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Dog Dan and Liudou are the same, born on the same day in the same year, month, and year, which has also become the reason for him to tie up Liudou. Because he follows Liudou like a dog every day, and he doesn't dare not get out of when Liudou tells him to get out, so Liudou calls him a dog. The dog is very pitiful, he has no mother, his life is exchanged for his mother's life, this is the reason why everyone pities him and dislikes him at the same time, and it is also the reason why Liudou treats him like Lao Hei - Lao Hei is the hunting dog raised by Liudou's family. To be honest, Liudou called him that, and he didn't mean to despise him, and Liudou has always cared for him. In Qian Jiaao, in addition to Liudou, he can always treat him like a dog, so that he can eat a bowl of hot rice when Liudou eats, there is no second one. Dog's father is a crazy man, he has been crazy for many years, he wanders outside all year round, except for knowing that he goes home to sleep at night, the others are like 80-year-old old ladies giving birth, pure nonsense.
The reason why Liudou was able to take care of the dog, according to the villagers, was because Liudou was reincarnated well. In fact, it is not true, when Liudou was born, Liudou's father had not yet become the village chief, at most, it can only be said that Liudou had a vision when he was reincarnated and chose a father with development potential. And Goudan is even more of a smart person, he is desperate to keep up with Liudou.
In this way, when Liudou went to herd cattle, he followed, when he caught sparrows, Liudou went to study, and Liudou's father naturally paid for him to study. When he was 8 years old, Liudou's father said to Goudan, Goudan, you can call me your father. The dog immediately fell to the ground, this kid is very clever, and it is precisely because of him that Liudou has taken a fancy to him, so he has the opportunity to follow Liudou all the time.
One day in the summer when Liudou was 12 years old, Dog Dan followed him to herd geese. In the season of double robbery, half of the rice in the field has just been harvested and has not been planted, and a lot of rice has fallen when harvesting, which is a good place to put geese. But the terrible thing is that there is often an uncut paddy field next to the empty field, and the geese always run over to steal the rice, and the six beans rush back and forth several times, but it is useless, they still have nephews playing lanterns - as usual. Six Beans was on fire, and rushed over to give them a good stick. After a period of hysteria, two of the white geese were lying on their stomachs in the paddy field, with their long necks on the muddy water, rolling their eyes.
In the evening, Liudou carried two dead geese home, there is no doubt that Liudou's mother took out the bamboo whip she used to perform the family law behind the door and pointed at him, "Rabbit cub, there are goose legs to eat......"
At this time, Goudan stepped forward. He pulled Liudou aside and said to Liudou's mother very bravely: "Mother, it's not about Brother Liudou, it's because I was upset by watching these two white geese steal food, and I was killed by mistake." Of course Liudou's mother doesn't believe it, so she will inevitably give Liudou a good meal. But no matter what, Liudou thanked Goudan in his heart for being brave enough to stand up for him, even though they both knew it was futile. From then on, Liudou no longer regarded Dogan as the same as Lao Hei, although Liudou still called him Dogan - Liudou was used to calling him that.
Since this incident, the life of the dog has improved significantly, Liudou has a piece of sugar in hand, which is indispensable for half of him, and a piece of sugar cane is indispensable for half of him. And they slept in the same bed, and when they fought together, Liudou no longer said, dog, give me a flat on him, but said, damn! Dog, come, see how we clean him up. Dogan did not feel the slightest complacent because of Liudou's treatment of him, and when they went out to fight together, he still fought harder than Liudou; went out to herd the cattle together, and on the way home, he was still leading the cattle in front, and Liudou was driving the cattle behind, and if he was not careful, the horns would still hit his buttocks, and he turned around and grinned at Liudou with his teeth. But Liudou no longer scolded him for his rice bucket like before, but jokingly asked, has it bloomed?
