Rice, the golden retriever, was euthanized in front of Xun Ran.

Xun Ran's mother didn't want a 6-year-old child to be directly exposed to the concept of life and death, at least she thought it should be tactful.

But Xun Ran insisted, she clenched her fleshy little fist, with tears in her eyes, and pursed her lips downward.

"I'm going too!"

"Well, rice is just going to travel and explore far away."

Xun Ran's mother wiped Xun Ran's tears and said in a choked voice.

"Do you think, baby, the rice is well eaten and dressed well in our house, but after all, there is such a place here, he can only bask in the sun occasionally, at most we take him for a walk, but this kind of life rice always feels that the shortcomings are exciting and adventurous."

Xun Ran's mother picked up little Xun Ran and put her on the bed, covered it with a quilt, looked up at the silver mist of moonlight outside the window, blinked her eyes, dipped her eyelashes to escape the tears in her eyes, she lowered her head and smiled at Xun Ran with red eyes in front of her.

Xun Ran was holding a specially made golden retriever dog puppet in her arms.

Mom stroked Xun Ran's head.

"Do you know where rice is going on an adventure? Well? Mom asked.

"I don't know." Xiao Xunran shook her head, her voice hoarse.

"I really don't have a good memory, use your brain, where do you want to go the most?"

Xun Ran sobbed a few times and wiped her tears.

"Japan, I like it, I like to see the cherry blossoms in full bloom." A staccato voice came from her mouth.

"You think, every time you like to eat pork ribs, you will secretly hide a few pieces for rice, and the rice will be happy every time; You like to watch the Mickey Mouse cartoon in Goofy, Rice is also happy to jump in front of the TV when he sees it; You like to build blocks the most, and the rice is quietly staring at you while you are playing, looking pitiful. I guess he's hating that his paws aren't as nimble as your little hands, and when he touches them, the blocks fall over. ”

"Haha." Xun Ran was amused by her mother's words, she choked on tears and coughed a few times.

Mom patted Xun Ran on the back and helped her get over.

"Well, so what rice likes has always been something that Xun Ran's baby likes."

She leaned over to Xun Ran's ear and whispered, "Last night, Da Mi spoke!" ”

"Huh? It's true? ”

"Of course it's true, Mom won't lie to you."

"And what does it say?"

He said that he was a man who stood up to the sky! It appreciates the care we have taken over the years. ”

Mom slipped from the bed to the carpet and sat down, propping herself up on the bed with her arms and resting her head on her hands.

Xun Ran pulled out the pillow under her head and gave it to her mother.

"What else? What else? She stared at her wide, puzzled eyes.

"Well, he said......"

Mom lifted her head from the pillow and pinched her throat with her hand to lower her voice.

"Ahem, thank you for taking care of me, but my rice is a man who stands up to the sky, I want adventure, it is a novelty, I want to go to the Japan that the little lord said. Take a picture of the best and most beautiful cherry blossoms there and send the photo to the little owner. ”

"Then, I want to go too, send him off." Xun Ran hugged the doll in her arms tightly.

"That's right, that's what I said to rice at the time."

She lowered her voice again.

"Please don't let the little master come to send me, my relationship with her is too deep, I'm afraid that she will send me, I may discourage the idea of taking risks, after all, she is the only master in my life."

Mom let go of the hand that was pinching her throat, looked at Xun Ran, and smiled: "Got it, Rice just doesn't want to make you sad because of him." ”

Xun Ran choked up again: "He, can he, can he not leave." ”

"Good, Xun Ran, Rice has accompanied you and guarded you since you were born, he has fulfilled the responsibility of a dog, we shouldn't ask for anything from it anymore, it's not fair to him."

Mom's expression became serious: "Xun Ran, you answer Mom seriously, do you love rice?" ”

"Love! I love him so much that I don't want him to go. ”

"Love represents wishing the other person to be happy, and when this happiness cannot be created by ourselves, we should ......"

Mom gently brushed away Xun Ran's hands holding the doll.

"We should choose to let go." Mom's voice was shaking.

The next morning, Xun Ran's parents hugged the trembling rice and got into the car.

Xun Ran watched them leave.

They came back at noon, and of course, the rice didn't.

"We're sending the rice to the plane to Japan." Mom's voice was hoarse.

Xun Ran's eyes were a few degrees red that day......

On the street, Xun Ran held two small sticks, glued them together, inserted them into the small mound of soil that had been piled up in advance, and bowed his head with his hands stained with mud.

A boy passing by on a bicycle was attracted by this novel sight, stopped, put down his bicycle and walked to Xun Ran.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Xun Ran didn't look up: "My puppy has passed away." Her voice was sobbing.

"Deceased?" The boy looked at the small mound less than 10 centimeters high and said in surprise: "You never told me that your puppy was buried under this mound, did you?" ”

She looked up, her eyes covered with tears, and she blinked again, letting the tears run down the tip of her nose.

The boy had the light on his back, and Xun Ran still couldn't see his face clearly.

"My puppy Rice was taken to the hospital yesterday for an injection and died."

"Sick?"

"No, it's so old, it's so old that it trembles when it walks."

The boy ran out of topics to follow.

Xun Ran continued: "In order not to let my mother continue to be sad because of me, I accepted the lies she told me. But this morning I couldn't help it, and after chasing my father's car for a long time on my bicycle, he drove much slower than usual. The shutters in the hospital were broken in a corner, and I saw everything. ”

The sorrow in her heart came like a flood breaking through the levee, and then it came out of her eyes, and she could only swallow the tears in her stomach so that her throat would not be choked.

"Cut, I know, it's called euthanasia." The boy squatted down, Xun Ran could see his wheat-colored healthy face clearly, and she noticed his eyes - bright! Very bright!

"Comfort? Is there any peace in death? ”

"Of course." The boy's confident voice is loud and powerful.

He clenched his fists: "What my dad said, euthanasia is not real death. You didn't look closely, the injection was not pushed in, but pumped out. ”

"Pump? What to smoke? Xun Ran stopped choking.

"It is the old body that is euthanized, and the soul that will not be old is extracted."

"Soul?"

"That's right, the soul, they will put the extracted soul into another newborn puppy, so that the puppy will move, there is a warehouse in the basement of the hospital dedicated to storing the soul, all the puppy souls ready to enter the new body, they will sojourn in a new family, have a new owner, and start a new life."

Xun Ran listened to the boy's confident voice and was convinced.

"Maybe one day, your puppy will come running to you with a smile and want to tell you that he is your rice, but unfortunately most people don't recognize it." The boy shook his head.

"Really?"

"Really."

"You swear?"

"I swear."

The boy stood up and stretched out his hand to Xun Ran: "My name is Xia Yuan, and I just moved next door to your house yesterday." ”

Xun Ran's eyes widened and stretched out her dirty little hand to Xia Yuan......

A month later, her mother's birthday gift to Xun Ran was a newborn little golden retriever.

The dog was very happy, and when he saw Xun Ran, he kept wagging his tail and barking constantly, as if he wanted to tell her something, and Xun Ran appointed it as Xiaomi.