Chapter 5 Shang Youqing, I’m so hungry.
Shang Youqing originally thought that his relationship with the He family father and son ended here and they would never meet again.
Unexpectedly, not long after returning to Ning City, he met the young master of the He family again.
After Shang Youqing returned to Ning City that day, he was entrusted by Old Lady An to take full control of the Mingling Zoo.
Shang Youqing has a very clear understanding of the current situation of Mingling Zoo. She knows the fundamental reason why the zoo has been poorly managed for a long time and is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Starting from the year before last, a new animal park that keeps up with the times opened in the west of the city next door. The two zoos are close to each other. Most of the animals raised in Mingling Zoo are old, weak, sick and disabled animals rescued from the mountains. Except for some young people who come here occasionally out of kindness, tourists will naturally give priority to the more fashionable and interesting one in the west of the city.
Now that Yunqing Group has agreed to extend the deadline, the most urgent task is to reform the half-dead status quo of Mingling Zoo. As long as the number of visitors to the zoo can surpass that of the neighboring Chengxi, there will naturally be a reason to preserve it.
Shang Youqing went to Lao Yan's house to pick up her baby and told Shang You everything about taking over the zoo.
Because it was not certain whether Yunqing Group would agree to extend the restrictions, and because Mrs. An was hospitalized, the zoo had been closed for the past two days. The few keepers who were already there were not optimistic about the future of the zoo, and most of them took this opportunity to resign.
After Shang Youqing officially took over the zoo, she was not in a hurry to open it. In the next two days, she and the only two remaining old employees in the zoo replanned and reorganized the various animal areas in the park.
She made detailed records of the conditions of the animals in each area, focusing on one of the tigers that was about to give birth and an elderly leopard in the leopard enclosure that had developed mild anorexia. She made a detailed shopping list based on the nutritional needs of these animals.
That day, Shang Youqing first fed the animals, then went to the feed room to count the various feed reserves and added a few more items to the list.
After finishing all these in the work area, she remembered that Shang You was left in the park, so she quickly took the list and went to find her baby.
Speaking of which, her baby is a little different from ordinary chicks.
In Shang Youqing's memory, little Shang You was only quite attached to her in the year after it was hatched. At that time, the little guy knew to curl himself up into a small fur ball and hide under her wings, chirping and shouting for a hug.
But since she turned two years old, Shang You seemed to have taken the initiative to raise her as her primary responsibility. In just two years, he almost turned her into a lazy mother who had nothing to do but have everything handed to her.
If it weren't for this sudden accident that brought him down the mountain, Shang Youqing would probably still be lying on the mountain leisurely.
Shang Youqing quickly found her baby in the bird park area.
In just a few short days, Shang You has become the little boss in the bird park.
On a relatively narrow path in the park, Shang You was doing "patrol work" in the bird park on a skateboard. Behind him was a large army of chicks, chirping and quickly adjusting their direction as Shang You skated, standing in a row.
Shang Youqing sat on the electric scooter, holding his face in his hands and looked at it. In a good mood, he patted the back seat and said, "Baby, come here!"
Shang You looked up and saw Shang Youqing driving a small electric car. He shouted, "Mom, wait for me." Then he picked up the skateboard and opened the fence of the chicken coop with his other hand. He glanced back with a tense face, and the army of chicks immediately returned to the chicken coop in an orderly manner.
Before leaving, Shang Youqing glanced at the clear sky outside and took out an umbrella and gave it to Shang You.
"Baby, let's go to the market."
While riding an electric bike to the nearby farmers' market, Shang Youqing read the shopping list to the baby sitting in the back seat.
Shang You held Shang Youqing's waist with her little hands and carefully wrote down the contents of the list so that she could remind her mother in time in case she forgot anything during the shopping.
Because there were a lot of things to buy, when they arrived at the market, Shang Youqing bought some light items first, carried the bags back to the electric bike, and asked Zaizai to help her count them first. She then went to a nearby shop to buy other things.
At the same time, a blue BYD parked on the side of the road honked.
