The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

Archer ran all the way down the mountain, the surrounding trees and scenery receded, and the saints who were chasing after him had long since lost their voices. He grew up with muscles and bones, as if he had transformed into a human overnight, swung his arms vigorously, took strong steps with his feet, held his head up against the wind, and ran towards where he wanted to go.

The time is 03:30 in the afternoon. At this time, the guys from the Xiaozhuang noodle restaurant are still playing poker, Goudan and Dawang are basking in the sun on the concrete open space, and the proprietress of the Wangwang Non-staple Food Store must be knitting sweaters bored. At this time, the fat Auntie is pulling on her slippers, leading Shuaiguo downstairs to buy a newspaper, the delivery truck of the non-staple food store is waiting at the red light at the intersection... At this time, Soy Sauce must be with Xiaoxiu!

wrong!Archer rushed across the intersection down the hill, shouting in his heart, this time we will not be separated again!

I'm sorry, Teacher He Lan, I know you are doing it for my own good, but I want to be with Xiaoxiu, even if you say I have no ambition, it doesn't matter.

I like Xiaoxiu!

I love the human who kicked me into the trash can, ran back to save me when he heard my scream, and gave me the creamy egg yolk pie!

It was a little late when he arrived at the school. Linggou Primary School was over, and the students filed out. He didn't dare to get too close, and looked across a small road to get dressed, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

Xiaoxiu walked out of the school with his schoolbag on his back, and Archer, who was very happy, was about to meet him, but saw two boys chasing up from behind and patting Xiaoxiu on the shoulder.

The golden retriever pup straightened its back as if it was facing a big enemy, wishing it could immediately transform into a mighty big golden retriever and rush over to overturn the two boys who bullied Xiaoxiu, but it stopped as soon as it rushed down the sidewalk.

He saw Xiaoxiu smiled.

Two boys walked beside Xiaoxiu, one on the left and the other on the right, dancing and talking about something.So it wasn't bullying... They obviously had a good chat.

Archer stood blankly on the other side of the road, watching the backs of the three chatting happily all the way away, and finally couldn't help but yelled at Xiaoxiu's back.

Xiaoxiu didn't look back.The backs of the three people who were walking and chatting disappeared in the lively corner of the street.

The bruised little golden retriever stood motionless under the shade of a tree.Xiaoxiu has made friends, he should be happy for him.But he didn't know why he couldn't be happy at all.Not only can't be happy, but also very sad.

"Now you know why I didn't let you go down the mountain." A shadow came over his head, accompanied by a familiar voice.

He Lanba stood behind the poodle holding a bottle of soy sauce.

The half-grown golden retriever stared blankly at the corner of the empty street.

He Lanba glanced at the direction where Qin Xiu left, and said in a deep voice: "He is a human being, and you are just a dog in his eyes. Humans and dogs cannot be equal friends. What he needs are real human friends. You are just his playmate to fill his loneliness when he is lonely, he will always find a true friend, and he will have more friends in the future, so what will you be then?" He Lanba said lightly, "Now You've seen it all, that's why he hasn't come to you for so many days." Because it's no longer needed.Friends of the same age can bring him the happiness you can bring him, but you cannot replace what friends of the same age can bring him.

The poodle drooped its head, looking down at its own shadow.He Lanba couldn't bear it, but it was just a small back, and he could see that he was extremely sad.

"Go home." Helan Ba ​​sighed.Linggou Mountain is your home.

Qin Xiu demonstrated Chris's combo in the game hall. The two boys watched as Qin Xiu took out the junior high school opponent next to him with three or two strokes on the joystick. The gorgeous 12-hit combo bit off half of the blood tank at once Blood, the second-year middle school student dropped the cigarette dangling from his mouth, staring at the unsmiling and handsome little boy with an incredulous expression on his face.

The junior high school students rushed out to rescue soldiers, Qin Xiu turned to the two boys and said, "That's it, you know how to play."

"Wow! Why are you so powerful?!" Xiaopingtou was so admiring.

"Can you still play other characters?" Little Glasses said excitedly, "Athena Asamiya also has a very perverted combo!"

"Next time, I just agreed, I have to go first." Qin Xiu was still a little unaccustomed to being stared at by boys of the same age with such admiration, and wondered if I was really that good?Thinking of the dejected face of the junior high school student who was knocked out by him, it is actually quite powerful.

"I really don't want to play anymore?" Both boys showed regretful expressions, "What about the junior high school students coming back to take revenge? When will you take us to have a good time?"

"Tomorrow." Qin Xiu lifted the strap of his schoolbag, trying to force out a smile that is not very good in front of people, "Tomorrow I will teach you Ma Gong's combo skills."

"OK! That's a deal!"

Qin Xiu left the game hall and looked back at the two boys who hurriedly changed to an arcade machine because they were afraid of being revenged by junior high school students.It's an amazing feeling to have friends all of a sudden.Both their mother and teacher taught them that violence is not good, but it happened that the fist that knocked Aben down in the classroom that day made him admired by everyone and won such a hard-won friendship.

