"Yes, the old man is very healthy. He doesn't have any illness. It's just that there seems to be a gust of air stuck in his chest. Later, you just need to find a way to let him out!" The doctor said as he packed up his tools. Jiang Cheng and the others were dumbfounded. The old man had been in a coma. Why didn't he wake up if he was not ill?
Jiang Cheng also couldn't figure out the relationship between them. They thanked the doctor and left the hospital with the old man on their backs. As it was getting late, it was impossible to go back to the mountains. It was dark at night, and it was snowing heavily. If something happened on the way back, it would be troublesome. Therefore, Jiang Cheng had to take the three uncles and the old man to a hotel that looked better. They asked for three standard rooms, which cost 108 yuan each.
Except for Mu Mingcheng, when the two uncles heard that it cost 108 yuan a night, they both waved their hands and said that they couldn't stay any longer. They could just find a place to sleep for the night. How could Jiang Cheng agree? It was snowing heavily outside. It would be strange if they didn't freeze to death if they spent the night outside!
He forcefully pushed the two uncles into the guest room and put the old man in his own room. Mu Mingcheng also wanted to stay with Jiang Cheng to watch over the old man, but Jiang Cheng refused and drove him to sleep.
Only Jiang Cheng and the unconscious old man were left in the whole guest room. Jiang Cheng knew that the old man would definitely wake up tonight. Since the doctor said that the old man was not ill, it was likely that the old man was pretending. Sure enough, when Jiang Cheng turned on the air conditioner, he heard the old man calling him.
"Grandson, you finally came to see me!"
Jiang Cheng looked back and saw that the old man had indeed woken up. He was sitting on the bed and looking at him. Jiang Cheng walked to the old man and asked eagerly, "Grandpa, are you okay?"
The old man smiled slightly and said, "What can happen to me? I'm just pretending. Those bastards forced me to fight the tiger. How could I go? The tiger is the guardian of the mountains. If I kill it, the mountains will not be peaceful in the future. Demons and ghosts will come out to cause trouble!"
Jiang Cheng also smiled. In fact, the old man did not understand those big principles, but he knew that the tiger was a national protected animal. It was a member of the food chain. Some rich, heartless bastards, for their own selfish interests and hobbies, would eat tiger meat and make tiger bone wine. The tiger skin was the most valuable and loved by many people.
The old man sat on the bed and told the whole story to Jiang Cheng. Only then did Jiang Cheng know the cause and effect of the matter. A rich second generation broke a leg and would become a cripple in the future. In order to not become a cripple, his father offered a high reward for people to hunt the South China Tiger. Because the old man was famous in this generation and was a famous hunter, he was immediately targeted.
However, when the old man heard that to treat a person's leg injury, he immediately rejected such an unreasonable request. The old man did not know that the tiger was a national protected animal, but he knew that he had been friends with the tiger for many years. He had watched the tiger grow up in the back mountains.
In the early days of liberation, the old man went hunting in the mountains and saw a 1.5 meter long yellow tiger in a valley about 20 miles from home. At that time, the South China Tiger was already an adult tiger. It was being attacked by a pack of wild wolves and its leg was injured. Not far behind it, there were two tiger cubs in a tree hole. The old man could not bear to see the tiger being killed by the wolves, and even more so, he did not want to see the two tiger cubs die to the wolves.
He picked up a shotgun and chased the wolves away, saving the South China Tiger in his hands. Unfortunately, the tiger had already been bitten by the pack of wolves. In the end, it did not survive and died in front of the old man. Before it died, it looked deeply at the old man and then at the two tiger cubs hiding in the tree hole. Its meaning was self-evident.
The old man understood the Big Yellow Tiger's meaning. He dug a deep hole under the hundred-year-old banyan tree and buried the Big Yellow Tiger in it. He even set up a tombstone for it. Every year, he would enter the mountains to see if the tombstone was still there.
After the Big Yellow Tiger died, the remaining two tiger cubs were brought back to the village by the old man. The old man raised the two tiger cubs. It was during the period of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea that the old man named the female tiger Kangmei and the male named Yuanchao. From then on, the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea siblings became the old man's hunting helpers. When the tiger cubs were two years old, the old man released them back into the forest. But the next morning, the old man opened the door to find that the tiger cubs that he had chased away yesterday had returned. The two of them, one male and one female, lay at the door of the old man's house, looking after the house.
