Chapter 81 Dog

How long is this period of time?

Zhao Yeqing planned to stay until they learned how to raise sheep at home.

The first thing to do, of course, is to find the sheep.

It is possible that the sheep dung they saw was not left by the sheep of this family.

But Mu Xi walked out of the house, walked around the house, and said, "It should be this one."

In addition to some sheep dung around the house, there was also a lot in the sheep pen, as well as sheep hoof prints, which seemed to be from recent times.

If there were other family members living here besides the corpses in the sheepfold, they would not have chosen to burn or bury the corpses.

Many elderly people living in rural areas believe in returning to their hometown. Even if their children have taken them to live in cities, they will ask their children to send their bodies back to their hometown for burial before they die.

Just abandoning the corpse in the sheepfold doesn't seem like something a family would do.

"Go out and look for it first. Once you find the sheep, you'll have the answer."

Zhao Yeqing nodded and put the backpack on his back.

Mu Xi's previous coat was torn when he rolled down the cliff while fighting with the hyenas, so he found a clean, slightly whitish thin coat from the owner's closet and put it on to block the sun.

The two men followed the traces of fallen grass and sheep dung and found some fenced areas on the meadow.

At first I thought they were some other crops planted, but when I got closer, I saw there was nothing inside except the same grass as outside.

If I had to say it, the grass inside was growing more lushly.

The two of them really don't understand this aspect, and all they can say is that they still have a lot to learn.

After searching for half an hour, the sun was shining brightly on my body without any shade from the trees.

Zhao Yeqing was fully armed, with almost no skin on his face exposed. At this moment, it was not just because he didn't want to get tanned, but the exposed parts would turn red after a while in the sun, and if it lasted any longer, a layer of skin would be torn off.

Suddenly, Huhu and Xuebing stopped, as if they had discovered the scent of some strange animal. They stopped and raised their tails, which was their defensive posture.

It wasn't like the way they met sheep. Huhu and Xuebing had never acted like this when they met animals like rabbits.

Could it be some ferocious beast?

Zhao Yeqing wanted to curse, what kind of suffering is this in the world?

But the two leopards' tails didn't stand up, and they didn't look like they were in the same state as when they encountered wild boars and hyenas.

She pulled Mu Xi's sleeve and asked, "What should I do?"

Mu Xi didn't move, he just stood there and tilted his ear, "Listen."

Zhao Yeqing had some tinnitus due to the heat, and he swallowed a few times to suppress it.

It seemed like...I heard a dog barking?

Not sure, let's listen again...

After a while, two crisp dog barking sounds were heard.

“Woof woof!”

Zhao Yeqing and Mu Xi looked up at the hill two hundred meters ahead, and saw a group of sheep running out from behind the hill. They were not jumping around in panic, but running forward in an orderly manner.

Like someone is herding the sheep behind?

After all the sheep ran down the hill, Zhao Yeqing saw a large yellow-haired dog appear over the hill. Against the light, its fur looked golden.

There was only a dog and no one behind it.

The dog was a little thin. When it saw the two people standing in the valley, it stood there and barked twice.

A bit fierce.

When he saw the leopard stepping out behind him, it was more than just a little ferocious.

The dog let out a low whining sound, followed by a few loud barks, as if trying to drive the people away.

The sheep were frightened when they heard the dog's barking. After the dog finished barking, it ran to the side of the flock and drove the frightened sheep back to the flock.

Sheep are very timid animals by nature. The two men did not dare to move forward for fear of scaring the flock and sending it scattering.

The two men retreated to the back of another small hill with their two cubs.

When the dog saw that the people were gone, he drove the sheep back.

The two followed from a distance and found that the direction the dog went back was the house of the family it had been to before.

What followed was an unexpected scene.

The dog drove the sheep back to the sheepfold, then stood up, closed the door of the sheepfold and bolted it.

Ah this...

Zhao Yeqing came to his senses, "This dog...could it be that after the master passed away, he continued to guard the sheep for him..."

Mu Xi hummed solemnly, "It should be."

They did not go near, but watched from a distance as the dog locked up the sheep, then barked happily at the white skeleton leaning outside the sheepfold, wagging its tail.

It seemed as if it was telling its deceased owner that it had successfully completed its mission again today.

Then he turned and walked into the room next to the sheep pen.

Zhao Yeqing sniffed and raised his head high.

But its owner could no longer pat its head and respond to it.

She calmed down, her nose still a little stuffy, and said in a muffled voice: "Then are we still going?"

"Let's try it." Mu Xi thought about the dog that had entered the house and never came out again. "That dog is obviously too thin. It probably doesn't eat enough on weekdays. If it continues like this, something bad will happen."

Hearing this, Zhao Yeqing nodded quickly, "Then let's go quickly."

The two men approached, but before they reached the door, the dog in the house rushed out, baring its teeth and barking at them.

"How can you get close to someone so fierce?"

Zhao Yeqing didn't dare to move forward. Mu Xi took two steps forward and blocked her behind him.

The dog's mood miraculously calmed down a little before and after Mu Xi walked over. Although it was still standing blocking the door, it did not bark like before.

Zhao Yeqing opened his eyes wide, "You still have this ability?"

Mu Xi was not expecting this either. He was stunned for a second, then he looked down and suddenly realized.

“It’s this dress.”

These were the clothes he took from his owner's closet. The dog must have let down his guard a little when he smelled the scent.

There was a simple wooden fence outside the house. Mu Xi squatted down and slowly approached it, making a "chu chu chu" sound to call the dog.

The dog seemed to have not heard this kind of sound for a long time. It also carried the scent of its owner, and its tail couldn't help but wag slightly.

Mu Xi reached his hand in from outside the fence and pretended to stroke its head.

Zhao Yeqing's heart was in his throat, and his hands were ready to pull the dog back if it pounced on him and bit him.

The dog didn't come forward, but it didn't try to bite him either. It just stood there motionless.

Mu Xi took out a can of pork from his backpack, opened it and handed it over.

The dog twitched its nose and turned its head away.

Mu Xi turned around and pulled Huhu over, scooped out a piece and fed it to the dog, then handed the rest of the can to the dog.

This time the dog moved, walked over, lowered its head, picked up the can and took a bite.

Huhu had just taken a bite when his mouth was pulled apart. He licked his lips in confusion.