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. Before he knew it, red marks were left on his legs.
The child didn't 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, smiled through his tears, and muttered "good dog, good dog." Just when Z01 thought 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 even seen his transformed form, so why was Jiang Yuanshi so adamant that the human being just now was a dog? Had 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 that boy?"
When the name was called, little Jiang Yuanshi came to his senses and looked up at the old man bewilderedly. 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: "Hey, tell me the truth, did you see the boy turned into a dog?"
Xiao Jiangyuan shook his head: "No."
"Where did the young man 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 didn't blame the child. She just asked him to look up. When she saw the child's eyes were swollen like little peaches, she cried "ouch, ouch" and walked over. She squatted down and gently stroked the corners of the child's eyes with her old hands. It was obvious that he had been crying. "Who made our precious Yuanyuan cry? Tell me the truth, did that boy bully you and then run away?"
Xiao Jiangyuanshi shook his head and said no. Even a child would understand that adults didn't 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 refused to explain why.
Grandma sighed and took out some 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. He said, "Grandma, it smells so good! Do I smell like meat after I'm frozen?"
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. The old man was taken aback and said, "You poor child, did you really eat it?"
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Although he didn't answer at all, the old man knew that the matter was done. He scolded the child speechlessly, turned around and started to get some antiviral powder and anti-inflammatory medicine and fed them to his grandson.
Xiao Jiangyuan was so happy to get two bowls of bitter medicine soup that he was almost depressed. His mouth was so wet that you could hang a small oil bottle on it. But he did not refute or cheat, and was honest and obedient.
Z01, who had been 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, and they would be as quiet as a chicken when they encountered something bad that they had really done.
Just as Z01 was lost in thought, 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 extremely 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 feel uncomfortable."
Dog Z01: "..." It's because this place is far away and the view 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? I'm 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 the sound turned from dumbbells into earth-shaking noises. The frightened glutinous rice dumpling started to cry loudly, crying and saying that grandma was bad and scared the child!
Grandma said "Oh!", put down the broom and went to comfort her grandson.
There are consequences for intentionally scaring children.
Just as Z01 was thinking about how to comfort the old lady and preparing to learn, her grandmother stopped her tears with a few words: "Grandma, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Yuanyuan, don't cry. Let's get a puppy, okay? Haven't you always wanted to get an animal?"
"Grandma is lying. I'm allergic to dogs and dog hair. I can't keep them."
"Yeah, let's make room for the puppy. You'll be responsible for raising it, and grandma will only be responsible for buying dog food. The rest will be left to us, okay?"
"……real?"
"Really?"
The horn stopped, 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 gaze to the puppy, looked at it for a while, raised her little hand, made a pinching gesture, and said, "Grandma, can I get a kitten? He's a little ugly, so a kitten would make it look better."
The khaki Z01 dog: "..."
"Hey kid, you still bargaining?"
The puppy beside him woofed.
"Look, the puppy is angry!"
Z01 nodded in satisfaction.
Grandma really understands dog nature.
The decision to raise a dog was thus made, and the disappearance of the big guy came to an end after grandma asked the village committee to look for him for many days without success. Grandma's house had already packed up 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.
One day, when the grandmother opened the dog room and found her grandson sleeping in the doghouse with the puppy, she was so upset that she felt like a few strands of her hair had fallen out. She was not allowed to enter the house by the dog, so she had to be sent to the doghouse.
But grandma couldn't scold the child. There was nothing she could do. She saw that the child was quiet and well-behaved. When he knew he had made a mistake, he lowered his head, and secretly looked up with his little eyes, looking sly and cute.
Besides, my grandson usually doesn’t have many playmates, so I had no choice but to make an exception and let the dog into the house.
After having a puppy, Jiang Yuanshi cleans the house diligently every day. Although a child can't do much, it's good to take action and have the intention. Of course, it would be better if he didn't make a wish in 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 that 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 check-up.
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 too. There will be plenty of puppies in the future."
Xiao Jiangyuan 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!"
When Xiao Jiangyuan said this, he did not hesitate at all and blurted it out. With just a few words, the old man and the dog present fell silent. The child's thoughtless and happy tone 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?"
Little Jiang Yuanshi, distracted by the puppy and unable to feel sad, replied, "Yes! I want to be with grandma, mom and dad!"
“…Is that so?” The old man’s words vanished 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, and a child wearing the same hat was holding the tricycle to hold an umbrella for the old man. There was also 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 in the countryside with his puppy and the only fat boy he knew, but most of the time he would follow his puppy around the village. Today he would pick up small branches and 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 him lessons when he had nothing to do.
He took Chinese, math, English, etc. 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, and he could recite ancient poems by heart after reading them several times. Apart from a slight gap in his front teeth, he could speak English very fluently, and his intellectual reserves were extremely high.
These were not taught deliberately, but were learned by little Jiang Yuanshi himself by slowly fiddling with the old books left by the adults at home. His grandmother was actually very casual, and would teach little Jiang Yuanshi whatever book she took. As a retired high school teacher, his grandmother knew something herself, so as long as little Jiang Yuanshi 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 questions.
Especially when little Jiang Yuan didn't understand and apologized out of guilt and distress, grandma would just smile even 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. If they can’t learn it, then forget it. Just listen for fun and have fun.
"What if I still can't understand when I grow up? Wouldn't that make me 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 out, then change it. For people, the most important thing is to survive and live happily. Life is difficult anyway, so why not take it easy and do what you want."
Little Jiang Yuanshi opened his eyes wide, not knowing if he understood. Z01 thought it was difficult for a child to understand. At this time, little Jiang Yuanshi lay on his grandmother's lap, tilted his head and asked, "Have you done everything you wanted to do? Are you happy?"
The old lady squinted her eyes, touched the child lying beside her, and said gently: "Happy, our Yuanyuan is a little lucky star, and everything grandma wanted to do has come true."
小江願時不好意思地笑了下，高興地自告奮勇道：外婆想做什麽願願都會實現的。
一老一小相視而笑。
最後小江願時在老人輕搖蒲扇的風下沉沉睡去，腳旁的小狗睜着紅黑色的眼睛，默默盯着這兩個人類。
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