Chapter 16: Puppies

When I was ten years old, our three siblings always liked to go to the second grandfather's place to play, and there was a small clinic next to the second grandfather's house. The eldest brother in the outpatient clinic was very kind to us, often gave us snacks to eat, and we would go there to play, while the eldest sister often came to the outpatient clinic and called us home for dinner. Over time, the eldest sister and the eldest brother Liu Shitian, who came to our village to open an outpatient clinic, met and talked about the object.

Since the second grandfather did not let Liu Shitian rent a house, and Liu Shitian is about to become my parents' son-in-law. So my parents gave him the piece of land behind my house that they had bought to build a house that could be used as an outpatient clinic. The land was about 60 square meters, and was designed by Liu Shitian as a commercial and residential house. Although the place is not large, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, and outpatient clinics are planned. All the things that should be designed are in, and the so-called sparrows are small and have all kinds of organs.

After building the house, Liu Shitian's outpatient clinic moved from his second grandfather to the back of my house. Because he is indeed talented and famous, moving places will not affect the flow of people who come to see a doctor. However, it is not easy to open an outpatient clinic alone, and he often has to be busy with a lot of things. A person not only has to inquire about the condition, but also writes a medicine list for the patient, prescribes medicine, and collects money, which is very busy.

He's nice to us, so I'll wonder if I can do something for him. Sometimes I read too many of the prescriptions and dispenses he prescribes, and I will learn to help dispense them, just like a little medicine boy. And he was watching me to see if the medicine and quantity were consistent with the prescription. After watching too much, I felt that it was no problem, so I was relieved to leave it to me. But the patients who came to see the doctor were not at ease, and felt that a ten-year-old baby came to do the dispensing of medicine, which was obviously distrustful. After a while, he said, "Aren't you afraid of the wrong medicine for such a small baby?" Liu Shitian smiled and said, "I have something to watch, no problem." After that, other patients said critically, "Has this baby washed her hands, and is this medicine clean?" Is there any problem with eating? "I heard a lot of doubts and was a little frustrated. In fact, I basically pour the pills on the lid, and pour as many pills as I need, and my hands rarely touch the medicine. I made it a Western medicine, and I would never touch Chinese medicine. But people don't trust me, so they keep picking on me, and gradually I don't get involved. At that time, the eldest sister and Liu Shi talked about the object, and the eldest sister quit her job and came to the outpatient clinic to help dispense medicine. The eldest sister dispenses medicine, everyone can rest assured, and it won't be like me, either this or that won't work. Some people will always be a little biased and would rather trust an adult than a child's abilities.

Soon, Liu Shitian brought a puppy from nowhere and kept it in the outpatient clinic, intending to be a watchdog. The puppy was called Silky Dog, and it was short in stature, with pure white fur and silky smooth hair. It looks like it has just been born, and the cry is still milky. When our three siblings saw that the puppy was very small and cute, they often ran to play with the puppy.

The puppy is also not angry, and when he sees a human playmate, he jumps up and down happily, and his tail keeps wagging and wagging his tail.

Liu Shitian saw that we liked this puppy, so he gave us it to take home and raise it, and we happily took it home. The puppy seems to be willing, and is very adaptable. And it doesn't forget to go back to its original owner's house, and often likes to run between the two and get dusty.

The dog was dirty, and we thought about bathing it. And it is not restless to bathe, and often jumps up and down, so the work of bathing the dog requires two people to complete. One person holds its body down, and the other flushes it. Squeeze some shower gel mixed with water to wash and wash the hair, and pour some warm water to rinse off the bubbles. It also throws water directly and throws it everywhere. Although it was held down, the water from the hair still threw it in our faces, and we had to endure and continue to flush. After washing, wipe its body with a towel, the hair is fluffy, and it smells of shower gel, fragrant.

It probably let go when it was almost wiped off, and it ran as fast as it could, and all at once it went out of the door and rolled on the sand. It wasn't until it felt that it was dry, and then it ran home with a body of sand, and we had a headache and worked in vain.

Since I was the eldest of the three children, I was entrusted with the task of feeding the puppies. The first time I had a dog, I didn't know what he wanted to eat, so I gave him leftovers, fish bones, and overnight fish. Or while your parents don't know, throw a piece or two of pork into the leftovers and feed it. I feed him three times a day, and the adult saying is that dogs can only feed two meals and not at noon. Saying that feeding the dog at noon will cause the dog to become stupid and sluggish.

I don't believe in this superstition, and I don't want my dog to go hungry. often takes advantage of the fact that my parents don't know about their lunch break, and secretly feeds it. My mother always wants to talk about me when she knows about it, and I don't want to change it. I just think that people will be hungry, and dogs must be hungry if they don't eat. And I don't want my little playmate to go hungry.

After having a puppy, we rarely went out to play. We treat puppies as playmates and often hold them in our arms or put them on our laps and pet them.

When a dog hears an unusual sound or sees a stranger, it will prick up its drooping ears in alarm. We saw it and thought it was very strange, and we always had to pinch its little ears and help it prick it up. It's just that when we put it down, the ears will hang down on their own.

Dogs often run to play with neighbors' dogs, and several dogs always like to roll around in the sand or grass. When I came back, I was dirty and gray-faced. He also likes to jump on me and sleep, making my pants full of sand and grass clippings.

In winter, we are afraid that it will sleep cold, catch a cold and get sick, so we will take out the clothes we don't want to warm its body.

We love dogs, and they seem to feel it, and they like us in their own way.

The way the puppy likes us is also simple, and when we pet the dog with our hands, it will lick our hands in response. Sometimes when we eat at the table, it looks at us intently from below, and even touches our ankles with its nose to show intimacy. When the dog rests on its stomach, as soon as we go over and pet it, it will turn its belly over and let us scratch its belly. And if we're going to school, it's going to follow us out. It is forbidden to bring puppies to class for fear of biting children. And once the dog goes out with us, we have to take it home and lock it up, so that the dog can't see us for a long time. As soon as we get home, the dog will be very excited, and his tail will wag at us and even jump around for us to cuddle.

Because dogs love us, they can't hide their joy for us. Even if I can't open my eyes when I go over and touch it, it will still wag its tail to show that it likes me.

In the summer, the dog likes to sleep next to my feet. Or resting his chin on my feet, as if coquettish. If you gently pet its head at this time, it will wag its tail. When the dog is full, he will run up to me and lean his butt against my feet, in fact, he wants to stick to me, and I like to pick it up and pet it.

In the winter, it will jump on my lap and sleep, and it will be hot on my leg after a while, it will be like a warm baby.

In addition to wanting to play with me, the dog also wants to share his favorite things with me, and I know he probably wants to please me. He thinks that I will like what he likes. So, it would often run outside and put the little mice in front of my eyes, some of the little mice were even dead and smelly, and some of them were still running around when they were put on the ground. I only felt helpless when I saw it, and I had to sweep the little mouse out of the house by myself.