Chapter 9 Child bride?
"Dad, I'm fine. Why are you here?" Zhu Youning held Zhu Huating's big hand and looked up at him.
Zhu Huating's half-old light gray straight body was stained with some dirt, especially at the hem, a wet footprint could be vaguely seen.
Zhu Youning's brows frowned.
It’s obvious that my father was bullied outside!
"Dad, what happened?"
Zhu Huating wrapped her little hand with big hands and held her slowly towards the alley, without answering her question, "I just returned home, and I heard from Mrs. Li and the others that Mother Wang came to pick you up in person at the order of the old lady?"
Zhu Youning pursed her lips and said "Yeah".
"Who have you met? But have you seen your grandmother? Is her health okay?"
“Everything is good.”
"That's good. Where is your grandfather?"
"My grandfather had a guest in the outer courtyard, so he didn't come to the inner courtyard. I went to the main house to kowtow to my grandmother, but my grandmother ignored me and asked me to kneel down on the spot for a while. My cousin and his cousin came back from school to plead for me, so my grandmother asked someone to take me to the branch room for dinner.
"My second aunt ate a lot of delicious food in the branches, including fish, various vegetables, and chicken soup. My second aunt also gave the chicken soup to Qi Cui beside her to drink.
"They gave me a bowl of rice, a plate of fried eggplant, and a plate of fish. While I was eating, my second aunt scolded me. Later, I left before I finished eating. When I left the mansion, I met my grandfather at the door and gave him a salute to my grandfather, but he didn't see me."
Zhu Huating is an alien who does not have to participate in clan struggles and is devoted to reading only the books of sages. His sense of morality and extravagant hope for family affection will sooner or later kill himself when facing the Zhu family.
Zhu Youning only hoped that he could recognize the reality earlier, so he said roughly what happened just now.
Sure enough, Zhu Huating paused, his face turned extremely ugly. After a while, he trembled and raised his hand, gently touched Zhu Youning's head, and trembled his lips and said, "You are wronged."
"Dad, I have nothing to do with grievances. I know that I am still too young now, and I am not as old as a married person who is helpful to the Zhu family, and I cannot contribute to the family.
"My grandfather said that useless people are not worthy of the favorable treatment from the Zhu family. Second aunt also said that I am not as good as the maids around her. Aunt Jiang just now advised me to learn from my sixth sister and adopt them to the fourth old master's room together."
Zhu Huating's lips trembled, and he squatted and hugged his well-behaved daughter tightly in his arms, buried his face on the girl's tender shoulders, covering his red eyes.
Today, I met Zhujia cloth factory unloading goods at the wharf. I was ridiculed by the shopkeeper Sun in public and drove him out of the wharf. I was not allowed to go to work.
He argued with them and was beaten up.
He was incompetent, he was framed and could not find evidence to turn the tables. He not only ruined his career for life, but also could not protect his wife and children.
His eldest son died inexplicably.
His wife is now pregnant and is forced to remarry.
His daughter returned home and was not even as good as a cat and a dog in front of her own grandparents.
Zhu Huating felt that his nerves were so tense that they were about to break!
Zhu Youning tried hard to reach out and hug her father. She knew that the process of seeing the reality was painful, but the family had to go through this.
When he got home, Zhu Youning said everything about today in detail.
Zhu Huating listened to Zhu Youning’s description, his brows became tighter and tighter.
"So, your sixth sister has been adopted?"
"Yes, Sister Six is now in the name of the fourth wife."
Zhu Huating sighed and nodded, "Forget it, this is also helpless. This mansion has already..." He stopped talking halfway, as if he was afraid that those filthy things would affect his daughter.
Seeing that Zhu Huating still treated her as a child as before, Zhu Youning made up his mind to change his impression in his father's letter from now on, so that she could do things in the future.
"Dad, I'm not young anymore, and I can understand many things at home. In order to survive and not be bullied, we can't be the same as before. If we don't make changes, what's the difference between life and the past?"
The young childish voice said such mature words, which made Zhu Huating stunned in surprise. After a while, he said hoarsely: "Don't worry about these things. For the father..."
"Dad, I know everything about mom."
Zhu Huating was stunned again, as if a ball of cotton was stuffed into his throat, and he couldn't say a word.
"Dad, we can't sit still and wait for death. If we don't find a way, the younger brother in my mother's belly will be gone."
"Fuya'er, you..."
"Miss Zhu Jiu is here?" A sudden sound from the courtyard interrupted Zhu Huating's words.
The sound was a duck's voice, and it looked like a teenager.
Zhu Huating signaled his daughter not to come out, so he got up and went to open the door.
I saw a tall boy standing in the yard, wearing a straight body of Baoxianghua satin, with a half-open front and half of his blouse tucked into the waist of his trousers, revealing his legs in silk pants. He stood very casually, one of his legs was shaking, and he was carrying a piece of pork that was as fat as he could, and raised his chin and looked at Zhu Huating arrogantly.
"My father-in-law is here, and the son-in-law is polite."
father in law?
Zhu Youning walked to the door with a calm face and looked at the boy coldly.
Zhu Huating frowned, forced himself to hold back his anger, and said lightly: "This young man is looking for the wrong person. The little girl is only seven years old and is not yet the age to talk about marriage."
The boy smiled and curled his lips disdainfully when he saw Zhu Youning, and handed the pork in his hand forward.
"I am the Erlang of Sun Jia, and my father is the boss of Zhujia cloth factory!"
He walked up to Zhu Youning and threw the pork to her, "I tell you that you are willing to come here for the sake of the fourth room. You quickly agree to adopt the fourth room and the fourth wife, and I will pick you up and be a child bride. When you grow up, we will get married. During the days when you are a child bride, you only need to chop wood, wash clothes, and do some work. I promise not to let you go hungry."
When Sun Erlang met Zhu Youning's cold gaze, he shrank in his heart, but he still had the expression "You took advantage of the situation".
"Don't be too grateful to me. If it weren't for your good looks, I wouldn't have been lazy today."
Zhu Huating was so angry that he trembled all over. He rolled up his sleeves and was about to go down to drive him away. His daughter was humiliated verbally. Even if Zhu Youning was only seven years old and the boy was thirteen or fourteen years old, Zhu Huating felt that he had no reason to spare this dirty person easily.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the corridor, he was pushed down by Zhu Youning and stopped him.
"Father, it's not appropriate." If Zhu Huating takes action, there will be more right and wrong. If the conflict between the children is promoted by someone who is interested, it will become a big deal.
Chapter completed!