Living in a small county town, earning a million a year

Chapter 16 Snow White's Helplessness

Xu Mu leaned back on the sofa and took a sip of hot water.

The sound of Bai Xue chopping things came from the kitchen.

Xu Mu had never had hangover soup before and didn't know what it was.

Anyway, just wait and it will all be over.

After lying on the sofa and dozing off for a while, Xu Mu felt a little dizzy.

After the alcohol took effect, all Xu Mu wanted to do was sleep.

"Xiao Mu! Xiao Mu!"

Xu Mu vaguely heard someone calling her.

When Xu Mu opened his eyes, he saw two full, white mounds in front of him, with a deep canyon in between.

Looking up, I saw Bai Xue standing in front of me.

He then remembered that he seemed to still be at Bai Xue's house, and had just fallen asleep.

"I'm sorry, Sister Baixue, I drank too much and got a little sleepy. I almost fell asleep."

Xu Mu quickly sat up and took the hangover soup that Bai Xue handed him.

"Be careful of the burn."

"Thank you."

"Then you can drink slowly. I'm going to take a shower. I need to go to the hospital later!"

After Bai Xue finished speaking, she got up and went into the bathroom.

Soon, the sound of flowing water could be heard from inside.

Xu Mu finished the bowl of hangover soup, and the warm feeling in his stomach relieved him a lot.

While scrolling through Douyin on her phone for a while, Xu Mu suddenly saw a call coming in on Bai Xue's phone.

And they hit two or three more.

Xu Mu answered the phone and heard a girl's anxious voice, "Hello? Is this Bai Xue? Your mother's condition has suddenly worsened. You need to come to the hospital right away."

"Okay, let's come over now."

Xu Mu responded.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Mu stood up, rushed to the bathroom door, knocked, and called out, "Sister Bai Xue, the People's Hospital just called and said Auntie's condition has worsened, and they need you to come to the hospital!"

"What?" Bai Xue exclaimed in surprise. "Okay, I'll get dressed and come out now."

Within a minute, Bai Xue came out in her pajamas.

Her wet hair was still draped over her shoulders.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the hospital."

Xu Mu picked up the keys and phone from the table and opened the door.

But seeing Bai Xue's wet hair, he turned and rushed into the bathroom to grab a dry towel and handed it to her, saying, "Wrap your hair up, it'll be cold at night and you'll catch a cold!"

The two went downstairs and quickly drove their electric scooter to the People's Hospital across the street.

Upon arriving at the oncology ward on the eleventh floor, Xu Mu and Bai Xue quickly ran over.

"Hello, where is Yang Shufen?"

Bai Xue arrived at the nurses' station, her tense face showing deep anxiety.

"He's already been taken to the emergency room for treatment!"

"The patient suddenly had some difficulty breathing last night, and given her current weak condition, we rushed her in for emergency treatment!"

"By the way, your hospital currently owes more than 10,000 yuan! Also, the golden treatment period for late-stage liver cancer is six months. If chemotherapy is ineffective, we still recommend a liver transplant. We hope you can hurry up and do it."

Hearing the nurse's words, Bai Xue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief; at least she had been taken in for emergency treatment.

She quickly looked at the nurse and said, "I'll pay the outstanding bill tomorrow!"

After asking about the situation, Bai Xue and Xu Mu went to the operating room door to wait.

Bai Xue sat on a bench, holding her iPhone 12 whose screen had been broken by Liu Yang that night, and opened various loan apps to see which one still had credit available.

However, just as she was browsing through various loan apps, she suddenly saw a message pop up on WeChat.

She opened WeChat and found that Xu Mu had transferred 50,000 yuan to her.

"Xiao Mu, I can't take your money."

Bai Xue nodded and said, "I can still think of a way."

"Sister Bai Xue, you've even started looking through loan apps, what other options do you have?"

"You don't want your aunt to die in the operating room, do you? What's with the fuss? Just take the money I'm giving you, consider it a loan. It's better than you borrowing from loan sharks, right?"

Xu Mu transferred another 50,000 yuan to Bai Xue.

