Xiao Ye listened to Xiao Dong's story very carefully, took a deep puff of cigarette, and asked Xiao Dong about some things he didn't understand, and Xiao Dong explained repeatedly. Xiao Ye smoked a cigarette, thought for a while, and said: "I heard you say that this tiger is very ferocious, it has already eaten five people, we must find a way to kill it, if we can't kill it, it will hurt people." ”

Xiao Dong asked very worriedly: "Xiao Ye, can you really kill the tiger?" ”

Xiao Ye took a puff of cigarette and said confidently: "I will definitely be able to kill the tiger, a few years ago, our mountain tribe killed two tigers at one time, the tiger is not terrible, the most important thing is to find a good way." ”

Xiaodong asked with great interest: "You are really amazing, you can kill two tigers at once, can you tell me how you killed the tigers?" ”

Xiao Ye smoked a cigarette and slowly talked about how the tigers hurt people a few years ago, and how they dug traps to kill the tigers...... Xiaodong listened to Xiao Ye's story very carefully, and from time to time asked questions that he didn't understand, Xiao Ye gave detailed explanations, Xiao Dong was very moved after listening to it, and admired Xiao Ye's intelligence and bravery.

At this time, Xiao Ye heard a noise nearby, and Xiao Ye whispered to Xiao Dong: "Don't speak, there is a sound nearby." ”

Both of them were quiet, and the sound was getting closer and closer, only then did they see a spotted tiger, biting a bloody lamb in its mouth, slowly walking towards the tiger cave under the small soil slope, at the entrance of the cave it stopped, and slowly ate the lamb that had been bitten to death, Xiaoye and Xiaodong did not dare to speak, and quietly watched the tiger eat the lamb. It was slowly darkening, and the tiger went into the cave after eating the lamb.

Xiao Ye said to Xiao Dong: "This tiger is really big, bigger than the tiger we killed, tonight we will sleep on the tree, see when it will burrow tomorrow, now we should also eat dinner." Xiao Ye took the roast beef and gave Xiao Dong two pieces, and the two of them ate it in a big gulp, Xiao Ye took a cigarette in one hand and ate it with the roast beef in the other.

Seeing this, Xiao Dong said with a smile: "Xiao Ye really doesn't have empty hands, he eats barbecue and smokes. Xiao Ye smiled and nodded.

After eating the barbecue, Xiao Ye took another cigarette, lit it and handed it to Xiao Dong, and said, "In order to keep the fire, you should also learn to smoke, come and smoke one." ”

After taking the cigarette, Xiaodong said: "It's time to learn to smoke, and you must keep the fire." He took a hard puff of his cigarette and coughed heavily.

Xiao Ye said with a smile: "You want to smoke in small sips, and spit out the cigarette immediately, it's easy to learn, you can learn it tonight." After Xiaodong coughed, he smoked according to the method that Xiao Ye said, and he stopped snorting.

Xiaodong asked curiously: "How do you know that smoking can keep the fire?" ”

Xiao Ye took a big puff of cigarette, and slowly spit out the cigarette, and said: "This is a long story, I will tell you slowly......" Xiao Ye how the mountain tribe found fire, how to use fire, and encountered heavy rain to extinguish the fire, after losing the fire, many people died of disease, his mother and younger brother also died, in order to find the fire, paid the price of the dead, after finding the fire more than 200 miles away from home, there was no way to get it back, after repeated thinking, smoking was invented, and the fire was more than 200 miles away from the north, After taking it back and lighting the fire, the mountain tribesmen lived a good life with fire again, and later helped dozens of tribes to light the fire, so that they all lived a good life with fire......

Xiaodong listened carefully to Xiao Ye's narration and was deeply moved, he said with emotion: "You are really good people! After going through a lot of difficulties, I finally invented smoking to make fire, and I have helped so many people, I must learn to smoke, and I will also help people who do not use fire in the future. He asked Xiao Ye for another cigarette and smoked it.

Xiao Ye estimated that it was almost midnight, and he said to Xiao Dong: "Let's sleep, there are still many things to do tomorrow, and after watching the tiger leave after dawn, we will hurry up." So Xiaodong slept on the tree, but Xiaoye didn't have a trace of sleepiness, he smoked cigarettes one after another, slowly puffing out the cigarettes, thinking about ways to kill the tiger, and said to himself for a while, there are few stones here, it is impossible to hit them with stones. After a while, he said to himself that he could only burn it with fire......

