If these words hadn't come from Chen He, then Ma Dong must have fallen in with bad company at the Working School and picked up all that nonsense.
Suizi didn't have time to think about this now; she was only concerned about Ma Dong's whereabouts.
"When did you see him with that man?"
"It was...." Chen Tong's eyes began to dodge, and only after Suizi repeated the question, accentuating her tone, did he tell the truth.
He had seen it in the afternoon, but he had been dragging his feet about telling Suizi.
Chen Tong had seen Suizi's frantic search for Ma Dong with Wang Cuihua, and it was only because he couldn't hold it in anymore that he came over to tell her.
"The gap between your two families is so huge, his grandma is surely up to no good, wanting to secure a stable backing for him, making him suck up to you, sweet-talking you with honeyed words, but people from such humble families are always after money—"