Qin Xiu came all the way to the pet shop, and when he opened the door, he heard the lively sounds of cats and dogs.Two clerks, a man and a woman, were shearing a poodle. Seeing that a child came in, they didn't come forward to say hello.

Qin Xiu looked around for a while in the store: "Is there a house like that for dogs?" After thinking about it, "It needs to be bigger."

"The big ones are very expensive." Just as the male clerk finished speaking, he saw the handsome little boy take out a thick wad of money from his pocket and put it on the counter: "Are these enough?"

The clerk was startled when he saw this pile of odds and ends. You could hear the sound of steel coins. The largest denomination was no more than ten yuan. It looked like he had been saving for a long time.He and the female clerk exchanged glances, took the money and counted it for a while, good guy, there are more than 300: "That's enough, little brother, what kind do you want?"

Qin Xiu looked at the dog houses recommended by the clerk. Some were pocket-sized and could be carried, while others were soft like inflatable tents. There were pink and chocolate-colored ones, plastic ones and wooden ones.The clerk recommended it for a while, but the little boy just looked back and forth, asked him nothing, and didn't know how big the dog was. He was just trying to be lazy and wait for the little boy to look after himself, when he saw the little boy in a sky blue building. Stop in front of the dog house on the roof.

It was a big dog house with a sky-blue roof and a small terrace in front of the house. It was indeed a cute dog house that people would fall in love with at a glance.Seeing that the little boy seemed to like this one, the male clerk coughed and said, "Three hundred yuan is not enough to buy this one. You can look at others."

The little boy didn't move, he looked at the blue house for a while while holding his schoolbag by the shoulder strap, then raised his head as if making up his mind and asked, "How far is it?"

The little clerk was about to speak, but was interrupted by the female clerk at the side: "If you like it, I'll sell it to you."

As soon as the voice fell, the expression on the little boy's face lit up.No one in the town bought such a luxurious dog house, and it was kept on display. It can be seen that the kid really likes it, so let's sell it to him at a cheaper price. Anyway, the boss won't have any objections if he doesn't lose money.

Part of the dog house can be disassembled. Two clerks helped to remove the roof and terrace, but even after dismantling it was still too big. The female clerk asked: "Little brother, are you alone? Where is your adult?" ?” This dog house is big and heavy, how can a first-grade elementary school student move it?

Qin Xiu just said thank you, and bent down to pick up the dog house, which was not much smaller than him. When the clerk came up to help pull the door, he turned around and looked at the cats and dogs in the cages of the pet shop.It's weird, they don't look like soy sauce, they look like cats and dogs, but not soy sauce, soy sauce is just soy sauce.

Qin Xiu hugged the dog house while walking and resting, asking directions all the way according to the address given by the owner of the soy sauce, and finally found a private villa on the hillside of Linggou Mountain at dusk.

Standing in front of the gorgeous carved iron gate of the villa with the dog house in his arms, Qin Xiu couldn't recover.There are not many rich people in Spirit Dog Town. He has never seen a mansion with three floors, its own garage, and automatic sprinklers on the lawn.

Unexpectedly, Soy Sauce was the dog of a rich family, and he felt a little thumping in his heart. He bought this dog house with the breakfast and pocket money he had saved for a month and a half, but it might still be very shabby for Soy Sauce.

Thinking of this, he shook his head again, no, he should have confidence in soy sauce, his soy sauce is not a dog who hates the poor and loves the rich.

With firm belief, Qin Xiu put down the kennel, adjusted his clothes carefully, and then walked over to stand on tiptoes and stretched his arms to ring the doorbell next to the gate.

The electric bell rang for a while before I heard: "Who?"

"Hi, I'm Qin Xiu who made an appointment with you last time." The little boy put his foot on his feet and tried his best to get in front of the microphone.

The other end was silent for a while, and then with a "click", the electric door Kerala automatically opened.

Qin Xiu suppressed the apprehension in his heart, and hurriedly turned around and hugged the blue dog house and walked into the gate. Thinking that he would see soy sauce soon, he couldn't help but quicken his pace.

Kaimeron opened the door, looked down, and looked slightly surprised at the handsome little boy standing in front of him holding a big dog house.Sure enough, he was only a child of seven or eight years old. He thought he was a middle school student in his teens when he heard the voice just now. This kid must be speaking with his voice pressed down on purpose...

The dog house is too big, and the picture of a seven or eight-year-old boy holding it is very strange, because the size of the house can directly block the boy's sight, and he doesn't know how the boy is holding it all the way with his belly shy over here.

"Aren't you tired from holding it?" Kai Molong couldn't help laughing.

Qin Xiu didn't know the handsome mixed-race gentleman in front of him, so he asked suspiciously, "Is Mr. He Lan there?"

