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Chapter 732 The dog chased me up a tree! My little hands smell so good!

A group of people stood on the ridge north of the snail's shell, looking down at the wild boar carcasses scattered all over the ground below. A pack of dogs, led by a blue wolf, was barking around the carcasses, which numbered about 30 and were scattered in various places.

Xu Ning and the others looked at each other in bewilderment, then went down the mountain and dragged the scattered wild boar carcasses into a pile. They certainly couldn't gut them now, because the temperature was quite cold last night, and the carcasses were frozen solid.

Liu Daming suggested that the frozen corpses be taken to the forest farm, where they could wait for fresh livestock to be harvested before sending them to the forest farm. This would look better on the surface, and the forest farm leaders would feel more at ease.

It has to be said that since Liu Daming became the head of the workshop, he has really improved in his work. Xu Laonian agreed with what he said and patted his brother-in-law on the shoulder, praising him for growing up.

The dog gang kept barking in the mountains, mainly because there was too much livestock smell in the mountains. Not to mention the dead pigs everywhere, there were also many live pigs wandering around. Why didn't the blue wolf, the spotted wolf, and the black wolf run away? It was because Wang Hu and Xu Ning were holding their leashes. Otherwise, the dog gang would have disappeared long ago.

Xu Laonian told Xu Ning and the others to lead the dogs to the south, while they walked east along the northern mountain ridge. The middle-aged group liked to play tag and track. For example, Li Mazi, Lao Han, and Lao Jiang were all good at tracking. There were quite a few snail shell tracks now, with new and old tracks connected together, which really tested their eyesight. But they were happy to track these kinds of tracks because that's what made it fun.

After Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, Wang Hu, Guan Lei, and Da Laba left with their dogs, Xu Laonian and the others also headed east. They quickly left the snail shell, entered the blind man's gully, crossed a mountain, and went down into the gully. They spotted fresh pig tracks, and without saying a word, they devised a plan as soon as they saw the wild boars...

Xu Ning and the others walked two miles south and then released the dogs. The blue wolf, the spotted wolf, and the black wolf led the charge, followed closely by the gray wolf, the flowery dog, and the others. Li Fuqiang was so frightened that he immediately threw away his cigarette butt and ran down the mountain in a hurry.

Half an hour later, when Xu Ning arrived at the scene, the dog gang had already subdued the three pigs. These three pigs were all yellow-haired pigs weighing over 100 jin each. Before Xu Ning could say anything, Wang Hu and Guan Lei drew their knives and went forward to bleed the pigs. Xu Ning glanced around and then looked up at the direction of the jumping stone pond.

Li Fuqiang asked, "What's wrong, brother?"

"Two more pigs ran towards the Jumping Stone Pond."

"Chase them?"

Xu Ning waved his hand: "Let's not chase them away for now. Let them do whatever they want today, as much as they can."

Nearby, Wang Hu, Guan Lei, and Da Laba had already bled the three pigs and removed the lanterns.

"Hey bro, wanna eat or not?"

Xu Ning looked down at the dogs' active state and said, "I'm not feeding them anymore. It's only a little past 8 o'clock. Let them run around for another two hours."

"Alright, then I'll stuff my heart and liver into the pig's belly."

Seeing this, the blue and black wolves, who were circling in the snow, became a little unhappy and howled at the loudspeaker. Xu Ning stepped forward, grabbed the blue wolf's head, and gestured for them to continue walking forward.

Dogs certainly can't understand complicated words, they can only judge by their owner's tone and actions. So, in a muffled voice, the blue wolf led the dog gang up the ridge leading to Jumping Stone Pond.

After restraining the two old sows around Tiaoshitang, Xu Ning had Wang Hu chop up the pig liver and feed it to the dogs. However, they weren't fed enough; each dog only ate two small pieces, about three-tenths full. If they were fed too much, the dogs wouldn't be able to run in the mountains and might even have their lungs burst.

After feeding the dogs, Xu Ning suggested taking a stroll around Heishitang. A few days ago, they hadn't found any trace of livestock in Heishitang, Liushugou, Shetanggou, or Laoniugou. The pigs that had been scattered last night must have gone to these places. Sure enough, just as they were about to reach Heishitang, the dog gang started barking again and dashed towards the mountains north of Heishitang.

This direction is not far from the 28th block. Xu Ning and the others followed closely behind. The dog gang had eaten some offal and meat, and their spirits were even higher. When they darted forward, their necks stretched out as if they wanted to throw their heads off, and they barked continuously, making a great show of force!

Dogs have more stamina than humans. Although Xu Ning and the others were relatively young, after running two trips in a row, their legs gradually slowed down, and soon the dog gang disappeared from sight.

The wolf stretched its neck and ran forward desperately, bypassing trees and leaping over ditches, until it finally spotted the wild boar ahead.

But the wild boar was also running wildly in their direction. The blue wolf was a little confused, and then it saw two people behind the wild boar.

