It came to my house very early, when it was still a puppy, the corners of the mouth were curved, quite cute, spent two cents from an old man's basket of a bunch of dogs, at that time, it took Daddy's fingers to grab it as Mom's**, desperately**. Dad grabbed it out and moved into my house in a daze. My sister and I both called it Saihu, and we named it after watching a movie called Saihu, which means that we want it to be stronger and more brave than the tiger. Human beings like to be born with some fierce and psychic animals, and they will feel more secure, which can also be called a dog's posture.
It's a pity that Saihu was sent to my uncle's house by my father after more than ten days at my house, and when I went to see it again half a year later, it was already half a child, hungry and skinny, coarse and dull, and when it saw me and my sister, it actually recognized it, and a tail wagged desperately to express the warmth of welcome to me and my sister. I said, it is too thin, it may need to eat more, so I want to find something for it to eat, but my father stopped me and said, your uncle's family is not very good, people can't eat, where can I get food for the dogs? My uncle also said: The dog turned out to be a flat-haired animal in the mountains, with vigorous vitality and could not die of hunger.
So, when we were eating, Saihu just looked at us, I moved the chopsticks, it thought I had dropped something, so he looked down at the ground, and saw that nothing had fallen, so he looked at me pitifully, its eyes were very dark, because of its thinness, the eye feces in the corners of the eyes were more obvious, I said, I'm not hungry, give this bowl of rice to Saihu to eat, the uncle sighed and said: Alas, you child, you are so good to a dog, kind-hearted, it will be difficult to become atmospheric in the future. After that, another spoonful of rice was served, and it fell to the ground, and Saihu devoured it almost in two seconds, because the rice was very hot, Saihu swallowed it in his stomach and felt it, scratching his feet on his mouth, and coughing vigorously. That stupid look made us all laugh. Despite this, it wagged its tail desperately to show its gratitude for that spoonful of rice. Uncle also said, "It's better to send this dog to Erzhu's house, where the family has something to eat, so that you don't have to suffer in my house." Dad looked at it and said, it's okay, the dog's life is also a life, just send him there, in the afternoon, my sister and I were tearful and sent it to Erzhu's house, Saihu was held in my hand, thinking that we were going to play outside with it, arched his head into my arms, and accidentally had a positive face, looking at my half face of saliva, it also hummed proudly.
When I arrived at Erzhu's house, I felt that the conditions at Erzhu's home were very good, we poor people stood there and our legs and stomachs were a little trembling, we forced a smile to compliment Erzhu first, and then explained the intention of giving Saihu to him, Erzhu looked at Saihu and said: Four feet long, long and wide mouth, pointed ears, is a good material for a hunting dog, after speaking, I want to give Uncle a dollar, (at that time, a dollar to me feels equivalent to a hundred yuan now), said that it was the money to buy a dog, Uncle hurriedly said: No, no, you accept it and I thank you too late, What kind of money are you talking about? Erzhu handed Uncle a roll of cigarettes, lit one himself, and then beckoned me very angrily to let me go, I handed Saihu to it, Saihu raised his teeth at him, Erzhu saw that it was very unfriendly, so he took out a piece of Master's dish from his cupboard to buy it. As the meat was handed over, Saihu began to roar. I said good, he will be your master in the future, obedient. Saihu didn't buy it, opened his mouth to aim at Erzhu's hand is a mouthful, Erzhu covered his hand, turned around to find a stick to hit it, my uncle and I were at a loss, Saihu broke free from me, and Erzhu started a confrontation, I found for the first time that the dog not only only wagged its tail, but was more fierce than the wolf when it was fierce, only to see Erzhu's hand up and down, Saihu dodged lightly, after five or six rounds, Saihu drilled an empty crotch, and jumped up like lightning and bit Erzhu's hand with a stick, Erzhu screamed, desperately trying to break free. My sister and I were stunned, and my uncle hurried forward and kicked Saihu hatefully, and Saihu limped away from the desert with a wail.
Later, Uncle lost a load of grain to Erzhu, and the money of this load of grain could be exchanged for a hundred dogs like Saihu, and Saihu came back on the night of the kick, and his father and uncle prepared a stick to clean it up, and when Saihu scratched the door with his paws at the door and whined, we opened the door violently to give Saihu a dismount, but when we opened the door and saw, it was clearly an innocent child: it wagged its tail happily, its ears stood up, and it arched between each of our legs like a coquettish, not at all prepared that we would give it a "big meal", Dad and Uncle softened, Uncle said to Dad: This thing, it's also pitiful, I haven't eaten a good meal since I came to my house, and I gave it a kick. Dad also put down the stick and said, yes, the family is so poor that even the rats are as hungry as cockroaches, and it is rare that it does not dislike it. Just spare it. Dad and Uncle reached a consensus at the same time and decided to treat it as a member of the family, as long as we have it in the pot, it has it in the bowl. My father and uncle talked for a long time that day, and I discovered for the first time that in that era of rich imagination and material scarcity, the main members of two families attached so much importance to a dog that they studied it at the height of a human being. My sister and I were really touched. Moreover, Saihu also made a serious mistake, but it was actually turned into a small matter as a contradiction among the people.
