At the same time downstairs.
He Wanrong held the Buddhist beads in one hand and cast a sharp and oppressive gaze on Song Qingyin.
After a few seconds, she said, "Why are you standing? Sit down."
Hearing He Wanrong's voice, Song Qingyin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She said a word of thanks, then tucked in her windbreaker gracefully and sat down.
The old lady didn't say a word, so she sat aside politely. When she saw that the water in the old lady's cup was gone, she took the initiative to step forward and fill it up for her.
He Wanrong kept watching her movements, and only spoke after she sat down again.
"That thing that was trending on the search today, was it you who did it?"
He Wanrong didn't intend to beat around the bush with her, but asked directly.
It is impossible for Jing Mo and Le Yao to go to the dinner party at the same time to cause trouble for Shu He. Song Qingyin was also there, so this matter could not have nothing to do with her.
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After He Wanrong asked, her shrewd and sharp eyes stared straight at Song Qingyin's expression.
But she looked at her with an unchanged expression, and when she looked up at her, she spoke calmly, "I don't want to hide it from you, old lady. Today's incident was caused by me, but it was not my deliberate plan."
Song Qingyin knew that she couldn't hide it from He Wanrong, so she stopped beating around the bush and answered directly.
He Wanrong frowned when she heard this: “Because of you, but it’s not you.”
"Tell me exactly what happened."
Song Qingyin agreed, and then slowly told the old lady everything that had happened in the past few days.
A few minutes later, Song Qingyin's soft and gentle voice gradually stopped. He Wanrong fiddled with the Buddhist beads, staring at her face with sharp eyes, and quickly found the loophole in her words.
"You said that Shu He bullied you, and Le Yao made trouble for Shu He at the dinner party just to vent your anger."
"Then tell me, why did Shuhe bully you?" He Wanrong was not yet so old that her eyesight was blurry. She knew Shuhe's temper. Although she had been disobedient recently, she had been gentle and docile over the years and would not deliberately find fault.
He Wanrong even thought that if Shuhe was really a strong person, she would not have allowed Song Qingyin to occupy Jingmo and Xiaoyu for so many years.
Song Qingyin's eyes flickered when she heard the voice, but she remained calm and replied softly, "It's like this. Not long ago, I was recording a program with Miss Shen, and that day she accidentally fell into the river..."
"So Shuhe thought you pushed her into the river?"
"No, I was on the other side that day, very far away from Miss Chen. When I heard the noise and rushed over, Miss Chen had already been rescued." Song Qingyin explained sincerely.
"Oh." He Wanrong's face showed a hint of understanding: "So what you mean is that Shuhe accidentally fell into the water, but she blamed it on you and then made trouble for you. After Le Yao found out, she took revenge on you."
"So, today's hot search has nothing to do with you. Instead, it's all because of Shu He."
He Wanrong sneered. Although she said so, her expression became more and more ugly. It was obvious that what she thought in her heart was different from what she said.
She didn't believe Song Qingyin's words at all, and instead suspected that she was the one pushing it behind the scenes.
With so many things happening at such a slow pace, how could anyone possibly stand completely out of the vortex?
Either they are truly innocent, or they are very clever and have managed to put themselves in a safe position.
As a woman who has been dealing with a married man for so many years, He Wanrong doesn't believe that this man is really innocent.
"What the hell is going on!" He Wanrong's expression suddenly changed, and she shouted, "Song Qingyin, don't play tricks in front of me!"
"Madam!" Song Qingyin stood up quickly. She bit her lip and said pitifully, "I really didn't. I'm telling the truth."
"I would never dare to deceive the old lady!" Song Qingyin said sincerely.
He Wanrong's anger did not diminish in the slightest.
She snorted coldly, "Put away your expression. Jing Mo and Xiao Yu are buying into your tricks, but I'm not buying into them!"
Song Qingyin lowered her head immediately.
After a few seconds, she took a deep breath and said, "I know the old lady has never liked me, but you can't deny everything about me just because of one thing."
"It's my fault that I like Jing Mo, and I am willing to bear your prejudice and dislike. But you can't blame all the mistakes on me!"
"I showed up at the dinner yesterday because I was invited by the brand. Before that, I didn't even know that Miss Shen and Le Yao would attend. Besides, the Pei family was developed step by step by Jing Mo. I care about him. How could I do something that is detrimental to Jing Mo and the Pei family?"
The woman's words were sincere and genuine, but because she was misunderstood, her tone couldn't help but reveal a hint of anxiety.
After finishing speaking in one breath, Song Qingyin let out a breath. A closer look revealed a few traces of moisture in the corners of her eyes and her face was slightly red, as if she had been wronged and was suppressing her emotions extremely.
He Wanrong stared at her with sharp eyes. However, half a minute later, the woman lowered her head to calm her breathing which became rapid due to the intense tone of her voice. Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, but she wiped them away carefully without saying a word.
With her brows furrowed, He Wanrong tickled the smooth Buddhist beads.
Could it be that she was really overthinking it?
But as a series of events have developed together to this day, she can't believe that these things are just coincidences.
He Wanrong was in a complicated mood. At this moment, she heard the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs behind her.
Before he turned his head, Xiaoyu's voice rang in his ears: "Grandma! Mommy Yinyin is right!"
The light and shadow changed in front of He Wanrong's eyes, and Xiaoyu had already run over and stood in front of Song Qingyin.
He held her arms tightly with both hands, as if protecting her.
He Wanrong's frown deepened as she watched this.
"Le Yao, didn't I ask you to take good care of Xiao Yu?"
Pei Leyao followed down and opened her mouth but didn't respond.
Xiaoyu was reluctant to see his aunt being scolded, so he said, "Grandma, I wanted to come down on my own!"
"Yinyin's mommy didn't do anything wrong!" Xiaoyu repeated this firmly, and then he threw out a sentence that no one expected -
"Actually, I was the one who pushed my mother down."
After he finished speaking, everyone in the living room except Song Qingyin was shocked and no one reacted for a long time.
He Wanrong looked at her young great-grandson in disbelief. She really couldn't imagine hearing such horrible words from his mouth.
He was only five years old, how could he say without batting an eyelid that he would push his mother into the river?
"Xiaoyu...what did you say?"
Xiaoyu looked at his great-grandmother, pursed his lips and repeated clearly: "Great-grandmother, I said I pushed my mother down..."
"But you can't blame me for this! It was my mom who first found fault with Yinyin's mom and didn't let me meet Yinyin's mom. I got angry for a while and then..."
After hearing this, He Wanrong fell onto the sofa.
Peiyi was terrified and hurriedly supported the old lady: "Old lady, please don't worry, your body can't bear it!"
Seeing the old lady's body suddenly go limp, Pei Leyao and Xiaoyu rushed over to comfort her.
"Grandma, drink some water!"
"Don't worry, grandma. It's Xiaoyu's fault."
Three people served tea and water, and patted the old lady's back to help her calm down. After four or five minutes, the old lady's complexion finally returned to normal.
She looked at the two younger generations in front of her, especially the only precious great-grandson of their Pei family.
She watched Xiaoyu grow up and was most familiar with his temperament. It could be said that at such a young age, Xiaoyu was sometimes more sensible than Le Yao.
But she never expected that after such a short period of time without being close to her precious great-grandson, Xiaoyu had become almost unrecognizable to her.
Shuhe is her biological mother, how could he lay hands on her!
"Xiao Yu, tell grandma what happened!"
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