The small bowl fell to the ground and spun around twice, and the dog food inside spilled all over the floor.

Shen Shi'an's expression instantly turned cold.

He looks like his mother, especially with his eyes. The pupils are pitch black, the eyelashes are thick, and the curvature of the slightly raised tails of the eyes is just right.

If it is on another face, it should always give people the illusion of a light smile, and they can't help but want to get closer.

But when the eyes are full of cold and cold colors, and when they look at it coldly, it is a little scary.

The fierce little black subconsciously flicked his hind legs.

Shen Shi'an stared at it for half a minute, and then as if he remembered something, his expression eased slightly, squatted down to straighten the small bowl, and picked up the dog food one by one, "The luncheon meat is too much to digest, right?" Then wait until you're hungry before eating. ”

After picking up the dog food, carefully wipe the ground where the dog food rolled off with a wet paper towel twice, wash your hands, and walk to the table and sit down to eat.

Xiao Hei, who was full of fierceness, was stunned for a while, and chased after him.

The legs of the chairs are high, the table is even higher, and the fragrant food is close at hand and far away, which is simply scratching the heart and lungs and torturing the dog.

It wasn't until it fluttered around the dining table for the fifth time that Shen Shi'an understood what it wanted, "You want to eat?" ”

Xiao Hei immediately shouted at him twice: "Wangwang." Although the expression is still fierce, it is clearly not the cry of anger or threat, and the tone is soft and soft, and even has a little imperceptible little milk sound.

Shen Shi'an pointed to the small bowl of dog food in the corner of the living room, "Isn't the rice there, go eat it." ”

"Wow!" This time I seem to be a little angry.

"You want to eat what I ate?"

"Wangwang~" The small milk sound is more obvious.

"No," Shen Shi'an flatly refused, "This is what people eat, you can't eat it, you will become a dead dog if you eat it." ”

"Woooooooo Suddenly ferocious.

It's useless to be ruthless, Shen Shi'an doesn't pay attention to it anymore, and continues to eat his own slowly.

Xiao Hei grinded his teeth angrily and began to circle around the chair crazily, screaming as he turned, and the tone ranged from "whoop" and "roar" to "woo" and "woo", and there was a tendency to scream louder and louder.

Shen Shi'an was annoyed by it, his eyebrows frowned, and he put down the bowl with a "bang", "You're not done yet, are you!" ”

Xiao Hei looked up at him: "Wang! "The tone is particularly affirmative.

Shen Shi'an regretted it again, why did he pick it up and take it home. One man and one dog sat on a chair and the other squatted on the floor, staring at each other speechlessly and confronting each other for a long time.

"Knock knock". There was a knock on the door, followed by the hesitant voice of the bodyguard Fan Guoping, "That, Mr. Shen?" I just heard a dog barking very badly in your house, and then suddenly it was silent, dog...... Ahem, are you alright? ”

The tone of wanting to speak and stopping seemed to be worried that Shen Shi'an would be too annoying to the dog, and what would happen to the dog with his ferocity. In fact, Shen Shi'an did have some discordant thoughts in his mind now.

"It's okay," he replied, still staring at Xiao Hei, raising his voice, "I'm fine with the dog, thank you for your concern." ”

"Ahem, that's good, that's good." Fan Guoping, who was outside the door, seemed relieved, but did not leave immediately. "Stray dogs are more wary of people at first because they have been offended outside," he said, "especially when they are like that kind of very small milk dogs, so small and big, and they are bullied everywhere without their mothers, isn't that a little worse tempered?" My daughter adopted a stray dog, only more than two months old, ouch that has suffered a lot outside, just brought home when you don't even touch it, eat are guarded against people. But as long as you take care of it patiently and gently, you will soon become close to people, and it will follow wherever you go. Dogs are the most loyal, don't hold grudges, but if you treat it well, it remembers it, isn't there a saying, dogs are man's best friend......"

Shen Shi'an patiently listened to Fan Guoping finish a whole set of remarks about "how precious is the friendship between humans and dogs", and after the footsteps of the other party leaving became farther and farther away, he picked it up with the back of Xiao Hei's neck: "I abused you?" ”

"Wang~" is simply aggrieved.

Scold. Shen Shi'an sneered, put the dog back on the ground, got up and took a blue shallow plate from the cupboard, "Do you want rice?" ”

"Wang!" Xiao Hei immediately followed and began to flick his tail.

Shen Shi'an took a spoonful of rice, and Xiao Hei raised his paw to scratch his trouser legs, so he added another spoonful.

"Do you want shrimp?"

"Wang! Woof! ”

Picked up the plate and gave it a small half plate of shrimp, "Do you want pork ribs?" ”

"Wang! Woof! Woof! ”

Shen Shi'an raised his eyebrows, picked up a few more ribs, and poured some soup by the way, the granular rice and the rich and fragrant gravy were stirred evenly, and the attractive caramel color was flashed under the light, which made the dog salivate even more, and the small meat pad rubbed anxiously on the floor.

