Miaoyin lay in the tiger's den for nine days and nine nights. The tigress licked her wounds three times every day, and the little tiger brought her fresh peaches and wild fruits three times a day.
On the tenth day, she felt that the pain on her body was gone and her wounds had healed, so she got up and walked back and forth in the cave.
When Xiaohu saw her suddenly standing up, he first looked at her in surprise, then jumped up and down with joy, and then bit her trouser leg and dragged her out of the hole. Miaoyin, who had been lying there for nine days and nine nights, naturally wanted to go out and have a look, but as soon as she reached the entrance of the cave, she felt her legs were sore. The little tiger saw her sitting on the rock and rested, and looked at his big friend with some disappointment.
As if the tigress had figured out her thoughts, she quickly lay down on the ground and let them climb on her back. She happily came outside the cave and returned home after having a good time. From then on, she (they) went out early and came back late every day. Miaoyin ate wild fruits when she was hungry and drank from mountain springs when she was thirsty. In addition to playing and hunting on their own, the big and small tigers also try their best to take care of the guests.
Miaoyin plays with them every day and sleeps with them at night. Although she can neither starve nor freeze to death, this kind of life with wild beasts is not a life for human beings after all, not to mention the dignified crown prince, just ordinary people. Children may not be able to bear it. She went from being scared to getting used to it, from finding it fun to being disgusted, and even in pain.
She went from wearing silk and satin to wearing rags, and from being naked to using big branches, leaves and thatch to keep out the wind and cold.
From eating wild fruits and drinking mountain springs to eating wild birds and eggs, eating raw meat and drinking animal blood, she has experienced all the suffering in the world and experienced the harshness of the world. Although she is deaf and mute, she understands best that "there is a father and a mother." Zhongbao, what does it feel like to have no father and no mother?
Five years have passed in a blink of an eye. Over the past five years, she has been looking forward to it every day and thinking about it every night. She hopes that her father will send someone to find her and come back, and she misses the intoxicating kiss from her mother. She didn't know that they abandoned her. She always thought that her parents took her into the mountains and forests in order to have more fun.
A hope of returning to the palace, a yearning to return to her parents, tortured her all the time, and encouraged her courage to survive all the time.
However, five years have passed and she has not seen anyone except birds, animals, ants, snakes and insects.
Maybe it's because of Aiwujiwu, she has gone from missing her parents to missing seeing anyone. Even if it’s Indian heat. However, in this deep mountain and old forest, it is difficult to see even a corpse, not to mention people.
Disappointment day after day turned into disappointment month after month, year after year. As time went by, she finally despaired, so desperate that "her heart was as dry as water in a well, and it never made waves." There is a saying: there is no way out despite the mountains and rivers, and there is another village with dark flowers and bright flowers. That afternoon, when Miao Yin, who thought she had no hope of survival, lazily walked out of the tiger's den, the little tiger that had already grown into a big tiger rushed into the hole in a panic.
When Miaoyin came out of the cave, she saw only a group of people and horses chasing this way. Miaoyin was so happy that she laughed like crazy.
She smoothed off her disheveled hair and stepped forward. Miaoyin stared intently at the middle-aged man kneeling at the front, feeling that he looked very much like her father, King Miaozhuang.
Since abandoning Miaoyin, Queen Baoyin has been crying and fussing, making King Miaozhuang uneasy.
As the saying goes: Tiger poison cannot eat its seeds. King Miaozhuang also accidentally opened the Golden Mouth in anger. Queen Baoyin made a fuss, and she regretted it. She sent people into the mountain three times to look for it, but they couldn't find it.
After breakfast today, King Miaozhuang suddenly remembered that he wanted to go hunting in the countryside. Just about ten miles out of the capital, he spotted a tiger. King Miaozhuang and his party rode in pursuit. She found that the tiger was very strange. It could run away as fast as you chased it. Fast, if you run slowly, it will also run slowly. King Miaozhuang was suspicious, so he tightened the reins and stopped chasing. As soon as the "flying on the grass" stopped, the tiger stopped running.
King Miaozhuang secretly took off his arrow bow and drew it to the full moon. With a "swish" sound, he shot one out. The tiger raised its buttocks and shot it right into its anus.
