When Zhao Xian arrived at the mansion, he immediately tightened his chest and abdomen, lost his previous momentum on the street, respectfully led the giant tiger into the hall, untied the rope around his waist, and replied to the adults above the high hall, "Zhao Xian, the poor head of the torture room, respects the order of the adults, and now brings the man-eating tiger in the mountains outside the city five days ago, please show it." ”

Gao Hong nodded, "Zhao Chatou has worked hard and made great achievements, so he will step back first, and the government should be rewarded for his merits." ”

Zhao Chatou unloaded the errand, and the heart hanging in his heart suddenly relaxed, "My subordinates thank you!" put the rope on the ground, nodded slightly to the tiger who was still closed, turned around and left the lobby, the arrest was over, and the next case had nothing to do with him, and he was in a hurry to go home to see his wife and children.

Gao Hong looked at the tiger under the hall, squatted in front of him, one foot high, majestic, closed his eyes and said nothing, regarded everyone as nothing, and suddenly slapped the side of the case, "The tiger under the hall, you open your eyes, above the lobby, you can't be contempted!"

The startled wood slapped on the table and made a loud noise, startling everyone in the hall, and thought, this tall man, so confused, how can he talk to this tiger, can this tiger still understand human speech? I saw that the tiger heard Gao Hong's words, and instantly opened his eyes, and a pair of huge yellow eyes looked around the hall, although he did not speak, but it was threatening, and everyone was afraid to look at him, for fear that the next moment, the tiger would be wild and jump over and eat himself. When Lu Xihua saw this tiger with only spirituality, he felt in his heart, thinking of the dead yellow cat, a comrade-in-arms of fifteen years, because of his own words, he would not retreat from the battle, and his soul returned to a foreign land, and his heart was a little sad for a while.

"The tiger under the hall, this mansion is here to ask you. Did you eat a young man who went up the mountain to chop wood five days ago?" Gao Hong saw that the momentum in the hall was seized by the tiger, and immediately opened his mouth to ask questions and seize the opportunity.

The tiger lowered his head and moved slightly, and suddenly everyone in the hall was talking about the case, this tiger can speak to people, it is really peculiar. Only the old woman remembered her dead son and wept aloud.

Gao Hong's eyebrows furrowed, and he slapped the startled wood in his hand again, "Quiet! Above the public court, how can there be noise! If there is a discussant again, the officials will fork him out of the hall!" When the officials in the hall heard the words of the adults, they immediately put the water and fire sticks in their hands on the ground together, and shouted in their mouths, "No!" The sound of discussion and crying in the hall was suddenly stopped and calmed down.

Gao Hong opened his mouth and asked again, "Old woman, this mansion heard you tell you, you went to the mountains to look for a child who had not returned for a long time, and met a fierce tiger jumping out of a bamboo forest, and then found your child's bones in this bamboo forest, is there such a thing?"

The old woman wept and said, "Exactly." ”

Gao Hong shouted, "Come on, bring up the bones of the eaten people you found!"

Suddenly, a servant and a servant took out a large package from the back hall, opened it and saw that it was a gnawed human body, with some tooth marks and some residual clothes on it.

Gao Hong asked, "Old woman, take a closer look, the bones in this package are your child?"

The old woman left her seat and came to the hall, and after a while, she turned back to the tall man and said, "It is my child, and the cloth bag around his waist is sewn by my own hands, and it has my child's surname on it." ”

When Gao Hong heard this, he raised his head and looked at Qi Zuo, who immediately replied, "Lord Hui, on the belt of the corpse remains, there is indeed a hand-sewn surname, which has been confirmed, and it is the same as the surname of the old woman in the hall." ”

Gao Hong nodded, waved his hand to let the servants and servants retreat, and motioned for the old woman to sit down, and looked at the tiger in the hall with a pair of sharp eyes, "Tiger under the hall, you come forward and see, is this corpse the young man you ate five days ago?!"

When the tiger heard this, he sat upright, and suddenly frightened everyone watching the case on both sides to retreat, and the official was also weak in his legs, and the water and fire sticks in his hands were on the ground. Gao Hong was about to get angry, when he heard a sound from nowhere in the hall, and a "Lin" sounded in the air. Suddenly, the panicked crowd seemed to have received great comfort in their hearts, and immediately settled down, and their eyes looking at the tiger were no longer afraid. When Gao Hong saw this scene, he knew that there must be a master among the people present, and he used his words to stabilize the situation, and couldn't help but look at Lu Xihua, the master of the Hundred Medicine Hall, only to see Lu Xihua looking back with a smile, and he had a plan in his heart at the moment.

When the tiger heard the words, he also looked around suspiciously, but he didn't find anything, so he still raised his paws and stepped forward, came to the side of the package, lowered his head and sniffed, and then looked at Gao Hong for a moment and nodded.

When Gao Hong saw the tiger admitting, he immediately slapped his hand again, "Since you have confessed, this government is about to pronounce the sentence!"

Hearing this, the tiger bowed his head and was silent, and everyone in the hall hurriedly raised their heads and looked at the tall man to see how he punished and how the tiger in this hall executed.

Master Gao said, "Today, there is a widowed mother, Meng's son, who went into the mountains to cut wood, encountered a fierce tiger, was killed, and the widowed mother lost her son and could not live alone, so she came to complain. The tiger under the hall, who knows people and breaks bones, has confessed his guilt. This government pronounced the verdict: The tiger eats people's lives, and the crime should not be forgiven!

The tiger also has majesty, refusing to die under the pretense of human hands, slowly raised his head, looked around, Lu Xihua saw a strong reluctance in his eyes. I saw that the tiger slowly took a few steps back, lowered his head, and faced the stone steps above the lobby, and everyone suddenly understood in their hearts that this tiger wanted to die by touching the steps. This tiger can hear people's words, can know people's feelings, can understand people's opinions, it is really rare, seeing its sin to find its own guilt, the heart can not bear it, some people have turned back, can not bear to look at each other.

