After Tong Chengsheng returned home, he immediately pulled Zhang Guiying, who was cleaning the room, to the living room and asked her to stand still.
Zhang Guiying impatiently shook off Tong Chengsheng's hand and said, "Oh, can't you see I'm busy? Why did you insist on pulling me over?"
These past few days, Tong Chengsheng had made the house reek of alcohol and it was a mess, so he couldn't expect her to clean it up now.
Tong Chengsheng blushed and asked, "Did you call my daughter and ask her to come back?!"
He used to complain in his heart that his daughter rarely came back to her parents' home after getting married, but now because of all the rumors about his daughter in the community, Tong Chengsheng was glad that his daughter didn't come home much during this period. Otherwise, if she heard it, and others pointed fingers at her, Tong Hua would definitely not be able to bear it.
Zhang Guiying said nonchalantly: "So what if I called her back? Shouldn't I have called her back? Look at how you were before. You didn't go to work all day, you just drank and went crazy, and I couldn't persuade you..."
Tong Chengsheng was the only one working in the family. Now his son was getting married and needed money, but as a father, he was too worried. When something small happened, he would skip work and go out to earn money. He just drank all day long.
The usually honest Tong Chengsheng was almost furious and cursed: "You know what rumors are spreading outside now, saying that Tong Hua is... and you called her back home and let her hear those rumors. She must be feeling very upset. Aren't you stabbing her in the heart?!"
Zhang Guiying said nonchalantly, "What rumors? Aren't they all true? Your daughter was kidnapped and then knocked unconscious. She didn't say that herself. Besides, the neighbors were just concerned about us and asked a few more questions. Is it necessary to get so angry?"
Tong Chengsheng: "Some neighbors were kind enough to ask a few more questions, but what about the others? It's not like you didn't hear what the owner of the neighborhood store said. How can I tolerate this?"
Zhang Guiying gritted her teeth and said, "Who told you to go find him? Why are you dragging me into this argument now?"
Zhang Guiying remembered that she had run out of salt halfway through cooking, so she called Tong Chengsheng to go to the store in the community to buy a bag of salt.
As a result, he didn't come back after buying it for a long time, and no one answered the phone. Zhang Guiying had no choice but to go there to take a look.
But along the way, she saw two neighbors heading in that direction. Zhang Guiying walked there while chatting with the two neighbors.
Zhang Guiying asked curiously, "What happened? Why are people going that way?"
One of the neighbors said excitedly: "We don't know either. We just know that someone seemed to be arguing with the owner of the small shop. Since we were bored, we went over to take a look."
The three of them walked together and came to a small shop in the community.
Before I even entered the door, I heard the sound of people arguing.
Zhang Guiying saw Tong Chengsheng and the owner of the small shop arguing so hard that they were almost about to fight.
Zhang Guiying quickly stepped forward and asked, "Didn't I ask you to come here to buy a bag of salt? Why are you arguing with someone?"
The shop owner waved his hand, as if to shoo someone away: "Sister Zhang, you've come at the perfect time. Hurry up and take your man away. Don't let him interfere with my business here!"
Tong Chengsheng didn't seem to be giving up: "I just want to ask you what you just said."
Originally, he just came here to buy a bag of salt, but when the boss saw it was him, he refused to sell anything. He thought there was no salt for sale here, but the boss said in a bad mood that he would never sell anything to him again.
This rejection tone naturally caused dissatisfaction in Tong Chengsheng. He asked himself that he had not offended him, so he asked why he didn't sell it?
Unexpectedly, the shop owner said that it was because of his daughter Tonghua. He said that Tonghua had a bad behavior, which attracted social people to kidnap her. He has always disliked such people and did not want to have anything to do with the Tong family.
Tong Chengsheng was naturally furious. He knew his daughter's personality, so why did he accuse her of bad behavior? He immediately started a heated argument with the store owner.
The shop owner added: "How could a young woman earn so much money in such a short period of time? She must have made money from an unknown source, which is why she was targeted by people in society and robbed."
It turned out that Zhang Guiying had learned before that Tonghua participated in a company project and won a project bonus of 500,000 yuan. Although the money had not been paid out yet, Zhang Guiying told everyone that Tonghua had earned 500,000 yuan and that the money would be used to buy a house for her younger brother to get married, as if she was the real owner of the money and she had already thought about how to distribute the money.
Some people were secretly jealous and spread rumors, saying how could ordinary people earn so much money by working, and that they must be doing an improper job. In addition, Tonghua was kidnapped this time. In the eyes of these people, if Tonghua had not done something bad, no one else would have been kidnapped, only she would have been kidnapped.
The rumors naturally spread wider and wider, becoming more and more outrageous. Some people naturally believed them to be true and even began to reduce their interactions with the Tong family.
Tong Chengsheng didn't understand before why, when he went to drink with his drinking buddies in the community recently, they either said they were busy or ignored him. Some even slammed the door shut without saying a word when they saw it was him.
Now Tong Chengsheng learned from the shop owner why those people avoided him like the plague.
Tong Chengsheng was naturally very angry. This matter concerned his daughter's reputation. Why should he let these people talk nonsense?
He immediately started arguing with the store owner.
When Zhang Guiying arrived, she probably understood why Tong Chengsheng had quarreled with his boss, and she began to persuade Tong Chengsheng to leave.
Zhang Guiying: "Let's go and stop embarrassing ourselves here."
Tong Chengsheng was so angry that he couldn't continue speaking: "Don't hold me back! I have to explain this to him clearly!"
He turned to the shop owner and said, "I'm telling you! I know my daughter's character. What right do you have to slander her with empty words?"
The shop owner stiffened his neck and angrily said, "I'm slandering you?! Just ask around in the neighborhood, who doesn't know about your daughter's scandal? Do I need to slander her?"
“You! You!”
Tong Chengsheng wanted to fight back, but he was not good at speaking, so he naturally suffered a loss in this situation.
He pointed at the shop owner and was so angry that he couldn't say anything in response for a long time.
When Zhang Guiying saw this scene, she turned around and looked at the neighbors who were watching the fun. She suddenly felt very embarrassed and tried her best to pull Tong Chengsheng away.
She whispered, "Don't you think this is a big enough fuss? Let's go!"
Zhang Guiying is usually very concerned about her reputation. Although she doesn't care about Tong Hua being criticized, she will naturally be unhappy if someone comes to laugh at her.
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