Searching for "Jiang Yuanshi" (Part 3)
The puppy couldn't talk, but just kept circling around Xiao Jiang Yuanshi's legs, hitting his short legs with his tail back and forth, leaving red marks on his legs before he was careful.
The child did not feel any pain, he just wiped his tears, carefully reached out to touch the dog, and said, "Please don't bite me."
After actually touching the dog's head, Xiao Jiangyuan sniffed, laughed through his tears, and muttered "good dog, good dog". Just when Z01 thought that he might have forgotten about the human-turned-dog incident, he heard the child say, "Big brother, when will you turn back? Grandma is allergic to dog hair and can't keep a dog like you. You should just be a human."
"..." Z01 couldn't understand. He hadn't seen his transformed state, so why was Jiang Yuanshi so adamant that the human just now was a dog? Has he been so smart since he was a child?
But it must be said that human touch is extremely comfortable. Just when the two little ones were having a great time, their grandmother came back and saw this scene. She said, "Yuanyuan, where did the puppy come from? Where is the boy?"
When the little Jiang Yuan was called, he came to his senses and looked up at the old man in bewilderment. Then he withdrew his hand, stood up silently, shielded the puppy behind him, and answered obediently: "The puppy is the big brother."
Grandma said helplessly: "My son, tell me the truth, did you see the boy turned into a dog?"
Xiao Jiang shook his head: "No."
"Where did the boy go?"
"...I don't know. As soon as I lowered my head, he disappeared, and then the puppy appeared." Xiao Jiang Yuanshi apologized sincerely, "I'm sorry, grandma."
The grandmother did not blame the child, but just asked him to look up. The child's eyes were swollen like peaches. The old lady came forward and squatted down, and gently stroked the corners of the child's eyes with her old hands. It was obvious that the child had been crying: "Who made our baby Yuanyuan cry? Tell the truth, did that boy bully you and run away?"
Xiao Jiang Yuanshi shook his head and said no. Even a child would understand that adults did not believe what he just said. Humans would not turn into puppies, but the big guy was not a bad person. "No, he said he was looking for someone, and then he left."
"Then why are you crying?"
The child just said no but was unwilling to explain why.
Grandma sighed and took out the frozen bacon wrapped in a plastic bag from the refrigerator to apply to her grandson's eyes. Xiao Jiangyuan sat obediently on a high chair, sniffing like a puppy while accepting the ice, and said, "Grandma, it smells so good. Do I smell like meat after the ice is applied?"
Grandma: "Yes, we eat children at night. They are much more tender than bacon."
Xiao Jiangyuan said: "I am not delicious."
Grandma: "Who said that? Our meat is so delicious. Look how many mosquitoes are attracted to you."
Xiao Jiang scratched his mosquito bite and said unhappily, "Mosquitoes are bad!"
"Then you eat them."
"No, it's not tasty."
"You talk like you've eaten it."
“…”
The child remained silent, and the old man was stunned and said, "You poor child, did you really eat it?"
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Although he didn't answer the whole time, the old man knew that the matter was done. He scolded the child speechlessly, turned around and started to find antiviral powder and anti-inflammatory drugs and fed them to his grandson.
Xiao Jiangyuan was so happy to get two bowls of bitter medicine soup that he was depressed and his mouth was full of oil. But he didn't refute or play tricks and was honest.
Z01, who was huddled in the corner and watching the whole process quietly, finally understood how Jiang Yuanshi had discovered that something was wrong with him before. It turned out that they were the same. When they encountered something bad that they had really done, they would be as quiet as a chicken.
While Z01 was in a daze, the old lady came over with a broom. Not far away, Xiao Jiangyuan fell off his chair and rushed over anxiously: "Grandma! Don't hit him!"
The old man walked towards the puppy without saying a word. The dog did not hide but just stared at him. The child behind him was very anxious.
"Hey, dog, lift your butt up."
