Chapter 892: The beloved cousin escaped from control (18)
The emperor felt a little embarrassed. After all, Du Shichu raised the little lion as his own son and doted on him. Would she be willing to give the little lion to Wu Xiaoran for a few days?
"Or, can you think of something else? The little lion is Duan Yang's sweetheart, I'm afraid she won't give it to him." The emperor frowned with worry.
Wu Xiaoran thought about how Du Shichu treated the little lion, and he couldn't bear to embarrass her, so he said, "Forget it then."
The emperor felt very guilty and suggested: "How about I bring your little eagle to accompany you?"
The two goshawks raised in the emperor's zoo finally gave birth to a cub a year ago. As he had promised before, he gave the eaglet to Wu Xiaoran to raise.
Wu Xiaoran treasured the little eagle very much. He learned a lot from several hunters who came from the grassland and had experience in raising eagles. He took care of the little eagle himself and would not let anyone else help. Fortunately, he finally raised the little eagle with great pains. The little eagle would not recognize anyone except him as its master.
"No need. It likes to fly everywhere. It will be depressed if I let it stay here. I can't bear it." Wu Xiaoran immediately refused.
The emperor sighed and said, "You little guys, each of you treats your pets like your own family. I don't know where all this love comes from..."
In the end, the helpless emperor had to ask someone to copy many scripts for Wu Xiaoran to entertain him while he was recuperating.
Du Shichu didn't know that Wu Xiaoran was injured. She hadn't seen him for several days and sent someone to ask about him. As a result, the people on his side said that he was out on business. Du Shichu then stopped paying attention to it.
After staying in the palace for a few days, she left. As the time of mourning was getting closer, she met more and more people along the way, and more and more unexpected things happened.
For example, now, when her carriage passed through a busy market, suddenly a young and handsome man rushed to the middle of the road and ran right in front of her carriage. If it weren't for the coachman's good horse-riding skills, the man would have been almost hit by the horse.
"How dare you run! Stop right here! You broke the things in my shop and you're running away without paying for them? I'm going to arrest you and bring you to justice..."
"You little bastard! Run! Let's see where you can run to!"
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Behind the young man were several angry people who were chasing and cursing with sticks. They looked ferocious and one could tell at a glance that they were evil people who committed crimes in the street.
"My benefactor in the car, please save me... These people are deliberately bullying outsiders like me, trying to defraud me of my money by pretending to be someone else. They still refuse to give up even after I have seen through their tricks!" The young man suddenly stopped running away, threw himself in front of Du Shichu's carriage, and pleaded in panic.
Seeing that the men were about to catch up, the young man became even more anxious. With fear and panic on his handsome face, he continued to beg Du Shichu: "Please help me, benefactor. I am so grateful. I will definitely repay you in the future..."
"Princess, that man outside is so pitiful, should we help him?" Zhichun was a soft-hearted person. When he saw a weak and gentle young man being chased by a group of vicious people, he immediately felt sympathy for the young man and believed that what he said was true.
"Zhichun, you are so naive." Du Shichu sighed, "You don't even have the slightest bit of guard against others."
"What, what happened?" Zhichun was still confused.
"Nothing." Du Shichu said as he opened the curtain. Just at this moment, the men with sticks caught up and immediately grabbed the young man in front of the carriage.
"What's going on?" Du Shichu asked them.
The moment the captured young man saw Du Shichu, his expression became dazed for a moment, his eyes fixed on Du Shichu's face that was as otherworldly as a lotus emerging from water, he was in a daze, as if he didn't hear what Du Shichu said at all.
When Du Shichu saw his appearance, he couldn't help but frowned. He simply stopped asking and said to the coachman, "Uncle Zhou, let's just go around them."
"Okay, okay." Uncle Zhou responded immediately and was about to drive the horse.
Seeing that the target person was about to leave, the few people finally remembered what they were going to do, so the captured young man immediately showed an aggrieved and pleading look as if he had been forced, and hurriedly said to Du Shichu: "Miss, please help me!"
"I'm not from the government, how can I help you? If you have any problem, you can just report it to the police. I've never seen such an operation before, to catch a passerby on the street and have them judge the case for you." Du Shichu said bluntly.
The young man was choked. He had never expected Du Shichu to react like this. Seeing that the carriage was about to leave, he quickly thought of a way and shouted, "Girl! I saw that the carriage you were riding in was extraordinary, and I thought that your identity must be very noble. I have encountered injustice, and I hope you can help me solve it. If I report to the authorities, it will only cause a lot of trouble. After all, this is the capital, and I am an outsider. Even a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake. What's more, I am a powerless ordinary person, not even a bug..."
He said with a wry smile that such an expression on his good-looking face would always easily arouse other people's sympathy and pity. At least those who were watching the excitement around him were moved by him.
"Yes, it's obvious that this young man is not of noble birth. If he goes to the government, who knows what he will encounter."
"Look at the people who arrested him. They look ferocious and vicious. I wonder which powerful people are backing them. This young man is in big trouble for offending them."
"Alas, life is so difficult for ordinary people like us!"
"It would be nice if this girl, who looks like she is of high status, could get him justice."
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Du Shichu couldn't help but twitch her lips when she heard the people around her hoping that she would "help those in need when seeing injustice". Didn't anyone realize that these people were acting in front of her?
"Can any brave man go to Jingzhao Prefecture to report a case? I will pay you one or two taels of silver as a reward." Du Shichu did not have the hobby of trying cases in the streets or acting as a savior. No matter how these people wanted to plot against her, she would not take any chances.
"Is there really one or two taels of silver?" someone in the crowd asked excitedly. Since it was a matter of silver, the fairness of others suddenly became unimportant.
"Of course! I'm not lying." Du Shichu asked Zhichun to take out a piece of silver, and the people around him became even more excited, shouting, "I'll report to the police!"
"I'm going too!"
"With so many people going there, who should the money be given to?" someone asked curiously.
"The silver will be given to whoever successfully reports the case first." Du Shichu answered readily. In an instant, those who went to report to the authorities became as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they wished they could fly up and rush to Jingzhao Prefecture.
(End of this chapter)
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