Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl-Chapter 702 - 701: Unintentionally Planting Willows
Bai Xue obviously didn’t want to argue with Fu Yu in front of Lu Huai, so she quickly introduced with one sentence: "This is my cousin!"
Then she said, "We have other things to do, you can go ahead!"
Upon hearing that it was a relative, Lu Huai immediately no longer had any other concerns, so he nodded his head and left swiftly.
As soon as he left, Bai Xue and Fu Yu started squabbling again! They argued back and forth until Bai Yong, tired from playing, yelled, "I want to go home!", and the cousin siblings still couldn’t persuade each other!
It made Bai Xue so furious that she wished she could immediately pack Fu Yu up and send him back to Laha!
Luckily, Fu Yu also knew that it was too late for Bai Xue to go to Zhen Yu’s house, so once they got home, he went about his own business.
As a result, at her wit’s end, Bai Xue finished her washing up and sat on the bed, blankly staring at her mother’s embroidery work.
She stayed in one position so motionlessly that even her mother, absorbed in her embroidery, couldn’t help but sense that something was off!
So, after embroidering for seven or eight minutes, Mrs. Bai stopped and asked, "What’s up? What’s on your mind?"
After being asked, Bai Xue pondered for a while in her heart! She couldn’t talk about her own matters, but couldn’t she tell about her cousin and Zhen Yu? In the future, her mother would often interact with Zhen Yu, and what if Fu Yu took advantage of her mother’s connection to get close to Xiao Yu...
No good! She must give her mother a warning in advance!
Thinking of this, she immediately puffed up her chest and boldly said: "Mom! Fu Yu’s motive for coming to Qi City is impure! He’s here for Xiao Yu! Haven’t you noticed that Xiao Yu hasn’t been visiting our home lately?!"
Mrs. Bai listened in a daze, but she quickly caught on.
"You mean, Xiao Yu likes Zhen Yu? How old is that child now, eh! He’s almost seventeen, right? His birthday is on June 6th!"
"That’s exactly it! We all repeated a year of junior high! He’s even a month older than Zhen Yu!" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
"Tsk! This kid! Isn’t he just here to cause me trouble!" Mrs. Bai said unhappily!
"Mom! How about we send him back? There’s still more than a month of summer vacation! It’s not good for him to keep staying in Qi City!"
"Nonsense! He’s my own nephew! How can I throw him out?" After saying these words, Mrs. Bai herself also let out a long sigh.
If by any chance, the nephew caused any trouble at her place, she would have difficulty explaining it to her sister-in-law! Especially since there was the conflict between Old Fu’s house and Zhen Yu, as well as the grudges of Second Uncle Fu still out there...
But with her own leg, even if she wanted to intervene, she couldn’t manage it! What should she do now?!
Without her mother’s agreement, Bai Xue had no way to send Fu Yu away!
And it would have been fine if she hadn’t mentioned it, but now that she had brought it up, even Mrs. Bai had started to worry along with her...
Seeing this, Bai Xue couldn’t help feeling a bit disheartened. Then she subconsciously muttered the heavy truth that was on her mind.
"It’s over... If he doesn’t leave, I don’t have to bother with tuition this summer! It seems I can only call Xiao Yu tomorrow,"
The two of them were sitting on the same bed, and Mrs. Bai immediately heard her daughter’s words clearly!
"What did you say? Tuition? Is Zhen Yu going to tutor you?"
"Yeah! We had it all settled! She was supposed to start tutoring me in the middle of this month when she wasn’t so busy! But ever since my cousin showed up, Xiao Yu stopped coming too! I’ve been too scared to go over there myself! Days have slipped by, and it’s already three or four days past the agreed date..."
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On one end is her nephew, on the other her daughter, is there even a question who Mrs. Bai’s heart sides with?
Thus, after hearing Bai Xue’s words, Mrs. Bai, who was originally planning to keep her nephew’s secret, immediately made a decision.
"I’ll go to the entrance of the community early tomorrow morning; you push my wheelchair there. I’ll call your Uncle’s wife! Let her come to pick up Xiao Yu."
"!" Bai Xue didn’t expect that her unintended remark would actually take root and flourish.
Although she still felt a twinge of uneasiness and surrealism, she couldn’t help but considerately ask her mother, "Mom! Are you really going to call? After you get through, what will you say to my Uncle’s wife?"
"What else can I say! Of course, I’ll tell her the truth! I can’t just outright tell her to come pick up the kid!" Mrs. Bai wasn’t foolish, "I’ll just say Fu Yu is thinking about puppy love! Once your Uncle’s wife hears that, she’ll scurry over to take him away in no time!"
"Hehehe..." Bai Xue giggled foolishly.
After a while, she added, "Tomorrow’s Sunday, perfect timing! I really hope my Uncle’s wife can rush over as soon as she hangs up the phone!"
"Look at you in such a hurry! If you loved studying so much, why didn’t you do it sooner?!" Mrs. Bai shot her daughter a look, then warned her carefully, "Don’t tell your cousin or your brother about this for now! Once your Uncle’s wife arrives, it won’t matter whether they know or not!"
"Mom! When Uncle’s wife arrives, don’t you say too much! Just let Fu Yu think it was me who spilled the beans!"
Mrs. Bai: "It was you who spilled it in the first place!"
Bai Xue: "..."
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Early the next morning, under the guise of ’taking her mother for a walk’, Bai Xue pushed Mrs. Bai to the small store to make a phone call.
Then, before eight o’clock, fully aware that her cousin was trailing behind her, Bai Xue went out again.
As soon as she saw Lu Huai, Bai Xue didn’t say a word. She just thrust a note into his hand and then urged him, "Hurry up! Read it when you get back!"
Lu Huai had no choice but to clench the note in his hand like a thief and took a quick glance at Fu Yu before running off.
And so, Fu Yu followed alone the whole way... His face darkened like the bottom of a pot the moment he realized what was happening!
He then exploded in a rage, "Bai Xue, do you really have to do this?! I’m your actual brother! Your own cousin! Do you really have to guard against me like I’m some thief?"
Bai Xue turned around and replied with righteous indignation, "It’s necessary! Absolutely necessary! Haven’t you noticed that Zhen Yu has stopped coming to our house ever since she met you? She doesn’t want to see you at all now! Why do you still shamelessly bother her like this? Is it fun for you?"
"I! I just wanted to say a couple of words to her!" Fu Yu was devastated, blurting out the truth that was in his heart.
Bai Xue didn’t believe him at all.
"Why are you so stubborn! If you really have something to say, then keep it to yourself! Or tell me, tell my brother, that should do, right? Why do you have to hover around Xiao Yu? She has seen right through your little schemes, she’s just too polite to reject you to your face! How can you be so... so clueless!"
As her words fell, Fu Yu was struck to the core, his spirit sagging completely.
Seeing this, Bai Xue sighed. Then she reached out to grab his sleeve and dragged her utterly unresisting cousin back home...