Kai Molong looked at the boy who looked expectant and nervous but still pretended to be a mature and steady little adult: "He Lanba and his dog have moved away."

The little boy was stunned.Although half of his face was blocked by the dog house, Kai Molong could still see that the child was really dumbfounded.

"...Where did they move to?" After a while, Qin Xiu asked in a daze.

"I moved to another place." Kaimelong wrote lightly, "I don't know exactly where."

When He Lanba received a call from Kai Molong, he was drawing to the climax of the manga, and the cat-eared heroine was turbulently amplifying her moves, and said impatiently, "What's the matter?"

"The kid just came to see me."

He Lanba was stunned for a moment before realizing what the other party was talking about. He hurriedly got up and opened the door to look at Archer who was sleeping in the living room. The son of a bitch was curled up quietly in the nest. Then he turned around and closed the door again, and asked in a low voice: " What is he doing here?"

"I don't know," Kai Molong walked into the gymnasium on the second floor and said with a smile, "Holding a huge dog house, it looks like he is here to marry a wife."

He Lanba didn't speak for a long time, it's been almost two months, he never thought that Qin Xiu would really go to Kaimolong's house, and actually brought a dog house with him.

"Xiao Lan."

Kai Molong suddenly called him in a deep voice, and He Lanba was overwhelmed by this nasty address: "Can you stop being so annoying to me..."

"The child hasn't left yet." Cameron interrupted him.

He Lanba's complaints came to an abrupt end.

Cameron looked down from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the gym. The little boy lingered outside the gate for a while as if unwilling to give up, and then sat down by the dog house.Looking at the figure of the little boy sitting on his knees, Kai Molong frowned with a headache: "What if this guy keeps sitting like this at the door of my house."

He Lanba did the same thing, he could only say bluntly: "You are a demon fox, you must be more capable than me."

"I also need to know what's going on."

He Lanba took a deep breath: "That kid wants to adopt Archer."

"Oh," Kai Molong smiled knowingly, "Are you reluctant?"

"It's not a matter of reluctance. The spirit dogs and humans have always kept a distance."

"Archer is not a qualified spirit dog clan."

"Who said that?!" He Lanba was furious.

"Have you asked Archer's opinion?" Kai Molong didn't step on Helan Ba's thunder, "Whether it's good or bad, you should let him try it himself."

Helanba remained silent. If it was a child of another spirit dog clan, he could still consider Kai Daxian's suggestion, but Archer couldn't, he couldn't afford to try.With a special physique like Archer, if he really lives with humans, sooner or later he will completely become a captive pet dog.

Seeing that Helan Ba ​​didn't make a sound, Kai Molong curled his lips: "Why don't I put the child to sleep, make him forget about Archer, and it'll be settled once and for all."

Immortal Fox Kai is good at deceiving people's hearts, this is a once and for all solution, but He Lanba hesitated.If Qin Xiu's memory is to be erased, Archer's memory must also be erased, but...

The otaku cartoonist opened the door and looked at the curly-haired puppy who was sleeping listlessly in the living room.The time with Qin Xiu was probably the happiest period of Archer's life. It would be too cruel to deprive him of this.

"Let's do this for now," He Lanba said, "We'll see the situation after a while."

Hanging up the phone, just as the otaku manga artist was about to close the door, he suddenly saw Archer in the kennel open his eyes. He was startled, thinking that this guy was eavesdropping, but when he looked again, it turned out that it was a cockroach crawling onto the golden retriever. up to the pup's nose.The dog glanced at Mr. Cockroach, who stretched his beard to provoke him, drooped his ears and turned his head, and fell asleep again.

Helanba was in a complicated mood.It's not like Archer.Normally, this guy would jump up from the cliff and chase Xiaoqiang all over the room, pinging and banging without stopping.

Kai Molong hung up the phone, took another look at the little boy sitting on the ground downstairs, shrugged his shoulders, took a towel and got on the treadmill, and jogged for a distance of two kilometers. Night had already fallen outside the window, so he stopped to drink water and then looked under the window At that time, the little boy finally left, but the beautiful dog house was still at the gate.

He thought for a while, put on his coat, went downstairs and walked out the gate. Sure enough, there was a thick envelope under the dog house. Cameron pulled out the envelope and opened it. Inside was a stack of photos and a piece of paper cut from an exercise book .The little boy's handwriting was unexpectedly neat and beautiful.

——If Mr. He Lan comes back, please pass on the photo and this house to him for me. It is a gift for Soy Sauce.Thanks.

soy sauce?This name was obtained... Kai Molong shook his head and smiled, flipping through the photos, there are more than a dozen of them, the models are all curly-haired Archer, all kinds of candid shots and poses, the bastard's vigor is vivid.The photos weren't great, some were blurry, but each one captured the sparkle in the puppy's eyes just right.A passionate and daring shot that he had seen in another before.

Cameron glanced at the big dog house with a sky blue roof, bent down and lifted it into the villa.