When Zhuang Feifei saw that Luo Jingyan refused to go with her to move bricks and tiles, she used reverse psychology.
"Luo, is it because you have a grudge against me before that you don't want to help me? As the only tractor driver in our brigade, don't you know that this is settling a personal score?"
Luo Jingyan glanced at her impatiently: "Say whatever you want, I don't have time anyway, I still have to build my own house. If you have any objections, go find the brigade leader and have him remove me from my position as tractor driver."
Zhuang Feifei was just trying to scare Luo Jingyan; she knew the captain wouldn't dismiss Luo Jingyan because of her.
"Forget it, I don't need you anymore. I'll go find an oxcart."
Luo Jingyan scoffed dismissively.
Zhuang Feifei found the brigade's oxcart and had Grandpa Zhang drive it back and forth to the county three times before she finally managed to get all the bricks and tiles she needed.
After dark, Luo Jingyan planned to send Black Tiger up the mountain to find where Zhuang Feifei had hidden supplies.
"Black Tiger, I'd like you to find where Zhuang Feifei hid the supplies. Is that alright?"
"Of course I can, I want to go! I love treasure hunting the most."
Luo Jingyan considered that cats also have natural enemies, such as large birds of prey, leopard cats, pythons, and large predators like lions and tigers.
There are almost no tigers in these mountains, let alone lions, but there may be large birds of prey, leopard cats, and pythons. The black tiger's fighting ability is no different from that of an ordinary cat, so it needs to be provided with a bodyguard to ensure its safety.
The first person she thought of was Gian.
However, there is another problem. Since cats have natural enemies, no matter how powerful they are, they should instinctively be afraid of their natural enemies. Although Gian has extremely strong fighting power, it would be terrible if he could not exert his fighting power due to his fear when he saw his natural enemies.
She also needs to find out how Gian reacts to his natural enemies.
“Fat Tiger, I want you to go up the mountain with Black Tiger, but you cats do have natural enemies. If you encounter birds like harpy eagles or golden eagles, or leopard cats and pythons, these are all your cats' natural enemies. Will you be afraid? If you fight them, can you beat them?”
Fat Tiger blinked; dealing with these animals was a piece of cake for him.
“Master, don’t worry, I can handle them and won’t let them hurt Black Tiger. I have skin of copper and bones of iron, even if lions and tigers come, I can still take them down.”
"That's good. I can rest assured that you're all going together, but please be careful when you get to the mountain."
"Understood, Master."
Before long, the two cats set off together.
At night, the mountains are almost completely dark, with only occasional glimmers of light. These are natural phenomena caused by animal bones exposed to the sun, commonly known as will-o'-the-wisps.
The boundless darkness, mixed with the flickering will-o'-the-wisps, and the heavy chill of the mountain, created an exceptionally eerie and terrifying atmosphere. Humans might be frightened, but they couldn't frighten the two intelligent cats in the slightest.
Cats have amazing running and jumping abilities, and their eyes also have night vision, making it no problem for them to find their way in the dark.
Black Tiger and Fat Tiger nimbly traversed the dense forest and steep valleys and hills together. Half an hour later, they reached a cave on the edge of a steep cliff.
However, once they entered, they found that the cave was empty, clearly not their destination, so they went out to continue their search.
Less than half an hour later, they discovered another cave, which was more secluded than the previous one.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, they looked around and found that the space inside was much larger than the one they had just found. They continued to walk in and found that it branched off into several smaller caves. They searched through the smaller caves one by one, and finally found a large pile of grain, cloth and dried vegetables, as well as some money in the innermost cave.
"This must be where Zhuang Feifei hid the supplies," Fatty Tiger said.
"Let's go inside and take a closer look."
"Um."
They jumped up and down on the pile of supplies, carefully inspecting it.
Black Tiger pondered, "Grain exists in all periods, and these cloths are from this era too. The dried vegetables include wood ear fungus, silver ear fungus, dried kelp, dried shrimp, and oh wait, there's even dried sea cucumber and money. In such a steep and secluded place, it wouldn't be easy to bring in such a large quantity of supplies unless it was transported directly using a spatial technique. Putting it all together, these things should be what Zhuang Feifei hid here. Our mission is complete; let's hurry back and report to our master."
"Okay, let's go."
"Wait a minute." Black Tiger suddenly remembered something and called out to Fatty Tiger, "We seem to have forgotten something. Master said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Since Zhuang Feifei knows that her space is about to disappear, she wants to protect the supplies even if she loses the space. For the safety of the supplies, she probably wouldn't put all the supplies in one place. Let's look for other places where she might have hidden things."
"Okay, let's keep looking."
Undeterred by the hardship, the two cats continued to move nimbly and freely through the dark, dense forest.
During their journey, they encountered wild boars and wolves, but their agility allowed them to climb trees, rendering the large animals helpless. Even without climbing trees, their running ability and Fat Tiger's formidable fighting prowess meant they had no fear of wild boars and wolves.
Fat Tiger wanted to play with those big guys, but they had a mission to complete today and didn't have time to waste with those wild beasts.
When a wild boar saw their glowing cat-like eyes and pounced, Fat Tiger slapped it with his paw, sending the large boar flying more than two meters away. Fat Tiger had no intention of killing it. The boar grunted a few times on the ground, then quickly got up and ran away.
After patrolling the mountains for two hours, Black Tiger and Fat Tiger discovered five more caves.
Two of them were almost identical to the first cave they had discovered where they hid things. Apart from the difference in secrecy, both were filled with grain, cloth, and dried vegetables, plus a small amount of Da Tuan (a type of currency). These supplies were very likely also placed here by Zhuang Feifei.
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