The Host is Clearly A Scumbag (Quick Travel)

Just when Mingting was about to set off with Wang Zhi to the prefectural capital to participate in the academy examination, Gao Jishi arrived in Shuanglian Town with an imperial edict.

Originally, Gao Jishi had already submitted the memorial of He Gu Water-Powered Spinning Wheel.

However, the promotion of new tools was no trivial matter. The officials from the Ministry of Works needed time to analyze, research, and test it, which delayed things by a couple of months.

Thus, Gao Jishi had waited two months before the rewards were finally issued.

This was Mingting's first time seeing an imperial edict, and the one who read the edict was a fair-skinned, middle-aged eunuch.

The Emperor, knowing Mingting was a Tongsheng and the top scorer, bestowed not only material rewards like gold, jewels, and silk, but also a collection of rare books, ink, brushes, paper, and inkstones.

In particular, after hearing about Mingting's life experience, his filial piety moved the Emperor, so the

Emperor personally wrote four characters, 'Pure kindness, filial piety' to commend him.

Now, Ming Ting has become a celebrity in Shuanglian Town.

Everyone now knew that Top Scorer Jiang was not only brilliant in his studies and clever but also a paragon of filial piety. The large water-powered spinning wheel he invented is even named after his mother.

Many people came to congratulate He Gu.

In the past, they pitied He Gu for losing her son and husband, but now, they looked at her with envy.

Everyone said that He Gu's kindness had brought her such a remarkable adopted son, one who treated her with such devotion. She was truly an old lady blessed with good fortune!

The Emperor's handwritten inscription was enshrined by Mingting.

He hadn't forgotten that the original owner also had a father who abandoned his wife and children to marry the princess.

If Mingting achieved great success in the future and his scoundrel father showed up to accuse him of being unfilial, the Emperor's writing would serve as his shield.

Even the Emperor praised him as a kind and filial person, so the scumbag father should just get out of here!

Gao Jishi also updated Mingting on Jiang Meimei's current situation.

Because the dark sorcery she practiced was too sinister, a minor official like him couldn't handle it alone. After a simple interrogation, Gao Jishi submitted a secret memorial directly to the Emperor.

Stealing someone's luck is was downright terrifying.

Soon, the Emperor's confidant, Lord Shangguan Shi from the Ministry of Justice, arrived with secret investigators to take Jiang Meimei and Jiang San away.

He asked Gao Jishi to arrange a quiet private residence for the interrogation.

Gao Jishi was just a small official and is not qualified to participate in the interrogation of such a case, so he wasn't privy to the details.

It was just heard that Jiang Meimei could discern people's fortunes.

Shangguan Shi had once summoned Gao Jishi and had Jiang Meimei assess his luck, and what she saw was an orange hue tinged with red.

At that time, Shangguan Shi congratulated Gao Jishi, saying he was about to encounter great fortune.

When Gao Jishi recounted this to Mingting, he couldn't hide his excitement.

Knowing Jiang Meimei was now living in misery, Mingting felt at ease.

Since the people who came were from the Ministry of Justice, they were naturally professional veterans in investigating and collecting evidence, and they would definitely dig out the evil things Jiang Meimei had done.

He had been waiting for this day!

At this time in Chengchang County, Shangguan Shi was looking through the detailed information of Jiang Meimei from childhood to adulthood again, while waiting for someone.

After receiving the Emperor's appointment, he personally went to Xiaohe Village and dug up every detail of Jiang San's family's past, questioning every villager one by one.

The Jiang Family's clan leader secretly rejoiced that he had already expelled Jiang San's whole family from the family registry. No matter what they had done, it wouldn't implicate the rest of the clan.

Shangguan Shi was not the type to pity delicate women. He didn't care that Jiang Meimei was young and wouldn't go easy on her.

He immediately used ruthless tactics to shatter Jiang Meimei's psychological defenses, and then cross-referenced the records to interrogate her point by point.

This time, Shangguan Shi was truly astonished.

He even felt grateful that Jiang Meimei was just a rural girl who had never been to school and had no cunning strategies.

Otherwise, with her mastery of such malicious sorcery, the people she harmed would definitely not be ordinary people, and the number would definitely not be just these few.

However, the unluckiest were her neighbors, Jiang Xiao'e's family.

Under days of intense interrogation, Jiang Meimei confessed everything, from how she killed Jiang Xiao'e's younger brother, who had saved her, and how she pretended to visit the sick Jiang Xiucai under the guise of kindness, while actually siphoning his luck to hasten his death.

Truly an ungrateful and venomous-hearted snake!

Shangguan Shi reported all of Jiang Meimei's evil deeds to the Emperor.

Since she repeatedly claimed that a Fox Immortal had taught her the technique to absorb luck and alter misfortune, the Emperor specially invited the eminent monk Master Xuanyi from Pu'an Temple to verify the truth.

The person Shangguan Shi was waiting for was Master Xuanyi.

Master Xuanyi traveled day and night to reach Chengchang County. After meeting Shangguan Shi and drinking some tea, he accompanied him to the modified prison cell under his escort.

Earlier, Shangguan Shi had worried that Jiang Meimei might use some sinister sorcery to escape, so he had her shackled with heavy handcuffs and leg irons.

After being interrogated repeatedly for so long, Jiang Meimei had long lost the youthful freshness of a girl. Her skin was pale, her eyes were dull, and she looked pitifully frail.

However, Shangguan Shi would not forget the evil deeds she had done just because of her delicate appearance.

Especially after learning that Jiang Meimei needed a daily supply of luck to offset her misfortune, he deliberately isolated her to exhaust her accumulated luck and personally witnessed how unlucky she could become.

It was only after doing this that Shangguan Shi realized some people could truly be cursed with extreme misfortune.

Even though Jiang Meimei was imprisoned in a small prison, accidents kept happening to her.

She choked on water when drinking, choked when eating steamed buns, and fell down when she stood up and walked a few steps.

The most bizarre incident was when she was bitten by a venomous insect that had somehow crawled into her cell, leaving her face swollen with yellow blisters… almost disfiguring her.

This Jiang Meimei was practically the reincarnation of a jinx.

In order to experience it firsthand and gather direct evidence, Shangguan Shi even let Jiang Meimei absorb a bit of his own luck.

After losing some luck, he felt nothing at first, but for days afterward, Shangguan Shi encountered all sorts of mishaps.

For example, bird droppings fell from the sky, biting a stone while eating, his favorite fan being gnawed by rats...

These experiences were all meticulously recorded in his report.

Because Jiang Meimei was too sinister and a crucial prisoner, they couldn't let her die from sheer misfortune.

Shangguan Shi assigned some of the most heinous prisoners in the prison to provide a small amount of luck for Jiang Meimei to maintain the balance of luck and prevent her from dying from bad luck.

On the way to the prison cell, Shangguan Shi had already explained all this to Master Xuanyi.

At this moment, he was eager for answers.

"Master, do you think there is really a Fox Immortal in her?"

If there really is a Fox Immortal, could it threaten the country? This was something the Emperor also wanted to know.