I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 816: Come, Purple Eggplant Jelly

Chapter 816: Chapter 816: Come, Purple Eggplant Jelly

"I have some business to discuss today and there’s really nowhere for the kid to stay. Can you guys help me look after him for a day?" Chen He gestured with the two slabs of spare ribs he was carrying.

Chen Tong’s mother was hospitalized again, and Chen He couldn’t keep up. He originally planned to have the child stay with relatives.

But Chen Tong insisted on coming to Chen Hansui’s house.

Since Yu Jingting was Chen He’s boss, bringing the child over to his boss’s house, it wouldn’t be good to show up empty-handed.

After Chen He finished speaking and put down the spare ribs, he tried to leave, signaling that the matter was quite urgent.

"Uncle, I have something to tell you. Can we talk in private?" Suizi spoke up.

Chen He pointed to his nose: "Me?"

"Hmm, to the study room, please." Suizi made a ’please’ gesture and gave Yu Jingting a look.

Yu Jingting nodded; he’d keep an eye on the little rascal, Chen Tong, and prevent him from eavesdropping.

When Chen Tong heard that Suizi wanted to talk to his father alone, his gaze began to drift, looking here and there but unable to discern anything.

He wanted to sneak over to the window of the study room, where Gengen was, but Yu Jingting was watching him.

"I’ll go play with Luoluo and Bobo." Chen Tong ran outside the courtyard where the two Little Luobos were squirting each other with makeshift bamboo water guns.

Chen Tong deliberately ran out of the courtyard, creating the illusion that he wasn’t interested in the conversation, and with the corner of his eye watched Yu Jingting who didn’t follow him; he stood in the courtyard, chatting with Yu Shuisheng.

Chen Tong pricked up his ears to listen; they were talking about cars, and it didn’t seem like he was paying attention to him.

Chen Tong’s eyes roved about and then said to Luoluo, who was usually very talkative:

"Luoluo, what are you playing with?"

Luoluo looked at him with a strange expression, squirting water at his shoes with the makeshift water gun and said, "A pump, duh."

Chen Tong, whose foot had been squirted, was angry. If not for the fact that the kid’s father was right there in the courtyard, he would’ve pushed her.

"It’s obviously a water gun!"

"You knew and you still asked?" Luoluo gave him a disdainful look; the little girl not only looked like Yu Jingting, but even when she was sassing someone, her tone was just like his.

Chen Tong was left speechless.

He considered himself clever, but he didn’t expect to come up short against a kindergarten kid.

Luoluo’s water gun was empty, and she ran into the courtyard to refill it.

Bobo was focused on squirting the ants on the ground with his water gun. Chen Tong approached Bobo.

In his memory, Bobo was always a very quiet child, so he should be easy to fool. Chen Tong’s eyes swiveled again, trying to get on Bobo’s good side:

"Bobo, why are you squirting the ants?"

"Meaningless." Bobo kept repeating the act of squirting the ants, expressionless.

Lately, Suizi often read books about philosophy to Yu Jingting before bed.

Yu Jingting claimed he wanted to cultivate a bit of philosophical culture to help impress people with sophisticated talk during business dealings.

But Suizi seriously doubted this; she suspected he just wanted to hear her soft voice as he fell asleep. Whenever she read, he’d fall asleep within three minutes, her reading proving remarkably effective for hypnosis.

Whether Yu Jingting’s philosophical culture had increased, Suizi didn’t know, but Bobo had certainly taken a lot in, recently starting to imitate Suizi’s deep voice, spouting incomprehensible phrases.

This made Wang Cuihua worry for a while that her grandson had been traumatized and had caught the intermittent problem from the Suizi father-daughter pair of not speaking coherently.

Chen Tong was baffled by Bobo’s cryptic words, wondering if the child was a bit foolish. They were not even an answer to his question.

"Uncle is asking you, has your mom said anything about me lately?" Chen Tong attempted to draw Bobo into conversation.

"Mmm, yes." Bobo nodded.

Chen Tong’s heart tightened, and taking advantage of the moment when no one was around, he hurriedly asked, "What exactly did she say about Uncle? Don’t overthink it, Uncle is a very good friend of your parents. I’m just curious, that’s all."

Bobo didn’t respond to him and continued to squirt water at the ants.

The ants were forced off their path by the spray of water, standing silly in place, their two antennae swinging left and right, seemingly trying to find the way back.

As Bobo concentrated on the ants, Chen Tong grew a bit anxious.

"Why aren’t you speaking? I’m asking you!" Could this kid actually be dumb?

Bobo reached out and placed the little ant back at its starting point. After circling around, the ant ultimately did not follow its original path and scurried away quickly.

"If you take the wrong path, you can’t get back, oh," Bobo sighed, his plump little face trying hard to maintain the "philosopher’s" supposed air of profundity. This was actually something Suizi had said as well, with a deeper meaning.

"Did you even understand what I said? Are you—" The word "dumb" was on the tip of his tongue, but Chen Tong swallowed it back.

Looking at Bobo, his eyes now carried a trace of unfriendliness. Suizi was so smart; this kid must not be like her. He had to be more like that Yu Jingting with his simple mind and well-developed limbs.

"Don’t take the wrong path, yeah, bye-bye." Although Bobo’s words seemed to be directed at the little ant, he was looking at Chen Tong.

Their eyes met, and Chen Tong’s uneasy gaze collided with Bobo’s clear black-and-white eyes; he froze.

This child’s eyes were like Suizi’s, as if possessing the ability to see through people’s hearts.

"Are you close with my mom and dad?" Bobo asked.

"Yes, that’s right, so hurry up and tell me, do your mom and dad discuss Uncle in private?"

"If you’re close, then ask them yourself, why bother asking me?" Bobo retorted and ran off to the courtyard, heading straight for his dad.

Leaving Chen Tong disheveled in the wind.

"Dad, there’s a weirdo over there covered in dark aura." Bobo stretched out his two chubby arms and ran towards Yu Jingting.

Wanting to throw himself into his father’s arms, he was intercepted halfway by his grandfather.

Yu Shuisheng scooped up his big chubby grandson and playfully tickled his little plump face with his newly grown stubble.

"What did Bobo see?" Yu Shuisheng asked, laughing.

"Anyway, it’s just a mass of dark energy."

Luoluo, who had just filled her water gun, also ran over and started squirting her dad.

"Da Da~ Dad, put your hands up~"

"You little rascal, you’re supposed to threaten first and then act. You acted first, so do you still expect me to surrender?" Yu Jingting pretended to chase after her, while Luoluo laughed and ran off to Chen Tong, who was still disheveled, and sprayed him mercilessly.

She kept muttering:

"Eggplant jelly incoming~"

"!!!" Chen Tong looked down to see the water stain spreading from the middle of his shorts. That little girl really knew where to aim; didn’t this look just like he wet his pants?

"What are you saying!!!" Chen Tong pulled a handkerchief from his pocket, and in his haste, a paper packet fell out.

Yu Jingting narrowed his eyes—oh ho?

Chen Tong quickly stepped on the packet, fearing it would be discovered. Pretending to tie his shoelaces, he crouched down and swiftly picked up the packet and stuffed it in his pocket.

"I said, spray a bit to dispel the mold energy. Eggplant jelly incoming, you, right here, it’s darkening," Luoluo pointed to her forehead, implying the hall of wisdom.

"Luoluo means ’purple qi coming from the east’?" Yu Shuisheng understood his granddaughter’s words.

The girl had perfectly inherited her dad’s habit of making up words and phrases. A perfectly good expression, after passing through these father and daughter, was like mutton entering a hotpot: going in raw and coming out transformed beyond recognition.

"Right, he’s going to be unlucky~" Luoluo resumed her spraying at Chen Tong, and before he could lose his temper, she hopped and skipped away.

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