I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 97: The Throne of the Family, Pah

Chapter 97: Chapter 97: The Throne of the Family, Pah

"You can stay lying down; I’ll go talk to him." He swiftly put on his clothes and yelled out for the visitor to wait a moment.

"From the Medicine Factory?" Suizi asked.

He hummed in response, stepped outside, and led the person to the eastern room.

Suizi couldn’t just keep lying down as Yu Jingting suggested when there was a visitor at home; she wasn’t that shameless.

She climbed out of bed, got dressed, folded the quilt, and blushed again when she saw the clumps of tissues on the brick bed.

Being married to a man with such vitality was genuinely bothersome.

Every day, she had to find ways to destroy these "evidences," for fear her mother-in-law would see them.

Clutching the Yu family’s "hopes for millions of offspring" paper, Suizi looked around like a thief, making sure the two men in the eastern room were discussing medicinal herbs.

She quickly stepped outside, lifted the stove cover, and shoved the balls of paper into it.

Then, by striking a match, all would be well.

Just as Suizi was about to light the match, the eastern room’s door unexpectedly swung open, a burst of Mandarin from the south drifted over.

"Where’s your bathroom?"

A gust of wind swept through the open front door and over the stove, blowing one of the paper balls out.

Suizi’s face instantly turned red.

In the fastest move, she stuffed the paper ball back and forcefully closed the stove door.

The loud bang of her bold move startled their guest.

To outsiders, it was just ordinary paper, but to the guilty-feeling Suizi, it felt like her scalp was about to explode.

Du Zhong would always remember his first impression when he first saw Chen Hansui.

In front of a northern stove, crouched a pretty young wife building a fire.

Perhaps she was shy meeting a stranger, her face turned crimson, her coy shyness was strikingly different from the open-hearted northern ladies he had seen on his journey.

He was somewhat smitten.

"This is my wife. Honey, this is Director Du who collects our medicinal herbs." Yu Jingting glanced at the stove, snorted, and chuckled.

This woman was too thin-skinned. Was there anything to be embarrassed about?

Suppressing the impulse to elbow him, Suizi stood up to greet the man from the Medicine Factory. Then she got a good look at his face. Oh boy.

She suddenly moved a step backwards, leaning against their stove.

Isn’t that Du Zhong?!

A legendary figure in the medical field from her past life, who once pursued Suizi.

His methods of pursuing women were creative, resilient, and tenacious.

At the height of his pursuit, he bought thousands of drones and flew them under her apartment building in different formations.

One moment they formed a heart, next they spelt out her name. He thought it was romantic, but Suizi found it so awkward that she wished she could dig a hole in the floor and move house immediately.

He was a grown man, acting like a young man. Childish!

Suizi had depression in her past life, and had little interest in romance, let alone Du Zhong, a love guru in his own right. She had rejected him countless times, but he stuck to her like glue.

Finally, after his endless pestering led to a severe depression episode, he stopped chasing her.

The young Du Zhong now looked far less domineering than he was in her past life, with childlike innocence still plastered on his face.

Seeing him made Suizi feel annoyed, fearing that he might start chasing her again, she hid behind Yu Jingting to avoid Du Zhong’s gaze.

"There is the toilet." Yu Jingting pointed out and Du Zhong took his eyes off Suizi and headed for the toilet.

"Have you met before?" Yu Jingting pulled Suizi out from behind him once Du Zhong left.

As perceptive as he was, how could he not notice that his wife’s attitude towards Director Du was unusual?

"No, I just find his looks unappealing."

Yu Jingting raised an eyebrow.

"Are you sure?"

Du Zhong’s appearance should fall into the category of those refined but worthless types that women typically find attractive, yet she said she found him unappealing?

Suizi nodded decisively, the disgust evident in her face.

"I think there is a frivolous look in his eyes, unlike you, who look very heroic."

She quickly stole a few more glances at her own man, using his raw masculinity to wash away the painful memories of her past life, where she was relentlessly pursued by a domineering CEO.

Hers was a response that pleased Yu Jingting. As the corners of his lips curled into a smile, he told Suizi the reason for Du Zhong’s visit while the latter had gone to the toilet.

Du Zhong had come this time again to purchase Holly.

Last time, when he offered a high price, no one believed him except Yu Jingting, who led a team into the mountains to complete the transaction. Afterward, Yu Jingting left his contact information and asked Du Zhong to simply reach out to him next time.

Du Zhong thought his quoted price was too high last time due to an urgent need. In an attempt to cut corners, he used a few black market medicinal herb dealers to get a sense of the market price.

However, to his surprise, the herb dealers claimed they could not acquire the herb, leaving him no choice but to try his luck with Yu Jingting again.

Little did he know that Yu Jingting had already bought off all the medicinal herb dealers in town.

No one could trump Yu Jingting, the local boss. If anyone dared to bypass him, they’d better brace themselves for his retaliation.

When the villagers brought the Holly to the herb dealers, the dealers, upon Yu Jingting’s instruction, refused to accept them.

On one side, there was Du Zhong, desperately needing the herb; on the other, villagers sitting on their stockpiled herbs without being able to sell them.

All Yu Jingting had to do was to warmly lay on his heated brick bed, cuddle his wife, and just wait for the banknotes to be delivered to his doorstep.

After seeing several old ladies worn thin from gathering Holly, Suizi could only feel sympathy for them.

All their hard labor just benefited Yu Jingting. Wasn’t she just pitifully watching while simultaneously enabling him to boast freely?

"You are a born capitalist."

He was obviously playing both sides.

If Suizi hadn’t witnessed it all with her own eyes, she never would’ve believed that someone could be so shrewd and driven at just twenty years old. He was naturally adept at this, as if all those tactics were inherent in him and not developed through years of trials and tribulations like in her case.

"You always accuse me of being crafty, but I think you are the real crafty one, you big swindler."

"How else am I supposed to marry such a beautiful wife?" Yu Jingting touched her chubby cheek lightly, then squatted down to light a match and burn all those papers that made Suizi utterly mortified.

"Ah, pity these seeds of the capitalist Yu family. Don’t blame your father for being heartless. It’s just that your mother already has one in her belly — ouch!"

Suizi slapped him on the back. Damn this big bad wolf who had no filter on his mouth!

Du Zhong pushed the door open just in time to witness this scene, and was taken aback.

He’d heard that women from Dongbei were tough and some even hit their husbands. He didn’t expect it to be true!

Suizi withdrew her hand, speaking to Yu Jingting in a particularly gentle voice:

"There was some dust on you, so I dusted you off."

"Hmm, go on, make me some egg soup. I’ve worked my ass off, I need to replenish my strength."

Yu Jingting was excellent at seizing opportunities. Seeing that Suizi was trying to save his face in front of others, he started to put on a show.

Du Zhong felt slightly schizophrenic. Were men in Northern China privileged or not?

"In Dongbei, we men sit on the throne of the family, like kings! Women are meant to serve us." Yu Jingting kicked into high gear with his nonsense.

Suizi laughed, a simple and sincere laugh. A wicked thought crossed her mind – she would kick him out of bed tonight and let him just bluff away!

Young as he was, Du Zhong didn’t possess the eyes of wisdom developed through years. He took Yu Jingting’s bluff at face value and believed in it.

It wasn’t until one day when he saw Suizi chasing Yu Jingting down two streets with a kitchen knife that he realized how naive and gullible he had been in his youth.

Family throne, my foot! It’s more like a family pawn!

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