Chapter Forty-Nine: The Sheep Enters the Tiger's Mouth
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In the evening, Lu Ziyu sent Lin Guyu home directly, and then followed the carriage back.
The door was still locked, the same as when she left.
Lin Guyu reached out and tugged on the lock, then took out the key from the pocket on his waist, opened the door and entered.
The house was dark, and Lin Guyu picked up the bean paste, for fear that the bean paste would fall again.
Chi Hang sat against the wall and added a little firewood to the fire in front of him.
This cave was discovered by him before, and then he added bedding pots and pans to it, and when he didn't go home, it was a place where he could sleep peacefully.
The quilt was spread on the haystack, and he slept in his clothes, and the fire was still burning not far away.
When I was sleeping, I heard a noise in my ears.
Chi Hang had always slept lightly, and when he heard the movement outside, he suddenly got up, reached out and grabbed the bow and arrow on the side, and walked lightly outside.
The entrance to the cave is full of haystacks that Chi Hang has put to hide his tracks.
"Why don't you kill it quickly, what are you doing?"
"Ah, it's coming, and if any of you kills it, I'll give you a hundred taels of silver."
"No, no, no, two hundred taels of silver."
......
The voice was so familiar, Chi Hang's brows furrowed slightly, and he hurriedly rushed over there.
Chi Hang stood in the distance, and from a distance, he saw a tiger standing in the middle of the fire.
The tiger was wandering leisurely under the tree, and when Chi Hang looked up, he saw a girl in blue clinging to the tree.
"What are you doing stupidly, if I die, none of you want to live!" The girl in the tree cried out loudly, frowning, but the trembling voice betrayed her fearful heart.
Chi Hang cautiously walked towards that side, and when he was about to approach, he climbed directly onto the tree.
Tigers can't climb trees, so they can only wait for food below.
"Miss, you hold on, for a while, wait for it to leave!" The girl in pink on the tree next to her trembled and hugged the tree.
"Apricot Blossom!" The girl in the powder blue dress couldn't help but exclaim, "I'm almost exhausted, my hands are broken, I can't hold on." โ
"Miss," said the girl in pink anxiously, "or I'll go down and run away, so the tiger will leave, and you'll be all right!" โ
Chi Hang stood on a slightly lower branch, holding a bow in his hand, and three arrows were directly placed on the bow, aiming directly at the tiger's farts and strands, and shot out without hesitation.
"Whew!"
The tiger on the ground fled as if it had gone mad.
"Who is it?" As soon as Jiang Rou let go, she hurriedly came down from the tree and looked in the direction where the arrow came from.
Xinghua hurriedly ran to Jiang Rou's face, looked up and down carefully, and was so frightened that she cried, "Miss, the slave maid thinks that she will never see you again!" โ
"Apricot blossoms." Jiang Rou's eyes were filled with tears, and she looked at the six young men over there with displeasure, none of these men were loyal, for their worthless life, none of them dared to come down, and they were not as good as her maids.
"It's too dangerous on the mountain," Chi Hang walked slowly in front of those people and said coldly, "I advise you to leave early." โ
Xinghua's eyes looked at Chi Hang's body for a moment, and then said excitedly, "It's you, Chi Gongzi!" โ
Chi Hang glanced at Xinghua, his brows furrowed slightly, he didn't seem to know this girl.
"The surname is Chi," Jiang Rou raised her hand and pretended to tidy up the hairpin to wipe the tears off her face, walked forward, walked in front of Chi Hang, and put her hands behind her back proudly, "It turned out to be you, you saved this girl again, thank you." โ
"It's a gesture." Chi Hang now wants to understand who this girl is, it turns out that she met on the street yesterday.
"Your fires will be more vigorous, so that the beasts that come will be driven away." Chi Hang pointed to the fire on the side and said indifferently.
After speaking, Chi Hang turned around and left directly.
"Stop!" Jiang Rou walked quickly in front of Chi Hang, her eyes on Chi Hang's face, "Say, what do you want?" โ
"No, I don't."
Chi Hang said, raising his feet and walking towards the front.
"Stop!" Jiang Rou trotted in front of Chi Hang, her eyes fell on the bow in his hand, and the corners of her lips curled a faint arc.
When he was in town yesterday, he didn't carry a bow, like a simple farmer, and now with that bow in his hand, the whole person feels completely different.
Jiang Rou's eyes looked at Chi Hang's body, and said confidently, "I can make an exception for you to be my personal guard, and I will pay ten taels of silver a month!" โ
Chi Hang's eyes looked at Jiang Rou's body, thinking about Gu Yu at home, and shook his head gently, "I'm sorry, I don't want to go." โ
"You!" Jiang Rouqi's face turned red, and he opened his mouth fiercely and said, "This kind of opportunity is rare. โ
"Then give it to someone else." If he was a personal guard for others, he wouldn't be able to go home casually, let alone see Gu Yu every day.
