“N–Nangong An, there’s a tiger!”
The moment Yang Yunxi saw the tiger, her mind completely froze.
She was truly terrified that this massive beast would tear her apart in a single bite.
Just as Nangong An was about to draw his blade and step forward, Yang Yunxi stopped him.
“Nangong An, wait. Look at the tiger… it seems like it has just given birth to cubs. Don’t hurt it yet. Let’s see what it wants to do.”
The tiger struggled as it walked toward Yang Yunxi, rubbed its head against her leg, then opened its jaws and gently bit onto her pant leg.
Watching its actions, Yunxi guessed it wanted to lead her somewhere, so she asked, “Do you want to take me somewhere?”
The tiger seemed to understand her and nodded its head.
And so, one tiger and two people slowly made their way through the mountains together.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, they arrived at the entrance of a cave.
The cave entrance was small, just big enough for the tiger to fit through.
The tiger crawled inside, then quickly came back out, holding a small tiger cub in its mouth.
The cub still had traces of blood on its body and looked like it had been born only moments ago.
The tiger carried the cub over to Yunxi and placed it in front of her.
What happened next stunned her.
The mother tiger lowered its front legs and knelt, bowing its body before Yunxi.
From its actions, Yunxi immediately understood what the tiger wanted.
Why would it give its cub to her? Had it encountered some kind of misfortune?
Yunxi squatted down and reached out, intending to ask the tiger, only to see that its eyes were tightly shut.
She placed her hand near its nose and realized—it had already stopped breathing.
So it was entrusting its orphan.
Such great maternal love. Knowing its life was coming to an end, it still endured its suffering to find a guardian for its newborn cub. Wasn’t it afraid she might be a bad person?
Yunxi looked at the tiger cub, whose eyes hadn’t even opened yet.
It was so small, probably not even a jin in weight.
She was afraid she wouldn’t be able to raise it properly.
Yunxi took out a dark-colored towel from the supermarket shelves and wrapped the little tiger inside.
“Nangong An, let’s dig a pit and bury the mother tiger. Otherwise, it’ll be torn apart by other beasts here in the mountains.”
By the time they finished everything, the sky had already begun to darken. If they didn’t head back now, they wouldn’t be able to see the road.
So Yunxi held the tiger cub while Nangong An wrapped an arm around her waist, and the two of them sped toward the foot of the mountain.
“Feng Ying, it’s already dark. Why hasn’t the master come back yet? Nothing bad happened, right?” Wu Sheng paced back and forth in the open space, occasionally glancing toward the mountain.
“Enough with the pacing—you’re making my eyes dizzy. Think about it, with the master’s skills, who could possibly hurt him?” Feng Ying had barely finished speaking when—
“Look! The master is back!” Lei Ting shouted excitedly.
The two of them immediately looked in the direction Lei Ting was pointing.
What came into view was a man dressed in patched, tattered clothes, with an extremely ugly woman beside him.
So the master had disguised himself—no wonder Lin Hai had said he didn’t recognize the person in the portrait.
Seeing Nangong An, the three of them hurried toward him.
Nangong An saw three unfamiliar men approaching and immediately pushed Yunxi behind him.
He stared at them warily.
Just as he was about to strike, the three dropped to their knees in unison.
“Master, this subordinate failed in his duty. You were ambushed and fell off the cliff. We deserve death. Please punish us, Master!”
Nangong An looked at them strangely, ignored them completely, and walked straight past.
Yunxi, who followed behind, helped them up and whispered, “He’s lost his memory.”
The master had lost his memory—no wonder he hadn’t flown up the cliff but instead went downward. So he was accommodating that woman.
Wait—Lin Hai said the master was already married. Could that extremely ugly woman just now be the madam? But her voice sounded so sweet.
And they said her cooking was delicious!
Ah, well. As long as the master likes it, that’s fine. They couldn’t interfere anyway—and wouldn’t dare to.
“Nangong An, why are you ignoring them? From how they addressed you, they should be your people. Why are you—”
Before Yunxi could finish speaking, she slammed straight into Nangong An’s chest again.
“Hiss… woo… Why did you suddenly stop again? Is your chest made of iron? Why didn’t you warn me? Are you trying to kill me?” Yunxi said tearfully.
She had no idea what his chest was made of—it was rock hard. She really needed to stay farther away from him, or her nose would break sooner or later.
Seeing Yunxi’s watery eyes, Nangong An’s heart instantly softened.
“I don’t know them. Why should I bother with them?”
The three men who followed behind heard this clearly. Yes, this was exactly something their master would say—cold and ruthless.
Just then, Lin Hai walked over.
“Oh! You’re finally back. I thought you’d run into danger.”
“Thanks for your concern, Brother Lin. We just went up the mountain to take a look.”
After that, they all walked together toward the thatched huts.
After a simple dinner, Lin Hai said that the yellow earth, thatch, and the tools Yunxi mentioned for building houses were already prepared. Construction could begin tomorrow.
Yunxi told everyone to rest well tonight and start building the next day.
Then she carried the little tiger back to her tent.
She took out a baby bottle and milk powder from the supermarket and tried mixing some milk to see if the cub would drink it.
She really had no idea what to feed it.
She quickly prepared the milk and squeezed a little near the cub’s mouth.
As soon as the cub smelled it, it opened its mouth, latched onto the nipple, and began sucking greedily.
Thankfully, it wasn’t picky—otherwise Yunxi was afraid she might starve it to death.
In no time, the cub finished half a bottle of milk and fell into a deep sleep again.
Yunxi placed it in the corner of the tent and flashed into the supermarket space.
She remembered that the first time she put items into the supermarket, she hadn’t paid attention, and everything had automatically gone up for sale.
So she had to list the items herself before they were automatically listed. That way, the items she wanted to keep shouldn’t be put up for sale automatically, right?
The supermarket couldn’t house living creatures. Aside from a storage warehouse and a restroom, there was no spare space.
Yunxi didn’t worry about it too much and directly listed all the wild game Nangong An had hunted today: twelve pheasants and eight rabbits.
Once the items were listed, the supermarket automatically evaluated their prices—pheasants at thirty-five yuan per jin, rabbits at twenty-eight yuan per jin.
She didn’t dwell on that. Next were the mushrooms.
She kept ten of the large gray mushrooms and listed all the others.
In just a short while, the prices appeared. These wild mushrooms were actually priced at fifty yuan per jin.
She remembered that there was a type of mushroom that sold especially well in summer, called Xiazhi mushroom.
Whether used in soup or stir-fried, it was incredibly delicious—fresh, sweet, and considered a top-grade mushroom.
No, she had to go out again another day and take a look.