Dragon Pattern Roll Set

It is rare to see tigers walking on the street.

Zhan Zhao thought it was weird at first, but after running for a while, he realized that the chaos ahead was unbelievable.

The crowd scattered and fled, the shops closed their doors one after another, and the screams continued.

Zhan Zhao frowned and pulled away from the crowd to take a closer look, he was also a little surprised.

Bai Yutang came with Zhan Zhao, without crowding the crowd, but directly went up to the roof, and Zhan Zhao went up and down to look at the blank space in the room.

I saw a black tiger standing in the middle of the road.

Tigers are rare, and this kind of black one is even rarer.

Not to mention, this tiger is really beautiful, with a huge body, a kind of grayish blue all over, black tiger stripes all over the body, a black word "King" on the top of the head, a pair of golden pupils, full of energy.

Zhan Zhao looked at it for a while and exclaimed, this tiger is beautiful!

The black tiger wandered in place, seemed to have lost its way, turned around, but did not hurt anyone.

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin, squatted down, stretched out a finger, and tickled the tiger like teasing a cat in Kaifeng Mansion, "Tsk tsk tsk".

Bai Yutang stood on the roof, holding his forehead—this cat must be starving.

The tiger stood in place, looking at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao "tsk tsk" a few times, seeing that it couldn't come over, he narrowed his eyes, stood up, and beckoned, "Come here."

Bai Yutang stood on the roof, wanting to laugh.

The tiger looked at Zhan Zhao for a while, then suddenly walked in his direction and walked slowly.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hands, "Hey, come here, I'll give you some fish."

Bai Yutang was speechless, Zhan Zhao used that black tiger as a big cat?

The tiger was walking forward when suddenly a scream was heard.

Zhan Zhao looked up, and saw a little doll running out from the inn beside him.

The doll was about two or three years old, wearing a small padded jacket and a tiger-head cap, and stumbled down.

It was a woman who called, probably the doll's mother, chasing after her.

But that baby may be seeing a big tiger for the first time, screaming and running, looking very excited, straight to the tiger.

At this time, the surrounding crowd was a little restless, and everyone was worried that the baby would be buried in the tiger's mouth.An old man stopped the young woman who was screaming and chasing the child, and told her not to bark, because it would startle the tiger, which might be bad for the child.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, on the room, Bai Yutang's fingers lightly pressed the spring of the knife edge, as if he wanted to draw the knife out of its sheath.

Just when the little baby ran to a place not far from the tiger, he tripped suddenly and jumped forward.

At this time, I saw the black tiger's tail hooked lightly, catching the little baby who was about to face the ground, and looked back at him.

Zhan Zhao touched his chin... the movement was very light, this tiger saves people without hurting them, it has spirituality.

The doll grabbed the tiger's tail and smiled at it. The tiger simply sat down and turned to look at him. This scene of the child and the tiger staring at each other is quite interesting.The child was not afraid, and the tiger would not eat him either. It moved its tail, helped the child stand upright, then took it back, swayed behind him twice, and moved Yuanyuan's ears a few times, looking very gentle.

The surrounding audience looked at each other in blank dismay. At this time, footsteps came from afar.

"The Orion is coming!"

Someone yelled.

Zhan Zhao looked up and saw a dozen young hunters wearing animal skin vests and carrying bows and arrows galloping towards him in the distance, shouting, "Everyone spread out!" After speaking, he drew his bow and set his arrows.

The tiger looked back, stood up, and roared.

The sound of the tiger's howl shook the window edges on both sides to "buzz", and the hunters were also startled, and they all stopped, looking forward with some hesitation.

With a hook of the black tiger's tail, he hooked the doll who was still lying next to him behind him, and stared at the hunters with unkind eyes.

"Use poisonous arrows." The lead hunter said, "Be careful not to hurt that child."

More than a dozen hunters shot their arrows one after another, and the leader drew his bow first and shouted, "Shoot it to death!"

A dozen poisonous arrows shot at the black tiger.

Heihu hooked the doll behind him and seemed to want to jump into the air, but he saw a figure in front of him.

Heihu took a step back, not even a single arrow landed beside him, let alone pierced his body, when he saw a blue figure standing in front of it, catching those dozens of arrows with one hand.

Bai Yutang smiled lightly - he knew that Zhan Zhao would go to save the black tiger.

Zhan Zhao blocked all the crossbow arrows, raised his hand to block them, and felt that he was much lighter today, and thought about it—that's right, are you hungry?

"Cough cough."

On the roof, Bai Yutang coughed, Zhan Zhao came back to his senses, raised his head and waved at the hunters, "No shot!"

