Rong Yan was woken up by a phone call from Shen Xingzhi at nine o'clock.
She said that Gu Hannian told her about what happened yesterday and ordered Rong Yan to come out for a face-to-face meeting immediately.
Shen Xingzhi has a fiery personality and had warned Rong Yan long ago that there was no need to be soft-hearted towards those who had harmed her.
Judging from Shen Xingzhi's tone, she must already know that Rong Yan still kept her after the old lady's outburst.
"Ugh, I just went to sleep when it was almost dawn. Can I sleep a little longer?" Rong Yan said, her phone on speakerphone, her hand trembling as she could barely hold it. She was so sleepy.
"Okay, I'll come find you. We can have lunch together. You can take a nap." Shen Xingzhi hung up the phone.
I was woken up again at noon.
Shen Xingzhi went upstairs and knocked on the door.
Rong Yan felt increasingly sleepy as she slept, and when she opened her eyes, she realized it was already midnight.
The woman, disheveled and dirty, stumbled to her feet and opened the door.
Shen Xingzhi scooped her up: "You can't even walk steadily. Didn't you sleep all night? Tell me what happened."
Rong Yan knew it was about the old lady.
She fell back onto the bed, face down: "You already know everything."
Shen Xingzhi tapped her best friend's head: "Tell me, when are you going to get rid of your soft-heartedness? Look at the news."
Shen Xingzhi learned from Gu Hannian that the old lady had run away from home. No one had kicked her out, but the news said that Rong Yan and her husband thought the old lady was a burden and kicked her out.
The accompanying photo of the elderly woman sitting alone in a wheelchair at night is truly heartbreaking.
People who don't know the situation might see the photo and wonder why an elderly woman with mobility issues would be out alone late at night. They might think she must have been kicked out and had nowhere to go.
Rong Yan glanced at it and realized she was no longer sleepy.
She sat up abruptly: "This is really bizarre. I've lived in H country for so many years and I've never been reported by the media. But when I returned to Tiancheng, I was the target of all sorts of rumors."
Can't an elderly person go out on their own initiative if they're alone outside? How can these netizens be so dark-hearted?
"Isn't it a pity not to be a celebrity?" Rong Yan was speechless.
But she soon realized something was wrong.
"The old lady was in Mengzhou at the time, and it was nighttime. How could it be such a coincidence that she was recognized by a passerby?" Rong Yan expressed her doubts.
"Is it possible that someone saw an old lady sitting there, asked her about it, and the old lady said it herself?" Shen Xingzhi felt that the old lady was capable of doing such a thing.
The old lady has smeared Rong Yan quite a bit.
“It’s possible. She told someone at the station that she had been kicked out, and then a passerby posted it online,” Rong Yan nodded.
"Why don't you let the old lady come out and explain?" Shen Xingzhi knew that although Rong Yan didn't like the old lady, she had never wronged her.
Rong Yan didn't want to talk to the old lady.
She shook her head: "Never mind."
Shen Xingzhi stood up for her best friend for a while, first criticizing her for not knowing how to protect herself, and finally comforting her.
Rong Yan hugged Shen Xingzhi, smiling apologetically as she said she was hungry.
The two of them went downstairs to eat.
In the courtyard, the old lady waited for Rong Yan for a long time.
Gu Hannian read her the news; someone said they had been kicked out of their home by their grandson and granddaughter-in-law.
The photo at the train station was indeed of her, but she didn't speak to anyone at the time.
She was afraid that Rong Yan would think that she was the one who said she was kicked out of the house, so she came over to explain.
Shen Xingzhi called out "Grandma" unhappily, though she had her opinions.
After all, she wasn't a member of the Fu family, so it wasn't appropriate for her to criticize other people's elders.
The old lady responded.
Holding a peeled jackfruit in her hand: "Rongyan, Grandma brought you some fruit, freshly peeled."
Rong Yan and Shen Xingzhi looked at each other, wondering what was going on.
“I saw the news. Yesterday at the station, I didn’t speak to anyone, let alone tell anyone that you kicked me out. At my age, being kicked out of the house by my grandson is not something to be proud of. I didn’t say those things.”
"Where is Aunt Liu?" Rong Yan asked.
"Xiao Liu didn't say anything either. She went to the bathroom at the time, but I can clarify that Xiao Liu said sending a video would be enough." She made the mess, so she has to deal with it herself.
"It's fine as long as you haven't said anything. We can't silence other people's opinions. If you post another video now, netizens might say that you've been threatened by us." Rong Yan didn't want to complicate things further.
"I'll listen to you. Will Jing Sheng be back for lunch?" Seeing that Rong Yan wasn't angry with her, the old lady changed the subject to everyday matters.
"I probably won't be back. There's a lot going on at the company. Grandma, nothing's wrong. I'm going out. Xingzhi invited me to dinner and has been waiting for me for a long time." Rongyan had originally planned to eat at home, but she was worried that the old lady would stay here, so she made up an excuse.
The old lady moved her wheelchair to the side: "You go about your business."
We left the residential area.
Shen Xingzhi and Rong Yan discussed this matter.
She concluded that the old lady wasn't lying.
"Since Aunt Liu didn't confront me directly, could it be Aunt Liu?" Rong Yan thought of the maid.
"But Aunt Liu doesn't know how to publish news." She quickly contradicted herself.
“Aunt Liu is Rong Bing’s aunt. Could it be that she sent the photos to Rong Bing, and Rong Bing fabricated the article online?” Rong Yan continued to guess.
"Wasn't she insane?" Shen Xingzhi remembered that Rong Bing went insane after her fall and injury.
Rong Yan didn't believe Rong Bing was really crazy. After leaving the hospital, she returned to the Rong family to recuperate. If she was mentally unstable, she should be sent to the hospital for treatment.
But in reality, Rong Bing stayed at home and never left the house.
For people who are confined at home for extended periods, the best form of entertainment is the internet.
"Pretending to be crazy?" Shen Xingzhi felt a chill run down her spine. "Is she an unkillable cockroach? Even in that state, she can still cause trouble."
Rong Yan wasn't sure; she needed to investigate.
If Rong Bing and Liu Ma really did conspire together, a woman who has experienced setbacks and hasn't learned her lesson will likely become even more extreme in her behavior.
Rong Yan and Shen Xingzhi chatted all the way to the restaurant.
After ordering, Rong Yan called Fu Jingsheng.
Fu Jingsheng was busy dealing with the live broadcast and negative news early in the morning, so busy that he didn't even have time to drink water.
He discovered that the ID that posted about the clothing quality issues had the same location as the ID that posted photos of his grandmother that morning.
It's normal for the clothes to be sold to someone from Tiancheng, but Grandma was clearly in Mengzhou and only got home in the early hours of the morning. Could it be that the person also returned to Tiancheng in the early hours of the morning and sent the photos?
Once the man had a candidate in mind, he immediately handed the evidence over to his online acquaintance.
After Rong Yan called, Fu Jingsheng returned to his office and told her about his discovery.
The two people, despite their opposites, reached the same conclusion.
“Xingzhi and I live near your company. How about we go out for a meal together and talk while we eat?” Rongyan wanted to talk to her husband in person.
Gossip websites.
One netizen, who claims to be riding God on a journey, is still posting.
I replied to each of the comments under that photo.
They added fuel to the fire and fanned the flames, completely unaware that the person spreading the rumors was about to investigate them.
Since they can't protect Rong Yan and the others in person, they'll use the power of the internet to let netizens condemn the two hypocrites.
If Fu Jingsheng's image is damaged, his company's business will suffer.
The banning of her live stream was just the first step in her plan; she didn't expect it to go so smoothly.
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