I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 332: Money and People Exchanged Hand in Hand

Chapter 332: Chapter 332: Money and People Exchanged Hand in Hand

The wait this time seemed extraordinarily long.

So long that Suizi thought the other side had disconnected.

Eventually, a reply came from the other end, though the voice seemed somewhat hoarse.

"Why...don’t you find your biological father?"

"My biological father is just a farmer who drinks heavily. He’s uneducated, has no class, no income. How can I ask such a person for help?"

"You know very well, I’m not talking about that man in the village!"

"I want to live. I want to stay alive. Therefore, my biological father can only be Chen Kaide from the village. Isn’t this the best outcome for both you and me, and for the whole situation?"

"Indeed, you are very smart, just like your mother -- no, you are even smarter than she was. At twenty, she was not nearly as mature as you."

"Have you ever lost something?" Suizi asked.

The man was taken aback.

At his status, few people dared to confront him so directly. Most people inflated his ego and went along with him.

"Indeed, I have suffered losses before," the man answered her question nonetheless.

"Then you should understand that all maturity begins with loss. For someone my age, being praised as mature only signifies that I have experienced more loss than others, that’s all."

"Good, very good, absolutely brilliant," the man said the word "good" three times in a row.

"And so, Chen Hansui, the daughter of the villagers, everything will be as you wish. Your existence has brought me great surprise."

Suizi furrowed her brows in response. But the man didn’t give her a chance to think it over, abruptly ending the call.

Third Aunt, sitting at the side, let out a breath she had been holding throughout, having watched Suizi conversing serenely but tensely.

"Suizi, what did he say?"

The Suizi who had been coolly negotiating just a second ago, was supporting herself by the table in the next second, and said to Third Aunt with a bitter smile:

"Could you give me a hand? My legs are numb."

Actually, her knees felt weak, from fear.

She claimed her legs were numb to save face. As her family’s fate hanged in the balance, how could Suizi possibly not be nervous?

Her calm demeanour was all an act.

"And Lijun too, how could she disappear when something like this happens? Even if she can’t be here in person, she can’t let you, heavily pregnant as you are, deal with everything alone."

"I suspect my mom has gotten into some kind of trouble."

Suizi touched her belly with a guilty look.

After learning that her mother had been missing, she promptly contacted her uncle, who should already be trying to figure out the situation in Beijing.

"If I weren’t about to give birth, I would’ve gone myself, but..."

On one hand is the person who gave her life, on the other hand is the person she’s about to give life to. No matter whom she chooses, she’s failing the other.

"Third Aunt, I once thought that if I was smart enough and careful enough, I could solve any problem. But now I see that this idea in itself is immature."

If fate could be controlled by people, then people in this world wouldn’t have to experience all these separations and reunions, all these complicated emotions.

"Oh, you’ve already done so well. I can’t even imagine what I would do if I were in your situation at your age."

Third Aunt, too, had been stressed these past few days because of Suizi’s problems.

When Suizi’s family is in trouble, troubles always come in droves, piled up and unsolvable.

"When you don’t know what to do, you just keep on going, and you’ll eventually get through it."

However, Suizi alone knows how much struggle these steps entail.

"Poor girl... If you’re feeling upset, just cry it out with me. Seeing you like this, my heart aches."

Suizi dried Third Aunt’s tears and gifted her a warm smile.

"Don’t worry, it will be alright."

Third Aunt swallowed her tears and forced a smile, only hoping for this complicated situation to end soon.

Fan Gao, once sober, came to the old Yu’s house again only to find Suizi missing.

"Where’s my daughter?"

"Where’s my money?" Wang Cuihua spread her hands, her face showing a greedy expression.

Fan Gao didn’t expect that Suizi’s mother-in-law would prove to be so difficult to deal with!

Four days were left until the chosen day arrived.

He had planned to have Suizi undergo a Caesarean section at a specific hour, so that the child born would have a strong and fortunate fate, which would bring him endless good luck.

His road to wealth and glory was so close, and the critical figure, Suizi, had disappeared! This was unbearable!

"She’s an adult, keeping her locked up is against the law!!!"

"Wow! You’re truly a coffin-walking hypocrite!"

"What do you mean?"

"You’re utterly shameless!" Wang Cuihua crossed her arms, her flirting expression conveying that while she couldn’t outsmart Suizi, she was quite adept at cursing.

"What are you to my daughter-in-law? You keep calling her your daughter, why don’t you show me in your household registration book where it says you two are father and daughter? If you have the guts, report it to the police right now—if you dare to report..."

"How...dare you?!" Fan Gao was rendered speechless by Wang Cuihua’s audacity.

"If you dare to report, then you’re a fool indeed!"

"Speak...properly!!!"

"You lack both face and a life! Do you dare to admit to the authorities how you got a daughter illegitimately?"

He didn’t dare! Fan Gao roared inwardly.

If this were to get out, losing face would be the least of his worries. This would be an absolute scandal. Once the other families got hold of this information, he would be completely ruined.

"So, here’s the deal: Give me money. All I want is the money. It’s a simple transaction -- money for the person -- and don’t think of kidnapping me. If anything were to happen to me, Suizi would share the same fate!"

Wang Cuihua had gone over these words countless times. When she said them, she was thinking of her ruffian son, imitating Yu Jingting’s delinquent attitude, offering some semblance of authenticity.

"I don’t have that much cash!"

"Hah! The piano, you must’ve bought it on credit as well, didn’t you? Also the washing machine. Do you plan on deceiving my daughter-in-law then leaving us to foot the bill?"

Fan Gao drew a breath. This woman is just an illiterate rural woman, how could she know so much?

Indeed, Wang Cuihua did not know all of these sources. These were things Suizi had noticed.

After Suizi discovered the notification was a scam, she immediately suspected the man had malicious intent.

To put it more accurately, the man didn’t intend to let her live.

The plan was to trick her into having the baby at the right time then extinguish all her possible paths to life.

If Suizi didn’t know that the notification was a scam, she would’ve been using high-end home appliances and a piano procured on credit along with a fraudulent document. The only thing waiting for her would be a dead end.

After inferring the man’s intentions and conducting further investigation into the origins of the piano and appliances, it became clear that these items came from one of only two malls in the city. With the connection to Wang Hui, this was easy to check.

"Settle the bills of these appliances, and then give me 5000, I’ll hand over Suizi as soon as I see the money."

"5000 is too much -- how about 1000?"

"The lowest I’ll go is 2000, plus the bills for the piano and the washing machine. Not a single penny less."

"Deal!" Fan Gao, grinding his teeth, conceded. For the sake of larger gains, he had to bear it.

"Just look at your dumb*ss face, haha." Wang Cuihua muttered under her breath.

She could guess that he must be thinking ’grain is not reaped without sowing’, but Suizi was not his gain.

She was a ghost, a desperately poverty-stricken ghost.