Liudou could see that Goudan was grateful to him for his transformation. When they were 13 years old, there was a drought during the summer vacation, and not a drop of water from the Xuefeng River flowed. Qian Jia'ao is no different from Bald Stone Ao. Even the water for eating and drinking had to be picked up in other villages seven or eight miles away. The work of six beans and dog eggs has also been changed. There is no longer any need to herd cattle to hunt pigweed, get up every morning to eat breakfast, six beans pick a load of aluminum buckets, dog eggs pick a load of plastic buckets, each person brings two big sweet potatoes and goes on the road to fetch water. Come back at noon, eat and rest for a while, and each person brings two large sweet potatoes to carry water. The water that Liudou's family eats and drinks is all responsible for the two of them.
Along the way, they wandered left and right. In the past two months, they have dug up the bird's nest on the trees along the road, and the sweet potatoes in the field are big and the radishes in the field are sweet, and they are all clear. Sometimes they quietly take two small fishing rods and go to the roadside creek to catch shrimp, and when they see a place with stone crabs, they roll up their trouser sleeves to catch a few and take them home. Liudou's parents inevitably had to talk a few words when they saw it, but after all, there were shrimp and crabs to eat, and they were happy when they were scolded.
At the age of 14, Liudou graduated from elementary school. This year, the wind and rain were smooth, and the water of the Xuefeng River was not used much, and the harvest was harvested, making up for the losses of the previous year, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. There was no need to fetch water, and Liudou and Dogan returned to their previous jobs. They miss the days of carrying water very much, and often take the opportunity of herding cattle to drive the cattle to the road where they carry water. I caught shrimp, touched the crab and didn't dare to take it home, I picked up a handful of firewood in the mountains, cooked it and ate it, sometimes it was inevitable that it would be burned, but it was still so sweet and delicious to eat.
Also in this summer, the dog's house is completely gone. In mid-August, it rained heavily for several days, and the mountains and rivers fell in rows. The stone embankment to prevent the flash flood was washed away one by one, and the back walls of several houses near the mountain were washed out of the big holes, including the house of the dog Dan. The house of the Goudan family is an adobe house, and when the water rushes at night, the back wall is gone, and the house can't hold up, and it falls, but Goudan and his father are still sleeping in the house. The next morning, everyone dug up the collapsed earthen wall, and all they saw was the swollen body of the dog's father who had been blistered through. The dog held his father's corpse and cried into tears, and he couldn't pull it away no matter how much Liudou pulled it. After crying, his voice became hoarse and silent, and his tears dried up, so he leaned against his father's head in a dementia, and he fell asleep. Unable to separate the father and son, they had to carry them out together.
In the end, Liudou said that he finally separated the dog from his father. Liudou's village chief's father made the decision to give the dog an egg and his father a coffin with a squeezed wood and buried it well. On the day of the funeral, Goudan took his father's portrait and knelt down in three steps and sent it to the grave mountain.
After coming back, Liudou clearly felt that the dog had become taciturn and listless. We went out to dig out the birds' eggs together, and the dogs used to be the first to climb the tree. But now, the dog stood under the tree in a daze, looking at the trunk in a daze. Six Dou went over to push him, he turned his head to look at Six Bean, cracked his mouth, but there was no smile.
"Let's go, let's go back." Six beans pull the dog's arm.
Walking back, halfway through, the dog sat on the ridge and didn't leave. "What's wrong?" Six Beans stopped and asked him.
"It's okay, Brother Liudou." Dogan replied softly. However, his head was drooping, his back was hunched, and his chin was almost touching his belly. "Are you alright?" Six beans pat the dog's eggs. Liudou knew in his heart that Goudan was thinking about his father, after all, his father was his only relative in this world. Dad went, and his world changed, too fast, and he didn't react yet.
Liudou's mother shouted at the entrance of the village again and asked them to go back to eat: "Liudou, you it, you have to be urged to eat......"
Six Beans looked at the dog. "Let's go." The dog seemed to have made up his mind to stand up.