Ferocious Dog of Old - Chapter 67

[Chapter 67]

That night Chi Cheng didn’t sleep a night, so did Tao Huainan.

He accompanied him in the house for the first half of the night, and after the old man died, he accompanied him in the yard. There were people coming and going in the yard, there were neighbors who heard the news and came to take a ride, and there were also shop owners and guys who helped with funeral supplies. Tao Huainan was locked in the car by Chi Cheng at first, but Tao Xiaodong released him later, and Tao Huainan didn’t have to go in. He didn’t want Chi Cheng to worry about him.

Tao Huainan was standing by a wall that was out of the way, and there was a lot of noise around him. For a while, Tao Huainan suddenly remembered that time when he was a child. At that time, my brother was going to guard his parents. People came and went in the yard every day. Chi Cheng was a dirty child without a sense of existence. He squatted against the wall every day. At first Tao Huainan was afraid of him, but when he was no longer afraid, he squatted with him. Back then, as now, adults were busy with their own business, and blind and dirty children could just find an open space without getting in the way.

Now the blind child is still standing like this, and the dirty child has grown into an adult who can handle things.

Chi Zhide wanted to bury the old man. Most of the old people who died here were buried in the ground. But now it can’t be done. Without the cremation certificate, many things will be troublesome in the future, so they still have to drag the old man to the county funeral home.

No matter how unreliable Chi Zhide is, he seems to be as busy as a serious person at this time. When the funeral home’s car came to pick it up, Chi Zhide carried the door panel that was removed from the yellow cloth and cried for a long time. It was already dawn, and the late autumn sky was freezing cold, and with the sometimes exaggerated and sometimes mournful cries, people couldn’t help shivering.

Chi Zhide’s eyes were red, and when he lifted the door panel into the car, he called out “Mom” a few times.

Tao Huainan had his back against the wall, and before leaving with the car, Chi Cheng walked towards him, took off the coat Tao Xiaodong had given before and put it on Tao Huainan: “Don’t stick to the wall, it’s cold.”

“You wear it,” Tao Huainan said . Pushing the clothes back, “You are busy with your business, don’t mind me.”

Chi Cheng said to him, “Don’t go in a while, you will wait for me at your uncle’s house.”

Tao Huainan said, “I want to accompany you.”

Chi Cheng didn’t want Tao Huainan to go to that kind of place. He was superstitious about those things. Believe it or not, I won’t tell you, but it’s always a place that makes people depressed and cold. There are so many people and things, Chi Cheng can’t take care of him, and he is afraid that he will bump into him.

Chi Cheng then hugged him in his arms, put him in his ear and said, “I’m here with me too, I’ll be back soon.”

Tao Huainan couldn’t see him, so he could only raise his hand to touch his face, Said, “Don’t be sad.”

Chi Cheng turned his back to the noisy crowd behind him, kissed his face, and said “um”.

Chi Cheng has never experienced such a thing, he has no experience. He told Tao Huainan to come back soon, but he didn’t come back for a day. The old man has to live in the ice coffin for a day, and he can only enter the coffin early tomorrow. These Chi Cheng didn’t know in advance. Tao Xiaodong accompanied Chi Cheng, and Tao Huainan was brought home by his aunt.

Auntie is very warm to him. Tao Xiaodong has taken care of their family a lot over the years, giving them the house and land for nothing. He usually entrusts his uncle from his hometown to take care of Grandma Chi Cheng, and of course he will bring them a share.

Tao Huainan was thinking about Chi Cheng, but he didn’t have much to say. But my aunt was afraid that he would not be able to entertain him, so she would give Duan this one and another, and Tao Huainan would not be able to eat anything, and she had to answer her questions from time to time.

My aunt has always sighed that the children have grown so big, and occasionally sighed that the Chi family’s children are blessed and lucky.

Everyone in the village felt this way. Tao Huainan couldn’t see the eyes they looked at Chi Cheng, but he had a good ear, and he could hear the whispers of others.

Some people say that the children of Chi’s family have a good life, and Tao Xiaodong picked them up to be the company of the blind brother, even if he served a blind man all his life. Others retorted him, saying, what a lifetime, ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi, when Tao Xiaodong gets old? At that time, those who have affection in their hearts will be able to help take care of them, and those who are not in their hearts will still care about those rotten things.

