A loud crash was followed by the sound of Qīn Chén shouting "Not good! Not good!" which shocked her so much that she jumped out of bed, and before she even opened her eyes.

  With a great deal of effort, she rubbed her eyes and sat on the edge of the bed. Cai Yu looked at her and asked: "What's wrong?"

  She rushed in front of her, but Xu Chuyan was choked with sobs, her small face flushed red, and her eyes were a bit at a loss.

  She forgot her lines.

  Hong Jin caught up from behind and continued for her: "There's a thief in the kitchen."

  "What? Li Huaiyu raised an eyebrow: "Kitchen?"

  "It's a mess over there now, and some of the servants are saying they've seen bear paw prints." Chi Jin lied with his eyes wide open, "Master Lu suspects that a wild bear came down from the mountain and is still hiding somewhere in the mansion."

  Xu Chunan swallowed his saliva repeatedly. At first, wasn't it just about letting the thief in? How did it become a bear? Where can I find a wild bear to bring here?

  However, Huai Yu's interest in the bear was clearly greater than that of Zei. As soon as he heard Chi Jin's words, his eyes lit up and he jumped up, shouting excitedly: "Qing Si, come quickly to help me clean up!"

  She didn't ask about the jade carving, and several people secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

  However, sitting in front of the dresser, Hua Yu touched around to the left and right, with a puzzled look in her eyes, staring at Qing Si from the mirror, opening her mouth as if she wanted to say something.

  "Master! Let's hurry up!" Qing Si said with a serious face, opening her mouth before she did, giving her a neat and tidy far mountain bun, casually inserting the wooden hairpin bought back by Chi Jin, and supporting her to go out.

  Holding jade in a daze. Asked Chunniang: "Is it urgent?"

  Xu Chuyi's face turned red as she stuttered and couldn't speak clearly, Qing Si's heart skipped a beat, and he repeatedly made eye contact with Chi Jin - Xu Chuyi wasn't someone who could tell lies!

  Chi Jin stretched out his hand to pull Xu Chuyan's sleeve, letting her stand behind him. Then, with a serious face, he opened his mouth to answer for her: "It's very urgent. The government doesn't dare to leak the news, fearing that the people will panic, but also fearing that the wild bear will run out of the government and hurt someone."

  Li Huaiyu nodded, her expression also becoming solemn as she followed them into the kitchen.

  Lu Jinghang and Murong Qi were both at the kitchen door, seeing them from afar, just thinking of saying what they had agreed upon about the bandits, but before they could even open their mouths, Chi Jin came up to ask: "Where is Xiong's palm print?"

  What is Palm Print?

  Lu Jinghang's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, his golden pupils deep with meaning. The two exchanged a look, and Lu Jinghang swallowed hard, saying to Li Huaiyu: "It's all behind."

  Haiyu was so excited, she grew up in the palace and Kyoto didn't have wild bears, this thing was only heard of in books, now finally had the chance to see it. She lifted her skirt and skipped inside.

  The kitchen was a mess, with broken cups and plates all over the floor, scattered vegetable leaves, and the meat hooks that usually hung from the eaves now swaying lonely.

  Lu Jingxing asked in a low voice, "Sir, have you ever seen the palm print of a wild bear? What does it look like?"

  Murong Qi hugged his arm and said: "I've seen it, there are many wild bears on the mountains of Eastern Jin. Last spring, I even shot two."

  Li Huaiyu has already found the palm print behind, and Lu Jinghang can't help but put aside the grudges of this period. He bowed his hands to Murong Qi: "Please instruct me."

  He cast a sidelong glance at her and said with a sneer, "Unless we dine together on the painted barge, there's nothing to discuss."

  Lu Jingxing: "I'm sorry"

  Mo Rong let out a yawn and said, "Hurry up and decide, she's going to turn the whole courtyard upside down."

  With a determined look and gritted teeth, Lu Jinghang nodded: "Alright."

  "Refreshing!" Murong Qi smiled, revealing two small dimples, then pulled him to a corner where Li Huaiyu couldn't see, grasped his hand and pressed it firmly on the ground, making a deep pit, and then used her toes to flatten the five fingerprints into a circle.

  Lu Jingxing asked in confusion: "Why use my hand?"

  "It's the same with your hands." Murong Qi said lightly as he let go of him. "But I'm too lazy to wash my hands."

  Lu Jingxing: "What's going on?"

  Li Huaiyu searched the entire courtyard and found bear paw prints. Just as she was wondering if these people were deceiving her, she heard a shout: "Your Highness, over here!"

  The thick and solid palm print was completely different from human footprints. Huai Yu crouched beside it, eyes wide with wonder, then stood up and ordered: "Quickly search the entire mansion, inside and out, and report to me immediately if you find anything unusual!"

  "Yes!" The house slaves responded in unison, taking their long sticks and dispersing in all directions.

