Li Xianyu's first reaction was not to turn around, but to jump behind Great-grandmother as fast as he could. After thinking about it, he felt that it was not safe, so he jumped behind San Wu.
Only then did he return. He saw a young man covered in blood standing where he had been. His throat had been slit, and thick blood had dyed his shirt red.
"Hiss!"
Li Xianyu drew in a sharp breath.
So, Great-grandmother was talking to him just now?
"You can see me?" The young man wiped the blood off his face and looked at the man and the two women.
Li Xianyu also looked at him and noticed that this guy did not have cataracts. Other than his pale face, his eyes were no different from an ordinary person.
He secretly poked San Wu's waist, hinting for her to quickly get rid of the evil, but San Wu did not move and maintained her cute and quiet posture.
Great-grandmother explained, "He is not a vengeful spirit."
Li Xianyu pointed at him. "You are already like this, but you are still not a vengeful spirit."
Great-grandmother was exasperated. "The reason why a spirit does not dissipate after death is because of obsession. There are many kinds of obsession, and resentment is not the only thing that exists."
The young man looked around and said, "Although my death is not very elegant, I do not have resentment in my heart."
Li Xianyu was relieved. He coughed and said, "Brother, I am Li Xianyu. I am the keeper of order, and I specialize in cleaning up ghosts and spirits that linger in the world. Since you are dead, why don't you leave quickly?"
The young man was silent for a moment. "We are all modern people, so let's talk properly."
Li Xianyu: "Oh."
The young man said, "My name is Zhang Chen. Actually, I have been following you for a long time. I noticed you the moment you stepped into that house."
Li Xianyu was shocked. "You are the one who pestered the boss of S County?"
Zhang Chen nodded.
Great-grandmother heard this and suddenly understood. "No wonder I could not smell resentment. So you are not a vengeful spirit. If that is the case, why are you pestering him?"
Li Xianyu echoed, "Why?"
"Cream's leg was broken by a shop owner in S County." Zhang Chen's gaze landed on the Samoyed. "It's my dog. You have to look at the owner before you beat a dog, right? He mistreated my dog, and I'll return the favor. I'll pester him for a period of time, making him weak and plagued with nightmares. Naturally, I'll let him go. "
Li Xianyu suddenly understood. All the questions were solved. No wonder the owner dreamed of a man. No wonder he wanted to break his leg. The owner had come back to avenge his dog.
"I should have done it a long time ago. It's just that some time ago, his mother passed away seven times and didn't allow me to get close to her son." The brother said, "Even if she died with resentment, her heart would always remember her son. This is the love of a mother."
"You're not bad either. You're already dead, but you still remember to avenge your beloved dog." Li Xianyu thought to himself, "What the hell is this? The love between a human and a dog is still unresolved?"
Zhang Chen faintly said, "It's called Cream. Actually, when I first saw it, it had already been abandoned."
The first time he saw Cream was under the bridge outside the neighborhood. When Zhang Chen took a shortcut under the bridge, he bumped into the newborn Cream.
Zhang Chen was from Zibo, SD. He studied at East China Normal University. After graduation, he stayed in Shanghai like most of his classmates. Shanghai was a city with a huge wage gap. The lowest wage was less than three thousand a month. The highest wage was … I don't know about this. After all, we're all poor people. Our imaginations aren't that rich.
In short, in a first-tier city where there were as many university students as dogs, it was difficult to find a decent job right after graduation. The rent was expensive, and the prices were expensive. Those who lived frugally could not even live as well as those who lived in their hometown. Thus, not long after, his girlfriend announced that she wanted to break up with him.
This person was lonely and couldn't find a girlfriend. He could only raise a dog to relieve his loneliness. Don't misunderstand. It was a spiritual comfort. It had absolutely nothing to do with the body.
It was raining that day. Zhang Chen, who didn't bring an umbrella, braved the rain and took a shortcut under the bridge outside the neighborhood. He saw a muddy little puppy curled up under the bridge alone. It faced the unexpected guest with a fearful and vigilant gaze.
It had a pair of black pupils. When it looked at you, it gave you the feeling that it was begging and trying to please you. However, it was extremely wary of humans. It didn't dare to approach Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen also felt that the little puppy was dirty. The man and the dog waited silently until the rain stopped. Zhang Chen bought it a hot dog and left.
