Harue Kagetsu

The white tiger was locked in the iron cage again, and the iron cage was tightly locked with a chain, which was absolutely safe. Fang was carried by several guards and temporarily placed in an empty room in front of the governor's mansion.

The servants and maids came out of the house and talked a lot. Those who were bold even ran to the front to look at the white tiger who was locked up.

Luoshen asked Li Mu, and only then did he know the ins and outs of today's accident.

It turned out that Hou Li wanted to catch this white tiger. He stayed in the wilderness before, and took his spirit dog to track it day and night in the wild forest, and finally told him to track down the tiger's trail.

At first, because it was still young and not as shy as the tiger, he directly led people to round it up. I don't want the white tiger to be young and fierce. Not only did he fail to get his wish, but he was injured several times, and he failed several times, so he worked hard and tried to set up various traps. He also didn't think that the white tiger was very shrewd. The traps he used to hunt in the past were not successful, and they were all avoided by it.

After a few times, the white tiger became more alert, and seemed to hold a grudge in his heart, and it actually provoked revenge. Regardless of the day and night, he frequently took the initiative to attack Hou Li's camp. Sometimes it was deliberately frightening. He disappeared without a trace, repeated all night, making everyone dare not sleep. After a few days, they were all exhausted and devastated. The white tiger seemed to have finally calmed down and never showed up again.

Hou Li had no choice but to give up. But it was the first time in my life that I encountered such a smart mythical beast and thought of giving up like this, but I was really unwilling. After thinking about it, he finally asked him to come up with a plan and decide to risk himself.

He first quietly laid traps and told his followers to spread out far away without worrying about himself. Then he swayed alone near the white tiger, making all kinds of pursuits and provocations. After two days, he finally led out the enraged white tiger again and launched an attack on him. After attacking, Hou Li was defeated. After being scratched, he desperately fled to the pre-set location, operated the mechanism, and lowered a large net from the sky, finally catching the white tiger.

After catching it, Hou Li was overjoyed, locked it in an iron cage and brought it back. Arriving in Yicheng today, he naturally wanted to stop to see Li Mu. I originally planned to put this white tiger outside the city temporarily, but it seemed like he had a rare treasure. If he didn't let people see it together, it would be like walking in brocade clothes at night, and the bright pearl was closed. Immediately, he brought the rare white tiger into the city, attracting many passers-by's watching and tsk tsk admiration along the way.

All the way back, except for the first two days, the little white tiger was very manic, grabbing and biting the iron cage, as if trying to escape. Hou Li saw the crowd of onlookers, but the white tiger was lazily, keeping his eyes closed in the cage. He wanted to let people see its tiger power, so he stimulated it, not wanting it to remain motionless. Hou Li felt that he had lost face in public, and was a little unhappy. Seeing that the chain was still tightly tied to his neck, he was not afraid that it would break free, so he asked someone to open the cage door and reached out his hand to try to provoke him. Unexpectedly, at the moment when the cage door was just opened, Sleeping Tiger suddenly opened his eyes and jumped out of the cage, dragging the whole heavy iron cage on the ground for several meters, breaking the chain on the spot, sharp claws. It also scratched Hou Li's chest and abdomen.

The scene was chaotic. Hou Li was caught and fell to the ground, and the onlookers fled one after another. Fan Cheng, who was present, asked people to hurry to inform Li Mu, while leading people to hunt him down. Under the heavy siege, the arrows were flying, and the little white tiger panicked.

After Luoshen heard this, he was taken aback and hurriedly asked about Hou Li's injury.

"This little beast has very sharp claws. Hou Shizi was caught with his skin torn to pieces, his wounds were not shallow, and he shed a lot of blood. Fortunately, there should be no worries about his life, and he was already disposed of."

