"You shameless old man, which little vixen have you been flirting with?"
They were all full of questions.
"What girl?"
"Where did this little imp come from?"
They suddenly realized that the battle they had just fought was in vain, but neither of them felt any regret. In fact, they were slightly disappointed that they hadn't gone all out.
After composing themselves, the two sat down together, enduring their pain.
"You go first," Shi Jingpei always preferred to be the last one to speak.
Ling Xinlan angrily recounted what she had overheard.
Shi Jingpei was so angry that the veins on his neck stood out. He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't you use your brain when you go out? Or is your head full of mush? You can't even ask properly when you come in the door before you start hitting me. Who's in charge of this family anyway?"
"Ha, flies don't land on eggs without cracks. People are making such a fuss about it, and someone even saw it. Shouldn't you explain it to me?" Ling Xinlan clutched her chest, wincing in pain, and gritted her teeth as she spoke.
"I was just going upstairs when that old woman from the Zhang family saw the bump on my head. She's a tight-lipped woman, how much of what she says is true?" Shi Jingpei said irritably. "But you, back when I asked you to find Old Man Zhao's granddaughter, did you pick her up at the address you found?"
A fleeting look of guilt crossed Ling Xinlan's eyes, but Shi Jingpei still noticed it.
We've lived together for decades; we can guess each other's every move and emotion with our eyes closed.
“Of course,” she said matter-of-factly, “otherwise, how could the child have a birthmark on his back?”
"I don't know if the child has a birthmark, and a burn doesn't prove anything."
"You'd better tell me the truth, and maybe I can cover for you."
"Otherwise, we'll both be finished!" Shi Jingpei exhaled a long breath and looked at her coldly.
Ling Xinlan dared not admit it. She wasn't stupid; she knew who the Zhao family was. If she gritted her teeth and refused to admit it, no one could do anything to her.
Once she confesses, this damned man will immediately make her his scapegoat.
No, this whole thing was orchestrated by the Ling family. He's the scapegoat. How could Ling Xinlan let someone get away?
Anyway, the old master of the Zhao family personally entrusted it to Shi Jingpei, and she knew nothing about this matter. She was visiting relatives in the countryside during that time, and there were witnesses.
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