  Huaiyu suddenly remembered that Xiao Hun Dun and Xiao Huo Hai were still with Ruo Xian, so she quickly ran towards the main courtyard.

  Xu Chunian was delighted and whispered to Chi Jin, "The master always says that the prince is mischievous and lacks a few points of maternal kindness. Now you see, as soon as there's danger, the prince still worries about the safety of Little Shizi and Xiaojie."

  Hong Jin was silent, and Chao Xu had just started brewing. He beckoned to him with his hand, but Chao Xu looked puzzled and followed him over to take a look.

  Li Huaiyu excitedly hugged the two children - or rather, carried them, one in each hand, and walked out while saying: "Children, Mother is taking you to see Xiong Xiazi!"

  Xu Chu Nian: "I'm going to die"

  Perhaps inheriting her mother's courage, the two babies in swaddling clothes didn't cry, their eyes wide open, giggling away. Li Huaiyu picked up the little scamp and said: "Your father said that sons are born to protect their mothers, so if Xiong rushes over later, you have to protect your mother!"

  Her eyelids twitched and the scene of meeting a wild bear in front of her own palace, where she had thrown Little Shizi forward, flashed before her eyes, and she couldn't help but shiver.

  "Your Highness, Xiaoshizi is only three months old."

  Holding back her anger for a moment, she looked down at the little scamp and muttered: "I suppose so, still needs to be raised for a few more years."

  Chihiro glanced at Xu Chuyan, who lowered his eyes: "As if I hadn't said anything."

  The two children were able to grow up safely for three months, all thanks to the efforts of Ziyang Jun and the wet nurse. The master spoiled the princess so much that she became like a child herself, resulting in her treating herself and the baby in swaddling clothes as equals, without knowing what "care" means.

  "What about the bear? Hasn't it been caught yet?" Li Huaiyu asked.

  Xu suddenly came back to his senses and hastily turned his head to look at Chi Jin: "Right, where's Xiong?"

  "Xiong" red gold clasped his hands, "Will catch it immediately, Your Highness please wait."

  Having said that, he turned around and left the main hall, bringing Lin Si Hai over.

  Lin Si Hai was the most robust among the faceless ones. Lu Jing Xing had already sent someone to deliver a bear skin at the fastest speed, and a group of people hid in a dark small hut, wrapping the fur onto him with all their might.

  "Will I be exposed?" Lin Si Hai looked down at himself.

  "No way." Lu Jinghang shook his fan and smiled, "Look at you, not a single flaw!"

  Murong Qi bit the rope and pulled hard. After tying up the fur, he spat again: "What does your Highness have to do with me? Why should I help?"

  It's easy to talk about it, but the action in his hands was very neat.

  Lu Jingxing looked at her and praised: "You tied it better than Chi Jin."

  "That's it." Murong raised his chin, "I used to tie people up and throw them into the lake all the time, I'm very skilled at it."

  The room fell silent for a moment, and everyone's expression became complicated as they glanced at Bai Hua Jun. Then, tacitly, they pretended that they hadn't heard anything and continued to wrap the bear skin. Lu Jinghang's hand holding the fan was slightly stiff; he thought that it would be better to forget about the boat ride and find a place without a lake to have dinner with her instead.

  The June sky had already started to heat up, and the people around him were all sweating profusely. Lin Si Hai, wrapped in bear skin, was even more drenched in sweat, looking like he was suffering, but he didn't make a sound. Once he was properly disguised, he crawled into the prisoner's cart that Chi Jin had found, curled up into a ball like a bear.

  Murong Qi gazed at him, initially finding it amusing, but as he continued to laugh, his expression turned solemn.

  "What's wrong?" Lu Jinghang looked at her inexplicably, "What else are you unhappy about?"

  "Why are you so good to her?" Mu Rong's eyes were shrouded in gloom. "People are inherently unrelated, and blood ties and kinship are just fabrications to form cliques. You can live without her, why go to such great lengths to make her happy?"

  This person has a very biased way of thinking. There is an inexplicable evil spirit, always feeling that something is strange but can't be said, now hearing her words, Lu Jinghang suddenly realized.

  Murong had no one close to her, not even a personal maid. She seemed to have an innate hostility towards people and couldn't understand why Huaiyu was surrounded by so many.

  He felt a twinge of sympathy. He folded the fan and gently tapped her shoulder: "You treat people well, and they will naturally treat you well, this is common sense."

  Murong Qi raised his eyes, and his bright eyes swept across his face: "Then if I'm good to you, will you be good to me?"

  His sympathetic heart was suddenly withdrawn, and Lu Jingxing's smile froze: "No way."

  Judging from his painful lessons over the past few months, being targeted by this superior is not a good thing.

  She narrowed her eyes, and Murong Qi let out a cold snort. With a sweep of his dark sleeve, he leapt onto the wall beside him and flipped over it. He had intended to jump straight out, but hesitated for a moment. She sat astride the wall, turning back: "Dinner. Don't forget."

