Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 225 - 224: Don’t Want to Discuss It in Depth

Chapter 225: Chapter 224: Don’t Want to Discuss It in Depth

The New Year was approaching, and since they were in Qi City, Mrs. Zhen decided to have a good time shopping, insistent on buying new outfits for both children for the New Year celebration. So, in addition to studying, Zhen Yu’s daily routine included accompanying her mother on shopping sprees. She also took the opportunity to familiarize her mother with the city.

Thus, their daily routine became ’buy, buy, buy,’ until Laba Festival came around. This day was not only the Laba Festival but also the Sunday when Zhen Yan had his exams.

Early in the morning, Mrs. Zhen got up to make porridge. Zhen Yan had also arrived early, following his mother’s instructions.

"Hurry and eat, have more! Do well on your exam later!"

"Got it, Mom!"

Zhen Yu wrapped up the box full of Laba porridge with a snow-white towel, and put it in the bag along with baked pancakes and salted duck eggs.

"Brother, this is Grandpa Wang’s Laba porridge. Don’t forget to take it with you when you leave."

"Understood."

After breakfast, Zhen Yan hurried off. It was just because of the final exams—that he didn’t have early self-study—that he had time for breakfast.

Mrs. Zhen and Zhen Yu also quickly finished their breakfast. After cleaning up, they took up another bag with the same contents as Grandpa Wang’s and headed to Xu’s Martial Arts School.

As soon as they entered, Mrs. Zhen happily greeted, "Master Xu! Have you had breakfast? I made some porridge for Laba Festival; I’ve brought some over for you!"

Xu Lin seemed to have just finished his morning exercises. He stepped forward to take the bag, "I haven’t actually eaten yet. Thank you, Sister Cheng!"

"Hey! What’s there to thank between old friends!"

"Haha, then I’ll take a seat and eat. I’ll be back!"

"Go ahead, hurry up! It’ll get cold if you don’t eat now!"

Watching Xu Lin carry the bag into the inner room, mother and daughter found a casual place to sit in the living room and started chatting idly.

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Creak——

When the door was pushed open, both mother and daughter turned to look, startling the two boys at the door.

But they quickly walked in naturally. Not knowing each other, the two boys passed by the Zhen family and went straight into the changing room.

Mrs. Zhen whispered to her daughter, "They’re probably new students at the martial arts hall, right?"

"Seems like it!" Zhen Yu confirmed. She never expected that Master Xu’s recruitment would be so rapid!

The two boys came out of the changing room in loose sportswear and started warming up in the hall, looking quite professional!

Within five minutes, the door rang three times.

Mother and daughter looked again when the second visitor arrived.

But by the third time, they were already numbed to the interruptions, continuing their conversation without turning their heads.

However, the newcomer called out in surprise, "Zhen Yu?"

"Do you know him?" Mrs. Zhen lifted her head to look at the tall, not bad-looking young man at the door.

Zhen Yu glanced over and after thinking for a moment said, "Lu Huai, a friend of my brother’s third martial brother."

Mrs. Zhen mulls over her daughter’s words and sorts out the relationship before asking, "How do you know each other?"

Lu Huai had already walked over to them and casually said, "Hello Auntie! We got to know each other through online gaming!"

"Online gaming?!" Mrs. Zhen was quite astonished and turned to look at her daughter, "You mean computer games? Is there a gaming café nearby?" Now when she heard the word "games," what immediately came to her mind was computer gaming cafés.

"No, but there is indeed a computer game arcade nearby!" Zhen Yu understood what her mother was worried about and vaguely reassured her, "Don’t worry, Mom! I’ll explain in detail when we get home."

Mrs. Zhen hesitated for a moment and nodded without further comment, and the room became quiet for a while.

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Zhen Yu looked up at the boy standing next to her and couldn’t help striking up a conversation, "Are you here to find Cao Zhixin?"

Lu Huai, hearing her question, immediately smiled brightly and said, "No! I’m a student here now!"

As the saying goes, you don’t slap a smiling face. In the face of the boy’s smile, Zhen Yu could not keep a straight face and simply curled the corners of her mouth, "Oh."

Even though Zhen Yu had made it clear she did not want to delve deeper, Lu Huai seemed oblivious to her coolness, "Isn’t your brother in the same grade as Cao Zhixin? They have their final exams today, why are you here?"

Zhen Yu really didn’t know where Zhen Yan and his six senior brothers were studying, what year and class they were in, and upon hearing this, she became somewhat curious, "The same grade? Are they at the same school too?"

"Yeah! They’re just in different classes," Lu Huai replied, before swiftly changing the subject, "Which school do you go to? What grade are you in?"

Zhen Yu did not wish to elaborate, saying only: "My family is not from Qi City, I don’t go to school here."

Lu Huai was about to ask more, when Xu Lin suddenly came out of the inner room holding a bag.

"I’m going to change," Lu Huai whispered and quickly ducked into the changing room.

Xu Lin glanced at his retreating figure and went straight to Mrs. Zhen, handing her the bag, "Sister Cheng, I’ve washed the lunchboxes."

"Hey! It would have been the same if I washed them back at home!" Mrs. Zhen stood up and said, "Well! You’re about to start your class, so we’ll head back home."

Xu Lin did not hold them back, but suddenly invited, "Sister Cheng! Let’s have dinner together tonight! I owe Xiao Yu a thank you; she really helped the Martial Arts Hall with a great idea!"

"Eh?" Mrs. Zhen was somewhat confused; the siblings had not discussed the matter with her after returning home that day.

"Let’s settle on that then! Just come over at five o’clock!"

"Alright! Master Xu, we’ll take our leave now!" Zhen Yu agreed on behalf of her mother.

"Good, good! See you tonight!"

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Once downstairs, Mrs. Zhen began to ask, "What’s going on? You’d better explain everything clearly to me!"

"Let’s talk about it when we get home; talking while walking will fill our stomachs with wind!" Zhen Yu said, as she pulled her mother homeward.

After getting home, Zhen Yu explained everything in detail to Mrs. Zhen.

When it came to the matter of giving advice to Xu Lin, Mrs. Zhen only reprimanded her daughter briefly, worried that Zhen Yu might have inadvertently caused trouble with her good intentions, and advised her not to offer such help so readily in the future.

The encounter with Lu Huai was briefly mentioned, but what truly concerned Mrs. Zhen was the computer game arcade nearby!

"Is there really no problem? Such a big area and there are only two computer game arcades! And they have been open for such a long time! Can we really compete with them?"

"Our business is legitimate, and we have a storefront right on the main street! His arcade is operating secretly; without knowing the right people, who would know the place? There’s no comparison at all!"

"But, but," Mrs. Zhen still felt uncertain.

"Oh! Mom! Trust me, with such a big investment, how could I not be attentive! We’ve only got one competitor; do you have to be so anxious? In our town, there are so many Shoe City stores, and you haven’t seen any of them shut down, have you?"

Mrs. Zhen thought for a moment, "That’s true as well! We’ll just have to wait and see! Anyway, it would be good to break even in the first couple of years; whether we can make money or not, we have to see in the future."

Zhen Yu actually had an ace up her sleeve, but she couldn’t disclose it to her mother.

After all, she couldn’t outright say that opening an internet café next to a school’s walls is an invitation for trouble...