The samurai were proud of the large number of people, and they came out to have fun with the two young masters, who cared about the tigers and leopards, and laughed at Gao Yuan for his timidity, and one of them patted the scimitar hanging from his waist, and said that he wanted to find a big insect to make a robe.

Gao Yuan couldn't, and Zhou Nan looked at each other and smiled bitterly, the big insect is not a big worm, it doesn't mean that you can meet it. But when it gets dark, the mountain road is hard to find, and there are weeds to cover it, and when you step on the air, you will become a ghost who has died unjustly. Zhou Nansi looked around, although he had never been here, but now they were in a flat mountain col. If you go any further, it will be a dense forest hillside, and who knows how long it will take to walk out of this forest? Don't these Khitans look at the sky? Zhou Nan smiled and said to one of the warrior leaders: "Nobleman, the two of us are hunters in the mountains, and we are used to hardships, so we don't need to rest, but I am afraid that you nobles will be hurt by the cold in the mountains, how can the villain take responsibility?" ”

The samurai leader was a steady man, and after hearing Zhou Nan say this, he thought about it, and felt that what Zhou Nan said made sense. Then he stopped the procession, turned his horse's head backwards, and asked the young men and women to set up camp.

The horse that the samurai leader was riding suddenly stopped moving, the horse's tail was clamped, and the four hooves were restless on the ground, and the samurai leader was strange, and was about to whip and whip, when suddenly there was a roar in the forest, and the mountain forest shook for a while, and I don't know whether it was the mountain wind blowing or the roar shaking. Zhou Nan only felt that his eardrum was about to burst, his heart was not good, and he followed the prestige, only to see a fierce tiger on the edge of the mountain forest more than ten zhang away on the left side of his body, with black spots on a yellow background, three black horizontal spots on his forehead, and a white hanging eye on his eyes, more than one zhang long from beginning to end. After the tiger appeared, he only glared at these people and horses in front of him with two huge tiger eyes, and before everyone could react, he did not stop, jumped more than a moment, and pounced on the girl riding on the horse in the team, the carmine horse did not have the divine horse just now, but the legs trembled, the girl on the horse grasped the reins and was at a loss, and the seven or eight warriors around him stood upright, forgetting to draw their swords. Zhou Nan stood at the head of the team, watching the tiger pounce on the girl, and in an instant, almost subconsciously raised his hand and stretched his bow is arrow, shooting at the tiger, hitting the tiger's waist. The tiger was in pain, his body slowed down, and there was a tiger roar that shook the sky, turned around and looked at Zhou Nan, as if he found that Zhou Nan was its threat, and went crazy, leaving the girl, turning around and rushing towards Zhou Nan.

Zhou Nan was too late to draw the arrow and open the bow at this time, and the tiger pounced head-on as soon as he fell, Zhou Nan let go of the bow in his hand with his left hand, and pulled out the hunting knife from his waist with his right hand, and reached out to hold the hunting knife with his left hand. The hunting knife was different from ordinary knives, the blade was inwardly concave, and the tip of the knife was hooked like an eagle's beak, and it was extremely sharp. Zhou Nan held the knife with both hands, his legs were standing, the tiger pounced in only an instant, his claws were on Zhou Nan's chest, a fishy wind came to his face, Zhou Nan's eyes were wide open, he looked carefully, and when the tiger arrived in front of him, he squatted down suddenly, and at the same time leaned back, holding the knife with both hands, the blade was up, protecting his chest and face. Zhou Nan prayed sincerely in his heart in a standard prayer posture: Damn, there are really tigers!

Zhou Nan could feel the furry tiger skin with body temperature sliding against his chest, the tiger's jaw almost slid against his face, the stiff beard under the tiger's jaw crossed his face, and he could even feel the breath spewing out of the tiger's nose. Zhou Nan, who was lying on the ground, immediately rolled over and rolled to the side, he didn't want to be turned back by the tiger, so he could hide.

The tiger couldn't pounce, fell to the ground, turned around and saw that his prey was about to run, roared, and pounced on Zhou Nan again, only a "whoosh" sound was heard, the tiger paused, walked two steps crookedly, and finally roared, and slowly fell to the ground and did not move.

It turned out that Gao Yuan saw Zhou Nan's danger, reacted, and also shot an arrow with a bow, hitting the tiger in the back, and the tiger fell to the ground.

