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Chapter 170: Growing Up to be Just Like His Father

Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Growing Up to be Just Like His Father

Private plots were not allowed to grow watermelons or cantaloupes. They could only grow vegetables, or else, it’d be considered sowing the seeds of capitalism, and that would be unthinkable!

Only the production team had a plot of land dedicated to watermelons, the melons produced there would be sold in the city accompanied by a letter of introduction from the team, selling melons without this letter would be a big deal.

When the melons were ripe, there’d be someone specifically assigned to guard the melon field.

So, how had the father and son of the Yu family come into contact with these watermelons, assets of the production team?

Despite the alluring description of "a sky full of stars" and "filial piety between father and son" from Yu Jingting’s mouth, Suizi made a decisive analysis:

The father and son were stealing them!

Thinking of the two red jade stones dug from someone else’s grave in her mother-in-law’s hands, Suizi could imagine what kind of character her father-in-law was.

This was a second Yu Jingting, right!

A fierce bandit from Dongbei!

He escaped to the border, became the boss of an underground gambling dens, ruthless from his youth till his old age.

"Don’t get hung up on these details!" The tone of Yu Jingting’s sentence confirmed Suizi’s speculation.

Family style of being fierce... Suizi touched her belly, leaning on Yu Jingting.

"When the child is born, you won’t take him to steal melons, right?"

It’s one thing to falsify constellations names.

Stealing melons and digging graves, on the other hand, should be off the table.

The answer she got was a meaningful gaze from Yu Jingting.

"Education, we need to start from a young age."

Suizi twitched a little, the word ’education’ coming from a fierce man didn’t seem like a term of praise!

"I find something quite odd, why do I feel like, you and our father are the true lineage of the old Yu Family? Those two uncles, they aren’t pure."

The original Yu family had bearded men.

But among this generation of uncles, the truly powerful one was Yu Shuisheng, the child who was brought back with an unknown origin.

Not only is Yu Shuisheng fierce himself, his son Yu Jingting, also shows signs of toughness ingrained in his bones from a young age.

Even Jiaojiao, a girl not even ten years old, stands out among her peers.

Even when Jiaojiao isn’t doing well in her studies, she is still a brave child, she might be mischievous and talk back to her teachers, but she would never do something sneaky.

In one sentence, the Yu siblings are fierce, but upright.

But those cousins, from top to bottom, are lewd and disgusting.

They are always scheming behind others’ backs, whispering and gossiping, but they couldn’t face confrontation, they are bullies and cowards, their behavior has no trait of the imposing bandit successors.

"Who knows what’s going on with those fools." Yu Jingting didn’t want to think about those troublesome folks of his family, once he and Suizi settle down in the city, he would bring their mother and sister over. Out of sight, out of mind.

"So... what kind of person was your father in your memory?" Suizi probed with caution.

"Afraid of his wife, haha, I am not like him, I am a pure man."

"Apart from that?" Suizi ignored his unconvincing latter half sentence.

"He was good at hunting, a skilled farmer, a single man who could do the work of two and a half able-bodied men, but he could also eat a lot."

"Isn’t that just like you?"

Yu Jingting strutted with pride.

"I’m more handsome than him!"

"..." He’s indeed handsome, and his face is genuinely thick.

"What’s with that look?" Yu Jingting squinted, if this young woman dares to say he is not handsome, then she needs to face the consequences!

"In your heart, he was a good father, wasn’t he?"

Yu Jingting did not answer, he only looked up at the stars in the sky, his eyes filled with fond recollections.

Suizi understood.

The influence of a father on his son is immense, Yu Jingting has molded into the image of his father.

In how he approaches marriage, how he treats his family, it’s exactly the same.

The father who stole melons with Yu Jingting, must have been a sacred figure in his heart.

And in the future, he would protect the child in Suizi’s belly just like his father, and will pass down the characteristics of this family from generation to generation.

Suizi becomes more determined in her aspiration to make money.

Far away on the border, there was a ten-year-old mystery waiting for her and him to uncover.

As soon as they save up their first pot of gold, they’ll have to go there, no matter what.

His hand rested on her belly as he frowned.

"It’s been over three months, why is there still no bump? Where did all the food go?"

Suizi guiltily hid her chubby hands in her pocket, as if that way he wouldn’t notice how chubby she had grown.

Her cute yet futile course of action made him burst into laughter.

"It’s fine, gaining some weight makes it seem like our family has money. How about brother takes you for a ride in the tractor?"

He still hasn’t given up on the plan to show off his tractor.

A plump wife + a tractor, they’re quintessential symbols of a wealthy family!

"....I’ll start dieting tomorrow." To avoid taking a ride around the village in a tractor, Suizi was determined.

"If you dare to go on a diet and starve our child, you’re showering and sleeping on the Kang Bed!"

"When we move to the city, we won’t be sleeping on a Kang Bed." She’s about to be a city person who sleeps in a bed!

Suizi’s cocky remark was swallowed in Yu Jingting’s princess-carry.

"Ah! Put me down!" Suizi cried out in surprise, her hands wrapped around his neck.

Not only did Yu Jingting not put her down, he twirled around in the yard carrying her.

Laughter and screams echoed in the courtyard, permeated with the flavor of love.

Yang Laosi, who was just on the other side of the wall, squatted holding his legs in a pee-holding position, could not help but feel like crying as he listened to the jovial laughter of the couple.

Those two on the other side just can’t dwell in their mushiness! Do they ever consider letting other people use the toilet?!

In the end, Suizi did get on Yu Jingting’s tractor.

The vehicle was filled with stuff.

Bedding, clothes, local products, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, pickles, rice, cornmeal...

Heading to the city, leaving Yang village.

They set off before dawn, fearing Jiaojiao would cry when she woke up and couldn’t see her sister-in-law.

Wang Cuihua sent the couple to the entrance of the village. Yang Caihong, the eldest girl of the Yang Family in village, was also present.

She was going to the city to visit relatives and wanted to hitch a ride.

Yang Caihong’s mother, after sending her daughter to Yu Jingting’s tractor, started to thank Wang Cuihua for having such a good son, and also praised Suizi for being capable enough to work in the city.

As soon as Wang Cuihua turned her head, she pulled Yang Caihong aside and whispered:

"Girl, pay attention to where Yu Tiegen and his wife live in the city, don’t let them escape on their tractor."

Suizi clearly heard everything.

"Auntie, I work at night school, and Tiegen will often come back. Besides, both his parents’ and my parents’ houses are here. The monk may run away, but the temple can’t."

Yang Caihong’s mother turned beet red.

Luckily, Suizi didn’t take it to heart, and she understood the villagers’ concern rather well.

She and Yu Jingting kept their plan to move to the city a secret.

Only when her documents were completely transferred, and the city sent a letter having her report to work, the villagers found out she got a good placement.

They still owed the village people thirty yuan for this tractor, even if they only paid half its cost. The villagers were afraid they would run away, which was understandable.

Suizi anticipated this, and was neither surprised nor annoyed.

If roles were reversed, she understood the villagers’ concerns, and had anticipated that someone would follow them to the city.

The only thing Suizi didn’t expect was, that this "mole", would be Yang Caihong.