bookrebus Chapter 198 Dog Fighting! The Tiger's Dignity
Chapter 198 Dog Fighting! The Tiger's Dignity
Old Qin appeared calm on the surface, but he kept muttering to himself.
Li Ju'an listened to him rambling on and on, saying, "You can tell whether a bear is male or female from its paw prints. This one should be female. The female animal is already so big. What would happen if it ran into a male animal?"
Song Desheng chuckled and teased Old Qin, saying, "Is Qin the formidable one scared? We've been fighting for so long, and all we've managed to take down is a female bear. If a female bear is this difficult to deal with, what if a male bear comes up next time? We'll have to use a dozen more traps!"
He gestured towards the unused snare behind Old Qin. The log was chopped solidly and long, so heavy it could bend a finger-thick steel cable. Old Qin had spent a fortune on the snare, but it hadn't been used at all; they still had to rely on Li Ju'an's team to come and rescue them.
Old Qin's expression changed, and he held back, wanting to say something, but kept quiet.
Lu Zhiqiang deliberately provoked him, saying, "The seniors from Changbai Mountain are still a bit lacking when they come to our Xingan Mountains. When my grandfather went into the mountains, the seniors from Changbai Mountain didn't know where they were setting traps. It's just that this grandson Sun Weimin is not well-liked, and no one else was willing to go into the mountains with him. He only came to Changbai Mountain to run away with the trap king."
Old Qin's face darkened, becoming even more grim.
Having learned his lesson from Lao Qin, Li Ju'an still had to give him some face and said a few words: "Alright, alright, Brother Qin may not even know what Sun Weimin did. Maybe Da Hu just finds Wolf Eyes interesting and is just following him around."
He should have kept quiet, because once he started talking, Lao Qin became even more restless. He felt itchy all over, unable to sit still, and his eyes were filled with complicated emotions as he avoided looking at Li Ju'an.
Li Ju'an was also angry. Seeing Da Hu's guilty look, he shouted, "Da Hu! What's going on? You've been running around without saying a word. People who know you will know where you are, but people who don't will think that you've been kidnapped by some hunter who put a sack over your head."
Old Qin's face flushed red, and his fists trembled. Sun Weimin woke up to hear him making veiled accusations.
Sun Weimin scurried over, first checking left and right to see if the bear was dead. Seeing it was, he staggered over, pointed at Li Ju'an's nose, and shouted:
"How dare you talk like that, Li Ju'an! You have to take responsibility for your actions. So what if I kidnapped your dog? What are you going to do about it? Da Hu came with us obediently, didn't he? You didn't pay Lao Tao for the dog, so why do you say Da Hu is your dog? Logically speaking, Qin Pao took a liking to Da Hu first and gave Lao Tao quite a bit of money. What did you pay? You didn't give a single penny!"
Sun Weimin stared at him with wide, provocative eyes.
Li Ju'an stared at Sun Weimin's provocative face, then swung his fist and punched him hard, breaking his nose and twisting his face to one side. His facial muscles trembled violently, and his features were all distorted.
"Damn it! Li Ju'an, you son of a bitch."
Sun Weimin was knocked heavily to the ground, but he was still stubborn. Li Ju'an grabbed his collar, lifted him up, and swung a punch at him hard.
Sun Weimin's face looked like a palette had been overturned, covered in bruises and discoloration, and he continued to rant and rave.
"Li Ju'an, you coward. I'm just saying something fair, and you get all worked up. Da Hu, what you took wasn't exactly aboveboard; you didn't pay a single penny. If you really consider Qin Pao your mentor, you should have Da Hu and Wolf Eyes fight dogs. Whoever has the stronger dog is the one who trained it better. Do you think Da Hu wanted to follow you? He didn't have a choice. If you ask me, Da Hu has been well-behaved and sensible these past few days with Lao Qin. Don't be too easy to boss around."
Li Ju'an punched Sun Weimin three times, and Sun was in so much pain that he couldn't say a word. His whole body was knocked over and rolled twice in the snow, his sheepskin coat pulled up, revealing his tender waist.
Li Ju'an kicked him in the waist and leg, a powerful kick that nearly made him faint from the pain. He hadn't felt this much pain when he hit the back of the head on the rock, nor when Zhang Fengzi and the other two beat him up, but now he was begging for mercy.
