I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 167: Should We Go Public or Keep it Private?

Chapter 167: Chapter 167: Should We Go Public or Keep it Private?

"When I was in school, because of my lively performance in class, I was always paid special attention by the teacher."

Yu Jingting spoke as he fiddled with carbon paper.

"Caught acting up and punished by the teacher to write lines?" Suizi, who had been a substitute teacher for the past few months, understood his meaning.

Yu Jingting smirked, that’s one way to understand it.

Yu Jingting, a type of ’class clown,’ was always a headache for teachers in any class.

He had been frequently punished to write lines in the past, standing at least once a week on the playground podium to read self-criticisms. Over time, he developed a special skill.

Not only could he hold three pens at once and write simultaneously, he also figured out how to manipulate carbon paper.

"You put a sheet of carbon paper between two sheets of paper, press harder when you write, that way it won’t leave any traces."

Yu Jingting held up the paper he had rewritten for everyone to see, it read, "Suizi is beautiful."

"Now, is there anything you all would like to say? Hmm?"

Back when he was writing the IOU, he was facing away from the Yu Family, making it easy for him to pull off small tricks.

Those people were too busy dreaming of a windfall, deceived by Yu Jingting’s sleight of hand.

The faces of everyone in the Yu Family turned ashen, even the old lady tried to argue back.

"Denial doesn’t matter, police appraisal will reveal the truth, forging an IOU, that’s blackmail and extortion."

Everyone turned pale.

Suizi wasn’t sure if there was such a crime as blackmail and extortion in this era, as the law was different from later generations.

But who cares, what she didn’t understand, these people who had long resided in the village, probably didn’t know either.

"Do you want to settle this publicly or privately?" Suizi continued to ask.

Seeing the situation had turned against her, the old lady slapped her thigh and sat down on the ground, hoping to play the moral card of "I’m the mother-in-law; whatever I do is justified."

"Grandma Yu, this has nothing to do with you, are you sure you want to get involved?"

"But, this matter concerns my second son..."

"He just cursed you to urinate uncontrollably for a lifetime — don’t you need to go to the toilet now?" Suizi remembered that the old woman had chronic elderly urinary infections.

The old woman had been feeling uncomfortable in her stomach. With Suizi’s suggestion, she couldn’t hold it in.

She got up cursing and stomping to the toilet.

With the influential old lady out of the way, the situation became easier to control.

"Chen Hansui, you’re heartless, aren’t you? It was you who made me say those things!" Uncle Two now wanted to beat up Suizi.

Yu Jingting, standing next to Suizi and rolling his wrist, gave Uncle Two a grimace and a chilling smile.

"Could you say that louder? I didn’t hear you clearly."

"...How do we settle this privately?" Uncle Two backed down immediately.

Settling publicly, as the name suggests, means calling the police.

With Suizi’s dramatization that the huge amount could lead to imprisonment of five to ten years, it convinced all the old folks in the Yu family, regardless of whether it was true or false.

Settling privately means the IOU would be declared invalid, and the cow would belong to the Yu family.

Uncle Two and others, after hearing this, chose to settle privately.

In the presence of village chief and others, they pressed their fingerprints on the agreement.

Just as Uncle Two and others were about to leave, the village chief spoke up.

"You’ve given the cow to Tiegen’s family, so when are you two families going to repay the money you owe to the production team for the cow?"

"The cow is now theirs; it’s no longer our responsibility! The IOU is invalid!"

The village chief pulled a baked potato from his pocket, looked at it, oh, he took the wrong thing.

He then reached into another pocket and took out two warranty papers.

"Tiegen’s debt to you is cleared, but you had an agreement with the production team before the fields were divided, that the cow is your responsibility, and the money is also yours to repay."

It was then that Uncle Two remembered.

He and his older brother had written a formal guarantee for the production team, trying to dupe Yu Jingting into repaying their high-interest loan, in plain language, they were attempting to obtain something for nothing from the production team, and then use this guarantee to exchange a cow with Yu Jingting.

"This is unfair! They took the stuff, but we have to repay the money?"

"Exactly!"

"The inner disputes of the Yu Family is none of the production team’s business, but black and white on paper, you two brothers wrote it, if you don’t pay, we will have to seize property from your home to repay the debt, you’ve just divided the fields, the land can also be used as a guarantee."

The village chief intentionally scared them, farmers’ land couldn’t just be seized casually, but, it was easy to deceive those who were ignorant of the law.

Uncle Two’s face turned pale, the plan to steal a chicken to get an egg had backfired.

They did not get the high-interest loan, tampered with the IOU for nothing, the cow belonged to others, carrying the burden of famine themselves, and they only divided the desolate sandy land....

It was too late to play helpless now.

Uncle Two and others could only agree to these humiliating terms and return home in disgrace.

As he left, Uncle Two stopped in front of the door of the Yu’s old house, stared at the grazing cow for a long time, his eyes full of killing intent.

The old cow was slowly swaying its tail, and the yellow unidentified object stuck to its tail had just been released, and was flung onto Uncle Two’s body.

"Damn, bad luck!" Uncle Two glared at the cow viciously, he planned to come over later that night and give it a fatal poison!

"Didn’t know who has bad luck; we were initially just charging an interest, but you had to be ingenious with changing the IOU, involving our family..." Uncle Two’s eldest son complained.

"You little brat! Your family didn’t disagree when I changed the IOU!"

The two groups argued heatedly.

Suizi was watching clearly through the window pane.

This is human nature.

Not to mention in-laws of unknown origins like the father-in-law, even real brothers can stab each other over interests.

"Jiaojiao, remember these people’s true colors. When you grow up, regardless of whether your brother and you have money or not, remember kinship is most important. Do not let greed break family bonds."

Suizi patted Jiaojiao’s head and spoke.

Jiaojiao nodded vigorously, she took the lesson to heart.

Old folks always say, giving birth to one child is too lonely, bearing several children provides companionship in crises.

This is both right and wrong, it’s not about the number of children you have, but how you educate them that’s the most important.

The old lady had been scheming against Yu Jingting’s family for years, thinking because they were not her own offspring, it was justified to exploit them.

Little did she know, her actions had already imprinted in the subconscious minds of her two biological sons.

Yu Shuiniu and Yu Shuigou, the two brothers, followed their mother’s example, their greed and apathy just as powerful as their mother’s.

They’re now hostile towards each other because of money, in the future resolving their mother’s old-age problems would likely not be as easy.

Waiting for the day when the old lady became senile in two years, Suizi believed her two sons were unlikely to be filial.

Plant the seeds of evil and reap evil results. She had no sympathy for the old lady.

Seeing these people, Suizi was more convinced of the importance of word-of-mouth and upbringing. Whether it was the child in her belly or Jiaojiao, she needed to invest in raising them well.

Good values should be instilled from childhood.

"Tiegen, I noticed your second uncle’s expression when he left was a bit odd, be careful he tries to sabotage your cattle." After the village chief and others left, they chatted privately with Yu Jingting.

"Let him scheme away; about the cow, I was just about to talk to you." Yu Jingting called Suizi over.

"Grandpa, we want to give the cow to another family in the village, the Yang family’s third brother has the money, we’ll sell it to them for the same price we gave if they want."

"Huh? Why?" The grandpa didn’t really understand. This cow was bought at a cheap price, it was a good deal, such a waste to let it go.

"The two of us, we want to buy the production team’s hand tractor."

"Cough!" The village chief choked on his saliva.

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