Chapter Twenty-Eight: Killing the Tiger
Zhong Manlang had already gone ashore, but suddenly saw the crowd in chaos, and people shouted while fleeing: "It's terrible, the tiger eats people!" ”
"How can there be a tiger on the Yonghe?!" Winter melon is like hearing a fantasy: "Isn't it a narrow ghost who uses paper paste to scare people with a fake tiger!" ”
Zhong Manlang was tall, climbed an ancient willow next to him, and looked at the center of the river, and indeed a colorful tiger jumped into the water.
Without thinking too much, he jumped a few steps from the tree to the show, where there was a flagpole of wrought copper, and his arm was three feet thick.
Zhong Manlang grabbed the flagpole with one hand and lowered his head, stretched his waist, and pulled up the cooked copper flagpole and the pedestal at once, and several large green bricks on the ground were overturned.
Those people in the arena were stunned, how could they pull out this flagpole with one hand without the strength of thousands of catties on their bodies?!
Zhong Manlang strode towards the Yonghe River with the flagpole, and the people on the boat kept running to the shore, and the brave ones on the shore gathered to the river.
When Wei Yining was in Laolinghe, he learned to hunt and fish with the Hehe people.
The Lao Ling River is turbulent and cold, she can hold on to it for an hour or two, not to mention the calm Yonghe River?
She quickly swam to the place where the boy had fallen into the water, lifted his bun from the bottom, and quickly got out of the water, so that the child would not drown for too long.
At this time, the tiger had already swam in front of him, roaring loudly at Wei Yining, and his front paws followed suit.
Wei Yining had a lot of dealings with tigers when he was in Lao Linghe, and knew that such an adult tiger could slap the bull's head to pieces.
She deftly turned in the water, and was able to avoid it.
The tiger was far less agile in the water than on the shore, it was obviously extremely hungry, and just wanted to swallow Wei Yining and the little child into its stomach as soon as possible.
So he roared angrily and continued to pounce on them.
Wei Yining knew that the weakest part of the tiger was its abdomen, so he closed his breath, sank into the water and stabbed the tiger's stomach with the knife in his hand.
After that, he quickly retreated and surfaced, and a stream of blood poured up, and the tiger was even more frantic in pain, eager to tear her to pieces at once.
"I'll lure the tiger away, and you can get this kid back!" Wei Yining shouted.
"Wrap a rope around my waist and tie me down!" Wei Laner, the sixth girl of the Wei family, said to the others.
"I'll do it anyway!" The second lady, Wei Lanshan, said: "You all stay on the boat to take care of the eldest sister!" ”
But they didn't find the cable, the Wei family was already going crazy, they didn't know how to water, and the boat girls who were holding the boat were so frightened that they couldn't count on it.
Wei Yining had no choice but to drag the kid and continue to deal with the tiger.
Zhong Manlang dragged the flagpole into the water, and saw Wei Yining fighting the tiger from a distance.
She was half-floating and half-sinking in the water, a few strands of sideburns were wet, sticking to her cheeks, quite embarrassed, but her expression was firm and fearless, Zhong Manlang bloomed a snow lotus in his heart, marveling that there was such a calm and courageous woman in the world.
"Yes, yes, use a long rod to separate this tiger from people!" When the people on the shore saw Zhong Ye and other burly men go into the water, they couldn't help but increase their confidence and shouted and cheered.
"Lao Tzu is impatient to discuss with this brute!" Zhong Manlang smiled contemptuously, raised the cooked copper flagpole in his hand, and shouted, and there was a thunderclap on the water.
The hand rose and fell, and the heavy base smashed directly into the tiger's heavenly spirit cover with the momentum of wind and thunder, only to hear a click, the tiger's brain burst out, splashing out a few feet away.
Wei Yining saw that a big man with a deep eyes and a bearded tiger on his back knocked a hungry tiger to death, and naturally breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that although he was wearing a shabby but awe-inspiring look, he knew that such a person would not live under the people for a long time.
Zhong Manlang wanted to say hello to her, but he recognized Wei Yining, but Wei Yining didn't recognize him.
The onlookers applauded, and when they saw that the tiger was dead, many people went into the water, and you pulled the claws and I pulled the tail, and dragged the dead tiger ashore.
It is said that "people die like tigers, and dead tigers are like sheep", people are not terrible when they are alive, but once they become dead, people will be frightened and retreat.
On the contrary, a live tiger can scare the people who play on the eternal river to the shore, and once killed, no one is afraid anymore like a sheep.
Because there were more people in the water, everyone worked together to send the unconscious child to the boat, and the water was finally rescued after controlling the water for a long time.
Wei Yining quietly returned to his boat, and everyone had not yet come to their senses.
Mrs. Zhu hurriedly called Ruyi and Wei Yining to the back cabin to change clothes, and asked the mother-in-law on the boat to quickly pick up the stove to fry ginger soup.
Zhong Manlang went ashore drenched, threw the cooked copper flagpole on the shore, separated everyone and said: "This tiger was killed by me, so it will naturally belong to me." ”
He thought that this tiger meat could not only be used to satisfy the stomach, but also tiger skin could be made into clothes to keep out the cold, which was a very good object.
Before the words fell, Jing Zhaoyin rushed over with his people.
It turned out that the person who ran ashore before went to report to the official.
"Grandpa Zhong," Jingzhao Yin Hu Cong dismounted, saluted Zhong Manlang and said, "This dead tiger is evidence of a crime, and it needs to be carried to the yamen, you can't take it away." ”
Zhong Manlang was naturally disappointed when he heard this, took a sip, and turned to leave.
The ship with its dark curtain was still quietly parked there.
People have identified the tiger as having escaped from the ship. The officers and soldiers carefully opened the curtain and found that there was nothing but a large cage inside.
As expected, the person who released the tiger must have taken advantage of the chaos to leave, where would he stay stupidly inside?
Wei Lanpei had already woken up at this time, and when she saw her brother saving the day, she hugged him and cried, naturally crying with joy.
"Big sister, don't cry, we have to thank the life-saving benefactor!" Wei Laner stepped forward and said, "If it weren't for them, my brother would probably be more than lucky this time." ”
Wei Lanpei didn't know the process of his brother's rescue because he had fainted before, and when he saw that his brother was fine, he was only afraid, and he didn't think of these for a while.
Hearing what the sixth sister said, she quickly wiped away her tears and asked, "Which heroes saved Ying Jue?" Let's make sure to thank them! ”
The little prince of the Wei family was named Wei Yingjue, because the Wei family gave birth to seven daughters in a row, and they didn't even see a son.
If there is no son, it means that the title of the Wei family will not be guaranteed after the death of the old prince.
The old princess was born to a son at the age of forty-four, which meant that the Wei family's title was retained, so she was named Yingjue.
"I know that big man, it should be Zhong Ye, the super brave prince," the third lady Wei Lanzhu said: "There is no such majestic and tall person in the capital except for him." ”
Because Zhong Manlang has foreign blood, his face and figure are very different from those of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Those who do not know often think of him as a Gentile.