That night, the three of them continued to use small twigs and dry teng strips to make a lot of torches, and piled up a lot of them, and the night was late, and the three of them were very tired, and Cao San fell asleep with Sister Hetian in her arms.

After Sister He added firewood to the fire, she still didn't see Xiao Ye come back, she was very worried, I heard that the tiger had eaten five people, 20 people failed to kill the tiger, but Xiao Ye was going to kill the tiger, it was really terrible, although she was very tired, but she couldn't sleep, she thought: I have been missing my beloved for a few years, and I have been tortured for a few years, and I have only been reunited with my beloved for a few days, Xiao Ye must not do anything! He slept on the grass by the fire, his eyes looking at the shining stars, and the figure of Xiaoye occupied her entire mind. She thought again: Every night when I go to bed, Xiao Ye's hand is always my pillow, and he hugs me to sleep, how sweet and happy it is! I can only use my own hands to make pillows tonight, how lonely and scared it is. She thought about it, and unconsciously fell asleep, she saw Xiao Dong running sweating profusely, and shouted loudly while running towards her: Xiao Ye was eaten by a tiger! Xiaoye was eaten by a tiger! She was frightened and shouted: Xiao Ye! Leaflet...... She was awakened, sweating profusely.

Cao San and He Mei were awakened by Sister He's shouting, the two sat up, and River Sister asked with concern: "What's wrong with Sister He, do you have nightmares?" ”

Sister He was shocked and replied, "It's terrible, I dreamed that Xiaoye was eaten by a tiger." ”

Cao San comforted and said: "Xiao Ye is such a smart person, he will not be fine, he will come back tomorrow, don't worry." The three men stopped sleeping, and after adding some wood to the fire, they went on making torches.

When it was dawn, Xiao Ye woke up Xiao Dong and whispered, "Let's eat barbecue quickly, and we must pay special attention to the situation in the Tiger Cave." ”

Xiaodong didn't seem to wake up, took the roast beef handed by Xiao Ye, took a bite and closed his eyes, but his mouth was still moving. Seeing this, Xiao Ye smiled and said, "I'll go to bed when I go back today, and I have to keep vigil tonight." ”

Xiaodong said: "Okay, I slept for half a day this morning and did things in the afternoon." The two of them ate roast beef, their eyes fixed on the mouth of the tiger cave.

The sun slowly rose in the east, and the tiger came slowly from the cave, stood at the mouth of the cave for a moment, and walked towards the western woods. Xiao Ye said to Xiao Dong: "The tiger has gone west, and now it is far away, let's quickly get down from the tree and run to the east to the woods, first to my residence, and then go to report to your mother." ”

Xiaodong said: "Okay, listen to your arrangement." ”

The two quickly got down from the big tree, ran east to the woods, and walked back to the place of residence quickly, Sister He saw Xiao Ye coming back, ran forward and hugged Xiao Ye, and said excitedly: "You are always back, you didn't come back last night, it's really scared to death." ”

Xiao Ye hugged Sister He, kept kissing her beautiful face, and said, "Don't worry, I won't do anything." ”

Xiao Ye said to the three of them: "Today, the two sisters and sisters of the river will guard our fire, let the horses graze, don't leave the fire too far, Cao San and I will go to the east of the river, there are a lot of things to do, today and tomorrow are very busy, I have thought about it, I can kill the tiger tomorrow." ”

Sister He said worriedly: "Xiao Ye, I heard that this tiger has bitten five people to death, you must be careful!" ”

Xiao Ye smiled and said, "Don't worry, we will be back soon after killing the tiger." ”

Xiao Ye, Cao San and Xiao Dong rushed to the east of the river, and after a while they arrived at the entrance of the owner's cave, Xiao Dong entered the cave just to see the two brothers in the cave and his mother discussed, Xiao Dong said: "Mother, last night I and Xiao Ye and I kept watch in the woods all night, Xiao Ye and Cao San are now at the entrance of the cave, they want to see you." ”

The proprietor said happily: "Let Xiao Ye come in." ”

