Chapter 37—Returning Home (5)

A string of crystal water jets fell on the dog's face from the sky, causing Rancho and Lan Ying to laugh, this is the disaster that the little dog lying on the dog's palm brought to his father.

The sky was overcast and terrible, black clouds were low overhead, there was no wind, and the rain was pouring down.

On the low hills, there were only a family of four dogs, two horses, two dogs, and eleven sheep.

It was a very small piece of land, and the rest of the meadow was now an ocean.

The dog's family has been trapped on this mountain bag for two days, and the torrential rain seems to show no signs of stopping, all of them are wet, and the only dry place is the dog, Lan Ying, Rancho's hands, and the puppy's swaddling clothes.

For two days, the little dog continued to sleep soundly on the hands of his father, mother, and aunt.

Not far away is a wooden stick, a warning sign set up by the dogs, and once the flood waters have crossed this stick, the dogs have to make the last preparations for escape - kill all the sheep to make a sheepskin raft.

As for where he will be taken by the sheepskin raft, the dog does not know.

The cowhide on the top of the head has been soaked in rain and bulged, because of the increase in weight, the middle of the cowhide roof is constantly sagging, Lan Ying had to stand up again and again to push the cowhide up, so as not to let the dented place continue to accumulate water.

After feeding the puppy a belly of goat's milk, Rancho said worriedly: "How can there be such a big rain?" ”

Lan Ying looked at the gloomy sky outside the shed worriedly and said, "Could it be that the Kunlun God won't let us go to the Han Land?" ”

The dog smiled: "This is my family's ancestors who are helping us, with this heavy rain, the Da Yan clan will really think that we are dead, and will no longer send people to hunt us down." ”

Rancho nodded, "That's right, in the past, when there was a big flood, we always had to leave the place where there was water and go to live on high ground. ”

The dogs huddled around the dog suddenly barked wildly, and the dog looked around, only to see a wolf swimming in the water with difficulty, and when he saw the mountain bag where they were, he swam desperately in this direction.

The dog took the knife and braved the heavy rain to come to the water's edge, and the wolf ignored the dog's existence, staggered ashore, and before it could catch its breath, the long knife in the dog's hand cut off the wolf's head.

While the blood on the wolf's body was still hot, the dog put his mouth up and drank two mouthfuls of wolf blood, and then dragged the wolf's corpse back to the bottom of the shed.

After throwing the wolf's carcass to the two dogs, the dog sat down again on the stone that had been warmed by his body and smiled: "When we are at home, every time it rains heavily, it is a good time for us to eat a warm pot to remove moisture.

A lot of dogwood and pepper were added to the pot, and it was full of thinly sliced meat from the cook, sometimes lamb, sometimes pork, sometimes a whole chicken.

Actually, I like to eat a warm pot full of pork bones and sweat all over my stomach.

Everyone in the family likes to eat, only the head of the family will get angry at this time, saying that there is nothing in the hot pot...... Chili pepper...... Eat a fart, once I almost threw the pot out, and the housewife said that the head of the house was crazy......

Since then, I have memorized the word chili, and after asking the head of the house, I wrote these two words and asked others, which is very strange, no one knows, even the erudite Mr. Sima does not know these two words, and he lost his temper and said that the head of the house is making things up.

Actually, I think the head of the family must not be making things up, Mr. Sima doesn't know those two words, he is uneducated, judging from the head of the family's desperate eagerness, there must be such a thing as chili! ”

Lan Ying swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "I haven't eaten a warm pot." ”

The dog took Lan Ying and Lan Qiao who was holding the child into his arms and said, "I haven't eaten it for a long time." ”

Rancho placed the puppy in the middle of the three, carefully avoiding wet clothes, and the body of the whole family of four was tightly together. The three adults use their body temperature to create a relatively warm space for the puppy.

I don't know how long it took, the dog suddenly stood up and came to the place where the wooden stick was inserted to look at it for a while, and said to Lan Ying, Rancho smiled: "The flood is about to recede, you see that the water surface is starting to fall." ”

Lan Ying, Lan Qiao suddenly cheered, but woke up the sleeping puppy, so the little life began to bark at the top of his voice.

The rain had stopped far away, so the flood water would fall, which meant that the dark clouds overhead would not stay long.

Shepherds generally do not encounter such a plight as dogs, they generally do not graze in low-lying areas, let alone stay in low-lying places for a long time, their pastures are fixed and safe places.

The reason why the dog's family ended up in such a field is entirely because they dare not go to a safe place.

Places with pastures should be avoided, places with shepherds, and places with cattle and sheep should be avoided, and they did not even dare to take the path that the cattle and sheep had trodden......

Liu Ling did not give up the pursuit of the dog, and on two occasions if the dog hadn't discovered the Hun rangers first, and then quickly escaped, the fate of their whole family would have been very tragic.

In the evening, the sun finally came out, and the dark clouds on the horizon soon turned into red fiery clouds.

The sky was wet and cold, but the air was warmed by the remnant sun.

The dog quickly slaughtered all the six dead sheep, and he didn't know how many edible parts he would have tomorrow, and at this time, he couldn't care about it.

The lamb is smeared with salt foam and hung on the red sandstone to air dry...... This can only be saved for a while, and for a long time, the dog does not have much hope.

The flood water disappeared much faster than the dog expected, and after a good night's sleep, he found that the weeds under the hillside had resurfaced, and only the grass roots were still covered with a layer of clear water.

The wet red sandstone was now damp, and the clothes of the four men were all covered in it, waiting to be dried by the sun.

Some of the firewood collected last night is still not dry, which makes the dog very anxious, it doesn't matter if the adult eats cold food for two more days, the dog needs a dry environment now, and there is already a prickly heat on his little fart, in the folds at the base of his thighs.

After taking stock of his belongings, the dog found that the reality was worse than he expected, the big sheep, two horses, and two dogs were left under the shed, and six of the ten sheep that had been watered by the rain for more than two days died.

As soon as the July sun came out, it was fierce and terrible, and although the blue and blue beauty of the sky was suffocating, the red sun was roasting the earth.

The clothes are dry, but they are wet with moisture, and they are always not dry enough.

Still, the fire burned.

The puppy lay down in the iron pot, and seemed to be very happy, constantly flapping in the warm water, and when Rancho had washed the puppy, he dried it with the driest cloth and lay it down on a dried blanket.

The south pointed by the compass is a swamp, which is actually expected by the dog, if you go to the relatively dry east, it seems bad, if Li Guang comes out of the right Beiping, now, the east is the place where the two armies face each other at this time.

As for the north side...... That's where the dogs fled.

In the absence of a choice, the dog can only bite the bullet all the way to the west, in this direction, at this moment, there should be a lot of Huns grazing here.

For some reason, when leaving this mountain bag that had sheltered them for three days, Lan Ying, Rancho, and even the dog were a little reluctant.

They all vividly remember how ecstatic the family of four was when they saw the mountain bag in the pouring rain.

Now, it's hard to calm down when you want to leave.

Although they all know that the security here is just an illusion......

When they left Dragon City, they were very confident, and after encountering countless difficulties along the way, the dog still insisted on returning to Chang'an.

Now, the dog is not sure if he is lucky enough to return to Chang'an, however, there is no way out.

They can only bite the bullet and go down.

The flood-washed grasslands were unusually clean, no more hungry wolves watching them in the distance, and no more terrifying scorpions trying to get into their clothes at night.

It's just that the road becomes very difficult to walk, as long as you go wrong, you will go around a big circle, at this time, for avoiding the Huns, the dog has no hope.