In ancient times, there was Beihai County in Qingzhou, Shandong Province. Although it was not a big place, it was very famous. Mainly because it faced the sea and there was a high platform on the seaside. It was said to be the place where Qin Shihuang watched the sea, so tourists from other places often came here. , everyone calls it "Wanghaitai".
On the left side of Wanghaitai is a harbor, which is where the sea extends into the land. Surrounding this small harbor are water plants. There are no homes. Only a man named Zhang Yuzhou built a hut here. The nearby fishermen You can come here to take shelter from the wind and rain when needed.
That night, Zhang Yuzhou came back late from fishing, so he slept in the shack and didn't go home until dawn. At dawn, he suddenly felt something moving around him.
sat up and saw that a big tiger had entered the hut while he was sleeping. He didn't know when it came, but it just stared at him. Zhang Yuzhou shocked the boss, and he didn't dare to express his anger even when he stayed there.
Unexpectedly, Tiger didn’t do anything drastic when he saw Zhang Yuzhou wake up. He just stretched out his left front paw and gave him a gentle push. Although Zhang Yuzhou didn’t dare to move, he felt a lot more relaxed, thinking that Tiger might not be Come and eat your own.
After calming down for a while, the tiger extended its left paw to Zhang Yuzhou's eyes. Zhang Yuzhou took a closer look and found that there was a five or six-inch long iron thorn nailed on the tiger's claw, so he carefully helped the tiger remove it.
During the whole process, the tiger was very stable. After Zhang Yuzhou got the iron thorn out, he looked very happy and nodded to him frequently, just like a person bowing to thank him, and then walked out of the hut.
The next night, Zhang Yuzhou was sleeping in the hut again. When he slept until midnight, he suddenly heard a bang outside, as if something fell to the ground.
Zhang Yuzhou went out and saw that it was a freshly dead wild boar, weighing about two to three hundred kilograms, and lying next to the wild boar was a big tiger, which was clearly the one with the iron thorn removed last night.
When Tiger saw Zhang Yuzhou coming out, he stretched out his left paw and touched his leg, and then slowly left.
From then on, Zhang Yuzhou would receive gifts from tigers every night, sometimes it was a wild boar, sometimes it was a wild deer, anyway there were all kinds of gifts.
The folks didn’t know how Zhang Yuzhou got it, and they thought there was some monster in his home. So, some troublesome people took Zhang Yuzhou to the county magistrate.
In front of the county magistrate, Zhang Yuzhou had no choice but to tell everything about how he helped the tiger pull out the iron thorn and the tiger gave him prey.
The county magistrate was very surprised after hearing this, so he sent two government servants to follow Zhang Yuzhou to the beach and hide secretly in a hut. At the second watch that night, the tiger really sent another elk.
The two government officials who witnessed this magical scene went back and reported it to the county magistrate. Finally, Zhang Yuzhou's injustice was completely cleared. Not only was he released, but he also posted a notice to wash away his reputation as a thief.
After such a fuss, Zhang Yuzhou also knew that the tiger he rescued was very spiritual, so he spent some money and made a hundred meritorious meals on behalf of the tiger.
On the night after the last fasting meal, the tiger came again and brought a piece of white silk with one hundred taels of gold wrapped in the silk.
After Tiger waited for Zhang Yuzhou to accept the gift, he suddenly jumped onto the hut and collapsed it within a few seconds.
Zhang Yuzhou understood that Tiger hoped that he would not live here anymore. The reason why he sent gold to him today must be to let him live elsewhere.
immediately bowed his hands in front of the tiger and left here at dawn the next day to live in Lin County . In the harbor of Wanghaitai, no one has seen a tiger again.
