Chapter 434: Marriage Called Off
Lin Jinshu's face looked grim. She had originally wanted to take this opportunity to have a meal with her in-laws.
Gu Yuehuai spread his hands and chuckled, "Comrade, what you said is very biased. Why should we humiliate your family?" "My time is quite valuable. It is not worth wasting it on humiliating your family. Besides, I was not the only one who saw your daughter swearing. Everyone in the night school witnessed it. You can't deny it even if you want to."
Gu Yuehuai spoke slowly, leaning back in her chair. Suddenly, she tapped the table a few times, as if she remembered something, and said, "I remember the situation at that time was that you asked Gu Ruihuai to ride a bike to take you to the movies, with a gay man, right? He was standing next to you at the time, and he looked familiar. Let me think, where have I seen him before..."
Guan Tong's pupils shrank, and she looked at Gu Yuehuai suddenly. Her lips trembled for a long time, and she couldn't utter a word of denial for a long time.
"It was Li Weiguang, Guan Tong's colleague. She wanted to leave me and Li Weiguang to go to the movies. I disagreed, so she pointed at my nose and cursed me in front of many people, saying that I was just having a good mother who was related to Secretary Qin."
"Otherwise, she would feel disgusted even looking at me for one more second."
Gu Ruihuai raised his head and looked at Guan Tong, his voice slightly hoarse as he spoke each word.
He used to be the most impatient person who couldn't stand being provoked. When he encountered something like what happened to Guan Tong, he was afraid that he could handle it himself. But now that his bones were broken, he even lost his temper. When he said this, there was nothing but pain and moisture in his eyes.
He was not sad about being treated like this by Guan Tong, but he was in pain because he was blind and had never seen the good in the people around him.
When he lost everything, it was Lin Jinshu, his biological mother whom he hated so much, who saved him, found him a good job, provided him with a new place to live, and even bought him a bicycle because she was concerned about his mobility problems.
When he was completely deceived and his life was hanging by a thread, it was Gu Yuehuai, his sister whom he wanted to strangle to death, who sent him to the hospital from afar and borrowed money to pay for his surgery, but he seemed to have seen nothing about it.
As Gu Ruihuai finished speaking, Guan Erbing and Wang Chunyan's expressions suddenly changed: "You are talking nonsense! This is impossible!"
Wang Chunyan slammed the table and stood up, angrily saying, "Don't open your mouth and talk nonsense. This is slandering my daughter's innocence. If you don't want to get married, just say so. How can my daughter get married in the future if you say this? You, the Qin family, will be held responsible!"
Gu Yuehuai glanced at her lightly. This person was not stupid. She clung to the Qin family like a leech and refused to let go.
She stood up and knocked on the table. "There's no point in continuing to sit here. It's a waste of time. Wouldn't it be clear if we just check whether it's nonsense or not? Li Weiguang, the name is already here. What else is unclear?"
"Ms. Lin, I'll have to leave the investigation to you. After all, you are the one who arranged this marriage. You must investigate it thoroughly. If necessary, I can find a few witnesses for you, such as our night school teachers?"
She smiled and looked down at Guan Tong, whose face was pale and lips were trembling.
"Isn't this Guan Tong's first day at night school? They are classmates after all. Given the relationship between Guan Tong and Li Weiguang, they must be together at night school every day, right? I have to ask around."
"Okay, let's go, Dad. It won't be too late to sit down and eat together after we find out everything."
Having said that, Gu Yuehuai took the lead to go out. With that much time, he might as well go back to work. It was really not worth it to take leave to have a meal just for something like this. However, it was good enough as the goal was achieved.
Thinking of this, Gu Yuehuai turned back and smiled politely at Lin Jinshu: "Thank you Ms. Lin for today."
Seeing that Gu Yuehuai had already left the state-owned restaurant, Gu Zhifeng stood up, glanced at Lin Jinshu and the housekeeper, and said in a deep voice: "I think we should just forget about this marriage. If it really gets out of hand, it will not be good for your daughter's reputation."
Guan Erbing didn't say anything, just looked at Guan Tong who was shivering with her head down.
He knew his daughter's character very well. If she was really wronged, she would have jumped out and shouted loudly. But now she just let others gossip about her without saying a word. It was obvious what she had really done outside!
Guan Erbing felt a headache. If Gu Ruihuai didn't want to get married and deliberately let others humiliate him, it would be fine. But if the fault was his daughter, how would they explain it to the Qin family? Did they really think Secretary Qin was as gentle as he looked?
Gu Zhifeng didn't care about Guan Erbing's silence and said, "Big brother and third brother, let's go."
Gu Ruihuai watched them leave the state-owned restaurant. His hands clenched into fists on his legs, and his face looked even paler than Guan Tong's. He wished his father had called him along just now.
As soon as the Gu family left, the state-owned restaurant fell into deathly silence.
I don’t know if it was because the atmosphere was too depressing, but Guan Tong actually lay on the table and started crying.
Wang Chunyan hugged her daughter's shoulders distressedly, turned to look at Lin Jinshu, and her eyes also reddened: "Jinshu, look at what kind of people they are? They just look down on our family!"
Guan Erbing's face was gloomy. Seeing that Wang Chunyan dared to question Lin Jinshu, his temples started throbbing and he shouted, "That's enough! Stop talking. And you! Cry, cry, cry, you still have the nerve to cry?"
Wang Chunyan raised her head with an unconvinced look on her face and wanted to say something, but when she met the man's gloomy face, she dared not speak.
Guan Erbing took a deep breath, forced a smile and said to Lin Jinshu, "Comrade Lin, let's just forget about this. Even if we can't become relatives, it won't affect the relationship between our two families in the future, right?"
Lin Jinshu had a calm expression, he didn't smile, didn't answer, and looked a little indifferent.
Guan Erbing's heart skipped a beat. He knew that Lin Jinshu had some problems with the housekeeper. She was a woman, so it didn't matter. But who didn't know that Secretary Qin loved his wife like his life and doted on her? What if she whispered something in his ear?
"Comrade Lin, since the children don't want to, we as elders can't force them to get married, right? We should regard this as our housekeeper's fault. We will go to your house to apologize when the time comes. I hope Comrade Lin will not bear grudges against us."
Guan Erbing was very humble. If the two parties were still relatives, it would be natural for Lin Jinshu to have a better attitude for the sake of her lame son. But now, the handle was in the other party's hands, so how could he still hold Qiao accountable?
He knew very well that his daughter might have had something going on with Li Weiguang. If they really found out, there would be irrefutable evidence before their eyes. Not only would it anger the Qin family, but how would Guan Tong get married in the future?
Maybe it was Guan Erbing's humble attitude that convinced Lin Jinshu, she raised her eyelids and said, "Old Guan, take good care of your daughter in the future, don't let her do something wrong outside and have to clean up the mess at home."
It only took a few minutes to go from "Director Guan" to "Old Guan".
Guan Erbing smiled bitterly, looking like he had aged ten years. He quickly led Wang Chunyan and Guan Tong away in shame.
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