Chapter 139
"Dad, where did you get these photos?" Yang Zhiping immediately asked in a low, urgent voice.
"You're asking me? I'd like to ask you the same thing!" Yang Changhua was so angry that he slapped him hard across the face.
"Now everyone in the factory knows, you've completely disgraced me!" he shouted angrily, pointing at Yang Zhiping.
Yang Zhiping received a solid slap from his father, which left him completely stunned.
He covered his face, looked up, and saw that across the street in the cafeteria, everyone was staring at him and his son with looks of amusement.
On the ground were scattered several photos of him embracing Tian Jiaofeng as they came out of the guesthouse.
The photo shows a couple embracing as if they were having an affair, which is glaring and conspicuous.
Yang Zhiping felt his head buzzing, as if struck by lightning, and he didn't know how to deal with it.
Yang Zhiping's first reaction was that someone must have deliberately framed him. Who could it be?
Could it be Tian Jiaofeng, that vicious woman? She's capable of anything to climb the social ladder!
It must have been her. She deliberately came over to seduce him, wanting him to take her to a hotel room, while she secretly had someone take photos of her.
Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence that they were photographed just as they came out of the guesthouse, and that their faces were captured so clearly?
Moreover, the photos were posted on the factory canteen's bulletin board, which was Tian Jiaofeng's way of confirming her relationship with him so that he would never be able to get rid of her.
After figuring out the whole story, Yang Zhiping's face turned ashen and he looked extremely unpleasant.
He quickly squatted down, picked up the photos, and said to his father, "Dad, someone framed me. I'm innocent!"
Yang Changhua wasn't actually that reckless. As an old fox, he naturally knew that his son had been set up in this matter.
Regardless of whether Yang Zhiping has been having illicit relationships, the first priority is to keep his job. As for his private conduct, we can address that later when he gets home.
The reason Yang Changhua slapped Yang Zhiping across the face in front of so many people in the cafeteria was to do it on purpose, to shut them up.
After all, these photos were posted at the entrance of the canteen and have been seen by almost all the employees in the factory. It's impossible to shut people up now.
That's why Yang Changhua deliberately pretended to be furious, rushed in, and preemptively slapped Yang Zhiping across the face.
"You keep saying you were framed, so tell me, who framed you?" Yang Changhua asked loudly on purpose.
I just wanted to give Yang Zhiping a chance to explain and resolve the matter in public.
Yang Changhua knew very well that once these employees left the cafeteria, there would be no chance to clear his name.
And this matter will spread wider and wider, with more and more embellishments and extraneous details emerging, until Yang Zhiping's excellent reputation as a prestigious university student will be completely ruined.
Yang Zhiping then understood his father's good intentions and said, "The person in the photo is just a college classmate of mine. She came here to visit relatives, and since her relatives didn't have a place to stay, I happened to find out she was here, so I opened a guesthouse for her as a gesture of hospitality. It's not what everyone thinks at all!"
This explanation, while still sounding far-fetched, is much more plausible than the doggerel poem written by Sun Xiaojun.
As for the factory workers, whether they believe it or not is not up to them.
Yang Changhua is well aware of the power of authority; often, the official explanation is everything.
Sometimes, power can influence the thinking of those at the bottom.
To make his point more convincing, Deputy Factory Director Yang said, "Is this the female classmate you told me about last time, the one from your hometown? Since she's visiting relatives in Pingquan, why don't you invite her to your home? What kind of talk is it to make her stay at a guesthouse?"
With his father's guidance, Yang Zhiping became more clear-headed and said, "She is a polite and well-mannered person who didn't want to bother us. Who knew that those malicious people would deliberately frame me, saying that I had an affair with her."
The father and son duo, singing and dancing in unison, resembled a live comedy routine, causing the employees who were eating to chuckle quietly.
One of the security staff members turned to the people around him and said, "Yang, the staff member, is still denying it! The woman in the photo yesterday came to our factory's reception room and specifically said that she wanted to see the factory director's son, Yang Zhiping, and that she was Yang Zhiping's girlfriend."
"Is that really true?" someone immediately asked curiously.
The security guard said, "Of course it's true! I was on duty yesterday and saw it with my own eyes. That woman was extremely arrogant and domineering, acting like the mistress of the house, bossing people around as if she really was the factory director's young mistress!"
"What factory manager's young mistress?"
At that moment, a solemn and authoritative voice rang out at the entrance of the cafeteria.
Ji Xingguo walked in with his secretary.
Yang Zhiping panicked immediately; he knew he absolutely couldn't let Ji Xingguo know about this.
Yang Changhua quickly gestured for Yang Zhiping to hide the photos.
But Ji Xingguo had already vaguely heard what had happened while he was outside.
However, those photos that were used as evidence were torn up when Yang Changhua came in, so Ji Xingguo had only heard about them and had not seen them with his own eyes.
Actually, Ji Xingguo had already been listening quietly for a while at the door.
Ji Xingguo walked in with a sullen face only after hearing what the security guard said.
Ji Xingguo called out the security guard and asked, "Tell me everything you saw yesterday, in detail."
The security guard wasn't particularly eloquent, but when the factory manager asked him a question, he honestly repeated his entire conversation with Tian Jiaofeng from the previous day, word for word.
"Factory manager, this is what I see."
By this time, Ji Xingguo was basically certain that the security guard had not lied or even fabricated anything.
At the same time, Ji Xingguo listened to the security guard's account while discreetly observing Yang Zhiping's reaction.
Yang Zhiping's face was tense, his lips were pale, and he was sweating profusely on both sides of his forehead. His eyes were darting around and hesitant, and he could no longer hide his guilty conscience.
This was completely different from the refined, gentlemanly, and polite cultured persona that Ji Xingguo usually saw Yang Zhiping as he deliberately pretended to be.
At this moment, Ji Xingguo finally understood why his daughter disliked Yang Zhiping the moment she saw him.
He was also extremely relieved that his daughter had a keen eye for people and a good intuition, and was not deceived by Yang Zhiping's pretense, nor did she agree to date him.
Even he, a seasoned veteran who considers himself to have lived for forty or fifty years, has made mistakes.
Otherwise, her daughter's happiness for the rest of her life would be ruined by Yang Zhiping.
Thinking of this, Ji Xingguo broke out in a cold sweat.
His gaze toward Yang Zhiping now held a sharp, cold edge.
Ji Xingguo's gaze fell on the photo Yang Zhiping had hidden behind his back, and he said in a deep voice, "What is the photo about? Let me see it!"
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