Early the next morning, everyone had breakfast and prepared to leave.
Dad and Mom Gu are going back to the company for a morning meeting. Gu Lang and Wang An are going to Shanghai to visit the injured in the hospital first, and then they will meet up with Zhou Tong and others to attend the "Training Session on Precautions for Overseas Travel and Basic Laws and Regulations of Various Countries".
Grandma stood on the steps of the hallway, watching everyone go with Dahei and the much more obedient wolf Xiaosi, her eyes occasionally sweeping over the fat lump in Gu's father's arms.
"Dad, how about I take the eldest brother to Shanghai to see it? You and my mom have to go to a meeting. Can you get away?"
Gu Lang stood by the door of the Wrangler, looking at his father with some concern as he carried a badger into the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz.
In fact, what he was worried about was not that Gu Dad didn't have time, but that he was afraid that Gu Dad, who rarely spent time alone with the badger, would speak without restraint and irritate the badger again. Who knew that the badger would endure it for his sake, or would fight without scruples.
"Oh, you and An An have so many plans, how can you have time? Leave it to us, I'll let Yang Jie go when the time comes!"
Before Dad Gu could say anything, Mom Gu waved her hand impatiently and told the two to get in the car quickly.
Gu Lang thought about it and said nothing more. If Yang Jie sent Mou Hu, it would be more reassuring than Gu's father. At least in his memory, Mou Hu had no record of beating women.
The bright spring sunshine shines on the cement road in the village, and Shengjiawu is full of vitality early in the morning. Seeing the Wrangler and Mercedes-Benz driving away one after another, the neighbors on the roadside can't help but comment on them, and those who are familiar with them will even say hello.
Wang Ping sat leaning back in the back seat, with a bag of beef jerky on his left and his grandmother's homemade fried meat on his right.
In fact, he was in a much better mood this morning. He had been thinking about it all night, and when the sun rose, he suddenly felt that he seemed to have taken this matter too seriously.
If after their parents had the accident, the two siblings stayed in Shanghai to depend on each other, then now that he had gotten into trouble, Wang An might not be able to accept it and would collapse.
But he had been in the security team for five years, and Wang An had long been accustomed to life without him. For her, Wang Ping, as her only relative, had more symbolic significance than practical significance. As long as Wang Ping was alive, even if he was now a vegetable, the symbolic significance would still exist.
After understanding this, Wang Ping felt relieved and fell asleep. Unfortunately, he didn't sleep for long before his grandmother pulled him out of bed to eat breakfast with her, and then went to Hangzhou with his father and mother.
The car was driving steadily on the road. Wang Ping looked at the trees flashing by. After a while, his eyelids drooped again.
Mother Gu sat in the passenger seat and pulled down the mirror to put on makeup, while Father Gu held the steering wheel with one hand and held a cigarette in his left hand. Neither of them spoke, and the car seemed a little quiet.
However, not long after, a strange swallowing sound came from the back seat. They both looked at the rearview mirror at the same time and saw a badger who was said to be anorexic, eating the fried meat jerky that his grandmother had packed for him. The leather seat was covered with fallen residue.
"Didn't you say anorexia?"
Dad Gu had a very dark look on his face, feeling that he had been cheated, but he didn't know who had cheated him.
"Who cares?" Gu rolled her eyes and continued to put on makeup in front of the mirror, muttering, "Since the old lady is worried, let Xiao Yang take it to see a doctor!"
Dad Gu thought about it and didn’t think it was a big deal, so he put the thought behind him.
When Wang Ping woke up, there was a new person in the car. Yang Jie, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, was sitting in the driver's seat. She noticed the movement in the back seat and glanced at him with a smile.
Wang Ping waved his paw as a greeting, stretched out his arms and sat up, only to find that the fried meat jerky his grandmother had brought him was gone, and only a bag of beef jerky was left beside him.
Thinking of how Gu's father had praised grandma's cooking skills during breakfast, Wang Ping's face suddenly darkened. He cursed someone inwardly for being so shameless that he even snatched the snacks of small animals. He finally knew who Gu Laosan inherited his integrity from.
The car turned right at a crossroads, drove east for a while, and then turned into a roadside parking space. Wang Ping glanced through the car window and saw a blue plaque hanging on a street-facing store with the words "Heng Ai Animal Hospital" written on it.
He nodded secretly. There is only one word difference between animal hospital and pet hospital, but the feeling it gave to the badger was different.
Wang Ping recognized his animal identity, but he scoffed at the term pet. It was not clear who was the pet between him and Gu Laosan.
Yang Jie parked the car, went to the back to open the door for a badger, then picked him up and walked towards the glass door under the blue doorhead.
Wang Ping looked around the layout of the animal hospital. To his surprise, there weren't many small animals inside. The few that were there were all wearing Elizabethan collars and lying sickly in cages. It looked like this place was different from other animal hospitals. It didn't seem to have any weird services like storage and grooming.
Yang Jie first registered at the front desk and told her appointment number. Then the girl in a white coat motioned her to go upstairs, where the doctor was waiting. At the same time, she kept staring at a badger with her big eyes curiously. She probably wanted to touch it, but didn't dare.
Yang Jie knew the integrity of the guy in her arms, so she ignored the curious look of the girl at the front desk and carried the badger directly to the second floor. She found an open treatment room in the corridor on the right, and a female doctor wearing a mask greeted her with a smile.
After exchanging information, the female doctor signaled Yang Jie to put the badger on a mat with a stand, and then walked over with a stethoscope hanging on her head.
"The little guy is very well behaved!"
Seeing that the badger was lying there obediently, the doctor praised him. Then he put the stethoscope on his belly and asked Yang Jie about the badger's performance at home.
"Anorexia? Don't like to eat?"
Listening to the "gurgling" sound of digestion coming from the stethoscope, the doctor frowned and began to ask other questions, including sleep quality, daily activities, etc. Yang Jie had checked with Gu's father before coming, and told the doctor everything she knew.
As the stethoscope slid down, it reached a certain position and could not move anymore.
Wang Ping used all four of his paws to cover the unspeakable area tightly, and at the same time glared and bared his teeth at the female doctor.
"You are sick, what can you hear here?"
"Huh?"
The female doctor frowned, and then, despite the badger's protests, she spread his two thin legs apart with her rubber-gloved hands and touched them.
"Has your badger never been sterilized?"
"Be your brother-in-law!" Wang Ping bared his teeth, angrily slapped the doctor's hand away, stood up angrily and hid aside.
“Heh~”
The female doctor didn't take it seriously. She put away her stethoscope, stood up and walked to the desk nearby. She smiled at Yang Jie, who was holding a badger and walking over, and said, "It's nothing serious. It's just that the little animal has reached its estrus period. It has never been sterilized, and we don't have any young female badgers to mate with it, so it will naturally feel lonely. If you can't find a young female badger to mate with it, my suggestion is to sterilize it once and for all."
“Ouch!”
Before Yang Jie could speak, the roar of a badger was heard in the treatment room.
"I'll make you suffer once and for all!"