The three of them were covered in feces and urine, and when the cold wind blew, they were shivering from the cold. They couldn't care less at this time. Long Jiong personally carried Zhao Guangyi on his back, and the other two guards were on guard with weapons on each side, with their waists bent.

, walked through the bushes, and carefully moved toward Zhao Guangyi's bedroom.

When they were approaching the palace, they finally saw the maids and eunuchs outside the palace, and then the three of them appeared.

Seeing their appearance and smelling the smell of feces and urine on their bodies, these people couldn't help but pinch their noses and want to laugh. However, when they saw Emperor Zhao Guangyi behind Long Jiong, moaning and groaning to death, how could they dare to show any signs of it?

With a smile, he quickly stepped forward and helped him to the bedroom.

Zhao Guangyi shouted to close the courtyard door! There was a tiger, which frightened the eunuchs and maids so much that they quickly closed the courtyard door.

The maids put Zhao Guangyi, who was covered in feces and urine, into the brocade quilt, and then hurriedly prepared hot water. Others hurriedly went out from the corner door to inform the queen and concubines.

Zhao Guangyi hid under the quilt and looked at the people in the room. When he learned that the courtyard door of the palace was closed, he calmed down and said to Long Zhong: "Hurry up and find Leng Yi and Leng Aiqing! He is in the woods in the northeast corner.

We must protect him at that rockery and don’t let the tiger hurt him!”

Long Jong quickly agreed, turned around and was about to run out, but was stopped by Zhao Guangyi again: "Wait! There is Mrs. Zheng Guo and Wang Jien! Look how they are doing! They are there too!"

Long Jiong and the other three people hurriedly agreed, holding their weapons and heading toward the woods in the northeast corner.

The three of them were highly skilled in martial arts. If they faced an enemy, they would not be afraid. However, at this moment, they knew that they were probably facing more than a dozen tigers, but they were worried. So they were careful and vigilant all the way.

Halfway through, Long Jong and the others heard two voices shouting: "Guan family...!" One voice seemed to be the new imperial commander Leng Yi, and the other one was actually the personal eunuch Wang Jien. The three of them were shocked again.

I was overjoyed and rushed to greet him.

Wang Jien and Leng Yi saw them and shouted in panic: "You are here just in time! Hurry! The official family is gone! Send someone to look for it quickly! - Ouch, it smells so bad. What's wrong with you?" Wang Jien found the three of them together.

of feces and urine.

Long Jiong said hurriedly: "The official family has returned to the palace. The official family asked a few of us to find and protect you two."

"Protect us?" Leng Yi and Wang Jien were both shocked. Wang Jien's face changed and he asked in shock: "What's wrong? Is there someone who rebelled and came into the inner court?"

"No, it was the tiger in the palace that escaped! The official family jumped into the cesspool to avoid the tiger. The three of us jumped into the cesspool to save the official family, and then we were covered in feces and urine.

"

"The tiger escaped? What's going on?" Wang Jien looked around in horror.

"We don't know either."

Only Leng Yi knew about this.

The so-called tiger roar was actually recorded and played by him using the recording function of his mobile phone.

In the morning, Emperor Zhao Guangyi told him that he would summon Empress Xiao Zhou in the afternoon, and that he would visit her in the snow in the grove in the northeast corner, and let Leng Yi hide in the rockery in the grove to "paint" the scene of his visit to Empress Xiao Zhou.

Come down. Leng Yi now knew that Xiao Zhouhou was forced to submit to Zhao Guangyi, and he felt very sympathy for the couple's experience. He really couldn't bear to see Xiao Zhouhou raped by Zhao Guangyi again, so he came up with this method.

After Zhao Guangyi handed over his mobile phone to him, he first went to Hushan, recorded the tiger's roar, then set a timer to play it, and placed it on the branches of the grove. It happened to be the critical moment when Zhao Guangyi was about to rape Xiao Zhou.

At this time, the recording starts playing.

At that time, it was impossible for anyone to know that there was a device called a tape recorder that could record sounds and play them back, and it was impossible for any outsider who was good at ventriloquism to come into the palace and imitate the roar of a tiger to scare the emperor. Therefore, as soon as Zhao Guangyi heard the roar of a tiger,

, naturally thought that a tiger from the Palace Tiger Mountain had escaped. He was so frightened that he fell into the manure pit and almost froze to death. He didn’t know that it was Leng Yi’s fault, but he still worried about Leng Yi’s safety, so Long Jiong

Others came to look for him. Leng Yi heard about it and was somewhat moved in his heart.

Leng Yi looked panicked and said to Long Jiong and others: "We searched all the way. We didn't see the shadow of the tiger, did you hear the tiger's cry? - What happened? Who said the tiger ran out?"

