"This is such terrible weather. It was quite sunny when I went out this morning," Chu Beichen complained.
Su Nian came up to him with a smile, helped Chu Beichen take off his coat, and shook off the snow particles on his body.
The two little black dogs were placed in a warm place next to the fireplace. Black Panther squatted seriously beside the bamboo basket, as if guarding his children, or waiting for his master's instructions.
"What should we feed these puppies?" Chu Beichen asked Su Nian.
Su Nian pointed to the shelf next to the fireplace and said, "I melted a piece of beef early this morning and gave it to Black Panther!"
In the past civilized world, feeding dogs with raw meat was not recommended, as this would increase the risk of dogs biting people.
It's obviously different in the cedar forest. Dogs need to guard the house and follow their owners on hunts, so naturally the more ferocious they are, the better.
Chu Beichen nodded, "What about the puppy?"
"After our meal is ready, I'll give them some cooked meat soup," Su Nian had already thought about it. She picked up the wooden bowl left by the original owner of the cabin and said to Chu Beichen, "I forgot to buy a food bowl for the dog today. Luckily, I still have this!"
Both of them were from a civilized world, so they naturally wouldn't use old tableware left by others to eat. So this wooden bowl had been lying idle, but it just happened to come in handy today.
So the big black dog and his family of three settled down in the cabin.
The weather is very cold now, and the entire cedar forest is covered with white snow, as if it were frozen.
Because of the addition of the big black dog family, the puppy is expected to grow up in the winter. The three members of this family are all meat eaters, so they should consume a lot of meat.
When the weather was fine, Chu Beichen put up his sled and went out hunting a few more times. He was lucky and got a lot of fish every time.
Just as he and Su Nian were about to return to the cabin with a full load this time, Dahei, who was running beside the sled, suddenly sped up and rushed towards the cabin with a roar.
Chu Beichen knew something was wrong and hurriedly followed closely. When he reached the fence of the cabin, he didn't even bother to chase the sled away, so he jumped off the sled and rushed in.
At this moment, the cabin was in chaos, and the big black dog quickly dragged out a disheveled woman.
This woman was none other than the thin widow who had set her sights on Chu Beichen. At this moment, her arm was bitten by a big black dog, her fur robe had been torn, and she was lying on the ground crying miserably.
Chu Beichen frowned and stopped. The situation at the scene was obvious. It must be that the thin widow ran out to steal things while they were not at home.
"Su Nian, you stay here and watch this woman. I'll go and ask the bearded village chief to come over." There was no need to be polite to a thief, so Chu Beichen got up and left.
"Don't tell the village chief, please let me go!" The thin widow wailed miserably.
The thin widow tried to struggle, and at this moment many things suddenly fell out of her arms. Su Nian took a closer look and was immediately furious. It turned out that what fell out of the thin widow's arms were tea leaves, sugar cube boxes and chocolates!
These things are considered valuable goods in the Cedar Forest. Su Nian and Chu Beichen only used thirty sugar cubes to exchange for a lot of knives, wooden basins and three dogs.
She didn't expect that the thin widow would be so greedy and take away all their family's treasures at once.
Seeing the thin widow reaching out to grab something on the ground, as if she wanted to put it in her arms, Su Nian shouted, "Black Panther, don't let her move!"
The black panther was a hunting dog, and the reason why it was a little polite to the thin widow at this moment was not because it was showing mercy, but because it was waiting for its master's instructions. Seeing Su Nian gave the order, it was no longer polite and pounced on her and bit her fiercely. This time, the thin widow was bitten so hard that she was bleeding and could only lie on the ground groaning.
After a while, Chu Beichen came with the bearded village chief and the witch doctor. With them came a few villagers who had heard the news and came to watch the fun.
The thin widow burst into tears as soon as she saw the bearded village chief. "Village chief, save me! This outsider let his dog bite me!"
Su Nian pointed at the things around the thin widow and said, "We just came back from hunting, and the dog rushed into the house and dragged Xie Na out. These things were all hidden in the house by us, and now they have fallen out of Xie Na's arms!"
"I never thought Xie Na was a thief!"
"I told her she'd end up being a thief sooner or later. She's just too lazy!"
"Kick Xie Na out! We can't keep people like her here. They'll ruin the village's morale!"
Before the village chief and witch doctor expressed their opinion, the villagers nearby had already started talking.
When Xie Na saw that public opinion was not on her side, she used her unique skill and lay on the ground crying.
The bearded village chief and the witch doctor's faces had already darkened. They had once said that stealing was a serious crime in Donghuo Village. Now that Xie Na had become extremely angry, it was impossible to leave her at home to fend for herself.
The two men had a brief discussion and immediately decided to expel Xie Na from Donghuo Village and never allow her to return to the village again.
The Donghuo villagers did not kill all of Xie Na. They drove her away, but Xie Na's child was kept and was raised in turns by respected families in the village.
The two young villagers in charge of the execution searched Xie Na carefully before taking her away, and found some things from Chu Beichen's family in her arms.
In addition, the villagers also found a hide bag in the yard, which contained two pig legs and a pheasant. It was obvious that this was the food that Xie Na stole from the storage room.
These things were stolen goods and were all returned to Chu Beichen.
After finishing this matter, the two young men asked the bearded village chief for instructions and received a positive answer. They then dragged Xie Na and walked towards the village entrance without mercy.
Xie Na cried in a long voice, and her cry sounded particularly thin in the cold wind. The people of Donghuo Village were kind, but they had always been ruthless to thieves and enemies who violated their families. One of these two types of people would destroy their lives from within, and the other would destroy it from outside. The people of Donghuo Village would never forgive these two types of people.
Soon Xie Na was dragged to the entrance of the village. She tried to crawl back, but the two young men immediately threatened her, saying that if she took another step back, they would chop off one of her hands as punishment.
In the end, Xie Na sat alone at the entrance of the village, while the villagers shook their heads and went home, talking among themselves.
Generally speaking, it was Xie Na who let Donghuo Village down, not Donghuo Village that let her down.
Take stealing for example. Xie Na made the same mistake again and again, and Chu Beichen became the victim both times, so it is not excessive to punish Xie Na in this way.
But Xie Na didn't think so. She sat in the cold wind in a daze, her mind full of thoughts about how to get revenge.
Xie Na completely forgot that now in the midst of ice and snow, her priorities should be how to keep warm and how to fill her stomach.
By the time Xie Na came to her senses, she was almost frozen unconscious. Before she fainted, she seemed to feel someone coming over, grabbing her legs and dragging her away.
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