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At 5:07 in the morning, I heard the sound of claws scratching the door before the door lock was turned. Before I touched the door handle, a furry black lightning had already crashed into my arms, and its breath with the smell of dew sprayed on my chin – this was my Border Collie pup McDull, who was accusing me of getting up late with his blue eyes framed by black.
When I met him under the bridge in a rainstorm three months ago, the puppy was shivering in the mud. The aunt at the rescue station said that he had been abandoned three times, but when he arched his wet head into my palm, I clearly heard something in my chest collapse. Now he has a leather collar with my name on it, and he runs like a dancing brush, drawing beautiful arcs in the sunset.
Our daily life is full of absurd rituals. Every day when I get home from get off work, McDull will run 300 meters on my shadow, then suddenly brake and face me with his butt until I take out the teething stick hidden in my pocket. It loves to hide my slippers in the laundry basket, and then pretends to be innocent with innocent eyes. Last week, a rainstorm suddenly came, and it held the handle of my umbrella and dragged it to the garage, but it got soaked first.
This clever little rascal can always create surprises. One day, I found that it hid my sports socks in the refrigerator’s fresh-keeping layer, and there was a half-gnawed chew stick next to it, as if it was creating a special “dog refrigerator”. The most touching thing is that when I come home late from overtime, I can always see it squatting in the entrance hall, warming my cold slippers with its body temperature. At this moment, it is lying next to my keyboard and taking a nap. Its tail occasionally sweeps across the enter key, and a string of crooked love symbols pops up on the screen.
The wisteria flowers outside the window fell on its shiny fur, and I suddenly realized that we have watched the cherry blossoms bloom together three times. Perhaps this is the wonder of life. When I taught it to “sit down” and “shake hands”, it taught me how to love the world again. McDull, oh McDull, you are a breathing black cloud, how many stars have you hidden in your eyes?
