At this time, the local dog rubbed against Xia Manni's feet and barked a few times.
"Of course, there is also our great hero." Xia Manni picked up the local dog.
"I say, children. Now I declare that Tu Gou Zi is now officially a member of our family. Do you have any objections?"
Before this, Xia Manni had seen several children feeding food to the local dogs several times, and she turned a blind eye to it.
Perhaps from the very beginning they regarded Tugouzi as a member of their own family.
She was just taking advantage of the situation to make the matter more reasonable. Otherwise, it would be unreasonable for their family to keep a dog when they were so poor.
"Haha, that's great." The happiest person was Sanwa, who was also the one who fed the most local dogs in the family.
"Sanwa, there's something I need to tell you. You can't make pancakes for the local dog anymore."
Sanwa didn't expect that his mother knew everything, so he nodded vaguely.
"Mom, let's give the dog a name."
"Come on, tell us what good ideas you have." At this time, Xia Manni had already brought the children and Tu Gouzi into the house.
She lit the oil lamp. Since no one could sleep now, she might as well have a conversation to help the children relax from their previous tension.
"Mom, let's let Gouzi have the surname Xia?" Big Boy suggested.
"Big Baby, your suggestion is very good. Tell me what nice names you would give me."
This stumped Da Wa, and he thought of a prestigious name.
"Just call him Gouzi." Erwa said impatiently.
He was a little sleepy that a dog had to hold a meeting just to name it.
"How about calling him Big Dog?" Sanwa suggested.
Xia Manni stroked her forehead and couldn't help thinking that she had forgotten the ages and experiences of several children, and they probably didn't have such a large vocabulary.
"Well, let's call it potato. Look at it, it's round and plump, just like a potato."
"Mom, what are potatoes? Are they delicious?" When Erwa said this, he became excited.
Xia Manni looked at the children with puzzled faces and thought to herself that it was not good. She had forgotten that potatoes did not exist in this era.
"Potatoes, you haven't heard of potatoes? They're a food from my hometown. Many people like to eat them. They're similar to sweet potatoes and grow in the soil."
The children were stunned for a moment and said, "Then let's call you Potato, Summer Potato. Hehe, you will have a name from now on, Summer Potato."
Big Boy picked up the potato and said to it with a smile.
At this time, the potato didn't know what was going on, but it seemed that since they all called it "potato", it knew that its name was potato.
From then on, Potato never left the Xia family and stayed with Xia Manni until he passed away.
After the incident with the thief, the Xia family gradually returned to a peaceful life.
Every day they went up the mountain to collect various things. In addition to food, they also started looking for medicinal herbs.
The first batch of mountain products in the yard has been almost dried, and they can actually fill two large sacks.
At this time, Xia Manni decided to take her four children to the market to sell mountain products.
Who knows, plans cannot keep up with changes.
Before we had time to go, the last heavy rain of autumn arrived, which was also an unusual autumn rain in Shizai Village.
Every autumn rain brings a chill, and this autumn rain lasted for three days.
When it first started raining, the Xia family members were very busy.
The rain started to fall in the middle of the night, and the crackling sound hit the windows.
The first one to hear the sound was the eldest child, who quickly ran outside. In the yard was their family's house, filled with mountain produce they had just brought back from the mountains that day.
The yard was full of hanging things, and the eldest son was so panicked that he didn't know where to start.
So he began to blindly carry the baskets into the house.
The footsteps in the yard woke up everyone in the house. After Xia Manni put on her clothes, she saw that the rain was getting heavier.
At this time, she couldn't help but feel fortunate that the mountain products that had been dried in the sun had just been collected yesterday.
The five members of their family went back and forth three or four times before they moved all the baskets in the yard into the house.
Including the main room, there are three rooms in total, and more than a dozen baskets occupy all the open space.
In this way, everyone was soaked. Finally, Xia Manni took her straw raincoat and went to the woodshed to get some firewood to boil some ginger water to drink.
After Xia Manni had everyone drink ginger water, she soaked everyone's feet in hot water. It wasn't that Xia Manni was being pretentious, but their situation was really not optimistic.
Although they have food now, after paying taxes, there is only enough for them to eat.
The only hope of making money is the mountain products at home, and they can't afford to get sick at all.
On the first day of the rain, Xia Manni took out the cloth she had bought earlier and prepared to make thicker clothes for each of the people.
But when she picked up the line, she encountered the same problem again. She decided to wait and find someone to pay her some money to help her do it.
However, Si Ni'er saw the fabric and studied it for a long time.
After all, I was young and couldn’t understand it after studying it for a long time, but I kept reading it seriously.
It was the second day of rain, and the rain outside showed no sign of stopping. Xia Manni asked Da Wa to move the potatoes and chicken coop into the house.
The four children trapped in the house became a little bored, so Xia Manni decided to teach them some big words first.
They wrote with burnt charcoal on previously sliced bamboo strips.
Among these children, only the eldest one can write, but he probably hasn't written for a long time, and he can't even write big characters properly.
The remaining three children had no basic knowledge, so Xia Manni first taught them the characters "大" (big) and "小" (small). She decided to learn two characters every day, and when she had more money, she would buy the "Three Character Classic" (Three Character Classic) to teach them.
"Mom, why do I feel more sleepy the more I study?" Erwa started to feel sleepy while studying. The sky outside was gray, and such a rainy day was indeed more suitable for sleeping.
Xia Manni looked at Erwa with amusement and felt helpless for a moment. It seemed that Erwa was not cut out for academic study.
Compared to the eldest and third children, Sinier was more interested in why charcoal could be used to write on bamboo slips.
"Erwa, where did all your energy go? You'll definitely be getting more and more sleepy if you don't use any more energy."
"He has eaten up all of Second Brother's strength." Sanwa said quickly.
"Hahaha." Everyone in the room started laughing.
Only Potato seemed to be staring intently at something.
"Mom, look at what Potato is doing?" The first one to notice that something was wrong with Potato was Si Ni'er.
It was already dark outside, and Si Ni'er's voice was originally quite low, so her voice produced a terrifying sound effect.
"Si Ni'er, what are you doing? You scared me." Sanwa patted Si Ni'er in dissatisfaction.
"No, Si Ni'er is right. Why is Potato staring at that bared tooth?"
At this time, Erwa also noticed that something was wrong with Potato. He saw Potato grinning and his stomach rumbling, and he was about to bark.
"Tick-tick..." Then the ticking sound gradually became louder and broke the silence in the small room.
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