The Su family members felt a chill run down their spines upon hearing this. They couldn't understand why these young ladies from prominent families liked to make people kneel down so readily. Wei Jianjia had done it before, Liu Yuxian had done it later, and now, this Princess Mingzhu was even bringing up the Emperor's personal appointment.

If you bow to the villagers from the beginning, that's fine.

But now, when they're challenged to a one-on-one duel, it feels like they're deliberately trying to humiliate the person by making them kneel down.

Qin Yucheng frowned slightly, then smiled and looked at the person in the chair. "Princess Mingzhu, Hua'er is my good friend, and the entire Su family is like family to me. I wonder if Princess Mingzhu could spare us these formalities for my sake?"

Cai Die looked at the glass box in the boy's hand, chuckled, and continued, "A country has its laws, and a family has its rules. If proper etiquette is casually omitted, wouldn't that mean abandoning even the most basic sense of propriety and shame?"

Su Hua looked up and saw Jun Qingcheng sitting calmly in the chair. She finally understood. No wonder she apologized and clarified so quickly. It turned out that she was waiting for her here!

If before it was merely a suspicion that she came with ill intentions, now it is absolutely certain.

However, the Su family had never had any dealings with Jun Qingcheng before. Why had she traveled all the way to Shanghe Village? It couldn't possibly be just to avenge Meng Yun'er!

Meng Yun'er was already overjoyed and took two steps toward Jun Qingcheng's side.

A pair of eyes widened, staring intently at the Su family members, or more precisely, at their knees.

No matter how eloquent Ren Suhua is, she is just a powerless peasant girl. In front of the princess, Qin Yucheng is no match for her, so how can he protect her?

Kneeling today was unavoidable.

Moreover, once you kneel down, it's not so easy to get back up.

Just as the atmosphere was tense, a deep, resonant voice, both deep and cold, rang out from above, "Girl, I've finally found you. I picked a big ginseng on the mountain today. Hurry back and stew it with chicken. How about that red-flowered chicken? I've been craving it for so long."

Everyone looked up and saw an old man with white beard, white hair and white eyebrows walking on the wind.

He was wearing a coarse cloth garment patched upon patched, covered in dust, with a messy, unkempt hairstyle on his head, and a full basket on his back. On top of the basket was a large, plump radish with lush foliage.

A bright red bow was tied to the radish leaf.

"All you ever do is eat!" A-Zheng rolled her eyes at him. "If you had come back any later, Xiao Hua'er and my sister-in-law would have been bullied terribly by these three. Right now, they're all begging Xiao Hua'er to kneel down, and they won't let her leave unless she kneels!"

"What?" Old Xue's beard twitched, and he glanced at the Su family. Seeing that they looked fine, he flicked his sleeve and looked at everyone. "Kneel?! Who has the guts to ask my disciple, Xue Buhuan, to kneel?"

He had finally managed to coax and trick his little apprentice into coming to him, and he hadn't even made her kneel during the apprenticeship ceremony. How could he make her kneel before someone else?

Azheng raised her hand and pointed directly at Jun Qingcheng, "Elder Xue, it's her, this damned Princess Mingzhu, who said that the country has national laws and the family has family rules, and forced Xiaohua'er to kneel down with every word she said."

“Princess Mingzhu?” Old Master Xue frowned.

She looked at Jun Qingcheng with dissatisfaction, "It's true that a country has its own laws, but the laws of your Great Yu don't apply to our Divine Doctor Valley. What right do you, a mere princess, have to demand that my disciple kneel? Go find somewhere cool and stay there!"

"Xue Buhuan? Elder Xue from the Divine Doctor Valley?" Jun Qingcheng murmured, looking the old man up and down for a long time, and then suddenly laughed.

"As far as I know, Elder Xue stays in the Valley of Divine Physicians all year round and rarely leaves the valley. How could he possibly be in such a remote mountain valley? The two of you should know your limits if you want to use someone else's name to make a big deal out of it. The people of my Prince Yan's Mansion are not to be trifled with."

Everyone knows that the Valley of Divine Healers is located in the no-man's-land of the four kingdoms of Dayu, Xirong, Nanjiang, and Beiming, independent of the four kingdoms. Not only is it not subject to the control of the monarchs of the four kingdoms, but the monarchs of the four kingdoms also treat the people of the Valley of Divine Healers with courtesy.

It's ridiculous that any random old man would come along and claim to be the master of the Valley of Divine Healers.

"The Prince of Yan's Mansion? You are Jun Shen's daughter?" Old Xue glanced at Jun Qingcheng and stroked his snow-white goatee. "Thinking back to twenty years ago, Jun Shen suddenly contracted tuberculosis and was on his last breath. Your mother cried and begged me to save his life."

If it weren't for my kind heart, which led me to use the millennium-old snow fungus of this valley, that brat Jun Shen would have been nothing but dust long ago.

"There would be no place for a little girl like you in this world..."

Upon hearing this, Cai Die interrupted with a cold laugh, "Where did this old geezer come from, daring to address my lord by his name and making such baseless accusations about our Prince Yan's residence? He's utterly despicable!"

However, halfway through his sentence, he felt a white gust of wind flash before his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, I felt a sudden pain in my mouth.

By the time she realized what was happening, her mouth was already swollen, and blood was still dripping from both sides of her lips. Caidie quickly covered her mouth, and staring at the ginseng that the other person was slowly retracting, she suddenly erupted, "You old bastard, how dare you hit me..."

"Colorful Butterfly, how dare you be rude!" Jun Qingcheng shouted in a low voice.

She rose and curtsied towards Elder Xue, smiling apologetically. "Today, Mingzhu was blind and failed to recognize Elder Xue. I hope Elder Xue will not hold it against Mingzhu. My father and mother were just talking about Elder Xue the other day, and wanted to invite Elder Xue to the palace for a visit."

Cai Die was unaware of the tuberculosis, but her mother had mentioned it to her, saying that the old man in plain clothes before her was indeed the divine physician Gu Xuebuhuan.

Seeing this, Meng Yun'er's joy gradually froze in her eyes. The famous Valley Master of the Divine Doctor Valley was actually Su Hua's master? How could that be! Su Hua was just an ugly girl who had been mentally challenged since childhood. How could the Valley Master of the Divine Doctor Valley possibly take her as his disciple?

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