Chapter 65: Much Ado About Nothing
Osmanthus was stunned when she heard this, and she looked back at Tan Jingting.
Tan Jingting hurriedly walked a few steps: "If you don't believe it, if you don't believe it, just wait for the child to be born, that little guy must be blonde and blue-eyed, and he has nothing to do with me Tan Jingting." β
"Then you didn't say it earlier?" Osmanthus looked at Tan Jingting with disgust and beat him.
"I haven't had time to say it, you just ran away talking to yourself, you see, how dangerous it is tonight, if I come one step late, I don't know what will happen, so ah, you have to be obedient in the future, you can't go out and run around alone at night."
Tan Jingting persuaded Osmanthus like an elder, and Osmanthus snuggled in Tan Jingting's arms like a little girl, listening to the teachings of the elders.
Under the street lamp, Osmanthus leaned on Tan Jingting's shoulder, and the two walked back silently, leaving a long shadow on the ground......
Sasha's abdomen gradually bulged, and the colleagues in the dormitory building naturally felt curious, so all kinds of rumors spread.
"Do you see? Deputy Director Tan's little sister's belly is getting bigger and bigger. The middle-aged woman whispered to the younger woman.
"I have long noticed that Deputy Director Tan's little sister wears loose clothes every day, and she has not seen her wear leather pants and leather boots for a long time." The young woman nodded hurriedly.
"I said a long time ago, Deputy Director Tan is in the prime of life, and there are two women in the family who accompany him day and night, one is hardworking and virtuous, and the other is beautiful and moving, you say, how can a normal man turn a blind eye and not be tempted?" Bald man gives his opinion.
"Yes, what sister and brother, brother and sister, who are you fooling?" The middle-aged woman chimed in.
"That's it, the blind man lights the lampβif you do it too much, won't it be over if you marry one directly? Anyway, he is now widowed, and it is normal for him to marry a wife and remarry. Why do you need to shirk what brother and sister, sister and brother. The bald man felt that Tan Jingting was very hypocritical.
"I guess maybe these two women are not fuel-efficient lamps, Deputy Director Tan doesn't know which one to marry, and he is so obedient that his brother and sister-in-law are dissatisfied, and they don't please both ends, so they are so stiff." The middle-aged woman speculated.
"Maybe our Deputy Director Tan wants both, one three or five sisters, and two or four six little sisters." The "little part" can't help but speculate.
"Don't talk nonsense, I think Deputy Director Tan is quite serious, how can he be like you, as long as a woman hits you in front of you, you will be." The young woman gave a "little part-headed" look.
"Serious? A serious and a golden house is still a treasurer, and the second is a girl, and now he has made a belly bigger, this kind of man still says that he is serious? If you want to say so, then I am simply Tang Seng. The "little part" lifted his head and stroked his shiny hair with his hand.
"But now that the little sister has it, Deputy Director Tan should make a decision." The young woman thought she would see it soon.
"It seems that it is still the mind of the little Deputy Director Hetan, after all, he is young and beautiful, men, they are all visual animals." The middle-aged woman said disdainfully.
"Then we'll wait to eat Deputy Director Tan's candy." The young woman haha.
Meng Ruoyu saw that the people below always talked about Tan Jingting's family affairs, and he didn't want to meddle in this matter, he talked to Tan Jingting about his family affairs last time, but he hit a nail, and Tan Jingting asked him not to worry about his family affairs. He is an interesting person, and other people's private affairs should not be used to chew his tongue, but now, all kinds of gossip are rampant, which makes Meng Ruoyu feel that as the head of a place, he really has to manage this kind of atmosphere well. However, as the saying goes, rumors stop at the wise, but that Tan Jingting is so irrational, which is why it will lead to the current situation of gossip.
Meng Ruoyu had to admire Tan Jingting's psychological endurance, he could be calm and indifferent to the wind and rain in the city, and still lived a life of monogamy and wife in the eyes of others according to his wishes, and the life of brothers and sisters in his own mouth, if it went on like this, it would be fine, but now it is about to change from a family of three to a family of four, no matter how you look at it, it feels awkward.
It was originally just a trivial matter, but somehow the news had reached the ears of some senior officials of the Military Council and the Ministry of Defense, who felt that he was weak and incompetent, and that he had developed a corrupt and corrupt way of life, which was contrary to the monogamy of the New Life Movement.
Therefore, Meng Ruoyu felt that if he wanted to eliminate the gossip from the source, the first thing to break through was Tan Jingting. As a last resort, Meng Ruoyu could only talk to Tan Jingting about his private affairs again, because now, this is not only Tan Jingting's private matter, but also a major event in the department.
"Brother Tan, I heard that your little sister has a big belly?" Meng Ruoyu drew an arc in front of his abdomen with both hands.
"Well, yes, Sasha is pregnant." Tan Jingting was frank and did not hide it.
"Then why don't you hurry up and marry that Sasha? Pregnancy out of wedlock is immoral. Although Sasha is an overseas Chinese, a foreigner, and may have a more trendy thinking, but now in the domestic environment, she should still follow the customs of the locals. β
"Brother Meng, let me interrupt first." The more Tan Jingting listened, the more he didn't feel good, and others just talked nonsense, he Meng Ruoyu was the top boss, but he couldn't let him misunderstand himself: "Meng Chu, you listen to me explain first, Sasha is pregnant, but the child in the womb is not mine." β
"Not yours? Who else could it be if it wasn't yours? Meng Ruoyu was very surprised: "It seems that I didn't find out that Sasha was in contact with other men?" β
"It's Sasha's husband, the American pilot Captain Rice, Sasha is Rice's widow, and when Rice died, Sasha didn't know she was pregnant." Tan Jingting explained the matter to Meng Ruoyu.
