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发信人: oceann (dany), 信区: English
标 题: THE MOST MEMORABLE PET
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Mon Sep 22 22:30:50 2003), 站内信件
THE MOST MEMORABLE PET
I love animals. When I lived in the old and large house, I used to have ma
ny pet. Once I even had 7 kinds of pets in the same time: 1 dog, 1 cat, 1 hen,
2 tortoises, 3 pigeons, 6 little ducks, and some ants! Speaking of dogs, they
are the animals that I love the most. In the past 16 years, I totally have ha
d 4 dogs, and they all left me sweet memories, though with the tears in my hea
rt or my dreams every time the farewell came. Among them, that dog, which I ha
d looked after since he was only 1 month old to his tragedy death, Lai Fu, has
been the most memorable.
Lai Fu, the common name in Chinese tradition, which means the good luck’s
coming, was given to that naughty, little black dog that was taken to our hou
se. And indeed, he brought great fun and livingness to us- a big family with 1
1 people lived together.
When he just came, my younger cousin had not been born, so the only childr
en in the house who had time to play with him was my older cousin and I. Unfor
tunately (or fortunately? ~~), she was timid and even not dared to approach La
i Fu. As a result, Lai Fu became MY pet, my own. I loved him. In the first yea
r, he was so little and so lovely that everyday we played together and chased
after each other. The house was very large, with many rooms, a wide courtyard,
and two big balconies. We ran over the aisles, the balconies, the roofs, and
the courtyard. When we both got tired, we sat on the roof and watched the runn
ing river below. The sunrise and sunset were our friends, who were the witness
of our childhood, the childhood with trueness and happiness. We sat there, an
d little Lai Fu laid on my legs meekly. His hair was not sleek, but clean. He
liked my fingers going through his hair. That’s comfortable to him? I never k
new. We couldn’t talk, but we communicated by expressions in our eyes. His black eyes were big, and meaningful. I always thought that he was
telling me something. That was a strange feeling, which I could never forget.
Day by day, month by month, he grew up, and so did I. He was a pet of our
whole family. My grandparents, my uncles and aunts, and my parents all loved h
im. Every time a family member left home to go to work or school, he would acc
ompany him or her for a long way, until the special ‘road’ connected by the
edges of roofs of different houses ended. He’s faithful and dutiful. Not like
the Pekinese that is loved by many citizens nowadays, he had all the characte
rs that a DOG should have, though he himself was not noble in the blood.
He looked rather a mature dog when I entered primary school. One night, I
said Good Night to him as usual, but I was shocked by what was showed through
his big black eyes. That was a kind of sorrow, and a little bit of bitterness.
Little me didn’t understand that feeling-even now I could remember his eyes
at that moment. I asked my grandma, her answer was a bad piece of news. I was
so feared that I hugged Lai Fu tightly. Still warm, still with clean hair, and
yet, I didn’t know what he wanted to tell me. I knew there must have been. F
rom that night on, I always spent my spare time with him. We played, we chased
after each other, and we sat on the roof to watch the sunset and the running
river.
One day, I went to school as usual, and Lai Fu sent me off. I waved goodby
e to him, but after a while I looked back, he was still there, on the end of h
is own road, was just like a statuary. But who knew that it was actually the l
ast time Lai Fu accompanied me on my way to school. When I returned home, ther
e was no his welcome. I got an unpleasant presage. What had happened? I rushed
into the house, and some dried flood on the ground was telling me something.
‘Grandma, where’s Lai Fu?’ I shouted with great fear. I knew the answer, bu
t I couldn’t believe it. I hoped that grandma could tell me that Lai Fu just
went out to play, or he was sleeping somewhere. But she said, calmly: ’he die
d.’ Everything in the world darkened so soon that I even got dizzied. I didn’
t know the reason, and I didn’t want to know. Grandma went on: “he was kille
d by the group of people from the government…” My tears burst out. Nothing l
eft, except for the blood, the dark-red blood dried on the ground. His barks, his eyes, and his hair… nothing left. He disappeared from my
life, so suddenly, and so cruelly. I had no choices, but cried. Maybe he was j
ust brought away and some days later he would come back again? That was the on
ly hope I had. But it would never come true. Never.
Later, my grandma told me, just before his death, my Lai Fu was sitting si
lently on the roof, and genteelly watching the running river, as we used to do
…
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where is my first love?
i am eager to grab you
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