"Do you want okra?"

This time there was a long silence.

Shen Shi'an looked down at it, the little thing's eyes were round and well-behaved, and it looked very innocent.

It shouldn't be drinking spiritual spring water and drinking mutations. Shen Shi'an frowned and thought.

He had never had a pet, but he had heard that the smartest canines could reach the IQ of a child of six or seven years old, but this little black dog of unknown breed was unusually cunning in his opinion.

Determined to look more closely, he put the full plate in his hand next to the table and sneered, "Eat." If you eat it to death and become a ghost, your resentment will be difficult to eliminate, and you will have a debtor and a debtor, remember to find Mr. Fan Guoping Fan to know? ”

Xiao Hei was still interested in listening to him, staring straight at the porcelain plate with a pair of eyes, and as soon as Shen Shi'an put it down, he rushed over and buried his head in eating.

Shen Shi'an sat back on the chair and continued his dinner, saying "let it eat and die", but his eyes couldn't help but sweep towards Xiao Hei. Seeing that half of the mountain-like meal on the porcelain plate was eaten, the little thing still didn't stop, and finally couldn't help but walk over, "Still eating, do you really want to kill yourself?" ”

Seeing that this person reached out to grab the food, Xiao Hei was anxious, and while whining at him from his throat, he devoured and ate faster, but his mouth was stuffed with food, and the fierce whimper did not sound very intimidating, so he quickly stretched out his tongue and licked the ribs on the top of the porcelain plate.

Shen Shi'an: "......"

What does this do?

Taking advantage of the other party's stunned effort, Xiao Hei quickly licked the rice and shrimp in the porcelain plate, including the edges of the entire porcelain plate, and squinted at Shen Shi'an demonstratively while licking it, and the meaning couldn't be clearer:

"My!"

Eating his stuff at his house and then claiming ownership in front of him?

Shen Shi'an smiled angrily, pinched the skin of the back of his neck with one hand and his chin with the other, and pinched his thumb and index finger on its cheeks that were rounded by food, "Rice, shrimp, pork ribs, everything in this family, including you, is mine." If you want to live in this home, it's better that you do whatever I say, understand? ”

A little milk dog with a mouth full of food and pinched cheeks was obviously unable to answer him.

Shen Shi'an let go of it, and was about to pick up the porcelain plate, but suddenly remembered that the entire plate was stained with its saliva, so he stretched out half of his palm and took it back like lightning.

…… Never mind.

No matter how stupid you are, you can't force yourself to die, right?

"Don't eat it if you can't eat it," after thinking about it, he was still a little uneasy, and lowered his head to the dog and said, "I'll make braised pork tomorrow, if you die of it, you won't be able to eat it." ”

When he finished his dinner, the food on the porcelain plate was also eaten, and even the plate was licked clean and shiny. ate half of its own volume of food one after another, and the dog Xiao Hei seemed to have nothing to do, jumping around the house lively.

After washing the dishes and chopsticks and tidying up the kitchen, Shen Shi'an took out a shovel from the toolbox and flashed into the space with the bag of tomato seeds and a plastic pot he bought in the afternoon.

The space was still warm as spring, and the air with the aroma of plants and trees and moist water vapor was refreshing, Shen Shi'an stood in place and took several deep breaths, and then walked to the open space next to the stream.

He bought a total of two bags of seeds in the supermarket, a bag of tomatoes and a bag of melons, considering that he had no experience in crop planting at all, Shen Shi'an did not plan to plant them all for the time being, so he planted a bag and tried it first.

According to the information he found on the Internet, the planting method of tomatoes is very complicated, and the seedlings must be raised more than a month in advance, and the seedlings will be pulled out and replanted when the seedlings have grown flower buds. This method is mainly to ensure that there are sufficient nutrients during the growth and fruiting of seedlings, but the land in the space is the most fertile black soil, and there should be enough nutrients, so Shen Shi'an plans to plant directly, eliminating the procedure of pulling out seedlings and planting.

It is also said on the Internet that seeds can be soaked in warm water at about 50 degrees Celsius before sowing, which can improve the survival rate of seeds and reduce diseases. The water temperature at the spring was about this temperature, so Shen Shi'an took a pot from a plastic pot, poured a quarter bag of tomato seeds into it, and then put it next to the open space to rest, while he took advantage of the time when the seeds were soaked to dig a pit.

With his slippers off and his trousers rolled up to his knees and cuffs rolled up to his elbows, Shen Shi'an first drew an area three meters long and three meters wide in the open space, and then dug a pit with a gap of about ten centimeters between rows and fifteen centimeters between rows, and the depth of the pit was about five centimeters.

