"Do you eat chicken? Do you eat pork? We all raise pigs and chickens at home, and we kill them for food during the New Year and holidays, so the same goes for dogs."

"It's different!" Li Xiaoxiao said sadly: "Dogs accompany people every day, just like friends. They have feelings. You also said that they are all human beings, how can they eat it! If you say this to me in the future, I won’t eat any meat.”

Fang Zhiqiang is not as sentimental as Li Xiaoxiao, but he also likes small animals. The big yellow dog his family raised when he was a child is his best friend. I followed him all the way to school every day and waited for him at the school gate after school. Later, when the dog died of old age, his father buried him behind the house and asked him and his family to eat their old friend. No one could do it; and their family's conditions were not that bad. But their family is pretty good. Most of the other families are poor, and eating dog meat is based on the most basic survival needs. This was indeed the situation in the mountain village, and Fang Zhiqiang had no way to avoid it, even though he knew better than anyone how cruel it was.

Li Xiaoxiao cried, crying very sadly. She only spent a short time with Xiaoxiao, but they already had a deep relationship. She really couldn't accept such a cruel, cold and realistic thing.

"Okay, don't cry." Fang Zhiqiang handed her a tissue helplessly: "I know you will be sad when I talk about this. Just like my cousin. My cousin also likes kittens. They are like puppies and animals. If anyone dares to touch their family dog, my sister will kill him with a knife, so their family never eats dog meat.”

Fang Zhiqiang doesn’t want to look at Li Xiaoxiao He kept crying so sadly, so he tried to tease Li Xiaoxiao: "Hey, I will tell you about my cousin, it will be fun."

"My cousin is a born tearful person, and she is very special. She likes small animals. When she was a child, she went to the fields and accidentally stepped on a frog. It was half-dead and she cried so sadly that she took the frog home and rescued it. They disinfected and bandaged it, but in the end the frog died. So she buried the frog under the vine in her yard, and asked me to carve a very small tombstone for the frog. Then the cat at home later gave birth to pups, and one of them died without being fed, and she cried again. Like something, he buried the kitten under the vine and still erected a monument; then, we went to dig out a bird's nest together, and a little bird fell out that hadn't fully hatched yet. It was obvious that it couldn't be kept alive. , she insisted on taking it home to raise, okay, of course she died again, and then she cried like something, and was buried under the vine." Fang Zhiqiang couldn't help laughing when he thought about it: "Hey, I'll tell you He said, my cousin’s grapes bear big, plentiful and sweet fruits every year. My uncle is almost mad to death, wondering if it can’t be delicious, because there are so many dead cats and dogs buried underneath.”

Li Xiaoxiao was originally crying. After hearing what he said, she couldn’t help but burst into tears and laughed: "QiangSon, I don’t know whether to cry or laugh at what you said. ”

“I’ll tell you something happy, and you’ll cheer me up and give me a fifty-cent laugh? Fang Zhiqiang said in a very serious manner, "My cousin and I used to be similar to you and Wang Xia." My cousin is also very fierce and often bullies me. However, she is very smart and has excellent academic performance. Her essays have been published in newspapers. ”

Fang Zhiqiang talked about the interesting things about his childhood little by little. Many of them he thought he had forgotten long ago. But when he told Li Xiaoxiao, he was surprised to find that they had always been in his memory. It’s just that she can always ignore it and not think about it.

Li Xiaoxiao was led by Fang Zhiqiang and forgot about her sadness just now. She listened to Fang Zhiqiang’s words with surprise and laughter. Reminiscent of the funny stories between him and his cousin, how they teased each other.

“Haha, it’s so fun. Li Xiaoxiao almost laughed with tears. It took a long time to stop, and then asked Fang Zhiqiang: "Your cousin is so smart and has such a good relationship with you. I really want to get to know her." Hey, why didn’t I see her when I went to your house before? But I definitely didn’t know it was her when I saw her, because I haven’t heard your funny embarrassing things yet, haha. "

However, when Li Xiaoxiao said this with a smile, Fang Zhiqiang did not smile. He took a puff of cigarette and said slowly: "Of course you won't see her. I haven't seen her in almost ten years. "

"Huh? Why? "Li Xiaoxiao asked in surprise, "You two have such a good relationship, how come you haven't seen each other for so long. She guessed, "Is it because you went to different places to take college entrance exams?" So where is she now? The transportation is so developed and the air tickets are not very expensive. You can still see her if you want to. ”

“Take the college entrance examination? Fang Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, then said with a wry smile: "Yes, it's probably because of the college entrance examination." She didn't graduate from high school and didn't continue her studies. Because there are many children in the family, the younger brothers and sisters have to go to school and have to eat. My sister has very good grades. If she takes the exam, she will definitely be admitted to university. My uncle said that if she goes to college, the whole family will not be able to afford food. Girls will get married sooner or later, and the whole family will go in and spend all the money in vain, and in the end they will give it to others. What's the picture of? So I didn’t let my sister read it any more. My sister cried for many days, went on a hunger strike, cried and begged her parents... she tried everything, but it didn't work. Even the school teachers came to see her, but to no avail, and finally she resigned herself to her fate. "

"Later, not long after, she got married, hundreds of miles away from us in the south, also in the mountains. It is said that she was nearly ten years older than her. But the bride price was very high... I heard that she didn't live a very good life there when she got married. She gave birth to two or three girls, and she was looked down upon by her husband's family. In addition, there was family planning at that time, and there were various fines, so she had no choice but to do so. He also gave me a daughter. I finally got through it until I gave birth to a boy., a family of several people, living extremely poor. She had to do everything in the fields and at home, but her mother-in-law was still scolding her behind her back, saying it was her fault that she couldn't give birth. If the first child was a boy, how could there be so many things happening later. "

When Fang Zhiqiang said this, his eyes couldn't help but feel a little sore. He smoked a cigarette and said dullly: "My sister also has a very strong temper. She always feels that she can't hold her head high in life. , I don’t want to go back to my parents’ home for fear of being embarrassed, and it’s not easy to come all the way. She arrived just after noon, had a meal and then left. She never came to my house to see me. Only the year I was admitted to college, she heard the news and asked someone to buy a repeater for me, because when she was in school, she heard that it helped to learn English faster. She always wanted to buy one, but in the end, She had finished reading all the books... She thought she would still have to study hard in college, and she thought I still needed a repeater..."