I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

There was a loud clang in his ears, Luo Bai opened his eyes and jumped up, his eyes were extremely fierce, and he grinned and showed his fangs.

But there was no black bear in front of him, and there was no seriously injured Chu Yuzhao and a large amount of blood. He felt his body shaking, looked around blankly, and couldn't remember where he was for a while.

"Smack sip, sip sip."

Following the voice, he saw an old man wearing a blue satin robe with dark patterns of rich and noble flowers, and finally realized that he was in a carriage going to the border.

The old man, who had been lying down and drowsy at first, sat up, sucking in his mouth, and stretched out a dry and trembling hand, holding a bone forward.

"Are you hungry? Come eat, suck." Seeing Luo Bai looking at him, the old man gestured to the ground in front of him with his shriveled chin, "There are also there."

Luo Bai looked forward again, and saw a bone lying there.

The bones exuded a tempting meaty smell, which made him swallow his saliva. After all, he left the palace without eating lunch and kept running on the snow. Also feel hungry.

But he is not a dog, no matter how hungry he is, he can't pick up the bones on the ground to eat.

The old man saw that Luo Bai was looking back and forth at the two bones, but was sitting upright, so he picked up a bowl next to him and placed it tremblingly in front of Luo Bai.

It was a bowl of white rice soaked in delicious chicken soup.

"Eat it, I don't want to eat it, I'll give it to you." The old man may not only have bad eyes, but also bad ears, and he speaks loudly.

Luo Bai looked at the bowl of rice, and looked at the old man hesitantly, not sure if he was eating for himself.The old man pointed to the bowl again: "Eat, I don't want to eat when I'm on the road, but my son wants me to eat."

After the old man complained, he took out a cloth bag from under the cushion, took out a few roasted chestnuts, peeled off one, fed it to his mouth, and slowly bit it with his few teeth.

"I like to eat this. My son won't allow me to eat it, so I will eat it in hiding." The old man said vaguely.

Luo Bai groaned softly to express his gratitude, tightened the burden on his back, and buried his head in the mouth to eat. The rice in chicken soup was delicious, and he quickly ate up the bowl, and even used his tongue to lick a few rice grains at the bottom of the bowl. Lick it clean.

The old man kept looking at him, and when he saw that he had finished his meal, he picked up the plate of ribs on the small table and handed it to him: "I ordered someone to cook it for you, I can't chew the bones."

Luo Bai straightened up, took the plate of ribs with his front paws, sat in the corner of the carriage, picked up a piece of ribs and gnawed carefully.

"You dog is really strange. I have lived for so many years, and I have never seen a dog gnawing on a bone while holding a plate."

Luo Bai didn't want to argue, and couldn't argue, so he acquiesced that he was a dog, staring at the old man, gnawing ribs non-stop.

"Human nature, good dog." The old man sighed, "You even know how to hide in my carriage to avoid the wind and snow, such a spiritual dog, I don't know which family was kicked out of the house, because they dislike you. Is it a big tumor? My eldest son is an official in Jindu City on the border, and he sent me several letters asking me to live with him. I think it’s too cold there, so I don’t want to go there, but my younger son is always in charge of things, so he’s not allowed I drink, I'm not allowed to eat roasted chestnuts..."

The old man kept chattering non-stop, but Luo Bai didn't hear what he said behind him, and his attention was attracted by the words Jin Ducheng.

Jindu City, my brother is in Jindu City, and the place he is going to is also Jindu City, so he can always follow this carriage to Jindu City.

"...I heard that the local wine in Jindu is delicious, but Lie is not the best, and the local tunes are also nice, and good tunes go well with wine, so I am going to join my eldest son in Jindu."

When the old man said this, he began to hum a little tune, half closed his cloudy eyes, and swayed slightly with the bumps of the carriage, looking very enjoying it.

Luo Bai was full, so he went to the curtain to look outside, and found that the carriage was moving very fast, comparable to his running speed, so he calmed down and sat in a corner of the carriage, thinking wildly.

I don't know what happened to my brother, but he is so powerful, he will be fine.

After the old man sang, his mouth was a little parched, and he wanted to get the teapot to pour water to drink. Seeing him leaning over to get the teapot, Luo Bai was afraid that he would be knocked off the ground by the carriage, so he got up and jumped on the table, using his claws to grab the teapot. He raised the teapot to pour water, and held it in front of the old man.

