"Ah Huang" is a dog, is a chest rib frost white, the back of the table is scorched, honest and well-behaved, the caretaker is loyal, has been three or four years old adult pastoral dog, male.

I don't know anything about Ah Huang's origin, I only know that he was taken by my family to feed him soon after he opened his eyelids. At that time, with it, there was also its younger brother, Er Huang, who was characterized by a golden body, a pretty body, and two bright eyes, which was much more energetic than "Ah Huang". and a black-black, four-legged white Labrador puppy brought from elsewhere, also male. A total of three cubs.

Because of their beautiful appearance, I chose them with elegant names according to their shapes: Yellowstone, Topaz, and Treading Snow. And "Yellowstone" and "Topaz", because the appearance is almost the same, the only clue is the color of the hair between the chest and ribs, there is white, for "Yellowstone". If there is no white, it is "topaz".

At that time, I remember that the neighbor also had two puppies, a male and a female, both of whom were black in color and had white abdominal ribs, but the difference was: male, with a forehead and a silver snow between the four legs and the mouth and nose, while the female had gilded gold on the mouth and four gizzards, and there were two barges of the moon next to the eyebrows. Because their appearance is quite different, this is a rare encounter in the world, at that time I took the name of "three-eyed son, four-eyed golden lady".

I know that they are dismissive of my rise at that time, and I don't understand the doorway, I am just enjoying myself and amusing myself, but they are really cute in the past, which makes me amused and makes a deep impression on me, which is still unforgettable.

However, rural people raise dogs, and they rarely raise them until they die of natural old age, and the dogs are always on the way to "change" or "change". Therefore, my Ah Huang is not the original one, before it, my family has raised a lot, but it never ends, so it is replaced by another one, which impresses me the most, in addition to Ah Huang at this time, there are also "Xiaobai" and earlier and earlier "rhubarb".

For "Xiaobai", as the name suggests, it is a pure white with a delicate and cute body, a well-behaved and obedient temperament, and a very understanding of my intentions. While he was still alive, he would often go to the pond with me and my two younger brothers in the summer weather, or share the water, or watch us carry fish and fish, and be very happy.

So what is "moving fish"? Similar to the lower ground cage, it can also be said to be the predecessor of the lower ground cage, the specific method is to first find an empty and durable glass bottle with threads along the mouth, and then pull some tough and strong, slightly thick nylon thread, with a length of three or four meters. Then carefully put the nylon thread to the thread gap of the bottle mouth, wrap it one turn at a time, tie it well, and then tie it tightly. Subsequently, stuff the bottle with a small half of the steamed bun ball, and then find a branch, take the willow tree as the most, carefully fold it into a double section of the same length as the bottle mouth, and then fill the bottle mouth tightly in the shape of "ten". Finally, at the end of the thread, tie the knot firmly and tie a wooden stick. Immediately, find a pond full of cruising fish, drop the bottle, stick it, and wait for a while, and you will be fully loaded.

It is worth noting that because the bottle capacity is very cramped, the bottle mouth is not spacious, far less than the inside of the cage, so "moving fish" can often only get dozens of oolitic fish (that is, small fry or small adult fish), such as can only catch the common loach, carp noodles (scientific name trout fish, is a kind of shallow fish that is colorful all around, likes to swim in groups to feed), Ma Gu Leier (scientific name speartail spiny goby, can be fresh water or sea, head big and small body, very lazy nature, often lie on the shallow bottom of the water's edge, greedy for bait, People can catch earthworms without hooks) and grass fish (scientific name wheat ear fish) and other small things, which can be regarded as a certain lack of "moving fish".

Of course, if you are lucky, you can also harvest wild aquatic products such as the black-shelled shrimp, the knife loach (a freshwater fish species with a spike on the back that resembles a loach) and forktail (the scientific name of the Chinese betta fish) can be considered a great blessing in the "unfortunate" event.

The most significant advantage of "moving fish" is that it can catch fish and shrimp without damage at all, just like taking advantage of the short foraging period of fish and shrimp, people safely move them from the water to the basin on the shore, people just help to change a new water source to rest, and there is little harm to them, so this convenient fishing method is called "moving fish", and it is also one of the most common "small fights" among rural children.

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The conversation turned again, and his thoughts returned to "Xiaobai". I think it was celebrating its rare freedom and rejoicing at being able to play with its owner. Of course, I'm glad to be able to silently guard my master...

As for the earlier and earlier "rhubarb", because the age is too far away, my memory at this time is only the scene of it biting deep into my buttocks. Of course, there are also the few profound moments of the "me" that will always be with me, after eight shots of rabies vaccine, although my memory is damaged and deviated at this time, but I still remember, I remember that every time my sister took me to the hospital for injections, and there are some memory fragments that are quite resentful - I vaguely remember a time (maybe when the third or last shot of rabies vaccine) went to the clinic in several neighboring villages to refill the injection, and was refilled by an old doctor with gray hair, It's not gentle at all.,Very brutally poked the syringe into my buttocks,Half-back pants.,Let "me" experience the pain to death.。 Because of this, I am quite worried about injections and water.

