No, maybe it wasn't abandonment. After bringing the baby home, Charles returned to the place where he found the baby. He followed the traces left on the snow slope and saw the traces of being dragged, as well as the traces left at the scene.
Blood.
These traces lead to the cave of the forest overlord, a black bear.
After some investigation, Char found two young people who had just become parents from the list of missing persons. Perhaps they were attacked by black bears on the ground. Before they could celebrate the joy of the birth of their children, they were buried in the bear's mouth.
.
I heard that they were originally going to visit the elderly in the countryside, but there was a blizzard on the way, and an avalanche was caused by the migration of the Stormbirds, and they completely lost contact with the convoy.
Charles originally planned to give the baby to the old man, but when he found the town where the old man lived, he learned about it from the mouths of other townspeople.
The old man disappeared because he knew that the two young men came to visit him. He felt guilty all the time, and he died of mental and physical exhaustion within a few days.
There was no other way, so Char could only return to where he lived while feeling silent in his heart.
He did not send the baby to an orphanage because he was from there himself, so he knew what it was like to be an orphan.
If I hadn't had some talent and was spotted by my dead master...
The icy snow wind howled and hit Char on the face, causing him to snap out of his memories.
Seeing his now grown-up daughter standing up from the snow with a smile on her face, grabbing the rabbit's ears with her hands, Char felt a little dazed for a moment.
"Time flies so fast." Charr sighed and shook his head. He walked up to Fang Qingrou and said, "This is your dinner tonight."
"Hey!? Even a rabbit can't have enough to eat..." Fang Qingrou said with a bitter look on her face.
She has been in the dream world for more than a month and has long been accustomed to getting along with Charles. He said that she only had this one rabbit for dinner today, so that was really the only one.
"It feels like it's less." Charles chuckled twice and said, "If you feel it's less, go catch it again. If you can catch two more rabbits, you won't feel like there's too little for dinner."
"Er..."
Fang Qingrou looked embarrassed, feeling that what Charles said was unrealistic.
It took her a long time to catch this snowshoe rabbit. Now it was getting dark. Where could she catch another rabbit?
After all, she had just started learning with Charles for a month, and she was not very proficient in using bows and arrows.
In fact, with her physical fitness, it is easy to catch rabbits, but the difficulty is that Char won't let her do it!
According to Char, as a hunter, you need to be familiar with how to hide yourself and learn how to kill animals without being discovered.
Her behavior of using her physical strength to forcefully catch prey is fine against weak prey, but once she encounters a cheetah, tiger, or some powerful monsters, it will be of no use at all.
"Hahaha, if you can't catch it, there's nothing you can do~"
Seeing the embarrassed expression on Fang Qingrou's face, Chaer laughed loudly and then walked back.
"Let's go, let's see how the trap you set up this morning is on the way. Maybe you can catch something?"
"Yes, there are traps!"
Fang Qingrou suddenly remembered some of the traps she had set this morning. If those traps could catch prey, then she would have enough food for tonight.
"oh?"
When he came to the trap, Charles raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that the trap would actually catch something.
On the branches above my head, I saw a snow-white white fox wrapped in a large net. The little guy was lying in the net shivering, making pitiful screams.
"It's just a little guy who hasn't grown up yet." Charles sighed inaudibly, then untied the big net and placed the little fox on the snow.
"Woo~"
The little fox glanced at Fang Qingrou and then at the hunter. Her little mind didn't know why the two of them let her go, but she knew how precious her life was, so she ran away without looking back.
"Ah, what a pity." Fang Qingrou said as she looked at the fleeing white fox.
"There's nothing to be sorry for." Charles shook his head, and then said the words he had repeated countless times.
"Although we hunters are doing the job of hunting and killing life, don't forget that we are also a part of nature, and we must not hunt indiscriminately."
"I know, I know, master, you have said it many times." Fang Qingrou waved her hand.
"Haha..." Charles chuckled softly and put the trap back with skillful hands.
It is best not to leave traps in the wild after use. Although there is no such thing as protecting the environment in this world, most people have a respect for the forest.
After all, everyone knows that without this forest, there would be no traces of human beings and life.
"Although your trap caught a little guy who is not yet underage, since you have caught it, consider it a success." Char said as he stuffed the components of the trap into his backpack.
Fang Qingrou, on the other hand, was stunned for a moment and quickly understood what the other party meant.
"Yeah!"
"Haha, you stinky girl." Char looked at the excited Fang Qingrou and shook his head helplessly.
.........
Chaer and Fang Qingrou returned to the familiar cabin, and the sound of wind and snow was immediately blocked outside the thick wooden door.
"Huh, it's still warm in the room." Fang Qingrou rubbed her hands, couldn't wait to go to the fire, lit the firewood inside, and then stuffed two more pieces of firewood inside.
Charles didn't say anything when he saw this, he just quietly took off his snow-covered coat and hung it on the wall of the room.
"..."
After bringing in the frozen meat hanging outside the window, Charles opened the cabinet and rummaged through it, then frowned.
"We don't have enough vegetables at home. Let's go to the city tomorrow to have a look and sell the harvest from these days." Char looked at Fang Qing Judo.