The news that Liu Tan had brought back an iron-eating beast spread throughout Shanglin Garden, causing even the female relatives who came here to play to come over and watch out of curiosity.

However, there are not many people who can run directly to Liu Tan. At most, there is one Chen Ajiao, one Princess Yangxin, and one Princess Dangli, and there are no others.

As for Lady Li Xi, since Li Xi was not there, she was unable to come with them for the spring hunt, so she had to stay in Chang'an.

In fact, just watch the pandas. As long as the pandas don’t care, Liu Tan doesn’t care either.

The bad thing is that this panda is too clingy!

Basically, it follows Liu Tan wherever he goes, and always hugs his legs. If Liu Tan sits down, it will climb up and ask for kisses, hugs, and lifting him up. Oh, the latter part can be omitted. Although Liu Tan can lift it, he refuses because he is afraid that his old waist cannot bear it.

Every time Liu Tan held it and fed it, he wondered how it grew up in Shanglinyuan?

Although Shanglin Garden is said to be a place for raising wild animals, it basically just keeps the wild animals in a pen. Because Shanglin Garden covers a large area, there is no need to worry about the animals not having enough space to move around.

As for food...it's the law of the jungle. However, before the spring and autumn hunts, some unlucky beasts would be caught and starved for a few days, and then released when the spring or autumn hunts began. Chickens, ducks and the like would be placed in fixed places to ensure that these beasts moved around in fixed places, so that the emperor and nobles could easily find them.

Otherwise, in such a huge Shanglin Garden, if the emperor were to chase the wild beast, he might not be able to catch it. This is not a story, this is an accident!

To sum up, the beasts raised in Shanglinyuan are actually still wild, and because they have to go through two large-scale hunting activities every year, they are more vigilant than ordinary wild beasts.

This panda cub is simply going against the nature of beasts!

Being stuck to it like this, Liu Tan felt both pain and happiness.

When Chen Ajiao brought the princesses to watch, because the panda only stuck to Liu Tan, Liu Tan also became the one being watched.

At first, Chen Ajiao was a little frightened, so she asked the guards to be ready to rescue at any time, and at the same time, she took the princesses to stand outside and watch.

It has to be said that panda cubs are chubby and actually quite cute, but most people don't have the chance to see them. When they saw Liu Tan kneading and feeding the panda cub, and that the panda cub looked no different from an ordinary cat or dog, and even had a better temper and was a little bigger, they couldn't help but slowly let down their guard.

Liu Tan watched Chen Ajiao and the others gradually approach, and while feeding them, he said, "You can look, but don't stretch your hands."

Princess Dangli, standing by, covered her mouth with her hands and laughed, "Is it so precious?"

Liu Tan smiled bitterly: "It's not a treasure at all. I'm afraid it might hurt you. If anyone reaches out to it, it'll either scratch or bite them. It's already bitten and scratched several people before."

Although he brought the panda back, it is impossible for Liu Tan to just be a nanny and feed the panda and play with it every day. Someone else must take care of it.

As a result, once it left Liu Tan's side, the panda showed the demeanor of a ferocious beast. If it was unhappy, it would scratch and claw at others without giving them any respect. This forced others to throw food to it from a distance.

Chen Ajiao was increasingly puzzled. "I heard this iron-eating beast followed you on its own initiative? Where are its parents?"

Liu Tan paused. "Oh, right? He was having so much fun petting the cat, and with Liu Che's permission, he took it away without saying anything." So... where are the cub's parents? Why haven't they been seen?

Liu Tan quickly sent someone to ask the people in charge of these things at Shanglin Garden, and then ordered: "If you can find them, remember to bring them back."

Well, it's a good habit to carry out the nesting of pandas. Adult pandas are also very cute. And with their parents taking care of them, Liu Tan doesn't have to worry about the panda being lonely when he doesn't have time to play with it.