Luoshen breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she was a little unhappy about what Hou Li did after hearing the story, she was Li Mu's guest after all, and she had put a lot of effort into finding herself. Explain to Hou Ding. Hearing that Hou Li's injury was not serious, while he was relieved, he was somewhat worried about the little white tiger. Thinking that it was caught by Hou Li for no reason, he stuck an arrow in his butt, fled in panic, was swept away by Li Mu with a stick, and seemed to have his leg broken. The mud on the ground turned upside down, and I couldn't help but lose my mind.

Seeing that she was silent, Li Mu thought she had not recovered from the fright just now. He patted her on the back lightly and comforted: "Don't be afraid. It won't come out. Since you are pitiful, I won't kill it. . Ask Hou Li to see if he is letting go or what he means."

Luoshen grabbed his sleeve: "Lang Jun, I'm not afraid of it. I think its legs are discounted by you. It's a little pitiful. You should ask Hou Li to comfort it first and heal it."

Li Mu glanced at her, with a pair of beautiful eyes, he stared at himself with wide eyes, and had no choice but to say, "Okay, I see."

When Luoshen listened to his promise, he knew that he would not lie to himself, so he was relieved and smiled.

Li Mu was worried about Hou Li's injury, and it was not good for Baihu to stay in the governor's mansion for a long time, hug his wife, and go first.

The prefect's mansion returned to its original calm. Luoshen and the others continued to do needlework together, but he always remembered that in the evening, when Li Mu came back, he immediately asked him for follow-up, and learned that Baihu had been transferred to the military camp outside the city. Li also got up and asked someone to treat it, and then he was relieved.

But she didn't expect that three or two days later, she thought of the little white tiger again, and then caught Li Mu to ask about the progress, only to realize that it was not going well.

After the little white tiger was locked in the cage again, not to mention that Hou Li was allowed to bring people close to him to treat it. As soon as he saw him, he would roar loudly, show his teeth and dance his claws, and was extremely angry, and kept hitting his head against the iron cage. The bleeding didn't stop, and he didn't eat or drink. He was extremely manic.

Luoshen recalled that day when it was dragged away by the guards with iron chains, and looked back at the scene where he kept whining and whining.

Li Mu naturally refused at first.

In his eyes, the white tiger is just a beast, not to mention hurting people, it doesn't matter if it dies. Thinking of the danger of it chasing Luoshen that day, he was terrified. How can you call her over now? Shaking his head in denial.

Luoshen grabbed his sleeve and didn't let him go. It was another pleading, another threat, and finally, he hugged him, and stood on tiptoe to send a kiss.

Li Mu couldn't resist, and finally reluctantly agreed, saying that he would take her there in person, and said, "Just say yes. Don't come near, just stand behind me."

Luoshen nodded hurriedly, urging him to leave immediately. Li Mu had no choice but to have someone come to the carriage, Luoshen got up, and he took her out of the city to the place near the military camp where the little white tiger was locked up.

The cage is placed in a flat room. Luo Shencai got off the carriage, and after a long distance, a long roar of tigers could be heard in the distance.

The voice seemed to be full of sadness to her. It was a completely different feeling from the first time I met it that day, when it was in the grass, and when I heard Li Mu calling out to him, it was full of the majestic whistle of a king who gave up on me.

Others were indifferent.

She quickened her pace and left Li Mu behind.

Li Mu looked at her back, shook his head helplessly, and chased after a few steps.

Hou Li was also there with the animal trainer. Knowing that Li Mu and his wife are here, they hurriedly came out to greet them. From his chest to his abdomen, he was wrapped in a long wounded cloth, and he looked in good spirits. After the ceremony, Luoshen said that he wanted to take a look, and hurriedly led the way in front of him.

The closer it got, the clearer the high and low tiger roaring, and the sound of the clanging iron cages colliding in the middle.

