I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 343 Less Bitter, More Sweet

Chapter 343: Chapter 343 Less Bitter, More Sweet

Yu Jingting’s "tactful" question was as straightforward as it could be.

Chen Lijun revealed an ambiguous smile.

"You naughty kid, why don’t you ask this in front of Suizi?"

Yu Jingting squatted next to her, smoking side by side.

"My wife is in her confinement period, I can’t let her worry about this."

Chen Lijun languidly blew a puff of smoke, her gaze distant.

"I’m going through menopause, I can’t burden my mind too."

"You’re only forty, what menopause are you talking about?"

"Young man, let me tell you a secret, actually, I gave birth to Suizi after drinking water in the woman’s kingdom."

"Stop it!"

Chen Lijun finished her last puff of smoke, stubbed out the cigarette and sighed.

"Such a naive kid, studying what? It’s not fun to tease you because you can’t be fooled."

"Even without literacy I’d never be naive enough to believe such nonsense, you go and ask Jiaojiao, see if she believes it?" A ten-year-old kid wouldn’t believe this nonsense.

"The jade ring is fine, keep wearing it from now on." Chen Lijun said looking at Yu Jingting’s jadeite ring.

"....My wife’s crude tactic of changing the topic, she learned it from you, didn’t she?"

There’s no more awkward way than this.

"I can only say that her biological father is not Fan Huang. Don’t ask anything else."

Seeing her like this, Yu Jingting knew that there would be no result from asking further, it’s already very face-saving for Chen Lijun to tell him as much as she did.

He took out a cigarette and offered it to Chen Lijun, but she shook her head.

"Smoking too much of this stuff hurts the body. If your wife smells it, she’ll nag at both of us."

Suizi doesn’t like people smoking, but just about everyone in the house except her and Jiaojiao are smokers.

"Do you really need her to see?"

Just as Suizi was coming out of the room, she saw her mom and husband squatting side by side, with smoke curling from their heads.

Seeing this, Suizi felt like smoke was about to curl from her own head, so angry was she.

Suizi wanted to know what those two were saying behind her back, so she quietly stood behind them and eavesdropped for a while only to hear the smoking woman say:

"I raised her all by myself in that environment, now that she’s grown up so well and plump, there’s no reason for a dumbass to snatch her away midway."

"If my wife hears you call her fat, she’s gonna be mad."

Yu Jingting sneered, just as he was about to voice his opinion, he heard a secretive voice from behind.

"I, heard you."

The smoking man and woman both froze instantly.

Suizi leaned over, squatted next to Yu Jingting, gently took the cigarette from his hand, and under the astonished expressions of Chen Lijun and Yu Jingting, she put it near her mouth and blew a puff of smoke into Yu Jingting’s face.

The only words that could describe Yu Jingting at that moment were ’stunned’.

Suizi was quite pleased with the effect she had created.

Her mom and her husband, both with the same small eyes, looked incredibly funny.

But Suizi’s joy quickly turned to grief.

"Why are you smoking during confinement?!" Chen Lijun angrily threw the cigarette onto the ground.

"Gone wrong! Fallen!" Yu Jingting snatched the cigarette from Suizi’s hand and stomped it out.

"You two talk behind my back, and secretly smoke. Who started the wrongdoing first?"

Suizi folded her arms and tried to give them a death stare.

In fact, she didn’t inhale the smoke at all a minute ago, she just placed the cigarette near her mouth and blew the smoke towards Yu Jingting.

Smoking while breastfeeding is no joke, it endangers the "food safety" of children.

"Unbelievable, take her away!"

Upon Chen Lijun’s command, Yu Jingting picked up Suizi, ignoring her efforts to resist, and forcefully carried her into the house.

"Mrs. Chen! Stop talking about my weight! If I slim down, it’ll scare you to death! You were as thin as a stick when you were young, but I never criticized you for looking like a bundle of firewood! Furthermore, how dare you criticize me for being fat! Yu Jingting, why are you covering my mouth——mhmm!"

Inside the room, there was no more chaos, Suizi had been forcefully silenced by Yu Jingting.

Chen Lijun laughed happily, then upright, something was not quite right.

She skillfully avoided the major issue of who her biological father was, just repeatedly emphasizing her weight, pretending to be confused when in fact she very much understood.

"It’s my excellent genes that made her smart."

As for who her biological father was, Suizi was not concerned.

In her mind, nothing was more infuriating than her mother and husband sneakily smoking and calling her fat.

While the stub of the cigarette was still smoldering on the ground, Chen Lijun recalled her daughter’s awkward attempt at looking cool while smoking, appearing clumsy yet tough.

"Lijun, what are you chuckling at while gazing at the cigarette butt?" Wang Cuihua moved closer to her.

Chen Lijun took out another cigarette and offered it to her, and both women squatted side by side, puffing away.

"Cuihua, when did you start smoking?"

"You forgot? After Tiegen’s father passed away, no one was smoking the tobacco leaves dried at home. I thought it would be a waste not to use them. Who knew, I started smoking and here we are, so many years later."

After Yu Jingting started working at the tobacco factory, Wang Cuihua also developed a taste for good-quality cigarettes, leaving behind the days of smoking hand-rolled dry tobacco leaves.

Now with two young children at home, Wang Cuihua considered quitting smoking to protect the little ones from secondhand smoke.

"A woman without scars won’t want to smoke," Chen Lijun thought, remembering a phrase she once read in a book.

It fitted her daughter perfectly.

That girl had been living a sweet life at the Yu family’s house, handsomely fed and content, so naturally, she couldn’t understand why those lonely souls smoked.

"Not knowing how to smoke is indeed pretty good."

Chen Lijun took in a deep puff, exhaling a cloud of smoke while listening to the litany of complaints from the bedroom — most of it was Suizi complaining at Jingting — a smile crept onto her lips.

As a mother, she hoped Suizi would live as she did now all her life — less bitterness, more sweetness, and a life away from smoke.

Dinner was ready, Wang Cuihua brought it into the room and saw Yu Jingting sticking a piece of paper onto the wall with tape.

On the beige paper, the words "Smoking is harmful to health" were written boldly and forcefully.

"Oh my, how could you be writing during your confinement period? You don’t care about your eyes?"

Wang Cuihua, about to admonish Suizi, suddenly thought it was Yu Tiegen who truly deserved chastisement.

"When she was writing, why didn’t you stop her? You helped her put up the sign while it’s you who smokes the most at home. How dare you put up this sign!"

She couldn’t get angry with her precious daughter-in-law, so she vented on her son instead.

Chen Lijun watched the sweet exchange of mother and son while suddenly feeling a chill in her back.

Suizi was standing behind her, forcefully putting a folding fan into her hands.

"Oh, you can even fan the flames?" Chen Lijun opened the fan, revealing an anti-smoking poem hand-written by Suizi.

"The moment of addiction, only bitterness exists, whether local or foreign cigarettes, smoking too much will take you to heaven— what kind of nonsense is this?! Did you teach Yu Jingting to write contrived poetry too?"

"This is to warn the three of you to quit smoking sooner and escape the sea of bitterness!"

The trio of smokers, who were named, looked at each other and reached an agreement.

"You’re supposed to be on bedrest after giving birth, yet you’re moving about and even writing, and you think you’re in the right?", go back to your room and nurse the baby immediately!"

"I’m not going back! Not unless you promise to quit smoking!" Suizi stood with her hands on her hips.

"Jingting, carry her back!" Chen Lijun ordered.

While the family was all in a flurry, someone arrived and stormed into the room, yelling and startling everyone.

"Jingting! You’re really alive!!!"