The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1896 Li Dayong: My Big Brother Shot a Tiger?

Just as Zhao Youcai was hoping that the mother of the little Siberian tiger would also end up in the Yong'an forest area, Ma Yang was chatting and bragging with Li Ruhai.

"My brother-in-law told me that the big claw had followed us, and without saying a word, I pulled out my gun!" Ma Yang said to Li Ruhai, spitting as he spoke. "When it was about to come over, I fired two shots!"

Upon hearing Ma Yang's words, Li Ruhai simply smiled and remained silent.

"Then that big claw disappeared in the blink of an eye. My brother-in-law and the other two didn't see it clearly, only I saw it." Ma Yang pursed his lips when he said the last three words, as if he was very proud.

Upon hearing this, Li Ruhai simply smiled and remained silent.

At this moment, Ma Yang glanced at Li Ruhai and then laughed, "I say, this is only me. If it were you, you would have peed your pants in fear."

"Haha..." This time, Li Ruhai burst out laughing, but he still didn't say anything.

Let Ma Yang show off. This morning, Li Ruhai got up very early and left home at around four o'clock. When he passed by the Ma family's courtyard, Li Ruhai threw a triangular belt onto the pile of firewood that the Ma family had piled up outside the tent.

Li Ruhai believed that with the accusation he had made the day before yesterday, Ma Dafu would treasure the triangular belt.

……

Zhao Jun and his group managed to drag the Siberian tiger down the mountain, where Jie Chen and Black Tiger had been waiting for a long time.

Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, and Xie Chen were messing with the Siberian tiger on the back of the truck, and the black tiger was roaring from there.

Once the Siberian tiger was on the back of the truck, the black tiger pounced and bit, and Zhao Jun managed to get it to let go with great difficulty.

Zhao Jun told Li Baoyu to go back and fetch the people, while he personally went to the back of the truck to keep an eye on Black Tiger. This dog was too greedy; if he didn't watch it, Black Tiger could easily tear flesh off the Siberian tiger and eat it.

Especially since the tiger had injuries on its shoulder blades and hindquarters, the black tiger's teeth could easily rip out its internal organs.

After the tiger dies, it no longer belongs to any person. If it was bitten by a black tiger, Zhao Jun at the Forestry Bureau wouldn't be able to explain it. He can't just say that some strange beast that eats tigers appeared in Yong'an, can he?

After Li Baoyu helped Wang Qiang and the other three get off, the two cars headed to Yong'an Forest Farm.

When they arrived at the forest farm, it was already past eleven o'clock. The two cars stopped in front of the office building. Zhao Jun asked Li Baoyu and the others to keep watch outside, while he went upstairs to find Liu Jinyong in the security team.

Today Liu Jinyong is off duty, and with Zhao Junyi here, he is the highest-ranking member of the security team.

So Zhao Jun went up to the third floor to report to Yan Shugang.

When Yan Shugang saw Zhao Jun, he thought Zhao Jun had come to ask for help, but Zhao Jun immediately said that he had killed a Siberian tiger.

"They killed it so quickly?" Yan Shugang was surprised by how fast it happened. The Siberian tiger that was discovered the day before yesterday was killed today. The tiger-taming general of Yong'an is too powerful.

After the initial surprise came a pleasant one, since he was now the head of the security team for the Yong'an Forest Area. If anything were to happen, Yan Shugang would be held fully responsible.

Yan Shugang got up and walked out of the office. He took Zhao Jun to find Zhou Chunming.

These past two days, Zhou Chunming had been worried about Hu and Zhao Jun. Upon hearing that Hu had been killed by Zhao Jun, Zhou Chunming hurriedly followed Zhao Jun and Yan Shugang downstairs.

At this time, the area around the rear of the Jiefang truck downstairs was already surrounded by security guards.

The commotion among the security guards reached upstairs, and employees in various offices peeked out of their windows, spreading the news instantly.

During working hours, it's not possible to openly go down to watch the commotion, so you can see several heads sticking out of the windows of every office on the front of the office building.

"Secretary Zhou is here!" At this moment, a voice rang out among the security guards. As the guards made way for the leader, someone teased Zhao Jun, "Team Leader Zhao, your dog is too possessive of its food!"

It's unclear who said it, but as soon as they finished speaking, bursts of laughter erupted from the crowd.

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was still a little confused, but when he got closer, he saw Black Tiger lying next to the Siberian tiger carcass.

At this moment, the dog was baring its teeth and growling defiantly at the people around it. After growling for two or three seconds, the black tiger suddenly turned its head and bit down on the Siberian tiger, as if to say that the tiger was itss!
When Zhao Jun left, he specifically instructed Li Baoyu and Xie Chen to keep an eye on Black Tiger in the car. Whenever Black Tiger bit the Siberian tiger, Li Baoyu and Xie Chen would pry it away.

The black tiger, which had been pulled away by the two men, turned around and hissed at the onlookers below the car. After hissing twice, it turned back to bite the tiger again... This repeated itself, causing everyone to burst into laughter.

