The emperor only gave Hua Qingcheng five days to rest. Starting from the day she received the imperial edict, she had to return to Beijing and enter the palace with the imperial envoy five days later.
I don’t know what Mu Lige, Feng Cailan and Feng Lingyan talked about. Anyway, when they came out of the backyard, no one mentioned Feng Lingyan entering the palace.
While Feng Cailan was busy recognizing Feng Lingyan and her brother at Hua's house, the villagers of Huaqiao Village were already in an uproar.
On the mountain road outside Pinglan Mountain, there were three young men walking together with bamboo baskets. They were supposed to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, but because Hua Qingqing suddenly became a princess, they no longer had the heart to pick wild vegetables, so they simply sat side by side under a big tree and chatted.
"Wenjie (son of the village head Hua Sufen), don't you like Hua Qingcheng? Why don't you just express your feelings to her before she leaves?" Hua Xiaoyun winked at Hua Wenjie who was sitting in the middle and teased.
"Xiao Yun, don't talk nonsense. Qi Da is not a match for us. Hua Qingcheng is now a princess. Her status is very different from ours. It is impossible for us to be together." Hua Wenjie said with a little sadness.
Fourteen-year-old Hua Wenjie, who was just beginning to fall in love, was indeed enamored with Hua Qingcheng at first sight after she washed off her heavy makeup. However, because her family already had many husbands, he forced himself to suppress his feelings and end the fruitless love. He couldn't just covet Hua Qingcheng again because her status had become more noble.
"Wenjie, you are so silly. Why don't you give it a try? Didn't Hua Qingcheng always show her affection to you before? Maybe she still has you in her heart too?"
Hua Anton also encouraged Hua Wenjie who was sitting on his right. After all, the three of them had been friends since childhood, and he naturally knew what his childhood friend was thinking.
"Is this really the case?" A look of confusion flashed across Hua Wenjie's handsome face and clear eyes.
Hua Qingcheng had indeed entangled him in the past, but Hua Wenjie inexplicably felt that Hua Qingcheng was a completely different person. He only liked the changed Hua Qingcheng, not the original Hua Qingcheng who was lazy and unruly, chasing after beautiful young men all day long.
"I heard that every family in the village with a boy between ten and fifteen years old is planning to go to the scholar's house to propose marriage. If you really like Hua Qingcheng, why don't you try to get her?" Hua Anton continued to instigate.
"Okay, it's getting late, almost noon. Since we're not picking wild vegetables, let's go home first."
Hua Wenjie didn't answer Hua Anton, but simply picked up his bamboo basket and started walking down the mountain. Hua Xiaoyun and Hua Anton, who were sitting on his left and right, also picked up their bamboo baskets and followed him.
However, when the three of them came down the mountain and passed by Hua's house, they heard the sound of someone making a noise there, so they went forward to check.
"Stop, who are you? You are not allowed to trespass here. Leave quickly." Two of Feng Cailan's personal soldiers with swords were standing at the gate of Hua's house and directly intercepted the two women and one man.
"My dear military lady, the flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple. Family members don't recognize each other anymore. I am Hua Qingcheng's sister. She and I are good friends who grew up together! If you are so rude to me, be careful that she will blame you later!" Hua Youcai said half flatteringly and half threateningly.
"There's no Hua Qingcheng here, only Her Royal Highness. Also, you can't address Her Royal Highness by her name. This is a crime of great disrespect! At the very least, you'll be punished with a military stick, and at the worst, you'll be beheaded."
The sword-wielding personal guard narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the three shifty-looking men. He thought that they must have come to establish a relationship with the Crown Princess because they saw that she had become so successful.
"Chop...behead? It can't be that serious, right?" Hua Mazi said embarrassedly, touching his neck which suddenly felt cold.
"That's right, she can't just turn her nose up at us, her former countrymen, just because she's transformed from a crow into a phoenix!"
Hua Youcai's husband Wu Dasheng tried to widen his green eyes, then put the bamboo basket containing straw and three eggs on the ground, put his hands on his hips, and confronted the personal guards directly.
"shut up!"
"Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess is a daughter of a royal family, a body worth a thousand gold. How can it be said that a crow flies to a branch and becomes a phoenix?" Seeing that the other party actually wanted to slander the reputation of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, the personal soldier directly scolded him.
"Also, Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess is the legitimate daughter of the current Emperor and Empress Feng. How dare you call Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess a crow? You are not insulting Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, but insulting the Emperor and the late Empress Feng. You deserve to die! Aren't you afraid that the Emperor will order the execution of your entire family?" If he doesn't scare him with such a troublemaker, he won't even know how to write the word death!
"The whole... the whole family will be executed?!" Hua Youcai hurriedly covered Wu Dasheng's mouth when he heard that.
"Hua Youcai, Hua Mazi, it's common knowledge that you two are the 'public nuisance' of Huaqiao Village. How could Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess associate with you? She broke off all ties with you a long time ago. Don't keep making random inroads with her." Hua Wenjie saw the few people who were making a fuss and immediately stepped forward to confront them.
"Who was I thinking? Turns out to be the kid from the headman's family. We are just the eldest and second brothers, everyone is the same. If you didn't like Hua Qingcheng, why did you come here?" Hua Youcai put his tongue against his cheek and sneered disdainfully.
"You're talking nonsense!"
Hua Wenjie's handsome face suddenly turned red because of Hua Youcai's words.
"Are you talking nonsense? Don't you know what's going on? I've seen it more than once. Whenever you meet Hua Qingcheng, you blush and lower your head. If you don't like her, what else could it be?" Hua Mazi also chimed in.
As a lonely woman, Hua Mazi could only peek at other people's husbands. Therefore, she understood Hua Wenjie's thoughts very well.
"Go, go, go! Don't make any noise here. If you don't leave, I will arrest you all!" The personal soldiers with swords directly dismissed everyone.
Han Yichen, who was lying on a big tree in the front yard and counting leaves out of boredom, heard the conversation between several people clearly.
"You're so good, Hua Wenjie, you hid it so well! I didn't even realize you had feelings for my little wife before. Fortunately, you knew what was going on and retreated when you saw the difficulty. After all, as long as I'm this beautiful young master around, it will never be possible for you and my little wife to be together."
Han Yichen gracefully descended from the tree, looking handsome and elegant, as long as you ignore the fact that his foot was accidentally scratched by a branch while he was descending, causing it to tremble slightly in pain.
Hua Youcai, Wu Dasheng, and Hua Mazi were just the beginning. Over the next few days, whether it was the Hua Mu and Hua Fu's homes in the east of the village or the Hua residence at the end of the village, waves of plump matchmakers dressed in red, with red flowers on their heads and moles on the corners of their mouths, arrived.
Besides those proposing marriages, there were also many who came to claim kinship. For a time, the Hua family's door was packed with people, almost to the point of being trampled down by those claiming to be distant aunts and uncles. Some were indeed relatives they rarely interacted with, while a considerable number appeared out of nowhere, completely unknown to Hua Rongsheng and Ye Maochun.
Of course, the above was nothing. The most outrageous thing was that a man brought seven children to Hua Qingcheng to recognize their mother...
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