The story of fighting tigers and brothers

The story of the tiger brothers is about: Once upon a time, there was a small village in the middle of a mountainous area in southern Fujian, and the woods in front of the village and behind the village were dense, and wild beasts often appeared. There is a family in the village, the parents died early, the three brothers, during the day together to go up the mountain to chop wood, pick to the market to change rations, at night according to the ancestral teachings, together to practice martial arts and self-defense, for a long time, but also practice a good fist and feet.

Due to the poverty of his family and the difficulty of making a living, the eldest and his fellow villagers crossed the ocean to work in the South Seas. A few years later, the second and third children in their hometown have married and lived separately. For a while, tigers were often spotted in the village, and the villagers were terrified. Seeing this, the brothers discussed going up the mountain to fight tigers to eliminate harm for the people. Find a blacksmith to make a pair of steel forks and a pair of iron short sticks as weapons to fight tigers.

So the brothers went up the hill with steel forks and iron rods to lay in ambush. It was nearly dusk, a gust of cold wind passed by, and I saw a tiger breaking out of the dense forest, the third child was young and vigorous, and he rushed to meet the tiger with a steel fork. When the tiger saw someone blocking the way, he stood and stared at the comer. The third man shook the steel fork in front of the tiger a few times, causing the tiger to shake the tiger's might, and with a "roar", he jumped up on his front legs and pounced down condescendingly. The third child wasted no time in aiming the steel fork at the tiger's neck and forked it. The tiger was forked in mid-air by a steel fork and kicked with its front legs. At this time, the second child hurriedly broke the tiger's two front legs with an iron rod, and the tiger broke its front legs and could no longer shake its might. The brothers raised their forks and rods and struck at the tiger. After a while, the tiger died, and the two carried the dead tiger back to the village.

Since then, the brothers have made a living by fighting tigers, but their lives have been quite smooth. One night, the third child told his wife about how the two brothers cooperated tacitly when they fought the tiger. After hearing this, the wife was very unimpressed, thinking that her husband made great efforts to fork the tiger's neck every time, and the second brother saved much effort, and even shared the profits equally, which was really unreasonable. Her husband couldn't stand her instigation and thought he was at a loss. In this way, the husband and wife made a small calculation and decided to go up the mountain to fight the tiger in the future, and the two of them would go together, and would not invite the second brother.

The next day, the second child went out for something. The third couple took a steel fork and an iron rod and went up the mountain alone, and after an ambush for a while, a tiger came out of the depths of the woods slowly. As soon as he saw the tiger coming, the husband picked up the steel fork and skillfully wrestled with the tiger a few times, and then forked the tiger up. At this time, when his wife saw the tiger, she was so frightened that she couldn't stand on her feet and almost fainted. When the husband saw that his wife could not help him, he panicked and cried out for help. He knew in his heart that if he failed to break the tiger's front legs, it would be difficult for the tiger to survive. Just when he was in danger, he saw his eldest brother with a big axe and his second brother with an iron rod.

It turned out that the eldest had been making a living in Nanyang for many years, but he was homesick, so he and several villagers were invited to return to his hometown. As soon as the eldest stepped into the house, the second followed in. When the brothers saw each other, they couldn't find the third couple and asked the second wife, only to know that they had gone up the mountain to fight tigers. After the brothers heard about it, they had a premonition that something was wrong, the eldest brother hurriedly picked up the big axe that was chopping wood, and the second brother picked up the iron rod that beat the tiger, and took the path to catch up with the mountain. The tiger lay down and died, and the third child also lay on the ground weakly panting.

After this lesson, the third wife's wife no longer dared to tell the truth. The relationship between brothers and concubines has become closer. The phrase "fighting tigers and brothers" spread in southern Fujian.