night.

On the dinner table, there was a big pot of stewed mutton, stir-fried mutton slices with scallions, mutton soup, and tables of dishes. There were three members of the family, including Zhang Youzhi, a total of four people.

Zhang Youzhi used to love eating meat. Li Douyu's father raised more than a dozen cute sheep. These sheep like to run around. For example, half of them accidentally ran up on the table.

Zhang Youzhi was flattered.

"If you are ambitious, eat, eat, eat." Li Douyu's father looks like a standard old farmer from Longnan, with a rosy face and about the same height as Li Douyu.

"Yeah, okay, thank you, uncle." Zhang Youzhi nodded bravely, and reluctantly tore off the mutton in the bowl with his teeth while trembling. He swallowed it forcefully while enduring nausea, and ate tremblingly.

Li Douyu obviously noticed something strange about her boyfriend. She put down her chopsticks and looked at Zhang Youzhi with concern.

"Youzhi, why is this not to your liking? Didn't you like to eat it the last few times you came here?"

"It's okay, it's okay. I've been feeling sick to my stomach for the past two days. I'll just eat something light." Zhang Youzhi grinned at Li Douyu.

"Are you okay? You haven't been able to eat well these past few days. Have you got your stomach medicine?" Li Duyu didn't eat any more, so he ran to open his suitcase and started looking through the medicine.

"The medicine is in my pocket, look." Zhang Youzhi quickly stopped Li Douyu and showed her the four small white pills in his hand.

Li Douyu looked at him suspiciously.

Zhang Youzhi swallowed one on the spot, and it was almost visible to the naked eye. Zhang Youzhi became energetic. He asked Li Douyu to sit down, and he also started to wolf down the bowl of big pork ribs. It was delicious.

.

Mixed with rice, it feels like it has never seen meat.

Li Douyu sat down with peace of mind and began to feed Zhang Youzhi with meat and another bowl of soup.

"Oh, my silly big guy, come on, I'll give you some. We're a bit poor, but we have enough meat."

Seeing the two dolls looking tired and crooked, Father Li also laughed unconsciously, and then turned to speak to the old lady next to him.

"Mom, please show him in a moment. Any illness that makes you unable to eat is not a minor illness."

The old lady just stewed tofu slowly, ignoring her son and the two little babies who were playing with each other.

This old lady was a barefoot doctor when she was young, and she was also an old Chinese medicine practitioner with some heritage. She had lived for most of her life, and those veteran hands had experienced countless lives, old age, illness and death.

After finishing the meal, Zhang Youzhi felt lighter than ever before. It was late at night, he held the can of dog food bought in the city and dragged Li Douyu to the black dog sleeping with the sheep.

Li Douyu first woke up the sleeping black dog with a wooden stick, opened his small palms, and leaked out the round grains of dog food.

Zhang Youzhi squatted next to him.

Hei Qi Dan came over and smelled the dog food in his hand, then returned to his sheep's nest with his head held high and a look of disdain on his face.

Li Douyu and Zhang Youzhi looked at each other in the dim light of the incandescent lamp.

"Why don't you eat the black lump eggs?" Li Douyu was puzzled.

Hei Qi Dan is the name of the black dog.

Zhang Youzhi looked at the pile of ungnawed sheep bones in the dog basin, and then at the black dog sleeping among the sheep, and suddenly realized.

"The dogs in the city eat this stuff because they can't get enough meat. Who can still eat this stuff if they can get some meat?"

"That's right." Li Douyu held the small can of dog food that cost tens of dollars in distress. Then he suddenly had a whim.

"Do you think people can eat this stuff?"

"It shouldn't be possible. How can a human eat dog food?" Zhang Youzhi said hesitantly.

"You try?"

"I refuse...eh?!"

I don’t understand why humans would kiss each other, and I don’t understand why humans would touch them in front of a group of sheep.

Hei Gandan remembered Xiaobai from another hilltop. Xiaobai was so beautiful, with a soft tail, and his butt smelled delicious. But Xiaobai only stayed at the top of the hill for half a month, and sat there after the Chinese New Year.

The human car left.

Before leaving, Xiaobai's owner whipped him with a note and told him that he was going to be castrated.

Thinking of this, Erhei felt a little aggrieved when the two people in front of him didn't come, so he simply got wrapped up in the sheep and closed his eyes with the stupid sheep.

It's late at night.

…

Li Douyu was extremely sleepy, so Zhang Youzhi carried her into the house, and the two of them huddled together on the small bed.

Li Douyu locked Zhang Youzhi's neck with his two small hands. Zhang Youzhi finally pried her fingers away, and after getting away, he tiptoed to the yard and closed the door.

The pain returned again.

Zhang Youzhi came to the yard and squatted on the ground in pain, gasping for breath. After a while, a cup of hot water was handed over to him, and he was helped to the steps.

"Thank you." Zhang Youzhi gasped and squeezed out these words through his teeth.

The man didn't speak, he just looked at the doll quietly.

"Uncle, I plan to stay here with her for three more days, and then I'll leave. I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Yuyu." Zhang Youzhi's tight heart broke almost instantly, and he sat on the steps sobbing.

"The doctor, there is really nothing we can do." Li Douyu's father said very little.

"There is no other way. No one can cure her. After I leave, you can help me deceive him. I know that you are the only one who can deceive her. You can deceive her for as long as you want."

"She's too stubborn." Li Douyu's father shook his head and lit another cigarette.

Zhang Youzhi coughed violently and vomited again. The undigested mutton mixed with the blood in his lungs were all mixed together. It was like a ball of rotten meat slapped on the soil.

Father Li put out his cigarette in a panic.

"It's okay, it's okay, you can smoke it, and give me one too." Zhang Youzhi grinned and smiled again, but it looked quite funny mixed with tears and blood.

"You are a good doll."

"..."

The mountains in Longnan usually have thick fog in the middle of the night, but it was different tonight. The sky was clean without a trace of fog, but there was no light leaking out of any gaps.

The sky and the mountains were pure black, with only two small sparks shining one after another on the mountainside, as if they were the only two remaining stars.

Little did Li Douyu know that the two men who loved her most in the world were gathering together to discuss her future.

…

"After I die, if Yuyu gets a new boyfriend, don't stop him."

"I will see if he can do it. If he is half as good as you, the whole family will feel relieved."

"OK."

…

"When the time comes that I can no longer hide it, just tell her the truth. Just say that I disappeared in an accident, or that I am dead."

"You can't fool her, she can guess everything."

"Then let's just say death."

…

"Uncle, Yuyu and I originally planned to get the certificate during the summer vacation, but we have no chance now. Do you think I can call you dad?"

"It works."

"dad."

…

"Dad, tell me something about Yuyu's childhood. She hid it and wouldn't tell me."

"The girl liked a son from Waishan when she was little. Later she moved away and she cried and made trouble for several days."

"Hey, I'm going to ask questions tomorrow."

…

"Dad, how can you trust Yuyu to come with me?"

"A baby girl is just like her mother. Mountains cannot surround her."

"You don't have to worry about me either."

…

"Dad, do you think Yuyu can live a good life in the future? If I were still here, I would definitely let her live a good life."

"If you have a family, no one can bully a girl."

"Yes, with you always here, I have nothing to worry about."

…

"Dad, I can't bear to leave Yuyu."

"Nothing to do, nothing to do..."

…
To be continued...