I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 74 Summoning the Divine Beast

Chapter 74: Chapter 74 Summoning the Divine Beast

Big news has just sprung up in Yang Village.

Yu Jingting, who was typically known for not taking his duties seriously throughout the village, has done something worthy.

The City Bureau issued him an honor certificate. The bright red cover opens to reveal a line of bold letters inside:

Comrade Yu Jingting has performed outstanding deeds in maintaining social order, and this certificate is issued especially for him.

Below is the red seal of the City Bureau.

Wang Cuihua spread the certificate out and mounted it in a glass frame.

It was in plain sight for anyone who came to visit.

Accompanying the certificate was a huge reward from the City Bureau - thirty yuan.

The brand new "unity" ten yuan banknote, meticulously smoothed over, was framed in the same glass case as the certificate.

Yu Jingting thought this act was ludicrous and solemnly protested.

His protest was overruled, his mother and wife found him wrong.

Wang Cuihua, this vain old lady, wanted to brag about the honor, which left Yu Jingting at a loss for words.

New Year was two months away, every household in the village was in need of money. Thirty yuan wasn’t much but not too little either. Hanging money at home was like summoning the old witch to come and create chaos, wasn’t it?

His educated and sophisticated wife joined the fanfare too.

Not only did Suizi agree with her mother-in-law’s decision to show off the certificate, but she also took it to school. She used the theme, "Yu Jingting - the underrated good man from Yang Village" and asked her students from grades three, four, and five to write essays.

In no time, Yu Jingting became a celebrity known throughout several villages.

Usually, when he had nothing to do, he would hang out with the loafers under the big tree at the entrance of the village, smoking and bragging.

Now this pleasure was disrupted.

As soon as he stood there, he hadn’t even lighted his cigarette before maidens, young wives, women and sisters-in-law surrounded him, watching him as if he were some rare animal, scrutinizing every move he made.

Looking was not enough, they also giggled behind their hands.

They laughed so hard that Yu Jingting couldn’t even smoke.

It got even worse when he ran into kids on the street, "Isn’t he the very man our teacher asked us to write an essay about?"

The children watched intently without blinking an eye, observing which leg Yu Jingting moved first when he walked.

Back home with a burning frustration, he heard his mother bragging about his "good deeds" to visitors. With an expletive under his breath, he crouched in the courtyard to finish his cigarette, then decided to go back into the room and fool around with his chubby wife to beat the frustration.

Suizi moved a kang table, which was piled full of stacks of homework. Checkingly meticulously with a pen, Jiaojiao sat across from her.

Their legs were stuffed under the kang table, covered with a small quilt.

"Why are you doing this instead of eating sunflower seeds over the weekend?" Yu Jingting kicked off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, peering at Suizi’s work with a look of disapproval. "Look at the handwriting of kids nowadays, it’s just unbearable."

"I have to discuss the essays with the students on Monday, so I have to finish grading them all today."

"As if your handwriting is any better - Jiaojiao, let’s see if the essay I wrote is okay?" Jiaojiao gave her essay book just like showing off a treasure.

Jiaojiao, the one who always scored zero in Chinese, had to flip through the dictionary and Tang poetry just to write an essay. As soon as Wang Cuihua caught sight of it, she exclaimed in admiration.

Jiaojiao, the unproductive member of the Yu Family, had sprouted under Suizi’s guidance.

Ever since Suizi brought Jiaojiao back from the city, she never mentioned dropping out of school to become a shaman again. Her attitude towards homework has also turned positive.

Suizi took over Jiaojiao’s essay book and read it carefully, nodding her head.

It was indeed lively written, after all, it was about her brother. But this sentence - Suizi’s face flushed as she circled it with her pen.

"Focus on capturing main characteristics of a person while writing about them. Although this...could also be considered one of his traits."

Suizi glanced at Yu Jingting, and her look made the loafer think his sister’s essay was not that simple.

Yu Jingting’s eyes squinted and he grabbed the text, beginning to read it aloud.

