suddenly tired

Chapter 56 Extra Story 1 - Rhubarb

Zhong Lei came back here again, and Xingyuan No. [-] Village was in rubble. He accompanied Ji Sumian to hand over the work. On the way, this person made a special trip to navigate to a big pet store and bought a bunch of toys and snacks. Puzzled: "Are you... handing over work to animals?"

"See a friend."

"Does your friend have a lot of pets?"

"No, I went to play with Rhubarb for a while, thinking about not being able to see him again, I still miss him." Ji Sumian felt ashamed from nowhere, "Rhubarb is a dirt dog, it has never played with such serious things pet toy."

When he was not very rich, he didn’t have any spare money to buy these. He played with rhubarb and used local materials. Sometimes he picked up a broken tennis ball, and he would want to keep it for rhubarb. A bone was also washed and packed by him, and he took it to work for Da Huang to chew on and play with. This time, he took out a brand new colored ball and threw it far away. Da Huang looked at the ball and then at him, but there was no move.

Zhong Lei said: "Your friend doesn't seem to have a very high IQ."

Ji Sumian glared at him and rubbed Rhubarb's head: "Go after him, bring the ball back to me, go!"

Rhubarb ran away.

"The balls it used to play with were all broken, and it couldn't bounce so far."

After handing over the work with the new deputy project manager, Ji Sumian ran wildly with Rhubarb on the grass for a while, until his hair was wet and he turned into a fried hedgehog again. He collapsed on the ground, Zhong Lei handed A bottle of water came over, he drank half of it in one go, and fed the rest to Rhubarb, who was also very tired, lying beside him wheezing.

"Rhubarb, I'm leaving, to the south, far south."

"Oh, yes, I also bought snacks. Here, these are edible bones, not for play. Eat them."

"You have to be good. Don't look at this is a construction site now. It will soon become a very beautiful place. There will be many people coming to play. By then, you will be the owner of this place and will receive tourists."

Rhubarb bit the bone and put it in his hand, Ji Sumian smiled again: "It's really edible, try it."

Rhubarb refused, probably thinking it was still a toy.He had no choice but to open a can, pulled Zhong Lei around and left.Rhubarb was still very polite, and after barking twice behind him, he lowered his head and chomped down on the meat.

Ji Sumian walked fast and didn't dare to turn his head. Zhong Lei saw that he was walking at the speed of a race, and trotted to catch up: "What's wrong? In a hurry?"

"No."

Hearing a trembling voice, Zhong Lei took his hand to force him to stop, bent over and held his face in his hands, a little flustered: "What's the matter? Are you crying?"

"Oh no." Ji Sumian pursed her lips tightly, her chest heaving violently, trying to hold back, "Let's go, Brother Lei, don't let it chase you."

Zhong Lei understood: "Are you reluctant? Let's take it away, and it can be checked in."

Finally, Ji Sumian shed two tears and quickly wiped them away: "No, it's someone else's dog."

"Oh, there is an owner. I thought it was a stray dog, so there is really no way. You like us to go to Australia to raise one."

"It's not rhubarb to raise one," Ji Sumian blurted out.After a moment of silence, he said, "Forget it, brother Lei, it's okay, I'll just be sad for a while."

After getting in the car, Zhong Lei said, "I didn't even know you liked dogs so much."

"Actually, I don't like it very much. I don't want to keep pets. I think it would be nice to support myself. Rhubarb...it's different," Ji Sumian no longer wanted to cry at this time, and it might really be a momentary sorrow Bie Xu, maybe not only for Rhubarb, but also for this project and the apricot garden where the project is located. He then recalled, "When I first joined the project team, no one paid attention to me, and everyone was in the house. When I went in, I was silent, and then I went out to eat with my food. Rhubarb came here at that time. At that time, he was just a little white dog, sitting next to me, peeking at me. But I’m sorry to ask for food, as if I’m really accompanying me..."

