So Li Huaiyu was awakened this morning by the sound of an iron pot falling to the ground.
There was a loud "bang dang" that shocked her and jumped up from the bed. Before she could open her eyes, she heard Chu Nian yelling: "It's not good, it's not good!"
Rubbing her eyelids hard, Huaiyu sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her: "What happened?"
As soon as he ran in front of her, Xu Chuning choked, his little face turned red, and his eyes were a little bewildered.
She... she forgot the words...
Chi Jin caught up from behind and continued the conversation for her: "A thief has broken into the kitchen."
What? Li Huaiyu raised his eyebrows: "The kitchen?"
"Yes, it has become a mess over there now. Some servants said they saw the bear's paw print." Chi Jin lied without blinking his eyes. Hidden somewhere."
Xu Chuniong swallowed hard when he heard that, didn't he say that it would be good to be a thief at first? How did you become a bear? Where can I get a wild bear
However, Huaiyu was more interested in bears than thieves, and his eyes lit up when he heard Chi Jin's words, and he jumped up and shouted: "Qingsi, come and help me clean up!"
Seeing that she didn't ask about the jade carving, several people secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, sitting in front of the dressing table. Huaiyu fumbled left and right, with doubts in her eyes, looked at Qingsi in the mirror, and opened her mouth to speak.
"Master! Let's move faster!" Qingsi rushed ahead of her with a serious face, and gave her a clean and neat distant mountain bun, inserted the wooden hairpin bought from Chijin Chujiu, and lifted her up. go outside.
Huaiyu was at a loss. Ask Chu Niang: "Are you in a hurry?"
Xu Chunian blushed and faltered and couldn't speak clearly, Qingsi's heart skipped a beat, and she kept winking at Chijin—Miss Xu is not a liar!
Chi Jin stretched out his hand and pulled Xu Chuniang's sleeve to make her stand behind him, and then answered for her with a solemn face: "It's urgent, the mansion does not dare to leak the news, for fear that the people will panic, but also for fear that the wild bear will run out of the mansion." Hurt people."
Li Huaiyu nodded. His expression also became serious, and he followed them to the kitchen.
Lu Jingxing and Murong Qi were both at the door of the kitchen. They saw them coming from a distance, and they were about to talk about the thief as agreed upon, but before they could speak, Chi Jin came up and asked, "Where is the bear's paw print?"
... palm prints of what
Lu Jingxing's phoenix eyes stared slightly, but the red gold eyes contained deep meaning. The two exchanged eyebrows, Lu Jingxing took a breath and said to Li Huaiyu, "It's all behind."
Huaiyu is so excited, she grew up in the palace, and there are no wild bears in Kyoto, so this thing has only been heard of in books, and now I finally have the opportunity to see it. She lifted up her little skirt and went inside bouncing around.
It was a mess in the kitchen, cups, plates and dishes were broken all over the floor, vegetables and leaves were scattered, and the hooks that used to hang meat were now dangling alone under the eaves.
Lu Jingxing asked Murong Qi in a low voice: "Your Majesty, have you seen what the palm print of a wild bear looks like?"
Murong Qi folded his arms and said, "I've seen that there are a lot of wild bears in the Eastern Jin Mountains, and last year I hunted two of them in spring hunting."
Seeing that Li Huaiyu had already found the palm prints behind him, Lu Jingxing had no choice but to put aside the grievances of this period, and bowed his hands to Murong Qi: "Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."
Leaning a glance at him, Murong Qi snorted and laughed: "Let's have dinner together on the boat, otherwise we won't talk about it."
Lu Jingxing: "..."
Yawning, Murong Qi said, "Hurry up and decide, she's going to search this yard all over."
Gritting his teeth cruelly, Lu Jingxing nodded, "Okay."
"Fresh!" Murong Qi laughed, showing two small dimples, then pulled him to a corner where Li Huaiyu couldn't see, squeezed his hand and opened it, and pressed hard on the ground, creating a deep hole, and then He stretched out his toes and crushed the five fingerprints until they were round.
Lu Jingxing asked suspiciously, "Why use the lower hand?"
"It's the same with my hands." Murong Qi let go of him, and said lightly. "But I am too lazy to wash my hands."
Lu Jingxing: "?"
Li Huaiyu was looking for bear paw prints all over the yard, wondering if these people were trying to deceive her, when she heard an exclamation: "Your Highness, here!"
The thick and solid palm prints are completely different from human footprints. Huaiyu squatted by the side and looked, amazed, got up and ordered: "Quickly search in the mansion, search inside and outside, and report to Bengong immediately if there is any disturbance!"
