In a mountain, there lived a hunter.

One evening, the hunter came down from the mountain along the mountain road, and in the distance he saw a big tiger lying beside the big tree by the roadside. The tiger had a white forehead, red mouth and white teeth, and was bigger than a calf.

No matter how bold the hunter was, he couldn't help but be afraid when he saw the king of the mountain. He only felt his legs weak, his scalp numb, and his whole body trembling. He didn't dare to let go of the gun, but he just thought about how to avoid this living ancestor and quickly detoured home.

The tiger was lying under the big tree and had already seen the hunter, staring at him with his eyes, but he did not pounce.

Seeing that the hunter did not dare to move forward, the tiger stood up, wagged its tail, and kowtowed vigorously to the hunter.

The hunter thought: Why is the tiger standing still and kowtowing to me? He thought it was strange, so he walked up to the tiger with great courage and looked down. It turned out that the tiger's front paw was bitten by the iron tooth clip, and the flesh on its legs was torn open. He tripped there and couldn't run away.

"It kowtowed to me, probably begging me to help him." The hunter thought.

Although the tiger looked fierce, he was trapped here with tears in his eyes.

The hunter looked at the tiger and did not dare to hurt him at all, let alone kill him. On the contrary, he felt that this big guy used to be king and hegemony, and his great prestige was really pitiful now.

So the hunter put down his gun, squatted down, and tried his best to open the clip for the tiger with both hands.

The tiger finally pulled out its claws, licked its wounds with its tongue, knelt on one leg, bowed to the hunter a few times, and then limped away.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed.

One night, the hunter was sleeping soundly when he heard a "plop" sound in the yard, as if something had fallen.

The hunter put on his clothes and went out to check, only to see a wild boar lying in the middle of the yard, blood dripping from his neck. He hurried forward to check, and at a glance he could see that it was bitten to death by a tiger.

The hunter thought: It must be the tiger who has returned the favor.

From then on, every now and then, the tiger would send something to the hunter, including wild boar, wild sheep, wild deer… The hunter hardly had to go out hunting, and he could still make a living.

One day, the hunter was out hunting, and as soon as he left the village, he saw a tiger squatting in the middle of the road, and a young girl carrying a burden stood in front of the tiger, crying incessantly.

The hunter saw that the tiger was the one he had saved.

The hunter immediately became furious and rushed forward, shouting at the tiger, "Beast, you want to eat people! Get out of here."

The tiger was so scared that it stood up and hid to the side. When the girl saw that someone was coming, she threw herself into the hunter's arms and cried, "Big brother, save me."

When the hunter asked, it turned out that the girl was from outside the mountain, and all her family suffered in a fire, leaving her alone and planning to go to the distant village to join her relatives. As soon as she arrived at the mountain pass, she met the livestock and circled her step by step to the village where the hunter lived.

The hunter did not know the tiger's intentions, so he took his body to protect the girl and said, "Don't be afraid, girl, I'll send you out now." Then he pulled the girl out of the village. When the tiger saw the girl about to leave, he immediately jumped out to block the road, blowing his beard and staring at the girl, just not letting her leave.

When the hunter thought about it, he understood that the tiger had given him a wife.

It turned out that the hunter was a young man without a father or mother, with a pair of hands inside and out, and there was no one to cook at home.

The hunter said, "Miss, why don't you come to my house first! This tiger knows me, and with me around, it won't eat people."

The girl had no choice but to follow the hunter and hide in his house.

The tiger stayed at the hunter's door for three days and three nights. Seeing that the girl was not leaving, she went back to the mountains with confidence. Seeing that the hunter was a hard-working and kind man, the girl fell in love with him, married him, and lived a good life ever since.

After the tiger helped the hunter get a wife, he still often sent prey to the hunter's house during the holidays. The hunter and his wife were unhappy, so they often invited the tiger to the house and invited the tiger to eat the food they cooked. The tiger and the hunter and his wife became good friends.

This winter, the weather was particularly cold and there was a lot of snow. The mountains and forests were snowy, and only the north wind was howling. The animals had nowhere to find food, and they couldn't come out of their nests.

The tiger is nocturnal and never hibernates. It has been wandering in the dense forest for five or six days, but he has not found any food. It is so hungry that its belly is stuck together. What should I do?

The tiger thought of his friend and went to the hunter's house to beg for food.

When they arrived at the hunter's house, it was already midnight. The tiger knocked on the door. The hunter woke up, put on his clothes, and saw that it was the tiger. He quickly invited her into the house. The couple did not expect the tiger to starve, thinking it was too cold, and the tiger was afraid of cold. So they added a large pile of firewood to the stove, made the stove prosperous, and asked the tiger to keep warm by the stove.

The hunter's house was very warm, and when it was warm, he felt sleepy. The hunter was so sleepy that he went to bed and fell asleep.

Seeing his friend ignore him, the tiger was so anxious that he scratched his head, but he could not speak and could only sit on the ground and wait.

The more he waited, the more the tiger's stomach growled. Seeing the couple lying on the king's bed so soundly, he couldnot bear the hunger and wanted to eat them. He knew how to satisfy his friends.

The tiger stood up and sat down, sat down and waited for breakfast.

But the night was too long, and the tiger was so hungry that he was dizzy.

This story has two endings in folk:

One is that the tiger tried its best to restrain its wildness, it did not eat the hunter, and endured hunger and left the hunter's house.

The other was Tiger Ninja, Ninja. I really couldn't help it. I jumped on the King with a roar… The ending is self-evident.