Volume 1, Chapter 68: Snake and Dog Battle

Xiantao Village was exceptionally lively today.
The villagers had originally been divided into several groups, some in charge of the fish ponds, others responsible for picking vegetables.
Some had even gone to plant fruit trees!
Now, however, everyone had stopped what they were doing to clean up the village.
This whole mess was enough to make Guo Dong want to curse out loud!
If it weren't for Meng Tianming, and had it been anyone else, he definitely wouldn't have agreed to it.

"How boring. He's the one coming to beg us, it's not like we're begging him!"
Once Guo Dong's stubborn temper flared up, not even ten oxen could pull him back.
Fuming with anger, he stormed off to the vegetable garden, pulled out his phone, and started a live broadcast!
This could be considered his first truly meaningful livestream.
Today, for the first time, he actually saw live viewers in his chatroom.

"My gosh, streamer, can you ever be on time for your broadcasts?"
"I waited for two hours today and didn't see you go online at all!"
Seeing the bullet comments popping up on the screen, a smile crept onto Guo Dong's face.
"Sorry about that, it's my first time streaming, I don't know anything!"
He offered a slight apology, his Mandarin still tinged with his hometown accent.
Just as he was wondering what he should stream about, another bullet comment popped up.
"Show your face! If you don't show your face, what are we supposed to look at?"
Guo Dong suddenly realized he hadn't flipped the camera around.
That was a bit awkward!

As his broadcast continued, more and more people poured in!
"What should I stream?"
Must admit, Guo Dong was a bit too casual; he actually asked his viewers what content he should broadcast.
"Forget it, let's just keep it like before. You guys watch yourselves, I'm going to work!"
With that, he adjusted the phone camera, placed it on the ground, and ran off with Heizi to busy himself in the vegetable patch.
Everyone else had gone home to clean and tidy up, but someone still had to take care of these chores, right?
In the livestream room, the audience was completely dumbfounded.
You had to hand it to him, that was a slick move!

***

Meanwhile, Meng Xiaohan, accompanied by Tian Fang, was tidying up rooms at her house.
For now, her home was the best available accommodation in the village.
"Xiaohan sister, is this Wang Qing really that wealthy?"
"Just search him up online and you'll see!"
Generally speaking, a person of such status should be widely known.
However, Wang Qing was different; compared to other tycoons, he kept a relatively low profile.
Unless someone followed that specific industry closely, they wouldn't know much about him.

"Then since he's so rich, why is Brother Guodong still so angry?"
The thought of Guo Dong fuming and complaining to Meng Tianming brought a smile to her face.
"That's just how he is, he doesn't know how to butter people up. Pay no attention to him!
If we can cure this man's illness this time, he might end up investing in our village.
Min-jie told me that.
As long as we seize this opportunity, the village will only get better and better."
"Difficult!" Tian Fang was not optimistic about this medical treatment at all.
Not only was she pessimistic, but Meng Xiaohan wasn't either.
All because Guo Dong was caught in the middle.
"Hard or not, we'll just do it first and see!"

Two young girls cleaning up rooms could actually work quite fast.
The two rooms on the first floor were quickly put in order.
They looked decent, every bit as good as a small inn in town.
Sitting down on the soft bedding, Meng Xiaohan took out her phone and subconsciously opened the livestream app.
"Look at that, another person sulking over there. He's so petty!"
Meng Xiaohan pouted, watching the crowd chatting away in the livestream room while Guo Dong buried himself in hard work all alone.
"No way, how is his popularity so high?"
Tian Fang stared with her mouth open as the barrage of comments flew past, watching over ten thousand people online at the same time, momentarily at a loss for how to comment.
"How would I know? He's been doing livestreams for less than a week total.
He just accidentally became popular like this.
The day before yesterday during his stream, he fell asleep sitting under a tree, and several thousand people watched him sleep.
You tell me why people nowadays are so bored!"

Tian Fang burst into laughter. "There's a certain charm about him that draws people in, otherwise you wouldn't like him so much!"
Meng Xiaohan: "..."
The two girls just sat there on the bed, watching the crowd in the chatroom boast and banter!
"Quick, look, Heizi!"
At that moment, Tian Fang suddenly pointed at the phone and screamed.
Not far from Guo Dong, Heizi gradually came into view within the camera frame.
Nearby, a venomous snake as thick as an infant's arm was slowly closing in on it.
Guo Dong also noticed the poisonous snake's presence, picked up a stone from the ground, and cautiously backed away.

"Do you guys have a lot of poisonous snakes around here?" Tian Fang's mouth was wide open, clearly terrified.
Meng Xiaohan nodded. "There are a lot of venomous snakes, but they rarely enter the village. No, I have to go find someone to help!"
With that, she dropped her phone and made to run out, but was stopped by Tian Fang.
"Quick, look, they're fighting!"
Meng Xiaohan, who had already reached the door, panicked and turned back to grab her phone.
Just then, the venomous snake struck at Heizi with lightning speed.
If it were an ordinary dog, it would have been utterly impossible to dodge that strike.
In fights between dogs and snakes, the loser is almost always the dog, never the snake.
That was because a dog's reaction time simply cannot match a snake's.
However, the scene playing out before them shocked the nerves of over ten thousand viewers in the livestream room.

Just as the venomous snake closed in on Heizi, a rock suddenly flew through the air, striking squarely on the snake's head.
Seizing the opportunity, Heizi lunged forward swiftly and clamped its jaws onto the snake's neck!
Before the venomous snake could even react, Heizi began spinning in circles!
With the venomous snake thrashing about, Heizi whipped it up and down, and no matter how the snake twisted its body, it couldn't touch a single hair on Heizi.

Whew!
Witnessing such extraordinary acrobatics, Meng Xiaohan let out a sigh of relief and stared fixedly at the phone screen.
The livestream room exploded instantly!
The speed at which virtual gifts drifted across the screen far surpassed the chat comments.
"I'm a fan, absolutely a fan! This is definitely the king of dogs!"
"Can someone tell me where the streamer lives? I want to go take a photo with my idol!"
"What's so special about that? I heard last time this dog bit a wild boar to death!"
"I didn't believe it before, but I believe it now. Following him right now, this dog is god-tier."

A battle between a dog and a snake—and a massive snake over three meters long at that—was simply unimaginable.
Inside the house, the two girls were terribly nervous, still staring at the phone, terrified that Heizi might slip up and let the giant snake escape.
If that snake got away, trying to catch it again would be extremely difficult.
While they worried, Guo Dong, who was doing the livestream, was also secretly wiping away sweat.
Watching Heizi continuously whip the venomous snake around, he retreated as far back as he could.
"Heizi, go for it!"
Excited, worried...
At that moment, he once again forgot he was in the middle of a livestream, his eyes shining brightly as he gazed at the giant snake.
At the same time, he wondered where on earth this snake had come from. Could it be from that snake den last time?

While he was worried sick, Xie Minmin, who was busy at the entrance of the village, was also holding her phone and watching unblinkingly.
"Uncle Liu, let me show you something fun!"
"Stop watching. It's almost noon! If Chairman Wang arrives soon, we won't even have time to finish everything!"
Liu Yang, a major hotel boss, was actually holding a broom and sweeping the concrete road of the village.
"Stop working for a second, come over and look at this. You'll definitely be interested!"
Xie Minmin pulled out two tissues and wiped the sweat from her forehead, clearly still quite shaken by what she had just witnessed on screen!