The years I was a birdman

Chapter 74 The Old Dog's Loyalty

Pippi, I don't live long, this life is exhausting enough, I just want to be here, this is my home, I don't want to leave.

This is what old Xutou said to Pippi three days before his illness. It was one afternoon. Cheerful.

Beside him is a small table with a large enamel teapot on it. It looks old, the paint on the surface is peeling off piece by piece, the texture is like dry land, and there is a faintly visible Chinese engraved on it. The sign of the railway, below is a big word 'award'.

It was such an afternoon, outside a dilapidated one-story house in a remote Daowai District, an old man had a pot of tea, an old chair and a dog, sketching out a picture of comfort that is rarely seen in this big city.

Pippi is lying at the master's feet, it is also as old as the master, it has not been long after the rain, it is rare that the afternoon is not very hot, he is lying next to the old Xutou, listening to the old Xutou talking about it After hearing the story many times, when old Xu Tou finished saying that sentence, he raised his head and looked at him, but didn't understand what it meant.

That was a few months ago, spring.

Just like the weather when old Xutou saw Pippi for the first time, dogs have a good memory, God is always fair, and their life is very short, so what they encounter and what happens in their life will not matter. Will forget, unlike human beings, often when they are old and old, they want to think about the nostalgia of the past, but find that some things cannot be remembered at all.

Forgetting is a kind of sorrow, and remembering is also a kind of sorrow, so life is always inseparable from sorrow. From this point of view, maybe people are really not as good as dogs. At least when dogs are old, they will remember all the things in their lives and will not regret it. I feel that their life is too short, in just a dozen years, there is no time to regret it.

But dogs are the same as people. When they get older, they will recall the past from time to time and live by those memories.

Pippi remembered that he also met Old Xu Tou in one spring. At that time, Old Xu Tou was still called Lao Xu by others, and there was no such 'tou'.

At that time, Pippi was not long after she was born, and she was taken away together with her five brothers before she had eaten milk for a few days. The person who arrested them was their original owner. It seems that the family's conditions were not very good, and they were unable to support them together. Five or six dogs, Pippi thought.

Later, they were put in a basket and sold on a pedestrian bridge. At that time, Pippi knew the outside world for the first time, and many strangely dressed people walked and stopped in front of them. , From time to time, a few pairs of big hands would grab it, and those unfamiliar faces would look at it, and then put it down again. It trembled and was very scared.

The daily food of the five of them is only a bowl of gruel. Every day at noon, the owner will put the gruel into the basket, and they will rush to it. Pippi is born thin and small, so he can't grab it, so he can't eat enough.

But after a few days, it can eat enough, because there are fewer and fewer brothers around, and they are all bought by others, or some adults with children, or some couples holding hands together , until finally, only himself was left in the whole basket.

He was too thin, and the white hair that hadn't grown much hadn't covered his pink skin.

Without the snuggle of his brothers, it felt very cold. It was the first time that it felt cold, and it was accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling. After a few years, Pippi grew up and knew that this feeling was called " Lonely'.

In the end, even the owner was disappointed with him. After all, it was not worth wasting time for a dog that could not be sold. Instead of taking him home, he dumped him directly next to a trash can on the way home.

Later, later, later, it rained, the wind was very strong, and it hurt very much when it blew on his body, Pippi felt incomparable fear, the rain was heavy, there were not many pedestrians on the road, even if there were, they all ran to hide in a hurry Rain, Pippi couldn't make a normal cry at that time, its strength was pitifully weak, and it could only make a squeaking sound like a mouse.

He was desperate and anxious, feeling so cold, and finally couldn't stand still, so he lay down in the puddle, only feeling the heat from his body gradually go away, no one would care about it, maybe it came to this world to be a mistake.

At this moment, that old Xu appeared, he was carrying a vegetable basket, it seemed that he encountered heavy rain just after he bought the vegetables, so he also ran in the rain, but when he passed the trash can, he stopped , because he saw Pippi dying in the puddle.

Old Xu was very kind-hearted, and without saying a word, he put Pippi into the vegetable basket, covered it with his hand to cover it from the rain, and ran home.

That was Pippi's first time here. Thinking of this, Pippi raised his head and looked at his master. At that time, his hair was not so white, and his wrinkles were not so many.

At that time, Pippi itself was very weak, and it was raining again, so he couldn't eat anything. Old Xu bought milk specially, then poured it into a small spoon, and fed it bit by bit. He actually weighed it down, and has his own master and a home.

