immature

Although Xi Yan was told by Zhong Qin that he was short, he was actually tall compared to most of his classmates at this age.

Coupled with his current attitude of being hostile to visitors, the two boys stopped their movements immediately after hearing about the son of a bitch: "It's... over there in the administration building... no, but Not the little one..."

Xi Yan loosened the boy's collar heavily, only glanced at the two of them but didn't say much, turned around and walked towards the administrative building, Li Wenrui hurried to catch up and followed closely behind Xi Yan.

"Who is..."

"How did he know about teasing the dog in..."

"..."

When they reached the green belt in front of the administrative building, Xi Yan and Li Wenrui saw two uncles in security uniforms.

They were bowing down to defend a gap in the dense bushes, and they were still holding hard T-shaped sticks in their hands!

Xi Yan had a bad heart, and when he and Li Wenrui got closer, he heard the security guard chasing away a few students who passed by, while shouting: "If you can't catch it, hit it out! It's already aggressive now! The student dolls are all Go! Don't come here!"

Two or three girls passing by screamed in fright and ran away quickly. At this moment, a black and yellow stray dog ​​suddenly emerged from the green gap!

The stray dog ​​was not big, even lean, not the kind of body that would make people feel very dangerous at first glance, but it could still be seen that it was already an adult dog.

Even though there are two security guards guarding the green gap, the animals on four legs are so agile!With all its strength, it quickly flashed out from the security guard's legs, as if it was looking for the direction of the gate, and ran towards those girls who were running away!

The girl suddenly screamed a few times, and one of the security guards shouted "Danger", and the reaction was quite quick, and immediately threw out the stick in his hand!

The stray dog ​​was about to turn a corner to avoid the crowd, but the T-shaped stick just happened to hit it directly on the back and buttocks on the right back!

It screamed on the spot and fell heavily, but in order to escape the capture of the security guards, it quickly stood up, dragged a hind leg that was hard to move due to pain, and tenaciously limped forward slowly. go.

Xi Yan felt as if his feet had been nailed to the ground, and there was a buzzing in his head——

Xi Yan picked up Butter, who was a stray dog, and lived together for more than a year.

One night, Xi Yan’s grandma took butter out of the house after dinner as usual, and went downstairs for a walk in the yard. As a result, everyone and the dog were attracted by the smell of pancakes at the entrance of the community, so grandma took butter outside the community for the first time.

But this is the only time... a drunk driver drove his car onto the curb while turning a corner, and knocked over the hawker's stall.

In order to let Xi Yan’s grandma avoid the impact of the car, Butter stood up at the very moment and pushed Xi Yan’s grandma out with two front paws, but she had no time to dodge and was knocked down by the right front of the car on the spot on the ground.

When Xi Yan and Wen Xia received a call from the security guard at the gate of the community and rushed downstairs, the traffic police had arrived quickly and were dealing with the accident. Butter, who was dying, was short of breath, but he could only escort Xi Yan and his grandma into the ambulance first.

Xi Yan's grandma knocked her knee on the curb, but fortunately she was fine. Before being sent to the hospital, she cried anxiously and said, "I'm fine! It's fine! It didn't hit me! It didn't hit... the cream !Ouch...my children...go and see how the cream is doing...cream..."

Seeing that his grandma got into the ambulance without incident, accompanied by Wen Xia, Xi Yan hurried back to the side of the street to see... Butter lying in a pool of blood.

The streets are not bright at night, only dimly lit street lights cast dim yellow blossoms on weekdays.

At this moment, the traffic police's red and blue police lights shone on Butter's body, flickering on and off, and Xi Yan saw that its original milky white and soft fur had been dyed a shocking dark red.

There was only a slight ups and downs in Butter's chest, but she still tried her best to raise her head, looking in the direction where Xi Yan was running towards it.

Xi Yan bit his lips tightly, his eyes blurred for a moment, he didn't dare to get close, but forced himself to take a step, and finally stumbled and knelt heavily beside Butter.

