I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 130: They’re just coveting our money

Chapter 130: Chapter 130: They’re just coveting our money

Everyone was attentively listening to Madam Yu, and Suizi’s sudden loud voice startled her, causing her to press her hand to her chest in fright.

"What are you doing?! Startling us like that."

"I..I’m not feeling well." Suizi clutched her stomach, looking genuinely uncomfortable.

Yu Jingting instantly straightened up, nervously focusing on Suizi. Only when Suizi discreetly drew a circle on his palm did he realize.

Oh, she’s just acting.

Yu Jingting guessed that Suizi was up to something, but still fell for her sudden show of discomfort.

Seeing that she was not in real trouble, he finally relaxed.

Wang Cuihua, however, was not privy to her daughter-in-law’s acting skills, and thinking her discomfort was genuine, she quickly rushed over to ask.

"Suizi, what’s wrong?"

"I..." I’m hungry!

Suizi looked at her mother-in-law, acting pitifully, and Wang Cuihua couldn’t care less about what her mother-in-law was saying anymore.

She ordered Yu Jingting to put a sweater on Suizi, while Jiaojiao also fussed over Suizi.

"What’s all this about a cow you’re talking about, Auntie Four?" asked Madam Yu.

"Forget about the cattle, my daughter-in-law isn’t feeling well. All of you should leave for now. We can discuss things later."

Right now, Wang Cuihua had no mind to listen to her mother-in-law.

Madam Yu didn’t really want to leave, she sat on the kang bed, staring at the pickles on the cooking table.

"You should let Tiegen take her to see the village doctor. It’s sure to be nothing serious. What woman doesn’t give birth? How delicate could she be? As for me, make me a bowl of porridge. We can eat and talk simultaneously."

Hearing Madam Yu talk so dismissively, Yu Jingting was really annoyed.

Especially when she referred to Suizi as being delicate, he was not pleased to hear that.

"Boss, do you have any money on you? Give me some. I’ll take my wife to see the doctor."

"What?!" The Boss clutched his crotch, a wary look on his face.

He came to siphon money off Yu Jingting, not to give money away!

"Didn’t you earn money selling Herbal Medicine? Besides, your wife has been substituting at school, she must’ve earned quite a sum right? I heard she even writes for the Newspaper Agency, earning some money from that too. Why do you need to borrow from us?"

The Boss continued clutching his crotch, which looked quite awkward to Suizi.

At first, Wang Cuihua didn’t catch on. After hearing the Boss articulate every single pot of money she had, she finally understood.

Ah, so the idea of jointly buying a cow was their way of coveting her money!

"I lost in playing mahjong, right, wife?" Yu Jingting asked Suizi.

Suizi, acting like an award-winning actress, nodded while clutching her stomach.

"We don’t have a dime at home. Give us some money, and we can discuss the cow issue later — oh, Granny, this silver earring of yours could serve as a form of payment, could I borrow it?"

Yu Jingting tried to reach for it, which angered Madam Yu so much she started cursing while putting on her shoes and stepping down from the Kang bed.

Cursing and muttering, she led the way for Boss, who was still clutching his crotch, out of the door. Ironically, the ones who came to mooch off ended up being sent away instead.

Once they were gone, Suizi immediately removed her hand off her stomach.

"Sister-in-law, aren’t you in pain anymore?"

"I never said I was in pain. I’m just uncomfortable because I’m hungry. Eating some meat should fix it - Mom, are we having steamed meat today?"

Wang Cuihua brought the meat from the inner room to them. The kang bed was great as the warmth still lingered keeping the dishes warm.

"Why was the Boss clutching his crotch?" Suizi asked curiously.

Yu Jingting leaned into her ear and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"Boss keeps his money tucked tightly in his underpants. For him, handing over any money is harder than dying. His family’s underwear even has a zipper for this very purpose."

"..." Now, that’s a juicy piece of gossip.

Suizi decided not to touch the money of her second uncle’s family anymore, it was too scary.

