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Chapter 254: Jingting’s Water Management Is Better Than Blocking

Chapter 254: Chapter 254: Jingting’s Water Management Is Better Than Blocking

Chen Lijun never knew that the maiden she raised had such courage.

At home, she was always introverted.

After getting married, her personality drastically changed.

She accepted the fastest explanation of her origins given by Chen Lijun.

She devised a brilliant countermeasure that even Chen Lijun couldn’t have imagined.

The reason for her daughter’s significant character change—

Chen Lijun glanced at Yu Jingting.

At this moment, he was coaxing Suizi to eat more while laughing and playing around.

No matter what Suizi’s real identity was, it was less important than making sure she was well-fed.

If it was someone else, Chen Lijun could suspect that they were just pretending, but how could anyone be oblivious to such a big secret?

But for him, it was not surprising.

Yu Jingting also grew up under her watch. Although he appeared frivolous, he was very meticulous in his actions, perpetually nonchalant, but outstandingly effective on the rare occasions he was serious.

Perhaps it was Yu Jingting who changed Suizi’s character, but Chen Lijun was not sure if this change was beneficial for the future.

"I don’t want to eat anymore." Suizi put her hand on the bowl, her little face puckered up, "Do you think I’m a pig?"

"Pigs are much cheaper, you are a wild pig... cough cough, a little beauty." The man who got hit on the head with a green onion quickly changed his words.

"Anyway, I don’t want to eat anymore, I have serious matters to discuss!" Suizi felt like the mutton was about to reach her throat.

Yu Jingting, this big bad egg, took advantage of her distraction to secretly feed her, and Suizi was stuffed by him while she was pondering.

"We’ve already agreed on everything, so what is there to think about? Mom, you go back and act as usual, we will deal with Fan Hua. When the time is right here, you can follow my wife’s plan, behead someone to show sincerity."

"Cough cough!" Suizi choked on her food.

She hit him with her hand.

"That’s called a pledge of allegiance! It’s not about beheading someone! Beheading someone is illegal!!"

Who taught him this skill of explaining things randomly?

"It’s all the same." Yu Jingting looked at Chen Lijun as if seeking her approval, "Mom, I’m not the same as I used to be, I’ve got some culture in me now."

After marrying a learned person, not only did he learn the bird language, but his literary quality also improved, hadn’t it?

Chen Lijun cheekily looked at Suizi. Her gaze clearly said, "Is this how you teach him culture?"

Suizi looked innocent.

She swore that all she taught was serious stuff.

But his magical brain came with a filter, which could transform serious stuff into non-serious stuff.

Every single time he mentioned calcium oxide, beheading someone, or carrying large baskets, she also felt desperate.

"You speak so lightly about it. How do you plan to take down Fan Hua? At present, only Suizi’s horoscope matches his, besides Suizi, what else can move him?"

"Wife, is that thing still around?" Yu Jingting asked.

Suizi nodded, stood up and walked into the room, and brought out a package wrapped in red cloth.

"What is this— where did you get it from?"

Chen Lijun unwrapped the red cloth and it turned out to be a wild ginseng.

Getting your hands on such a thing is all down to luck, even rich people may not be able to buy it.

"Previously, Jingting acted bravely for a just cause, so those people were grateful and gave this to us."

Chen Lijun looked at Yu Jingting in surprise. It’s not easy for this guy not to make trouble, could he actually do good deeds?

"It wasn’t voluntary bravado. This young woman instigated it all." Yu Jingting sighed and nibbled on a piece of a green onion with a world-weary expression.

"Given the Fan Family’s wealth, getting hold of wild ginseng wouldn’t be difficult. But if it’s presented by the exiled Fan Hua, the nature of it changes. Don’t you think the other households, seeing Fan Hua so active, might start to feel restless?"

Fan Hua is notorious for being a prodigal son, viewed by the Fan family as a disgrace.

"Jingting is already making his way into Fan Hua’s circle. While Fan Hua may be a simpleton, we aren’t. So, we let Jingting accompany him and show off some achievements. When the rest of the families become restless, they’ll naturally start pulling strings."

Let them be their own downfall.

This strategy of internal disintegration might take time, but it opens up the strategic layout.

"By the time those families start panicking, Mother, you go and talk to them and submit me as a ’pledge of allegiance’. At that point, the remaining families are bound to investigate and when they find Jingting hanging out with Fan Hua, they’ll naturally seize the opportunity to tell the old master that I’m an imposter."

No matter if Suizi is an "imposter" or not, those families will not believe her.

There’s no way they would let Fan Hua and his third family take credit.

Chen Lijun herself has a past with someone from the Fan family. Those families can’t determine whose interests she represents, creating mutual suspicion.

By then, when fake becomes real, and real becomes fake, Suizi would be safer.

"Dayu’s father, Gun, tried to control the flood by building dikes, which was labour-intensive with minimal effect. Dayu, on the other hand, did the opposite, he dredged the river to drain the flood, effectively controlling the water disaster. Mother, your previous actions were like Gun, my wife is like Dayu."

Chen Lijun felt as if she had been slapped invisibly. Yu Jingting’s words left her with no room to rebut, because they seemed—rather reasonable.

"You’ve truly come a long way, even understanding Dayu’s flood control now?" Chen Lijun raised an eyebrow.

"My wife tells me that knowledge is interconnected, it can be applied at any time."

Suizi covered her mouth with an empty cup and sent it towards her lips. A little man in her heart was shouting, she didn’t say that, he was making things up!

Since Suizi became pregnant, the frequency of their intimate moments had greatly decreased.

Yu Jingting was getting anxious, so he sneaked some reading in, looking for some classical references.

China had a civilization of five thousand years; he didn’t believe there wasn’t some wisdom left by the ancestors on how to make love?

For instance, the legend of Dayu and his father controlling the water, he felt it was brilliant, especially relevant.

Shouldn’t there be a smooth flow instead of a chronic congestion?

Suizi’s face turned red. She pinched his thigh under the table.

A good classic was interpreted by him in a sexual way, now she wouldn’t be able to face Dayu’s flood control!

"I seem to have missed a lot." Chen Lijun looked somewhat bitter while watching the interaction between the young couple.

The timid Suizi had been coaxed by Yu Jingting into becoming more fearless, and the street ruffian had gained a layer of goodness by sticking to Suizi.

They had grown into what the other hoped for.

However, as her mother, Chen Lijun was not involved in it. To say that she didn’t regret it would be a lie.

Just as she was lost in her thoughts, there was an extra piece of meat in her bowl.

Picked up by Suizi.

"It’s not too late to join now."

Suizi awkwardly stared elsewhere, her face still had a faint blush, there was no trace of her previous sorrow in her eyes.

Chen Lijun took a bite of the meat and savored it carefully.

"It’s overcooked." Her sharp tongue didn’t soften.

"If you don’t want it, fine." Suizi prepared to pick up the bowl.

"I’ve already eaten it, now I can’t spit it back out, should I let your mom help you pull it out— damn it, you pinched me again!"

Yu Jingting was furious, how many times had he been pinched?

If he wasn’t there to mediate, could these two awkward individuals reconcile?

Chen Hansui, this young woman, not only humiliates him when the lights are out, but also gives him a lottery-style surprise, and she even pinches him!

You just wait and see how I give you a lesson in "Dayu’s water control" tonight, thought Yu Jingting as he glared at Suizi fiercely, thinking his gaze was intimidating.

Suizi didn’t even look at him at all. His "violent" gaze was, in the end, wasted.