The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 19
Although raising a tiger is quite a foreign style thing, but raising this thing is too dangerous, what if it gets violent and hurts people?
"Long'er, I have no objection if you want to raise it, but it is a beast after all, wild and hard to tame, what if it hurts someone if you bring it back to the mansion?" Xuan Shijing said.

"Master Hou, don't worry, leave this to Long'er, and Long'er will definitely tame it." Long'er patted her chest confidently.

"Okay, if you can tame it, then you can raise it. It happens that there are few people in the Hou's mansion, so it's not bad to raise a housekeeper." Xuan Shijing agreed after a little hesitation: "Take it back in a while, don't let the hunting ground eat it." If the royal guards are killed, yes, the cubs in its nest will also be taken back, anyway, if you let a sheep go, you will let a flock of goats go.” Xuan Shijing was completely holding a pair of lice who were not afraid of being bitten. The mentality is ready to raise the tiger in the Hou's mansion. This thing is much better than a dog to guard the house after being raised. Anyway, the Hou's mansion will definitely be able to raise it in the future.

"Thank you, Lord!" With Xuan Shijing's approval, Long'er was overjoyed, patted the tiger's head, and said to it: "From now on, you and your children will follow me to ensure that you are full and hungry." No, but you don't want to hurt people, or I, I..." Long'er thought for a long time, but didn't think of any threatening words, and said indiscriminately: "Anyway, if you hurt people, I don't want you. "

The tiger was also psychic, after listening to Long'er's words, he raised his head and rubbed against Long'er's palm.

"Let's go, Long'er, let it take us to bring its cub back, look at it like this, later, don't starve the cub to death." Xuan Shijing said.

"En." Long'er nodded, and then said to the tiger: "I have to give you a name, otherwise you won't know how to call me in the future. Young Master, please help to name it."

Xuan Shijing glanced sideways at the tiger lying on the ground: "It's so big, and you like it so much, you can call it a big treasure."

"Dabao? Hahahaha." Long'er couldn't hold back, and laughed: "Young Lord, I see you spend your days in the study reading so many books. I didn't expect your name to be so silly."

"Dabao's name is so foreign, I won't argue with you, it's almost noon, we have to rush back to cook dinner." Xuan Shijing gave Long'er an angry look.

"Yes, yes, the little lord called Dabao." Long'er withdrew her smile, and patted Dabao on the head: "You heard me, Dabao, let's go, take us to your house, and pick up your little treasure." come over."

Long'er got up, returned to the place just now, and carried the bamboo basket on the ground on her back
Under the guidance of Dabao, Xuan Shijing and Long'er found the tiger cubs in the den. Long'er went up to check it out, then turned her head and said to Xuan Shijing: "Master, there are two cubs in total. , one died." Long'er was a little sad.

Dabao stepped forward to hug the two cubs, and also found that one of his own cubs had died. With a groan, he lay down beside the two cubs. Tears flashed faintly in the tiger's eyes, and he let out a wail.

Xuan Shijing didn't know what to do, looking at Dabao's sad eyes, she could only order Long'er to dig a hole for the dead cub on the spot and bury it.

Since the reign of Zhenguan, first the war with the Turks, and then the continuous natural disasters, people can't live happily, let alone animals, Dabao and his two cubs are not hunted and eaten by humans.

"Okay, Long'er, pick up the remaining cub, let's go back, I guess His Majesty and the others have almost caught some prey." Seeing Long'er burying the dead cub, Xuan Shijing said.

"En." Long'er walked to the side of the remaining cub, bent down to pick it up, and said to Dabao, "Let's go, let's go back to eat, and you can feed your child when you are full."

The two of them walked to the camp where Li Shimin was stationed along the way they came.

After walking for a while, before approaching the camp, they heard a noise.

"There are tigers!"

"Quick! Protect Your Majesty and Empress!"

The guards quickly stood still, bent their bows and set up arrows, aiming at Dabao.

"Everyone stop!" Xuan Shijing shouted, "I am Xuan Shijing."

The chief guard signaled his subordinates to aim their bows and arrows at the ground, and shouted loudly: "Young Master, is that tiger trapped?"

"No, this is a pet tamed by my maid. I plan to take it back. Don't be nervous, everyone. Don't worry, it won't hurt anyone." Xuan Shijing said as he brought Long'er and Dabao closer to the crowd.

