Tigers on the street are rare.

Zhan Zhao thought it was weird at first, and when he ran out of the road for a while, he found that there was a mess in front of him.

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

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

Bai Yutang came with Zhan Zhao, did not crowd the crowd, but went directly to the roof, and looked at the blank space with Zhan Zhao.

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

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

Not to mention, this tiger is really beautiful, huge in size, with a gray-blue body, black tiger stripes all around, a black "king" character on the top of the head, a pair of golden eyes, and full of energy.

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

The black tiger wandered in place, as if it was lost, and it turned around, but it didn't hurt anyone.

Zhan Zhao touched his chin, squatted down, stretched out a finger, and hooked the tiger as if he was teasing a cat in Kaifeng Mansion, "Tut-tut."

Bai Yutang stood on the roof and held his forehead - this cat is hungry.

The tiger stood in place, staring at Zhanzhao.

Zhanzhao "tsk" a few times, and when he saw that it couldn't come, he squinted his eyes, stood up, and beckoned, "Come here." ”

Bai Yutang stood on the roof, a little wanted to laugh.

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

Zhanzhao stretched out his hands, "Come on, come here, give you fish." ”

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

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

Zhan Zhao looked up and saw a small doll running out of the stack on the side.

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

It was a woman, who should be the doll's mother, chasing after her.

But the doll may have seen the big tiger for the first time, and ran while babbling, and was very excited, and rushed straight towards the tiger.

At this time, the surrounding crowd was a little restless, and everyone was worried that the doll would die in the tiger's mouth. An old man stopped the young woman who was screaming and chasing the child, and told her not to scream, startling the tiger, which may not be good for the child.

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

Just as the little doll ran not far from the tiger's side, she suddenly stumbled under her feet and pounced forward.

At this time, I saw the black tiger's tail gently hooked, caught the little doll that was fast on the ground, and looked back at him.

Zhanzhao touched his chin...... The action is very light, this tiger does not hurt people but also saves people, and it has spirituality.

The doll grabbed the tiger's tail and smiled at it, and the tiger simply sat down and turned his face to look at him. The child was not afraid, and the tiger did not eat him, his tail moved, and he stood up with the child, and then took it back, shook it twice behind him, and his round ears also moved a few times, looking very gentle.

The onlookers looked at each other, and at this time, footsteps were heard in the distance.

"Orion is here!"

Someone shouted.

Zhan Zhao raised his eyes and saw in the distance a dozen young hunters wearing animal skins and carrying bows and arrows on their shoulders rushing over, shouting, "Disperse!" With that, he drew his bow and arrows.

The tiger looked back, stood up, and roared.

The roar of the tiger shook the windows on both sides of the window "buzzing", and the hunters were also startled, and stood still, looking ahead with some hesitation.

The black tiger hooked his tail and hooked the doll that was still lying beside him behind him, staring at those hunters with a bad look.

"With poisoned arrows." The first Orion said, "Be careful of hurting that child. ”

More than a dozen hunters set up arrows, and the leader took the lead in drawing his bow and shouting, "Shoot it!" ”

More than a dozen poisoned arrows shot at the black tiger.

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

The black tiger took a step back slightly, and not a single arrow fell on his side, let alone pierced his body, and saw a blue figure standing in front of it, taking the dozen arrows in one hand.

Bai Yutang smiled faintly - he knew that Dao Zhanzhao would go to save the black tiger.

Zhan Zhao stopped all the crossbow arrows, raised his hand to stop them, felt that his body was a lot lighter today, and thought about it - yes, hungry!

"Ahem."

On the roof, Bai Yutang coughed, Zhan Zhao came back to his senses, raised his head and waved his hand at those hunters, "Can't shoot!" ”

"The tiger hurts people, why can't you shoot?!" Orion was dissatisfied, and at the same time did not dare to make a mistake, Zhanzhao just jumped almost into the air, and the speed of his body was not clear at all, plus he stopped all the crossbow arrows with one hand, he was definitely a martial arts master.

"It didn't hurt people, it saved people." Zhan Zhao said, turned around and picked up the little doll, and gave it back to the frightened young woman next to her. The young woman hurriedly thanked her, and the little doll was still silly and laughing, and there was no injury at all.

