Chapter 1: My Family's Old Black
As the saying goes: a chicken has no six years, and a dog has no eight years.
When I was a child, I had a big black dog at home, and his whole body was black without any variegation.
My grandmother often said that it was the roaring dog of Jiro God, who understood human nature, and accompanied me when I had a memory.
I heard my grandmother say that my grandfather picked up this dog on the side of the road, and only gave it half a nest head, so he came to the house with my grandfather.
Grandpa saw that it was pitiful, so he kindly took it in, and it has been three or four years in a flash.
In the fifth year, my mother gave birth to me, and the strange thing is that I didn't cry when I was born, which is very unlucky in our hometown, plus I am a girl, and my grandmother is more superstitious.
I often babble that I am a nemesis, that it will bring disaster to the family, and even instruct my father to throw me away.
Fortunately, a blind beggar passed by my house and learned about the situation while begging, but the blind beggar smiled and said, "Congratulations, congratulations, this woman will be rich and prosperous in the future." ”
Grandma gave him an angry look, and said angrily: "A stinky girl, what can you be rich and expensive." ”
My grandfather is honest, although he sees that I am a daughter, but after all, it is also a little blood of the Liu family.
Grandpa has been wandering around all the year round, more or less heard people say that the blind man is the most powerful fortune teller, and saw that although the blind beggar's clothes were tattered, there was a mysterious momentum on his body, so he politely asked: "Old man, my granddaughter has not spoken since she was born, look at this ......"
The blind beggar smiled and said, "This is easy to do." ”
He turned to the back and walked straight to the kennel, grandpa, grandma, and dad, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what he's going to do.
I saw the blind beggar gently pat my black dog, it is strange to say, usually this dog will bark at strangers, but today I don't know how to drop it, it is so well-behaved.
"That girl doll is your master, you will be her in the future, you can stay by her side until you are five years old."
When he had finished speaking, the blind beggar came to me again and said to me, "Don't worry! There it is, it's fine. ”
After the blind beggar finished speaking, I howled and cried, grandpa and grandma shouted to God, and my father knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously to thank him.
In order to express his gratitude, the grandfather gave the blind beggar two silver dollars, and asked his father to prepare some white-flour steamed buns, but the blind beggar refused directly, saying: "I have a fate with this girl, and I will see you again in the future." ”
After saying that, he walked out the door, and when Dad chased him out, the blind beggar was no longer there.
When my father came home, he discussed with my grandmother and they decided to name me, my family name is Liu, and the family is looking forward to me being a son, but unfortunately the sky does not fulfill people's wishes, so in order to desire to get a "son", I named it Ai'er, Liu Ai'er.
Don't look at me as a girl, I have been naughty since I was a child, and it is common to climb trees and walls.
Every time I went out to play, my big black dog followed my buttocks, and looking at its black hair, I gave it a name - Old Black.
I was much more courageous when I went out to play, and I met four boys from the same village, and they scolded me for playing with dogs and laughing at me, but I couldn't stand it anymore and beat the four of them.
Lao Hei squatted on the side, calling twice from time to time, as if to cheer me on.
The four boys were beaten by me crying and shouting for their mothers, and soon they ran away.
When the four of them came home in the evening, they all brought their parents to my house to make trouble, and I couldn't help laughing out loud when I saw the four of them with blue noses and swollen faces.
Grandma picked up the broom and beckoned to me, my old black rubbed and jumped out, biting the broom in my grandmother's hand, I took the opportunity to run out, grandma scolded a few words angrily, and said good things to the other four, and finally this is the matter.
And so I reached the age of five, and in that year something happened that changed my life.
On this day, I went out with Lao Hei to play as usual, there were lonely graves in the west of our village, I was ignorant when I was a child, I just found a grave and sat on it, and Lao Hei squatted on the side.
Somehow, I was having a good time on it, and suddenly it was dark and I couldn't see anything.
"Wow! Barking! Barking! ”
Lao Hei screamed three times in a row, and I was shocked into a cold sweat, because Lao Hei only screamed when he was in danger, and today he screamed three times in a row, and I was very scared at that time.
"Old Black, what's wrong?"
"Wow!"
The old black screamed and then there was no movement, no matter how I called, there was no response.
"Old Black, Old Black ......"
"Ai'er, Ai'er."
"Look, Ai'er is awake."
I vaguely heard my father's voice, and he hurriedly picked me up, while my mother cried to tears.
Grandma was nagging on the side: "Where to go is not good!" If you don't go to the graveyard to play, it's okay! It's just a pity for the black dog. ”
"Old Black?" I stared at my grandfather with wide eyes.
Grandpa sighed, "Alas! Seeing that you didn't come home late last night, we looked for you everywhere, and finally found you in the cemetery to the west, the old black lying next to you, with bites all over your body, and ......"
Grandpa can't talk anymore, after all, he has been with Lao Hei for the longest time.
Dad took it and said, "The old black eye looks like someone has gouged out, and when we arrived, it died, as if it was waiting for us to come." ”
"Eyes?"
It occurred to me that I had been sitting on the grave, and suddenly my eyes began to ache sharply.
"Ahh My eyes hurt so much......"
Mom nervously held my face and looked me in the eyes.
"Yikes! Dogan (This is my dad's nickname.) Look at our daughter's eyes, why is this? ”
Saying that, Dad came over, and when he saw my eyes, Dad was so frightened that he took two steps back.
"It's ...... What's wrong? What happened? ”
Grandma said angrily on the side: "Ouch! This must have provoked something unclean, what a sin! ”