Of course, whether it is that year, month and day, or in today's era, it is a rare thing for a person to be able to insist on receiving eight shots of vaccine. But the question is, why did the rhubarb, which caused me to suffer this misery, bite me? The reason is that because the rhubarb will (a dialect word for a beast to give birth) a litter of cubs. When I was still a child, I was driven by curiosity and went to take a look, and naturally met the rhubarb who cared for the cubs, so the rhubarb had a "strange connection" with me, and I will naturally remember it for the rest of my life.

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But having said so much, what are rural people most afraid of when they have dogs? It is "medicine" and "stealing". The so-called "medicine" refers to the deadly poison of dogs, which is usually secretly administered by many unscrupulous dog dealers, as well as some neighbors with bad intentions. It is speculated that the specific method may be to apply the colorless and odorless poison to the dog's favorite food, and then discard it next to the firewood stack in the countryside, or throw it into the yard of someone else's house, so that the dog can eat it by mistake. Because the dog will swallow these poisonous foods, when the owner finds out, it is basically foaming at the corners of the mouth, the limbs are stiff, and most of the feet are in the state before the ghost door is closed. Or the dog's whole body is cold, like water, and it has long been useless, and people can only dig a pit with tears in their eyes and bury it.

And "stealing" refers to the dogs that are specially raised by rural people, and are stolen by dog dealers who come to the village to shout and collect dogs. From adult dogs to small puppies, as long as they wander around the village for most of the day near the end of the year, they are easy to "mysteriously disappear". Even if they don't "disappear", they are often poisoned or killed by inexplicable poisoning.

Therefore, the successive dogs of my family, such as "Rhubarb", "Xiaobai", "Topaz" and "Treading Snow", etc., all "went west", so only "Ah Huang", that is, "Huangshi", survived.

I still can't forget the moment when "Xiaobai" was poisoned. At that time, because I took pity on "Xiaobai" for his lack of freedom, I planned to remove the chains from it and let it run for a while. But when I put the dog on the front foot, the back foot is like the dog taking the medicine, and it is really just a "while" time. At that time, it staggered home, so it found a corner and lay down, motionless, as if it was tired and planned to rest. But this is not the case, you can see its occasional limbs kicking around, you can hear its whining and low sound, and you can really feel its vitality disappearing. At that time, in order to save it from foaming at the mouth, I poured soap and water to induce vomiting, and I also gave it cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and even gave it artificial respiration, but no matter how miraculous I was, I couldn't save its life. At that time, I had resented myself, resented why I let it go, if I didn't let it go, it would still be alive and well, but, perhaps, this is the last catastrophe suffered by "Xiaobai" in this world, every life has its own way back.

Although these sad things often happen, in rural villages, you can also see free-range dogs all the time. But it's not that their owners are so big-hearted that they are careless and let them be in the company of hidden dangers. This is only because the pastoral dog, only in a free galloping state, is the most beautiful, but also the most rare way to grow. Because when they come to the nursing home, they often lose their freedom—they are often chained by their masters in a nest within three or four paces, and only occasionally get a moment of freedom again.

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The way rural people raise dogs, not like the city people raise expensive pet dogs, since childhood to feed high-end dog food, Chinese pastoral dogs, is not needed - after being taken away, the dog cubs will be weaned of breast milk, people can only feed soft food, or a little milk, and when they are older, they will feed the grains and sundries that people eat, as well as the bones and residues that people eat. Because raising a dog from an early age will make the dog understand words, and it can also deepen the loyalty of the dog. And Ah Huang was also concocted in the same way, and was raised by my family.

Although "Ah Huang" is not in a shaky childhood, and his body and skin are not flawless, he is not my favorite one, but no matter what, today's "Ah Huang" has become my best brother and my best heterogeneous friend - whenever I encounter something unsatisfactory, it always shakes its head and tail, revealing a happy appearance, which will make my troubles and sorrows disappear immediately, so that I can also have the true feelings of the world again.

Because in the days after graduation, I developed near my hometown, and I was often able to go home and "stay" at home. Therefore, he can often be accompanied by "Ah Huang", and after coming and going, he discovered many habits of "Ah Huang".

