There were shouts and sounds of fighting at the door, and then it became quiet. Soon the bearded village chief came in with people to help. As soon as he pushed open the door of the cabin, he was shocked by the situation inside.
The bearded village chief caught two thieves at the door, and there were four or five men lying on the floor of the cabin. Chu Beichen and his family stood leisurely by.
The oil lamp in the room was lit, and the wounds of the four or five people on the ground could be clearly seen.
"These are all dog bites... Chu, you are so lucky, did you get the legendary Dog King?" The bearded village chief was very envious. You know, the Dog King has always only existed in legends. It is said that all dogs will obey this Dog King, and even the wild wolves in the forest will bow down to it.
"The Dog King, right? Black Panther deserves this title," Chu Beichen smiled and touched Black Panther's head.
The bearded village chief brought a few strong young men and dragged all the thieves out of the house. These thieves were almost killed by the dog bite, and now they all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that they could escape from the cabin.
However, these thieves will face the torture that is unique to Huodong Village.
After the bearded village chief took the thieves away, Su Nian and Chu Beichen quickly cleaned up the house and praised Black Panther, the great hero of this trip.
However, the black panther refused to eat the wild boar leg given to it as a reward. Instead, it grabbed Chu Beichen's trouser leg and dragged him into the yard.
Chu Beichen thought there were thieves hiding in the yard, so he quickly searched the yard carefully with a large flashlight. He didn't find the thieves, but there were seven or eight thief dogs hiding shivering under the fence of their house.
"Black Panther, do you mean to take them in?" Chu Beichen looked at his big black dog, which was sitting upright in front of him like a human.
I don’t know if the big black dog understood, but after Chu Beichen said that, it stuck out its tongue and licked Chu Beichen.
Chu Beichen understood this as the meaning, and he turned around to look at the stolen dogs.
All of these dogs had dirty fur and were skinny. If it weren't for their well-behaved demeanor, they would look no different from the stray dogs outside. It seemed that they didn't have a good life following the thieves.
Chu Beichen thought about it, went into the house and discussed with Su Nian, and decided to keep these dogs. It was already winter, and these dogs were accustomed to being raised by humans. If they were driven into the wild to wander, they would surely die. After all, it was only humans who did evil, and the dogs did nothing wrong.
However, Chu Xiang did not have any extra space to house these dogs. Now he did not dare to let the dogs into the storage room. The barn was full of herbivores. If these dogs went crazy, Chu Beichen and the others would be in trouble.
With the mentality of doing good things to the end, the couple did not care that it was the middle of the night. Chu Beichen immediately found wood from the storage room and started building doghouses for the dogs.
Su Nian found some big bones to make soup, mixed them with plant root particles and added a lot of minced meat, and made a meal for the dogs.
What made Su Nian feel embarrassed was that there was no basin that big enough at home, so she had to donate a new wooden basin to hold food for the dogs.
In this era of material scarcity, Su Nian deeply felt that even a good cook cannot cook without rice. It was really embarrassing that he couldn't even get a dog food bowl.
Soon the bone broth was ready. The hot and fragrant soup was mixed with cooked roots and plant particles, and the effect was similar to pork and potato soup.
Su Nian poured the bone soup into a basin, brought it into the yard, and called the dogs to come and eat.
The black panther squatted at the door of the cabin like a king. Seeing that the dogs did not dare to come over, it growled softly a few times, as if giving permission.
After receiving this signal, the dogs swarmed over and gathered around the bowl to eat the food. To be honest, after following the thieves, it was a good thing for them to eat food once every two or three days, let alone hot food.
After eating, the dogs became more energetic. They seemed to understand what Chu Beichen was doing, and they all snuggled up quietly and watched Chu Beichen work.
Considering the snowstorm in the cedar forest, Chu Beichen decided to build a solid doghouse.
Chu Beichen laid the foundation near the fence wall and then filled it with wood. Considering the size of the dogs, the doghouse did not need to be built too high, just low and solid.
The roof of the doghouse is modeled after a barn, with wooden boards nailed to the walls, so that the doghouse is strong enough to withstand even a snowstorm.
After making the wooden support, Chu Beichen found some turf curtains and laid two layers on the ground inside the doghouse to isolate the moisture from the ground.
This kind of mat is also available in the barn, but the elk and calves are not obedient. Instead of getting their mats dirty or wet, they gnaw them here and there until they are all torn into pieces.
After doing all this, Chu Beichen signaled the dogs to go in and rest.
Those dogs had been living with the thieves in the wild, sleeping in the open air and having no fixed place to live. They had never enjoyed the treatment of a kennel. When they saw the small house in front of them, they were afraid to move forward. In the end, Chu Beichen had to drag one of them in, and the others followed suit and squeezed in.
After finishing all this, Chu Beichen washed his hands in the basin beside him, then smiled and said to Su Nian, "There's still a little work left. Tomorrow during the day, I'll cover the doghouse with straw mats so that the wind can't get in!"
Su Nian smiled and nodded. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter in the east, she pulled Chu Beichen into the house to sleep for a while.
The black panther was like a sensible person. After seeing its companions being settled, it wagged its tail and ran to the fireplace to gnaw on its wild boar leg.
Dogs and wolves are related by nature, especially the hunting dogs in the cedar forests, which are actually not much different from wolves. Their favorite food is fresh and soft animal offal and raw meat.
The two Black Panther cubs also gathered around and tried to tear the wild boar meat with their little teeth. They were still small and could only bite off a little bit at a time.
Originally, Su Nian didn't allow the two puppies to eat raw meat, but later Chu Beichen told her that this was a cedar forest, and Black Panther and the others were not pet dogs at home. It was estimated that the dogs here were raised on the meat of prey.
Only then did Su Nian realize that she had made a big mistake. She had kept this hunting dog from the cedar forest as a domestic pet.
Leaving the Black Panther family to eat by the fireplace, Su Nian and Chu Beichen went upstairs together.
They have something serious to do today. Recently, Chu Beichen found a kind of very tough branches in the cedar forest. He made a lot of brooms with this branch. Today, he plans to take these brooms of different sizes to the market to try his luck.
As the weather gets colder, such urgent matters will become less and less common.
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