"It's what the officials said, but actually we didn't see the tiger either," Long Jiong said.

Leng Yi said: "Let's figure this out first! Let's go! Go to Hushan to see if the tiger has come out."

Long Jong said: "The officials also said that we should find Mrs. Zheng Guo and say that she is here too."

Wang Jien and Leng Yi looked at each other, and Wang Jien said: "She..., she has left and left the inner court to go back. Don't worry about her, let's go check whether the tiger has come out first. If it does, we have to hurry up.

Organize a hunt, don't let them hurt the official family, the empress, and the young prince."

The few of them carefully groped their way to Tiger Mountain. Before they got close, they heard the tiger's mighty roar, one after another.

Several people looked at each other and stopped. After all, Long Jiong was bolder and groped his way up a rockery to see what was happening on the other side of Tiger Mountain.

This Tiger Mountain is a bit like a modern zoo. A large pit is dug underground, several feet high from the ground. It is impossible for a tiger to jump up. Inside the big pit is an artificial rockery. There are still dozens of steps outside the big pit.

There is a very high fence as the second line of defense. People who want to watch tigers need to enter the fence before they can go to the Hushan pit to watch the tigers.

The rockery where Long Jiong was located was very high, and he could see the situation of Tiger Mountain in the wall. At a glance, he saw more than ten tigers preying on the live chickens and rabbits fed by the keepers in the Tiger Mountain, and they were fighting to tear them apart.

They bite and grab food, and from time to time they roar at their companions in a threatening manner. Several keepers stand outside the pit and throw these small animals into the tiger mountain.

As an imperial guard, Long Jiong was naturally aware of the situation of the tigers. He took an inventory and found that there were quite a few. He did not find any tigers coming out.

He hurried down and told Leng Yi and Wang Jien. The two of them didn't believe it, so they climbed up the rockery to have a look. Sure enough, they couldn't help but look at each other. Finally, they decided to go to Hushan to find out.

When they arrived at the gate of Hushan, the two guards on guard saw them and quickly bowed and saluted.

Long Jiong asked: "Has the tiger inside escaped?"

The guard was startled and said hurriedly: "How is that possible? We are watching day and night. Let alone the tiger, not even a fly can fly out."

"Stop talking nonsense! The officials saw the tiger coming out!"

The guard was so frightened that he knelt down and said, "It's impossible. The tigers are all inside. If you don't believe it, you can go and see it."

"Of course you want to see it!" Long Jiong and others stepped in and came to the edge of Tiger Mountain. The breeder quickly came over to salute.

Long Jong counted it again on the spot. Sure enough, not a single one was missing. After checking with the breeders, he learned that they had always been here in Hushan and had never left. These tigers also stayed in Hushan obediently and never came out.

may come out.

Long Jiong and others were very surprised. After discussion, they decided to return to the housekeeper's palace to report.

Emperor Zhao Guangyi had already taken a bath and changed into a clean dragon robe, but he had been cold for too long. He had caught a cold. He huddled in the brocade quilt and kept sneezing and coughing. His face was also burning red. The miracle doctor Hua Mingzun has come to treat him.

After checking, I prescribed a prescription and started decoction.

Zhao Guangyi only had one head sticking out of the quilt. When Long Jiong said that the tiger had not escaped, he became furious: "You mean, I heard it wrong? Cough cough cough."

Long Jiong was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground: "I don't dare. However, the gatekeeper and the feeder at Hushan said so, and the tiger did not escape. Eunuch Wang and Master Leng also heard it."

Zhao Guangyi was even more angry. He sat up and smelled the smell of feces and urine on Long Jiong's body again. He not only pinched his nose, but also remembered that Long Jiong and the others rescued him from the cesspool regardless of the cold weather. It was considered a credit. Don't

Holding back his anger, he said: "I clearly heard the tiger roaring in the small woods in the northeast corner. But Tiger Mountain is in the southeast corner, one in the north and one in the south. They are so far away. Even if there are more than a dozen tigers together,

It’s impossible to hear even a roar! Don’t you think so?”

Several people nodded in agreement. Indeed, if the tiger did not come out, it would be absolutely impossible to hear the tiger's roar in the northeast corner.

Zhao Guangyi pointed at Wang Jien again and said, "Say, did you hear it?"

Wang Jien was a little embarrassed because Emperor Zhao Guangyi wanted to visit Empress Xiao Zhou in the snow in the grove. The wind and snow were heavy, so he didn't want to wait in the snow and get soaked in snow, so he hid in a place far away to rest without permission.