"So this kid isn't yours?" Meng Ruoyu felt that he was a little funny, and he was ready to point fingers before he could figure out the truth of the matter, but this rumor was really powerful, and he could easily mislead himself. But even if the child in Sasha's belly is not Tan Jingting's, it is suspected of increasing the tongue if she continues to live like this.
"Brother, although this child is not yours, do you think it is appropriate to continue to live with Sasha and your eldest sister like this?"
"I have a clear conscience, I don't care what others think." Tan Jingting has the spirit of a big man.
"You don't care, but I do, when I went to a meeting of the Military Commission a few days ago, I criticized them without naming them, saying that the officials of some departments live corrupt and degenerate lives, monogamy, and embrace each other, which is a blatant cry against the monogamous new life movement advocated by Madame Chiang, and should be purged immediately. The key is that our department is closely related to the New Life Movement, and it came into being in order to promote the 'non-smoking and disinfection' in the New Life Movement. β
"Brother Meng, then you can reflect my specific situation with the above, and clarify it, isn't it over?"
"Brother, I'm stupid, people don't name the criticism, I went up to explain to others, isn't this the place where there are no three hundred taels of silver, don't you recruit yourself? This kind of thing is getting darker and darker, and there was nothing to do, but the investigation from above turned out to be a lot of things. β
Meng Ruoyu's worries are reasonable, because he himself has a good relationship outside, and he has been hiding it from his family, he is afraid that if Tan Jingting's matter is investigated, he pulls out the radish and brings out the mud, Tan Jingting may be fine, he can't eat and walk around, so he wants Tan Jingting's to be cut off quickly, so that he can also block the mouth above.
"What then? It's okay to chew the root of the tongue below, but if the boss wrongs me so indiscriminately, then I am really more wronged than Dou E. If a lie is told a thousand times, it will become the truth, and when the time comes, the board will still fall on me, where will I go to avenge my grievances? You say that I am innocent and happy to help others, so that two homeless women from good families have a comfortable nest, and do not praise me for being anxious for justice and righteousness, and it is just a matter of being warm and warm, but I was also splashed with dirty water by others, saying that my life is corrupt and corrupted, am I wronged? β
"Yes, I also apologized for you when I heard it, you said that you didn't eat the mutton, but you made a fuss, what kind of thing is this?"
"Brother Meng, you misunderstood me, I didn't want to eat any mutton at the beginning. I cherished these two sheep and found them a sheepfold to shelter from the wind and rain. β
"Clearly, my brother is a good shepherd. But this matter, you still blame yourself for not handling it properly, and it is reasonable for others to misunderstand you. β
"Then I really don't know what to do with it. It can not only save them from fire and water, but also allow others not to misunderstand me. β
"Let me give you an idea, the dormitory you moved out of earlier is not occupied, you just let your eldest sister live there, and then you live with that Sasha and pick an auspicious day for the zodiac to marry, then won't it be solved?"
"Brother Meng, you let me marry Sasha? Did you know that Sasha is a mixed-race child? Isn't it a bigger joke to get pregnant in October, give birth to a blonde one, and wait for the birth of a blonde one? Let me Tan someone wear a foreigner's green hat on his head? The faces of my ancestors have been thrown into the Pacific Ocean. β
"Oh, I almost forgot about it, alas, I really didn't expect this, so why don't you marry Osmanthus and let Sasha move to a one-bedroom apartment alone?"
"If I wanted to marry Osmanthus, I would have married her more than ten years ago, and I still have to wait for now? Besides, Sasha is pregnant, and you let her live alone with no one to take care of her, is this appropriate? Is it humane? β
"It's not, it's not, alas, it's really stumbling for me."
"Since you are willing to donate a house, this matter can be solved."
"How to fix it?"
"Isn't it all the time I'm going to live in that one-bedroom apartment? As long as I don't live with these two women anymore, won't this gossip be gone? β
"This is a solution, although the two rooms are only more than ten meters apart, but it is better than being under the same roof, but, brother, I have to let you live a single life again."
"I'm single, so let's leave it at that, let Osmanthus take care of Sasha."
"Good, good, that's the best. Okay, even if this matter is solved, what about you, come up with specific actions, and I, and then help you get to the bottom of the matter at the small meeting of the conference, and it is estimated that this rumor will disappear. β
"I hope so."
"There are really a lot of people in our department who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and if they don't do their business, they love the east and the west, and they are playing with right and wrong, chewing the root of their tongues, and I really have to take care of them. Brother, don't be too reassured. β
"Don't worry, Brother Meng, if I took these gossips seriously, then I would have followed in Ruan Lingyu's footsteps."
"I'm relieved. Oh, there's one more business to talk to you about. β
"What's that, Brother Meng?"
"Brother, I have a friend who has fifty tons of corn in his hand, do you think there is a way to help him solve it?"
"Yes, as long as the price is right, I'll find him a home."
"He said he could give us 20 percent."
"Brother Meng, you tell him that it's thirty percent, and I'll take it all."
"Brother, you're dark enough, okay, I'll contact my friend."