He squatted down, took a closer look through the misty moonlight, and said in surprise: "Oops! It's a little tiger cub! ”

When Xue Fei'er heard this, she also hurriedly squatted down to investigate: "Really! It's still moving! There are a few more, but they don't move, they seem to be dead! ”

Du Wenhao took a look, and sure enough, there were still a few tiger cubs, lying motionless on the ground. When I reached out and touched it, except for this one, which was still squirming slightly, the rest were already stiff.

Now I understand, this must be a tigress, pregnant and about to give birth, but was caught by this tiger trap, bleeding too much and died, before dying gave birth to a tiger, in order to protect the child, the tiger has been looking up and staring ahead, until he died, the tiger died and the tiger was mighty, the two thought that they had met a live tiger, which was scared enough. It's a pity that except for this little tiger, the rest froze to death.

Du Wenhao put down the medicine hoe and carefully picked up the little tiger cub with both hands, the little tiger had just been born, only a little bigger than his fist, curled up in the palms of his hands and trembled, like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

"It's so cute!" Xue Fei'er reached out and touched the little tiger's body.

Du Wenhao said: "It's so frozen, and it's very hungry, and it may die at any time." ”

"What then?"

Du Wenhao untied his robe, put the old tiger in his arms, wrapped his clothes, and said: "Take it back first, raise it for a few months, until it can live independently, and then put it back on the mountain." ”

"Huh? You're going to raise this tiger? Tigers want to eat people, you call raising tigers for trouble! ”

The ancients did not have the awareness to protect wild animals, especially for fierce animals such as tigers, which were killed when they saw them, and those who killed tigers would be set up as heroes, such as Wu Song. It's just that for Du Wenhao, he has been educated to live in harmony with humans and animals since he was a child, this idea is deep-rooted, coupled with the influence of the traditional Chinese medicine thought of the doctor's parents, he wants him to watch this poor little tiger starve to death, he can't do it, so Du Wenhao gently touched the little tiger in his arms and said: "It's okay, in fact, tigers are afraid of people by nature, only when tigers think that humans will attack them, they will bite people, this little tiger has just been born, his eyes have not opened, and his teeth have not grown. I can't hurt anyone if I want to. When it is raised, it can be sent back to the forest. ”

"This ......, if the people of the Yamen know about it, they won't let you keep a big tiger at home, I'm afraid they will kill it."

"How would they know, you don't say? Besides, I don't raise it either, I only keep it for a few months, and when it can prey on small animals for food, I release it back into the mountains. ”

"This ......, well, this little tiger is also quite pitiful, how are you going to raise it?"

"Help me buy a that has just given birth and feed it with milk."

"Will it work?"

"It works. Feel relieved! But I have to look for it when I go back, and I don't know if this little tiger will survive until dawn tomorrow. ”

"That's good!"

At this moment, the two of them found lanterns and torches in the distance, and the stars fluttered to this side, and after a while, they heard the voice of someone talking in the distance: "Be careful, everyone, it's almost time to catch the tiger trap, if you really want to catch the tiger, be careful!" ”

Xue Fei'er hurriedly said: "It may be that the hunter who released the tiger clip is here, let's hide quickly, don't let them see the little tiger, otherwise we will rob it." ”

The two hurriedly put the medicine basket on their backs and ran to hide behind a big rock not far away.

After a while, more than a dozen hunters came with knives, guns, bows and arrows in their hands, and came with torches, and when they saw that the tiger had been caught, and the tiger was dead, they all shouted excitedly, and hung the dead tiger on all fours on a whistle stick, and the dead tiger was also used with knives and forks, and proudly held them in the air and laughed, and then a group of people carried the dead tiger away happily.

When they were far away, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief and groped their way down the mountain by the moonlight.

After walking for more than half an hour, when I finally came down to the foot of the mountain, I saw lanterns and torches at the foot of the mountain from a distance, and I could faintly hear many people shouting: "Doctor Du......!" Xue Fei'er ......! ”

Xue Fei'er was pleasantly surprised: "It's Captain Pang and Sister Qingdai!" He put his hands to his lips and shouted, "Oh......! We're here! ”

Du Wenhao hurriedly explained to Xue Fei'er and said: "Wait a while, let's say that we are lost, not to mention the encounter with the tiger, let alone that I hugged a little tiger back!" ”

"Okay, I know,—— I won't say it, two big living people were trapped in a tree by a dead tiger for most of the night, and I didn't have to make people laugh out of their big teeth when I said it!"