"The tiger hurts people, why can't you shoot?!" Orion was dissatisfied, and at the same time he didn't dare to make mistakes. Zhan Zhao almost flew into the air with his leap just now, and he couldn't see clearly the speed of his movement, and he blocked all the crossbow arrows with one hand. , is definitely a martial arts master.

"It didn't hurt anyone, but it saved people." Zhan Zhao said, turned around and picked up the little doll, and returned it to the shocked young woman beside him.The young woman hurriedly thanked her, the little baby was still giggling stupidly, no flesh was hurt at all, she turned around and wanted a big tiger.

"But he is a beast after all!" Orion took out his net bag, as if he wanted to capture the tiger alive.

"Sigh." Zhan Zhao continued to wave his hands, with a straight face, "What kind of beast, it's just a big cat."

"Cat?" Several hunters were surprised, "This is clearly..."

"It's just a bigger cat." As Zhan Zhao said, he grabbed the Heihu who was still looking around, and patted his head, "Meow, come and listen!"

Heihu looked up at Zhan Zhao, shook his head, squatted beside him, and licked his paws.

Zhan Zhao looked down at it, then suddenly squatted down, reached out and grabbed the tiger's paw, and held it in front of his eyes.

Heihu looked at him puzzled, but he didn't bite.

Bai Yutang also came down from the roof. At this time, a large number of yamen servants came. It was the prefect who heard that a tiger had run out of the street, and sent people to catch it quickly.On the other side, Ouyang Shaozheng also came with people, and the news spread to the barracks that Zhao Pu wanted a tiger for a long time, so that he could scare people with it during the war.Unexpectedly, it was still a black tiger, so he hurriedly urged Ouyang Shaozheng to catch him alive.

But when everyone gathered, the scene in front of them was a bit strange.

Zhan Zhao looked at the tiger's claws for a long time, then suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the black tiger down, then began to ruffle its fur, and finally flipped over to look at its belly.

The tiger seemed to want to struggle, but Zhan Zhao glared at it, and it obediently lay on its back, Ren Zhanzhao looked at its belly.Bai Yutang walked to the side and took a look - the tiger was male.

After flipping through, Zhan Zhao waved to Bai Yutang with a few things in his hand.

Bai Yutang bent down and looked down, and saw that Zhan Zhao was holding some mud in his hand, it was picked out from the tiger's claws, and there were bloodstains, the mud was yellow.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "It left the paw print on the muddy ground? Could it be the one who eats people?"

"Impossible." Zhan Zhao stroked the tiger's belly, "It doesn't look like it's full. It didn't hurt the kid just now, and it even protected him."

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang looked back at the child's tiger-skin hat, "Could it be considered his own cub?"

Zhan Zhao looked down at the docile yet huge tiger, held its head and asked Bai Yutang, "Look at its eyes!"

Bai Yutang looked at Tiger's eyes, then at Zhan Zhao...

Zhan Zhao opened his eyes wide and asked Bai Yutang, "Look at its innocent eyes, even if it starved to death, it didn't eat people!"

Bai Yutang laughed and shook his head, but this tiger is indeed docile and seems to have human nature, could it be that someone has been raising it?

Zhan Zhao took out another object and showed it to Bai Yutang, "I found it from the fur on its belly."

Bai Yutang took it over and took a look, only to find that it was some broken hay clippings.

"This is……"

Zhan Zhao lifted the soles of his feet to show Bai Yutang, then pointed at him, "You should have them too."

Bai Yutang nodded, "The hay in the forage room of the farmer's cowshed just now."

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Didn't Niuniu say that she heard a tiger barking last night?"

"The Taoist priest spent the night in Niu Niu's house last night. Could this tiger belong to that Taoist priest?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Wait...the black tiger..."

"What did you think of?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang curiously.

Bai Yutang looked at the tiger uncertainly, "Probably not, it's been dead for many years..."

"What has been dead for so many years?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

"Master Zhan."

At this time, a government servant stepped forward, "Or take Heihu to another place and you can discuss things later, the road is blocked here."

"Oh." Zhan Zhao hurriedly stood up, poking the Heihu who seemed to be enjoying himself while lying down with his toes, "Let's go."

Heihu got up, saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walking back, and with one bite... grabbed Zhan Zhao's clothes, and stabbed.

When Zhan Zhao turned his head, he saw that the back of his clothes had been torn off, and Heihu had half a piece of blue cloth in his mouth.

Zhan Zhao blinked.

Heihu looked up at him.

After a while, Zhan Zhao raised his hand and punched it, "It's new clothes, so I'll lose money!"

