I roughly understood the key, then nodded and said, "Tell me! What is that legend about?"

Zhu Ziyan said: "Legend has it that there used to be a village here. There were not many families in the village, and life was pretty ordinary. However, since a Taoist priest came to the village, everything has changed."

That winter, the villagers brought back a Taoist priest who was sitting on the roadside and was about to freeze into a snowman.

The Taoist priest raised the phoenix in the village for a whole winter before leaving. When he left, he said: This village is a place where phoenixes are born. However, this phoenix must have flowers. If you don't have flowers, you can't afford phoenixes.

The villagers didn't understand what it meant, so they asked him to explain it carefully.

However, the Taoist priest said: The secret of heaven must not be leaked. He has said enough. If he says a few more words, he may not be able to leave the village.

The Taoist priest has left, but the thoughts of the people in the village are different.

Although the people at that time were not very educated, they also knew that "to produce a phoenix" meant that a queen could be born here. For the people in the village, this was a matter of reaching the sky in one step.

Who doesn’t want the glory and wealth of several lifetimes?

Besides, legends about commoner queens in ancient times were not uncommon!

There is no telling who's daughter will be destined to become a queen.

However, they also heard the Taoist saying, "You can't make a phoenix without flowers." What does this flower mean? Is it a person or a flower? No one can guess.

Speaking of people, there were one or two women in the village who had flowery names before they got married, but those women were either old or too ugly, and they would definitely not be close to the queen.

Everyone in the village said at first: That flower must be a person’s name.

People in the village either changed the names of their daughters, or they were holding back their energy to have a daughter named "Such a flower".

Later, a bachelor in the village chatted and said: What's the use of just trying to change your daughter's name? You don't even think about what you look like?

The Queen and the Empress all look like heavenly beings. How can you give birth to a beautiful daughter with your looks?

Let me tell you: the "flower" the Taoist said must be a girl who looks like a flower.

When the villagers heard this, they thought it was the same.

To put it in today’s terms: When the emperor chooses a daughter-in-law, if he can choose someone who looks terrible to him, where can he throw it away and feel safe?

But even if the villagers have never seen the world, they still know that children look like their parents!

In the whole village, there are some decent-looking people, but there are really no pretty ones!

If you want to marry a beautiful wife, the people in the village really can't afford such a generous gift, so they give up the idea after repeated attempts.

Who would have thought that a few years later, there would be a girl in the village. She became more and more graceful as she grew older, and became more and more unlike her parents.

Are you saying that she is not her father's son? Except for the Taoist priest, no outsider has come to the village for several years. Besides, when the Taoist priest comes, the girl will be one year old, so she must have nothing to do with the Taoist priest.

Are you saying that she has grown up? That's not right! This family has lived in the village for several generations, and there has never been a handsome boy in the family.

Moreover, both men and women in his family have round faces, but this girl’s face is getting longer and longer towards an oval face, and it doesn’t look right!

I don't know who in the village spread the news, saying that the family must have some way to make their daughter look good, and this empress must be in his family.

Now everyone in the village was thinking about it. If they had something to do, they would run to that house and ask insinuatingly how their daughter was so good-looking.

That family is not stupid, no matter how much I ask, they won’t tell me!

The villagers didn't want to give up, so they secretly agreed to keep an eye on her house.

The family knew that someone was watching, so the cat stayed at home. However, within a few days, her daughter was no longer as fair as before, and grew darker and darker. The family finally couldn't sit still, and took advantage of the situation.

He sneaked out in the middle of the night when no one was around.

They thought they were being cautious, but they did not escape the eyes of the villagers.

The villagers saw his woman picking flowers on the mountain in the dark. After picking a handful of flowers, they walked up the mountain in the dark and walked for three or four miles before turning into a ruined temple.

The people watching in the village quietly lay down at the door and took a look, and then they realized that the woman in that family was offering flowers and kowtowing to the mountain god!

The mountain god in the ruined temple looks a bit like the daughter of that family. If you don’t know, you might think that the mountain god is the girl’s biological mother!

Now the village is in a state of explosion!

The villagers rushed to pick flowers all over the mountain and offer them to the mountain god. At first, they knew that the family who presented the flowers could not stop them. After crying for a while, they hurriedly tried to find a way to present flowers to the mountain god.

The villagers competed and rushed to present flowers to the mountain god.

If you can offer one, I will offer ten. If you can offer one, I will offer a bundle.

If there are no flowers nearby, go elsewhere to pick flowers.

For families with daughters, their daughters are indeed getting longer and more beautiful. For families without daughters, they are also giving birth to daughters one after another.

Everyone in the village wants to have a phoenix in their home, but no one thinks there is anything wrong with it!

Even when they were laying flowers, some people saw the mountain god smiling heartily at them, but they didn't take it seriously.
Chapter completed!