Mingyi picked up the knife and walked towards the big female cat, while Cheng Mingli went to the other side.
The male tiger was exhausted and had no strength to resist when he saw Cheng Mingli coming with a knife; he could only watch as Cheng Mingli cut its neck with a knife, bleeding profusely.
Mingyi didn't give the tigress a chance to resist, so it ended up being her. Staring at the blood spreading on the ground, it was a pity. It would be tempting to use tiger blood to make wine.
"Brother, let's drag the big cat to the pool together."
"OK."
The brother and sister cooperated and went back and forth three times before dragging the three big cats to the pool. The tiger skins were more or less damaged.
"Sister, please watch me go back and call my father and uncle over. We don't know how to skin them; there are too many big cats with three, and we can't handle them for a while without help."
"Don't call me uncle or uncle for now, just dad; let's help together and we can make it all night long." It's not that she doesn't want to share it with others, but she wants the tiger bones.
By shaving off the tiger bones, she could find a reason to take her farther away and into the space; if there were too many people, she couldn't find a reason not to tell her, and her two uncles would definitely not let her go to the woods alone.
Cheng Mingli nodded and said solemnly: "I understand. Please be aware that there may be wild animals around you. I won't take the iron pot back for now. I will cook the tiger meat later and dry it in the sun tomorrow."
"I think so too, brother, go quickly."
Mingyi walked to the iron pot, picked up the rabbit meat and placed it on the stone platform so that it could be dried in the shade at night.
However, if it was placed here, it would be destined to be seen by her father, so she and her brother could not hide the secret preparation of meat and fish.
Mingyi thought about it and couldn't think of a way, so she could only let the situation develop.
However, one of the three tiger skins was given to her grandparents, and the other two she wanted was a small one for her brother and the other for her parents.
Whether you say she is selfish or ignorant, she is beaten to death; she can give it to whomever she wants, and no one else has the right to comment.
Cheng Mingli ran quickly under the moonlight, keeping his eyes on the road under his feet to see if there was any danger; because he paid special attention to his sense of proportion, he saw snakes in several grass areas he was about to run through along the way.
Some of the snakes were coiled, some were lying down in long strips, and some were curled up on dead branches.
Returning to the waterhole in fear, Cheng Mingli visited the place where his parents lived at night. When he got into the wooden shed, there was only a faint light from the moonlight. Cheng Mingli could only judge who was the mother and who was the father based on their body shape.
He walked over to the taller man and pushed the sleeping man.
Cheng Yuanxi suddenly woke up and opened his mouth to shout. Fortunately, Cheng Mingli quickly covered Cheng Yuanxi's mouth with quick eyesight and whispered in his ear.
"Dad, it's me."
Cheng Yuanxi gave up struggling, and Cheng Mingli let go.
Cheng Yuanxi was stunned for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Ming Li, it's you! You scared your father and me to death. Where is your sister? You came here alone? What are you doing here without sleeping?"
"Dad, come out with me." Cheng Mingli stood up and walked out of the wooden shed quietly.
Cheng Yuanxi turned to look at his sleeping wife, lifted the quilt, and twisted the corner of the quilt for her before leaving.
"What's the point of calling your dad out?" Cheng Yuanxi asked angrily.
Cheng Mingli smiled under the moonlight, his thin face filled with anger that was different from the others, "Dad, let's talk about it when we go out."
Cheng Yuanxi didn't know where he was going, but he followed him out of the camp on the waterside.
"Tell me." Cheng Yuanxi looked at his son leisurely.
Cheng Mingli whispered: "My sister hit the big cat, we won't deal with it."
"What did you say?"
"Dad, dad, keep your voice down."
Cheng Yuanxi hurriedly covered his mouth and looked behind him. Seeing that no one was coming, he hurriedly pulled his son and walked out, "Take me over quickly. You two brothers are too brave. You dare to run out in the middle of the night. Don't run away if you encounter a big cat. , you still dare to fight the big cat, who gave your dog the courage?"
As a father, being punished by his children makes him angry and anxious.
"Sister is fine."
"It's okay, you're right?" Cheng Yuanxi asked sharply, his pace kept moving and even sped up.
Cheng Mingli had to trot to keep up, "It was wrong for my sister and I to go out in the middle of the night, but we also wanted to find something to eat. Recently, my sister has not been able to eat enough, and she feels hungry at night. What can we do if we don't find something to eat? ?Are you hungry? You are so hungry that you have no strength all over your body. What should you do next time you need to run for your life? "
Cheng Yuanxi fell silent and hurried on in the dark night with a gloomy face.
"Not only my sister, but also I can't have enough to eat. We are all growing up. There is only so much food at home, there is no end in sight to escape the famine, and there is no hope. Which meal has been full?"
"I'm so hungry at night that my heart burns and I can't sleep. My sister always eats only a few pieces of the game she hunts. If there's no oil or water in my belly, I'll get hungry even faster."
Cheng Yuanxi couldn't remain silent. Not only were the children hungry, adults were also hungry!
"Who isn't hungry? But there is no other way but to endure it; but why are you and your sister so brave? This is deep in the mountains and old forests."
After Cheng Mingli said this, he no longer felt guilty, "So what, if I feel hungry every day, it's better to work hard and always find something to eat; I won't be so hungry that my eyes glow green when I see everything."
Cheng Yuanxi sighed, but he didn't want to continue blaming him.
"When you are hungry, tell your father, and he will tell your grandmother; there is not much food, but there are many wild vegetables, so cook more wild vegetables."
Cheng Mingli accepted it as long as he didn't blame the siblings.
When I walked to the edge of the grass, I saw a bonfire burning on the grass in the distance; there was a big pot next to the bonfire, and next to it was his daughter!
"Yiyi."
"Dad." Mingyi looked back, got up and ran over, "Dad, you're here, my brother and I shot three big cats."
"Why are you so disobedient? Can a big cat be beaten at will?" Cheng Yuanxi looked helpless and sighed deeply, "You are becoming more courageous. You should let your mother give you a tight skin."
Mingyi looked at him dryly, as if to say, are you willing to bear it?
Cheng Mingli came behind Cheng Yuanxi. When he saw his sister like this, he shook his head and laughed, "Dad is just talking, not going to talk to mother."
"Hey, really? Brother."
"Really, dad came out to look for us when he knew we were so hungry that we couldn't bear it anymore. The more we ate the grain and wild vegetables at home, the hungrier we became. We were just growing up, so we couldn't stand it." Cheng Mingli said this to give her some advice. Wake up, stop spilling the beans.
Mingyi nodded repeatedly, "I know dad is the best. Dad, please take care of the big cat. Let's chop the meat and cook it in a pot. We will have a good meal later. The remaining big cat meat will be put here." Let it dry while drying, then dry it into dried meat and eat it on the road.”
"Well, you two stay away, don't let the blood splash on you." Cheng Yuanxi shook his head silently, took the knife handed over by his daughter, and first skinned the small tiger and removed its internal organs.
Mingyi and Mingli took over the rest of the matter, and the two brothers took turns chopping meat.
