I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 585: Never Thought I’d Have to Compete with Shen Liangyin for Suizi

Chapter 585: Chapter 585: Never Thought I’d Have to Compete with Shen Liangyin for Suizi

Yu Jingting would never forget the scene that greeted him when he got home, an image that shocked him for an entire year.

His beautiful wife, Suizi, was close to the person he least wanted to see. She was holding his chin with her hand, their faces too close for comfort.

"What on earth are you doing?!!!" Yu Jingting let out a furious roar. He yanked Suizi over, as if he were about to drag her to the bathroom to wash her hands and brush her teeth.

Good heavens, if he had returned home a little later, wouldn’t these two have taken things further?!

"She had a fishbone stuck in her throat, and I was trying to help her get it out." Suizi explained, stretching out her fingers, "I had her drink vinegar and eat steamed buns, but nothing worked, so I thought I’d try to remove it with tweezers...."

"Let her go to the hospital yourself!"

"No need, it’s just a minor prick." Shen Liangyin’s voice was all hoarseness.

It might not have been that serious originally, but after Suizi’s ruthless operation, it made Liangyin lost her voice.

Suizi, who was reluctant, urged Yu Jingting to start the tractor. The couple took Shen Liangyin to the ER.

At the hospital, after the doctor asked about Suizi’s series of actions, he gave Suizi a severe scolding.

"What good is soaking in vinegar when a fishbone gets stuck? Can vinegar soften a fishbone? You try soaking a fishbone in vinegar, it doesn’t get soft even after a day!"

"I’m sorry, I’m not educated...." Suizi’s head couldn’t have been lower. Never again could she make fun of Yu Jingting for being uneducated.

"Trying to get the fishbone down by eating steamed buns, that’s even more unreliable. The fishbone is likely to be pushed deeper, and in severe cases, it could even puncture the esophagus!"

"Ah! I’m sorry! Is she okay?!"

"She’s okay. It’s not deep, and I’ve gotten it out. Remember, if you get a fishbone stuck and it’s shallow, you can try to grab it with tweezers. If you can’t handle it, come to the hospital. Don’t mess around at home."

"Yes, yes, I’m not educated, I’m sorry." Suizi was left with nothing but apologies.

"You are a key vocational secondary school student——" Yu Jingting was about to mention his daughter-in-law’s school, but Suizi covered his mouth, her face blushing.

"Don’t mention my alma mater, it’s embarrassing!"

"Hey? Is this Chen Hansui?"

A cheerful voice came from behind, and Suizi froze on the spot.

If there was a crack in the ground, she would jump into it.

A young man walked into the consulting room, carrying a lunch box. He put the lunch box on the doctor’s desk and said to the blushing Suizi in surprise:

"Yes, it’s you! I was bringing my mom lunch, and I thought it was you. What happened? This doctor is my mom, she’s family, let her take good care of you —— mom, this is the one I was telling you about, the most talented girl from our school, who came first in all subjects, and became the director of a night school after graduation, Chen Hansui."

Tears of humiliation welled up in Suizi’s eyes.

Not only had she disgraced her alma mater, but she had also disgraced her workplace!

"Well, er, education and common sense are not correlated, the lack of common sense in my personal life is my personal problem, has nothing to do with my school." Suizi forced a smile that was worse than a cry.

The doctor burst out laughing.

The others in the room also laughed, Yu Jingting laughing the loudest.

Even Shen Liangyin was amused by Suizi’s expressions. She laughed, even though it made her throat hurt. Despite the pain, she laughed anyway.

Turns out, when you put aside your dislikes and biases, Suizi is pretty funny.

"Please accept my sincere apology!" After leaving the hospital, Suizi bowed deeply to Shen Liangyin.

"Forget it, it’s not a big deal."

"No! I’m a person who dares to take responsibility. Please accept my apology. In the next week, I will provide all your meals. Until your throat is better, let Jingting bring food to you."

"It’s really not necessary — all right, if you want to, go ahead." At first, Shen Liangyin wanted to pretend to be indifferent, but then she thought about her own cooking skills or rather lack thereof, and figured accepting Suizi’s apology wouldn’t be so bad after all.

Because Suizi’s cooking...was pretty good, assuming there were no fishbones in it.

On the way home, Yu Jingting drove the tractor, his ear perked up, listening.

The two women, who had been at each other’s throats before, were chatting.

But the more he listened, the stranger the conversation became.

"That lipstick you’re wearing is quite nice. It makes your face look even paler than a corpse, exuding a sickly beauty. You’re the embodiment of expressionism when you walk out."

"How can the quality of your cheongsam be so poor? Would you like me to recommend you a better quality one? Oh, if you’re aiming for performance art, then you won’t need it."

The two women spoke sarcasm to each other all the way, from modern art style to literary classics.

Like rooster fighting, they pulled out every book they had ever read to belittle each other. In the air, the words seemed to have morphed into tiny daggers, biubiubiu stabbing at each other. Yu Jingting seriously suspected that had they not arrived home, these two could go from lambasting literature to debating the origin of the world as told in the ancient myth of Pangu.

The verbal battle among these so-called cultured people was really acidic. It was an endless back and forth that felt like scratching an itch through a boot to Yu Jingting. It was way too unsatisfying.

After all that arguing, they were not tired. They might as well have just straight-up cursed each other out or engaged in a physical fight. It would have been more straightforward.

If it hadn’t been for Suizi warning him with her eyes that "professional fights" weren’t allowed to participate, Yu Jingtang might have wanted to personally interfere.

"Shall I park by the roadside so you two can argue for another ten minutes?" Yu Jingting politely proposed.

"I’m getting off here, Chen Hansui, remember to bring me food tomorrow."

"No need to wait until tomorrow, I’ll bring it to you tonight."

Shen Liangyin jumped off the tractor and walked two steps away without looking back. Almost reluctantly, she turned her head to see Suizi’s lips moving for a long time, but no words came out.

"You want to thank me? Come on, I’m all ears." Suizi smiled cheerily.

"Stop flattering yourself, I’m leaving!" Shen Liangyin’s face reddened, and this time, she really left.

"What is——what is happening between you two?" Yu Jingting was a little lost. Are all women such complicated creatures?

"I knew it. She cannot withstand my gaze." Suizi lifted her chin in pride.

"...It’s not something to be proud of, that the second-last place won over the last one, right?"

"What do you know? I am resolving the problem with understanding and dealing with contradictions. This method is much better than my mother’s way of exterminating problems from the roots."

"Shall I call my mother-in-law and tell her what you said?"

"You dare!" Suizi flared up. She was just venting a little, how could she dare to challenge her mother, the ultimate boss?

But the blow that Suizi dealt wasn’t too outrageous.

Although Shen Liangyin and Suizi didn’t see eye to eye, and they picked on each other’s clothing choices, Liangyin no longer hinted anything to Yu Jingting and deliberately set boundaries at work.

It gave Yu Jingting a feeling. It seemed that Shen Liangyin was not picking on him anymore, but instead, she was going after his wife.

This feeling was quite subtle. While it was nice not to be bothered by someone, seeing an annoying person pester his wife wasn’t exactly pleasant.

One day, Yu Jingting found Shen Liangyin at the office when he brought some snacks to the night school as a supplement for Suizi.

She was sitting on Suizi’s sofa, reading a book with her legs crossed.

"Damn!" Yu Jingting almost thought he was hallucinating.

"What are you doing here! Where’s my wife?!"

"I came to borrow a book from her. I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time, Chen Hansui is seeing a client."

"Seeing... what?!" Shen Liangyin’s odd look gave Yu Jingting goosebumps.