Xiao Dong immediately took Xiao Ye and Cao San into the hole, the proprietor let Xiao Ye and Cao San sit at the table, Xiao Ye gestured and said slowly: "Today I come to see the proprietor only one big thing, that is, to kill the tiger's Qi, the time is tomorrow morning, now there are three things to prepare, the first thing, today to make 60 torches, by Cao San and I to teach everyone to do, do it before the dark; The second piece is to prepare 10 bone knives, to sharpen the sharpening, and complete it before dark; The third thing is to arrange 20 men, bring stone axes, and wait to dig traps to kill the tigers. The specific method of killing the tiger is: this afternoon Xiaodong and I still entered the woods, observing the situation of the tiger, before dark to see the tiger into the hole, then come back to inform, with the prepared 20 people, bring a stone axe, bone knife, each person holds a few unlit torches, by me to light the torch in front of the way, to the mouth of the tiger cave, by ten people, light ten torches, the tiger will not dare to see the fire, the other ten people, three steps away from the hole to dig a trap, must be completed before dawn, at the bottom of the trap on the bone knife, And after camouflaging the trap, all the people climbed the tree to rest. After daybreak, when the tiger was looking for food at the mouth of the cave, he would inevitably fall into the trap, so I lit the hay with a cigarette butt fire, then lit 20 torches, threw them into the trap, and then threw in dry firewood to burn the tiger alive. That's what I thought of in the tree last night. ”

Xiao Dong jumped up with joy after hearing this, and kept shouting: "This method is really good, it turns out that you haven't slept last night!" ”

The proprietor and Da Dongzi Erdongzi listened to Xiao Ye's method, but did not fully understand, Xiao Dong saw this and translated for them, the proprietor and Da Dongzi and Erdongzi completely understood, they were very happy, the proprietor praised Yang and said: "The way you think is really good, this time the killing of the tiger is all arranged by you, Da Dongzi, Erdongzi, Xiaodong, you three brothers are going to participate in this tiger killing, Da Dongzi and Erdongzi are responsible for selecting 20 men, Xiaodong and Xiao Ye together, listen to Xiao Ye's arrangement, you all go down to prepare." ”

Xiao Ye came to the cave with everyone, and Cao San was next to the fire, teaching everyone to make torches with dry branches and thin teng strips, Da Dongzi and Er Dongzi quickly picked 20 strong men, and set them up to prepare stone axes, sharpen the task of sharpening bone knives, many people have great strength, and more than 100 torches were made in half a day. After lunch, Xiao Ye asked everyone to make more torches, and they will also use it for hunting after using it this time.

Then they heard the barking of cows and sheep, and when they came to the trap, they found that a cow had fallen into the trap, and there were two sheep in the other trap. Xiao Ye said to Da Dongzi Er Dongzi: "Kill the cow first, tie the sheep with Teng Tiao, and it will be useful tomorrow." The two brothers went according to Xiao Ye's arrangement......

Xiao Ye smoked a cigarette and Cao San into the woods, and climbed up to the tree from yesterday, Xiao Ye lit another cigarette, handed it to Xiao Dong and said, "You can go to sleep after you smoke this cigarette, there is no chance to sleep tonight." ”

Xiaodong took the cigarette with a smile and said, "I have learned to smoke, and I will sleep well after smoking." ”

Xiao Ye was smoking a cigarette in the tree, his eyes staring at the tiger cave, but his mind was thinking about whether there was any mistake in the method to be implemented, and when he confirmed that there was no mistake, a smile appeared on his face.

Although Xiao Ye hadn't slept all night and was very tired, he still didn't want to sleep at this moment, he smoked cigarettes one after another, looked at the situation in the Tiger Cave, and looked at Xiaodong who was sleeping sweetly from time to time. He thought of the proprietor's trust in him, felt his heavy responsibility, and secretly resolved to live up to the expectations of the Hedong people and resolutely kill the tiger. He woke up Xiaodong and said, "Xiaodong, don't sleep, let's eat dinner in advance, otherwise we won't have time to eat tonight." ”

Xiaodong woke up and said, "Okay, eat barbecue, eat a little full." Xiao Ye took out the roast beef in his arms, and the two of them ate it in a big gulp, when both of them finished eating the second piece of roast meat, they heard a sound nearby, and saw that in the woods in the west direction, the tiger came slowly, and the two stared at it, and saw it stand at the entrance of the cave for a while, and then went into the cave.