He Cunyue had just come out of the store street with a copy of the retrieved information in his hand. As he walked towards the car, he said to the person on the other end of the phone, "Okay, I happen to be investigating a case in Ning City these two days. Three o'clock in the afternoon, right? The time is perfect... Then I'll drive over to pick up Momo now."
After hanging up the phone, He Cunyue opened the car door and was about to get in, but at this moment, he felt dizzy. His pupils suddenly dilated and he leaned stiffly against the car, breathing rapidly, and his whole body fell down bit by bit.
Shang You was sitting on the electric scooter, carefully organizing the things his mother bought, when he suddenly heard a thud behind him. He turned around and saw a woman next to him half-fallen out of the open car door.
Shang You jumped off the electric scooter, stretched out her little hand to hug the girl, and pushed her into the seat with great effort. She heard her slightly open mouth and struggled to utter a vague cry for help, "Help... Help..."
Shang You opened the round kettle hanging diagonally on her shoulder and handed it to her, "Sister, have a drink of water."
He Cunyue's consciousness was in a daze, and she only vaguely saw a child with a vague outline. Her instinct for survival made her swallow several mouthfuls of the water that was fed into her mouth.
Then, he gradually lost consciousness and passed out amidst those childish cries.
At this time, Shang Youqing just came back after shopping. After hearing Shang You tell her roughly what happened, she held the wrist of the woman in the car and took her pulse. Her breathing and pulse were returning to normal.
"It's okay, baby. The spiritual water you fed her worked."
However, just in case, Shang Youqing still helped call an ambulance. Before leaving, he glanced at the running dashcam above the center of the car's front windshield.
The next second, the light on the recorder flashed several times due to a malfunction.
By the time the recorder returned to normal, Shang Youqing had already disappeared from the sight of the BYD with her baby.
More than an hour later, at the City Center Hospital.
"Deputy Captain, are you sure you're not hallucinating? You were in critical condition with cardiac arrest. How could you have been cured by a little kid just by feeding him water?"
He Cunyue sat in the ward without saying a word, still savoring the taste of the clear spring water.
Soon another subordinate came in. "We checked the dashcam, but didn't see any children on screen." He looked toward the bed again, pointed at his head, and asked, "Deputy Captain, how about we do something else?"
"How could there not be?" He Cunyue sat up straight and was about to say something else when he suddenly remembered something more important -
"Wait! Where's my nephew Momo?! How could I forget to pick him up from the airport?"
He Cunyue broke out in a cold sweat and didn't bother waiting for the results of the remaining tests. He grabbed his phone and got out of bed, urging, "Hurry and take me to the airport!"
On the other side, Mingling Zoo.
Shang Youqing had just come back from the procurement office and sorted the things into the feed room when she turned around and saw Shang You sleeping on the car seat. Her soft little face was resting on her arm, showing a little fat. When Shang Youqing went over to pick up the little cub, Shang You's little hands wrapped around her neck, and she gave her a vague childish reminder.
"Mom, remember to wake me up in half an hour."
"Why are you getting up?"
“Feed the chickens.”
Shang Youqing rubbed Shang You's soft hair and said, "It's going to rain soon. I'll go feed her."
The baby is very similar to her in this respect. He tends to feel sleepy whenever it rains. Shang Youqing carried Shang You back to the small courtyard house. When they came out again, the sky outside had become gloomy, accompanied by a few muffled thunders, and raindrops splashed down.
Shang Youqing held an umbrella and called the birds of prey that were still wandering outside back to their respective cages. He also added some food to them and planned to close the side doors on the east and west sides before going back to plan for reopening the park.
However, just as she walked to the east gate and locked it, she vaguely heard one or two slight inhalations coming from outside the door.
Shang Youqing paused, opened the door that had just been locked, and looked outside.
Outside the door, under a tin shed where a pile of abandoned facilities were placed, a young master in an expensive suit was squatting in a dirty corner to avoid the rain.
The iron shed was leaking wind and rain on all sides. The little guy was holding a bulging schoolbag in his arms. The joints of his little hands were frozen red and he kept shivering.
Hearing the door open, He Zhimo looked up, his big eyes moist and red, sniffing and saying, "Shang Youqing, I'm so hungry."
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