The car is not going fast or slow.

Around noon, the car stopped outside a cleared roadside shop.

"You go wash and change your clothes." Xie Ze looked at Li Ran and said.

Li Ran hummed, got out of the car, stood beside him, watched the two guards unload the horses, put the car forward, put on the two boards, the white tiger stood up slowly, swallowed the car slowly, and walked very slowly along the grassy path with Xie Ze, stopping from time to time, rubbing Xie Ze with his head.

A few tiger waiters brought out the meat foam broth and minced fresh chicken from the foot shop, and waited outside the foot shop.

Li Ran looked at it for a while, and entered the foot shop, Zhou E pointed to the corner of the foot shop, and a small curtain that was now enclosed, "The clothes are also put in." ”

Li Ran went in, and the hot water and bath beans were very complete and properly placed.

Li Ran moved quickly, washed it in a hurry, even washed her hair, changed her clothes, wiped her hair until it didn't drip, grabbed the golden hairpin hair rope and waited for it to come out.

Xie Ze was squatting at the door of the foot shop, holding the pot of meat foam broth to feed the white tiger.

The white tiger lay on the ground, slowly stretched out his tongue, licked it, and for a moment, looked at Xie Ze, and licked it again.

Li Ran stood in the door of the foot shop, looking sad, the white tiger ate this broth, not to eat, but to not make Xie Ze sad.

Xie Ze fed the white tiger, stood up, cleaned his hands, stepped into the threshold of the foot shop, stopped, and saw her scattered wet hair from Li Ran's loose green skirt, and looked at it again, with a helpless face, "Let's eat first." ”

On the table in the middle of the foot shop, the meal was already arranged: Longjing shrimp, roast mutton, stir-fried greens, cold wild vegetables, and two bowls of chicken soup wontons.

Xie Ze didn't eat quickly, and from time to time he glanced at the white tiger lying at the door of the foot shop.

While Li Ran was eating, he looked at Xie Ze who was absentmindedly eating wontons, those dishes, he didn't move, he didn't move, she didn't move.

After eating, Xie Ze squatted next to the white tiger, stroked the white tiger's head, and talked to it for a while, and the white tiger stood up and got into the car slowly.

Li Ran sat on the other side of Xie Ze as usual.

At noon in summer, Li Ran's hair dried quickly, fortunately, her hair was really good, black and soft, so scattered, and there was not much embarrassment exuded by her head.

Scattered like this, the oncoming wind blowing through her hair, Li Ran felt tighter than the comb, and when she inserted this hairpin and that hairpin, she was much more comfortable.

Xie Ze looked sideways at Li Ran's long hair scattered on his back.

Li Ran followed his gaze, glanced at his hair, reached out and picked up a strand, looked at it, put down his hair, and felt out a handful of the golden hairpin hair rope that he had just stuffed into his sleeve, put it in front of him, picked a hair rope, raised his hand to pick up his hair, and prepared to tie it up.

Xie Ze thought about the last time she faced the stream and tied her hair with thatch, sighed, knocked Li Ran's hand holding her hair with the comb in her hand, moved, and was about to comb her hair, glanced at the comb in her hand, sighed again, and looked up at Zhou E.

Zhou E was riding on a horse, in a state of believing in the reins of the horse, and from time to time he squinted at the two people on the cart, Xie Ze looked at her, just in time to meet Zhou E's oblique glance.

Zhou E met Xie Ze's obviously something-related gaze, inexplicably, looked down at herself, and then followed Xie Ze's gaze left and right.

What's wrong? What did he think she was doing?

Fortunately, Shi Nan, who was close to Zhou E, was an understanding person, and immediately threw a whip on the back of the little guy in front of him, met the gaze of the little guy, and said the word comb with his mouth.

Zhou E couldn't see Shi Nan's face, so he saw that the little guy threw something over, Shi Nan caught it, turned the horse and leaned, and handed it to Xie Ze, Zhou E stared at Xie Ze's hand, watched him take it, and turned it in his hand, only then did he see clearly that it was a horn comb.

Zhou E was stunned for a moment, blinked, and said to herself.

Dare to love, that glance is to ask her for a comb.

She said she wouldn't wait!

Can't you just say a word?

Zhou E slanted at Shi Nan sympathetically, she felt for the first time that waiting for people, especially waiting for someone like the one in the car, was much more difficult than fighting.

Xie Ze poked Li Ran, who was staring at him with a comb, and motioned her to turn around, slowly combing her hair with a comb, and facing Li Ran's black hair, she had a headache.

He also didn't comb his hair, he only saw them braiding their ponytails and mane.

