I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 360: Delivering to the Door (Supplement+Update)

Chapter 360: Chapter 360: Delivering to the Door (Supplement+Update)

If Yu Jingting and his wife hadn’t been so successful in their careers, perhaps the families would have remained estranged until their deaths.

When Yu Jingting first moved to the city, everyone he had offended firmly believed that he would end up miserably.

They conjured up dozens of tragic scenarios for Yu Jingting and his wife such as the man getting caught and the woman losing her job, both begging for food...

However, Yu Jingting and his wife managed to lead a life that was poetic in rhythm.

Not only was Suizi’s job stable, but Yu Jingting also climbed the socio-economic ladder impressively.

From the initial department head, he is now the deputy director of a near-bankrupt factory, the villagers didn’t know about the factory’s fate.

They only heard Yu Jingting had received another promotion, and had been allocated two large houses in the city, so he had successfully settled down there.

This unsettled people from the old Yu family and the old Chen Family.

Originally, there were conflicts among these families, and they didn’t talk when they met.

The rise of Yu Jingting brought these families back together, deliberating that instead of maintaining this tension, they should seize an opportunity to reconcile their differences.

After all, once in good terms with Suizi and her husband in the city, they could always provide some scarce resources and benefits.

Thus came the scene we see now.

Suizi, seeing these people who used to cast a pall over her family, smiling hypocritically at her, felt only a strange sense of discomfort.

But as her eyes fell on Chen Kaide, she felt somewhat relieved.

Many times during her youth, she had asked the universe why every other girl’s father was tall, heroic, and loving, while her own father seemed indifferent and even hostile, rarely demonstrating the caring nature of a father.

All she felt was alienation and even enmity.

She understood why Chen Kaide had always found ways to torment her when her mother wasn’t around, even went so far as to peep at her while she was bathing one year— all of this suddenly made sense to her.

While Suizi used to detest and even hate Chen Kaide, seeing him now didn’t affect her any more, whether in good times or bad.

Without the bond of blood lineage, all her past resentment and grievances lost their significance.

"I need to get back to work. You deal with them — especially him." Suizi glanced at Chen Kaide, and Yu Jingting nodded, understanding.

Suizi was somewhat distracted all day at work.

Luckily there wasn’t much happening in the office that day, and she just unconsciously wrote a few names on the paper.

She couldn’t quite understand why her mother, a woman with a queen-like temperament, had chosen Chen Kaide as her ’reliable man’.

The affairs of the previous generation always left her with ample room for imagination.

Zhang Yue’e stood in front of her for quite a while, and Suizi didn’t notice.

"Is Chen Lijun your mother?" Zhang Yue’e asked casually after seeing the name Suizi had written.

Suizi returned to reality, then nodded.

"You share the same surname as your mother?"

"Yes, uh—" Suizi suddenly understood.

As she looked at her mother’s name on the paper, the answer to a question that had puzzled her for many years suddenly became clear.

Of all the families in Yang Village, only one family had the surname Chen.

She finally figured out why her mother had chosen Chen Kaide to pick up the pieces.

Maybe it wasn’t because he was an honest man, or because he looked easy to fool.

Unmarried pregnancy was a very serious issue in those days, so serious that it was beyond imagine.

So Chen Lijun had to find someone to legitimately have the child in her belly.

Choosing Chen Kaide was not because she was touched by the millet porridge he had given her, but simply because of his surname: Chen.

Her mother could have chosen to abort her, which would have been the safest option, but she chose instead a difficult path filled with thorns and misunderstanding.

Even choosing a man with the same surname as her, in this way telling Suizi, this daughter is mine.

When Yu Jingting came to deliver food to Suizi, he found his wife smiling silly.

"What’s the matter?" He waved his hands in front of her.

"I think I understand my mom a little bit more... quite something she is. She has wronged many people, exactly what society would call a ’bad woman’."

Yu Jingting raised an eyebrow.

"I’m going to call my mother-in-law." He said, ready to tattle-tale on her.

"But... she’s been good to me."

This ’bad woman’ in society’s eyes, on the other hand, was a stubbornly loving mother.

Suizi didn’t notice this in her past life, some insights really only come with the experience of being a mother herself.

The meal that day was incredibly lavish, with both fish and meat. Suizi knew what it was about at a glance.

"Is my mom having those people over for dinner at our home?"

Yu Jingting shrugged.

It was more than just hosting a dinner, it was like a human battlefield.

Wang Cuihua had been holding back for a long time, even getting upset last night because she couldn’t brag about her two lovely grandsons.

These people came to her uninvited, and so willingly — was there any good in it?

"My mom is holding them up, telling them about our happy life in the city, discussing anything from the tape recorder to the television set, and no one can stop her."

A smug old lady single-handedly flaunting her wealth to a group of green-eyed people — even from a distance, Suizi could imagine their expressions.

"They must be feeling upheld, right?"

"They do, indeed. I can see green light shooting out of Wang Fenfang’s eyes, and your uncle went to the bathroom eighteen times during the course of the meal."

Now that Wang Cuihua had the stage, she seemed determined to vent all the frustrations she had accumulated over the years by flaunting her happiness.

"Did they make any requests?" Suizi asked.

"How could they not? Your uncle wants to send his two sons over to find jobs, your second uncle said he wants to stay at our place for a few days for medical treatment in the city, and Wang Fenfang wants to help you take care of the children—"

"Pffft!" Suizi choked in surprise, was this some kind of horror story?

If Wang Fenfang came to take care of the children, what would happen to her two little radishes?

Was Wang Fenfang shifting to taking revenge on Suizi’s children because she couldn’t beat Suizi?

Yu Jingting quickly opened the thermos he had brought and Suizi gulped the contents down in one go, her face wrinkling up.

"What the hell is this?" It tasted horrible!

"It’s a secret remedy from your mom. She said it will help you reduce swelling postpartum, and that you should drink it for a month."

"Surely, she didn’t just say this much?"

Yu Jingting silently looked at her, are you sure you want to know all the stimulating details?

Suizi massaged her forehead.

Alright, she could imagine her straight-talking mom criticizing her figure, calling her a barrel from the front, a round drum from the side and a complete circle from above.

She knew it; her own mother was brutally straightforward.

"No worries, I fought back for you."

"What did you say to my mom?" Suizi was curious.

"I just described to her how good our relationship is... I stressed on how we would stay awake at night, sitting on the roof, watching the moon. I told her how I love the pig spirit."

Suizi felt even more defeated; this shameless talk indeed sounded like something her husband would say.

"My mom allowed you to brag like that?"

"No, she hung up the moment I started. Ha!" When it came to shamelessness, no one could beat him there!

"I noticed that my mom always calls you whenever she needs something, are you sure you aren’t her long-lost son?" Suizi felt slightly jealous.

"Would you listen if she called you?"

Suizi considered this then laughed.

Every time she spoke with her mother it ended up in a quarrel. It seemed like both mother and daughter had a strong hold on their emotions in front of others, but the anger threshold for each was markedly low when they addressed each other.

"Chen... what did he say?" Suizi didn’t know how to refer to Chen Kaide.

"Don’t feel guilty for your mother. That old guy Chen’s motives back then weren’t so noble either."

"...What?!"

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