Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 570 - 568

Chapter 570: Chapter 568

Di Shaowei looked at his horse, which was too scared to even move, and immediately started cursing.

Damn, when did Shangguan Xuanyi start raising a white tiger? How did he not know about this!

It was one thing to raise a tiger, but to ride one in front of him! The audacity left Di Shaowei consumed with envy and resentment!

He had never seen someone use a tiger as a mount before!

Di Shaowei fumed as he watched his prized steed shaking with fear in front of the tiger.

Was this still brotherhood, raising a tiger without telling him! If he had known, he would have gotten one too to show off!

The townsfolk watched a man riding a tiger in the street vanish before their very eyes, leaving them questioning their sanity.

"Was that person riding on a tiger?" a passerby asked, rubbing his eyes.

"It looked like it!" another bystander replied. He, too, had seen the man riding the white tiger and had thought he was seeing ghosts as the Ghost Festival was drawing near!

"Oh, my God! A tiger!" The man, who realized what he had just seen, passed out in fright.

...

That night, a man and a tiger stood at the bow of a ship, gazing at the dark horizon.

Di Shaowei watched their figures resentfully. He found it utterly despicable!

Feng Qing and the others though, gazed at them with admiration!

Their master was mighty, turning the king of the jungle into a steed.

"Where are we going?" Di Shaowei, unable to bear the sight any longer, fearing he would throw himself into the river out of sheer jealousy, decided to strike up a conversation with Feng Qing.

"Bat Island."

Bat Island? Wasn’t that place teeming with vampire bats? Was Xiao’er taken there by the inhabitants of Bat Village?

"I’m done for, I won’t return home as a dried up corpse, will I? My daughter doesn’t even know to call me ’Dad’ yet!" Di Shaowei wailed.

"Don’t worry, at most, you’ll only be half dried out. I’m well prepared!" Feng Qing pointed to a big sack at the stern of the ship where it seemed something was writhing continuously.

"Are those snakes? Are you sure that taking all these snakes to Bat Island won’t end up terrifying your future mistress?"

"Not a chance, the Lady of Rui’an even keeps a giant serpent as a pet. Compared to that one, all the snakes in this bag are nothing. When we get close to Bat Island, I’ll go underwater and release them. The snakes will eat a few of the bats, which should slow down the process of us drying up, right?"

"Was it your master who told you to do this?" Di Shaowei couldn’t help but look at the figure of the man and the tiger standing at the bow of the ship, before quickly looking away. He was just too damn good looking!

"No, do I look that stupid?" Feng Qing smirked.

If he needed instructions for everything, how could he have gotten to the position he had today?

"Heh, you’re not stupid, just overly smart for your own good! You better throw away those snakes, the little girl is terribly scared of them!"

"Impossible!" Feng Qing didn’t believe it. How could someone who kept a king snake as a pet be afraid of these little serpents.. who would believe that!

Just then, Shangguan Xuanyi turned around and said, "Do not release them. She’s afraid of snakes."

Holy crap! He’s actually afraid of snakes! Isn’t that golden python a snake? Did he see it wrong? Is it not a snake, but moving gold perhaps?

Shangguan Xuanyi turned around and walked over to sit down, with the white tiger following him and sitting down beside him.

"How did you figure out that the girl was taken to Bat Island?" Di Shaowei shifted his butt and moved away from the white tiger, who was a sight which roused a mix of fear and curiosity in him.

It’s not his own tiger after all. It’s still scary to have a beast sitting next to you. Who knows when it could get ferocious!

"I guessed." Shangguan Xuanyi said nonchalantly.

"You guessed?" Di Shaowei almost fainted after hearing this.

That’s Bat Island, populated by many vampire bats, and he wants to go there based just on a guess? Isn’t that too impulsive?

You must know, numerous people sent by the Imperial Court to suppressthe bandits have failed. It is said that the tens of millions of vampire bats on the island could drain the blood of thousands of soldiers in an instant!

Shangguan Xuanyi guessed what Di Shaowei was thinking, and spontaneously explained, "I had sent someone to tail Li Mingjun before, and discovered that he was in contact with people from Bat Village. I ordered a covert investigation and inadvertently discovered that Li Mingjun owed his life to the chief of Bat Village."

So when he heard that Xiao’er and Yang Liu had lost contact at the pier, he thought of Bat Island first.

Di Shaowei didn’t speak anymore. Truly, Shangguan Xuanyi wasn’t one to do pointless things!

He knew about Li Mingfang paying ten thousand taels of silver to Xiao’er. Now, someone kidnapped Xiao’er and demanded two hundred thousand taels of silver for ransom. If this had nothing to do with Li Mingfang, even he wouldn’t believe it.

"Not to mention that this white tiger was given to me by Xiao’er. You know that the animals she raises have a certain spiritual nature. All the way here, the white tiger had no objections, which proves we’re moving in the right direction!"

Listening to this, Di Shaowei bristled, "What? This white tiger was a gift from that girl to you? Fine! She didn’t even give me a white tiger. No, when we see that girl, I’ll also ask for one!"

Feng Qing gave Di Shaowei a sideways glance. Did Di Shaowei think the white tiger was as easy to get as a bunny? As if it is just available on demand! If that’s the case, he also wants a couple of hundred tigers from the Countess of Rui’an - then he can form a cavalry of tigers. How magnificent that would be! Without even fighting, he could still win!

But would his master trust a tiger that much? And how would a tiger object?

...

Shangguan Xuanyi’s ship arrived at Bat Island a few hours after Xiao’er’s. They landed on the island closest to Bat Island and planned to sneak in at dawn.

In the dark room, Xiao’er, who was in the middle of meditating, suddenly opened her eyes wide.

She managed to contact the white tiger! Shangguan Xuanyi was coming!

This white tiger was her birthday gift to Shangguan Xuanyi. She had no idea what to give him as a birthday present, so since she was preparing various animals for the zoo, she thought of giving him a tiger.

It took Shangguan Xuanyi two months to tame the white tiger so that he could ride it.

She remembered when she had given the white tiger to him, she said, "This white tiger is human-like and faster than a horse. If I’m ever in danger, you can ride on it to rescue me. That way, I could be saved sooner."

At that time, she was kidding, but Shangguan Xuanyi took it seriously and really rode the white tiger to rescue her.

Her original plan was to release the guide bee to the Imperial Capital at dawn to let Shangguan Xuanyi come to her rescue. This would give her enough time to tame the Bat King.

Now, this plan is likely to fail. Tomorrow, Shangguan Xuanyi and his men will definitely take advantage of the daytime when the bats are less active to land on the island.

But these vampire bats are clearly starving, and even if they are less active during the day, they will swarm out because of the appearance of food. No doubt about that!

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