"But he's a beast after all!" Orion took out his net as if he were going to capture the tiger alive.

"Ugh." Zhan Zhao then waved his hand and straightened his face, "What a beast, isn't it just a big cat." ”

"Cats?" Several Orions were surprised, "This is clearly ......"

"It's just a big cat." Zhan Zhao said, dragged the black tiger who was still looking around, and patted his head, "Meow come and listen!" ”

The black tiger looked up at Zhanzhao, shook his head, squatted beside him, and licked his paws.

Zhan Zhao looked down at it, suddenly squatted down, reached out and grabbed the tiger's paws, and took it to his eyes.

The black tiger looked at him puzzled, but he didn't bite.

Bai Yutang also came down from the roof, and at this time, a large number of officials came, and it was the prefect who heard that there were fierce tigers running out of the street, and sent people to hurry up to arrest them. On the other side, Ouyang Shaozheng also came with people, and the news reached the barracks, Zhao Pu had long wanted a tiger, so that he could take it out to scare people when he was fighting. I didn't expect it to be a black tiger, so I hurriedly picked up Ouyang Shaozheng to catch it alive.

However, everyone gathered, and the picture in front of them was a little weird.

Zhan Zhao looked at the tiger claws for a long time, suddenly reached out and held down the black tiger, and then began to turn over its fur, and then simply flipped over the belly.

The tiger seemed to want to struggle, but Zhanzhao glared at it, and it obediently lay on its back and didn't move, letting Zhanzhao look at its belly. Bai Yutang stepped aside and took a look—the tiger was male.

After flipping through, Zhan Zhao held a few things in his hand and beckoned to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang bent down and looked down, and saw that Zhanzhao was holding some mud in his hand, which was pulled out of the tiger's claws, and there were blood stains, and the mud was yellow.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "That paw print on the mud floor was left by it?" Could it be that it is also a cannibal? ”

"I can't." Zhan Zhao touched the tiger's belly, "It doesn't look like it's very full, it didn't hurt the kid just now, and it protected him." ”

"Hmm......" Bai Yutang looked back at the kid's tiger skin hat, "Will it be his own cub?" ”

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

Bai Yutang looked at the tiger's eyes, and then at Zhanzhao......

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

Bai Yutang shook his head with a smile, but this tiger is indeed docile and seems to be humane, could it be that someone has been raising it?

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

Bai Yutang took it and looked at it, and found that it was some broken hay clippings.

"It's ......"

Zhan Zhao raised the soles of his feet to show Bai Yutang, and pointed at him again, "You should have the soles of your feet too." ”

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

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Didn't Niu Niu say last night that she heard the tiger bark?" ”

"That Taoist priest spent the night in the grass pile of Niuniu's house last night, is this tiger the Taoist priest's?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Wait...... Black Tiger ......"

"What comes to mind?" 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.

"Zhan-sama."

At this time, a messenger stepped forward, "Otherwise, take the black tiger to another place, and you will discuss things again, the road is blocked here." ”

"Oh." Zhan Zhao hurriedly stood up, poked the black tiger who seemed to be lying down enjoying it with his toes, "Let's go." ”

The black tiger got up, saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walking back, and took a ...... grabbed the hem of Zhanzhao's clothes and stabbed.

When Zhan Zhao turned around, he saw that a piece of the back hem of his clothes had been torn off, and the black tiger was holding half a piece of blue cloth in his mouth.

Zhan Zhao blinked.

The black tiger looked up at him.

After a while, Zhanzhao raised his hand and punched it, "New clothes are coming, lose money!" ”

The black tiger turned around, hooked his tail on Zhao's legs, took two steps forward, and looked back at him.

Bai Yutang said in a low voice, "It seems to want us to follow it." ”

Zhan Zhao touched his chin, "Could it be that it has a good restaurant introduction?" ”

Bai Yutang couldn't cry or laugh, "Then let's go eat first." ”

Zhan Zhao turned around to leave, and the black tiger "whined".

Zhan Zhao turned around, and the black tiger looked at him.

"Alas, it's annoying!" Zhan Zhao was silent for a long time and sighed, but he still gave up eating for the time being and followed the black tiger.

