There are four forbidden gardens of the Tang Dynasty royal family, the earliest is the West Inner Garden, located in the north of the Taiji Palace, which raises a lot of rare birds and beasts, spiritual flowers and fairy grasses, and later opened up the Qujiang Pond Hibiscus Garden, but there are mainly royal gardens, there are no rare beasts, but there are a lot of precious birds and peacocks.

After the completion of the construction of Daming Palace, Taiji Palace has basically become a retirement place for the concubines of the first emperor.

And the west inner garden has also become a garrison place, 100,000 Yulin army is stationed here, the royal forbidden garden transferred to the Daming Palace, there are two main places, one is the inner garden in the southeast of the Daming Palace, and the other is the dragon head original in the north of the Daming Palace, also called the North Garden.

The inner garden raises deer, the north garden raises beasts, the Son of Heaven deals with the fatigue of state affairs, you can take the guards to the forbidden garden to ride horses and hunt deer, of course, the forbidden garden can not raise tigers, black bears and the like, they don't know the emperor's might, what should I do if I knock down the Son of Heaven?

From ancient times to the present, poaching in the Royal Forbidden Garden has never been stopped, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there are often Chang'an rangers who go to the West Inner Garden to poach, and it is impossible to prevent it.

There are also poachers in the inner garden and the north garden, but they are mainly concentrated in the inner garden, and the rangers are not stupid, the north garden is full of fierce beasts, and when they go, they feed the tiger with their bodies.

The reason why Guo Song chose Beiyuan was that he heard that Beiyuan had three white tigers that were rare in the world, and their fur was very expensive.

At noon, Guo Song and Gan Lei touched the edge of Longshouyuan from a small road.

"Senior brother, I have thought about it, your family can sell wine in the future."

"How did you come up with the idea of asking me to sell alcohol?"

Guo Song scratched his head and smiled: "I'm thinking about how to deal with tiger bones and bear bile, the skin can be sold for money, the bones can be soaked in wine, your family sells wine, and by the way, you sell tiger bone wine, bear bile wine and the like, and even if you drink secretly, your sister-in-law can't find out, anyway, you smell of wine." ”

Guo Song's reason made Gan Lei angry and said: "I've never heard of any wine shop selling tiger bone wine, is it good to sell it in a pharmacy?" If you really ask me to sell wine, I vomit when I smell it, and I still drink it secretly? ”

"Senior brother, I mean seriously, I saw a Western businessman in Hexi purified milk wine, his purified wine is very strong, you can't see it on the Datang market, you sell this kind of wine, Chang'an is unique, and I'm afraid that there will be no business?"

Gan Lei was a little tempted, "Really? Have you learned how to purify? ”

"Actually, it's very simple, it's worthless to put it bluntly, but no one thinks of it."

Gan Lei thought that he couldn't be the master, and he had to go back to report to the lady for such a major matter, he suddenly became listless, "Let's go back and talk about it!" Now how do we go up the mountain? ”

In front of them was a small path, and on the other side of the path was a high wall, at least one and a half feet high, so that the beasts could not jump out, and it was difficult for people to climb into it.

Guo Song sneered, "This kind of wall is still difficult to hold me?" ”

At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the two hurriedly retreated, leaning down and hiding behind the bushes, only to see a group of cavalry galloping on horseback, rolling up the rolling yellow dust, and galloping past them in a moment.

This is the sentinel patrolling the perimeter, of course, the palace guards can't patrol inside the dragon head plain, but patrol outside the fence to prevent anyone from poaching, but compared to the patrol protection on the inner garden, the patrol here is much more sparse, and it only patrols once every half an hour.

Guo Song stepped forward quickly, jumped up more than a zhang high, inserted two chisels into the wall at the same time, and landed firmly on the wall with a somersault.

Gan Lei pouted, it was nothing more than jumping off the cliff for a few years, what was it to show off?

"Hurry up!"

Guo Song shouted in a low voice, Gan Lei hurriedly rushed forward and threw a roll of rope up, and under Guo Song's pull, he also climbed the wall, and the two jumped into the wall.

When he was in Kongtong Mountain, although Gan Lei was fat, his body was very agile and fast, and now he has been married for four years, and he rarely practices martial arts, but after all, the foundation is still there, and after following Guo Song for dozens of steps, he gradually kept up.

The two found a tree, Gan Lei climbed to the tree, Guo Song slaughtered a sheep to let the smell of blood out, and he himself jumped on a large rock, with a bow and arrow in hand, and waited for the prey to come to the door.

But they waited for half an hour, but they didn't wait for anything, Gan Lei was a little anxious, "Senior brother, is there something wrong with us, there are no beasts here." ”

Guo Song patted his head and smiled at Gan Lei: "We are confused, this is not Zhongnan Mountain, this is the Royal Zoo, we are indeed in the wrong place." ”

He jumped down from the stone and beckoned to Ganlei, "There must be someone feeding them, we're going to the feeding place, they should have lunch over there, not here." ”

Gan Lei also jumped off the tree, and the two of them went around the fence to the west, and after a while, they saw an iron fence gate in front of them, and a small window on the gate, which was firmly locked by iron chains, and a sign was inserted next to it, which read, 'Keeping the keepers, idlers stay away!' ’

"Senior brother, this is it."