Ji Sumian used to sit on the hillside with Da Huang to watch the scenery countless times during his lunch break. After all, he is young. He wakes up early in the morning and sleeps late in the evening and is not sleepy at noon. He is as energetic as a puppy going out for a walk. , he sat with his dog friend, throwing a broken tennis ball from time to time, twigs, paper airplanes, rhubarb would rush out to pick them up, and put them back in his hand.He looked at the old house being renovated on the other side of the hillside, and rebuilt a dilapidated building into a brand new old building, forming a nondescript combination with rows of thin and flat high-rise buildings not far away. too abrupt.

This is how rhubarb accompanied him through every boring lunch break. Sometimes Ji Sumian would dream of that grassy hillside, wide and generous, as if its existence was to let life run to its fullest.

Not long after Ji Sumian left, the person who came to replace him also resigned, so he would receive calls from Zhong Yi from time to time, asking questions about the previous project contract. Some details had been messed up after two handovers, and only Ji Sumian could The answer was clear, and he didn't care. He was chatting that day, when he heard a dog barking suddenly, he asked happily, "Is it rhubarb?"

"Yeah, I turned on the speakerphone, and it seems to recognize your voice. Wait, I'll switch to video."

Ji Sumian saw his friend in the video, but obviously, Dahuang didn't adapt to the remote image, and his expression was puzzled. He called out Dahuang, and Dahuang answered, and then jumped on the ground in circles, wagging his tail. Worrying about it breaking.

Ji Sumian laughed out loud.

"Oh, you don't even know. After you leave, it will come every working day. If it doesn't wait for you, it will lie on the work clothes you left behind and refuse to accept them. Whoever touches it and yells at them, I will take your clothes I made a nest for it with a cardboard box, and it is very happy, and often comes to take a nap."

"Ah..." Ji Sumian felt sore, "Rhubarb, you miss me so much."

When Da Huang heard Ji Sumian calling him, he called him again.

Since then, Rhubarb has been following Zhong Yi, and comes to him every day like going to work.Zhong Yi went to the construction site, and it followed him every step of the way, like a bodyguard, wagging its tail as soon as he took out his mobile phone, as if that mobile phone was the only clue to find Ji Sumian.

The time difference of three hours, the time of Ji Sumian’s video, it’s one or two o’clock in the afternoon in China, and it’s four or five o’clock in Sydney, which happens to be around the time when Zhong Lei gets off work. Jumping happily, most of the time, watching Ji Sumian.His smile is very contagious, as if the air in that room felt his happiness, his side face is beautiful, his nose is a little turned up, and the corners of his mouth are also turned up when he smiles, his whole face is in an upward posture, He couldn't help hugging and kissing, and Ji Sumian would cover the camera in a panic and say not to let Rhubarb see it.After hanging up the phone, the smile was still there, but there was an irreparable loss in his eyes.

Sometimes when they went to the supermarket together, they would see a pet house in the courtyard, which was cute and exquisite in shape, with large, medium and small sizes. Zhong Lei asked again whether he wanted to keep a dog. The yard at home was large and there was enough space, but he still said no. , that's not rhubarb.

One day not long after, when Zhong Lei came back from get off work, Ji Sumian was sitting in the yard, as if drinking tea, but didn't move, kept in a daze, went to ask what's the matter, but was hugged silently.Only later did he know that Zhong Yi had called him for the last time that afternoon.

The owner of Rhubarb came to the construction site one day and asked if the dog was here. He hadn’t come home for two days, and everyone said they hadn’t seen it.He said that Rhubarb was chased and beaten with a slingshot by a child who came to the lake for an outing on the weekend. The owner drove the child away, but Rhubarb seemed to be frightened and ran away.Later, Rhubarb, who hadn't shown up for a week, returned to the construction site one night and slept at the door of the office. As soon as the door opened in the morning, he went in, biting the clothes in his nest and moving out step by step, leaving a bloodstain on the ground.The workers saw that it was not in the right condition, so they sent it to the pet hospital. The examination found that its abdomen and legs were injured, its whole body was infected, and it was unable to recover.

When Rhubarb died, there were three puppies in her belly that were too late to be born.