When I was 10 years old, I came back from the market with my father and found a little black dog with a broken leg in the gutter on the roadside.
I begged my father to take the little black dog home, but he refused, pulling me quickly to the direction of home, chanting “People don’t have enough to eat, where can there be surplus food to raise a dog?”
I dragged on, crying, and the dirt road was dragged out by my shoes, but I still couldn’t resist my father.
In the evening, when I was eating, I was unhappy. My mother asked me what was wrong.
I replied, “I want a little black dog, it’s very poor.”
Mother turned to look at her father, who said grumpily, Piansheng is going to pick up a stray dog, so where is the time to take care of the dog? He is not allowed to keep it.
After dinner, my mother coaxed me to go to bed. She said, can I buy you a puppy in the future? Go to sleep first, then wake up.
I hate that my mother can’t keep her promise every time. She said that she would buy me a floral skirt as long as I won the first place in the exam, but she didn’t buy it at last. She said that she would sleep well and buy me meat buns tomorrow, and she didn’t buy it the next day. Now she cajoled me into buying me a puppy in the future, and it probably ended in vain.
The more I think about lying in bed, the more I get angry. I decided to pick up the little black dog and hide it so that my father and mother wouldn’t know.
Rural children are not afraid to walk at night since they were young. I am courageous. I used to go to the fields with a flashlight to deliver food to my father.
This time, I slipped into the living room to get a flashlight, put on a thin coat and went out. I jumped three steps, and I was in a cheerful mood, thinking about it all, my little black dog.
After walking for about 15 minutes, I found the gutter in the daytime. Before I got near it, I heard the dog whining. I jumped down to pick up the puppy and wrapped it in a thin coat.
I thought all the way, where should I hide the puppy? If you don’t hide in the woodshed, get him a nest, but the woodshed mother will carry firewood, and if the dog barks, the mother will find out.
Hiding in my room is no good. My father will wake me up every day and I will be the first to find out.
I took care to brush the dog’s hair and chat with it. I was delayed on the way back. I just got back to the village and saw my father and mother calling my name nervously.
I was afraid, so I hid with my dog. I didn’t know why, and my first reaction was that I was in trouble and was going to be beaten.
After hiding for a while, I felt that I had to go out and say hello to my parents, or I would be beaten even worse. I held the dog and shone a flashlight in the direction of my father, weakly saying that I was here.
When my father came forward, he just beat me and scolded me, saying that I dared to run away from home at night, and I was not afraid of being taken away by the bad guys.
I kept my mouth shut and retorted, “Where will the bad guys take me away? I’ll just go for a while and come back soon. I know the way and go to school every day.”
Afterwards, my mother told me that my father went to my room that night to see if I was asleep and kicked the quilt, and I found that I was gone. I thought that I was sulking with my father because of the little black dog during the day, and now I wouldn’t leave home in the middle of the night. I called me for a long time behind the house and didn’t see anyone, so I hurried out to find someone.
I was beaten, and I admitted my mistake. I promised that I would never let them worry next time. Finally, the little black dog stayed.
I am very happy. I have a little black dog. When it grows up, it will definitely be better than the big black dog in my cousin’s house.
My father said that he would not help me raise a dog, and I would feed my little black dog on time in the future.
My father is hard-spoken and soft-hearted, and he is always very concerned about my affairs. Just like he always talks about why girls study, but he still sends me to school all the time and tells me to study hard. If I don’t study well, I will come back to farm with him in the future.
The next day, my father called the fourth uncle in the village to help the little black dog with medicine.
The puppy’s leg was broken, and it screamed and screamed, and there were many injuries. The tip of its ear was cut off and a piece of its hair was lost, as if it had been set on fire. The fourth uncle said it would take a while to treat it, otherwise the puppy’s leg would be lame and clumsy all the time.
Look, my father said he wouldn’t give me a dog. When I bring the puppy back, he will still treat my dog well.
The dog is black, a small one, with a few hairs behind its ears. My father said it was a dog with coarse hairs.
I named it Xiaohei, and spent the initial period of strangeness and fear. When my mother called Xiaohei in the yard, he would run over with short legs and put his head into the rice bowl to eat.
The rice basin is an iron basin for feeding chickens at home, which was requisitioned by me and used by Xiaohei. As for chickens, mother will find another basin herself.
Every day when I come back from school, Xiaohei will follow me, go to the fields to choose vegetables and go up the mountain to collect firewood. He has a stick in his mouth and follows me, trying to help me share.
Little friends also like Xiao Hei, and always secretly bring food to Xiao Hei from home. Every time I go to a banquet, I will take out a plastic bag from my pocket, ignoring everyone’s eyes and bringing all the bones on the table back to Xiao Hei.
Mother laughed and said, “there is a puppy at home, and this girl is very precious.”
Xiaohe is very clever and has a good temper. He won’t bark at people unless he is a stranger who tries to come into my house.
Sometimes, it will go to school with me, but it can’t go to school. Under my sign, it will squat under the tree at the side door of the school and wait for me to take it home.
After a long time, Xiaohei became lazy, from squatting quietly before to lying under a tree in the weak sunshine and sleeping late.
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