Xie Ze twisted his eyebrows and thought carefully about the braiding methods of the ponytails and manes he had seen, sighed again, put down the comb, grabbed Li Ran's hair with both hands, left and right, twisted a section out, twisted his eyebrows and looked at it obliquely, with a unbearable expression, it was really ugly, let's change it.

Xie Ze loosened Li Ran's hair, divided it into three strands, and twisted it in one section, but it was still ugly.

After trying three or four times, it was divided into three strands and braided, Xie Ze looked at it, then put his body back, looked at it farther away, sighed, it was still ugly, but compared to the previous ones, it was a little stronger, so be it, he was already exhausted.

Xie Ze braided it once, his hands were skillful, he loosened his hair, combed it smoothly, and then braid it, and the braid was very decent.

Xie Ze looked at it carefully, he was quite satisfied, he reached out and clicked on the hair rope in Li Ran's hand, Li Ran handed over the hair rope, Xie Ze carefully wrapped it with the hair rope and tied it, looked at it again, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Ran carried the braid to the front, looked at it, and smiled.

He can even braid his hair, and he braids it so well!

Zhou E watched Xie Ze go from combing his hair to tossing Li Ran's hair according to their method of braiding horsetail and horsehair, and her eyes widened a little bit.

Shi Nan didn't dare to stare at it like Zhou E, he was riding on the horse upright, with a serious expression, facing forward, only slanting his eyes hard, and looking at it obliquely from the corner of his eye, only his slanted eyes were sour.

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran's braids again, and was not satisfied, but it could only be like this.

Xie Ze handed the comb to Shi Nan, and then motioned to Li Ran, put away the golden hairpin and a few other things in front of her, and handed them to Shi Nan, moved over to sit more comfortably, and slowly stroked the white tiger that seemed to be snoring and sleeping.

The mountains and forests in the distance approached them little by little, the scorching sun fell little by little, and gusts of mountain wind came with more and more obvious coolness.

Li Ran's gaze looked back at Xie Ze and the white tiger beside him from the distant mountain, and sighed with satisfaction, if time froze and froze here, what a beautiful end it would be.

"The first time I met it, it was only that big, I thought it was a cat."

Xie Ze gently stroked the white tiger, looking at the mountains and forests in the distance without focus, and his soft voice was sour.

"Hmm." Li Ran bent one leg, pressed his chin against it, and looked sideways at Xie Ze.

"Back then, it was rotten here."

Xie Ze lowered his head, stroked the white tiger's front legs, and motioned to Li Ran.

"Dirty and thin, limping, he came up to me, looked up at me, barked at me like a kitten, barked and drilled into my arms, and I thought it was a cat.

I picked it up, it was very cold, shivering with cold, I held it in my arms, it closed its eyes and fell asleep. ”

Xie Ze gently stroked the white tiger's leg and was silent for a long time before continuing: "At that time, it was very chaotic, there were dead people everywhere, and the living were more terrible than the dead. I hold it, I eat the wild fruit from the tree, I look for fresh human flesh, I cut it and feed it. ”

Li Ran let out a low sigh.

What she has experienced is the hardships of the world, and he, this is wandering in hell.

"It healed quickly, and one day it found a litter of rabbits, eight of them, each one the size of a palm, and it ate four, and I made a fire and roasted and ate four.

It was the first time we had hunted a living animal.

Later, it got stronger and stronger, and so did I.

It's so smart, it understands what I say, and the two of us hunt together and never miss. ”

Xie Ze's words paused, his eyes narrowed slightly, and after a while, he continued: "We often ambush lone stragglers, and it likes this kind of ambush the most, and so do I."

It likes to eat human flesh, strong tendon meat. ”

Xie Ze's voice was cold, revealing an eerie chill.

Li Ran subconsciously leaned closer to Xie Ze and stretched out his fingers to grab his sleeve.

"You met the emperor...... Is it also an ambush? Li Ran watched Xie Ze caress the white tiger's slender and powerful fingers.

"Well, that time, it was injured, and here it is." Xie Ze accurately felt a scar on the white tiger's shoulder.

At this time, the white tiger's hair was so thin that it couldn't cover the scar.

"Zhou E stabbed it with a knife." Xie Ze tilted his head and glanced at Zhou E.

"Ugh." Li Ran also looked at Zhou E.

Zhou E spread her hands and met Xie Ze's slanted gaze, speechless, just because of this knife, at the beginning, she didn't dare to let him see her for nearly a year.

It's been more than ten years, and he still remembers it so clearly!

Alas, too, this tiger is about to grow old.

"General Zhou is so powerful!" Li Ran looked at Zhou E and sighed.

"I was careless." Xie Ze's voice was full of guilt.

"That was the second time, the first time they ambushed us, broke our three brothers, and in the blink of an eye, they returned ......."

