Chapter 230: Tiger Cub
He Xiaoting came suddenly and left in a hurry, leaving a deep memory for the people in the small fishing village, and some people still mentioned it for many years afterward.
She didn't care too much about it, carrying a big burden along the official road south, hurrying along the way, finding a place to live when it got dark, regardless of whether it was a wilderness or a wilderness.
With her strength and years of experience in fighting demon beasts and sea beasts, there are few people who can bully her.
It's a pity that I don't have a weapon to take advantage of, so I can only spend half a tael of silver to buy a kitchen knife to make do, if you run into a bad guy, it's not barehanded.
On this day, she washed up and ate a simple breakfast as usual, and seeing that the dry food was almost finished, she decided to go into the mountains to hunt, catch a few rabbits and pheasants or something, and sell them in the town in front of her, and by the way, rest in the inn for one night and take a hot bath.
It's hard to sleep in the open every day, and the skin is visibly rough, and it needs to be slowed down.
Be kind to yourself once in a while!
Thinking like this, He Xiaoting couldn't help but speed up the pace of entering the mountain, and soon walked into a wild forest that was inaccessible.
She was lucky, as soon as she entered the forest, she caught a big pheasant, so she simply found a small spring, cleaned the pheasant, and roasted it directly on the fire.
Thinking of the fact that there was no fire on the island at the beginning, and the difficulty of learning from the ancients to drill wood to make fire, I couldn't help but sigh a few times.
The decision to buy flint and steel turned out to be the right one.
After eating and drinking, he was about to continue hunting, when he suddenly heard a slight noise from behind him, as if he had stepped on a dead branch.
It is a small animal attracted by the smell of roast chicken.
She wanted to get up, but now she sat firmly by the extinguished fire and waited.
Perhaps hearing that there was no movement here, the little animal hiding in the bushes finally couldn't hold back its head, slowly approached, and immediately bared its teeth and roared a few times when it saw He Xiaoting.
He Xiaoting was stunned, and in front of her was a little doll with messy hair and animal skins around her body.
The little doll is black, skinny, and can't distinguish between men and women, crawling on all fours, roaring like a tiger, could it be that he stayed in the forest since he was a child and was raised by a tiger?
After a little thought, she squatted down and asked with a smile, "Kid, where are you from?"
"Roar~" The little doll howled angrily in response, and dug the ground with its front paws, putting on a posture of attack.
He Xiaoting sighed, okay, I'm sure it's a tiger cub.
She was ready to avoid the attack and take the opportunity to catch people, but she didn't think that the tiger cub just made a false move, turned around and ran, her small body was very flexible, and she ran a few hundred meters away in the blink of an eye.
"It can still be like this," He Xiaoting was dumbfounded, and hurriedly chased after coming back to her senses.
Now that you have met, you must take the child out of the mountains to see if you can find a reliable person to adopt.
She followed the tiger cub for most of the mountain, and almost lost it on the way, but fortunately it rained a few days ago, and there were obvious traces on the ground.
After holding a specially lit torch into the hole, He Xiaoting saw the tiger cub huddled next to the white tiger at a glance.
"Roarβ" The Great White Tiger warned in a low voice, with a faint weakness in his voice.
The tiger cub pounced directly and was about to bite when he opened his mouth, but He Xiaoting helplessly restrained it.
The white tiger struggled to get up, but the hideous wound on its abdomen was exposed.
He Xiaoting suddenly realized that she was seriously injured, no wonder she let the tiger cub go out hunting.
The weather was hot, the wound had rotted, the pain was unbearable, and I didn't have enough to eat, so I couldn't get up from lying on the ground.
No matter how fierce the tiger is, it has raised the tiger cub, He Xiaoting decided to find it something to eat, and then pick some herbs to heal it, only when the tiger is better, she can rest assured that the tiger cub will be taken away.
Just do it, He Xiaoting put the tiger cub back next to the big white tiger, and walked out of the hole briskly.
He Xiaoting took a while to find herbs that could heal her wounds, and when she was picking, she happened to meet two big and three small wild boars, and killed the largest one with a few punches.
Carrying the wild boar and carrying the herbs wrapped in large leaves back to the cave, the tiger cub's dark eyes instantly lit up.
The big white tiger lost his initial hostility, looked at He Xiaoting quietly, and saw that she cut off a pig's hind leg and threw it over, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"Eat quickly," He Xiaoting said with a smile, "Eat more to supplement nutrition and heal your injuries as soon as possible." β
She didn't rush to wash the wound of the big white tiger and apply medicine, but separated the rest of the pig's hind legs, cleaned them and smeared them with salt and honey, and took advantage of the time to pick up firewood from the salted meat.
When He Xiaoting came back with a large bundle of firewood, she saw that the tiger cub was biting the wild boar leg she had sent out, while the big white tiger was still lying in place and watching, his eyes full of love.
Tsk, it's just an animal or a human, maternal love is a nature that can't be concealed.
Forget it, roast your own meat, this is your next dry food, you have to make it carefully.
After the tiger cubs were full, the big white tiger finally moved his mouth and ate the rest of the meat cleanly.
With its size, of course, it can't eat enough meat like this, but it didn't ask for it, as the king of the forest, it was a last resort to accept human feeding, and then it was possible to let it take the initiative to beg for food.
He Xiaoting saw it clearly, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong, so she took the initiative to give another pig's front leg.
She can only help here, and the rest is to be eaten on the way to make pork jerky.
It's a pity that she doesn't have much silver on hand and can't afford to buy spices, otherwise she would definitely make them into spiced flavors.
When the big white tiger finished eating, the barbecue meat was almost roasted, and the cave was filled with the smell of meat, and the tiger cubs who were full of food were hungry, staring at the meat on the fire.
He Xiaoting cut off a piece of barbecue meat and tasted it, it tasted good, so she took the rest to tease the tiger cub, "Do you want to eat?
The doll raised by the tiger was still quite arrogant, and twisted its head with a low roar.
"Haha~" He Xiaoting laughed so hard that she removed the barbecue, pressed the fire smaller, and then went out to pick up a clean big stone slab and a palm-sized stone, and put the collected herbs on the stone slab and mashed them into mud.
After dealing with the herbs, he said to the big white tiger, "I'll treat your wounds." β
Worried that the big white tiger would not understand, he also stretched out his finger to point to its rotten wound, and then pointed to the medicinal mud.
Fortunately, the animals are not without intelligence, especially the tiger of the king of beasts, not only understood, but also moved his body to show the wound.
He Xiaoting couldn't help but sigh, the big white tiger is really human, no wonder they raise human dolls as tiger cubs.
At that moment, he had no scruples, took a bamboo tube of water to clean the wound of the tiger, and used sharp bamboo slices to cut off the carrion little by little, and applied the medicinal mud.
Its practical kitchen knife is more convenient, but she is afraid that the big white tiger will move its claws if it is frightened, so she can only use bamboo slices instead.
Alas, it's not easy to do good deeds, and you have to risk your life.
Sighing once, He Xiaoting ended the action at hand and advised, "I don't have anything to bandage you, don't move, lest the medicine mud fall off." β
The big white tiger closed his eyes and ignored people, how could it make such a low-level mistake.