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Chapter 75: If The Upper Beam Is Not Straight, The Lower Ones Will Go Aslant (Seeking First Subscription)

Chapter 75: Chapter 75: If The Upper Beam Is Not Straight, The Lower Ones Will Go Aslant (Seeking First Subscription)

At the entrance of the courtyard stood a small old lady, bent over with a cane in her hand, and two young men following behind her.

This is Jingting’s grandmother, and the two young men following her are the two sons from Jingting’s second uncle’s family, one called Yu Tiefu, the other Yu Tiegui.

These brothers were tall and burly, with scruffy beards, and their faces were grim.

Suizi looked at these two, then at Jingting, the difference in looks between them was like a chasm.

Jingting and Jiaojiao take after their grandmother, which proves that genes are really important. Marry a good-looking wife and the quality of the children will definitely increase.

"Call out Tiegen and his evil star of a wife!" The old lady swaggered into the house with a haughty demeanor.

"Listen to her talking. We have a lucky star that only comes along once in a hundred years. We’ve never seen an evil star; have you?" Wang Cuihua asked Jingting’s siblings, sarcasm dripping from her words.

Jiaojiao shook her head furiously, Jingting sneered, clearly unwilling to engage.

When the old woman saw Suizi standing next to Jingting, her fierce gaze sharpened.

Suizi couldn’t recall if she had offended this old woman, why did it seem like she had come specifically for her?

"Rather than staying at home and doing housework while pregnant, you’re running off to play teacher at a school. I think you’re just a frog trying to show off."

As soon as the old woman opened her mouth, she started hurling insults, leaving Suizi completely baffled.

Was this elderly woman a psychopath or was she suffering from rabies? She just comes up and bites?

Jingting and Wang Cuihua spoke up at the same time.

"Old woman, what are you saying?"

"A skinned toad." Jingting put a hand on Suizi’s shoulder and stared at the ceiling.

"What does that mean?" Suizi and Jiaojiao asked in unison.

The Old granny Yu has always enjoyed insulting people with Proverbs. This time, she just met her match, she had never heard of Jingting’s Proverb, looking at him expectantly to explain.

"Annoying when alive, scary when dead."

Old Madame Yu was so infuriated she nearly spat out a mouthful of blood, her coarse, tree-bark-like fingers pointing at Jingting.

"You, you, you are a worthless, disrespectful thing! You’re just an illegitimate child!"

"I, I, I, this illegitimate child is your son’s seed! If I am a son of a turtle, what does that make you?" Jingting mimicked the old lady’s tone.

Clearly, when it came to his own grandmother, he demonstrated a bit more respect — he always said his impudent words with a smile, none of his usual fierceness when arguing with others, a perfect example of "respect for the old and love for the young".

Suizi bowed her head to hide the upward curve of her mouth.

Holding it in, absolutely must not laugh. Even though it was so funny...

"Jingting! How can you talk to your grandmother like that? Do you not have any respect left?" Yu Tiefu stepped forward to reprimand him.

Jingting’s sharp eyes swept over the two brothers, his lips formed a spiteful curve as he said in a ruffian manner:

"These two gentlemen look quite familiar, don’t they?"

He slapped his head as if he suddenly remembered and said:

"You know, there is a saying that a woman will be forgetful for three years after getting pregnant. Ever since my wife got pregnant, my memory has gotten worse. Aren’t they my two cousins who never visit unless they want something? Suizi, come here. Let me introduce them to you."

He pulled Suizi, who was struggling not to burst into laughter, over and introduced solemnly:

"These two men in front of you are the infamous Yu Tiefu and Yu Tiegui - as flashy as fireworks but as useful as rotten wood. You met them at our wedding. They were the ones who ate and took away the cigarettes meant for the guests from the bride’s side. It’s likely they’re the ones who stole the sauce bones from the serving dishes!"

"Nonsense! We only took the cigarettes, we didn’t take any bones — ah!" Yu Tiegui hadn’t finished talking when his stomach was hit by his brother.

"Hrrmph." Suizi finally couldn’t hold back her laughter, she couldn’t even if she tried any harder.

What a malicious street-urchin!

Yu Tiefu and Yu Tiegui’s faces turned red and their necks turned purple from anger, even the old woman looked greatly peeved.

"You didn’t come to build a relationship with us, did you? Speak up, what do you want? I can’t help if you’re short of grain or rice. But if your family is short on manure, just say it, I can give you some freshly produced. Are you here to beg for something? We’re used to it." Jingting threw another verbal bomb as soon as he opened his mouth.

"What do you mean, begging for something? I just came to... check on you all..." Yu Tiefu spoke guiltily.

"Oh, just checking on us, you don’t want anything, not planning to ask for money?" Jingting’s sharp gaze swept around the room and left them speechless.

Suizi smirked at the side, this kind of family squabble...wasn’t doing this usually the job of the wife and mother-in-law?

Jingting has stepped up and rolled up his sleeves...she had no chance to join in.

Suizi had to admit, ever since she started to see Jingting with different eyes, she now saw everything he did through rose-colored glasses.

Even when he was roasting others, Suizi felt that it was a call from his heart, a dedication of love, a gentle breeze in human life, the fountain of life.....

"We came to lodge a complaint! Your wife scared Tiegen’s daughter!" Yu Tiegui said.

"What?" Suizi was puzzled, where did she find the time to scare children in the past few days? She had been either in school or at home.

"Heh, My wife is as gentle as a little rabbit, I never mentioned that your ugly and smelly mouths frightened her, yet you’re accusing her?"

"Um, can I ask, Tiegen’s daughter ... do I know her?" Suizi weakly interjected.

Despite that it felt good to have a man stand up for her, she was really curious as to whom she had offended. When did she gain the ability to scare people?

"Stop pretending! You’ve been married for a month already, and you don’t even know the name of a child from your husband’s uncle’s family?" Old lady Yu thumped her cane hard on the ground, attempting to take the moral high ground.

"Our family has two geese that lay eggs, do you know which one laid the eggs first? Can you tell the gender?" Jingting stood up for Suizi again.

"What use is that to me? And besides, don’t eggs have genders?"

Jingting shrugged his shoulders.

"There you go then! Why should my wife need to know something useless?"

The hand Granny Yu used to grip her cane turned blue from the strain, and the two behind her looked ready for a fight.

Conversing with Jingting who always delivered blows right to the heart, could make anyone with a weak mentality crumble within five minutes.

If not for the fact that they couldn’t beat him, they would have gotten physical a long time ago.

"Tiegen’s daughter is in the fifth grade, she said that ever since your wife started substituting classes, she gets bullied by your wife every other day. She has class six days a week, your wife makes her stand five and a half days. What is this about?"

Old lady Yu’s words reminded Suizi of something —

"Yu Caifeng?! The one who would not do her homework, wouldn’t bring her textbooks, didn’t improve despite being repeatedly reprimanded, ate sunflower seeds during class, stole things, and was frequently holding hands with boys?!"

This list made it clear why the child was punished.

Suizi was now in charge of three grades and more than a hundred kids, and she hadn’t seen any student as brazen as that child.

Even after repeated lengthy lectures, she remained impervious, it was as if she could not understand human speech.

After ruling out that intelligence wasn’t an issue, Suizi was very curious — what kind of parents could raise such a child. She had been planning to have a discussion with the child’s parents —

Today, she met the parents and understood that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The child’s father stole cigarettes and large bones at the wedding, and the child stole other people’s pencils, erasers and pencil sharpeners at school!