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Chapter 50 yellow skin

Maqiao Dictionary 韩少功 900Words 2018-03-19
"Yellow Pi" is a dog, a very common yellow dog, there are no more characteristics that become the basis for our naming, it does not know where it came from, and it seems that it has no owner.Because the educated youths have more food, and their parents give some subsidies, the pots of the educated youths have more pleasant smell.These people haven't completely got rid of the habit of being extravagant and dirty food.The rotten vegetables were spilled on the ground or poured into the ditch.After a long time, Huangpi has become a mouthful here, and almost took root here, always staring at our bowl with hopeful eyes.

It is also familiar with the voice of the educated youth.If you want to call it from afar and ask it to attack something, you have to use the Changsha dialect in the city.If it uses Maqiao dialect, it will look around and look around before speaking.When Maqiao people discovered this, they were very angry. It even knows our breathing and footsteps.We sometimes go out at night, visit people in neighboring villages, make phone calls in the commune, and it is already late at night when we return to the village.We climbed up to Tianziling, and the Maqiao was at our feet, sunk in the light blue moonlight that was slowly flowing, and it was at least five or six miles away from us.At this time, there is no need to speak, let alone whistle, there is movement from the Maqiao in the distance, a line of rapid trampling sounds swimming out from the depths of the moonlight, getting closer and faster along the winding path , and finally turned into a silent shadow, pounced on our cuffs or skirts to show welcome.

This happens every time.It captures and recognizes any sound five or six miles away, and it spares no effort to respond in a galloping manner. It always becomes the warmth of our night returners and the home we embrace in advance. I don't know how it survived after we left Maqiao.All I remember is that after Rob was bitten by a mad dog, the commune launched an extensive dog-beating campaign.Benyi said Huang Pi was the most unconscionable and should be hit the most, so he did it himself with a rifle, and fired three shots in a row without hitting the vital point.Huang Pi hooked a bleeding hind leg, and ran up the hill, crying.

At night, we heard a dog barking on the slope near the house. It was its familiar barking, barking for several whole nights.Maybe it is very strange; it can hear our footsteps far away in the sky, but why can't we hear its so close call for help?We were so busy recruiting workers to leave Maqiao that we couldn't care less about it.Didn't even notice when it stopped screaming. When I revisited Maqiao many years later, I finally recognized it, and recognized its limp with only three legs.It glanced at me without any expression, leaned against the wall and closed its eyes to sleep again.It is old and thin, and most of the time it can only lie down, and it can't understand Changsha Empress.I stretched out my hand to touch its head, it twitched and woke up abruptly, turned its head and bit it unceremoniously, of course it didn’t really bite, it just clamped my hand hard with its teeth, expressing a threat and disgust.

The dog, who had nothing to say, looked at me again and turned away.
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