Chapter 10

Everyone was taken aback. Although the voice was young, the words spoken left the villagers...

completely baffled!

General Li, who was standing on the high platform with a worried look, immediately brightened up upon hearing the voice and knelt down on one knee. The other soldiers, including those on horseback, quickly dismounted and knelt as well.

Fang Zhengzhi was just thinking that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

A green sedan chair carried by several soldiers had already arrived at the base of the platform. Soon, a figure leaped out of the sedan chair and landed on the platform in an instant.

Then, a cute little girl appeared, wearing a silk skirt, adorned with a green flower in her hair, and wearing golden-threaded red boots, with her hands clasped behind her back.

Her delicate features and the heroic aura that radiated from her immediately caught the attention of the originally surprised villagers.

Chi Guxian, the temperamental little girl, stood calmly on the platform, quietly looking down at the villagers below. Although she was only five years old, the perfect aura in her eyes was already subtly revealed.

"Huh? Why did this temperamental little girl come here?" Fang Zhengzhi felt a sudden sense of unease upon seeing the little girl.

"Pay your respects to Miss!"

"Pay your respects to Miss!"

General Li on the platform and the surrounding soldiers in bright armor all shouted in unison when they saw the little girl, Chi Guxian, ascend the platform.

"Village Chief Meng Bai of Nanshan Village, pays his respects to Miss!" Village Chief Meng Bai, holding a smoking pipe, immediately knelt down without any hesitation.

"Wow, my goodness, she is the daughter of the Shenhou Manor! The daughter of the Shenhou Manor actually came to our Nanshan Village!" All the villagers were shocked upon seeing this scene.

"Miss?! The temperamental little girl is the daughter of the Shenhou Manor?" Fang Zhengzhi's legs went weak, and he almost dropped the chicken leg in his hand.

Well...

Does fate have to be this cruel? Just randomly meeting a little girl at the village entrance turns out to be the daughter of the Shenhou Manor? And, he had even kicked her little bottom and pushed her into the river?

When will this cycle of retribution end? Fang Zhengzhi looked up at the blue sky and then crouched down, quickly squeezing into the crowd.

What a joke, in this world where classism is so evident, the daughter of the Shenhou Manor comes, and even the usually high-and-mighty village chief kneels. If she wanted to crush him, it would be easier than crushing an ant, right?

So, Fang Zhengzhi decided to take a step back and let things be!

Fang Zhengzhi carefully moved through the crowd, trying not to cause any commotion. As he squeezed into the crowd, he also began to guess why the Shenhou Manor, which had never visited Nanshan Village in decades, had suddenly appeared today...

Examination? Child test?

You temperamental little girl, this is clearly a personal vendetta, using the examination as an excuse to catch me and then cut me down!

Fang Zhengzhi wouldn't believe that the Shenhou Manor, which hadn't set foot in Nanshan Village for decades, would coincidentally come here for an examination. To prove his guess, he secretly observed the temperamental little girl's expression from the crowd.

He soon noticed that the temperamental little girl on the platform was slowly scanning the crowd with her bright black eyes, looking from left to right, front to back, as if searching for something.

"Indeed!" Fang Zhengzhi understood immediately and crouched lower.

Finally, after scanning twice, the temperamental little girl's gaze fell on Meng Jiangshan.

"You said you can read, so it was you who solved the Wannian Map just now?" The temperamental little girl, Chi Guxian, was no longer as arrogant as at the village entrance but instead had a calm, serene expression.

Fang Zhengzhi glanced at the temperamental little girl's expression and sighed inwardly, "What a good actress! So arrogant, yet now she acts like a well-mannered daughter of the Shenhou Manor."

The villagers, who were initially unsure of what had happened, now guessed the reason for the strange phenomenon of the Wannian Map upon hearing Chi Guxian's question.

Solving the Wannian Map? This means entering the Shenhou Manor!

"Meng Jiangshan solved the Wannian Map?"

"The Wannian Map, my goodness... It was actually solved by Meng Jiangshan!"

"He's only eight years old, a real genius! This is a great blessing for our Nanshan Village!"

All the villagers looked at Meng Jiangshan with envy.

Meng Jiangshan himself, however, looked confused.

He touched his chubby face and looked around at the gazes of the crowd. Solving the Wannian Map? He didn't feel like he had solved it. He didn't understand anything, right?

Meng Jiangshan was unsure, so he looked at Village Chief Meng Bai on the platform. That was his grandfather, the one who allowed him to walk around Nanshan Village with confidence.

Village Chief Meng Bai, who was kneeling, suddenly heard Chi Guxian ask his grandson a question and felt a bit nervous. But he knew the situation in Nanshan Village very well.

Reading?

In all of Nanshan Village, who else besides his grandson could read?

So, it was undoubtedly his grandson who solved the Wannian Map! Thinking this, Village Chief Meng Bai felt extremely relieved. They were about to become the elite! As he smiled, he saw Meng Jiangshan's questioning gaze.

Is this kid stupid? If you solved it, just say it!

Village Chief Meng Bai, feeling anxious, immediately signaled his grandson Meng Jiangshan with his eyes, even nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

Meng Jiangshan was smart, so he quickly understood.

If his grandfather said he solved it, then he must have solved it!

"Yes, it was I who solved the Wannian Map!" Meng Jiangshan confidently stood up from the crowd and then respectfully knelt before Chi Guxian.

"Wow!"

All the villagers were truly沸腾了.

When Meng Jiangshan first stood up, everyone was still guessing. Now that Meng Jiangshan admitted it, it was definitely true!

Solving the Wannian Map at eight years old, there are probably very few in the entire Northern Desert, no, not just the Northern Desert, even in the Great Xia Dynasty, there are very few geniuses like this.

Nanshan Village has produced a genius. Who would dare to bully Nanshan Village in the future? The village across the mountain, Beishan Village? Hmph, even the officials in the capital city would have to show some respect to Nanshan Village.

As the saying goes, when one person ascends, even the chickens and dogs rise with them.

Just thinking about it was exhilarating.

"Ten strokes of the military stick!" Chi Guxian seemed not to notice the villagers' excitement, her face remained calm, as if she were talking about a trivial matter.

A child who can only recognize five characters solving the Wannian Map by looking at a stele? What a joke! This world doesn't have such coincidences!

"Yes!" The soldiers guarding the platform immediately stepped forward, grabbed the half-kneeling, joyful Meng Jiangshan, and someone produced a thick stick.

"Smack!"

Before the villagers could even understand what was happening, the sound of the military stick hitting Meng Jiangshan's buttocks rang out.

(Sorry, I was locked in a small black room and couldn't escape. There will be another chapter tonight, but it will be a bit later, around midnight.)

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