Lu Ze looked at the persimmon tree and said, "It's not difficult to climb up, but the branches of this tree are very thin. I'm afraid it can't bear my weight."
Qi Yuning looked at the height of the persimmon tree and said, "I don't know if I can still climb up."
Lu Ze really couldn't imagine the dignified and noble Qi Yuning climbing a tree in such a gorgeous outfit.
Also, if Qi Yuning fell from the persimmon tree, he would have a hard time explaining to His Majesty...
Lu Ze said to Qi Yuning, "Let me climb."
Qi Yuning took off her outer large-sleeved shirt and handed it to Lu Ze, "Prince Lu, you can put the persimmons inside your clothes."
Lu Ze took the large-sleeved shirt that was lightly scented with fragrance and climbed up the tree to pick persimmons.
"Pick something ripe, so you can eat it without adding any spices."
Lu Ze listened to Qi Yuning's voice under the tree and picked more than ten persimmons. The rest were hard. At the end of the branch, there was a ripe persimmon that was about to fall.
Lu Ze reached out to grab it, but unexpectedly heard the sound of branches cracking.
Seeing this, Qi Yuning kept saying, "Master Lu, don't take that one."
When Lu Ze was about to get down from the tree, the branch had broken and he had no foothold. He couldn't jump down easily and could only wait to fall.
Before landing, he thought that this mountain covered with dead grass would not be too hard.
The pain he imagined didn't come. Lu Ze saw Qi Yuning holding him up, but he also took two steps back due to inertia. Qi Yuning retreated to the edge of the stream, but unexpectedly, a stone hit him, and his foot twisted, and he fell backwards...
When Qi Yuning saw that she was about to fall into the stream, she quickly grabbed Lu Ze's clothes.
In a flash, both of them fell into the stream, and Lu Ze fell on Qi Yuning, splashing water all over him.
The Lu family's secret guards and the Qi Wang Mansion's secret guards in the dark looked at each other.
For a moment, no one knew whether to show up and help the two masters up. No one took the first step, and the secret guards on both sides simply stood still.
Qi Yuning only felt a wet and cold feeling on her back, and Lu Ze's face became particularly clear in front of her.
Qi Yuning gasped in pain and asked, "Is Persimmon okay?"
Lu Ze coughed and said, "I'm fine. Where's the princess?"
Qi Yuning said: "I didn't ask you, Master Lu. I was asking about the persimmon. Did the persimmon fall down?"
Lu Ze used her as a cushion, what could possibly happen? She was the one who had fallen miserably, and her foot was in excruciating pain.
Lu Ze glanced at Qi Yuning's big-sleeved shirt in his hand. The persimmons fell into the stream with them, and only the two ripest ones were broken. Most of the persimmons were fine.
Qi Yuning breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Persimmon was fine. "Master Lu, aren't you going to get up yet?"
Lu Ze found a rock in the stream and stood up. Fortunately, the mountain stream was only knee-deep. Lu Ze helped Qi Yuning up and asked, "Is the princess okay?"
Qi Yuning took a deep breath after he stood firm: "Something happened, my feet hurt badly."
Lu Ze helped Qi Yuning sit on the bank of the stream, half squatting down to check Qi Yuning's foot which was in great pain.
Qi Yuning frowned and said, "You don't need to see me. Just go back and find the imperial physician."
Lu Ze said, "The carriage is still at the foot of the mountain. It will take more than half an hour to get down the mountain. If you break a bone and delay treatment, you might end up being crippled."
Qi Yuning would never allow himself to become a cripple because of his greed.
The Qi family was not afraid of losing limbs and becoming disabled, but that meant they had to be injured on the battlefield, not like her, who became lame just because she was greedy for wild persimmons in the mountains.
If she became a cripple because of this, she wouldn't just be laughed at, she would be ashamed.
In an emergency, one must make the necessary arrangements. Compared to a lame man, the strict separation of men and women seems insignificant.
Besides, Lingling's existence also meant that she would eventually marry Lu Ze, so there was no need to worry about these things.
Lu Ze took off Qi Yuning's wet shoes and socks. Looking at Qi Yuning's ankle, which had become red and swollen in just a short while, he said, "Princess, please forgive me for being so presumptuous."
Lu Ze reached out and touched Qi Yuning's swollen ankle. Qi Yuning said, "It hurts."
Lu Ze said, "It's so swollen, it must be painful. Fortunately, the bones are fine, it's just a sprained ankle. I just need to apply some medicine and rest for a few days."
Qi Yuning asked, "Will he become lame?"
"No." Lu Ze was also soaked, but not as much as Qi Yuning. "Did the princess bring clean clothes?"
Lu Ze said, "Stay here in the sun for a while. I'll go get your clothes."
Qi Yuning said, "If you leave, what if there are murderous robbers here again?"
Lu Ze said, "The secret guards are nearby."
Qi Yuning sighed and said, "I didn't sleep well last night and forgot that there were secret guards following me. If I had asked the secret guards to climb the tree to pick persimmons, I'm sure they wouldn't have fallen down."
These secret guards were used to climbing trees, so they wouldn't fall down like Lu Ze did.
Lu Ze chuckled helplessly, "Princess, please wait a moment."
Lu Ze returned to the lake and found two maids, Lichun and Guyu, and asked them to bring clothes and follow him to the stream.
When Lu Ze arrived, he saw that the secret guards of Prince Qi's mansion had already picked all the unripe persimmons on the trees.
Lichun saw Qi Yuning's embarrassed look and stepped forward and said, "Princess."
Qi Yuning asked, "Is there a cave here where I can change clothes?"
Lu Ze said, "There's a hunter's hut up ahead. Let's go change there."
Qi Yuning tried to take a step, but her ankle hurt so much that Lu Ze said, "I'll carry you on my back."
Qi Yuning looked at the small bodies of her two maids, Lichun and Guyu, and felt it was inappropriate to let these two little maids carry her, so she got on Lu Ze's back and let him carry her to the hunter's rest hut.
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