Liu Jibei calmed his mind and remained still. He concentrated his eyes and looked around. Because there were many branches and leaves in the forest and the light was a little dim, he didn't see anything running.

However, based on many years of experience in chopping firewood in the mountains, he could conclude from the sudden sound of animal hooves that it was probably caused by frightened beasts such as deer and muntjacs.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he stood up quietly, hung up the water bag, and climbed to the hiding place in the tree as quickly as an ape.

As soon as he sat down on a branch, he saw a group of barking deer running towards the hillside in the forest, jumping up and down in a panic.

Before he could finish the calculation, he suddenly saw a group of wild wolves spread out like a fan behind the muntjac.

The barking deer ran very fast and reached the tree where he was hiding in the blink of an eye.

However, the wild wolves seemed to have been trained. Not only did they move quickly, but they also moved in an orderly manner. They firmly surrounded the group of barking deer under his tree.

The wolves seemed to have a very tacit understanding with each other. After surrounding the barking deer, they just roared and lingered, preventing the group of barking deer from escaping, and did not take the initiative to attack.

Liu Jibei was wondering when he suddenly heard several ear-splitting tiger roars. He couldn't help but feel a tremor in his heart, and thought to himself: Could it be that a conference of wild beasts was held in the forest, and why did they all gather here at the same time?

He quickly followed the sound, only to see a dozen eye-catching white-fronted tigers running towards the foot of his tree.

Whether it was a muntjak or a wild wolf, they all looked horrified when they saw a tiger rushing toward them.

Especially the muntjacs surrounded by wolves looked extremely panicked, and some even trembled, losing their original cheerful appearance.

Although the group of wild wolves also looked frightened and uneasy, and a few even started to become restless, they did not disrupt the formation of the previous hunt for the barking deer, and still surrounded the prey tightly.

Those fierce tigers carried the wind of kings and quickly came to the periphery of the wild wolves.

What is strange is that this group of mountain overlords stopped abruptly, squatting on the ground in an orderly manner, and did not launch an attack on the wild wolves or the barking deer.

All of them just kept shaking their heads, looking like tame domestic cats.

Liu Jibei was very surprised. He had never seen such a strange sight.

Looking at the group of tigers and wolves under the tree, he thought to himself: It's really weird. They say they sit on the mountain and watch tigers fight. Now the tigers have learned this trick, and they actually sit and watch wolves and muntjacs fight.

In addition, there was something else that puzzled him.

For a woodcutter like him who goes to the mountains to collect firewood all year round, encountering tigers and wolves is nothing unusual.

As far as he knew, it was common for wild wolves to gather together to hunt prey, but tigers usually stayed alone.

Except when male and female tigers are in heat, or when the female tiger is raising her cubs, you can see three or two tigers of all sizes.

It is undoubtedly a rare and strange thing to see many tigers living in one place like this.

Liu Jibei thought that today was an eye-opener. Right at his feet, apart from a huge tiger, there were no fewer than ten other tigers of similar size. This was something that ordinary people could never see in their dreams.

There was another thing that also surprised him.

He has never seen a tiger that knows the rules so well, and he has never seen a wild wolf that doesn't run away quickly when encountering so many tigers.

Wild wolves are very smart guys. They have a strong sense of community. Not only do they know how to consume the physical strength of their prey to capture beasts that are much larger than themselves, they also know how to assess the situation.

If a single tiger encounters a pack of wolves, the wolves will decide whether to fight the tiger based on the comparison of their strengths and the need to compete for benefits.

But in most cases, the wolves will stay far away from the tigers to avoid bloodshed.

However, under the tree at this time, contrary to the norm, there was a strange scene of tigers and wolves coexisting peacefully. This not only made Liu Jibei feel like he was in a dream.

It even made him wonder whether what he saw with his eyes was real!

Suddenly, there was a sudden burst of birdsong in the sky, which brought Liu Jibei back to reality.

He looked at the sky through the gaps between the branches, and vaguely saw two black shadows flying and hovering high in the sky.

When he moved his gaze to the bottom of the tree, something unexpected happened. He heard several sharp whistling sounds, and several sharp arrows were shot at the wolves under the tree from different directions.

Immediately afterwards, I heard several painful wails from wild wolves after being hit by arrows.

At the same time, the sound of horse hooves came one after another, and someone from the northeast said excitedly: "We have been hunting for most of the day, and we haven't even seen a single bird. I didn't expect that once we encountered it, it turned out to be a large group of wild wolves."

Before the former finished speaking, someone followed: "Since it is hunting, the most satisfying thing is to hunt wild beasts. No matter how many little things like barking deer are caught, it is meaningless. Brother, look, there are still some

The ready-made giant insects are used as arrow targets!"

Then, the man said softly "Hey" again and said curiously: "How can a tiger associate with a wild wolf? It's really strange."

Although the sound of hoofbeats was like thunder, the sound of the two people talking was not covered up by the sound of hoofbeats at all, which showed the two people's strong energy and superb internal strength.

Then, from the direction of the hillside, I suddenly heard someone yelling: "How could a common man be so bold as to hurt my livestock!"

Liu Jibei sat on a high place and looked around. He first saw a group of Northern Qi soldiers coming from the northeast.

