Huang Wanzhen pointed at the bundle and said, "That's all. It's all here."
Huang Wanshu then put down her pen, walked over, and looked at Huang Wanzhen suspiciously, "Is that all?" Then she reached out and opened the bundle, and a piece of bright yellow gold jewelry caught Huang Wanshu's eyes. The next second she covered her mouth tightly, and the scream rolled in her throat for a long time before she swallowed it.
"It's not that heavy, it's just the jewelry that takes up space, so it looks heavier. Go find a scale up front and we can divide it up."
Huang Wanshu felt like someone was pinching her throat. She held it in for a long time before she managed to utter "Oh."
After Huang Wanshu took the scale back, Huang Wanzhen reached out to take it, but she dodged it. "I'm sorry for tiring you today, let me weigh it."
Huang Wanzhen said nothing, stood up and moved to the other side to make room for Huang Wanshu.
Huang Wanshu took a few deep breaths, suppressed her inner excitement, sat on the edge of the bed, and began to weigh the gold jewelry.
After weighing it, the total was thirty-seven taels. Huang Wanzhen nodded, "About the same."
Huang Wanshu said excitedly, "How do we divide it?"
Huang Wanzhen calculated in her mind and said, "Let's do as we agreed before, 40% to 60%. Give me 14 taels and 8 qian, and the rest is yours."
Huang Wanshu happily responded and began to carefully weigh out 14 liang 7 qian. "What should I do if I'm short of one qian?"
The jewelry Huang Wanshu picked for Huang Wanzhen were all deformed and could not be worn at all. Most of the jewelry she left for herself were still wearable. Huang Wanzhen was not a fool. Although she did not plan to wear them, she did not want to spoil Huang Wanshu. She simply grabbed her suit jacket, wrapped up the jewelry Huang Wanshu picked out, and held it in her arms. She then reached out and picked up a big gold ring from the pile of jewelry left by Huang Wanshu, stuffed it into her bag, and walked out.
"Hey? Hey!" Huang Wanshu shouted from behind, "You took too much."
As soon as Huang Wanzhen reached the door, she regretted her decision and went back to get another gold hairpin. Huang Wanshu was so angry that she jumped up and down and asked, "What are you doing?"
Huang Wanzhen stared at her coldly and said, "If you don't want the bed, I'll calculate it for you! Since you came to me in the middle of the night, how much money have I spent on you and Yu Ge'er? Although I am Yu Ge'er's aunt and shouldn't be so fussy about spending money, but with you as his biological mother, it's not my turn to spend money to save him."
"Also, from now on, if you want to live here, you'll have to pay ten dollars a month for rent and food. If you don't want to live here, please find another place to move out in three days."
Huang Wanzhen tilted her head and glanced at the paper and pen on the table. "If you learn to read, I won't charge tuition, but you have to buy the paper and pen yourself. You can't use any of the daily necessities here. If you want to use anything, you have to buy it yourself. I'll tell Xiuqing and Dahua to keep an eye on you."
Having said that, Huang Wanzhen pulled up a wicked smile and approached Huang Wanshu step by step. Huang Wanshu was frightened by the expression on her face and stepped back step by step until her back hit the wall and she had nowhere to retreat.
"Do you know how much Xiuqing hates you? Whenever I go to the front shop, she will report to me what you did, what you damaged, and how much food you ate. You should pay attention to it every day. Xiuqing is Chairman Song's assistant. If Xiuqing catches you doing something wrong and reports it to Chairman Song, you will have no choice but to leave."
Huang Wanzhen looked down at Huang Wanshu's feet and sneered, "With such small feet and so many gold jewelry, I'm curious how far you can go before you're targeted by bandits and hooligans."
Huang Wanzhen looked up, glanced at the pale-faced Huang Wanshu with disgust, then turned and left.
In the next few days, Huang Wanshu kept avoiding Huang Wanzhen. Whenever she came back, she hid in the house and didn't dare to go out. Sometimes when she had to go to the bathroom urgently, she would hold it in. Later, she put a toilet in the house, which made her feel better.
Huang Wanzhen is extremely busy and would not pay special attention to her. As long as Huang Wanshu does not come out to make trouble, Huang Wanzhen will pretend that she does not exist.
After August 15th, the weather in Beijing became colder day by day, and the models of Jixiangtang also changed into clothes made of thick fabrics.
Huang Wanzhen checked her accounts. Because she'd made preparations earlier, her costs hadn't increased. However, due to the reduced business volume, she still wasn't making as much as before. After checking her accounts in Beijing, Huang Wanzhen called Shanghai. Hongye answered the phone, and she asked her to speak to Xiuzhu.
After finding Xiuzhu, Huang Wanzhen first asked about the situation in the shop. When she learned that the business was improving, she breathed a sigh of relief. She then instructed her on the task of checking the accounts and told her that she would call her in a few days before hanging up.
That day, Huang Wanzhen returned to the shop after school. Not long after she sat down, Xiulan came to the office and said someone called her.
Huang Wanzhen hurried to answer the phone, and it turned out to be Mrs. Fan calling.
"You didn't come on the 16th of last month, so I wanted to ask if you would come this month. I've been talking to Lecturer Yin about you, and she's very interested in you and wants to meet you. If you're free, come over on the 18th and I'll introduce you to each other."
Huang Wanzhen quickly thanked her, "Thank you, Mrs. Fan. I will definitely go. I was supposed to go on the 16th of last month, but something happened to my sister at home, so I couldn't go."
After exchanging a few pleasantries and hanging up the phone, Huang Wanzhen felt very grateful to Mrs. Fan and thought that she should give her something to thank her when she went there this time.
Thinking about the things in the shop, Huang Wanzhen didn't know the size of the clothes, so she would have to give them away because they wouldn't fit her. After thinking it over, she decided to give Mrs. Fan a hand-knitted wool scarf.
Huang Wanzhen didn't plan to go to Wangfujing to buy yarn this year. First, prices were rising, and things there were already expensive. The company hadn't raised prices on its products. If she went back to Wangfujing to buy yarn and had the women weave it and sell it without raising the price, she would definitely lose money. Second, since she became friends with the Tao family, Huang Wanzhen had tasted the sweetness of buying goods from the docks; they were much cheaper there.
Thinking of this, Huang Wanzhen returned to the room, took out the key from her waist bag, opened the bedside table, took out a navy blue bundle from it, picked out some gold jewelry, put it in her handbag, then carefully tied the navy blue bundle, put it back on the bedside table, and locked it again.
When they arrived at the Tao family in Nanchizi, Tao Luanshi, the busy man, was also there. Huang Wanzhen hurried forward to greet him, "Hello, brother-in-law."
Tao Luanshi smiled and nodded, "Wanzhen is here, it's just right for her to talk to your cousin."
Mrs. Tao smiled gently, "Don't worry, I won't be going out for the time being." As she spoke, she went to pick up the clothes on the rack. Tao Luanshi quickly stopped her, "Leave it there, I'll do it myself. You have to be careful not to stretch your arms like that."
Mrs. Tao smiled and glared at him, "How can you be so precious? You're already the mother of two children."
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