Chapter 51 Chapter 51 The shepherd is sick and can’t travel long distances…

The shepherd fell ill and could not travel long distances, so Ming let him stay in the camp during the day. After he had a fever, he became unconscious and drowsy. He lay in bed, refusing to eat or drink, as if waiting to die.

With his physical condition, he actually doesn't get sick easily, and even if he does, he will recover quickly. But the current situation is completely incomprehensible to him, and it manifests itself in his body.

It's not that he can't recover, it's just that the day he can't think straight, the day he will get sicker. If he wants to get better, he has to think clearly.

Bai Tianming waited for a while, and he finally opened his eyes, as if he was awake, but when Bai Tianming went to look for him, his eyeballs didn't even move, as if he was dead, and his body was just resurrected.

Coupled with his weird sheep-like pupils, the scene was truly terrifying.

Fortunately, they were the only two in the room at the time, so no one else would be frightened. Bai Tianming was unaffected, so he pulled up a chair and sat beside his bed, watching him.

They were silent, and the room was extremely quiet. Finally, the shepherd lying on the bed felt uneasy because of Bai Tianming's gaze. He couldn't bear it anymore and asked him, "Did you come here to see me?"

Bai Tianming smiled at him and said, "There are only two people here." The implication was that Bai Tianming was indeed looking for him.

The shepherd sighed and felt a headache. He didn't want to talk much, but he also didn't want Bai Tianming to continue sitting next to him and watching him silently. This was about to arouse his anger.

Because it would make him feel like he was being collected as a trophy, but he didn't have the energy to get angry, so he used a tired voice to try to scare Bai Tianming and make him leave on his own. With a blank expression and very indifferent, he asked, "What's the matter?"

"Look at you." Bai Tianming looked at his expression of being unable to bear it but having to endure it, and found it really interesting, and couldn't help laughing.

He is completely different now than when he first appeared.

The shepherd frowned, wanting to drive him away. He deliberately turned his head away, no longer looking at him. With a cold face, he said in a tone of indifference and disgust: "I don't want you to look at me. You should leave."

Originally, he wanted to say, are you a winner coming to see the fate of a loser?

This kind of words were more emotional, more unreasonable, and more in line with his needs, because he knew very well that Bai Tianming was probably not that kind of person, at least so far, he had not shown that tendency to him.

But when he said that, he was being derogatory and there was a certain probability that he would anger Bai Tianming.

He originally wanted to use a contemptuous tone, which would be easier to get rid of, but then he thought, he was the loser, and now he was bedridden, at a disadvantage, and living in someone else's camp.

Even his flock of sheep were mostly kept nearby because Bai Tianming had taken care of them. So what qualifications did he have to show contempt or disdain towards the winner?

Even if we don't mention Bai Tianming's many cares for him, just mentioning Bai Tianming's fighting ability, which is much stronger than his. Just based on this point, he has no way of feeling any disgust towards Bai Tianming.

He knew himself very well. He could not feel respect for Bai Tianming because that kind of thing was too heavy and went against his nature. However, it did not prevent him from thinking that Bai Tianming was a good person and worthy of his admiration because of his words and deeds.

After all, it is very difficult to be a good person in a bad environment. In his eyes, being a good person like Bai Tianming is even more difficult than that.

"If that's the case, there's no way you can get rid of me." Bai Tianming looked at the shepherd lying on the bed, as if he was looking at a cat that had just moved into a new home and was so angry that its fur stood on end, and said calmly.

There was nothing he could do about it. It was really hard for him to have any particularly bad emotions towards a patient who looked so weak.

The shepherd's chest heaved as if he was angry, and his face turned red for a brief moment, as if the blood was rushing to his head. Bai Tianming was a little worried looking at him, wondering if he would faint from anger.

But he was awake. He closed his eyes for a moment, then said in a very pious tone: "If I die here, the Black Goat Mother will send someone to pick me up. I don't need you."

Bai Tianming could sense his rejection and immediately changed his tone to a sinister one. A sneer crossed his face and he said, "I'm here to guard you. I don't need your consent. I'm staying here precisely to prevent you from finding others from the Black Goat Mother and causing trouble for this land. Do you think that while you're here, you have the final say on everything?"

The shepherd had to admit that this angered him.

He glared at Bai Tianming and said, "You're going too far!"

Bai Tianming raised his chin towards him, looking down at him as if it was a matter of course, as if he didn't take him seriously at all. With a hint of teasing in his provocation, he slowly said with a curl of his lips, "Loser, there's no point in talking to reason."

The shepherd almost fainted from anger.