  Jade bones unfolded, Lu Jingxian covered half of his face and said reluctantly: "I remember."

  She raised an eyebrow and smiled, then jumped out with the support of the wall. Lu Jinghang shook his head repeatedly as he watched her back, while on the other side, Xu Chuyan called out to him: "Lu Zhuanggui, come quickly and lend a hand."

  "Here." He withdrew his gaze and followed the person towards the main hall.

  Li Huaiyu sat under the eaves with two children in her arms, staring unblinkingly at the prison cart being pushed forward from outside.

  "Be careful, Master!" Qing Si pulled her back, his expression tense as he said, "Stand further away."

  Hua Yu retreated obediently and tiptoed to take a look at the fluffy thing in the prison cart, frowning: "It's too far away, can't see clearly."

  "Just take a look and that's it," Chi Jin said. "We'll send it away immediately, lest it wakes up and breaks out of its cage again, hurting someone once more."

  "Yes." Chu Nian also chimed in beside him, "I just took a look, and the wild bear is nothing special, it looks the same from far or near."

  He smacked his lips a couple of times and then asked, "Can we have bear paws for lunch?"

  Lu Jinghang's forehead broke out in a cold sweat: "No way."

  "Why? I used to eat it in the palace too." Huaiyu said, "Braised bear paw, a famous dish of the imperial court."

  Chi Kin shook his head: "I won't do it."

  "Is there anything else you can't do?" Hua Yu clicked her tongue and thought for a moment, "How about I give it a try?"

  "Stop!" everyone shouted in unison.

  The atmosphere was a bit strange, Huai Yu scanned them in a circle and frowned: "Are you hiding something from me?"

  "No!" Again, uniform answers.

  With a look of distress, the group exchanged blaming glances. Lu Jinghang stepped forward and said, "Don't waste things like this, it's not easy for this bear either, there might be bear cubs waiting for its return in the den. Let it go."

  Looking at the two dolls in her arms, Huai Yu let out a sigh of relief: "Alright, let it go."

  As soon as this was said, everyone let out a sigh of relief and their faces showed the joy of being spared, just thinking of shaking hands to celebrate, when they heard the next sentence from the emperor: "I will go release it myself!"

  The "bear" in the prison car shook his body.

  "Put it away," he pinched the folding fan tightly. Lu Jingxing dryly laughed, "Where are you putting it?"

  "Where else can we put it? Of course, to the mountain!" Huai Yu said, "While it's still asleep, let's set off now and we can make it down the mountain before sunset."

  "Your Highness, let's just go." Qing Si said. "You stay at home with the young master and little sister."

  "No way, something so interesting, I have to go myself." Handing the two little ones over to the wet nurse, Huaiyu said, "You take Yu'e with you and head up the mountain, it'll also be a good opportunity for Yu'e to absorb some of the essence of the sun and moon."

  Everyone fell silent and looked at each other, pushing their green silk forward.

  Qingsi stiffened her scalp and said: "I'll go get it, you can go with Lu Zhanggui and the others to wait for the carriage outside."

  "Hurray!" With a delighted clap of her hands, Huaiyu picked up her skirt and beckoned to Lu Jingxing, "Let's go."

  Lu Jinghang forced a smile and looked at the "bear" in the prison car with great concern. If he really let him go to the mountain, could he survive?

  Qing Si took the empty box containing the jade carving and held it in her arms, and as soon as she got on the carriage, she wanted to go pick it up. Qing Si shook her head and said: "Let me take it, Master Lu still has some business to discuss with you."

  After finishing speaking, he hugged his things and ran into the horse-drawn carriage at the back.

  Li Huaiyu turned her head and asked Lu Jinghang: "What's wrong?"

  Lu Jingxing silently looked at the fan in his hand, he also wanted to know what important matter he had to discuss with her.

  The red-haired man beside him intervened: "Isn't it a matter of Master Baihua?"

  Xu Chuiniang whispered and followed Yuan: "Baihua Jun seems to have disappeared, just now he was still in the mansion, did he have a conflict with Zhanggui?"

  Lu Jinghang looked deeply at Chi Jin, his eyes twitching at the corners.

  What's wrong with being a canopy, but he had to mention Bai Hua Jun, this person is obviously addicted to watching the excitement, on purpose! Didn't he just disturb him and Xu Chuyan's alone time a few days ago? Is it worth holding such a grudge?

  "Murong Qi? It seems like she quite enjoys being with you." Huai Yu looked at him with great interest, "Apart from her status, she's really not inferior to your stunning looks."

  "Flatter men, use elegance and refinement, thank you, Your Highness." Lu Jinghang gritted his teeth. "I have no fate with Baihuajun, what I want to discuss with Your Highness is that Baihuajun has been in Northern Wei for too long, it's really not suitable, we must think of a way to send her back to Eastern Jin."