I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 260: Do You Think I Still Have a Chance?

Chapter 260: Chapter 260: Do You Think I Still Have a Chance?

"He’s there during the day."

"Chen Hansui, caught in the act of lying, aren’t you? If he’s there during the day, how can he not be there at night? Surely he wouldn’t walk home in the dark late at night?"

"Well, he really does walk home at night. I have to get a prenatal check-up during the day, and he worries about me."

Bam.

That sentence put out Wang Jialan’s fire.

"It doesn’t matter if Jingting’s not here, it’s the same with me joining you for dinner. After all, you have been a great help to my family." Suizi smiled at Wang Jialan.

To the villainous Wang Jialan, this smile interpreted as the flaunting of a victor.

"Chen Hansui, weren’t you the ones who promised to treat me to dinner? Is this how your family keeps their word? I helped you sell ginseng at a high price, and this is how you thank me?"

The waiter served steaming hot dumplings at the table. Suizi clamped one and placed it in Wang Jialan’s bowl.

"Eat it while it’s hot, it’s pretty good."

Wang Jialan looked at Suizi, couldn’t swallow a single dumpling.

Jiaojiao, while eating dumplings, gave her sister-in-law a thumbs up in her heart.

It seems that she should not only imitate her street-smart brother, but also learn this infuriating routine from her sister in law.

No swearing or yelling, still smiling and utterly polite, but able to enrage people to death.

What a high-level feeling! Jiaojiao carefully memorized the details of the two’s confrontation, planning to relay them to her brother when he returned.

"Husbands and wives are one, so what’s wrong with him sending me to invite you to dinner? I will treat you exactly as he would, you can eat as much as you want, even take a doggy bag."

Wang Jialan slammed her hand on the table, stood up and pointed at Suizi,

"Are you showing off in front of me? Are you not afraid that I will spill the beans about the ginseng?"

Suizi still sat steadily, her eyebrows didn’t wrinkle at all, she just motioned a ’shush’ with her finger on her lips.

Assuming Suizi was afraid of her making a fuss and that she had grabbed Suizi’s handle, Wang Jialan hooked up a smug smile at the corner of her mouth.

"Miss Wang, you better keep your voice down."

"Scared? Hehe, that ginseng must not be worth that much, right? If Factory Director Fan knew about this, could he let you, a profiteer, off the hook? This must be your corrupt idea given to Tiegen!"

Wang Jialan hoped to scare Suizi, even to threaten her with this secret.

Suizi simply calmly ate a dumpling, asked the waiter for a bowl of free dumpling soup.

She didn’t respond to Wang Jialan’s words.

Ignoring others while eating and drinking to one’s heart content, left Wang Jialan both angry and perplexed.

Has Chen Hansui been scared silly by her? Shouldn’t she be begging her to keep the secret? She is enjoying the food... she’s taking things too lightly!

"Miss Wang, I’m not asking you to keep quiet in order to protect me. It seems it’s you who should be pleading with us now." Suizi, after gulping down most of her dumpling soup, finally broke her silence.

"Me, plead with you?" It seemed as if Wang Jialan had heard a tall tale, and she let out a cold chuckle, "You guys were the ones to sell the ginseng at a high price, what do I have to be afraid of?"

"But you were the middleman. You even pocketed 10 yuan from Factory Director Fan. You can’t escape if they settle accounts—ah, and one more thing." Standing, Suizi leaned towards Wang Jialan, whispered in her ear in a voice only they could hear.

"Later, when his wife was not there, you two were alone in the study for ten minutes. Your hair was disheveled when you came out. The following day, you had the money to buy this pair of shoes."

Wang Jialan’s face turned white immediately.

How did she know about this?!

Suizi sat back down and continued drinking her dumpling soup, finishing up the rest of the bowl.

"Tell me, if Fan Hua’s wife knows about this, would she invite you to eat the dumplings? Ones stuffed with human meat."

"Cough!" Jiaojiao, her mouth still half-full with an unswallowed dumpling, looked at Suizi with a pitiful face.

Sister-in-law, can you not bring up such disgusting matters while people are eating?

Suizi made a shushing sign with her hand and winked at Wang Jialan.

"Coveting things that don’t belong to you never ends well—come, eat more dumplings."

She finished speaking and put another dumpling in Wang Jialan’s bowl.

Wang Jialan was so scared that she stood up without saying another word and hurried away.

"Is that it?" Jiaojiao thought of the dumplings with human meat; she lost her appetite and grumbled quietly.

"I charged my brother one buck just now, and I wanted to really upset her. Could she just run away like that?"

Does she dare to show off in front of her sister-in-law with just this much guts?

"Sister-in-law, you were so cool today, especially like Aunt Lijun, especially that look in your eyes—so cool!"

Jiaojiao imitates Suizi’s demeanor when looking at Wang Jialan.

That kind of calm yet majestic feeling was really great.

"Take the leftovers home. We can’t waste food." Suizi signaled the waiter, using the act of paying the bill to hide the joy in her heart.

She would not tell her sister-in-law that for the desired "instant kill" effect, she rehearsed quietly for a few times at home.

From the gaze to the speed of speech, everything was rehearsed.

After reconciling with her mother, Suizi no longer felt upset when others said she looked like her mother. In fact, there was even a bit of smugness.

"Every girl will eventually turn into her mother, and life always makes us into the person we once disliked."

Jiaojiao seriously recites this phrase. Actually, she doesn’t really understand its meaning, she just thinks it sounds cool to say.

"Who taught you that?" Suizi is surprised.

"My teacher. I have been playing ’Moms Are The Best in The World’ recently. My teacher said I’m not getting the right sentiment, then she taught me this."

Jiaojiao thinks that she’s not good at playing it because of her brother.

He would play the suona all the time. The melody basically "soaked into" Jiaojiao’s musical interpretation, so she played it with a particularly melancholy tone, and her teacher has smacked her hand a few times over it.

When Suizi heard that it was Professor Sun who said it, it’s no wonder the level was so high. She nods and shakes her head.

"Your Aunt’s words, you need to consider them critically; she’s right, but also not. Destiny is indeed cyclical, many girls eventually become their mothers, because they’ve grown up together and their mothers’ images have been carved into their subconscious."

Just like Suizi, even though Chen Lijun didn’t deliberately teach her, she learned to cook Lijun’s signature dishes.

Those things are etched into the marrow and are hard to change.

"Aunt is too pessimistic. Who says mothers’ images are always annoying? Take our mom, for instance. You might not like her nagging you, or her hitting you with a feather duster—"

"But I quite enjoy watching her hit my brother, heh~"

"..."

Jiaojiao senses her sister-in-law’s silent gaze and quickly mimes zipping her mouth shut.

Suizi, fiercely protective of her husband, may continue lecturing. Jiaojiao will just listen——If she tells her brother what her sister-in-law just said, he would be overjoyed.

At least, he could take a few extra cents, right?

"Our mother is a great mother. Even if she isn’t perfect, she gives you the greatest maternal love. If you could grow up to be like her, it wouldn’t be a bad thing."

"Uh, no thanks. I don’t want to give birth to an ungrateful child like my brother..."

"Jiaojiao, I remember that you only came second in this month’s monthly exam. Copy the answers to the questions you got wrong five times at home, okay?" Suizi’s smile was very amicable.

Jiaojiao: (☍﹏⁰)

If she praises her brother with five hundred words right now, will it still be on time?