FID – Chapter 230

At this moment, he began to wonder.

How far could a man of Feng Qingbai’s nature go in order to be with Nannan?

The eunuch began the official reading of the imperial decree. The young girl clasped both hands and stood in front with her head hanging to listen to the declaration.

“Miss Liu Yusheng of the Liu family in Xinghua Village is smart and ingenious with the heart of an orchid. She washed her brother’s grievances in the imperial exam cheating case. She has outstanding astuteness, neither humble nor arrogant and has a pair of divine hands for healing. Her medicine practice to save people without expecting anything in return makes her a model of women, worthy of commendation! She is hereby conferred the title Ruyi County Lord and will be honored in the capital on a later date!”

“Liu Yusheng accepts the decree, I thank His Majesty for his kindness!” Liu Yusheng only felt feverish on the face while receiving the decree from the eunuch.

Fortunately, others could not understand.

She could not have imagined that Feng Qingbai would use such a method to call her to the capital.

At the entrance, the people cheered with awe.

“A County Lord – our county has a County Lord!”

“This is a great honor! The entire Xiangshan County will be honored!”

“Exactly, I never thought that a golden phoenix would fly out of a mountain nest!”

The rank of a county lord wasn’t high, but traditionally, those who were ordained had always been the children of officials and even princes.

This was the first time that a commoner has been appointed.

It was indeed an unusual glory!

“This official is here to congratulate Ruyi County Lord!” Kang Shiming looked deeply at Liu Yusheng with complex eyes.

At the outset, when His Majesty and his party visited Xiangshan, he only got news from other channels after they left and returned to the capital. Back then, His Majesty lived in the Lius residence in the name of inspecting the winery of Xinghua Village!

Today, the youngest daughter of the Liu family was conferred County Lord. It seems that the Liu family caught the emperor’s attention and has the potential to soar to the sky and straight through the clouds.

“Thank you, Magistrate, and thank you, Sir, for making this trip.” Liu Yusheng thanked the two men.

“You flatter me, this is my duty. Please prepare to enter the capital as soon as possible after County Lord returns home. His Majesty is waiting in the capital,” the eunuch advised.

“Okay. I will go home to prepare and then depart.”

Liu Yusheng left the county office with her family, with everyone trailing behind them. It wasn’t until their carriage left the county border that everyone dispersed.

The ripples that this incident caused haven’t subsided with the Lius departure.

The name of the youngest daughter of the Liu family, Liu Yusheng, was spread throughout the circle of the powerful and noble. Everyone had a scale in their minds, estimating what attitude to use to treat the Liu family in the future.

From the day Liu Yusheng was granted a title, the Liu family was no longer just an ordinary peasant family in the mountain region, but had leapt to become a new nobleman in Xiangshan County. Moreover, they could sit on equal footing with the magistrate!

Furthermore, the Liu family also has Liu Zhixia, Yunzhou’s champion in the provincial imperial exam.

Once he passed the exam brilliantly in the future, he would definitely step into an official career!

Together with a County Lord, the Liu family was really beyond the reach of these country folks.

If they want to build a good relationship, they must do so before it is too late!

The atmosphere in the carriage on the return trip was somewhat silent.

The family was still in shock that Nannan had been named County Lord.

At the same time, they also worried about Nannan’s departure from home to enter the capital.

They were talking about the capital city!

They never imagined in their life that they would one day set foot in that place.

But their Nannan would be going to the capital.

That place was so far away that they heard it would take almost two months for a round trip.

If Nannan went, how long would it be before they could see their child?

Also, after coming back to their senses, the two elderlies remembered one thing.

“What’s that about Zhixia’s cheating case in the exam? How come no one told us about it when you came back?”

Liu Yusheng looked at her parents and Qian Wanjin face to face. In the first place, they were afraid that the seniors would be inflamed once they learned of it. Since the matter was over, they didn’t mention it to them, so as not to affect their mood.

They didn’t expect the reveal today out of the blue.

The few people squirmed under the questioning eyes of the grandparents.

“Grandpa, Grandma, this matter was a misunderstanding at first. A villain joined forces with an examiner and framed Zhixia in the examination room, falsely accusing him of cheating. Later…” Qian Wanjin hardened his scalp and began to retell the event that transpired. 

His excitement got the best of him, and he painted everything vividly.

“You don’t know how clever Nannan was! Her little head turned, came up with a plan, and lured those villains to jump into the trap one after the other. In just an afternoon, Zhixia was exonerated from the injustice and those villains reaped their own evil deeds! In the end, Zhixia won the championship in the provincial imperial exam!”

“Is it really that simple and nothing else happened?” Grandma Liu was suspicious.

The children all report good news but not bad, so she couldn’t help but probe further.

“It’s really not a big deal. Grandparents, look at me. Look into my eyes, when did I ever lie to you?”

Only then did the doubt in the grandma’s eyes dissipate a bit.

“Then what is the matter with the Emperor suddenly appointing our Nannan as a County Lord? Don’t hoodwink us old people as if we know nothing. The reason is definitely not so simple.” The grandma was fooled, but not the old man.

The old man’s eyes were shrewd and never confused when he should be smart.

Qian Wanjin retreated. It was really terrible to answer this, and he also didn’t want to answer.

This was merely that bastard Feng Qingbai’s trick. He was unwilling to put in a good word for him and give them a favorable impression of him. 

Liu Dalin and Chen Xiulan also did not speak. They chose to remain silent in this issue.

Liu Yusheng rubbed her brow and sighed helplessly.

She was about to leave home and enter the capital, perhaps not returning until a few months later. If there was no way to reassure her grandparents, they would probably worry about her for months while she was away from home.

“Grandpa, Grandma, the reason His Majesty named me County Lord is that he is biased towards our family.”

“Why?” The old man asked again, not a hint of a smile on his serious face.

They were just an ordinary peasant family. How could they be in the eyes of the Emperor?

Even if Nannan displayed her intelligence in the fraud case, there were countless clever and smart women in the entire Nanling. There were even many with higher status than Nannan, so why did His Majesty only look favorably at their Nannan? Was it necessary to go so far as to canonize a commoner like her as County Lord?

“Grandpa, Grandma,” Liu Yusheng held her forehead, “It’s because the emperor is Xiao Feng, Mo Feng.”

Silence, dead silence.

For a spell, there wasn’t a single sound in the carriage.

After a while, Grandma Liu tremblingly asked, “Nannan, what did you just say?”

“I said, the current emperor is Xiao Feng. The one who followed Grandma like a little tail all day long.”

Grandma Liu went limp and almost slid off her seat.  “Old man, did I hear wrong? Nannan said that the current emperor is Xiao Feng, the Xiao Feng that I smacked on the back of his head and asked to help me work all day long, did she?”

Grandpa Liu’s face could no longer make any expression.

You made him work, but I even beat his ass with my hands!

Xiao Feng is actually the emperor!

That little boy who likes to eat cabbage stuffed dumplings and act spoiled in front of them is the emperor!