He Xuchunqiu

"Why did you come back so late with a courier?" He Chengqi still kept the posture when his son left home at noon, sitting on the sofa and watching TV.

He Xuren's Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed forcefully before opening his mouth and answering: "Oh, I guess there is some shopping activity today, and the courier station is full of people, so I'll go to the nearby bookstore to read for a while."

"What did you buy?" He Chengqi skipped to the next episode of the spy war drama that was playing the ending song, without squinting, leaving only a bald back of his head to exert invisible coercion on someone.

"Oh, I didn't buy it, it was a gift from a college classmate." He Xu put the comic book on the coffee table, and began to wring the hem of his trousers again.

He Chengqi turned two pages, except for the gaudy pictures, there was an illegible signature: "Why is there a name on it? Isn't it a gift?"

Thanks to Xu Ran's scribbled handwriting in his early years, Dad He didn't recognize what was written in the book.

"Oh... this is the artist's signature, which my classmate specially found." He Xu's fingers were wrapped around the hem of his trousers several times, and he continued to lie blatantly.

"It's better to read this kind of book less, it's not good." Father He's eyes were attracted by the shooting scene of the TV series again, and he didn't dwell too much on this "little book".

Who puts a book under the pillow in the bedroom, as if it would seep out the same adventurous and beautiful fantasy dream.

The phone in his trouser pocket vibrated suddenly, and someone took it out to check. It was a text message from an unknown number—"Are you going out at night? Go to the old pontoon bridge to enjoy the shade."

No one is familiar with this number without the editor's name, Xu Ran, the name he dared not keep.

He Xu tapped the screen a few times with his fingertips, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Okay." This was the reply before the lock screen went dark.

After dinner, whoever found an excuse to go to the bookstore to buy books and left the house.

"How about we go to the movies first?" Xu Ran seemed to wait outside the community for a while.

"Didn't you just go to enjoy the cool?" He Xu looked at the time on his phone, he couldn't go back too late.

"Okay, then let's walk." Xu Ran snapped his fingers, signaling for anyone to follow.

"Tch." Although He Xu expressed disdain for Xu Ran's behavior of treating him as a small follower, he still happily followed him quickly.

"This street has been demolished?" Looking at the cultural wall that promotes the core values ​​of socialism along this road, he tried to recall its previous appearance.

"Didn't you say it was going to be demolished a long time ago? We sent out a notice when we were studying here..." Xu Ran deliberately took a slow pace, but he always took half a step ahead of others, so he always looked back from time to time To see him.

"It feels quite strange." He Xu took another look at a wall with a picture of lying on the ice begging for a carp, "I remember that the hot and sour noodles here always give an extra quail egg, and you used to give it all at once. The boss added ten more to you."

"Is there?" Xu Ran also looked at the wall a few times, as if recalling whether there was such a thing, "I don't remember, I just remember that you like eating very much."

"After you added the quail eggs, you put all the quail eggs in my bowl. I said I couldn't eat any more, so you still have to give it to me..." He Xuren remembered the scene at that time again, and couldn't help laughing.

"There used to be an animation peripheral shop here." Xu Ran pointed to a wall and made two gestures, "At that time, I really liked a medal, but the last one was bought by someone else first. Go up and grab that person and ask him to give me the medal..."

Whoever looked around for a week, the bustle of the entire lower street of Biluo Road had become an unrepeatable memory of the past, only the old campus and bookstores on the upper half of the street were still illuminated behind them.

Some changes are really unexpected, but they have already been hinted.

"By the way, I have visited our place several times by bicycle these days. There is an animal shelter opened in front of the bridge. Do you want to go and have a look?" Xu Ran knew that some people have always liked dogs, so he used the declarative sentence firmly.

"Really?" Who would have thought that such a place could exist in a small city like theirs.

The location of the animal shelter is really a bit out of the way. Although it is only a few hundred meters away from the bridge, there is not much traffic.

"Hello, are you here to adopt?" A staff member stepped forward to ask as soon as he entered the shelter.

"Not yet, we want to take a look first." Xu Ran replied.

"Okay, you can notify us if you want." The staff took them to the animal depository.

The storage place is a cage of different heights, with all kinds of cats and dogs on both sides, and when they see people, they will shake their tails and scratch the cage excitedly.

"Look at this, someone is willing to throw away such a beautiful big golden retriever?"

"Is this husky abandoned because it was too good at tearing down the house?"

"Orange cat! In the future, he will definitely be a crushing guy."

Every time Xu Ran passed a cage, he would say a few words, and by the way, tease the animals whom he commented on a few times.

One cage was exceptionally quiet. Inside was a German shepherd dog whose right ear had been shaved off. It was huddled in a corner of the cage with a face full of vigilance, and it seemed that it was not easy to get close to people.

"How did it come here?" Someone's voice startled the German Shepherd, and it bared its fangs, looking ready to go.

"This German shepherd is really pitiful. The original owner was an alcoholic, and he liked domestic violence when he drank. Once, in order to protect the little owner, he bit the original owner, but the ear was cut off by a knife, and he was kicked when he brought it here. It broke its leg, and now its original owner and his family have moved away, so he stayed." The staff patted the cage door to signal it not to hurt anyone.

De Shepherd turned his ears, put his teeth back and lay back in the corner, looking very world-weary.