At the beginning, it didn't understand anything, and it didn't know what Old Xu was talking about, but it knew that there was only Old Xu in this house, and occasionally some strange faces would come, about once a year, and the time they were here was always It was very short, basically no longer than the time it took for a pot of water to boil. Sometimes they would quarrel with Old Xu, but Old Xu would not say a word, but after they left, he would be in a daze, and sometimes there would be tears in his eyes. Some water, later Pippi knew that it was called tears.

Later, when Pippi was about five years old, he began to understand what Old Xu said. Old Xu lived alone, liked Peking Opera, and even watched Erren Zhuan. Sitting on the sofa and watching it took a long time. When I am happy to listen to it, I will hum a few words along with the TV, those Yiyi babbling tunes are very comfortable for Pippi's ears, and he also likes it very much.

Whenever the weather is fine in the afternoon, Lao Xu would sit at the door with a broken chair, hold a pot of Mao Sui in his arms, and quietly look at the pedestrians on the street in the distance. His eyes became more and more cloudy. Sometimes, Pippi would lie at his feet and listen to him tell the stories of what happened when he was building the railway when he was young, although Pippi had never seen a railway at all, and he didn't even know what a railway was.

But Pippi will listen quietly, those stories are sometimes mixed into its memory in its dreams, you ask me, do dogs dream?Well...that's not important.

Pippi likes Lao Xu very much, maybe because of the dog's life, finding a good owner is all, Pippi thought.

Later, after some years, Pippi got taller and taller, while Old Xu got shorter and shorter, and his name changed from Old Xu to Old Xu Boss.

Old Mr. Xu is indeed old, and his ears are not very good. Sometimes Pippi's cry can't be heard, and those who come occasionally come less and less frequently, just like Mr. Xu watching two-person turn The number of times is the same, Pippi now knows that those people are the children of old Xutou, it turns out that people's memory will gradually weaken, he forgot.

But he spent more and more time sitting outside. Sometimes he would sit there from the morning for a whole day, and even forgot to eat. Pippi also endured hunger to accompany him, motionless.

Old Xu Tou's eyes became more and more cloudy, and Pippi had seen that kind of look before, when he was still in the basket, he had this kind of look, the kind of look called loneliness.

Fortunately, he would still chatter with Pippi endlessly, even though Pippi had heard his old-fashioned stories hundreds of times, he still listened to them with great interest every time.

Until one day, the old Xutou started to cough, he got up very late every day, his face was very difficult to walk, and the places where he sighed increased every day. When he is old, he understands what old Xu is thinking in his heart. When people get old, they often long for family affection.

Sometimes he wants to comfort his master, but in fact he already regards Old Xu as its father, and it wants to tell Old Xu, it's okay, it's okay, I'm here with you.

But no matter how much he tried to imitate this sentence, he just couldn't say it.

Old Mr. Xu's health was getting worse and worse. Finally, one day, he couldn't hold on anymore and couldn't get up in bed. Pippi knew that he was sick, and a sense of fear appeared in his mind again, so he So he dragged his old body and ran out like crazy. Both he and him needed help, and the only person who could help old Xutou was the director of the nearby street office. This woman was very nice and often came to old Xutou's house Look at him, and bring him food, which is many times better than the sons and daughters of old Xutou.

Fortunately, the old head Xu once took it to the street office, so it came there with the memory that would not disappear, scratching the door frantically, the door opened, the female director recognized it, and it looked at it anxiously. She called, tore the corner of her clothes, and led her home.

Old Xu had a serious headache and needed to be hospitalized, although Pippi didn't know where the hospital was.

After the female director made a phone call, a car stopped outside the door not long after. What did you say? With indifferent eyes, he put Old Xu's head on the stretcher, and then pulled it to the car. The old Xu on the stretcher was still sane at this time. When he was about to leave, he lay down and said to Pippi, take good care of the house. , wait for me to come back.

Pipi yelled in response to it, but until now it has not waited for the old Xu to come back.

What he waited for were only the sons and daughters of Old Xu. They quarreled in this room, slandered each other, and finally took everything in this room away. Pippi is old, or even if it is young, it cannot stop them.

The house was empty, and the only one who was not taken away was Pippi, who was kicked out, but he didn't go away, but lay on the side of the road every day, waiting for old Xu to come back, day after day.

It's been a long, long time. I'm getting older, but the master still hasn't come back, but it doesn't give up. It knows that if it promises to the master, it will definitely be done, and the master also told it that he will If you come back, you will definitely come back.

Later, the nearby neighbors also moved away one by one, and the huge place became lifeless. Someone came and demolished the doors and windows of all the nearby houses, and Pippi returned home. Every night, it feels lonely again.

One day, he suddenly heard passers-by chatting, saying that the neighborhood would be demolished soon!It suddenly felt incomparable fear!You know, this is its home, and it is the most beloved place of old Xutou!
If this place is demolished, what should old Mr. Xu do if he can't find it when he comes back?