Bai Tianming saw that he was really angry and didn't intend to continue to provoke him, so he just said lightly: "Have a good rest." After a while, he turned and left.

If he is really driven crazy, in the end, it will be this land that suffers. Bai Tianming doesn't want anything to happen to this land.

Later, the shepherd figured it out on his own.

His illness was cured.

After he recovered from his illness, perhaps because his body and mind had regained calm, his emotions became much more stable and he was not so easily angered, but he also seemed to care about nothing, so no matter what happened, it was difficult to provoke a reaction from him.

Bai Tianming felt that his condition was a little strange and wanted to persuade him to be more normal, but he didn't know how to say it in a way that would be just right, neither irritating him nor going too far.

After thinking about it, this was really a troublesome matter, so Bai Tianming gave up. After all, it was not him who was abnormal. Even if the shepherd was abnormal, as long as it did not affect him, nothing else mattered. Why bother about it so much?

"It's getting late," the shepherd said as he sat in the yard. He looked up at the sky, which was overcast with gloomy clouds. "If we don't offer a sacrifice, the Black Goat Mother will just pick a random piece of land. I can't guarantee that this won't be chosen."

"So what do you mean?" Bai Tianming sat opposite him and looked at him, asking calmly.

"I think," the shepherd glanced at him, then looked away calmly, like a yellow leaf blown off by the autumn wind, unworthy of mention, "you choose a piece of land."

"Which piece of land do you choose?" The shepherd felt that he had made an unlimited concession, but there was nothing he could do. After all, he had made a promise. He was the loser, and he couldn't go back on his word. That would be too inappropriate. So, with a deadpan expression, he said, "I will sacrifice that piece of land."

Bai Tianming thought about it. When the shepherd was sick, he got the map left by the ancients, sent people out to make a comparison, and remade the map. At this time, the map was hanging on the wall of his room, so he could use it at any time.

Comparing the map with the place he found, there was no place that matched the requirements. He nodded, asked someone to bring the map, spread it out on the table, picked a place at random, and asked the shepherd for his opinion: "Is this the place?"

The shepherd took a look and nodded, "Okay, but I need to take my sheep with me to confirm the situation first, and then I can offer the sacrifice. This is the procedure."

"Shall I send someone to take you there?" Bai Tianming asked tentatively.

It wasn't that he couldn't go with the shepherd, but the shepherd might not agree, so he didn't mention it. He could also just let the shepherd go, but that was too unsafe.

Who knew if the shepherd, after leaving with the sheep, would secretly sacrifice something to Bai Tianming's camp without their knowledge? This was no gamble.

The shepherd knew Bai Tianming's concerns, looked at Bai Tianming and said, "If you are worried, you can go with me." After all, although he could not beat Bai Tianming, it was easy to kill the people sent by Bai Tianming.

If someone really doesn't trust him and lets others go with him, he can still kill those people. Killing those people is nothing to him.

Bai Tianming looked at him thoughtfully, not knowing why he suddenly became so kind. However, he was so considerate that there was no reason for him to refuse. He smiled and said, "Then I'll go with you."

The shepherd was a little surprised that Bai Tianming agreed, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this was indeed what Bai Tianming would do. After all, it would be dangerous for others to do it, but he would not.

Even if things fail, there will be no further losses. If the situation is critical, perhaps he can still turn the tide. He is really the best choice.

The shepherd nodded and replied expressionlessly, "Okay."

After offering sacrifices to the land, the black goat kids stayed on the land and spontaneously built a temple there to worship the Black Goat Mother, and placed a statue of the Black Goat Mother in the temple.

As Bai Tianming prepared to leave, the shepherd stood at the edge of the sacrificial ground, silently looking at the ancestral hall that had appeared overnight. With a blank expression on his face, he said to Bai Tianming, "Please wait a moment."

Bai Tianming didn't understand what was going on, but he stopped and saw him walk straight into the ancestral hall. After a while, he walked out again.

Bai Tianming looked at him. He walked straight towards him as if he was walking into an ancestral hall and said to Bai Tianming, "Let's go."

At first, Bai Tianming didn't understand what he meant. He thought he was saying that you can leave. He nodded and turned around, intending to go back to the camp. After taking two steps, he suddenly stopped.

"Will you come with me?" Bai Tianming turned his head and looked at the shepherd who was one step behind him and asked with some confusion.

The shepherd nodded naturally and said, "I'll go with you."

"You're not staying here?" Bai Tianming asked in surprise.

"What are you doing here?" the shepherd asked, then explained, "I want to follow you."

Bai Tianming frowned: "Why?"

The shepherd stared at him intently, and gradually his lips curled up into a smile.