People and dogs
Lao Gen encountered that dog on his way home from the market. A thin yellow dog is lying motionless on the roadside. He stopped, the dog was watching him. He knew that the dog had been abandoned by someone, and when he left, the dog followed him unsteadily.
Lao Gen doesn't love dogs, it's just that dogs are also a life. He lives alone in a rundown house at the head of the village, with no roots, a cold face, and no words. He has never raised any living animals such as pigs or dogs. He brought the dog into the house and threw a handful of wheat straw in the corner in front of the kang, which became a dog house.
Lao Gen only eats one meal a day, wild vegetable soup. If you take in a dog, you have to give it some, and it will make him even hungrier. I curse every time I put food in the dog's bowl. The dog is not in a hurry to eat, it only eats when he walks away, and then licks the bowl over and over again after finishing. The dog really wants to get close to Lao Gen, but Lao Gen doesn't allow it. When the dog got close to him, he would scold and kick him. Later, the dog became interested and stopped bothering him. He only looked at Lao Gen when he wasn't looking at him and got close with his eyes.
Most households have a better life than Laogen, with poultry and livestock. Villagers often hear Lao Gen beating and scolding dogs, so some people turn to Lao Gen. It's also pitiful for dogs to follow you. Give it to me. Lao Gen nodded in agreement.
But no one could call the dog away, so they tied it with a rope and led it away. When they arrived at someone else's house, they didn't eat or drink. At night, they bit the rope and ran back home, knocking on the old door. Laogen opened the door and it lay prone at Laogen's feet, refusing to leave despite being kicked or scolded. The old man was convinced, so he had to accept his fate.
The villagers have long been accustomed to not walking around with Lao Gen. Lao Gen never talks to anyone, and when someone breaks his head in a fight, he passes by without even looking. People were a bit surprised and touched that such an old man would take in a dog.
That day, Lao Gen went up the mountain to gather firewood and was intercepted by a mountain leopard. The mountain leopard was obviously also hungry, staring at him blankly and approaching him step by step. Lao Gen sighed, knowing that three wolves were no match for a mountain leopard.
Just then, the dog suddenly appeared. Lao Gen didn't know that the dog had been following him all along. The dog pounced from behind him to in front of him, barking angrily and pouncing directly at the mountain leopard. Lao Gen was stunned. The thin haired and knife bone dog was not half the size of a mountain leopard, but it was extremely fierce. It shot arrows at the mountain leopard like an arrow and jumped up. The mountain leopard took a step back and was still bitten. Soon, the mountain leopard roared and pounced, and the dog bit even more fiercely
In an instant, Lao Gen felt a shock he had never experienced in his life. He pulled out his wooden knife and rushed forward with a roar. What a fierce battle. When the mountain leopard pounced on the dog, Lao Gen's wooden knife fiercely slashed at the leopard's back and head. When the mountain leopard pounced on Lao Gen, the dog crazily bit the leopard's belly and neck, tearing off pieces of flesh and blood one after another. Lao Gen and the dog were both bloody and mangled, and in the end, the dog tore out the leopard's intestines under its body. Lao Gen's machete pierced the leopard's throat, and one of his hands was bitten off… The leopard died, but the man and the dog survived.
Since then, the villagers have called both Lao Gen and the dog heroes. Lao Gen has completely transformed into a different person. He never leaves his dog and always talks and laughs when he sees people. He often tells people that the relationship between humans and dogs is not the relationship between their owners and dogs, but the relationship between life and life, conscience and conscience, and loyalty and righteousness