After Xie Tietou and his son Xie Mingguang arrived at Wang's house, Liu Wan had to stir-fry yuba, braised chicken feet, salted duck, and prepared salted peanuts, and invited Xie Tietou and his son to drink.

Xie Tietou listened to Wang Jing's idea and said yes, and then added some details and decided to go hunting tigers the next day.

After talking about catching tigers for so long, if you really want to act, it is a decision in the blink of an eye.

Xie Tietou and his son drank a pot of fine rice wine, thinking that they would do something big tomorrow, so they refused to drink it anymore, saying that when the matter was done, they would drink the celebration wine.

Seeing that everyone is so confident and there are so many people helping her family, Liu Wan is deeply comforted.

The next day, Wang Xiao still calmly went to the town to finish the stall, and as before, the store was closed at noon.

Liu Wan wanted to persuade him to rest at home in the morning so that he would have energy tonight, but Wang Xiao was silent and did not agree, so he loaded the ingredients used to open the store into the ox cart in the morning, showing everything as usual.

Liu Wan could only follow him. There is no way, if you want to live, with a turnover of several taels of silver a day, it is impossible for him to give up.

This situation made Liu Wan more aware of the importance of making money.

Poor people who have no money cannot be guaranteed three meals a day, so how can they enjoy life happily?

After returning to Taoyuan Village in the afternoon, Xie Tietou and his son came to help as promised, and with them, there were seven hunters from neighboring villages.

These hunters are all Xie Tietou's peers and friends, and they often help each other and have contacts with each other.

So although this time it was a dangerous event to hunt tigers, as soon as Xie Tietou greeted him, everyone still enthusiastically came over to help.

Wang Jing went with him because he was going to the site to install the tiger trap.

Everyone put a bunch of wood on the ox cart, which was the material of the tiger trap designed by Wang Jing, and it was almost assembled on the spot.

A group of more than a dozen people went to Badu Township.

Xie Tietou was in contact with Fang Lizheng in Zhijiao Village in the countryside of Badu, and they had already been in contact about fighting tigers.

Although tigers are seen in several places in Badu Township, they are most often seen in Xiajiaojiao Village, and according to Xie Tietou's observation, during this time, tigers have been bumped into by villagers in Xiajiaojiao when they were chopping firewood or digging wild vegetables in the mountains, but everyone was lucky and was not eaten by tigers.

It is estimated that in the spring, when the beasts began to increase, and the tiger's stomach was full, there was no further cannibalism.

After Xie Tietou determined that the location of the tiger hunt was in Xiajiaojiao Village, the group went to the mountain where the tiger was suspected to be entrenched.

Although it is daytime, the tigers usually do not come out, but when they walk on the mountain, they are still trembling.

The mountains are densely forested and grassy, so it's no wonder that tigers love it.

Xie Tietou was very experienced, and after checking a place on the mountainside, he found a place and said:

"There's old and fresh feces and hair from the tiger, and it should pass by a lot, so it's a good place to put it under its cage."

When everyone heard this, their hearts were nervous, and they seemed to be close to the tiger.

"The tiger won't show up now, will it?" Wang Xiao asked worriedly and looked around.

Xie Tietou smiled and said, "It shouldn't show up during the day, let's quickly set up a trap!" ”

Wang Jing beckoned everyone to start working, in order to catch the tiger cage, Wang Jing's three apprentices also followed, everyone trembled and did things, for fear that the tiger would suddenly emerge from the forest.

There is not a single nail in the tiger cage, but Wang Jing uses a mortise and tenon structure at the joint, which is extremely strong, and the wood is very strong and strong, and the iron wood used on the mountain is not used for firewood, which is very strong and strong.

If the tiger enters this cage, it will not be able to escape.

Wang Jing took the carpenter's household goods and quickly assembled the tiger trap with his three apprentices.

An hour later, the cage was set.

The cage is very heavy, almost two meters long and three meters wide.

The cage is hidden in a pile of grass and covered with weeds, making it seem to blend in with its surroundings.

The cage door is pulled up, and the rope that hangs the cage door is located at one end in the depths of the tiger cage, and once the tiger enters the cage and steps on the rope, the cage door will fall in response to the sound, trapping the tiger in the cage.

Now the key is whether the tiger is willing to fall into this trap.

After making the tiger cage, Xie Tietou was very satisfied, he looked around, and said that there were a few tall pine trees nearby, just enough to squat on the trees and wait for the tigers.

Once the tiger is in the cage, they can go down the tree to perform the next move.

The so-called next step is to use grass and thorns to directly subdue the tiger if there is a danger of being knocked open.

This night happened to be the eighth day of the first lunar month, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and it was a lurking good weather.

Wang Xiao bought three chickens and a rabbit in Xiajiaojiao Village, killed them, and put them in a tiger hunting cage as bait.

Chicken blood was also collected for another purpose.

As night fell, except for the three of Wang Jing's apprentices who went home, the rest of the hunters and Wang Xiao's brothers squatted on the pine trees, waiting for the tiger to appear.

Wang Xiao distributed the meatloaf made by Liu Wan to everyone to eat, and everyone ate the meatloaf with the cold water in the pot, cheering up their spirits and looking forward to ambushing the tiger.

In the middle of the night, Wang Jing was a little sleepy, but he didn't dare to be sloppy, so he pinched his thighs with his fingers from time to time, and woke up in pain.

Just when he was sleepy and dazed, Xie Tietou on the side suddenly stabbed him and whispered in his ear:

"Wang Jing, you see there are two lanterns on the other side."

Wang Jing was thrilled when he heard this, and when he looked up, sure enough, there were really two snow-bright lanterns in the dense forest opposite, flickering in the bushes.

Wang Jing was startled, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

In the middle of the night, where do the lanterns come from in the deep mountains and old forests?

Could it be a ghost?

Xie Tietou laughed and said, "That's the tiger's eyes!" ”

"Oh my God, tiger's eyes are so big?"

Wang Jing was frightened.

"Alright, it's time to start your plans." Xie Tietou reminded.

Wang Jing hurriedly twisted the wooden bird filled with chicken blood and released it.

The woodbird has already poked a hole in its belly, and sprinkled chicken blood as it flies.

The strong smell of chicken blood immediately attracted the attention of the tiger......

Standing on the tall camphor tree, Wang Jing could see the eyes like small lanterns flickering in the dense forest from time to time, and he could imagine that the big tiger was rushing towards him with the smell of blood.

Wang Jing's wooden bird gave full play to the role of luring the tiger to come, and after the blood of one bird was released, Wang Jing released another bird.

The second bird succeeded in leading the tiger to the cage.

The tiger trap cage is camouflaged, covered with dense grass, blending in with the environment, and the cage mouth is like an ordinary cave.

But the smell of rabbits and chickens in the cage made the tiger smell its prey, which made it feel a little excited.

Chased and killed all year round, the tiger's vigilance is extremely high, so it stops five meters in front of the cage door, lingering and refusing to enter.

It seems that this tiger is very alert, otherwise it would not have survived until now.

Seeing that in front of the tiger cage, he just didn't go in, Wang Xiao looked anxiously on another tree.

If you let the tiger run away this time, you will have to lure it out again next time, I don't know when.