My 1995 Small Farm.

Chapter 552 The Tiger Returns to the Mountain

However, I imagined a bunch of fun things before going to bed last night.

Before they could even take the two tigers out the next morning, someone came looking for them.

Two men and one woman drove up to find Chen Ling.

Unfortunately, Chen Ling had just finished milking the goats and was feeding the puppies goat milk with Afu and Ashou.

As soon as they entered the orchard, just as they were about to call for help, they were startled by two ferocious, striped tigers that suddenly leaped out.

It almost scared the soul out of me.

The woman screamed and ran away.

The man in sunglasses grabbed her and said urgently in a low voice, "Don't run. The more you run and scream when you encounter a tiger, the more dangerous it will be."

He had barely finished speaking when he saw Chen Ling holding a puppy in his hand, leading a little girl, leaning over and scolding, "You two are being disobedient, aren't you? I told you on the ship when we came back that you weren't allowed to go near other people, have you forgotten?"

Wang Zhenzhen also ran over and shouted, "Afu and Ashou, go back quickly, don't scare people."

Then, looking up, he stood between the two tigers and said to the three of them, "Don't be afraid. These two tigers are my brother-in-law's pets. They don't eat people."

As she spoke, Afu and Ashou obediently returned to Chen Ling's side, sitting like two cats beside him, gently licking one of their paws.

Wang Zhenzhen immediately chuckled proudly, "See? They're very well-behaved."

The three of them stared blankly at the scene before them.

His expression had changed from shock to astonishment; his mouth was wide open, and his eyes were wide open involuntarily, looking completely dumbfounded.

"This, this, this..."

After rambling on for so long, he still couldn't get a complete sentence out.

They were speechless, but Wang Zhenzhen was incredibly talkative.

She ran up to Chen Ling in a flash: "Brother-in-law, they've been looking for you several times. You weren't home the past few days. Dad said they're here to ask you to be on TV."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ling fed the puppies milk while looking over with an inquiring gaze.

"Yes, Mr. Chen, we were introduced by the Water Margin production team. We know you are skilled in martial arts. Our director even watched the video of you killing a wild boar while filming the tiger-fighting scene and kept praising it. If we hadn't had other scenes to film at the time, we would have come to invite you long ago."

Upon seeing Chen Ling looking over, the young man in sunglasses who was leading the group quickly took off his sunglasses and cautiously stepped forward, his eyes constantly scanning the two tigers.

I thought to myself: What kind of amazing person is this? It's one thing to make a film about Wu Song fighting a tiger, but why bring a real tiger home to raise as a pet? That's terrifying.

That's pretty scary.

Behind him were two colleagues, a man and a woman, whose legs were still spinning.

The sudden appearance of the two tigers was truly terrifying.

"Uh, you want me to act in a movie?"

Chen Ling was a little surprised; he thought they were there for an interview.

He put down the puppy in his hand and said apologetically, "Thank you for your kindness, but I haven't been able to stay outside for long periods of time in the past two years, so I definitely won't be able to take any pictures."

For short trips out of town, relatives and friends can help look after the children.

Filming a movie would take at least one or two months, how could that be possible?

Unless this year is over, and I have the leisure to take my wife and kids on a trip, or find a film crew to play a minor role or something, that would be fine.

It won't work if you just shoot it specifically.

"Mr. Chen, I forgot to introduce ourselves. We are the crew of the TV series Journey to the West, which is one of the Four Great Classical Novels. Are you really not interested?"

At this moment, the short-haired woman among the three couldn't help but speak.

"Yes, Mr. Chen, when our director first started filming Journey to the West in 1983, we conducted a nationwide casting call. As long as the image met the requirements and caught the director's eye, we didn't care whether the actor was a famous actor or an ordinary person."

The three of them earnestly offered their advice.

"Filming Journey to the West?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ling was initially quite surprised, but then, after hearing that filming had just begun in 1983, he realized: 'It's not a remake; it should be a sequel to Journey to the West.'

Sure enough, the short-haired woman said, "Yes, the 1983 version wasn't filmed completely, so we need to make a sequel. Besides the important characters like Tang Sanzang and his disciples, we need to find new actors to play many other roles."

Mr. Chen, please don't be so quick to refuse. We won't start filming until next year; right now, it's just a project initiation, and we're just looking for actors first.

The two men nodded in agreement.

Then he lowered his voice and whispered, "Actually, besides coming to see you, we have another rather difficult task on this trip: to take a picture of the turtle king here as part of the Tongtian River calamity."

It's said that this turtle king is incredibly powerful, possessing great supernatural abilities, capable of saving lives, and controlling the weather. We're a little hesitant to take pictures of him.

"...Do you think we need to talk to the county government about this? Maybe offer some incense or something?"

These words stunned Chen Ling.

This truly surprised him.

