I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 699: Show a Real Performance

Chapter 699: Chapter 699: Show a Real Performance

Upon hearing someone was threatening to take poison upfront, Yu Jingting’s first reaction was to laugh at his wife.

"Someone shares your hobby?"

"Quit joking around, it sounds like someone is really going to take poison." Suizi nudged him, clearly implying there is a problem.

He turned to look around, and sure enough, someone was missing from their seat.

Suizi stood up and craned her neck to see. Sure enough, in the delighted crowd at the front, LuoLuo, sporting two round hair buns, was squatting with her younger brother, eyes glued to the scene, not even blinking.

"...Hurry up and bring the kids back here." Suizi nudged Yu Jingting.

"This old man is treating everyone like dogs. He doesn’t even care that his two sons didn’t visit on his birthday. If something happens, we have to be the ones to handle it, huh." Yu Jingting stood up slowly, clearly showing that he just wanted to bring his daughter back and had no interest in watching the drama.

Father Chen was celebrating his 66th birthday, a significant milestone.

Chen’s two uncles claimed they were busy with their military duties and couldn’t come back, only sending money back in the mail.

But Suizi had talked to her aunt on the phone the day before and heard they had gone to the beach. They claimed their children had never seen the sea and needed to be closer to nature.

Preferring to vacation over returning home indicates how much they detested the old man.

Without the uncles returning, Chen Lijun also refused to take charge. She slapped down a stack of money for her father, simply stating he could organize everything himself. She could handle finances, but not people.

When Chen Lijun got married, her father tried to poison someone, creating an irreparable rift between them.

If it weren’t for Fan Huang playing the peacemaker, Chen Lijun wouldn’t even have wanted to attend.

Father Chen just wanted to spite her, to prove that even without anyone else’s help, he could throw a successful birthday banquet with just his own family. It was just having guests over for dinner, how big of a deal could it be.

Turns out, it was indeed a big deal.

Chen Lijun and Fan Huang’s table was right next to the stage. The opera troupe was performing there. Halfway through, the leading lady took out a bottle of medicine from her pocket, exclaiming if she wasn’t given an explanation, she would drink the poison.

At first, everyone thought it was part of the performance, but after scrutinizing it a bit, something seemed off.

Who’s ever heard of a 66th birthday party where the performers threaten to poison themselves as part of the festivities?

Hence, people from the front tables rushed up to surround the opera singer, who was holding the medicine bottle, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Chen Bin! You must explain yourself to me today!"

"The name Chen Bin sounds familiar." Suizi said to Chen He.

"....That’s your maternal grandfather."

"Oh my!" Suizi slapped her forehead when it clicked. No wonder it sounded so familiar.

She looked around and did not see her old-fashioned grandfather. He probably slipped away due to the escalating drama.

Suizi’s gaze returned to her mother’s table. Her maternal grandmother was pale-faced, one couldn’t tell whether it was from anger or fear.

Her mother, Chen Lijun, on the other hand, was brimming with anger. It looked like she was about to step up and intervene but was held back by Fan Huang.

It wouldn’t be appropriate for Chen Lijun to intervene in such a situation. Although she’s not of high seniority, Fan Huang’s status meant that the leading lady didn’t deserve her involvement.

Fan Huang looked over at Suizi’s table.

Suizi silently made a 5 sign with her hand, mouthing the word "five hundred" with no sound.

She needed to get the nanny’s salary first, because she was broke.

Fan Huang gestured to her to stop fooling around, and Suizi finally stood up and parted the crowd to reach the front of the stage.

Gaining advantage from his height and strength, Yu Jingting holstered a child on each of his arms, ensuring both of his children had VIP access to the whole spectacle.

LuoLuo and her father had matching expressions - the perfect faces for watching a drama unfold, watching with interest.

Meanwhile, Bobo was just focusing on gnawing on his chicken leg, preferring its juicy deliciousness to the elderly woman on stage who was sobbing her heart out.

"Why aren’t you going to stop the commotion? You’re watching the show with the kids?" Suizi asked.

"If I had dived in earlier, what could I have used to bargain with our mother? Did you make enough money from your nanny job?"

Suizi nodded, Yu Jingting put the children down. The couple lowered their voices and exchanged a few words, then Suizi called over a brother from the Chen family and signaled him to turn off the backstage sound system.

That way, only a few tables at the front could hear the old lady’s rant.

From the wailing woman on stage who was gasping for breath, it emerged that she was the "mistress" of the birthday boy, Chen Bin. She chose his 66th birthday to create this scene, a clear indication of premeditation.

As the other performers in the troupe saw her losing control, they tried to pull her back but were promptly pushed away by her. She was determined to express herself fully.

The audience below was all gossip-hungry, attending the birthday banquet and giving their share. Hearing such big news, they all felt that their donations were well spent.

After Suizi finished discussing their strategy, she passed the fake bottle of pesticide she brought to Jingting. With one hand, Jingting jumped onto the stage, all cool and collected.

"Oh!" Luoluo was, seeing her father jump onto the stage, excited to claim the best view, waving at her mother, and trying to emulate her father while dragging her brother along.

Suizi held back the suddenly restless Luoluo and casually fed her son a piece of yellow pea cake.

The moment Bobo got something to eat, he immediately became quiet, not joining his sister’s movement. After eating the chicken leg, he began to eat the yellow pea cake, focusing only on eating.

Suizi pulled the restless Luoluo back again, ignoring her protest.

"Don’t distract your dad. You can watch it from here." She picked up her daughter; she didn’t have the strength to carry both like Jingting. However, as long as her son had something to eat, he wouldn’t be interested in the commotion.

The actress on the stage was still crying hysterically, begging for Chen Bin to appear. When she saw Jingting jump up, she retreated several steps.

"Don’t come any closer! If you do, I’ll take the poison!"

"Take poison? What kind of poison, this?" Jingting lifted up the fake pesticide bottle from Suizi, and waved it a little.

"I happen to have one too! Here’s the thing, life’s been too good, I’m kind of fed up. Do you know how good I have it?"

"...??" The actress forgot to cry. She watched Jingting on stage, speechless for a few seconds, and then uttered, "Are... are you insane?"

What was his meaning, jumping out while someone was threatening suicide?

"I’m perfectly sane! Everyone present knows me, right? Let me introduce myself, Yu Jingting, 25, just graduated from university, married for 5 years, father of a pair of adorable boy and girl twins - wife, show them!"

Suizi dutifully got the twins to wave.

The scene was confused, what on earth was going on?

"Can this kid ever stop fooling around?" Chen Lijun massaged her temples, not understanding her son-in-law’s game.

"Get off! I haven’t finished talking yet!" The actress lost her train of thought because of his disturbance.

It took her quite a while to remember her plan.

"You’re not in a hurry. Look here everyone, gentlemen! You’ve seen many birthday operas, but who has seen a real performance? Today you’ve got your money’s worth. Here’s something for you, a live person drinking poison!"

Having said that, he lifted up the bottle to his lips and drank several gulps.

"Lijun, your son-in-law—what the...?" Chen’s mother was shocked by Jingting’s outrageous antics, her own troubles momentarily forgotten.

So were all the other guests.

Chen Lijun waved her hand weakly. "He and Suizi are both nuts."

"I wouldn’t be so sure, I think my son-in-law is playing the fool to catch the wise." Fan Huang was very interested in the show.

At the moment Jingting drank the fake poison, the situation on the stage completely turned around.