Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

After driving away the wolves, Wang Yuyu spent three whole days meticulously erasing all the markings left by the wolves in this core territory.

He left his scent along every border, tree, river, stone, and so on of his territory.

He dug deep claw marks with his claws and left urine marks next to the tree trunk, leaving no corner untouched, determined to completely mark this territory with his own mark, to tell all the animals that this is his, Wang Yuyu's, territory, and no one is allowed to covet it.

After clearing away all the markings, the air was filled with his own familiar scent. Wang Yuyu nodded in satisfaction, his amber eyes filled with pride.

He dragged his weary body to a large rock, lay down without hesitation, limbs outstretched, belly slightly bulging: "I'm exhausted! I almost couldn't pee anymore, this was torture!"

"Never mind, never mind, let's go to sleep! Sleep, sleep, and when I wake up I'll go eat!"

He muttered to himself as he twisted and turned in the snow, squeezing the snow beneath him into a warm and comfortable little nest. His fluffy tiger fur wrapped around his body, keeping out the cold from the outside.

Before long, it started snoring evenly and fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but the eastern sky gradually turned golden, the sun slowly rose, and the golden sunlight broke through the clouds, freely spreading its warmth and enthusiasm to the earth.

The snow began to melt slowly under the sunlight, and a light mist filled the air, making it fresh and moist.

A small, delicate sparrow perched on a pine branch. Its round body and greyish-white feathers framed its plump body. Tilting its tiny head, it curiously stared at Wang Yuyu, who was fast asleep on the ground. Its little eyes darted around, as if it were thinking:

"This worm is so big, it looks so plump, it'll keep me eating for a long time, how am I even going to start eating it..."

Just then, Wang Yuyu's eyes snapped open.

The sparrow was so frightened by the sudden noise that it chirped twice, flapped its wings, and hurriedly flew away without even stopping.

"Ugh!"

Wang Yu slowly stood up, stretched languidly, straightened her front paws, pushed off the ground with her hind paws, gently relaxed all her muscles, even her tail was taut, and then she flicked it lightly, letting out a satisfied growl.

"I slept so well, I feel so relaxed all over!"

After stretching his body, he lowered his head and carefully groomed his hair with his tongue.

He licks himself from his front paws to his back, then to his hind legs and tail, not missing a single stray hair. He insists on grooming himself until he is clean, shiny, and fluffy before he is satisfied. After all, he is a tiger who loves cleanliness and vanity.

Just as he was licking the short downy hair on the hind leg, a dark-colored object emerging from a melting snowdrift in the distance suddenly caught his attention.

Wang Yuyu immediately stopped licking his fur, raised his head, tilted his fluffy tiger head, and stared intently at the thing with curiosity in his amber eyes, muttering to himself, "What is this thing? It looks strange. I've never seen it before."

After watching for a while, he couldn't suppress his curiosity and slowly walked towards the snowdrift, his steps very light, afraid of disturbing the "strange thing".

He walked to the snowdrift, lowered his head, and carefully used his paws to clean away the remaining snow bit by bit.

As the snow was cleared away, the thing underneath gradually revealed itself: a small, disc-shaped "umbrella," about the size of his claw.

Wang Yuyu stretched out his claw and gently pressed it, feeling a hard texture. He then nudged it with his claw, but the "little umbrella" didn't budge.

"It's hard and unresponsive, what is this?"

He tilted his head, pondered for a while, then suddenly his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "Could it be... a wild Ganoderma lucidum?!"

He stared at the "lingzhi" mushroom, which was about the size of his own claw, his eyes filled with surprise. His mind raced instantly: "Wow, it's huge!"

"I've heard before that Ganoderma lucidum is very valuable. How much is such a big one worth?"

"If it were something better, I could probably eat like this for days!"

But then he thought about it again and was in a dilemma.

His eyes couldn't distinguish colors, and he had no idea whether the "lingzhi" under his feet was the valuable red lingzhi or just a useless woody lingzhi.

He circled the Ganoderma lucidum twice, looking at it from left to right, but the more he looked, the less certain he became.

"Oh well, never mind!"

Wang Yu shook her head helplessly, looking indifferent. "I'm a tiger now, not a human. This valuable stuff is useless to me; it can't be eaten. I might as well save my energy and go eat later!"

After figuring it out, he used his paws to dig out some more snow and reburied the Ganoderma lucidum, as if the treasure he had just discovered had never existed.

He shook off the snow, flicked his tail, and walked toward a clearing not far away.

The area was sunny and unobstructed, perfect for sunbathing. He planned to continue grooming his fur there and soak up some sun.

Before long, he had groomed himself to be clean and tidy. His fluffy tiger fur gleamed faintly in the sunlight, making the tiger look even more majestic and handsome.

After grooming his fur, his stomach started to rumble, so he turned around and walked briskly toward the place where he had hidden food the night before, his eyes full of anticipation.

Reaching a dense thicket, he stretched out his paws and dug through the snow, dragging out half a wild boar that had been hidden deep within the bushes.

This was the prey he had caught earlier; he hadn't finished eating it and hid it here to prevent other animals from stealing it.

He dragged the wild boar to a sunny open space and laid it on the snow to thaw the frozen pork.

He himself lay lazily to the side, stretched out his paws, took the small ball off his neck, and played with it, having a great time.

After playing for a while, he gradually felt sleepy again. He yawned, closed his eyes, and continued to snore.

While Wang Yuyu was sound asleep, the small ball he had placed beside him quietly extended a tiny camera, which slowly rotated, surveying the surroundings from all angles and clearly transmitting everything around it to the monitoring screen at the research base of the nature reserve.

At this moment, in the monitoring hall of the reserve's research base, a young researcher was staring at Wang Yuyu's sleeping posture on the screen and couldn't help but complain to his colleague beside him:

"I say, why are we monitoring him every day?"

"This 'iron rice bowl' job means you do nothing but eat and sleep all day long, sleeping seventeen or eighteen hours a day, more than a pig."

"If you didn't know better, you'd think he was a pig, not a tiger!"