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Liu Zixuan stepped into the courtyard gate in a few steps, and the girl behind him also followed to the courtyard, and the two people in front of him and one behind him were about to enter the house, but they saw a big dog coming out of the door of the main house. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info coldly saw the big dog, Liu Zixuan trembled in shock, as if he had inadvertently stepped on a five-step snake.

"Wolf!" Seeing this, the girl was immediately frightened, shouted and hid behind Liu Zixuan, and grabbed his arm with both hands.

A large dog with a lame hind leg jumped out of the hall, carried the wind through the small courtyard beside the two men, jumped over a stream in front of the courtyard as if fleeing for his life, and plunged into the deep grass on the opposite bank.

Seeing this situation, Liu Zixuan couldn't help but break free from the girl's hand, and ran into the east room in a few steps, until he saw the old man still lying on the bed safely, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground: "Mother, have you seen that dog?" The dog that our family used to have before, it's back! ”

"See, it's been sitting on the edge of my bed for a long time, probably knowing that I won't live long, and I came back to see me today, and it will also love the Lord's ......"

"Mother, I bought a pheasant, I didn't pay attention to the road and ran, I'll buy another one tomorrow ......" Liu Zixuan said, feeling indescribable guilt in his heart. Seeing that the old man no longer spoke, he got up and went out of the east room, only to see the girl still standing in the courtyard like a log, and from the expression on her face, it was obvious that she was frightened by the scene she had just seen. Liu Zixuan said hello, and she entered the house timidly, as if she had scared away her soul.

"Mother, this girl was bitten by a snake on the road, come to the house to rest, it's going to rain outside."

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"It's not a wolf, it's a dog, it's a hunting dog that our family raised a few years ago." Liu Zixuan explained while pouring water for the girl.

A bowl of water was only half drunk, and the earth-shattering thunder sounded outside, and after a short while, the dense raindrops knocked on the mountains and forests, and the lonely courtyard on the rabbit hill was suddenly drowned in the rain and mist.

"Zixuan, after I die, you can move away, don't keep my filial piety here, move back to Yanggongjing, those three old houses, clean up and live for a few years, and the rest of the days will depend on you. Don't move your father's grave, he told him before he died, so he buried it on the bull's head slope, and buried me in it...... There should be a stele in front of your father's grave, and I have prepared the stone for carving the stele, and it is under the locust tree behind the house, and you go to the Yanggongjing to find the Gu stonemason, and ask him to engrave a few words, I have already told him...... After moving away, don't forget to fill in the well under the post so that the rabbit doesn't fall into it later...... And those two pheasants, you have to keep them carefully......"

Liu Zixuan knelt beside the bed, holding the old man's hand tightly, tears were like rain outside, constantly dripping. The girl in the outer room was drinking water, and when she heard the old man's words, tears fell into the bowl.

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It wasn't until it was getting late that the rain outside was a little lighter, and the girl was in a hurry to go home, so the old man asked Liu Zixuan to give her a ride.

The rain all over the world was endless, and the two walked side by side under an oilcloth umbrella, and Liu Zixuan didn't say a word. Seeing that he was depressed, the girl didn't say a word.

After walking a long way, I saw the outline of the village in the rain in front of me, Liu Zixuan was listening to the rustling raindrops on the umbrella surface, and the girl next to her suddenly wiped her tears and said: "The small village in front, I have lived in it for 20 years, and my father and mother also live there, but ...... It's really pitiful to be a woman, you can't be buried next to your father and mother when you die, you have to be buried in someone else's ancestral grave, and you don't even know where you want to bury it in the future for the younger half of your life......"

Hearing this, Liu Zixuan peeked at the girl's face, and saw that the powder on her face was even more messy than before, and it looked really funny. The women in this world are really sentimental, and today they shouldn't have taken this girl to the rabbit gang, Xu just listened to a few words from the old man, and she touched her heart for a while, so she said this heart-wrenching words, this girl probably has something on her mind, Liu Zixuan thought.

A person who is easily touched by the heart is unsatisfactory in his heart nine times out of ten. But as the old saying goes, it is always difficult to complete good things in the world, and everything in this world can go well? Not to mention a sentimental girl's family, even if it is a cow, it is inevitable that you will encounter a bad mood. Outside the entrance of the village of Yanggongjing in the small village, there is a neem tree standing on the side of the road, a thin buffalo with curved horns tied to the rain, it looks down and opens its eyes, looking at a pair of passers-by in front of it, and the far-reaching big eyes seem to be confused and unsatisfactory.

