Chapter 228

Master He San noticed Hua Changxi's dislike for him, and although he was a bit annoyed, he didn't pay much attention to it.

Once he promotes Hua Wuniang, the Hou Fu and the Hua family will be true marital relatives.

What is a marital relative?

It is the union of two families, sharing what one has with the other.

In his view, even if Hua Jiuniang is currently the person with the most resources in the Hua family, before she marries, she is a daughter of the Hua family, and the Hua family is headed by Old Master Hua.

What he needs to do is to work hard to build a good relationship with the men of the Hua family.

Regardless of whether Hua Jiuniang is willing, the Hua family can be used by the Hou Fu to a certain extent.

In the carriage, Master He San teased He Xiaoman while asking Hua Wuniang: "Did you mention the matter of Siqi and Sirong to Jiuniang?"

Hua Wuniang shook her head: "No."

Master He San frowned, his tone a bit displeased: "Why didn't you mention it?"

Hua Wuniang was actually a bit afraid of Master He San. Now that she saw him showing anger, she became even more nervous and just lowered her head, tugging at the handkerchief in her hand.

Seeing her so unpresentable, Master He San became even angrier: "In the future, when others talk to you, don't lower your head. It's not only small-minded, but it also makes people look down on you."

Hearing this, Hua Wuniang was so ashamed that her cheeks and earlobes turned red.

Seeing her like this, Master He San's dissatisfaction grew even more. If it weren't for the spiritual energy recovery that brought luck to the Hua family, someone as unpresentable as Hua Wuniang wouldn't even be qualified to be his personal maid.

"Hua Wuniang, listen to me carefully. As my wife, Master He San, I don't require you to be sophisticated and versatile, but you absolutely cannot hold me back."

"After returning to the Hou Fu, I will tell my mother to send a mama to you. You better change that poverty-stricken air on you, so as not to embarrass me when we go out to socialize in the future."

Listening to Master He San's undisguised contemptuous words, Hua Wuniang's mind conjured up the image of Hua Changxi.

She thought of the words Hua Changxi had always kept on her lips since she was a child.

'Dignity is something you fight for yourself.'

'How others treat you is something you allow.'

'I don't allow others to disrespect me. Even if I can't beat them, I will scold them a couple of times to let them know that I am not easy to bully. Bullying me comes with a price.'

These words echoed in Hua Wuniang's ears, and she suddenly gained courage, abruptly raising her head to look directly at Master He San.

"Since Master San looks down on me so much, why bother promoting me?"

Hua Wuniang's personality, to put it nicely, is gentle and non-contentious; to put it bluntly, it is cowardly and incompetent.

Master He San had long since figured out Hua Wuniang, but now seeing her actually dare to talk back to him, he was truly shocked, and then he sneered.

Tsk tsk tsk...

The Hua family produced a Hua Jiuniang, and even the gentle-as-a-cat Hua Wuniang dares to show her claws now.

Looking at the undisguised sarcasm in Master He San's smile, Hua Wuniang only felt shame and embarrassment, her voice trembling: "Master San, you said it yourself, everything has a price."

"If the He family wants to marry into the Hua family, then accepting the me that you look down on is the price you need to pay."

"Husband and wife are one. If Master San mocks and belittles me, aren't you also mocking yourself for marrying me?"

Seeing that Hua Wuniang did not lower her head in shame as before, but instead dared to provoke him with words, Master He San was suddenly annoyed and grabbed Hua Wuniang's chin.

"I really couldn't tell, you are actually so eloquent."

"What, do you think that because I want to promote you, you can be disrespectful to me?"

Hua Wuniang's chin was pinched in pain, but she did not retreat this time and still looked directly at Master He San.

Master He San stared at Hua Wuniang for a while and then threw her aside.

The force was a bit strong, and Hua Wuniang almost fell.

Leaning on the stool, Hua Wuniang had a striking pinch mark on her fair chin. Although her chin hurt, at this moment, her lips were curled with a smile, and a joy she had never experienced before arose in her heart.