Xiao Ye whispered to Xiao Dong: "Today the tiger will come back early, you stay here, keep an eye on the entrance of the cave, don't come down from the tree, I'll go back and make arrangements, and then bring people here." Xiaodong nodded knowingly.

Xiaoye slowly got down the tree, ran through the woods, returned to the east of the river, saw that everyone had eaten late, the personnel had gathered and were waiting, he counted the number of people, plus Da Dongzi, Er Dongzi, Cao San and himself, a total of 24 people, he saw that the sky was not dark, arranged for everyone to take the stone axe, bone knife, each person held 4 unlit torches, asked everyone not to speak, and went to the woods with him. In addition to holding 4 torches, Xiao Ye also brought a large handful of hay, he smoked a cigarette and led the way in front, everyone walked quickly, and rushed to the big tree The sky was dark, Xiao Dong came down from the tree and said: "The tiger didn't come after entering the cave." ”

Xiao Ye said: "It's best if you don't come, after I light the torches, 10 more people will light ten torches, and they will all stand outside the mouth of the tiger cave, you don't have to be afraid, the tiger is most afraid of fire, it doesn't dare to go to the hole, and more than 10 people dig traps with stone axes according to my arrangement." ”

After he finished speaking, he immediately lit the hay with cigarette butt fire, and then lit the torch, and he arranged the 10 people holding the torches to stand at the entrance of the cave, and dug a trap three steps away from the hole, and he arranged the length, width and depth of the trap, and began to dig in turn, and the excavated soil was piled on both sides of the hole, and a group of people were tired, so they replaced several people and continued to dig. In the cave, the tiger saw a fire outside the cave, heard a loud noise, and lay down in the cave and did not dare to come.

When the first torch was lit, the one with the torch replaced it with a second torch and a third torch. In the second half of the night, the trap was finally dug up, Xiaoye and Caosan went down with a bone knife, and installed the bone knife at the bottom of the trap, after Xiaoye and the two were pulled into the trap, they immediately camouflaged the trap with branches, grass and soil, and it looked the same as before, except that there were high piles of dirt on both sides of the hole, forcing the tiger to take the road to the trap. Everything was arranged, Xiao Ye told everyone to hurry up to the tree to rest and dodge, and they couldn't get off the tree without hearing the notice, and at the same time extinguished all the torches, and the remaining more than 40 torches were temporarily hidden.

Everyone rested on the tree, none of them had sleepiness, Xiaoye and Cao Sanxiaodong, all smoking cigarettes, waiting, the day dawned, there was no tiger cave, the sun came but still did not see the tiger cave. Xiaoye said to Caosan and Xiaodong: "You two hurry back and bring a sheep, and at the same time bring a large handful of hay, be quick!" Cao San and Xiao Dong answered, and then got down from the tree and ran back.

After a while, Cao San and Xiao Dong led the sheep and came with hay, the sheep kept barking, Xiao Ye told the two to hurry up to the tree, he led the sheep to ten steps away from the tiger cave, tied to a tree, he immediately climbed up the tree, broke a long branch, and hit the tethered sheep with a branch on the tree, the sheep was beaten painfully, and kept screaming.

The tiger was frightened by the fire in the hole for half the night, and did not dare to go to the hole at dawn, then heard the cry of a sheep, and immediately came to the hole, and saw a sheep under the tree not far away, it was hungry, and rushed to the sheep desperately, and fell into the trap, Xiaoye quickly came down from the tree, ran to the trap to see, the tiger fell off the trap, was head down, rolled over, and turned all fours to the sky, the bone knife stabbed the tiger's back, it could not escape at all. Xiao Ye was very happy and shouted loudly: "Everyone come down the tree and fight the tiger!" ”

The people on the tree quickly got down the tree and came to the trap, Xiaoye quickly lit the hay with cigarette butt fire, and asked everyone to light 20 torches, and at the same time threw them into the trap, the burning tiger roared desperately, Xiaoye shouted that everyone kept throwing the torch into the trap, and the tiger's roar became smaller and smaller, and finally there was no sound. The people were overjoyed and shouted, "We burned the tigers!" Burn the tiger! "People carry the leaflets and throw them into the air, catch them and throw them into the air......