I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 172: Little Surprises

Chapter 172: Chapter 172: Little Surprises

"There’s pickle in your teeth."

Her soft voice sounded as if she was saying something profound, not something meant to embarrass someone.

Yu Jingting snorted in response. His girl was certainly putting her mastery of insults to good use.

Yang Caihong was left speechless by Suizi’s comment. She closed her mouth, secretly attempting to clean her teeth with her tongue, her face turning a deep red.

She mumbled under her breath:

"Who would have thought you two would end up as a couple, given how bad your relationship was in school—Suizi, don’t you remember?"

"What?"

"In the eighth-grade, you built a snowman at the school gate, and Tiegen flattened it with a pushcart."

"If you keep quiet, no one will mistake you for a mute," Yu Jingting retorted coldly.

Yang Caihong fell silent, her eyes clouding over.

With a hot water bottle in her arms, Suizi found herself drowning in a tidal wave of memories.

Winters in the north always came with thick snow.

That year she was assigned to clear the snow. Once finished, she had nothing to do, so she and her classmates built a snowman.

But while she was looking for something to use as a nose, Yu Jingting had driven over her snowman with a small cart, leaving it completely ruined.

The other students, seeing the school tyrant causing trouble, didn’t dare say anything. But Suizi fought back with snowballs.

Suizi could no longer remember how she felt at the time, but she must have been very angry, right?

Now though, remembering how Yu Jingting had run around the playground pushing the cart, it somehow seemed a little funny.

Seeing Suizi bury her face in her scarf, Yang Caihong looked slightly triumphant.

She remembered, Chen Hansui had cried a lot that day.

This incident would surely provoke a disagreement between Chen Hansui and Yu Jingting... Right?

"Haha!" Suizi lifted her head and laughed heartily.

"Why are you laughing?" Yang Caihong asked, puzzled.

"Jingting, why did you keep pushing the cart? Even when you were running away, you were still pushing it... it was so dumb, haha."

"...Dumb girl."

Yu Jingting let out a tiny sigh of relief.

He was a bit worried, fearing that she might bring up old grievances.

He had been pushing the cart that day to help clear the snow with the wheelbarrow.

But when he got closer, he saw the heartless little girl, playing with a bratty boy from her class, building a snowman.

Yu Jingting still remembered, the boy had a face full of pimples, giving her a smug grin.

As if he could tolerate that!

He drove over and flattened the snowman Suizi had been building for so long.

She chased him around the playground, attacking him with huge snowballs.

The snowballs hurt because they were hard, but her tears hurt him even more.

And they hurt for many years.

The pain reminded him every snowman-building season of the little girl crying in the snow.

After moving to the city, it was hard to find such thick snow.

So, he decided to do something for her before leaving the Wang family’s house.

Yu Jingting’s grip on the handle of the cart tightened. Yang Caihong bringing up this incident at this time had disrupted his plans.

Yu Jingting did some mental calculations. This meddlesome woman, Yang Caihong, was going to be in trouble.

He wanted to kick Yang Caihong off. Whether she wanted to go to the city or go back to the village was up to her, as long as she didn’t tarnish his tractor.

Yang Caihong, once again oblivious to his irritation, continued.

"Suizi, you also yelled that day on the playground that you hated Yu Tiegen the most."

"I remember yelling, but I only did so once. The rest of the time, I cursed him in my heart." After all, she was a scaredy-cat.

Yu Jingting’s inner volcano was on the verge of erupting.

"But, I don’t hate him now." She admitted, rounding off a little bit of liking for him.

Yu Jingting was miraculously appeased.

Suizi isn’t skilled at arguing, but she can reason well.

Seeing Yang Caihong’s relentless attempts to annoy her, Suizi calmly analyzed.

"Just because I didn’t appreciate some boys in my teens, doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate them now."

In her early twenties in her previous life, she disliked jewelry, finding it gaudy and vulgar.

After turning thirty, she started to find those gaudy and vulgar trinket delightful, she loved shiny gemstones. Wearing them made her feel beautiful and secured. Nice, right?

"Every seven years, our body’s cells get replaced. So after seven years, all the cells in our body are different. I’m me, but not entirely me. Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus? My relationship with Jingting from childhood to adulthood is similar to that."

"...." Can you speak in a way that’s more understandable? Yang Caihong roared inwardly.

"It doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard of it, look it up when you get home. Use a dictionary for words you don’t understand. The level of my wife, indeed, might be a bit profound for you."

Yu Jingting inserted a comment in a timely manner.

Although he also didn’t know what that Ship of Theseus was, it didn’t stop him from looking down on Yang Caihong who instigated discord and didn’t understand it.

"It’s been exactly seven years since he smashed my snowman. Our cells have gone through a full cycle of change, but Yang Caihong, your mindset is still stuck seven years ago. Perhaps your prejudice against the world has hindered your metabolism?"

A scholar will always be a scholar, showing off their love in a way that gives off an elusive sense of superiority that only a non-scholar could understand.

Yang Caihong felt like she was slapped in the face by this scholarly love proclamation.

She didn’t understand what Suizi was saying, but she felt the last sentence must be an insult, so she angrily turned her head away.

Yu Jingting looked in all directions and saw they were about to reach the entrance of the village, a smirk appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The "surprise" he prepared for Suizi was about to appear.

How should he remind her to look?

It should be in a way that looks natural and casual, in case she doesn’t like it... he wouldn’t feel too embarrassed....

"Ah! Ghosts! "

Yang Caihong screamed, startling Suizi.

"Ghost, ghost!!!" Yang Caihong pointed shakily at the village entrance.

It was still dark.

At the dark entrance, you could vaguely see two lumps of something.

"Ghost your grandpa!" Yu Jingting saw his surprise being mistaken for a ghost and his temples throbbed.

The spotlight on the tractor shone on the ground, and Suizi looked closely.

"Snowmen?"

At the end of the road, the soft moonlight sprinkled on the snowy ground, casting numerous twinkling points of light.

At the entrance of the village, there were two huge snowmen over a meter tall.

Yu Jingting stopped the tractor and motioned for Suizi to get off and take a look, but he didn’t forget to glare at Yang Caihong who ruined the mood.

His plan was ruined by this annoying person!

Suizi was helped off the tractor by him.

"Did you make these?!"

The two snowmen, one tall and thin, the other short and fat, had characters made of pebbles on them.

The tall one was Yu, the fat one was Chen.

Under the starry sky, the two snowmen stood together, with the Wang family compound behind them.

"I was out for a stroll yesterday, and just made these on the way." Yu Jingting kicked the snow with the toe of his shoe and said in a seemingly casual tone, "I ruined one of yours back then, so now I’m compensating you with two."

Suizi held her hand to her heart, as if it would control her pounding heart.

His handsome face was shrouded in the fog of his breath against the light.

Fearing that she would miss home, he made two snowmen to keep watch in the direction of her home.

A twenty-year-old young man does not have the capability to buy expensive jewelry or luxury cars.

These two goofy snowmen, naive and cheap, brought her immense joy, more than any jewelry or luxury car could.

Similar things had been done by Du Zhong and other men who had pursued Suizi in her previous life.

Suizi’s feelings at that time were completely different from now.

At this moment, Suizi suddenly realized something.