Chop it into firewood for me

Those trees were also learning to walk for the first time, running around non-stop.

"Hooray! I can really walk now! Look how well I'm walking!"

"I never imagined our roots could be used like this! I'm walking so smoothly and so fast!"

"Absolutely! I feel like I'm bursting with energy."

The Old Scholar Tree looked at them and said:

"Let's hurry up, we need to move all these mansions back. Oh dear! Some of them are such a hassle to move back."

However, we certainly can't let these gold bars go to waste, let's hurry! And those warehouses too."

Zhou Wanwan left first, lying down on the carriage and sighing, "I'm exhausted, but thankfully the harvest this time was quite good."

Gu Sinian smiled and said, "The Western Regions are quite beautiful, it's a pity we don't have time to explore them."

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said, "Let's go back as soon as possible! We can't stay here any longer."

After all, the second prince was about to wake up, and when he did, he would be in a forest.

He felt something was off about this woods. He shook himself and said, "Where are my clothes? Get up quickly and look, my clothes are gone!"

His men then got up; they had nothing left.

Someone suddenly said:

Where am I? This seems really strange.

There used to be a forest here, and there seemed to be a lot of trees in it. Where did all those trees go?

The second prince said urgently, "You must quickly go and find out where these people have gone!"

But after searching for a long time, the place was empty and there was nothing there.

The second prince, enraged, burst into a tirade:

"These bandits from the Great Xia Kingdom are absolutely despicable!"

I must find that prefect; how dare he rob me!

He's utterly wicked! I can't vent my anger without bringing him down.

He arrived home with a group of subordinates, stunned. "What... what happened? I feel like something's different about the Prince's mansion?"

The second prince's steward rushed out, sobbing, "Second Prince, something terrible has happened! Our house is gone, even our trees are gone!"

The second prince seemed to have heard a joke.

"What? The house ran away? The tree ran away? Are you kidding me?"

But when he entered the main courtyard, he was dumbfounded. His storeroom was gone, and so was his main building.

The peach, apple, pear, and jujube trees he planted with his own hands all remained barren.

The second prince rubbed his eyes. "How did these beasts do that? How could they move all my trees so cleanly?"

There was also an old walnut tree, lying sickly on the ground.

The second prince flew into a rage. "What use is such a useless tree to me? Chop it into firewood!"

The old walnut tree, on its deathbed, cried out, "Waaah... No! Help! Second Prince, spare me! I don't want to die!"

Unfortunately, the second prince wasn't Zhou Wanwan, and the old walnut tree was cut into pieces.

Zhou Wanwan led a group of people back, having gained Manman from this trip.

This time, they not only gained a lot of money, but also a lot of grain.

In Khotan in the Western Regions, the main grain crops were wheat, barley, and millet.

So they harvested a lot of wheat.

The group returned laden with spoils, and Cheng Xiao finally arrived in Kingdom of Khotan. He took out his token and said, "I am here to find the Second Prince on the orders of the Prefect."

Upon hearing that they were sent by the prefect, the soldiers immediately arrested them.

Cheng Xiao looked completely bewildered. "What do you want? Why are you arresting us for no reason? We were sent by the prefect."

The soldier slapped him across the face. "You're the one the prefect sent! Who do you think you are, shouting like that in our territory?"

Cheng Xiao couldn't understand what the soldier was saying in his gibberish, and soon he was brought before the second prince.

The second prince looked at him with a grim face and asked, "Where did you come from?"

Cheng Xiao quickly took out the token given to her by the prefect and said, "The prefect sent me."

The second prince, enraged, shouted, "Just kill him!"

Cheng Xiao trembled with fear and cried out, "Spare me! I don't know if there's some misunderstanding? I came to capture Zhou Wanwan!"

The second prince squinted at him and said, "Zhou Wanwan?"

Cheng Xiao nodded repeatedly:

"Zhou Wanwan is a 5-year-old girl. This girl is incredibly wicked. I chased her all the way, but ended up losing many of my men."

Of the original 1,000 elite soldiers, only about 200 remain.

The second prince said with a solemn expression, "Are you kidding me? More than 1,000 people, and you can't even kill a few of them?"

Zhou Wanwan only brought a little over a hundred people, and the two sides were vastly different in strength.

Cheng Xiao's eyes were red-rimmed, and the Second Prince angrily shouted, "Just who is that brat? Why is she so powerful?"

Cheng Xiao shook her head and said:

"Actually, she was just a child born to a rural woman, but wherever she was, our house would disappear."

Even my county government office has mysteriously disappeared. I am a county magistrate, yet I don't even have a county government office.

And my family's storage room has also mysteriously disappeared.

The second prince squinted at him and said, "Come with me!"

He led Cheng Xiao directly to the backyard, where he found the house completely empty.

He pointed to the row of empty foundations and said, "Do you know what this is?"

Cheng Xiao shook her head blankly and said, "I don't know."

The second prince gritted his teeth and said:

"This is my golden palace. The floor inside is paved with gold bricks, and every room has its own special features."

There were several rooms, all with jade floors.

Cheng Xiao was completely dumbfounded. "You mean, she got rid of you too?"

The second prince gritted his teeth and said, "I've already sent over 3,000 men to encircle and annihilate them. I refuse to believe that over 3,000 men can't defeat those few dozen."

Cheng Xiao quickly nodded and said:

"Second Prince, the Prefect made it very clear to me before he came that he wants to establish a long-term partnership with you."

Therefore, our relationship is an unbreakable alliance, and please believe this.

I'm hunting them down now, and once I catch them, I'll have them hanged on Zhou Wanwan."

The second prince smiled cruelly and said, "Once we catch her, hand that little girl over to me. I want to make a human skin drum from her skin, and I want to look at it every night while I sleep."

"Okay, it's a deal."

Zhou Wanwan never expected that the Second Prince would act like a madman and directly send out his personal assassins.

Those who can become suicide squad members are all top-notch experts.

Those people somehow found out about Zhou Wanwan and tracked her down.

Zhou Wanwan was dozing off when she heard the Old Scholar Tree's voice. "There's the sound of horses' hooves in the distance; someone must be chasing us."