As Chen Ajiao was looking at it, she suddenly noticed the gem hanging on the panda's neck and couldn't help but laugh: "You actually brought it a piece of broken evil gold. Aren't you afraid that it will be stolen?"

Liu Tan said proudly, "I bring this to tell others that this rolling ball has an owner. Don't touch it carelessly. As for stealing it... I'll defeat it first."

Judging from the expressions of those people when he brought the panda back, no one would dare to have such a bad idea. If one wanted to steal the panda, one must first be able to sneak into Liu Tan's residence without being noticed.

Liu Tan's residence in Shanglinyuan was right next to the prince's residence, and in the middle was Liu Che's main hall. If anyone came here to steal pandas, Liu Tan would call him a hero.

Even if this hero could sneak in without anyone noticing, he would have to defeat Liu Tan's guards. Even if he won, he would still have to defeat the panda, which was extremely difficult.

Princess Yangxin and Princess Dangli were quite envious of the panda for a moment. The piece of evil gold on the panda's neck was much bigger than what they had!

People are worse than bears!

Princess Yangxin laughed and said, "You even named it Gun Gun? Why is it called that?"

Liu Tan was stunned for a moment. Oh, he just accidentally brought up the nickname for pandas in later generations. But... let it be a nickname. It's quite cute anyway.

As he thought about it, he put GunGun down. Amidst GunGun's whimpering protests, he patted his head and said, "Come on, roll around."

This panda's intelligence may be relatively high among giant pandas, because when Liu Tan spoke and gestured, GunGun was able to understand what he meant.

After looking up and calling out to Liu Tan twice, and getting Liu Tan's promise: "I'll let you lick the pear later." Then, Gungun looked around, determined a relatively empty direction, rolled all the way around, and rolled back to Liu Tan.

Chen Ajiao was pleasantly surprised: "It actually listened to you! Another one!"

Liu Tan touched Gungun's head and asked a question. Gungun became unhappy and turned around and fell asleep in his arms.

Liu Tan laughed, looked up at Chen Ajiao and said, "This little guy has a bad temper."

Chen Ajiao didn't care. After all, only a few wild animals would be obedient.

After the female relatives had watched, the news spread to Liu Che and Liu Ju at an extremely fast speed.

When Liu Tan brought GunGun to Liu Che and was asked to make it roll twice, Liu Tan suddenly felt as if he had gained another profession - animal trainer.

I don’t know if it’s because of species suppression or because Liu Che had opened its mouth, but GunGun was obviously much more obedient in front of Liu Che. He would roll when told to, and was very dedicated.

After reading it, Liu Che laughed and said, "I didn't expect the iron-eating beast to be so naive."

Liu Ju felt a little itchy and wanted to raise one too, so he asked, "How did you tame it, brother?"

Liu Tan looked bewildered. "I don't know. I just... fed it a few peaches and it followed me. I sent people to look for its parents but couldn't find them. It must have been abandoned or its parents died, so it must have been hungry for a long time."

Liu Ju pondered, is that so? Should he try it too?

Because of the addition of a new baby, Liu Tan's return to the Northern Border was postponed for two more days because he had to prepare food for the baby on the road, and people also had to send young bamboo and bamboo shoots to the Northern Border regularly.

Originally, Liu Tan wanted to keep Gun Gun in Chang'an, but after two days of observation, he found that Gun Gun would be unhappy whenever he was away for a long time. In addition, he was worried that after he left, other people would not pay attention to Gun Gun. What if they abused Gun Gun?

You have to know that these days the iron-eating beast is a ferocious beast, not a national treasure.

So in the end he decided to take Gun Gun away. Transporting bamboo from the Qinling Mountains was indeed a waste of money and labor, but he could afford it. He had money anyway, so what was wrong with being willful for once?

However, just as he was about to leave, he received news halfway through his journey that a rumor was spreading throughout Chang'an City: The King of the North possessed magical powers and was followed by ferocious beasts, and was the man of destiny.