After the New Year, when Zhao Jun returned from the Yongxing Brigade, Tao Xiaobao went to the production team, bought four chickens, and gave them to Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu.
After their return, the Zhao and Li families divided the chickens. Wang Meilan picked a rooster and a hen. In the spring, the pair hatched a brood of chicks, and the little chicken family was living happily, never wanting for food or drink. But on the very day they'd given medicine to their bear, Black Tiger had sent the rooster down the Road to the Underworld.
Perhaps on the day Black Tiger sent the big rooster off, he had told it, "Take a rest on the Road to the Underworld. I'll be sending your wife down to you soon." And so, the old hen also fell victim to Black Tiger's vicious jaws.
When Zhao Jun came out, he saw Black Tiger carrying the dead old hen in its mouth. It trotted up to Little Bear and placed the hen, which had a bloody hole in its neck, at the cub's feet.