The old man looked at him in surprise, took the teacup again, Luo Bai jumped off the ground again, and returned to lie on his stomach in front of the charcoal brazier.

Although the wooden floor of the carriage was under him, it was warmed by the charcoal fire, and it was very comfortable to lie on his stomach.

After the old man finished drinking his tea, his cloudy eyes looking at Luo Bai were shining, and he sighed again: "I have raised several dogs before, but none of them are as spiritual as you. What a good dog."

For the next time, the old man kept talking to him, Luo Bai occasionally listened to him, but most of them were thinking about something on his mind.

"...When it comes to fighting crickets, who doesn't mention my name? I dare say that in the entire capital, there is no cricket that can be raised by me, Liu Sihao..."

Luo Bai didn't know that Liu Sihao, who was about to fall when the wind blew, why he kept talking all day long.Normally, he would like to listen to it very much, but now he really doesn't arouse any interest. At most, he pats his paw perfunctorily after he finishes speaking.

Gradually when it was getting dark, the carriage stopped, the curtain was lifted, and a middle-aged man poked his head in: "Father, just stay in this town for one night, and wait until tomorrow dawn - what is this?" He looked Luo Bai, who was sitting by the brazier, stretched out his finger in surprise.

Luo Bai stood up nervously, if this person wanted to drive him out of the carriage, he had no choice but to get down.

Liu Sihao said: "This is my dog."

"Father, why didn't I know you had a dog? Besides, look, is this a dog? This is a cat—no, it's a leopard!"

"This is the dog I just raised." Liu Sihao waved to Luo Bai, "Come here, dog, come and sit beside me."

He scolded his son again: "You control the world, control my chestnuts and wine, and now you control my dog?"

"But, but this is a leopard. You see, it is carrying a burden on its body. It should be petted by a rich family—oh, it bites!"

The younger son's finger was about to poke Luo Bai's body, he bared his teeth, frightened the finger back, jumped onto the seat covered with a thick quilt, approached Liu Sihao, and yelled at him.

I'm sitting next to you, don't let him drive me down.

The youngest son wanted to say something, but suddenly looked to the left and stopped his voice.Now it gets dark early in winter, and the town is empty, but a group of people suddenly appeared on the other side of the street, walking towards this side.

The youngest son showed vigilance, and the servants in the accompanying carriage also jumped out of the carriage, secretly holding their weapons.

"What's wrong?" Liu Sihao asked.

The younger son replied: "There may be a situation, Dad, please don't get out of the car."

As soon as the words were finished, Liu Sihao had already lifted the curtain of the car, squinted his eyes and looked there, Luo Bai also rushed over and poked his head out.

Before the younger son had time to remind him, Liu Sihao had already yelled: "What are you doing? Where are you going?"

A voice also came from the crowd at the other end: "Old man, we came out of Yuanbian City and are going to the Shitang Mansion ahead."

Following the sound, the group of people gradually approached, all of them looked exhausted, and there was a woman holding a sleepy child.

"It's cold and freezing in the middle of the night, what are you going to Shitang Mansion for?" Liu Sihao asked with concern.

At first the man asked: "Old man, don't you know that there is a war on the border?"

Liu Si asked curiously: "Is there a time when there is no war on the border?"

What he said made sense. The Dager people are a grassland tribe. They live in mobile tents. They often flee on horseback after a wave of raids on border towns. When the Dayin army found their camp, they had already pulled out their tents. Set up camp, don't know where to go again.

The man sighed: "The Dager people never fight in winter. In previous years, at this time, they had already retreated to the depths of the grassland to prepare for the cold winter. Besides, the various tribes in the grassland have never been at war, because they competed for the area with abundant water and grass. They often fight with each other. But who would have thought that they joined forces, first took down Ning Zuo, and now surrounded Jindu, and then Yuanbian should be next, so we had to leave the city early to take refuge."

Liu Sihao became angry when he heard this: "How do you know that Jindu will be taken? Jindu is guarded by heavy troops, and General Liu Hong is in charge. The military defense is like an iron barrel. What are you afraid of?"

"Ning Zuo has abandoned the city and ran away. How long can Liu Hong hold on? I heard that someone from the imperial court brought soldiers to rescue them, but how could those soldiers resist the cooperation of the Dager people? Jin Du can hold on for at most one more time." Day." The man shook his head and said, "Old man, I think you are going to the border too, so hurry up and turn back."

