In the Spring Hunt last year, the winner got one tiger, and he was from Zhou Huaijin's team, but Zhou Huaijin did not get the tiger personally. The man he picked got the tiger instead. It was an unknown guard, who was later arranged to work at the Ministry of Military because of the hunted tiger.
And their team lost because they did not have a tiger.
However Zhou Huailing did not care, because his Eighth Brother did not get the tiger himself; someone else did. So he did not really care about losing that contest before, but he and Eighth Brother were in the contest alone this time. So he had to pay some attention too.
Well, he had nothing to fear either. He got two tigers by himself, which never happened in the previous years of the Spring Hunt, so he was definitely going to win the contest.
He got the tigers, thanks to his mount, otherwise he alone would not be able to get the two large animals.