The poor cow, standing alone in the rain, without even a shelter from the rain, was probably hoping that the rain would stop sooner...... But all the creatures in this world, you have your dissatisfaction, I have my difficult scriptures, each has its own life, each has its own path, and it has nothing to do with it. I can't even take care of myself now, how can I take care of a strange girl's mind? Liu Zixuan took a deep breath and sighed again, I only hope that the words that the old man just said are just the pessimistic expressions that people are accustomed to when they are seriously ill...... Liu Zixuan was thinking about his thoughts while walking, and he didn't take the girl's words to heart at all.

After entering the village, the girl spoke again: "I'm going home, go back quickly, thank you for your help today, and I will thank you if I have the opportunity in the future...... There is another sentence, I thought all the way, no matter when people arrive, they should always look at the long run, in case the old man really leaves his hand and leaves, you are alone, what are your plans for the future? ”

Although it sounds serious, the girl's sentence poked Liu Zixuan's sore spot. In case of what the girl mentioned in her words, Liu Zixuan didn't think about it, but if you come to ask me at this time, who will I ask? Liu Zixuan thought so in his heart, but there was no sound on his lips, still only looking at the road under his feet, and still only listening to the rain in his ears.

Seeing that Liu Zixuan was still silent, who would have thought that this girl was in a hurry, she suddenly stopped in the rain, and asked in a loud voice: "You person, is it so difficult to say a word?" ”

Seeing that she still didn't give up, Liu Zixuan immediately became angry: "It's none of your business, why bother so much?" My mother will live a hundred years, so I don't need you to this idleness! ”

I wanted to plug the girl's mouth with this sentence, but Liu Zixuan's words hadn't fallen, but she said louder: "Why is it none of my business?" What's the matter? I just hope that when I die, I can be buried in your ancestral grave! ”

Although the raindrops are getting smaller and smaller, it is still raining urgently. It is said that the rain is not like rain, that the fog is not fog, and that the fine raindrops are strung together into a line and connected into a piece, filling up the originally empty heaven and earth. The impatient raindrops wet the girl's hair, and after only a few moments, Liu Zixuan couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears on his face. Two people who were originally unrelated, just because of one sentence, were vaguely implicated. But where did she start with this sentence? Liu Zixuan looked at the girl, stunned, not knowing what to say.

It's really a strange day, what happened in this day, far fresher than the past 20 years, the first half of the day just bumped into the stranger who was like a stranger, and the second half of the day a stranger came to say this affectionate words to himself, this time made Liu Zixuan like a bottle of old vinegar as rice wine and drank it, crying is not, laughing is not.

This girl's house in front of her who was drenched in the rain, she must have been stimulated by something today, or she was paralyzed by snake venom, otherwise how could she say such a thing to a stranger? She suddenly came out with such a sentence, which stunned Liu Zixuan, and looked at this unfamiliar face with wide eyes. Although Liu Zixuan has always been dull, he can hear the girl's voice, and the moment he looks at the girl, what flashes from his mind are the two magpies on the black locust tree.

Magpie! If magpies can really tell the good news, what does their call at sunset yesterday mean?

Liu Zixuan didn't dare to think deeply, and looked at the girl for a moment, he only handed the oilcloth umbrella to the girl, and ran back to the rabbit hill in the rain.

This girl must have something on her mind, and she can't be wrong......

The magpie at the top of the treetop has long disappeared, and as soon as Liu Zixuan, who was drenched, returned to the rabbit hill, he was startled by the scene in front of him in his uncertain state, only to see that the dog raised by his father was sitting far away on the grass south of the gangzi, it was sitting in the rain on the other side of the stream, staring at the courtyard of the Liu family in front of him with two eyes, and saw Liu Zixuan come back, and did not see it move a nest.

Seeing this dog for the second time on the same day, Liu Zixuan suddenly had a lot of doubts in his heart, why did the dog who hadn't seen this dog for many years suddenly come back today? Now sitting motionless in the rain again, what is it thinking?

Liu Zixuan didn't have the heart to pay attention to the strangeness of a dog, and only entered the Dongli room with a stomach full of questions. Back in front of the old man's bed, he wiped the rain from his head and face, and said: "Mother, the dog hasn't gone far yet, it is sitting in the grass in front of the post, probably because it has a lame leg, and it can't eat in the woods, I'll feed it later......"

On the hospital bed, the old man coughed twice with difficulty, and after a long time, he said with difficulty: "No, you must not approach it, it is not a dog, it is a wolf!" ”

"What? Wolf? Liu Zixuan's head seemed to have been struck with a stick, and he couldn't help but feel dizzy, and the hairs on his body also followed: "Mother, what did you say?" It's- how can it be a wolf? ”

The old man gasped for a while, and then said: "Back then, your father killed a she-wolf and brought back two wolf cubs, one of them starved to death without eating, and the remaining one was raised as a dog. ”

Listening to the old man's words, Liu Zixuan couldn't help but shudder, he knew almost all the stories related to this "dog", but he didn't know that it was not a dog.

(To be continued)