When Hu Feng walked quite far a distance from them, Meng Nan quickly asked: “What exactly happened? What’s this guy getting crazy about?”
Jin Shiwei explained what happened earlier. After listening to it, Meng Nan’s eyes widen and looked at Bai Zhi incredibly: “Zhi’er, is Shiwei telling the truth? You really threw stones to that big tiger?”
Bai Zhi nodded: “Right, there is something like that. Oh, and it’s called white tiger, remember its name.”
Meng Nan's legs trembled a bit, the little girl in front of him was really not afraid of death!
“Zhi’er, that tiger is so big, aren’t you afraid of it? You dared to throw stones at it?!”
Bai Zhi shrugged her shoulders and said: “Of course, I am afraid of it. That tiger is so big. Who wouldn’t be afraid of it? But, what else can I do? Escape? I only have two legs, while the tiger has four. Since it’s impossible to escape, it’s better to use my two hands to do things that I can. I didn’t think too much at that time, I just want to save Hu Feng’s life, and also my own.”
Jin Shiwei silently gave Bai Zhi a thumbs up, Meng Nan looked at her thoughtfully. He didn’t say a word, nor ask another question.
Bai Zhi then asked: “Meng Daren, why are you so afraid of tigers? You also fainted in fear, isn’t that too exaggerated? If Hu Feng and Jin Shiwei aren’t here, you might have become the tiger’s lunch.”
Jin Shiwei shook his head toward Bai Zhi, indicating that she shouldn’t ask about this matter. But, she didn’t see it, so she ended up asking.
Every time someone asked this question, Meng Nan never gives an answer. At most, he will skip it by laughing. He never explains it.
But today, Meng Nan has a desire to speak, he wanted to say his reason.
“When I was a child, my elder brother and I secretly ride a horse to play outside. We don’t know what exactly happened, but our horse suddenly went wild. It ran outside the city and went all the way to the woods. As my elder brother and I fell to the ground, our horse ran away. The sky was almost dark, we couldn’t find our way in the woods.”
“At that time, I was only 7 years old. I still don’t know what fear is, I didn’t felt scared at all. I just keep walking behind my elder brother. I was having fun until a big tiger appeared.”
“My elder brother was only 10 years old. Although he learned a few martial art skills, how can he defeat a big tiger? He clearly has a chance to escape because the tiger was only looking at me. If he escaped, the tiger will eat me, but will not chase after him.”
Meng Nan’s eyes were overflowing with pain, his hands were also constantly trembling. As if he had returned to that time.
“However, my brother didn’t run away. He stayed and fight with the big tiger. He asked me to run instead. He told me not to look back, nor to go back for him. He told me to keep running and find niang to save him.”
“I was very scared at the time. I only listened to my elder brother’s words. I just kept running and running. I didn’t look back. Even when I heard my elder brother’s scream, I didn’t look back. I didn’t dare to look back. I was so scared. Later on, I fell down and fainted. When I woke up, I found out that my family brought me back home.”
“I asked them how was my elder brother, but no one gives me an answer. They only cried with sorrow. I didn’t ask them again, I didn’t dare to ask about it.”
It turned out to be the case. It turned out to be a shadow in childhood. In order to protect him, his elder brother sacrifice himself and was eaten by the tiger. No wonder, his complexion immediately change, as soon as a tiger was mentioned.
Jin Shiwei looked very surprised. He doesn’t know that his young master had an elder brother. And that he had such a painful experience when he was 7 years old. He even mentioned tigers from time to time to tease him. Now, he knows, he shouldn’t have.