"Hey, that's it!"

By this time, the men were already coming towards them with lantern torches: "Found it! Over here! ”

Running at the front, it was Lieutenant Pang County, who grabbed Du Wenhao's arm and looked up and down, and then shouted in surprise: "Doctor Du!" I've found you! If you don't come back in the middle of the night, you're all dying! ”

Followed by Lin Qingdai, Lei Zhutou of Yamen, Sun Xiaosan and others, as well as Xue Fei'er's father Song Shopkeeper.

Du Wenhao hurriedly arched his hand: "I'm sorry, I'm worried about you, we went far to pick herbs, and there is a herb that has not been picked, so it was delayed." ”

Lieutenant Pang turned around and glared at Lei Zhukuai fiercely: "Doctor Du has worked so hard to go up the mountain to collect medicine for you, don't thank you Doctor Du!" ”

It turned out that in the evening, Yu'er, the concubine of the county lieutenant of Pang County, finally woke up in a daze, and even called the master, which made the county lieutenant Pang so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, and hurriedly called someone to invite Dr. Du, wanting to tell him the news, and asked him to further prescribe medicine, but he didn't expect Dr. Du to go up the mountain to collect medicine in the morning, in order to treat the arm of Yamen Lei Catcher. waited until the sun set, and didn't see them come back, this time the county lieutenant Pang was in a hurry, and saw that the concubine began to improve.

When Lei Zhutou returned to Yamen from Wuweitang, he heard that the county lieutenant Pang had promised that as long as the new doctor Du from Wuweitang could cure the life of the concubine of the county lieutenant Pang County, he would promise the three daughters to be his daughter-in-law. Then this Doctor Du is the future county lieutenant's fast son-in-law, so he knows that he is powerful, and he confesses his guilt.

Seeing that it was getting dark and Du Wenhao and the others hadn't come back yet, Lei Zhutou asked Lieutenant Pang what to do, and Lieutenant Pang immediately decided to personally take the Yamen to catch fast and the people to be strong, and went out of the city with lanterns and torches to Feiling Mountain to look for them. Lin Qingdai and Xue Fei'er's father learned the news and followed suit.

But this Feiling Mountain Range stretches, and they are not enough to search the mountain at all, so they can only keep shouting at the foot of the mountain, but fortunately, Du Wenhao and they heard it and finally met. As soon as Du Wenhao saw the appearance of Pang County Weile, he knew that the patient's condition should be good.

Lei Zhutou came up and arched his hand in fear: "Doctor Du, the villain is really blinded by lard, how can you let your golden body go up the mountain to collect medicine for the little one." If something happens, the villain can't afford it. ”

Du Wenhao smiled: "Look at what you said, I am a sitting doctor, how did I become a golden body, this medicine collection is originally a doctor's business, didn't you say that you made me a friend, I don't want to recognize me as a friend?" ”

Lei Zhutou smiled: "Dr. Du treats Lei as a friend, Lei is really flattered!" Huh"

Du Wenhao said to Lin Qingdai: "Shopkeeper Lin, I'm sorry to make you worried." ”

"You're welcome, you don't come back in the middle of the night, I'm a little anxious, you are the doctor hired by my Wuweitang, and you don't have any relatives in Dongda County, if something really happens, we don't think about it."

Xue Fei'er's father grabbed his daughter and looked up and down, and when he saw that she was fine, he was relieved and complained: "You, really, if you encounter any fierce beasts in this deep mountain and old forest, how can you pay it back?" You have to have three long and two short, how can I explain to your dead mother! ”

"Daddy! Isn't that good? Xue Fei'er stomped her foot.

"Good! Let's go home! ”

"I don't, I still have something!"

"What's the matter?"

"I, I'm going to buy a who just gave birth."

Shopkeeper Song said strangely: "What do you do when you buy a dog?" ”

Xue Fei'er glanced at Du Wenhao and smiled: "I asked for Dr. Du, he said that he would often go up the mountain to collect medicine in the future, and I couldn't always follow him to protect him, so I wanted to raise a dog to have a companion, and I would also take care of the medicine when I went up the mountain." Moreover, today I was collecting medicine in the mountains with Dr. Du, and I saw some hares, and said that it would be good if there was a hunting dog, and we could hunt while collecting medicine. So I want to buy a newborn puppy to raise. ”

"Oh, so that's the case, then there's no need to rush in the middle of the night, catch up with Ming'er and ask whose dog gave birth, just ask for one."

"That ......, that doesn't work, you have to ask for it today! Now! ”