The ground in the space is soft, even if there are no professional tools, it is not difficult to dig up only with a gardening shovel, and when the thirty-one and twenty-one neat shallow pits are all excavated, Shen Shi'an brings the plastic pots over, from left to right from top to bottom, each shallow pit is put into three to four seeds, covered with soil, and then poured a little spiritual spring water.

After all the planting work was over, Shen Shi'an sat on the bank with his back slightly, the cool stream bubbling through his feet, and there were layers of shiny sweat on the tip of his nose.

Maybe it's because you're alone, maybe it's the exhaustion after labor that makes people satisfied, or maybe it's because the aroma of plants and trees in the space really teaches people to be unguarded, and the cold temperament around the body slowly fades, revealing the soft interior of a corner under the ice.

This is his first time planting vegetables, and he hopes that the seeds will sprout and grow as soon as possible, and the plants will be healthy and disease-free. I don't know what the tomato will taste like, it doesn't matter if it's not delicious, if it's not delicious, I'll feed it to Xiao Hei.

Can dogs eat tomatoes? I guess I can.

After taking a bath in the hot spring to wash off the mud and dust on his body, and changing into clean clothes placed in the bamboo building, Shen Shi'an carefully folded the dirty clothes and flashed out of the space.

As soon as I came out, I found that Xiao Hei was fighting with the sweeping robot in the living room.

The sweeping robot is a new model that only came out on the market last year, with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters, and it is usually conscientious, even during Shen Shi'an's hospitalization, it will go back and forth to absorb ash and dust, and it just collides with Xiao Hei who is scurrying around.

was hit inexplicably, where could Xiao Hei stand this grievance, and at the moment he roared and gave the robot a slap, the robot's silver-white disc was shocked, thinking that he had hit an obstacle, turned around and changed directions to continue sliding, didn't slide far and hit the foot of the sofa, so he turned around and slid back.

In the eyes of the little black, it is a naked provocation.

Two rows of small glistening fangs bared out, and slapped him again with more force. The robot was staggered, and the two indicators representing the eyes seemed to be a little confused, and after a pause, it turned its head back, hit the sofa and turned back, and the cycle continued.

When Shen Shi'an came out of the space, Xiao Hei was playing table tennis, with a "woo" and "woo" in his mouth, and the left and right bows pulled the robot back and forth between himself and the sofa, and when he turned around when he smelled Shen Shi'an's smell, he still had a fierce look of "I don't believe I can't clean you up".

"Is it fun?" Shen Shi'an asked it.

Xiao Hei took his teeth back, and before he could make any tonal sound, the robot slid back after hitting the sofa, probably after hitting the wall one after another, the program was a little panicked, and the speed was obviously a lot faster, and the top of the disc hit the little black dog's leg and didn't stop, so he directly shoveled it up, and continued to run forward on the disc.

Blackie sits on top of the robot in a posture with his ass and hind legs on the ground, and there is a noticeable blankness and stunned on the dog's face.

Shen Shi'an couldn't help but chuckle twice.

Instead of paying attention to the grievances between Xiao Hei and the robot vacuum, he put the shovel and plastic basin back in their place, and prepared to rest when he saw that it was not too early.

After washing up, Shen Shi'an first went to say goodnight to his mother, and then put the mushroom-shaped kennel he bought on the edge of the sofa, "Xiao Hei? You sleep here at night. ”

The little thing, as if it had found some new toy, was riding on the robot's head and swaying around, not knowing if it heard it or not.

Shen Shi'an didn't care about it, he couldn't lose it at home anyway, checked the door lock and turned off the light, turned around and entered the master bedroom.

After about two hours, the night got darker. The half-hidden door of the master bedroom was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a pair of emerald green eyes appeared in the quiet darkness.

Xiao Hei squatted at the door and did not move immediately. Shen Shi'an's shallow and steady breathing sounded for more than ten minutes, and he was sure that the other party was really asleep, and the sharp cold light on his teeth quietly leaked out a little.

"You want me to do what a human is told and dream! I don't know where a human gets the fountain of life, but as long as I eat him, it's all mine!"

There seemed to be a faint sound of swallowing saliva in the darkness: "This human has a strong aura, and it must be greatly replenished."

The deeper the green light in his eyes, the forelimbs pressed down, and the hindlimbs were accumulated, like a fierce beast that had been dormant for a long time, and it rushed towards Shen Shi'an as fast as lightning.

Shen Shi'an didn't sleep well, he had a dream.

It's not a nightmare, but it's definitely not a dream either.

In the dream, he was only twelve years old, because he discovered the secret of the Buddha Lotus bracelet by chance, the excitement in his heart was indescribable, and he immediately rushed to the side of the hospital bed, and wanted to take his mother into the space to soak in the spiritual spring.

