Chapter 453 Hunting Officer

"What is Dabai doing again?"

Li Xuan was a little confused when he heard the noise in the backyard.

"This guy is not idle even after eating."

Li Xuan looked up in the direction of the garden, and soon saw the huge figure of Dabai running towards him.

As the saying goes, clouds follow dragons and winds follow tigers.

As Dabai ran, a gust of bad wind suddenly came.

The hair on Li Xuan's body couldn't help but fly upside down.

He squinted slightly and couldn't help thinking: "If it were summer, it would be a good fan."

Li Xuan had made up his mind to arrange a good job for Dabai next summer.

Otherwise, how could he not work if he was fed so much meat every day.

In a blink of an eye, Dabai came to Li Xuan and stared at him.

Li Xuan didn't know what this big guy wanted to do, and was about to ask, but he was hit by Dabai's wet tongue.

Li Xuan was caught off guard by Dabai's fierce licking, and he almost stumbled and fell.

"Meow!"

Li Xuan screamed angrily, half of his body was soaked.

But Dabai didn't realize that he had made a mistake, and he continued to lick Li Xuan.

Dabai's big tongue gradually focused on licking Li Xuan's front paws.

Li Xuan thought it was not good, and quickly removed the cold breath on his paws, fearing that he would accidentally hurt Dabai's tongue.

As a result, Dabai's movements also stopped, and he sat in front of Li Xuan, his big eyes full of confusion, and even began to whimper in grievance, like a kitten.

"Hmm?"

Li Xuan was confused and asked Dabai: "Meow? (What are you doing?)"

But Dabai didn't seem to hear Li Xuan's question, but cried more and more urgently, and finally lay on the ground, tossing and turning, anxiously using his claws to grab the marble bricks on the ground.

"Meow, don't ruin our newly built palace!"

Li Xuan felt sorry for the marble bricks and quickly held down Dabai who was tossing and turning.

Although the size difference between the two was huge, Dabai was still held down by Li Xuan and did not dare to resist.

Li Xuan stepped on Dabai's neck and heard it whimpering in grievance, and couldn't help frowning.

"It was just fed, so it must not be hungry."

"The cat litter box as big as the garden must be enough for it."

"Besides eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, what else made Dabai so anxious?"

Li Xuan recalled the previous situation and slowly cast his eyes on his claws.

"Could it be..."

Li Xuan's heart moved, and he immediately stretched out a claw in front of Dabai, and then condensed a trace of icy breath into it.

Suddenly, Dabai became energetic again and licked Li Xuan's claws endlessly.

"This guy seems to like the icy breath very much."

Li Xuan just condensed a trace of icy breath, and Dabai immediately responded.

While he continued to observe Dabai, he condensed more icy breath on his claws.

As long as he saw Dabai was uncomfortable, Li Xuan would stop immediately.

But until Li Xuan once again "controlled the air to transform" and froze a round ice cube on his claws, Dabai had no intention of stopping his tongue.

"Ah Xuan, can you create ice cubes out of thin air now?"

Princess Ankang had been watching the strange interaction between the big cat and the little cat, and found the ice cube on Li Xuan's claws and said in surprise.

Princess Ankang remembered that Li Xuan had told her that this method could only be achieved after Li Xuan's next breakthrough.

Li Xuan knew that Princess Ankang might have misunderstood, so he explained immediately:

"I haven't broken through to the fifth level yet, but after helping you absorb the cold today, the icy breath in my body has increased a lot."

"I just tried it, and I can actually control the qi and transform into a shape."

"But Yin Yang Qi can't do it yet, it's really weird."

Li Xuan didn't expect that compared with the Yin Yang Qi in his body, the icy breath could "control the qi and transform into a shape" one step ahead.

After he practiced Yin Yang Qi, he paid less attention to the icy breath.

If it wasn't still playing a role when helping Princess Ankang absorb the cold, Li Xuan almost forgot the existence of the icy breath.

After all, the bonus of the icy breath is far less than that of the Yin Yang Qi.

But now it seems that this icy breath seems to have other magical uses, and it actually allowed Li Xuan to get in touch with the secret of controlling qi and transforming into a shape one step ahead.

And judging from Dabai's current reaction, the icy breath still has many secrets waiting for Li Xuan to discover.

"I heard from Old Zhao that Dabai is from the North. Could it be that this guy is related to Linhu?"

Li Xuan was not very clear about Dabai's origins, but now he is quite interested.

"I have to ask Old Zhao later."

Dabai licked for a long time, but did not lick away the cold breath in Li Xuan's body. He was just satisfying his addiction to eating popsicles.

"Could this guy really have a talent?"

Li Xuan thought about it and took out the refined Tiger Blood Essence from the Emperor Hong Bone Ring.

Dabai reacted immediately. Even though Li Xuan stepped on his neck, he still resisted violently, trying to break free and pounce on the jar of Tiger Blood Essence.

"It seems that Dabai was not just greedy before."

