Lu Xiaoting saw his colleagues and boss off, then double-locked the courtyard gate before returning to the room.
Susu heard the man's voice and hurriedly got off the kang to open the door, holding Da Hei as she poked her head out to look, "Were they all caught?"
"Yes, wife, get some rest."
Susu then loosened the homemade cloth muzzle from Da Hei's mouth, cursing angrily, "They are just a bunch of absolutely rotten, worse than pigs and dogs, scum."
"Was the thing thrown into the yard meant to poison Da Hei?"
Lu Xiaoting nodded and helped put Da Hei, who was wagging its tail, down on the ground, "Yes, it was raw meat, probably laced with rat poison or something."
Hearing this, Susu became even more furious, "A bunch of damned scoundrels. Ptui, ptui, ptui... Calling them scoundrels is an insult to dogs.