"Yes!" The slaves responded in unison, and scattered with long sticks.
Remembering that the little bastard and the little scourge were still with the nurse, Huaiyu turned around and ran towards the main courtyard.
Xu Chuniang was very relieved, and said to Chi Jin in a low voice: "My lord always says that His Highness is stubborn and lacks a bit of mother's kindness. Now you see, if there is any danger, His Highness is still very worried about the safety of the young prince and young lady."
Chi Jin was silent, and hooked Xu Chuniang. Chu Niang was puzzled, and followed him to have a look.
Li Huaiyu excitedly hugged the two children—or rather carried them, one in each hand, and walked out while saying: "Children, mother will take you to see Xiong Xiazi!"
Xu Chunian: "..."
Xu Shi inherited the courage of his own mother. The two baby babies in the swaddling babies didn't cry, their eyes were still wide open, and they giggled. Li Huaiyu picked up the little bastard and said: "Your father said that the son was born to protect the mother, so if the bear comes up later, you have to protect the mother!"
Qingsi's eyelids twitched, and the image of meeting Ye Xiong's Highness throwing Xiao Shizi forward appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help shivering.
"Your Highness, the young prince is only three months old."
Huaiyu paused, looked down at the little bastard, and muttered: "That's right, I have to raise it for a few more years."
Chi Jin looked at Xu Chuniang, who lowered his eyes: "Pretend I never said that."
The fact that the two children were able to grow up to three months safely is all thanks to Mr. Ziyang and the wet nurse. Your Majesty spoiled His Highness like a child, so that in her eyes, she was on an equal footing with the infant baby, and she didn't know what "care" meant.
"Where's the bear? Haven't caught it yet?" Li Huaiyu asked.
Xu Chuyong came back to his senses, and quickly turned his head to look at Chi Jin: "Yeah, where's the bear?"
"Bear..." Chi Jin cupped his hands, "I'll catch it right away, Your Highness, wait a moment."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and left the main courtyard, and found Lin Sihai.
Lin Sihai was the burliest one among the faces. Lu Jingxing had sent someone to deliver the bear fur as quickly as possible. A group of people hid in the dark hut, wrapping the fur around him hurriedly.
"Won't you reveal your secrets?" Lin Sihai looked down at himself.
"No." Lu Jingxing shook his fan and smiled, "Look at you, you have no flaws!"
Murong Qi bit the rope and pulled it hard. After tying up the fur, he said "bah" again: "What does your Highness have to do with me, why should I help?"
After all, the movements of his hands are very neat.
Lu Jingxing took a look and praised her, "You tied it better than pure gold."
"That's right." Murong raised his chin, "I used to tie people up and drown them in lakes, and I'm very skilled in this technique."
The room was quiet for a moment, and everyone looked at Baihua Jun with complicated expressions. Then tacitly pretended not to hear anything, and continued to wrap the bear skin. Lu Jingxing's hand holding the fan was a little stiff, he thought, let's forget about sailing or something, and have dinner with her in a place without a lake.
The weather in June has already started to heat up, and the people around the skins began to sweat. Lin Sihai, who was wrapped in bear skins, was sweating profusely. It was uncomfortable to watch, but he didn't say a word. In the prison van that was found, it looked like a bear.
Murong Qi watched, at first he thought it was funny, but he laughed. Her face darkened.
"What?" Lu Jingxing looked at her inexplicably, "Why are you unhappy?"
"Why do you treat her so well?" Murong Qi's eyes were filled with gloom, "People have nothing to do with each other, and any blood relatives are just fabricated to form cliques. You can live without her. Why do you make such a fuss for her happiness?"
This man is very paranoid. There was an evil nature that couldn't be wrung out, and he always felt that she was strange and couldn't explain it. Now hearing what she said, Lu Jingxing was suddenly stunned.
There is no one close to Murong Qi, not even a maid. She seems to have natural hostility towards people, seeing so many people around Huaiyu, it is normal not to understand.
Feel a little compassion. He closed the folding fan and tapped her shoulder lightly: "If you treat people well, people will naturally treat you well, this is normal."
Murong Qi raised his eyes, and his bright eyes swept across his face: "Then if I treat you well, you will treat me well?"
Feeling compassion stopped, Lu Jingxing smiled, "No way."
Judging from the summary of his painful lessons in the past few months. It is not a good thing to be targeted by this king.
Squinting his eyes, Murong Qi snorted coldly, swept his black sleeves, climbed up the courtyard wall next to him and turned up. She wanted to jump out directly, but after a pause, she sat on the wall and turned her head: "Dinner. Don't forget."
Spreading out the jade bone fan, Lu Jingxing blocked half of his face and said helplessly, "I remember."