"But can this Tiger Blood Essence be absorbed without practicing the Blood-Slaying Tiger Claw?"

Li Xuan thought about it, and with a try-it attitude, he dipped a drop of Tiger Blood Essence on the claw blade and then dripped it into Dabai's mouth.

Dabai stopped making a fuss when he saw Tiger Blood Essence to eat, and waited patiently with his mouth wide open, fearing that Li Xuan would regret it.

A drop of light blue Tiger Blood Essence fell accurately on Dabai's scarlet tongue, and was swallowed into its stomach immediately after it rolled its tongue.

Li Xuan pressed Dabai's claws on the back of his neck and immediately used Yin and Yang Qi to explore the situation in Dabai's body, fearing that there was something wrong with it.

Dabai was lying on the ground, smacking his lips comfortably, looking very satisfied.

The next moment, Li Xuan showed an unexpected expression on his face.

A faint breath of cold air appeared in Dabai's body.

Although the quality was far inferior to the breath of cold air in Li Xuan's body, it was definitely breath of cold air.

"Ah? What's going on?"

"You don't even need to practice, just eat the blood of the tiger, and the breath of cold air will form in your body?"

"Could it be that Dabai is the tiger!"

Li Xuan suddenly thought of a possibility.

But if Dabai is the tiger, Zhao Feng would not have told Li Xuan.

"Meow, meow?" (Dabai, are you the tiger?)"

Li Xuan asked.

After Dabai ate a drop of the tiger's blood, he was so happy that he ignored Li Xuan's question at all.

"This guy!"

Li Xuan used Yin-Yang Qi to carefully check Dabai's physical condition and found that the icy breath that had just formed in his body was still very weak and was wandering around aimlessly in his body.

Even if this icy breath could be used, it could only rely on instinct, and the efficiency was extremely low, far inferior to the Blood-Slaying Tiger Claw.

"It seems that Dabai also needs to practice the Ten Tiger Forms and the Blood-Slaying Tiger Claw."

"At least let him master the method of practicing, otherwise the icy breath will be wasted."

Li Xuan was relieved to see that Dabai could be satisfied for a long time with just one drop of the Tiger's blood essence, and he didn't pester him for more.

He only had a can of Tiger's blood essence in his hand, and he had to provide it for Maoba and Fat Ju to practice.

If Dabai's appetite was too big, Li Xuan could only let him bear it.

After all, this guy hadn't even gotten started with the Ten Tiger Forms and the Blood-Slaying Tiger Claw, so how could he delay the practice of Maoba and Fat Ju because of his greed?

If Dabai also learns these two skills in the future, Li Xuan will definitely not favor one over the other.

"We need to get more cold tiger blood."

"Last time I heard from Chief Steward Shang that it seems that every autumn, someone will send cold tiger blood. I wonder if this year's cold tiger blood has been delivered?"

Now that the Double Ninth Festival has passed and winter is about to come, I'm afraid the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already had some in stock.

Li Xuan plans to take a stroll in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the next two days to ask about the cold tiger blood.

...

"Cold tiger blood?"

"This year's hasn't been delivered yet."

Zhao Feng answered casually.

He came to teach Yu'er martial arts in the morning, but Li Xuan pestered him and kept asking why this year's cold tiger blood hadn't been delivered yet.

"Logically, it should have been delivered to the palace a long time ago."

"But there has been no news. I'm afraid something happened on the way."

Zhao Feng was not surprised by this and didn't seem to be too worried.

"Don't worry, Xuan."

"There should be news in a while."

"The hunting team will not spend the winter in the northern border."

"They will definitely return before winter."

Zhao Feng said firmly.

Li Xuan felt a little regretful that the tiger blood essence had not been replenished yet.

But he became interested when he heard the hunting team mentioned by Zhao Feng.

"Are the hunting team the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are responsible for hunting?"

Li Xuan did not expect that there was such a department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Haha, the hunting team is not from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the royal hunting team directly under His Majesty, and what they do is hunting rare and exotic animals in the world."

"This job is not easy and very dangerous."

"But if you do it well, you can also have a good future."

"My godfather and I, when we were young, both experienced the royal hunting team."

Li Xuan became more interested when he heard it.

Two general managers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came from such a small hunting team.

"Tell me about the hunting team."

Li Xuan wrote with a smile.

"I want to listen, too."

Princess Ankang also came over.

She was reading a book at the side, but when she heard Zhao Feng talking about an interesting topic, she immediately came over.

Yu'er just finished her morning training at this time. Seeing that they were so excited, she couldn't help asking, "What are you talking about?"

"Sister Yu'er, Chief Steward Zhao said that he worked in the Royal Hunting Team when he was young, and that Chief Steward Shang was also a member of the Royal Hunting Team."

Yu'er smiled and asked, "Hunting Officer?"

"Sister Yu'er, what is a hunting officer?"

Princess Ankang asked curiously when she saw that Yu'er knew about it.

