I Only Want to Lie Flat But Am Forced to Cultivate Immortality-Chapter 236 - 134 Past Connection_3

But as a woman, how could she possibly catch up with the wild tiger in the mountains?

Seeing Madam Guan Hua chasing after her with her child, the mother tiger opened its huge mouth, picked up its two cubs, and darted into the forest without looking back.

Madam Guan Hua was both angry and anxious. She had no children of her own and didn’t know how to care for cubs, especially tiger cubs that eat meat.

However, the mother tiger had left, and without care, these cubs were destined to die.

With no other choice, Madam Guan Hua bought a goat that was recently in milk to start feeding the tiger cubs.

Once a woman reaches a certain age, a maternal instinct is often naturally awakened within her; it is a fundamental part of human nature.

Although Madam Guan Hua had no husband or children, she began to treat this little tiger as if it were her own child.

The little tiger was born small and delicate, so she named it Dazhuang, after her own surname. ƒгeewebnovёl_com

During this period, the mother tiger brought prey a few times but never met the little tiger directly. Each time, it would drop the prey at the door, call out twice, then disappear.

Although Madam Guan Hua had the intention of catching it, she never once laid eyes on the mother tiger.

As time passed, Guan Dazhuang, true to its name, grew more robust and formidable. Madam Guan Hua no longer dared to keep it in Guanmen Village, so she took it to the Mountain Lord Temple twenty miles away, making Dazhuang the Mountain Monarch.

That way, even if people saw the wild tiger around, they would say it was the manifestation of the Mountain Monarch, which could explain things away.

Thus, days went by. As Guan Dazhuang grew older, Madam Guan Hua used the methods taught by the shaman to guide Guan Dazhuang onto the path of incense fire cultivation.

As Guan Dazhuang was raised by humans and naturally intelligent, he was able to speak the human tongue within two years, and within five or six years, he could appear in the mortal world with the strength of the incense.

A few more years passed, and one day, while Madam Guan Hua was tidying up incense candles and offerings in the Mountain Lord Temple, she suddenly heard the cry of an infant outside the temple.

Curious, she went outside the temple and saw a worn bamboo basket at the temple gate, inside which was a swaddled, chubby infant.

Startled, Madam Guan Hua hurriedly searched around but couldn’t find the person who had abandoned the child.

In such a situation, an ordinary person would be at a loss, but not Madam Guan Hua.

She quickly lit an incense stick, and after a short while, a strong gust of wind blew, and a robust Golden-eyed Tiger appeared beside her.

"Godmother, why have you summoned me?" The Golden-eyed Tiger spoke in human language.

Madam Guan Hua briefly explained, and Guan Dazhuang, upon hearing about the abandoned child, felt a deep empathy.

"Rest assured, Godmother, I have caught the scent of the person, let me bring them here for questioning."

"Do not kill them."

"Understood."

As Guan Dazhuang left, Madam Guan Hua looked down at the swaddled infant.

Though she had held Guan Dazhuang when he was small, he was still a tiger cub, not a child.

Now, as Madam Guan Hua tried to lift the child, she was at a loss until the infant reached out to her, bringing her back to her senses.

Carefully, she picked up the infant, and surprisingly, the baby quieted down in her arms and stopped crying.

Shortly after, another gust of wind signaled Guan Dazhuang’s return.

"Did you find the child’s parents?"

Guan Dazhuang was silent for a moment before speaking, "I was a step too late. The child’s parents have both fallen into a ravine and perished."

Madam Guan Hua was troubled by this news.

"What should we do? This child, without parents, what will become of him?"

At this moment, Guan Dazhuang unexpectedly said, "Though I take care of you, Godmother, it is ultimately not as proper as having a human child. Why don’t you adopt him..."

Madam Guan Hua had the same thought, but was hesitant to say it in front of Guan Dazhuang. Now that her adopted son brought it up, she was willing to adopt the child.

Holding the infant, she entered the temple, with the Golden-eyed Tiger carrying the bamboo basket and following closely behind.

Back in the Incense Hall, while caring for the baby, Madam Guan Hua noticed a Longevity Lock around the child’s neck with the character ’Sun’ engraved on it...

The rotating lantern that reached this point had basically filled in the details that Xu Qing wanted to know.

Seeing this, he understood why Guan Dazhuang was different from Guan Xiaohu. The former never suffered much hardship, and it seemed the mother tiger had entrusted her child to a ’sister’ rather than abandoning it, unlike Guan Xiaohu.

The little tiger had truly experienced being mistreated and abandoned by its mother.

The events following for Madam Guan Hua were consistent with what Guan Dazhuang had described without much discrepancy.

Xu Qing also saw the scene where Guan Xiaohu attacked Madam Guan Hua. She was sitting under the tree in the courtyard, with a needlework basket beside her. However, she did not evade, but rather said self-reproachfully, "It is I, your godmother, who failed to teach you well. I have been an unworthy mother..."

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