First of all, Ah Huang loves to "hide", especially likes to hide the excess steamed buns in a place where he thinks it is safe and keep them as spare food. I saw it, with its mouth open and holding an unbearable white bun, looking for it everywhere, until it found a safe corner, and then it would give up. Then, like a pig-raised, they used their own "pig nose" to arch a shallow mud hole. Immediately, the steamed bun ingots were placed in the middle and covered with soil one after another, until they were buried so that no trace of the buns could be revealed. Therefore, after covering up, there will be mud marks around the nose of "Ah Huang", which looks more like a pig, which is very funny. But in fact, the dog's nose is in the shape of a golden hoop and auspicious clouds, good at smelling, and it is not like a pig's nose, but in a certain situation, it will rob the domestic pig.

Of course, after "Ah Huang" carefully hid it, he would always forget to take it out, and then waste his hard work in vain. And my job is to take it out and feed it. Why don't I "find" it, because I remember the location of each bun it buried, and in this regard, I remember it much more vividly than "Ah Huang".

Secondly, Ah Huang also loves to "pretend", especially "pretending to be foreign" and pretending to sleep. So what is "pretending to be foreign"? The specific manifestations are abnormal behavior, bad temper, just want to eat and drink well, live a good life that is opposed to their current situation, and even often fight in incredible ways, such as self-harm or hunger strike. And "Ah Huang", this happens from time to time, becoming not vegetarian, and not drinking water to quench thirst, the only way to crack it, in addition to begging for a beating, there is also to open the meat for it, and it will recover as before. And this is the embodiment of "Ah Huang's" love for pretending to be foreign.

So what does it mean to "pretend to be asleep"? The embodiment is that whenever I lift "Ah Huang" high, or simply let "Ah Huang" lift its hind limbs off the ground, it will squint its eyes "leisurely and comfortably", as if it is usually asleep. But its thumping heartbeat betrayed it deeply, it turned out that it was just afraid of heights and a little afraid of me, so it would squint its eyes and let me do whatever I wanted, fiddling with it wantonly.

In addition to loving "hiding" and "pretending", "Ah Huang" also has the characteristics of "madness", especially love and ecstasy. The specific plot is that whenever I unbuckle the lock on its neck and give it relative freedom, it will run around my family garden like crazy, but because I close the door and release it, it generally cannot contact the outside world, and only through the gap in my door and the drainage hole under the wall can I look at the wisps of life outside the wall.

If someone asks me why I don't let "Ah Huang" come into contact with the outside world, my reply is that it is not that I don't let it, but that once I let it slip into the outside world, it will not go home for most of the day, and even if I call it, I will not be able to take it home, unless I catch it and hold it and not let go, I can only bring it home.

Therefore, the "love and joy" characteristic of "Ah Huang" is often related to me. Especially when I lean over slightly, or bow slightly, and just come up with the idea of "why not, go to the kennel to tease Ah Huang", as long as "Ah Huang" sees it, it will look at it, as if full of infinite "affection". But its real purpose, in fact, is more just to let me run around, rather than just to play with me.

But in this way, it also leads to the fourth characteristic of "Ah Huang", that is, love "hope" and love expectation. But in addition to "love expectations", there is also "love watching". For "love watch", my explanation is very simple, that is, the responsible "gatekeeper", such as always keeping an eye on the gate, once it finds that outsiders are intruding, it will yell very seriously, and stop me or my family members from coming out to stop it, and it will stop barking in a way.

In addition to these four characteristics, "Ah Huang" also loves "fighting", loves fighting and fighting, especially when he is by my side, and fights against his fierce opponents, such as the fierce dogs of other people's families. Although it has been frightened to clamp its tail, and at the same time, the other fierce dogs no longer care about it, but because I am by my side, I deliberately provoke the other party, and still chase after the other party, but the other party bites badly. As the old saying goes, "dogs fight people", this is often the case.

Of course, "Ah Huang" also has a sixth characteristic, which is Ah Huang's love of "catching", loving to catch mice and cicadas. And these were originally just the interests of cats. Because the cats in this year are all good to eat and drink, so cats rarely go to catch mice, just like the waste of the stunt of catching mice, cats seem to become unable to catch mice. But in the face of the rampant situation of rodent infestation in the warehouse, who can bear this burden?

So, in this case, the Chinese pastoral dog angrily relayed this "obligation" and became a new generation of rat repellent experts. So I would often untie Ah Huang at night and let him run around the house, and then the next morning, I would occasionally pick up one or two rat carcasses that had been bitten out of shape. Needless to ask, the owner of this credit naturally belongs to "Ah Huang".

In addition to the previous six characteristics of "Ah Huang", namely love "hidden", love "pretend", love "madness", love "hope", love "fight", love "grasp", there is also a "love sa" temperament, such as love to pee and coquetry.

And Ah Huang's "love to pee" here does not refer to the "Ah Huang" peeing circle and normal urination, but refers to the fact that whenever I push it down, expose its soft and hot belly to the sky, or lift it high, and then catch it steadily, it will often pee uncontrollably, often soaking my pants, my shoes, and other things.

