allonlinenovel Chapter 181 The Saint's Banquet Ends
Chapter 181 The Saint's Banquet Ends
Song Qingwan knew the time had come, and she quickly shot anesthetic needles at several guards.
After they all fell down, she quickly walked up to the tiger. Song Qingwan first checked the tiger's vital signs and found that everything was normal, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she ran to several guards, pulled out her anesthetic needle and put it into the space. She observed that there was no one around, and directly brought the tiger into the space.
Yan Yu on this side had already avoided the crowd and returned to the original place, but he found that Song Qingwan was missing!
"Qingwan! Song Qingwan, where are you?"
Yan Yu looked around frantically, thinking that Song Qingwan had been captured again.
At this moment, a hand patted his back gently. Yan Yu quickly turned around and saw Song Qingwan standing behind him with a smile.
"I'm here, Sister Yan"
Yan Yu's face turned as red as pig blood. He touched his clothes and sighed resignedly.
Well, this outfit does look like "sister."
"Where have you been?"
"I just rescued the tiger and released it back into the forest."
"You saved the tiger? So you asked me to mess up the hunting ground just to save that tiger?"
"Yes, that tigress had just given birth to cubs. I understood the look in her eyes as if she was asking for help."
Well, Yan Yu understood a little bit. After all, pregnant women are very compassionate.
Song Qingwan saw what Yan Yu was thinking and she hurried to explain.
"It's not just to save the tiger. What do you think will happen to the mate and the cubs if a tigress who just gave birth is caught?"
"You mean?"
"Just wait and see. I guess it won't be long before the tiger's family comes to seek revenge."
As expected, Song Qingwan was right. The emperor and his entourage were stopped by a tiger on their way back home.
This tiger was baring its fangs and was much larger than the previous one. It was accompanied by three little tiger cubs.
The tiger's roars echoed throughout the mountains and forests, and the birds and beasts fled in panic. The emperor sitting in the dragon chariot was so frightened that he huddled up into a ball.
Archers stood in front of the emperor, ready to shoot the tiger to death.
Unexpectedly, the tiger was so cunning that it managed to dodge all of them.
Song Qingwan watched quietly from the side, and could only sigh that this tiger might be the king of tigers in this area.
After the tiger dodged the archers' attack, it launched a counterattack, biting several guards to death in an instant.
The escort team was in chaos, the ministers began to retreat, and several poor concubines screamed in fear.
The emperor also got off the dragon chariot and hid among the crowd. Among these people, Concubine Rou and Zhao Yuanshen were relatively calm.
Zhao Yuanshen commanded the guards to resist while protecting the emperor, Concubine Rou and others as they retreated.
Murong You was so scared that she grabbed his robe from behind him, her face full of tears, looking pitiful.
Song Qingwan and Yan Yu, who were hiding not far away, were watching with great interest. Soon, Yan Yu seemed to notice something was wrong.
"Have you noticed that this tiger seems to be selective in attacking people?"
"Yes, because these people have the scent of the tigress on them, the tiger will identify them as people who have hurt the tigress, so it will naturally focus on attacking them."
At this time, the tiger aimed its spear at Zhao Yuanshen, bent down and jumped out, ready to pounce on Zhao Yuanshen.
Zhao Yuanshen quickly dodged, exposing the emperor to the tiger.
At this critical moment, the emperor pulled Concubine Rou beside him to block the attack.
The other concubines screamed in fear and closed their eyes. Concubine Ru also closed her eyes resignedly and welcomed death.
Unexpectedly, the tiger sniffed Concubine Rou and did not hurt her, but continued to bite other people.
After the guards' desperate resistance, the tiger finally got tired. It stopped attacking, let out a long roar, shook its body, and walked into the jungle.
Only then did Song Qingwan discover that on the small hill not far away on the opposite side, the tigress who had just been released was waiting for the return of the male tiger with her three cubs.
After the male tiger returned to the team, the family of five walked deep into the mountains.
Just when the tigress walked not far away, she suddenly turned around to look at where Song Qingwan was, and growled softly a few times, as if to express her gratitude.
Song Qingwan revealed an inner smile and breathed a sigh of relief. The family of five was finally reunited.
Yan Yu followed her gaze and saw the Tiger family of five.
"So? You've known this tigress for a long time?"
"You can say that, because I was the one who delivered its cub."
Yan Yu nodded, and finally understood why Song Qingwan went to such great lengths to save the tigress.
Perhaps using them to attack the emperor is secondary, and saving this loving family is the primary concern.
After counting, the emperor's team found that a total of 20 people had died. Most of them had come into contact with the tigress, and a few had fainted from fright.
The emperor now had no intention of having fun anymore and ordered his troops to hurry back to the palace. The Banquet of the Holy Maiden ended abruptly.
Pei Ziye protected the Queen and Old Man Pei the whole time. Strangely, the male tiger did not attack him.
The queen also noticed the pattern of this tiger's attack on people. She was a little curious why the male tiger did not attack Pei Ziye?
At this time Pei Ziye took out the paper bag from his arms and handed it to the queen.
"I guess the food in the paper bag that Princess Huai gave me tastes like what the tiger likes, so we escaped this disaster."
The emperor and empress nodded and opened the paper package. They thought it contained some rare herbs, but they were just some common herbs that looked more like grass.
The three of them couldn't help but wonder, what is the principle behind this?
In fact, the paper bag that Song Qingwan gave to Pei Ziye only contained ordinary catnip, but the dosage was a little larger.
Tigers are also cats, so they will naturally like catnip. When they smell our catnip, they will naturally not attack.
Although this Saint's Banquet was brief, it deepened the conflicts among some people.
The Pei family and the emperor had completely torn their relations apart, and the fight between the two sides was no longer concealed but was laid out in the open.
The queen asked to return to the Pei family on the pretext of returning to her parents' home to serve her elderly parents.
The emperor was furious and took back the queen's imperial seal, so Pei Wan became a queen in name only.
Now the last marriage connection between the emperor and the Pei family was severed, and the entire harem became the world of the imperial concubine.
In the previous dynasty, the tiger talisman of the Pei family army was in the hands of the Pei family. The emperor tried many times to make the Pei family hand over the tiger talisman by both soft and hard tactics.
Mr. Pei kept avoiding the question and he pretended to be deaf and dumb and didn't respond at all.
On this day, the emperor suffered a setback during the court session. After the court session, he came to Concubine Rou's palace in anger.
"Rou'er, can you give me some advice on how to get this tiger talisman back?"
Concubine Rou put down the bottles and jars in her hands, raised her head, glanced at the emperor lightly, and then lowered her head again.
"Why? Does the emperor need me to make decisions on matters related to the previous dynasty?"
"I really have no other solution, so I came to ask my beloved concubine for advice."
At this time, the emperor had not yet noticed that Concubine Rou's attitude towards him had become increasingly cold.
His act of using Concubine Rou to block the tiger that day had completely chilled Concubine Rou's heart.