Zhou E coughed violently and coughed back the words behind the words.

"Fortunately, there were many of us, and there were a few old hunters, who chased them for three days and set a trap, and that knife would have borne fruit...... cough, General Xie didn't want to jump up to block the knife, my heart softened, the knife was recovered, here, a piece of meat was knocked off by General Hu's paw, and here, I was hit by General Xie's dagger.

That time, I suffered a big loss, not taking advantage! ”

Zhou E bit down heavily and suffered a big loss, she had long wanted to talk to General Xie about this.

Obviously, she suffered a big loss, and they suffered a big loss, how could it be like she owed him and the white tiger?

Just because he's good-looking? Well, just because he's good-looking!

When Zhou E thought about it, she suddenly felt calm, at that time, she was so stubborn that she was recovering it, didn't she just look at him so good-looking and reluctant......

Alas, this man.

Xie Ze squinted at Zhou E and snorted.

"At that time, the white tiger had already grown up." Li Ran thought about the White Tiger at that time, and Xie Ze.

"Well, back then, it was very majestic, and it grew up very quickly...... Alas. ”

Xie Ze sighed, full of sadness.

It grows up too fast and ages too fast.

"How old is it this year? How many years do tigers live? Li Ran looked at the white tiger and asked.

"Twenty years old, fifteen or sixteen years, those tiger servants said so." Xie Ze gently stroked the white tiger's head.

"It's too short." Li Ran said in a low voice.

"Well, it's already very long, I shouldn't be sad, life and death, sickness and death, people are like this, everything is like this."

"How old are you?" Li Ran looked sideways at Xie Ze.

Xie Ze leaned at Li Ran, who met his gaze and looked at him silently.

"You're thinking too far." Xie Ze retracted his gaze and snorted.

Xie Ze stopped talking, and Li Ran didn't speak either.

The car is unhurried, and the sunset is unhurried.

The car stopped in front of a small military post, and several tiger attendants unloaded the car as they did at noon, but the white tiger lay on the car, but raised his eyes and did not move.

Xie Ze took the minced meat and broth handed by the tiger attendant and brought them to the mouth of the white tiger, who snorted a few times, closed his eyes, did not open his eyes, and did not open his mouth.

Xie Ze stood in front of the car, holding the broth, looking at the white tiger in a daze, and it took a long time to slowly exhale, hand the broth to the tiger attendant, and slowly walked to the door of the post station, just about to raise his feet to cross the threshold, but he paused, stayed for a while, turned around and walked to the cart, and sat down next to the white tiger again.

Li Ran, who had been standing at the door of the post station and watching, looked at Shi Nan, "Do you have buns?" ”

"Yes." When Shi Nan responded, he had already raised his hand to signal the little guy.

The little guy rushed in, came out with a small basket of buns, and gave them to Li Ran.

Li Ran took the small basket of buns, walked to the front of the car, pulled Xie Ze's sleeve, and lifted the buns in front of him.

Xie Ze took a bun and bit it, and Li Ran also took one and bit it slowly.

After eating the buns, Shi Nan hurriedly stepped forward, took the small basket from Li Ran's hand, and handed a bowl of porridge to Li Ran, Li Ran handed the porridge to Xie Ze, took another bowl himself, held it with both hands, and drank it slowly.

Zhou E had already eaten, stood at the door of the post station, turned the horsewhip in her hand, looked at the two people sitting on the cart, looked at it for a while, threw off the horsewhip, and walked towards her horse with her hands behind her back.

The car soon set off again.

The night was falling little by little, and when it was dark, seven or eight torches were lit at the front of the line.

"Let's get some sleep." Xie Ze took the thin quilt from Shi Nan's hand and handed it to Li Ran.

Li Ran took it and shook it away, wrapped it around her body, and slept next to Xie Ze on her side.

Xie Ze caressed the white tiger's head with one hand, listening to the snoring of the white tiger in his ears and Li Ran's slow breathing, looking blankly at the starry sky in the distance, his heart was full of indescribable emotions.

When Li Ran woke up, the surroundings were still in darkness, the car was still walking unhurriedly, the surrounding mountains were blowing, and occasionally a few wolf howls came from afar.

Li Ran sat up wrapped in a thin quilt, rubbed his eyes, looked at the seven or eight torches in front of him, and then looked at Xie Ze, "When?" ”

"Yin Chu." Xie Ze pulled a thin quilt on one of its horns and put it on Li Ran's shoulder.

"You didn't sleep?" Li Ran saw the white tiger from Xie Ze, the white tiger opened his eyes and looked much more energetic than during the day.

"Hmm." Xie Ze also looked at the white tiger and raised his hand to stroke the white tiger's head.