"My brother—huh, this is about me?" he read with interest, his eyes narrowed when he got to the part circled by Suizi.

"My brother is a man fearless in the face of beauty; when he sees my sister-in-law, he becomes so smitten that he can’t even walk straight - hey!" He slammed the book on the table. "Where did you learn to write such nonsense?"

Jiaojiao shrinking her shoulders, biting her pencil as she replied with aggrievement,

"It’s from a story. When martial artists in those see a great beauty, this is always their reaction."

"Nonsense about martial artists! That’s what womanizing thieves do when they see girls—I spit!" Yu Jingting reached out to rip the page. Was he even slightly like the shameful character described by this young girl?

Jiaojiao shrieked and lunged over to snatch the book back into her hands.

Jiaojiao’s little bunches on her head got undone by JB’s pull, leaving her hair standing up like a bird’s nest. She pouted and cried as she jumped off the bed to find her mother.

Yu Jingting squatted there, scratching his waist, Jiaojiao’s tooth mark still on the back of his hand, with an expression of victorious delight on his face.

Suizi watched with a throbbing headache, feeling like she suddenly had two additional "big kids".

Yu Jingting was too idle and his energy was excessive.

When he was home, if he wasn’t pestering Jiaojiao, he would be bullying the family’s chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and cats. When he couldn’t find anything else to do, he would stick to Suizi like chewing gum, occasionally reaching a naughty hand under her clothes to — I spit!

While Suizi was inwardly cursing him, he wrapped an arm around her waist, nestling his chin on her shoulder.

"I’m going into the forest tomorrow."

Suizi frowned.

"What’ are you going to the forest for?"

"Hunting rabbits." Yu Jingting mumbled back.

"Is it safe? You’re not going to run into tigers, wolves, or blind bears, are you?"

Her worried look tickled Yu Jingting’s heart.

"I’ll bring the bear back if I see any and make a padded jacket for you." He was about to gnaw her.

Suizi frowned, she was already meaty, wearing a bear skin... all the dogs from the village would chase after her, wouldn’t they?

"Mom! Look! He’s trying to gnaw my sister-in-law again! See, I didn’t write anything wrong, did I!"

Wang Cuihua led Jiaojiao into the room as she pointed at Yu Jingting, tattling on him.

Suizi extricated herself from Yu Jingting’s hold, her ears burning bright red.

Being caught in the act by her mother-in-law was indeed an embarrassing experience.

"It just snowed a few days ago; it’s the perfect time to hunt rabbits in the hills. Your grandmother wanted to eat wild rabbit."

"I need to keep this from my other grandma when sending the rabbit to my maternal granny, or else she’ll make a scene." Jiaojiao mumbled.

Yu Jingting’s grandma and maternal grandma live in the same village. One has to pass by his grandma’s house when going to his maternal grandma’s house.

His grandma usually lived with Yu Jingting’s second uncle in a nearby village. Suizi had met the old woman when she got married, and her impression of her was rather poor.

On her wedding day, Suizi and Yu Jingting were asked to kowtow to her. Few people in the village still performed such rituals for the elders at weddings. Suizi was on the verge of tears as she stood there.

Fortunately, Yu Jingting forcefully rejected the idea, and the old woman reluctantly agreed to replace the kowtowing with a respectful tea ceremony.

Then, while Yu Jingting and Wang Cuihua were outside entertaining guests, she told Suizi a whole lot of old fashioned rules of the Yu Family while she was on the traditional bridal bed.

Diligence, female virtue, bearing sons, and so on, the old woman ran through a whole lot of traditional nonsense, annoying Suizi greatly.

Just as they were in the middle of their conversation, someone’s voice could be heard yelling from outside the courtyard:

"Yu Tiegen you son-of-a-turtle, come out!"

Yu Jingting rolled his eyes, delivering a light knock on Jiaojiao’s head:

"See, your babbling has summoned that old witch, hasn’t it?"