Outsiders always like to speculate on other people’s affairs based on their own assumptions. Tao Huainan listened to what they said, but he was not angry.

In the mouths of others, he has been a drag since he was a child. When he was a child, he dragged his parents, later his brother, and now he is a drag. I’m used to hearing it.

Chi Cheng didn’t come back at night, so he called Tao Huainan.

Tao Huainan had just eaten dinner, and his aunt had prepared a large table of meals. Tao Huainan ate some food, but he was really not hungry. Chi Cheng said on the phone that he would not be back today and asked him to go to bed earlier.

Tao Huainan said, “Okay.”

Chi Cheng said, “I’ll ask my brother to go back later, and he will accompany you.”

“I don’t need to accompany you, but my brother will accompany you, and he won’t worry when he comes back.” Tao Huainan sat on the kang , hugged his knees, and whispered to Chi Cheng, “Have you eaten yet?”

Chi Cheng said that he had.

Everyone in the village has a large garden with vegetables and fruit trees, and there is a cowshed on the side of the garden. My cousin drove the cows back one by one, passing under the window, I could hear the muffled “moo” sound of the cows.

Tao Huainan’s face was facing the window, holding the phone in his hand, and he could hear Chi Cheng’s breathing over there.

Chi Cheng called him “child”.

Tao Huainan responded gently and said “little brother”.

They didn’t talk too much over the phone. They were not together now, but they both felt very close to each other.

Tao Xiaodong took a few days off for the two of them, and he wanted to wait until everything was over before going back. Chi Cheng should not come back in the future, but he should give him a good ride.

Chi Cheng didn’t say he had to go back, he always cooperated, and he did everything he should do as a grandson.

There were also some people from the village. Usually, no matter whether the relationship is good or bad, the villagers will be there when there is something wrong with the family. They often look at Chi Zhide and then at Chi Cheng, and they can still see the resemblance between their eyebrows, but Chi Cheng is now completely different from the Chi family.

Chi Zhide squatted in the empty hall of the funeral home to smoke, and Chi Cheng just finished calling and went in. Tao Xiaodong walked by carrying a few bottles of water, and also handed a bottle to Chi Zhide.

Chi Zhide took it, didn’t drink, and stood at his feet.

He stopped Tao Xiaodong and said, “Talk for a while.”

Tao Xiaodong glanced at him and asked, “Is there something to say?”

Maybe this meeting was because of a funeral, and Chi Zhide always seemed a little depressed. His mother had just died, and even though he hadn’t come back for a few years, he still looked a little sad.

Maybe even rogue people are still a bit human after all.

Tao Xiaodong stood beside him, with a small tricycle parked beside him, Tao Xiaodong leaned on the tricycle and looked down at Chi Zhide.

“I’ve never been able to understand you,” Chi Zhide said while biting his cigarette, “It’s not your son, what are you trying to do?”

Tao Xiaodong snorted softly, “If you understood it, it wouldn’t be you.”

“Does it hurt me?” Chi Zhide also sneered, puffed out a breath of smoke and said, “You really don’t pretend to be a good person with me, I don’t believe that if you don’t have such a younger brother, you can pick up a child and go back, you are free. Ah?”

Tao Xiaodong didn’t insist on this with him, originally, he wanted to do this when he brought Chicheng back. But so many years have passed, no matter what you thought at the beginning, no one always thinks about those things as life goes on.

It is tempting to raise a kitten and a puppy, let alone a big child. The three brothers of the Tao family are generally recognized as having a good relationship. When it comes to this Tao Xiaodong, he is absolutely candid, and he has nothing to lose to the Chi family.

“You don’t have to be afraid that I will deceive you, I don’t have the mind,” Chi Zhide lifted his eyelids to look at Tao Xiaodong, and then handed him a cigarette, “It’s amazing, who really looks like someone who raised him, I don’t think he is at all right now. It’s like me and my dad, but it’s quite like you.”

“You can’t be wrong,” Tao Xiaodong took his cigarette and kept it in his mouth with the filter in his mouth, “I’m an adult.”

“Fuck enough . Yes.” Chi Zhide said with emotion.

There’s really nothing to say between the two of them. Chi Zhide has been drinking for so many years, and his memory is very poor. He can’t remember a lot of things when he was a child, and he also played together when he was a child, which he has become very vague. Although Tao Xiaodong remembered it, he had never looked down on Chi Zhide since he was a child, and the two of them were never little playmates.

