When Mr. Gu rushed to the pet hospital after receiving the news, all he saw was Yang Jie, who looked anxious and worried, and a female doctor with a bruise on her forehead, but the badger had disappeared.
If only the word sterilization was mentioned, the badger would not have such a big reaction. But the bad thing was that Yang Jie called Gu's father in front of Wang Ping, conveyed the female doctor's advice, and asked whether to sterilize. The female doctor stretched out her hand and wanted to tie the badger to the treatment table first.
Before the call was over, he heard the sound of tables and chairs being overturned and the female doctor screaming in pain. Wang Ping couldn't even wait to go down the stairs, and directly climbed out through the open window on the second floor. When Yang Jie chased out, the badger was no longer visible outside.
"Hiss, what can we do? Xiao Lang and the old lady both regard the badger as their lifeblood..."
Listening to Yang Jie's weak narration, Dad Gu looked as if he had a toothache.
He and Gu's mother had never really liked the badger, and they didn't think it was as friendly as Dahei. For them, it was fine if it was lost. But Gu Lang and his grandmother liked the badger, and if he lost it, they would probably not look at him well for a long time.
Helplessly, he called Gu's mother and briefly told her the result. Gu's father sighed with a dark face: "Tell those people not to go out to do business. They are all out looking for badgers!"
In fact, when Yang Jie chased him out, Wang Ping did not run far, but hid under the chassis of the Mercedes-Benz. However, when she finished calling Gu's father and the people from the pet hospital dispersed to search nearby, Wang Ping was ready to run away.
He was not familiar with Gu's father, and they even disliked each other. Now that he had left the protection of his grandmother and Gu Lao San, who knew if Gu's father would really want someone to cut his meatballs. After all, he was Gu Lang's father, so he couldn't really beat him up.
Of the thirty-six strategies, running away is the best one. When Yang Jie and the others dispersed and walked away from the door, Wang Ping seized an opportunity to sneak to the side of the road, ran under a passing bus, and firmly grasped the chassis.
The No. 37 bus started at Songmuchang Hexi and ended at Jihong Home. Wang Ping got on the bus at Xicheng Nianhua, which was halfway there. At the time, he just wanted to leave the pet hospital first, but he was afraid that if he got off the bus rashly, he would be caught as a wild animal, so he kept clinging to the chassis and dared not let go. When the bus arrived at the terminal and turned into the stop, Wang Ping jumped out from under the bus and was dumbfounded.
"Where the hell is this?"
When Gu Lang received the news, the "training" had already begun.
It was also after Gu's father mobilized all his manpower but still couldn't find the person, knowing that he could no longer conceal the truth, that he called Gu Lang to explain the situation. So in a large meeting room at Douyu, everyone vividly saw what it meant to be "sitting on pins and needles" and what it meant to be "scratching one's ears and cheeks".
So the "training" originally scheduled for two hours was extended for another hour because of the host's improper "attitude". By the time Gu Lang rushed to Hangzhou with Wang An, it was already dark.
The first thing Gu Xianyu did after getting off the car was to strode forward to grab Yang Jie by the collar. Then he was kicked aside by Wang An, who followed behind him. He then pulled Yang Jie, who looked nervous, aside to inquire about the situation.
Everyone here was worried about a lost badger, but the badger itself was not panicked at all.
After all, this was not the first time he was "outside". With the experience of taking the subway alone across the entire city of Perth, Wang Ping had a clear plan for what he was going to do.
The first thing to do is to know the stops of Hangzhou bus lines and find the bus line back to Lin'an District. When you arrive in Lin'an District, Shengjiawu is not far away.
However, the plan looked simple, but it was not easy to implement. Just checking the bus routes was something Wang Ping felt he had no idea where to start.
Gu Lang had already decided to go back to Shengjiawu to pick up Dahei. At the very least, he had to get the wolf Xiaosi. If a dog followed the scent of a badger, the chances might be higher. After all, he knew the character of his badger very well. It would not easily appear in front of people, so posting a notice to find a pet was useless.
But there was another matter before us. If we wanted to take Dahei out, we couldn't do it without a suitable reason to convince grandma. But no one dared to let grandma know that a badger was missing.
After discussing with everyone, Gu Lang and Wang An stayed behind to continue the search. The glorious and arduous task of going home to pick up Dahei fell on the head of Gu's father, the mastermind behind the badger's disappearance.
"I'm not going!"
Under the bright street lights, Dad Gu shook his head like a rattle and refused in a very single-minded manner: "I can't think of a reason for the old lady to hand Dahei over to me!"
"Then let's do it once and for all!"
Gu Laosan had a fierce look on his face, spitting and gesturing, "Wait until grandma falls asleep, then you steal Dahei out!"
"You are really a jerk!"
Father Gu glared at him and wanted to kick him: "I'm old, and you want me to go back and steal dogs?"
"What's wrong with stealing a dog?" Gu Laosan squinted his eyes, "How can you call it stealing if it's your own dog?"
"Oh, all right!"
Mother Gu, who had delayed the company's business for a day, was already impatient. Upon hearing this, she pushed Father Gu and frowned, saying, "Let's do it this way! I'll go back with you. If we're discovered, I'll pester my mother, and you take the opportunity to run away with Dahei!"
After saying that, regardless of whether Gu's father agreed or not, he rushed him into the car. Gu Lang, on the other hand, returned to the starting point, thinking about where he would run to if it was a badger.
The place where Wang Ping was at this moment was something that even Gu Laosan would never have thought of even if he racked his brains.
Just southwest of Jihong Home, on the west side of Dayu Road Primary School, a furry figure climbed up to the second floor of a street-facing building under the cover of the shadow cast by the street lamp, and climbed into a private room of an Internet cafe called "Wangniu Internet Cafe".
With the rapid development of mobile phones and home computers, Internet cafes, which were once a money-making myth a dozen years ago, are now polarized like other traditional industries. Internet cafes with good facilities are luxurious and also expensive. The one Wang Ping entered is at the other end of the spectrum. If it weren't for the computer screen in the strange-smelling single room separated by simple plywood, he would have thought he had entered a toilet.
With a look of disgust on his face, he pinched a cigarette butt from the ashtray beside the window, and flicked it at the back of the neck of a young man who was concentrating on looking up something on the screen. The other person fell on the keyboard without even a grunt.
Wang Ping jumped onto the computer desk, raised his foot and pushed the young man onto the sofa, making him lie on his back. He then stuck his butt out, skillfully touched the mouse, and clicked on the web page to search.
The bus routes from where he was to Shengjiawu were a bit complicated. Seeing a schoolbag lying on the sofa behind him, Wang Ping pulled it over and flipped through it, then took out a notebook, tore off a page at random, and wrote down all the routes he had found.
The little black claw held the pen and shook it back and forth, and the words it wrote were like earthworms. Wang Ping pulled the corners of his mouth, and although no one saw it, his furry face still felt hot.
After copying, fold the paper and hide it in your T-shirt, and reset everything. Wang Ping thought about it, and before leaving, he opened another web page, typed in a string of URLs, and then the picture that popped up on the screen was a bit eye-catching.
"Since you're searching so hard, I'll give you a hand. Just consider it as payment for using your computer!"
Wang Ping put on the attitude of an "old senior" and patted the young man on the shoulder, then turned around and climbed out of the window again.