After the old man finished speaking, the dog stood up. Then he used a broom to sweep away the melon seed shells under the dog, clearing a place. The old man muttered as he swept, "Where did this stupid little dog come from? It sits in a pile of melon seed shells and doesn't it feel uncomfortable?"
Dog Z01: “…” It’s because this place is far away and the viewing angle is good.
After sweeping the floor, the grandmother turned to the stunned child behind her and said, "You brought this upon me. What should I do now? Grandma is allergic to dog hair."
I don’t know what to do with the dog now, but looking at the way Z01 looked at Xiao Jiangyuan, grandma, you should think about what to do yourself.
The small waterwheel started, but this time it turned from a dumbbell into a deafening sound. The frightened glutinous rice dumpling started to cry loudly, and while crying, he said that grandma was bad and scared the child!
The grandmother said "Oh!", put down the broom and went to comfort her grandson.
There is a price to pay for deliberately scaring a child.
Just as Z01 was thinking about how to appease the old lady and preparing to learn, the grandmother stopped her tears with a few words: "Grandma is not good, grandma is not good, Yuanyuan, don't cry, can we raise a puppy? Haven't you always wanted to raise an animal?"
"Grandma is lying. I'm allergic to dogs and dog hair. I can't keep them."
"Yes, we'll make room for the puppy, and you'll be responsible for raising it. Grandma will only be responsible for buying dog food, and the rest will be left to us, okay?"
"……real?"
"Really?"
The horn was turned off, and the tears stopped instantly. Xiao Jiangyuan's eyes were filled with tears, and his face was red from crying, but he said seriously: "Grandma, you must keep your word."
"Of course. When has grandma ever lied to you?"
Xiao Jiang stopped crying when he wished.
She turned her eyes to the puppy, looked at it for a while, raised her little hand, made a pinching gesture, and said, "Grandma, can I have another kitten? He's a little ugly, let's have a kitten to balance it out."
The khaki Z01 dog: “…”
"Hey kid, you still bargaining?"
The puppy next to him woofed.
"Look, the puppy is angry!"
Z01 nodded with satisfaction.
Grandma really understands dog nature.
The decision to raise a dog was settled, and the search for the missing big guy came to a temporary end after grandma asked the village committee to look for him for many days in vain. Grandma's house had already sorted out the garbage and sold it, and a small room was separated out, but in the end Xiao Jiang still slept with the puppy when he was willing.
When the grandmother opened the dog room one day and found her grandson sleeping in the doghouse with the puppy, she felt terrible and even lost a few strands of her hair. She didn't allow the dog to enter the house, so she put herself in the doghouse.
But the grandmother couldn't scold the child, there was nothing she could do. She just looked at him, he was so quiet and well behaved, and when he knew he had made a mistake he would lower his head, and secretly look up with his little eyes, looking so sly, so cute.
Besides, his grandson usually didn't have many playmates, so he had no choice but to make an exception and let the dog into the house.
After having the puppy, Jiang Yuanshi cleans the house diligently every day. Although a child cannot do much, it is good to have the intention as long as he takes action. Of course, it would be better if he did not make a wish into the puppy's ear every day, "Dog, dog, shed less hair."
Because my grandmother is allergic to dog hair, Z01 has set itself to shed very little hair. I originally wanted to set it to not shed hair, but this is unreasonable. I should have become a hairless dog earlier.
Xiao Jiang's wish seemed to have come true, but when it really came true, the child began to worry whether the puppy was sick and why it didn't shed hair. Even the old man was suspicious and drove a tricycle to take Z01 to the town's pet hospital for a physical examination.
After testing, everything is normal and he can be sterilized in a few months.
On the way back to the village, Xiao Jiangyuan was sitting in the car holding the puppy and asked his grandmother: "Grandma, should we castrate Xiao Huang?"
Grandma: "You should. Didn't the doctor say it's good for the dog's health? But if you want to find a wife for Xiao Huang, that's fine. There will be many puppies in the future."
