I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 1011: The Old Sly Fox and the Little Sly Fox

Chapter 1011: Chapter 1011: The Old Sly Fox and the Little Sly Fox

In the evening, Suizi led the children to the front yard, wanting to have a chat with mom.

As she opened the door, she saw two people lying on the ground.

Fan Huang was doing exercises to correct the fetal position with Chen Lijun.

A mattress was laid on the ground, and the two adults were half propped up, with their buttocks raised and their thighs and calves at right angles, stretching their arms out.

Stunned, Suizi’s first thought was about the boy and girl twins.

"Did you two bring a camera?"

If this scene were captured, it could make a nice sum of money, right?

Fan Huang calmly got up from the ground and then helped Chen Lijun to her feet.

"You little rascal!" Chen Lijun scolded with a reddened face, "Don’t you knock before entering?"

It was somewhat embarrassing to be seen by the children.

Chen Lijun really didn’t want to do these boring and uncomfortable exercises for correcting the fetal position.

To coax her, Fan Huang joined her in the exercises, not expecting their dutiful daughter to witness it, and this rascal actually wanted to take photos as a keepsake!

"I knocked but there was no response," Suizi blinked, tapping on something, that was also considered knocking, right?

Fan Huang wasn’t bothered about being seen by the children in a strange position on the ground.

His wife’s health was his top priority.

"Suizi, your timing is perfect, I just wanted to ask you about prenatal checkups."

Suizi glanced at the kids, and the boy and girl twins immediately received their mom’s cue, understood!

Before coming here, the children had already been individually instructed by Suizi and knew what to do.

They immediately took off their little backpacks and pulled out the leaf paintings they made at kindergarten.

"Grandma, look at the craft I made, the teacher praised me!"

The twins’ mission was to occupy Chen Lijun’s attention, and sure enough, they managed to do just that.

"This is... stuck into a..." Chen Lijun looked for a long time but couldn’t make out what her granddaughter had made.

It looked a bit like a pig, a monkey, and also somewhat like an elephant.

"It’s a chimera!" Luoluo was so proud.

"Jiang Ziya’s mythical creature doesn’t look like this, though, does it?"

"Grandma, you don’t understand. The chimera also has many families. Maybe Jiang Ziya’s mount looks like that, but this could be Zhao Ziya’s mount?"

"Uh... so what did the teacher praise you for?"

Bobo sighed beside them.

"The teacher said she did it well, but next time she shouldn’t use such good paper for it, regular paper from home would do, even the back of the paper mom uses for writing exercises."

Translated, that meant: it looks pretty good, but don’t do it again.

For her masterpiece, Luoluo had used glossy coated paper, a type of paper ordinary people wouldn’t use, procured by Suizi from school.

The kindergarten teacher was heartbroken over the "extravagance" of the child’s choice.

While the kids were busy with Chen Lijun, Suizi followed Fan Huang into the study room.

Fan Huang was unusually serious, stabilizing his nerves before he spoke, "Is there a problem with your mom’s check-up results?"

From the main room to the study, his every step was heavy with worry.

"My mom is fine, just that the baby is in the wrong position. We’ve already discussed this, if the baby hasn’t turned by full term we’ll opt for a caesarean section."

"Then why did you have the kids occupy your mom?"

"Uh, that’s because what I’m about to discuss is not suitable for a pregnant woman to hear, but you’ll definitely be alright with it."

So, can this anxious dad relax a bit? Even his maiden can’t handle that piercing little stare.

Upon hearing that Chen Lijun was alright, Fan Huang’s tense nerves finally loosened, and the overwhelming pressure dissipated.

Suizi relayed Director Qu’s intelligence to Fan Huang, and his eyebrows knitted together in response.

"Where did she get the information from?" Fan Huang asked.

Suizi shook her head, Director Qu hadn’t said.

Fan Huang sneered coldly, and for the first time in many years of knowing him, Suizi read a killing intent in his eyes.

"Not saying is akin to indirectly revealing it," he said, "that woman is indeed clever."

Suizi nodded in agreement, yes.

Director Qu could survive in a complex environment, constantly scheming, intimately familiar with all sides of the power dynamics. As a minor character trying to survive in the cracks, she would naturally not want to offend anyone unnecessarily.

Therefore, Director Qu’s refusal to reveal her source was her subtle way of telling Suizi that the mastermind was someone Director Qu could not afford to offend; she didn’t want to muddy the waters by getting involved in this fight amongst deities.

"How did you persuade her?" Fan Huang asked.

He, who had survived the treacherous officialdom, knew too well the hearts of people like Director Qu. These cunning folks wouldn’t risk passing on such information without being certain they weren’t exposing their own vulnerabilities.

"When I encountered her, she had just completed a surgery and her psychological defenses were relatively weak. Had it been any other time, the effect might not have been the same. A mix of empathy and luck, perhaps – three parts the former, seven the latter."

Fan Huang nodded. He already knew how to proceed with the next steps. His daughter’s timing had been very opportune.

After formulating a general strategy with his daughter, Suizi went to find Chen Lijun, bickered with her mother for a while, and managed to cheer up the expectant empress before leading the children away.

After Suizi left, Chen Lijun complained to Fan Huang.

"I was just ranting to Huahua about Suizi for ages today. I don’t know what that girl’s thinking, how could she dare to leave such a big market in the hands of a fox spirit with questionable principles?"

"At forty, one should no longer be confused."

"What?" Chen Lijun didn’t grasp what he meant; like their daughter, he could also be cryptic.

"That saying suits our maiden perfectly. She knows her own worth, isn’t deceived by appearances, knows what to do, which people to use, and which not to."

Chen Lijun silently translated her husband’s words in her mind.

"You think our daughter is more mature than me and Huahua?!" Chen Lijun assessed their combined strengths. She knew she couldn’t outwit the crafty old man before her, but she could stir up trouble.

"I’ll tell Suizi tomorrow that you said she’s like a forty-year-old with a belly full of schemes."

Let that little schemer Suizi clash with the old schemer Fan Huang. Let them brawl!

"I didn’t say that..." Fan Huang chuckled helplessly, but what he thought was that neither Chen Lijun nor her mother-in-law combined were as mature as his daughter. Of course, he knew better than to say something that would make an expectant mother angry, so he kept it to himself.

"Suizi mentioned that the doctor instructed you to perform specific exercises for the baby each day. You still have a few left to do today. Come on, let’s continue together," Fan Huang craftily shifted the responsibility to his daughter.

After all, his dear little cotton jacket was clever and capable, sure to manage Lijun’s fiery temper. As for him, he could stay the good guy, quietly.

Soon, a week had passed.

Suizi accompanied Chen Lijun to another prenatal checkup. Despite Fan Huang’s diligent efforts to supervise the pregnant exercises, the baby seemed to have its own ideas and just wouldn’t turn around.

After consulting with each other, several experts reached a conclusion.

"We plan to perform an external cephalic version on Director Chen tomorrow."

"What is that?" Suizi asked, venturing into her area of ignorance.

"It’s a procedure where we use our hands to turn the baby through the belly. My colleague has done it," Chen Lijun explained to her daughter.

Alarms went off in Suizi’s mind. Here it was!

She had been pondering how the other side would strike, and it turned out to be this.

Although she didn’t know what an external cephalic version was, just from the sound of it, it seemed like a procedure that would heavily rely on the doctor’s skill and experience. If the other party wanted to cause mischief during this, they could easily excuse it as a medical accident.

"So, who will be the doctor performing this on my mother tomorrow?" Suizi asked.

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