She lowered her head, deep in thought.

Seeing her daughter-in-law like this, Wang Cuihua thought she was thinking about the partnership in buying a cow. She didn’t want to interrupt her.

Suizi was very intelligent, she must be thinking about it now, right?

The room was so quiet that all that could be heard was the sound of people eating porridge.

A minute later, Suizi raised her head.

"Won’t his zipper get stuck when he grabs the money? Like, stuck... on that."

Nowadays, most zippers are made of metal and often have issues interlocking. It hurts if you’re not careful and your skin gets pinched.

"Pfft!" Wang Cuihua accidentally spat out all of the corn porridge in her mouth onto the kang bed.

Yu Jingting, worthy of his reputation as the boss of the street, had quick reactions. When he saw his mother spitting out the corn porridge, his first response was to lift the plate of steamed meat.

He held up the vegetable plate single-handedly to protect the treasured meat dish, earning admiring looks from Jiaojiao and Suizi.

It took Wang Cuihua quite a while to stop coughing, she felt like she had inhaled corn porridge up her nose.

"Ah, Suizi, in the future when your mother is eating, don’t make such funny remarks."

Wang Cuihua felt that at her age, it would be tragic if she choked to death on corn porridge while laughing at her daughter-in-law’s joke.

That scenario was graphic.

Wang Cuihua negotiated with her daughter-in-law with a serious face, but the corners of her mouth couldn’t help twitching.

Finished, the talented woman was also led astray by her eccentric son! Lijun, I apologize to you, the initial Suizi was led astray... Wang Cuihua laughed and confessed in her heart to Suizi’s mother for two seconds.

"What are you guys talking about? Why can’t I understand? Mother, why were you trying to drink the corn porridge with your nostrils?" Jiaojiao, who was not of age yet, did not quite understand Suizi’s satire.

Yu Jingting picked up a rag to wipe the kang and deliberately flicked Jiaojiao’s forehead while doing so.

"Little girl, don’t interrupt when adults are talking. And you, what are you pondering about all day every day?" Yu Jingting said to Suizi.

Suizi made a face, not believing that he was not curious.

"About the matter of buying the cow that your grandmother mentioned, how could we refuse it?" Wang Cuihua asked Suizi, "I see you both exchanging glances, there must be an idea already, right?"

"The old lady’s calculations are pretty shrewd. She knows we have money and runs to talk about partnership buying a cow. Most likely, it’s to let two uncles write us an IOUs, the cows are with them, we provide the money, and we get an IOU similar to scrap paper in return."

Yu Jingting could guess the intention of the old lady as soon as he heard her initial words, he scoffed.

"With her bad reputation where she couldn’t even borrow thirty taels, who gave her the audacity to calculate this kind of thing with our family?"

Even if the two uncles were to write an IOU for his family, it was meaningless. It was quite obvious that they would not pay the money back, the paper would just be scrap.

When it comes time to ask for the money, they will show a thick face and say that they have no money, Wang Cuihua can’t possibly demolish their house, could she?

"I think things are not that simple, cows are not cheap, they know the relationship between our families is not good, and they dare to propose it, there must be a next move waiting for us."

Suizi said calmly.

"Jingting, think about it. Do they have anything that could be used as leverage against us?"

"What could they have to threaten us, a bunch of paupers. They don’t even have the money to feed the entire village if they die---"

Yu Jingting’s voice abruptly stopped, as if he had realized something.

"Damn, they are so shameless." Yu Jingting slammed down his chopsticks.

"What’s the matter?" Wang Cuihua did not understand why her son suddenly became angry.

"I’m going out for a bit, don’t wait for me to have dinner." Yu Jingting got up and left.

He had only eaten half of his meal.

"What’s the matter? What got into him?" Wang Cuihua asked.

"It’s okay, mom. I’ll go take a look, nothing will happen." Suizi grabbed two boiled eggs from the table, put on her cotton-padded jacket and followed him out.