Waiting in the hut. It was quite far away from Zhao Guangyi's position. Indeed, he did not hear any unusual sounds, let alone the roar of a tiger. However, Wang Jien was afraid of the wind and snow at that time and hid in a house far away.

He was so close to serve that the official panicked and fell into the cesspit. He was afraid of the official's reproach, so he did not dare to tell the truth or admit that he was hiding.

Later, Leng Yi came and said that he was painting in the rockery and saw Emperor Zhao Guangyi suddenly running away while visiting Xiao Zhouhou. Xiao Zhouhou also ran away. He was very worried. After he came out, he looked for Wang Jien along the way.

Then he panicked and searched around with Leng Yi. Finally, when they met Long Jiong and the others, they found out that the emperor seemed to have seen a tiger and fell into a manure pit while escaping. On the way to check out the Tiger Mountain, Wang Jien quietly asked Leng Yi

, did he hear the roar of the tiger at that time? Leng Yi said that it seemed to be the case. But he was not sure that it was the roar of the tiger. With Leng Yi's words, he also had an idea and said along the way: "The old slave did hear it at that time.

There was a cry, but my ears were not good, and I was guarding outside the grove, a little far away. In addition, the wind and snow were heavy, so I couldn't hear it accurately. I couldn't confirm whether it was a tiger's cry. - Leng

Your Excellency was there at that time, how could he hear it so clearly!"

Zhao Guangyi immediately woke up, pointed at Leng Yi and said, "Say, cough! Did you hear that?"

At noon, Zhao Guangyi whispered in Leng Yi's ear and told him a new thing. And this thing was to hide in the rockery in the woods in the northeast corner. Zhao Guangyi planned to visit Xiao Zhou on the snow here.

Finally, he asked Leng Yi to draw it. Therefore, Leng Yi hid in the rockery at that time. Since he outside could hear it clearly, Leng Yi inside must also be able to hear it!

Leng Yi didn't answer immediately. He looked around and coughed a few times.

Zhao Guangyi almost drowned after falling into a cesspool, and then almost froze to death. He is still in shock. So he didn’t bother to chase away the palace maids and eunuchs and asked Leng Yi directly. Now after Leng Yi reminded him, he reacted immediately

He quickly asked everyone else to exit outside, closed the door, and stared at Leng Yi.

Leng Yi then stepped forward and bowed: "Reporting to the official's house, Wei Chen heard a sound at that time, but he did not expect it to be the roar of a tiger, because Wei Chen had been to Hu Mountain and knew that it was heavily guarded and tigers would not

He might have escaped. So I didn’t think about it and thought it was the sound of wind and snow.”

"What a sound of wind and snow! That's the roar of a tiger!"

"Looking back now, Weichen realizes that there is indeed something similar. However, at that time, Weichen was concentrating on painting. When he saw the official, he suddenly ran away in fear. Weichen didn't know what happened and did not dare to come out. He waited until Mrs. Zheng Guo came.

After leaving, I came out to look for Guan Jia. I met the prince and we searched together. Later, we met the three dragon guards, and then we found out that Guan Jia had met a tiger. Wei Chen originally thought that Guan Jia had just run out of the woods.

I met it. Now I know that the official family heard the tiger roaring from the rockery, but Wei Chen had been checking the situation outside in the rockery and did not see the tiger coming out. "

Zhao Guangyi stared at them. This matter does seem a bit strange now. Long Jiong and the others have found out that at Hushan, many guards and breeders testified that the tiger did not escape. This is the inner court of the palace, except for Hushan.

Except for the tigers there, there are no tigers anywhere else. And if the tiger really didn't escape from Hushan, what was the roar he heard?

Although Leng Yi and Wang Jien were not sure that it was the roar of a tiger, Zhao Guangyi was very sure that he heard it correctly at that time. He actually heard the roar of a tiger coming from the grove, not the roar of a storm.

Whistling sound.

But the question is, where does this tiger roar come from?

Zhao Guangyi himself was dumbfounded. Could it really be the sound of wind blowing through the woods? No! Although it was lightly snowing at the time, there was no wind. It could not be the sound of wind blowing through the woods!

Did you see a ghost in broad daylight?

Zhao Guangyi felt a chill running down his spine and quickly shrank into the quilt. He thought for a while and said to Leng Yi, "Where is Mrs. Zheng Guo? How did she react at that time?"

"She seemed to be scared too. She looked around. She adjusted her dress randomly, wrapped herself in a cloak, and ran towards the palace gate. She looked very nervous and didn't even cry."

Zhao Guangyi said: "That's right, she must have heard the tiger's cry and was scared!" When he thought of Xiao Zhou, Zhao Guangyi immediately remembered the strong stimulation after raping Xiao Zhou. That feeling was really good.
Chapter completed!