Upon hearing this, Zheng Xianyong's face turned green.
What if the tigress can't find a male tiger and keeps howling for a month or two?
"Oh dear, what should we do? Everyone, please help us think of something."
Upon hearing this, everyone shook their heads. What a joke! That's a tiger, the king of the mountain, the mountain god. How could an ordinary person deal with it?
"Uncle Zheng, if it's not working, let's stop the work for now. The safety of the workers is the most important thing."
"Also, report this to the bureau immediately and see what their opinion is. We can't handle this." Sheng Xiping sighed and finally offered a suggestion.
"Stop work? No, we can't stop work."
This year's work was already slow, and we weren't meeting our production targets. If we stop work now, won't we be even less able to get anything done?
When Feng Baosheng heard that work was to be stopped, he immediately became furious.
"Stop working? You're going to go work then? The workers are terrified. Who would dare risk their life to go up the mountain to work? Go ask around, who dares?"
Zheng Xianyong was also unhappy. What a joke! Don't workers' lives matter?
"If you don't believe me, go outside and shout it out. See how many people outside dare to answer or come up the mountain?"
A few words were enough to shut Feng Baosheng up, making him so angry that his face turned red, but he was helpless.
Yes, those workers are just there to earn money, not to risk their lives for the forest farm. Knowing there are tigers in the mountains, who would be so brave as to go up there?
"What should we do?" Feng Baosheng was so anxious that he paced back and forth on the ground like a headless fly.
"I said, let's get the security team to come up the mountain and kill that tiger, that'll be the end of it."
If this continues, we definitely won't be able to complete this year's production plan.
Zheng Xianyong rolled his eyes. "Let's not even talk about whether killing a tiger is illegal or not. Let's just say, do those few people in the forest farm's security department have that kind of ability?"
Go up the mountain to hunt tigers? Let them go up the mountain and feed the tigers!
It wasn't that Zheng Xianyong looked down on the security personnel; it was just that maintaining order and hunting in the mountains were two different things.
Everyone has their own expertise. No matter how good the security guards are at shooting, they don't know the tricks of hunting. Going into the mountains to hunt tigers? That's just a joke.
"Don't we have some talented people in our forest farm? Sheng Xiping, aren't you famous for your hunting skills?"
"They'll give you a gun and bullets here. Take your dog, go up the mountain, and kill that tiger."
Feng Baosheng suddenly remembered that someone had mentioned to him before that Sheng Xiping was a skilled hunter, so this task would definitely fall to him.
“Secretary Feng, you don’t understand what hunting is all about.”
Regardless of whether killing a tiger is illegal or not, let's just talk about leading a dog to hunt a tiger. The dog was so scared by the tiger's scent that it urinated.
You expect a dog to do that? That's ridiculous.
Tigers are the most damn tricky creatures. Despite their formidable strength, they always resort to sneak attacks. They can just crouch down anywhere and pounce on you as soon as you get close.
I dare not use this light; I might lose my life if I'm not careful.
"Besides, the tiger only came over and roared twice; it didn't bite anyone or any livestock."
The horse was startled and ran around, breaking its leg when it hit a piece of wood; it had no direct connection to the tiger.
Even if this matter is reported to higher authorities, it's impossible for us to be allowed to hunt down tigers.
"Secretary, please don't get me into trouble. I have elderly parents to support, young children to raise, a wife and kids to raise. I don't want to do anything stupid."
Sheng Xiping shook his head vigorously, refusing immediately.
That tiger could very well be Hua Hua, whom he painstakingly raised. To kill it? What kind of international joke is that?
If that tiger really was Hua Hua, Sheng Xiping was certain that it wouldn't harm anyone or any livestock; it was probably just passing by and would probably wander off somewhere else in a few days.
"What are we going to do? There are tigers in the logging area now. Are we just going to give up this year's work?" Feng Baosheng was anxious and angry, his eyes were red.
"That's why I said to stop work first, report it to the higher-ups, and see what they think."
Sheng Xiping shrugged. Whether the production task was completed or not was irrelevant; he wasn't the one getting criticized anyway, so why should he care?
After discussing it for a long time, no one could come to a conclusion. In the end, they had no choice but to temporarily stop the work and report to the bureau and the province to follow the instructions of their superiors.
But as Sheng Xiping said, the tiger neither injured anyone nor killed any livestock, so when the matter was reported to higher authorities, they couldn't come up with a solution.
Siberian tigers are protected, and hunting them is absolutely prohibited except in extremely special circumstances. The case of Qianchuan Forest Farm is not an example of such an extremely special situation.
After the provincial government held a meeting to discuss the matter, it gave instructions that Qianchuan Forest Farm should find a way to drive away the tiger, but it was not allowed to injure or kill it.
This involved reporting to higher authorities and holding meetings to discuss the matter. By the time the provincial government issued its instructions, it had been four or five days.
Feng Baosheng had waited and waited, and this was the instruction he received. He almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
No matter how angry I get, it's no use. The higher-ups have already given instructions, so I have to follow them.
So Feng Baosheng and Zheng Xianyong called Sheng Xiping over again and asked him if there was any way to drive the tiger away so that the work team could resume normal operations.
"Boss, I'm not entirely sure about this either," Sheng Xiping said, scratching his head.
"Or, how about we try using firecrackers? Go down the mountain and get some double-bang firecrackers or something. When the work team comes into the mountains to work, we can set off a circle of firecrackers around the forest first."
Wild animals are afraid of the smell of gunpowder, so perhaps it might be useful.
If he didn't want to stop work but also couldn't hurt the tiger, then this was the only way; Sheng Xiping had no other options.
Upon hearing this, Feng Baosheng's eyes lit up. "That's right," he thought, "wild animals are afraid of the smell of gunpowder. When the cannon clangs, all kinds of wild animals will be scared away."
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