I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 900: If You Don’t Beat Him When You Can, You’ll Regret It

Chapter 900: Chapter 900: If You Don’t Beat Him When You Can, You’ll Regret It

The barbecue was fragrant.

The Chen Lun family didn’t come.

But Suizi’s family enjoyed their meal with relish, having solved a problem, their appetites all improved.

Jiaojiao sat beside Suizi, delicately nibbling on a chicken wing.

Her expression was impassive, but her eyes were slightly lost.

Everything was as she had expected, yet there was no feeling of "sweet revenge" in her heart, just a vast blankness.

It was a disappointment in the complexity of human nature, and a reminiscence of past friendships, leaving her feeling empty inside.

Suizi saw her confusion but said nothing.

The bittersweetness of growing up always had to be digested by oneself, she simply fed Jiaojiao the grilled prawns that Yu Jingting had peeled.

Just then, Xiao Pang also snatched the last chicken leg.

Two foods by her mouth, different aromas, the same care.

Jiaojiao came back to herself and tugged at the corner of her mouth.

"I’ve only got one mouth, how can I eat both?"

"You’re still growing, eat up and go to bed earlier, staying up late isn’t good," Suizi’s tone was as usual, as if nothing had happened.

Those two gossipy sisters-in-law were still eagerly discussing the recent events, their ability to eat seemingly unaffected by the heaps of bamboo skewers in front of them, eating did nothing to stop their mouths.

Hearing Suizi’s "utterly ordinary" conversation with Jiaojiao, the two sisters-in-law couldn’t help but express their admiration.

"Suizi, how did you raise Jiaojiao to be so well-behaved? Don’t they all say teenagers are rebellious? Look at that girl with Chen Lun, tsk tsk tsk."

"Not all children are rebellious during adolescence, and not many go to extremes, we shouldn’t label all children just because of a few cases; after all, we’ve been through that time too."

Suizi replied coolly, leaving the two sisters-in-law at a loss for words, so they bowed their heads to the meat and changed the subject again.

Suizi winked at Jiaojiao, see? To deal with unwanted topics, just cut them off like this, straight to the point.

Jiaojiao felt Suizi’s warm smile and returned from the vague white nothingness to the warm world of people.

"Sister-in-law, I hope this is the end of it, but if it’s not, then I—" Jiaojiao hoped Liu Meimei would back off the cliff, that after this she could turn over a new leaf.

If Liu Meimei didn’t continue to try to harm her, Jiaojiao wouldn’t keep striking back, but recalling the look in Liu Meimei’s eyes just now, the hatred in them made her realize that it might not be over yet.

"Then continue to do what you feel you must do, there’s no need to second-guess yourself," Suizi patted her shoulder, "We raised you to be honest and kind, and we also encourage you to open your eyes wide; the world is vast, and you should shine with your own colors, not be someone else’s stepping stone."

Seeing this, the two sisters-in-law who were showing off their meat whispered to each other:

"What’s Suizi talking about, why can’t I understand a word of it?"

"Hey, this girl is getting more and more like her father, a simple sentence from their mouth turns into a mist-swaddled puzzle, isn’t it just like a politician to speak but not in plain language, they wish nobody could understand..."

"Here, dear aunts, have some grilled chicken butts!" Yu Jingting cheerfully brought over the leftover chicken butts from the plate.

Chicken butts, which people treat either as a delicacy or find utterly disgusting.

The two aunts were definitely the latter. Who would want to eat that stuff!

"Jingting, we Beijingers aren’t used to eating this, it’s quite different from your northern customs."

"Oh? This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with region, I reckon; people speak to be understood, and the same goes for food; you eat what nourishes, you two might benefit from eating more of this stuff, you might actually grow a human mouth, able to understand human speech then, no?"

"This is not a mouth; this is—ah!" The speaking aunt finally came to her senses. She was still scolding her, wasn’t she?

You reap what you sow, serving them chicken behinds as if to say their mouths are butts, spewing filth all the time?

The most impressive part was that Yu Jingting was always chuckling as he spoke, leaving the two aunts with no courage to turn against him.

They found an excuse and left quickly.

Yu Jingting scoffed, with such dim-witted minds, they even dared to say his wife doesn’t speak human language?

Suizi watched him with a beaming smile, picking up a kebab to feed him.

While everyone else was still eating and not paying attention to this little interlude, Chen Lijun saw the whole thing.

"Why bother with these people? You’ll just tire yourself out. Wouldn’t it be better to spend that time thinking about how to handle your work? What’s your status now that you can still afford to bicker with everyone?"

"I am really not tired at all!" Yu Jingting stood with hands on hips, extremely proud.

"I have plenty of time and energy. Anyone who dares to talk about my wife or my family, I’ll make them pay. Work doesn’t conflict with this; I still earn money, and I can’t tolerate any disrespect. If becoming rich means my family has to put up with grievances, then I might as well go back to farming."

Suizi nodded vigorously at his side, yeah, that’s right, everything he said was correct.

Her mother’s views might apply to others but not to Yu Jingting.

He had so much energy, it was as if he was not of the same species as everyone else—if someone crossed him, he would hunt them down and retaliate no matter the distance.

He was like this back in the village, and even after his status had changed, he maintained his true nature—a true "stay true to your original self".

Though it was nothing more than being petty and vengeful, when Suizi put her spin on it, it took on a different meaning altogether.

"Look at your brother; he is the embodiment of Confucian thought."

"Cough hack!" Little Fatty choked, in agony, feeling like a cumin seed was stuck in his throat.

"Sister-in-law, can you not tell jokes while I’m eating?" Jingting, Confucian thought?!

It’s not like there’s no connection, but rather, it’s separated by a vast distance, it would take Sun Wukong flipping through the air to reach it.

"How is it a joke? The core of Confucian thought is benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trustworthiness, forgiveness, loyalty, filial piety, and fraternal duty. Which one hasn’t your brother fulfilled? Conducting business and making a profit for the taxman, benefiting the local people, that’s loyalty to the country. Being filial to parents, that’s piety, and being brotherly to his friends, that’s righteousness. As for me—"

When it came to the unbridled praise of Yu Jingting, Suizi just couldn’t stop herself.

Chen Lijun, on the other hand, felt her long-subdued morning sickness returning as she listened. Were they talking about Yu Jingting?

One dared to boast tremendously, and the other dared to listen with gusto!

"That’s enough already. Your man’s tit-for-tat vengeful nature, that’s related to the ’propriety’ espoused by Confucian thought?"

"How is it irrelevant? He truly exemplifies ’propriety’."

"Uh, wife, maybe you should eat some more?" even Yu Jingting felt that his wife was really talking him up too much.

"Law is born from propriety. What’s known as the rites is the maintenance and restraint of social order. Jingting has principles. If no one provokes him, he would never strike first. We can see this as his warning to others—if minor transgressions are not corrected, they could lead to great misfortunes, which would be detrimental to the whole society."

These words were not only for Chen Lijun but also for Jiaojiao to hear.

"Kongzi once said, ’Repay resentment with virtue; how will you repay virtue?’—clearly vindicating that my man is a genuine gentleman who discerns truth from falsehood. He’s the embodiment of our family’s values and a role model for our children."

When cultured people boast, they do so with logic and reason, making it sound convincing, but upon closer consideration, something seems not quite right.

Little Fatty managed to eventually expel the cumin seed through his nose and silently translated his sister-in-law’s words:

For those who come to our doorstep looking for trouble, wouldn’t it be a waste not to fight back?

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