I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 205 Is this it?

Chapter 205: Chapter 205 Is this it?

Borrowing years of life, such a baseless and unproven concept, isn’t something even a scholarly and serious metaphysician like Teacher Wang would dabble in.

Even Wang Cuihua, who participates in folk rituals and trance dances, would refuse it.

Insiders sneer at such a thing.

The idea of borrowing life to prolong life is well-recorded in unofficial histories, and there’s no shortage of believers.

However, for those devoted to spiritual cultivation, such actions would hamper their progress, harm their virtue, and affect their descendants.

For unbelievers like Suizi, this is all just superstitious nonsense.

Wang Cuihua possesses a bit of a knight-errant spirit.

Angered by such nonsense, she had her son leave a guy’s face scratched up.

"Teacher Wang said that guy was the director of a workshop, managing hundreds of people. That’s his ability? What a joke!" Wang Cuihua thought it over, she felt that they were too lenient with that guy.

"The wealthier the person, the more they believe in this nonsense. Probably guilty about something." Suizi also feels repulsed.

Because of Li Youcai, she feels aggressive distaste for anything that reeks of superstition.

After Wang Cuihua cursed a few more times, Suizi joined in. The mother and daughter pair vented their anger, and then Yu Jingting came back.

"Did you jump into a mud pit or something?" Wang Cuihua hardly recognized her son.

His entire body was covered in cement dust, standing in the courtyard he looked like a mud statue people would believe in.

"Helped carry some cement."

"Could carrying cement make you look like this?" Suizi felt like he had fallen into a cement pit. She wanted to heat some water for him, but she felt like he couldn’t get clean at home.

"You should go to the bathhouse."

I wonder if this kind of condition should carry an extra charge?

Yu Jingting emptied out all his pockets and placed the money on the bed, looking extremely smug.

"Quickly fetch some clothes for your man, I’m off to the bathhouse!"

"Showing off just because you made some money?" Wang Cuihua picked up the money, its thickness made her feel like something was fishy.

"Ten, twenty, thirty..." Oh my, five hundred?!

"Yu Tiegen! Get over here! What did you do? Did you rob someone?!" Wang Cuihua shouted. Suizi stood by with the same expression as her mother-in-law plastered on her face.

"Robbing? I earned this money! I’m going to take a bath, and when I come back, I’ll tell you about it─Stew up some meat for your man! I want meat!"

A man who has earned money has a completely different air about him.

"Oh no, what did this child do? Suizi, do you think he’s made a mistake?" Wang Cuihua was scratching her heart anxiously.

"It probably wasn’t that bad ..." Suizi didn’t sound very convinced herself.

Ever since Yu Jingting bought a tractor and came to the city, he indeed earned money at a faster pace. But it wasn’t enough to suddenly make five hundred.

Such a sudden change put her in a state of fear.

After Yu Jingting had taken a bath, he returned a clean and handsome young fellow again.

As soon as he entered the house, he was greeted by the scent of meat. His wife knew how to take care of people, she had already prepared some braised meat.

"So what did you do today? Where did you get that money?" Wang Cuihua was the first to question; she had already prepared her feather duster.

"Just led the guys in transporting some goods."

"What goods can earn you five hundred? Did you..., did you help transport something that shouldn’t be transported?" The word "drugs" flashed in Suizi’s mind, her lips trembled in fear, "You better turn yourself in."

She was so preoccupied with her fear that she forgot to consider if drugs even existed during those times. She just felt that get-rich-quick schemes usually didn’t bode well.

Yu Jingting was nearly choked by the braised meat. After coughing a few times and gulping down a few mouthfuls of water, he finally recovered.

"Can you wish me something nice? What did I do that you want me to turn myself in?"

"Tell the truth and be strict!" Wang Cuihua whipped the bed with the feather duster, a couple of feathers fluttered in the air.

"...Old woman, did you break your brain along with your leg? Tell the truth and be strict, then how about resisting?"

"Even stricter!" Jiaojiao stood by the side of her sister-in-law and mother-in-law, chiming in perfectly.

The three women in the household stared collectively, like they were conducting a tribunal. Under such pressure, Yu Jingting had no choice but to confess everything truthfully.

There’s no way he made that much money from carting goods.

The key issue is, he had a fight while hauling the goods.

The factory location had been chosen by upper management long ago, and work had been underway for some time.

But there had been trouble from upset villagers in the area. They claimed the factory disrupted the Feng Shui of their ancestral tombs, and insisted on raising the issue with management.

Several interventions from the city had failed.

Today, matters escalated when they stormed the construction site and chopped open bags of cement.

"Chopping cement... what a foolish move," Suizi finally understood why he’d come home looking like a statue.

"I guess they didn’t know what was in the bags, so they just wanted to act tough," she said.

It so happened that Yu Jingting and his buddies were delivering goods at that time. Those people surrounded Yu Jingting’s tractor and even threw paint on it.

Who is Yu Jingting anyway?

He’s a tough character who, ever since childhood, would eat melons from the Wang family’s courtyard without ever paying.

Could he tolerate this injustice?

The brothers following him were also quick to ignite. They had become acquainted with Yu Jingting through fights in the past.

When Yu Jingting raised his hand, his brothers joined in.

The villagers causing trouble were intimidating usually, but crumbled when they met a firm resistance.

Yu Jingting and his gang beat them down, and remembering Suizi’s advice to protect himself legally, they captured the troublemaker leading the pack and took him straight to the police station.

So, out of this 500 yuan, besides his deserved wages, the rest was a bonus from the construction project.

But it wasn’t given for free.

He and his brothers are responsible for guarding the construction period, ensuring that no one will come to cause trouble again.

Upon consideration, Suizi realized that they had been enlisted.

It wasn’t unacceptable, but she had to set some ground rules upfront: they could maintain the normal order, but they wouldn’t do anything out of line.

Every cent in her family had to be earned honestly, a point she had long made clear to him.

Wang Cuihua, hearing that they weren’t going to do anything bad, finally relaxed and started to calculate this month’s income with Suizi.

The family was still in debt to the villagers by 3000 yuan. With what Yu Jingting made this month plus today’s bonus, they had just over 800 yuan.

Once they had reached 900 yuan, they were planning on going back to the village to pay off a portion of it.

Suizi’s plan was to clear the debt within six months. From the look of it now, they’ll be able to pay it off before then.

After dinner, Suizi pulled Yu Jingting into their room, closed the door, and started taking off his clothes.

"Hey, you can’t rush to eat hot tofu," Yu Jingting cooperated willingly, smiling even more brightly.

But nothing happened as he had hoped after she undressed him.

Suizi scrutinized him, inspecting him from head to toe.

Only when she confirmed that he wasn’t wounded did she relax her furrowed brow.

"Alright, you must be tired too, put on your clothes and rest."

"???" That’s it?

"You’re dismissing me just like this, after I’ve made so much money for the family?" Aren’t you going to shower me with affection?

"After so much physical labour and a fight, do you still have the energy?" Suizi rolled her eyes at him. Did he think he was Superman?

"Fine. If you don’t want to reward me, no big deal. But I need to see our kids. Their dad was so awesome today. I need to tell them personally, right?"

Suizi tried to push him away, but couldn’t. Was it because his face was too big?

"First tell me the important stuff, then we can get to, um, other things."

"What are the important things?"