I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 964: Pleasurable Writing Is Deceptive (With 550+ Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 964: Chapter 964: Pleasurable Writing Is Deceptive (With 550+ Monthly Tickets)

If Chen Tong tampered with the feed, Suizi really wouldn’t forgive him.

Colluding with outsiders and betraying one’s own family is extremely vile.

But releasing the pigs is also deserving of a beating, though it’s less severe than the former.

"You already know... Yes, you are so smart, what don’t you know..."

Chen Tong said bitterly.

She could easily see through the nature of the problem, but why couldn’t she see how much he loved her?

"Quit talking to me in that sarcastic tone, even though you didn’t collude with the outsiders, inciting pigs to attack people is also vile. I’ll settle scores with you after you get better."

Thinking back to that dangerous situation, Suizi was angry at this naughty kid and couldn’t help but nag a bit.

"Should your expertise be used in such places? What if it caused a fatality? Pigs can be terrifying, and if you accidentally hurt someone, what kind of behavior is that?"

"I spread disinfectant at the feeding room door, with his height and fighting ability, at most a pig would just scare him, how could it kill him... who knew you’d go over first..."

Chen Tong stopped speaking because Suizi was poking at his wound with her finger again.

"Making excuses for doing wrong? If it hadn’t been for Jingting, today’s farce could have turned into a tragedy, and you might have even faced punishment! What kind of mess is in your head?"

Chen Tong bowed his head, wanting to bury his face; this woman was truly dreadful when she scolded someone.

"With your clothes covered in urine, what are you burying?" Jingting’s comment made Chen Tong straighten up again.

"What’s the deal with Li Tieguang looking for you—hold on." Suizi began to sift through his clothes, and Chen Tong couldn’t stop her.

Suizi pulled a stack of banknotes from his pocket and unapologetically pocketed it.

"Confiscated."

"That’s my money..." Chen Tong said pitifully.

"Accepting bribes and failing to turn them in adds to your crime," she retorted.

Chen Tong pursed his lips tightly and stopped talking, his heart bleeding.

Jingting scoffed, serving him right.

"He gave you so little money..." Dongdong couldn’t help but comment, and Chen Tong glared at him.

Dongdong wasn’t trying to put him down; it was just that Li Tieguang initially offered him more than what he gave to Chen Tong.

"What do you want money for? Confess and you’ll receive leniency. Are you planning to take the money and run away, to meet your little girlfriend, perhaps? Don’t even think about it, and don’t you dare interrupt other kids’ studies if you don’t want to study. I absolutely won’t let you elope with a young girl."

Suizi as a parent was truly filled with worry.

"Ah, I might as well have been killed by the pig." Chen Tong said in despair, and then asked Jingting despondently, "Does she nag you like this too?"

"She’s like this when she nags me too. When she was a teacher for a few days, she acted just like the Director of Education." Jingting said, ignoring Suizi’s dagger-like glare; he had to tell the truth, even if she glared at him.

But Dongdong had a different point of view.

"I think everything Mom says is right, I like listening to her."

"Good kid, shut up," Jingting and Chen Tong said in unison, both showing looks of distaste.

When had Suizi ever nagged Dongdong? She only ever praised him!

At that moment, in the eyes of these two, Dongdong was like those model students who sucked up to the homeroom teacher, the root of all evil in a class!

"Now the two of you really have something in common, both of you are no good. If you’re afraid of my nagging, don’t make mistakes! What if you create chaos and cause big trouble?" Suizi scolded them both, then pulled out the banknotes and started counting them under Chen Tong’s heartbroken gaze.

"What did he ask you to do?"

"You’ve guessed it, right? To poison, to kill all the pigs in your family’s farm."

"That’s underestimating me too much, there are still over a hundred pigs at my place, and he only offers 200 yuan? Who is he insulting?" Suizi felt humiliated.

"This is just the advance payment. After the job is done, there will be another 200," Chen Tong weakly tried to defend himself.

"Where’s the poison?"

"At my place. I never really planned on poisoning pigs. Although Yu Tiegen is not a good person, the pigs are innocent, and besides—"

Chen Tong didn’t finish his thought.

He knew that the pig farm was crucial for Suizi’s family to recoup funds, something his dad had often mentioned.

He was bad and he did wish for Yu Jingting to have a major downfall, but doing so would also equate to harming Suizi. He couldn’t do that.

"I just wanted to teach Yu Tiegen a lesson, make him suffer a bit. Even if I don’t go through with the poisoning, Li Tieguang can’t do much to me, and I can still make 200 yuan."

Chen Tong knew he couldn’t deceive Suizi and had to come clean with everything.

He hadn’t anticipated being this poor after his rebirth.

Chen He was afraid he would not be wise with money, so he only gave him two cents a day for pocket money, leaving him strapped for cash, unable to even buy a gift for Suizi.

People say the eighties were full of opportunities to make money, but as someone from academia with expertise no one valued and without his father’s knack for cunning business tactics, he barely remembered that buying stocks was quite profitable at the moment.

"I’ve got it all figured out. The money I scam from him will be my seed capital. I’ll start with buying stocks, multiply it several times, and then invest even more money into it, multiply that by dozens of times to buy land, and finally get into real estate to become a tycoon—why are you laughing?"

Suizi really couldn’t hold back and asked with a laugh.

"Where did you get all this information?"

"I heard it from a friend..." Chen Tong recalled what his colleague had mentioned.

Rebirth in web novels always follows this routine, going back to the eighties where money is easy to make. Chen Tong himself didn’t read such stuff, but had heard his students talk about it.

"Cut down on those fantasies. They corrupt the youth, fool people into daydreaming all day and refusing to face reality. Even if you buy stocks now, it’s only the initial offering, and there’s no guarantee you’ll bet right. You might as well spend that time using the money to set up a small stall, or even wholesale and sell mushrooms at the market—you’d make much more than this."

Chen Tong felt devastated.

Web novels are all deceitful!

"Watch less of that nonsense in the future and read more history books, lest you become obsessed with love and neglect your studies," Suizi sincerely advised after finishing laughing.

"Everyone has their own strengths. Since you have achievements in academics, just stick to what you’re good at. Leave the money-making to us adults."

People always fantasize about getting rich quickly if they were to be reborn into the eighties, which is simply nonsense.

Most people, even with the chance of rebirth, might grasp one or two opportunities to make a quick buck, but such chances are limited.

To maintain wealth growth amid the tumult of the times, one can’t do it without a strong foundation and talent.

Suizi and Yu Jingting have talent and connections.

Even so, Suizi still decided to send Yu Jingting to school, to apply a golden touch, broaden his horizons, and prepare thoroughly, daring not to be negligent.

For people like Chen Tong, who heard things along the way and dreamed of getting rich—they’d better keep dreaming.

"Just take the pig farm as an example. People of later times only hear that many got rich from pig farming during this period. But they won’t know how the blind following resulted in a steep drop in pork prices, how many had nothing to show for their efforts due to this? For one to succeed, countless others must fail. You hear about one successful person’s legend, but you surely don’t know how many failures are lying behind them."

Eventually, memories of the previous life run out, and one has to face the reality.