I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 889 Guys, pack up and run

Chapter 889: Chapter 889 Guys, pack up and run

Suizi called Yu Jingting to the kitchen, closed the door, and watched as the two kids entered the room before she began slamming the cabbage down with a loud bang.

"What nonsense! Su Zhe is also something they can gossip about? How dare they mock his leg, pah! Su Zhe’s contributions to the country can match a hundred of their fat legs!"

Suizi tore at the cabbage violently, but in reality, she wanted to rip those gossiping women’s mouths even more.

"Why get angry with those idiots? If they really had that level of consciousness, would they have ended up like this?" Yu Jingting tried to soothe Suizi.

"Last year, Su Zhe passed out in the laboratory due to appendicitis flaring up while immersed in his research. If you hadn’t gone to find him, he might have died."

When Suizi first recommended Su Zhe, she hadn’t expected him to be so dedicated.

He had an icy demeanor but did everything with the nation’s welfare in mind, with a gentle heart.

Back when Suizi and her husband were making ice cream, Su Zhe helped decode the formula. He made clear his bottom line to Suizi and her husband: he would never add harmful ingredients to food, even if it meant reduced profits and taste.

Suizi and her husband admired him greatly. Even though he and Yu Jingting had different personalities, they were still best friends who talked about everything, all because their values aligned.

Now that her good friend was being ridiculed like this, Suizi was getting angrier the more she thought about it.

"All day long, chewing the fat! Always fixated on whether someone gets married or has kids. They get so excited talking about having kids, and would readily say that success means nothing without children—pah!"

Yu Jingting grabbed a piece of cabbage heart and stuffed it in her mouth. "Eat this, it might cool you down a bit."

"Those people, their whole lives are just about having and raising kids. Isn’t that all they focus on? Show them Su Zhe’s papers published internationally; they wouldn’t even recognize all the characters, how could they acknowledge his accomplishments?"

"Su Zhe never mocked them for being coarse, sturdy, and unaccomplished social parasites. How dare they laugh at Su Zhe’s leg? What’s the use of giving them a pair of healthy legs? Even if they grew a hundred legs and became a centipede, they still wouldn’t move beyond their petty household concerns!"

"If you don’t like it, I’ll find a time to beat them up, and that’ll settle it."

Yu Jingting was also feeling indignant on behalf of his buddy. If he were the one holding a grudge, it wouldn’t just be resolved with a few harsh words like Suizi; men take fewer words and more actions when dealing with issues.

"That won’t work. We can deal with these few, but who knows how many more like them are out there? It’s only a temporary fix, not a solution to the root problem."

Suizi hated those gossiping women deep down, but even if you ran off this batch, another might come along.

Su Zhe used to be in a wheelchair; later, with Yu Jingting’s help to pull some strings, they asked his father-in-law, who knew a very skilled practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After several years of treatment, Su Zhe did not need the wheelchair anymore, even though he couldn’t move as freely as a healthy person.

He walked with a slight limp which was the best outcome after much hard work and training.

Others mocked his efforts, and Luoluo was so furious that they were prepared to risk a beating from their parents just to seek justice for their godfather.

"To those who mock him, I say unreservedly, not to mention them, but even their children and grandchildren, tied together, might not be able to achieve what Su Zhe has. But because they can’t accomplish that themselves, they look for a sense of superiority elsewhere. I’ll have our mother go and make a scene with the director tomorrow."

"Our... mother?" Yu Jingting blinked. If his mother went, wouldn’t that turn into a huge drama fest?

"By seniority, it wouldn’t be wrong to say our mother is Su Zhe’s godmother, right? Anyway, she’s an elder. Su Zhe’s family isn’t in Beijing; we can’t let those people bully him for having no relatives here. Let our mother go!"

Luoluo had confidence in her mother-in-law’s ability to persuade people; she would accompany her there.

When those people wagged their tongues about my husband, she fought fire with fire, bringing her mother-in-law, a retired deity, to lay some value on the headmaster.

In your care, our honorary son has devoted himself completely, and if you don’t solve his personal issue, that’s fine, but you also let a bunch of people mock him?

If this isn’t resolved, Wang Cuihua might just perform a shamanistic dance in the headmaster’s office—Suizi decided when she went tomorrow, she’d bring her mother-in-law’s drums, kept for special occasions.

If the headmaster has even the slightest inclination towards having skewed morals, she’d join her mother-in-law in performing a shamanistic dance, singing "You’re going to be doomed."

"Wife, aren’t you a graduate student? Aren’t these rowdy antics typical of village shrews?"

"With old-fashioned academics like the headmaster, no amount of reasoning compares to giving him a good shock. To deal with intellectuals we have to use crude methods! What’s the saying about scholars encountering soldiers? Tomorrow, our mom and I will be ’soldiers’, and I’ll make sure he can’t argue his way out of it! I want everyone to see that Su Zhe has relatives in the capital, so don’t bully him for being an outsider!"

Making a scene would settle it!

"If you two go over and make a scene, won’t the headmaster set up a dozen or more blind dates for him?"

"What’s wrong with blind dates? There’s romance in blind dates! There’s love in blind dates! Doesn’t Su Zhe deserve to get married? Doesn’t he deserve a good woman? Finding him a wife who can take good care of him, he’ll have more energy to dedicate to the nation’s research, producing a house full of highly intelligent children, just to infuriate those who gossip behind his back."

Suizi treated Su Zhe like her own brother, and she was no fool—how could she not see the love he had for Little Luobo?

Luoluo was mischievous as a child, causing Su Zhe’s laboratory vessels to topple over. Had Su Zhe not shielded her with his body, Luoluo’s nationally-disaster-causing beautiful face would have been ruined; Su Zhe still has a scar on his arm from saving Luoluo.

It was simple to become friends with Suizi; genuinely care for her family members, and you’re someone she holds dear.

"Can’t you be less vulgar? Su Zhe doesn’t want to get married right now; by stirring this up, aren’t you just adding pressure on him?"

Yu Jingting had the closest relationship with Su Zhe, and knew Su Zhe’s thoughts the most clearly.

"Me, vulgar? Yu Tiegen, are you even my man? Don’t you know why Su Zhe isn’t getting married now? Isn’t it because of me? Without me, how could he have been so unlucky to be messed with by Lun Lamei?"

Suizi felt that it was Lun Lamei, that piece of rotten meat, who left a deep psychological scar on Su Zhe, a fine young man, to the point where he became annoyed at the sight of any woman.

Even the Cafeteria aunt began to suspect there was something wrong with him in that regard.

In Suizi’s view, she was not without blame.

"Fine, I’m not going to argue with you when you’re in a premenstrual state of rage. If you want to go, just go," Yu Jingting, confronted with the dredging of past grievances, quickly surrendered with hands up.

But in his heart, he sighed. How could his wife have the nerve to scold Little Luobo? Weren’t the children’s excessive sense of responsibility inherited from her?

"No, the more I hold back, the angrier I get; take a step back, and I’ll end up with fibrocystic breasts. I’m going to find our mom right now, make her give me all the best girls’ information she has! And our dad—right, the minefield, aren’t there foreign-returned female technicians?"

Yu Jingting waved his hand in defeat. Go ahead, go ahead, you crazy woman.

By the time Suizi, seething with rage, made her way to Chen Lijun’s house, Yu Jingting immediately had the boy and girl twins stand guard and watch for her, while he sneaked in to make a call and tip off Su Zhe.

"Buddy, pack your things and run. My wife has gone mad."