I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 281: Only You are the Sweetest (Additional - for 500+ Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 281: Chapter 281: Only You are the Sweetest (Additional Chapter for 500+ Monthly Tickets)

"Jingting, if you really want to go, then I——"

"Won’t let me on the Kang, right?" Yu Jingting interjected, "That’s your only trick, isn’t it?"

Suizi kept her head low and fell silent.

"If you want to go, then go." When she raised her head, her eyes were rimmed with red.

Just a second ago, Yu Jingting was determined to remain stubborn.

But at the sight of her tears, his heart softened like tofu.

Fearing that one more look at her might shatter him, he didn’t even finish his meal but got up and left.

Wang Cuihua looked dismayed, they were just having a casual meal, how did it suddenly turn into this?

"Mom, I’m going out for a bit." Suizi stood up, fighting back tears.

"You’ve only eaten one bowl of rice, aren’t you going to eat more?" Wang Cuihua sighed, feeling very troubled.

Suizi left home and headed directly to Professor Sun’s place.

She planned to make a long-distance call to her mother, Chen Lijun, to see how she felt about the situation.

Chen Lijun lived in Beijing and had access to more information than most people. Suizi thought her mother would agree with her and adopt a conservative stance.

But to Suizi’s disappointment, her mother contradicted her.

Chen Lijun assessed the current situation to be very favorable; there were signs of a relaxed grip on trade regulations at higher levels.

Not only did she not advise Suizi and her husband to be content with their lot, but she also highly praised Jingting’s recent performance.

Now, Suizi found herself standing alone.

There was no one on her side.

After leaving Professor Sun’s house, Suizi suddenly felt exhausted.

She found a place on the curb and sat down, watching the hustle and bustle of the street. She felt completely out of place.

In reality, she could understand everyone’s perspective. If she hadn’t been reborn, she would have made the same judgment as Yu Jingting.

To everyone else, her ideas were overly conservative and even unexciting.

She had no effective measures to stop the development of events and felt useless.

Considering the time, Jingting should be off shopping for goods with his mother by now.

Tears slid down her cheeks, only to be abruptly caught by a hand.

With a somewhat dazed look, Suizi looked at the man by her side as if asking him why he was there.

Yu Jingting casually wiped her tears with one hand and pocketed the other, looking at the sky and feigning a casual demeanor.

"Such a beautiful lady here, where’s your man? Would you like me to keep you company?"

"Why are you here? I thought you were——?"

"Suddenly, I had change of heart. There’s no need to cry."

As he wiped away her tears, Suizi was in disbelief. Did he really abandon his plan for her?

Seeing her about to speak, Jingting took out a chewy candy from his pocket - actually made of malt sugar. Due to its extreme stickiness, it was nicknamed accordingly.

"I’ll use this candy to seal your mouth. Don’t ask what you’re not supposed to."

Suizi pouted. He sure was foul.

"Alright, I admit, although your move is old —— it’s still quite effective."

In fact, he didn’t care whether he slept on the Kang or not.

After all, he had a bed, a sofa, a chair with armrests — ah, these armrests were quite handy. But this was not the point.

The main point was, he couldn’t bear to see her cry.

Although Jingting thought money was quite important, if it meant making her angry, earning it or not wouldn’t make that much of a difference to him.

With a cheerful laugh, Suizi took a small bite of the candy he had handed her. It had a flavor from her memories.

"Is it sweet?" Yu Jingting saw her smile and felt relieved.

"Mhm, you taste it."

He lowered his face to lightly kiss her lips. Mhm, it was indeed sweet.

Professor Sun was worried about Suizi. Seeing her distraught appearance earlier, he decided to check on her.

However, to his surprise, he caught them in the middle of a public display of affection.

Professor Sun blinked, backed off silently, and retreated back into his house. The youth indeed were... impassioned.

This young couple’s dispute came quickly and also ended quickly.

Suizi had thought Jingting would question her for stopping him, but he didn’t ask anything.

This kind of consideration appearing on a man like him – it was a contradiction that harmonized itself well and Suizi had to admit, she was quite smitten.

So on the way back home, Jingting took advantage of the situation by proposing several new ideas that Suizi usually rejected. In a moment of impulsiveness, Suizi agreed to all of them.

By the time she realized that she seemed to have been tricked, it was already too late for her to take back her words.

Compared to Jingting’s considerate nature — which might have also been a hidden agenda — Wang Cuihua’s reaction was undoubtedly more intense.

She kept pestering Suizi, asking her why she did it.

When Suizi had left home earlier, Wang Cuihua had taken a stroll around the Morning Market and happened to see several familiar faces leaving in a horse-drawn carriage in the direction of the main road.

Weren’t these the people who set up stalls at the Morning Market?

It was obvious that they were going to stock up on goods. On seeing this, Wang Cuihua felt disheartened. While others were on the road to riches, her son and daughter-in-law were wrangling at home, worrying endlessly.

Suizi couldn’t answer her mother-in-law’s question and remained silent.

When Wang Cuihua saw Suizi wouldn’t answer her, she became even more angry.

Seeing his mother’s expression, Jingting quickly tried to smooth things over with a cheerful story.

"I have a funny story to tell you guys, to lighten the mood."

"I don’t want to hear it!" Wang Cuihua, not wanting to vent her anger on Suizi, took it out on her son instead.

"But this story concerns my dad and Suizi’s decision, don’t you want to hear it?"

Suizi and Wang Cuihua were both attracted by his words, especially Suizi. Her decision, how did he know?

"My uncle here got into terrible trouble, hahaha!" Jingting said.

Upon hearing this, Wang Cuihua also broke into laughter, and the pain of not being able to buy goods to earn money was temporarily alleviated. She hadn’t forgotten that Yu Shuiniu wanted to dig up their family’s grave, so hearing about their family’s misfortune brought her pleasure.

"Tell me, what sort of trouble did he get into?"

"Apparently, he was tricked into borrowing a ton of money and now he can’t pay it back. He took his whole family and went into hiding. People in the village saw them in a mountain cave when they were picking mushrooms."

Wang Cuihua clucked her tongue. This was really a case of the wicked getting what they deserved. Justice had been done.

"I hope this family can repay the debt before winter sets in, otherwise won’t they freeze to death in the mountain cave in winter? By the way, who’s the one who did us a favor and got them into this trouble, huh?"

Suizi thought to herself, the one who did us a favor is your dear son, isn’t it?

"But, what’s your uncle’s misfortune got to do with Suizi stopping us from buying goods?" Wang Cuihua, half of her anger gone, looked amused now.

"Isn’t my uncle’s bane born out of offending my dad? And Suizi dreamed of my dad too, right, wifey?" Jingting winked at Suizi.

"Huh?" Suizi didn’t quite catch on.

For Suizi, who was timid and had a conscience, telling a blatant lie was a bit of a challenge.

In order to avoid her messing it up, Jingting activated fabrication mode and spun a yarn to his mother.

He said Suizi dreamed of his deceased father, who told them to stop their current activity, otherwise, he would find ten or eight mistresses, which would leave him all worn-out and require him to drink tiger bone wine.

Suizi’s lips twitched in disbelief, this was completely outrageous. Who would believe this?

"I’ll thump him! If he dares, I’ll find a few people to dance and twist over his grave!" Wang Cuihua made a show of anger, pounding the table and cursing loudly.

Suizi was dumbfounded. Her mother-in-law actually... believed that.