Li Xuan also pricked up his ears.

"Hunting Officer is an official position. Once you become one, you will be a fifth-rank official and directly under His Majesty. Although you nominally work in the palace, I heard that you have to go hunting all over the world, free and easy."

"I'm afraid there is no eunuch in the palace who has not dreamed of becoming a hunting officer."

"But it's probably harder to become a hunting officer than to become a flowery eunuch in the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

Yu'er sighed, and it was not difficult to see that she had also dreamed of being a hunting officer before.

Li Xuan and Princess Ankang have been in the palace for so long, but this is the first time they have heard of the name of the hunting official.

But this is normal.

A cat and a princess would never be too concerned about a fifth-rank official position responsible for hunting.

But Yu'er is different. As a palace maid, she naturally cares about the promotion path in the palace.

Hearing that there is such a good job as a hunting official, who can bear to ask more about it.

"Haha, Yu'er is right."

"Although the hunting official is only a fifth-rank official position, it has a very different meaning because it is directly under His Majesty."

Zhao Feng continued mysteriously: "This job is a good springboard for gilding. In addition to the selection in the palace, there are also many children from famous families who can participate in the selection."

"After being born as a hunting official, at least they can hold an important position."

"In the court, they are the backbone of the party, and in the palace, they are His Majesty's confidants."

"Almost without exception."

The three little ones did not expect that an official in charge of hunting would have such a trick, and they could not help but listen to it fascinated.

"The hunting officers are divided into four teams, east, west, south and north. The blood of the fierce tiger you want is what the hunting officers in the north should bring back." Zhao Feng explained to Li Xuan. "Then, General Manager Zhao, is the hunting officer only responsible for hunting all over the world?" "It sounds like a good job." Princess Ankang said with some envy. She has never left the capital since she was a child. "Haha, Your Highness." "Hunting is not as easy as you think." "After all, this is the royal hunting team, and there are corresponding tasks every year." "And the prey that can be favored by the royal family, how can it be simple?" "At the end of the year, if the corresponding tasks cannot be completed, they will be fined." "There are even many people who owe money to work." Zhao Feng mentioned that when he was young, some people worked as hunting officers for gilding, but they were not strong enough, so they had to pay for work every year. By the time the gilding was completed, more than 100,000 taels of silver were spent, which was a big loss even for a famous family. "Ah, so much money?"

"Is the salary of a hunting officer so high?"

Li Xuan asked in surprise.

"No, it's just the salary of a normal fifth-rank official."

"It's just that in order to complete the task, the man spent money to buy the prey from the market, so it must have cost a lot of money."

Zhao Feng seemed to recall the past, with a gentle smile on his face.

Seeing Zhao Feng's expression, Li Xuan couldn't help but ask in a mean way:

"General Manager Zhao, is that a woman?"

Princess Ankang and Yu'er's eyes shot towards Zhao Feng, and the fire of gossip ignited in their eyes.

"It's getting late, and this general manager has things to do, you can play by yourselves."

Zhao Feng didn't follow martial ethics, and turned around and left, leaving the three little ones with a chic back.

"Meow! Meow? (Don't ask! Isn't it okay to stop asking?)"

"Meow. (Tell me more about the hunting officer.)"

Li Xuan was so anxious that he opened his mouth to keep him, but Zhao Feng climbed over the courtyard wall and disappeared.

"Ah Xuan, it's all your fault for asking nonsense questions. I want to hear the story of Zhao Zongguan in the hunting team."

Princess Ankang said with resentment.

Li Xuan shouted innocently. He saw the gossipy look of Princess Ankang just now.

But now Princess Ankang turned her face and didn't recognize him, but instead talked about Li Xuan's faults.

At this time, Yu'er added:

"Ah Xuan, this is your fault."

"How can you ask Zhao Zongguan's privacy so directly?"

The two gossiping girls accused Li Xuan one after another.

"Okay, okay, you're playing with me like this, right?"

Li Xuan was so angry that he opened his mouth and chased and bit the two girls, scaring them so much that they ran around the yard.

The three little ones chased each other in the courtyard of Jingyang Palace, laughing and making strange noises.

Outside the gate, the team of eunuchs in flowery clothes who were responsible for guarding Jingyang Palace listened to the noise in the courtyard and became restless.

"Do you want to go in and take a look? Is there something wrong?"

Just when the others were worried, two people said calmly:

"Don't worry, if there is anything, there will be someone inside, or the cat will call us."

"You will guard the gate of Jingyang Palace in the future, and you must be familiar with such daily life."

The other eight flowery eunuchs relaxed when they saw the two seniors so calm.

But the eight newcomers couldn't help but prick up their ears and listen carefully to the movements in Jingyang Palace, fearing that something unexpected would happen later.

But for a long time afterwards, apart from the angry cry of the cat, only the silver bell-like laughter of the two girls came with the wind.

After listening for a long time, the cold-faced flowery eunuchs couldn't help but smile.