The hunter guards the mountain, which essentially means guarding the village. If a ferocious beast comes down the mountain, he will fire a gun to warn the villagers. Some years ago, a tiger came down and killed many people, but Qu the Hunter finally shot it dead. The villagers remember Qu the Hunter's good deeds. Qu the Hunter wasn't willing to go into town to buy grain, cloth, or supplies; instead, the villagers helped him buy these or exchanged them for him.
As for Qu the Hunter, he is actually a well-known figure in this area.
Not because he once bravely fought a tiger, but because of a sentence said by a wandering fortune teller decades ago.
Qu the Hunter's real name is Guo Erdan. When he was a child, his father went into the city to work and had his leg broken by his employer. After the wound got infected, he struggled in pain for over ten days on the bed before dying.