So, contradicting, fighting back, and defying others is not that difficult after all.

No wonder Jiuniang likes to go against Grandfather and Grandmother so much; she must have found the fun in it long ago.

Master He San waited for Hua Wuniang to sit back down. Seeing that she did not take the initiative to admit her mistake, although he was dissatisfied, he thought about how he still had to report the situation of the Hua family to his family after returning to the Hou Fu, so he could only break the silence first.

"Hua Wuniang, you are right, accepting you is the price I have to pay. Then what about you, are you ready to pay the price you need to pay?"

Hua Wuniang frowned and said nothing.

Seeing that the Hou Fu was almost there, Master He San couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense and got straight to the point.

"Siqi and Sirong were sent to Hua Jiuniang's side by the Hou Fu at a great cost. For the sake of better interaction between the Hou Fu and the Hua family, you should also persuade Hua Jiuniang more to let her take care of Sirong and Siqi."

Hua Wuniang looked at Master He San: "Master San, you don't understand my Jiuniang. She is not someone who listens to persuasion. Sirong and Siqi have helped me, and as long as they don't touch Jiuniang's bottom line, Jiuniang won't really ignore them."

Master He San was obviously dissatisfied with this answer. What he wanted was Hua Jiuniang's special care and special treatment for He Sirong and He Siqi.

But he also knew that Hua Jiuniang didn't even listen to Old Master Hua, let alone Hua Wuniang.

Master He San's tone was resentful: "Whose daughter doesn't put the opinions of their own elders first in everything? Hua Jiuniang is the most rebellious and unfilial person I have ever seen in my life."

Hearing this, Hua Wuniang frowned and looked at Master He San: "Master San, no one likes people who don't like them."

"People are sensitive and can perceive all kindness, evil, and preferences. Your dislike for Jiuniang, no matter how you hide it, Jiuniang must be able to perceive it. In this case, can Master San still expect her to treat you well?"

Master He San was left speechless by the question. Feeling that he had lost face, he ignored Hua Wuniang and focused on teasing He Xiaoman.

Hua Wuniang also turned her head to look outside the carriage, watching the street scene passing by in a hurry, her thoughts surging.

The words just now also woke herself up.

Jiuniang is not very close to the family. This time returning to the Hua family, she could clearly feel that there seemed to be something separating Jiuniang from the family.

Is this because Jiuniang perceived that the family's concern and care for her were not pure, but carried other purposes?

In the blink of an eye, it was the third day of the first lunar month. Hua Minghe and Hua Dalang went to work. Once the father and son left, Hua Changxi also bid farewell to the Hua family and left the Hua family courtyard.

The Medicine Department would not start work until the sixth day of the first lunar month, but Hua Changxi went early. After arriving at the Qihuang Pavilion on the thirteenth, she entered the secret realm space.

In the secret realm, Hua Changxi checked the spiritual herbs and plants on the first four levels of the secret realm while thinking about how to manage and operate the secret realm in the future.

'The arrival of Xia Zhen and others opened eighteen Divine Wood Secret Realms of the Dan Saint Hall at once. From this, it can be seen that when the Dan Saint Hall appears in the future, more secret realms will be opened. How should my own secret realm be distinguished from other secret realms?'

After thinking about this question, Hua Changxi felt that she should give the Divine Wood Secret Realm she obtained a name.

Also, the secret realm needs people to manage it. She must install access control for the secret realm and issue entry and exit tokens to the people managing the secret realm, so that it will be convenient for her to manage.

Secret realm name, secret realm access control, entry and exit tokens...

The installation of access control requires setting up arrays, and the creation of tokens requires an artifact refiner...

Thinking about these things, Hua Changxi felt that she should go find Tong Yao.

Tong Yao knows array masters, and he himself is a member of the Artifact Saint Palace. Things needed for the subsequent operation of the secret realm, such as the clothes of the herb farmers, can all be refined by him.