rustle!
Seeing the gray puppy move its paws, the old beggar subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards it faster.
The gray puppy's ears twitched slightly, and it managed to get up. Without even opening its eyes, it grinned and let out a warning sound of "Goooo, goooo".
"It's me, it's me!" For fear of scaring the gray puppy, the old beggar stopped, pushed aside his blood-stained beard and hair, and exposed his face.
The "round ball" with cloudy eyes took two steps in the direction of the old beggar. After staring at him carefully for a while, the drooping tail suddenly raised.
"Woo! Woo!" After calling twice, the ball limped towards the old beggar.
The old beggar squatted down and reached out to hug the ball. However, the ball that rushed over did not pounce on him as usual. Instead, he lay down and exposed his abdomen.
"Woo! Woo!"
The ball's curved front paws were pressed against his belly, whining continuously.
Looking at the ball's bulging belly, the old beggar choked and said, "Boy Li, lend me your knife again."
Hearing this, Li Xunshan quickly took out the knife and handed it out.
The old beggar took the knife, carefully cleaned the hair on the ball's abdomen, and after groping for a while, he used the blade of the knife to gently cut open the kraft paper attached to its abdomen.
Soon, after the entire piece of brown paper was taken down by the old beggar, he took out a palm-sized package of things wrapped in oil paper.
"This is the evidence." After handing the evidence and the short blade to Li Xunshan beside him, the old beggar looked at the clearly visible ribs on Yuanqiu's abdomen. He couldn't help but touched Yuanqiu's head: "Thank you, Yuanqiu. ball."
Yuanqiu narrowed his eyes in enjoyment: "Woo~wu~wu"
"Humans, sometimes you are so unkind..." Wei Hai sighed and reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"You guys, have any of you eaten?" the old beggar turned around and looked at the crowd and asked hurriedly.
Upon hearing this, Li Xunshan and Wei Hai subconsciously touched their bodies and shook their heads together.
"Woo~" The ball called softly again, but this time, its voice became quieter.
When I first met the old beggar, he was only half a year old. Now he is more than 21 years old... The reason why he can live so long without enough food is probably just to wait for his master. What I was told - wait for the master to come back...
"I only have one fruit, let him eat it." Gu Ningan walked to the old beggar's side, holding a pale golden kumquat fruit in his hand.
The fragrance of kumquat fruit overflowed, making Li Xunshan and Wei Hai swallow their saliva involuntarily.
"Okay, okay...thank you, Mr. Gu!" The old beggar took the kumquat and put it towards Yuanqiu's mouth.
Smelling the aroma of kumquats, the ball's slightly closed eyes widened a little. It turned its head away and made a "woo" sound, then stretched out its right paw and tapped the corner of the old beggar's mouth.
Seeing this, the old beggar couldn't help laughing and crying: "It's just a piece of fruit. If I don't mess with you today, I'll give half of it to you. I'll give it all to you. Eat it all."
"Woooooo!" The ball turned its head away and clenched its teeth, not giving the old beggar a chance to stuff the fruit into its mouth.
"Hi!" The old beggar sighed. After carefully biting off half of the kumquat, he opened his mouth again and said, "Look, I've eaten half of it...it's so sweet, hurry up and eat it."
Hearing this, Yuanqiu turned his head, opened his mouth and swallowed half of the kumquat. As if he didn't want to waste any juice, he stuck out his tongue and licked the old beggar's fingers clean.
The old beggar burst into tears, touched Yuanqiu's head, and said with a smile: "How come you don't have any meat on your body now and can't eat, so you don't know how to wag your tail at people to ask for some food?"
Swish~swish~swish!
The ball's slender tail swung and scraped against the grass, making bursts of sound.
Holding the tail of the ball gently, the old beggar smiled and said: "Look, how good it shakes. If you go to beg for food, you will definitely do better than me, the number one scholar."
"Woo..." After a soft cry, the tail in the old beggar's hand lost its strength and drooped.
The old beggar trembled, and after holding Yuanqiu in his arms, he said: "Yuanqiu, go well...be a good man in the next life and live a good life..."
Li Xunshan rolled up his sleeves: "Uncle Wen, let me help you dig a hole and bury the ball."
"I'll dig it, you go find some gravel, preferably a piece of straight wood, and build a monument for the ball." As he spoke, Wei Hai began to search for a suitable boundary and planned to start digging.
"Ahem!" Gu Ning'an cleared her throat forcefully.
After seeing everyone watching, he pointed at Yuanqiu, who was held by the old beggar, and said with a smile: "Is it possible that Yuanqiu was just too tired and fell asleep?"
Fell asleep?
Isn't it true that his life span has expired, and now that he has achieved his wish, he has breathed his last breath?
Wei Hai and Li Xunshan looked at the old beggar... Just as the old beggar was about to lower his head to check carefully, a faint snoring sounded on his shoulders.
Huh~sh~huh~sh...
"You're not dead?" Wei Hai threw the mud in his hand to the ground, rubbed his hands and said: "Old man Wen, next time you find out more about it before you speak, this ball has been guarding the evidence for you for twenty years... ..When we just met, she fell asleep, and you insisted on saying that she was dead...and almost buried her."
"Damn it, tears just fell down..."
"Yes, yes, yes! It's my fault, it's my fault!" The old beggar pulled open his clothes, stuffed the thin ball into his chest and wrapped it tightly: "It's better if you're not dead, it's OK if you're not dead. "
With a look of fear on his face, the old beggar looked at Gu Ning'an and asked, "Mr. Gu, we don't know where the old man has gone or whether he is still in the city. What should we do?"
Along the way, the old beggar felt that Gu Ning'an was extraordinary, but he couldn't figure out why.
It seems that something can be turned into a blessing as long as you are with him, and no matter what happens to the other party, he is always very calm, as if no problem is difficult for him.
In fact, when Gu Ning'an said that the old man's magnanimity was extraordinary and that he might have a great background, he wanted to say: The old man's magnanimity was extraordinary, but compared with Mr. Yun Ni... How could Mr. Not bigger?
Until just now, when he was holding the ball in his arms, he could clearly feel the state of the ball - cold, stiff, and weak breath. This was clearly the state of the ball being exhausted.
But after eating half a kumquat, his body actually returned to warmth at this moment, and his body even became softer and no longer stiff... And he himself could clearly feel that after eating the kumquat, After that, I felt full of strength.
The physical and mental exhaustion caused by the bad news and betrayal by his confidants was all gone after swallowing the kumquat fruit!
How can such magical effects be brought about by ordinary kumquats? Therefore, before he asked Gu Ning'an the question, he was already convinced that the other party would definitely be able to give him a solution...
