I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 909: Only This Title Shows Respect

Chapter 909: Chapter 909: Only This Title Shows Respect

Once her mother-in-law brought up her senior sister’s situation with Su Zhe, Suizi really took it to heart.

The next day, after the group meeting ended, Suizi stuck to her senior sister and chatted with her, beat about the bush, and tried to find out what she thought of Su Zhe.

The moment her senior sister opened her mouth, Suizi’s defense broke down.

"You’re talking about Uncle Su? He’s been great at our place, tidying up the laboratory with my dad after dinner, and then locking themselves in there tinkering for half the night."

In her mother’s words, having Su Zhe move into their home, her father reacted as if a mouse had found a barrel of rice, finding a professional match.

In the end, it was senior sister’s mom who, worried her husband wouldn’t wake up in time for classes the next day, brought them late-night snacks and managed to drag them out of the laboratory.

After this astonishing encounter, senior sister’s dad made her change how she addressed him.

Only the title "Uncle Su" could appropriately convey the respect for Su Zhe.

Suizi’s jaw almost dropped, were things heading in a weird direction?

"He’s my brother, why are you calling him ’uncle’?" What kind of peculiar generation gap was this?!

"I feel like if Uncle Su didn’t resist, my dad would let me call him Grandpa Su, and it wouldn’t be impossible."

Senior sister believed that her dad’s excited euphoria was so intense, he was barely short of carving a shrine in wood and enshrining Professor Su in it.

"That really isn’t necessary..." Suizi didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.

The match-making intentions were strangled in the cradle by this exceedingly respectful "Uncle Su."

To Suizi, it seemed there was almost no hope for this matter.

But the all-seeing Suizi could never have imagined that her two little Lucky Stars would turn out to be divine assists, triggering a twist of fate.

Liu Meimei was expelled from her school, and while the reason wasn’t publicly stated by the institution, putting together the fact that Chen Lun had also disappeared from campus, many could guess the underlying cause.

Through her hospital connections, Suizi found out that Liu Meimei had undergone a pharmaceutical abortion and was discreetly sent back to her hometown by her mother to be cared for by her grandmother from then on.

This incident, for Liu Meimei, may have been a blessing in disguise.

Her stepbrother Li Tiehui had been harboring malicious intentions towards her; sharing a roof over the long term, it was not guaranteed that they wouldn’t continue to engage in inappropriate actions.

Furthermore, Liu Meimei’s reputation was already quite tarnished, and staying in Beijing wouldn’t benefit her future prospects much; it was better to start anew where nobody knew her.

On the day Liu Meimei left, Jiaojiao didn’t go to see her off.

She had another student deliver a gift to Liu Meimei, with strict instructions to give it anonymously.

Liu Meimei, weak after the abortion and dizzy from the car ride, feeling utterly uncomfortable, had no inclination to open it.

It wasn’t until she got off the train and arrived at the countryside that she remembered the unopened gift box.

Opening it, Liu Meimei burst into tears.

Inside was a pair of gloves knitted from yarn, lined with a layer of velvet, and decorated with particularly lovely crocheted strawberry balls.

Even though it wasn’t glove-wearing weather, and the gift’s appearance was somewhat abrupt, a single glance told Liu Meimei that it came from Jiaojiao.

Jiaojiao’s gloves were all of this style, supposedly handmade by her sister-in-law, and Liu Meimei had wanted such a pair for a long time.

She picked up the gloves and brought them to her nose for a gentle whiff; the clean, new gloves had no scent.

Somehow, she seemed to detect the faint fragrance of flowers from Jiaojiao’s hands.

That scent was destined to stay in her heart forever.

All of a sudden, Liu Meimei stood up clutching the gloves, a determined look in her eyes, as if she had made up her mind.

"Grandma, where can I make a phone call? I need to make a long-distance call!"

"Phone? We’ll have to wait for the weekend to go into town; our village doesn’t have one."

"I have an emergency!" Liu Meimei stamped her foot in agitation.

Her grandmother, seeing how anxious she was, could only let her follow the village’s tractor into the city, squeezed in with a bunch of chicken cages, getting covered in chicken feathers.

By the time she made it to the city, it was already dark, and Liu Meimei couldn’t wait to dial the Yu Family’s phone number.

The line was constantly busy.

Liu Meimei was so anxious that she stamped her feet in frustration.

The phone booth she was using was the only one in the county, and there were always a lot of people waiting to make calls every day, requiring them to queue up.

As the only speedy communication device with the outside world, this phone booth not only had the function to make calls but also provided a service to receive calls.

It also cost money to relay messages for people calling from outside.

Several people were lined up behind Liu Meimei, and seeing her hog the phone, some were already urging her impatiently.

The shop owner also said she had one more minute, and if nobody answered, it would be the next person’s turn.

Listenting to the busy signal, Liu Meimei had no choice but to keep dialing over and over, praying that the line would connect soon.

At that moment, in the Yu Family home, Suizi was on the phone with Yu Jingting.

"Hansui, I’m going to have drinks with people from Bureau A tonight, so I won’t be coming home for dinner. Don’t wait for me, it’s going to be late."

As soon as Suizi heard him address her in that way, she knew there were others around, and they were outsiders.

"Mm, be careful, and don’t drive if you’ve been drinking. Have Lao Er Yang take you home."

After giving her advice, Suizi hung up the phone, just as Wang Cuihua walked by pinching a handful of green beans.

"What’s Tiegen busy with? Why hasn’t he been home these past few days?"

"He’s negotiating a few big deals with state-owned enterprises. It’s inevitable that he’ll have to attend drinking banquets. Mom, where did I put the hangover herbal medicine packs I prepared in advance? I want to get them ready for him."

When Suizi heard he wasn’t coming back for dinner, she guessed that the deal must have been successful.

Following the usual practice, after signing a big deal, there would be a drinking session, and she estimated there would be plenty of alcohol tonight.

"Weren’t you two dealing in corn? How did you end up doing business with state-owned enterprises?" Wang Cuihua never really understood what her son’s company did.

Sometimes it was Beijing, sometimes the Special Zone, and the goods they sold kept changing.

Before, they had been exporting agricultural products, now it seemed like they were dealing in office equipment which, to her generation, simply meant aimless fumbling without any real business.

With patience, Suizi explained to her mother-in-law.

"Mom, we’re in the import-export trade. We don’t produce goods; we just act as the bridge between buyers and sellers. Whatever makes money, that’s what we do."

"So it’s just a shell company, profiting from the price difference?" Wang Cuihua understood, but only slightly.

"Shell companies don’t have real registered capital; they’re empty. Our registered capital is real, and we’ll soon have fixed assets as well," Suizi cunningly used the phrase "we’ll soon have" to bamboozle Wang Cuihua.

Recently, office facility renovations were being undertaken everywhere, and most office equipment like printers and fax machines needed to be imported. Yu Jingting’s trading company was just right for the job.

Dealing in agricultural products was just a front to secure loans.

Now that the loans had been secured, he was networking with clients in Beijing. While the local units needed equipment, Yu Jingting was responsible for pulling in orders and visiting clients, and Lao Er from the Special Zone was placing orders with the merchants from Hong Kong.

Between buying and selling, what they earned was the difference in the exchange rate.

The principle was simple: do whatever made money.

Agricultural products and office supplies seemed to be two entirely different things to Wang Cuihua, but for Suizi and her husband, the approach was the same.

As Suizi was just chatting with her mother-in-law, the phone rang.

At last, Liu Meimei managed to get through.

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