I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 193: The Rat Drops into the Rice Jar

Chapter 193: Chapter 193: The Rat Drops into the Rice Jar

What’s more severe than the "Crying of Seven Gates" is the ’×× touch’.

Of course, this is not something we could discuss in front of the children.

As Yu Jingting whispered into Suizi’s ear, her face turned red immediately.

"You guys are too——"

Young lads singing in rows, banging gongs and drums, and singing this outrageous song. This is too much!

"I can’t sing it, they were the ones singing. As they reached the part about touching the ear, the master of the house came rushing out, promising to send them away and forbade them from singing."

Yu Jingting was a bit regretful. He stroked his chin and recalled.

"I haven’t heard the complete version of this long-lost folk art."

"These city people, they are totally corrupted, trying to learn everything. Huh." Yujingting is curious about what the song says after touching the ear.

Suizi is speechless.

"You are the worst!!"

Thank goodness they didn’t finish the song.

If they actually finished it, all of these big and small guys would be caught and thrown into jail.

And Yu Jingting, the ringleader, wouldn’t be able to escape either.

"What were they singing exactly?" Jiaojiao is still anticipating the answer.

"Children shouldn’t ask such things. Treat your brother as a counter-example, and never follow his footsteps."

Suizi reveals a seductive smile.

"Jiaojiao, you like music a lot, right?"

"Uh——" Jiaojiao hesitates.

Although she does hum tunes and such, her intuition tells her that her sister-in-law’s gentle smile is suspicious.

"Remember that I had promised a reward for protecting our mother?"

"Yes!" Instantly, Jiaojiao nods vigorously. Who doesn’t love rewards?

"Come, your sister-in-law will take you to a good place..." Suizi grips Jiaojiao’s hand and takes her out the door, a smile playing on her lips.

Watching Jiaojiao’s bouncing figure, Yu Jingting chuckles.

"Jiaojiao is such a naive child, helping count the money even while she herself is being sold."

After a while, a sober-faced Suizi brings Jiaojiao back home with a gloomy expression.

"Oh, the naive child wasn’t sold?" Yu Jingting reaches out, flicking Jiaojiao’s forehead. "She is too naive. They don’t want her, right?"

Suizi took Jiaojiao to the house next door, where a primary school music teacher lives.

With connections made through her work, Suizi has managed to get in touch with him.

She brought local specialties and was extremely flattering, all for Jiaojiao to learn an instrument there.

When she brought the child over, the old man pulls out a suona.

Suizi and Jiaojiao couldn’t believe their eyes.

"I thought since he is a music teacher, he could at least play accordion if not the piano. Even a flute, qin, zither, or pipa would be fine. But suona? That’s all he plays?!"

"Why is that?" Wang Cuihua asks.

"He used to be a physical education teacher!"

Everyone at home bursts into laughter, except for Suizi, who remains gloomy and silent, brooding over some intense strategy.

She must cultivate her sister-in-law.

Trying each traditional art form from qin (Chinese chess), calligraphy, painting; she will surely find something suitable for Jiaojiao’s development.

"She is doing fine learning painting from you. Why does she have to learn some foreign things?"

"The more skills, the better. Each child is a treasure chest, you wouldn’t know her talents until you dig. What if this child has a gift for music? I wouldn’t let the flowers of our country be ruined in my hands."

Wang Cuihua gets frightened and doesn’t dare to utter a word, for fear that she will be given the label of ’delaying the progress of our country’s flowers’ by her daughter-in-law.

"Then let her learn the suona, it’s great. In the future, if she is not doing well in academia, she can play the suona for weddings or funerals. Once the suona starts playing, the village gets to eat. Whoever Jiaojiao is playing for, she gets to eat their food too."

"That’s great! I want to eat food, sister-in-law, I am going to learn!" The moment Jiaojiao hears there’s food, she immediately raises her hand.

Suizi, being annoyed, stretches her hand to pinch Jiaojiao’s cheek.

"Are you bought over just by a meal?"

Suizi is determined that the girls should live liberally. Not materially, but spiritually.

She has to cultivate Jiaojiao into someone who has seen and experienced things, a rich kid who knows her ways around; so she won’t be lured away just by a meal that Tiegen can provide.

"You look up to foreigners, Suizi. What’s wrong with the suona? How many people can understand the foreign piano compared to suona? When the suona sounds, it is time to eat, everyone in the country understands."

"Yu Jingting! I need you to withhold your opinion in regard to me raising the children! You love suona, go and learn it. I have no prejudice against suona, but Jiaojiao’s lung capacity isn’t enough, she can’t learn suona. We have to tailor the curriculum based on our student’s abilities, get it?"

"Fine, she can learn..." Yu Jingting mumbles, "We have given the music teacher next door several pieces of smoked meat. It would be a waste if we don’t learn."

In the future, when leading his gang to challenge another group, he can even play an accompaniment; there is nothing more suitable than suona for songs like ’the ×× touch’, or ’crying seven gates’.

"No way, I’ll continue asking around tomorrow, I can’t believe it. As someone working in the Department of Education, I can’t find a suitable music teacher for our Jiaojiao. Be it folk music or Western music, she must learn something."

"She’s gone mad for sure." Yu Jingting thought, "Letting you work in the Education Department is like letting a mouse into a rice bin."

Wang Cuihua and Jiaojiao both nod their heads in agreement. This analogy is apt.

Suizi is using all possible resources through her official position to benefit her children.

This is just the starting point with Jiaojiao. It’s not hard to envisage how Suizi would instruct the two kids in her womb when they are born.

"The best investment in this world is education, finding the field that your child excels at and cultivating it tirelessly. I plan to let her try things out initially and eventually let her narrow it down to one to two things she is good at."

Teacher Xiaochen becomes talkative whenever the topic of education comes up, completely contrary to her usual quiet demeanor.

"Well, sister-in-law, I just remembered I haven’t finished my homework. I am going to do my homework!" Jiaojiao excuses herself and leaves.

"I’m going to learn suona!" Yu Jingting also sneaks away, giving Suizi’s belly a rub along the way. Those two babies inside, having Teacher Xiaochen with such a steel-like will, are going to need luck on their side.

Suizi’s gaze falls on Wang Cuihua, the fervent aura in her eyes making Wang Cuihua incapable of movement——mainly because of her broken leg, she can’t move even if she wants to.

"Suizi, let Jiaojiao learn anything you want, I’ll help you watch over her. I’ll give her a beating with the feather duster if she doesn’t learn!"

"Educating Jiaojiao is an effort from the whole family. But I have some plans for you, mother. Look."

Suizi fetches a cloth bag and takes out a few books.

"Encyclopedia of Feng Shui at Home", "First Book to Learn Feng Shui", "Illustrated Three Essential Elements of Yang House". During your recovery period, read through all these."

Wang Cuihua: ????

"Divination and the likes are not encouraged by the officials, doing it isn’t a long term solution, but Feng Shui is different. All these books are published by official publishing houses, their publication indicates that this natural science is not frowned upon."

"But I can’t even read all the words..." Wang Cuihua voices her protest softly.

"I prepared a dictionary for you too. I have also heard that the history teacher living on our east side studies the Book of Changes, and apparently, he has some knack for it. You can ask him if you have any doubts."

"What Tiegen said is so true... you really are a mouse that fell into a rice jar."

Wang Cuihua finds it unbearable, having to learn at her age?

Seeing her mother-in-law’s unwillingness, Suizi remains calm and composed, and decides to unleash her ultimate card!