I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 420: Now You See It

Chapter 420: Chapter 420: Now You See It

Yu Jingting was back home, and Suizi knew from his expression that things were settled.

Because this was expected, when Yu Jingting spoke about how he had reclaimed the initial supplies, the family’s reaction was not as enthusiastic as he had imagined.

"I need to practice piano." Jiaojiao put down her chopsticks.

"I’m going to play a few more rounds, Old Zhao is always unbelievably stubborn." Yu Shuisheng wiped his mouth and praised his daughter-in-law’s cooking skills in passing, "Suizi, this stewed ribs dish was excellent."

"Then I will stew again the day after tomorrow."

Yu Shuisheng was very satisfied, so he strolled off with his hands behind his back to go find his buddies.

Wang Cuihua put down her bowl and clucked at her son.

"You really do have thick skin. Suizi was right."

Yu Jingting had wanted to brag a little, but he was caught off guard when no one in his family played along. He turned to Suizi, a little dismayed.

Suizi quickly waved her hand.

"I didn’t say you had thick skin as such."

"The translation is the same. I was reading a book the other day, and I didn’t understand what the heroine was saying. After you translated it for me, it literally meant thick-skinned."

Jiaojiao turned around from the piano, and chimed in just to tease her brother.

Yu Jingting glared at Suizi, Suizi blinked, and was about to fish out something nice to say when their son started humming in his stroller.

"Bobo needs to use the toilet, I’ve got to go~"

Therefore, Yu Jingting, the great achiever, could only sip his drink sullenly amidst the sound of his son’s splashing urine.

"So smart!" Wang Cuihua praised.

Yu Jingting just grunted, you remember to praise him now? Too late!

"Our kids are so brilliant, they started using the toilet in just a few months, even diapers are saved. Raising this sort of child is easy and effortless."

Yu Jingting could take no more and banged his wine glass on the table.

"Hey! I achieved something great, and you all ignore me; this little brat makes a small whimper before peeing, and you heap praises on him?!"

Yu Shuisheng, who had forgotten his teacup, returned and smacked Yu Jingting on the back of his head hearing his complaints.

"I’m still alive, who do you think you are, calling yourself ’father’?"

"!!" Yu Jingting stared at him wide-eyed, suddenly missing the days when he could tease his dad freely.

After helping Bobo use the toilet, Suizi came back and touched his face.

"Are you angry?"

"Don’t touch my face with the hand that just wiped our son’s butt!" Yu Jingting said, upset.

"Oh..." Suizi pulled back her hand, making Yu Jingting’s eyes widened even more.

She pulled away when he asked her to, but when he wanted her not to stop, she never listened!

Seeing his unjustified anger, Suizi laughed and then poured him a glass of wine.

"I washed my hands."

"Hmph."

"We thought you were capable of solving the problem, so we were not surprised. But in our hearts, we are still proud of you."

This comment made Yu Jingting feel good, he tossed a few peanuts in the air while Suizi diligently served him.

Jiaojiao was looking back at them while playing the piano, nodding her head repeatedly.

"Mother’s right, training a bear is indeed fun without spending a dime..."

How could the way Suizi handled her brother compare to training a bear?

"What are you muttering about?" Yu Jingting squinted; he always had the gut feeling that Jiaojiao was badmouthing him.

"I’m saying you’re handsome! Brother, your charming appearance is way better than a bear’s!"

Yu Jingting hadn’t been home in a while, unaware of the bear meme. Somehow, he thought that being compared to a bear was a bit sloppy.

"Jiaojiao, by meaning, it’s a compliment. You have a face like the mid-autumn moon, the color of spring’s first bloom, your hair trimmed to perfection, your eyebrows drawn with ink; you are bewitchingly beautiful, one of a kind."

"What does that mean?"

"You’re freaking handsome." Suizi translated straightforwardly.

Yu Jingting was then satisfied.

Jiaojiao again marveled.

"So that’s what full score writing skill is like? I’ve learnt!"

Suizi got a full score in her middle school graduation exam’s essay, which was thanks to her flair for stacking poetic diction and obscure words.

By observing her sister-in-law’s way of managing...her interactions with her brother, Jiaojiao grasped the essence of Suizi’s technique.

In her subsequent middle school and high school graduation exams, Jiaojiao’s essays were strong contenders too, almost gaining full score. She summarized Suizi’s unique technique as making the examiners hunt for the meaning of words and idioms in dictionaries. Simply put, it was to articulate simple truths in an obscure way: never speaking straightforwardly.

Yu Jingting was pleased with Suizi’s sweet-talking, and after having a bit of alcohol, he bragged to his two toddling children again—only those two could quietly listen to him, while everyone else was too busy.

Suizi felt sorry for him and even more so for the still learning-to-walk children. Seeing her son’s face, it was so furrowed it almost had wrinkles.

Suizi translated her son’s expressions as: Dad, stop talking.

Her daughter, on the other hand, was delighted, clapping and giggling along to Yu Jingting’s stories, which made him very pleased.

Yu Jingting probably thought that his daughter admired his talents very much, cheering for her dad’s triumphant leadership skills and shouting praises.

But Suizi’s interpretation was... her daughter probably thought her dad looked so comically silly and that it was incredibly fun, right?

After bragging to the children for awhile, Yu Jingting got thirsty. He left to get some water to drink.

As soon as he walked away, the son’s face relaxed, but the daughter became unhappy.

She began to wave her little arms in protest, making noises.

Suizi grabbed a squeezable plastic elephant from the bed. It would make a noise when squeezed.

With the squeak, Luoluo clapped happily, her expression and gestures just like when she was watching her dad earlier.

Suizi chuckled, in her daughter’s heart, an animated dad equals a squeaky plastic elephant.

This harsh reality, she hesitated to tell Yu Jingting.

At night, Suizi did her fitness routine, freshened up till she smelled nice, and contentedly crawled into bed.

Thanks to his promise during the day, she believed she could have a good sleep tonight.

Just as she closed her eyes, she felt a shift on her body.

"Didn’t you say you weren’t the type of man who just climbs into bed?!"

"Yeah, not climbing into bed." Yu Jingting gave a solemn pat on the mattress, "Wifey, are you still muddled from pregnancy? We’ve been in the city for quite a while, where’s the kāng (a heated brick bed)?"

"..."

By the time Suizi realized she was deceived again, there was no turning back.

Even for Suizi, who could ace an essay exam and was good at wordplay, she was helpless against Yu Jingting’s thick-skinned antics.

Wordplay should be based on abiding by the rules.

To such an eccentric character like Jingting, rules are meant to be broken.

Not only in coaxing his wife to turn off the light, he wrecked his brain to break the rules, but also in his job.

After recovering the first overdue payment, he followed through with a counter strike.

Leading a few senior staff members of the factory, he chased after every department for their bills, demanding money from those who had it, taking items from those who didn’t, and for those reluctant to part with money and items, he rallied the workers to haul their fixed assets like tables and benches and auction them off at the beer factory entrance, with the earnings used to pay the factory workers’ wages.

He even prepared a tractor, ready to cart away any asset whenever needed — it’s a one-stop job.

All the departments were dumbfounded.

We’re just saying, the beer factory has been in existence for so many years, but we had never seen such a shameless factory director.

Some leaders were infuriated by Yu Jingting’s shenanigans so much that they slammed their tables, but Yu Jingting just laughed gleefully.

Hey, isn’t this what you are experiencing now?

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