After finally returning to the room, Zheng Ruqing was furious. "What's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you that after the New Year, Brother Sang's wife would go to the Shen family for classes? Why did you tell the doorman not to let her go out?"
"Do you know how much I lost face just now? You can't even take care of such a small matter at home. Tell me, what else can you do?"
"I'm the only one who takes care of everything inside and outside the house. What use would you be to me?!"
Zheng Ruqing felt that he had lost face and was furious. When he returned to the room and saw Zheng Liu waving a pearl necklace, he felt that this woman was simply unbearable. She spent all day using his money to buy jewelry and was vain, but could not do any work.
Zheng Liu was so stunned by the scolding that she quickly put down the necklace and said, "What happened? What happened? Why did you get so aggressive?"
"You're the one who's angry. I'm so mad at you. What I say is useless in this family, right?" Zheng Ruqing got even angrier when he saw that after all he said, she still didn't understand.
"It works, it works. You are the head of the family, and what you say is the most effective." Seeing his face change, Zheng Liu hurriedly stroked his hair.
"Then why did you let Li San stop Brother Sang's wife from leaving the house?"
"Brother Sang said that his wife forgets her duties as a wife once she goes out. He asked me to let her go out less often in the future. If it is possible not to ask her to go out, then don't ask her to go out." Zheng Liu said with a look of grievance.
"Did I listen to my son and hear him wrongly?"
Zheng Ruqing glared at her fiercely, "You're brainless! Your son is just like you, brainless!"
"I've analyzed it all with you. The Shen family has three high-ranking officials. It's impossible for ordinary people to get close to them! Brother Sang's wife has this relationship with the Shen girl, so she should protect it well. Why are you still so stupid? It's really infuriating!"
Zheng Ruqing looked at Zheng Liushi with a look of disappointment.
Zheng Liu lowered her head with a look of knowing she was wrong.
Zheng Ruqing had no intention of letting her go. "If you don't understand the stakes involved, just listen to me! Do you understand?"
"I understand." Zheng Liu said in a low voice with her head down.
When Huang Wanzhen appeared in front of Shen Junru, she unexpectedly pinched her face and asked, "Why are you here today?"
"Come to class." Huang Wanzhen took out the girls' high school textbook with a serious look on her face. "I'm thinking of taking the entrance exam to a girls' high school this year. Can you recommend me the best girls' high school in Beijing?"
"Wow! You are really ambitious. Are you so confident that you can get the best?" Shen Junru said with a smile.
Huang Wanzhen nodded generously, "Well, try the best first, and if that doesn't work, then settle for the second best."
Shen Junru couldn't help but give her a thumbs up, "You have a very good attitude."
"Yeah, but you still have to have real skills."
Huang Wanzhen nodded in agreement, "I came here to learn real skills."
Shen Junru stopped joking with her and said seriously, "The top girls' high schools in Beijing are all run by foreign churches. The best one is the Beiman Girls' High School run by the American Christian Church."
"These schools aren't registered with the Education Bureau and aren't under the jurisdiction of our government. The most I can do is gather some information for you. If you want to enroll, it depends on your own abilities."
Huang Wanzhen sat upright and nodded in agreement, "Yes, I know. You've already done me a great favor by helping me collect information."
This is why Huang Wanzhen insisted on finding a teacher.
She knew that if she wanted to study at Beiman Girls' School, she would have to go through many trials and tribulations.
That would be more exciting than participating in an audition.
First of all, it depends on one’s father. Those who are not of high enough level have no way of knowing the time of the entrance examination for Beiman Girls’ School.
In this way, most of them were removed.
Among the remaining small half, many were from less affluent families who could not afford English teachers.
In the last small cluster, it all depends on your own strength.
Only girls who come from wealthy families, are smart, and have strict family education or self-management can make it to the end.
Shen Junru is a girl who works very seriously. After understanding the needs of the students, she found a lot of relevant information and learned that the entrance examination for Beiman Girls' School is divided into three subjects: arithmetic, Chinese and English.
Preparations for the future will focus on these three subjects. "From now on, our painting class will be held first. During breaks, we won't play the phonograph anymore. We'll have conversations in English instead."
Shen Junru's words gave Huang Wanzhen the illusion that she was preparing for the college entrance examination.
"By the way, I'm planning to change our textbooks to those used by Beman High School. I can ask my eldest brother to get them, but they'll cost six dollars. Are you willing to buy them?"
"Yes, yes." Huang Wanzhen nodded hurriedly and asked casually, "What's your brother's name?"
Shen Junru casually replied: "Call me Shen Junmo, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing. I met a guy named Shen Junyan in the hospital. His name is similar to yours, so I thought he was your brother." Huang Wanzhen looked down at the information in her hand, and occasionally took a pen to mark some key points.
"Oh! That's my uncle's third brother. He lives in Haitangju, but he's busy with work, so he rented an apartment near the hospital and rarely comes back." Shen Junru wrote and drew on a piece of paper, making a follow-up teaching plan. "Did you have your foot implant surgery in their hospital? Then he must admire you very much."
"My eldest and second oldest sister both had their feet bound by my grandmother. After returning from studying abroad, she persuaded them to go to the hospital for foot surgery, but they were afraid to do so. They said if the surgery failed, they would be paralyzed on the kang for the rest of their lives, and it would be better for them to stay like that."
Huang Wanzhen nodded. "There's always a chance of failure in everything you do. You could even choke to death while eating. You can't just stop eating because you're afraid of choking to death, right?"
"I remember hearing someone say before that eating provides energy to the body's cells, promoting their oxidation, leading to aging and death. But if you don't eat, you'll quickly starve to death. Everything has two sides."
Shen Junru was surprised by this statement. "You even know about cells? Have you studied medicine?"
Huang Wanzhen thought that in her previous life, the country implemented nine years of compulsory education, so knowing cells was not medical knowledge.
But she couldn't answer that way, so she just smiled, nodded and said, "I learned a little."
Seeing her like this, Shen Junru thought she was being modest. The longer she interacted with Huang Wanzhen, the more curious she became about her.
She looks quiet and gentle on the surface, but when you remove her veil, you will discover her strength and courage, and admire the depth and breadth of her thinking.
Sometimes, Shen Junru would wonder where Huang Wanzhen's maturity, which surpassed her peers, came from. She was full of contradictions.
She knows how to get along with others, but has a strong sense of boundaries. Even with so many troubles at home, she can face them independently and actively deal with them.
Shen Junru thought that after she knew about her family's scandal, she would be too shy to see her again. She didn't expect that she would still come to her house with a smile to continue her studies. If it were her, Shen Junru felt that she would never do better than her.
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