My 1995 Small Farm.

Chen Ling was quite surprised by the behavior of the stray dog ​​when he visited Wang Lixian's house.

He originally thought that seeing the two tigers, Ah Fu and Ah Shou, would scare him half to death.

Who knew that once this dog had puppies, things would be different; when it got protective of its own, it was incredibly fierce.

To be precise, he was both crazy and ruthless.

Even with its tail between its legs, it bared its teeth and barked incessantly at the two dogs and two tigers, its posture suggesting it even wanted to pounce and bite.

This performance made Wang Lixian feel a little uneasy.

Tell Chen Ling to bring Heiwa back in a couple of days and separate the female stray dog ​​from the puppies as soon as possible.

Otherwise, it will be even more difficult to get the puppy to be affectionate in the future.

Anyone who has raised dogs in the countryside generally knows that puppies raised by their mothers are the last to recognize their owners.

In the puppy's mind, it only relies on its mother and has no concept of its owner.

Only by separating them can the puppy quickly recognize its owner.

Chen Ling readily agreed.

He brought back a litter of puppies from the lynx kennel, partly because of this consideration.

After all, you can't expect all dogs to be like the puppies you keep at home.

From a young age, I played and frolicked around my family with the big dog.

Besides, almost everyone in the family had fed them goat milk.

So much so that the puppy Chen Ling gave away was still incredibly affectionate towards her family.

Just like Wang Lixian's little yellowish-brown dog, as soon as Chen Ling entered the yard, it rushed to him and kept jumping on his legs, so excited that it didn't know what to do.

"Uncle Sangui, Baoshuan, why are you in such a hurry? Where are you going?"

As they left Wang Lixian's house, just as they were about to take a stroll in the mountains, they saw Chen Sangui hurriedly lock the door, and Chen Baoshuan was about to leave in his donkey cart.

She was so anxious that she didn't even have time to look in his direction.

"Ah? It's Fugui. Baoshuan's uncle in Taoshugou is gone. He was bitten by a wild dog during a wolf outbreak in the village. Sigh, it's only been a few days..." Chen Sangui sighed.

Chen Baoshuan also said, "We won't talk to you about Fugui anymore. My uncle's family is small, so we have to hurry over and help."

He looked very anxious as he spoke.

Don't let his past immaturity fool you; he was injured by wild boars twice before, and his uncle lent him money to go to the hospital for treatment.

Otherwise, given how much he and his wife had squandered his father's savings for his funeral, they wouldn't have been able to afford the hospital bills.

I just realized how close I was to my uncle, but then he passed away.

It really made him feel terrible.

"Go, go, hurry up and go. Ask your uncle's family if anyone else has been bitten. If they have, I'll find someone to help you get vaccinated as soon as possible."

Chen Ling waved his hand and said no more to them.

I thought to myself, judging by the mess this has made, he must have been bitten by a stray dog ​​and died of rabies.

People these days don't really understand the concept of getting a rabies vaccine.

Some people in the mountains don't even know what this thing is.

Because if you get bitten in the village, applying some medicine usually solves the problem, and the probability of developing an infection is relatively low.

But if you get bitten by a stray dog, you're basically guaranteed to die.

"What's wrong, Fugui? Who are you talking to?" Chen Yongsheng came out and looked around when he heard the voice.

“Uncle Sangui and Baoshuan… their relatives in Taoshugou were bitten by wild dogs and then fell ill and died.”

"Oh? So there are several people in our village who have been bitten by stray dogs!"

Chen Yongsheng was startled: "Didn't Yu Bin get several big bites from wolves? His hands were almost chewed up."

"I guess Yubin is probably fine. Sister-in-law Xiufen is very close to her nephews. It's been more than half a month, if something had happened, it would have happened by now."

Chen Ling shook his head.

He only knew that Chen Yubin had been injured by wolves, but he didn't know much about other people in the village who had been bitten by wild dogs.

If you are bitten by a stray dog ​​or a rabid dog, folk remedies or traditional Chinese medicine can cure it.

But it's not as safe as a rabies vaccine.

However, if you use folk remedies or traditional Chinese medicine methods to treat it in time, there shouldn't be any major problems.

"Are our family members alright? If anything happens, just tell me and I'll go get you the vaccines," Chen Ling asked.

He still tries to manage his own family members in his fourth grandfather's household as much as possible.

Moreover, other people spend more money on vaccines.

He knows people at the zoo who can get these kinds of vaccines easily; a single shot costs only twenty or thirty yuan at cost.

For something as life-saving as this, it's already a very cheap price.

Chen Yongsheng thought for a moment and shook his head: "I haven't heard of this among our own family. If we were to be bitten, our family would have known long ago."

"That's good... No, I have to go to Xian-ge's house again."

As Chen Ling spoke, he remembered Wang Lixian's stray dog. The dog was at the age where it was fiercely protective of its young, so it wasn't leashed and was simply locked in the small hut by Wang Lixian.

If it bites someone, it's no small matter.

Chen Ling didn't have time to say anything more to Chen Yongsheng and hurriedly returned to Wang Lixian's house.

It was mentioned that a stray dog ​​bit someone and caused their death.

Ask him if anyone in his family had been bitten.

After learning that there was no stray dog, he quickly told him to release it. Luckily, Heiwa and Afu were with him, so nothing bad would happen.

As for the puppy, you can feed it goat milk; their dairy goats have more goat milk than they can drink.

When Wang Lixian heard that the matter was serious, he didn't hesitate and told Chen Ling to get the stray dog ​​out.

