I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 557: How Superficial This Drive to Advance Is

Chapter 557: Chapter 557: How Superficial This Drive to Advance Is

"Early spring is a time when your mind works best, and Jingting has just taken two days leave. He should go home and study amidst the frozen black earth of our hometown, which will surely help him remember things better."

"Going home to pay respects to ancestors and taking study materials with you?! Aren’t you afraid of being reprimanded in your dreams by the ancestors of the Yu family?" Jingting could not help but laugh out.

"Why would their ancestors reproach me in dreams if I’m helping you follow the right path?" Suizi cleverly used the word "they".

Shuisheng and Jingting raised their eyebrows unexpectedly, while Wang Cuihua, who was unaware of what was going on, didn’t seem to find anything wrong.

"Being a descendant of a bandit, I should be doing something grand like ruling a mountain. You insist on diverting me to education, isn’t this misleading?"

Wang Cuihua rolled her eyes; Yu Tiegen created a bunch of sophistry.

"You must have accumulated a lot of virtue in your last life to marry such a good daughter-in-law like Suizi. If studying is misleading, wouldn’t being a bandit lead you to a bullet? What age is it now? You still think about being a bandit!"

Suizi caught a hidden message.

After dinner, the couple left for work together, and Suizi took the opportunity to ask:

"Did you find out something?"

"I might have gotten a bit crazy from studying, my memory’s been getting worse recently. I can’t remember the things I asked about." Jingting feigned distress while rubbing his temples.

Suizi realized that he was bargaining with her, feeling annoyed from memorizing and resisting psychologically.

"I will give you a unit test today. As long as you score above 80, you won’t have to study tonight."

"Ah, I still can’t remember."

Clearly, Jingting was not satisfied with Suizi’s terms.

Seeing that there was no one around, Suizi leaned into his ear and whispered.

"With the time freed up tonight, we can try some foreign things."

"Oh?" As soon as she said this, he became quite interested.

After whispering into his ear, Jingting’s eyes lit up, looking like a ferret waiting for its chicken.

Thus, a deal was happily settled.

"These foreigners are really wild, how did they come up with all these?" Jingting, who had the advantage, gloated, "We must try out these foreign tricks one by one with a critical spirit, and then despise the rotten capitalism!"

"..." Suizi felt that his memorization was indeed effective, his speech level abruptly improved.

No matter how high the level of speech was, the central idea translated was still shameless.

Suizi’s conditions were attractive enough, and Jingting honestly reported the news he had learned to her.

"Do you remember Jin Wa? I looked into his father, Yu Tieshan."

Suizi met Tieshan before the new year. At that time, the couple had already speculated that Tieshan’s family might be intricately connected with theirs.

Jingting started to inquire, and it turned out just as he had guessed.

"Tieshan’s father is called Yu Shuilin, who is not hard to investigate in H City."

As Suizi had predicted, this Yu Shuilin’s family had a very bad reputation in H City.

If you talk about the old Yu family in H City, they were influential in the past, and Yu Ding, Tieshan’s grandfather, did have some assets.

But no one knows where his money came from.

People only know that the Yu Ding family was always well-off, even during the hardest times, their food supply was never disrupted. Some said the old man dug up quite a few large tombs and had some money, but there was no evidence.

Though suspected to be a grave robber, Mr. Yu Ding’s reputation was not bad.

In those years when the neighbors couldn’t afford to eat, the old man provided for everyone, and never refused to lend money to anyone in need.

Mr. Yu Ding had the chivalry to help those in trouble by standing up for them when necessary.

Therefore, during those hard ten years, Mr. Yu Ding, who had a good reputation, was unaffected and lived peacefully.

The main problem lies with Tieshan’s father, Yu Shuilin.

In the locals’ words, it was as if he had suddenly mutated.

He didn’t inherit any of his father, Yu Ding’s virtues and was almost useless.

Yu Ding was magnanimous, broad-minded, well-versed in human nature, and knew how to protect himself in different environments.

Shuilin was narrow-minded, vindictive, and liked to take unfair advantage through unsavory means. He seemed to always gain small advantages without suffering losses, but in reality, he lacked vision and lost the larger benefits.

Yu Ding saw through his son, knowing that he was useless, and didn’t dare to arrange for him to enter the system. He found him a decent factory, which he also managed into chaos.

This generation was useless, so Yu Ding thought about cultivating the next generation, Tieshan, Jin Wa’s father.

Unfortunately, Tieshan was visibly a waste.

He was insolent and overbearing, taking advantage of his family’s wealth, grabbing houses, and starting fights everywhere. He ruined the reputation that Yu Ding had built over many years, nearly causing Yu Ding to die of anger.

Now, with the old man’s health deteriorating day by day, Shuilin and his son not only lack filial piety, they also constantly make trouble, asking for their share of the inheritance, creating chaos.

After Jingting finished explaining the situation at their end, Suizi stayed silent for a long time.

When they reached the crossroad where they had to go to their respective workplaces, Suizi finally spoke:

"Jingting, don’t you think... if we switch Yu Shuilin with our father, everything would fall into place?"

The character of Yu Shuilin, who cares nothing for reputation and is greedy for petty benefits, is exactly the same as the leftover members of the Yu family in the Wang’s courtyard.

It’s like Yu Shuiniu and Yu Shuigou were carved out of the same mold.

On the other hand, their father-in-law, Yu Shuisheng, is generous, broad-minded and has great vision, just like the young Mr. Yu Ding.

The two of them are simply living the wrong life.

"What if your grandfather did switch his child with the other one, knowing that the Yu Ding family had money, and hoped his child could live a good life in the city? Would that explain everything?"

"Well, the fact proves that a bad seed won’t sprout, no matter where it’s sown." Jingting seemed to agree with Suizi.

His father, despite being brought up in a rural poor family, managed to create substantial family wealth. His son, Jingting, also stood on his own two feet in the city.

However, looking at Yu Shuilin and Jin Wa’s father, they didn’t make anything of themselves despite their family’s wealth. They squandered the family wealth and in the end plotted against their own father’s inheritance. The gap was evident.

"I wonder if Mr. Yu Ding knows about this... Jingting, what are you planning?" Suizi ventured.

"Me? I have no plans. It’s none of my business. I don’t rely on anyone’s money. Now, I struggle every day with exercises and rely on my own ability to sleep with my wife. I couldn’t care less about these messes."

Suizi held her forehead.

Although his worldview seems correct, showing the pride of self-made prosperity, but...

"Your motivation to study is to..."

"Yes!" His answer was both loud and prideful.

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