Chapter 91: The Arrogant and Domineering Xingnong

This morning, after Xingnong woke up, she told her family and went into the city.

The restaurant’s cooks had been recruited, and she was going to start teaching them how to cook.

Today, because the Yamen began to exchange grain seeds for free, there were more people entering the city, and they needed to queue.

When Xingnong was queuing to enter the city, she accidentally saw Shen Mingzhu and Gu Ping’s family waiting at the city gate.

Beside Gu Ping stood a bright-eyed and beautiful woman who looked somewhat similar to Gu Ping, who should be her daughter, Zhou Yingying.

She glanced at them indifferently and then looked away, as if she didn’t know them.

Zhou Jingjin snorted coldly and said to Gu Ping, “Is this the kind of upbringing your Gu family has?”

Gu Ping: “She’s not from the Gu family.”

Shen Mingzhu saw Xingnong and gave her a dirty look. She climbed directly onto the carriage, lowered the curtain, and whispered, “Unlucky, I saw something unclean early in the morning!”

After being thrown out by Xingnong a few times, she didn’t dare to say this out loud anymore.

Yao Shi, Shen Shihua, and Shen Zhiyuan were waiting in the carriage. Hearing this, Yao Shi whispered, “Then don’t look, don’t dirty your eyes. In the future, some people won’t even be worthy of carrying your shoes!”

Shen Mingzhu nodded.

Seeing that Xingnong was really pretending not to know her, Gu Ping’s face turned a little ugly. She snorted coldly and said to her daughter sarcastically, “Yingying, when you go to the capital in the future and become wealthy, you must remember those who have helped you, like Madam Yao, Mingzhu, and Miss Zhang. As for those who are clearly relatives but unwilling to help with even a small favor, if they come knocking for handouts, remember to ignore them! Those ungrateful people who don’t value family affection, even if you help them, it’s a waste of effort.”

Xingnong didn’t even spare them a glance, following behind the people queuing to enter the city, slowly moving forward.

When it was her turn, the soldier glanced at her and let her into the city without checking.

At this time, Zhang Ruohua rode out on horseback. Seeing Xingnong, she deliberately stopped her horse and said to the soldier guarding the city, “Search her body and household registration document. This person looks a bit like a certain imperial criminal.”

The guard behind Zhang Ruohua immediately took out a token of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

The soldier guarding the city’s face changed when he saw the token. He immediately stretched out his spear and blocked Xingnong’s way.

“Miss, please show your household registration document and travel permit!”

Xingnong glanced at the sharp blade in front of her. Hmm, she was angry!!!

Hearing this, the surrounding people quickly dodged and looked at Xingnong with strange eyes, whispering to each other.

Shen Mingzhu laughed “poof”!

Zhou Yingying felt a faint sense of pride in her heart.

After she marries into the Yao family and becomes the young mistress of the Yao family, if anyone offends her, can she also do this, ordering the soldiers to search whoever she wants?

Zhou Jingjin was somewhat gloating.

Gu Ping frowned.

Ren Zishan was about to leave the city. Her carriage was behind and she happened to hear it. She got off the carriage: “Hey, Zhang Ruohua, don’t deliberately bully people!”

Zhang Ruohua glanced coldly at Ren Zishan, who was useless in both literature and martial arts: “The Embroidered Uniform Guard is investigating a case, what business is it of yours? Even your Big Brother can’t interfere!”

Ren Zishan: “. . .”

Xingnong didn’t even spare Zhang Ruohua a glance throughout this whole ordeal. She unhurriedly took off her back basket, placed it on the ground, and then reached one hand under the blue cloth of the back basket, pretending to rummage for something.

Seeing her posture, Zhang Ruohua rolled her eyes. It was that annoying attitude of being arrogant and completely ignoring her again.

What right did she have?

She snorted coldly, looking at Xingnong with disdain in her eyes:

A lowly commoner like this, she could bully her if she wanted!

