Come on, Jiaojiao, I'm sick too.

At this moment, Xiao Juncheng's deep black eyes were staring at the girl in front of him quietly, with a look of deep inquiry in them. Wen Yuqing's heart was pounding under his gaze. Just as she was feeling uneasy, she heard the man's cold voice: "How did you know I was here?"

"Or, how did you find my location so accurately?"

"!!!"

this problem!

A look of surprise flashed across her face, quickly, but was still caught by Xiao Juncheng.

Can she stop touching the panda?

But her evasive words were too deliberate. I knew she was up to something without even answering.

"Hmm?" So what's her secret?

"My sense of smell is very sensitive. I just remembered the smell of His Highness when I was in the hall, and then I followed the smell and found him here..."

Damn, is she a dog? She came here just by smelling the scent!

After Wen Yuqing finished speaking, she silently covered her ears.

Xiao Juncheng: "..."

What kind of puppy is she? She can actually tell.

I knew she wouldn't answer meekly.

"Your Highness, can I touch the baby panda?" Wen Yuqing asked. She answered, and whether she believed it or not was up to him.

Panda? Isn't this little beast called an iron-eating beast? Xiao Juncheng showed a strange look.

Wen Yuqing understood, and then began to explain: "Your Highness, by chance, I bought a book from a foreign merchant. It contained an introduction to the iron-eating beast. It also has another name, the panda, and it likes to eat bamboo~"

Since pandas exist in this world, there must be records of them. It’s just that the species is rare and not widely known.

"Oh, really? But the envoy said it needs to drink milk to grow up." Xiao Juncheng's eyes fell on the two wooden basins that were licked to a shine.

Wen Yuqing said as a matter of course: "Because the baby panda is still young, of course it drinks milk. When it grows up a little, you can feed it bamboo shoots. When it grows up, it can use its sharp teeth to eat bamboo."

Then she muttered softly, "Didn't Your Highness grow up drinking milk when he was a child..."

Xiao Juncheng: "......"

Ahem! That seems to make sense.

but!

"You should know that I'm not asking just this time. Last time, it was in the back street of Qianji Restaurant." He looked at the girl in front of him sharply, not allowing her to make any more excuses.

Wen Yuqing, determined to keep her nonsense to the end, continued, "Do you believe me, it's a coincidence? Oh, I know Your Highness doesn't believe it, but it's the truth."

She blinked her clear eyes and looked at the man seriously. She would not tell the truth anyway. Believe it or not. It was impossible for him to find out about the system anyway.

"Aren't you afraid of being beheaded?" Xiao Juncheng said in a deep voice. He is the crown prince of the current dynasty and will not allow her to deceive him ambiguously!

To be honest, she was quite scared, but she had a hunch that Xiao Juncheng would not really punish her.

But he's so fierce now...

So Wen Yuqing skillfully applied the new skills she had learned during this period.

She shook her shoulders as if in fear, then lowered her blushing eyes and said, "Your Highness, I know I was wrong."

Xiao Juncheng: "..."

Pretending! Pretending again! He's not the old lady of the Wen family, he won't fall for her tricks!

She is so good at pretending, why is her name Wen Yuqing? He thinks Wen Zhuangzhuang is more appropriate.

Wen Yuqing timidly raised her eyes and glanced at him. When she met those inky eyes, she instantly shrank her shoulders, looking as if she was terrified.

"Stop pretending."

Wen Yuqing was stunned for a moment, then looked up and asked, "Will Your Highness chop off my head then...?"

Xiao Juncheng: ...

What? If I don’t chop off your head, you’re going to let yourself go, right?

"It depends on my mood." He said with a sour face.

He was not a bloodthirsty person, so he would not chop off anyone's head casually. He just said that because he was slightly annoyed by her nonsense.

In fact, Wen Yuqing was extremely brave and she was not afraid of him. This was his most intuitive feeling in this matter.

I don’t know if she is so bold only in front of him or if she is the same to everyone.

He thought it was the latter. After all, he knew her situation in the Wen Mansion. Facing her father who scolded her and punished her every day, she was not afraid at all. He had never seen any young lady from a famous family like her.

She is a little different.

[Ding, Xiao Juncheng's heartbeat value +5! ]

Wow!

Wen Yuqing's eyes lit up, and then she looked at the Crown Prince opposite her with a smile and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Xiao Juncheng raised his eyebrows, thinking that she was so happy because he said he would not chop off her head.

