Read Novel Full Chapter 524: Doudou Has Depression
Chapter 524: Doudou Has Depression
Huo Yishen is afraid things are not that simple. He looked at Bai Xue, who would not give in even if she was defeated. “Bai Xue has not been domesticated. She just bowed to reality temporarily.”
The Arctic is harsh to survive. If she fights alone, she will be wiped out by humans sooner or later. But later, she met Coke…
True love, indeed. She chose to stay, but she may not want her children to live this way.
So, she raised her children to adulthood and began training them to survive.
Jiang Ning understood. “Bai Xue wants to drive the pups away and return them to nature?”
Huo Yishen thought so. Otherwise, a couple who had always been loving wouldn’t be fighting so fiercely.
The wolf-hearted couple is still fighting, and neither of them was willing to give in.
Jiang Ning had complicated feelings. The pups were actually very attached to her. If they were really driven out, she would feel reluctant from the bottom of her heart.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she treated them like her beloved grandchildren.
But Bai Xue is the biological mother, and every species has its own way of survival. She had no right to make decisions for them.
Suddenly, Jiang Ning thought of Gu Tinglin. They were at the Civil Affairs Bureau, just a step away from getting their marriage certificate, but in the end, he chose to accept the national mission.
In that moment, it seemed she understood Bai Xue’s actions.
She felt uncomfortable, but Jiang Ning did not stop it, she turned around and left.
If Bai Xue was the mother, then Doudou was their half-mother.
She couldn’t understand, but she listened to her brother’s words.
In the evening, the couple took the children home.
Although the fight was fierce, there were only a few minor injuries on their bodies, but the couple was now in a cold war.
The next day, Bai Xue took the pups out again.
Unsurprisingly, the couple fought again, but Coke didn’t run to Jiang Ning to complain.
He probably knew Jiang Ning would always protect him so he’s afraid she might scold Bai Xue.
Jiang Ning felt helpless but didn’t intervene.
However, she kept a quiet eye on things. Bai Xue was very clever, and it seemed like she had listened to Jiang Ning’s previous lecture. She had likely been raised this way by her real mother before reaching adulthood.
Her fishing technique is very skilled, and even when she catches deformed fish, she doesn’t eat them. From time to time, she shares fishing tips with the little ones.
The pups had been raised by Jiang Ning. In the beginning, they were timid when fishing, but the blood quickly triggered their wolf instincts, and they gradually became more excited.
After more than half a month of training, they were already skilled at catching live fish.
Da Bao, holding a live fish in its mouth, happily ran toward Jiang Ning and threw the fish at her feet.
Jiang Ning was moved and suddenly remembered how Coke had caught a live fish from the water when the natural disaster first started.
She squatted down and stroked Da Bao’s head and said reluctantly, “Learn from your mother well, if one day…”
If they really had to live on their own, stay away from humans.
After a few days of fighting, the dog became listless.
Bai Xue went out every day, taking the little ones to the sea or the mountains and moving swiftly through the rugged terrain.
This training lasted for three months, from autumn to winter.
Winter is still unpredictable. Sometimes they can wear short sleeves, and sometimes it’s several degrees below zero, but the greenery around the RV was growing increasingly dense.
Jiang Ning stood in front of the RV and stared at the sea in the distance with her binoculars.
She truly couldn’t see it anymore.
She remembered when they had first arrived, the sea was only two or three hundred meters away, but now it was over ten kilometers away, and she could no longer smell the salty sea air.
The ocean has less of an effect now, and the howling winds aren’t as frequent as they used to be.
Nature is truly remarkable. A barren mountain that once stood naked now has weeds resembling seaweed growing upon it.
There aren’t many, but she has found them in several places, and they are growing slowly.
Lost in thought, she heard a cry in the distance.
Bai Xue was driving the pups away. If they didn’t leave, she would bite them.
The pups kept wandering but were bitten again and again until they were driven several kilometers away.
Because of the children, the couple fought several more times. Neither of them spoke to the other. Not only were they in a cold war, but they also stopped eating.
It was obvious that Bai Xue was in a bad mood, but she still did it.
The pups sneaked back in the middle of the night, but before reaching the door, Bai Xue started chasing it again.
The pitiful cries… Jiang Ning covered her ears.
Ah, her precious grandchildren!
After chasing them away for about a week, the pups really left.
Bai Xue looked at the heavy rain outside the window and stood there for a whole day without eating or drinking.
The dog walked forward and gently scratched its head with its claws.
The winter was freezing cold, and it continued to rain for half a month, but the pups’ shadow never appeared.
However, the ruthless couple reconciled.
As time passed, Bai Xue became lively again and started eating more.
Bai Xue recovered, but Doudou was in trouble.
Since the pups left, she has become more and more silent, and several times the dishes she cooked were burnt. She often sits on a stone, staring into the distance in a daze, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.
Jiang Ning initially thought she missed the pups, but then realized her soul seemed to be lost.
After much contemplation, she finally talked to Huo Yishen about it.
She had asked Doudou before, but Doudou only smiled and said, “Sister-in-law, I’m fine.”
Huo Yishen had also asked, and the answer was the same, but the time Doudou spent zoning out had only increased.
She stopped planting vegetables and watering, and stopped feeding the poultry.
Seeing her sitting on the stone in a daze again, Huo Yishen walked over and sat down beside her.
He touched her head gently, “Is there anything you can’t tell your brother?”
Doudou came back to her senses and forced a smile, “Brother, I’m fine.”
“Don’t you consider me your brother anymore?” Huo Yishen patted her shoulder. “I promised Mother and Father that I’d take care of you, and your sister-in-law is very worried about you.”
Doudou remained silent.
But Huo Yishen stayed by her side.
After waiting for a long time, Doudou hesitantly said, “The pups are gone.”
Huo Yishen thought she was missing the pups. He was about to say something comforting when he suddenly realized something. “Doudou, do you want to leave too?”
Doudou did not answer directly, but looked at the vegetable field and poultry shed not far away, “Brother, I water the plants, plant vegetables, raise maggots to feed the poultry… does any of this really have meaning?”
“How can it be meaningless?”
“Do we lack vegetables and meat?” Doudou asked back, “Would we eat the vegetables we grow or the poultry we raise?”
Of course, they wouldn’t. First, because it might not be safe, and second, because they didn’t lack food.
Huo Yishen was speechless and didn’t know how to answer.
Doudou couldn’t describe how she felt. “Everything I do doesn’t have any meaning.”
The reason why her brother and sister-in-law supported her so much was simply out of concern that she would be bored and idle.
After a brief silence, Huo Yishen asked, “Doudou, what do you want?”
Doudou looked into the distance, “Brother, I want to go out and see the world. Would you agree?”
Of course he wouldn’t agree!
Doudou stopped talking and stared into the distance.
She felt like there was some invisible force binding her, and no matter how much she struggled, she was powerless. It was suffocating and painful.
Huo Yishen didn’t say anything, but he could empathize with her.
That evening, after Doudou had dinner, she went back to her room.
Huo Yishen washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen.
After taking a bath and returning to his room, Jiang Ning brought up Doudou’s situation. “Did you find out what’s wrong?”
He had found out, but there was no way to resolve it.
The end of the world is no joke, and Huo Yishen could not let Doudou go out into the world.
After learning about Doudou’s struggle, Jiang Ning also fell silent. After a long while, she finally spoke. “Doudou might have depression.”