Beating the Dog
After Xu Nian and others coaxed their nephews and nieces to Yan Zi's house, they set off with their sincere "100". Fortunately, it had not been long since their last visit to Xu Hongqi's house, and she had asked for directions, so she was not too worried about getting lost this time.
She thought that she had reached Xu Hongqi's house and Xu Hongqi should have finished school by then, which gave her some courage. She was usually too lazy to move, but she kept walking for a long time.
But the further she walked, the more her legs felt sore, and she had no choice but to walk for a while and then rest. Although her original body was delicate, she was still much better at walking than Xu Nian. The key was that she hadn't moved much recently and had worn out her body.
By the time they arrived at Xujia Village, Xu Nian felt she was already exhausted. She estimated that she had been walking for almost two hours. Fortunately, she had set out early, otherwise she would not have had anything to eat for dinner when she returned.
When Xu Nian walked to the door of Xu Hongqi's house, he looked up at the sky and estimated the time in his mind. He should have finished his exams and returned home.
Seeing that the door was closed, she thought that the person was home and had locked it on purpose. She didn't have the energy to be polite and knocked on the door first, so she just shouted.
"Brother Hongqi, are you home?"
Seeing no one answer, Xu Nian called out again, "Xu Hongqi, are you home?"
After shouting several times but no one answered, Xu Nian thought that maybe her voice was too soft, so she knocked on the door again. Seeing her hands red from knocking, she thought the door was useless, but she didn't expect it to be quite strong.
Knocking and shouting like this was no solution. Xu Nian looked at the sky and estimated that it would be afternoon soon. She didn't want to be watched, so she was a little anxious.
She was thinking that Xu Hongqi might not have come back yet. If he didn't come back, she would have walked so far in vain. She felt a little unwilling. Seeing that the courtyard wall was not very high, she thought about climbing in to take a look. Xu Nian thought about it for a while and was hesitant.
But it felt like it was getting dark, so he stopped thinking about it, put the things he brought with him in his pocket, and started climbing the wall. Since the wall was made of mud, and after a long time, Xu Nian got a handful of mud every time he dug, and even felt that the wall was not solid at all.
When he was about to climb to the top of the wall, Xu Nian noticed that there was a big local dog next door. The dog saw Xu Nian and started barking. Xu Nian was so scared that he lay on the wall and dared not move. He stayed like that for a while. When Xu Nian saw that the dog stopped barking, he moved tentatively.
It didn't matter that she moved, the dog started barking again. Xu Nian was really scared to death. She didn't remember there was a dog next door the last time she came. She almost wanted to cry.
Xu Nian didn't dare to move when the dog barked, but staying on the wall was not a solution. She thought that she was almost there, so she would not be afraid if she climbed up faster.
Unexpectedly, this made the dog even more excited, and it even ran to the corner and started barking. Only then did Xu Nian realize that the family had not tied the dog up at all.
Xu Nian even saw the dog's saliva flowing down its mouth. She didn't dare to look anymore and hurried to climb up. Just as she was about to climb up, the dog had already rushed through the door and ran to the wall where Xu Nian was standing.
Xu Nian glanced at the dog, then looked at the bare yard of Xu Hongqi's house, and torn between whether to jump or not.
As she was looking down at the dog, the egg accidentally fell out of her pocket and rolled to the side of the road. The dog saw it and immediately stepped on it with its paw.
Xu Nian quickly covered the other bag containing the eggs, and thought with a bitter face that he had been hungry after walking for so long, but in order to preserve this "good thing" for Xu Hongqi, he forced himself not to eat it, and as a result, he was about to give it to the dog.
"What are you doing?" The voice was loud and fierce.
The moment Xu Nian looked up and saw Xu Hongqi, it was like seeing a relative. He was so excited that he blurted out nonsense for a while, "Brother Hongqi, my balls."
After the exam, Xu Hongqi did not go home immediately, but went to the wood furniture factory to find Liu Jun again. He needed high school tuition, and now he had no choice but to compete with them.
He told Liu Jun that he would either pay his tuition or give him a job. The funny thing was that he knew what kind of person Liu Jun was, but he still held on to a little hope.
Now that he was back, he naturally got nothing, but he thought it didn't matter, he would let him know what regret was.
Now, seeing Xu Nian lying on the wall of his house, he couldn't help but feel a little irritated and annoyed. Seeing that the family next door was deliberately trying to guard against his dog, he felt very angry.
Xu Nian felt relieved when she saw Xu Hongqi coming back, but when she saw Xu Hongqi's expression clearly, she obviously felt that she was too relieved too early.
At this moment, Xu Hongqi's expression was gloomy and fierce, which made her realize that the person in front of her was not a good and bright person, but a destructive and dangerous person.
But she didn't have any other options, so she could only suppress her fear and say, "Brother Hongqi, can you drive this dog away? It keeps staring at me... I'm a little scared."
Xu Hongqi then raised his head and said coldly to Xu Nian, "Remember, only this time."
Xu Nian dared to say more: "I, I know."
At first, Xu Hongqi just shouted at the dog a few times: "Go, go, go." It was of no use, so he waved his hand again.
But the big dog seemed not to understand and seemed to be doing it on purpose, barking loudly at Xu Hongqi: "Woof, woof, woof."
Xu Hongqi suppressed his emotions and planned to open the door and go home directly to pick up Xu Nian from inside, but the dog saw that he ignored him and seemed even more proud. It bared its teeth at Xu Hongqi and even ran over.
At this moment, Xu Hongqi picked up a stone from behind his door and hit the big dog hard and quickly.
