Huang Wanshu actually nodded, "Yes! This is our house. We have lost our protection. As members of the same clan, they should help us instead of taking our house."
Huang Wanzhen was so angry that she laughed at her self-deception.
"Okay! Then let me handle the Zheng family's marriage!"
As he spoke, he grabbed Huang Wanshu's wrist and said, "Come on, follow me to see grandfather and tell him that you are the elder sister and should not covet wealth and honor. Good things should be given to your younger sister."
"No, let me go!" Huang Wanshu struggled hard, but Huang Wanzhen's hand was like a vine wrapped around a tree trunk, tightly clamping her wrist.
Huang Wanzhen pulled hard, causing Huang Wanshu to stumble. Huang Wanzhen took the opportunity to bully her and quickly approached her face. "You are so hypocritical! You don't allow others to do it, but you do it with a clear conscience."
Huang Wanshu's eyes were filled with fear. "I didn't, I didn't."
Huang Wanzhen: "I don't know whether it is true or not, but I am determined to get the Zheng family's marriage. If you get it, I will break your legs. Then we will see whether the Zheng family will want you, a disabled daughter-in-law."
Huang Wanshu's whole body trembled. "I don't dare, I don't dare, please let me go."
Huang Wanzhen pushed her hard towards the door and shouted, "Get out!"
After Huang Wanshu left, Huang Wanzhen sat down on the chair weakly.
The stubbornness and prejudice of the woman in the Huang family made her understand a truth: when one does not have enough strength, interfering in the fate of others will only consume one's own energy.
What she should do now is not to save others, but to save herself first.
After adjusting her mood, Huang Wanzhen opened the book she bought and read it word by word. When she came across a word she didn't know, she quickly looked it up in the dictionary and then marked it in the book with a pen.
The next day, Huang Wanzhen got up early, did a set of yoga, and then massaged her feet.
A person's toes should face forward, but her feet were different. Except for the big toe, the other four toes were forcibly broken off, twisted inward, and tightly attached to the sole of the foot, as if they were kneaded into a ball and squeezed into a small space.
"Oh! This broken foot won't heal properly. I have to go to the hospital."
"Miss, breakfast is on the table for you. Eat it while it's hot." Xiulan's voice came from outside the bed curtain.
Huang Wanzhen said loudly: "I understand."
Xiulan asked again, "Where did you put the dirty clothes from yesterday?"
Huang Wanzhen took the clothes she wore yesterday from the bedside, slipped on her slippers, and got out of bed. "Here."
"Is your foot broken again, young lady? I'll get you some pearl powder."
Huang Wanzhen waved her hand. "It's not broken, it's just that the callus is too thick. It needs to be repaired."
Xiulan nodded and said, "Miss, please eat first. After dinner, I will get a basin of hot water and shave you with a razor."
Huang Wanzhen felt much more relaxed after having her feet repaired. She had a smile on her face when she walked into the study in the front yard.
"Sorry, Mr. Huang, I'm late."
Huang Meixue breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her, "I thought you all stopped learning."
Huang Wanzhen looked around and asked, "My eldest sister and third sister didn't come?"
Huang Meixue nodded. "Yes, from the beginning, I could see that they had no desire to study. If they don't want to come, then don't come."
"Let's get started, do you have any questions for me?"
Huang Wanzhen nodded, took out the book and asked for advice.
After class, Huang Meixue didn't rush to leave. Instead, she hesitated and asked, "Does what you said before about being able to take classes at the teacher's house still count?"
Huang Wanzhen packed up her books and said, "It counts."
Huang Meixue: "I have a classmate's cousin who had excellent grades. She only attended a girls' high school for two years before being admitted to university. However, due to poor health, she didn't go to school."
"Shen Junyue is my classmate. She knew I was looking for a tutor and asked if she could come to study with me. I said I would ask you first and then give her an answer."
Huang Wanzhen: "How is the tuition calculated?"
Huang Meixue: "Nowadays, home tutors basically earn one dollar a day, and they provide lunch."
"Shen Junyue said that if you agree to come to her house to study, it will only cost fifty cents a day, and lunch will be provided by her family."
Huang Wanzhen nodded without hesitation, "Thank you, Teacher Huang. I'd love to."
Huang Meixue asked with concern: "Don't you need to communicate with your elders?"
As far as she knew, her third grandfather's family was very conservative and did not allow women in the family to show their faces in public.
"Don't worry, we've talked about it and they let me go." Huang Wanzhen's lies became more and more skillful.
Huang Meixue laughed. "Okay, then I'll tell her tomorrow when we go to school. After we agree on a time and place, I'll send someone to deliver the letter."
Huang Wanzhen nodded in thanks: "Thank you for troubling me, Teacher Huang."
Huang Meixue: "Don't say that, I treat you as my sister."
The next morning, Huang Wanzhen went to Rongyangtang.
"Why are you here when you are not in your own yard?" Mrs. Huang Dong's face was pale and her hair had more white hair.
Huang Wanzhen: "I heard that mother has been taking care of you day and night these days. I'm worried that you're getting sick, so I came to see if there's anything I can do to help."
Huang Dong wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and said, "If you stay in the yard and don't cause trouble, that will be the greatest help you can do."
Huang Wanzhen changed the subject, "How is my father?"
Huang Dongshi: "Your father's back was broken by your grandfather, and he can't stand up now."
Huang Wanzhen: "Where's grandpa?"
Huang Dongshi: "Your grandfather was blessed in disguise. The old doctor said that he vomited out the blood stasis caused by the internal qi, so it's not serious. He just prescribed a health-preserving prescription, which you can take or not."
Huang Wanzhen: "Oh! Then I'll go see grandpa."
Huang Dongshi stopped him, saying, "Come back in a few days. He's still mad at me. Be careful he might punish you."
Huang Wanzhen immediately said, "Mom, you haven't looked in the mirror recently, have you? Your complexion is worse than Grandpa's. If you fall ill, what will happen to our family?"
"Why don't we three sisters take turns tending to the patient while you return to Jixiang Hall to rest."
Mrs. Huang Dong said: "How can we let our daughter-in-law rest? If other families knew about this, wouldn't they laugh at us?"
Huang Wanzhen: "If you don't tell anyone, how will other people know?"
"If the servants dare to say anything wrong, just fire them. It will save you a monthly salary."
Huang Dongshi: "This..."
"They are all elderly people in the mansion. Isn't this bad?"
Huang Wanzhen: "Now our family only spends money but does not earn money. It won't be long before we can afford so many servants. If you want to continue to use them, you have to find a way to make money."
Huang Dongshi: "We've sold all our land and shops. Where else can we make money?"
Huang Wanzhen: "I heard from Teacher Huang that people who can speak foreign languages can make a lot of money by translating for others."
Huang Dongshi: "Foreign language? What is that?"
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