The Farm Girl’s Charismatic Fortune
Chapter 225 - 221 Excited

Chapter 225: Chapter 221 Excited

Today is precisely the day of Xuanbao’s family homecoming, and nearly every villager has come.

During the meal, there was a lot of chatter.

Everyone was joyful.

Someone asked the village head, "It’s beyond our wildest dreams to have a top scholar emerge from our village, let alone a commandery princess. Village head, isn’t it true that only daughters of princes and princesses can become commandery princesses?"

The village head was very pleased, "Apart from the daughters of princes and princesses, the emperor also bestows the title of commandery princess upon daughters of those who have made significant contributions to the imperial court, the state, or the people. Xuanbao earned this title on her own merits, having achieved greatness at the young age of four, something unprecedented in history!"

"Indeed, Xuanbao is a bright child, and her rice has benefited all the people! She deserves the title of commandery princess!"

"Not just the people, but besides rice, there’s also mushroom cultivation and the contribution of the papermaking technique to the imperial court. It benefits the entire state! Commandery Princess Xuanbao truly deserves her title!"

"Absolutely, she truly deserves it. Now that Xuanbao is a commandery princess, does she need to show respect to the Lord County Magistrate when she sees him?"

"Of course not, only princesses rank higher than commandery princesses! Xuanbao now shares the same rank as the daughters of princes, and not only the County Magistrate but even Mr. Governor has to pay his respects when he sees her. Those high officials in the Capital City would have to do the same."

The villagers gasped in amazement!

Mr. Governor was the highest-ranking official they could hope to encounter; the great officials of the Capital City were beyond their wildest thoughts.

"The Ruo Family’s ancestral graves are truly sending up plumes of blue smoke!"

"More than just blue smoke, it’s billowing thick smoke!"

Granny Zhang and Zhang Chengye came today, but Liu Wenyao did not. Her pregnancy was showing, and she was carrying twins. Her belly was exceptionally large, and the couple did not feel comfortable bringing her along.

Granny Zhang had not expected to witness the emperor confer the title of commandery princess upon Xuanbao with her own eyes. As a relative by marriage, she felt extraordinarily honored and happily told the villagers, "I always said that Xuanbao was destined for greatness! There’s a saying, ’Nobility speaks late,’ and look at Xuanbao, truly a person blessed with great fortune!"

Luckily, she had come today with generous gifts to show gratitude to Granny Lei for the twin grandsons bestowed upon the Zhang Family, ensuring their lineage would continue.

Granny Zhang thought to herself: If only she had brought her daughter-in-law too, so that the twins in her womb could share in the joy.

Zhang Chengye’s lips twitched, but he did not expose his mother, as he had never heard her claim Xuanbao was a person of noble destiny!

Listening to Granny Zhang, the villagers nodded in agreement: Commandery princess, what a noble personage! Only princesses rank higher than commandery princesses!

"Why don’t I have a daughter who could only speak at age three?" a villager couldn’t help but lament.

"Give it up! With your brains, any daughter of yours who can’t speak at three would surely be mute!"

"Go away, it’s your daughter who would be mute!"

.....

Everyone laughed, the joyful mood keeping smiles on their faces at all times.

A commandery princess had emerged from their village; they all felt the glow of her achievement!

People from Xishui Village had fled here to establish this settlement. Unlike other larger villages where residents all shared the same surname, and were interconnected through kinship and ties, often using their status to bully others.

When their village was first established, there were endless frictions with villagers from other settlements.

They often got their game poached while hunting in the mountains, and those who resisted were summoned by the village brothers to be beaten up, scaring off the hunters in the village to the point that they would rather suffer the loss of some game than confront the problem.

During droughts, the people from the upstream villages would blatantly block off the water, leaving them without water to use. When they went to reason with these villages, they would instead get beaten up. It was considered trivial even if their heads got split and bloodied, and there had been deaths too.