So what is "love to be coquettish"? What is the "coquettishness" of "Ah Huang"?

For example, every time I buy roast duck for exclusive use, my heels, before I fully enter the door, the tip of the nose (dialect, referring to the dog's strong sense of smell) already smells the roast duck. You guessed it, it's its favorite food.

Then, from this moment on, it became "angry", and began to be coquettish - I saw it humming and chirping, calling again and again, and breaking the chains with a loud sound, quite a feeling of "master, if you don't give me some bones to taste, I will not give up". Often I am "coerced" by it, and I will always give it a few pieces of fat duck meat with bones, or sometimes because the roast duck is too fatty, I will only give it the leftover duck bone residue. And it will also succumb to my "obscenity", after all, it is not bad to have bones to eat.

Therefore, Ah Huang loves to be "afraid", in addition to loving and fearing me, he also loves to be afraid of water, and this "fear" attribute is also the seventh characteristic of "Ah Huang". So every time I bathe "Ah Huang", it is the most frightened moment of his dog's life, except for the situation that I hit him to make it frightened, only the bathing can make it almost "soul possession". People often see the dog's planing swimming posture, and they have also heard of the landlubber, but they rarely know that in fact, dogs are also particularly afraid of water, such as my family's "Ah Huang". So every time, when I forcibly washed it, it would "escape" to its nest in a panic, and no matter how much I called, it wouldn't come out. Of course, unless it sees that I don't have a basin of water in my hand, or a water hose, or a water scoop, it will respond to my call and leave the nest, and then the first thing to do is to shake off my wet torso, as if it were raining, as if it wanted to let me taste the "frightened" taste. As it was "expected", I also experienced the taste of "rain" on a sunny day, which was quite cool, refreshing, and quite torturous.

In addition to the above seven characteristics, "Ah Huang" also has the eighth chapter, that is, Ah Huang loves "pickpocketing", loving pickpocketing people and loving pickpocketing walls.

Because loving "pickpocketing" is the most common behavior of dogs to express excitement and show love, my family's Ah Huang's "pickpocketing" behavior will only happen to me and my family, especially when we reunite with "Ah Huang" after a short or long separation, Ah Huang's "pickpocketing" frequency is the most common. At this time. Often it can only be threatened, or slightly beaten, before it reins in its enthusiasm and becomes quieter.

And what is Ah Huang's so-called "love to pick up the wall"? Let's put it this way, the average dog pees normally, raising one hind limb, leaving only three legs to support, and then taking advantage of the situation to pour out the "majestic flood". But my family's "Ah Huang" is a "maverick" - only two legs to support himself, and then his two short front planes are tightly tied to the wall, and then he begins to learn to be human-like, but soothing and comfortable "opening the floodgates". This situation, not to mention how strange it is.

Of course, according to my observation, my family's "Ah Huang" also has the characteristics of Chapter 9, that is, he loves to "fry", Ah Huang "loves to fry hair" and "loves to blow up". Especially when it encounters an underage puppy that it thinks it can bully and win, it will proudly bully the small, first supporting the bristles on its back, and then frantically "hey, hey, hey, or babble", with a posture of trying to drive away outsiders. But in fact, at this time, the more it doesn't blow up, the more it blows up, the more it doesn't blow up, the more it blows up, and it is like a "I'm the boss here" attitude, which makes me both love and hate.

But in this case, I am not incomprehensible, I often only need to knock down "Ah Huang", and then use my hand to caress its soft and hot flat abdomen, it can temporarily suppress its "love to fried" nature, and then obediently obey my fiddling, and even make it happy or annoyed, it will gently lick the back of my hand, as if trying to rely on this trick to make me let go of it, let it get up.

But at this time, the person who made it "blow up" is often gone, or has been chased away by my family, or has already followed its owner back home, so Ah Huang's "licking trick" often makes it feel very "practical", really a "stupid dog, stupid dog".

Although the love between rural people and pastoral dogs has lasted for thousands of years since a long time ago, it will not end very late, after all, the affection between the master and the servant has already shaken the heavens and the earth, and has long been beyond the six reincarnations, so that the emperor is also deeply moved. Although in the current countryside, it has long been difficult to see completely purebred "Chinese pastoral dogs", and only strings are left, but because of this, the blood power of pastoral dogs continues to gallop on the land of China, enduring, endless, and eternal.

"You see that dog has a long strip of front line on its forehead, like a crack, it seems to be divided into left and right halves, what breed of dog is this?"

"Ah, that's the distinctive mark of a pastoral dog. The Chinese pastoral dog is the dog breed that has accompanied the Chinese for the longest time and has the most sincere and deep feelings with the Chinese people, and it is still in the rural areas, and it is a dedicated caretaker..."

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