Bai Yutang also followed, although Zhanzhao kept saying that he was a foodie, but he hadn't eaten until now, and it seemed that this foodie had asked for it. I really don't know if he should say that he is too nosy, or if he is too soft-hearted.

"I'm too hungry, so I'll buy a bun on the side of the road and put it on first, right?" Bai Yutang proposed.

"No way!" Zhan Zhao didn't do it anymore, "I've been hungry for so long, I have to eat a good meal, and it's too much of a loss to eat a bun!" ”

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

The black tiger took Zhanzhao and Bai Yutang all the way out of the city, into a forest, and walked all the way and kept walking......

By this time it was almost evening.

Zhan Zhao looked up at the sky, and then walked down, it would be too late to catch the dinner at the White Ghost Villa when he went back in a while, "Where are you going?" ”

Zhan Zhao asked.

The black tiger looked back at him and screamed, as if to tell him not to worry......

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, and continued to follow, only to see that the black tiger finally stopped behind a rock.

The black tiger jumped onto the rock, looked at Zhanzhao and Bai Yutang condescendingly, and then raised his head to the sky and roared...... The cry was desolate, as if it were a mournful cry.

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

The two hurriedly bypassed the rocks...... And behold, on the ground behind the stones, there was a man lying on the ground.

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

Zhan Zhao squatted down and touched the man's neck, frowning at Bai Yutang.

In fact, from the man's gray face, Bai Yutang had already deduced that he was a dead man.

This Taoist priest is very similar to Niuniu's description, very young, in his twenties, tall and thin, and looks very delicate.

Zhan Zhao found an identical peach wood exorcism waist card from him, and the dust whisk was also a peach wood handle, and the previous things should be his.

Zhan Zhao carefully examined the wound of the deceased, "Sword wound." ”

"He had a lot of scrapes and scratches on his body, and it looked like he had rolled down the hillside." Bai Yutang looked at it carefully, "You should have fought with someone before you died." ”

"Did he die of his wounds?" Zhan Zhao felt a little pity inexplicably, and looked up at the black tiger, "Tianmu attacked people twice, but this one seems to be nearby, and there are some things left, but they died in this wood." ”

"If it was really the one killed by the Heavenly Mother, then he should have been bitten to death, not stabbed to death by a sword." Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and pulled the collar of the corpse.

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

"Let's see if my guess is correct." Bai Yutang tore off a little of his clothes, and saw that the young Taoist priest had a tattoo of a black tiger on his left chest. The tattoo is very delicate, and the side of the black tiger is in the shape of a flutter.

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

"Guess right?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang nodded, "I'm not sure, it's good that Master is here, and I also listened to him." ”

Zhan Zhao took out a ringing arrow and threw it into the sky, waiting for the people from Kaifeng Mansion to come, so that the body could be transported back.

"Anyway, it's better to say it and listen." Zhan Zhao went to the stone and sat down, leaning against the black tiger, "Give me a while." ”

The black tiger sat still, looking down at the corpse on the ground, letting Zhanzhao lean on, and seemed to have some sadness.

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

Bai Yutang said the name of "Mu Ning", and the black tiger turned his face to look at him, as if he could understand.

"That Taoist priest is a descendant of Maoshan Daoist, with yin and yang eyes, a black tiger, and a monster hunt everywhere."

"So godly?" Zhan Zhao was curious, "Is there still a legend?" ”

"That man is real." Bai Yutang crossed his arms and continued, "Mu Ning has been dead a long time ago, and if he is still alive, he should be older than my master and your grandfather." ”

"At such an age? So this black tiger shouldn't have been raised by him. Zhan Zhao patted the black tiger and estimated, "At most, one or two years old." ”

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

"Well, there used to be a Maoshan faction, but then there were a lot of fake Taoist priests, aren't they extinct?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Most of those who stayed were liars. ”

"It's true, and Muning is real...... I listened to my master. Bai Yutang said, "It is said that the Maoshan faction is divided into many sects, what is the green dragon and white tiger and the like, the most powerful one 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 understood, and pointed to the little Taoist, "Mu Ning's descendant." He pointed to the black tiger again, "The descendant of the black tiger of Muning...... No, Houhu. ”

"This tiger doesn't hurt people, it must have grown up with people since childhood, and that's not all, probably for generations to live with people, so it will be so spiritual." Bai Yutang nodded.