It was really the young master, and the guards talked one after another.

"This young master is so powerful, he even tamed the tiger."

"Didn't you hear what the little marquis just said, it was tamed by the maid beside him."

"Ah, I can't tell. You see, that girl is so innocent and cute, she can beat a tiger."

The chief guard glared at him, and the guards immediately stopped talking.

While speaking, Xuan Shijing had already reached the front of the crowd, but the chief guard stopped Xuan Shijing.

"Little Marquis, I'm afraid this tiger can't enter the camp. Your majesty and the queen's ten thousand gold bodies, if something goes wrong, I won't be able to take care of you." The chief guard motioned his subordinates to put away their bows and arrows, then clasped his fists and said to Xuan Shijing.

Xuan Shijing thought about it carefully, and then said: "Long'er, just put Dabao not far from our carriage, don't let it get close to the crowd, you go and put it first, and I will take the groom to deliver some to Dabao later." Food." Turning his head to look at the chief guard: "Master, the tiger cub in my maid's arms is only half a month old, and it is not in any danger, so let us carry it close to our body so that we can take care of it, how about it?"

After Xuan Shijing said this, the chief guard found out that there was still a cub lying in the arms of the little maid next to Lord Hou, then turned his gaze to Xuan Shijing, nodded and said: "It's okay."

Xuan Shijing nodded his thanks to the chief guard, and then walked to his carriage, while Long'er went to settle Dabao.

Back at the camp, Xuan Shijing saw that Li Shimin and all the civil and military officials had returned, before Xuan Shijing came up to say hello, Cheng Yaojin saw Xuan Shijing.

"Jing'er, come, come to Uncle Cheng." Cheng Yaojin waved to Xuan Shijing.

Xuan Shijing walked over, cupped his hands and saluted: "Uncle Cheng."

"Don't be like those sour Confucians at such a young age, do you feel okay coming out this time?" Cheng Yaojin asked with concern: "You are young and weak, and your sister-in-law didn't come with you this time, but are you still used to it?"

"Uncle Lao Cheng, don't worry about it. It feels good to come out this time. Uncle Cheng, how many prey have you killed?" Xuan Shijing asked, except for Cheng Yaojin and the other princes, the others are not very familiar with it. There is also a big treasure waiting for its rations outside.

"Hahahahaha, Jing'er, you don't know your Uncle Cheng's ability. If the guards can't take it, your Uncle Cheng can bring back all the panting animals in this royal hunting ground." Cheng Yaojin laughed. , I was very happy to hear Xuan Shijing asked about his harvest, because among all the ministers, he harvested the most prey.

"Hee hee, this. Uncle Cheng, can you share some of the prey you hunted with Jing'er? Jing'er has two pets and hasn't eaten yet." Xuan Shijing said a little embarrassed.

"Okay, as much as you want, just go get it, if it's not enough, Uncle Cheng will get you some after noon." Cheng Yaojin didn't care what kind of pet Xuan Shijing had, and waved his hand with pride.

"Then Jing'er will thank Uncle Cheng."

Now that Dabao's rations were in order, Xuan Shijing hurriedly bid farewell to Cheng Yaojin, found his own groom, took him to the place where the guards placed the prey, and found the prey that Cheng Yaojin had brought back.

"There are quite a lot of things. It seems that the Imperial Forest Army did not spend much time before." Xuan Shijing said to himself.

Looking at the prey scattered on the ground, there are more than a dozen kinds of prey, ranging from wild boars to pheasants, most of which are fatal with one arrow.

The founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty really did not earn their reputations. In the past, the officials of the Tiance Mansion, not to mention military generals, even civil servants, could go to the battlefield with long knives and chop down a few enemies.

Picking out a fat deer, Xuan Shijing asked a guard to carry it with her groom, and found Long'er.

At this time in the woods, Longer was re-treating Dabao's wound. The guard who came with Xuan Shijing saw a spotted tiger at first glance, and was so frightened that his hand slipped, and the deer fell to the ground. The groom was calm and put down the deer. , arched his hands to the guard: "My lord, just send it here."

The guard nodded and left tremblingly.

The groom alone lifted the deer with great effort and placed it in front of Dabao.

"Why does His Majesty's guard have such poor psychological endurance? They were so frightened by a wounded tiger." Xuan Shijing couldn't help but despise him, not as good as his own groom.

(End of this chapter)