Chapter 106

After hurriedly changing into Buyehou's vest and returning to the teahouse, Yu Tu was immediately met with a pair of resentful eyes.

“Woof woof woof woof!”

Even without opening the contract in his consciousness to translate the dog barking sound, Yu Tu could tell from the tone that Xiao Hui was scolding fiercely.

Although it was not intentional, leaving his contracted companion in a teahouse for half a month without paying any attention to him...

Yu Tu thought that he deserved the scolding.

Facing Xiao Hui, who was so angry that his hair was about to explode, he sincerely apologized, "I'm sorry."

Little Gray, whose voice of “woof woof woof” was getting higher and higher, said: “…woof?”

It was already evening and almost dark, and the light in the teahouse was not very bright, but it could still vaguely see that his contractor had a pale face, and his condition was completely different from before.

Little Gray's angry roar gradually faded, replaced by a worried sound: "Woof?"

What's wrong with you?

Yu Tu hurriedly opened the contract translation function and prepared to be scolded: "It consumes a lot, but it's okay."

"Did you feel hungry while I was away?" Yu Tu rubbed Xiao Hui's head. "I'm really sorry."

The contractor's fingers that touched its head were cold, as worrying as his pale face.

"Woof!"

Why are your hands so cold?

"Are your hands cold?"

Yu Tu was slightly stunned, and then he was filled with heartache. It was all because of that big move that needed to be repaid in installments, which left his vest with only the most basic operating functions—just stay alive, don't expect anything else, use it all to pay off the debt!

Yu Tu grabbed a strand of energy from the "vortex" that swallowed up the energy and distributed it on his hands. He himself didn't feel anything, but he couldn't warm his hands with his contracted partner who had been pigeonholed for half a month and was probably still hungry. That was too immoral.

Taking another strand of energy from the "vortex", Yu Tu created a large bowl of fragrant dog food out of nothing. Yu Tu placed three bowls of dog food as big as Xiao Hui's in front of it: "I promise..."

He wanted to promise solemnly that this would never happen again, but he didn't dare to say it for sure, so he changed the subject: "...even if I have to leave for a long time one day, I will leave enough food for you."

During this period of time, he ate ordinary food, and at most gnawed on a few spirit stones to satisfy his hunger. The dog food transformed from energy was fragrant and extremely tempting, but Xiao Hui felt a genuine uneasiness.

Even though he has the blood of two different beasts in his body, and these two bloods can miraculously coexist peacefully, Xiao Hui is still a little dog with little experience. His current anxiety has even caused him to temporarily lose interest in his favorite activity of eating.

"Woof woof?"

Are you really okay now?

Yu Tu thought about the origin of Xiao Hui that he had seen before, and then looked at its current expression. He guessed that he must have made Xiao Hui particularly worried in the past half month.

Yu Tu smiled and sighed: "I'm fine, I'll be fine after a while."

Once he pays off the installments owed for his cool trick, Ma Jia won't have to just maintain basic functions of survival. His pale face and cold hands and feet will all heal without any medicine.

Xiao Hui was still very worried and still a little angry, but he felt a little distressed when he saw the pale-faced contractor who had left him for a long time patiently answering his questions.

Forget it, it will get angry again next time, but forget it this time. Anyway, someone has been feeding it on time every day for the past half month, so it hasn't been hungry for a few days.

Little Gray stretched out his paw to drag the dog food to his side. He took two bites and glanced at it. He took three bites and glanced at it again. Finally, he couldn't help but stop. He wagged his tail and stretched out his paw to pat the drawer on the counter: "Woof!"

It hasn't been long since it came, but I remember everyone loved the tea in the cabinet and was very happy after drinking it!

Yu Tu understood its meaning.

But the tea leaves in the drawer were picked and dried from the tea trees in the backyard. They seemed to have some special effects on others, but for him... After much thought, Yu Tu could only find the characteristics of being delicious.

If I had to give a comment, it would be that it is definitely a top-notch tea tree.

Unable to bear to reject Xiao Hui's kindness, Yu Tu took out some tea leaves from the drawer and brewed them. While brewing the tea, Yu Tu's somewhat restless heart gradually calmed down.

When a person faces too many problems, he becomes indifferent, as the saying goes, "Too much debt, no worries."

After drinking a cup of tea, Yu Tu heard a knock on the door. The sound was neither loud nor soft, and very polite.

“Woof woof!”

It’s the person who is responsible for my dinner who is calling me to eat!

Yu Tu was stunned: "I'll take care of your dinner?"

Xiao Hui paused in shaking his tail. To save trouble, he simply and roughly threw a small piece of his memory into Yu Tu's mind through the companion contract.

Yu Tu was fortunate enough to get a small piece of memory from Xiao Hui’s first-person perspective—

Xiao Hui, who had been hungry for two days, stood beside the carved wooden door and frantically scratched it with his claws. After prying the door open a crack, he squeezed out from the crack with a ferocious look.

Because the whole Chongming City was in chaos, Xiao Hui didn't get any food when he went out. During the time he was raised by Yu Tu, he became picky about food and didn't want to go back to pick up garbage anymore, so he went hungry again for a day.

