The summer rain stops suddenly.
The rain outside stopped before the big dog's wounds were treated.
The anesthesia took effect quickly, the big dog fell asleep, and Lu Lingxi was freed. Dong Zhi took the time to tell him to be careful on the way back. Lu Lingxi shook his head and didn't plan to leave halfway. He wanted to wait until the end to ask about the big dog's condition. When he touched the big dog just now, he only felt that the body under his palm was skinny and there were several obvious scars. He had never seen a stray dog before. Although he was not naive enough to think that all dogs were as sleek as the golden retriever raised by the Lu family's main house, he didn't expect it to be so thin and felt like a skeleton. In order not to cause trouble, Lu Lingxi quietly stepped back a few steps and stood next to Yan Yue.
From Yan Yue's perspective, the boy's face was delicate, and his body was slender and slightly thin. Because it was summer, the boy wore a light blue T-shirt, and his short black hair hung down smoothly, which made his exposed neck look even more delicate and white.
He didn't feel it when he was far away, but now that he was close, Yan Yue only felt that the boy had a comfortable smell. Just standing quietly beside him, the irritability that he had been suppressing in his heart slowly calmed down. He couldn't help but want to get closer to the boy, closer and closer.
The thought flashed through his mind, and Yan Yue was surprised to find that he actually took a step towards the boy. When he came to his senses, a trace of embarrassment flashed across Yan Yue's eyes, and he quietly retreated back to where he was.
His movement caught Lu Lingxi's attention. Lu Lingxi turned around in confusion and gave Yan Yue a faint smile.
The boy's smile was pure and clear, like a ray of sunshine shining into Yan Yue's heart. Yan Yue's mind flashed with the image of the boy smiling and stroking the big dog, and the crazy idea began to clamor again. His eyes darkened, and he turned his head expressionlessly, leaving the boy with a cold profile.
Lu Lingxi: “…”
"It's done!" Dong Zhi's voice attracted Lu Lingxi's attention again. He wiped the sweat off his face and nodded in the direction of Lu Lingxi and Yan Yue. "The wound has been treated. It should be fine after a few days of rest."
Lu Lingxi breathed a sigh of relief, came to the operating table and asked, "When will it wake up?"
The nurse gave Dong Zhi a strong anesthetic, which would last at least 12 hours. Dong Zhi calculated the time, which was about the time when the pet store would open tomorrow. "Around 8 o'clock tomorrow morning."
Lu Lingxi asked, "Can it eat meat buns?"
There is a breakfast shop at the entrance of the community that sells delicious meat buns. Wang Shuxiu bought some from them several times, and Lu Lingxi quickly fell in love with the taste.
Dong Zhi laughed, "Stray dogs eat everything."
After answering Lu Lingxi's question, Dong Zhi's eyes fell on Yan Yue and he said sincerely, "Thank you, sir."
Given the dog's injuries, if Yan Yue hadn't rescued it, it would have been hit a second time because of its mobility problems. Yan Yue's action could be said to have saved the dog's life.
"No need." Yan Yue said concisely, and took out some cash from his wallet and handed it over. "This is the cost of treatment and the follow-up costs for the next few days." After that, he handed over a business card, "Call me if you don't have enough money." When he was talking to Dong Zhi, his eyes always fell on the boy inadvertently, but the boy was busy combing the tangled hair of the big dog with two young nurses and didn't pay any attention to him. Yan Yue felt a little uncomfortable again.
Suppressing this ridiculous thought in his mind, Yan Yue quickly left the pet shop. Before driving, he glanced at the name of the gardening shop opposite and remembered the three words "Micro Gardening".
Inside the pet shop, Dong Zhi held up the business card left by Yan Yue and read, "Yan Yue."
This business card was different from the ones Dong Zhi had seen before. It had no fancy introduction, only a simple name and phone number, but it was unexpectedly impressive.
When Lu Lingxi heard the name Yan Yue, his heart moved. He seemed to have heard this name somewhere before. There seemed to be a Yan family in Zhongjing? This thought only lasted for a moment, and Lu Lingxi quickly put it behind his mind and focused his attention on the big dog.
Because he helped out at the pet store, Lu Lingxi got home a little late. Wang Shuxiu left the prepared food on the table as usual, and also left a brand new silver-white metal phone. Lu Lingxi's old phone was picked up by someone when they were fighting in the park. He was used to not using a phone, so he didn't mention it. However, Wang Shuxiu felt that it was inconvenient to contact him, so she took the time to buy him a new one.
Lu Lingxi carefully saved Wang Shuxiu's number as the first one, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously. He only has three contacts now, and that's even counting Du Lin. He made up his mind to save the numbers of Dong Zhi and Zheng Tan when he goes to work tomorrow. These people are all his friends, and he will definitely have more and more friends in the future.
After playing with his phone for a while, Lu Lingxi ran to the backyard again. After a week, the tomato seedlings in the backyard had grown to almost one meter high. At this rate, he would be able to eat tomatoes soon. But the tomatoes grew too fast, would the neighbors around feel strange? Lu Lingxi hadn't thought about this problem when he was planting, but now he had to consider it. It would be best to find something to cover it so that it would not be too obvious from the outside.
Thinking about this idea in his mind, Lu Lingxi sent a text message to Yi Hang before going to bed at night to ask him.
"Third brother, you finally have a cell phone." Yi Hang's text message came back quickly.
"Don't worry about this matter. Tomorrow I'll ask Lao Er and the others to build you a simple shed to cover it."
"Thank you." Lu Lingxi felt warm in his heart. Maybe this is what it feels like to have friends.