Many of the guards in the security team had accompanied Zhao Jun in capturing One-Eared Tiger before, and they weren't particularly interested in a dead tiger. Seeing Black Tiger like this now, they all found this guard dog much more interesting.

“Secretary Zhou, Director Yan, look.” Zhao Jun pointed to the wound on the Siberian tiger’s rump and said to the leaders, “This wound has been infested with green flies and won’t heal at all. It’s so rotten that it can barely walk.”

“Hmm!” Zhou Chunming nodded, pointed to the Siberian tiger carcass in the car, and said to Yan Shugang, “Look, that tiger’s belly is all sunken; it’s because it didn’t eat anything.”

“Yeah, that’s right,” Yan Shugang said. “If this tiger doesn’t get anything to eat for another day or two, it’ll start looking for people.”

No one can say for sure what will happen before it happens. But the Yong'an forest area was badly affected by the Siberian tigers last year, and the forestry bureau has been quite worried about it.

So when Zhou Chunming heard the day before yesterday that a Siberian tiger was wandering around the logging area, he immediately asked Li Ruhai to tell Zhao Jun that he was allowed to shoot and hunt the tiger.

After Zhou Chunming reported to the bureau, Chu Anmin approved it without hesitation.

Seeing the Siberian tiger's carcass, Zhou Chunming felt relieved. He took Zhao Jun and Yan Shugang back upstairs to call Chu Anmin to report the good news and to recommend Zhao Jun and the forest protection team for commendation.

Zhou Chunming walked into the office excitedly and picked up the phone. But before he could dial, Zhao Jun stopped him.

"Secretary Zhou," Zhao Jun said to Zhou Chunming, "could you talk to Director Chu and ask him to leave that tiger in our forest area?"

"Huh?" Zhou Chunming was taken aback upon hearing this, and frowned as he asked, "Why keep it?"

“Let’s keep it as a specimen and put it in our office building. Then it will become a scenic spot in our forest area!” Zhao Jun said. “No matter who comes, they will have to take a look at it.”

While on the mountain, seeing Li Baoyu and the others taking pictures around the Siberian tiger, Zhao Jun suddenly had this idea.

Zhao Jun had previously considered transforming his hometown into a tourist area like Xuexiang.

If we could just display a whole Siberian tiger specimen, we wouldn't even need a spokesperson.

Zhou Chunming was unaware of Zhao Jun's ulterior motives, but he felt that Zhao Jun's suggestion was feasible.

And so, Zhou Chunming got his way into Chu Anmin's office at the Forestry Bureau with just one phone call.

Upon hearing Zhou Chunming's report that the Siberian tiger had been killed by Zhao Jun, Chu Anmin on the other end of the phone was overjoyed and said, "Great, it's so reassuring to kill it. You have to be Zhao Jun; no one else could do this job."

"Alright, I'll call Sen Tie right now and have him send Mosga over. Then have them bring Hu over too, otherwise this weather will get stale if it stays like this for too long."

"Director Chu," Zhou Chunming said hurriedly upon hearing Chu Anmin's words, "I'd like to ask you for permission. This tiger weighs about 200 jin and isn't very big. Why don't you let us keep it?"

"What did you say?" Chu Anmin's voice changed on the other end of the phone. He loudly asked Zhou Chunming, "You can't just stay here, no matter what! What are you trying to do?"

"No, Director Chu," Zhou Chunming said. "We wanted to keep it to make it into an ornamental specimen, and then send the bones and stuff to the bureau. We don't want them."

The specimens are divided into ornamental specimens and skeletal specimens. Zhao Jun wanted ornamental specimens, mainly to preserve the fur and keratinous structure to restore the shape, without needing a complete skeleton.

"Specimen?" Chu Anmin on the other end of the phone didn't understand Zhou Chunming's meaning and asked, "What specimen?"

“Director Chu, this is Zhao Jun’s suggestion.” Zhou Chunming knew that Chu Anmin admired Zhao Jun, so he deliberately brought up Zhao Jun, saying, “He suggested making this tiger into a specimen and putting it in the lobby on the first floor of our office building. In the future, when people come to inspect or learn, they will see that our forest area has some prestige.”

When Zhou Chunming said this to Chu Anmin, he felt very pleased, thinking that this matter was really good and feasible.

To Zhou Chunming's surprise, as soon as he finished speaking, Chu Anmin's tone immediately changed: "Specimens? Look at what you've got! Your forest farm wants to keep Siberian tiger specimens? My forestry bureau is so big, shouldn't we open a museum?"

Zhou Chunming was taken aback, then quickly smiled ingratiatingly and said, "Director Chu, if you want to open a museum, I'll have Zhao Jun hunt some wild boars and bears over there, okay?"

“We have all of those, no…” Chu Anmin seemed to have said something wrong, and he quickly corrected himself, “That’s none of your business, alright, let’s leave it at that. Sen Tie will be there this afternoon, and after that, quickly bring that tiger to the station for me.”

After saying that, Chu Anmin hung up the phone. Zhou Chunming, holding the receiver, smiled bitterly at Zhao Jun and Yan Shugang and said, "It's over, he's taken a liking to you."

"Hahaha..." The three of them burst into laughter.

