I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 189: Why Treat Honest People Like This

Chapter 189: Chapter 189: Why Treat Honest People Like This

Starting an argument with a Revival Pill, Suizi had done something completely unheard of before.

She knocked out Uncle Two and his wife, then went straight into their house.

Yu Jingting squat outside, looked at the two fake corpses that had fainted, and gestured to the neighbor.

"....Do you need me to get some hay?" The neighbor accidentally blurted out in surprise.

Was Yu Jingting going to set on fire Yu Shuiniu and his wife?

"Give me a cigarette."

The residual power of the Wangs’ street battle was still there, so the neighbor handed over a cigarette with both hands.

Yu Jingting lighted it up, took a deep puff, then exhaled the smoke ring with satisfaction.

Since his wife’s pregnancy, it hadn’t been so easy for him to smoke a cigarette. It felt almost like a New Year’s celebration.

"Tiegen, aren’t you going inside to check? Your wife seems to be a decent person, but your mom’s temper —"

The neighbor stopped mid-sentence.

Yu Shuiniu and his wife were well known for having bad relationships with people in the village. The old lady was not easy to deal with.

Teacher Xiaochen looked like a civil girl. What good could come out of her confronting the unreasonable old lady?

"Those are women’s matters. It wouldn’t be appropriate for a man like me to get involved."

The neighbor had an epiphany.

The old lady had been acting out too much lately. Even the people in the village couldn’t bear it any longer.

"Your wife is right to deal with this. Your mother won’t listen to you, and as a man, it isn’t fitting for you to jump in. Everyone can understand that your wife sympathizes with her mother-in-law and wants to reason —"

"You little wretch! Dare you talk to me like this?!" The furious voice of the old lady reached them.

Suizi’s voice was too soft to be heard from the outside.

"You, you, you bastard!" The old lady’s voice was clearly losing its strength.

The neighbor was incredibly curious.

What exactly did Teacher Xiaochen say to the old lady to make her so angry?

The old lady was now swearing up a storm.

We will skip over 500 words of unprintable profanity here.

"Can’t you just ask your wife to speak a little louder?" The neighbor’s curiosity had reached its peak.

Yu Jingting closed his eyes, enjoying the smoke peacefully.

"She’s an educated type, so she doesn’t tend to raise her voice."

Hushed tones from the outside, soft cries in the dark similar to a kitten’s meowing — but words that can claim a person’s life don’t need to be loud, do they?

"Call for help! I can’t live anymore~~~" The old lady’s roar, filled with sobs, could be clearly heard from inside.

The neighbor swallowed hard.

To make the old lady cry in anger, this was some educated woman!

One by one, the neighbors all came over, intrigued by the old lady’s worsening cries of distress — or perhaps calls for reinforcement.

More than the old lady’s breakdown, people were more curious about what the educated wife of Tiegen, the one with a degree, had said to the old lady.

No one dared to go in.

Tiegen squat at the doorway smoking - this was his stance.

Women’s affairs were not meant for his male intervention.

Anyone who dared to go inside and interfere with his wife’s business would have to see if his fists agreed.

Inside, Suizi, with her soft voice and calm tone, continued:

"We were just discussing the fourth point, let’s move on to the fifth one, ’to be old and not die is to be a thief’."

"Shut up! I don’t want to listen to you talking nonsense!" The old lady spewed out angrily.

Having lived a good portion of her life, this was the first time she’d ever been treated in such a manner. She was about to lose her mind.

Suizi, as if she didn’t hear her, continued.

"’To be old and not die is to be a thief’, what does it mean? It means, when you were young, you never accomplished anything. Then you grew up and amounted to nothing but an old parasite."

Arguing was not her forte.

But Teacher Xiaochen knew how to teach a lesson.

She had made a list of the old lady’s ten faults before she came. She was just talking about the fifth one now.

Teachers could explain a point by breaking it down into smaller pieces, and Suizi expanded on this fifth tenet.

"From what I heard, when you were young, you were known throughout the township for being lazy. After getting married, you even got worse, idling about while eating your fill. Jingting reported that you once baked a litter of piglets alive with yellow mud... quite outrageous indeed."

"Bu..Bull...Bullshit! None of those things happened! I only roasted the piglet after it died!"

"You premeditated to kill the piglet just to eat roasted suckling pig? Let me add that to the list."

Saying this, Suizi pulled out a piece of paper from her pocket filled with various "deeds" of the old lady.

In the fifth point, she added "Killing piglets for roasted suckling pig" to the list.

The old woman was so angry, she was rolling about.

"Next, let’s talk about the sixth point. The sixth point is pretty simple, using idioms inappropriately because of your lack of education."

Ten minutes later.

Suizi finally reached the tenth point.

"The last point, which I personally think is the most serious one, is blaming others for your own wrongdoings. What does this mean, Granny Yu? If you don’t want to listen, you can get off the kang (brick bed)."

"Good, since you didn’t get off the kang, I assume you want to listen."

"If you have the guts, untie me!!!"

The only reason the old lady hadn’t come down to hit Suizi after listening to her for so long was that the first thing Suizi did when she came in was to tie her up.

Tell me, how would an old lady feel when a person she least expected comes in suddenly and ties her up without uttering a word? Shocking, right?

The shocked old lady had only been able to roll around to express her anger after being tied up by Suizi for so long.

She couldn’t move her arms or legs, crawling about on the kang (brick bed) like a maggot.

"Blaming others for your own wrongdoings means accusing others of the wrong things you have done. I have always wondered why Granny Yu, you held on to the matter with my mother-in-law so tenaciously. You both had similar experiences of being widows, logically, you should understand the pain my mother-in-law went through even more."

The old lady, who was too tired to struggle or crawl about, could only stare at Suizi with eyes full of hatred.

But the next words out of Suizi’s mouth gave the old lady goosebumps.

"I thought about it over and over, and the only plausible explanation is that after your husband’s death, you were the one who relied on other men to raise your children, right, Granny Yu?"

"You’re talking nonsense!"

"According to the clues provided by Jingting, three months after my grandfather died, you and old Wang from the neighboring village made secret rendezvous in the cornfields."

"!!!"

"Five months after my grandfather died, one night you didn’t come back home."

"How did he know I didn’t come back? He doesn’t live in the same village as me!"

"Jingting said, how could he not know something that everyone in the village knows?"

The old lady’s self-perceived flawless secret has long been seen through by Jingting.

When Suizi was working on this "Proclamation to Catch the Culprit", he had added quite a few things to it.

Some of it was fabricated just to make the old lady angry, and some was fatal.

This tenth point was fatal.

"What on earth do you want to do? You..you.. you want to kill me with anger!"

The old lady felt as if Suizi had touched her Achilles’ heel, let out a pained yelp and started to cry.

This cry, complete with snotty nose and teary face turned her whole face grotesque, but it did look pitiful.

Seeing the elderly woman in her twilight years, tied up on the brick bed by a younger generation and crying so miserably, Suizi felt her eyes getting moist as well.

Her crying was even more pitiful than the old lady’s.

"Granny Yu, both Jingting and I are honest people. Why did you force us to this point?"

"...???"

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