Huang Dong retorted, "That's all karma from past lives. Take your aunt Weiwei, for example. Your fourth aunt and uncle gave her all their belongings at the beginning, but she was unfilial. When your fourth uncle fell ill, she kept his money and refused to pay for his medical treatment. Then, when he recovered, she kicked your aunt Weiwei and her family out. Wasn't it her own unfilial behavior that caused her to end up in that farmland?!"
Huang Wanzhen glared and said something that was against Tian Gang, "Serves him right! That's his punishment for not saving his daughter."
"According to you, he fathered a child but didn't treat her well. He had money but didn't treat his daughter's illness. God found out, and evil will be punished. It's not that there is no retribution. When the time is right, God will punish him by making him seriously ill. He didn't die because God was too busy. When God finds out he's not dead, he'll punish him again."
"Ouch," Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Tao raised their hands together and hit Huang Wanzhen twice on the shoulders, one on the left and one on the right.
Huang Dong poked Huang Wanzhen on the forehead and began to curse, "You damned girl, if your fourth aunt and fourth uncle knew you said that, they would hate you!"
"God knows, the earth knows, you know, and I know. If I don't tell them, they will know. It must be you two who told them." Huang Wanzhen was very unconvinced. She crossed her arms, glared, and challenged Huang Dongshi.
Huang Dong explained anxiously, "Your fourth uncle and aunt had three daughters in a row. They said the fourth was a boy, but when it was born, it turned out to be a girl. Your fourth aunt's mother-in-law didn't want the baby anymore. If they had thrown it away, Tangtang would have died. Your fourth aunt and uncle raised Tangtang all this time. Even for the sake of their kindness, Tangtang wouldn't have the heart to punish your fourth uncle."
Huang Wanzhen objected, "You're not Tangtang, how do you know she won't want to punish you? Not only is God watching what we do, but people are watching too. Take my sister Weiwei, for example. You all say she's unfilial, but I think it's because of the influence of my fourth aunt and uncle. They don't take their daughter seriously. My daughter has seen it all since she was a child, but when she grows up, she won't take them seriously either."
"Oh! When they were strong and healthy, their daughters were too young to resist and could only endure their beatings and scolding. When they were old and their daughters were strong and healthy, they imitated them and beat and scolded their parents, and then they said their daughters were unfilial. So all the mistakes are the daughters', and the parents are always superior, and whatever they do is right?"
"I'm going to tell you all clearly today. Fortunately, my mother truly cares about me. If she had always treated me like a tool for her retirement, and if she had always been condescending and suppressing me when I was a child, and if she had used her power to bully me, I would have disappeared long ago. I would have run very fast and very far. The difference between me and Sister Weiwei is that she doesn't have my insight and ability!"
"I heard from my cousin before that my fourth uncle wanted the third sister to marry a son-in-law at home. Why did the third sister insist on marrying out? Because she saw what happened to my sister Weiwei, and she didn't want to follow in the eldest sister's footsteps."
Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Tao were stunned.
"Wanzhen, you can't learn from Sister Weiwei. No matter what, she took the Zhen family's money and didn't pay for Fourth Uncle's medical treatment. It's all wrong." Mrs. Tao held Huang Wanzhen's hand and stroked her arm as if she was caring for a mentally retarded child.
Huang Wanzhen said seriously, "Don't worry, I also think what she did was wrong, and I won't learn from her."
Hearing Huang Wanzhen say this, Mrs. Huang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She could no longer rely on her eldest daughter, and could only rely on this younger daughter. If the younger daughter learned from Zhen Weiwei, then she would get sick and die. She had offended all the members of the Huang family, but there was no one in the family to stand up for her.
Mrs. Huang rolled her eyes at Huang Wanzhen and said angrily, "If you think she's wrong, why did you say so much just now? You're trying to act like you're so capable."
Huang Wanzhen crossed her arms and said, "Speak out. Let's set an example. My cousin has three sons. We have Zhenzhen. My fourth aunt and fourth uncle are all warnings. You must never treat children like that, otherwise when they grow up, they will be like Sister Weiwei."
"Oh! That's what you mean? No, I'm very good to my three sons." Mrs. Tao pinched her handkerchief, patted her chest, turned her head and advised Mrs. Huang, "Fifth Aunt, this is a new society, you can't follow the old generation. Although Zhenzhen is a girl, she might be a capable person like her aunt. You have to treat her well."
Mrs. Huang yelled, "Hey, hey! Don't listen to Wanzhen's nonsense. I've changed. I've seen more now and I know that men and women are equal. Zhenzhen should be in first grade now. I've already made up my mind. I'll support her up to the highest level she can go."
The Tao family was engaged in business. Tao Shiwen and Tao Shiwu had attended a private school for a few years and had learned some words. Now they were learning business from Tao Luanxiong. Mrs. Tao Dong did not think that going to school was promising, but when she saw that Huang Wanzhen had learned foreign languages and started business with foreigners, she felt that learning foreign languages was a promising thing, so she had already decided to send her youngest son to a church primary school in the future.
At noon, Huang Wanzhen ordered a table of food directly. The waiter in the restaurant brought the plates. In the afternoon, he drove a carriage to take away the dishes. This saved time and effort, but she had to pay more for the travel expenses.
Zhao Daya thought this method was good, but too expensive, so she said, "I'll prepare it next time."
Huang Wanzhen waved her hand and said, "Because of this incident, no one came to eat."
This year, on the evening of the 25th day of the 12th lunar month, Huang Wanzhen treated her employees to a meal and took her annual leave the next day. Huang Wanzhen, who had originally thought that no one would come, was blocked in bed by Song Wenyin early in the morning of the 28th day of the 12th lunar month.
"Have you become stupid?"
Huang Wanzhen asked dazedly, "How did you get in?"
Song Wenyin pointed at the window and said, "It opens with a push. If you live in a room like this, you should lock the windows too."
Huang Wanzhen was speechless. Her logic was too bandit-like.
"Have you forgotten that I'm coming back?" Seeing Huang Wanzhen in a daze, Song Wenyin immediately raised her eyebrows and put her hands on her hips.
Huang Wanzhen waved her hands hurriedly, "I didn't forget, I didn't forget, I remember, you just came too early, otherwise I would have gone to your house to wait for you today."
Song Wenyin smiled smugly, "That's pretty good."
After breakfast, the two went to Huang Wanzhen’s office to hold a meeting, mainly to discuss who would take charge of the company in Beijing after Huang Wanzhen went abroad.
"Gao Zhixiang is doing quite well. He has no problem with daily management. His only drawback is that he has no roots in Beijing. If something goes wrong, he could easily be blackmailed. We should find someone with a strong background who doesn't have to handle daily management but only needs to step in when things go wrong. We can give him some shares."
Song Wenyin started pushing people, "What do you think of my fifth brother?"
How could Huang Wanzhen be willing to do that? Wouldn't the fruits of her labor then belong to the Song family?
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