I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 556: The Increasingly Ridiculous Rumors

Chapter 556: Chapter 556: The Increasingly Ridiculous Rumors

Nobody knew what Versailles literature was at this time, but Yu Jingting became proficient in it without any instruction.

First, he expressed a very impatient tone, manifesting a ’so annoying’ state, then casually, he enthusiastically showed off his child.

Out of everyone at the meeting, apart from Shen Liangyin’s frowning face, everyone else was all face-smothered by Yu Jingting’s show-off display, revealing admiring glances.

For a moment, the conference room echoed with all sorts of flattery about the Director’s unusually talented child, while Yu Jingting played it cool, saying what’s the big deal about speaking? Don’t we all learn to talk?

He also faked exasperation, claiming he felt no sense of accomplishment in raising this child.

"The director’s so unfortunate, his children knew to potty from very young, which kept him from experiencing the trouble of changing diapers."

Suizi’s face flushed, and she silently thanked her organization and leadership for promoting Yu Jingting to Factory Director. His high position meant no one could retaliate against him, no matter how annoying he behaved.

Otherwise, with such blatant self-promotion during meetings, he’d risk getting jumped if he was in a place like the Wang Family Estate.

"Our staff who are about to have children want to learn from you, they also want to raise such good kids- but it seems the assistant director doesn’t seem too happy about this. Do you think it’s because she can’t get married and is warped?"

By the end of the conversation, the topic had switched back to Shen Liangyin.

Thanks to those two matchmaking sisters, the image of Shen Liangyin as the ’aging unmarried woman’ had spread throughout the factory.

Rumours circulated and gradually developed a fantastical twist.

From the initial portrayal of the assistant director as ’too picky for marriage’,

it evolved into: The assistant director, out of jealousy towards married pregnant women, purposefully bumped into pregnant female staff in the cafeteria.

And then it transformed into: The assistant director was so resentful of women who had better marriages that she performed rituals at home and ate three large pig intestines every day for good luck.

When one of the sisters told Suizi this version of the rumor, she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Although she didn’t like Shen Liangyin, these rumors have absolutely nothing to do with Suizi.

"What kind of basis and source is there for performing rituals and eating three pig intestines?" Suizi asked.

"It is rumored that someone saw Shen Liangyin’s nanny carrying fresh pig intestines home, she must have gotten advice from a clairvoyant!"

"Uh...." Suizi could only comment that the imagination of the masses was indeed rich.

They thought all this about intestines, linked it with context, and assimilated it with previous rumors. Shen Liangyin was a little wronged.

Suizi could entirely imagine Shen Liangyin’s feelings at the moment.

Most likely, she attributed all the bad things that had happened to Suizi.

Given Shen Liangyin’s conspiratorial thinking, she might even suspect Suizi of plotting against her.

The weather started to warm up gradually, and Tomb Sweeping Festival was just around the corner.

For more than a month, Yu Jingting had been under enormous pressure.

He had witnessed Suizi’s intensity as a teacher.

Every day she would watch over him like a devil as he studied from the pile of College Entrance Exams, and would carry out random spot checks.

At breakfast, while he was slurping down a bowl of richly flavored cereal, she suddenly asked:

"What is the formula for converting air pressure to elevation?"

Yu Jingting felt as though the cereal in his mouth had turned into shards of glass, it was tasteless.

"Why bother memorizing such a complicated formula? Let me tell you my problem-solving thought process, darling. The first step is to take the barometer to the highest point of a building."

"Hmm."

"The second step is to tie a rope to the barometer."

"??"

"The third step is to drop the barometer tied with a rope and then measure the length of the rope. That is the height of the building. It’s just that I had no such ambition to become a scientist, else what would Su Zhe be doing?"

"Just spare the scientists. If people like you were conducting research, there’d be no hope for our country ." Suizi massaged her temples, from his unconventional answering approach, you could compile a book.

She had already thought of the book title - ’Laughable Collection’!

Yu Jingting not being involved in the comedy world was a great loss for the industry.

A big event happened this month.

With Suizi’s strong recommendation, Su Zhe was hired by a university in Beijing. Of course, Fan Huang’s contributions also played a significant role.

Initially, Su Zhe was unwilling to go as he has always regarded himself as a high-minded scholar and didn’t want to use others’ resources.

Suizi lectured him for a long time and almost broke her mouth from talking, but Su Zhe still wasn’t convinced.

Finally, Yu Jingting brought over a bottle of spirits. They both retreated into a room and had a low murmuring conversation. The next day, Su Zhe packed his bags, set out on his journey, and sought the self-realization experience of his life.

Suizi was extremely curious, wondering how Yu Jingting had managed to convince Su Zhe. She asked him, but he wouldn’t tell her. Suizi was then forced to play coy.

After enough pillow talk, and having gained enough benefits, Yu Jingting finally revealed the answer.

"Actually, the two of us didn’t do much. We just made a bet on who could pee the furthest. He lost, so he went over there to teach." As he said this, Yu Jingting stood with his hands on his hips, boasting an absurd amount of ego that made him seem like he was peeing.

No matter how she thought about it, Suizi felt that his reason was too absurd, but she couldn’t come up with any alternatives, so she had to confirm his statement as being true.

Men are boys until death, huh.

"Why do you need to measure the height of a building? Isn’t it already indicated in the blueprints?" Wang Cuihua asked curiously.

"Ah, exam questions are always strange. All the stuff we’ve been learning this semester is pretty useless, like finding the volume of a rectangular prism and a cube. The volume is already marked on the containers from the factory, so why have us learn about it? It’s seriously just..."

Jiaojiao’s light-hearted rant was cut short under her sister-in-law’s overly gentle gaze.

Swallowing back the words "unnecessary", she busily shoveled cereal in her mouth, pretending to be very busy.

"You are supposed to study, not to research the mental state of the question-setters. Yu Jingting, if you keep dawdling around, even Jiaojiao will surpass you."

Suizi handed a piece of egg to Yu Jingting, supplementing him as his brain cells seemed to be running out lately.

"Let’s talk about something important. Should we go back and offer sacrifices during Tomb Sweeping Festival?" Wang Cuihua broached the topic.

The Tomb Sweeping Festival was a tradition for offering sacrifices to ancestors. This year would be Yu Shuisheng’s first Tomb Sweeping Festival after his return, and Wang Cuihua had been contemplating for a long time about whether to return to the village for the tribute.

The ancestral tomb of the Yu Family had almost been blown up by Yu Shuisheng, causing a lot of unhappiness between several families.

But on such an important day, pretending not to know would not be appropriate.

"If you want to go back, then go back. I kind of miss the big kang bed in the village," Yu Jingting said.

Now, as long as he can avoid studying what his wife wrote, he was even willing to go dig fields with a hoe.

"Let’s just go back then. It’s a good chance to show the kids around. The snow melts, the earth grows warm, it’s quite nice."

Suizi’s words made Yu Jingting’s mouth curve upward, but immediately after that, he could not laugh anymore.