Chapter 82 Sincere and Warm
The dog took only one bite and stopped eating. He picked up the can and went back into the room next to the sheep pen.
Zhao Yeqing pointed at the dog's back and asked, "Does it mean to let us in?"
Mu Xi tried to push the fence door open and the two walked in.
Gou Zi didn't come out to stop them again. Zhao Yeqing was a little curious about what Gou Zi was doing, so he walked to the front of the room and looked around.
Seeing her sneaky look, Mu Xi couldn't help but curl his lips, walked over and opened the door.
"You're not a good person at all."
The two of them strode in, not letting the two cubs follow them.
This house is used by the owner to store grass. In winter, there is not much grass on the meadow, so the herders will harvest the grass in advance in the autumn, make it into hay or silage and stack it up so that the cattle and sheep can successfully overwinter.
Mu Xi had seen it when he was looking through the master's notes, which recorded the hay consumption data for last winter.
There was not much hay in the room now, just some scattered piles in the corner, nothing special. When they came in, they just took a look and left.
The two walked to the corner of the haystack. Behind the haystack were three puppies no more than 50 centimeters long. They had round eyes and pointed ears. Judging from their fur color, they must be its children.
The can was placed right in front of its child.
When the puppies saw the strangers, they shrank back a little, and the big dog nodded their heads to comfort them.
Afraid of disturbing them, Zhao Yeqing approached Mu Xi and asked softly, "What kind of dog is this?"
The big dog had yellow hair all over its body, except for some black and white hair on its belly. The puppies' hair was a bit mixed, one was mottled, one was almost the same color as the big dog, and another was mainly black with a little yellow and white hair.
Mu Xi was not sure either. "It looks like a mix of a pastoral dog and a shepherd dog."
Zhao Yeqing also thought so. Based on the sizes of the two dogs, these puppies were probably about four months old.
It also fits the characteristics of a four-month-old Border Collie. It is a little thin during the teething period, and its fur sticks to its body and is not very fluffy.
It could also be because no one takes a shower.
The big dog's fur was also a little clumpy.
Zhao Yeqing took out a few sausages from his backpack, unwrapped them, and handed them over.
The big dog looked at her and opened his mouth to take it.
Seeing that the dog had finally accepted her, Zhao Yeqing was delighted. When they got closer, she helped the dog take a bath and shave its hair.
At first she was surprised that no one was feeding the dog and how it was going to support itself and its children for so long.
When she squatted down to hand over the sausage, she saw a lot of animal skins and bones in the haystack.
"Dogs can hunt?" It looked like the remains of rabbits and rodents, and there were also feathers, not sure if they were birds or pheasants.
Mu Xi hadn't seen it either, and he lowered his eyes and recalled, "I've heard guests who stayed at the B&B talk about going to Tibet and seeing some herdsmen's dogs that were no less capable than wolves on the grasslands and could hunt rabbits."
Zhao Yeqing's eyes lit up when he heard this. "A dog that can hunt! So cool!"
The dog seemed to understand and gently wagged its tail and woofed.
Zhao Yeqing's desire to get close to it reached its peak at this moment!
The two men looked for a while and then walked out. They did not forget the leopard cub that was still outside, and they were afraid it would be eaten by the sheep.
Fortunately, the two were very well behaved. They were waiting at the door, and when they saw the two people coming out, they came over with a wronged look on their faces.
Zhao Yeqing comforted the two leopards and began to seriously plan their temporary stay here.
If it was a spur of the moment move before, now it is done without hesitation.
Apart from a few chickens still alive at home, there is nothing to worry about. The most serious thing is that the fence has been damaged by wild boars again, but that doesn’t matter. We can just rebuild it when the time comes.
There is also the issue of power supply. It may be unsafe to leave the solar panels at home outside for a long time, so they have to be taken back.
It is definitely impossible to bring it here. It is too heavy, and there is no road, so it cannot be transported by car.
If they live here, they can only use candles or oil lamps and torches for lighting.
There is no freezer left, but fortunately this place is not far from the village at the foot of the mountain, and it only takes a day to transport the supplies.
There are four rooms and a sheep pen, one is a hay room, one is the master bedroom, one is a tool room, and the other is a kitchen with very few pots and pans.
There was no stove, only a fire pit on the ground in the middle of the kitchen with a tripod on it for placing pots.
There are only two pots, one big black pot and the other a kettle-shaped pot for boiling water.
Zhao Yeqing suddenly realized, "Is there no toilet here?"
Mu Xi nodded and said jokingly, "This is a way to give back to nature."
Zhao Yeqing said he could not accept his inability, but if he wanted to live there, he must have a toilet and bathroom.
The owner usually fetches water, and there is not even a faucet in the house.
There was a well behind the house. Zhao Yeqing took a look and found that there was not much water in it. But in this situation, it was a blessing that there was still water.
To live here, in addition to repairing the house and building a toilet and bathroom, you also need to make an extra bed, and go down the mountain to get more tools, clothes, tableware and daily necessities.
This is not something that can be done in a few days.
We always have to plan our lives well. No one knows when order will be restored. If we can feed these sheep, the benefits we get will be significant.
Zhao Yeqing went to the sheepfold to check on the sheep and found that there were both sheep and goats, five sheep and seven goats, and most of them looked listless.
Sheep are not animals that can withstand high temperatures, but seeing the dog herding the sheep today, it always chooses shady hillsides. I don’t know how the owner trained the dog to be so smart.
However, it seems that the animals trained by the old man, whether they are pets or livestock, are extremely obedient.
Zhao Yeqing walked around the sheep pen and found that almost all the sheep had some problems.
Mu Xi frowned, "It doesn't match the number in the notebook. It's almost half less."
I don’t know whether he died of a disease caused by the heat or was hunted by a wild beast.
If they had come a dozen days later, I guess these wouldn’t have been saved.
Mu Xi took a notebook, went into the sheep pen, checked the condition of the sheep one by one, and recorded the characteristics of various diseases.
There are no special marks on these sheep. I guess there are no other herdsmen around, otherwise they would generally mark their own sheep to avoid confusion.
Mu Xi went into the sheep pen to check. The sheep were a little restless. The dog heard the noise and ran out, barking twice, thinking that Mu Xi was trying to steal the sheep.
Mu Xi finished a quick inspection and walked out, locking the sheep pen. He had already recorded a lot of information in the notebook in his hand.
The dog looked at this human who did not steal the sheep, and was still holding his owner's notebook in his hand, doing the same thing as his owner, wagging his tail lightly, sticking out his tongue and looking at him, somewhat hesitant and expectant, his eyes sparkling and wet.
It was like seeing the person it loved the most.
Mu Xi walked over, squatted down, and touched its head.
A dog's love is always sincere and passionate.
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