The cute pet of the empire

After the New Year, Royce's army, led by King Philip and Prince Luo Huan, went to the north again.

The northern barbarians were not reconciled after being defeated last year, and took advantage of the New Year to harass the Royce border again.

When the battle report reached Royce's capital, the king made a decisive decision and began to gather troops.

Ten days later, the army assembled at the frontier, and Prince Luo Huan, who had returned from his travels, became the leader of the army's left-wing cavalry.

Mao Xiaohua discovered that Luo Huan had disappeared this morning.

These days he stayed with Luo Huan all the time, and under the guidance of the animal trainer, he learned to defecate at fixed points and take a bath very cooperatively, without causing any trouble to Luo Huan.

In fact, as a feline with a human soul, Mao Xiaohua learns all these things very quickly, one time is enough.

Under Luo Huan's meticulous care, his body recovered very well. The wounds on his body had already healed with scars, and the bitten off hairs began to grow sparsely.

So this morning, when Mao Xiaohua noticed that Luo Huan had suddenly disappeared, she put aside the milk she was drinking, followed the smell in the air, and ran towards the direction she believed.

The snow in the air is still falling sparsely, and the paw prints of the cubs are falling on the snow.

Mao Xiaohua ran through the garden, through the huge stone meeting hall, and ran to the square in front of the hall.

About [-] soldiers stood on the square in front of the hall. They were wearing cotton robes and leather armor, and each of them held a long gun in their hands.

Mao Xiaohua shook the hair on her body, and she saw Luo Huan at a glance among the crowd.

Luo Huan was riding on a black horse, wearing silver armor, and the helmet almost completely covered his face, leaving only two eyeballs.

But Mao Xiaohua still recognized Luo Huan in the crowd at a glance. It passed through the neatly lined up soldiers and trotted to Luo Huan, "Ahh! Ahhh!"

Mao Xiaohua was very worried that the boy would abandon him, he didn't want to go back to the cold street and look for food in the garbage.

Mao Xiaohua has seen too many abandoned cats due to her human experience in her previous life.It's fine if you've never enjoyed that kind of warmth, but...if you're abandoned now, it's a little hard for Mao Xiaohua to accept.

Luo Huan was taken aback, and he looked down at his little leopard.

There was a snowflake on the little leopard's nose, a few hairs were raised on its round ears, and its blue eyes were full of anxiety and longing.

Luo Huan didn't know how this little leopard ran from the distant bedroom to the square in front of the hall. He jumped off the horse, scooped up Mao Xiaohua, and hugged her in his arms.

"You want to go with me?" Luo Huan gently stroked Mao Xiaohua's hair, "Not yet, you are too young, stay here and grow up, and wait for me to come back!"

Mao Xiaohua couldn't understand Luo Huan's words, but she could feel the intimacy expressed in that tone. He blinked and rubbed the tip of his nose against Luo Huan's.He knows people like this, and while he's not very good at being cute, he's trying to do it.

Luo Huan laughed again, kissed Mao Xiaohua's head, and handed it to the animal trainer Hao An who came after him.It is impossible for him to go to war with a little leopard.

Mao Xiaohua saw that being cute was useless, so she chose to stay quietly in Hao An's arms, watching Luo Huan slowly set off with the team.

That morning, little snow flew wildly, decorating the vast palace colorfully and enchantingly.Luo Huan's figure became smaller and smaller in the snow, and finally became a small dot, which remained in Mao Xiaohua's pupils.Mao Xiaohua didn't know who this young man was, nor when he would come back, nor did she know whether this young man adopted her or abandoned her.

He only knows that no matter what, life still has to go on and live well.Be it a human or a cat.

Three days later, Mao Xiaohua was taken to the leopard room of Royce Palace.

Some juvenile cubs are raised in the leopard room, and they will undergo a series of training.

Before that, in order to prevent the leopards from rejecting this strange little guy, Hao An deliberately covered it with the smell of the leopard room.But when he put Mao Xiaohua into the leopard room, the leopards inside were still full of hostility and vigilance towards the new stranger.

Mao Xiaohua obviously also felt this atmosphere, all the hair on his back stood up, his body was lowered, he whimpered, his ears were flattened, ready to fight at any time.

Hao An watched this scene a little nervously. All the leopards here are less than three months old. They are not aggressive and rarely attack their own kind. But if Mao Xiaohua cannot be accepted by these leopards, or she herself If it is very aggressive, it can only be quarantined unfortunately, and it will be judged as unsuitable to be a friend of human beings.

