Chapter 10 The Puppies
Soon, the group of children noticed Chen Ling walking on the road and immediately ran towards him.
After running up to him, a sharp-eyed child recognized Chen Ling.
"It's Uncle Fugui!"
"Uncle Fugui, help me, there is a dead man in the pit..."
Chen Ling had already walked towards them at this time.
"Where are the dead people? Where are they?"
With adults around, the children are less scared.
After hearing Chen Ling's question, the child who first recognized Chen Ling pointed to a ruined temple in the distance and said:
"It's right there, in the tree pit behind the Earth Temple."
"I saw it too, my clothes were torn, my hair was exposed, and there were bones..."
"It's so scary!"
"Yes, yes, I also saw the clothes moving."
"No wonder my mother didn't let me go to the Tutu Temple to play. She said it was the darkest there at night."
"As soon as the sun goes down, the temple door turns into the monster's mouth, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaw, it seems my mother is not fooling anyone."
Before a group of children could even catch their breath, they started shouting.
As he spoke, he patted his chest with lingering fear, his face full of fear.
But the more Chen Ling heard, the more something seemed wrong...
Feeling a little suspicious, he asked carefully and found that these children didn't really see clearly.
I just stood on the side and took a look. There were bones, messy hair, and tattered clothes. I thought it was a dead person, so I ran away in fear.
Didn't get closer to take a look.
Chen Ling was speechless after hearing this.
He was quite nervous just now, thinking that someone really died there, and in a short period of time he even imagined a folk murder drama from the 1990s.
As a result, after listening to what these children said, it is basically certain that these children have misunderstood and are just scaring themselves.
"Liu Ni'er, why did you run so far away? Is there no place for you to play at the east end of the village? If you have to run to the west end of the village, you won't be afraid of someone kidnapping you."
Chen Ling said to the child who recognized him first.
This boy's home is not far from Chen Ling's house, and he has five sisters. When he came here, he thought he was still a girl, so he gave her the nickname Liu Ni'er early on.
As a result, a son was born, so nothing changed.
"There is a reservoir to the east, and Ida won't let me go."
Liu Nier sniffed and smiled at Chen Ling.
"Okay, you go home quickly. Don't go so far to play without an adult following you."
Chen Ling waved his hand and said.
"But Uncle Fugui, there are really dead people behind the Tutu Temple..."
A little girl whispered with a pale face, still looking very scared.
"The dead are not dead. Don't talk nonsense. Didn't you just make a big sacrifice at the Earth Temple in the first year of junior high school?"
"It's only been a few days. If someone dies, can the adults not see it? Go back quickly."
Chen Ling tried hard to persuade the children to go back.
However, after the children left, Chen Ling decided to go to the Tutu Temple to have a look.
Although I know that 80% of the time it is the children who have seen it wrong, but to be on the safe side, it is better to take a quick look.
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The Tutu Temple is not big and has not been repaired for several years.
Just clean it every New Year, hang up fresh red cloth, and repaint the couplets.
It is located alone next to a path in the field. Behind it is a large pit with a depth of two meters, as big as three or four acres. The pit is full of big trees that are more than ten years old.
In summer, the canopy of trees blocks out the sun, making it a good place to enjoy the shade.
But it looks very dark at night, which makes people feel terrified.
Therefore, many adults make up stories about monsters behind the Earth Temple to scare their children and prevent them from running around outside the village.
Because there are many child abductors in this era, and once abducted, it is difficult to get them back.
At this time, Chen Ling came to the Tutu Temple and looked around.
The temple door is locked, but the door crack is large, and you can clearly see the things in the temple.
There was no one in the surrounding fields.
Only the kites of Liu Nier and several children landed not far away, scattered and tangled together.
Chen Ling walked over, unwrapped the kite string, put it into the cave, and planned to return it to the children when he returned.
Then we walked towards the back of the Earth Temple.
I went down to the pit and searched carefully, and soon found what Liu Nier and the others were talking about between two big trees.
Rotten clothes, messy hair, and bones...
When Chen Ling walked over, something was squirming slightly under the ragged clothes.
If you listen carefully, you can still hear bursts of "humming" sounds. The sounds are so subtle that you can't hear them unless you walk close to them.
Chen Ling knelt down, gently took off his clothes, and saw the body of a dog.
The black dog is frozen.
But the belly still squirms from time to time, with two small tails exposed, and weak whining sounds coming from time to time.
Chen Ling immediately knew what was going on.
After carefully removing the body of the black dog, I saw two pups, one black and one yellow, shivering and not yet opening their eyes. They were obviously just born.
After Chen Ling removed the black dog's body, the two little guys were crawling around grunting, instinctively looking for milk.
Unfortunately, their mother has died, and it is unknown whether it was due to dystocia or other reasons, so it is impossible for them to drink breast milk.
"These two little guys are probably only two or three days old. They even had diarrhea in the cold weather. I don't know if they can survive..."
Chen Ling touched the two puppies and felt unsure.
After all, he hadn’t eaten anything since he was born, and there were still a few pieces of loose feces on his rotten clothes, so he obviously had loose stools.
Anyone with experience knows that such a puppy cannot survive.
But it's definitely not possible to just leave it alone. I can only hope that the Sun and Moon Cave Sky is magical enough.
With a thought in his mind, Chen Ling grabbed the two puppies and took them into the cave.
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Within the cave.
Chen Ling walked to the stream with the two puppies in his arms, dipped his hands in the stream water and fed them little by little.
I fed him back and forth several times and the effect did not disappoint him.
I saw that the two little guys who were extremely weak just now had opened their eyes.
He rubbed his little head affectionately into Chen Ling's arms, as if he wanted to beg for water.
"Good guys, this is stream water, do you think it's for drinking milk?"
Chen Ling looked at the two puppies hunching back and forth in his arms, like puppies looking for milk, and felt a little dumbfounded.
He immediately put them on the ground and fed them several times with water from the stream.
After a while, the two little guys became lively and able to move their legs and run in a small area.
While running, it made a clear and powerful cry.
Now I no longer have to worry about whether they can survive.
Chen Ling smiled when he saw this and carried the two puppies back to the hut.
Then he picked up the hoe and left the cave.
When they came to the outside world, Chen Ling disposed of the black dog's body, dug a nearby hole with a hoe, and buried it in it.
The temperature is still low now, and the black dog's time to die is still short. There is no peculiar smell, but it is not good if it is left here and left unchecked.
Chapter completed!