The story of five farmers and a tiger

A long time ago, in a remote mountain village, there lived more than a dozen families. There is not much arable land in the mountain village, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with high mountains and dense forests. Villagers make a living by farming, and sometimes they go up the mountain to cut wood and hunt to help supplement their families. One of them, Zhao Mingyong, is said to be a descendant of Zhao Zilong, with only mother and son. Zhao Yong is kind, tall and has extraordinary strength. In addition to farming, she often goes up the mountain to cut wood. Mother and son have a good life and have no worries about food and clothing.

One afternoon, as usual, farmer Zhao Yong went up the mountain with a wooden knife, a rope and a pole to cut wood. When he climbed to the depths of the jungle halfway up the mountain, he heard a whirring sound not far away. He shivered, hid in the grass, settled down a little, looked in the direction of the voice, and vaguely saw a big tiger with its neck stretched out and its mouth open, groaning from time to time, which was very painful. Zhao Yong watched for a while and slowly approached the tiger. Instead of avoiding Zhao Yong or attacking Zhao Yong, the tiger kept craning its neck and opening its mouth. Zhao Yong carefully observed the tiger's mouth and found a small horn stuck in the tiger's throat. He can't swallow or spit it out. Zhao Yong estimated that it may be that when the tiger killed and swallowed the calf, the calf's horn got stuck in its throat, so it was very painful. Zhao Yong sympathized with the tiger and felt sorry for it. He wants to help the tiger take out the horn stuck in his throat. He approached the tiger and patted it on the neck several times, hoping that the horn in the tiger's throat could be swallowed, but it was useless. He tried to risk putting his hand down the tiger's throat and taking out the horn. Since I went to save it, it won't hurt me, Zhao Yong thought. So he summoned up his courage and slowly put his hand into the tiger's throat. Strangely, the tiger is also very cooperative. He opened his mouth and did not move. It didn't take farmer Zhao Yong long to pull out the horn stuck in the tiger's throat. At this time, the tiger stopped suffering, roared a few times, knelt on the ground, nodded to the farmer a few times, circled three times again, and slowly walked into the dense forest. Zhao Yong saw the tiger go, so he cut some firewood nearby and went home slowly.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yong's mother got up and went to the vegetable field behind her house to pick some vegetables to sell. Suddenly, she found a big fat pig lying in her vegetable field. The old mother was startled and immediately went to wake her son. Zhao Yong was surprised to see the pig that died not long ago. He turned the pig over and observed it carefully, and judged that it was killed by a tiger. He asked several families in the village and said they didn't lose pigs. He thought: Maybe the tiger bit the dead pigs in other villages and dragged them into my vegetable field. So he told his mother to boil the boiling water, then pour it all over the pig, scrape the pig's hair clean with a knife, divide the pig into several pieces, leave some for himself, and sell most of them in Weizhen.

On the third day, he killed another wild boar and put it in the vegetable field behind his house. Like last time, he took the wild boar to Weizhen to sell. Next, almost every day, a bitten pig, sheep or wild boar was put in his vegetable field. He guessed: Is it because I saved the tiger and the tiger sent these pigs, sheep and wild boars to repay me? Since the second day after being rescued, tigers have been selling meat almost every day, either pork, mutton or wild boar. He used the money from selling meat to buy a lot of furniture and some new clothes for his mother. He no longer has to go up the mountain to cut wood, and the life of mother and son is getting better and better.

This kind of life lasted for some time. One night, a dozen villagers came to the next village and surrounded Zhao Yong's home. They were all very angry and said that Zhao Yong had killed their pig. A leading villager said, "After investigation, we see that you sell meat in Zhao Yong every day. How can you sell so much meat? " ? You must have stolen our pig, then slaughtered it and sold it. "

Zhao Yong said to the villagers, "I never stole your pig. Those pigs that were killed were picked up in the vegetable field behind my house, almost every day, sometimes sheep, sometimes calves or wild boars. I don't know who brought them to my vegetable field. I once saved a tiger in the mountains. Probably the tiger I saved sent it to repay me. "

One of the villagers said, "That's nonsense. Don't lie to us. Who can believe it? " We're not kids anymore. If you don't compensate us, we will send you to the government! "

Zhao Yong's mother chimed in, "That's true. The first time I saw a dead pig. I can guarantee that my son didn't steal your pig! "

Another villager said, "If the tiger gave it to you, who can testify?" ? Now ask the tiger to show us. "

At this time, the sun had set, and the villagers were emotional and said that they would arrest Zhao Yong. Zhao Yong is a little scared. He rushed out of the crowd and shouted at the mountain where the tiger was saved: "Brother Tiger, come and save me! Brother Hu, come and save me! " He shouted many times in a row.

Not long after, I saw a big tiger with a dozen tigers running towards Zhao Yong's home. When the villagers saw so many tigers, they all fled in fear and found a place to hide.

Zhao Yong knew that the leading tiger was the one he saved. He approached the tiger and said, "Brother Tiger, take all your brothers away. Don't scare the villagers, let alone hurt them, and don't send pigs in the future. " . Last time I saved you, this time you helped me out. This is a mutual gratitude. Go back to the mountains! Strange to say, the tiger nodded and led his younger brother out of Zhao Yong's home. At this time, the villagers who came to the house to make trouble had to believe that their pigs had been taken away by tigers, and they could only blame themselves for their bad luck and left the Zhao family helplessly.

Since then, Zhao Yong has no meat to sell and has lived a normal life. He still plows the land and cuts firewood up the mountain.

So do animals.