Zheng Xiuwen didn't know that his piano skills had changed so much, he just felt that he had more enjoyment in the process of playing, maybe playing the piano was a mechanical completion of every note on the score for him before, but now it is more about expressing a kind of inner emotion, and let himself enjoy the artistic conception of the creator.

The puppy will come to be his companion every afternoon, and the song "Pathos" seems to have become a code between them, as long as Zheng Xiuwen plays, the puppy will definitely appear at his door before the end of the song.

Zheng Xiuwen found that the puppy liked the piano music very much, and could make some obvious reactions to the changes in the mood of the song, as if it could also understand the feelings in the song. Every time Zheng Xiuwen plays "Pathos", the puppy will become particularly quiet, it will lie motionless next to Zheng Xiuwen, and there will be a sad look in its eyes.

At first, Zheng Xiuwen thought it was a little incredible, but he didn't expect the puppy to be able to understand the piano music, but then he gradually understood that the puppy could resonate with this piece perhaps because its life experience was as miserable as the piano music, as the so-called music has no borders, even if the language cannot be communicated, but the emotions can still be transmitted, which is also applicable to the puppy.

The puppy was abandoned just a few months after birth, had to live a wandering life without food, and was sometimes hurt by some malicious humans, such an encounter can easily create a shadow in the puppy's heart, and "Pathos" can help it express these suppressed emotions. So once the song sounds, the puppy becomes very quiet, as if it is going through a spiritual healing.

Zheng Xiuwen will take care of the puppy's diet every day, and will also check the recovery of the wound on its hind foot, watching the puppy's walking posture improve day by day, Zheng Xiuwen feels more happy than receiving praise from his parents.

Compared with children of the same age, Zheng Xiuwen's mind is relatively precocious, which may be the reason why he is often alone, so that Zheng Xiuwen often thinks about things beyond his age. For taking care of a stray dog, Zheng Xiuwen was originally out of curiosity and to relieve his loneliness, anyway, he had nothing else to do except play the piano, and playing with stray dogs was always more interesting than staring at pedestrians on the street.

Zheng Xiuwen didn't want to be too close to the stray dog at first, just feed it some food when it appears, anyway, the stray dog will automatically run away after eating, this is the best way for Zheng Xiuwen to get along, he doesn't need to take other responsibilities for the stray dog, just act as a good person with a little kindness.

But gradually, Zheng Xiuwen found that although it was just a simple feeding, he had a special connection with stray dogs. This connection is difficult to put into words, but it is undeniable that Zheng Xiuwen has begun to look forward to the punctual appearance of stray dogs every afternoon.

Every time he saw the stray dog wipe out the food he had prepared, Zheng Xiuwen felt that his empty heart had been filled with something, and he could feel a positive vitality from the satisfied eyes of the stray dog, which made his depressed heart begin to become clear.

Zheng Xiuwen no longer felt that taking care of stray dogs was a trouble, because he was able to get a lot of what he was missing from stray dogs, so when the stray dogs disappeared for several days in a row, Zheng Xiuwen found that his life was even more empty than before.

Fortunately, the stray dog finally came back, and Zheng Xiuwen naturally took care of it more dedicatedly, and even gave it an exclusive name, Little Wolf.

Zheng Xiuwen once watched a documentary about wolves on TV, saying that they are extremely intelligent and spiritual creatures, and the herdsmen living on the grassland are very in awe of them, and derived a thing for human beings to worship from the myth of the wolf ancestor, the wolf totem.

That documentary left a deep impression on Zheng Xiuwen's heart, once when he was playing the piano music "Pathos", Zheng Xiuwen accidentally found that the puppy's eyes also revealed a kind of spirituality that ordinary animals do not have, which made him naturally think of the story of the steppe wolf, so he gave the puppy such a nickname.

With the company of the little wolf, Zheng Xiuwen's days of practicing the piano have become much happier, although most of the time the little wolf just lies beside him and does not react, but with this special audience, Zheng Xiuwen has become extremely serious in practicing any song, and tries to integrate more emotions into the song, so that the little wolf can also experience the beautiful artistic conception of the song.

As the days passed, Zheng Xiuwen also went from elementary school to junior high school, during this time his piano skills have improved very much, even if his parents did not show it obviously, Zheng Xiuwen also felt that they looked at him differently than before. Just when Zheng Xiuwen thought that such days would last forever, an accident forced his relationship with the little wolf to change completely.

It was the same afternoon as usual, and the pedestrians on the street were still hurrying along the road, as if there was never something to do. Zheng Xiuwen opened the sheet music, and it was time for him to give a secret signal to the little wolf, Zheng Xiuwen's fingertips gently knocked the first note, and the song of "Pathos" flowed out from the back of the piano like flowing water.

The puppy's hearing is sixteen times that of a human, which Zheng Xiuwen later found out after checking the encyclopedia, so even if there are noisy crowds and cars on the street, its current location may be hundreds of meters away from him, but the little wolf will definitely be able to distinguish this favorite piano song from the many sounds, and appear in front of him for the first time.

Halfway through the play of "Pathos", Zheng Xiuwen glanced in the direction of the street corner, he estimated that the time was almost up, and the figure of the little wolf galloping would soon appear at the corner.

Sure enough, a ball of gold appeared in Zheng Xiuwen's field of vision like sunlight, and its leg injury had already been completely healed, so it looked particularly stable and powerful when running. Compared to when he first saw the wolf, it has grown a lot and its fur has become much thicker, but what remains unchanged is that it still likes to open its mouth and stick out a small piece of tongue when running, and it looks like it is always smiling.

Zheng Xiuwen felt that his mood was clear every time he saw it, and he was about to stop playing in his hand and push open the door to let the little wolf run into his room, when a big truck suddenly crossed in front of his house.

On top of the truck stood several large men in uniform, each of whom held a long iron rod in his hand. Before Zheng Xiuwen could figure out what the other party was going to do, one of the big men suddenly swept the iron rod in his hand to the ground, and Zheng Xiuwen finally saw that the top of the iron rod was equipped with a round blue net, and the little wolf that ran was just caught in the net.