I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 249: Tiegen’s Extremely Satisfying Confession

Chapter 249: Chapter 249: Tiegen’s Extremely Satisfying Confession

"I have no idea what the real issue is between you and our mother,"

As soon as he finished speaking, Suizi’s tears began to fall.

"You’re trying to deceive me again!"

"I didn’t finish speaking! Take your golden beans back!" Yu Jingting widened his eyes, using the harshest tone to say the weakest words, "If you cry for me again, I’ll stop talking to you, choke you with curiosity, make you never know the truth!"

"But I know, she definitely cares about you,"

"Did she buy you off? How much did she give you?"

"Am I the type of person who has no principles?"

Suizi nods earnestly - he certainly is.

"You heartless girl! How I treat others is another story, but have I ever been dishonest with you?"

Suizi thought for a moment. Before today, he really hadn’t kept anything from her.

"You had hot pot behind my back,"

"Damn it!" Yu Jingting was so mad that he turned around and left. Suizi could only hear a cluttering noise.

What was he rummaging in the kitchen?

Was he so infuriated that he was chopping his hand or something?

The mental image made Suizi go pale and she rushed out to check.

He was holding a scallion in one hand and a bowl of sauce in the other.

Eating his way fiercely through scallions dipped in sauce.

In her hometown, there was an unscientific habit - eat raw scallion to calm your anger and drink cold water to soothe your nerves.

"Let me cool myself down before we continue. You petty grudge-holder, isn’t it just a hot pot? Later, I’ll bring half a sheep home, so you can have your fill, won’t that be enough?"

Suizi, who was still upset, was amused by his action of eating the scallions. She couldn’t laugh out loud, as wouldn’t that mean she’d lose her momentum?

"You should know what kind of person Chen Kaide is; he loves comfort and hates work, he drinks heavily and does no work, your family is so poor, without your mother-in-law and me, how could you go to school?"

"I got a government grant for vocational schooling"

"But what about before vocational school? Wasn’t it her who struggled to make ends meet to support you? There was this one time when the three of us stole melons from the production team to sell..."

"You said my mom stole melons?"

Suizi wasn’t able to connect the idea of her mother, a refined woman, stealing basic supplies from the socialistic production team.

"Yeah, not just your mom, but also my mom and I. Do you remember that when you were ten, you often had melon to eat in the middle of the night?"

Suizi was slack-jawed. So, back then she was also a "co-offender"? Although she didn’t directly participate, she did eat!

Back then she was still small, half-asleep when Chen Lijun woke her up to sneakily eat the watermelon hidden under her blanket, afraid of being found out.

"Chen Lijun said that you love watermelon, she’d rather sell less and take the risk to bring one back for you. If she didn’t care for you, why would she bother?"

"Not just melons, but also the production team’s chickens, apricots, grains... whatever she could get her hands on, she always thought of saving it for you to eat."

"Just how much stuff have you guys stolen from the production team?!"

No wonder he and her mother were so familiar, all this was built upon the basis of stealing socialist melons!

"Don’t worry about these details, isn’t she good to you? Don’t you really know this?"

These words reminded Suizi of the past.

Yes, how could she not know that? But the better the past, the more painful it is now. Because of this stark contrast, she was unwilling and afraid to think of the past.

Once she started recalling those good times, she would overthink, not understanding what she did wrong that made her mother dislike her so much.

"I don’t understand all the complex stuff you educated people say. I’m talking about simple truths here. If our mom only had one melon, she wouldn’t eat a bite; instead, she’d leave it all for you. If this isn’t love, what is?"

Suizi was all teary-eyed and silent, listening to him.

"There’s something else I didn’t want to tell you, and she didn’t want me to tell either..."

"What?"

"Just now, Wang’s sister asked what would happen if her child was bullied or even sold while staying in her mother-in-law’s house. What do you think I replied with?"

"You said have someone watch secretly... when she left, she found you to look after me?!" Suizi understood all at once.

She didn’t know about any of this in her previous life.

Thinking about what he said, her mother had done some bad things with him and his mother back in the day. He and his mother must have been people her mother really trusted and could only rely on!

"So, you took care of me all the way to bed!"

Yu Jingting smirked.

"True to mother and daughter, even speaking the same way, she scolded me in just the same way."

Suizi attempted to hold back her laughter while crying, stopping as soon as she started, her expression seeming to say: I’m crying here, I need to maintain my sadness

Looking at her acting so cute, Yu Jingting couldn’t resist reaching out to touch her face, but Suizi slapped his hand away.

"Then why did she say such terrible things to me? I begged her and she told me that I had nothing to do with her and to never bother her again."

No matter how many years have passed, recalling these words still hurts.

Chen Kaide had said similar things to her too. After Chen Lijun left, every now and then he would insult Suizi with harsh words. Suizi didn’t care, even finding his tantrums not worth her time.

But when Chen Lijun said it, Suizi was in pain, unbearable pain.

That’s someone she cared about, her only relative. People who aren’t important can never hurt you.

The pain that cuts the deepest is always given by those closest to you.

"I don’t know why she said those things either, but I can guess that there has to be something she feels unable to discuss. At Chinese New Year, she nearly blew a fuse."

"Chinese New Year?! How many hot pots have the two of you eaten behind my back?!"

Yu Jingting sighed. She truly missed having hot pot...

"The homemade cured foods you made were what I brought her for Chinese New Year. She came from afar, hoping to take you back. If it weren’t for my smart, brave, and earnest - of course, I’m also quite a handsome guy - she probably found me decent enough to leave you with me."

"..."

All Suizi had in her mind were exclamation points.

So many things she didn’t know had occured. Her mother had secretly watched her and even tried to take her back!

Her heart didn’t seem to ache as much, so perhaps, her mother didn’t really not want her?

"Look in the mirror, not only do you look like her, but your personality is like hers too. Both of you are stubborn. You’re here resenting her, and she’s there, bearing it all and refusing to speak up. So you thought I was merely having hot pot behind your back?"

"Then what were you doing-"

Yu Jingting rubbed his crew cut and righteously declared,

"As I’ve explained, I was undercover! I attempted to corrupt her proletarian spirit with capitalist mutton!"

"...Who exactly would be the proletariat when you compare yourself to her?" This man really had thick skin.

"Don’t be so vulgar. I’m talking about emotions, understand? I have all of your feelings, while to you, she’s only this much." Yu Jingting demonstrated with his thumb and forefinger, showing a size no bigger than a fingernail.

"Alright, comrade undercover, what did you find out?"

Yu Jingting leaned over to Suizi’s ear and lowered his voice.

"The beef over at the East Gate is fake; they’re ripping people off with pork. I’m going over to demand a refund, that should get you a free meal."