I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 136: This Lucky Star Doesn’t Want to Be One Voluntarily

Chapter 136: Chapter 136: This Lucky Star Doesn’t Want to Be One Voluntarily

"Why hasn’t Jiaojiao come back yet?"

The dumplings are ready.

Suizi looked at the absence of Jiaojiao and asked Wang Cuihua.

"This girl wouldn’t come back unless she has shown off enough. Ultimately, it’s because you’ve been spoiling her with too many good things."

Wang Cuihua hung a light smile on her lips, pretending to complain about Suizi while she was totally satisfied with her in her heart.

What she found troublesome was the stupid temper of the maiden. When she got together with her son, together they made a perfect fool.

Since Suizi married in, she has improved a lot and her personality has become much brighter, she’s no longer as eccentric as she used to be.

But this was only at home. Outside, she could still give tongue-lashing.

"This week alone, several parents have come to me complaining that she has been making their children cry intermittently, acting childish all the time, causing trouble everywhere. As for your man, he is not any better; he has just taken after his father."

In her heart, Suizi thought, you really shouldn’t blame everything on the deceased father-in-law.

The siblings in the Yu Family may have inherited their father’s temper.

But what about that mouth, isn’t it following their mother-in-law?

In the compound of Wang Family, half of the acquaintances were offended by their mother-in-law, and the other half were put off by her.

Wang Cuihua’s eyes drifted to the wall.

A picture of a potato fairy was hanging on the wall.

While she complained about her deceased husband with her mouth, her eyes were filled with affection.

As if he was still there with her.

"Mother, there is something I have always wanted to ask, how did my father-in-law die exactly?"

When Suizi’s father-in-law died, she was about the same age as Jiaojiao. Too many years had passed, she could barely remember what happened at the time.

"The year I was pregnant with Jiaojiao, the Production Team organized to dig a big river..."

After the autumn harvest, the Production Team would have to carry out water conservancy projects.

They needed to select the sturdy workers to go.

The teams competed with each other, holding labor in high honor.

Yu Jingting’s father, Yu Shuisheng, was among the chosen ones.

The water maintenance would at least take a month, or even longer sometimes.

Wang Cuihua was unwilling to let her husband go, as she was only a few months away from giving birth.

It was the Team Captain who insisted on choosing someone from the Yu family. The elder and younger brother made excuses to evade; the old lady from Yu’s family protested vividly, in the end, they still let Yu Shuisheng go.

"I still remember that day, it was drizzling. As he left, he told me not to let the rain catch me and promised he would return before the birth of the baby."

Wang Cuihua lowered her head and sighed deeply.

"In the end, he went and never returned, without even giving a chance for Jiaojiao to see him. When I was pregnant, he always wished for a girl."

She did have a girl, but then her husband was gone.

"According to what those who returned said, the pontoon of the Production Team was washed away by water. He went down the river to fetch it and never emerged again. He was always a good swimmer, I just don’t understand why he didn’t make it that day."

Wang Cuihua wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes. Ten years have passed, but she still couldn’t calm down.

"For the first few months after the accident, I kept thinking that he would come back. I stood waiting for him at the entrance of the village, as time went by, he never came back, only then I realized that he can never return."

"One year, both Tiegen and Jiaojiao fell sick at the same time. The two children were running a high fever, lying on the kang waiting for death. There wasn’t any surplus food or money at home. Even the chickens and ducks in our yard were taken away by your mother."

The villagers all thought that she was too young, and had two children to care for. They suspected she couldn’t raise the children alone, and she would eventually remarry.

Her mother-in-law also believed that, hence she came to our house with that mindset.

She took away all the valuable things in the house, for fear that Wang Cuihua would take them away when she remarried.

When Wang Cuihua looked up, she saw Suizi’s nose turned red from crying, and tears were streaming down from her eyes.

"What are you crying about?"

"I shouldn’t have asked...This is just too tragic." Suizi cried incessantly, she couldn’t bear to hear this.

She hugged Wang Cuihua and cried loudly. Seeing Suizi so sentimental, Wang Cuihua was touched and started crying with her.

"And then what happened? How did you all get through it?" Suizi asked through stifled sobs.

"I figured there was no way to live, might as well die. So I took a bottle of pesticide, borrowed a cart, dragged my two children to the door of their grandmother, left the children there, and I went to the cemetery."

"At that time, I thought simply, if I were to die, I must die in front of Yu Shuisheng’s grave. I wanted to ask him, why he was so cruel to abandon me and the children."

"Just as I opened the bottle of pesticide, Tiegen came running with Jiaojiao in his arms. He was holding a bread roll, smeared with blood, which he snatched from somewhere. I can’t even imagine what that kid has been through..."

Wang Cuihua was desperate at that time, she didn’t want to live, the Yu family despised her, but she couldn’t let her children starve.

Just as she was contemplating death on a whim, Jingting came back with a bread roll, stuffed it into her hand, and asked her to eat it.

Wang Cuihua hugged her son and cried a lot. After sobbing, she found the courage to continue living.

"Seeing even a child understands that one has to grit one’s teeth and survive, I couldn’t just leave like that. That bread roll brought good fortune to us, three mother-daughters. After returning, the Production Team gave out money and grain, and we pulled through."

"Bread roll, with blood - ah!"

Suizi was weeping disconsolately, but at the mention of the blood-stained bread roll, a distant memory suddenly arose, and her tears stopped.

"He snatched it from me, that bread roll was mine! Not only did he snatch my bread roll, but he also kissed me!!!"

Suizi had forgotten about those things from her childhood.

Once Mother-in-law mentioned it, all came back to her.

At the age of ten, she sat under the Locust Tree outside her home, eating a hot bread roll that her mother had just steamed with elegance.

Yu Jingting came running over with Jiaojiao in his arms.

At that time, Suizi’s lower molar was about to fall out; it was hanging by a thread. He charged over like a fool, bumping his big head against her mouth.

He knocked out Suizi’s loose tooth.

Blood immediately flowed from her mouth.

He snatched her bread roll and knocked her tooth out.

After hitting her, he even kissed her, seemed like he also said something - Suizi tried to recall but couldn’t remember what he said.

All she could remember was that she cried bitterly that day.

Bread roll was gone, her first kiss was gone - She didn’t even know what a first kiss was at that time.

In the innocent mind of little Suizi, a first kiss was far less valuable than a bread roll.

The story about the brat who stole her bread roll might be her first glimpse into the darkness of the world. This Tiegen jerk made her aware of the evils in society.

When Suizi shared this with Wang Cuihua, Wang Cuihua couldn’t even manage to keep crying.

"So, that blood-stained bread roll was yours? This jerk - ah, I understand now! He learned it from his dead father!"

"What?"

"When the old jerk was alive, he used to snatch food from me, and then he’d give me a kiss."

It wasn’t real snatching, but a playful tease between a couple. Perhaps Jingting saw this and continued a misunderstanding.

After snatching a girl’s thing, he must give a kiss as a price.

Therefore, after he snatched Suizi’s bread roll back then, he gave her a kiss.

In his understanding, this meant the deal is done.

This made Suizi so annoyed that she had a childhood shadow, and now she doesn’t even eat bread roll.

Originally, the mother and daughter were dwelling in sorrow, crying so badly, but when they recalled this episode, they were amused by this bastard, Tiegen.

"Your destiny with him seems to be predestined by the heaven, I had always said you were a lucky child, you saved us when you were so young."

"...but I didn’t deliberately want to be the Lucky Star."

The tooth he knocked out of her was the proof!

When Jingting came back, he saw the two women crying on the kang. He was so shocked that he stepped back.