The dog next door had been taught by its owner to be wary of Xu Hongqi, so it was so ferocious when it saw its target. However, it may have never been hit or smashed by Xu Hongqi before, so it was hit before it could react. This provoked the dog to fight back, and it suddenly pounced on Xu Hongqi.
Xu Hongqi's expression didn't change at all as he threw the dog with all his might. The dog was quite large and it was obvious that the boy had put a lot of strength into it, with veins on his head throbbing.
At this time, Xu Hongqi's trouser leg had been bitten by the dog. Infuriated, he hit the dog's head with his fist, very hard, and each punch seemed as if it was not his own hand.
But the dog is an animal after all. When it felt the pain, it first retreated, then bit Xu Hongqi with all its might. Seeing that Xu Hongqi was kicking it with his legs, it endured the pain and bit him again.
The man and the dog seemed to have gone crazy, and Xu Nian could only muster up the courage to reach for the iron hoe erected on the courtyard wall.
Seeing blood flowing from Xu Hongqi's hands and legs, he quickly shouted, "Brother Hongqi, let me kill you." Then he threw it at Xu Hongqi.
Xu Hongqi took the iron hoe and hit the dog's body without hesitation. Xu Nian seemed to hear the sound of the dog's bones breaking. The dog screamed, opened its mouth and fell to the ground.
But Xu Hongqi did not stop and continued to hammer the dog violently. It looked like he was venting something instead of self-defense.
Xu Nian, who was clinging to the wall, was frightened by Xu Hongqi again. Not daring to delay, she took the opportunity to climb down carefully.
Maybe the dog was barking too loudly, or maybe everyone had already gone to bed, Xu Nian saw several people running towards this side.
I only heard someone shouting, "What's going on? What's going on?"
More and more people came over, and Xu Hongqi and the dog were completely surrounded.
In the chaotic environment, someone asked, "Xu Hongqi, what's going on? Why are you fighting with a dog?"
Someone else said, "Has Xu Dashan arrived yet? Call him quickly. I feel like this dog is going to die."
A woman's voice also said, "Xu Hongqi is also covered in blood."
When Xu Nian heard about the blood, he didn't care about the dirt on his body and squeezed into the crowd to find Xu Hongqi. As expected, he saw that Xu Hongqi's hands were fine, but the blood on his calves could not be stopped, and his entire trouser legs were soaked.
Xu Nian was so frightened by the scene that he didn't dare to move. "Brother Hongqi, let's go see a doctor right away. Can you still move?" As he asked, tears started to flow.
Xu Hongqi just frowned and looked at Xu Nian, then turned his head and stared at the dying dog.
At this moment, someone rushed into the crowd, looked directly at the big dog lying on the ground in a miserable state, and shouted loudly: "Who is it, that damn bastard, who beat my dog like this?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd started to make a noise, but they all looked at Xu Hongqi in unison. It was at this time that they saw a gray-faced girl standing beside Xu Hongqi with tears and an anxious look on her face.
The furious woman didn't even look at Xu Hongqi's bleeding hands and legs. She just cursed angrily, "I knew you were a jinx. Not only are you unlucky for your parents, but you're also so violent that you wouldn't even spare a dog. We're so unlucky to have someone like you as our neighbor."
Then he sat on the ground again, petting the dog and yelling, "Oh my God, why am I so miserable? Why is my family so unlucky?"
Regardless of what Xu Hongqi thought, Xu Nian was furious when he heard this and immediately replied, "You are unlucky, but aren't we unlucky too?"
"Why isn't your dog on a leash? If you didn't, you should at least lock the gate. You feel sorry for your dog, but what about the injured person?"
"If your dog wasn't so vicious, who would bother to mess with a dog? We haven't even yelled at you yet, but you're the first one to start yelling."
Seeing that Xu Nian was unfamiliar and a young girl, the woman said rudely, "Who are you? What's your business?"
Then he turned around and said to everyone, "Look, how shameless Xu Hongqi is! He's already come home to seduce girls at such a young age."
Xu Nian was already crying, so her voice was trembling and she was sobbing. The people around her didn't want to say anything about her, but they all said to the woman sitting on the ground, "Wife Dashan, if you want a dog, you should go and see it quickly."
The woman pointed at Xu Hongqi and said, "I want the dog, but Xu Hongqi must pay for it. If he doesn't pay, I'll make him pay for it."
Xu Nian saw that no one took her words seriously. She didn't know how badly Xu Hongqi was injured, and he didn't move. She was originally a little timid, but now she became more courageous.
"You really know how to confuse right and wrong. You want us to pay for the dog's treatment, but what about us humans? How much are you going to compensate us?"
The woman stood up immediately after hearing this and said, "I won't compensate you for anything. Who the hell does he think he is and he still wants me to pay him for it?"
Xu Nian wiped her tears and said, "You are nothing but a fart, but we don't want you to be so disgusting and smelly."
After hearing what Xu Nian said, some people around couldn't help laughing. The woman was about to hit Xu Nian when she heard it, but Xu Nian was caught off guard.
At this moment, Xu Hongqi hit the dog with the iron shovel again, and the scene was quiet for a while.
The woman was frightened at first, and after looking at the people around her, she started yelling, "Dashan, Dashan, why don't you come over? If you don't come over soon, that brat will beat me to death."
Seeing that more and more people were coming, Xu Nian was afraid that the two of them would suffer, and seeing that Xu Hongqi was able to move, he wanted to help Xu Hongqi go home first.
Xu Hongqi did not object, but he did not ask Xu Nian to help him. He just walked home with the iron shovel. Watching Xu Hongqi's actions, the crowd automatically split into two groups.
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