What qualifications did she have to act arrogantly in front of her?

She would make her kneel and beg for mercy later!!

Taking advantage of the blue cloth covering her back basket, Xingnong’s mind moved, and she took out the imperial decree from under the blue cloth.

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Zhang Ruohua’s face changed when she saw the bright yellow decree.

Xingnong held the imperial decree high and said lightly, “This is the imperial decree bestowed by His Majesty. I don’t think anyone knows my identity better than His Majesty.”

Ren Zishan’s eyes lit up, and she immediately knelt down and shouted, “Seeing the imperial decree is like seeing His Majesty, why aren’t you kneeling!”

The two soldiers were so frightened that they quickly put away their spears and knelt down with a thud.

The faces of the surrounding people all changed, and they quickly knelt down.

Once the imperial decree was out, it was like the emperor was present in person. In this dynasty where the emperor was the heavens, who dared not kneel?

Xingnong lowered her head and unhurriedly opened the imperial decree, still not sparing Zhang Ruohua a glance. She looked down at the contents of the imperial decree and said lightly, “Now I’m going to read the imperial decree to prove my identity.”

Speaking of this, she finally glanced at Zhang Ruohua, who was sitting high on her horse: “Who are you, the Empress Dowager? You can choose not to kneel when you see the imperial decree?”

Ren Zishan: “She’s nothing! Just a commoner!”

Zhang Ruohua was so angry that she was about to explode!

This lowly commoner, how dare she!

She gritted her teeth, clenched her fists, got off her horse, and knelt on the ground in humiliation.

The two guards behind her also knelt on the ground.

Xingnong turned her head, glanced lightly in the direction of Zhou Jingjin and Shen Mingzhu, and said calmly, “What is the crime for not getting out of the carriage to greet the imperial decree?”

Gu Ping’s family knelt down with purplish faces.

In the carriage, the Shen family’s eldest branch was also furious, but they still hurriedly got out of the carriage and knelt down in humiliation!

Xingnong then withdrew her gaze and began to read the imperial decree: “By the Mandate of Heaven…”

After reading it, Xingnong walked up to Zhang Ruohua, raised her foot, hooked her chin with the tip of her shoe, looked down at her arrogantly, and said in a domineering tone, “Now, look carefully! Remember my face, remember who I am! Don’t make a mistake next time!”

Zhang Ruohua’s face turned livid with anger, and the intense humiliation made her stare at Xingnong with fire in her eyes!

If looks could kill, she would have wished to cut this lowly commoner into a thousand pieces!

The surrounding people didn’t even dare to breathe, all intimidated by Xingnong’s arrogant and domineering aura.

Xingnong didn’t let go of her chin with the tip of her shoe, looking down at her coldly and unhurriedly, she said, “I am the person even His Majesty wants you to emulate! Do you remember?”

Zhang Ruohua’s chest heaved violently with anger, her chin aching. She gritted her teeth and said, “I remember!”

Lowly commoner! Even if she turned to ashes, she would remember her!

In the future, she would definitely step on her head and trample her mercilessly!

Xingnong then retracted her foot with satisfaction. She took two steps and came to the guard who had taken out the token, extending her foot: “Your Miss has dirtied my shoes, wipe them clean!”

This guard was the one who had whipped Zhang Zheng’s carrying pole on the road before.

Guard: “. . .”

He was a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard!

The Embroidered Uniform Guard!

The Embroidered Uniform Guard that even all the civil and military officials in the court didn’t dare to offend!

Under Xingnong’s cold gaze, the guard took out a handkerchief and wiped Xingnong’s shoes with a humiliated expression.

Xingnong then retracted her foot with satisfaction, didn’t spare them another glance, threw the imperial decree back into her basket, and glanced at Ren Zishan: “Thanks.”

Then she turned and left.

Hmm, she wanted to learn formations? She would teach her in the future!

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