Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 1 is back

It was June and the weather was starting to heat up.

Outside the bus station in Nanshan City, various people came and went, making this fairly developed city even busier.

Back here, it is not far from Taohua Village.Perhaps because of the timidity of being close to the hometown, Cheng He was a little excited.

For a long time, Nanshan City's economy has not been very good, and it would be good if it does not hold back the country.However, in the past few years, with the sudden rise of self-driving tours, the environment surrounded by mountains on three sides in Nanshan City has ushered in a slight improvement.

Sitting on Cheng He's shoulder was a little girl who looked like a jade carving, and said timidly at this time: "Dad, there are many people here."

It was the first time for the little girl to visit the city of Nanshan. She blinked her jewel-like pupils and looked at the strange world in front of her with curiosity.

Cheng He raised his hand, patted her lightly, and said, "Don't be afraid, baby, Dad is here."

Like all urban stations across the country, there are all kinds of taxis or motorcycles surrounding the station. As long as someone comes out of the station, these people will immediately surround them.

After some haggling, Cheng He took a taxi back.

The distance is not close. After leaving Nanshan City, we started to head towards the mountain road.The little girl being held by Cheng He looked out through the glass window, her eyes rolled around, and the surrounding scenery was dizzying.

Green mountains, green water, blue sky, white clouds.

She chirped from time to time: "Dad, there is a red tree."

"Dad, there's a pond over there!"

"Dad, there are fish in the water!"

"Dad, there's a bird!"

"Dad, what is that?"

Cheng He gently stroked his daughter's little head and said, "That's a hare, and it runs very fast."

Cheng Xinxin nodded in agreement, "It really runs really fast. It's going back to cook for its babies."

"Pfft..." Cheng He was amused by his daughter's innocent thinking.

The nearly two-hour mountain road had seven bends and eight turns, and the road condition was not good.

The village surrounded by mountains is just as it was when we left a few years ago. It is peaceful, poor, but beautiful.

Stepping on this road again, Cheng He felt inexplicably sad.

After leaving for such a long time, I thought he would be calmer, but now I suddenly feel a sense of vicissitudes of "the young and old leave home".

This is a piece of farmland. When Cheng He was in school, every time he came back from vacation, he would pass through other people's vegetable fields and take a shortcut to go back, picking some melons to eat and quench his thirst.

And after six years, he came back again.

So he said to the taxi driver: "Please, just get off here."

After paying, Cheng He got out of the car with the child in his arms.

However, I can't go back through the vegetable field today, with a child in my arms and simple luggage on my back, how can I go to the field.

After a few years away from the village road, now he set foot on this land again, which made him feel like a lifetime away.

Cheng Xinxin pointed to a certain piece of land nearby, and asked curiously, "Dad, what is this?"

"This is a sweet potato. Now there are small sweet potatoes growing in the field. It's the kind of sweet potato that can be eaten. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I see." Cheng Xinxin replied softly.

Walking slowly, Cheng He was about to see the situation of his vegetable field, when he saw a familiar figure from a distance, he opened his voice and shouted: "Honestly, honestly..."

That was Cheng Shi behind their house, who was about his age, went to elementary school, junior high school, and high school together, and the relationship between the two has always been very good.

I haven't seen him in six years, and this kid has grown bigger, dark and strong.

Cheng Shi was weeding on the ground, when he heard the shout, he raised his head and looked up, thinking he had misjudged the person, then rubbed his eyes, and said in disbelief, "Heizi? Is it you?"

Cheng He's name is called in their accent, which is similar to "Heizi", so he has a nickname since he was a child, called "Heizi".

After six years, his appearance has also changed a little, and Cheng Shi was almost afraid of admitting his mistake for a while.

Cheng He hurriedly replied: "Why isn't it me? Alas... I haven't seen you for a few years, and everything has changed."

Cheng Shi chuckled: "No! I thought I was wrong. It's really you! You really haven't come back for several years."

As he spoke, he walked out of the vegetable field with a hoe on his shoulder and went back with him.

When Cheng Shi heard the little girl called Cheng He's father, he smiled and said, "Heizi, you can do it! You are as old as us, and the child has been brought back. Hey, why are you the only two and didn't bring your wife back?"

While speaking, he took the luggage for him and put it on his shoulders.

Cheng He nodded, instead of answering the question, he echoed, "Yes, there are only two of us."