"Li Ju'an, Brother Li, Master Li! Please spare me. I won't hit you anymore, I won't hit you anymore."
There's a rule in the Xingan Mountains: don't beat those who beg for mercy and admit defeat.
Li Ju'an was panting with rage, wishing he could slap him to death. If it weren't for the rule of law in this society, he wouldn't want to be reborn and imprisoned again. Otherwise, he would have tormented Sun Weimin to death.
Everyone in the village knew that Li Ju'an had bought a dog for free. Some villagers had long been envious and resentful, and they couldn't stand it, so they brought it up. This fueled the anger of Sun Weimin, who couldn't buy a dog, and made Old Qin, who hadn't been able to catch a tiger for years, even more frustrated and indignant.
Sun Weimin had just begged for mercy and felt less pain for a moment when he was still angry and resentful, he opened his mouth and shouted, "Li Ju'an, do you dare to let Da Hu and Wolf Eyes fight? If Da Hu wins, Wolf Eyes is yours. If he loses, Da Hu is Qin Pao'er's."
Li Ju'an's eyes reddened with rage. He grabbed the man by the collar and punched him twice in the face: "I'll fight you, you bastard! I'll fight you, you son of a bitch..."
Song Desheng quickly tried to break up the fight, but the insults he hurled were extremely offensive. However, neither Song Desheng nor Lu Zhiqiang were genuinely trying to stop the fight; they were just putting on a show.
The wolf glanced at Old Qin. This green wolf was a cub that Old Qin had brought out from the bear enclosure last year. Now grown up, it was agile and had sharp, murderous eyes. Old Tao called this green wolf a menace, but Old Qin treated it like a treasure, leading it around the mountains and hunting, training it like an ordinary hunting dog.
Suddenly, Wolf Eyes jerked its head, breaking free of the leash in Old Qin's hand. After he let go, Wolf Eyes, over a meter tall, leaped into the air, fiercely pouncing on the tiger to tear it apart.
The tiger was smaller than the wolf's eyes, only half a meter tall, but it was more agile and nimble. The tiger suddenly rolled on the ground, dodging the wolf's eyes' initial charge, then slammed its limbs into the ground, baring its teeth and staring fiercely at the wolf's eyes.
Sun Weimin clapped his hands excitedly and shouted, "Fight! Fight! Good fighting!"
Hunters in the mountains, especially those with a dog-fighting gang, cherish their dogs like their own lives. Dogs are the hunters' right-hand men, and a dogfighter could never be a hunter. Sun Weimin didn't own any dogs, but he loved watching dog fights, shouting excitedly and loudly, wishing that Wolf Eyes and Tiger would roll around on the ground and fight until only one was left.
"Swing it around, good!"
Sun Weimin shouted, his whole body trembling with excitement.
Wolf Eyes was pounced on by Tiger, whose canine teeth fiercely tore at Wolf Eyes. Old Qin, the wolf's owner, seemed very excited, crouching down and constantly urging the fight on. No one could tell whether Old Qin liked Wolf Eyes more or Tiger more.
Li Ju'an aimed his gun at the tiger to stop the dogfight. But the wolf was enraged, and if he used his gun to block the tiger, he would be hindering it, and the tiger would only face the wolf's powerful bite.
An adult wolf's bite force can reach over 200 kilograms. If a wolf were to bite down on a tiger's eye, the tiger's spine would definitely break.
As the dogfight reached its climax, Li Ju'an was sweating profusely with tension, not daring to make any rash moves that might cause trouble for Da Hu. He called out to Bai Mastiff and Hua Er. As long as the dogs were surrounded, he wasn't worried that the dogfight wouldn't be interrupted.
At this moment, the tiger bit down hard on the wolf's eye and growled threateningly at the helper dog.
The roar was so loud that not a single dog dared to approach. Even the most perceptive of the dogs, Flower Ears, hesitated cautiously, its nose twitching, leading the even more hesitant White Mastiff step by step backward, leaving the center of the dogfighting arena to Tiger and Wolf Eyes.
Lu Zhiqiang understood and excitedly shouted, "In Da Hu's eyes, this is not a dogfight, but a duel between the leaders of the alpha dogs! Da Hu wants to beat Wolf Eyes into submission."