In sum, there were constant frictions over poaching game, seizing mountain goods, grabbing fields, and encroaching on water resources.

It wasn’t until the Ruo Family moved in that things changed. Whenever someone bullied them, the Ruo family patriarch would lead all the men in the village to fight back, attacking anyone from the neighboring villages if they dared to provoke them. They beat the offenders to a pulp without mercy! Only then did the people from the larger villages start to hold back, since nobody wanted to die.

But the minor frictions continued nonstop.

Now they were neighbors to a Commandery Princess—who would dare to bully their village folks again?

If they didn’t seek revenge, it would only be due to their kindness!

For the warm housing ceremony, the Ruo Family did not invite Granny Tan and Daniu’s mother among others.

Zhen Hu, upon learning that Ruo Xuan had become a Commandery Princess, couldn’t help but run back to his mother. "Mother, why didn’t you marry Fifth Sister to Ruo He in the first place? Now that Ruo Xuan has become a Commandery Princess, would I still have been kicked out of the Academy?"

Zhen Hu had been expelled from the Academy for failing to pay tuition fees and was now wandering around the village daily; he had recently developed a gambling addiction as well.

Granny Tan also had regrets—she couldn’t have imagined that the Ruo Family would become so influential! That wretched girl Xuanbao, was she even human? How could she be so capable at the age of four?

"You think I didn’t want to? At that time, the Ruo Family was reluctant to pay a bride price. They were stingy, wanting to marry a wife without paying a decent price, and then they reported us to the officials, which got your father arrested, and we had to compensate the Ruo Family with a large sum of silver," she replied.

Zhen Hu was almost livid with rage, "Back then, you should have insisted on not selling my Fifth Sister for lack of silver, and instead bartered her to the Ruo Family! Now you would have been the mother-in-law of Commandery Princess Ruo Xuan’s third uncle! Even the Commandery Princess would have to show you some respect!"

"If you had married Fifth Sister to Ruo He, once I passed the imperial examinations, I could have asked Xuanbao to plead with The Emperor to grant me an official post in the Capital City. Nevermind being a Minister, with Xuanbao having harvested rice yielding a thousand catties per acre, The Emperor would consider her contributions and grant me at least a Fourth Rank minor official position!"

The more Granny Tan listened, the more she felt regretful. "How could I have known Xuanbao had such fate? She used to be such a simpleton. What can we do now? Your sister has been sold already with a death contract; such a complete sell-off can’t be reversed."

Zhen Hu’s eyes lit up. "Why can’t it be reversed? As long as we have enough silver, we can certainly buy her back. Hurry and get my sister back! Now that the Ruo Family has produced a Commandery Princess, many suitors will come calling and many will be willing to give away their daughters without a bride price."

Granny Tan, anxious, rubbed her thighs and felt tempted. "But... our home is out of silver now."

She only had a few dozen coins left on her, which she had earned from doing laundry for the wealthy families and selling eggs and vegetables in the city.

"Mother, give me all the silver you have. I promise I can win enough to buy back Fifth Sister."

...

The news that the Ruo Family had a four-year-old princess shook the entire county.

The Emperor’s given honor guard procession for the Commandery Princess was high-profile, parading from the Capital City through the streets all the way to Shaxi County, taking more than a month to arrive. Half of Xuanyuan Country knew about it.

Not only that, but the entire Xuanyuan Country had posted notices in all major cities, even notifying neighboring countries, so within three months, everyone in Xuanyuan Country and even the neighboring countries would know.

The main streets and lanes of the county were buzzing with talks about the young Commandery Princess of the Ruo Family, discussing her incredible abilities.

Madam Zhou went out today to shop for some fabric to make two sets of summer clothes for her son and happened to encounter the imperial edict’s honor guard. She sent a maid over to find out more.

The maid followed behind the honor guard, and many other people joined too, eager to see which household the grand decree-bearing procession would visit.

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