Prose: Dog Baby (Seabuckthorn)
Photo: Seabuckthorn
Anonymous, the following story is purely historical, if there is a coincidence, it is purely an accident.
Dogs, after being raised by human beings, have become human friends. However, most words about dogs are derogatory. Dog things, dog legs, Reservoir Dogs, dog head strategist, dog jumping over the wall, nonsense, dogs can't spit out ivory and other words, including two-part allegorical sayings: dogs take mice and mind their own business; Meat buns hit dogs, and there is no return. Most of them are derogatory and numerous.
Although I was bitten by a dog when I was a child, I still think dogs are people. Help and crisis, or go hand in hand with the owner, as my mother often said, "Feed the dog with gratitude and wag its tail."
It is natural that human life is supreme and equal. However, real life is full of unequal treatment from the moment it is conceived.
In the middle of last century, the adult rate of dolls born was very low. Some of them are sick and have no money to treat them. Many children died after catching a cold, some were abandoned at birth and died without illness.
My mother gave birth to eight children, which grew up to me and four sisters, that is, two sisters and one sister; According to mother, the two brothers died when they were three or four years old. Mother often said: Every time my father carried his brother's body to the snow or the river, his legs were too soft to get on the kang when he came back. It's like losing your soul for a year.
A girl below me gave it to me, and it's no use if the last girl gave it to me. My mom told my dad to abandon the baby, and my dad was motionless, smoking and silent. In my mother's weak voice, I was urged many times before I silently took my little sister and walked towards the grove by the river, just like sending my three-or four-year-old brother away. When I came home, my legs were weak, but I hung my head and smoked hard. Later, my mother often mentioned that sister, if only she could give it away. ...
It is a very common phenomenon in rural areas in the middle of last century to abandon babies that can't afford to be raised regardless of the heat and cold. Now think about it, it's really helpless and cruel. In addition to poverty, there is another reason that family planning technology is backward. ...
Innocent newborn babies are abandoned because a "poor" child is too poor to feed and earn the food necessary for life. Unable to eat, we can only kill innocent little lives. ...
I remember a summer when I was a child, the scorching sun moxibustion roasted the earth, and the red willow forest outside the village was a little shade of the sun, which was a "children's paradise" that I went to every day when I was a child.
When I was about five years old, one day at noon, the sun scorched all life on the earth. My companions and I went to the red willow forest to play hide-and-seek The bamboo thorns by the river are very close to the red willow forest, just behind my house. It's a little scary to go in alone. While looking for a partner, I heard the baby crying in the red willow forest behind the house. I asked some partners to come and have a closer look. This is a very healthy baby boy with fair skin and half-closed eyes. It was a hot summer day. Under the sun, in the interval of crying, a naughty little friend threw a tukela to see if he was still alive. ...
Poor ChengFeng, tiger poison doesn't even eat his own son. How can it be so cruel? Our children didn't understand at that time. Now that I think about it, how do adults plan to feed a person during the great famine? Adults are really helpless. It is better not to let them come into this world than to come into this world hungry and cold.
Later, there were also lucky people, and the dog doll was one of them. As the name implies, because it is related to dogs, his parents named him "Dog Baby".
I think of the unfortunate baby lying naked next to the red willow forest, crying. This is also the third baby boy born by our neighbor's aunt, and it is really impossible to feed him. Abandon the sun and return to heaven. I stayed in the shade, and my naughty friend picked up the clod and threw it over. The heartbreaking voice made me scold, and I couldn't bear to walk away suddenly after reading it. This is a scene I witnessed with my own eyes, and I still remember it vividly. ...
This kind of thing happened from time to time in the countryside. Dog doll is one of the abandoned babies, and he is the lucky one in misfortune.
I remember a neighbor, Uncle Wang. The old couple had no children and raised a rhubarb dog. A late autumn morning is also an ordinary morning, and the dawn is still wandering outside the sky. Rhubarb dog barked, breaking the quiet dawn and quarreling with the old couple. The old couple climbed up the window and looked at it carefully. It's like a dog biting an animal, going out in clothes, bending down and looking intently. It turned out that his dog dragged back a baby, and the old couple hurried home and wrapped it in broken bedding. This time it's a boy.
Since then, the old couple began to nurse their children. After several inquiries, they deliberately bought a goat at a high price. They pull goats every day when they go out, and they just raise their children with goat's milk day by day. Since then, their family has been dependent on each other for their children's study and upbringing. In order to commemorate this yellow dog who was grateful for saving his life, and to thank God for giving them life, the child was named "Dog Baby".
From then on, the old couple devoted all their love and hard work to the dog doll and sensible rhubarb dog.
Year after year, day after day, Wangzai finally grew up, got married and became a useful person to society. The dog is also the patron saint of the old couple. It works with their family of three at sunrise and stops at sunset. The growth of the dog baby means that rhubarb dog and the old couple are old, and the dog baby is very grateful. Poor as he is, he just retired Yellow Dog and the old couple. ...
About the author: Lu Youcheng, pen name Hippophae rhamnoides, born in February, 1963, graduated from North China Electric Power University 1984, and is a senior engineer. I like writing poems after my major, and I am good at philosophical prose poems. Articles can be found in China Writers and Artists, Writers of the Times, Literary World, Literary Appreciation, Essays of Hundred Schools, Flowers, Reading Abstracts, Short Stories, Young Writers, Wind in the Bohai Sea and Selected Western Essays. Prose poems "The Disappearing Village" and "Father" were selected into "Chinese Soul —— Annual Selection of Prose Poems in 2020" and "Classic Works of Modern Poetry".
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