Dreams are always chaotic and have no logic to speak of. One second he was still reading in the classroom, and he accidentally cut a hole in his finger, and saw the bright red blood droplets melt into the Buddha lotus, and the next second he suddenly appeared in the hospital ward, holding his mother's hand and being so excited that he couldn't help himself.

And outside of this bizarre chaos, part of the thoughts belonging to the adult Shen Shi'an are still awake and rational, this part of the mind is like a single individual separated from the dream, quietly paying attention to the development of the dream, and clearly knowing why he has this dream.

In the car accident more than half a month ago, after finding out that he was saved by the Buddha beads, the first thought that came to his mind was not the joy of escaping death, but a strong anger and remorse-

Why didn't he find out sooner? Why wasn't his blood incorporated into the beads earlier? If he could have discovered the hidden space in the Buddha beads earlier, and discovered the spiritual spring in the space earlier, his mother would not have died at all!

Ms. Shen was in poor health since she was a child, suffering from congenital heart disease, and after accidentally becoming pregnant with Shen Shi'an, she did not follow the doctor's instructions to terminate the pregnancy, but gave birth to him desperately, and since then her body has become weaker and her health has deteriorated.

Grandpa tried everything to heal his daughter, praying to God to worship Buddha and chant sutras, Western medicine and even rural remedies, almost all the methods that could be tried have been tried, but he could still only watch his daughter like a flower that has lost its nutrients, withering and dying step by step.

No one thought that the most effective and convenient method had actually been around all along, and it had always been hidden in the Buddha beads on Shen Shi'an's wrist.

"Because of my own negligence, my mother lost the possibility of living in a healthy way", such thoughts can drive anyone crazy.

The sober and rational thoughts that belonged to the adult Shen Shi'an floated above the dream, still silent. Not only did he know why he had this dream, but he also knew how it would develop. Because this is not the first time he has had this dream.

The twelve-year-old himself lay on the side of the hospital bed and held his mother's hand, trying to bring her into the space over and over again, but no matter how many times he tried, when his figure disappeared in place, his pale and thin mother would always be left in place.

Shen Shi'an's physical development is later than that of ordinary boys, he is not tall at the age of twelve, his face is full of childishness, because his skin is white, he looks far thinner than his peers.

The adult Shen Shi'an watched his twelve-year-old self try over and over again, looking at the childish face, the original excitement and excitement peeled off little by little, his eyes became redder and redder, his lips pursed tighter and tighter, and finally he completely fell into pain and despair.

The pain and despair were so intense that the original part of the sober and rational thoughts were affected, and the sleeping body became tighter and tighter, and the breathing became more and more rapid, and even faintly let out a mournful cry similar to that of a lost young beast—

Until a muffled "bang" woke Shen Shi'an from his dream.

He opened his eyes, raised his hand and slapped him twice, and the voice-activated lights lit up, illuminating the bedroom. I don't know when the door will open widely, and through the light from the bedroom, there seems to be a small black shadow lying next to the sofa in the living room in the distance.

“…… Blackie? Shen Shi'an shouted, his voice a little hoarse.

The shadow seemed to tremble.

Shen Shi'an wiped off the water stains from the corners of his eyes, lifted the quilt and put on slippers, walked out of the bedroom and pressed the light in the corridor, this time the light source was close to the living room, and the scene next to the sofa was immediately visible:

The little black ball lay next to the foot of the sofa, and his body trembled.

"Miscalculated, miscalculated, I didn't expect this human to have a defensive magic weapon on his body, it hurts."

Shen Shi'an turned on the light in the living room, walked over and squatted in front of Xiao Hei, only to find that it was not only trembling, but also with tears in the corners of its eyes, and the hairs next to its eyes were wet, obviously traces of crying-

This is, afraid of the dark?

It looks very fierce, but I didn't expect it to be so cowardly.

Seeing that the little thing was shaking more and more, he thought carefully for a moment and hugged it, "Okay, or sleep with me tonight." "Anyway, I just bathed it, so it shouldn't be dirty.

Turning off the lights in the living room and corridor, Shen Shi'an returned to the bedroom with the dog in his arms, turned on a night light next to the bed, and then put the dog next to the pillow and lay down next to it.

"Sleep," he slapped twice, the voice-activated lights went out, and he put his hand next to the puppy, "I'm right here." ”

Xiao Hei recovered a lot from the pain, and bit his finger as if venting, but he didn't dare to bite hard—it was afraid that it would alarm the defensive magic weapon and be thrown out again, so it grinded back and forth with the two rows of small teeth between the canines.

Sure enough, it's a little milk dog, and it's still spoiled. The corners of Shen Shi'an's lips curled, and he raised his hand to rub it on the dog's head.

Under the soft light of the night light, Xiao Hei secretly wiped his tears on the pillow towel, and then licked his wrist a few times, feeling ruthless:

"You wait, I'll eat you sooner or later!"