"Then Your Highness, can I touch the baby panda?" Hehehe, she answered the question.

"...Yeah." She was thinking about that little beast, right?

And it's not a human being, why call it a baby? It's just a little cub.

"Hehe, thank you, Your Highness." Wen Yuqing directly held the baby panda into her arms, and then started stroking it with a smile. Wow, the feeling is amazing.

It's so cute, and its body is very clean and white like a glutinous rice dumpling. Wen Yuqing buried her face in the panda cub and took a deep breath. Woo, it's so happy.

"Hmm!" What is this biped doing? Is she going to eat me?!

"Hmmmm!" Help!

Xiao Juncheng was speechless looking at this crazy woman. Does she really like her so much?

"like very much?"

"Of course, Your Highness, don't you think it's cute?" Wen Yuqing couldn't let go of the baby panda.

I don't think so.

but...

What was her secret? Her lies certainly couldn't fool him, but no matter what, she refused to tell the truth and expose her whereabouts. This was a fatal threat to him.

This time, in the palace, it was impossible for anyone to monitor him and immediately report his whereabouts to Wen Yuqing.

So it's really weird.

It seems we need to investigate further.

He originally thought she was an assassin or a killer from the enemy country, but in the end he found out that she was just an unwelcome concubine of the Wen family.

But after observing her for so long, she didn't make any unusual moves.

He couldn't see through her.

Wen Yuqing was happily petting the panda until Xiao Juncheng reminded her, then she stopped stroking with reluctance.

"The party is almost over."

"Oh." She should go back.

She was content to be able to touch the national treasure once.

She placed the panda cub on the table. Then she said to Xiao Juncheng, who was sitting across from her, "Then Your Highness, I will be leaving first."

"Ah."

When he was in the hall, he saw her lowering her eyes in disappointment because the panda cub fell into the arms of the queen mother. At that moment, an idea suddenly formed in his mind. Unexpectedly, things developed in the direction he expected.

Although she was a little puzzled, she did find his location easily in such a short time.

After Wen Yuqing left, Ying Yi suddenly appeared. Looking at Wen Yuqing's back, he thought of his past experiences in the martial arts world: "Master, I heard there is a kind of witchcraft in southern Xinjiang..."

It doesn't look like witchcraft.

Xiao Juncheng picked up the panda cub that had been ravaged by Wen Yuqing and seemed to be lost in thought.

"Check her past again."

"Yes, master." Ying Yi accepted the order.

When Wen Yuqing returned, the banquet had just ended and she happened to meet Wen Huai who was planning to look for her.

"elder brother."

Wen Huai: "Qing'er, let's go back."

"Well, let's go."

When they walked to the carriage, they were met with Wen Yuanzhao's bitter face as soon as they got on. She silently moved away from him and sat next to Wen Huai. She was afraid that Wen Yuanzhao would go crazy again and ruin her good mood after petting the baby panda.

"Where are you going?"

"The hut."

"Rude!"

"..."

**

In Fengqi Palace, the Queen was still analyzing with her personal nanny who had caused Xiao Juncheng to look strange today.

There were four ministers sitting in the middle, and they all had their female relatives with them.

She seemed to see hope.

"Hmmmm~" The cry of a childish little animal interrupted the passionate conversation between the master and servant.

"Mother, your little beast." Xiao Juncheng stuffed the beast into the queen's arms and continued, "Also, it's called Panda."

Panda? Is it a bear or a cat? Queen Yunshu looked down at the black and white ball in her arms.

No, isn’t it called the Iron-eating Beast?

So this is the name Cheng Er gave it?

It's rare to see him so interested in a small animal...

She lovingly caressed the panda in her arms. Then she said kindly, "Cheng'er, which lady did you take a fancy to in the palace today?"

? ?

"No." Where did she come to this conclusion?

"Cheng'er, don't lie to your mother. She saw everything."

Did you see it? What did you see?

He remembered that he had done nothing.

At this time, the queen imitated his appearance today and made an expression that was three parts ridicule and seven parts sarcasm.

Xiao Juncheng: "..."

Isn't this just ridicule and disgust? How come when it comes to his mother, it becomes like he has fallen in love with Wen Yuqing?

Yun Shu saw that he had it, but he refused to admit it!

"Cheng'er, just admit it. Your mother won't laugh at you. Not only won't laugh at you, your mother will also help you with all her strength." Yun Shu encouraged.

