Chapter 21 island dream four

On the morning of the twenty-ninth day at the end of the year, Shingo looked at Ah Zhao while washing his face.Ah Zhao led a group of puppies towards the sun. All the puppies crawled out from under the floor of the maid's room, but it was unclear whether there were four or five. Ju Zi nimbly grabbed the pup who had just crawled out, and carried her into the house.After being picked up, the pup was very docile.But when it meets people, it flees to the floor.The litter hadn't come out into the yard in packs yet.Therefore, chrysanthemums are sometimes said to be four, and sometimes five.

Under the sunshine of the morning sun, it became clear that there were five pups. It was at the foot of the same hill where Shingo saw sparrows and zodiac eyebrows roosting together.This hill was built by dug an air-raid shelter to avoid air raids and piled up the excavated soil. Vegetables were also grown there during the war.Now it is a place where animals bask in the sun in the morning. Zodiac eyebrows and sparrows have pecked at the ears of foxtail here.The sparse foxtail stalks have withered, but they still stand at the foot of the hill with their original firmness, covering the mound.There are tender weeds growing on the mound, Ah Zhao chose this place.Xinwu admired Zhao's intelligence.

Before people get up, or when they are busy making breakfast after waking up, Ah Zhao has already taken the pup to the best place, where he is bathing in the warm morning sun and feeding the pup at the same time.Relax and enjoy the short moments without people's interference.At first Shingo thought so, and he smiled at the beauty of this school of Xiaoyangchun.Although it is the 29th day of the year, the weather in Kamakura is Xiaoyangchun. Take a closer look, five puppies are squeezing and fighting for the bitch's teat. They press the breast with their front paws and squeeze the milk out like a pump.Puppies display amazing animal instincts.Perhaps Ah Zhao felt that the puppies were grown enough to climb up the mound, so he was unwilling to nurse them anymore.Therefore, Ah Zhao is either shaking his body, or his belly is facing down.Its breasts were scratched with red scars by the paws of the puppies.

Finally, Ah Zhao stood up, broke away from the sucking pup, and ran down from the mound.A black puppy clinging tightly to its nipple rolled down from the mound together with Ah Zhao. The puppy fell from a height of three feet, and Shingo was dumbfounded.But the pup got up nonchalantly, stood still for a while, sniffed the fragrance of the soil, and soon walked again. "Huh?" Shingo was a little confused.The appearance of this puppy seems to be the first time I saw it, and it seems to be exactly the same as the one I have seen before.Shingo fell into deep thought for a long time.

"Oh, it's Sotatsu's painting," Shingo murmured. "Well, it's amazing." ① Sotatsu is Hohashi Sotatsu (date of birth and death unknown), a painter in the early Edo period of Japan. Shingo had only seen Sotatsu's ink painting of a puppy in pictures.He remembers drawing little dogs that looked like pictorial toys.It is only now that I realize how vivid and realistic a painting it is, and I am amazed.Had character and grace been added to the image of the black pup seen before him, it would have been indistinguishable from that picture. Shingo felt that the eating mask was realistic and resembled someone, and he thought about it in connection with Sotatsu's paintings.

Drinking mask maker and painter Sotatsu were contemporaries. In today's terms, Sotatsu's paintings are bastards. "Hey, come and see. The puppies are all out." The four puppies shrank their feet and climbed down from the mound tremblingly. Shingo was looking forward to it, but neither the black pup nor the other pups could find the look of the little dog in Sotatsu's paintings anymore. Shingo pondered: the dog cub became the object in Sotatsu's painting, and the Citong mask became the real woman, or the two reversals of these two situations are also a kind of accidental revelation.

Shingo hangs the drinking mask on the wall, but keeps the Jidong mask in the closet, as if hiding some secret. Both Baozi and Juzi were called by Shingo to the washroom to watch the puppies. "What! Didn't you notice it when you washed your face?" When Shingo said this, Chrysanthemum put her hand lightly on Hoko's shoulder, peeped from behind and said, "Women are more anxious in the morning, right, mother?" "Dare to love. Where's Ah Zhao?" Baozi said. "The puppies are like lost lambs, and also like abandoned children, always wandering around, and don't know where to go."

"I don't want to throw them away," Shingo said. "Both of them already have husband's family." Juzi said. "Really? Someone wants it?" "Yes. The family is Ah Zhao's main family. They said they hope to have a female." "Oh? Ah Zhao has become a wild dog, so they want to replace it with pups?" "It seems to be like this." Juzi then answered Baozi's question just now: "Mom, Ah Zhao may have gone to some place to beg for food." Then she explained to Shingo: "The neighbors said Ah Zhao is very smart, but no one thought he was so smart.

I heard that it knows the meal time of the neighbors very well, and wanders around on time, very regular. " "Really." Shingo was a little disappointed.Recently, I feed it morning and evening. Xinwu thought it would stay at home, but unexpectedly, it went out at the time when the neighbors were eating. "To be precise, it's not the time to start meals, but the time to clean up after meals." Juzi added. "I met some neighbors. They said that they heard that Ah Zhao was raising cubs in the house this time? They also told me a lot about Ah Zhao's whereabouts. When my father was away, the children of the neighbors also came to ask me to show them Ah Zhao's puppies. .”

"It seems to be very popular." "Yes, yes, a lady said something very interesting. She said that this time Ah Zhao came to the house to give birth, and the house will definitely have a baby. Ah Zhao came to remind the young mistress of the house. Isn't it a celebration? Hello?" After Baozi finished speaking, Juzi blushed and withdrew her hand from Baozi's shoulder. "Oh, mother." "That's what the neighbor's wife said. I'm just conveying it." "How can someone mention dogs and people together." Xinwu said.This sentence is also very inappropriate.

However, Juzi raised her drooping face and said, "The old man of Yuguan's family is very concerned about Ah Zhao. He once came to our house and asked us: Can the family bring Ah Zhao to raise him?" .It's very earnest. I don't know what to do." "That's right. You can also consider asking for it." Shingo replied. "That's how it came to our house." The so-called Yuguan's family is the neighbor of Ah Zhao's owner. After his career failed, he sold his house and moved to Tokyo.There used to be an old couple who sent food to Yugong's house and helped him with some housework.Because the houses in Tokyo were cramped, they left the old couple in Kamakura and rented a house.The neighbors all called this old man the old man of the Yugong family. Ah Zhao is the closest to the old man of the Yugong family.After the old couple moved to the rented house, the old man came to see Ah Zhao. "I'll tell the old man right away as you said, so that he can rest assured." Juzi said and took the opportunity to walk away. Shingo didn't look at Chrysanthemum's back.He followed the black pup with his eyes, and saw that the big thistle by the window had fallen.The flowers are withered and snapped off at the base, but the thistle leaves are still green. "The vitality of the thistle is really strong!" Shingo said.