That night, Lu Lingxi slept well. Similarly, Yan Yue unexpectedly did not suffer from insomnia and slept until dawn. But when he woke up, Yan Yue's face looked a little bad, and his brows were tightly knitted together. For the whole night, his dreams were filled with the voice of the boy from yesterday, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt, just sleep it off."
This sentence seemed to have a magical power, soothing the hidden anxiety in his heart. Since his parents left him alone in the Yan family mansion when he was six years old, he would subconsciously fear the fear of facing a person at night. When he was a child, he didn't know how to resolve this fear, and staying up all night seemed to be his weak resistance. As he got older, he was able to hide this fear well, but this fear had been imprinted in his bones for a long time, and it tightly entangled him with insomnia.
Yan Yue had heard a saying that the darker a person is, the more they desire light. This is an instinctive pursuit. He thought of the strange boy, and he almost instinctively wanted to get closer to him. He couldn't describe his mentality, and it sounded like a pervert. Yan Yue lowered his eyes, suppressed this strange impulse, put on his clothes and went downstairs.
In the restaurant downstairs, besides Yin Yongde, there was also a strange girl today. The girl looked young, about 20 years old, and very pretty and cute. When she saw Yan Yue, a hint of surprise appeared on her face. She looked at Yan Yue nervously and called out softly, "Brother."
Yan Yue looked indifferent, as if he didn't hear what she said.
A trace of hurt flashed in the girl's eyes, but she still tried to force a smile and stretched out her hand to pull Yan Yue. Yan Yue looked at her coldly, and the girl stopped halfway in the air, not daring to really pull Yan Yue. Anyway, she was just pretending to let grandpa see her attitude. She knew Yan Yue's temper. Yan Yue really dared to take off the clothes she had touched and throw them into the trash can in front of grandpa and the servants.
The confrontation between the two was only a moment, Yan Yueyue passed the girl and sat opposite Yin Yongde. Yin Yongde sighed in his heart, pretending not to see the undercurrent between the two, and talked about other interesting things.
Yan Yue was in a bad mood after breakfast. He rejected Yin Yongde's suggestion to go hiking and drove away from Yin's house alone. Unconsciously, he arrived at the street he was on yesterday. Yan Yue parked the car at the intersection and looked at Micro Gardening from a distance. It was still early and Micro Gardening had not yet opened. Yan Yue didn't know whether the boy yesterday was working here or just helping his family run the store. He remembered that the boy looked like a minor, and generally at this age, he should still be in school.
Realizing that his behavior was similar to that of a pervert, Yan Yue was about to drive away when he saw the boy in the rearview mirror, jogging to the door of the pet shop carrying a bag of buns.
"Brother Dong, Brother Dong."
When Lu Lingxi passed by Yan Yue, he didn't notice the car parked on the side of the road at all. His whole mind was on the black dog in the pet shop.
Dong Zhi lived behind the pet shop. When he heard Lu Lingxi's voice, he opened the door with a smile.
"Xiaoxi, it's so early."
Lu Lingxi smiled shyly and pointed at the buns in his hand, "Brother Dong, have you eaten yet?"
Dong Zhi laughed, "Xiaoxi, are you bringing breakfast for me or for Dahei?" Dahei was the name they gave to the stray dog yesterday.
Lu Lingxi curled his eyes and said, "Brother Dong, you eat half and leave the other half for Dahei."
While the two were talking, Dahei, who had just woken up after the anesthetic wore off, heard Lu Lingxi's voice and started to cry out softly.
Lu Lingxi walked to the cage where Dahei was locked up. Dahei was obviously not used to this small space. He growled irritably and used his uninjured front paw to poke at the iron bars of the cage from time to time. Feeling Lu Lingxi approaching, Dahei stopped growling and squinted his eyes at Lu Lingxi.
Lu Lingxi's expression was gentle, and he carefully reached into the cage and touched Dahei's head. Dahei didn't move, and just followed Lu Lingxi's movements. They took advantage of Dahei's unconsciousness yesterday to give him a bath, and after a night, Dahei's fur was not shiny, but at least it was much cleaner.
"Here, have a bun." Lu Lingxi took out a bun and placed it in front of Dahei.
Dahei looked at Lu Lingxi, then lowered his head to smell the bun, without moving.
Dong Zhi reminded Lu Lingxi, "Xiaoxi, please step back."
Lu Lingxi took a few steps back obediently. Dahei growled softly and lowered his head to bite open the bun. After eating two buns, Dahei refused to eat any more. Lu Lingxi was puzzled, as he didn't think two buns would fill him up.
Dong Zhi sighed and explained, "Stray dogs like this are very sensible and can read people's expressions. They are afraid of being disliked if they eat too much, so they usually just eat half full." It only eats when Lu Lingxi feeds it. In the morning, he wanted to feed Dahei something, but Dahei glanced at him and turned his head away, with clear vigilance in his eyes.
Lu Lingxi glanced at Dahei and asked in a low voice: "Will anyone adopt it?"
Dong Zhi shook his head. His pet shop often rescued abandoned puppies, and sometimes people would adopt them. But generally, the adopted puppies were either obedient and sensible, or some relatively expensive dogs. Dahei was just an ordinary local dog. Who would adopt it?
Lu Lingxi fell silent. He looked at Dahei and thought about Wang Shuxiu. He wondered if Wang Shuxiu would be angry if he adopted Dahei.
Yan Yue sat in the car and watched Lu Lingxi happily run into the pet store and then walked out in a depressed mood. What happened? Did something happen to the black dog? Or...
Yan Yue couldn't sit still anymore, he gripped the steering wheel tightly, and hesitated whether to go over to take a look.
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