Chapter 112: Did you wet your pants?

Tuan Tuan found it more and more fun to touch, and finally leaned comfortably against the mother tiger's body, as if leaning on a huge pillow.

Suddenly, her little nose twitched, she lifted her small face, and looked puzzled at the mother tiger: "You smell so nice! Where does this stinky smell come from?"

The mother tiger raised its head and looked toward Murong Yuyiao.

Tuan Tuan also turned her small head, following its gaze, and asked: "Did you wet your pants?"

Murong Yuyiao only then realized, and a huge sense of shame and indignation instantly overwhelmed her.

She screamed, no longer caring about decorum, covered her face and burst into tears, sprinting toward the camp.

Huo Wenxuan and Zhou Jing'an also snapped out of their stupor and scrambled after her, crawling and rolling.

Tuan Tuan turned her head: "Your markings are so pretty; let's call you Ah Hua, okay?"

The mother tiger hesitated, then Tuan Tuan laughed, wrapped her arms around its neck, and said: "You like this name, right? Ah Hua?"

The mother tiger shook its big head, looking exactly like a parent helplessly watching a child misbehave.

Tuan Tuan extended her little finger, lightly tapped Ah Hua's forehead, and in a grown‑toned voice scolded: "How could you watch the child like that! Your own baby was taken away!"

"Ah..." Ah Hua lowered its big head in grievance, letting out a low whimper from its throat.

Immediately it lifted its head sharply and stared fixedly toward another direction in the dense forest.

Tuan Tuan followed its gaze, tilted her small head, and suddenly realized: "Oh! The bastard who took your baby is over there?"

Ah Hua forcefully nodded its huge head.

"What are we waiting for!" Tuan Tuan jumped up from its back, hands on hips, full of vigor: "Teach him a lesson! What good mother would let her child be taken and not settle the score!"

"Roar——!!!"

Ah Hua rose up abruptly and let out a tiger's roar that shook the heavens and startled the earth!

The sound waves rolled outward, shaking the surrounding leaves so they fluttered down.

The roar echoed in the valley, not yet faded.

Suddenly, an even more mighty and ferocious tiger's roar boomed from deep within the dense forest!

Ah Hua let out a loud roar, as if responding, and Tuan Tuan covered her ears: "It's so shocking!"

After a moment, a striped giant tiger, one size larger than Ah Hua and stout like a small hill, crashed through the undergrowth and rushed forward!

Its fangs bared, its vicious aura soaring, its mud‑ and grass‑stained forepaws bore shocking fresh bloodstains!

"Ah‑woo——" the tiger cub called happily, darted out from under the mother tiger, stumbled over, and affectionately rubbed against the giant tiger's sturdy foreleg.

The giant tiger lowered its head and gently licked the little tiger cub.

Xiao Er and the guards, whose nerves had just slightly relaxed, instantly tensed again, their palms gripping the sword hilts slick with cold sweat.

"It's fine, it's fine," Tuan Tuan patted her little hand and explained to the nervous Xiao Er: "Uncle Xiao, this is the tiger cub's father!"

Huh, why does the tiger cub always curl up one leg when it walks?

She walked over, squatted down, picked up the tiger cub, and held up its curled foreleg for close inspection.

"It's injured," Tuan Tuan's little face full of concern.

She looked at the two giant tigers, several times her height: "Come with me, I'll put some medicine on your baby, and it'll be fine soon."

"Huh, your fur is brighter than Ah Hua's; let's call you Ah Huang, okay?"

The two giant tigers glanced at each other and both let out a low, submissive rumble.

Tuan Tuan shouted, "Home!" Holding the tiger cub, she marched ahead on her short legs.

The two mountain‑sized, sharp‑eyed striped giant tigers walked on her left and right.

Xiao Er and a few guards followed behind, wearing dreamy expressions.

Inside the main camp, the Emperor had returned from the hunt, his face grim, while Xiao Yuanhang and Cheng Ru'an sat uneasily.

Everyone had heard the tiger's roar, and Zhou Jing'an and his companions, upon returning, also reported encountering a tiger.

Why hasn't Tuan Tuan come back yet?

The Xuanwu Guard had already sent out a patrol, so why haven't they returned either?

Suddenly, the noise outside exploded like a boiling pot!

"Old, old tiger! Two of them!"

"Guard the emperor! Guard the emperor!"

Cries of alarm, the sound of swords being drawn, and the clashing of armor all blended together.

Everyone braced for battle; archers nocked their arrows and aimed at the camp entrance.

Emperor Xiao Jieyun, surrounded by his close guards, strode out of the main tent: "What's the panic?!"

"Your Majesty, please look!"

Xiao Jieyun walked toward the main camp gate, and Xiao Yuanhang and his wife hurriedly followed.

Upon seeing the scene before them, the group came to an abrupt halt.

"Tuan Tuan!" Cheng Ru'an's legs went weak, she almost collapsed, and Xiao Yuanhang grabbed her to steady her.

Tuan Tuan happily ran over: "Mom! Dad!"

She shook the little tiger in her arms: "Ah Hua and Ah Huang's baby's paws are hurt; I brought it back to apply medicine."

The two fierce tigers followed at a leisurely pace, completely disregarding these two‑legged creatures.

"Everyone, stop! Put away your weapons!" Emperor Xiao Jieyun shouted.

At the imperial decree, the bows were lowered and swords sheathed, yet all the guards remained tense, eyes locked on the two beasts that seemed ready to attack at any moment.

Xiao Yuanhang's heart jolted—Ah Hua? Ah Huang?

His gaze fell on the two massive beasts whose mere presence made legs go weak, and the corner of his mouth twitched violently.

These names... truly are his daughter's style.

"Your Majesty! Please grant this subject permission to take them back to the tent to treat Ah Hua and Ah Huang's child's wounds."

"Ah? Ah! Go, go quickly!" Xiao Jieyun waved his hand.

"Thank you, Imperial Uncle!" Tuan Tuan hugged the little tiger and ran toward his own tent.

While running, he turned back and waved at the two giant tigers: "Ah Flower, Ah Yellow, hurry up and follow, apply medicine to your babies!"

Under the gaze of countless dazed eyes, the two kings of beasts actually followed Tuan Tuan like two house cats, walking straight toward Prince Ning's tent.

Xiao Jieyun suppressed the turmoil in his heart and lightly ordered: "Convey my decree: within a hundred steps of Prince Ning's tent, it is a forbidden zone; no one may trespass and disturb... 'Ah Flower Ah Yellow', the consequences are at your own risk."

Everyone exchanged glances, trespass? Who would be crazy enough to trespass?!

Marquis Needle Guo Wei Zhengqiu hurried back from outside the camp, dismounted, and with a thud knelt before Xiao Jieyun: "Your Majesty! Please, Your Majesty, vindicate me!"

Xiao Jieyun furrowed his brows: "Beloved minister, please rise; what matter requires Me to vindicate you?"

"My son, together with the son of Marquis Jing Hai, Miss Huo and Miss Murong, and several others went out; they have all returned safely."

"But my son never returned; I worried and went to search, and indeed, indeed in the forest I found my son's corpse! It is too horrible to behold! He was killed by a ferocious beast!"

"Your Majesty! The autumn hunt had been prepared days in advance; the ferocious beasts were all driven out of the hunting grounds—where did these ferocious beasts come from to harm people?"

"It must be someone intentionally harming my son! Please, Your Majesty, vindicate me!"