Chapter Eighty-Eight: Go Home for Dinner
"Wow Wow Wow ......"
A sudden cry of a baby broke the silence of the night.
Liu Fang jumped up from the bed as if she had a jumping robot installed.
Although she was unkempt and her face was full of fatigue caused by lack of sleep, and before she even opened her eyes, she was very skilled in untying her pajamas, holding her daughter in the cradle next to her in her arms, and shaking it gently.
After eating the mother's **, the little baby gradually quieted down, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Since becoming a mother, Liu Fang has hardly slept a single night, and has to be woken up by her children several times every night, getting up to feed her and pee, and she has to go to work during the day, and she has lost a lot of weight in a few months.
However, as a mother, whenever she sees the satisfied smile on the corner of her child's mouth, Liu Fang feels that her heart is full and everything is worth it.
Finally put his son to sleep again, but Liu Fang herself couldn't sleep with all her sleepiness, look at the time, her husband who was on a business trip at this point must have slept, so he got up and went to the kitchen in slippers to make a glass of milk, and then sat in front of the computer, preparing to sort out the forms that the unit needs to submit tomorrow.
Turn on the computer, the screen flashes, and the desktop background picture is swiped.
It was a photo from a few years ago of a two-year-old brown teddy dog happily chasing a butterfly on the grass in a city park.
The photographer accurately captured the scene in front of him, and even Teddy's expression was lifelike, with two shiny black eyes and a small pink tongue sticking out, full of joy.
Seeing Teddy on the screen, Liu Fang's heart hurt like a pinprick for no reason.
Instead of opening her work files, she clicked on a few websites she used to frequent, and when she logged in, she found several posts that she had made one after another.
"Heavy Money Looking for a Dog!"
Brown Teddy, 2 years old, with a triangular notch in his left ear......
The posts are all very old, and one post has even gone into the recycle bin.
Although she was told that the outcome would not be any different, she still seriously pulled each post to the end, trying to find a 1 in 10,000 hope.
Hope didn't come true, there were no new replies, and she couldn't be more familiar with those old replies, and she had read them countless times.
After a moment of silence, Liu Fang closed the website and stared blankly at the teddy dog on the screen.
Time seems to have suddenly pulled back five years ago.
Five years ago, Liu Fang was a senior.
This year, she suffered the first breakout in her life.
In the heavy rain, Liu Fang walked on the playground in despair, and her heart was colder than the rain.
A very young dog barked through the grass on the side of the runway, and when she cleared the grass, she found a little teddy dog shivering from the cold.
Without any hesitation, she carried Teddy back to the bedroom.
She still remembers very well that she tucked teddy into her raincoat in order to avoid the aunt of the dormitory administrator.
Little Teddy seemed to sense her nervousness, and clutched her sweater tightly with his little paws that had not yet fully grown, obviously trembling but not daring to move.
She can also clearly remember the surprise and affection of the sisters in the dormitory when they first saw this puppy, and the panic and impatience of the classmates in the dormitory when little Teddy suddenly vomited and pulled.
Canine plague, an almost fatal disease for puppies, is also enough reason for the original owner to abandon it.
Liu Fang said all the good things before the people in the dormitory agreed to let the puppy stay temporarily, and then, she spent almost all of her savings and took little Teddy to the pet hospital one by one.
Maybe it was Teddy's life, maybe God gave Liu Fang a chance to come out of the emotional setback, and more than a month later, Liu Fang finally saw a puppy with bright eyes and a wet nose.
In the years that followed, Teddy accompanied her through the college campus, to a new city, to meet a new love, a new family, and the crystallization of her love.
But no one expected that the newborn baby would be allergic to animal hair.
After discussing with her husband, Liu Fang and her husband decided to give the teddy dog to a relative, and then she moved to a new house herself.
Just a week later, relatives apologized to tell her that Teddy was missing.
Liu Fang posted a lot of dog-hunting revelations on the Internet, all of which were lost in the sea, and there was no news at all for most of the year.
She looked back at the sleeping baby, her eyes fell on the computer screen again, and she looked at the little teddy who was catching butterflies with some distraction, and muttered to herself: "You have been very tenacious since you were a child, you will definitely be able to live well, right?"