In the past few days, Xu Mu has saved another 80,000 yuan. In addition, he only spent 300,000 yuan borrowed to take over the previous turtle farm shares. He still has more than 60,000 yuan in his card, so he has more than 140,000 yuan in total.

However, after giving Bai Xue 50,000 yuan, she only had a little over 90,000 yuan left.

Money really doesn't last long!

"Thank you, Xiao Mu, I'll write you an IOU!"

"Forget it, what's the use of this thing? If you really don't have the money to pay me back, do you think you can get the money back by suing me?" Xu Mu patted Bai Xue's shoulder and comforted her, "Don't think so much, just focus on getting Auntie's illness treated."

"Thank you!"

Bai Xue couldn't resist and threw herself into Xu Mu's arms.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

After comforting Bai Xue for a while and seeing that she had calmed down a lot, Xu Mu let go of her. "Alright, you stay at the hospital with your aunt."

"You can keep this electric scooter, I'll take a taxi home to sleep."

"Just give me a call if you need money."

"Bye-Bye!"

After Xu Mu finished speaking, he left the electric scooter key with Bai Xue, then dusted himself off and ran away.

I've done all the pretentious stuff I needed to do today, but I unexpectedly got the task from Snow White.

But that doesn't mean Xu Mu has to be with Bai Xue all the time.

No need.

Everyone here is an adult, and Xu Mu also felt that Bai Xue wasn't as fragile as he had imagined.

If she were truly that fragile, a girl burdened with hundreds of thousands of yuan in debt and her mother seriously ill in the hospital would have broken down long ago. Most people would either have jumped off a building or married a rich second-generation heir to escape this family.

But Bai Xue persisted.

Based on her character alone, Xu Mu had to help her out.

It has nothing to do with the system blind box.

Xu Mu took a taxi home, took a shower, and went to sleep.

The next day, Xu Mu slept until the afternoon before picking up her phone to check her messages.

I found messages from Tong Wu and Zhou Mengting. There were also messages from other classmates.

This made Xu Mu frown slightly, and she clicked on the picture sent by Zhou Mengting first.

It's a picture of him leaving last night with Bai Xue on a small electric scooter.

They also questioned him about his relationship with Bai Xue.

none of your business?

Xu Mu rolled her eyes, too lazy to even reply.

Then I opened the messages that several other classmates had sent me.

However, these were all messages and pictures of his former female classmates being provocative, mostly about legs and cleavage, which Xu Mu wasn't interested in.

Xu Mu had absolutely no interest in them.

When we were poor, aside from sending group messages during holidays, I wouldn't send messages proactively for several years. Even when I did send a message, it would be something like, "Are you there? Can I borrow some money?"

Now that they know they're shareholders of Kaiyuan Taihe Hotel, they've all come running, drawn by the scent of the hotel.

I know you guys are realistic, but you're being far too realistic.

Finally, I opened Tong Wu's message and saw the group chat message that Tong Wu had sent me.

"Brother Mu, this is hilarious! So many funny things happened after we left last night."

"The classmates' group chat is in complete chaos now!"

Xu Mu didn't look at the pictures; she guessed they were just classmates talking about her and Wang Wei.

The real and fake shareholders, and then there's the fact that they themselves are keeping a low profile.

You know it without even looking.

Xu Mu made a video call to Tong Wu, who answered immediately, "Holy crap! Brother Mu, you're finally awake."

"I've been eating melon seeds all morning!"

Let's summarize!

Xu Mu didn't waste any more words, but said calmly.

“After we left, Wang Wei was pinned to the ground by security guards and waiters who demanded that he pay.”

"But Wang Wei didn't have any money, so he said he would use his Porsche as collateral. But when they took the Porsche to get it inspected, they found out that the Porsche was rented by his mother! Wang Wei was furious and asked his classmates for money, but these shrewd guys all made excuses!"

"They drank Moutai and Lafite, ate king crab, and then said they only gave them 200 yuan to split the bill. They even said Wang Wei was showing off by saying you ordered the food, and told him to ask you for it if he dared! Wang Wei almost had a stroke from anger!"