The old man could not bear to part with the two tiger cubs that he had personally raised. But raising two such large tigers at home by himself was inconceivable. In order to avoid being noticed, the old man brought the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea siblings to the forest to hunt during the day and only returned at night. A few years passed like this, and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea siblings all married with other South China Tigers in the mountains and had their own children. In the sixties, the two siblings died of old age under the big banyan tree, leaving behind four tiger cubs.
But after the reform and opening up, the people started a hobby of hunting. The tigers in the mountains behind the Mushan Group became the first choice of the hunters. Almost all of the grandchildren of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea siblings were killed by them. Only one great-grandson of Yuanchao was still alive. The old man had risked his life to save him from the hands of those goddamn hunters. The old man also gave him a name, The Fourth Prince, implying that he was the fourth generation.
The The Fourth Prince was the one that Jiang Cheng and the old man had met the last time they entered the mountains. Why did the big tiger turn a blind eye to Jiang Cheng and the others? It was because the Fourth Prince had a close relationship with the old man. However, the Fourth Prince was a very smart tiger. It had seen the cruelty of humans. Its parents had died tragically at the hands of humans, so every time it saw a living person other than the old man, the Fourth Prince would pretend to be unfamiliar with the old man.
The old man did not tell these things to Jiang Cheng and the others. After all, tigers were animals that were about to become extinct, and the Fourth Prince had an important meaning and affection for him. He was the great-grandson of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea siblings. He had risked his life to save him from the hands of the hunters. He did not want others to know that there was such a big tiger here. If it was known by some people with ulterior motives, it would not be good.
There was no impenetrable wall in the world. Finally, the news that there was a tiger in the back mountain of the Mushan Group was spread out and reached the ears of Shi Shouxin, the richest man in Shizhou. He immediately found someone to bring a message to the old man, hoping that he could help hunt the tiger.
The old man knew that these grandsons had no good intentions, so he refused their request and pretended to be ill to confuse them. In fact, every night, the old man would quietly go to the mountains to see if the Fourth Prince and his children were still there.
After the old man finished telling the story of his previous lives with the tiger, he said to Jiang Cheng earnestly, "Grandson, you have to help your grandpa. Those rich people will not give up so easily. They will definitely find hunters to go into the mountains to find the Fourth Prince. Now it's snowing so heavily that it's difficult for the Fourth Prince and his children to find food. The Fourth Prince will definitely come out to find food. We must hurry back to the mountains tomorrow."
Jiang Cheng hurriedly said, "Grandpa, don't worry. I won't let them have their way. I don't care who they are. If anyone dares to touch Fourth Sister, I'll make them suffer!"
When the old man heard the promise of his grandson, he felt much more at ease. He was almost a hundred years old and could hardly run. If he hadn't run in the deep mountains and forests all year round to train his body, he would have gone to see Marx long ago. Next year would be his 95th birthday. The old man had a hunch that it was very likely that he would not live to the day of 96. However, when he thought of the Fourth Prince and his children in the back mountain, the old man always felt a little difficult to give up. He had to make plans for the future of the Fourth Prince and his children.
The next morning, Mu Mingcheng and the other two uncles got up early in the morning and came to see my old man. When they found that the old man had woken up, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. The old man was the pillar of their Mushan Group and their spiritual pillar. If something happened to the old man, the people in the village would feel empty.
Jiang Cheng checked out of the room at the front desk. Everyone ate a few bowls of ramen in a noodle restaurant at the door and got in the car. Time was pressing. Jiang Cheng had a hunch that Shi Shouxin was likely to send people to the mountain to hunt tigers today. At this time, the heavy snow had driven many animals into their caves. Tigers liked to eat fresh meat. They usually looked for food when they were hungry. There were few overnight food. Therefore, in these two days, it was very likely that the Fourth Prince would come out to hunt. After such a heavy snow, there must be traces of tigers on the snow, which also gave those hunters a chance to find the traces of tigers.
Jiang Cheng drove into the mountain without stopping. As soon as the car arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw three high-powered off-road vehicles parked in the open space of the threshing ground. Jiang Cheng walked in and saw that it was a Cayenne, an Infiniti, and an American car that he did not know. They were all the kind with a high chassis and the wheels were also equipped with anti-skid chains.
Jiang Cheng understood at a glance that these were the cars of hunters. Sure enough, as soon as they got out of the car, someone in the village came to tell them that eight people got out of the car early in the morning. They were all holding long-barreled shotguns, with ropes and nets. When the old man heard this, he was anxious. "Grandson, hurry up, we have to hurry into the mountain to organize them!"
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