No, it once promised its master that it must take good care of the house and wait for him to come back!No matter how long, no matter what the circumstances!But now that the family is about to disappear, is there any point in waiting?

It suddenly felt very powerless, it was too small, in front of those humans, it was just a dog, but the thing was really ironic, it turned out that some people nowadays are not even as good as a dog.

Often they live too complicated and forget the most basic things, loyalty and faith.

Pippi didn't think too much, it just wanted to keep its home, it felt that as long as the home was still there, Old Xutou would definitely come back, even if he had to die, he was willing!
Just then, Fifteen appeared.

It was a dark night, Pippi was squatting in front of the door, and fifteen ghosts appeared quietly. Due to the relationship between species, Pippi could see monsters. It was old and could not scream, but it was a little confused looked at fifteen.

Fifteen took out a stone and said to Pippi: Eat this stone, and you will have the strength to stop all this.

Pippi said: What is this.

Fifteen said: This is a seed that can give you strength, but at the cost of your life. When this seed matures, I will come back and take it away. You will die when the time comes. Are you willing?

Pippi is naturally willing, because although commitment and loyalty may not be a big deal to humans, it is indeed everything to dogs, and it is their eternal belief in their short lives.

"That's it." Pippi sighed, and then told Zhang Shifei and Li Lanying in front of him about the matter. After hearing this, the two felt as if they were stuffed with cotton, especially Zhang Shifei. Xu Tou died a long time ago, that is to say, Pippi's waiting and guarding are destined to be fruitless.

Suddenly, the two of them forgot that Fifteen was still not far away, and the fear in their hearts disappeared, leaving only admiration and sentimentality for this old dog.

Pippi didn't seem to feel anything, maybe it already knew that old Xu Tou would not come back, but these are not important anymore, the demon eggs in its body have already matured, but it was a little reluctant, originally it wanted to Stay here for a few more days until the group of people who want to demolish his house are completely scared away, so he starts to hide from Shiwu.

But it met Zhang Shifei, and his love made Pippi feel warm again. He couldn't bear the death of this good man, so he resolutely stood up to face the fifteen.

It is impossible for those urban management gentlemen to know that it is an old dog who obstructs their demolition.

Naturally, Zhang Shifei and Li Lanying couldn't have thought of this. There were really too many unexpected things this night, one after another, which made Zhang Shifei a little unable to adapt.

Pippi is an old dog. He is old and can't stand for a long time. The wind is blowing so hard that he trembles all over his body, but he looks very calm. He squats on the ground, looking like a comfortable statue .

Pippi said to the surprised two people: "Yes, in fact, I did all these things, and it has nothing to do with that gentleman. On the contrary, I have to thank him." That fifteen nodded, and then said: "Thank you sir, I will follow the agreement and return this thing to you."

Na Shiwu snorted coldly, completely ignored the gazes of Zhang and Li, and just said to Pippi: "I really lost money this time, I won one and lost another, even though that one is useless... ...Forget it, just take it as my reward for appreciating you."

After speaking, he raised his legs and walked towards this side. Lightning illuminated his pale and thin face, which was full of a cold smile.

"What do you want to do!!!"

Zhang Shifei took the first step and subconsciously stood in front of Pippi, and then Fatty Li turned into a big black bear, standing aside and showing his fierce teeth at the fifteenth.

Na Fifteen obviously disdained the two of them very much. He frowned and said to the two of them, "It's none of your business. If you want to survive, get out of here!"

Naturally, the two of them won't dodge. Although they know that there is a huge difference in the strength of the enemy and us, they have made their attitude clear when they came here before. They are here tonight to prove that the two of them are not just poor people who can only survive on the pity of others. !Although Pippi had good intentions, being rescued by an old dog would only make them feel even more ashamed.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shifei gritted his teeth, and the spirit of the peacock fairy bone surrounded his right hand again. This time, he was really cruel. The blue mist became thicker and thicker, gradually enveloping the entire right arm. It illuminated half of his body, and it looked like a light blue flame.

He shouted: "Stop talking nonsense! Who wants you to be pitiful?! Let's play the second round!!"

Seeing that Zhang Shifei wanted to do something, Pippi behind him hurriedly said to him: "Sir, don't beat it, you can't beat it. This is an agreement between me and it, and I must abide by it!"

"Bullshit!!" Zhang Shifei yelled. He didn't turn his head, but turned his back to Pippi. At this time, his expression was rarely serious, and he said word by word: "Didn't you say you want to protect Pippi?" Is it here? How can I protect it if I die?"

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