As the laughter subsided, Yan Shugang said to Zhou Chunming, "Secretary Zhou, if we can't display a tiger, can't we at least display a big bear?"

"Tsk!" Zhou Chunming slammed his hand on the table in frustration upon hearing this, then looked at Zhao Jun and said, "If only we hadn't sent those big black bear and big bear to the museum last year, we could have just put them on our first floor!"

After saying this, Zhou Chunming raised his chin and pointed at Zhao Jun, asking, "Can you still hit something that big?"

Zhao Jun pursed his lips, shook his head, and laughed, "It's unlikely; there are too few bears that big."

"Damn it, what a waste!" Judging from Zhou Chunming's expression, he was truly regretful.

"Hey? Secretary Zhou." At this moment, Yan Shugang suggested again, "If we can't get a tiger, how about we get a leopard or a lynx?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chunming looked at Zhao Jun, who thought to himself, "The lynx is alright, but the leopard is no good. If we could make a leopard, we could sit back and make a fortune; it could sell for tens of thousands."

But this couldn't be said to outsiders. Zhao Jun smiled at Zhou Chunming and said, "Let's wait and see what kind of roadblocks we can find when it snows this year. We'll keep them for ourselves."

“Okay!” Zhou Chunming nodded emphatically in agreement.

The tiger couldn't be kept alive, so Zhou Chunming told Yan Shugang to go downstairs and deal with it with Zhao Jun.

Yan Shugang ordered the guards to find clean large burlap sacks. They put one over the tiger's head and another over its tail, tying the overlapping parts together to wrap the Siberian tiger, which was about 1.7 meters long, inside the burlap sacks.

Chu Anmin's decision to temporarily send Sentemosga was perfectly reasonable, given his authority. And these days, whatever runs on a train line has to be managed and dispatched.

So Yan Shugang, along with several security guards, carried the tiger to the dispatch group.

Thinking that after Sentemosga arrived in the afternoon, he would have the dispatch team hand over the work to them.

Once outside the dispatch group, Yan Shugang instructed four guards to place the tiger near the window.

In June, all the windows were open, with gauze nailed to the window frames. Yan Shugang could be heard clearly inside whenever he spoke outside.

Although the head of the security station had far less power than the heads of production and forestry, Wu Feng did not dare to be negligent and hurriedly called Li Dayong out of the house to greet him.

Seeing the two of them come out, Yan Shugang said directly, "Team Leader Wu, this is a tiger that our forestry guards hunted on the mountain. It will be brought here by Sentimosgar this afternoon. After that, you can hand it over to them."

Upon hearing Yan Shugang's words, Li Dayong was overjoyed and blurted out, "My brother has caught a tiger!"

"Huh?" Yan Shugang looked at Li Dayong in surprise. Before he could react, Huang Chunsheng, one of the security guards who had carried the tiger, asked Li Dayong, "Brother Li, is Zhao Jun your older brother?"

Huang Chunsheng's nickname is Huang Da Lengzi. He's not stupid, but he's very straightforward in his speech and actions.

He didn't mean to mock Li Dayong when he said this; he was just asking.

After a brief moment of astonishment, Huang Chunsheng's words caused a burst of laughter both inside and outside the house.

"Hahaha……"

Li Dayong blushed deeply, but he didn't care about saving face at that moment. Instead, he asked Huang Chunsheng, "My older brother is Zhao Youcai. Wasn't it my older brother who hit me?"

“No.” Huang Chunsheng shook his head and said, “It was our team leader Zhao who made the call.”

"It's over!" At this moment, only one thought remained in Li Dayong's mind: "My brother didn't kill this tiger; my nephew beat him to it. How can my brother accept this?"

While Li Dayong was lost in thought, his nephew and son had already left the forest farm by car and were on their way back to their hut.

It was already 2 p.m. when they arrived at the shack. Xing San had timed it perfectly and felt that they should be back soon, so he cooked porridge and steamed buns on the stove.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Zhao Jun, along with Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, and Li Ruhai, quickly carried the ginseng before it got dark. Li Baoyu and Xie Chen, on Zhao Jun's orders, escorted Zhao Youcai and Zhao Weipeng down the mountain to go home.

It was called an escort, but it was actually a forced transport. Zhao Jun was afraid that his father would be too agitated and run away halfway.

Around 5 p.m., the jeep returned to the Zhao family compound.

Wang Meilan was somewhat worried about Zhao Youcai going out to hunt tigers.

As soon as she heard the dog barking in the backyard, Wang Meilan came out of the house.

As Zhao Youcai and his three companions approached, Zhao Youcai didn't show it on his face, but Wang Meilan could tell he wasn't very happy.

"What's wrong? Did you miss?" Wang Meilan asked as she stepped forward. Zhao Youcai glanced at her and said, "You hit it."

After saying that, Zhao Youcai walked past Wang Meilan and went into the house.

Wang Meilan was taken aback. At this moment, Li Baoyu stepped forward and whispered to Wang Meilan, "Auntie, my brother killed that tiger."

"Oh my goodness!" Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan immediately sensed something was wrong!