After coming out of Wangyue Tower, the two ladies and the little girl were going to stroll around the street, while Xiao Heng was preparing to get a few dogs guarding the house.

The local dogs left in later generations were basically only one name: Chinese pastoral dogs, but in fact there are so many dog ​​breeds on the land of China that are unimaginable.

From the critically endangered Dabie Mountain dog to the guard dogs distributed in the Greater Xing'an Mountains in Changbai Mountain, countless loyal and excellent dog breeds have been reproduced on the land of China... but most of the dog breeds are guard dogs and hunting dogs.

As the process of urbanization continues to accelerate, the living space of guard dogs is getting smaller and smaller. Maybe they will be eliminated by the wave of the times at any time.

Xiao Heng asked the waiter for a clear direction and headed towards the village to the east.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was no special dog market or pet market, and there were no pet stores that were open all year round. There were only two ways to buy a dog: one was to wait until the market was opened to try your luck and see if anyone took out the dogs they had bred. The other was to go to the farmer's house to find them and ask if the people with dogs meant to sell them.

These two days are not the day when the festival starts, so Xiao Heng can only go to the farmer's house to try his luck.

There is a Lijia Village not far from the small pier. It takes about ten minutes to walk, so Xiao Heng was too lazy to go home to pick up the horses, so he just walked along the official road.

Gradually, the village is getting closer and closer.

Adobe houses, straw mattress roofs... one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, formed this small village with less than one hundred households.

As the distance narrowed, Xiao Heng then felt the poverty of ordinary people. Originally, he thought that the low bungalows in Lin'an City were poor enough, but now it seems that the people who can live in Lin'an City are already considered urban class, much better than the poor ordinary people.

When Xiao Heng walked to the entrance of the village, he heard a rumor of argument. He saw several dark-faced women wearing cloth clothes watching from a distance.

Xiao Heng walked along the small road in the village and saw an old man squatting in the wooden fence outside the door. A dog was lying on his feet, and a guy with a big head, a thick neck and greasy hands were talking to the old man.

Both of them used dialects, and Xiao Heng couldn't quite understand them at first.

Not far away from Xiao Heng, several women were discussing:

"The old Zhang family is almost finished. For the sake of the half-dead old lady, she even sold those acres of land. She is really a waste of money..."

"Ha, I heard that this old Zhang's wife was still a widow when she entered the house... It took decades to realize that she was a master who couldn't lay eggs. Lin Lao Lin was still so precious... Haha..."

"Who said no! He broke up for a widow who couldn't lay eggs... Tsk tsk tsk... I want to say, this old man Zhang might as well give me the field and the house..."

"Did you lay eggs for him?"

"Just go! Who is afraid of whom!? I am famous for having a good life!"

"Will the fifth uncle want to divorce you??"

"He dares!? That old turtle mother broke his legs!"

“…”

Listening to the discussions of the women beside him, Xiao Heng gradually understood a little, and at this time the old man's bargaining with the butcher was approaching the end.

"...You old dog is too thin, at most three kilograms of meat. If you want so much money, is it crazy to gain or lose your mind?" The greasy butcher stared at the dog with his eyes, almost peeling it and cramping it with his eyes.

"Give more... Give more..." The old man lowered his head and gently scratched the dog's neck hair with his fingers, as if he was reluctant to leave.

"By the waste of words! This dog is thin, how much meat is there? Just sell it quickly! I will turn my head and leave!" The butcher threatened at the end.

"My wife is waiting to get the medicine... Please give me more... Just enough money to get the medicine..." The old man still lowered his head and looked at the dog at his feet.

The dog seemed to know what was going to happen. He could see a hint of reluctance when he looked at the old man's eyes, but it was tied without a chain but did not scream or run away. He just lay obediently at the old man's feet, waiting for his destiny.

"One last time, sell it, just sell it, and don't sell it!" The butcher acted as if he wanted to leave, but the old man opened his mouth, trying to stop him but he was unwilling to accept it.

At this moment, Xiao Heng took two steps forward, inserted it between the butcher and the old man, and squatted down to see the dog.

The dog also looked up at him.

Xiao Heng slowly stretched out his hand and slowly reached in front of the dog... The dog raised his head and looked at the old man. Seeing that he had no reaction, he bowed his head, put his chin on his front legs, and looked at Xiao Heng with his ears hanging down.

"What a smart dog." Xiao Heng praised, "Did he think I am also a buyer?"

"It was smart when it was a child, and it was the smartest in this nest." The old man touched the dog's head and said in a tone, "It's just that the family is in a difficult situation, and it's also suffering... Alas..."

"...What disease did the old lady have?" Xiao Heng asked.

"It's said it's tuberculosis... I cough every day, and if I don't take medicine, I will get fever all over..." the old man replied.

Judging from the symptoms, it doesn’t look like tuberculosis. In ancient times, tuberculosis refers to tuberculosis. The symptoms of online information are low fever, night sweats, fatigue, phlegm, hemoptysis, chest pain, chest tightness or difficulty breathing. The typical symptoms of fever throughout the body are pneumonia or colds.

"Who are you? A strong business?" The butcher looked at Xiao Heng with a bad expression.

"Yes." Xiao Heng smiled and admitted it directly. He turned around and looked at the old man, "How do you sell this dog?"

"500 texts...is it good?"

"Okay." Xiao Heng touched the dog's head, looked at the dog's eyes and said, "Little hairy child, are you willing to go home with me?"

“…”

The dog looked up at Xiao Heng without saying a word.

"Talking to a dog is also a wonder!" the butcher said sarcastic words.

"You can leave." Xiao Heng turned around and said to him, "While I'm not angry yet."

"Hmph... I'll leave... It's so weird..." The butcher looked at Xiao Heng's clothes and felt that he couldn't afford to offend him, so he took two steps back and joined the gossiping women, holding his hands and starting to watch.

Xiao Heng ignored him and lowered his head and said to the old man, "Take me in and have a look."

The old man finally raised his head and watched Xiao Heng's lips move slightly, but he didn't know what to say.

"I'll give you the money first." Xiao Heng took out a string of copper coins and counted 500 words to him, "Take me in and have a look now."

"...Okay." The old man collected the money and called the dog to go back to the house together.

As soon as Xiao Heng entered the door, he found that this family was really... too poor.

Apart from the bed, there is only a table left at home, and even the stool was a lame stool that someone threw away.

The old lady was lying on the bed and turned red. As she breathed, she could hear a very obvious wet rhyme... Xiao Heng didn't dare to go in, but just stood at the door and asked about the symptoms. Compared with the information on the Internet, she felt that it was almost the case that the pneumonia had not escaped.

Xiao Heng took out a plastic bottle from his inner pocket, which was the bottle of antibiotics he brought when he traveled through time.

Unscrew the bottle cap and pour out three pieces and hand them to the old man.

"I don't know if it's right. Anyway, you can give her a try... I'll be one slice every morning, noon and late, one tablet at a time."

The old man took the three snow-white tablets suspiciously, and then watched Xiao Heng find a hemp rope and lead the dog away.

The dog turned around three times in one step, and Xiao Heng didn't force it to pull it, letting it look back and see. After a long time, the small village in the distance disappeared, and the dog would still look back and look around for a long time.
Chapter completed!