Then he said to his daughter, "Come on, Xinxin, call me uncle."

The little girl called out crisply: "Uncle."

Cheng Shi didn't think too much, and still said enthusiastically: "Heizi, you haven't come back these few years, and the family has changed a lot! In recent years, self-driving tours have become popular, and many people from other places have come to Xiaolian Mountain for tourism. Our village is far away from home. Xiao Lianshan has been getting rich recently."

Taohua Village is the nearest village to Xiaolian Mountain, and self-driving tours will choose to enter the mountain from here, so Taohua Village has also gained some glory. For example, several farmhouses have opened farmhouses, and the business is not bad.

There is no great wealth, but it is possible to subsidize the family a little.

Almost at the entrance of the village, Cheng Shi said in a somewhat mysterious but joking way: "Heizi, you will see something later, please don't cry..."

The two used to live in front of the house and behind the house, and they were classmates in elementary school, junior high school and high school, and their relationship has always been very good.Although we haven't seen each other for a few years, we chatted all the way back, and slowly returned to the feeling of childhood.

This is how it was said before, there is nothing to worry about.

Cheng He asked: "What else can I cry about?"

That year, when he graduated from high school, there was an accident at home, and his parents lost their lives. He arranged the family property and the only dog ​​he had by himself, and left this sad place.

Haven't come back for so many years.

Now, what else is there to cry about?

Cheng Shi knew that his words had aroused his sadness, so he sighed and didn't know what to say.

In a blink of an eye, I came to the head of the village, and saw a dog sitting at the intersection of the village from a distance.

The dog sat quietly at the intersection, looking in the direction of leaving the village, as if waiting for someone.Perhaps it had been waiting for a long time, its expression looked a little dull, and its sitting movements were like a statue.

Cheng He's eyes were really sour suddenly, and he walked over with the child in his arms.

It was a yellow native dog, which was exactly the same as the dog he had raised before, except that it was bigger, with thinner fur and older appearance.

Even the white hair on the back is the same.

That dog was very close to Cheng He. When Cheng He went to school, he just waited at home honestly.When Cheng He came back in a week or a month, the dog was always the most excited, and rushed towards him from a distance, and it was very kissable.

As long as Cheng He is at home, the dog always follows him every step of the way, and always rushes ahead in anything, and never hesitates.

Is this all it will be?

It has been so many years!

Cheng He's throat was a little tight, and he called out tentatively: "Napoleon."

His dog used to be named Napoleon.

At that time, his name was more in the second grade, and he didn't want to be like others, giving him local names like "Laifu" and "Wangcai".

The yellow dog who was sitting on the ground like a statue suddenly rushed over like a madman, looked at Cheng He carefully, walked around him and sniffed him, then suddenly raised his head, and said "woo hoo" at him screaming, his voice was pitiful, his eyes seemed to be filled with tears.

That's it, that's right!

Cheng He's heart ached, and he stretched out his hand. The big yellow dog immediately stretched its head over and rubbed against his palm vigorously.

Cheng Shi said with a smile: "I told you a long time ago, so you don't cry. Do you know that after you left, this dog has been waiting here every day. He thought you were going to school like before. , come back soon. It’s been so many years, rain or shine.”

It has been here for more than six years?
Cheng He hugged the big yellow dog tightly, his hands trembling uncontrollably.Fearing that it would starve to death, he fostered it at his uncle's house.

Cheng Shi said: "This dog doesn't want to stay at your uncle's house. Since you left, it has stayed here every day. I can't stand it anymore and want to take it home, but it doesn't want to stay at my house either." Come here every day to wait for you. People in the village think this dog is loyal, and people feed it with food every day."

Cheng He's tears flowed out, and he couldn't say a word while hugging the dog.

Seeing her father touching the dog, Cheng Xinxin felt very curious, so she also stretched out her hand, tentatively touching the big yellow dog, and when she really touched it, the dog didn't bite her, so she couldn't help laughing secretly.

The big yellow dog lay docilely on Cheng He's body, with its ears drooping and its tail wagging happily, enjoying the caress of the father and daughter, and whispering softly in its mouth, as if it was telling something.

Cheng Shi looked at it, feeling a burst of emotion in his heart.

My childhood playmate, my brother who has been away from home for many years, is back!
(End of this chapter)