"In this way, this little Taoist priest came to arrest the Heavenly Mother, but he was killed." Zhan Zhao thought for a while, stretched out his hand and looked at the palm of the little Taoist, "It seems that the kung fu is not weak." ”

"Niuniu said that she heard the tiger roaring last night, could it be when the Taoist priest left the grass shed?" Bai Yutang asked, "Both the peachwood sword and the token fell at that time, but he was injured by the sword first. ”

Zhan Zhao thought about it and ripped off the Taoist priest's clothes a little more...... And under the ribs, there was a blue-black palm print.

"That's the cause of death." Zhan Zhao frowned, "The Taoist priest received a sword first. Zhan Zhao pointed to the obvious bandaging and medicated marks of the sword wound, "But it is not fatal, this palm shocks him internally, and he will die." ”

While speaking, Ouyang Shaozheng ran in from outside the forest, with a soldier behind him, "You two ran fast enough, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye." ”

Zhanzhao pointed to the corpse on the ground.

"Another death?" Ouyang frowned and glanced at it, "Fortunately, this is complete." ”

The body was carried back to the Yamen of the Bazhou Mansion, and it was already dark.

The yamen was very busy, it turned out that the surrounding counties had sent people to receive supplies, and by the way, they reported the disaster to Lord Bao and Master Pang, and the yamen was crowded with people inside and outside.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took the black tiger and entered through the back door and went directly to the house.

Gongsun had just come out wiping his hands after the autopsy, and when he saw another one brought in, he frowned, "Why did you die again?" ”

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

"Where's the tiger?"

Gongsun shouted, and the little fourth son next door rushed out, really running face to face with the black tiger.

"Little Four!" Gongsun shouted, this kid was really bold, and he rushed out when he saw the tiger.

Fortunately, behind the little fourth son, Zhao Pu, who was picking his teeth with a toothpick, also heard the "tiger" coming out, reached out and picked up the little fourth son and carried it on his shoulder, and came over to pick up the tiger by the way, "This is in good condition!" ”

The officials of the Baizhou Mansion all grinned - what kind of people are these, playing with tigers as cats.

Zhan Zhao roughly explained what happened.

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

Purple Shadow ran to get raw beef, and came back to carry a pig's hind hoof, "Lord Wang, there is no beef, only pig's trotters." ”

After saying that, give it to the tiger.

The tiger looked at the pig's trotters in Purple Shadow's hand, but he didn't move, and didn't seem to care.

"Don't like pork?" Purple Shadow scratched his head.

"Don't feed a tiger like a dog, can you?" Zhao Pu was angry, "This is the king of all beasts, be respectful!" ”

The corners of Ziying's mouth twitched, and he held the pig's trotters in front of the black tiger's eyes, "King of Ten Thousand Beasts, you eat." ”

The black tiger lifted his eyelids and glanced at the purple shadow, but still didn't move.

Everyone looked at each other - not to their liking?

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

Zhan Zhao sighed twice, reached out and picked up the pig's trotters and sent them to the black tiger, "Be content, you, if I don't eat raw meat, I'll rob you, and some of them won'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 and bite it, and eat it with relish.

Ziying touched his chin, "Why don't I feed him, Zhanzhao will eat it?" ”

Soon, the black tiger finished gnawing on the pig's trotters and licked his mouth and whined at Zhanzhao.

Purple Shadow went to the kitchen again to find a pheasant and handed it to it, but the black tiger still didn't eat it.

Zhao Pu stretched out his hand and tried it, but the black tiger didn't eat it.

Zhanzhao gave it the chicken, and the black tiger took a bite of it.

"Yes." Zhao Pu spread his hands, "This black tiger recognizes the master, it seems that Zhanzhao has recognized it." ”

"Cats are amazing!" The little fourth son looked admiring, "The tiger likes you!" ”

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

"If it likes it so much, keep it." Bai Yutang said on the side, "Anyway, it's your own family." ”

Zhan Zhao thought about it for a while and thought it was not bad......

