Chapter 882: The beloved cousin escaped from control (8)
"Don't be afraid, the snakes are locked in cages and they can't get out." The emperor said quickly. He himself was not afraid of snakes and he even liked them, so he had people raise quite a few of them. However, most people could not appreciate his hobby and the little kids all had tears in their eyes.
Wu Xiaoran also tightly grasped the hem of Du Shichu's clothes, and stared with some fear at the long snakes that raised their heads and glared at them hungrily.
"Hehe, let's walk faster, and we won't see the snakes anymore." The emperor quickly took the children away from the snake house.
"We're at the cattery!" The emperor finally brought the children to the cattery and breathed a sigh of relief. He said quickly, "Look, there are many cats here that were tributed from other countries. Chu'er, there are also the cats from Siam that you mentioned before. Take a look and see which one you like?"
Du Shichu walked over. There were cats of all colors, yellow, black, white, and spotted. Each one was carefully selected before being allowed in here, so naturally they were all very beautiful.
Siam presented several kinds of cats as tribute last year. In addition to two local Siamese cats with black triangular areas on their faces and white hair elsewhere, there was also a beautiful cat with long gray-black hair on its back, and fluffy snow-white hair on its face, neck and abdomen. The hair on this cat's tail was so long and dense that it looked like two exquisite feather dusters. Its pair of emerald green eyes were extremely charming.
Du Shichu also took a fancy to this majestic and beautiful long-haired cat: "Your Majesty, I want this cat!"
She pointed at the fluffy, long-haired cat that looked like a little lion and said, the cat seemed to understand what Du Shichu said, and immediately took graceful steps towards her, with a long, fluffy tail standing straight up behind it. It stood beside the cage and called softly to Du Shichu, "Meow."
Du Shichu couldn't help but reach out to stroke its furry back. The cat didn't refuse. Instead, it closed its eyes and rubbed her wrist gently with its little head.
"You want this one? Okay! Here you go!" The emperor agreed very happily.
"Father, I want a cat too!" The fifth princess saw the well-behaved and beautiful cat in Du Shichu's arms and immediately spoke enviously.
"I want one too! I want one too!" The children also liked the furry little animals and rushed to clamor for them. The emperor had to let them choose for themselves.
After finally letting the little kids choose their own cats, the emperor discovered that Wu Xiaoran did not choose a cat like everyone else. Instead, he stood quietly beside Du Shichu, staring at the cat in her arms.
"Ran'er, why don't you pick one?" The emperor asked Wu Xiaoran, "If you like, pick one too. There's no need to envy your sister Du."
Wu Xiaoran pursed his lips and shook his head: "...I don't like it!"
"Then what do you like? Oh, you like eagles. Then your uncle will take you to see those two eagles." The emperor said, thinking of the straw eagle in Wu Xiaoran's hand.
As expected, Wu Xiaoran's eyes immediately lit up, and he looked at him eagerly with a pair of clear eyes. The emperor saw that he had finally become a little childish, so he patted his head with relief and said, "Come with your uncle."
Du Shichu immediately followed him up. She had never seen the two precious eagles in the Beast Garden.
As soon as they arrived at the bird area, Du Shichu didn't need his father-in-law to explain anything. He saw at a glance a gray-black goshawk in a large cage on a branch of a tree almost two meters high. The bird had a yellow beak with a curved hook on it, which was hard and sharp, and a pair of broad and strong wings. Even though it was locked in a cage, one could feel its ferocity and strength.
"Ran'er, look, that's a goshawk!" The emperor showed off to Wu Xiaoran with great interest. "Those are the eagles on the grassland. If the foreign tribes on the grassland didn't have a special way of training eagles, the eagles would never be willing to be locked in a cage. These two were trained with great difficulty and can even hunt. I will take them with me for autumn hunting in the future. By then, Ran'er, you can feel how ferocious and powerful they are, haha..."
The light in Wu Xiaoran's eyes was already alarmingly bright. He stared at the eagle in the cage without blinking, with his head held high.
"Go take them down and let me take a closer look." The emperor asked someone to take the cages down, and the young eunuch immediately went to get a ladder to get the birdcages.
After a while, the huge birdcage was moved down. The two eagles in the cage were very calm, with their wings folded. Their sharp black bean-like eyes looked at the humans in front of them fearlessly, as if they would rush over and peck the humans in the face in the next second.
"Ran'er, come and take a look." The emperor waved to Wu Xiaoran, but Wu Xiaoran didn't need his orders at all. As soon as the cage fell to the ground, he came over silently, faster than the emperor.
Wu Xiaoran stared at the goshawk in the cage. The man and the hawk stared at each other motionlessly. The emperor found this scene a little funny and said, "Ran'er, why are you just staring at them without moving? Don't you want to touch their feathers?"
Wu Xiaoran tentatively stretched out his hand towards the eagle, but when his hand was about to touch the edge of the cage, the eagle suddenly opened its mouth and pecked at his hand.
"Ran'er!" The emperor was startled, but Wu Xiaoran moved very quickly. He quickly pulled his hand back, and the eagle's peck missed.
"Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, please spare me..." The young eunuch was so frightened that when he saw that the bird of prey he raised almost pecked and injured Prince Ran, he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed and begged for mercy.
"Forget it, get up. Eagles are naturally unruly birds." The emperor was not a bloodthirsty person, but he still warned the young eunuch, "You must be more careful in the future and don't let them hurt people."
"Yes! Yes! Thank you, Your Majesty, for your forgiveness!" The young eunuch originally thought that he was dead, but unexpectedly the emperor forgave him. He immediately burst into tears of gratitude.
"Ran'er, are you scared?" The emperor hurriedly asked Wu Xiaoran, who was almost pecked by an eagle, and worriedly grabbed his hand and looked at it again and again.
Wu Xiaoran reluctantly pulled his hand out of the emperor's hand, his eyes still fixed on the eagle. Seeing this, the emperor had no choice but to say, "Don't worry, when the pair of goshawks give birth to eaglets, I will definitely give them to you. I will never break my promise!"
Wu Xiaoran then turned his head and looked at him: "No, I won't break my promise!" He couldn't speak clearly, but still wanted the emperor's promise. It seemed that he really wanted a little eagle.
"One...is it necessary to lock them up in cages?" Wu Xiaoran actually said a long sentence. Du Shichu couldn't help but look at him again. He didn't speak unless necessary before.
The emperor was stunned. It was indeed a bit depressing to see two agile eagles locked in a cage. However, if they were not locked up, what if they flew away and never came back?
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it. After all, they'll easily fly away if we don't keep them locked up..." the emperor said embarrassedly.
(End of this chapter)
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