"In this way," Jiang Rou said angrily with a tense face, "In the past two days, if you protect me to go somewhere, I will give you ten taels of silver." โ
Without waiting for Chi Hang to speak, Jiang Rou's eyes looked at Chi Hang's mountain, "You haven't come down the mountain this hour, if I'm not mistaken, you are staying on the mountain for a few days." โ
"Yes." Chi Hang's mind was spinning extremely fast, this was a very good deal, "Where are you going?" โ
Jiang Rou looked at Chi Hang's appearance like this, and knew that he had agreed, with his hands behind his back, his head held high, proud of everything, even if the clothes and skirts on his body were dirty, his posture was still elegant and calm, "I'm going to the mountains to find something, as long as I find it, I will go back." โ
"How many days?" Chi Hang opened his mouth coldly, looking at this girl's appearance, he must not know how to live in the mountains.
"I don't know." Jiang Rou sighed wistfully, and turned her head to look at Chi Hang, "Ten taels of silver, no more than ten days at most, and the grain I brought is only ten days." โ
"Okay." Chi Hang nodded in response.
Jiang Rou walked back to the fire proudly, looking at the six personal guards standing opposite, her face was ugly.
"What do I want a few of you to do, don't dare to fight a tiger, after I go back, give you a sum of silver, and give me a roll!" Jiang Rou's brows furrowed, and she opened her mouth to say fiercely, and then walked to Xinghua's side.
Chi Hang glanced at the men next to him, to be honest, that tiger is big, if these six people work together, they can still drive the tiger away, after all, each of them has a sword in their hands.
Chi Hang walked over to the fire and added firewood.
"In the mountains, you can't sleep far from the fire, which drives away wild beasts." Chi Hang lowered his head and explained seriously.
"Have you ever encountered a tiger hunting in the mountains?" Jiang Rou tightened her face and pretended to be an adult.
"Nope." Chi Hang has indeed never met such a tiger, after all, how many tigers can there be on a mountain?
"Miss." Xinghua sat beside Jiang Rou and looked at Jiang Rou in fear, "Why don't we go back, just let people come and find it." โ
"How can this be?" Jiang Rou's face changed, and she said angrily, "Now that he is here, he will definitely be able to protect us." โ
Chi Hang listened to Jiang Rou say this, and his face was a little unhappy.
These rich people are just fooling around, doing whatever they want.
This mountain is very dangerous, in addition to the infested with wild beasts, there are many poisonous plants, if you encounter it, poisoning, it is not good.
If the poor family is not forced to the desperate, who wants to come to the mountains to work hard, this is a knife hanging from the side of the neck.
The night is particularly lively, with insects chirping and frogs chirping, and there is an endless stream.
Chi Hang put the firewood in the fire, held the bow in both hands, leaned his back against the tree, and closed his eyes.
He just closed his eyes and didn't dare to really fall asleep, in case something happened, it wouldn't be good.
Gradually, the voices seemed to fade away.
Chi Hang opened his eyes suddenly and looked around with a wary expression.
The night was so quiet that I couldn't hear anything but the breathing of the people around me.
There is nothing wrong with his ears, is there something going on around him?
Thinking so, Chi Hang directly woke up the six guards, and by the way, the two girls also woke up.
Jiang Rou opened her eyes in a daze, raised her eyes to look at Chi Hang, muttered her lips, and her voice was indifferent, "What are you doing in the middle of the night!" โ
"Shh Chi Hang's expression became even more serious.
Xinghua looked at Chi Hang's appearance, then pulled Jiang Rou's arm and whispered, "Miss, it seems that something is wrong." โ
"What's wrong...... Jiang Rou shouted loudly, gradually her voice became softer, and her eyes glanced around before she realized that she was in the mountains, "I didn't find anything wrong." โ
Chi Hang stood up and stood next to the fire, bow in hand.
A gust of wind blew, and the leaves of the grass and trees rattled.
Jiang Rou's hands clasped tightly on her shoulders and looked around in fear.
"Xinghua," Jiang Rou lowered her voice and said in a voice that only two people could hear, "Why do I think it's so scary?" โ
The surrounding trees were extraordinarily large, and the moonlight stretched the shadows of the trees extraordinarily long, like beasts, as if they were about to be devoured in the next second.
The arrow in Chi Hang's hand was already placed on the bow.
The six guards on the side, this time directly surrounded Jiang Rou and protected Jiang Rou inside.
Chi Hang's face became even more ugly, and he turned around abruptly and directly released the arrow in his hand.
Arrows into the wood.
"Whew!"
There was a tiger jumping out of there, and the tiger looked much bigger than the one just now.
With every step it took, the hair on its body swayed, and a pair of eyes looked lazily at the people in front of it, as if it didn't take that person in its eyes at all.
Chi Hang had already had an arrow on his bow, and he looked at the tiger indifferently.
When Jiang Rou saw the tiger, her legs were weak, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
"Little ...... Miss. Xinghua's voice trembled, and her body was next to Jiang Rou.