Seeing that the tiger was about to rush towards the stone steps and die on the spot, Lu Xihua immediately shouted, "Wait, I have something to say!" Suddenly the tiger's movements slowed down, and everyone also looked at the person who spoke.

Lu Xihua bypassed the officials, walked to the middle of the hall, looked at the tiger, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand to touch the tiger's head, and said in his mouth, "Good tiger! Good tiger!" Everyone was amazed at how bold this man was, and dared to touch the tiger's head, and the tiger made a kitten shape under his hands, which was really strange.

Gao Hong shouted, "Who is the hall, what do you have to say?!" Gao knew that the master of the Hundred Medicine Hall was a stranger, but the court law could not be ignored, so he immediately opened his mouth to scold.

Lu Xihua hugged his fist to Gao Hong, "My surname is Lu, and I am the owner of the Hundred Medicine Hall in the west of the city. As soon as Lu Xihua's voice fell, there was a lot of discussion in the hall, Baiyaotang has a good reputation in the city, it is extremely cheap to see a doctor and catch medicine, and the medicinal materials are abundant, many medicinal materials can be obtained for decades and hundreds of years, and the price is also fair, and it is praised, and the young people who are not in front of him are the masters of Baiyaotang. Many people secretly remember Lu Xihua's appearance in their hearts, and this person can be regarded as a figure in the city.

Gao Hong coughed, stopped the discussion of the people in the hall, and said, "Hall Master Lu, this mansion sentenced that tiger to death, what do you say?"

Lu Xihua glanced at the old woman who was crying on the side, and hurriedly bowed to the old woman, and said, "It is the nature of beasts that tigers eat people, and my mother-in-law please forgive me." ”

The old woman cried, "Pity my child, who was eaten like this for no reason, leaving the old man alone." Could it be that in the mouth of the owner, I deserve the life of the grass people?"

Gao Hong also said sternly, "The death of a murderer is a law that has been established since ancient times. The old woman only has such a son, but she was eaten by a tiger, how do you tell her to live?!"

Lu Xihua said with a smile, "The old woman was eaten by this tiger and could not support her old age, so wouldn't it be better to let this tiger be her son and send the old woman to the end of her dead child?

Lu Xihua asked the old woman, "Is your mother-in-law willing?" The old woman was also stunned when she heard this, looked at the tiger in the hall, and then looked at Lu Xihua who didn't know how to answer, but also stopped crying.

Gao Hong frowned and asked, "This is a tiger, how to send the old woman to the end of her life?"

Lu Xihua smiled and touched the tiger's head, "This is the overlord of the mountain, there are many birds and beasts in the mountain, but this tiger can be ordered to bring a beast every other day to the old woman, there is a butcher in this city, you can divide the beast's fur and meat and sell it, and its money is with the mother-in-law's pension, isn't it very good?"

When Gao Hong heard Lu Xihua's words, his eyes flashed, this was a good way, and he hurriedly asked the old woman, "Is my mother-in-law willing to do this?"

The old woman thought in her heart, her son was dead, and the tiger was willing to confess his guilt and seek death, but his future life was sad, so she nodded and said, "I want to listen to the adults." ”

When Lu Xihua heard this, he stepped aside with a smile and waited for Gao Hong's verdict. Sure enough, the tall man said, "Listen to the tiger in the hall! Mother-in-law is very old and has no one to support her, how can she make a living? If you are willing to resist her son and sacrifice wild beasts to her the next day, the mansion will let you go!"

When the tiger heard this, tears glistened in his eyes, and he nodded again and again, and roared in a low voice. The crowd whispered, "It promises!

Gao Hong immediately slapped the shocked wood, "Okay! Since you have promised, you will not regret it in the future, otherwise the government will not spare you! Come here! Untie the rope for it and let it go! Leave the hall!" At that moment, a servant came over to untie the rope around the tiger's neck.

The tiger was free, first bowed his head to Lu Xihua and thanked him, and then hurriedly turned around and whispered to the old woman, and everyone was speechless. Lu Xihua laughed, "He is asking the old woman to lead the way home, and after that, he will release the beast in the old woman's house." When everyone heard Lu Xihua's words, they praised one after another, "What a tiger!"

Since then, this tiger cannibalism case has spread all over the city, all saying that Gao is virtuous and can shock the tiger, and the ground is more and more peaceful, and many bandits and robbers have moved out of this state, or wash their hands and be good.

The tiger also had a letter, and sure enough, every other day he brought wild beasts from the mountains and sent them to the old woman's courtyard, and his own butcher came to receive the goods, cut the fur, sinew, bones and blood and sold them to the city, and the people in the city heard that this was the wild food sent by the magical tiger, and they paid for it, which was in short supply.

The old woman was supported by the tiger, and her life was much better than before, and sometimes the tiger would bring some money and cloth, which were all uninhabited things, and often stayed in the old woman's courtyard at night to help guard the house. The old woman carried water to buy vegetables, and the tiger followed behind with a bucket and a vegetable basket, and everyone praised the tiger for his spirituality. The old woman happily said that this tiger was better than her own son, and it was thanks to the blessing of the tall man that she could enjoy her old age.

A few years later, the old woman died, and the people used her savings to hold a funeral, build a tomb, and put incense and candles to worship. The tiger also came to the old woman's grave, roared a few times, and the cry shook the sky, and he turned away in a moment, and no one has seen the tiger since. Since then, this tiger with only love and righteousness has been called "righteous tiger", and the Zhuangzi where the old woman is located is also called the righteous tiger village.