After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Chapter 73 Pretend to be stupid
In other words, not only could her natal family not be able to borrow any money from her in-laws' family, but they didn't even receive much of the betrothal gift for their daughter's marriage. This meant that a good daughter was given to her in-laws' family for free to work as a cow or a horse, doing whatever they wanted. Go ahead and scold him.

And because she is married, it is difficult for her family members to take advantage of the restaurant owner.

A chicken flies with an egg, and if you fail to steal the chicken, you will lose a handful of rice. This is their family.

They didn't dare to hate their relatives who had official relatives, and the girl didn't dare to hate her husband and mother-in-law, so she even hated the restaurant owner and his family who had brought them here.

So they took advantage of the fact that they were related to an official (although he was just a relative of a low-ranking official, but in the circle of ordinary people, it was enough for them to fight against others), and began to attack the restaurant owner and his family. targeted retaliation.

First, the second son of a restaurant owner had his hands and feet broken, and then his youngest daughter was targeted by a notorious bully on the street, who insisted on raising her as a child.

That local bully was not only a whole round older than the restaurant owner's daughter, but he was also a bad person who couldn't even beat his own women and children. How could the restaurant owner be willing to let his daughter grow up in front of such a person?

But when he didn't agree, the other party sent a few boys to their restaurant every day to cause trouble, which made it impossible for them to continue their business.

The restaurant owner's second son needed treatment for his injuries and needed money and a good doctor. However, the local bully not only disrupted their family's business, but also sent word to the medical clinics in the nearby streets to tell them which hospital needed it. If he dared to take in the second son of a restaurant owner, he would ask his group of younger brothers to cause trouble for a certain restaurant at a certain time every day, without disrupting their business.

When the owners of those medical clinics heard this, they dared to let their doctors treat the second son of the restaurant owner.

A kind-hearted doctor quietly recommended to the restaurant owner a certain medical clinic whose owner was a high-ranking official. Indeed, as he said, that medical clinic was something that the local bully could not afford to offend. But the problem was, that medical clinic was also untouchable. As he said, the cost of consultation and prescription of medicines is far beyond what ordinary medical clinics can match.

In order to raise money for his son's medical expenses, the restaurant owner finally transferred his shop and house to others at a low price, but even so, his son still could not fully recover in the end.His left leg is lame, and his right hand can no longer lift heavy objects.

The youngest daughter of a restaurant owner is a fiery person. In order to take revenge on the gangster who gathered a crowd and injured her brother, she walked out of the hospital that served as a temporary refuge for the family and deliberately sent herself into the hands of the gangster.

The restaurant owner noticed that she was missing and when he inquired about her, he found that she had used arsenic obtained from the hospital to kill the gangster who had harmed her family. However, in order to win the trust of the gangster, she also drank the pot of spices. of wine.

The living daughter walked out, but soon turned into a cold corpse and was brought back by her husband. The restaurant owner's wife could not bear these successive blows and died of illness soon after.

The restaurant owner grew old overnight, took his son and the coffins of his wife and daughter, and left the capital to join his eldest daughter as soon as the city gate opened.

Until the restaurant owner's eldest son, who was lucky enough to survive and had achieved military exploits, got the opportunity to return to Beijing with the general. He also found out the reason why all the letters he sent home had disappeared and the whereabouts of his family members, and immediately found out After searching around, the restaurant owner and his second son realized that their family's tragic experiences were all the work of their former in-laws.

The time when Yu Zizhen appeared happened to be the moment when the former in-laws of the restaurant owner's family had married their daughter to another person, but the two families had not yet set a date for the wedding.At this time, the biggest worry for the restaurant owner's family was that the restaurant owner's eldest son had not been heard from for several months, and that annoying guys came every day to take away all the ingredients they had prepared.

In this case, even if Yu Zizhen jumped out, it would be useless, so she did nothing but acted as an ordinary customer of Zheng's restaurant.

After eating here, Yu Zizhen said "it tastes good" as a way to prepare for coming back next time, then he paid and left.

After coming out of Zheng's restaurant, Yu Zizhen did not continue wandering around. She got on the carriage and returned to Zhenbei Palace under the protection of her chief attendant and guards.

In the next few days, Yu Zizhen got up early to practice martial arts every day, went to the palace in the morning, stayed in the palace in the afternoon to continue taking classes, or went to the Imperial Academy to find the Imperial Academy to open a small stove for her, and returned to the palace in the evening to continue to recharge her batteries. Busy days.

After several days of this, her teachers and classmates had a rough idea of ​​what she was good at, what she wasn't good at, what she liked, and what she didn't like.

Unlike the eldest prince who, despite not putting in much effort, is still far ahead in his studies and belongs to the top class, the persona Yu Zizhen has set for himself is one in which she has to work twice as hard as an ordinary person to barely achieve anything. Generally speaking, people who have the same grades as ordinary people are those who are very hard-working but very stupid.
She comes early to class and leaves late, and listens very carefully. After class, she not only actively completes her homework, but also often goes to the Hanlin Academy to read and ask for advice. She is a rare diligent student in the eyes of teachers.

However, as Lu Heng said when he complained to Wan Jingrong in private about her, "He worked hard enough, but he couldn't bear the thought that his parents didn't give him a smart head that could quickly memorize the Four Books and Five Classics."

What Lu Heng, who despised and despised Yu Zizhen's intelligence, didn't know was that Yu Zizhen was actually faking it.

Others thought that she spent all day in the Hanlin Academy, forgetting sleep and food, catching up with her classmates' homework progress under the guidance of the teacher, but they didn't know that although she went in and out of the Hanlin Academy under the guise of "making up lessons", her real purpose was to enter the Hanlin Academy in an open and honest manner. The courtyard's library.

She is different from those students who study for fame and fame. She studies to better understand her environment. If given the chance, she would even go to various yamen in the capital and surrounding counties to read their documents and documents. Case files, county records, etc.

Yao Guang and Yu Heng, who knew that their heirs were not stupid at all, complained about her, but Yu Zizhen himself didn't care at all about her reputation as "stupid".

To be more precise, this is what she wanted and she created it deliberately.As a proton, she is the one who can make others happy and at ease if she is uneducated and skillless.But she didn't want to be treated like a fool, so she chose the character of a reckless lady with "well-developed limbs and simple mind" for herself.

In order to help his two young followers with a strong desire to win learn to hide their clumsiness, Yu Zizhen deliberately taught them with a serious face, "The ones who stand out will die first. Those who are versatile in both civil and military affairs are easily jealous. In order not to Let those petty people target us, and we can't be too high-profile in our conduct."

(End of this chapter)