【Short story】Rhubarb

01

I am a rural person and there are many dogs in the countryside.

When I was a child, because my family was robbed, my grandparents asked me to go to a neighbor's house to pick up a dog and keep it in the nursing home.

The neighbor's mother dog just gave birth to a litter of four cubs a few days ago, and none of them have opened their eyes. When I went, four puppy babies were snuggling up to the mother dog's belly, greedily sucking**.

This is the first time I have seen rhubarb, rhubarb is very fat, meaty, I said hello to the neighbor's aunt, the neighbor's aunt said that when the rhubarb is weaned, you can take it away.

02

I go to see my baby dog every day, probably because of the nature of a child, and I am very curious about everything. I always pick up the baby dogs, weigh them and rub their soft bodies with my hands.

Rhubarb is still the heaviest one, and it is the most edible one compared to its siblings. As soon as it was picked up from the dog's mother's arms, it had to kick its legs, whining and crawling back to the ** to grab milk and drink.

After a week, the four baby dogs all opened their eyes, no longer grabbed milk and drink, and looked curiously at the new things around them.

The neighbor's aunt let me take the rhubarb as agreed. Mother Rhubarb is a very old mother dog, she looks very calmly, without any reaction, like a machine that produces goods. I know it's the same age as me, but it's older than me, and I've had four or five baby dogs. Every time its babies are carried away by familiar strangers, they will fight for it at first, and then gradually get used to it.

The mother dog herself was brought from someone else's kennel.

03

When Rhubarb arrived at his new home, his grandmother had already prepared a cardboard box for him, the wall of the box was very high, and it was covered with thick straw and some cotton wool, which was a very warm nest.

Rhubarb wagged his tail and shook his head in the box, and I took a bowl of leftover porridge and put it in the box. The greedy rhubarb ignored it, just kept circling around the box, and if it could stand up, I think it would be behind.

The next morning, when I got up, the rhubarb was gone, and the porridge in the box had become bricks. I know where it is, I went to the neighbor's kennel and it was curled up on the mother's belly sleeping.

I picked it up, and after that, it still ran around a lot to find its mother. The walls of the cardboard box are very high, like a mountain, but Rhubarb is a fool who can always toss outside the mountain.

04

A year later, the rhubarb grew into rhubarb. It doesn't look so cute anymore, soft and cute. And become strong, strong, and a mighty-looking big yellow dog.

There was rhubarb, and there were no thieves in the house again. But rhubarb is very fierce, and when he sees a stranger, he barks wildly, revealing two rows of fangs, which looks particularly scary.

Grandma said that she was afraid of rhubarb biting people, and asked me to buy a chain, I knew that rhubarb was just screaming fiercely, and it would not bite, it was docile by nature. But I couldn't resist my grandmother, so I bought an iron chain and came back and locked the rhubarb in a tree next to my house.

05

Rhubarb is still so fond of eating, and every time there is something delicious, I will give it some. Grandma always scolded me for feeding it too well, no one could eat it, and it was too wasteful to feed the dog. I understand what my grandmother said, dogs can't eat better than people in the countryside, otherwise they won't be able to raise them.

But no matter how close friends are, there are times when they are separated, and during the summer vacation, I have to go to my uncle's house with my grandparents for a while. I can't bring the rhubarb, and I can't take care of the rhubarb.

Before leaving, Rhubarb was still locked in the tree next to the house, and I asked the neighbor aunt to feed him more food every day, and then got on the bus to my mother's uncle's house.

In the car, it was still those familiar scenes, crowded and noisy, but no one would take a dog. The rhubarb is still too big, if only it could be smaller.

06

Summer flies by, and summer vacation ends in the blink of an eye.

Wait until my grandparents and I get home. I rushed to the tree in front of the door to look at the rhubarb, but all I saw was a broken chain, tied to the trunk, and it was empty.

I ran to my neighbor's aunt's house and banged the door. The neighbor's aunt was still stunned, but she panicked when she saw me, but immediately calmed down. I didn't ask her, but she knew what I was here to do, and explained that Rhubarb was fine, and she had been feeding it, but then suddenly it disappeared one day, and she thought Rhubarb was looking for me.

I don't know what happened to Rhubarb, maybe he went to find me and got lost, maybe something bad happened......

I don't dare to think about rhubarb, I'm always scared. After that, I never had a dog again.