Chapter 261: Running Again, This Time in an Ox Cart

“Your Holy Water is filth! Filth, mmm mmm mmm.” The Prince Yanling kept complaining, while Yang Lei covered his mouth.

Hu Zuo, enraged, threw down his sleeves and said, “Hmph! The Fire Kingdom is really something. If that’s the case, then Earth Kingdom has saved you in vain. Goodbye!”

Hu Zuo left on his horse.

“Hu Brother, Hu Brother, don’t go! If you leave, at least leave us a horse!” Yang Lei was at a loss. They were back to square one with no money or means to travel.

“Wuwuwu, I want to return to the palace, back to the palace…” The Prince Yanling was in extreme pain, unable to move his limbs, sitting on the ground in a sorry state, having lost all his previous princely grandeur.

“Your Highness, we can’t return to the palace now. We have no money, no horses…”

“I don’t care! I want to go back to the palace.”

“Your Highness, don’t forget our mission in the Tiansheng Dynasty.”

“I’m not going to the capital. I’m not looking for Di Jiaoyang. I want to go back to the palace and see Mother. Wuwuwu, I want to go back. If you don’t let me go back, I’ll just smash my head against the ground in front of you.”

As for the Tiansheng Dynasty, anyone who wants to come can come; he just wanted to return to the palace.

Yang Lei felt a headache coming on. He, too, wanted to return to the palace.

But the question was: how?

Moo—

In the darkness, a sudden cow’s mooing came from nowhere.

Yang Lei’s mind immediately started racing.

He stole a bullock cart and helped the Prince Yanling onto it. This cart… well, it was actually a manure cart. The Prince Yanling, sitting on it, could only vomit up bile.

With his body already struck by lightning and legs broken, he couldn’t hold on any longer and fainted again.

Yang Lei glanced back at the Prince Yanling in the cart. “The Earth Kingdom’s Holy Water did nothing. What kind of useless Holy Water was that? And that so-called Hongluan, it was all her bad idea!”

He prayed, “Heavenly Spirits, Earthly Spirits, please protect the Earth Kingdom’s Holy Water from malfunction.”

If the Earth Kingdom’s Holy Water turned out to be ineffective, it would surely be blamed on the Fire Kingdom, potentially affecting relations between the two nations.

Logically, the prince’s bad luck should not affect inanimate objects.

Yang Lei, who was normally in good spirits, began to doubt.

As soon as Hongluan left, the house collapsed. Could it be just a coincidence?

She also suggested drinking the Holy Water, which ended up being useless.

“Bad luck! She must be cursed with bad luck!”

Yang Lei, a practitioner himself, remembered sensing an unusual, repulsive aura when he first met Di Hongluan. At the time, he didn’t think much of it in the dark, but now it seemed like it was indeed a sign of bad luck.

Yang Lei broke out in a cold sweat. Some people just can’t escape their bad luck, and anyone who gets close to them suffers.

So…

Damn it!

“As a disciple of a grandmaster, and with a prince who has bad luck, we ended up being cursed by that damned girl!”

Yang Lei’s anger tonight was almost entirely directed at Di Hongluan.

He hoped he would never see that damned girl again. If he did, he would definitely give her a good beating. She wasn’t here to help him, but to set him up and dig a pit for him.

“Help… help me… help…” A faint cry for help.

Yang Lei had left Crescent Village and, outside the village, saw a field. The voice came from the field, and under the Yue, a figure had crawled into the middle of the road, blocking Yang Lei’s way like a ghost.

“Who’s there?”

Yang Lei couldn’t see the person clearly but knew they were wearing white clothes and had a small frame.

“Help me…” Di Hongluan had removed her hat and looked up at Yang Lei in a sorry state.

“It’s you!”

“Yes, it’s me.” Di Hongluan seemed to see hope. It was as if heaven was helping her!

“Help me quickly.”

Yang Lei was already fuming, and seeing the culprit herself only made his anger flare up more. “So it’s you, the calamity bringer. Why should I help you? If you dare come any closer, I’ll step on you.”

He had just stolen this bullock cart, and he wasn’t about to let it be overturned by a bad luck bringer.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to return to the Fire Kingdom.

Di Hongluan’s face fell: ???

Yang Lei avoided Di Hongluan as if she were a disaster, steering the bullock cart around her and hurrying away.

The bullock couldn’t run fast. Yang Lei cracked the little whip in his hand, making it crack louder with each stroke.

“Don’t go! It’s me, Di Hongluan, the only little princess of the Tiansheng Dynasty!” Di Hongluan’s voice was almost hoarse, but Yang Lei didn’t even look back as he ran.

Di Hongluan spat out a mouthful of blood in frustration. “What is going on? Shouldn’t Yang Lei treat me as a distinguished guest of the Fire Kingdom? I saved the Fire Kingdom prince! Why…”

“Ah!” A soft, childish voice came from nearby.

Di Hongluan turned her gaze and saw a little girl and a man hiding in the darkness.

The little girl was none other than—Di Jiaoyang?

Di Hongluan quickly realized that Di Jiaoyang and her uncle were staying in Crescent Village.

“Sister, help me.” Di Hongluan had a bruised forehead and was in a pitiful state.

Di Jiaoyang, looking innocent, replied, “Okay.”

Di Hongluan frowned. Since when had Di Jiaoyang become so accommodating?

Previously, they would always end up fighting when they met.

“Wait here.”

Di Hongluan: ? Wait for what?

“Help! The field is ruined, and someone can’t move!!!” Di Jiaoyang’s voice was like a loudspeaker. Even though they were outside the village, her cry was heard by everyone in Yue Village.

Di Hongluan widened her eyes. “Don’t shout! Don’t shout!”

She didn’t want anyone to recognize her in her current disgraceful state; it would be humiliating.

However, Ah Bao, smiling, watched as villagers from Yue Village arrived with hoes and their families.

“Damn it, who ruined our fields? Our crops! We were depending on this season’s harvest to get by,” a woman cried out, sitting on the ground and hitting her thighs.

Di Hongluan frowned as a horse that had been roaming the field approached her.

Having just hit a post, Di Hongluan’s head was dizzy, and her legs were weak. She needed help to get on the horse.

“You ruined our fields.” The village chief and others surrounded Di Hongluan.

Seeing the crowd, Di Hongluan’s expression was unkind. “I didn’t do it on purpose. Why are you being so aggressive?”

Ah Bao shook her head from a distance, sighing.

【Fool! Yue Village and Crescent Village are neighbors. The illness only affected Crescent Village, while the villagers of Yue Village, who make their living farming, consider their crops their lifeline. They rely on their fields throughout the year.】

【Her horse trampled and ruined their fields, and she remains so arrogant. Di Hongluan truly doesn’t understand the importance of these fields to farmers. She’s used to a life of luxury and doesn’t experience worldly hardships. The more arrogant she is, the worse it will be for her later.】