I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 277: Who is Buried After All

Chapter 277: Chapter 277: Who is Buried After All

Yu Jingting brought Suizi home, the little couple had some fruit and rested a bit before Liao Yong came over.

As soon as Yu Jingting saw him, he stood up, holding his hand with both of his, his face serious.

"Those vendors fled too fast, I couldn’t keep up with them, I failed the organization’s trust in me."

A corner of Liao Yong’s mouth twitched, he’d never seen someone with such thick skin before.

"We weren’t here to catch vendors, we came for you."

"Brother Yong! My brother is a good man!" Jiaojiao put down her fruit, hooked her arms around Liao Yong’s waist and didn’t let go, her protest was filled with passion.

"My brother and sister-in-law are both devoted to contributing to the Four Modernizations!"

All the main melodies that Suizi taught her in her compositions, praising Yu Jingting, were all used here.

"Calm down, little Jiaojiao, I’m not here to arrest your brother."

"Oh, why didn’t you say so earlier?" Jiaojiao’s crying stopped suddenly, she let go of her little hand, and casually rubbed the juice from the fruit on Liao Yong’s clothes.

"Your niece stops and starts like a recording—how did she master such control?" Liao Yong was astounded by Jiaojiao’s ability to start and stop crying at will.

"Jiaojiao studies piano, her understanding of music is better than average people. Her emotional control is also quite apt."

Liao Yong was speechless, unable to respond to that remark.

Why did he feel like Suizi’s understanding of the Yu family members was severely skewed?

Jiaojiao was clearly a drama queen, but in her sister-in-law’s mouth, she became someone with excellent emotional control?

"We are looking for Brother Jingting in relation to Yu Shuilian’s issues."

Suizi made a pause gesture and called Jiaojiao over.

"Your sister-in-law is giving you one yuan."

"Wow!!!" Jiaojiao sprang up.

"Your sister-in-law has a mission for you, go to Uncle Wang’s house and distract our mother. Don’t let her come back until Brother Yong leaves our house."

Wang Cuihua was currently exchanging opinions on metaphysics with Neighbor Wang, she could come back at any time.

Jiaojiao jumped out.

Things from her past life made Suizi feel that her in-laws had a 90% chance of getting back together, but great expectations bring great disappointments.

Wang Cuihua couldn’t handle such great ups and downs, any schisms would cause her to collapse.

Suizi and Yu Jingting reached an agreement.

They wouldn’t let their mother-in-law know until the investigation was clear.

Suizi said to Liao Yong:

"You may continue."

Liao Yong maintained his stupefied expression, he was shocked.

People were only earning forty or fifty yuan per month, but to give a child one yuan as pocket money, what concept was that?!

Liao Yong struggled every day whether to buy the 0.28 yuan Feitian or the 0.35 yuan Daqianmen cigarettes.

The wealthy Yu family could give their children such a generous amount of pocket money!

The tears of poverty started to well up in his mouth. His envy turned into swallowing his saliva.

"Does your family still need a brother, the kind that can get paid one yuan in pocket money?"

"Our family is already full, you can only hope for it to happen in your next life." Yu Jingting hinted with his words and gently touched Suizi’s stomach.

Liao Yong sighed.

"True, I can only hope to be reborn as your brother next life."

Suizi silently sympathized with the distressed Liao Yong. She thought, did this street urchin mean, he wanted to be reborn as their son?

Let’s put the issue of seniority aside for now.

Liao Yong moved on to the main topic.

Yu Shuilian was caught by Suizi and her husband, and the gang behind her also surfaced.

"Suizi initially provided us with an important clue, allowing us to investigate the relationship between Yu Shuilian and the missing Ergou. After we investigated throughout the night, we had an astonishing discovery."

When Yu Shuilian was caught, she hinted that Yu Jingting and Suizi’s biological father wasn’t dead. The body found in the water which was so swollen it wasn’t even recognizable as a human anymore, was actually Ergou.

Suizi purposefully mentioned this to the police.

The police followed the clues and discovered that prior to Ergou’s disappearance, he had had a fight with Yu Shuilian’s father-in-law over a domestic dispute.

Ergou disappeared the day after their fight.

Yu Shuilian’s father-in-law was a prime suspect.

This was the reason why Yu Shuilian was stumbling over her words when she mentioned Ergou’s cause of death.

However, Yu Shuilian’s father-in-law passed away three years ago, her words were the only evidence, with no solid proof.

"We originally planned to find Ergou’s body for verification. If what Yu Shuilian said was true, there’s a high possibility the body buried in Brother Jingting’s ancestral tomb is Ergou’s."

This case has encountered difficulties at this point.

Ergou was an irresponsible man, his parents died early. When he disappeared, it was rumored that his wife celebrated by continuously eating her favorite noodles for several days before remarrying a few days later.

No one reported him missing.

"However, with our current technological capabilities, even if we were to exhume the body and conduct an autopsy, we would still be unable to confirm the identity of the dead. It’s been too long.

Suizi vaguely remembered that DNA technology would only be introduced a few years later, and at this point, the body buried in the Yu family’s ancestral tomb should have already decomposed. It was normal that they wouldn’t be able to identify it."

Liao Yong concluded apologetically.

"Ergou had a similar physique to Jingting’s father, he wore similar clothes and was about the same age. Even if we were to exhume and verify the bones age, there could still be a ten year fluctuation. So... it’s best if you don’t hold out hope for finding Jingting’s father."

Regardless of the lack of technical means, and not being able to conduct body identification to determine exactly who was inside, even if they were to wait a few more years for DNA testing to be introduced, the members of the old Yu family might not agree to dig up the ancestral tomb."

With only Yu Shuilian’s sworn statement as a single piece of evidence, it was impossible to change the current situation.

The couple, Yu Jingting and Suizi, fell silent.

The little couple had mentally prepared themselves for this outcome already. However, hearing Liao Yong say it made them feel a mix of emotions.

To Jingting, it felt as if a big jar was hanging over his head.

He couldn’t reach the jar overhead. No one knew whether the jar was filled with honey or feces.

He waited anxiously for it to fall, unable to test it, only able to wait for the jar to fall on its own to verify the outcome.

After Liao Yong left, Yu Jingting honestly expressed his feelings to Suizi.

"Honey, it’s a jar of honey." Suizi confidently replied.

"How do you know?"

"Didn’t our mother say that I’m the reincarnation of a Lucky Star? Sometimes you have to believe in the Lucky Star’s intuition. After the child is born and stable, we can start looking. They must be found."

She didn’t say the phrase that usually followed, ’Dead men must have a corpse’.

She was convinced that her father-in-law was alive. She had seen it with her own senses in her past life, how could it possibly be wrong?

"Just thinking about Ergou being buried in the old Yu family’s ancestral tomb... it makes me feel uncomfortable." Yu Jingting touched his chin.

Thinking back to when he and Suizi had to come up with a plan to ensure the relatives of the old Yu family didn’t desecrate his father’s grave, they’d spent a lot of effort.

Yu Jingting loved his grandfather, even if he might not be his biological grandfather.

But knowing his grandfather’s grave was next to Ergou’s, he felt uncomfortable, he always felt like he owed his grandfather an apology.

Suizi comforted him.

"You have to let this go. We can’t go back and move the grave now, we can’t explain it to our mother."

They would have to wait until the child was born, and they had discovered their father-in-law’s whereabouts, before considering whether to move the grave."

"Our mother should be coming back soon, I’ll call her." Yu Jingting stood up, ready to go out, when an intense quarrel pierced through from outside.

"It’s our mother— Is she fighting with someone?!"