It was because of Chi Cheng that the two of them were involved a little bit, but it wasn’t. So there is nothing to talk about, nothing to say.

Tao Xiaodong was not in a hurry to go back, the air inside was not good and it was cold. He simply relied on the small three rounds to send Tang Suoyan a WeChat message for a while. Tang Suoyan just got home from get off work at this time, and he was cooking with Tao Xiaodong, chatting with you and me one by one.

“They have a good relationship?” Chi Zhide asked.

Tao Xiaodong’s eyes fell on the phone, he didn’t raise his eyes, he just asked: “Who?”

“Chi Ku and your brother.”

“Chi Cheng.” Tao Xiaodong corrected it, and then said, “They have been fine.”

“Also change the name . now?” Chi Zhide smiled sarcastically, “Why didn’t you change your surname as well.”

Tao Xiaodong didn’t bother him, his fingers were still tapping on the phone.

“I saw them kissing each other in the morning,” Chi Zhide was tired from squatting and sat back on the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief and changed his posture. “Or did I see it wrong?”

Tao Xiaodong moved his eyes from the phone to his face. , stared at him for two seconds and said, “You’re wrong.”

“Yesterday they were hugging each other in the house, they were so fucking close.

” “I have to go back to your house, that’s a boy.”

Chi Zhide said this with no other meaning, and he didn’t think much about it. The two boys could do anything just because they thought the children in the city were sticky enough.

He didn’t have any other thoughts when he mentioned this to Tao Xiaodong, and he had nothing to talk about for a while.

Tao Xiaodong stopped talking to him and went in with a bag of water. Chi Cheng was sitting on a chair in the room, Tao Xiaodong gave him water, Chi Cheng said, “Go back, brother, Tao Huainan can’t be there by himself.”

Tao Xiaodong touched his head, his palm against the back of his head, and he touched him back and forth. Two hands, and said, “He’s fine, don’t worry about him.”

Chi Cheng added, “You didn’t sleep last night, don’t stay up.”

Tao Xiaodong sat next to him, leaned his head down on him, rested his head on Chi Cheng’s shoulder, closed his eyes and said, “Brother will accompany you.

” How to fall asleep. Brother and Chi Cheng were not around, Tao Huainan would definitely not be able to sleep in such a strange place, and he was worried about Chi Cheng.

Chi Cheng came back the next morning. He was buried early in the morning, took the ashes and pulled them all the way back. It was past nine o’clock when he came back.

Tao Xiaodong drove by himself, only the two of them were in the car. Chi Zhide and the others went straight to Chi’s house, the uncle’s house they went to first.

Uncle Tang’s son was wearing a coat and was about to go to herd the cattle. When he saw the two of them coming back, he unexpectedly called Tao Xiaodong “brother”.

Chi Cheng went straight into the room to find Tao Huainan. Tao Huainan had heard them coming back, and was sitting on the edge of the kang, turning his head towards the door. As soon as Chi Cheng pushed open the door and came in, he saw Tao Huainan was well-dressed, with a tuft of hair on his back, and frowned slightly. Chi Cheng walked over, Tao Huainan raised his arm.

Chi Cheng leaned over and hugged him directly, Tao Huainan smelled faintly of firewood, Chi Cheng squeezed Tao Huainan’s neck with one hand.

“Quick, quick!” Tao Huainan patted him on the shoulder, “I want to go to the toilet, hurry up!”

Chi Cheng realized almost instantly that Tao Huainan had never been there, frowned, and hugged him down.

Uncle Tang’s house is still the dry toilet in the past, and the simple toilet made of wooden boards cannot be flushed, and it will be fattened directly by then. No one can take Tao Huainan to this kind of toilet by himself.

“Have you been holding back?” Chi Cheng asked him, standing behind Tao Huainan, frowning.

“No, I found a wall in the garden outside after dark last night,” Tao Huainan was still a little embarrassed, “hey” and said, “My cousin has been going back and forth outside to bring cattle back and forth, auntie. It always comes out.”

Chi Cheng said to him: “You care so much, isn’t it uncomfortable to hold it in?”

“I wonder if you’ll be back soon anyway.” Tao Huainan turned his head to the side, still smiling, “Wait for you to bring me here.”

[End of This Chapter]