Heihu turned around, hooked Gou Zhanzhao's leg with his tail, took two steps forward, and looked back at him.

Bai Yutang whispered, "It seems to want us to follow it."

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin, "Could it be that it has good restaurant introductions?"

Bai Yutang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Then let's go eat first."

Zhan Zhao turned around to leave, but the black tiger let out a "wow".

Zhan Zhao turned his head, and Hei Hu looked at him.

"Oh, what annoyance!" Zhan Zhao sighed in silence for a long time, but temporarily gave up eating and followed Hei Hu.

Bai Yutang also followed. Although Zhan Zhao kept saying that he was a foodie, he hadn't eaten until now, and it seemed that this foodie asked for it.I really don't know whether to say that he is too nosy, or that he is too soft-hearted.

"If you're really hungry, why don't you buy a steamed stuffed bun by the side of the road?" Bai Yutang suggested.

"No!" Zhan Zhao quit, "I've been hungry for so long, I must have a good meal, it's too bad to just eat a steamed stuffed bun!"

Bai Yutang didn't understand what kind of logic this was, but the logic of foodies has always been incomprehensible.

Heihu led Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang out of the city, into a forest, walking, walking...

It was almost evening at this time.

Zhan Zhao raised his face to look at the sky, and then walked down. He might not be able to catch the dinner at Baigui Villa in a while, "Where are you going?"

Zhan Zhao asked.

Heihu looked back at him, and even called out, as if to tell him not to worry...

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, then continued to follow, and saw the black tiger finally stopped behind a rock.

Heihu leaped onto the rock, looked down at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang from a high position, then raised his head to the sky and screamed... the cry was desolate, it seemed to be a cry of grief.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, and noticed that there seemed to be a pair of shoes behind the mountain rock.

The two hurried around the rock... and saw a person lying on the ground behind the rock.

It was a young man in a gray robe, with a large red bloodstain on his abdomen, and a basket and whisk beside him.

Zhan Zhao knelt down and touched the man's neck, and frowned at Bai Yutang.

In fact, from the ashen expression on that person, Bai Yutang had already inferred that he was a dead person.

This Taoist priest is very similar to Niu Niu's description, very young, maybe in her twenties, tall, thin, and pretty.

Zhan Zhao found an identical waist card of mahogany exorcism ghosts from him, and the handle of the whisk was also of mahogany, the previous things should all be his.

Zhan Zhao carefully inspected the wound of the deceased, "Sword wound."

"There are many scrapes and scratches on his body, it seems that he rolled down the hillside." Bai Yutang took a closer look, "He should have fought someone before he died."

"Did he die from serious injuries?" Zhan Zhao felt a little pity for no reason, and looked up at Heihu, "Tianmu attacked two people, but this one seems to be nearby, and they left some things behind, so they died here In the woods."

"If Tianmu really killed the person, then he should have been bitten to death, not stabbed to death by a sword." Bai Yutang reached out and pulled the collar of the corpse.

"Hello." Zhan Zhao grabbed his hand, "What are you doing?"

"See if my guess is right." Bai Yutang tore off some of his clothes, and saw a black tiger tattoo on the left chest of the young Taoist priest.The tattoo is very delicate, the side of the black tiger is in the shape of a prey.

"Sure enough..." Bai Yutang frowned deeply.

"Guess right?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang nodded, "I'm not sure, it would be good if Master was here, and I also heard from him."

Zhan Zhao took out a loud arrow and threw it into the sky, waiting for the people from Kaifeng Mansion to bring the body back.

"Anyway, I'm waiting, why don't you tell me and listen." Zhan Zhao went to the stone and sat down, leaning against Heihu, "Let me lean on for a while."

Hei Hu sat still, looking down at the corpse on the ground, letting Zhan Zhao lean on him, seeming a little sad.

Bai Yutang also leaned against the stone, and said, "Master told me before that there is a ghost catcher named Mu Ning."

When Bai Yutang said the name of "Mu Ning", Heihu turned to look at him, seeming to understand.

"The Taoist priest is a descendant of the Maoshan Taoist. He has yin and yang eyes, raises a black tiger, and hunts monsters everywhere."

"So amazing?" Zhan Zhao was curious, "Is there a real person in the legend?"

"That person really exists." Bai Yutang folded his arms and continued, "Mu Ning died a long time ago. If he is still alive, he should be older than my master and your grandfather."

"Such an old age? Then he probably didn't raise this black tiger." Zhan Zhao patted the black tiger and estimated, "It looks like one or two years old at most."