"So it was always beaten before?" He Xu asked again.

"This kind of thing has one thing and two things. It was the last time when it was sent here that it made a big fuss and bit the original owner into the hospital." The staff seemed to have thought of something, and sighed, "But its small The master likes it very much, and sent it here so that it would not be killed."

"It stands to reason that these unadopted animals will be euthanized regularly? It seems to have been kept for a long time." Xu Ran moved his face to the cage of this German Shepherd, and looked at it quietly.

"It's like this according to the regulations, but its little owner often visits it and subsidizes some daily expenses for the shelter, so we keep it until now." The staff suddenly lowered their voices, as if they were afraid of the German animal. Mu heard it, "However, its little master hasn't come to see it since he moved a few years ago. We thought... stay for half a year at most, and don't come again... There is nothing we can do..."

"No way" means self-evident.

"I like it very much." Some people also leaned in front of the cage, not knowing who this sentence was meant for.

De Mu's eyes stared at someone for a few seconds and then drooped quickly, looking extremely aggrieved.

"I like it very much, why don't we adopt it?" Xu Ran could see who liked this German Shepherd from the bottom of his heart.

"But we can't raise it, and we can't live here forever." When anyone saw this German Shepherd, he felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy at first sight.

"It's okay, I can find a nanny to take care of my family." How can this kind of thing be difficult for Xu Ran?

"Really?" He Xuren's eyes lit up instantly.

"Excuse me, are you ready to adopt?" the staff asked.

"Well, this is the German Shepherd." Xu Ran nodded.

"Okay, please come with me..." The staff took the two of them out of the storage place and told them a lot of documents and matters required for adoption.

A week later, the German Shepherd was adopted and returned to Xu Ran's home.

"Dad, I went to the Xinhua Bookstore." He Xuren had been going out to the bookstore for a month, and He Chengqi also began to feel a little strange.

"Why don't you go out today when the sun is so bright? Why don't you just stay at home and read a book?" He Chengqi stuck his head out of the door to persuade him while washing the dishes in the kitchen.

"No, there is air conditioning in the bookstore." He Xu packed his bag and went out.

After waiting for his son to go out for a while, He Chengqi shook his head and rinsed the last bowl.

At this time, the phone rang, and He Chengqi hurriedly wiped off the water stains on his hands, and swiped the connection button: "Hello? Liu Zi, is there a shortage of people to play cards? Hey, I'll be right here..."

He Chengqi rode the old electric car at home to go out. Unexpectedly, the sun was shining on the top of his head for more than ten minutes, and then the sky changed, and the downpour poured down in an instant.He Chengqi remembered that the clothes at home had not been confiscated, so he had to go back in the rain.

"Crackling..." The rain hit the raincoat like air bombs, He Chengqi's feet were propped on the asphalt road, and his eyes became fierce.

There were many people sheltering from the rain on the opposite corner, and there was his son inside. Although he was hiding behind the crowd, his son was actually holding another man tightly by the hand, and the man was holding a dog by the hand. The two looked very close And natural.

Public!shameless!Relapse!He Chengqi felt a fire in his chest, but he didn't stay for too long, and rode away directly.

Who broke away from Xu Ran's sudden hand, and pretended to be angry: "Someone is watching!"

"Where is anyone watching? They all have their backs to us!" Xu Ran rolled his eyes and aimed at Demu who was squatting on the ground. "Only the red bean is watching. Would you like me to cover its eyes for you?"

Red Dou is the name Xu Ran gave to the adopted German Shepherd. Who doesn't know why he gave such a majestic big dog such a soft and waxy name, but at that time Xu Ran looked mysterious Say, "It's a secret."

Although Hongdou has only one ear left, it does not affect its heroic appearance at all. At this moment, it is only half-squatting on the ground wholeheartedly guarding its master.

"Woo..." Hongdou tilted her head suspiciously, as if trying to understand what the master said.

"Red bean." He Xu called its name in a low voice, leaned over and stroked its head.

Hongdou immediately stood up wagging her tail, with obvious joy in her eyes.Hongdou is a hurt dog, but it is very good at distinguishing between good and evil, and can always feel the kindness of people most directly, and then loves those who love it.

When He Xu returned home, the rain had stopped for more than half an hour, and even the stagnant water on the road had evaporated, but the sticky, damp and oppressive atmosphere at home still made him feel that something was wrong.

"Mom, why did you come back so early today?" He Xu put his backpack on the shoe cabinet.

"How will I look at my son if I don't come back?" He's mother rushed back after receiving her husband's call. At this moment, her heart was full of anger, which was reflected in her speech and became eccentric.

He Xuren was very uneasy, but he still told himself to hold on.

"Where have you been?" Father He was still sitting on the sofa with a calm expression, only frowning slightly.

"I went to Xinhua Bookstore..." Who is most afraid of such parents, who always look at themselves with a superior attitude, and their voice unconsciously loses confidence.

"Kneel down!" Father He shouted angrily.

He Xu immediately knelt down, and He's father and mother stood up, standing in front of him like two giant Buddhas.

Who is kneeling straight, looking at the front blocked by his parents' pants, but not looking directly at them.

"We sent you to study, and we raised you up to teach you to date and cheat?" Mother He said, slapping He Xu on the forehead.

He Xuren's figure swayed, his forehead turned red, but his back was still straight.

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