There were two generals sitting on the two leading horses.

One of them is extremely tall and tall, wearing distinctive armor. This person holds the reins with one hand, and the other hand is holding a strong bow; the other person riding alongside him is tall and thin, with a very yin complexion.

Leng, you can tell at a glance that he is a ruthless character.

The latter did not have a bow and arrow in his hand, but he held two sharp swords, one long and one short, in one hand.

Behind these two people were dozens of Northern Qi officers and soldiers holding either bows and arrows or spears.

In the midst of the galloping horses, there was a murderous aura that looked so majestic.

Liu Jibei was suspicious, not knowing who these Northern Qi officers and soldiers were, but looking at the posture of the two leading men, he vaguely realized that the people coming were definitely not ordinary people.

When he looked in the direction where the beast came from, he saw another group of people coming. Judging from their attire, they all had braided hair and their facial features were very obvious. They were obviously a group of barbarians.

Although the territory of the Northern Qi Dynasty was dominated by the Xianbei people at this time, since Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty implemented Hanization, the Xianbei people have evolved for decades, and there is no obvious difference between the Xianbei people and the Han people in terms of customs and clothing. Therefore, the Xianbei people

Wearing clothes with left lapel no longer becomes right lapel.

However, the group of people in front of them still continued the custom of the northern nomadic people braiding their hair in left knots, so they looked particularly eye-catching.

This group of barbarians was obviously not from the same group as the officers and soldiers. When the two groups met outside the herd, Liu Jibei clearly felt the tense atmosphere.

Liu Jibei was a little confused. Looking at the direction in which the officers and soldiers came, it was obvious that some arrows were fired by them, but who fired the arrow fired from the southeast?

With questions in his mind, he focused his eyes and looked toward the southeast.

At this glance, he suddenly realized that not far from him, he could vaguely see a figure hiding in the bushes.

If he hadn't climbed high into the tree, he really wouldn't have been able to find that person.

Liu Jibei saw that the man was motionless, paying attention to the situation here, and thought to himself: It seems that this man is not from the two groups, so who is he?

When Liu Jibei was thinking, he suddenly heard the burly general among the group of officers and soldiers under the tree say: "It's really strange. I have seen pigs and dogs being raised, but I have never seen wolves and tigers being raised! Who just said that these beasts are domestic animals?

"Tell me, how do you raise these livestock?"

A man appeared among the group of barbarians. He had an average build and a very ordinary face. However, he had a unique temperament of toughness and grace in his movements, which made others dare not look down upon him.

The barbarian man held a machete and said in a slightly altered Chinese dialect: "I wonder who is so bold and so arrogant after hurting other people's animals. It turns out that he is as famous as Hu Luguang."

Dugu Yongye! If you don’t stay well in Yuzhou and come here to Songshan to be tyrannical, are you really impatient with life?”

That burly general was none other than the famous Northern Qi general Dugu Yongye.

Dugu Yongye and Hu Luguang were known as the "two heroes of spears and spears" in the Northern Qi army, and they became famous for a while.

However, Dugu Yongye and Hu Luguang couldn't get along very much. The reason was that Dugu Yongye hated Hu Luguang's domineering attitude very much.

When Dugu Yongye was the Sima of Yuzhou, Hu Luguang got the news from nowhere that Dugu Yongye had taken a very beautiful woman as his concubine, so Hu Luguang relied on his higher rank than Dugu Yongye.

Gao, with his prominent family background, asked Dugu Yongye for the beauty.

Dugu Yongye was born with pride and was very stubborn. He never wanted to follow others' influence. Faced with Hu Luguang's unreasonable demands, Dugu Yongye flatly refused and killed the beautiful concubine with his own hands in front of the messenger, and

He handed the concubine's head to the messenger and told him to bring it to Hu Luguang.

The messenger did not dare to be stubborn and had no choice but to comply. When he gave the beautiful concubine's head to Hu Luguang, Hu Luguang held the head in his hand and stared at it for a long time. In the end, he only said one sentence: "I would rather not know the beauty of a country or a beautiful city."

Hard to find again'.

From then on, Hu Luguang developed a grudge against Dugu Yongye. Even if they went to the palace at the same time to meet the king, they would not say hello. Gao Yang even tried to reconcile this secretly, but the two were still incompatible. Who could

Everyone looks awkward.

After Gao Yang's death, Prince Gao Yin ascended the throne, but the actual power of the court was held by Gao Yin's uncle Gao Yan. Gao Yan was a careful man and very strategic. He knew that there was an irreconcilable conflict between Hu Luguang and Dugu Yongye.

Because of the conflict, they were transferred separately. Hu Luguang became the governor of Bingzhou, while Dugu Yongye came to Luozhou to be the governor.

After getting there, the two of them moved to the south and the other to the north, and no one needed to look at each other to be at odds with each other.

When Dugu Yongye came to Luozhou, his sworn brother Gao Baoning followed him to Luozhou because the court wanted to make personnel adjustments in Yingzhou. Gao Baoning didn't know what kind of official he would be next, and because he had nothing to do, he followed him.

Although Luozhou is adjacent to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Qi and Zhou Dynasties were still in a harmonious stage at this time, so since Dugu Yongye came to Luozhou, there has really been no war.
Chapter completed!