I became incredibly cute after dressing up as an animal!

The surveillance video was flashing red, pointing directly at them; it definitely captured something.

Lan Xiaoxiao felt awkward for a moment.

Animals don't have the concept of stealing, because this is foraging for food, and any food they find is theirs!

But humans do have the concept of stealing.

Lan Xiaoxiao held the apple and smiled awkwardly at the camera, her face flushed beneath her frizzy hair.

Finally, it sat down and started eating in front of the camera, eating very well and with excellent table manners.

Hopefully the boss won't be angry when he sees this, Little Bear will give you a healing mukbang performance.

Since we've already been discovered, what else can we do but shamelessly eat it?

I won't eat too much, just a few to satisfy my cravings.

Lan Xiaoxiao comforted herself, but her moral conscience couldn't overcome her cravings.

As the first day of the lunar month slowly walked away, it went to pick fruit.

Lan Xiaoxiao also noticed that there were many footprints in the orchard today, and the fruit on the trees was significantly less than half. Had they been sold?

It seems these fruits will sell out quickly, and the animals won't have many more to eat.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he came back with several big apples in his mouth and sat down to eat them with Lan Xiaoxiao.

Lan Xiaoxiao leaned against the first-year student, one leg propped up, looking quite content.

The scene was incredibly soothing.

The two bears ate ten apples in total and then left, their fat butts swaying back and forth.

When crossing the street, Chu Yi smelled the scents of many people nearby, and Lan Xiaoxiao also smelled them, including a few familiar scents.

Lan Xiaoxiao quickly racked her brains and then realized: "In the first year of junior high, many people probably already know about us eating apples."

I wasn't afraid of these people on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I walked past them with remarkable composure.

The two bears crossed the road and went back.

The police and the research team that had been hiding nearby finally came out.

The farmer's daughter also brought a USB drive containing the surveillance videos, which she handed over to Professor Xu's team. These videos are of research value.

The police told the farmers, "We need to blur the timestamps on the video surveillance footage; we can't disclose the pandas' activity times."

"We understand."

The police said, "Calculate how much fruit the two pandas ate, and we'll report it to your county government. You'll receive compensation then."

Upon hearing this, the farmer's daughter immediately waved her hand: "No need for compensation. They didn't eat much, and the losses to the orchard are negligible. They didn't ruin the fruit; in fact, they helped us sell the unsold fruit, reducing our losses. Consider it an endorsement fee for the national treasures."

The police were amused, but they still had to follow the rules. Not only would the panda have to pay for the fruit it ate, but the government would also cover the losses for farmers if wild boars came down from the mountain and damaged orchards and crops.

The police said, "If you need compensation, go through the wildlife damage compensation process. The Forestry Bureau will contact you tomorrow to fill out forms." The panda ate an apple, and the government paid for it.

"Okay then." The farmer's daughter readily nodded.

"Once these fruits are harvested, the pandas probably won't come anymore. They might come back in the next few days, so call us if they do. If you see a panda, please don't approach it rashly. After all, it's a bear, so please be careful." The police officer dutifully explained everything in detail.

It was well past midnight when the teams from several departments finally withdrew.

Lan Xiaoxiao and Chu Yi slept in the rock wall at the foot of the mountain and heard the roar of cars on the road.

Lan Xiaoxiao: "..."

really!

Sure enough, the theft of the fruit was known to others long ago!

However, the farmers did not install fences, which seems to indicate that they tacitly allow the animals to eat the food.

With so many people watching, the police must know, and the forestry bureau must know too.

Hehe, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, someone settled our apple payment!

No need to worry about getting it for free!

Lan Xiaoxiao was instantly happy, smacking her lips. "How about we go again tomorrow? These apples will be off the tree soon, and we can eat them in a few days. If we go one less day, we'll eat one less day."

Lan Xiaoxiao fell asleep thinking about apples, and then had some delicious dream about food, drooling in the middle of the night.

In the first year of junior high, half asleep, he hugged the teddy bear and licked its mouth clean, cleaning all the saliva.

Early in the morning, on the first day of the lunar new year, I would first go to the river below to drink water, and then go to the hillside to pick bamboo, selecting the plumpest bamboo to pack back.

Just then, Lan Xiaoxiao got up. Chu Yi washed her face, licked the fur on her face, and gave her a hug.

In the first year of junior high school, I really liked teddy bears. Whenever I saw one, I wanted to lick it and hug it.

Lan Xiaoxiao sat on a rock eating bamboo, which was dry, lacked moisture, and wasn't sweet. She wanted to eat a big apple.

Sure enough, once the bear got greedy, it was like a door that couldn't be closed once it opened.

But I don't indulge in gluttony every day...

In the past few years, apart from eating apples twice at the panda rescue center, this is the only time I've had them.

Moreover, the panda rescue center only gives them one apple a day, cut into small pieces, which is not even enough to fill the panda's teeth.

During our visit to the orchard, they didn't eat to their hearts' content. Their main food was still bamboo, and apples were just a small fruit after meals. They ate very restrainedly.

After all, high-altitude sugar apples have a high sugar content, and eating too many is not good.

But then again! It's only for a few days that the sugar content is high, it's not like we eat it every day, all year round, or every season.

"Eek... Eek..." Lan Xiaoxiao muttered as she pulled out the bamboo.

First year of junior high school, it listens attentively. After spending so many years together, it can sometimes understand what the little bear is saying, and sometimes it can even tell what the little bear is thinking just by looking at her expression.

The little bear wanted to eat an apple.

Chu Yi stood up, snatched the bamboo from Lan Xiaoxiao's hand, and tossed it aside.

"Huh?" Lan Xiaoxiao looked at it in confusion.

Grade 7: "Meow~"

Let's go.

Lan Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up! She happily stood up, wiggling her bottom as she followed the steps of the first-year student.

This was the first time they had ever come down the mountain to the orchard in broad daylight.

Moreover, they had already eaten last night, so it's quite rare for them to visit again so early this morning.

The two bears, shameless as ever, brazenly crossed the road.

Inside the orchard, many women had already gone up the mountain to pick apples, and the owner and his daughter were live-streaming the packaging of apples on their phones.

Early in the morning, work had just started on the mountain, and they had only been broadcasting for a short time. The number of viewers in the live stream was so-so, only about 500.

It wasn't surprising that Lan Xiaoxiao and Chu Yi heard voices when they entered the apple orchard, since it was broad daylight.

"Waaah~" Lan Xiaoxiao called out very softly.

"Let's make this quick and easy, steal a few and run!"

Chu Yi understood, but shook his head. Since he was already here, and the little bear clearly wanted to eat a lot, why did he pick a few and run away?

Anyway, these humans can't beat them, and it seems like they don't know how to fight them, so they might as well just sit here and eat.

This was Chu Yi's idea. Lan Xiaoxiao realized it too late because Chu Yi didn't care about people at all. Even though she saw an aunt picking apples in front of her, Chu Yi stood up two meters high on her hind legs to pick apples for her to eat.

It's impossible to miss a bear this big when it stands up.

The auntie picking apples was startled; all the apples in her basket tipped over. She gaped in surprise, her legs trembling, and quickly turned around: "Bear, the panda is here!"

The workers picking apples on the other side of the hill heard this and thought they had misheard.

"Where's the bear?"