The two sides faced off until the arrival of another adult female leopard.

That female leopard is Hao An's helper, named Lily, and also the trainer of these little leopards.She is responsible for teaching these little leopards a series of basic skills such as fighting, running, and hunting.

"Lily, this is a new kid, I'll leave it to you to take care of me!" Hao An touched Lily's head, and Lily also flicked her tail to show that she knew.

Adult southern leopards are very smart, can understand more than 500 human words, and can reach the IQ of a six-year-old child.They can cooperate with humans to do a lot of work.

Although Lily is not as smart as those top-level southern leopards, she is already eight years old this year. Under Hao An's perennial teaching, she can understand nearly [-] human words and can communicate with her owner Hao An in a simple way.

At this moment, Lily listened to her master's instructions, stepped forward, let out a low growl, and said hello to Mao Xiaohua.

Mao Xiaohua looked at the huge monster in front of her very vigilantly.

He has seen this kind of thing in pictures, that is, Royce's mythical beast, the object of admiration for all stray cats - the southern leopard.

The owner of this southern leopard has even more beautiful and smooth fur than in the picture. Her eyes are light gray, and dark brown rosettes bloom on her skin, elegant and dangerous.

The southern leopard in the picture made Mao Xiaohua envious, but when he really faced this creature more than ten times bigger than himself, he instinctively felt fear and fear.

What's more, the experience in his previous life made him full of vigilance and resistance to dangerous creatures like leopards.

So Mao Xiaohua shrank towards the corner, and once again let out a threatening cry.

This time he used the rhubarb-taught "woo-woo" sound, with his back hunched and the fur on his tail blown off.

Lily was taken aback, she had never seen a leopard expressing like a wild cat before, she stepped forward, grabbed Mao Xiaohua's neck in one bite, brought the little leopard in front of her, put it down, and licked it with her tongue She licked Mao Xiaohua's fur.

Just such a simple action instantly dispelled Mao Xiaohua's sense of danger.

Cats lick each other as a sign of friendship.

Moreover, Lily's belly is very warm and very soft, and the most happiest thing is that there is a fragrance of milk there.

Mao Xiaohua really didn't want to be lost enough to drink the milk of a female leopard, but when he smelled that scent, an irresistible force dragged him to look for a teat.

Lily took the opportunity to lie on her side, exposing a row of tits on her abdomen.

At this moment, those little leopards who were standing by and watching the fun rushed up all of a sudden, occupying all the tits in an instant.

Mao Xiaohua just licked it, but she didn't get anything, so she was pushed aside.

But Mao Xiaohua didn't mind these too much. He lay on Lily's tail and felt the female leopard's tail gently resting on his body.

An unprecedented sense of belonging and intimacy immediately hit Mao Xiaohua.

He thought, this is probably because the female leopard is very friendly and everyone is a cat.

"This is a good place, at least, it's better than living on the streets." Mao Xiaohua thought silently in her heart, "Since you can't go back to being a human again, then let's live with these leopards as a cat." People, always have to recognize the reality, when I grow up a little bit, and the hunting skills are a bit more proficient, I can rely on my own ability to fill my stomach."

Hao An watched the scene in the leopard room with satisfaction.

There are ten cubs within three months who are about the same age as Mao Xiaohua, all of which belong to Lili.

Generally speaking, such a small leopard has no combat effectiveness and does not need to live alone.As long as the mother leopard accepts Mao Xiaohua, then this rare white leopard can survive here.

And now Lily's performance, it is obvious that she accepted this little leopard very quickly, it seems that there is nothing to worry about.

After Hao An looked at it for a while, he left and went to train the bigger leopard.

Mother leopard Lily licks the cubs while breastfeeding.She is a very patient and caring leopard. This time, the two cubs she gave birth to died within two days of birth, which added to her motherhood. She likes all the cubs very much. , also happy to raise.

After letting the little leopards drink milk to their heart's content, she played with them for a while, and only then did she think of her master, Hao An.

So she walked out of the leopard room. When she was going out, the well-trained Lily stretched out her front paws and snapped the door latch of this room to prevent these little leopards from running around.

The moment the door latch was lowered, there were only a dozen or so cubs under three months left in the 300-square-meter cub room.

Those leopards were well-behaved and cute at the first moment, but at the next moment, without the guards of humans and female leopards, they immediately revealed their true colors.

The biggest leopard ran two steps on the spot, jumped onto a high stone bench in the room, sat on it, and yelled condescendingly at Mao Xiaohua: "New here, do you know the rules here?" ?!"