Xiao Jiang didn’t know much about sterilization, but he knew that older dogs give birth to puppies. He hugged Z01 and said happily, “Great, Xiao Huang can have a wife and a baby now!”
Z01, who was arranged to be a partner by her future partner: “…” I feel so tired.
"Xiao Huang's baby must be very happy!"
Grandma drove slowly and asked, "Why? Why is Xiao Huang's baby so happy?"
Xiao Jiang said happily: "Because Xiao Huang is the father, he will definitely be by the baby's side. The baby has a father and a mother!"
Xiao Jiangyuan said this without any hesitation, and blurted out this short sentence, which made the old man and the dog present fall into silence. The child spoke without thinking and with a happy tone, which made the onlookers sad, but he himself had no idea and was still playing with the puppy.
After a long while, the grandma who was driving the car said, "Yuanyuan, do you want to be with mom and dad?"
With the puppy distracting him, Xiao Jiangyuanshi had no time to feel sad and replied, "Yes! I want to be with my grandma, my parents and I!"
“…Is that so?” The old man’s words disappeared into the wind like a sigh.
Under the scorching sun, a small tricycle was driving on a country road. An old man wearing a straw hat was driving the tricycle. A child wearing the same hat was holding an umbrella for the old man. There was a puppy under the umbrella, lying on the child's shoulder, sticking out its tongue.
An old man and two children returned home.
Five-and-a-half-year-old Jiang Yuanshi had the happiest summer vacation. Occasionally, he would play with his puppy and the only fat boy he knew, Xiao Pang, in the countryside. Most of the time, he would follow his puppy around the village. Today he would pick up small branches and small stones, and tomorrow he would go to the river to touch fish, frogs, and small snakes. If it was too hot, he would stay at home and eat the popsicles made by his grandmother. He would stay at home with his puppy and give the puppy lessons when he had nothing to do.
He took Chinese, math, English, etc., and it was suspected that Xiao Jiangyuan was trying to share the pain of going to school with a puppy.
It was not until the day of the class that Z01 realized where Jiang Yuanshi’s title of “genius” came from.
When he was still in kindergarten, he could do mental arithmetic within 100, could recite ancient poems by heart after reading them several times, and could speak English fluently except for a gap in his front teeth. His intellectual reserves were extremely high.
These were not taught deliberately, but Xiao Jiangyuan learned them by himself by slowly fiddling with the old books left by the adults at home. His grandmother was actually very casual, and would teach Xiao Jiangyuan whatever book he took. As a retired high school teacher, his grandmother knew what she knew, so as long as Xiao Jiangyuan asked, she would teach him. Even if the content was beyond the syllabus, she would not discourage the child's interest. After all, it was very interesting to see a child with a head full of question marks.
Especially when Xiao Jiangyuan didn't understand and apologized out of guilt, grandma would just smile more happily and say, "Because you haven't grown up yet. You will understand when you grow up."
As children, they can learn whatever they want to learn. If they can’t learn it, forget it. Just listen for fun and have fun.
"What if you still can't understand when you grow up? Wouldn't that make you a fool?"
"How could that be? I don't understand. I can only say that you are not suitable for that field. If it really doesn't work, just change it. For a person, the most important thing is to live happily. Life is difficult anyway, so why not relax yourself and do what you want to do."
Little Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes wide and didn't know if he understood. Z01 thought it was hard for a child to understand. At this time, little Jiang Yuanshi lay on his grandmother's lap and raised his head and asked: "Have you done everything that grandma wanted to do? Is grandma happy?"
The old lady narrowed her eyes, touched the child lying beside her, and said gently: "Be happy, our Yuanyuan is a little lucky star, and everything grandma wanted to do has come true."
Xiao Jiang smiled shyly when he made the wish, and happily volunteered: Grandma, whatever you want to do will come true.
The old and the young smiled at each other.
Finally, Xiao Jiangyuan fell into a deep sleep with the old man fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan. The puppy beside his feet opened its red and black eyes and stared silently at the two humans.
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