"Oh, okay, Grandpa." Yun Duo nodded quickly and continued, "Xiao Jiu is very smart. It seems like it can understand what I'm saying, and I can roughly understand what its flying movements mean."
At this point, seeing Yun Dazheng slowly frowning, Yun Duo quickly said, "I don't know why either, but I just know."
“Grandpa, when we went to the market that time, didn’t you find a beehive? Actually, I deliberately brought you there. It was Xiao Jiu who led me. The beehive was about to fall, and I originally wanted to shake it down from the tree. But I was scared… I was afraid Grandpa would ask me why I found another beehive. I was afraid of being seen as a monster, and I was also afraid of Xiao Jiu being seen as a monster. So, I thought of bringing Grandpa with me to retrieve it.”
"Later, I suddenly wanted to keep bees, right? Actually, it was because Xiao Jiu found another beehive and took me to get it, but we couldn't get it down. It was too high, and I couldn't shake the tree, I couldn't reach the pole, and I couldn't climb up... That's when I thought about keeping bees myself. Actually, I didn't expect that we could actually succeed. The first queen bee was brought to me by Xiao Jiu, and then a swarm of bees came."
“However…” Yun Duo deliberately made her tone sound a little uneasy as she said this.
"But what?" Sure enough, Yun Dazheng immediately asked.
Yun Duo continued, "Actually, the reason I said I could supply royal jelly to Lord Leopard was purely out of luck. I didn't even know if it was possible..." Seeing Yun Dazheng's face change slightly, Yun Duo quickly said, "Grandpa, don't be angry. It's just that Lord Leopard is too fierce. After he found out that our family keeps bees, he didn't care whether we had royal jelly or not. He directly said that we had to supply him with royal jelly every day, and if we had it, we could name our own price."
“He didn’t say what would happen if we didn’t have it, he just said we absolutely had to have it and that we had to find a way ourselves. I was scared. I felt like he would kill me if I said we didn’t have it, so I could only say we did. Originally, it was just a chance, but when I came back, I secretly asked Xiao Jiu, and it told me that it could produce royal jelly, so I felt relieved.”
"You child..." Yun Dazheng held Yun Duo's little hand in his palm, feeling both fear and regret. He felt that he should have been more careful and walked close to the wall to avoid being bumped into and extorted, and he would never have let his little granddaughter go to Black Panther's place.
Although his granddaughter didn't say it explicitly, Yun Dazheng couldn't help but feel heartache and regret whenever he thought of those rumors about the black panther. His granddaughter was so young, yet she had to suffer such a fright. If only he had known... sigh... it's no use knowing now. He just wondered if his granddaughter would have nightmares tonight.
Or should he go to the countryside and get some calming medicine for his granddaughter?
Thinking of this, Yun Dazheng suddenly stood up, startling Yun Duo.
"Grandpa?" Yun Duo called out softly, holding Yun Dazheng's finger, with a hint of doubt.
Yun Dazheng looked at Yun Duo and coaxed her gently, "Good child, it's Grandpa's fault for scaring you for no reason. Grandpa will go to the village pharmacy to get you some calming medicine so you won't have nightmares tonight."
Hearing Yun Dazheng's words, Yun Duo was both amused and touched, yet felt a warm glow in her heart. She was the one "talking" about Xiao Jiu to him, and his focus had been on Xiao Jiu before. But now, hearing that she had been frightened, he had completely forgotten about her and was only thinking about calming her down… Such care and concern was truly heartwarming.
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