This put Grandpa Hua in a difficult position, as Hua Wenrui was not even three years old at the time and had trouble taking care of himself.
How can such a small child live independently?
But Hua Wenrui was very sensible and couldn't bear to make things difficult for his father, so he moved to the thatched hut himself.
With Grandpa Hua's secret support, he grew up stumbling and falling all by himself.
With his hardworking hands, he earned enough money to build the mud house he has now, and also married a beautiful wife.
Thinking of this, Hua Qingyan sighed with a heavy heart.
Speaking of her mother, she was also a pitiful person, having no parents and growing up in a dilapidated temple.
Once, when she was almost bullied, her father happened to see it and saved her.
The two got married and had her the following year.
My parents, whom I've lived with for seven years, are gone just like that. It's impossible not to be heartbroken.
After all, Hua Wenrui and his wife had truly treated her very well over the years. On the first night after their passing, she couldn't help but cry her eyes out in the empty courtyard.
With the help of her neighbor, her parents were buried simply on a small hillside in the village.
Three days have passed, and her sadness has gradually subsided.
Without her protective parents here, she now has to figure out what to do next.
Because of her appearance, her adoptive grandmother, Aunt Yu, has already set her sights on her.
I came to tell her this morning that she's a weak woman who can't lift a finger, and staying here will only lead to her wealth running out.
He even stated that he had already found her a good place and told her to prepare so he could come and take her away the next morning.
This sounds suspicious; it's obvious that they've made some shady deal with someone and are going to sell her out.
But she was living through a turbulent period and dared not wander around.
In this situation where warlords were everywhere, she knew neither martial arts nor how to wield a weapon, and could easily lose her life if she wasn't careful.
Hua Qingyan sat on a small wooden chair, tugging at the newly sprouted grass in the yard.
She felt like this was a dead end from the start, and she was racking her brains to the point of baldness.
More importantly, this is a parallel universe where the important figures differ slightly from the historical figures we know.
Therefore, she is now completely in the dark, without any prophecy or plot, and has to rely entirely on herself to find her way.
Just then, a round-faced girl with two braids quietly pushed open the gate to her yard and came in carrying two roasted sweet potatoes.
As she closed the courtyard gate, she whispered:
"Huahua, I'm here. We only have sweet potatoes today, so please make do with this."
"If you're still hungry, I'll go catch some fish in the river and grill them for you when it's quiet in the evening. I'll definitely take good care of you for your uncle and aunt."
Hua Qingyan heard the sound and looked up in that direction.
The visitor was her childhood friend, Yu Yuanyuan, who was five years older than her.
He was the person she interacted with the most during those seven years, besides her parents.
She was the only child in the Hua family, and they didn't own any land. To make a living, her parents had to work odd jobs in the county town, which was about five kilometers away, during the day.
But they were worried about leaving her alone at home, so they made an agreement with the neighbor to let Yuanyuan come and keep her company during the day, paying him one silver dollar a month.
And so, Yuanyuan became her only playmate.
She smiled at Miss Yu, who had already walked up to her, and reached out to take the sweet potato she was offered.
"Sister Yuanyuan, you don't need to bring me any food tomorrow."
Yu Yuanyuan, who had just been dazzled by the beauty of the flower fairy, immediately snapped back to reality upon hearing these words and hurriedly grabbed the fairy's fair and smooth wrist.
"Huahua, can't you eat all of this? I'll go find something else for you."
As soon as Miss Yu finished speaking, she put her words into action, eagerly standing up and preparing to go out.
Seeing this, Hua Qingyan quickly took her hand and made her sit on another small wooden chair next to her, then looked at her and said softly:
"Sister Yuanyuan, I'm getting ready to leave here."
After she finished speaking, she peeled the still-warm sweet potato in her hand.
This was the third day that Miss Yu had helped her, because two days ago, she, who had never cooked before, almost burned down the kitchen.
Yuanyuan, who lived next door, saw black smoke billowing from her house and rushed in to find her.
Seeing that she had been covered in soot and her hands were burned, Miss Yu was so scared that she started to cry.
After that, she pulled her out of the kitchen and said she would take care of all her meals for the day.
She also said that when Hua's parents were alive, they would always save a portion of the good food for her, and she would take good care of Hua Xianzi for her uncle and aunt.
Yu Yuanyuan is filled with worry when she hears that her younger sister, whom she has watched grow up, is leaving on her own.
With her stunning beauty alone, Hua Hua could easily become someone else's "meal."
For the past seven years, Hua Hua's uncle and aunt have never allowed her to go out alone.
I can count the number of times I go out in a year on my five fingers.
When she was young and naive, she bluntly asked Aunt Hua, "Auntie, is Hua Hua a fairy from heaven? Why does she look nothing like you?"
Aunt Hua didn't care at the time. She was in a daze and said that if she hadn't seen her daughter being born, she would have wondered if some princess had been lost in her family.
She had seen Hua Hua when she was just born. Her snow-white skin was so tender that it looked like it could be pinched to release water, and her delicate features made it clear that she would be stunningly beautiful even before she grew up.
The former parents of the Hua family once said privately that in this chaotic world, having unparalleled beauty was not necessarily a good thing.
They were afraid they wouldn't be able to protect Huahua, so they could only keep her locked up at home.
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