Time seemed to stand still, and it took a while for everyone to realize that the tiger was dead. The surrounding Liao warriors stood up tremblingly at this time, and two bold ones slowly walked to the tiger's side, stabbed the tiger twice with their spears from a distance, and found that there was no movement, only to know that the tiger was really dead. The group of people let out a long breath, the king of the mountains and forests is really powerful, and it is terrifying to roar and pounce, not to mention the struggle, even lying on the ground, so that everyone dare not despise it.

Zhou Nan wondered, he also shot, why didn't the tiger die? Enduring the feeling of weakness in his knees, Zhou Nan took a deep breath, walked to the tiger's side, and looked carefully, only to find that a pool of blood flowed out from under the tiger's body. It turned out that when the tiger pounced on him just now, he used a hunting knife to cut the tiger's abdomen, and even if the tiger didn't hit the arrow high and far, it was already the end of the crossbow. Gao Yuan also came over at this time, and the warriors knew that the tiger had died under Zhou Nan's knife.

After all, the aristocratic boy was young, and he couldn't sit still on the horse, so he got off the horse tremblingly, and at this time the warriors all knelt down and apologized: "I am not good at guarding, please punish the eldest prince." The young man waved his hand to the guards and said, "It's not your fault. "There were already samurai who came to sit on the stones by the roadside, busy with wine to suppress the alarm. However, the aristocratic girl was still calm, and got off the horse, and the maid hurriedly came over and hugged the girl, and walked to the side of the dead tiger. The girl thanked Zhou Nan softly, Zhou Nan waved her hand and said to the girl, "I don't know where the nobleman's mansion is?" If you don't rush back early, if you shoot and hunt, you can gallop at the foot of the mountain. The tone was full of ridicule, these people can only fight rabbits with bows. When several samurai heard this, they were about to shout angrily, and the girl glared at the samurai slightly, and turned to Zhou Nan: "Thank you, righteous man; My brother and I are from Yanjing City, and we came here to play and relax, but we didn't realize that we had gone far. It's just that it's getting late today, so why go home? The righteous man is the master here, and we are willing to let the righteous man arrange it, and it is too late to stay here, and I will go home tomorrow, how about it? The girl smiled beautifully, with a hint of acquaintance jokes in her expression, gentle and quiet, making people feel like friends with her for many years, without the rustiness of the first meeting.

Gao Yuan walked over and said to Zhou Nan: "It's getting late, the mountain road is difficult to walk at this time, why don't we rest here for one night and go down the mountain tomorrow." Zhou Nan nodded, it was going to be the second half of the night when he went down the mountain from here to Gaojiazhai, and he didn't want to walk the mountain road in the dark, and he didn't know where to find it if he fell. I just said that I was angry that these samurai had no one in their eyes.

The maiden commanded to go down, and the warriors set up their tents. Hunting is not good, but serving people is a veteran, and five tents were set up at one time. The girl said to Zhou Nan with a little apology: "I came out without bringing Zhou Quan, and I hope that the righteous man will be there for one night." Zhou Nan thanked him, but he didn't even dare to say it. Five tents, three outside and two inside, were naturally for these two noble men and women, and the samurai shared two, and the remaining one was naturally for him and Takato.

Gao Yuan took out the pheasant and hare he hunted today, went to the distance to slaughter and peel it, and brought it back, those warriors had already lit a bonfire, took out milk wine, the girl and the boy and Zhou Nan sat in front of the bonfire and talked, the Khitan people were not so strict in the distinction between respect and inferiority, and they were camping in the wild, they were all young people, it was easy to talk about it together, although those warriors were above the top at the beginning, but after killing the tiger, their eyes were full of respect for the two, especially for Zhou Nan. The Khitan people are martial arts and worship the strong, so they naturally toasted and saluted Zhou Nanduan, who killed the tiger closely, and the leader of the samurai, who was the leader of this group of samurai, toasted Gao Yuan and Zhou Nan with a wine bowl, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and said to the two: "In Xia Hudugu, with two skills, why not become rich and noble in the army?" Gao Yuan took a knife and cut a piece of roasted meat, and said indifferently while eating: "People in the mountains don't know things, and they only rely on their hands to find food in this mountain, and they are also at ease." ”

The young man interjected and asked, "I don't know the two surnames, how do you call them?" Gao Yuan said: "The little one is called Gao Yuan, this is my partner, surnamed Zhou Mingnan, the line is big, and he is often called Zhou Dalang." Zhou Nan wailed in his heart, this big man is decided.