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On a long slope, there are a group of cattle and sheep on the green and yellow turf, chewing the grass roots hard, making a few complaints from time to time, obviously not particularly satisfied with the food bestowed by nature.
An uncle wearing a fur hat, with a somewhat helpless face on his dark face, said to his cattle and sheep: "Some of them are good to eat."
Beneath the long slope is a lake with water and grass. In the season of abundant rain, a stream will be irrigated along the top of the long slope, so that the entire long slope is covered with green grass, and you can see the scene of flowers in full bloom. In the end, all the water will be poured into the lake, nourishing the forests, grasslands, villages around the lake...
Chihu Village is a relatively common grazing village in the upstream urban area, and many villages also rely on such ground ponds.
It is also strange to say that many ponds and lakes have dried up, but the ponds and lakes in Chihu Village have not changed much, and the water level has not dropped. You can see a black wooden waterwheel beside the water is still running slowly.
"Uncle Zhan! Uncle Zhan!!"
In front of the village, a young man ran to the front of the village from outside, and shouted to a simple wooden house in front of the village with some uncontrollable joy.
At this time, the women who were washing clothes at the lake turned around, looked at the young man, and said, "Isn't this Li Shaoying? I heard from my man that you have gone to the Dragon Training Academy. You don't herd sheep or cattle. You are going to let dragons go." ?”
"What does the dragon look like?" asked the aunt in red.
"Just lizards, lizards."
"Can you plow the land?"
"I can't."
Li Shaoying searched around but didn't see her uncle, so she had to go back to the entrance of the village and asked about these laundry ladies.
"Ms. Zhou, where's my uncle?" Li Shaoying asked.
"Your uncle, what are you asking me for? How troublesome is it for my man to hear this?" said Aunt Zhou in a cotton-padded jacket.
"????" Li Shaoying looked at the charming Mrs. Zhou, and for some reason, he felt that the other party was playing tricks on himself, could it be...
"Your uncle went to Changpo to graze. He heard that you were often bullied in the college. He wondered if he could sell all the cattle and sheep and get you some beads, saying that he could make you a big baby. The big horned cow transforms into a dragon... No, this year's weather is not good, the cattle and sheep are too thin, so they can't be sold at a good price, and he also grazes on his off days." said the lady in red.
"It's a day of rest. Didn't the city send some official documents, telling our herders not to run around as much as possible, so as not to be caught by some monsters?"
"Yes, yes, my man came back from the market town a few days ago, and he heard that a family in Heilin Village was eaten. It was terrifying." Aunt Zhou said in a cotton-padded jacket.
"Won't it be scary again?" said the aunt in red.
"It's true, you should go out less recently, and tell your children not to watch cows and sheep. There are trolls active, and our college has organized all the staff to eliminate demons." Li Shaoying said hurriedly.
Why are the people in the village so slow-witted? The matter is very serious!
The same is true for my uncle, what kind of grazing is done in winter, and the little bit of turf is eaten, and the cattle and sheep will not grow much meat, and will be eaten by the monster instead!
"Why don't you go kill the demon?" Aunt Zhou asked.
"This..." Li Shaoying said in embarrassment.
"Aren't you a student of How to Train Your Dragon Academy? That's Fanglongwa..."
"It's the Dragon Shepherd!" Li Shaoying had lines on her black forehead.
"Well, they all said that if you go to the academy, you will be very powerful, you can control dragons, and if there are demons haunting... Oh, I understand, Shaoying, you are really a good boy, knowing that there is danger in the village, you deliberately Run back to protect us?" Another skinny aunt said.
When the other laundry ladies heard this, they all looked over.
"Let's just say that Li Shaoying is the most promising in our village, unlike the Hai family, who became a petty official and was not even willing to help us build a fence to keep out wild animals."
"That's really amazing. Those who can enter Dragon Training Academy must be different from those ordinary people!"
"I've also heard about cannibalism. I've been terrified to wake up when I've been sleeping these few nights."
For a while, all the aunts praised Li Shaoying, which made Li Shaoying feel embarrassed.
The power of the aunts is very strong in the village. Whatever they praise, the whole village praises them, and whatever they belittle, the whole village hates and rejects them.
"It's time to talk, why hasn't your uncle come back yet?" The red-clothed lady glanced at the sky and said.
"Aunt Wang, how long has my uncle been there?" Li Shaoying asked.
"I went early in the morning."
"How do you know so clearly?" asked the lady in the cotton-padded jacket.
"I saw it."
"Why didn't you see the others?"
"I saw others too..."
Li Shaoying frowned at this moment.
Changpo comes and goes so much, if you go out in the morning, you can come back at noon, it is impossible to leave it for a whole day.
Thinking of what Aunt Wang said, Li Shaoying felt even more sour.
"I'll go and have a look, ladies, you'd better go back to the house, the trolls are real, they are very dangerous, if the trolls wandering nearby smell the smell of your living beings, they will sneak over." Li Shaoying urged road.
