"Alluring~"
At one o'clock in the afternoon, when Hua Qingcheng and Wu Chen walked out of the Imperial College, they saw Situ Ye's bright smiling face standing in front of the East Palace carriage.
"Aye~"
Seeing her second husband coming to bring her food again, Hua Qingcheng couldn't help but feel a little warm in her heart.
"Auntie~"
Before Hua Qingcheng could walk in front of Situ Ye, a delicate little girl suddenly walked out from behind him. She looked about six or seven years old. Who else could it be but Tian Zheyi who followed them back to the East Palace from Xiangyang Temple last night?
"Aunt?"
Hua Qingcheng couldn't help but twitch her lips when she heard this. She hadn't even become a mother yet, and she had already been promoted to a grandmother?
"Aye, this..."
Hua Qingcheng looked suspiciously back and forth between Situ Ye and Tian Zheyi.
"Puff~"
Situ Ye burst out laughing.
"It's a long story, I'll tell you in detail later. But Tianzheyi is right. Since I'm her great uncle, Qingcheng, you are naturally her aunt."
Situ Ye smiled at Hua Qingcheng with a sunny face, revealing eight neat and shiny teeth, which looked very heartwarming.
"Tian Zheyi, this is Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess. You fell asleep last night so you didn't see her. Come and pay your respects to her." Although Situ Ye was joking, he did not forget to teach Tian Zheyi the proper etiquette.
"Tianzheyi pays his respects to Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess!" Tianzheyi bowed slightly to Hua Qingcheng in a proper manner.
"No need to be so polite. Since you are the great-grandniece of Situ Cejun, you are naturally my great-grandniece as well." Hua Qingcheng raised her hand slightly towards Tian Zheyi to support her.
"Qingcheng, Sixth Brother, let's go and have lunch quickly! If the food gets cold, it won't taste good." Situ Ye urged.
Now Wu Chen is Hua Qingcheng's legitimate sixth husband, and like him, he is the princess's concubine. Situ Ye has also accepted this sixth brother in his heart.
"Your Highness!"
"Your Highness!"
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Just when Hua Qingcheng, her two husbands and Tian Zheyi were having lunch in the carriage, a shout suddenly came from outside. Hua Qingcheng inexplicably felt that the voice sounded... quite familiar?
"Who are you?"
"This is the Imperial College, the highest institution of learning in Laifeng Country. No noise is allowed here!"
When the two sword-bearing guards at the gate of the Imperial College saw someone making a noise at the door, they went forward and tried to drive the person away.
"My two elder sisters, I have something very important to discuss with Her Royal Highness, the Princess. I beg you to give me some favors..."
Facing two guards in uniform and holding swords, Cheng Minggui was slightly frightened, but his desire to find his son finally overcame his cowardice.
"Go away, who are you calling 'big sister'? We are only in our twenties." A guard with a sword said unhappily.
"Let's go quickly, this is not the place for you." Another guard with a sword looked at Cheng Minggui, who was wearing plain clothes and a straw hairpin, and Lian Xing, who was wearing brocade clothes beside him, and kindly comforted them.
After all, the Imperial College is full of royal relatives and children of high-ranking officials. Even the Crown Princess studies there. If they accidentally offend a noble and get into trouble, that would not be good.
"Sir, we are old acquaintances of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess. Please give us a favor." Lian Xing stuffed a hundred taels of silver notes into the hands of the two sword-wielding guards and bowed slightly to them.
"Brothers, we don't mean to embarrass you. This is not the place for you to come. Please go back to where you came from..."
The two sword-wielding guards stuffed the banknotes back into Lian Xing's hands. Although the money was indeed tempting, one had to be alive to spend it.
Their job wasn't just ordinary guard duty; this was the Imperial College, the highest institution of learning that the Emperor valued, nurturing talent. Accepting bribes and then letting them pass wasn't just a matter of dishonoring the emperor; it would anger the Emperor. If they were caught accepting bribes, they would face severe punishment.
"What's going on?"
Just as the two guards with swords were driving Cheng Minggui and Lianxing out of the Imperial College, a white hand suddenly reached out from the East Palace carriage and lifted the curtain, and then a beautiful woman dressed in the Imperial College uniform walked out.
"Greetings to Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess!"
Seeing that the newcomer had disturbed the princess, the two sword-wielding guards hurried forward and bowed to Hua Qingcheng.
"Your Highness, two unruly people just came to try to establish a relationship with you. I have already apprehended them."
Although the sword-bearing guards tried to persuade the two men who were making a commotion at the Imperial College to leave, they refused to listen and disturbed Her Highness, so they had no choice but to report the truth.
"Your Highness!"
"Your Highness!"
Cheng Minggui, who was driven to a corner, saw Hua Qingcheng and shouted hurriedly.
Hua Qingcheng looked in the direction of the voice. If that man in plain clothes and with a straw hairpin was not Cheng the widower from Huaqiao Village, who else could it be?
"You are... Ermao's father?"
Hua Qingcheng felt that calling someone "Cheng the Widowmaker" was not a good idea, as it would be like rubbing salt into someone's wounds, so she directly called him Ermao.
"Your Highness, I am Cheng Minggui from Huaqiao Village." Cheng Minggui, who finally saw Hua Qingcheng, knelt down in front of her.
"Lian Xing pays her respects to Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess!" Lian Xing, who came later, also knelt down and kowtowed to Hua Qingcheng.
"You are... Lianxing? How come you are together?" Hua Qingcheng looked at the man in front of her with surprise.
"I am Lian Xing." Lian Xing knelt on the ground with lowered eyebrows and eyes, looking very submissive.
"Let's stand up and talk." Hua Qingcheng felt that her neck was sore from having to keep her head down while watching the two of them talking.
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
After the two got up from the ground, Cheng Minggui still looked terrified.
Once fellow villagers of Huaqiao Village, they had become worlds apart just a few months later. To Cheng Minggui, Hua Qingcheng was as unattainable as the bright moon in the sky.
"Were you two the ones making noise here just now?"
Hua Qingcheng didn't think Cheng Mingui and Lianxing would appear in the Imperial College for no reason. Cheng Mingui was most likely here because of Ermao, and as for Lianxing... Hua Qingcheng couldn't figure out Lianxing's purpose for coming here.
"Your Highness, my son Ermao disappeared a few days ago. I... I would like to ask Your Highness to help me find Ermao because we were once fellow villagers of Huaqiao Village. I only have Ermao as my son and we all depend on each other. If anything happens to him, I, I..." Cheng Minggui said while crying.
"Cheng Minggui, Ermao... he's fine! Moreover, this time I was able to rescue the children trapped in Xiangyang Temple in one fell swoop, and Ermao... made an indispensable contribution!" Hua Qingcheng said realistically.
"Two...two cents?" Cheng Minggui looked incredulous when he heard that.
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