He paused for two seconds before laughing and saying, "You don't need to be so polite, just call me Fugui."

Perhaps intimidated by the two tigers, the three of them continued to use a respectful title for Chen Ling, who was younger than them.

Chen Ling felt quite uncomfortable after hearing this.

Then he said to the little girl next to him who was feeding puppies and eavesdropping, "Zhenzhen, go and get a few stools."

"Huh?... A stool? Aren't there some in the pavilion?"

Wang Zhenzhen was so engrossed in listening to these people asking Chen Ling to act in Journey to the West that she didn't want to leave.

Chen Ling turned around and tapped her on the head: "It's early in the morning, the stone benches in the pavilion are very cold, go and move some."

The little girl had no choice but to run home quickly and bring back three small stools.

After putting down the stool, she opened her eyes wide and asked, "Are you asking my brother-in-law to play Sun Wukong?"

The three of them were taken aback for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh: "Playing Sun Wukong isn't a bad idea, but what do you want your brother-in-law to play?"

“Me? People who used to come to my house would say that my brother-in-law could play Erlang Shen. My brother-in-law has dogs and eagles, and he can also hunt with a steel fork and a bow and arrow. He has everything that Erlang Shen has. I think he is good at playing Erlang Shen.”

"Haha, the little girl is so cute..."

Then they started talking about which roles the director of Journey to the West had already chosen that were suitable for Chen Ling.

One is Prince Moang of the West Sea Dragon Palace, but there has never been a suitable candidate for this position.

Secondly, the Golden-Winged Roc when it transforms into human form.

Both of them required good looks, a tall and noble figure, and strong martial arts skills. The director of Journey to the West felt that Chen Ling was a good fit.

Chen Ling shook his head upon hearing this: "No, I don't know any kung fu. You see how easy it is for me to kill wild boars; I'm just naturally strong."

If you're going to film the turtle, then film the turtle; just don't film him.

He's not one to show off.

……

Chen Ling talked with the three of them for quite a while.

Seeing that Chen Ling didn't have time to play with them, Afu and Ashou would lick the little puppies crawling on the ground from time to time, and then gulp down the fresh goat milk in the bucket.

Then, with its mouth covered in white milk stains, it licked the puppy again for a while.

She licked the puppies until they were soaking wet, covered in saliva and milk.

A tiger's tongue and mouth are indeed different from a dog mother's.

The licking made the puppies uncomfortable, and they started whimpering, all wanting to crawl away and escape from this place.

Ah Fu and Ah Shou's eyes lit up as they squatted down, playfully stretching out their paws and gently pulling back the puppies that were trying to escape.

Every now and then, it would let out a soft croak. It seemed to find these chubby little creatures quite amusing.

The sight of the large cat made several female dogs, who were too afraid to approach, tense up, fearing that their puppies might be eaten in one bite.

But they didn't dare to get close, and could only stare longingly at Chen Ling, tail held high, looking for help, whimpering and fidgeting.

It wasn't until Chen Ling said he would think about it and sent the three away that he turned around and saw the puppies' condition.

The puppies were divided into two groups by Afu and Ashou. They lay on the ground, each holding a few puppies in front of their chest with their two strong front paws, playing with their heads tilted like they were incubating chicks.

Wang Zhenzhen even helped them by placing bamboo leaves under the puppies, making them like a doghouse.

Seeing this, Chen Ling was both amused and exasperated: "Alright, stop playing around. Look how anxious the mother dogs are. If you keep playing like this, they won't let us take them out next time."

The mother dog is at the stage where she is very protective of her cubs.

Even though they played together very well last time, and even fought side by side against the jackals.

But when it comes to children, they are ruthless towards everyone except Chen Ling.

If we didn't know how powerful tigers are, any other wild animal would have been viciously attacked and killed long ago.

"Brother-in-law, shall we take Ah Fu and Ah Shou to the mountain again?"

"Go ahead, let's go and come back as soon as possible, and when we get back, we'll prepare a place for the tiger to live."

Chen Ling thought of making a 'tiger den' for the tiger, like an enlarged version of a mountain fox's burrow, which would be warm in winter and cool in summer, and wouldn't take up much space.

That would be very suitable.

"Okay, then wait for me, I'll go and call Dad back."

Wang Zhenzhen was so happy that she skipped and jumped to her house to ride her little bicycle.

I'm going to Laohewan to call Wang Cunye back to look after the house.

The old man got up early in the morning to herd the cattle.

Chen Ling let the chickens, ducks, geese and sheep out of the house, and also took two healthy baby red-crowned cranes out of the house with their cages.

Now that they've grown up, they can be released.

Otherwise, if such creatures always eat and drink alongside chickens, ducks, and geese, they will grow up without the spirit of a red-crowned crane.

It's better to stay with your biological parents.

"Choo Choo Choo."