An iron cage was fixed on the ground in the corner. Luoshen saw that the little white tiger was being locked inside, and kept hitting his head against the cage. There was a bloodstain on his forehead, his hair was dyed red. Hearing the movement, he turned his head suddenly, the pair of tiger eyes that had turned scarlet. When he saw Hou Li, he immediately shot out a fierce light like hatred, and rushed towards him in the cage. The claw that was interrupted by Li Mu fell to the ground, while the other claws stretched out and grabbed the cage hard. body, shaking the iron cage violently from side to side.

Li Mu immediately pulled Luoshen behind him.

Seeing this, Hou Li looked embarrassed, turned to Luoshen and forced a smile: "I'm afraid this thing is crazy. Madam should stay away, so as not to be frightened."

Luoshen got his head out from behind Li Mu and looked at the little white tiger in the cage.

The little white tiger suddenly saw her and looked at her for a moment, then stopped roaring, the fierce light in his eyes faded, and he slowly fell down, tilted his big blood-stained head, slumped to the ground weakly, pressing his own Only on the curled front paws, two eyes looked at her, motionless. Only the injured other claw trembled slightly.

Several people in the room, including the animal trainer, were all stunned by this sudden change.

Hou Li wanted to tame the white tiger. For the past two days, he had been staying here regardless of the pain on his body. He tried his best, but he couldn't calm the white tiger, let alone heal it.

I really didn't expect that when Mrs. Governor came, this beast seemed to be psychic, and she was afraid of being tamed.

"Ma'am! It's willing to be close to you! It hasn't eaten for two days. Try feeding it!"

Hou Li was overjoyed, and forgot everything else for a while, so he blurted out the words.

Luoshen hurriedly came out from behind Li Mu, but his hand was pulled by him. He brought her behind him again, and smiled at Hou Li: "I'm afraid it's not right. She just came to see..."

Hou Li came to his senses and nodded, "Yes, yes, I forgot..."

"Tell me to try it."

Luoshen raised his face, looked at Li Mu and begged: "If you don't worry, you will accompany me."

"Lang Jun-"

With a soft sound of Lang Jun, Hou Xin's ears warmed when he heard it, and he didn't dare to raise his eyes.

Li Mu frowned, looked at the white tiger in the cage, and then looked at Luoshen who begged him. Finally, he reluctantly agreed. He took her and slowly approached the iron cage.

Luoshen knew that he was doing his own good, not to mention the unpredictable animal nature, so he stopped obediently, squatted on the ground, used an iron fork to pick up a hare next to him, and handed it to it, saying softly, "Little darling, Eat it."

The little white tiger looked at her, slowly raised his head, smelled the flesh, and finally opened his mouth to take it and swallowed it in one bite.

"It ate!"

Hou Li was overjoyed.

Luo Shen was also happy in his heart, he forked another piece and continued to feed it.

The little white tiger kept eating and devoured it, looking extremely hungry. He quickly ate all the meat in the pot, stuck out his tongue, licked the injured leg, stared at Luoshen with wide wet eyes, and made a soft whimper in his throat.

Luoshen's confidence suddenly increased, and he asked Hou Li how to heal his injured leg. After hearing what Hou Li said, he looked at Li Mu and begged, "Tell me to try again, okay?"

Li Mu glanced at the white tiger in the cage again, and finally nodded.

Luoshen took a special long fork handed over by Hou Li. On the fork head, there was a movable iron ring that could shrink in size.

She stretched her long fork into the cage, and cautiously approached the injured leg of the little white tiger, and poked it a few times.

As if knowing her intentions, the little white tiger raised that paw with difficulty and let Luoshen put the iron trap inside.

Luoshen stared at it closely, tightened the iron ring, and said softly: "Little darling, be obedient, come here..."

The little white tiger followed her lead, on the ground, and slowly moved to the side of the cage, letting her take her own paw out of the cage.

According to Hou Li's words, Luoshen tried several times, and finally fixed his claws.

Hou Li was already full of admiration, knowing that the white tiger didn't like to get close to him, so he didn't come up to him anymore. He hurriedly called the veterinarian to go up and apply medicine to its claws to fix it.