The eight dogs, including Black Wolf and Flower Wolf, didn't care about any of that. When they saw the wild boar come to them, they rushed over and bit down on the boar's nose, ears, and groin. In the blink of an eye, they brought down the 200-pound sow.

The wild boar lay on the spot letting out a heart-wrenching scream, but the two people more than 60 meters away behind it were stunned, because they saw the remaining dogs, namely Blue Wolf, Gray Wolf, One-Eyed, and Three Wolves and Three Fools, actually charging straight at them.

"Holy crap! Run!"

"Oh my god, that scared me to death..."

There were two people; one had a deep, resonant voice, and the other had a sharp, shrill voice.

These two are none other than Tang Hao and Tang Er!

"Don't just stand there, run!"

Tang Er, with a long face, said, "Mom, where are we going? Our two legs can't compare to a dog's four legs. You finally found a pig, and then a dog snatched it away. People will laugh at us... Hey Mom, don't chase after it!"

Tang Er raised his delicate fingers, swung his braided legs, and ran like a madman. However, the menacing dogs, including Qinglang, came on strong, and their barking made Tang Er panic. His legs went weak, and he almost fell to the ground in the snow.

"Climb up the tree! Climb up the tree!" Tang Hao grabbed Tang Er's arm, wrapped his arms around his slender waist, and lifted him up a small tree.

Tang Er cursed, "It's stuck in my crotch! It's poking my basket! Hey, damn it, be gentle..."

"Don't shout. I recognize these dogs. They belong to the Xu family. Let's stay in the tree for a while, and Xu Ning will be here soon."

Tang Hao also climbed up a tree. The two of them were about two meters off the ground. After the dogs, including Qinglang, rushed up to them, they circled the tree and then squatted down and called out to the two people in the tree.

"What are we going to do? Oh my god, is this going to kill us?"

Tang Er, with a long face, rambled on, "I told you we wouldn't go up the mountain today, but you wouldn't listen. Look at this dog, it scared me so much, my heart is trembling..."

Tang Hao glanced helplessly at the tree and said, "We're not familiar with these dogs, and they don't recognize us either. That's normal."

"What's normal about this? Look at this dog making faces, its mouth is full of blood! You can tell at a glance that it just ate some livestock."

Tang Hao comforted him, "Xu Ning is quite good at hunting livestock, so it's normal for him to feed them some meat after hunting them."

"You're always saying you're normal, but do you think I'm normal?"

Tang Hao's eyes flickered, and he said something against his will: "You're pretty normal too."

Tang Er snorted coldly, rolled his eyes, gripped the tree tightly, and whispered, "I guess you have some good taste."

The wolf, along with One-Eyed, Three Fools, and other dogs, grew impatient waiting under the tree. They began barking at the sky, their barks growing louder and fiercer, making Tang Er's little bottom tremble with fear, terrified of being bitten.

When Xu Ning and the others arrived at the scene, they only saw Black Wolf and his dogs holding down an old sow, while the other dogs were nowhere to be seen.

However, he could also hear the howling of the blue wolf, so he told Wang Hu to stay behind to bleed and gut the wolf, and led Li Fuqiang, Guan Lei, and Da Laba to continue chasing forward. After running for about 30 meters, they saw the blue wolf and its dogs squatting under a tree. When they saw Xu Ning, they wagged their tails and ran over.

Just then, Tang Er, perched in the tree, shouted, "Ning, quickly tie up your dog! It almost bit my butt..."

Tang Hao was speechless upon hearing this; this guy was too unrestrained. He slowly walked down the tree and said, "Xu Ning, I am Tang Hao!"

"Oh, you let the dog chase you up the tree? Come down quickly, I'm here, it's fine."

"Okay! Come down now!"

Tang Hao landed on his feet and saw that Tang Er on the other tree hadn't moved at all, so he hurriedly called out.

"I want to go down too, but if I slide down, I'll hit the basket..."

"Hahaha..." Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei couldn't help but burst out laughing upon hearing this.

Xu Ning slapped his forehead and said, "How can this guy be so shameless?"

"Oh my, brother, you have no idea, my Lianfang and he are practically sisters now. This guy is always fiddling with face cream and stuff like that..."

The man with the loudspeaker squinted and said, "Brother, I've heard he's not a normal person. You're such a handsome guy, you should be careful."

"Damn, I can't even be bothered with him."

As they slowly approached, Tang Hao had already rescued Tang Er. The two stood on the ground, Tang Hao waving to Xu Ning, while Tang Er bent down to straighten his crotch, cursing, "There are thorns on this tree, they pricked me so badly, ouch."

Xu Ning glanced at him and asked Tang Hao, "What are you doing up on the mountain?"

"Didn't we hear you went hunting livestock at Snail Shell last night? There were really over 100 wild boars?"

"Yes, there are indeed more than 100."

Tang Hao nodded: "I thought I'd try my luck on the mountain today, but I didn't expect to actually run into a wild boar, so the two of us chased after it for a while..."