The two little cranes were fluffy, like two grayish-brown goslings. Their wings were small and curved, and their round eyes were wide open. They took small steps and circled around in the cage.

Seeing this, Afu and Ashou licked their lips and stretched out their two big paws to scratch the cage.

Chen Ling slapped it away.

"If you get hungry for a while, I'll take you into the mountains to find something to eat. These two little things are not for you to eat."

Chen Ling patted their big heads.

I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe; raising two tigers is truly no easy feat.

It's only been three days since we picked them up from the zoo and took time to travel.

He has almost lost half of the wild boar meat he stockpiled in the cave.

The wild boar meat in the cave is from an old sow, which is inedible for humans and difficult to sell.

They just hoarded them, and when there was little prey, they would take them out to feed the dogs.

Over the past six months, the number of cases hasn't decreased much.

Unexpectedly, after bringing a tiger home, the meat was almost gone.

That's just how he is. If it were an ordinary family with average means, even if they had the ability to tame a tiger, they wouldn't dare to keep one with such an appetite.

That can really eat a person out of house and home.

However, Chen Ling had no such concerns. There were plenty of wild animals in the mountains this year, and after he finished remarking, he couldn't help but get restless.

"You two should do your best when you go into the mountains later, and try to catch more game."

This is hunting tigers! He's wanted to do it for a long time. If the Journey to the West crew hadn't contacted him, he would have already gone into the mountains.

"Brother-in-law, Brother Lynx is here."

Wang Zhenzhen pedaled her bicycle incredibly fast, leaving even the Lynx's car far behind.

Chen Ling glanced at the Lynx's car. "Where's Dad? Didn't you go to Laohewan to call him back?"

"Dad is on his way back soon. He said all the cattle in the village have come out, so we don't need to worry about our cattle."

In the blink of an eye, Wang Zhenzhen had sped up to Chen Ling, squeezed the brakes to park the car, and ran home. She knew they were going to the mountains to play and had taken her little gear.

"Wow, Fugui, you're amazing! I heard Zhenzhen say on the way that you brought the tiger back, and I thought she was just kidding me, but I didn't expect you to actually bring it back."

The lynx drove up and rolled down its window in surprise.

At this point, Chen Ling put collars and chains on Afu and Ashou, in broad daylight, so as not to frighten anyone.

"Haha, this is a long story, we'll tell you later. Now we're taking the tiger hunting in the mountains, do you want to come?"

Chen Ling smiled.

"Go for it, damn it!"

Upon hearing this, the lynx sprang up from its seat.

He led two tigers across the mountains and forests, hunting other animals.

Which man wouldn't get excited after hearing that?

Lynx excitedly pulled a gun from the car, slammed the door shut, and couldn't wait to head up the mountain.

At this moment, Wang Zhenzhen also came out wearing a straw hat and carrying a slingshot. She snatched Afu's chain from Chen Ling and was about to lead a tiger up the mountain.

Seeing this, Chen Ling just shook his head, "Tsk, you guys are really something. With the tiger around, you don't even bother to look at the little crane I'm carrying."

Then, he waved to his father-in-law, who was slowly walking towards them from a distance, and then, holding Ah Shou's hand and carrying the cage, they went up the mountain.

A tiger is a tiger after all. As soon as Afu and Ashou entered the forest, their eyes immediately became much sharper.

The childlike playfulness and liveliness were gone from his expression; instead, his gaze carried a touch of the majesty of the king of beasts.

This change made Wang Zhenzhen no longer dare to hold Afu's hand, and she returned the iron chain to Chen Ling.

The lynx couldn't help but praise, "It really is a tiger. Only when it enters the mountains can it truly show its prowess."

Chen Ling smiled silently, unchained them, and tossed them into his basket, intending to let them hunt for prey freely.

The two tigers, no longer bound by chains, moved silently up the mountain, sometimes looking up at the trees, sometimes sniffing around, without uttering a sound.

Chen Ling, along with the two adults and the small child, remained silent and followed quietly behind them.

soon.

Upon reaching the foot of a rocky outcrop, Afu and Ashou stopped simultaneously, cautiously sniffing around a circle of bushes beside the rock, showing great interest.

Chen Ling and the other two hurriedly went forward to check.

Chen Ling glanced at it and immediately recognized the prey: "It's a deer track. Judging from the direction, it's heading towards the mountain lake."

Just then, Ah Shou pulled something out of the bushes. Ah Fu tried to snatch it, but Ah Shou wouldn't give it up and turned its head away to hide to the side.

The lynx glanced at it and couldn't help but exclaim excitedly, "It's half a deer antler. There must have been a fight between the male deer. The male deer are about to join the herd. We really made the right choice to come into the mountains at this time."

Chen Ling reached out and pried the deer antlers out of Ah Shou's mouth. After confirming their location, he nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to the mountain lake and release Xiao He along the way."

(End of this chapter)