The Host is Clearly A Scumbag (Quick Travel)

"What I'm doing is none of your business."

Since there was no one else around, Mingting was too lazy to pretend to be polite.

"You're older than me, stop calling me 'brother' all the time, it makes me sick. Calling me brother to my face while stabbing me in the back, that's exactly the kind of person you are."

"Mingting, you've misunderstood me…" Before Jiang Meimei could finish, Mingting cut her off directly.

"Jiang Meimei, do you really think no one knows about the rotten things you've done?"

Mingting sneered.

"Your own luck is terrible. You're a walking jinx, so you steal others' luck, thinking it'll change your fate. Let me give you a piece of advice today: 'He who does evil will reap evil!'"

When Mingting exposed her luck-stealing, Jiang Meimei's face immediately changed.

She quickly looked around, and when she saw that there were only the two of them, Jiang Meimei relaxed slightly.

"What nonsense are you spouting? I don't understand."

Jiang Meimei frowned as she slowly edged closer to Mingting. She also discussed with the system that Mingting must not be allowed to go down the mountain alive.

If word got out that she was absorbing luck, she'd be captured and burned as a freak.

Jiang Meimei's intentions were written all over her face, and there was no way Mingting wouldn't notice.

He deliberately retreated until his back was against a large tree.

Seeing Mingting was trapped with no escape route, Jiang Meimei's face lit up with glee. She lunged forward, with her right hand aiming for his chest.

In the blink of an eye, Mingting reacted with lightning speed, scrambling up the tree like a squirrel. Because of that, Jiang Meimei missed entirely.

Instead, where there had been no one before, a massive wild boar suddenly appeared, charging straight at Jiang Meimei.

"Ouch…!"

Jiang Meimei cried out in pain as her hand landed on the boar's head, and the Absolute Obedience Talisman fused into the boar's body.

The talisman was exchanged for 5 grids of luck, and it was actually wasted on the wild boar. Jiang Meimei was so angry that she pointed at the tree and said to the wild boar viciously, "Knock this tree down."

Since it was absolute obedience, her commands should work on the boar too.

But then, Mingting jumped down from the tree, patted the boar's head, and said, "Good boy, go and hit her!"

The tusked boar immediately turned and aimed at Jiang Meimei.

"Why can you command it?!" Jiang Meimei was so scared that her face turned pale.

Mingting grinned wickedly, "This move is called… rebound."

As a Luck Spirit with exceptional fortune, any malicious attack directed at him would naturally rebound onto the attacker.

Watching Jiang Meimei clutch her backside and scream as the boar chased her down the mountain, Mingting leisurely followed behind, enjoying the show.

Fengtian floated out at this point, perching on Mingting's shoulder, [Boss, why do I feel like you're kind of the villain here? Maybe we should switch to the Villain Counterattack Department later!]

"That's a good idea, I will consider it."

The wild boar chased Jiang Meimei all the way into the village.

In the end, when everyone worked together to rescue her from the wild boar's clutches, she had already passed out.

Jiang Meimei had two bloody holes in her thigh from the boar's tusks, and her left foot was also fractured. As for the culprit, the wild boar had long since vanished without a trace.

The villagers all agreed that Jiang Meimei was truly unlucky and provoked the wild boar when she went up the mountain.

The doctor prescribed medicine for Jiang Meimei and bandaged her. Since the injury was on her thigh, it was inappropriate for a male doctor to examine it, so Guihua ended up applying the ointment for her.

With her daughter injured so severely, treatment was necessary, but medicine came in both high-quality and ordinary grades.

Originally, the family had earned some money from selling the ginseng, but that money was reserved for building a tiled house for their son and securing him a wife.

In the end, Guihua couldn't bear to spend the money and opted for the ordinary-grade medicine.

She had discussed it with Jiang San. Since Jiang Meimei knew the Fox Immortal, surely the Fox Immortal would provide miraculous medicine to heal her, so there was no need to waste money to buy the high-quality medicine.

Jiang Meimei, who was still unconscious, didn't know that the pit she had dug before had made her suffer.

Having enjoyed the spectacle, Mingting was in high spirits. On the third day, he woke up early and went with Wang Zhi to the Su Residence for the apprenticeship ceremony.

Before leaving, he once again used Jiang Xiucai's dream visitation, warning He Gu and Jiang Xiao'e to avoid physical contact with Jiang Meimei.

"Dad said that girl is sinister, and whoever touches her will suffer misfortune. Mom, you must keep a close eye on Daya and Xiaosong."

With her son speaking so gravely and her late husband delivering the warning through a dream, He Gu naturally took it to heart.

Mingting and Wang Zhi brought the apprenticeship gifts to the Su Residence and performed the ceremony with utmost reverence.

Su Hengzhong had already taken a liking to Mingting as a student, so now that he saw Wang Zhi, he also wanted to test him and asked him many questions.

Comparing the two, Wang Zhi was far inferior to Mingting in terms of talent.

However, he was a diligent man with solid foundational knowledge, and his repeated failures in the county-level examination were solely due to Jiang Meimei siphoning his luck.

Su Hengzhong had always believed that diligence could compensate for lack of talent, so he also took a favorable view of Wang Zhi. He gave him several of his own study notes and offering to provide guidance whenever needed.

For Wang Zhi, receiving personal instruction from a high-ranking court official was an incredible opportunity.

"Thank you… thank you, sir!"

Wang Zhi was so moved he nearly stumbled over his words.

At the same time, he was very grateful to Mingting in his heart.

If Mingting had not introduced him and helped him speak, Su Hengzhong might not have agreed to mentor a mere Tongsheng.

He felt this younger brother had truly brought blessings to their family!

After the apprenticeship ceremony, Su Hengzhong first tested Mingting's knowledge and assigned him coursework based on his current progress.

At the same time, Mingting's water-powered spinning machine also entered the design phase.

It took too much time to go back and forth from Xiaohe Village to the town, so Su Hengzhong simply had his steward prepare a guest room for Mingting to stay at his residence, with one day off every seven.

Just like that, when Mingting passed the county examination to become a Tongsheng in February of the following year and became the top scorer, the first water-powered textile machine was finally successfully tested.

Calling it a 'machine' wasn't entirely accurate, so after discussing with Su Hengzhong, Mingting ultimately named it the Water-Powered Great Spinning Wheel.

"Little Jiang, pinch me."

Watching the water-powered pestles and spinning wheels in motion, Sun Wei could hardly believe his eyes.

'It had actually worked!'

'With hydraulic energy as the driving force, spinning and weaving could continue uninterrupted year-round, day and night.'

After testing, they found this spinning wheel could produce over 50 kg of yarn in a single day… something utterly impossible with human labor alone!

Sun Wei, overcome with excitement, bit his own arm.

'Ouch! It's not a dream, it really hurt!'