Xiao Yunying never dreamed that she would go downstairs to buy cold medicine, and a bolt of lightning would strike her into ancient times, turning her into a fat girl who was abandoned on her weddi...
Luo Xin tried to climb onto the oxcart, but her face turned red from holding her breath and she couldn't get on. She just kept kicking her short legs in the air.
Xiao Yunying sat on the oxcart and laughed loudly as she watched her.
Mu Lianrong lifted Luo Xin up by her little bottom: "You're not acting like a mother at all, just watching your own daughter make a fool of herself. Why don't you lend a hand?"
"I just think our little Xin'er is cute."
"Thank you, Grandma." Luo Xin sat obediently next to Xiao Yunying. "Mom, next time, please don't just laugh. You can help Xin'er up first, okay? Xin'er really can't climb up by herself."
Xiao Yunying laughed heartily: "Mother knows, I'll bring you up next time before you laugh."
Luo Yang said with a smile in his eyes, "I heard you killed a big tiger on the mountain?"
"I don't have that ability." Xiao Yunying lowered her voice: "I used a little trick to make the tiger jump off the cliff on its own."
Luo Chen asked, "Are you injured?"
Xiao Yunying stretched her shoulders: "I bumped my shoulder, so I should get a bruise, but it's nothing serious."
"Go to the clinic. It's time for your follow-up appointment since you've finished your medication."
Mu Lianrong, who was talking to someone, turned around and said, "Oh right, don't forget to go for your follow-up appointment when you go to the city."
Xiao Yunying said helplessly, "I know, Mother."
She drank herbal soup for half a month, and after finishing the medicine for colds, she also drank medicine to regulate her body. She was almost completely absorbed in it.
However, for the sake of my health, I can't stop taking the medicine.
Her nephews surrounded her, asking what the tiger looked like. Xiao Yunying deliberately described it in a frightening way, which made the children gasp in surprise.
Around noon, Zhang and Wang went home first. They were going to cook for the craftsmen who were building the house. After they finished cooking and delivered the food, they returned home.
The villagers who came to watch stopped eating and just waited there to see the giant tiger.
About an hour and a half later, some sharp-eyed people saw someone coming down from the western hill.
He is the village chief.
He urged them to drive the oxcart up the mountain, as the tiger was about to be pulled down.
When the large, brownish-yellow worm covered with black horizontal stripes was pulled down, curious villagers swarmed around it, marveling at its magnificence.
"So this is the giant insect."
"Goodness, it's so big, how many pounds of meat must it weigh?"
"Look at you, so clueless. The least valuable part of a tiger is its meat."
"What did you say is valuable?"
"Tiger skin, the skin is the most valuable part."
"Oh no? What should I do if the skin is broken?"
Xiao Yunying circled the tiger and looked at it. There was a large hole on the side of its abdomen, covered in blood. Someone had plugged it with leaves, and the blood had soaked the fur on its lower body.
Xiao Shanhai said, "It took some effort to descend the cliff from the side. The tiger didn't die from the fall; it was impaled in the stomach by a tree stump as thick as a forearm and bled to death. Judging from the tiger's teeth and fur, it must have been quite old. I guess it was driven here by some more powerful and stronger wild beast."
Xiao Yunying told Luo Chen to take Luo Xin away so the little girl wouldn't see such bloody things: "Dad, let's take her to the city and sell her now."
"OK."
The villagers spontaneously helped, lifting the tiger onto the oxcart together.
The old ox pulling the cart probably sensed the presence of the king of the forest, and it became restless, shaking its head and rubbing its hooves back and forth. It took a while for it to calm down.
Xiao Shanhai told Mu Lianrong and his two daughters-in-law to take the tools back, thanked the people who had helped, and drove the oxcart carrying the tiger, while Xiao Yunsong drove the cart carrying people, and they headed towards the city one after the other.
Dragging the big worm into the city, the head-turning rate was a whopping 1000%.
At the city gate, they attracted the attention of the guards. Xiao Yunying slipped them two pieces of silver, probably worth about four taels, and said some nice words. The guards didn't make things difficult for them and simply checked them before letting them into the city.
After entering the city, Xiao Shanhai got off the oxcart and walked with the ox. Xiao Yunying walked alongside him and asked, "Father, where do you usually sell wild game?"
"Should we go ask about a restaurant called Zhenxiu Pavilion?"
"Okay, let's go take a look."
Many people on the street inquired about the price of the tiger, and some well-dressed people even offered a price directly.
Xiao Yunying didn't give a definitive answer, saying she would first ask the restaurants she had been cooperating with if they wanted it, and not bring it back to sell.
Upon arriving at the back door of the restaurant, Xiao Shanhai had someone call the manager out. After hearing the price quoted, Xiao Yunying immediately had her father pull the oxcart away.
The shopkeeper tried to stop them, but Xiao Yunying and the others didn't stop for a moment. In their haste, they even said that the Xiao family would no longer accept any other wild game.
Xiao Yunbai turned around and said, "The shopkeeper is dishonest. People on the street were shouting that it was four hundred taels, but we didn't sell it. You were thinking about Zhenxiu Pavilion first. How could you have the nerve to say three hundred taels? It wasn't this price more than ten years ago. Even if you begged us to sell wild game in the future, we wouldn't come."
Walking down the street, Xiao Shanhai asked, "Girl, should we go ask at another restaurant?"
"No rush." She wanted to go to the Chen family first to ask if they wanted the tiger.
As they passed the clinic they had visited last time, Xiao Yunying said, "Dad, can you wait for me for a while? I want to go see the doctor for a follow-up appointment so I don't have to come back again."
"Did you bring any money?"
"I brought it."
"Okay, go ahead."
Xiao Yunying went into the clinic by herself, asked the apprentice, and was led to stand in line with Doctor Song.