Tiger, I rejected the iron rice bowl.

Wang Yuyu had already completely succumbed to Tang Li's "soul-stirring" brushing technique, so comfortable that her tail was limp and resting on the snow. She whimpered the whole time, and had no idea about the cat and mouse pair, Fake Old Man and Windmill.

This comfortable "snow bath + brushing" lasted for almost an hour. The sun in the west was almost sinking behind the mountain peaks, and the afterglow dyed the snow a warm orange-red. Only then did Wang Yuyu suddenly wake up from her bliss and belatedly remember her "important business".

He jerked his head up, still feeling dizzy, his amber eyes filled with confusion as he stared blankly at Tang Li beside him. His gaze clearly conveyed three questions: "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"

He stood there stunned for several seconds before the confusion in his mind gradually dissipated, his dazed eyes instantly clearing, only to be replaced by overwhelming rage.

He stared intently at Tang Li, his cheeks puffing out.

"roar!"

A deep roar rolled out from his throat, and Wang Yuyu suddenly rolled over and stood up from the snowdrift, the snow sliding down his fluffy, clean tiger fur.

He stared down at Tang Li, his face full of displeasure, growling incessantly as if accusing her: "You wicked woman! You actually used such a vicious scheme to trick me! Just to stop me from watching cartoons, right?"

"Do you know how much precious time you've wasted? Pay me back! Pay me back now!"

Tang Li was secretly overjoyed, but on her face she wore a completely bewildered expression. She blinked and said in a pitiful tone, "Iron rice bowl, what's wrong with you? I was just giving you a bath, why did you suddenly yell at me?"

She deliberately frowned, her tone becoming somewhat angry: "If you don't like taking showers, you could just tell me! Did you have to suddenly stand up and yell at me? Do you know how scared you were just now?!"

As she spoke, Tang Li stood up, one hand on her hip, the other holding an oversized soft-bristled brush. She gently tapped Wang Yuyu's tiger-like head, scolding him like a child: "Look at your temper! Can't you just behave?"

"You can't even give me a peaceful bath! If you keep acting like this, believe me, I'll never bathe you again!"

"A tiger should act like a tiger! Look at how dirty you were before, your fur was all matted, you didn't care about cleanliness at all! Only I had the patience to clean you up!"

"..."

Wang Yuyu was taken aback by Tang Li's barrage of accusations. She subconsciously lowered her head, her ears drooping slightly, revealing a somewhat guilty look.

But only two seconds later, he suddenly realized what he'd done and instantly bristled: "Holy crap! What's wrong with me being dirty?"

"I groom myself diligently every day, okay! There's no tiger in the entire tiger kingdom more handsome or cleaner than me!"

"Don't try to change the subject! You're doing this on purpose; you just don't want me to watch cartoons!"

He leaned forward, glaring menacingly at Tang Li, and growled, "How dare you use such despicable methods on such a cute and handsome tiger like me! Don't you have any conscience?"

"I'm telling you, you better not sleep too soundly tonight, or I'll get my revenge!"

Tang Li saw that Wang Yuyu was grimacing but not actually making a move, and knew that he was just bluffing and that she could no longer scare him.

She suppressed her anger, pointed to the sun that was already halfway down in the distance, and said in a calm tone, "Stop it, it's almost dark. Aren't you hungry?"

"Go and patrol your territory, and while you're at it, go hunting. Evening is when the animals in the forest are most active, so it's a great time to hunt."

Wang Yuyu turned her head in the direction Tang Li pointed, and saw that the setting sun was almost blocked by the mountains, and the sky was indeed getting darker and darker.

His stomach rumbled, a fitting reminder of his hunger.

His anger flared even more, and he glared fiercely at Tang Li: "I knew you were doing this on purpose! You deliberately stalled for time, wasting my hunting time!"

"Damn it, you just wait! Don't give me a chance, or I'll definitely teach you a lesson!"

Although he was furious, the hunger was indeed unbearable after two days and one night without food.

Wang Yuyu glared at Tang Li, then turned and ran into the depths of the forest, intending to find prey to fill his stomach.

In the forest at dusk, the small animals are busy returning to their nests or foraging for food, which is indeed the golden time for hunting, just as Tang Li said.

Tang Li watched his hurried figure, waved quickly, and shouted, "Stable job! Take your tracking ball with you! There are still poacher traps around here, be careful, don't fall into them!"

Wang Yuyu paused, glanced back at Tang Li, snorted coldly, and said impatiently, "Shut up! You jinx! Can't you say something auspicious?"

Despite his complaints, he turned around and ran towards the sunny slope where he had spent the night the previous night.

He quickly dug the shrunk-up positioning ball out of the snowdrift, put it in his mouth, glared fiercely in the direction where Tang Li was, and then turned and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.

Watching Wang Yuyu's retreating figure disappear into the distance, Tang Li couldn't hold back any longer and burst into laughter, covering her mouth: "Hahaha, what a stupid tiger! I got rid of him so easily!"

After laughing enough, Tang Li hummed a little tune and turned to walk towards the cooking area next to the camp.

She planned to lend a hand in preparing dinner so that when Niu Zhihua and the others returned from work, they could immediately have a hot meal to warm themselves up.

Wang Yu walked along the forest trail through the snow, cursing Tang Li in his mind eight hundred times over, pondering how to secretly take revenge on this "bad woman who wasted his time" that night. At the same time, he pricked up his ears, widened his eyes, and vigilantly observed the movements around him, occasionally bringing his nose close to the ground to carefully search for traces of prey.

He walked two kilometers, stumbling along the path. The sun had completely set behind the mountains in the west, leaving only a faint orange-red afterglow on the horizon, barely enough to illuminate the road ahead.

Just as darkness was about to fall completely, Wang Yuyu suddenly stopped, her amber eyes fixed on a series of marks on the snow.

They are animal footprints!

On the soft snow, there were long, slender footprints with four small holes in each.

Compared to the sika deer's wide, crescent-shaped hoof prints, these footprints are noticeably narrower and sharper, with fine lines along the edges.

He followed the footprints for several dozen meters, and the shape of the footprints changed again. The front end was round and deep, and the back end was long and shallow, like the upper half of a small exclamation mark, clearly embedded in the snow.

Wang Yu lowered her body, pressed her nose against the snow, and sniffed carefully. A familiar scent entered her nostrils.