The veterinarian was a little nervous. During the operation, Luoshen stayed by the side and talked to it softly. The little white tiger also became very obedient, no longer stretched its claws and showed its fangs.

When it was finally done, he let go of the fork and told it to retract its claws.

Hou Li let out a long sigh of relief, came up with a smile on his face, and thanked Luoshen.

Luoshen smiled and said, "Sir, I want to ask you something. I don't know if it offends you?"

"Don't hesitate to speak, Madam! As long as I can do what Hou Li can do, even if I ask me to pick stars from the sky, I will also think of something!"

Hou Li's brows were dancing, and he opened his mouth to say. Hearing this, Li Mu, who was on the side, frowned slightly.

Luoshen smiled and said: "Why would you embarrass the prince to go to the stars? I was thinking, this little white tiger should have a love for freedom by nature, so he went on a hunger strike in the cage and tortured himself. Can the prince give up his love and return it to the forest??

Hou Li was stunned for a moment. He glanced at the white tiger in the cage, and then looked at the smiling face of Mrs. Prefect in front of him. His chest warmed, and he nodded immediately: "Since Mrs. has opened her mouth to plead for it, why should I not? Put it back immediately and never break your promise!"

Hearing that he deserved such a refreshing feeling, Luoshen rejoiced in his heart, and repeatedly thanked him: "Shizi is really happy. Thank you!"

Hou Li was in full bloom, looked at Luoshen, and laughed non-stop.

Li Mu stepped forward and quietly blocked Luoshen from behind, Fang smiled and said, "If there is nothing else, I will send Madam back."

He glanced at the bandage on Hou Li's body: "The prince is injured, it is better to rest more."

Hou Xin felt a little reluctant to part with Mrs. Inspector. I only felt that being with her was in a very good mood, and even a flower seemed to bloom on the gray corner of the house.

Although I thought so in my heart, how could I say no in my mouth, nod in agreement, and send each other graciously.

For the next period of time, Luoshen asked Li Mu to accompany him when he had time, and went there to see the little white tiger every three days.

According to Hou Li, after that day, the little white tiger calmed down, not as manic as before. However, if Luoshen didn't show up for three or two days, he would get restless again and walk around in the cage.

Luoshen is even more concerned. Because of Li Mu's strict order, she was not allowed to go there without his company. He grinded him and ran with him frequently.

Every time the little white tiger saw her coming, he would jump and jump in the cage. Luoshen called it "little darling", and when you talked to it, it lay down in the cage and was extremely docile. After a few more visits, I gradually got used to it, and Luoshen became more daring. Once, taking advantage of Li Mu's back, he didn't pay attention to his own space.

A fluffy fleshy palm, not to mention how good it feels.

It's also funny to say. At that time, the little white tiger came over, stuck out his tongue from the gap in the cage, and licked the back of Luoshen's hand.

It was warm, wet and soft, and it was a little itchy, and the back of the hand seemed to be brushed by a flesh brush with soft thorns.

At that time, Li Mu was talking to Hou Li, and when he saw Hou Li, he seemed to be absent-minded. His eyes kept looking behind him, as if he was looking at something. When he looked back, he shouted angrily, causing the little white tiger to tremble and quickly withdraw. Tongue, rolled to the corner of the cage, neck shrunk, motionless.

It seems to be afraid of Li Mu.

Several days have passed since this incident, and Li Mu was also used by Luoshen to complain. Li Mu endured it in secret, and finally endured it for more than half a month. The veterinarian said that the injured leg of the white tiger should be almost healed. He removed the bandages and acted immediately. far to let it go.

On that day, Li Mudao was in danger, and Luoshen was not allowed to go with him. That Gao Huan was a lively person, he had already heard about the White Tiger, so he happily followed him.