He really didn't, how could he admit it? Besides, Wen Yuqing's weirdness has not been figured out yet. Even if it is figured out, Wen Yuqing is Wen Yuanzhao's concubine's daughter. They won't agree if he says it, okay? Doesn't he know them yet?

So he left with a dark face and without looking back, leaving behind a sentence: "Don't worry about it."

Yun Shu: Okay, okay, I don’t care.

She felt that the boy had acquiesced, so forget it, if he didn't want her to interfere, then he wouldn't let her. She could just wait to meet her daughter-in-law.

In the west courtyard of the Taifu Mansion, Liu Yuerong angrily swept the teacups on the table. Today, the Crown Prince didn't even look at her. They had played together when they were children, so how could he not recognize her?

And when she was halfway through her dance, he actually left early! Was he really unwilling to look at her even once?

Originally, she thought that Su Si's chance would come when she married Prince Duan, but she kept hitting a wall. The Queen Mother originally liked her very much, but she didn't even mention her name at the banquet just now, and didn't help her keep the Crown Prince.

She secretly clenched the handkerchief in her hand. She absolutely could not sit still and wait for death. No one could stop her from becoming the Crown Princess and the future Queen.

Humph, that idiot Susie, does she think Prince Duan can defeat the Crown Prince and become the new emperor? She’s daydreaming!

Thinking of this, she felt a little better, but apart from Susie, she still had a strong competitor, that was Shen Xi!

There was a glint of resentment in her eyes...

-

The panda cub was raised by the queen for a few days. During this time, Xiao Juncheng came to see it and found that it was still as greedy as ever. He also found that its body had grown a little in just a few days without seeing it, becoming a rounder black and white ball. At this moment, he believed the words of the Liang State envoy. At this rate of growth, it really had the potential to grow into a ferocious beast.

Suddenly he remembered that Wen Yuqing said it liked to eat bamboo, so he asked someone to get a few bamboo shoots from the imperial kitchen to feed it, but the panda Tuanzi just sniffed it and finally turned around and walked towards the basin of milk.

Xiao Juncheng shook his head, maybe it’s still too young?

"Jun Cheng, if you really like Tuanzi, you can take him to the East Palace to raise him. Your mother will give it to you." Because of this Tuanzi, Cheng'er often came to her place recently, which made her uncomfortable. In the past, he would only come once every ten days or half a month.

"Thank you, Mother, but it's not necessary. I'm planning to go to Jiangnan. The floods have been getting worse recently, and my father asked me to take care of this matter."

People have been sent to deal with it before, but the money allocated from the court seems to have been embezzled, resulting in the current flood disaster and the number of refugees becoming more serious. The situation is not optimistic.

The Queen: "Going to Jiangnan? Then Cheng'er, be careful and bring back some local specialties for me."

Anyway, Xiao Juncheng often goes out, so she is not worried. After all, the shadow guards are there, and her son is very skilled in martial arts.

Xiao Juncheng: "...Okay."

The person who was most happy about Xiao Juncheng's going to Jiangnan was Prince Duan, because he could do a lot of things without Xiao Juncheng. Perhaps when he came back, the situation in the court would have changed a lot. So he was extremely happy to favor his princess that day.

Wen Yuqing also knew that Xiao Juncheng was going to Jiangnan. Wen Yuanzhao mentioned it at the dinner table.

Xiao Juncheng is going to Jiangnan? Suddenly, she had an idea: perhaps this is a good opportunity to cultivate feelings.

So the next day, when Xiao Juncheng's team to the south of the Yangtze River just left the capital, Wen Yuqing also sneaked out of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Miss, where are we going?" In fact, Xiaotao was scared in her heart. If the master and the old lady knew that she and the young lady had sneaked out, they would definitely be very angry.

"Jiangnan."

!!!

Going to Gangnam? Oh my god!

"Miss, you..."

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go quickly, otherwise we won't be able to leave if we are discovered." Wen Yuqing said, holding Xiaotao's hand.

"Oh oh oh..." Xiao Tao was still a little surprised, but she quickly adjusted herself and listened to her young lady. She would go wherever her young lady went. She heard that Jiangnan was in chaos now, and she could protect her young lady with her around. Although she didn't know kung fu, she could block the knife for her young lady.

Wen Yuqing rented a carriage in advance. The two arrived at the meeting place. After paying the silver, Wen Yuqing got in the carriage, and Xiaotao followed closely behind.

"Miss, can you tell Xiaotao why you want to go to Jiangnan?" If she remembered correctly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also went to Jiangnan.