At this moment, there was a sudden movement at the door, as if something was scratching at the door.
Liu Fang was startled, looking out from the cat's eye, but there was no one in the corridor, she plugged in the latch and dared to open a crack in the door.
Outside the door, a teddy dog the size of a wolf dog was squatting, looking up at her with two dark eyes unblinking.
"Hey, whose dog is this?" Liu Fang opened the door and looked left and right, there was no one, and there was no sign or anything like that on the dog.
Teddy still sat still, looking at her motionlessly.
"Little one, are you hungry? Wait. ”
The large teddy dog in front of him made Liu Fang can't help but think of the one he lost, took a few steps back to the kitchen, filled a small bowl with some milk and biscuits, put it in front of Teddy, squatted down and touched its head, and said with a smile: "Are you hungry? ”
Who knows, the teddy didn't even look at the food, but tilted his head slightly, and gently rubbed Liu Fang's hand with his big ears, his eyes were full of affection.
Seeing this familiar look, Liu Fang suddenly stiffened in place, looking surprised.
"You...... Are you jacky?" Liu Fang muttered to herself.
It is impossible for her lost Teddy to grow so big, but she has seen that kind of affectionate look countless times.
shivering in the rain and holding it in his arms;
In the hospital, when the doctor gives it an injection;
When you run in the sun, when you make a mistake and are criticized by yourself.
And, when a relative took it away, it leaned on the car window with its two front paws, looking at itself reluctantly.
This kind of look is almost engraved in Liu Fang's heart.
The teddy dog's mouth opened slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he just used his furry head to gently rub Liu Fang's hand.
Liu Fang retracted his hand like an electric shock, but immediately reached out again at a faster speed, and opened the left ear of the big teddy.
On the inside of the left ear, there is a triangular notch.
Seeing this gap, Liu Fangru was struck by lightning.
Even if she starts over a thousand or ten thousand times, Liu Fang's choice will not change, this is a mother's nature;
But this entanglement and self-blame have always been in the deepest part of her heart, and they can't be entangled.
The long-suppressed feelings finally broke out at this moment, and she hugged the big dog in front of her tightly, tears raining down.
"Jacky, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
The big dog lifted his paw and gently rested it on the shrugged shoulders of the former hostess.
......
After a few minutes, the baby's crying sounded again in the room, Liu Fang suddenly raised her head and looked back, subconsciously wanted to go back to coax the child, but stopped, looking at Teddy with a tangled expression.
Teddy was looking at her too, with a complicated look in his eyes.
After staring at each other for several seconds, Teddy suddenly took a step back, left Liu Fang's embrace, and then showed an extremely human expression, raised his fleshy paws, and swung at her.
As soon as he turned around, he ran away quickly.
"Jacky, don't go!" Liu Fang strode out of the door in her pajamas.
However, in the room behind him, the baby's cry was louder.
She stopped, leaned against the wall and looked in the direction of Teddy, was silent for a moment, her expression gradually became gentle, and she said softly, "Thank you, Jacky." ”
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Outside the compound, a large teddy burrowed into the woods.
"Hey, I thought you weren't coming back. Chang Xiaotu said.
What Gou Ritian is looking for is its former owner, Liu Fang. Jiang Xuan found Liu Fang's residence through Lao Xing at the police station.
Gou Ritian walked up to Jiang Xuan dejectedly, raised his head, and said dejectedly: "I'm already a monster, no longer Jacky, but Gou Ritian." ”
Jiang Xuan patted him on the head and said, "You repaid her in your way." To love someone is to want them to have a better life, isn't it?"
"My teeth are going to be soured by you!" Chang Xiaotu grinned, and patted Gou Ritian's head heartlessly: "Don't be sad, go home and make dumplings for you to eat, and when you are full, you will have no worries!"
"Thank you, Teacher Jiang!" Gou Ritian said seriously.
Jiang Xuan nodded, holding Chang Xiaotu with one hand and Gou Ritian with the other, and said, "Let's go, go home, Jiang Jian is still waiting for us to eat dumplings!"