CHAPTER 321: CHAPTER 308: A BUNCH OF TOADS

"I never expected Qin to be such a thoughtful and considerate gentleman! Admirable! Admirable!"

"Flattered! Over-praised!"

Yun Ran watched coldly as the group of people complimented and joked with each other, her gaze as if she were looking at a group of pigs, a group of idiotic pigs.

Qin Feng had been speaking for a while, seeing that Yun Ran hadn’t said a word, thinking she was still the timid and cowardly little girl from his memory, always standing in the corner as if she were invisible.

He couldn’t help but walk up to her, "Little cousin, why are you here alone? Didn’t King Qin come?"

"He used to not be in the capital, and I was worried about not having a chance to compete with him on the hunting ground. This year, he’s in the capital, so why hasn’t he come?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone in the crowd hurriedly spoke up, "Qin, have you lost your mind? King Qin is now a cripple, how could he come?"

Upon mentioning King Qin, everyone seemed interested, all eagerly chiming in.

"Qin, expecting a cripple to showcase his skills in the hunting grounds is just a fantasy, isn’t it? He can’t even walk; you wouldn’t want him to chase rabbits in a wheelchair, would you?"

"Rabbits are out of the question for him; he’d be lucky to chase a tortoise, hahaha!"

"Not to mention, he couldn’t even catch a tortoise, and even if he did, he wouldn’t be able to hunt it. Don’t forget, besides being crippled, he’s also blind!"

"Du is absolutely right! He’s both blind and disabled! If he really showed up at the hunting ground, he would be lucky not to be chased by the prey himself!"

"That’s why he didn’t dare come! Probably felt it’d be too humiliating, so he stayed tucked away in the capital like a coward."

"What do you think the scene would be like if he actually showed up? Would it be him frantically wheeling ahead while a bunch of wild chickens, rabbits, and boars chased him? Ah, just thinking about it makes me want to... ah!"

The person was enthusiastically speaking when suddenly a scream erupted, and he fell to his knees, clutching his knee with a pained expression.

The sudden scene startled everyone, and they rushed over to check on him.

"Du, what’s wrong with you?"

"Ziteng, are you alright?"

Some people tried to help him up from the ground, but Du Ziteng clutched his leg, groaning in pain, "No! Don’t touch me! My leg, it hurts so much!"

Seeing him like this, no one dared to move him easily, calling for someone to fetch the Imperial Physician while lifting his clothing to check his leg.

But once they rolled up the pant leg, both legs were perfectly fine, with no visible wounds.

If it weren’t for Du Ziteng’s painful expression appearing real and the layer of cold sweat on his face, people might have suspected he was playing a prank.

"What’s going on here? There’s no wound at all, why does it hurt so much?"

"Ziteng, have you ever had any injuries to this leg before? Any chronic conditions?"

Du Ziteng’s face turned pale from the pain, gritting his teeth and shaking his head, "No, it’s always been fine, but just now it suddenly felt like it got stabbed by a steel needle, the pain, it’s getting worse! So painful!"

After hearing this, the crowd furrowed their brows, looking puzzled and bewildered, "That’s strange, with no old injury nor new wound, how could it suddenly hurt like this?"

One thought in their minds remained unsaid: could it be haunted by something supernatural?

This idea gave them chills down their spines, and suddenly, they heard a cool, eerie voice behind them:

"What’s strange about it? A mouthful of nastiness, struck by divine retribution!"

Everyone involuntarily shivered, turning to look at where the voice came from, only to see Yun Ran.

After a brief moment of surprise, everyone glared at her in anger:

"I thought you were a mute, turns out you can speak! But why is it all nonsense once you open your mouth?"

"Divine retribution? Do you think this Nangong Mo is some deity descended to earth that can’t be spoken or laughed about?"

"Crippled and blind, yet we can’t talk about him? We all laughed, why are we fine? Divine retribution? Ridiculous!"

"What divine retribution? What nonsense? She’s just malicious! Deliberately cursing people here!"

Yun Ran lazily swept her gaze over them, her cold voice tinged with nonchalance, "People? With how you can yell, I thought you were a bunch of enchanted toads!"

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"What?! Toads?! You’re saying we are... toads?!"