Raising his eyebrows and smiling, Murong Qi jumped out while leaning on the wall. Lu Jingxing looked at her back and shook his head repeatedly, and Xu Chuyong on the other side called him, "Shopkeeper Lu, come and help me."
"Here we come." Looking away, he followed the people to the main courtyard.
Li Huaiyu sat under the eaves with her two children in her arms, staring at the prison van pushing in without blinking.
"Master, be careful!" Qingsi pulled her back and said nervously, "Stay farther away."
Huaiyu backed away obediently, tiptoed to look at the furry thing in the prison car, frowned and said, "It's too far away to see clearly."
"Just take a look at it." Chi Jin said, "I have to send it away immediately, so as not to wake up and break out of the cage. It will hurt people again."
"That's right." Chu Niang also chimed in, "I've just seen it, and it's the same thing with wild bears, it looks the same from a distance or up close."
Ba smacked his mouth twice, Huaiyu asked: "Can I eat bear's paw at noon?"
A drop of cold sweat dripped down Lu Jingxing's head: "No."
"Why? I used to eat it in the palace." Huaiyu said, "Braised bear's paw is a famous dish in the court."
Chi Jin shook his head: "I won't do it."
"And what you don't know how to do?" Huaiyu was dumbfounded, and thought for a while, "How about I try it?"
"No!" Everyone said in unison.
The atmosphere was a bit weird, Huaiyu glanced around them and frowned: "Is there something you guys are hiding from me?"
"No!" Another uniform answer.
Holding their foreheads angrily, a group of people gave each other reproachful looks. Lu Jingxing stood up and said, "Don't waste things, this bear is not easy, there might be cubs in the den waiting for it to go back. Let it go."
Looking at the two milk dolls in her arms, Huaiyu heaved a sigh of relief: "Okay, let it go."
As soon as these words came out, everyone heaved a sigh of relief, and their faces showed joy for the rest of their lives. Just as they were about to shake hands with each other to celebrate, they heard His Highness say, "I want to release it myself!"
The "bear" in the prison car trembled.
"Put it..." He squeezed the folding fan tightly. Lu Jingxing laughed dryly, "Where are you going to put it?"
"Where else can I put it? Of course it's on the mountain!" Huaiyu said, "Let's set off now before it wakes up, and we can hurry down the mountain before sunset."
"Your Highness, let's go." Qingsi said. "You are at home with your little prince and miss."
"No, such an interesting thing, I must go in person." Handing the two little ones to the nanny, Huaiyu said, "You take the jade carving with me, and go up the mountain together, and by the way, let the jade carving pick the sun Moon Essence."
Mention jade carving. Everyone fell silent, looked at each other twice, and pushed Qingsi forward.
Qingsi bit her head and said: "I'll get it now, slave girl, you... You go with shopkeeper Lu and the others to wait outside for the carriage."
"Okay!" Clapping happily, Huaiyu raised her skirt and greeted Lu Jingxing, "Let's go."
Lu Jingxing forced the corners of his mouth into a smile, and looked worriedly at the "bear" in the prison car. If you really put it on the mountain, can you survive
Qingsi took the empty box containing the jade carving and hugged it in her arms. Huaiyu wanted to pick it up when she got on the car. Qingsi shook her head and said, "Your maidservant, take it. Shopkeeper Lu still has important matters to discuss with you."
After speaking, he carried his things and ran to the carriage behind.
Li Huaiyu turned around and asked Lu Jingxing, "What's the matter?"
Lu Jingxing silently looked at the fan in his hand, he also wanted to know if he had something important to discuss with her.
Chi Jin next to him smoothed things over: "Is it Baihua Jun's business?"
Xu Chuniang followed Yuan in a low voice: "Mr. Baihua seems to have disappeared. The one who was still in the mansion just now, is there a conflict with the shopkeeper?"
Lu Jingxing took a deep look at Chi Jin, the corners of his eyes twitching.
It's not good to use something as a cover, but I want to mention Mr. Baihua, this person is obviously addicted to watching the excitement, on purpose! Didn't he just accidentally disturb him and Xu Chuniong being alone a few days ago? As for being so vengeful
"Murong Qi? Speaking of which, she seems to like being with you." Huaiyu looked at him with interest, "Apart from her status, she really looks as pretty as you."
"Please be suave when complimenting a man, thank you Your Highness." Lu Jingxing gritted his teeth. "I have no fate with Lord Baihua. What I want to discuss with His Highness is... Lord Baihua has been in the Northern Wei Dynasty for too long. It is really wrong. I have to find a way to send her back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty."