The news of the missing tiger in the black market spread like wildfire. In just three or two hours, it spread through word of mouth throughout the streets and alleys.
Walking down the street, I see people gathered in groups of two or three, talking. When I approached, I heard that they were talking about this very thing...
"Hey hey hey...did you hear that?!"
"What did you hear?"
"The tiger that the city lord has raised for five or six years has gone missing! It got lost right here in the city. If that's true, what are we going to do?"
“No way…”
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Hua Shi lowered her head and walked through the busy streets. Every time she passed a section of the road, she could hear the topics discussed by the crowd. Without exception, they were all talking about the missing tiger.
She felt vaguely uneasy.
And from the conversations of the people in the town, it can be heard that the decisive city lord is very fond of the pet he has raised for three to five years, and he is willing to spend a lot of manpower to find it.
Because of this major move, the news spread almost throughout the streets and alleys in less than half a day.
Because they hadn't witnessed the tiger's sacrifice themselves, many people were skeptical. Even when they knew the tiger was missing and might be hiding somewhere in town, they still didn't take it seriously.
This is what the vast majority of people think.
Hua Shi dodged the dense crowd, walked through several stalls, found the store where she needed to purchase items, and walked in.
After leaving the barefoot doctor, Hua Shi asked Xie Mingchi to take Song Zhu and the others back to the inn to pack up their things, and then find an ox cart to prepare to rush back overnight. She gave him some instructions and then went around several streets and came here.
I plan to buy some things before going back. It's a rare trip out, so I can't return empty-handed. It seems that my home has everything it needs now, but when I think about it carefully, there are still many things that need to be done.
After raising three pets, the family basically has no shortage of meat, but rice and noodles still need to be bought, and the four children don’t have suitable seasonal clothes...
After careful consideration, I realized I still needed money for a lot of things...cloth, rice, flour...and some candy to take back. Wait...there's even peanut frying oil here? It smells so good, a familiar yet strange smell...
After a round of shopping, Hua Shi's hands were full of bags. Fortunately, the owner of the grain shop saw that she bought a lot, so he made an exception and asked the apprentice in the store to help her send the three bags of rice and flour back to the inn first.
Otherwise, her hands might not be able to hold such a large pile of things.
Passing by another cloth shop, Hua Shi paused for a moment, hesitated for a moment, looked down at the things in her hands, sighed lightly, and gave up the idea of buying a few more quilts.
It is only the beginning of spring now. When the weather gets hotter, there will be no need to cover yourself with a thick quilt. It will not be too late to buy some in September or October.
Hua Shi thought about it, quickened his pace and walked towards the inn.
Perhaps it was because she was holding too many things in her hands, and many passers-by looked at her in surprise along the way.
There were many people around, and she was alone. She moved her legs for a while, and soon she saw the inn from a distance.
Xie Mingchi was also seen at the door.
Before she could even open her mouth to shout, Xie Mingchi turned around first and looked in her direction as if he had telepathy.
“Ashi…!”
Xie Mingchi took two or three steps forward and took what she was holding.
Hua Shi's gaze fell on the empty ox cart behind him, and she saw the three bags of rice and flour she had just bought on the steps at the door, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Have you packed everything?" Hua Shi asked casually.
"Um."
The two of them worked together to load the things into the car. After a while, Songzhu and the other one, wearing clean clothes and with messy hair, walked out of the inn.
Xie Mingchi bought the clothes at a nearby clothing store. He took someone to measure them and they were a perfect fit. The style was simple, one dark blue and one light green.
But the two of them had just changed into new clothes, and they lowered their heads, tugged at the corners of their clothes, looking very uncomfortable.
Hanashi's eyes swept across their messy heads, and a strange feeling of familiar strangeness passed through his heart.
Isn't this messy hair exactly the same style Hua Yu and the others had been wearing two years ago...
Hua Shi suppressed the obsessive-compulsive disorder that was rising in his heart. Now was not the time to think about this. The important thing was to seize the time and hurry back.
You have to know that her heart has been pounding all the way there. She was very panicked and her intuition told her that she had to leave this place of trouble as soon as possible.
The escaped tiger hadn't been caught, so she figured it might be hiding somewhere in town, and it might sniff its way here soon...
"If you've packed your things, get in the car first. We're going to go back overnight."
Hua Shi took the straw that was lying on the ground and covered the neatly arranged items on the ox cart with it. There was too little straw, and covering them like this would make the matter more obvious. After thinking about it, he took a batch of dark cloth, spread it out, and covered the top, covering the ground tightly, then clapped his hands.
Hua Song and Hua Zhu obediently got on the ox cart and did not object to this hurried move.
After the four people got on the ox cart, the cowherd sitting in the front looked at the sunset and called out to them to sit tight, then prepared to drive the ox cart towards the city gate.
On the wobbly ox cart, Hua Shi looked left and right, feeling as if something was missing...
Wait! Where's Xiao Hei?!
"Wait a minute!" Hua Shi hurriedly stopped the car. Fortunately, the car had just taken two steps when she jumped off the ox cart and looked towards the direction of the inn entrance.
Xie Mingchi also jumped down and asked her in a low voice, "Ashi, what's wrong?"
"Where's Xiao Hei?" Hua Shi turned and looked at him.
Xie Mingchi paused, recalling that when he was packing up just now, he hadn't seen the black cat.
"No, I didn't see it when I was packing up my things in the room just now."
"I'll go take a look. You guys wait here for me."
Hua Shi patted his head. In his haste, he almost dropped the black cat. Really...
I wonder if he is hiding in some corner of the room, sleeping secretly, and deliberately not coming out?
Generally, when she is not around, the black cat rarely meows in front of others. Most of the time, it just lies lazily and takes a nap in a corner.
It was like this at home before...
Hua Shi hurried back to the inn and went straight to the room on the second floor. The young shopkeeper at the counter asked her if she had left anything behind. She nodded without saying anything more.
Unfortunately, she searched the entire small guest room but couldn't find any trace of Xiao Hei's cat...
Hua Shi was a little dumbfounded.
Where did you go?
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