The emperor felt a little embarrassed. After all, Du Shichu raised the little lion as his son and loved him so much. Would she be willing to give up the little lion to Wu Xiaoran for a few days?
"Otherwise, why don't you think about other things? The little lion is Duanyang's darling. I'm afraid she won't give it to you." The emperor frowned with worry.
Wu Xiaoran thought about how darling Du Shichu was to the little lion, and couldn't bear to embarrass her, so he said, "Forget it then."
The emperor felt very guilty and suggested: "How about I bring your little eagle to accompany you?"
The two goshawks raised in the emperor's animal garden finally gave birth to a cub a year ago, and he gave the eaglet to Wu Xiaoran to raise as promised.
Wu Xiaoran was so good at babies that he learned a lot from several hunters who came from the grassland and had experience in raising eagles. He took care of everything personally for the little eagle and did not let anyone else help at all. Fortunately, he finally managed to do it after a lot of hard work. When the little eagle is well-raised, the little eagle does not recognize anyone except him, its master.
"No, it likes to fly around. If you let it stay here, it will become depressed. I won't let it go." Wu Xiaoran immediately refused.
The emperor clicked his tongue and said: "You little guys, all of you treat your little pets as family members. I don't know where so much love comes from..."
In the end, the helpless emperor had no choice but to have someone copy many of the stories to Wu Xiaoran, so that he could relieve his boredom while he was recovering from his injuries.
Du Shichu didn't know that Wu Xiaoran was injured. She hadn't seen him for several days and even sent someone to ask. As a result, the people over there said that he was out on business, so Du Shichu stopped paying attention.
After living in the palace for a few days, she left the palace. As she got closer and closer to the time of her filial piety, she met more and more people along the way, and there were more and more accidents.
For example, right now, when her carriage was passing through a busy market, a young and handsome man suddenly rushed into the middle of the road, right in front of her carriage. If it weren't for the groom's skill in riding a horse, the man would have almost been hit by the horse. .
"You dare to run! Stop it! You broke the things in my shop and ran away without paying for it? I want to arrest you and bring you to see the official..."
"You brat! Run! See where you can go!"
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Behind the young man were several angry people who chased and cursed with sticks. Their ferocious looks made it obvious at first glance that he was a villain committing crimes on the street.
"My benefactor in the car, please save me... These people are deliberately bullying me, a foreigner, and trying to cheat me out of money, and they won't give up after I find out!" The young man suddenly said Instead of running away, he threw himself in front of Du Shichu's carriage and begged in a panic.
Seeing that those people were about to catch up, the young man became even more anxious. With a look of fear and panic on his handsome face, he continued to plead with Du Shichu: "Please help me, this benefactor, I am grateful. I will definitely repay you by holding a knot of grass in my hand in the future..."
"Princess, that man outside is so pitiful, should we help him?" Zhichun is a soft-hearted person. When he saw a weak and gentle young man being chased by a group of vicious people, he immediately felt sympathy for that young man. , believing that he was telling the truth.
"Zhichun, you are so naive." Du Shichu sighed, "You don't even have the slightest intention to guard against others."
"What, what's wrong?" Zhichun was still confused.
"It's nothing." Du Shichu said and opened the curtain of the carriage. At that moment, the men with sticks also caught up and immediately grabbed the young man in front of the carriage.
"What's going on?" Du Shichu asked them.
The moment the captured young man saw Du Shichu, his expression fell into a trance. He stared straight at Du Shichu's face that was as otherworldly as a hibiscus emerging from water. He seemed dumbfounded and didn't hear anything at all. Du Shichu's words.
When Du Shichu saw him like that, he couldn't help but frown. He simply didn't ask and said directly to the groom: "Uncle Zhou, let's just avoid them and leave."
"Hey, okay." Uncle Zhou responded immediately and was about to drive his horse.
Seeing that the target person was about to leave, those people finally remembered what they were going to do. Therefore, the arrested young man immediately showed a look of grievance and pleading as if he had been forced, and hurriedly said to Du Shichu: "This Girl, please help me!"
"I'm not from the government, how can I help you? If you have any problem, you can report it directly to the government and arrest a passerby on the street to judge your case. I have never seen this operation before." Du Shichu had no idea. Said politely.
The young man was choked. He didn't expect Du Shichu's reaction at all. Seeing that the carriage was about to leave, he shouted in a hurry: "Girl! I saw that the carriage you are riding in is extraordinary. Thinking of your identity, it must be I am very honorable. Xiaosheng has encountered something unfair. I hope you can help solve it. If you go to the official to report it, you will cause a lot of trouble. After all, this is the capital, and Xiaosheng is an outsider. The strong dragon can't overpower the local snake, let alone Xiaosheng is a powerless and ordinary person, not even a small insect..."
He said with a wry smile. Such an expression on a good-looking face always easily arouses sympathy and affection from others. At least those who were watching the excitement around him were moved by him.
"Yes, this young master is not of noble birth at first glance. I don't know what will happen to him if he goes to the government."
"Look at the people who arrested him. They look fierce. I don't know who the powerful people are backing them. This young master has offended them, so he is very unlucky."
"Alas, life is so difficult for ordinary people like us!"
"It would be great if this girl, who looks very distinguished at first sight, could seek justice for him."
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Du Shichu couldn't help but twitching at the corner of his mouth when he heard the people around him hoping that she would "help her when the road was rough". No one could tell that these people were acting in front of her?
"Would you please go to Jingzhao Mansion to report a case? I will pay you one or two silver as reward." Du Shichu did not like to try cases on the street and act as a savior to others. How did these people want to plot against her? She did not accept it. Just recruit.
"Do you really have a tael of silver?" someone in the crowd asked excitedly. When it comes to money, whether others are fair or unfair suddenly doesn't matter.
"Of course! I will never lie." Du Shichu asked Zhichun to take out a piece of silver, and the people around him became even more excited and shouted, "I'll report it to the official!"
"I am coming too!"
"So many people have gone, so who will the money be given to?" someone asked curiously.
"Whoever successfully reports the case first will get the money." Du Shichu replied cheerfully, and in an instant, those who went to report the case were all as if they were drunk, and they wanted to fly towards the capital. Zhaofu.
