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Chapter 887: The Child is Also Very Stout-hearted

Chapter 887: Chapter 887: The Child is Also Very Stout-hearted

Never try to reason with an angry mother.

Yu Jingting didn’t dare provoke Suizi, so he ran over to the two kids, squatted down, trying not to look down on them from above, and engaged them in conversation.

"How did you suddenly think of doing an experiment?"

"Science is about the spirit of exploration," Bobo said with tears still on his face, but the words came out fluently.

Yu Jingting raised his eyebrow, noting the practiced ease. This was a well-planned "operation" with even the post-discovery alibi all set.

He glanced back at Suizi, who was standing there, arms folded.

Rage visibly filled her to the brim.

In front of him were two "unyielding" kids, and behind him was his wife on the verge of a meltdown. Standing between them, Yu Jingting felt the weight of responsibility. He was both amused and frustrated.

"Luoluo, what did you promise your dad? Didn’t we agree yesterday that you wouldn’t climb high?" Yu Jingting decided to change tactics.

Luoluo answered between sobs, "I did what I promised you, didn’t I? It wasn’t as high as our house, brother researched it."

"Right, I went and asked the Principal about the exact height," Bobo chimed in.

Yu Jingting thought to himself, you asked for the specific height just to make a ramp for transporting cabbages, didn’t you?

But the current situation was that, indeed, Luoluo had kept her promise to her dad. What she had said was that she wouldn’t climb anything higher than their house, and she did just that.

As an enlightened father, Yu Jingting really couldn’t bring himself to scold them.

Outside, he was quite the fighter, but at home, he was utterly mild-mannered, especially toward his children, whom he loved no matter how he looked at them.

Sometimes when he came home late from social engagements and the children were already asleep, he would still go check on them. Seeing their sleeping faces gave him an inexplicable sense of accomplishment—how lovely and smart they were!

But being too smart was sometimes a double-edged sword; raising them required extra care, like right now.

Yu Jingting had been asking questions for a while, and no matter how he tried to tease out information, he could only learn about the "crime" process and outcome from the kids, who were surprisingly forthcoming about the details.

But every time he asked why they did it, they just repeated that line "for the sake of science."

When he asked the third time, Luoluo slapped her chest, making a brave and martyred expression.

"Dad, stop asking. Just pretend it was me and my brother being mischievous and naughty. We’re not good cookies, we’re bad kids. Punish me, and make my brother write a self-criticism," she said.

Yu Jingting narrowed his eyes upon hearing this.

Uh-oh...

He reached out, picked up his daughter, and felt behind her pants, conveniently pulling out a cushion.

Had she prepared for a spanking? She even had a cushion!

Yu Jingting was on the verge of bursting into laughter; his offspring sure had potential! When he was young, he wasn’t as smart as his daughter; when his mother scolded him, he never had such forethought.

Then he checked his son’s pockets and sure enough, discovered a self-criticism letter there.

The two kids were fully prepared for everything, clearly embodying the attitude of a dead pig not fearing boiling water.

They were not unaware of the consequences. Knowing the consequences, they went ahead under pressure.

This was worth studying.

No wonder his wife was so angry, repeatedly questioning their motive. Suizi also seemed to realize this.

According to the kids, it was curiosity. In the spirit of scientific exploration, they conducted this "experiment."

After the incident, they had no intention of running away.

While the teacher was still in a state of disarray, Luoluo took the initiative to suggest going to the Research Institute to speak with the director about the matter.

Upon seeing the director, the teacher was still figuring out how to explain, when Luoluo took the initiative to clarify the situation.

"Oh, how did you explain it to the director?" Yu Jingting caught on to the detail, not allowing his daughter to gloss over it.

"My brother and I gave him our feedback. They have loopholes in their management; the cafeteria staff are always slacking off. If we really wanted to steal, we wouldn’t have been caught. This was just a small warning—a harmless prank."

Luoluo almost blurted out the whole truth.

Yu Jingting’s lips curled into a smile, but his eyes revealed a sudden understanding—oh, so that was the crux of the issue, a warning—?

He turned to look at Suizi.

Suizi seemed angry, but she was listening in the whole time. Upon hearing this, she blinked, and then her expression became far more serious.

"Fine, you did it for research, you have a research spirit. Daddy won’t scold you anymore." Yu Jingting stood up as the two children looked up at him with tear-stained faces.

Yu Jingting smiled slightly.

"Daddy will ask your godfather; your godfather is right at the Research Institute; he must have first-hand information."

Su Zhe worked as a professor at the university, and the Research Institute was a partner with the university. He’d come over whenever he didn’t have classes.

Next to the twins’ kindergarten, when the Yu family had urgent affairs and couldn’t pick up the children on time, they would ask Su Zhe to watch them for a while.

Since their days back in Dongbei, the twins had a good relationship with Su Zhe.

It was Suizi who had recommended Su Zhe for a role in this area, and later, he established himself firmly through his own merits. The two families had always been close.

After divorcing Lun Lamei, he had remained single, devoting all his energy to research. Over the years, he had earned quite a few honors in academia, but his personal life had been put on hold.

Everyone around him of his age had children in elementary school already. Even his superiors were worried about his personal matters, setting him up with several potential matches, but he hadn’t taken an interest in any of them.

Whenever someone told him how great kids were, he wasn’t envious; having the boy and girl twins around, he treated them as if they were his own children and saw nothing inappropriate in that.

Su Zhe was truly good to the twins, the usually cold man would even go to the Toy Market for them, or make toys himself if he couldn’t find the right ones.

The twins often visited the Research Institute and were familiar with the terrain, which is why today’s cabbage-smuggling went so smoothly.

Yu Jingting reacted faster than Suizi; he had already guessed the twins’ motives but deliberately provoked them with his words.

No matter how clever children are, they are still young and inexperienced. Hearing their dad say that, they couldn’t hold back any longer.

"Daddy, we’ve made a mess. You can scold or punish us, but why go to godfather?" Luoluo stepped forward, embracing her father’s leg.

Bobo did the same.

The attitude of the twins made Suizi and her husband even more certain.

Their motivation this time wasn’t sheer mischief; it certainly had something to do with Su Zhe.

"You stole the cabbage from the Research Institute; that’s your godfather’s turf. If I don’t ask him, who should I ask?" Yu Jingting pretended to leave.

Seeing this, Luoluo let go of her dad, stepped back two paces, and pointed at Yu Jingting with her small hand.

"Daddy, you forced me to do this."

"...???" Yu Jingting slowly manifested three question marks. What was this child up to?

Luoluo thudded onto the ground, lying flat in the shape of a character "大."

"Oh, great Judge of Heaven! Please deliver justice for me!"

"..." Wasn’t that the line from the period drama his wife watched every day? But in the show, the heroine knelt on the ground when she said that, not lying down—?

A muscle twitched in Yu Jingting’s face; this child, learning all the wrong things from TV dramas—but then again, in the dramas, the heroine kneels, yet here she lies?

"If you want to ask godfather, you’ll have to step over my dead body!" Luoluo positioned herself dramatically, her tone resolute.