Another clap of thunder sounded from the flat ground.
Xu Jianguo's face burned with embarrassment. He looked at Zhao Jingyu, his lips trembling uncontrollably: "How could you... how could you do such a thing..."
He felt like a clown.
He had just righteously refused Zhao Jingyu, but Zhao Jingyu retorted by saying that the child was his.
At this moment, he wished he could beat that brat to death for not telling him anything and making him lose face in front of Zhao Jingyu.
“Uncle Xu, you should ask Tang Wenya about this. She knows best.” Zhao Jingyu glanced at Tang Wenya with a blank expression. “Miss Tang, it’s a real pity you don’t become a director and make TV shows. I went to celebrate Xiao Tingshen’s birthday with good intentions, but I only had a few drinks and you took advantage of me. It seems that your feelings for Xiao Tingshen are nothing special.”
"What nonsense are you talking about? I don't know anything." Tang Wenya was called out again and felt guilty. "Who could remember something that happened more than a month ago so clearly..."
“We checked the guesthouse’s registration form that night. The front desk said you crossed out Xu Qingning’s check-in record and that she had already gone home.” One of the young men stepped forward to testify. “But someone saw her running out of our boss’s room in a panic in the middle of the night. After she left, you came out of Xiao Tingshen’s room next door and then quietly left the guesthouse.”
“Tang Wenya, even if Xu Qingning likes Xiao Tingshen, you shouldn’t have sent her into my room and ruined her reputation.” Zhao Jingyu looked at Xu Jianguo and continued to Tang Wenya, “I may have made a mistake, but the culprit is you, or you and Xiao Tingshen conspired to do this.”
In the bedroom, Xu Qingning silently gave Zhao Jingyu a thumbs up.
As expected of the father of her child, he should confront her directly, then turn against her and never speak to her again.
Liang Yufeng grew angrier as she listened. She stood up abruptly, wanting to go out and scold Tang Wenya, but Xu Qingning stopped her, saying, "Auntie, he's enough on his own."
This isn't a group fight.
Zhao Jingyu was a petty thug; he was worth ten of them.
Xu Jianguo looked at Tang Wenya with a face full of doubt. Jiang Yumei saw this and immediately chimed in: "Zhao Jingyu, did you come here today to deliver the betrothal gifts or to cause trouble? You did such a shameful thing, and you're trying to blame it on our Ya Ya?"
"Exactly, what does all this nonsense have to do with me?" Tang Wenya stubbornly refused to admit it. Anyway, more than a month had passed, and no matter who saw what, she just wouldn't acknowledge it.
System: "Don't admit it, and don't try to prove it. You're doing this to defend your love. You're not wrong."
"Tang Wenya, do you dare to say to Xiao Tingshen's face that this has nothing to do with you?" Zhao Jingyu sneered. "Whether you admit it or not, from now on we will go our separate ways with you and Xiao Tingshen and have nothing to do with each other anymore."
"Who cares about associating with you?" With the system's support, Tang Wenya spoke with righteous indignation. This world is not simply divided into black and white; it's just a matter of different perspectives.
She is the female lead, not a saint.
She would absolutely not allow anyone to make a move on Xiao Tingshen.
Just as Xu Jianguo was about to say something, the door opened, and Xiao Tingshen and his mother Liu Yuzhen walked in with smiles on their faces.
To flaunt her dowry, Jiang Yumei didn't even close the door.
Xiao Tingshen was carrying a pig's leg, and Liu Yuzhen was holding a gift box. The mother and son were a little surprised to see Zhao Jingyu there as well. Xiao Tingshen greeted Xu Jianguo and Jiang Yumei politely: "Hello, Uncle and Aunt. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Xiao Tingshen was wearing a brand-new navy blue Zhongshan suit. He was tall and handsome, and his every move was polite, giving people a sense of righteousness.
He has always been the "other people's child" that everyone talks about, and the ideal son-in-law in the eyes of mothers-in-law.
The neighbors who had been watching the commotion peeked inside from behind the mother and son. Just as they were about to leave, they saw the mother and son carrying a pig leg upstairs, so they followed them to see what was going on.
Goodness, now the truth is out.
The one who just delivered a pig and a sheep in a big truck was Zhao Jingyu, while the one pushing a bicycle and carrying a pig leg was Xiao Tingshen. Tsk tsk, what a difference!
Jiang Yumei was naturally very satisfied with Xiao Tingshen. A smile instantly appeared on her face as she hurriedly stepped forward to take the pig's leg from Xiao Tingshen's hand: "You've arrived, please sit down."
She and Liu Yuzhen were classmates in junior high school.
They weren't particularly close during their school days, but they weren't bad either. Liu Yuzhen came from a wealthy family and always looked down on all the female classmates, including Jiang Yumei.
When Liu Yuzhen learned that Xiao Tingshen and Tang Wenya were dating, she initially disagreed and tried to persuade them for a long time, but she couldn't resist her son's insistence and could only reluctantly agree.
"Welcome, welcome! Come, come, have some tea." Xu Jianguo quickly cleared the table, and Tang Wenya immediately ran to wash the teacups. Xiao Tingshen looked at her tenderly before asking Zhao Jingyu, "Jingyu, why are you here too?"
"Just like you, I've come to give betrothal gifts," Zhao Jingyu replied casually.
Before Xiao Tingshen could speak, Liu Yuzhen asked in surprise, "A betrothal gift?"
As she spoke, she turned to look at Jiang Yumei, her face full of doubt: "How many families does your daughter have to be betrothed to?"
When she arrived, she immediately noticed the whole pigs and sheep in the hallway, assuming they belonged to someone else, and didn't pay much attention.
Could it be that Zhao Jingyu gave it to me?
Thinking of this, her face immediately darkened.
Xu Jianguo and Jiang Yumei knew perfectly well that their family's betrothal gift was a pig's leg and sixty yuan, yet they deliberately left the whole pig and sheep that Zhao Jingyu had given them in the stairwell. Wasn't this a blatant slap in the face to the Xiao family?
“Mother-in-law, we don’t only have one daughter…” Jiang Yumei then remembered Xu Qingning. That brat had hidden in the bedroom as soon as she entered the house, apparently to watch the show on purpose…
"Yes, yes, he, he is, he is with Qingning..." Xu Jianguo stammered, too embarrassed to say that Xu Qingning's premarital pregnancy was too shameful.
"Wenya, how come I didn't know about this?" Xiao Tingshen also saw the whole pig and sheep in the corridor. He looked at Tang Wenya with some disappointment. If he had known that Zhao Jingyu was coming today, he wouldn't have come.
No wonder the hallway was packed with people just now; he thought they knew he was there to deliver the betrothal gifts and came to see him.
To everyone's surprise, Zhao Jingyu seized the opportunity first, and even offered a more generous dowry than his family.
What kind of situation is this...?
"I... I didn't know he was coming today." Tang Wenya knew Xiao Tingshen best. She lowered her head, looking pitiful. "Qingning didn't tell me beforehand, and my parents didn't know either..."
“Yes, we don’t know either,” Xu Jianguo and Jiang Yumei explained in unison.
Unable to bear it any longer, Liang Yufeng kicked open the bedroom door and strode out, yelling at Xu Jianguo and Jiang Yumei, "You don't know because you don't care! You only have your precious Tang Wenya in your eyes, how could you care about Qingning's life or death!"
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