Chapter 746.

“Doggie! Doggie!”

One prod after another roused Doggie from his slumber.

He rolled over on the hardwood plank bed and rubbed his eyes as he crawled up in a heap.

Smacking his lips, the dog felt strange.

He’d had a long, strange dream last night, and yet he couldn’t recall half of it now.

And the call from outside the house made the dog have to stop remembering and hurriedly put on his coat to go out.

A middle-aged man was sharpening his knife in the small courtyard, hearing the dogzi’s footsteps running out, he said without lifting his head, “Breakfast is on the table, go work in the field after you finish eating, today father is going to go out hunting with the hunting team.”

“Hey!”

The dog subconsciously agreed, and again felt that something was wrong.

But he couldn’t tell where it was wrong.

“What are you waiting for?”

The rough-looking middle-aged man chided, “Don’t miss the time, our next year’s rations depend on those three acres of land!”

The dog’s heart panicked, and he hurriedly ran back into the house.

Only to see a bowl of boiled yams on the small table, and a dish of pickled salted vegetables.

Took a taro, skillfully peeled off the rough outer skin, on the sour pickles, the dog devoured.

As his hunger was gradually filled, many past memories surfaced in the dog’s mind.

His name is Chen Er Dog, just turned fifteen this year, his mother died early, and he has been living with his father Chen Qiaoshan.

The small stone village where the father and son lived had a total of more than a hundred households and four to five hundred villagers, which was considered a fairly large village.

Chen Qiaoshan was a member of the village’s hunting team, often following the team as they went deep into the mists to hunt wild beasts.

Chen Ergu, on the other hand, had worked on the land when he was five or six years old.

Nowadays, he was already a qualified farmer.

Stuffing the last yam in the bowl into his mouth, Chen Erdog hurriedly swallowed it, then cleaned it up as fast as he could, picking up the hoe that was resting in the corner and heading out of the house.

Chen Qiaoshan was waiting for him at the door and didn’t say much, the father and son rushed in the direction of the village entrance.

The houses in Xiaoshi Village were all made of large stones, with yellow mud mixed with sand and gravel filled in between the cracks, and the roofs were covered with stone slabs, quite primitive and rugged.

Although such stone houses had poor lighting and ventilation, they were strong and secure.

In the early morning, the whole village was covered by mist, and the sky was gray when looking up, the sun could only be seen as a silhouette.

But this already belongs to the good weather!

At the entrance of the village, the two of them met the hunting party that was fully loaded and ready to go.

“Brother Qiaoshan!”

Someone greeted Chen Qiaoshan, “Come here!”

“Coming!”

Chen Qiaoshan waved his hand, then touched Chen Erdog’s head and said, “Dog, after you finish your work, go home and stay there, don’t run around inside the village, wait for me to come back okay?”

“Uh-huh!”

Chen Erdog nodded vigorously.

He had never stepped out of Little Stone Village since he understood.

The inside of the village was fine, the world outside of the village was shrouded in mists, and anyone unfamiliar with the situation who ventured out would basically have no chance of coming back alive.

Because in the mists there were often ferocious beasts that ate people without spitting out their bones!

Chen Ergou is different from those naughty kids in the village, he doesn’t have that kind of strong curiosity, and he also keeps his father’s admonition in his heart, and has never done anything rebellious.

Carrying a heavy stone hoe, Chen Ergou arrived at the Tunwei field at the east end of the village.

All of the arable land in Xiaoshi Village was here, totaling more than five hundred mu, and with the exception of a handful of large households, basically every family was allotted about three mu.

A family’s most basic rations were to be obtained from these three mu of land.

When Chen Ergu came over, there were already quite a few men, women and children plowing, hoeing, fertilizing and watering the fields.

Everyone was so busy that no one cared about his arrival.

Chen Ergou came to his own field and looked at the weeds that had appeared overnight, he spat into his rough palms and then grabbed the hoe handle and started working.

These weeds would compete for the nutrients of the yams, growing fast and not easy to eradicate, very annoying!

Chen Ergou is also considered an old crop handler, plus young and strong, so after some hard work, it did not take a long time to clean up all the weeds in the ground.

He wiped the sweat on his forehead and felt a sense of satisfaction.

The next step is to water the yams.

Although the yams are drought-resistant, they grow best when there is enough water, and if they are carefully plowed, they can produce hundreds of pounds of usable root pieces per acre, which is the food that the people in the village eat every day.

So it must be watered every day, one trip in the morning and one trip in the evening.

Just at this time, Chen Ergou subconsciously rubbed his fingers, his thumb, middle finger and little finger pinching out a strange gesture.

Eh?

After making this gesture, Chen Ergu was flabbergasted.

He did not understand why he made such a gesture, to say that it was a whim, but it was not so familiar and skillful!

Chen Er Dog couldn’t help but scratch his head, feeling like he was going crazy.

There was something wrong when he got up this morning!

This fifteen year old boy slapped his face hard and scrambled to grab a bucket to scoop water from the river.

There was a small river next to the Tunwei fields, its water stayed dry all year round and was crystal clear, making it the most important water source for Xiaoshi Village.

Chen Ergou hit a bucket full of water at the riverside and was about to go back when he suddenly felt a trace of abnormality.

He turned his head to look with a huff, but only saw the mist floating on the river, the rest was nothing.

What madness!

Chen Erdog shook his head and turned back with the heavy bucket of water.

“Dogzi!”

As a result, just halfway there, several teenagers around Chen Ergou’s age stopped him in his tracks.

“Give me the bucket!”

The lead teenager’s burly and aggressive appearance caused Chen Ergou to instinctively fear, subconsciously wanting to hand over the barrel to the other party.

However, he snapped to the thought that he had been forcibly robbed of his water barrel by the person in front of him before, and although he had returned them all later, it had also delayed his watering and had had an adverse effect on the yams he had planted.

Resulting in a drop in yield!

Chen Ergou retracted his hand and said offhandedly, “No, you have to fetch the water yourself!”

The burly teenager’s eyes instantly widened.

He hadn’t bullied Chen Ergou for a day or two, but today, for the first time, he saw that the latter had actually resisted him, and instantly felt humiliated.

“You have to give it even if you don’t!”

The burly teenager clenched his fist viciously, “Or else I’ll beat you up!”

But Chen Ergou had already ironed out his heart at the moment, carrying the bucket and about to bypass the other party.

The burly teenager was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, and without thinking, he blasted out his fist towards Chen Ergou.

He had just learned a few martial arts techniques from the elders of his family two days ago, and naturally used them at this moment, blasting his fist at Chen Ergou’s head.

Bang!

Chen Er Dog couldn’t dodge and ate this punch, instantly dizziness and blurred consciousness, the intense pain seemed to stimulate a certain part of his mind.

Immediately, countless memories broke out of the seal and occupied Chen Er Dog’s brain.

His eyes turned white and he fell to the ground with a plop!