Chapter 144: Tiger's Den
As they spoke, the tiger's second leg was gone. Xiaohu didn't wait for it to call, and threw another leg. After throwing four legs in a row, the tiger was finally full. But it didn't leave, it was still wandering around in circles.
Leader Zhao smiled and quipped: "Brother Xiaohu, what people mean is that it's not enough to eat enough, and I want you to send it some more gifts to take home." ”
Xiaohu was also wondering, why didn't the tiger leave when he was full, and after listening to Leader Zhao's funny words, his eyes lit up, and he shouted at the tiger at the moment: "But you still want this meat!?" ”
Li Dangtou rubbed his stomach with a smile, and laughed at Xiaohu intermittently: "Xiaohu! Are you still -- really-- taking it -- as a human being? ”
Xiaohu didn't care about the crowd laughing next to him, he immediately ripped off a wolf meat, broke his belly, pulled out the internal organs of the stomach, and threw the wolf meat to the tiger. The tiger immediately ran away with the wolf meat in his hand.
Seeing the tiger running straight up the mountain with wolf meat on his hand, Xiaohu asked loudly a few of those who couldn't get up from laughing, "Are you all okay?" If it's good, help me drag this wolf meat together, follow the footsteps of this tiger, and send this wolf meat to the tiger's den! ”
When Leader Zhao heard this, he stopped laughing all of a sudden. said with a straight face: "Little Tiger! It's a bit too much for you to do this, no one knows what the situation of the tiger's den is, it's too late for us to stay away from this tiger, and you still want to go to the tiger's den? ”
Li Darttou looked at the footprints of the tiger and the marks left by dragging the wolf meat, frowned and thought silently for a while before expressing his opinion: "Leader Zhao, I think Xiaohu did the right thing in this matter, and I can guess the tiger now." Probably a tigress with a cub. It is full of itself, and it has to bring food back, it must be a tiger cub to eat in the nest, and it is estimated that the tiger's den is not very far away. Tigresses with tiger cubs generally do not travel too far to find food. We'll help deliver it, and it won't be long. In this winter, if there is another heavy snowfall, this tigress with her cubs has no food for the winter, it is really not easy to suffer! Now we have it. There's ready-made wolf meat here, so I'll help send it over! Don't worry, with me and the little tiger brothers, one or two tigers can't hurt us. ”
The others chimed in: "Then send it!" We're going to go up and find someone anyway. ”
Leader Zhao didn't speak again, which was regarded as acquiescing to this matter.
Xiaohu wants to take out all the wolf's belly. Everyone joined in to help. The wolf meat rack that emptied the stomach was much lighter all of a sudden.
Xiaohu and Laizi used a few wooden sticks and rattan to make a snowboard-like cart, tied the wolf skin and wolf meat separately to the top of several snowboards, and let the horses drag them away.
They followed the tiger's footsteps all the way up the mountain, and the more they walked, the more difficult it became. There was no road ahead, and the tiger's tracks turned to the right, and they followed suit. It's not more than a dozen feet away. There is a small cave not far from the left front, and Laizi saw it first, and excitedly pointed to Xiaohu: "Brother Xiaohu!" Look. Could that be the tiger's den? ”
Xiaohu watched the tiger's footprints pass all the way through the intermittent snow, nodded and said, "It should be, you see that the footprints and drag marks have been around there." ”
Li Darttou also thought that it was there, and told everyone to slow down and be careful.
The closer they got, the more they felt that something was wrong. Leader Zhao couldn't help it at first, and said to Li Dart in a hurry: "Brother Li." Look at the footprints of people here? ”
Before Li Darttou could go over to look, one of his attendants smiled and said, "Boss." What are you, I still have here! ”
Li Darttou was already sure that there were people here, so he immediately asked everyone to stop for a while.
"Little Tiger! There must be someone here, do you think it's the person we're looking for? ”
Xiaohu asked puzzledly: "Who is there and what matters, we are originally here to find someone, as long as we can find someone, we will achieve our goal!" ”
Li Dart patted Xiaohu's shoulder and said with a smile: "You're right! Then he said to the big guy: "You guys are waiting here, I'll go over with Xiaohu to have a look!" ”
Because they were worried that the tiger might attack unexpectedly, the two of them held a weapon in one hand and dragged the wolf meat in the other, and slowly moved towards the cave step by step.
When Li Darttou was about to reach the entrance of the cave, he stopped and whispered to Xiaohu: "You wait a while, I'll shout inside to see if anyone is inside." ”
Xiaohu nodded and stopped. Li Dart shouted inside, "Is there anyone in the cave?" I am Li Jiangcheng, the head of the dart bureau of the Damin Dynasty, and I was entrusted to come to find someone, if someone still responds. ”
There was no sound from anyone inside, but there was the low whistling of a tiger, as if there was the whining of a small animal.
Li Darttou waited for a while, and when he saw that no one answered inside, he said to Xiaohu: "I'm afraid this person is not in this cave, let's go in and have a look!" You should be careful not to let the tiger go berserk suddenly, as the tiger will not let the living into its nest. ”
Xiaohu nodded, and before he moved, he suddenly shouted inside, "Tiger Lady!" I've got wolf meat for you! ”
The people who were watching them nervously outside were amused by Xiaohu's words.
There was a low whistling sound of a tiger inside, and the little tiger looked at it for so long, but the tiger inside didn't come out, so he smiled and said to Li Darttou: "Big brother! The tiger didn't come out to drive us away, so he should be able to go in! ”
That was said, but the two of them did not take it lightly, but went to the cave more carefully. When he reached the edge of the cave, Xiaohu stretched out the wolf meat he was dragging in his hand to the entrance of the cave first, so that the tiger inside could see it, and then he poked his head into the cave to see the situation inside.
