"Big brother, run for your life, the tiger is coming!"
As soon as Xue Rui came out of the woods, he saw Yu Shu shouting and running towards him. When he looked back, he knew what made her panic.
A fierce tiger was running dozens of steps behind her. Its eyes flashed with a fierce red light, and behind the tiger was a man with a sword.
Xue Rui's face changed, but he didn't retreat half a step. He immediately pulled the longbow in his hand and put an arrow on the bowstring. Just when Yu Shu ran to his side, his eyes flashed with cold light, and he shot a single eye at the tiger!
"Whoosh!"
"Awoo!"
The left eye of the tiger was hit by the arrow, and blood splashed out. It was in so much pain that it retracted its forelimbs, and its two hind legs moved a few steps forward. Just because of this pause, Jing Chen, who was chasing behind it, caught up with it, stepped on its back, and pierced its head with a sword.
"Bang!" The huge body of the tiger fell to the ground.
Yu Shu suddenly turned around and grabbed onto Xue Rui's arm, yet Xue Rui pulled her back and pulled her behind him.
Yu Shu was panting, and half of her head popped out from behind him. She looked at the big tiger lying on the ground seven or eight steps away from them. Its huge body made people's scalp numb.
Her teeth trembled a few times, and then she saw Jing Chen standing up from the tiger, looking straight at her with a pair of bright eyes.
She was stunned for a moment, and then she came back to her senses. She pulled Xue Rui's back and asked him in shock, "Are you dead?"
Xue Rui glanced at the man and the tiger coldly. He raised his hand and put his arm around her shoulder, pulling her to his side, and teased her, "Dead?
Look at how scared you are. You ran faster than a rabbit just now. "
Yu Shu hit his chest and said angrily, "It's all because of you, jinx."
Xue Rui chuckled softly before turning to Jing Chen, who was standing nearby, and said, "Thank you, Daoist Child, for lending a helping hand."
Xue Rui was smart. Seeing the situation in front of him and the figures running over from afar, he had a suspicion in his heart.
Before today, he had not heard that Jing Chen was in Huazhen Garden. Someone who was not supposed to be here was now right in front of him. The West Mountain Enclosure was so vast that there was no end to it. It could only be said that someone had purposely run into them.
If it wasn't for him, then it was for Yu Shu.
Jing Chen's indifferent gaze swept past Xue Rui's face, and in the end, it descended onto the palm on Yu Shu's shoulder. Because the two of them were too intimate with each other, he felt slightly stuffy in his heart, and he instinctively wanted to silently chant the Mind Cleansing Incantation.
He no longer needed to guard his Dao Heart.
"No need to thank me. You were the one who shot it just now. That's why I was able to act in time."
Only then did Yu Shu notice that there was an arrow stuck in one of the tiger's eyes. Half of the arrowhead was pierced through, and the other half was exposed. Blood was flowing out of the eye.
She opened her eyes and was puzzled. Such a big tiger, shouldn't it stay deep in the mountains? Why did it run out of the enclosure?
She glanced at Jing Chen again and did not say anything. That night on the bridge, he had severed all ties with her and said that they were strangers. She did not want to use her warm face to stick to his cold buttocks.
In next to no time, Liu Tan and the others who were on the other side of the river rushed over, and they heaved a sigh of relief when they saw the dead Whiteforehead Tiger on the ground before noticing Xue Rui, and they wiped off the cold sweat on their foreheads.
"Your Highness, what happened?" Xue Rui let go of Yu Shu's shoulder and asked Liu Tan when he saw the group of people approaching.
Liu Tan then told them about how they met the tiger in the mountains and got lost. Later on, they were targeted by the tiger and followed out. In the end, he said with a face full of relief,
"Luckily we had Martial Uncle with us. Otherwise, we would have died in the tiger's mouth today."
Xue Rui furrowed his brows and looked at the few servants behind Liu Tan who were still in shock. He suddenly became suspicious, but he didn't show it on his face. He asked Liu Tan again,
"Where are the others?"
Liu Tan pointed at the river bank behind him and said, "Eighth Brother and Thirteenth Sister are over there."
Xue Rui looked at the river bank and asked, "Why isn't the Twelfth Prince with you?"
"No, he had a stomachache this morning, so he stayed in Huazhen Garden."
Xue Rui nodded and said no more.
Seeing that they were out of danger, Liu Tan asked someone to bring the Eighth Prince and the others to the other side of the river. They gathered together.
Yu Shu knew Liu Du, but it was the first time for her to see the Thirteenth Princess. The young girl was as cute as snow, but she was obviously frightened. Her face was pale as she held onto Liu Tan's arm. She closed her eyes and did not dare to look at the dead tiger on the ground.
After such a thing happened, everyone's playfulness was gone from fright. Liu Tan and Xue Rui discussed and decided to leave a few servants to guard the tiger's carcass while they rode back to the garden to avoid being attacked by wild beasts again.
The few horses on Liu Tan's side were so frightened by the tiger that they ran away, whereas the four horses on Xue Rui's side were tied to the tree properly. Thus, the two of them divided the horses. Liu Tan and the Thirteenth Princess rode on one horse, Liu Du and Jing Chen rode on the other horse respectively, while Xue Rui and Yu Shu shared the last horse.
No one had any objections. Of course, there might be people who had objections, but they did not say it.
Xue Rui got on the horse first and stretched out his arm to pull Yu Shu to the back of his horse. They had shared a ride before. That time, Yu Shu ran out of the city to look for Jing Chen, and Xue Rui found her in the middle of the night and brought her back. Compared to the stiffness at that time, Yu Shu was much more at ease now. She casually wrapped one arm around Xue Rui's waist and leaned against his straight back. She swayed with the magatama, which was quite comfortable.
Xue Rui held the reins with both hands and smiled.
Jing Chen was half a horse's length behind them. Looking at the two sitting next to each other on the horse's back, he felt that something was wrong, but he could not tell what it was.
After a while, the fear in their hearts dissipated. Liu Du, who was scared to the point of wetting his pants not long ago, was now full of energy. He turned to Jing Chen and laughed.
"I didn't expect Jing Chen to be so skilled. That ferocious beast had been the king of the mountains for a long time. Now that you killed it, it must have been very regretful before it died. Haha."
Jing Chen frowned slightly and thought, "If it wasn't for that tiger hurting people first, he would not have killed it."
Liu Du did not seem to notice that Jing Chen was not in a good mood. He still talked to him excitedly, "The Hanging Eyes White Forehead Tiger you killed is full of rare treasures. It has tiger skin, tiger bones, tiger guts, tiger whips …"
"Ahem." Xue Rui coughed lightly and interrupted Liu Du's words, saying, "Tiger bones are good stuff. I have two jars of tiger bone wine in my Wang Ji Lou. The price I bought it for was not low."
Liu Du also knew that he had said something he shouldn't have. There were still two girls present, so he smiled embarrassedly. He winked at Xue Rui and said, "Why don't the two of us join in and ask Jingchen to buy all the bones of this tiger? We'll both go back to brew wine?"
He was thick-skinned. He knew that Jing Chen was on Liu Tan's side. Today, when this tiger was brought back to the capital and presented to the palace, the Emperor would be very happy and reward him. How could he have a share?
But it was a different story. When he went back to make tiger bone wine and sent it to the palace, he would at least get a share.
Hearing this, Xue Rui smiled at Liu Du. Although he did not answer, his eyes seemed to see through Liu Du.
"Haha." Liu Du laughed dryly and found a way out for himself. "If you are not willing to spend money, then forget it."
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