"I understand, mother, but we can't just leave it like this, right?"
"Mom thinks we can do this. Let's follow Potato and see what's going on first. We don't want to alert the enemy. You have a very important mission these days."
"Me? Mom, what do you want to do? Erwa can definitely take care of it." Besides, this is a matter about potatoes.
"You have to learn to train potatoes."
"Train potatoes? How to train them?" Erwa thought this was very interesting after hearing it, so he became interested.
Now the potatoes have grown to above Xia Manni's knee height. A dog like this can do many things.
It's just that their family was busy going up the mountain to prepare things for the winter, so they didn't spend more time paying attention to potatoes.
If Erwa hadn't mentioned this matter today, it would probably take a long time for Xia Manni to discover this situation.
Xia Manni had seen similar videos of dog training before, and she felt that a dog of Potato's height was suitable for training.
This will be a great ability for the Xia family to guard their home, as well as for its own self-defense in the future.
"Mom, how do you train Potato?" Erwa found it interesting and novel when he heard it.
"Okay, we have so much mountain produce that we can't even store it all. You can take a few days off starting tomorrow. When we've trained Potato, you can go up the mountain with him."
Since the potatoes are in danger, it is not safe for the children to go up the mountain again.
The children nodded, and then Xia Manni ended the topic. The Xia family returned to their nightly study time.
The next day, just after dawn, Erwa was waiting outside the house with Potato.
It’s just that Xia Manni’s biological clock has been established. Even if she wakes up early, she will always be the last one to wake up. She has gotten used to it.
This morning, after Xia Manni finished washing up, she saw Erwa and Tudou standing upright in the yard.
"Erwa, come and eat first." Xia Manni looked at Erwa with amusement. She felt that Erwa seemed to be always so motivated and energetic, which was good.
The five members of the Xia family were already sitting on small chairs, and breakfast was made by Da Wa and Sinier.
At the beginning, Xia Manni would express her own ideas. She was thinking of asking her to make breakfast one day, but none of the four children listened to her.
Later, she simply stopped interfering, so now she only cooks when the children are not at home, or makes some meals that they don’t know how to cook.
However, even if it is a meal they don’t know how to cook, as long as they watch Xia Manni make it once, Da Wa and Sinier will be able to learn it.
In short, in the kitchen, Xia Manni's status is becoming less and less important.
But this is good, it's good for everyone to do their job well.
"Wait a minute." Today's breakfast consisted of the leftover mixed flour pancakes, steamed wild sweet potatoes and thinner rice soup.
A few days ago, Shizai Village had just paid its taxes. After paying the taxes, Xia Manni felt that their family was no longer very rich in rice, so she told her children to only drink rice soup for breakfast and dinner.
Potato eats about the same amount as them every day, so I don’t feed him much. But if I don’t feed him, you won’t be able to tell what he wants to eat.
This time, Erwa put a piece of pancake for Potato as usual, but unexpectedly he was stopped by Xia Manni.
Although Erwa was a little confused, he still obediently took the cake back.
"Erwa, watch how your mother feeds you." Xia Manni gestured to Erwa to watch her movements.
"Potato, come here." Because Erwa was the one who fed Potato the most every day, even though Xia Manni called Potato, Potato did not come over immediately.
"Come here, Potato, let me feed you." Xia Manni took out a pancake and shouted to Potato.
Big Baby: Wait? Something is wrong.
Erwa: Hmm?
Sanwa: Should Potato call him brother?
Si Nier: ...
Unexpectedly, when Xia Manni said this, Potato had already run to her.
"Come, Potato. Sit down like this." Xia Manni gave Potato an instruction and made a sitting gesture with her hands.
Potato thought Xia Manni was giving it something delicious, so he lowered his head as well. Ditou didn't see any food, so he scratched his eyes with his legs.
Xia Manni did not give up or complain, and continued to repeat the previous instructions and actions.
Finally, when Xia Manni shouted for the tenth time, Potato actually sat down.
"Wow, Potato sat down. It sat down. Potato is so awesome." Sanwa shouted excitedly.
Although Erwa and Dawa didn't say anything, they both looked at Potato with smiles on their faces. Even Sinier was staring at Potato's movements intently, an expression she only showed when she was studying herbs.
"Great potato, mom will give you a reward." Xia Manni smoothed the potato's fur and then put the pancake on the ground.
He ate the potatoes quickly and waited for more.
"Erwa, you try it."
Erwa nodded and called Potato over. He imitated Xia Manni's movements and instructions, asking Potato to sit down before giving it food.
This time the potatoes didn’t take long to cook. They were ready when Erwa gestured for the second time.
Sanwa looked at it with envy and wanted to try it too, but Potato refused to give him any face and refused to sit down.
"Maybe it's full, or maybe it doesn't trust you enough. Sanwa, just watch from the side and let your second brother train."
When training a dog, you must find the owner it trusts the most. It is obvious that the owner that Potato trusts the most in this family is Erwa. As for why he trusts her, she thought that maybe it is because he can sense who has the final say in the family.
After dinner, everyone else started preparing to dry the mountain products.
Xia Manni continued to train Erwa and Tudou with various commands.
Especially when training running and stopping, it is still a bit difficult for Potato. Potato runs very fast, but it is a bit difficult to make it stop.
Later, Xia Manni no longer cared about the two of them, and Erwa trained Potato's commands and movements for a day.
In the evening, Erwa even brought Potato over to show everyone.
At this time, Potato can already understand the actions of sitting down, standing up, running, and stopping.
Warm applause broke out in the Xia family's yard, and Erwa scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Erwa, you should teach Potato to pick up the things you throw away. After he learns, let him pick up things that are not far away."
Since the previous training results were very significant, Erwa started with full confidence.
Unexpectedly, this time Erwa encountered the "Waterloo" of his dog training career.
It turns out that Potato is very quick in picking up the things that Erwa throws out, but is very slow in picking up the things he specifies.
In this way, Erwa trained Potato day and night for three days before Potato finally understood the instructions.
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