In the future, when my sister and I were going to my uncle's house to play, we always thought of what to bring to Saihu to eat. How do you make its tail wag a little more happily? We brought eggs, and bread, and sometimes lean meat, which were rare goodies. Of course, Saihu also ate happily, and gradually grew stronger, and his hair was shiny. Every time after eating, we always play hide and seek together, whether we are hiding in **, Saihu can find out, it always tiptoes, appearing behind me without paying attention, the mouth is still whining, it is its turn to hide from us, we want it to hide when we shout at it: whoosh! Sou! My sister and I found her at once, grabbed her hand and pulled it out desperately, and after pulling it for a long time, it reluctantly came out from under the bed, and we either rewarded it with a biscuit or kissed it on the face.
Saihu's biggest skill is to catch mice, my sister and I often watch it smell in this hole, the hole sniffs, while puffing into the hole, while grabbing and gouging with its front paws, the mouse does not know whether it is frightened by it or because it does not brush its teeth mouth is too stinky, after a few minutes always rush out of the hole, Saihu mouth with lightning speed to cover the dog's ears at a moment, squeak, the mouse went to heaven. What Saihu likes to do is put a half-dead rat on the ground, and it doesn't move when it doesn't move. When I wanted to run, Saihu stretched out its slender two dog feet to hold down the mouse, I paid attention to the posture it pressed, the legs were stretched at a forty-five degree angle and straight, and the eyes looked straight ahead, as if it was an extremely graceful appearance after doing a set of gymnastics, I was really a little envious: it turned out that eating too much and working hard to grow, the dog can also grow so handsome.
The bigger and stronger Saihu became, the longer and more handsome, the trouble came, in that era, everyone was like a vegetable, and just saw a glimmer of hope to solve the problem of food and clothing, Saihu was so strong, it was very abnormal, just like Nietzsche lived in a group of madmen, and the madmen said he was crazy. After all, the infinite power of the masses is that when the gaze is concentrated on one point, that beam of gaze becomes a laser with extremely lethal power, Saihu lives in these gazes, and it gradually feels a faint murderous opportunity, it rarely goes out, generally stays at home and dozes off, but when a stranger approaches, it reflexively jumps up and barks wildly. When the tiger got up and barked in the middle of the night, Lingju always complained the next day: The tiger barked again, and it was noisy, and my sister heard it and hurriedly said, it's a dog, if it can talk, it won't bark, and it will come to your bed and lie down to your ear and whisper: Get up, there is someone you don't know. Whether you hear it or not, it won't say it twice, Saihu is very smart.
The rich have different joys, but the poor suffer differently. Uncle is honest, and honest people are always pinched as dough. During the contracting, the uncle, who owed a lot of foreign debts due to illness, also stood in a dim corner of the venue, waiting for pie to fall from the sky. He has no share in the pear trees that are all over the mountains, no part in the orange groves full of red oranges and oranges, and no share in the corn trees with round and fat thorn balls. Sure enough, on the second night of the day when the uncle put the fry into the fish pond, someone came to steal the fish with a fine-eyed net, and on the third morning after the theft, the ridge by the pond was full of sunburned fish fry, and those who were not sunburned were also panting in the orange sun in the early morning. The aunt was sad, sat on the edge of the pond and cried and scolded for a long time, for a long time, the uncle who smoked a cigarette said, okay, let's think we are unlucky, tomorrow I will buy some grass carp fry on the market and put it, and then I will build a bed by the pond, and I will take the tiger to guard it. When the aunt heard this, she said nothing more, but the uncle was still smoking, and his calloused bare feet walked step by step on the ridges, and the frogs jumped into the pond, stirring up strings of white foam.
