritated.

But this doesn't bother him. As long as he's thick-skinned, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know anyone. Isn't it enough if others know him?
It’s just like a scam phone call: Brother Wang, I’m Zhang Wei, your elementary school classmate. What are you busy with recently?

Anyway, there is always someone who has a classmate named Zhang Wei, maybe he will be fooled? Even if he is not fooled, there is no loss;
The same applies to queue cutting.

Xue Rui glanced around the cafeteria. He followed the gazes of many boys and looked towards the end, where he saw a tall and beautiful figure.

It was the back view of a girl with a high ponytail, who seemed half a head taller than the girls around her. She walked with confidence, calmness and elegance.

Suddenly, she turned her head as if looking for something. Her gaze paused in the direction of Xue Rui, she looked at Xue Rui, and quickly turned her head away.

Although it was just a glance, Xue Rui still saw it clearly.

It was an oval face with clear and soft contours and perfect proportions. She had thick eyelashes that looked like natural eyeliner, peach blossom eyes that seemed to be smiling all the time, a straight nose, and fair skin that sparkled with the glow that only belongs to a young girl.

The girl was talking and laughing with her companions, her red lips slightly parted, her teeth white as shells, and her dimples slightly visible.

Xue Rui felt that it was a face that could never be photographed ugly no matter what time or angle one took the picture from.

I have to say that beautiful people have different temperaments. Even though they are wearing the same school uniform, they look so youthful and full of energy, as if they are wearing an idol drama filter at all times.
The greasy-haired guy in front of him who was memorizing words with his head down had oil stains on his white school uniform and his hair was messy. He looked like a homeless person.

"She looked at me!" A well-mannered male student wearing rimless glasses waved to the girl in surprise.

"One of the biggest illusions in life." Xue Rui shook his head and strode towards the beautiful girl.

If you want to cut in line, why choose an ugly one? Xue Rui, who has rich social experience, knows very well that ugly girls are the most difficult to deal with;
Pretty girls, on the other hand, have a better mentality because they receive more preferential treatment on a regular basis, and they won't get furious when being cut in line.

"Keep your voice down. Didn't you see Xue Rui was there just now? Be careful that he might cause trouble for you." His companion whispered to him. "I heard that he and Gu Muxue had a quarrel, and I heard from his classmates that Xue Rui said he would not pursue Gu Muxue anymore. He didn't go to class one all morning." The well-mannered male student felt that his chance was coming.

His companions beside him grinned awkwardly and thought that Xue Rui was not bad looking, and he had been chasing her madly for four years but still failed. Even if Xue Rui gave up, what made you think you could do it?

Soon, the well-mannered young man saw the direction Xue Rui was heading, and his eyebrows suddenly sank: "Didn't he say he wouldn't chase her anymore? Why is he looking for Gu Muxue again?"

Xue Rui walked closer and found that the beautiful woman was only a few steps away from getting her meal.

He hurriedly quickened his pace and moved closer. Before he could say anything, the beautiful girl who made his heart flutter took a step back and made room for him.

"This classmate is really beautiful and kind-hearted. The school beauty should be someone like you. Gu Muxue is not worthy of you."

Xue Rui thought he had done a good job of flattering, but he suddenly felt that the people around him looked at him strangely. Even the beautiful girl in front of him, who had a kind heart, had a hint of anger in the corners of her eyes.

He looked closely and saw the three words "Gu Muxue" written on the meal card hanging on the girl's chest.

"Damn it, I'm hitting the horse's hoof. I thought this woman looked so familiar when I looked at her up close." Xue Rui felt something was wrong and coughed a few times awkwardly.

Before he could explain, the auntie who served the food began to bang on the plate and urged:
"Classmate, what do you want? There's a queue behind you."

"I want this, this, and this." Xue Rui pointed at a few dishes at random.

The auntie who served the food said impatiently: "Swipe the card!"

Xue Rui felt his pocket and discovered that he didn't have his meal card with him. He took out a fifty-yuan bill, but saw that the cafeteria auntie frowned.

He was thinking about not eating, but suddenly a slender arm swam up from behind and gently brushed past his ear.

"Ding!" The prompt sound of successful card swiping rang out. Xue Rui took the food in a daze and turned his head to say:
"The school belle is worthy of being the school belle. She is very generous."

"Mu Xue, you can't bear it if Xue Rui scolds you!" the girl behind him suddenly said.

Xue Rui glared at the short girl. How could it be such a misunderstanding? However, he didn't say much and strode away.

His main goal now is to find Lin Ruoxi.

The aura emanating from Lin Ruoxi was at another extreme, tranquil and secretive; but to Xue Rui, who had experienced the "Blood Moon", it was an aura of despair that was extremely desolate.

Where would such a person sit? Xue Rui thought about it carefully and looked for the place in the far corner of the cafeteria.

After scanning several corners, Xue Rui said to himself, "How could she get into the weak-current box to eat? Where is she?"

Suddenly, he found that the door of the emergency passage was ajar. It was the stairwell. It was very hot inside and almost no one would go there.

Xue Rui quietly opened the door a crack and found Lin Ruoxi squatting on the steps eating.

Lin Ruoxi was incredibly thin to begin with, almost skin and bones. She looked even thinner through the crack in the door, like a skinny stray cat hiding in a corner, eating secretly, afraid of being discovered by a powerful enemy.

"What did she eat..."

Xue Rui was not too shocked even when he learned that he was reborn as a sophomore in high school;
But when he saw the food in Lin Ruoxi's hand, his pupils trembled violently.

The slender fingers with clearly visible knuckles were like chopsticks, holding a large yellow steamed bun and carefully dipping it into the seaweed soup.

Lin Ruoxi didn't buy any dishes. To be more precise, she didn't even buy a staple food. She just ordered a free bowl of seaweed soup because the yellow big steamed buns were obviously not produced in the cafeteria.
Wait until the seaweed soup softened and dissolved the surface of the steamed bun before she slowly put it to her mouth and ate the softened part.

Xue Rui kicked the door open, and Lin Ruoxi was so scared that she spilled the seaweed soup all over the floor, which slowly flowed down the stairs to Xue Rui's feet.

"What the hell did you eat? You don't have a meal card?"

Xue Rui lost his appetite after watching it. He put the plate on the ground, snatched the steamed bun from Lin Ruoxi's hand, and banged it a few times on the stainless steel handrail beside him.

Even until the stainless steel handrail was dented, the steamed bun remained intact, except for a few white marks on the surface.

The summer in Hedong is so dry that it can make people bleed from the nose. If you leave the steamed buns outside for half a day, they will become hard enough to be used as hammers and can be kept for several months without going bad.
But if it is sealed, it will soon become moldy and spoiled. I don’t know how long this steamed bun has been kept, and it has dried out beyond recognition.

"Harder than a brick." Xue Rui frowned.

(End of this chapter)