White and wise lie

Human readers, you might think I am so selfish by lying about having a dog to my friends and even to Robert - because I want to protect myself. However I can tell you that this lie is not to protect only myself but to protect Robert as well. Why? 

The wolf is not going to let me go. He is waiting for a chance. I believe Robert can fight him, but I think it is better to prevent the fight from happening - because if the fight occurs, it’s Robert who is going to combat the wolf, he will be the one who gets injured. I don’t want him to be hurt, so I decided to keep and continue this lie. 

Do you believe me? 

I don’t care if you don’t believe me. Only I believe in myself, it is enough. 

Because I’m a happy pig.

 

Live and dead point of pig

“Hello, Robert,” crow said.

“Hello crow. Pig went out. This is your rose apple,” Robert said and gave the fruit to the crow. She received it but she didn’t leave; she asked, “Are you the only dog in this house?”

“Now, it is yes.”

“What does it mean?”

“There is another dog,” he pointed to the dog house opposite of his house, “but he is on vacation.”

“Did you see him?”

“No, but I heard his bark. Through his voice, I bet he is bigger and stronger than me.”

The crow didn’t say, just wagged her head.

I heard their conversation. 

‘I’m sorry Robert.’ I spoke in my mind. ‘I can’t let anyone know the truth, even you, that I don’t have a dog because it’s my dead point.’

Why do you lie to pig?

“Hello, pig. Can I ask for your garlic chives?” Cow, duck and twin piggies said.

“Well, now Robert is in charge of them. Ask him,” I said.

All of them shook their head, “Then we don’t want them.”

“Why?”

“Before he was kind and friendly. Now he is mean.”

“What did all of you do to him?”

“We didn't do anything. He changes.”

“If he changes, why does he change to all of you, but not me?”

“Perhaps,” three of them whispered into my ears, “he is trying to take advantage of you.”

I laughed.

Don’t try to fool the dog

It was a lot of weeks. I didn’t think Robert could make it, but at last he made it. Though he was old, he was strong, energetic and powerful the same as when he was young.

I went out to take the vegetables to sell to the merchant. When I came back and approached home, I saw cow, duck and twin piggies were running and Robert was chasing after them.

When I reached the house, the crow told me that while I was away, the cow, the duck and the twin piggies came to visit Robert and told him that they were the one who told me to bring him. They said they were the real people who helped him. In return, Robert showed his teeth and chased them away.

“Why did he do that?” I asked.

“He knew what you asked those four guys and what they said,” the crow said.

I shrank my eyes, “How does he know? I never told him.”

“I did.”

“How did you know?”

“I spied on you.”

“Why did you spy on me? Don’t you believe in me?”

“I believe in you but I don’t trust you.”

After saying it, the crow flew away.

Robert came back from chasing. He welcomed me with his wet tongue on my face before he opened the gate for me.

Pig uses digital device

The sound of the wolf frequently appeared.

Crow told me that the wolf thought I didn’t have a dog. He thought I lied to him - because he never saw that dog and no one saw it.

At night, I laid in the lounge in front of my door’s house. In my hand was a hot tea, and my eyes looked at the fireflies in the bush before my house. 

At that time, I heard the sound of the wolf howling but low. Suddenly, a dog’s bark came out in a loud pitch from the dog house opposite to the house of Robert. The wolf howling was silent for a few seconds, then it appeared; and the dog’s bark vocalized after that. It happened a few times, then the wolf howling completely stopped.

“Hey,” the crow flew to perch on the branch of the tree in front of my house, “you really have the dog. It’s not Robert.”

I didn’t say a word, just smiled.

You should know that I didn’t have a dog. The voice of dog barking was from the voice of the dog in my ex-master’s farm. I recorded his barking voice and put it in the dog house and I used the remote control to display the voice to threaten the wolf away.

Tongue and heart

It was in the early morning. I went to see cow in his cage.

“Hello cow, I have something to talk about with you.”

“What is it?” Cow said.

“I heard that Robert is not dead yet. I want to bring him back.”

“It's a good idea.”

“But he is seriously sick. We have to take care of him.”

“I don’t have time. You do it.”

“I can, but at least you should help, like finding medicine etc.”

The cow thought for a few seconds then he said, “I don’t think it’s a good idea. Though we try to cure him, he might not be able to make it. It’s a waste of energy and time.”

“But if we have him, he can protect us from the wolf.”

“He is old now. Though he is cured, he might not be able to fight the wolf and he would not live longer.” 

“You just help get medicine for me. If you do, I will grow garlic chives for you.”

“It does not mean I don’t want to help, but like I mentioned, it’s a waste of energy and time.”

“Okay, bye.”

I left and went to see duck. I told her like I said with the cow. She gave the same answer as the cow’s. I went to twin piggies, they said the same as the cow and the duck.

After hearing all of their comments, I returned home. Actually, I already took Robert in. He was lying next to my door. 

Look at him. He was weak. His pair of eyes looked at me saying something that only my heart could hear it. I didn’t say anything to him. I just smiled, then I took equipment and materials from my warehouse and started building a house dog. Next, I took Robert to have a bath and brought him to his house.

Today, the crow came to take the rose apple late. When she arrived, I said to her, “Help get medicine for me and I will give rose apples to you for seven more days.”

“Okay,” the crow said.

Love opportunity

“What are you looking at?” I asked.

“We are looking at the son of the master of cow,” duck said.

“Why are you looking at him?”

“He has a broken heart,” twin piggies said.

“Why?”

“He likes the daughter of master of twin piggies,” cow said.

“But the daughter of our master goes to another guy. Today, she moved in with him,” twin piggies said.

“He is pitiful,” cow said.

“Why didn’t your master’s daughter love him? He is a good guy,” duck said.

“How can we know?” Twin piggies said.

What they said, I didn’t know. I just knew that I heard the daughter of the master of twin piggies called with her friend. She said that she liked the son of the master of cow, but when she went to talk with him, he didn’t speak with her and went away. She really tried to approach him, but he showed through his action and facial expression that he didn't like her. I saw it with my own eyes. It was not once, it happened all the time - the girl really tried to approach the man, but the man ran away. I heard she told her friend that she even contacted him on social media, but he blocked her. I even saw the woman cry, she cried very hard. I heard she told her friend that she thought the guy hated her so much. She felt she was unwanted. It has been many months. Now, I heard that she met another guy, I was happy for her. However, I had a big question mark when I heard from my friends that the son of the master of the cow was sad when he heard the girl was with someone else. He should be happy as he didn’t like her. From today he would not need to run away because she would not come to bother him anymore. Why was he sad?