Xu Ning stroked the blue wolfhound's head and said, "My dog ​​has never seen you before and jumped on you. I'm sorry."

"Oh, what's the big deal? They didn't even touch us."

Tang Er, with his fingers delicately poised, said, "Ning, you really need to control your dogs. They almost scared me to death just now. Feel my heart; it's still pounding."

Li Fuqiang frowned and said, "If your heart stops beating, wouldn't you die?"

"Oh dear, Brother Li, how can you say that? I was just trying to be kind."

Xu Ning looked at Tang Hao and said, "Take this wild boar home and don't leave it wandering around on the mountain."

"Ah, well... thanks then. Okay, I won't stand on ceremony."

Upon hearing Tang Hao agree, Tang Er was not satisfied and said, "Old sows don't taste good. Ning, why don't you lead me to hunt another little yellow-haired pig? I'd like to eat piglet meat; it doesn't have a strong gamey smell."

Seeing Xu Ning's unpleasant expression, Li Fuqiang said, "The pig doesn't smell too bad, but you smell really bad! You stink, are you and Red Skinny from the same litter?"

"Hey, Brother Li, why are you talking so rudely?"

Xu Ning frowned and said, "Take this old sow or leave it. If you babble any more, I'll slap you."

Tang Hao quickly said, "No, no, no, my brother just talks like this. He's always been like this since we were kids. We used to play together when we were little, didn't we?"

Xu Ning said, "Back then, he wasn't this sick. Look at him now, he's all fanning himself up with every move. I can smell the stench from far away."

"Oh my god, who's smelly? Smell me for yourself, do I smell like pee? I wipe myself down all day and put on face cream. Smell my hands, they smell so good."

These words left Xu Ning and the others speechless. The loudspeaker chuckled and said, "Brother, I can't handle someone like this. Shall we go? Let's go back."

"Let's go."

Xu Ning turned and walked away with a cold face. Tang Er took a step to follow, but Xu Ning suddenly turned around and said, "If you take another step, I'll unleash the dogs."

Tang Hao pulled Tang Er along and said with a smile, "You guys go ahead, we're not following."

Xu Ning noticed that Tang Hao's expression was normal and reminded him, "That old sow is about 50 meters ahead. You can find it by following the footprints."

"Oh, thank you so much."

After Xu Ning and the others had walked more than 30 meters with the dog, Tang Er pouted and said, "Look at that, men like that are just so endearing."

"Damn it, bro! Bro! Let's stop messing around, okay? If your dad finds out about this, you're definitely going to get a beating!"

"Let him fight, what can he do to me? Humph..."

Tang Hao said earnestly, "Don't go around Xu Ning anymore. He's annoyed by you, you know?"

"So what if he's annoying? Does he think he can just hit an old woman like me?"

Tang Hao was stunned upon hearing this, unsure how to refute it.

"Oh dear, I shouldn't have come into the mountains with you. I was able to build a good relationship with Xu Ning on my own, but your arrival ruined everything."

"So what if it's over..."

Tang Hao remained silent, only noticing that Xu Ning and the others were heading towards Heishitang. He then took two steps forward and said, "Let's drag the pig home. At least we'll have done our job."

“I’m not going back. It’s not easy to get into the mountains, and there are so many animals. I’m going to have to hunt down at least one of those little yellow-haired bastards.”

"Stop acting up, okay? I'm fed up with you. Who wouldn't be annoyed by someone like you? How many men in our village would even bother with you?"

"Heh, they're all ugly, it's better if they ignore me. I'm fine with the old ladies. You don't know, but this past summer, the older sister-in-law in the front yard didn't treat me like an outsider. She took off her clothes and wiped herself down right in front of me. Ugh, I couldn't even bear to watch."

"That's not that I didn't treat you like an outsider, it's that I didn't treat you like a man."

"Go away, you're not a man at all," Tang Hao said, rolling his eyes.

In the end, Tang Hao couldn't win against Tang Er, so he could only go along with Tang Er's wishes and go to Black Stone Pond, walking downstream along the small stones.

The old sow was lying there, with no one around; it wouldn't get lost if left there.

Where did Xu Ning and the others go? They've been taken to Willow Tree Gully by the Dog Gang, where they killed three wild boars on the way...

Just as Tang Hao and Tang Er strolled to the vicinity of the back garden, Tang Er suddenly noticed a layer of white frost on a standing dead tree.

"Hao, look at this thing! Is it frost formed from a bear's breath?"

Tang Hao turned his head to take a closer look, and immediately frowned: "It seems to be true."

Tang Er laughed and said, "See? What did I tell you? We shouldn't have gone back! How about this, I'll go up and take a look. If it really is a black bear, we'll go and call some people to kill it, okay?"

"Don't go up there, just go back and call for help. I'll make a mark here."

"Oh dear, you're such a terrible person. You're not going to be able to do it properly. If you call someone over and they see there's no black bear inside, then you're just playing a trick on us."

Tang Hao took a deep breath and said, "I'll go up."

(End of this chapter)