Li Mu was afraid that it would harass the residents if he put it too close, so he set off early in the morning, traveled for a day, and went out for hundreds of miles. Before reaching a dense forest, Fang stopped, opened the cage door, released the white tiger, and he And accompany, exit dozens of steps away.

The little white tiger came out of the cage and didn't run away immediately. By the cage, he kept lingering, looking in the direction of Li Mu's side, as if he still refused to leave.

"Brother-in-law, the little girl seems to have spirituality. Does it want to go back and find my elder sister?"

Gao Huan looked at it and said something.

Li Mu was very unhappy.

Baihu distracted his wife and talked to himself, and he could not do without it for three sentences, but it was just a beast.

What made him even more unhappy was Hou Li.

With that little injury, he could have gone back a long time ago. For so long, I have been relying on this beast under the pretext of taking care of this beast.

Every time Luoshen went to see a tiger, he would follow him, extremely attentive.

It is really intolerable.

Li Mu stared at the tiger who was still lingering in front of him, without saying a word, he walked to a nearby tree, broke off a branch as thick as an arm, held it in his hand, took a few steps forward, and raised the branch , shouted at the white tiger.

The little white tiger immediately backed away, ran a few steps forward, but stopped again, looked back at the road where he came, let out a long roar, and finally let go of his legs, and his figure disappeared like a white lightning in the jungle. middle.

Gao Huan came back the next day and told his sister the scene vividly and vividly.

When Luo Shen heard this, he was disappointed, and he couldn't help but feel that Li Mu was cruel, but he didn't allow himself to go with him. When he came back that night, he didn't give him a good look.

Li Mu finally felt happy.

First he chased away the tiger, and then sent away Hou Li, who could no longer find an excuse to stay there. Within a day, the two things that were very annoying to him disappeared, and he felt very comfortable. Knowing that his wife was angry, he hugged him on the bed that night, working hard in every possible way, serving him properly, and when he woke up the next day, she would be her husband again, and her coquettish words were all over the room.

After half a month, one morning, Luoshen thought of the little white tiger again, and he didn't know how it was now. Just as he was thinking about it, Gao Huan ran in panting, saying that early in the morning, when the city guards opened the city gate, they found the city gate. On the ground, there was a stag that was killed. I don't know what happened, but it attracted a lot of people to see it. He went along to join in the fun, and saw two lines of animal footprints left on the ground, looking like tiger tracks, he suspected that the little white tiger that had been released earlier had returned.

Since then, every three to five, early in the morning, there will always be traces of prey near the city gate. Either a deer or a fox, and once, it was a wild boar. Out of curiosity, the city guards who were vigilants kept their eyes on the lower city gate. Sure enough, they saw a white figure appearing near the city gate in the middle of the night. They wanted to see more clearly, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye.

More times, Li Mu naturally heard about it. Worrying that if the white tiger really lingered near Yicheng, it might cause panic, and if it hurt the residents, they specially organized people to search around the neighborhood, but to no avail.

No trace of the tiger could be found, so he had no choice but to give up.

The season has entered late autumn, and the weather is gradually getting colder. In the reclaimed fields, winter wheat was planted just after the autumn harvest this year. There was also a steady stream of hemp from Qiuchi. Luoshen organized women in the city to keep producing weaving cloth and stocking winter clothes and winter shoes. In her spare time, she used the peeled deerskins to make Li Mu. Double boots. By the way, I used extra materials to make a pair for Ah Yu, who had been unhappy because of self-blame and guilt, which was not only comfort, but also to allow her feet to survive the winter in peace.

As for Li Mu, at this time, he no longer had the heart to be jealous with a tiger or a man who admired his wife.

The war in the north is in full swing.

In the north of Yicheng, Xijin and Beixia fought endlessly for Chang'an.

Not only that, but in the south of Beixia, there was also a fire of war.

A Dayu army composed of the Xu family and the Lu family's overlord took this opportunity to cross the Yangtze River, starting from Jingxiang, where Xu's family had been operating for many years, and aiming to guide Yang.