The next day, when he passed under the bridge, Zhang Chen found that the little puppy was still there. It seemed to treat this place as its home. That day, Zhang Chen gave it another hot dog and left. After living like this for almost a week, Zhang Chen's small amount of kindness was worn away. He didn't go back.
A few days later, it was also raining. He ran to the bottom of the bridge on a whim and was surprised to find that the little puppy was still there.
It had become thinner and dirtier. Its physical condition was very bad. It was curled up listlessly. When it heard movement, its ears trembled vigilantly. However, when it saw Zhang Chen, it was extremely excited. It staggered a few steps and whimpered at him.
Zhang Chen was very familiar with this kind of gaze. It was the gaze of a dog waiting for its owner.
"It stayed under the bridge for a few days. I guess it was waiting for me. This silly dog treated me as its owner. I only fed it for a few days, and it came to me." Zhang Chen smiled bitterly and sighed. "If I didn't go back, would it have died there?"
"What happened after that?" Li Xianyu took the spicy sticks from Great-grandmother. He stood in the middle with Great-grandmother on his left and San Wu on his right. They ate the spicy sticks and listened to Zhang Chen's memories.
Zhang Chen turned his head away and didn't look at them. He continued, "I brought it home. At first, I didn't want to raise a dog. At that time, I bought it a hot dog and left. In the end, the little guy didn't even want to eat. He even rolled and crawled to follow me. I kicked him a few times and he still wanted to follow … I really pitied him, so I brought him home."
"Later, I realized that raising a dog is actually not bad. At least after work, when you open the door, the house isn't empty. There will be a dog waiting at the door waiting for you to come back. The moment you open the door, it will wag its tail and pull at your pants. After dinner, I don't have to rely on games to kill time. I can take it out for a walk. Finally, the house is a little livelier. "
Drifting in the big city without anyone to rely on, the two single dogs were able to keep each other warm. The dog was saved, and the person had a companion.
The dog treated the person as its owner, and the person might also treat the dog as family for a moment.
Li Xianyu chewed on the mutton and listened with great interest. "But you still abandoned it. Why?"
Zhang Chen was silent for a long time, then squeezed out a bitter smile. "Because of a girlfriend. Later, I got a girlfriend, but she wasn't a local either. When I was chasing her, it was very hard. After we started dating, I suggested that she move in with me to save a sum of rent. But she also raised a dog, a Sun Honglei."
Li Xianyu said in shock, "Sun Honglei?! Are you sure? "
"… It's a bullterrier." Zhang Chen said, "The two of them were always fighting, and Cream was bullied every day. My girlfriend didn't like it either. She felt that having one dog at home was enough, so she suggested that I throw it away. Of course, I didn't agree. We fought a lot because of this, until one day, when I came home from work, my girlfriend's new bag was bitten … "
"Then you threw it away?"
"Yes." Zhang Chen nodded. "I didn't have a choice. That day, we fought very fiercely. She even said that if I didn't throw the dog away, we would end things. Between a girlfriend and a dog, which one would you choose? "
"Wait a minute," Great-grandmother suddenly interrupted and said with righteous indignation, "What a shameless shrew. She actually disobeyed her husband over such a trivial matter, and even threatened him. In my era, such a woman would have been expelled from the family. You're a seven-foot man, yet you're so henpecked. You don't even have the slightest bit of manliness. Your etiquette is broken, and you're immoral. "
Li Xianyu was so moved that tears streamed down his face. "Great-grandmother, times have changed. Now, it's an era where women are the masters of the house. Didn't you sleep for more than a hundred years? Can't you see the ways of the world? "
Great-grandmother retorted, "Nonsense. Even in the years that I followed your father, I've never seen such a shrew."
The 20 years of China's rise was also the 20 years in which the status of men plummeted.
Li Xianyu sighed. "It can't be helped. You have to know that in the land of China, there are still more than 30 million single dogs who make their own food and clothing."
He placed his hand on his crotch and let out a long sigh.
"After dinner that day, I took it a long way and tied it under this tree here. I don't think that I owe it anything. I just think that our fate has come to an end. It's no longer the little puppy it used to be. It can still live without me, and I should also walk my own path. Let's just think of each other as passers-by in life. Since our fate has come to an end, let's go our separate ways. "
This was too much. Although Li Xianyu was not a dog lover, he especially hated people who carelessly abandoned their pet dogs.
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