"Now everyone in the class group is making fun of Wang Wei, and then an older brother dug up that Wang Wei actually works at his relative's glass factory, he's just a lowly deliveryman, and that Mercedes belongs to his uncle!"

"I'm dying of laughter! Wang Wei really suffered a huge loss last night, and he completely lost face."

"Isn't this kind of person a perfect example of reaping what they sowed?"

Xu Mu smiled, showing no surprise at Wang Wei being exposed.

Because Wang Wei appears rather unreliable in both his words and actions.

Xu Mu used to be a beast of burden and had seen many people.

Xu Mu is quite accurate in judging people.

"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. Speaking of which, Brother Mu, didn't anything happen when you went back with Sister Bai Xue last night? I could tell that Sister Bai Xue likes you!"

"Forget it, I'm just a poor loser, she's an urban elite, and we don't even know each other. Why would she like me?"

Xu Mu shook her head, not believing in this so-called liking at all.

They are either lustful at first sight or tempted by money.

"Do you even know how handsome you were last night?! I think any young girl would have liked you."

"Even if she doesn't like you, I think she definitely has feelings for you! I think she's a great girlfriend, and besides, Brother Mu, you're rich now, you can definitely pursue someone better!"

"Alright, let's talk about this later. I'm traumatized by relationships right now!"

After chatting with Tong Wu for a while, Xu Mu hung up the video call, got up, washed up, and ate breakfast.

After finishing his meal, Xu Mu spent two hours typing.

Xu Mu, who was playing a game, suddenly received a call from Bai Xue.

"Xiao Mu, are you busy?"

"I'm playing games, Sister Baixue."

Xu Mu placed his phone on the table and kept pressing the keyboard to control Darius as a jungler and participate in team fights, but the screen went black the next moment.

"Damn it, there's definitely something wrong with my monitor, it keeps going black! I need to get a new monitor!"

Are you free tonight? I'd like to invite you to dinner.

“Okay,” Xu Mu agreed. “Send me your location, and I’ll come over after I finish this game.”

Xu Mu hung up the phone and continued playing the game.

"Holy crap, I'm dead again! I just respawned!"

"This game is garbage!"

"Bang! Defeat!"

As the base exploded, Xu Mu was furious. "No way, this monitor is fucking garbage!"

Unconvinced, Xu Mu wanted to try again, but remembering that Bai Xue had invited him to dinner, Xu Mu quickly tidied himself up and went out.

The location posted by Bai Xuefa is a casual restaurant in Xincheng Square, Tianji County.

It's called courtyard living.

Xu Mu took a taxi to Courtyard Life. As soon as he got out of the car, he saw Bai Xue standing at the door with a canvas bag in her hand.

"Xiao Mu, over here!"

Bai Xue waved to Xu Mu.

Xu Mu nodded and followed Bai Xue into the store.

Xu Mu glanced at the waiter and said, "Give us a private room. A few more people will be coming later."

"Okay, please go upstairs."

Upon arriving at the private room on the second floor, Xu Mu casually ordered a few dishes by scanning a QR code on his phone.

After putting down his phone, Xu Mu looked at Bai Xue and asked, "How is Auntie doing now after she came out of the emergency room last night?"

Bai Xue couldn't help but lower her brows, her eyes filled with sadness. "The doctor said we can't delay any longer. If we delay any longer, it will easily spread. In addition, the cost of targeted drugs and chemotherapy every week is quite high. It's better to have surgery. After all, liver cancer is not incurable. I hope we can have the surgery as soon as possible!"

"I see... then let's have the surgery?"

Xu Mu poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and casually replied.

"But... the surgery costs 300,000 yuan, and our family already owes more than 700,000 yuan in debt. We've borrowed all the money from our relatives, so we simply don't have the money for the surgery."

Seeing that Xu Mu didn't speak, Bai Xue looked up at Xu Mu.

Her beautiful eyes held a troubled expression, and her brows were furrowed.

"Xiao Mu!" Bai Xue looked at Xu Mu, as if she had made a great decision, "Do you like me?"

(End of this chapter)