I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 892: Ting Ge, You are My God

Chapter 892: Chapter 892: Ting Ge, You are My God

"What’s gotten into you, seizing up like that with your face all contorted?"

Jiaojiao was genuinely surprised to see Little Fatty laugh so heartily.

He rarely showed such explicit emotions, as if he had suddenly returned to his childhood.

"Jiaojiao, you have a great brother," Little Fatty laughed joyfully.

"??? What hit your head?" Jiaojiao looked around, but they didn’t keep a donkey at home.

It’s amazing how he could blurt such a sentence without getting kicked by a donkey first.

"I will definitely work hard for the winter competition," Little Fat proclaimed with a vigor as if he was injected with chicken blood, clenching his fists.

This battle was not only for himself, but he was also carrying Jingting’s expectations; he would never let Jingting down.

The inspired Little Fatty was short of howling to the sky: Jingting, you! Are! My! God!

"What’s the shock that hit you? Please don’t scare me like this..."

Jiaojiao thought she would ask her brother later, what on earth he had said to Little Fatty to get him so riled up that he couldn’t speak properly anymore!

Inside the house, Suizi was pounding a pillow.

"Short-sighted fools! All of them, lacking vision! Legs legs legs! Obsessed over the problem with legs, why not go marry a centipede with plenty of legs then?!"

Yu Jingting knew at once that Su Zhe’s matchmaking attempt had failed.

Suizi discussed with Chen Lijun, who indeed had a twice-married woman with decent conditions under her belt, and they hit it off after talking it out, immediately making a phone call.

Things were almost settled, and all that was left was to arrange a meeting when the other party heard Su Zhe had a disability and made excuses about not wanting to consider personal matters for the time being.

"What’s there to be angry about? Marriage should be the mutual desire of both parties. If they mind the issue, we can’t force it. A twisted melon won’t be sweet," Yu Jingting tried to console.

After counseling, he felt these words were oddly familiar... Wait, weren’t these the same phrases his wife used to coax him back in the day?

"Sweet or not, I couldn’t care less, I just want to twist it off!" After Suizi said this, she also recalled the familiarity.

Huh, weren’t those words what Yu Jingting said to her back then?

The couple exchanged a look and burst into laughter.

After the laughter, a sense of helplessness and gloom welled up in their hearts.

"If anyone tells me again that a researcher earns less than a tea-boiled eggs seller, I’ll spit on them!"

"Yep, and it’s gotta be a thick loogie right in their face."

He successfully disgusted Suizi.

Suizi felt indignant and frustrated at this moment.

She and Yu Jingting both thought Su Zhe was a very good man, yet for eligible women, he seemed not quite suitable.

Researchers receive a fixed salary; the welfare benefits are good, but the income is steady.

That’s why there’s the playful saying, "Doing research is worse than selling tea-boiled eggs, wielding a scalpel is worse than a barber’s razor."

Su Zhe was divorced and slightly disabled, giving him no advantage in age either.

Chen Lijun had taken all these factors into account and introduced Su Zhe to a woman who also had been married twice and had children.

Even then, she found fault with him.

Suizi felt stifled as if she couldn’t sell a treasure and it was even scorned by others.

Su Zhe had so many virtues, but people only saw the surface conditions; matchmaking had become like shopping at the market, setting out criteria to pick over, so practical.

"Let’s ask Dad to help look again this evening," Yu Jingting suggested.

Suizi shook her head and sighed.

She wanted to help Su Zhe save face and show those gossipers that his marriage was blissful.

But once that wave of indignation passed, she calmed down and thought better of it. Doing a good deed could lead to bad outcomes.

Being too anxious and getting involved with a woman with ulterior motives like Lun Lamei would hurt Su Zhe, wouldn’t it?

"Forget it. Let’s hold off on the matchmaking for now, I’ll have Mom keep an eye out for a reliable nanny to take care of his daily needs, and we can pay from the company account."

"Will he even accept? I know Su Zhe too well," Yu Jingting said, well aware that the sour disposition of intellectuals was deeply ingrained in him.

"It’s not charity, consider it part of his dividend for being a shareholder in our family business. Tell him the money will be deducted from his dividends."

Suizi had finally seen the light.

Taking care of a scientist’s daily needs didn’t necessarily require a spouse, finding a competent nanny could also free Su Zhe to devote himself to his research without distractions.

"Oh, and add one more condition, those who can fight and swear are preferred. Their first task upon joining is to curse out the gossips at the office. If they win the fight, they get a bonus, and if it turns physical, it’s considered an occupational injury!"

She had figured it out; taking her mother-in-law to confront those women lowered Su Zhe’s standing, whereas employing a feisty nanny to do so would be more fitting.

Yu Jingting couldn’t help but snort with laughter and affectionately kissed her.

Once Su Zhe’s matter was settled, Yu Jingting finally dared to discuss Jiaojiao’s situation with Suizi.

Suizi was utterly stunned after hearing it all.

"A fifteen-year-old middle schooler... pregnant?!"

Suizi knew of Liu Meimei, having frequently heard about her from Jiaojiao, but she never expected the girl to be in such a predicament.

"Such a serious matter should’ve been dealt with by the parents, not left to an underage girl to handle. If it’s as Su Zhe described, having Jiaojiao fetch medicine for her, wouldn’t that be using our sister as a pawn?!"

After hearing the whole story, Suizi could only feel that something was off.

"Aren’t you investigating Chen Lun? Any news yet?" Suizi asked.

To understand a matter properly, one must observe it from all angles and not just take one side’s word for it.

"The investigation is underway, we’ll know as soon as there’s any news."

"Should we punish Jiaojiao in the meantime?" Yu Jingting asked with held breath, his wife having raised a white, rich, and beautiful girl, not a naive sweetie.

"I feel like Jiaojiao herself is conflicted. Let’s wait and see how things play out, with one principle: honesty leads to leniency, whereas concealment..."

"Will be made into a public example?" her real brother said.

"I doubt she’ll conceal anything. Although Jiaojiao values loyalty, she’s not foolish; she should be able to understand the gravity of the situation. But Little Fatty, now he’s truly caught my attention. It’s in facing problems that we see the true character of our children."

Little Fatty’s actions had undoubtedly scored points with Suizi and her husband.

"True love should be about matching each other’s strength, helping each other to become better people, not indulging every whim. Jingting, you must appreciate him, which is why you encouraged him, right?"

Suizi, looking out the window and seeing Little Fatty laughing so heartily, guessed that Yu Jingting must have said something to him.

"Appreciation my ass, I won’t show a good face to anyone who has designs on my sister. I just don’t want him to disgrace our hometown, that’s all."

Yu Jingting found his true feelings guessed by Suizi, belying his words.

Appreciation aside, as Suizi said, the opportunity had been given to him. Whether he could join the table depended on his own efforts.

"If Jiaojiao ends up disliking him, I’ll be the first to beat him with a foreign gun!"

"All we can do is guide our children; they have to walk their own paths in the future."

She and Yu Jingting couldn’t make decisions for their children forever.

If Suizi were to intervene in Jiaojiao’s matter, she could resolve it easily.

But she preferred to let Jiaojiao learn from the experience. If Jiaojiao made a misstep, it would still not be too late for her to step in and clean up the mess.