Chapter 380

Wang Dazhu, Wang An, and Wang Li's faces changed upon hearing this, and they stood up from the ground.

Only Niu Dazhuang didn't understand, squatted on the ground, turned his head back and forth, and looked at these four people very curiously.

A tiger appearing near the settlement is truly not good news.

You have to know that a tiger's appetite is quite large, and it has to eat dozens of jin of meat every day.

But the problem is, if the tiger can't catch prey, where does the meat come from?

I saw Wang Dazhu stand up and immediately ask with a grave face: "Tell me in detail, what exactly is going on?"

I saw Liu Guilan say with some panic: "I just went to the small shop, and the third son of the Zhang family, that is Zhang Aimin..."

It turned out that people in the shop were discussing that Zhang Aimin drove a sled into the mountains to chop firewood, and after entering the mountains, he tied the mule to a tree.

Zhang Aimin originally wanted to gather the chopped firewood into small piles, and wait until he had enough for a sled before driving the sled to load it, but what he didn't expect was that when Zhang Aimin came back, the mule pulling the sled was already dead.

Not only was the mule dead, but quite a lot of the meat on the mule had been eaten; if it weren't for the fact that the mule was harnessed in the sled shafts, the mule might have been dragged away.

Judging by the huge plum-blossom footprints, the mountain animal that bit the mule to death was definitely a big tiger.

And after Zhang Aimin discovered this situation, he ran home regardless of anything else.

As for the dead mule and the sled, as well as the chopped firewood, they were all left in the mountains by Zhang Aimin.

Actually, Zhang Aimin doing this is not wrong at all; what if the tiger hadn't eaten enough and came back?

Even if Zhang Aimin was seen by the tiger near the dead mule, it is estimated that Zhang Aimin wouldn't have a good ending, because the tiger would treat Zhang Aimin as someone snatching food.

Carnivorous animals in these mountains don't have any that don't protect their food, and as the king of beasts, can a tiger tolerate someone snatching food?

After listening to Liu Guilan's account, Wang Dazhu and the other two looked at each other, but the expressions on their faces became even more grave.

And Wang An and Wang Li also immediately thought of the tiger that should still be harming people over at Yushu Settlement, as Feng Chengmin had said.

If there were no accidents, this tiger and that tiger might be the same one.

Because tigers are not common, and can even be said to be very rare.

The key is that this thing's territorial awareness is quite strong.

As the saying goes, "One mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, unless one is male and one is female," but actually this is wrong.

Because whether it's a male tiger or a female tiger, after completing mating, they will still fight each other; in short, one tiger must leave.

And under normal circumstances, if a tiger appears within a range of hundreds of kilometers, a second tiger will definitely not appear.

Wang An and Wang Li thought of this and couldn't help but look at each other again; the brothers both saw what they were thinking in each other's eyes.

This damn thing, the trouble is big!

Suddenly, Liu Guilan asked anxiously: "Little An, you guys aren't going into the mountains these few days, right?"

Wang An saw his anxious mother and answered immediately:

"Not going into the mountains, I haven't planned to go into the mountains these days either."

Hearing Wang An's answer, Liu Guilan immediately relaxed, and there was no panic or anxiety.

And she muttered: "It's fine not to go into the mountains, it's fine not to go into the mountains."

Wang An saw the change in his mother's expression and immediately understood why his mother was panicked when she entered the courtyard.

Wang An continued immediately: "My old uncle-in-law talked about the big tiger a couple of days ago, but at that time, this tiger was still over at Yushu Settlement; I didn't expect it to run to our place so quickly."

Wang Dazhu sighed: "Yeah, this thing runs really fast; hurry up and go back into the deep mountains, don't harm people here."

To be honest, what Wang An is most worried about is actually his own home; now the tiger is already wandering around the settlement, and it's hard to guarantee that it won't run into the settlement when it's hungry.

And whether it's the smell of yellow sheep, the smell of sika deer, or the smell of roe deer, they all drift for several miles, and for a tiger, that's a perfect coordinate.

And the most important thing is the safety of his family.

Because Feng Chengmin said that this tiger had eaten people over at Yushu Settlement.

As long as a wild animal has eaten people, the wild animal will lose all fear of humans, and from then on, in the eyes of the wild animal, humans will also be printed on its menu.

This is the most damn thing!

After talking about the tiger, the few of them continued to butcher the fish meat with heavy hearts.

Because Wang An wasn't going into the mountains, Liu Guilan's mood had already relaxed, and after seeing the two big fish that had been butchered halfway, she gave Wang An and the other two quite a lot of praise.

I have to say, although the two big fish were not small, the meat yield was not high at all.

The 220 or 230 jin big kaluga, after removing the fish head, fish bones, and fish internal organs, only had 80-plus jin, less than 90 jin, of pure meat.

And the 60 or 70 jin Amur catfish only yielded about 25 jin of pure meat.

However, what was surprising was that the big kaluga was a female fish, and the fish roe alone yielded more than 10 jin.

Although by comparison, Niu Dazhuang contributed the least, Wang An still couldn't bring himself to argue about this with someone who had a low IQ.

So Wang An divided all the fish meat, fish bones, and fish liver of the two big fish, as well as all the small fish and the big kaluga's fish roe, into three shares.

It must be said that it wasn't particularly precise, but it was about the same.

However, the two huge fish heads were kept by Wang An himself.

Small fish heads basically don't have much meat, but for big fish heads like this, there is quite a lot of meat.

Niu Dazhuang looked at the sack containing the fish meat, excited like a child, and said directly that he would go scooping fish with Wang An tomorrow.

Wang An comforted him with a smile, then hitched the sled to help Wang Li and Niu Dazhuang send the fish meat home.

Actually, it was originally unnecessary to send it, because the whole sack of fish meat was only 100-plus jin, but Wang An really couldn't rest assured about Niu Dazhuang carrying the fish meat back by himself.

The key problem is that Niu Dazhuang's IQ is truly low enough; if he carries the fish meat to someone else's house and is fooled by them, then these fish meats are given to him in vain.

People who don't know would think that the meat was embezzled by Wang An!

Being wronged is secondary, and Wang An doesn't care, but for this kind of thing, it's mainly hard to say and hard to listen to.

Is it shameful to bully a fool?

After sending Wang Li first and then Niu Dazhuang, when Wang An arrived at Niu Dazhuang's house, Niu Dazhuang's grandfather, Old Man Niu, was weaving a basket.

Old Man Niu, who was approaching 70, was truly quite sturdy; the main thing is that he wouldn't be sturdy if he didn't have to, and having a grandson like Niu Dazhuang who had no father or mother was truly not very worry-free.

Seeing Wang An send his grandson back, Old Man Niu was quite surprised.

However, after hearing Niu Dazhuang shout "Grandpa, fish, Grandpa, fish," he suddenly understood what was going on.

This old man instantly became enthusiastic.

(End of chapter)