Chapter 171: Recognize Your Ancestors and Return to Your Ancestors
The reason why Zhuang Xinmei chose to meet Henry at Tong Keji's house was to avoid the psychological discomfort of "asking to see", and secondly, to put aside the fetters between Changhui Zhuang on her side and Catherine on Henry's side. This is like a private peace between representatives of two countries with no diplomatic relations, which requires a third party to mediate, cushion and conceal people's eyes. Since Xiaoxue's bachelor dormitory and Tong Keji's house are in the same neighborhood, her meeting with Henry is very natural and unobtrusive.
"Xinmei!" The moment Henry saw Zhuang Xinmei appear at the door, the whole person collapsed as if he was cramped, and he lost the guidance of the "quasi-father-in-law" just now. This is in response to the wise saying that has been passed down for thousands of years - one thing descends one thing, and the brine points tofu.
"Mr. Henry!" Zhuang Xinmei's tone was cold, and she said hello symbolically, and she passed through the middle position between Tong Keji and Henry, and sat straight to the position of the chaise longue at the innermost side of the sofa. Xiaoxue shyly glanced at Tong Keji first, then at Henry, then lowered her head, sat down next to Zhuang Xinmei quietly, and gently grabbed her mother's arm, as if she was Brother Dong and Sister Chun who had followed Qin Xianglian for thousands of miles to find relatives. Yes, in the face of a father who has never met, no matter how strong a child is, it is inevitable that he will be apprehensive.
"Xinmei, this is our Xiaoxue, right?" Henry sat on the other side of the L-shaped sofa, his voice timid, like a little boy who had been in trouble in front of his strict mother. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that Zhuang Xinmei's preemptive voice and Mr. Henry's low voice are completely justified, because today, it is a former debtor who has come to repay her twenty years of blood debts!
"Mr. Henry, if it weren't for Xiaoxue, I would never want to see you again in this life!" Zhuang Xinmei went straight to the point and hit the nail on the head, as hostile as a beautiful snake hissing and spitting red letters.
"Xinmei, let's call me Jiatang!"
"Nope! The Zhang Jiatang who dares to love and hate in my heart is already dead! ”
"Do you hate me so much?"
"Hate? It's been almost twenty years! Thinking about every day and night that our mother and daughter have lived, I don't hate you for a wolf-hearted person?! ”
"Xinmei, Xiaoxue, I'm Zhang Jiatang...... I'm sorry for you! Woo woo woo ......! Mr. Henry suddenly knelt down in front of the mother and daughter with a grunt, and stroked the mother's and daughter's calves with both hands, almost knocking over the tea that Tong Keji had just made on the coffee table.
Tong Ke hurriedly turned around, pushed Amy and Tong Tong into the bedroom, and gently closed the door behind him! Tong Keji understands that grievances and grievances in the family are like this, in the absence of outsiders, the parties can truly express their emotions according to their own hearts, and once outsiders intervene, both parties may inevitably be angry or insincere because of the consideration of face factors.
"Dad, why does grandpa kneel for Aunt Zhuang and Aunt Xiaoxue?" Tong Tong asked curiously. Due to the erratic relationship between Tong Keji and Zhuang Xinmei and Xiaoxue, it also caused confusion and confusion in Tong Tong's title to the mother and daughter!
"Why do you want to kneel......," Tong Keji thought seriously, not knowing how to phrase to give Tong Tong a proper explanation: "Because grandpa ...... I've done something wrong! ”
"Grandpa is in the United States, Aunt Zhuang and Aunt Xiaoxue are in China, how could Grandpa do something wrong?" Unexpectedly, Tong Tong actually had the ability to think logically.
"Grandpa did something wrong to go to the United States!" Tong Keji was very helpless, he regretted today's arrangement, he really shouldn't have let Tong Tong be present, if she talked about it with Fei Shuqing in the future, it was likely to have immeasurable consequences. The ancients Zhu Qingyu had a poem, "Talking about things in the palace with lust, I dare not speak in front of the parrot", in fact, what is more terrible than the parrot is those children who are unscrupulous and innocent. Not long ago, her husband's pediatric nurse Xie Yi, who works in the hospital's finance department, took her four-year-old child Muny to the department to play, and Tong Tong happened to be there that day. Because Xie Yi has always been unfriendly with Liu Yanmei because her husband is in power in the financial department, Liu Yanmei took advantage of the topic and teased: "Muny, you see that Tong Tong is as old as you, and he can already make money by shooting commercials, what do you want to do when you grow up?" Not to be outdone, Miss Muny said unconvinced and a little mysteriously: "Hmph, there is a lot of money in my father's safe!" Xie Yi hurriedly stopped: "Muny, don't talk nonsense"! A few days after this incident, Muny came to Corey again, and as soon as he saw Liu Yanmei, he said loudly: "Aunt Liu, I lied to you last time, and my dad doesn't have a lot of money in his safe!" Presumably after returning home, she was reprimanded by the adults, so Muny said this kind of thing that seemed to her to be a remedy, but in the eyes of the adults, it was three hundred taels of silver here. More than half a month after this incident, Xie Yi's husband was imprisoned for embezzlement of public funds and unknown sources of huge amounts of property, so Xie Yi cried and scolded in Corey all day long! From Xie Yi's scolding and scolding language fragments, people roughly spelled out the ins and outs of the matter like a puzzle board, it turned out that her husband was arrested because someone reported it anonymously, and the clues of the report were precisely because Muny said that her father had a lot of money in his safe. At the beginning, people suspected that Liu Yanmei went to the Health Bureau to report it, but the strange thing is that not long after Xie Yi's husband had an accident, Liu Yanmei and Xie Yi quickly released their suspicions and became sisters! So someone said with a clear eye that it was not Liu Yanmei who reported Xie Yi's husband, but another person who also heard Muny inadvertently reveal the secret at that time - Xi Hongcai!
For a long time, Tong Keji always thought that Muny's childlike words sent her father to prison, and he even worried that Muny would grow up to be burdened with a heavy psychological burden for his lack of work. In the end, it was Duan Xiangqiu who untied this knot for him. Duan Xiangqiu said: "When I was a child, I watched a movie that reflected the life of Yan'an Nursery School, as if it was called "Ah, Cradle". When Hu Zongnan attacked Yan'an, the nursery took the children to transfer, and in the process of concealment, due to the playful nature of several children, the target was exposed, and finally caused a lot of sacrifice! At that time, the fighters in charge of protecting the safety of the children in the nursery school loudly reprimanded the children who exposed the target, and several of the children also blamed themselves. But the director of the nursery school said that the children should not be blamed, the children should be happy and happy in the sun, but the *** reactionaries should be blamed, they deprived the children of the right to be happy! Duan Xiangqiu finally said: "Parents have no form, sooner or later they will be punished, what do they have to do with their children? And from another point of view, although her father was sanctioned because of Muny's leak, if it wasn't for her leak, his father would have fallen deeper and deeper, and in the end, the sanctions would have been even more severe! In that sense, it was Muny who saved her dad! ”
Thinking of Duan Xiangqiu's words, Tong Ke was suddenly relieved! thought to herself, Tong Tong loved to tell Fei Shuqing to tell her to go! Zhang Jiatang knelt down to Zhuang Xinmei and Xiaoxue today, and definitely didn't explain the matter to Catherine in advance, but didn't Fei Shuqing also pretend to be her grandmother in front of her own daughter, and hide a big secret from Henry? However, Tong Tong's next sentence shocked Tong Keji and frightened-
"Dad, did my mother do something wrong to go to the United States? If she came back, would she kneel for Daddy and me? ”