Chapter 9 Child Brides?
"Daddy, I'm fine. Why are you here? Zhu Youning took Zhu Huating's big hand and looked up at him.
Zhu Huating's half-old light gray straight coat was stained with some dirt, especially at the hem, and a wet footprint could be faintly seen.
Zhu Youning's brows furrowed.
It's clear that my father was being bullied outside!
"Dad, what's going on?"
Zhu Huating wrapped her little hand in his big hand, led her slowly to the back alley, and did not answer her question, "I just went home, and I heard Mrs. Li and they said that Mother Wang came to pick you up in person on the order of the old lady?" ”
Zhu Youning pursed his lips and said "um".
"Who have you met? Can you see your grandmother? Is she okay with her old man? ”
"It's all good."
"That's good. What about your grandfather? ”
"My grandfather had a guest in the outer courtyard and did not come to the inner house. I went to the main house to kowtow to my grandmother, but my grandmother ignored me and made me kneel on the ground for a while.
"The second aunt ate a lot of delicious food in the middle of the shoots, including fish, all kinds of vegetables and vegetables, and chicken soup. The 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 counted me down, and then I left without eating, and when I went out of the house, I met my grandfather at the door to send guests out and salute my grandfather, and he didn't see me. ”
Zhu Huating is an outlier who does not have to participate in clan struggles and only reads the books of sages, and his sense of morality and extravagant hope for family affection will kill him sooner or later when facing the Zhu family.
Zhu Youning only hoped that he could recognize the reality as soon as possible, so he roughly told him what had just happened.
Sure enough, Zhu Huating's footsteps paused, his face had become extremely ugly, and he raised his hand tremblingly for a long time, gently touched Zhu Youning's head, and said with trembling lips: "You have been wronged." ”
"Daddy, I don't have any grievances. I know that I am still too young to marry someone who will help the Zhu family and not be able to contribute to the family.
"Grandfather said that useless people don't deserve the preferential treatment of the Zhu family, and the second aunt also said that I am not as good as the maid next to her. Aunt Jiang also persuaded me to learn from the sixth sister just now, and go to the fourth old lady's room together. ”
Zhu Huating's lips trembled, squatted down and hugged his well-behaved daughter tightly in his arms, buried his face in the girl's immature shoulders, and covered his red eyes.
Today, when he met the unloading of the Zhujia Cloth Factory at the wharf, he was ridiculed in public by the shopkeeper Sun, drove him out of the wharf, and did not allow him to go to work again.
He reasoned with them and was beaten up.
He was incompetent, he was framed and couldn't find evidence to turn the tables, not to mention ruining his life's career, and he couldn't protect his wife and children.
The death of his eldest son is unknown.
His wife is now pregnant and forced to remarry.
When his daughter returned home, she was not even as good as a cat or a dog in front of her own grandparents and grandparents.
Zhu Huating felt that his nerves were already tense and about to break!
Zhu Youning tried to reach out and hug her father back, she knew that the process of seeing the reality was painful, but the family had to go through this experience.
When he got home, Zhu Youning told everything about the day in detail.
Zhu Huating listened to Zhu Youning's description, and his brows became tighter and tighter.
"So, your sixth sister has already gone out?"
"Yes, the sixth sister is now raised in the name of the fourth wife of the fourth room."
Zhu Huating sighed and nodded, "That's it, this is also a helpless thing." This house has already been ......" stopped halfway through his words, as if he was afraid that those filthy things would affect his daughter.
Zhu Youning saw that Zhu Huating still protected her as a child as before, so he made up his mind to change his impression in his father's letter from now on, which would also facilitate her actions in the future.
"Daddy, I'm not young anymore, and I can understand many things in the family. In order to survive, in order not to be bullied, we can't still be the same as before. If you don't make changes, what is the difference between your life and what it used to be? ”
The immature Tongyin said such an old-fashioned word, which made Zhu Huating stunned a little surprised, and only said hoarsely for a long time: "Don't worry about these things." ...... for the Father's Meeting"
"Daddy, I know everything about my mother."
Zhu Huating was stunned again, as if a ball of cotton was stuffed in his throat, and he couldn't say a word.
"Daddy, we can't sit back any longer. If you don't think about it, the younger brother in my mother's womb will be gone. ”
"Fu Ya'er, you ......"
"Miss Zhu Jiu can be here?" A sudden sound from the courtyard interrupted Zhu Huating's words.
The voice was a male duck's voice, like that of a young man.
Zhu Huating motioned for his daughter not to come out, got up and opened the door by himself.
I saw a tall young man standing in the courtyard, wearing a straight shirt of Baoxiang flower satin, the placket was half open, and the hem of the robe was half tucked in the waist of his trousers, revealing his legs in silk trousers, he stood extremely casually, one leg trembled, and he was holding a piece of fat and thin pork in his hand, raising his chin and staring at Zhu Huating arrogantly.
"The father-in-law is on top, and the son-in-law is polite."
Father-in-law?
Zhu Youning walked to the door with a calm face and looked at the young man coldly.
Zhu Huating frowned, forced himself to hold back his anger, and said lightly: "This little boy is looking for the wrong person, the little girl is only seven years old, and she has not yet reached the age of kissing. ”
The young man smiled, pursed his lips disdainfully when he saw Zhu Youning, and handed the pork in his hand forward.
"I am Erlang of the Sun family, and my father is the big shopkeeper of the Zhujia cloth factory!"
walked up to Zhu Youning and threw the pork to her, "Let me tell you, your current identity, I am willing to come, and that is also for the sake of the fourth room." You quickly promised to succeed to the name of the fourth wife of the fourth room, and I will take you over to be a child daughter-in-law, and when you grow up, we will get married. During the days when you are a child daughter-in-law, you only need to chop wood, do laundry, and do some odd jobs, and I promise that you will not starve. ”
Facing Zhu Youning's cold gaze, Sun Erlang shrank in his heart, but his face still had the expression of "you have taken a big advantage".
"Don't be too grateful to me. If it weren't for the fact that you're good-looking, I wouldn't have bothered to come here today. ”
Zhu Huating trembled angrily, rolled up his sleeves and was about to go down to drive people away, his daughter was verbally humiliated, even if Zhu Youning was only seven years old, and this young man was thirteen or fourteen years old, Zhu Huating felt that he had no reason to spare this filthy person.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the porch, he was stopped by Zhu Youning's legs.
"Father, it's not right." If Zhu Huating makes a move in this matter, there will be many rights and wrongs, and if the original children's contradictions are publicized by people with intentions, it will become a big deal.
Zhu Huating also understood what Zhu Youning meant, and was just about to ask her what she was going to do, when she saw that Zhu Youning had already walked up to Sun Erlang with his hands behind his back.
Sun Erlang looked down at her, as if he thought the little girl with a double bun was very interesting, and laughed hehehe.
Zhu Youning gave him a sweet smile back, and while he was stunned, he kicked his feet, and kicked at the sensitive position of the root of his thigh, making Sun Erlang scream in pain.
The youngest daughter suddenly made a move, startling Zhu Huating, who was about to come up and beat people just now.