Xi Yan's hands trembled violently. He wanted to pick up Butter, but he was afraid that it would hurt, so he could only rub Butter's head indiscriminately, and said incoherently, "Your Butter...you get up...my grandma is fine...go to the hospital... ...yes...I'm going to take you to the hospital too...go...get up...we're going to the hospital..."

The traffic policeman who was dealing with the driver came over and said, "Are you a family member of that old man? Fortunately, the driver stepped on the brakes and slowed down when he rushed to the curb, and tripped over the steps again, so... you take your dog there Let's go to the hospital... see if it can be saved..."

Xi Yan choked up, almost knelt down on the ground, and put the tip of his nose on Butter's dark and humid nose: "Butter... Be good... It doesn't hurt... It doesn't hurt..."

Butter was as obedient as ever, but it was quieter than usual. It stuck out its tongue and licked Xi Yan's face lightly.

Xi Yan couldn't stop crying.

He wiped his face, trembling his hands, rummaged through all the pockets on his body before finding his cell phone. He wanted to make a call, but he didn't know who to call now.Holding on to his reason, he turned on Baidu to search for the phone number of the pet hospital, but all he found were advertisements, and he didn't know which ones would be useful.

Xi Yan's tears hit the screen of the phone, his vision was blurred, but he kept pressing the number keys with trembling fingers, and made calls one after another that got connected or couldn't be connected at all...

"Hey... the pet hospital... can you come and save my dog..."

"Who can save my dog...help me...please..."

The driver who caused the accident was falling on the side of the street, and he was slumped on the ground. He was frightened by the car accident and sobered up. After a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with his tongue out:

"so far so good……"

"Fortunately, it was a fucking dog..."

"That's great...God help me...God help me..."

The traffic policeman waited for him immediately: "Dog's life is not life?! Be honest!"

When Xi Yan heard this, the sound of the phone call stopped abruptly, his throat ached, and the phone fell from his hand immediately, hitting the ground with a slap.

Xi Yan stared at the blurry teary eyes, regardless of he rushed over and grabbed the driver's collar, raised his hand and punched the driver on the cheekbone: "What the hell are you talking about! What are you talking about!"

Xi Yan's eyes were red, and he didn't know where the strength came from. He pressed one hand on the driver's neck and punched it down with the other: "You don't have fucking eyes! Ah?! How do you drive! Drinking...why don't you fucking Drink you to death?!"

"Damn...the police...how did the police beat people...fuck..."

The traffic police quickly stopped Xi Yan and shouted: "What are you doing! I warn you not to be impulsive! Stop the car right now! I know the nearest pet hospital! Go quickly!"

Xi Yan woke up like a dream, he had no choice but to turn his head and hug the weakly breathing butter, and followed the traffic police to the side of the street.

He kept comforting the cream in his arms:

"Usually eating is so good, you... look... I can hardly hug you..."

"After we go home... we have to lose weight..."

"Pamper" the emergency room of the pet hospital.

Zhao Zekai, the doctor on the night shift, sighed, and said to Xi Yan, who had red and swollen eyes: "Multiple organ failures... it's better... to suffer less and euthanize."

The emergency room is not big, and the Baizhi lights are so bright that Xi Yan's eyes hurt.

Wen Xia took care of Xi Yan's grandmother in the hospital, and Xi Yan was the only one left in the consulting room to face a strange and indifferent doctor.

Xi Yan stood helplessly beside Butter, his mind went blank for a moment.

After a long time, Xi Yan finally lowered his head slowly... because Butter was struggling to lick his tightly clenched hands on the edge of the stage.

Like appeasement.

like comfort.

like thanks.

Also like saying goodbye.

Xi Yan, who thought he couldn't cry anymore, burst into tears again.

He suddenly remembered the day when he brought butter home from the redwood meadow.

——It was very sweltering that day, only the grassland in the red forest seemed a little cooler, and a gray puppy rolled happily in the grass waves blown by the summer wind, as if he didn't know the world.

Xi Yan knelt down and waved at him.

if it comes...

If it comes, take it home.