When it comes to treating dogs, Afu and Ashou are not as good as Heiwa. And Heiwa is not as good as Xiaojin.

As soon as Wang Lixian opened the door, Xiao Jin walked into the hut. Before anything happened, the stray dog ​​was dragged out by its throat.

They had no power to resist at all.

Even Afu and Ashou opened their eyes wide.

This is why Chen Ling didn't let the two tigers into the house. Xiao Jin was enough; the two tigers were too big, and if they went in, they wouldn't be able to handle them in time, and might even collapse the mud-brick house.

"Sigh, throw it away. It just gave birth to this litter of puppies, and it still has milk on its body. Fugui, please don't kill it." Aunt Wang looked at the two rows of milk pouches under the stray dog's belly and couldn't bear to do it.

"Don't worry, ma'am, this mother dog will be fine running around outside as long as she's separated from her puppies."

Chen Ling smiled. As far as he knew, some mothers would completely forget their children after they were separated, so dogs would certainly be no exception.

As long as it's far away, it will gradually forget about the litter.

Moreover, as a female dog, she has an easier time getting along and is more popular outside.

Chen Ling did indeed throw the dog far away. After Wang Lixian had Xiao Jin subdue the dog, he put it into a urea bag and then rode his horse to abandon it in the forest farm east of the city.

Stray dogs from the county often roam that area, and the dogs that scare the lambs often run there.

I heard this from Wang Zhenzhen; all her classmates knew about it.

Good things don't go out, bad things pass thousands of miles.

The news of stray dogs biting people and causing them to fall ill and die quickly spread throughout Chenwangzhuang.

Even Zhao Hongbo, who works here, came to ask Chen Ling what to do if he was bitten by a stray dog.

After learning that timely vaccination would prevent any problems, I inquired about the price of the vaccine and then felt relieved.

But some things are bound to happen.

The news had only just spread that afternoon when someone died the next morning.

He is Wang Laishun's older brother, Wang Laiyun's brother, and the fourth oldest, Wang Laifu.

This man was quite popular in the village, and he was also good-looking when he was young, but he rarely went out except during the busy farming season.

There's only one reason: low self-esteem and sensitivity.

Chen Ling had heard his father say since he was a child that Wang Laifu used to be an excellent student, had good writing skills, and had even written letters to leaders. Of course, the letter he wrote... didn't even get out of the county.

This happened a long time ago, when Chen Ling's father was still young.

He only knew that the matter of the letter had no impact, but later he failed the exam, and because he was talented and looked down on others, he was targeted by someone who was jealous of him, and he became depressed.

Back then, if you studied hard, your future prospects were really, really good.

To miss such a great opportunity to soar to new heights.

It's easy to imagine how devastating that was.

Feeling inferior and sensitive, unable to get out of it, and depressed all the time.

Chen Ling's father once said that this person could talk a good game of reasoning and knew everything, but he just wouldn't do any work, let alone farm work.

Besides, after not working for many years, this person no longer has the strength to do any work.

Only in recent years, as his son has grown up and needed money to get married, has he gritted his teeth and put in the effort to do farm work and sell grain to save money.

This is also the reason I went into the mountains to pick wild fruits this year.

Moreover, they got up early and came back late. I heard that it was on that night that they, a few older folks, encountered wild dogs at the foot of the mountain.

At that time, the incident on the hill behind Chen Ling's house had not yet occurred.

Nobody thought it was a stray dog.

It was dark, and I thought it was just someone's dog from the village that had wandered into the mountains while playing.

The dog silently approached and then bit my ankle.

"Well, this guy is alright. Guoxing in the village is pretty much the same."

The father-in-law sighed after hearing about this.

Chen Guoping, Chen Guoxing, and Chen Guowang are the only two people you usually see in the village. Chen Guoxing is very rare to see.

It's because Chen Guoxing looks very similar to Wang Laifu.

However, Chen Guoxing is much younger, only in his forties this year.

Wang Laifu is almost sixty years old this year.

Chen Guoxing is also educated, but in terms of ability, he is not as good as Wang Laifu, who is proficient in both arts and sciences.

He was only somewhat literate, but he was even more ambitious than Wang Laifu.

"I never knew there were people like this in your village, let alone two of them," Gao Xiulan said in surprise.

Chen Ling clicked his tongue: "Sigh, that's right. Usually when there's nothing to do, no one talks about them. It's just that they feel like everyone looks down on them because they didn't pass the exam."

No sooner had he finished speaking than someone outside called out, "Uncle Fugui, Uncle Fugui..."

"Alright, this is where I'm coming to see you. You're not going into the mountains today," Wang Laishun said with a smile.

Chen Ling reluctantly stood up: "I'm home. Come in."

Although he didn't have much contact with Wang Laifu, he had a decent relationship with his two sons. Moreover, he was Wang Jusheng's uncle and also had connections with Wang Lixian.

No matter which side you look at it from, you'll inevitably have to go to him.

"Hahaha, Uncle Fugui, you'd never guess what they wanted from you over there..."

The person who came was Wang Wenchao, who entered the gate with a big smile.

"What's there to guess? Besides digging a grave, carrying a coffin, announcing the death, and preparing mourning clothes, what else could it be?"

"That's not right. Uncle Jukun's back is injured and he can't help. This time it's your turn to cook the big feast."

Wang Wenchao became even more excited when he said this: "With you in charge, we're really in for a treat this time!" (End of Chapter)