Zhizhi was only panicked for a moment, then calmed down.
She looked at the guard calmly and praised herself as she spoke, "My child is talking nonsense. Do you think I look like the beauty in the portrait?"
The guard hesitated for a moment and saw that Zhizhi was dressed in plain clothes, which was indeed ordinary.
Seeing this, Xizai immediately shouted again, "Mom, um——"
Zhizhi covered his mouth with her hands in a flash, while apologizing to the guard.
"It's better not to disturb your official business. My son's brain is not very good. I think he is joking with you."
When Xizai heard this, his delicate brows furrowed, but the guard was no longer visible.
They walked away quickly. Zhizhi tapped his forehead with her finger and patiently coaxed him under his angry expression.
"Didn't you say you wanted to see your brother and sister? You'll be able to see them later."
Xizai suddenly became cheerful, "Really?"
Lezai and Xinzai were also very surprised.
"Mom, where are my brother and sister? Will they play with me?"
"Yes."
Zhizhi said it casually. The group arrived at the inn, packed their luggage simply, and Zhizhi went out alone with the kids.
Who knew that when we were halfway there, Xizai suddenly pointed at the stall and asked for candied haws. If I didn't give him any, he would make a scene.
"Mom said she'd buy some delicious food in Beijing!"
"Fourth brother, shame on you!" Xinzi touched his face and giggled.
Zhizhi put her hands on her hips and looked at Xizi who was pulling her legs and acting like a spoiled child, feeling quite disappointed with her.
"Okay, can't I buy it for you? Wait." After a while, she compromised.
There were many people at the stall, so Zhizhi had to ask them to stay aside while she went to buy things herself.
She was sweating profusely from the crowded crowd.
However, when Zhizhi finally came out with three candied haws, the three cubs were no longer there.
Her heart sank.
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Inside Jinshui Lane.
Xizai held up the tiger-shaped dough figurine and looked at the other two little guys proudly.
"Hmph, I'm so sick of you!"
He followed the mobile dough figurine stall all the way here and used all the copper coins he had to buy the small dough figurine.
Lezi and Xinzi hurried over. Lezi pulled Xizi back like an older brother and said, "Mom, you're not happy."
Xinzi was tired from walking, she panted and glared at Xizi, "Si Ge is disobedient, mother won't give you candied haws."
Xizai panicked and looked around frantically. He found that Zhizhi was not here. Suddenly tears welled up in his eyes and he shouted,
"Where's mom? I want mom!"
He sobbed and held Lezi and Xinzi's hands tightly, but the three little guys found themselves lost halfway through the walk.
Xinzi couldn't hold it in any longer and whimpered. Lezi, who was the calmest, quickly comforted her.
"Don't be afraid, we'll go where there are more people and won't catch children."
The two cubs cried softly, and after hearing this, they nodded and held Lezi's hands tightly.
Zhizhi told them about the human traffickers and said that they were so cute and that the traffickers loved them the most!
Lezai and the little ones turned a corner and unexpectedly bumped into passers-by coming towards them. The three kids fell one after another like dominoes.
The man hissed, "How did you leave?"
"It's a human trafficker..."
The two cubs were so scared that they started to cry loudly. Lezai stood in front of them like a mother hen protecting her cubs and shouted stubbornly,
"Don't arrest us, go away!"
His tone was quite intimidating, but coupled with his childish voice and cute, fierce expression, it not only diminished the intensity of the situation but also made people soft-hearted.
The man raised his eyes and was startled, then said with a headache,
"Did I say I was going to arrest you?"
Lezai didn't believe it.
He glared at the man, "Don't touch my sister!"
When Xinzi fell down, she rolled to the man's feet. The man picked her up, and Xinzi subconsciously held her tightly.
The man raised his hand to tidy up her messy hair, and suddenly a jade plaque with words engraved on it appeared in front of him.
——Zhizhi.
He suddenly grasped it, his eyes fixed.
"Let go of my sister, Xinzai, don't cry." Lezai was so anxious that he jumped up and down. He punched the man who was suspected to be a human trafficker, but he didn't know that it was just a tickle for the man.
Xizai hugged his leg, opened his mouth and bit it, then spit it out and cried,
"It's a stone, I can't bite it..."
Xinzi came back to her senses, and then she struggled, pushing the man's hand away and refusing.
"Mother... woo woo mother!"
Lezai felt extremely desperate, he couldn't change the actions of the person in front of him at all.
Just when he decided to bite like Xizai, the man picked him up and hugged the howling Xizai in his arms.
The three cubs were speechless in an instant.
They looked at each other, and heard him snort.
"Human traffickers?"
"I'm your father!"
Xiao Yu looked at them, and sure enough, he saw that each of them had a jade pendant hanging around their neck.
You don’t have to guess to know that the jade pendants are all the same.
"Where's your mother? Did she abandon you again?"
Xiao Yu chuckled, and his phoenix eyes narrowed suddenly. While he was furious, he seemed to be hiding a hint of unknown surprise.
The three cubs struggled and twisted unwillingly, refusing to believe Xiao Yu's words.
"I want mother, you are not father!" Xizi shouted loudly.
Xiao Yu didn't care about anything and returned to the palace with the children in his arms.
As he got on the carriage, he slowly glanced at the reluctant little guys and threatened them,
"Okay, I'm not your father. I'm the bad guy who's here to take you home."
The three cubs immediately hugged each other and cried bitterly.
At this time, Zhizhi, who was completely unaware of the situation, was already thirsty and her voice was almost hoarse.
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