Young literature star 丨Han Yuanyuan

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Wen 丨 Han Yuanyuan

The town had been snowing all night, and the houses in the trees, on the roads, and in the orchards were everywhere a white expanse, and the wheat seedlings were sleeping sweetly under thick quilts. At this time, in addition to the small footprints of school children on the road, there are plum blossom prints printed by dogs running around, and the occasional dog bark awakens the sleeping countryside.

"Tongtong, Tongtong, get up and go to school." Mom turned off the alarm clock and gently shook it to wake her up.

"I don't want to go to school, it's too cold." Tong Tong turned over and said coquettishly.

Tong Tong just entered the fourth grade this year, and the two butterfly hairpins in her hair jumped with her steps, and her classmates envied her butterfly hairpins. Just last week, she was playing with her friends nearby, and when it was time to eat, she couldn't find her, her parents and brother were in a hurry, and the puppy Ash was also running around in a hurry. The neighbor picked up her things and found her in the trunk of the car. She was never like a little girl, often running around the mountains, and also went to the abandoned houses in the village with many little boys to find treasure, or went to the ditch with her grandfather to herd sheep, but she was really not as simple as her grandfather to herd sheep, she often climbed trees, or took a stick as a gun to aim at the pheasants that occasionally came out...

Look, look, she really doesn't look like a little girl. Mother said that only when she and Ash were together, did she look quiet and especially cute.

I heard that my uncle's peanuts had a litter of puppies, and Tong Tong jumped around happily at home. This is what she has been looking forward to for a long time, every time she goes to her uncle's house, she always chases and asks, when will Huahua give birth to a baby, and her uncle always says that it is fast. Father and mother are the least fond of keeping dogs at home, and Tong Tong has used all kinds of tricks to get his parents to agree.

"Mom, I'll wash your feet." Tong Tong happily walked with hot water.

"Mom, I'll wash the dishes today." After eating, she rushed to wash the dishes.

"Mom, look, I scored a hundred points on the exam this time." Tong Tong put the test paper in her mother's hand after school, and her mother asked her what you wanted, and she said I wanted to have a puppy.

"Mom, Mom, I really like puppies, so you let me have one." Tong Tong took her mother's hand and squealed.

Mom and Dad agreed to keep a puppy at home, and Tong Tong happily kissed Dad and Mom.

The puppy Ash came to Tong Tong's house when he was three months old, and he looked at the little girl in front of him, and the little girl always liked to hold it in her arms or gently stroke its back, and here you must not think that she was originally a little girl who ran around and ran into trouble.

Mom bought her a matcha cake, and she liked to share some for Ash. She watched the puppy eat as she ate, laughing, Tong Tong liked to dip her fingers in some cream and let Ash lick her fingers.

Tong Tong especially liked to eat corn sausages, she peeled off and bitten a bite on the table and went to the toilet, when she came back, the ham sausage was gone, and she cried for a long time. Seeing ash still licking her mouth, Tong Tong was even more angry, and she kicked ash with her foot to make it not come to her.

Ash was getting farther and farther away from its little master, and it ran over, and Tong Tong ignored it. There is a contradiction between Tong Tong and Ash, how can this be good.

In the afternoon, Tong Tong ran out to play, and Ash was quite bored at home, and it also went out after Tong Tong. Tong Tong was playing in the field, there was a man walking around, he saw Tong Tong playing on the ground, deliberately came over and talked to Tong Tong, "Little friend, what about your father and mother?" "Your family is at home!" "I came to a relative's house and wanted to buy something, where are the shops in your village?" Tong Tong pointed to the uncle. "Uncle is too stupid to find a store, why don't you take your uncle with you?" Tong Tong was ready to get up and take him, only to see the man directly pick up Tong Tong, hugging very tightly, Tong Tong was very scared, she cried and shouted. There are generally few people in the field, and they cannot be heard unless someone works in the field. At this time, Ash seemed to hear Tong Tong's cry, and did not know where to run over, it bit loudly, and ran over to tear the man's clothes, the man kicked it, it still ran over to bite, the dog bite became louder and louder, the man held Tong Tong while walking and looking around. Just as the man was watching, Ash pounced on it and bit the man's leg.