Xu's army was led by General Yang Xuan. The Lu family was supervised by Lu Jian.

Beixia was attacked at the same time on both sides, and he devoted the whole country to support him for two months. In the twelfth lunar month of this year, he was still no match for the Dayu coalition and lost Nanyang.

Seeing that the Dayu army was about to go deep into the hinterland of Yuzhou to threaten Luoyang, and the other side, the Xijin army, was even more ferocious, winning successive victories. After weighing it, the Northern Xia Emperor finally made a decision to give up Chang'an, shrink his forces, return to Yuzhou, and do his best to deal with the Dayu army who were plotting Luoyang to protect the capital.

Li Mu has been paying close attention to the two-front war. Every day, the figure of the scout who delivered the latest news, rode horses in and out of the city gate, and kept coming and going.

Large-scale wars have created countless homeless people. The Han Chinese refugees rushed from all directions towards the rumored city of paradise.

Today, there are nearly 20,000 residents in the city. And Li Mu's army, the number has also assembled to 40,000 to 50,000.

This winter, the Yicheng Army has not been idle except for training.

People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. A city with a population of tens of thousands, in the north, is now like a piece of fat, and everyone wants to take a bite.

At the end of the year, the winter was cold, and Li Mu fought a few battles with a few small Hu people who wanted to come to fight the autumn wind. They used battles to raise and train their troops. Between the military and horses, the days entered the next year.

In the early spring of the year in Taikang, in the wilderness outside Yicheng City, the buds of the spring grass covered by ice and snow were just showing their sharp tips. On this day, a message was sent to Li Mu.

Gu Huilong, the emperor of Xijin, occupied Chang'an, rectified his troops, and stored food and grass. Soon after, he transferred 100,000 troops and horses, and marched southwardly, to attack Yicheng and destroy Qiuchi. Before the snow, the messenger was killed, and the advance army was destroyed. Shameful.

Xijin's army is extremely powerful.

This time, the attacking south was completely different from the previous 30,000 advance army.

What's more, they just defeated Beixia, took away Chang'an, which Beixia had been operating for many years, and completely occupied Longxi.

The news spread, and the whole city became tense again.

Jiang Tao, Guo Zhan, Dai Yuan, Sun Fangzhi and other old generals who had followed him when they were in Jingkou, as well as more than a dozen lieutenants who had been promoted one after another due to their outstanding combat during this year, all rushed to the governor's mansion early on their own accord. , waiting for Li Mu's call outside to discuss countermeasures.

Li Mu did not call them.

He was not by Luoshen's side either.

It was getting dark, and Luoshen couldn't wait for him to come back for dinner, thinking that he was in the front hall to discuss matters with everyone.

Because the governor was at stake, she didn't dare to bother him.

After waiting anxiously for a long time, she never saw him return. She finally couldn't hold back and came to the front hall to see what happened.

What surprised her was that when she arrived, she saw the doors and windows of the front hall, dark and dull.

The bright moonlight alone illuminated the gray-black and blue-green dragon tiles on the roof of the row of tiles in front of the steps.

She hesitated, walked up the steps slowly, came to the door, put her hand on the door knocker, and gently pushed open the hidden door in front of her.

The lights in the hall were not on.

On the square sitting opposite the door, where he usually discusses affairs with others, there is a figure sitting in awe. In front of him is a long, three-foot long sword.

She stepped over the threshold, walked slowly towards the man, walked in front of her, and stopped.

The man raised his head.

The moonlight from the west window, slanting in, illuminates the face of a man with a stern profile and dark eyes.

After he was discharged from the case, he slowly stood up.

"Last year at this time, I made a one-year contract with Gao Xiang by the river. Chang'an is my betrothed, and you are my wife."

"Now the appointment is coming."

"Ami, it's my turn to fetch Chang'an for you."

He stared at her and said word by word.