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Sihao's old face turned red, he moved his lips and wanted to say something, but because of his anxiety, he couldn't say anything for a while.But Luo Bai didn't have these troubles of thinking about words, he just put his head on the car window, and yelled angrily at the man.

Because of the darkness, those people didn't see clearly that it was a leopard, and they stopped trying to persuade them. They just continued to move forward, and the figures quickly disappeared into the night.

Only then did Liu Sihao sit back in his seat with a gloomy expression, and Luo Bai also sat beside him angrily.

"Father, don't be angry and don't worry. Eldest brother will be fine. Let's rest here for one night and leave at dawn tomorrow morning." The youngest son poked his head in to persuade him.

But Liu Sihao glanced at him coldly: "Don't worry about it, hurry up and go to Jindu as soon as possible."

"But--"

"But what? You control the world, you control me to stir-fry chestnuts and drink alcohol, you control whether I have a dog, and now you control whether I can visit my son?"

"No, I'm just afraid that you will hurt your body after traveling too much."

Liu Sihao sneered: "I know, lie to me to live in this shop, and then make up some lies that the mountain was blocked by heavy snow or the road was closed by the collapse of rocks, so that I couldn't go to Jindu. I'm your old man, don't you still watch Can't come up with the idea in your heart?"

The younger son said helplessly: "Father, you have also heard what those people said. It would be very dangerous to go to Jindu now. You are worried about elder brother. I will just take a few people there."

"Don't talk nonsense, let's go now." Liu Sihao ordered the driver in front, "Let's go."

The coachman didn't dare to respond, so he turned to look at his younger son. The younger son shook his head slightly. When Liu Sihao saw him, he searched around the carriage, muttering, "Where's my crutch? I'm going to beat you hard." Meal."

Luo Bai saw the crutch leaning against the corner sharply, ran to grab it, and handed it to Liu Sihao.

Don't let us go, beat him.

Seeing that his father was angry, the youngest son had no choice but to say: "All right, all go, go now, calm down, but we have to agree in advance, if the city is really besieged, we will not rush into the city again gone."

Liu Sihao said, "It's up to you."

When the carriage opened, Liu Sihao's face softened a little, remembering that Luo Bai had yelled at those people who said that they were not guaranteed, and took a cane for him, raised his hand to stroke Luo Bai's head: "Good dog."

Luo Bai remembered that his youngest son clearly said that he was a leopard, but he still wanted to call him a dog, and he was a little unhappy, but thinking about borrowing someone else's carriage for so long, he didn't refute and just sat silently.

Several horse-drawn carriages hung lanterns on the front of the vehicles, and moved forward in the snow covered in the night, and the ruts left deep grooves in the snow.

Luo Bai has been lying on the small table by the car window, put the cushion under his belly, and used his paw to open the curtain to look outside from time to time.

Liu Sihao was also full of thoughts, his old eyes were slightly closed, and he would only open them once when the carriage bumped into a ditch.

When Liu Sihao opened his eyes again, he saw that Luo Bai already had an extra cup of tea in his hand, and he could even see a worried expression on his furry face, staring at the steaming tea in a daze.

"Hey, dog, are you not an ordinary dog?" Liu Sihao asked.

Luo Bai glanced at him, nodded, and shook his head again.

I am indeed extraordinary, but I am not a dog.

"Don't be afraid, I know you are a leopard. When I was young, I traveled around Dayin. Not only did I hear a lot of anecdotes, but I also saw a lot with my own eyes. Therefore, a leopard has a spirituality. It is impossible for me to see it. A piece of cake."

Seeing Luo Bai staring at him suspiciously, Liu Sihao asked, "Let me ask you, have you ever seen grasshoppers dancing in a circle?"

Wow!

Luo Bai's eyes widened.

"Have you ever seen starlings singing and dancing? Three of them are dancing there, and two are sitting and playing the piano."

Luo Bai stood up abruptly, opening his mouth wide in surprise.

"Hey, I haven't seen it either." Liu Sihao smiled slyly at him, "I just want to tell you that even if I see a grasshopper dancing or a starling playing the piano, I won't be surprised, so a little leopard is spiritual , in my opinion, it’s no big deal.”

Luo Bai sat down with some disappointment, and continued to drink tea.