The sound of dog bites, the sound of tongtong crying getting louder and louder, filled the whole sky. The men who were working in the fields ran over, and together they caught the man who stole the child.

Tong Tong, who had been rescued, returned home, and for several days she did not speak much, and there was rarely a bright smile on her face. She was always crying, and she began to be afraid a lot, she was afraid to go to school, afraid to walk at night, afraid to go out and play. Ash didn't know what was happening, it always came over and wagged Tong Tong with its tail, Tong Tong took off his shoes and kicked them under the sofa, Ash ran in and picked up the shoes, it was hot, Tong Tong was sleeping on the sofa, it also walked over, licked Tong Tong's feet, and lay down next to Tong Tong. She kicked the ball out, and Ash ran over and flicked it over to her with her paws. Tong Tong smiled happily, and it rolled the ball over, and ash rolled over to her. Slowly, the smile refilled throughout the spring.

Tong Tong fell asleep again, and when she heard ash's cry, she quickly got up and got dressed. Packing her school bags, her school was in town, two miles from home. Every day they go to school in the morning, some children come home to eat at noon, some buy food at the town snack bar, and in the afternoon they go home with school bags.

Tong Tong just went out, Ash ran out and followed behind, it usually goes out to run very fast, every time as long as tong tong goes out, it is more like a friend, or a soldier brother. Tong Tong walked in front, it sometimes followed behind, sometimes side by side with Tong Tong, Tong Tong walked slowly, it jumped around and made a sound around Tong Tong. As long as it makes a sound, no one dares to go near them. Tong Tong came to the school, and it also followed into the Hongqi Primary School where Tong Tong was located. Tong Tong's classroom was on the third floor, she went up the stairs, Ash also jumped up the stairs, Tong Tong put down her bag and sat down in her seat. Pulling out a book and reciting the text aloud, what about ash? It squatted quietly under Tongtong's desk. The class bell rang, and the teacher came in to class and found a puppy crouched under Tong Tong's desk and asked Tong Tong to take it out.

To this end, the teacher held a parent-teacher conference specifically criticizing Tong Tong's mother. Mother did not let Ash follow Tong Tong to school, but this was impossible, Tong Tong carried the school bag just out of the door, Ash quietly followed out. They are more like good friends, inseparable, along the way, Tong Tong kicked stones for a while, hummed children's songs for a while, Ash listened to the songs, and followed Tong Tong quickly and slowly. When he arrived at the school gate, Tong Tong patted Gray Ash's body and let it go back, and slowly Ash understood Tong Tong's meaning. Every time tongtong is delivered to the school gate, sometimes it is sent to the classroom. It ran all the way home, and sometimes it would play in the field outside, until Tong Tong was out of school, the students lined up to come out, and it saw Tong Tong at a glance. He ran over and wagged his tail and gently touched Tong Tong's leg with his head.

Elementary school, junior high school. On sunny days and rainy days, spring, summer, autumn and winter, you will often see ash and tongtong together. Ash sends her to school every day, picks her up from school, Tong Tong gradually grows up, saying that a person can go to school, but Ash still sends her to school and picks her up from school. No matter how early it was, Ash and Tong Tong were never separated. After finishing the primary school and junior high school, Tong Tong grew up from a little girl who was afraid to cry when she was a child, and became a big girl with Tingting Yuli. She was going to go to high school in the county, and she could see Tong Tong every day, but slowly she could only see her once a week. In the third year of high school, I was busy with my studies, and I could not see Tong Tong for more than half a month or a month.

Ash is bored at home, sometimes going out and returning home after running crazy with other dogs, sometimes squatting somewhere is a day. Often run to Tong Tong's room, use his paws to touch Tong Tong's photo, gray ash wants to Tong Tong. Always make some strange noises.

Tong Tong has grown up, Ash is getting older, it is not as fast as when it was a child, Tong Tong is more like its own child in its eyes, and its parents and it watch Tong Tong grow up.

