Chapter 87 Stirred Up a Tiger's Den
Fortunately, we had such a great harvest today, otherwise, we really wouldn't have had anything suitable to entertain these distinguished guests.
"Ah..." This time, it was Lord Su Musu's turn to let out a screeching sound like a dirt rat.
Su Mu was bored and, seeing Lin Luoxi, Xie Hanchuan, and Lin Wenqian busy together, decided to come over and chat.
Then, Lin Luoxi took out the tiger's head, skin, and meat... and screamed in shock.
They sent so many brave warriors, yet they failed to hunt a single tiger. Today, they actually saw a tiger at the Lin family's house...
If he remembered correctly, the Lin siblings and Xie Hanchuan had sold a tiger before.
Today, they brought out meat from different parts of the tiger. Could this back mountain be a tiger's den?
Or perhaps the Lin siblings and that young man surnamed Xie are the tigers' nemesis.
Otherwise, they would have sent out a large search force but failed to find the tiger, yet they happened to run into it and successfully killed it.
The constables and yamen runners who had just left heard their Lord Su's scream and rushed back into the Lin family's house in a hurry.
Having learned from their first experience, the Lin family members were not as panicked as they had been the first time, but they all stopped what they were doing and looked at Lord Su again.
“Tiger…” Su Mu noticed that everyone was looking at him, so he could only bite the bullet and point to the big tiger head next to Lin Luoxi.
"Ah!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise when they saw Lin Luoxi's slender wrist holding a huge tiger's head.
"Heavens, this, this is a tiger?" When Madam Lin saw the tiger head in Lin Luoxi's hand, she was startled, her eyes filled with disbelief.
How come there are so many tigers in the back mountain? We just killed one a few days ago, and now we've killed another one. Is this back mountain a tiger's den?
Although it only has a tiger's head, the "king" character on its head is majestic and awe-inspiring, making people tremble with fear just by looking at it.
“Mother, this is indeed a tiger.” Seeing that Lin Wangshi’s face was pale, Lin Luoxi immediately put the tiger’s head back into the basket to avoid frightening her family.
“Girl, this tiger…” Lin Dayou swallowed hard when he saw the huge tiger’s head, trying to calm himself down, and then thought about how to explain it.
"This tiger appeared when we were doing our morning exercise in the mountains this morning. It rushed out and tried to eat us, but we managed to kill it," Lin Luoxi said casually.
But those listening were terrified; if they didn't have some skill, they would probably have been devoured by this big tiger long ago.
"Luo Xi, you've really done a great thing for the people around here!" Lin Zhousheng also gleaned important information from Lin Luo Xi's words.
They went to the mountain for morning exercise and were spotted by a tiger that came out to hunt. Unfortunately, the tiger was not very lucky and was killed by Lin Luoxi and her two companions.
If it had been some other villager instead of Lin Luoxi who encountered it, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
"Uncle Village Chief, you're too kind." Lin Luoxi didn't think much of it and continued to busy herself with taking out the tiger meat.
"Second sister, you're amazing...!" Lin Wentao, who had just woken up, was seeing a real tiger for the first time. He looked at Lin Ruoxi with eyes full of admiration, showering her with compliments and clapping excitedly with both hands.
"Second sister is naturally the most powerful." Last time, Lin Luoning saw Xie Hanchuan carry a whole tiger back with her own eyes, and at that time, she already knew that Lin Luoxi was very powerful.
Seeing Lin Wentao's excited expression, Lin Luoning couldn't help but explain to him what had happened a few days ago.
Standing to the side, Lord Su couldn't help but look at Lin Luoxi with newfound respect as she remained calm despite being praised by everyone.
Standing to the side, Master Yang stroked his mustache with his thumb and forefinger, quite pleased with the calm and composed nature of Lin Luoxi, Lin Wenqian, and Xie Hanchuan.
Something flashed through his mind, and he nudged his superior with his elbow. "Sir, those three rid the people of such a scourge, didn't they...?"
Seeing his superior looking over with a bewildered expression, Master Yang quietly rubbed his fingers together.
"Hmm!" Lord Su searched his person but couldn't find any silver, which made him a little embarrassed.
Seeing that the clerk was still making a money-rubbing motion towards him, taking advantage of the fact that everyone's attention was not on him, he pulled the clerk aside, shamelessly reached out his hand, and said, "Take out the money you have on you."
"No way!" Seeing that Lord Su was about to rob him outright, Master Yang quickly covered his chest.
"It's not that I don't want to pay it back, I'm just borrowing it." He didn't know these three were so capable. He had just rewarded them for helping to eliminate bandits, and now they had killed a tiger. He didn't have that much money on him.
"Will you really pay it back?" Master Yang clutched his chest, determined to get a promise from Lord Su.
"I'll return it to you right away, okay?" Seeing how much money Master Yang loved, Lord Su was practically ready to swear an oath.
"Alright!" After receiving a promise from their superior, Master Yang finally relented.
He turned his head and rummaged through his breast pocket, finally pulling out a ten-tael silver ingot and handing it to Lord Su.
"Are you kidding me?" Master Su thought that since Master Yang treasured it so much, he must have several hundred taels of silver notes on him. But after making a series of promises, he only had ten taels of silver.
Lord Su wished he could stare a hole through the ten taels of silver in his hand; what could ten taels of silver do?
He had posted a notice for three hundred taels of silver, three hundred taels! That's a full thirty ten-ingot silver coins! He was too embarrassed to take out the one in front of him.
"No, give it back to me." When Master Yang saw that Lord Su was looking at the ten taels of silver that he had saved up for a long time with a look of disgust, he was so angry that he wanted to snatch it away.
"No, a little is better than nothing." Lord Su dodged Yang's outstretched hand, a plan flashing through his mind.
Finally, Lord Su borrowed all the money from the constables and yamen runners before he could scrape together three hundred taels.
When Lin Luoxi came in with loose silver and scattered money, she was still cutting tiger meat by the well.
"Miss Lin, Brother Lin, Brother Xie, this is your reward for killing the tiger." Lord Su handed a cloth bag to Lin Luoxi.
Adhering to the principle of "if there's money to be made, why not take it?"
Upon hearing that the gifts were for the three of them, Lin Luoxi immediately stood up, wiped the blood off her hands on her apron, and happily accepted the gifts with both hands.
"Thank you, Lord Su. You are such a thoughtful person." Lin Luoxi glanced into the bag and praised him meaningfully.
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