Just when he thought it was feasible, the black tiger suddenly came to rub Zhanzhao, and it seemed that he hadn't eaten enough.

"You haven't eaten yet, have you?" Zhan Zhao took the other pheasant handed over by Zi Ying and handed it over, the black tiger continued to eat, and after eating, he drank a small half bucket of water from the wooden barrel by the well, returned to Zhan Zhao and sat down, licking his paws and washing his face with satisfaction, and approaching the cat.

"That's a lot of food." Purple Shadow admired and reached out to touch it, and the black tiger glanced at him.

Purple Shadow pointed at Zhanzhao, "We're friends!" ”

The black tiger didn't move, and he touched it as he pleased.

The little fourth son also wanted to touch it, Zhao Pu hugged him over, the little fourth son reached out and rubbed the soft belly of the black tiger, the black tiger seemed to like children, the tail rubbed on the little fourth son, and continued to wash his face.

Zhan Zhao also nodded - yes, the amount of food is not small, but if you want to keep it in Kaifeng Mansion, do you need to tell Master Bao?

At this time, many people came to watch, and I heard that Zhanzhao brought a tiger back, and he was quite well-behaved.

Master Bao took a moment to take a look at it, and was overjoyed, "Okay!" I like the color of the coat! ”

Everyone looked at the sky, Pang Ji stomped his feet with a smile, and said, "Lao Bao, you should stay away from it at night, otherwise you won't be able to distinguish between them, but if you are not feeling well, you can let it go to the court on your behalf, let's talk about your long-lost brothers...... Aha......"

Bao Zheng glared.

Zhan Zhao asked, "My lord, is it okay to keep it in Kaifeng Mansion?" ”

"Nope." Master Bao nodded happily and patted Zhanzhao's shoulder, "Of course, if it is Zhan Guard, the food is also in charge of Zhan Guard." ”

Zhan Zhao was slightly stunned.

"It's so delicious." The little fourth son raised his face to look at Zhanzhao, "How many months have you been in the cat?" ”

Zhan Zhao was silent for a long time, then suddenly turned his face and asked Bai Yutang, "Will I be your godson?" ”

Bai Yutang couldn't cry or laugh, and asked Zhanzhao, "Aren't you hungry?" ”

"Hungry." Zhan Zhao can be regarded as remembering.

"Oh, there are a lot of people coming in and out of the house today." Bao Zheng said, "There's nothing to eat in the kitchen, you two go out and eat." ”

Zhan Zhao looked at the sky, "It's too late, why don't you go to the White Ghost Villa to eat." As he spoke, he asked Bai Yutang, "As you said, Xue Baigui is very particular about eating, please eat and thank you for saving your sister's grace, you shouldn't be stingy, oh?" ”

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

"Let's go, then." Zhan Zhao was full of interest, "Let's go and try the craftsmanship of the chef of White Ghost Villa." ”

As soon as Zhan Zhao left, the black tiger also followed, and seemed to be ready to cling to it.

Bai Yutang went out together and asked Zhanzhao, "Since you have raised it, let's take a name." ”

"Name?" Zhan Zhao touched his chin and looked down at the black tiger, "There is already a white sugar at home, are you...... Why don't you call it rice? ”

Bai Yutang looked at the black tiger with some sympathy.

"But you're black, and it's not good to call it black rice, so why don't you call it black rice cake?" Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and patted the black tiger's head, "The cuttlefish balls are not bad." ”

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with his hands behind his back, and walked slowly forward with the black tiger in a good mood, the sword spike on the hilt swayed with his walking movements, the same rhythm as the black tiger's tail swaying. Bai Yutang couldn't help but sigh a little, is Zhanzhao lacking heart or thinking open, or is he born happy? No matter what the situation, he is always so happy?

"What's going on that you're not happy about?" Bai Yutang suddenly asked a question that he felt inexplicable.

Zhan Zhao turned his face to look at him, and said very seriously, "If the food in the White Ghost Villa is not good for a while, or if someone disturbs my meal again, then I will probably be very unhappy...... A soldier can be killed but not starved, but once hungry, he can not be hungry again, and three hungers are absolutely unforgivable! ”