I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 808 The Truth Comes Out

Chapter 808: Chapter 808 The Truth Comes Out

The little white mouse didn’t have much of a reaction after eating it; it could still run.

"The specific components still need to be tested, but for now, it doesn’t seem to be highly toxic," Su Zhe concluded.

Suizi’s heart felt slightly relieved.

But she quickly thought of something more serious.

Someone had seen Chen Tong sprinkle something into the squid dish, and it was very likely that what he added was the same substance that had been put in the water.

Yu Jingting hadn’t eaten it, so who had?

As long as this matter wasn’t resolved, it was like a Sword of Damocles hanging over her family’s heads.

Su Zhe promised to look into it as quickly as possible, and after staying a while longer, Suizi and her family left.

After returning, Suizi told Yu Jingting to be more vigilant, especially regarding the people coming and going from the skating rink these days, to be constantly on the lookout.

This incident also served as a wake-up call for Suizi, prompting her to hold a small safety meeting for the kids.

From now on when they were outside, they shouldn’t let their water bottles out of their hands, and they shouldn’t eat anything from strangers—a rule taught since a young age. Now, there was another one: like in Yu Jingting’s office where anyone could enter, they must only drink from a water jug that was freshly filled in their presence; water out of their sight shouldn’t be consumed anymore.

As the family’s economy gradually started to improve, it was essential to pay attention to security measures. Although this unexpected incident hadn’t harmed Yu Jingting, it was a warning for the whole family.

Besides getting help from Su Zhe to identify the substance, Suizi also planned to start with Chen Tong, trying to find out what his motives were and why he targeted Yu Jingting.

Chen Tong played football at the youth center, so Suizi arranged for the slightly younger Tongtong to join the same group—he was only two years younger, which wasn’t a big issue.

She instructed Tongtong to try to get close to Chen Tong to see if he could get any information out of him.

Chen Tong had met Tongtong before and knew he was childhood friends with Jiaojiao, so the two children hit it off quickly when they met.

Tongtong thought that being two years older than Chen Tong, it would be easy to get information out of him, only to find out once they started talking that the boy was full of slyness, as slippery as an eel.

Chen Tong would call him ’big brother’ all day long, but when asked about his impression of Jingting, he would unleash a barrage of flattery and high praise.

If Tongtong hadn’t accompanied Suizi’s family to the skating rink that day and seen Su Zhe find the unidentified substance, he would have thought the boy was polite and likable too.

".... That’s how it went, I couldn’t get anything out of him, the kid is too tight-lipped. But I did find a packet of powder when I searched his locker, and I managed to get a bit of it when he wasn’t looking."

Tongtong presented a paper packet containing the powder he had gotten from Chen Tong. Suizi sniffed it, and it smelled somewhat like the substance after it had dissolved in water, likely the same kind.

"With all the praise he heaped on Jingting, I even started to doubt if he guessed what I was up to. I didn’t dare to ask more questions."

Suizi nodded, not surprised.

Chen Tong, after all, would be a scientist in the future, with an IQ definitely above that of ordinary children. If he had a purpose in doing this, he must have carefully thought everything through.

It seemed that he truly was targeting Jingting.

"Keep in touch with him, but don’t try to get more information out of him. Be careful not to be outsmarted."

"How can this kid be so tricky? I’ve never seen such a child, and I’m the king of the kids back home," Tongtong said. Back in his hometown, he was top dog among the children and had met plenty, but none like this.

"Getting to know more people is also good for you, as your future path is still very long," Suizi reassured Tongtong, conveying her high hopes for him. "He’s not an ordinary child, and the fact that you could spar with him and not have him trip you up is impressive."

Tongtong’s special talent was playing chess, thinking ten steps ahead for every move he made, which made his thoughts longer-term and his mind more meticulous. An ordinary child, not just two but even ten years older, would not necessarily be able to outplay Chen Tong.

"If Jiaojiao finds out I couldn’t handle a little brat, she’s definitely going to laugh at me... Sigh, sister-in-law, can’t I just give him a blockage in the toilet, beat him up a little?"

Little Fatty thought of Jiaojiao’s disappointed eyes and wished he could hang him up and give him a good beating right then and there.

"Violence can only solve the most basic conflicts, but dealing with those who are sly requires a higher level of cunning. You have to strike them decisively, not giving them a chance to breathe, or else they will never be convinced, and the conflict will only escalate."

After entering the city, power dynamics became complex with officials in the family and those in business – definitely no shortage of people they had offended, and it was no longer a situation that could be fixed simply by putting someone in a sack.

At this moment, Suizi just wanted to know whether someone instigated Chen Tong to drug Yu Jingting or if the kid had decided to do it on his own.

She never imagined that the child she had raised in her past life would be so dark behind her back.

Aside from issues at work that caused Suizi a lot of trouble later on, Chen Tong had always been filial to Suizi for many years. If it wasn’t for his choice to betray the country which chilled Suizi’s heart, he would be a very good child in her eyes.

Now looking at it from a different perspective, realizing the child might have a dark heart, Suizi said she had let go, but in her heart, she was still troubled.

She barely ate dinner, her mood somewhat downcast.

Wang Cuihua noticed her daughter-in-law was troubled and wanted to ask, but Yu Shuisheng held her hand under the table.

Yu Shuisheng glanced at Yu Jingting, signaling his spouse with his eyes that someone was on his mind, no need for her to speak up.

Feeling their mother’s low spirits, the twins were especially quiet that evening, not demanding the usual pre-bedtime game with their dad, and instead went to watch TV with their grandparents after their bath, exceptionally well-behaved.

"Has Su Zhe found out the results yet?" Suizi asked.

Yu Jingting was about to shake his head when the phone rang.

It was Su Zhe calling.

To help Suizi’s family with this matter, he had worked overtime today, skipping dinner and staying in the laboratory.

"The results are out, the main ingredients include Enterococcus, Zinc Lysine, and several other bacteria."

"So, what exactly is this stuff for?"

"Although I haven’t seen this formula on the market, based on my analysis, it’s likely for suppressing harmful intestinal bacteria in animals, and also has appetite-stimulating components... probably... animal feed."

Su Zhe, a top chemical expert, had figured out roughly what it was after fiddling with it all day.

Upon hearing this, Yu Jingting cursed.

What else was there to not understand? The little brat treated him like a fat pig, actually feeding him pig feed?

"Have you offended anyone?" Su Zhe was curious.

"What would happen if a person ate this stuff?" Yu Jingting asked.

"Hmm, lacking data to support a hypothesis, I don’t know. I can only guess that it might lead to weight gain... dozens of pounds."

Yu Jingting hung up the phone before he could blow his top.

Suizi, listening by his side, heard everything and finally understood.

Thinking back to when she jokingly said in the car that she wouldn’t want Yu Jingting if he got fat, Chen Tong’s reaction was strange, and he later suggested visiting his aunt’s laboratory.

Connecting the cause and effect, the truth became clear.

"He wanted to fatten you up and then make us divorce? But what does he gain from this?"

What could possibly motivate a young teenager, out of the blue, to conceive such a twisted idea?