After finishing speaking, Li Shaoying ran towards Changpo.
After running away, Li Shaoying found that the aunts were still talking and laughing there, and they didn't take the troll thing seriously, which made him even more helpless.
After all, the village is still too backward, including news.
It wasn't just the tragedies they heard about the family being eaten. When he and Nan Ye's team arrived in Banshan City, a town was slaughtered, and Nan Ye and many other Dragon Academy teams went there.
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Running to Changpo, Li Shaoying was very anxious.
Uncle is leading a herd of cattle and sheep. The cattle and sheep are also the targets of some vicious demon spirits. It would be extremely dangerous to encounter a pack of wolves on the plain, let alone monsters!
The sky began to darken. It was only three or four o'clock in the afternoon, but it was no different from the evening. The thick clouds and haze sucked all the light from the sky, making this vast land dark...
The wind started to get strong, so Li Shaoying followed her uncle's usual grazing route.
Suddenly, Li Shaoying saw a bloodstain, which was scattered on the withered yellow mud and grass. The bloodstain showed some signs of drying, and it had begun to turn brown!
This made Li Shaoying even more flustered!
Something went wrong! !
Why do you go to herd? It’s not that you have an official document, so don’t go out easily...
Why is Uncle Zhan always so stupid? He is such an old man, he can't tell the priority of things!
There was another shocking amount of blood, Li Shaoying even stepped on it, slipped and fell to the ground, covered in blood all over her body.
This made Li Shaoying frightened, not only the blood, but also because he saw a white sheep that was bitten to death in a pile of mud...
The sheep died a long time ago, and the blood spread from his feet to a distance of more than ten meters, and there were traces of struggle along the way!
Really attacked! !
I blame myself, why I still can’t cross the threshold of taking the road, why I always compete with my classmates, so that my uncle doesn’t have to sell cattle and sheep, and he doesn’t have to graze cattle and sheep at this time because the cattle and sheep are too thin!
Seeing the blood, Li Shaoying was scared and blamed herself, and her eye circles turned red.
He took a deep breath, suppressing the fear of trolls.
He got up, wiped off the blood from his face, and continued to run forward...
I am a dragon shepherd, so I have no reason to be afraid of these monsters!
The sheep died not long ago, maybe the uncle is still alive.
"Shaoying?" Suddenly, a voice sounded.
Li Shaoying was taken aback, because he had just wiped the blood from his face, and his vision was only clear.
"Uncle Zhan!!" Seeing that it was her uncle, Li Shaoying threw herself on him excitedly.
"Why are you back? Aren't you in Dragon Training Academy? Didn't you say you won't come back until you become a dragon priest?" Uncle Zhan asked confused.
"What time are you still running out to graze, you will die, there are trolls!" Li Shaoying said a little out of control.
"You're worried about me." Uncle Zhan's face showed a trace of relief, and he patted Li Shaoying with his hand to comfort him.
When Li Shaoying was four years old, her parents passed away due to cold. Uncle Zhan lived next door to his house, so he adopted Li Shaoying.
Li Shaoying is different from other children in the village. She always respects the outside world and likes to read the books she brings back from the market.
Uncle Zhan also knew that he wanted to become a dragon shepherd, instead of living in this small place all the time, besides herding cattle and sheep, or herding cattle and sheep...
Li Shaoying cried for a while, and saw that Uncle Zhan had no scars on his body, and a herd of cattle and sheep followed behind him.
Looking at Bai Yang who died tragically not far away, Li Shaoying asked, "Uncle, how did you get rid of the ogre?"
"What a troll, a few coyotes bit a sheep while I wasn't paying attention, but fortunately, the others were kept, otherwise next year's tuition fee will not be able to be paid." Uncle Zhan said.
The first year of admission to How to Train Your Dragon Academy is free, but the fee increases each year thereafter.
This system, on the one hand, screens out students who are not qualified to become dragon priests, and on the other hand, it also charges high fees from the powerful and wealthy children who stay in the academy, so as to supplement some resources for those grassroots students. .
"Uncle, I may not be able to become a Dragon Shepherd." Li Shaoying hadn't wiped away her tears, and she couldn't help but shed a few drops.
The students around me are either constantly advancing and getting closer to the dragon gate, or they have already crossed the dragon gate and become a real dragon shepherd. Only myself is standing still, and the big horned cow has no advancement signs, not to mention the baby spirit bird he adopted.
"Be confident and remove the possibility." Uncle Zhan patted Li Shaoying on the shoulder and said.
Li Shaoying almost stepped on the mud, staggered a few steps before leveling herself.
"I have raised cattle and sheep for more than ten years. Is it unclear whether a cow is a cow or a sheep is a sheep? The bighorn cow is special, but it is still a cow after all." Uncle Zhan said.
"Uncle, you really know how to comfort me." Li Shaoying burst into tears and couldn't stop, couldn't stop.
"Go back, it's getting late." Uncle Zhan said.
"kindness."