Chapter 87: Scumbag Wangcai
But the men in the family had heavy work to do tomorrow and it was impossible for them to help the Cui family look for the dog all the time. Everyone comforted Cui Qingyi and Konjac and went back.
Mrs. Li and Li Shun wanted to stay and continue helping to look for it, but Cui Qingyi asked them to go back.
Wangcai is a family member to them, but to others he is just a dog and there is no need to keep him here.
After everyone had left, Cui Qingyi and Konjac also returned home.
Cui Qingyi subconsciously looked at the corner near the gate. In the past, when they came back, Wangcai would always wait here. She didn’t think there was anything special about it before, and sometimes she even felt it was a hindrance under her feet. But now, she just felt that the place was empty.
The meal prepared in the evening was still on the table, but neither of them had the appetite to eat.
Konjac felt as if he was being pawed by a cat. "Girl, are we still going to look for him?"
Cui Qingyi wanted to go, but she knew she couldn't.
"Let's wait until daytime. It's safe here, but if we go out alone at night, if something happens, I'm afraid no one will be able to help us."
Wangcai is a good person, but she cannot risk her own and Konjac's safety for Wangcai.
Konjac also understood that Cui Qingyi was right. She selfishly thought that while Wangcai was important, he couldn't compare to her. Neither of them slept well that night. Konjac even got up several times to check in the yard, hoping Wangcai would suddenly appear.
Late at night, on the north side of Dongshan Mountain.
A dark figure stopped and sniffed the remaining scent on the tree trunk.
It stood under the tree and turned to look down the mountain. After hesitating for a moment, it spread its claws and ran towards the northern mountains. Its target was a pack of wolves passing by and migrating north.
Cui Qingyi and Konjac didn't know that their two-year-old dog Wangcai was in heat for the first time and was so bold as to chase after a passing pack of wolves.
At dawn the next day, Cui Qingyi and Konjac went outside to look for the dog.
This time they went all the way to the foot of Dongshan Mountain and asked all the stall owners around but returned disappointed.
Many people knew that the big dog of the Cui family was lost. After all, since the girls' school opened, the dog followed Cui Qingyi and Konjac in and out every day, and also took on the responsibility of taking care of the children in the girls' school.
The children in the girls' school were very sad when they learned that it had run away.
Wangcai hadn't been seen for several days, and even the yamen runners who patrolled the alleys behind the yamen came to ask about him. When they learned that Wangcai had gotten lost, everyone was a little sad. The dog had been well-tended by the Cui family, and it was heartbreaking to see him lost.
Life has to go on even though Wangcai is missing. Cui Qingyi and Konjac didn't go looking for him specifically, but whenever they had free time they would always go for a walk around the streets and mountains, hoping that the big black dog would suddenly appear somewhere.
After that, for more than ten days, I seemed to get used to the disappointment.
Qiao Yishi had been out for five days, and when he returned home, he was caught by his mother and told about the big black dog raised by the Cui family across the street.
He was speechless. When he and his older brother were lost accidentally as children, his mother never nagged him for so long and even beat him with a bamboo stick.
Every day, Qiao's mother watched the two beautiful girls across the street go out to look for their dog. She didn't think it was worth mobilizing so many people to look for a lost dog just because it was lost.
She was a meticulous person. She felt that she had spent so much effort and care to raise the dog to such a big size. She felt heartbroken just to lose it like that, even though it wasn't hers.
Even though she knew her son didn't want to listen, she kept nagging him: "Do you think some bastard got some meat for the Cui family's dog? If that's the case, I curse his whole family to have stomach sores."
Qiao Yishi felt like a frown was about to fall from his forehead. He took a big bite of the big white steamed bun and said in confusion, "Mom, that's someone else's dog. Why are you so anxious?"
Qiao Yishi's words pierced Qiao's mother's heart. She looked at her youngest son with a cold face, "You are so heartless. When I was pregnant with you, I left an old hen at home to wait for milk. Your aunt stole it and ate it. As a result, I didn't eat any meat during the confinement period.
Later, you cried out of hunger because you had no milk to drink, and your father was forced to go hunting in the mountains. If your aunt had not stolen our chickens, you might have grown stronger.
What I hate most in my life is people stealing things."
Qiao Yishi shut his mouth tightly, secretly annoyed at himself for saying too much. His mother had been repeating this story about his aunt stealing a chicken for over twenty years, and his ears were almost callused from hearing it.
After Qiao's mother finally finished her nagging, Qiao Yishi finally said, "If that big black dog across the street hadn't been caught and eaten, I saw it heading up the East Mountain when I left five days ago."
At that time, their escort team had just set out, and when a dark shadow flashed by, he thought it was a wolf coming down from the mountain. Now he thought it was most likely the big dog from the Cui family.
Even if it's not, it has to be like this, otherwise, based on his understanding of me, I'm afraid he will keep nagging about it.
When Qiao's mother heard this, her eyes lit up and she hurried to the Cui family. She had a good relationship with the Cui family these days, and thought that since she knew the clue, she would go over and talk to them to avoid the two girls getting anxious.
Cui Qingyi has been anxious and irritated these days. The sores at the corners of her mouth keep healing and growing again, making her very irritable.
Mrs. Qiao did bring good news, and Cui Qingyi felt her heart sink halfway back into her stomach. Wangcai was missing, and her biggest worry was that someone had taken him and eaten him. The thought of him dying in such a way made her feel suffocated.
Before Qiao's mother left, she added, "I see your dog, Wangcai, is a female. She's probably lost her puppies now. Who knows, she might come back with her puppies in the near future."
Cui Qingyi and Konjac were both stunned. They seemed to have never paid attention to Wangcai's gender, and Wangcai had never shown any abnormality before. Could such a pure and simple dog have those worldly desires?
But no matter what, Cui Qingyi and Konjac finally had hope. They hoped that Wangcai would come back soon. It didn't matter whether he would have a baby or not.
During Wangcai's absence, the kitten Lai Fu officially settled down in the Cui family and had his own cat bed and cat food bowl.
It’s just that the kitten Lai Fu is a bit aloof and doesn’t like to talk to people. The way he gets along with Cui Qingyi and Konjac every day is to squat in the living room and meow a few times to inform the two-legged beast that it’s time to eat.
In the unknown mountains
Wangcai wolfed down the food brought back by the wolves and prepared to return.
A tall and strong male wolf in the pack tried to follow, but was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the leader of the pack.
Wangcai didn't care what happened inside the wolf pack. He was like a well-fed and satisfied woman, eager to go home. He left in the direction he came from without looking back.
There were intermittent wolf howls behind him, but Wangcai turned a deaf ear to them. He had already started to miss the big bones stewed with konjac.
Meat tastes better when it’s cooked!
It took Wangcai more than ten days to follow the wolf pack, but only ten days to return.
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