The tiger endured the pain and wanted to turn back to bite the arrow. As soon as he turned back, the second arrow arrived again. Seeing that it had hit the left eye, the tiger suddenly opened its bloody mouth, and the arrow flew into the tiger's throat with a whoosh.
Just as King Miaozhuang was about to shoot the third arrow, the tiger turned around and ran away, looking back in panic.
King Miaozhuang shouted: "Chase!" and rushed forward first.
They chased him from the third day of the sun to the first day of the red sun, and then chased him into a deep mountain forest. Once they entered the forest, the tiger disappeared.
King Miaozhuang and his party searched for half an hour, but found nothing.
They were about to retrace their steps when they suddenly spotted an arrow. King Miaozhuang asked someone to pick it up and saw that it was one of the two arrows he had just shot.
They walked forward a hundred feet and found another one at the exit of the woods. The strange thing was that there was no trace of blood on the two arrows. King Miaozhuang was still wondering when he heard a roar of a tiger in the distance, like a saw-like barrel. He chased after the sound, and sure enough he found the tiger, taking three steps and turning back twice. Step by step, he entered the cave, and at the same time, a little boy of about eight or nine years old walked out of the cave.
He was unkempt, with a thatched cloak on his shoulders and an animal skin around his waist. Although he was indecently dressed, he looked very handsome.
That slender figure, those delicate eyebrows, if it weren't for the long hair and the grass-clothed animal skins, just looking at his appearance, he wouldn't look like a wild child lost in the mountains at all, but more like a Taoist boy who is pure in desire and does not eat the fireworks of the world.
King Miaozhuang felt that he had seen this child who looked like a Taoist boy somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Just when she was doubting, the child had already come to her. After looking at King Miaozhuang up and down, she knelt down with a "plop".
Only then did King Miaozhuang discover the beauty mark called "two dragons playing with pearls" between her eyebrows. She looked exactly the same as the eldest aunt Miaoqing and the second aunt Miaoyuan. King Miaozhuang was worried: "Could she be the abandoned mute prince Miaoyin? No, Miaoyin was only four years old when she was abandoned. She has no How can you survive until now with half a liter of money and no money?!" The wild boy seemed to have guessed what King Miaozhuang was thinking, and immediately screamed "Ah...ah...ah".
The "ah, ah" one after another was like a sharp arrow, shooting into the heart of King Miaozhuang. He rolled off his saddle and shouted: "Miaoyin Emperor!" Then he shot the little Taoist boy "Hold tightly in my arms.
On the night when Miaoyin was brought back to the palace, the queen specially ordered the imperial chef to cook several dishes for her son who had narrowly escaped death.
Miaoyin ate it all in three strokes. After eating, I was still swallowing, licking my lips, and sucking my fingers. It seemed that I could still eat a basketful and a meter of food.
The queen knew that her stomach was full but her eyes were not full, and her mouth was still greedy after eating enough. She did not dare to let her eat more, but secretly wiped her tears.
On the third day, which happened to be the ninth birthday of the mute prince, King Miaozhuang, driven by a sense of guilt, decided to entertain all the civil and military officials at a grand banquet.
According to the old rules: a son's birthday is a day of hardship for his mother, and a filial son should not eat or drink the whole day.
But Miaoyin, who had just returned from the wild, wolfed down three meals a day and drank tea from large ladles and large bowls. If she was allowed to go without eating or drinking for a day, not only would it be impossible, but she would also not be able to bear it. Therefore, King Miaozhuang decided to replace fasting by first worshiping his parents for their kindness in raising children and then attending a banquet together.
Not to mention how many congratulatory gifts the civil and military officials gave, nor how sumptuous the royal banquet was. But it was said that after the mute prince was led by his two sisters to his parents, he knelt down on the ground and paid homage without waiting for any sign from his sisters. The faces of King Miaozhuang and Queen turned into flowers with joy.
All the civil and military officials praised with one voice, "The prince is so smart!" Miaoqing and Miaoyuan had just helped Miaoyin up, and when King Miaozhuang was about to announce that he was seated, Miaoyin suddenly screamed, "Oh!" and hugged her tightly with both hands. Head, squatting on the ground motionless.
