The tiger was strong and had sharp claws; it tore the bed sheet into shreds in no time.
Xiao Yunying even had to use her teeth to prevent the tiger from tearing off the bed sheet. She quickly grabbed a summer blanket from the supermarket and, with a mix of pulling and biting, covered the tiger's head with it.
Without wasting any time, as the tiger shook its head and swung the object on its head, she identified the direction, took a pair of scissors from the supermarket, and stabbed the tiger in the buttocks.
The tiger raised its head, let out a roar, and charged forward.
After running a distance, it stopped and started raising its paws to grab the summer blanket.
Xiao Yunying bit down hard on the summer blanket, and before the tiger could grab her, she pulled out the scissors and stabbed it again. This time the stab was deep, and the tiger lost its mind in pain, charging straight off the cliff.
Just as the tiger leaped off the cliff, Xiao Yunying gripped the bed sheet and summer blanket tightly, pulled out the scissors, and went into the supermarket.
After sitting on the ground for a while, Xiao Yunying wiped the bloodstains on her sleeves and hands with a bed sheet, left the supermarket, and peered down from the cliff.
The cliff, which was only a dozen meters high, wasn't particularly high; you could see the bottom of it. She saw the tiger lying motionless on its side on the ground.
She has myopia of about 100 degrees, so she can't see clearly if she looks closely.
Did he die from the fall?
She wasn't sure.
Tigers have thick skin, tough flesh, and hard bones; it's hard to say what might happen on a cliff several meters high.
Xiao Yunying waited for a while at the edge of the cliff: "He must be seriously injured if not dead, otherwise he would have gotten up and run away long ago."
She rubbed her aching jaw, thankfully it wasn't a denture, otherwise it would have been pulled off.
"Big insects can be sold for silver here, so we can't waste them."
Thinking of this, Xiao Yunying lost her previous fear and started running down the mountain.
She has to hurry, lest someone discover her and the smell of blood attracts other predators.
What should have been an hour's journey through the mountains was covered in half an hour for Xiao Yunying: "Mother, hurry up, go and call Father and Brother back."
Zhang was hanging clothes to dry in the yard when she exclaimed, "Oh dear, Yunying, why are you bleeding?"
“It’s not my blood.” Xiao Yunying, panting heavily, propped herself up on her legs: “Sister-in-law, go and call Father and Brother back quickly.”
Seeing her anxious, Zhang became anxious herself: "Alright, alright, I'll go call her right away."
Xiao Shanhai and his two sons were helping Xiao Yunying build a house. It wasn't far, and they returned shortly afterward.
Xiao Yunying had already gone back to her room to change out of her blood-stained clothes. She was washing her face in the courtyard and tying her hair back up. Mu Lianrong was beside her, asking her what had happened.
The first thing Xiao Shan Hai said when he entered the door was, "Daughter, your sister-in-law said you came back covered in blood. What happened? Where are you hurt?"
Xiao Yunying explained, "I'm not covered in blood, just some on my sleeves. I'm fine. Dad, eldest brother, second brother, I saw a big tiger on the mountain. It should be dead, or half dead. Let's hurry back and sell it."
Mu Lianrong had just checked her daughter and found no wounds, but her heart, which had just been at ease, started to pound again: "A tiger? How did you encounter a tiger? How deep into the forest did you go?"
"It's not far, Mother. I'm perfectly fine, so don't worry."
Xiao Shan Hai looked his daughter over. Her complexion was normal and her movements were natural, so she shouldn't have been injured. "Where did you find the big bug?"
"I was picking chestnuts on the edge of a cliff on the west mountain when a big tiger came over. I ran towards the edge of the cliff, and it pounced on me. I rolled to the side and it fell off the cliff by itself."
Xiao Shanhai often went into the mountains when he was young, so he was quite familiar with the surrounding environment and could roughly guess where the nearest cliff to the village was on the west mountain.
Xiao Yunying tried to simplify the encounter with the giant insect, but Mu Lianrong was still terrified: "You brat, you're not allowed to go to West Mountain anymore, you hear me?"
"Mom, wait until I get back before you scold me. Dad, let's go and bring the worm back first, so it doesn't get eaten by other animals."
"How big is the worm?"
"He's quite old, probably weighs four or five hundred pounds."
Xiao Shanhai had a plan in mind: "Four or five hundred catties, still at the bottom of the cliff, the three of us can't bring it back. Eldest son, go and ask your second uncle's brothers to come and help. Second son, go and ask your cousin's brothers to come and help."
The two brothers went out to ask for help, while Xiao Shanhai went to the storage room to find a bow and arrow, a dagger, several bundles of hemp rope, and several wooden planks with wheels, among other tools.
Upon hearing that there was a large tiger, not only did the young people from both families come, but even Xiao Shanhai's younger brother and the village chief wanted to go up the mountain with them.
Xiao Shanhai instructed Mu Lianrong to pull the oxcart to the foot of West Mountain and wait, intending to bring the tiger down the mountain and sell it directly in the city.
Xiao Yunying said, "Mother, borrow another oxcart, I want to go too."
Mu Lianrong was still angry about her daughter going into the deep mountains, and said irritably, "I know, go quickly."
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