The whole tribe is migrating! Cai Wei and her family are abandoned!
Her father is badly injured, and their food supply is gone. Ferocious beasts surround them on all sides. Their lives are hanging by a thread!
“My poor child, as long as we have a bite to eat, we won’t let you go hungry!” Her parents hold their two-and-a-half-year-old little girl.
Cai Wei takes steaming-hot buns out of her space. “Mother! Eat...”
“What is this?”
“Food from the immortals!”
“Evil fire!” The cave is damp and cold, and the elders and abandoned weaklings are all sick. Cai Wei starts a fire to warm everyone, terrifying them into a panic.
“Blossoms of happiness, given by the immortals!” Baby Wei murmurs, pointing at her little fingers.
She accidentally neglects the king of the mountains, whom she only recently tamed. It adorably searches for its owner at the cave entrance.
“A tiger beast... There’s a tiger beast at the entrance...” Everyone is so frightened they nearly wet their animal-hide skirts.
“Ah! My tiger baby came to play with me!” Cai Wei hops onto the great tiger in a few quick moves, grabs its ears, and begins a mighty new day of herding, using the tiger to throw her weight around.
“The great king takes me on a mountain patrol! I’ll wander through the hills, where chickens are raised here and sheep are raised there! A happy life is just around the corner...”