"Maoshan Taoist, you should have heard of it?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Well, there used to be a Maoshan sect, but there were a lot of fake Taoist priests later, isn't it already extinct?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Most of the remaining ones are liars."

"It's true, Mu Ning is true...I heard from my master." Bai Yutang said, "It is said that there are many sects in the Maoshan sect, such as the green dragon and white tiger, and the most powerful branch is the black tiger branch. , Mu Ning is the originator, they only accept one apprentice at a time, the black tiger tattoo is their characteristic, and the black tiger is also passed down from generation to generation."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao finally understood, pointing to the little Taoist priest, "Mu Ning's descendants." Then pointing to the black tiger, "Mu Ning's descendants of the black tiger... no, Houhu. "

"This tiger doesn't hurt people. It must have grown up with people. That's not counting. It must have lived with people for generations to be so spiritual." Bai Yutang nodded.

"So, this little Taoist priest came to catch Tianmu, but he was killed." Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then stretched out his hand to look at the palm of the little Taoist priest, "It seems that the skill is not weak."

"Niu Niu said that she heard the roar of the tiger last night, could it be when the Taoist priest left the hut?" Bai Yutang asked, "Both the mahogany sword and token fell at that time, but he was injured by the sword first. "

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then tore off the Taoist priest's clothes again... and saw a blue-black palm print on his ribs.

"This must be the cause of death." Zhan Zhao frowned, "The Taoist received a sword first." Zhan Zhao pointed to the obvious bandage and traces of medicine on the sword wound, "But it was not fatal, this palm caused internal injuries to him , he will die."

While talking, Ouyang Shaozheng ran in from the forest, with soldiers behind him, "You two ran fast enough, you disappeared in a blink of an eye."

Zhan Zhao pointed to the corpse on the ground.

"Another one died?" Ouyang frowned, and glanced, "Fortunately, this one is complete."

It was already dark when the body was carried back to the Yamen of Yanzhou Prefecture.

The yamen was extremely busy, it turned out that the surrounding counties sent people to collect supplies, and reported the disaster situation to Lord Bao and Grand Master Pang by the way, the yamen was crowded with people inside and outside.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took Heihu, entered through the back door, and went straight to Wuzuo's room.

Gongsun came out wiping his hands just after the autopsy, and frowned when he saw that another body had been brought in, "Why did another one die?"

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he saw Zhan Zhao and the black tiger following behind Bai Yutang, and was taken aback, "Wow... Tiger!"

"Where is the tiger?"

Gongsun yelled, and the fourth son next door rushed out, and he ran face to face with Heihu.

"Little Four!" Gongsun yelled, this kid is really daring, he rushed out when he saw the tiger.

Fortunately, behind the fourth son, Zhao Pu who was picking his teeth with a toothpick also heard the "tiger" come out, reached out and picked up the fourth son and carried it on his shoulders, and came over to tease the tiger by the way, "This looks good!"

The yamen servants in Baozhou government all grinned—what kind of people are they, who play with tigers like cats.

Zhan Zhao roughly explained what happened.

"That means his master is dead, and no one is raising it now, right?" Zhao Pu said to Ziying, "Go get a piece of raw beef, let's raise it."

Ziying hurriedly ran to get the raw beef, and came back carrying a pig's heel, "My lord, there is no beef, only pig's trotters."

Finished, to the tiger.

Tiger looked at the pig's trotter in Ziying's hand, but didn't move, as if he didn't care.

"Don't like pork?" Ziying scratched her head.

"Don't feed the tiger like you feed the dog, okay?" Zhao Pu said angrily, "This is the king of beasts, be respectful!"

The corners of Ziying's mouth twitched, and she held the pig's trotters in front of Heihu, "King of beasts, you have dinner."

Heihu raised his eyelids and glanced at Ziying, but still didn't move.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay--unsatisfactory?

"I'll go see if there's any beef." Ziying put down the trotters and turned to go to the back kitchen.

Zhan Zhao clicked his tongue twice, stretched out his hand to pick up the pig's trotter and brought it in front of Heihu, "You can be content, if I didn't eat raw meat, I would have snatched it from you, and if I ate it, I wouldn't eat it..."

Before Zhan Zhao finished speaking, he saw the black tiger pick up the pig's trotter in Zhan Zhao's hand, sit down and bite, eating with gusto.

Ziying rubbed her chin, "Why don't I feed him, but Zhan Zhao just eats?"

Soon, Heihu finished gnawing on the pig's trotters, licked his mouth and gave Zhan Zhao a whimper.

Ziying went to the kitchen to find a pheasant again, and handed it to it, but Heihu still refused to eat it.