Guo Song heard his senior brother's response, and when he turned around, he saw Gan Lei trembling with fright, pointing upward, Guo Song raised his head, and was suddenly startled, only to see three white tigers lying on several big stones above, looking at them coldly.

At this time, the largest tiger slowly walked towards Guo Song, who was still carrying a bloody sheep in his hand.

"Senior brother, run!"

Ganlei finally broke down, turned and ran, ten times faster than the rabbit.

Guo Song threw the sheep over, he himself ran a few steps, a jump, climbed to the top of the two-zhang high fence, he looked at Gan Lei running away, couldn't help shaking his head, and an indescribable loss surged in his heart, only four years, the senior brother was down, where did Gan Lei, who led the black bear to the wolf's den, go?

In fact, it is not that Gan Lei has become timid, but that Guo Song is no longer the little Taoist Guo Song of the past.

The two white tigers on the stone roared lowly, but the eldest one ignored it, lay on the ground, tore the sheep to pieces, and devoured it.

This was an excellent opportunity, Guo Song couldn't hold back any longer, he pulled out an arrow from behind him, pulled his bow suddenly, and the powerful arrow whizzed towards the white tiger twenty paces away, this arrow shot extremely hard, 'Poof! An arrow entered through the left eye and penetrated the brain, leaving only the tail of the arrow.

"Whew!" The white tiger stood up and screamed wildly, rolled desperately on the ground a few times, and then stopped.

The other two white tigers stood up in fright, glanced at Guo Song in horror, turned around and fled towards the hill.

At this moment, there was the sound of a car wheeling outside the fence in the distance, Guo Song turned around, only to see dozens of steps away, a soldier was pushing a cart of mutton towards this side, the weather was hot, he was wearing a straw hat and did not look up, did not see Guo Song on the top of the iron fence.

Guo Song jumped down and ran to the huge white tiger, the white tiger lay on the ground lifelike, as if asleep, Guo Song couldn't be afraid, threw the mutton that was not eaten into the grass, he carried the tiger weighing more than 300 pounds on his shoulders, and ran along the wall.

The soldier opened the iron window on the gate, threw the slaughtered sheep in, and muttered: "I was yelling just now, why is it all now?" ”

"Hey! Time to eat. ”

He roared, and the tiger did not pay attention to him, but he saw a panther come out of the woods and stand on the hill, but he would not come down.

"If you don't eat and pull down, starve to death you brutes!"

He threw all the lamb in, 'Bang! He closed the iron window, pushed the cart and cursed away.

Guo Song ran more than 100 steps and saw Gan Lei, who was squatting on a big tree and looking at himself with a guilty face.

"Brother, after I have a wife and children, my courage has indeed become smaller, the fifth, my brother ran away first just now, I'm sorry!"

"Senior brother, I don't blame you, it's okay if you run away, I won't have to worry about it."

"And what's the point of me hunting?"

Gan Lei slapped himself hard, "I'm so fucking useless right now!" ”

Guo Song threw the tiger corpse on the ground, "The meaning of your coming to hunt is very simple, you are responsible for carrying it back!" ”

Gan Lei exclaimed, he jumped off the tree, squatted down to measure the white tiger in front of him, and exclaimed, "There really is a white tiger!" It's still such a big chunk. ”

"Nonsense, do you think this is Zhongnan Mountain, this is the Royal North Garden, and vulgar fans can get in? By the way, I think I saw a panther just now. Guo Song said thoughtfully.

At the iron gate, the panther who was gnawing on the leg of the lamb suddenly sneezed heavily, looked around in horror, picked up the sheep and galloped towards the woods on the mountain.

The two brothers returned to Chang'an City at night, Guo Song rented a courtyard outside Xicheng, and the two worked together to peel and debone the white tiger overnight, and the tiger meat and tiger bones were divided into sacks and sold to the pharmacy tomorrow.

This is the time for Ganlei to show his skills, Ganlei had worked in a tanning workshop the year before and learned the art of tanning leather.

Tiger skin is best treated with nitrate, Gan Lei has prepared the nitrate liquid in advance, packed in a large bath bucket, but the large bath bucket is placed in Qingxuguan, nitrate tiger skin can take half a month at the earliest, it must be nitrated in a safe place, after all, it is a rented house, not very safe.

Before nitration, there is an extremely important link is to clean the tiger skin, spread the tiger skin on the half-round log, and use a bow knife to scrape off the fat and residual meat attached to the skin, not too hard, but also not less, this is the most tiring and the most considered technology, must pay a lot of patience.

Gan Lei was busy until the fifth watch, and finally finished dealing with this rare white tiger, he was so tired that he couldn't move on the ground, while Guo Song took advantage of the cover of the night, carried the tiger skin on his back, and took the tiger meat and tiger bones over the wall into the city.

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[In fact, the Tang Dynasty avoided the ancestor of the Li family, Li Hu, and generally did not say tigers, but said big insects, but said that big insects are too awkward, Lao Gao still uses tigers, in addition, tonight at twelve o'clock on the shelves, there will be one chapter on the shelves, three chapters tomorrow, ready to ask everyone for a monthly pass! ] 】