Huang Zhong led the four young ladies to the study in the front yard.

"I'll ask Guiyuan to wait outside the door. If you need anything, please tell her."

After they nodded, Huang Zhong bent his back and walked out.

"Mr. Huang, please help us find a teacher. If we can't find one willing to teach in person, I'm willing to go to your home to take the class."

As soon as Huang Zhong left, Huang Wanzhen couldn't wait to express her wishes.

Huang Meixue smiled and looked at Huang Wanshu and Huang Wanqiong who were looking at each other in confusion. "What about you two? Are you willing?"

Huang Wanshu lowered her eyebrows and eyes and said, "I will listen to my grandfather."

Huang Wanqiong immediately followed up, "I'll listen to Grandfather too."

Huang Meixue: "Miss Huang is not afraid of hardship or fatigue in order to study. She is truly a role model for us."

Yeah?! This is a compliment? Isn't that a bit too...

"Now we live in a new society. Women have the right to go to school, but if all women give up on their own accord, then in a few years, women will lose this right again."

"Since Miss Huang Er has the courage to be the first, I will certainly lend my full support."

Uh..., why does this Huangmeixue feel pretty good?

"Thank you, thank you." Huang Wanzhen replied with some stammering.

Huang Meixue: "Okay, let's start the class today! I got the Three Character Classic. Let's start with the first page."

The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon.

Three generations of the Huang family gathered in Rongyang Hall.

This was the first time Huang Wanzhen saw Huang Zhengming after she came here.

Looking closely at his facial features, he still looks more like Huang Shuhuai. In the original owner's memory, he was also a handsome young man, but now he is frighteningly thin, as if he has no flesh, just a skeleton covered with skin.

"Stop standing, sit down! Today is Dragon Boat Festival, let's have a reunion dinner together."

Huang Zhengming left his eldest and third daughters who were greeting him and sat directly on the left side of Mr. Huang.

Mr. Huang pretended not to see it and pointed to the chair on the left and said, "Wanzhen, sit here."

That should be Huang Dong's position, but she would never contradict her father-in-law and husband.

It only took Huang Wanzhen a few months to go from feeling sorry for her misfortune and angry at her for not fighting back to turning a blind eye.

After everyone sat down, Huang Shuhuai first praised Huang Wanzhen's academic performance, and then ordered Huang Zhong to bring a set of high-quality four treasures of the study.

"These are the four treasures of the study that Grandpa promised me. Keep them."

Huang Wanzhen took it under Huang Zhengming's eager eyes, "Thank you, Grandfather."

"Wanshu and Wanqiong should learn from Wanzhen. If they do well, they will be rewarded."

Huang Wanshu said obediently, "Yes."

Huang Wanqiong pouted and said unconvincedly, "Grandpa, don't you know? My second sister wants to go out to study!"

"I heard it with my own ears."

"Ahem, Wanzhen, ahem, is what Wanqiong said true?"

Huang Shuhuai's face turned red from coughing, and his frowning brows were slightly black.

"How can you, a girl, be so ignorant of your duties?" Huang Zhengming looked at Huang Wanzhen with disgust, as if he was not looking at his daughter, but at something dirty.

Huang Wanzhen knew that in this era, parents were expected to be absolutely right. Parents could beat and scold their children however they wanted, but as long as the children did not obey them, they were wrong.

But for some reason, she just couldn't stand this bastard. "He's not even one ten-thousandth as good as you. No matter how unruly a girl is, she can't do such a thing as destroying the family. You're extraordinary. You've directly squandered all the Huang family's assets, and you're even living off the dowry of the unruly Hua daughter-in-law!"

"My daughter is too thin-skinned to compare!"

"Crack!" Huang Zhengming was furious and threw the green-glazed porcelain bowl beside him.

"You beast! I'll beat you to death!"

Huang Zhengming stretched out his hands and attacked Huang Wanzhen.

Huang Wanzhen had been doing yoga for more than two months and her body had become much more flexible. When she turned her body, he missed.

Huang Shuhuai was deeply shocked by this scene. He pointed at Huang Wanzhen and scolded her, "You have no respect for your elders! Huang Zhong, arrest her! Beat her hard."

Huang Wanzhen yelled, "Huang Zhong, how dare you!"

"You don't fear life and death, you can beat me, but there are six people in your family, I want to see who will die first, the old man or me!"

Huang Shuhuai gritted his teeth and pointed at her with his shaking right hand. He was about to throw away his intellectual dignity and start cursing, but he was distracted by Huang Zhengming who fell to the ground.

"Ahhhhhh!" Huang Zhengming's eyes were full of ferocity, as if possessed by an evil spirit, with tears and snot streaming out.

Huang Wanshu and Huang Wanqiong were so frightened that they ran to the door in panic.

"Cigarette -, I want a cigarette -" Huang Zhengming screamed while rolling on the ground.

Huang Shuhuai burst into tears, "Son, let's not smoke anymore. Even if you don't think about me as your father, you should think about your wife and children!"

Huang Zhengming: "I don't have a son, all this is mine, Dad, give me some cigarettes."

Huang Shuhuai: "Son——"

Huang Zhengming shouted at the top of his lungs, "Old man, give me a cigarette, or I'll kill you."

"Dad, just give Zhengming a few puffs. I have a dowry, and I will use it to support him." Huang Dong was the first to surrender.

The next second, Huang Shuhuai nodded.

There is no doubt that Huang Zhengming won this time. He was able to smoke opium as he wished, while Huang Wanzhen, who was too impatient, was punished by kneeling for a whole night and copying the "Three Character Classic" fifty times.

The punishment was so light because the Huang family had few descendants.

Whenever there was a male child in their generation, even if he was a bastard, Huang Wanzhen would not escape being beaten.

"My son, your grandfather spared you the beating out of pity for your frail body. You must not behave in such a way again."

A deep feeling of powerlessness rose from the bottom of Huang Wanzhen's heart.

She felt that she could not change the plot at all, so she might as well lie down and watch the Huang family fall.

"Mom! I don't believe you, you don't know why I did all that."

"Do you really want me to do nothing and watch you starve to death on the streets?"

Her daughter, with her knees swollen and her face pale, still looked at her with admiring eyes.

Mrs. Huang Dong couldn't hold it back any longer, so she hugged her daughter's upper body and cried "wuwuwu".

"This is my fate. I have a bad life. I will starve to death. Who can I blame?"

Since then, Huang Wanzhen has become much quieter. She doesn't talk to others and others don't bother her.

The Huang Mansion returned to its previous silence.

Until the day of Lesser Heat on June 6th.

"Miss, the old man wants you to go to Rongyang Hall."

Huang Wanzhen didn't even raise her head, still copying the Youxue Qionglin. "What's the matter?"

Xiulan: “No.”

After being stunned for a few seconds, she said mysteriously, "I heard that the old man has been running around these days. I heard from Guiyuan that he went to Dongjiao Lane."

Huang Wanzhen paused while writing. "Dongjiao Lane? Could it be the Zheng family?"

She immediately put the pen back on and said, "Go get me a basin of water. I'll wash up and then come over."