There was a big tiger inside, the tiger that had asked the little tiger for meat in the morning, lying there leisurely, and next to its belly were two little tiger cubs about the size of a one-year-old earth dog, tearing the wolf meat that their mother had brought back.
The tiger saw the little tiger's head stretched out at the entrance of the cave, opened his mouth wide and whispered, and then turned his head to admire the heroic posture of his cub tearing the wolf meat. Seeing that it didn't care, Xiaohu quietly put away the axe in his other hand. Holding the wolf meat with both hands, he stepped into the cave cautiously, and Li Dart followed closely behind, holding the sword in his hand tightly, once the situation was not right. It's good to save Xiaohu at any time.
Still five or six feet away from the tiger, the little tiger stopped. He slowly put down the wolf meat in his hand while staring at the tiger, and seeing that the tiger was not hostile, he moved his gaze to the innermost part of the cave and glanced around.
Although the light inside is very dark, the general outline can still be seen. The cave is so big and wide that it can hold at least a thousand people. When he was fully accustomed to the darkness in the cave and was gradually able to see the contents clearly, he found that there were about a dozen people lying or sitting in the innermost part of the cave. They all looked at Xiaohu and Li Dart silently and vigilantly, and Xiaohu secretly blamed them in his heart for not knowing how to speak up just now. The voice that asked them at the moment was a little unhappy: "You are the soldiers of my Damin Dynasty guarding the pass?" ”
A voice asked weakly: "You are the head of Li Dart in the world?!" "Didn't wait for Xiaohu to speak. Li Darttou stood up from behind the little tiger and said, "I am!" Is there a little one among you named Tiger Girl? If there is, you should respond! ”
The same voice just now answered: "Yes! ”
Hearing this, the burden in Li Dart's heart was suddenly put down, and there was some brisk in his voice when he spoke: "Then you all hurry up and come out, I always feel scared in this tiger cave!" ”
Among the people inside, someone began to cry in a low voice, and the original weak voice shouted: "A man bleeds without tears." What are you crying about! Is there a shame in it? ”
One of the men, holding a tree on his back, stood up and said, "They can't move." Only I can barely get out! ”
Li Dart said worriedly: "Then what should I do?" This tiger doesn't let us hurt it, but it's here, and others don't dare to come in! ”
Xiaohu hurriedly interjected: "They can spend so long in this tiger's nest and are fine, I think this tiger will not hurt people, it should be able to let them come in and carry people!" ”
The original weak voice suddenly said, "No! Too many people come in, and the tiger will go berserk. We fed it horse meat for several days before we were allowed to enter the cave. ”
Li Dart looked at the tiger who was leisurely watching his cubs happily eat meat. Just a headache. But on the other hand, thanks to it, they really wouldn't have thought of it without it. This man will be hiding in a tiger's den, and it will be difficult to find him. But now, because it guards the entrance and exit of the cave, it is very difficult for them to move out of these people.
Before Xiaohu and Li Darttou could figure out a way, someone on the other side said, "Either wait for the big tiger to go out to find food, and then come and help us." Otherwise, it's okay for us to climb out slowly. ”
Xiaohu took the corner of his eye to look at the tiger lying on the ground, napping, and the two little tiger cubs who were full of food and playing, and said, "I'll go in and carry you out!" I see that this tiger is full of food and napping, and it shouldn't hurt people suddenly! ”
Li Darttou nodded and said, "Then so be it!" I'll protect you by your side, and if this tiger hurts someone, I'll take action, don't blame me! ”
Xiaohu smiled: "No, no!"
Xiaohu and Li Darttou looked at the napping tiger and carefully walked to the innermost part of the cave.
Inside, Xiaohu crouched down with his back to them and asked, "Who came first?" ”
Everyone pointed to one person and said in unison: "Let Qin Baihu come first!" ”
Qin Baihu did not refuse, and was helped by Li Dart to lie on Xiaohu's back, Xiaohu walked in front of him on his back, Li Dart was protected on the side where the tiger was lying, and the one with a crutch followed behind.
Leader Zhao, who was anxiously waiting outside, led them, thinking that if they didn't come out again, they would have to go in to see the situation. Just as they were about to approach the cave, they saw Xiaohu carrying a person out of the cave, Li Dart carefully guarding one side, and a crutch followed behind.
They hurriedly stepped forward to help put down Qin Baihu on Xiaohu's back, although they couldn't smell the strong smell of these two people, but no one said it or disliked it, and they were very enthusiastic to help people to the horseback and lie down. Xiaohu went in with Li Darttou and carried other people out, and when they arrived at the entrance of the cave, someone hurriedly helped to pick them up.
When they went back and forth to carry people out, the tiger would sometimes open his eyes and look, and then he would close his eyes and nap again, and the two little tiger cubs would often run after them, and every time they reached the mouth of the cave, the tiger seemed to see it, and made a whining sound calling the little tiger cubs. The two little tiger cubs immediately turned around and ran to their old mother, rolling and playing on the tiger's body.
Xiaohu's eyes are hot every time he looks at it, and he really wants to hold the two little tiger cubs and rub them! But he also knew very well how protective the tiger was of the tiger cub, and he was afraid that before his hand touched the tiger cub, the tiger would go crazy.
They carried out all the dozen or so people, put the wolf meat rack in a ventilated place at the entrance of the cave, and took only four wolf meat racks away as food on the way back. (To be continued)