Ferocious Dog of Old - Chapter 3

[Chapter 3]

Tao Xiaodong didn’t come back until noon. After the burial, he had to arrange meals for these old neighbors who helped out in the village. When he came back, he brought food for both of them, and when he entered the room, he asked Tao Huainan, “Are you holding back your pee?”

Tao Huainan didn’t say a word. He glanced at the wall, but couldn’t see anything.

Tao Xiaodong ordered food for the child as usual. When the aluminum basin was brought over, the child looked at the basin in his hand, silently watched it for a long time, but did not answer.

He didn’t raise his face, nor did Tao Xiaodong care about him. He put the basin on the cabinet next to him and said, “Eat it by yourself.

” , did not eat.

Tao Xiaodong took Tao Huainan to the outhouse to urinate in a dirty bucket, and came back to feed him and eat.

The walls were silent, unable to hear the movement of the meal. Tao Huainan ate half of the meal, and said he was full and stopped eating. Tao Xiaodong wiped his mouth and let him sleep for a while.

After he was about to go out with the bowl, Tao Huainan stopped him and called out “brother”.

Tao Xiaodong looked back at him: “What’s wrong?”

Tao Huainan patted next to him: “I’m not full, I’ll be hungry for a while.”

“Can you still eat when it’s cold?”

Tao Huainan murmured, “I just leave it there anyway. Let’s eat it later.”

Tao Xiaodong couldn’t let him eat it, but he poured it out as he didn’t bring it out, put it on the side, and went out to wash his face.

Tao Xiaodong hadn’t slept well for so many days, and he had to stay outside at night. The ashes finally fell to the ground, and Tao Xiaodong was relieved. When he came back, he lay down and quickly fell asleep.

The elder brother was snoring lightly, and Tao Huainan knew that he was very tired.

He waved at the base of the wall and whispered, “Come here.”

Without hearing anything, Tao Huainan blinked his big eyes and asked in that direction, “Are you there?”

After a while , he heard the sound of cotton shoes. The sound stopped in front of him. Tao Huainan sat with his upper body leaning forward a little and whispered, “You eat my meal.” People have no food. Tao Huainan pushed his rice bowl like compensation: “It’s not cold.” The

boy looked at the little blind man sitting on the kang, and then at the bowl. After all, he was a seven or eight-year-old child, still holding Tao Huainan. of spoonfuls and took a few bites.

This matter made Tao Huainan feel that it was no longer awkward to stay in the same room with that child.

Tao Xiaodong found that the two children occasionally said a few words, not far from each other, and said something between the children.

Outside the window, there was a long ice hanging, which was slightly melted by the sun.

The sudden sound of knocking on the glass made the unsuspecting Tao Huainan startle. When he was afraid, he always subconsciously opened his mouth and widened his eyes.

Tao Xiaodong was talking to people about the old house outside. He lifted the curtain and took a look. He was about to go in and hug him when he heard Tao Huainan ask in a low voice, “What?”

The child heard him ask, looked at him, leaned against him Wall said, “Ice.”

Tao Huainan had never seen this thing, and he forgot what he saw before he was blind when he was a child. He thought someone had smashed the glass with ice, and he had been sitting a little nervously.

After a while, Tao Huainan asked in a low voice, “What ice?” The

child leaned against the wall with his hands on his back. He didn’t say anything for a long time, and he probably didn’t know how to tell the blind man what ice it was. He stood against the wall for a long time, then turned his head and ran away.

Tao Huainan’s face turned towards the outside world, with a bit of confusion.

Tao Xiaodong saw the child running out of it, and after a few minutes he opened the door and ran in. There is also a long ice hanging in his hand.

My uncle drank and called him: “What are you doing! Don’t tie Xiaonan!”

The child ignored him, ran in and threw it on the kang, shrank his arms and wiped his hands with his cuffs.

Tao Huainan blinked and asked “what”.

The child said expressionlessly, “Touch it yourself.”

Tao Huainan then stretched out his hand and carefully probed the kang next to him, feeling a little surprised.

Cold and slippery.

Tao Huainan laughed: “Ice?”

“Ice you.” The child answered him lukewarmly, and sucked in his snot as he spoke.

Children’s dialects are also less earthy, and a little accent is like a little more naivety. Tao Huainan imitated him, and followed in an earthy twist: “Ice skunk.”

After saying that, he laughed and repeated it again.

He had seen very few things, and even the smallest things felt fresh. Touching and touching the hands were wet and cold, of course, the warm kang couldn’t hold the ice, and it turned into everything in a short while.

Tao Huainan moved to the side so as not to get wet.

He held the long ice bar in his hand, and the pointed end gently touched between his fingers. It was no longer sharp, just a little slippery to the touch.

Tao Huainan played by himself for a while, put it on the kang when he was on ice, and picked it up when it was no longer iced.

Such a small toy entertained Tao Huainan, so he took the initiative to chat with the child and asked him, “Why did your dad beat you?” The

man turned his head and said he didn’t know.

Tao Huainan asked again, “Why don’t you run?”

