I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 33: Classmate Yu and Teacher Xiaochen

Chapter 33: Chapter 33: Classmate Yu and Teacher Xiaochen

"Class dismissed!"

Over twenty children in the classroom stood up, energetically saying goodbye to the teacher.

The school was short-staffed, Suizi was currently teaching third and fourth grades, covering all subjects.

As students gradually filed out, Suizi checked the stove.

It was very cold in the north during winter. Even in early winter, they had to heat the stove. The firewood was brought by students from home. Every day, a student on duty came early to start the fire.

Children in this era had to help their parents with farm work after school.

Even a relatively spoiled child like Jiaojiao in the village could feed pigs, chickens, sweep floors, and light stoves. Other kids were even more capable. Some could already be considered as little laborers, especially good at working during the busy farming season.

Take for example—

Suizi’s gaze fell to the corner of the classroom.

Leaning against the window was a tall, thin girl, dressed in tattered, dirty clothes. This was Luo Erya.

The Luo family lived in Yuanjia Village, which was quite a distance from the elementary school. Everyday, Erya had to walk over an hour to school and then back after class.

Her family was poor. Her father was ill and her mother had passed away early. At the same age as Jiaojiao, she had already taken over most of the household chores. Besides heavy physical farm work, she could do all other tasks.

"Why haven’t you gone home yet?" Suizi asked.

"I——" Luo Erya looked dazed, her eyes unfocused.

"Is something on your mind? Would you like to talk to the teacher about it?" Suizi pulled up a chair and sat next to her, asking gently.

Luo Erya looked helplessly at Suizi and saw encouraging eyes.

Suizi had been wanting to have a heart-to-heart talk with the children. Today was a good opportunity.

Aside from wanting to deal with Li Youcai, Suizi’s other purpose in teaching at the elementary school was to help Luo Erya.

"Stay away from her, she is infested with lice!" Jiaojiao, after collecting her homework notebook filled with doodles, came over and tugged at Suizi.

When the homeroom teacher was still around, Jiaojiao used to hide and draw when the teacher wasn’t looking.

Now that her sister-in-law was here, she no longer bothered to hide it. She even brought the "Sun Wukong" toy her brother bought to the classroom today.

Chewing on the Sun Wukong toy while doodling, she seemed to be someone with special privileges.

"Look at her neck, it’s as black as a dirty axle. Don’t bring her lice home!"

Jiaojiao’s words made Luo Erya clench her lips tightly and leave with her tattered bag.

"Don’t forget to bring firewood tomorrow. You’re the only one in the class who hasn’t brought any yet!" Jiaojiao shouted at Luo Erya’s back.

Luo Erya walked faster.

"After we get home, I need to talk to you about manners." Suizi could not care about educating her little sister-in-law at the moment. She had to catch up with Erya to share a few words.

She just came out of the classroom when she bumped into a "wall".

"Isn’t this Teacher Xiaochen? You threw yourself into my arms."

"???" Why was this rascal here at school?

"Seeing you dawdling around, I came in to check." Having waited for a while at the door without seeing her come out, he just walked in.

"Wait for me." Suizi left Yu Jingting and ran after Luo Erya.

"Here." Suizi pulled out a pair of brand new woolen socks from her pocket and stuffed them into Luo Erya’s hand.

The child had been walking barefoot for several days now. With the weather getting colder, she must be very uncomfortable.

"For... me?" Luo Erya looked at Suizi with surprise in her eyes.

"You wasteful little girl, the money you get from substitute teaching isn’t enough for all this gift-giving, is it?"

Yu Jingting took out a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket and started munching on them, tossing the seed shells all over the place.

"Right, she is so wasteful —— Bro, why did you hit me?"

Yu Jingting slapped his sister on the back of her head.

"She is your sister-in-law, if I say it’s fine, it’s fine!"

Jiaojiao grabbed all the sunflower seeds and kicked her brother before running off. Even after she ran far, she stuck her tongue out at him.

"If you encounter difficulties, you can talk to your teacher. If you feel that it’s inconvenient to talk at school, come to my home —— why don’t you come with me today."

"To your house?!" Luo Erya exclaimed.

"Yes, your clothes are torn. Let me mend them for you."

"You don’t need to worry about me." Luo Erya turned around and ran away before her tears could fall.

Looking at the retreating figure, Suizi’s lips tightened.

She was not sure if she had reincarnated in time to change history. Erya’s response made her a bit uneasy, she worried that she had come back too late.

"Why are you so concerned about her?" Yu Jingting came over and put his arm around Suizi. He noticed that Suizi’s attitude towards Luo Erya was very different.

Suizi pushed him away.

"Be mindful of our image at school." She was a teacher now; they couldn’t just be casually pulling and pushing each other in front of the students.

Her serious and proper demeanor seemed tantalizingly irresistible.

He walked into the now empty classroom and touched the blackboard.

Suizi thought that as the man touched the blackboard, gazing deeply at the chalk words on it, he was regretting not having studied hard at the proper age.

The reality was miles apart from what she thought.

It was a gap large enough for Sun Wukong to turn two somersaults.

"This blackboard carries so many of my horrible memories." The man seemed very melancholic and depressed.

During his school days, he was often pulled out by his teacher to stand in front of the class as punishment, facing the blackboard for the whole day.

"This podium is filled with the painful memories of your youth?"

"One day, I’ll have a go at it here, have you laying against the blackboard, and my painful memories will turn into happy ones."

Touching his chin, Yu Jingting looked at Suizi with unabashed intentions.

This idea was too delightful.

Teacher Xiaochen calling out student Yu, she loved him so much - this was delightful to no end.

"???"

A man’s imagination often has its own unique way of working. Lord knows what was going on in his head.

Feeling ashamed for feeling sorry for such a jerk, Suizi frowned and walked out quickly.

"Teacher Xiaochen~you need to give me private tutoring in bed -- um!"

His audacious words were muffled by Suizi’s hand. Still, he continued winking cheekily.

The result of his shameless talk – Suizi ignored him.

She walked ahead quickly, with Yu Jingting chasing from behind, tugging at her bag occasionally.

It was just like their school days when he used to follow her around causing mischief.

"Yu Jingting! You are so idle, why don’t you go eat some cow dung at the entrance of the village! Why do you keep sticking around me?"

Suizi was irritated by his restless behavior.

"How long did you sneak around to think that one up?" Thinking about his wife secretly cursing him behind his back was just too adorable.

Suizi blushed, she’d thought about it the whole night.

"Are you trying to kill me with laughter?" Yu Jingting grabbed her face for a moment. If they weren’t outside, he would have bitten her lip also.

Before the wife’s volcano erupted for real, he put away his jokes.

"It’s been unsafe recently. I’ll pick you and Jiaojiao up from school."

Suizi felt a pang in her heart. When he mentioned that it was unsafe, was it related to her coming to teach at the elementary school to save Erya?

For the current Suizi, Erya was just a student she had met by chance, but for Suizi in her previous life, things weren’t the same.

The sight of this couple standing and chatting together was also seen by Li Youcai.

They were about to divorce. As long as that event occurred... Li Youcai glared at Yu Jingting through the glass.

What Li Youcai didn’t know was that the conspiracy he was thinking of was directly related to Suizi’s purpose for teaching at the elementary school.

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