Zhao Pu stretched out his hand to try it, but Heihu refused to eat it.

Zhan Zhao gave it the chicken, and Heihu took it in one bite.

"Yes." Zhao Pu spread his hands, "This black tiger recognizes its master, and it seems that it has recognized Zhan Zhao."

"Maomao is amazing!" The fourth son looked admiring, "Tiger likes you!"

Zhan Zhao laughed dryly, maybe he blocked the hunter's bow and arrow just now and saved its life?So I tilted my head to look at the black tiger, it was still very pleasing to the eye, although it was a bit bigger...

"It likes you so much, so you can keep it." Bai Yutang said from the side, "Anyway, it's your family."

Zhan Zhao thought about it, and thought it was pretty good...

Just when he thought it was feasible, the black tiger suddenly came to rub Zhan Zhao, as if he hadn't had enough.

"Aren't you full yet?" Zhan Zhao took the other pheasant that Ziying handed over and handed it over. Heihu continued to eat. After eating, he drank half a barrel of clear water from the wooden bucket at the well, and returned to the well. Zhan Zhao sat next to him, contentedly licking his paws and washing his face, acting like a cat.

"The appetite is not small." Ziying admired, reached out to touch it, and Heihu glanced at him.

Ziying pointed at Zhan Zhao, "We are friends!"

Heihu didn't move, he just touched it.

The fourth son wanted to touch him too, so Zhao Pu hugged him, and the fourth son stretched out his hands to rub Heihu's soft belly. The black tiger seemed to like children quite a bit, rubbing his tail on the fourth son's body, and continued to wash his face .

Zhan Zhao also nodded—yes, he has a lot of appetite, but he is going to be raised in Kaifeng Mansion, do he need to tell Mr. Bao?

At this time, many people came to watch. I heard that Zhan Zhao brought back a tiger, which was quite obedient.

Master Bao also took a look at it when he had some time, and he was very happy, "Sure! I like the fur color!"

Everyone looked at the sky, and Pang Ji stomped his feet with a smile, and said, "Lao Bao, stay away from him at night, or you won't be able to tell them apart if you mix them together, but if you feel uncomfortable, let him go to court on your behalf. You two long-lost brothers... ahahaha..."

Bao Zheng stared.

Zhan Zhao asked, "My lord, is it okay to raise him in Kaifeng Mansion?"

"No." Master Bao nodded briskly, and patted Zhan Zhao's shoulder, "Of course, if it's guard Zhan, guard Zhan is also responsible for the food."

Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback.

"It's so edible." The fourth son looked up at Zhan Zhao, "How much is your salary, Maomao?"

Zhan Zhao was silent for a long while, then suddenly turned to Bai Yutang and asked, "Is the adoptive son going to be your godson?"

Bai Yutang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Are you hungry?"

"Hungry." Zhan Zhao remembered.

"Oh, there are a lot of people coming and going in and out of the mansion today." Bao Zheng said, "There is no food in the kitchen, you two go out to eat."

Zhan Zhao looked at the sky, "It's too late, why don't we go to Baigui Villa to eat." He said, and asked Bai Yutang, "You said, Xue Baigui is very particular about food, so why don't you treat guests to dinner and thank you for saving my sister? Will be stingy, huh?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "It should be..."

"Then let's go." Zhan Zhao said enthusiastically, "Let's go and taste the chef's skills at White Ghost Villa."

As soon as Zhan Zhao left, Hei Hu also followed, as if he was about to cling to him.

Bai Yutang went out together, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Since we raised it, let's give it a name."

"Name?" Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin and looked down at Heihu, "I already have a white sugar at home, why don't you... why not call it Baifan?"

Bai Yutang looked at the black tiger with some sympathy.

"But you are black, and it's not easy to call it black rice, why not call it black rice cake?" Zhan Zhao reached out and patted Heihu's head, "Squid balls are also good."

Bai Yutang watched Zhan Zhao walk forward slowly with his hands behind his back in a good mood, and the sword tassel on the hilt swayed with his walking movements, just like the swaying rhythm of the black tiger's tail.Bai Yutang couldn't help feeling a little emotional, was Zhan Zhao short-hearted, thoughtful, or just naturally happy?No matter what the situation, he is always so happy?

"Under what circumstances would you be unhappy?" Bai Yutang suddenly asked a question that he found inexplicable.

Zhan Zhao turned his face to look at him, and said seriously, "If the food at Baigui Villa is not good, or if someone disturbs my meal again, then I will probably be very unhappy... Shi Ke can't be hungry, but If you are hungry once, you cannot be hungry again, and if you are hungry for the third time, you will never be forgiven!"