No one wanted to pay attention to him, Tao Huainan didn’t listen to the response and didn’t take it seriously, just playing with himself. After a while, I remembered this again, opened my mouth and asked again, “Then why don’t you run away?”

Maybe he was too annoying and people didn’t want to stay with him, so he turned around and ran away without making a sound.

This time, he didn’t come back after the run. Tao Huainan didn’t come back after playing with the ice in his hand.

The brothers were leaving the next morning. Tao Xiaodong, the old house, was not sold, and the uncle lived in his hometown. In the evening when Tao Xiaodong was packing up, Tao Huainan sat beside him with his own blanket peeling melon seeds.

Peel the melon seeds and don’t eat them, just peel and play, and I have a small pile of melon seeds. From time to time, Tao Huainan turned his head to the side of the window and turned his ears to the side of the window. He couldn’t hear anything and continued to peel the seeds.

Tao Xiaodong glanced at him and asked, “Wait for the kid from Chi’s family?”

Tao Huainan asked, “Why did he run away?”

Tao Xiaodong smiled: “You speak irritatingly, don’t you run away if you don’t like to hear it?”

Tao Huainan “Ah ? “A sound.

The little blind man rarely chats with people, his world is very small. Because he can’t see, his life is very narrow. He hasn’t even gone to school at the age of eight, so he can’t go to school independently.

Children of this age seem to have many children, but he does not. People are always afraid of the unknown and things that are different from themselves. Children, especially, they have an instinctive fear of Tao Huainan, who is walking by touch.

In Tao Huainan’s small world, apart from his brother and his few friends, there is only one big dog left. I often chat with it, and I can only say it myself, so he has too little chatting experience.

Tao Huainan pursed his lips and pushed Guaziren towards his brother, thinking to himself: I don’t think I’m angry anymore.

Because of the two words he asked casually, the chat did not understand, and Tao Huainan never saw the boy again when he left.

Before leaving, he asked his brother, “Are we going to lock the door?”

Tao Xiaodong said, “It’s for the second uncle. It’s up to him to lock it or not.”

Tao Huainan asked again, “Then can he still come? If Dad hits him again.”

Tao Xiaodong didn’t answer this. After packing up the last thing, he picked up Tao Huainan in one hand and the duffel bag in the other, and went out and got into the car.

After staying together for several days, Tao Huainan didn’t take the opportunity to say goodbye before leaving.

The country road was covered with a layer of solid ice, and the road slipped slowly. It seemed to be snowing again outside, and Tao Huainan could hear the slight noise when the wind hit the car window.

When they came back this time, there were two jars of ashes in the car, but when they left, there was nothing left.

The car was bumping badly on the country road. Tao Huainan grabbed the seat belt in front of him with both hands and turned his head toward the window, not knowing what it was like outside.

It should be white, and the snow is thick here.

The car was not closed tightly, and Tao Huainan was a little cold. He put the sticker on the back of the chair again, and his brother gave him a look beside him, and let him sleep by himself when he was sleepy.

Children are easily sleepy in the car, Tao Huainan yawned and nodded.

They were farther and farther away from the village. My parents and my brother lived there for many years, and now my parents are back there.

Tao Huainan closed his eyes, woke up from sleep, and slept more and more deeply in the turbulent swaying.

This night, he slept deeply and for a long time, until Tao Huainan was still awake when he was woken up by the sound of the door closing. He could feel that the car had stopped.

“Brother?”

His brother was not in the car.

The moment of silence around him was not enough to make Tao Huainan panic. He closed his eyes and leaned back in the seat again, put his ears up to listen to the sounds outside the car, and quietly waited for his brother to come back.

He didn’t wait long, and soon his brother came back.

The door was pulled open, followed by a sharp cry that I had heard once.

She speaks in dialect and speaks fast. Tao Huainan only knows that she is crying, but she doesn’t know what she is talking about. Tao Huainan shrunk on the seat like a panicked quail.

When my brother returned to the driver’s seat, Tao Huainan reached out and touched it. He heard the old man behind him crying and begging, “Save him! The Tao family boy, save him!”

This time Tao Huainan understood.

He also heard his brother turn around and say, “Don’t hold him, put him on the ground and let him lie down.” The

old man couldn’t hold a boy that big. Tao Huainan heard a muffled knock, followed by another The old man cried and shouted, “He’s still pumping! So much blood!!!”

She kept crying, and her cries were high and low, mixed with desperate scolding.

A faint smell of blood began to emanate from the car. Tao Huainan remained motionless, blinking his mindless eyes, staring blankly ahead.

Later, my brother parked the car at the entrance of the county hospital, opened the back door and picked up something. He locked the car and asked Tao Huainan to wait in the car.

Tao Huainan nodded and heard his brother’s footsteps quickly pull away, next to the old man’s chaotic footsteps and panicked crying.

The car was quiet again, but the bloody smell that was scattered around couldn’t be dissipated.

Tao Huainan sat stiffly and trembled slightly, still scared.

He had heard the old man’s cry once. She was the grandmother of the Chi family’s children.

[End of This Chapter]