On the morning of the fourth day, the hunger situation took a turn for the better—someone knocked on the door of the teahouse.

Little Gray skillfully used his claws to pry open the crack in the door and poked his little head out.

There were two people standing outside the door, looking a little stiff. Little Gray, who was so hungry and dizzy, couldn't even remember their faces. But the two people looked inside from the doorway, and saw Little Gray returning dejectedly after finding no food three times in a row in the morning, noon and evening. They suddenly realized something and started feeding it three meals a day on time, and they have been feeding it since then until today.

It only took a moment to understand the whole cause and effect through the contract. Yu Tu got up and opened the door. Standing outside the door were two familiar-looking people—Song Tu and Liu Jia.

Song Tu held a bowl of steaming noodles in his left hand and a bowl of fragrant egg fried rice in his right hand. Liu Jia held a cup of milk tea in his left hand and a bowl of grilled skewers in his right hand.

Song Tu shouted at the top of his voice almost as soon as he opened the door: "Little dog~ Look what I'm going to bring you———Senior?!"

Song Tu had been worried ever since he came down from Mount Sitai that day, but he was afraid of causing trouble for his predecessors, so they stayed at the foot of the mountain. After most of the day, a group of people came down from the mountain. They were from the Beijing Municipal Administration, but his predecessors were not among them.

After they brought the people from the General Administration to their station, everyone, including the two of them, started to work non-stop. The situation in Chongming City was too serious this time. There was public opinion on the Internet, people in need of medical treatment, various places damaged by the "materials"... everything needed manpower, and they didn't even have time to feel sad for their teammates who had unfortunately died.

After working overtime for several days, Director Jiang suddenly called them to his office alone. After asking them some questions about the senior Marquis Buye, he forced them out of their heavy work and sent them to Wutong City to guard.

They found the place where the senior was by the same route he took last time to pick up Wei Ziming, but they only saw the puppy he raised, and there was no trace of the senior.

After reporting the situation to Director Jiang, Director Jiang on the other end of the line remained silent for a long time, but did not ask them to come back. Instead, she asked them to take good care of the puppy raised by the senior and notify her after the senior came back.

After raising the dog for more than ten days, the two of them even figured out some fun from it. The puppy raised by the elder was not an ordinary dog. It was just like a curious child who wanted to try everything. After making sure it could eat any food without any adverse reaction, they began to feed it in various ways.

However, this time, before they even started feeding the dog, they were caught by their senior who had returned from nowhere... I don't know if their senior allowed them to feed the dog unhealthy food.

Song Tu and Liu Jia were like they met an iron-faced and selfless head teacher in school. Their first reaction was to hide the things in their hands behind their bodies.

"You, your puppy is quite lively..." Liu Jia lowered his head and stammered, "It can eat anything, so we bought it some dog food... um, things other than dog food."

"It's okay." They heard the senior's calm voice behind the door, "Thank you for your concern during my absence."

Yu Tu looked at the things they were holding, then looked at Xiao Hui at his feet, whose tail was swinging like a propeller and whose face was full of anticipation. He felt that there were indeed many good people in this world!

If they hadn't fed him regularly during this period, Xiao Hui would have suffered.

With this in mind, Yu Tu extended a sincere invitation. He stepped back slightly and said, "Would you like to come in for a cup of tea?"

The two who were invited instead of being blamed by their seniors were flattered and said, "That's really disrespectful."

I don't know why you are quibbling about words.

When they entered the teahouse, whose interior they had glimpsed with astonishment on their first day, they still felt a sense of unreality, like a dream. This sense of unreality became even more serious after two cups of hot tea were served.

Liu Jia and Song Tu each held a cup of hot tea and sipped it slowly. As the warm tea went down their stomachs, their tense moods gradually calmed down. They saw the shadow of the tea tree that blocked out the sun more clearly than anyone else at the foot of the mountain that day, and were more shocked than anyone else.

Strong people are always attractive.

Liu Jia thought for a while before speaking: "Senior..."

He wanted to say that they helped him feed the dog because of Director Jiang's order. Otherwise, even if they wanted to repay him, they would not have the time because of the chaos in Chongming City.

But just as he blurted out the name, Liu Jia was suddenly stuck.

He had been nervous since meeting his senior, but now that his brain had started to function normally, he noticed that his senior's face was abnormally pale.

Was it because he was injured in the ancient seal formation half a month ago? Or was it because of his disappearance in the past half month?

Liu Jia wanted to ask, but felt that it involved the privacy of his seniors, so he didn't dare to open his mouth.

Then, Yu Tu saw the expression of the person in front of him change from time to time, and finally asked carefully: "Senior, are you feeling unwell? Is there anything we can help you with?"

Yu Tu: “…”

Let's use less of his energy for the cool ultimate move! Look at his current vest appearance, it's simply scary!

Yu Tu shook his head.

He shook his head, which made Liu Jia more worried.

In the curling hot air, the pale-faced senior seemed a little distracted. Even though he still had a gentle smile on his face, there was a kind of sullen, silent fatigue.