Huang Wanzhen looked embarrassed. "How can I interfere in matters between elders? Besides, my mother is the mistress of the Zheng family. No matter how powerful the concubine is, she can't surpass her."
Zheng Yuli's eyes watered as she shook her head repeatedly. "For so many years, my father has been taking care of my mother all by herself. How can she, with such a proud heart, bear this sudden incident?"
"Just a few 'no's' made father hit her. As the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zheng family, you should go and persuade father to prevent him from losing his mind and harming mother."
Huang Wanzhen's face suddenly darkened. "I've never heard of the eldest daughter-in-law living in a remote corner. When you disliked me, why didn't you think of me as the eldest daughter-in-law? Now that something happened, you remembered me."
"I'm sorry, you didn't give me such a high status before. In my father's eyes, I have no weight at all. I really can't help you. You should ask the elders of the Zheng family to come and administer justice."
Zheng Yuli's heart was filled with remorse. She bent her legs and wanted to kneel down to beg Huang Wanzhen.
Huang Wanzhen reached out to interrupt her, "Don't kneel. You guys have caused so much trouble that the friendship between the Zheng and Huang families has long been ruined. Father has no affection for the Huang family left. It would be useless for me to go there."
"If you don't want your mother to get hurt, you'd better go and ask the elders for help. If you delay any longer, your mother will really be beaten to death."
Zheng Yuli was just a little girl who had just come of age. At this moment, she was panicked and looked helpless. If she hadn't been thinking about her mother's safety, she would have wanted to dive into the quilt and never come out.
This matter lasted for more than half a month, and Zheng Ruqing got what he wanted and married the girl before the New Year. When Huang Wanzhen saw the girl, she was only about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a pretty face and gentle nature, and was still a high school student. If you didn't know the inside story, you would definitely think that Zheng Ruqing had coaxed the girl from a good family.
But Huang Wanzhen knew that the baby in this woman's belly was not Zheng Ruqing's.
Her name is Li Yingying. She is the daughter of the owner of a silver shop. Her father has placed high hopes on her since she was a child. However, after entering high school, she accepted new ideas of the time, regarded feudal ethics as dregs, and pursued freedom and love.
Li Yingying fell in love with a male student named Chen Guisheng from a neighboring school. Everything was fine at first, but later Chen Guisheng's family suffered a disaster and went bankrupt. Li Yingying was unwilling to break up with Chen Guisheng for the sake of love, but Mr. Li could not bear to see a girl who grew up like a treasure marry a poor man.
Mr. Li's opposition aroused great resistance from Li Yingying. She felt that her father was an old-fashioned person who did not understand her thoughts. Li Yingying did not break up with Chen Guisheng. On the contrary, her attachment to Chen Guisheng grew deeper and deeper.
Li Yingying didn't go home for a long time, which made Mr. Li furious, and he directly cut off her supply.
Li Yingying did not bow her head because of lack of money. She could choose not to go to school. When she was most helpless, Chen Guisheng took her home.
This is where Li Yingying's disaster began.
Chen Guisheng's family has gone bankrupt. The family of six rented two rooms. Chen Guisheng originally lived in one room with his two younger brothers. Since Li Yingying came, he pulled a curtain in the middle and lived behind the curtain with Li Yingying.
The days of "Love is enough to satisfy one's hunger" were not easy. Without Mr. Li's opposition, conflicts between the two broke out frequently.
One day, Li Yingying finally couldn't bear it anymore and ran out. She was knocked to the ground while she was drowsy. Zheng Ruqing saw her and helped her to the side. It was Li Yingying who took the initiative to stick to Zheng Ruqing.
It would be a bit far-fetched to say that Zheng Ruqing couldn't control himself. He was an old-fashioned man who didn't have the idea of keeping his virginity for his wife. Who wouldn't like a young girl who admired him to throw herself into his arms?
It's love at first sight! It's inevitable that people like many people in their lives. In the Republic of China, where order collapsed, men who were indoctrinated with the idea of male superiority and female inferiority since childhood had no burden to treat multiple women.
Men can play with women, and women can also play with men! This is what Li Yingying thinks. Now it is a new society, and men and women are equal!
When Chen Guisheng found her, Li Yingying felt that she still liked Chen Guisheng, but she didn't want to go back to Chen Guisheng's home. She felt that it was too cramped to live there, and she had to wash clothes and cook every day. She had never suffered so much grievance since she was a child.
From then on, Li Yingying became a master of time management. After discovering she was pregnant, she told Chen Guisheng the child was his. Chen Guisheng also felt it was his. After all, Zheng Ruqing was so much older than him, so she couldn't be as good as him. But he couldn't admit it! He couldn't even support himself, so how could he possibly raise another child?
He first insulted Li Yingying and claimed that he would cut off contact with her. A few days later, he went to deceive Li Yingying again.
Since she was pregnant anyway, and Zheng Ruqing didn't know about their relationship, Li Yingying could have married into the Zheng family and become his proper concubine based on the child in her belly, which would have been better than wandering around like this. This is how all the things that happened later happened.
After Huang Wanzhen finished her wedding banquet, she left Zheng's house and walked onto the street. She turned around and looked back at the bustling entrance of Zheng's house with emotion.
After the final exams of Beiman Girls’ Middle School, the students were given winter vacation.
Huang Wanzhen didn't have to go to class and focused her main energy on running the shop and practicing martial arts.
One day, Xiuzhu came to Jixiangtang to look for her, "Why are you here?"
Xiuzhu walked over to Huang Wanzhen in small steps and said, "Second Miss, the old man is breathing more than he is breathing. He is dying, and the mistress is anxiously asking you to go back."
Huang Wanzhen heard this and quickly walked to the backyard. Seeing the three women from the Song family working in the main room, she waved and called out, "Put down your work and follow me!"
After leaving the house, Huang Wanzhen stopped a rickshaw and let Song Ying get on first. She then told Xiuzhu, "You hire two rickshaws and take them back to Santa Alley. Things don't wait for anyone, so I'll go back first."
After saying that, without waiting for Xiuzhu to respond, he got on the rickshaw in three or two steps and shouted to the driver, "Master, Huang Mansion in Santa Lane, please hurry up!"
On the way, Huang Wanzhen explained some of the family situation to Song Ying. "Once my grandfather dies, the clan members will inevitably cause trouble. When that happens, you, Song Lin, and Song An only need to protect the safety of me and my mother."
Huang Wanzhen arrived at the Huang Mansion and hurriedly passed through two hanging flower gates and came to Rongyang Hall.
Mrs. Huang Dong was anxiously waiting in the courtyard. When she saw her, the panic on her face eased a little. "I've sent someone to call your second uncle. He's far away, and it'll probably take another half hour for him to arrive."
Huang Wanzhen took Huang Dongshi's hand and walked to the main hall, "Mom, don't be anxious, let's sit down and talk."
There were only a few servants in the mansion to begin with, and this time, Old Master Huang was so exhausted that there wasn't even anyone to serve tea. Fortunately, Huang Wanzhen didn't care about this. After sitting down, she asked directly, "What's going on in the room?"
Huang Dong wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and said, "I haven't eaten or drunk anything for three days. This morning, I saw that her face had changed color. I guess her time has come."
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