The university notice was mailed home, Tong Tong was going to xianyang to go to college, this time, Tong Tong was farther away from home, and he was getting farther and farther away from Ash. Tong Tong finished packing her clothes and packing her suitcase, and she was leaving. Turn around and hug her mother, hug the ash that grew up with her. It wasn't as flexible as it had been when she was playing with it as a child, and she looked at it, and it looked at it. Tong Tong clearly saw the tears in Gray Gray's eyes, whether it was too windy today, or Tong Tong was leaving, Gray Gray's reluctance. I don't know when we'll see each other.

The first semester of freshman year ended quickly, and Tong Tong also adapted to college life. Finally after the winter vacation, Tong Tong changed the car several times, and she arrived home. People say that girls who go to college are more confident and beautiful, and so is Tong Tong. As soon as he got home, Ash ran from the backyard, around Tong Tong, running and jumping. It smelled Tongtong's clothes and ran over to lick Tongtong's hand, it loved Tongtong as much as it did when it was a child. Tong Tong sat down on the sofa, and it sat on Tong Tong's feet. Tong Tong lay down to sleep, and when it saw that the door was not closed, it secretly ran in and lay down on the cushion of Tong Tong's room. Late at night, Tong Tong fell asleep, and Ash fell asleep.

At the end of the year, Tong Tong started school. Parents and Ash sent Tong Tong to the station together, Ash still wanted to go with Tong Tong, the mother held Ash, it kept breaking free to come down, Tong Tong waved goodbye, it kept looking at it in a daze.

"Tongtong, Ash hasn't been eating well lately, and seems to be sick." Mother and Tong Tong said on the phone.

In the evening, Tong Tong had a night's dream, it was all ash and her days, she couldn't finish eating, afraid that her mother would say that she would secretly give ash to eat; afraid that when she went to school, ash would accompany her to school every day; the first time she learned to cook, it was not delicious at all, ash was very fond of the food she made, no matter how unpalatable it was, ash ash was her loyal fan; when she was carried away by bad people, it was ash's cry that saved her; when she was in a bad mood, ash often crouched around it and rubbed her hands with her body...

Tong Tong dreamed all night and cried all night.

The next morning, Tong Tong called and asked Ash if it was better, and her mother said that Ash was older, and like the old people in the village, she was slow to act now, and her mother bought a few packs of milk powder and soaked Ash with steamed buns, which was easy to digest. In the afternoon, my mother made chicken legs again, and Ash ate a few bites and squatted there.

After a few days, my mother could feel it, and so could I. In its twilight years, its mother gave it all kinds of food every day, and it did not have any appetite, looking and smelling, and sometimes eating a bite or two. Just crouch there looking at the sky, the dog outside barked loudly, it didn't bark like before, it didn't make a sound, it lifted its legs, and just lay there.

One morning, her mother put food on her as usual, and she staggered over, smelled, and licked. It lay down, and the mother thought it was asleep, and at noon, the mother called its name over and over again, and it did not react at all. It's gone, it seems to have done all the tasks, it's gone.

From childhood to adulthood, Tong Tong and his family blocked the occurrence of many things, someone came to buy dogs, we did not sell. Someone collects a dog and asks for more money to sell, we don't buy it, it's not just a puppy, it's a member of the family. Like its family, how can it be given to people at will, some of the dogs running wild in the village are starving to death, some are crushed to death by cars, some are drugged, they keep it at home, they prevent everything from happening, but they can't stop its aging.

Ash is unfortunate, Ash is lucky. Tong Tong grew up with her, and the story between them could not be told for three days and three nights.

Maybe in the eyes of others it is just a dog, in the eyes of Tong Tong and his family, it is a friend, a relative, and a good friend who grew up together. It went,

The sun shone in the courtyard, the gray shadow drifted away with the wind, it had just returned, it was to say a final goodbye to Tong Tong and his family.

Be strong, don't cry, I've been with you from afar.

Han Yuanyuan was born in December 1997 in Xianyang, Shaanxi. He is a member of the Shaanxi Youth Literature Association, and his works can be found in "China Young Writers Daily" and "Yanhe".