At night guarding the pond, Saihu always looks so lively, the sky is deep blue, the stars in the sky are twinkling, Saihu will catch frogs, catch fireflies for a while, run wildly for a while, and think for a while. With a dog, the courage of man is much stronger, and the open field is fresh and bright. In the summer, the water in the pond is getting drier and drier, and occasionally one or two fish will turn their white belly over the water due to lack of oxygen, and when this happens, the uncle always says to Saihu: Go, take it up, and the cold tiger will jump into the water with a puff, and paddle lightly on all fours, and when it comes close to the half-dead but still able to escape the belly-flipping fish, it pokes its head forward, and the fish is firmly bitten in its mouth. After going ashore, he obediently handed the fish to his uncle, shook the water on his body vigorously, and followed his uncle back to the house. When the fish is being cut, it waits quietly, tilting its head to look at the fish, and when the fish is still moving, Saihu will also stretch out a dog's foot to help hold the fish down, of course, that can only attract the uncle to laugh and scold. Saihu is still so cute, standing aside and flicking his tail, as if he is also smirking at his own booty. When the fish soup is cooked, and there is no onion and garlic, the uncle will hold a small bowl and put it on the ground, so that Saihu can taste it. My sister and I always taste the delicious fish soup and praise it, sometimes, my father also comes to drink a small cup, the wine is half drunk, my father whistles, the tiger runs like an arrow from the string, "Lizheng", my father said, the tiger horse front limbs up, hind feet together to stand up, the hut is full of hearty laughter, who said that a dog must be a dog? When you treat a dog like a person, it becomes a person, and when you treat a person like a dog, the person becomes a dog. It's just a matter of the way you walk. The essence has not changed. I've always thought so, at least Saihu is a living proof of this.
Two years have passed, Saihu's job is still to guard the fish pond, in these two years, this dog will not only catch half-dead fish, but also catch live fish, once also caught a king in the mud, when we have more skills in Saihu, when we are too smart, we will be more happy, more proud of it. However, when people like it, they often bury some banes, and mastering one more skill just becomes a reason to stifle one's own talent and even life. This can also be called smart but mistaken by smart, right?
A few years later, Uncle contracted the orchard, but Saihu still ran to the pond as always, and still caught frogs and fireflies there, one day, we were surprised, because Saihu caught a stupid grass carp from someone else's pond and came back, when Saihu came back from outside, it was completely a thief's face, drenched, the wind was still shivering, maybe it was also afraid, because it did bad things, I think it was so smart, it must know, although it was a child. And we, including me, all of us have our eyes on the fish and forget to teach it not to do this, not to give it a kick, even if it is better to scold it. We got the fish in, cut the fish with bated breath, boiled the fish soup, the fish soup pot fluttered, we all secretly celebrated each other, this is an unexpected gain, the world really dropped the pie, in fact, when we drank the fish soup of that fish, we had already harmed it. That day, when we served it a bowl of fish without onions and garlic, we were careless about letting it indulge in arsenic.
Alas, one day the East Window incident happened.
It was one morning, just after dawn, the neighbor came to the uncle and said, go, your tiger is being beaten, the uncle quickly got up from the bed, followed the neighbor to the outside, or the pond, the tiger was already lying quietly by the pond, covered with blood, when it saw us coming, it opened its eyes, and tried to shake its tail, but could not shake it up. Neighbors said; This morning, when I came to pull the pigweed, I saw it, I guess it was beaten, so I came to call you. A sturdy middle-aged man came over and said, this morning the sky was bright, I saw a fish in the water that I don't know what to do, and when it came ashore, I gave it a hoe, I didn't expect your tiger race. The hoe is hitting the head, and it may not work......I really didn't see ......
My uncle picked up Saihu from the ground, and Saihu hummed like he had been picked up by his father from the old man's basket when he was a child. We put the dog on the bed, and the bedding was stained red with blood, and I touched its face with my hand, and it gently licked my hand with its tongue. Look, my sister said, it was crying too, and I saw two big tears coming out of its eyes. I hurriedly wiped it clean with my hands, and in the end it only left two teardrops on my face, I don't know whether it was resentment or regret for myself, gradually, its eyes lost their light and became gray, like a stormy day in the south of the Yangtze River.
After that, we never had a dog again, and sometimes it was mentioned that the dog unconsciously felt sad for the tiger. Mom said that dogs are the most psychic things, and when you raise them, they will always be separated from them for one reason or another. Because animals are animals after all, man has won the battle against animals, and we have gained the right to kill them and eat them. You have to accept the reality that nature is the law of the jungle. If the ape had been defeated by the wolf in the natural struggle, perhaps the neck sleeve would have been around our neck. The dogs would lead us alive.
Mom is a nature teacher, and of course she has a point. But despite what she said, I was willing not to believe in the laws of nature, to believe in my own feelings, I was full of affection for this dog called Saihu, he was loyal, kind, spiritual, easy-going, not playing tricks, not disgusting the poor and loving the rich, and down-to-earth. It has a noble character that many people can't match. I hear a song in which I hear: Have a girlfriend or get a dog? I'm not discriminatory against women, but I'd rather believe that the guy who sang this song must have had a nice dog too. I don't want to go to Huajiang dog meat shop to chew gluttonously, I don't want to see the dogs in the market cage, whenever I see a burly dog running by, I always have to say to my friends around me: Look, my family also has a dog named Saihu, but smart, I'll tell you the story later......