Chapter 21 A New Member in the Family
The woodshed was very quiet, and Cui Qingyi could easily hear some heavy breathing.
After putting the candlestick away, Cui Qingyi, perhaps still drunk, fearlessly walked towards the huddled body and kicked it. "Are they dead?"
The black dog, who was already hanging on to his last breath, naturally couldn't answer her, and could only squeeze out a snort from his nose as a response.
In the dim light of the candle, Cui Qingyi sighed: "Forget it, I'll just be a good person again."
She went to the kitchen and got another candlestick, and the woodshed became brighter. Cui Qingyi picked and chose from the pile of firewood, found two sticks she liked, picked them up in her hands and walked to the lying black dog.
"I'm saving you, so don't bite me. If you do, I'll have dog meat hotpot tomorrow."
His tone was vicious, but his attack was gentle.
She reached out and pushed the dog, and it lay flat on its back. Thinking of what the mule seller said about the dog's hind legs being broken, Cui Qingyi took the candlestick and moved closer to take a look.
The black dog's left hind leg was noticeably swollen, but the thick fur obscured the details. Cui Qingyi thought for a moment, then stood up and went inside to get a pair of scissors and some old clothes.
This dog doesn't seem to have much attack power now, but Cui Qingyi always remembers the first time she saw it at the mule market.
First, she covered the dog's head with old clothes. Seeing the black dog lying motionless, Cui Qingyi reached out and tied a knot in the clothes. This way, even if the dog went crazy in pain, it could still withstand it.
I picked up the scissors and cut the hair off the dog's legs. I didn't know what breed the dog was, but its coat was very thick, even on its legs.
Even though Cui Qingyi was careful enough, she still accidentally touched the black dog's injured leg when she raised and lowered the scissors. However, during this period, the black dog did not make any threatening sound. If it were not for its claws twitching from time to time, she would have thought it was a dead dog.
When she could see the specific situation of the injury clearly, Cui Qingyi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the bone was dislocated at the joint, and she could try to put the joint back together.
"Heh, you're lucky. I actually know a little bit about bone setting. Just bear with it. If you dare to bite me, you're dead."
Cui Qingyi bravely grabbed the deformed dog leg, fumbled with it a few times, exerted force, and then quickly dropped the dog leg and dodged.
"Woo woo woo, ow woo~"
The black dog, feeling pain, did not pretend to be dead, but it also did not attack anyone as Cui Qingyi had imagined. It just raised its head with difficulty and howled twice in Cui Qingyi's direction.
Cui Qingyi was really surprised now. This dog was quite human-like and seemed to know that she was saving it. Perhaps because she was recognized by a dog, Cui Qingyi felt inexplicably excited.
He deftly used two sticks to fix the dog's legs, muttering as he did so: "I'm just trying to save the dog. Please don't move. Whether it can heal depends on you."
“Ouch~”
Okay, I agree with it.
"Hmph, you just need to know what's good for you. I saved you, and when you get better, you have to stay and watch over me. Otherwise, I'll sell you to someone else to eat. Do you understand?"
"Wangwang~"
"You even know how a dog barks. Howling, howling, I thought you were a wolf."
Cui Qingyi went into the kitchen, lit a fire and heated up the leftover mutton soup. She then took a wooden basin left by the previous owner of the house and poured the warm mutton soup into it. Thinking that the guy might not have eaten for several meals, she took a pancake, broke it into pieces and threw it in.
In the woodshed, the dizzy black dog smelled the aroma of mutton soup, dug with its front paws a few times impatiently, and then calmed down.
Cui Qingyi brought over the mutton soup and untied the clothes tied around the dog's head. "Here, eat."
When she went back to lie on the bed, Cui Qingyi was still thinking that the two of them should really get a more ferocious dog, otherwise they would sleep more soundly at night and wouldn't even know if a thief broke into the house and reached their bedside.
Cui Qingyi was woken up early in the morning by the sound of Konjac sweeping the yard. It was a sunny day today.
Today I'm going to buy a sapling to plant in the yard, and I also need to tidy up the backyard. There are also some things I need to buy at home. Once these things are done, the day will be over.
Cui Qingyi did not feel guilty about wasting her time. In addition to the two hundred taels for buying the house, she also had fifty taels for buying furniture in the past few days, which made a total of five hundred taels.
These five hundred taels don't need to be frugal, and they will be enough for her and Konjac Flower to live for decades.
With money in hand and no worries in her heart, Cui Qingyi just felt that this life was extremely comfortable.
The morning after the rain was a bit chilly, so Cui Qingyi put on an extra coat, and Konjac had already prepared water for washing her face.
Seeing Cui Qingyi got up, Konjac hurried over and said, "Miss, look."
Even though they were in their own home, Konjac lowered his voice like a thief. Cui Qingyi looked towards the woodshed and saw a black dog lying in the woodshed with its head facing her. When it saw her looking at it, it wagged its tail ingratiatingly.
Cui Qingyi seemed to see flattery in a furry dog's face.
Cui Qingyi smiled: "You're really lucky."
"As the old saying goes, cats bring fortune and dogs bring wealth. Now that it's here, let it stay. When it's ready, let it guard the house for us."
Konjac had no objection and responded loudly: "Hey~"
The small family belonging to Cui Qingyi and Konjac officially welcomed its third member, the black dog Wangcai.
After confirming that this dog would be their own from now on, Konjac felt sorry for Wangcai's suffering and made a big pot of soup with sheep bones every day to nourish Wangcai.
The effect was immediate, and the black dog's originally dry hair regained its luster visibly.
Wangcai's vitality is indeed very strong. After a few days, he was able to stroll around the yard on three legs. Cui Qingyi checked his injured leg and removed the wooden stick used to fix it after making sure that the bone was not crooked.
"Try stepping on it and see if it makes you lame."
Feeling his hind legs loosen, Wangcai tentatively stepped on the ground with his hind paws. Cui Qingyi ignored him and turned around to do her own thing.
Out of her sight, the black dog took a few steps on all fours, then after a while lifted up its left hind leg and took a few tentative steps.
Cui Qingyi and Konjac turned over the soil in the backyard and scattered some vegetable seeds they had bought. They wanted to harvest one crop before winter and leave the ones that grew in the soil as fertilizer.
A lot of things were added to the house. There were a few pots of flowers and plants and a large water tank in the yard. Cui Qingyi planned to raise a few small fish in it. It would be nice to look at the flowers and feed the fish when she was free.
The yard is so small that there isn't much to do.
Cui Qingyi felt a little bored after being idle for a few days. She had seen enough flowers and fed enough fish. Even after she combed off a layer of Wangcai's dog hair, Cui Qingyi decided to find something to do.
Konjac was sitting in the yard sewing clothes with a needle and thread basket in her hand. Seeing her daughter was getting bored, she suggested, "Girl, why don't you learn to sew clothes from me?"
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