The puppy is not afraid of people, and actually ran towards Xi Yan bouncing...or maybe it rolled over, it buried its head at Xi Yan's feet, sniffed here and there, and then licked Xi Yan's palm, He raised a fleshy front paw and pressed it into Xi Yan's palm.

Xi Yan grabbed the little paw that had just been "stamped" on his hand, and said with a smile:

"Okay, you'll be my dog ​​from now on! Go—let's go home—"

Xi Yan raised his trembling hand and smoothed the dried blood on Butter's fur, then he bent down, buried his face in the soft fur of Butter's chest, and whimpered for a while.

The euthanasia was signed by Xi Yan himself.

After that he was no longer a "man with a dog".

For Xi Yan, he did not lose a pet that could be raised again, but lost a family member and a loyal partner.

Soon after that, it was the National Day holiday.

Xi Yan stayed at home throughout the holidays, didn't go anywhere, only packed up the usual food and use of butter, and was locked in the house alone, feeling sad and depressed for a long time.

The only time he went out, Xi Yan went to print and develop the photos of Butter, and bought another photo album with a kraft paper cover, and included the photos one by one, and seriously wrote a text essay next to each photo .

After making the photo album, Xi Yan put the photo album on a corner of his desk, as if Butter is still at home and will grow up with him.

Xi Yan looked at the photo album in a daze, and murmured: "If you don't dislike it, I hope you can find your way home in your next life..."

Ding Xuan was the first among the schoolmates to know that the cream was gone. After school started, Li Wenrui, as one of Xi Yan's best schoolmates, also heard about it.

Xi Yan was in a low mood. He had lost a lot of knowledge points because of his habit of copying homework and copying. Now, when he occasionally remembered to take tutoring as usual, he was a little absent-minded.

But anyway, Xi Yan knew the importance of studying at that time. Although he was a scumbag in elementary school, he never gave up studying from the bottom of his heart.

——Until a certain afternoon.

That afternoon was no different from every afternoon.

Xi Yan and Li Wenrui came out of the comprehensive building after class, walked along the greenery on the side of the playground, climbed the stone steps, and were about to return to the Lizhi Building, but they saw many students surrounded by the administration building from a distance.

Li Wenrui thought to himself, since Xi Yan has been a little depressed recently, why not take Xi Yan to join in the fun, and maybe help him divert his attention.

So Li Wenrui dragged Xi Yan to the administration building: "Xi Baba! Let's go, let's take a look too!"

When he got closer and saw clearly what happened, Li Wenrui wanted to slap himself on the spot.

—but it was too late.

Xi Yan's eyes widened in disbelief, and he saw two school security guards lift a black and yellow dog that was not struggling, put it into a black plastic garbage bag, and then yelled at the students to disperse. , while walking towards the school gate.

... All that was left was a shocking pool of blood on the gray cement floor.

The comments from the surrounding students rushed into Xi Yan's mind:

"I was out of breath when I came here... I was beaten to death by the security guard..."

"It's too cruel..."

"You can't say that the security guards are cruel. After all, you have to protect the safety of the students. Are there few incidents of stray dogs hurting people? Let alone stray dogs, many domestic dogs bite people when they go crazy!"

"It is said that it bit a classmate and has been sent to the hospital. Otherwise, it would definitely not be killed, and it would be over if it was driven out..."

"Yes, the security guards can't help it. It's aggressive and afraid of hurting people again. This kind of stray animal may be wild."

"Hey, yes. But it's so strange. I've never seen a stray dog ​​run into the school before? Usually they dare not come in. Dogs are not like cats that can fly over walls, and it's not easy to run when they come in."

"That is to say, it must have accidentally entered through the railing of the playground..."

The school bell rings.

Li Wenrui hurriedly dragged Xi Yan, who was silent and face downcast, back to Lizhilou.

But Xi Yan couldn't remember how he got back to the classroom, and he had no memory of what the next lesson was or what the teacher said.

Xi Yan was full of heart and eyes, full of butter that night... lying in a pool of blood dying.