Chapter 7: Unexpected
Bai Ye took everything for granted, but he never expected that there would always be accidents in the world.
After sending Bai Cheng away, Bai Ye's heart has been occupied by uneasy emotions. I didn't go to work part-time, I wandered around and went home early.
Glancing at the mat made of a cardboard box in the corner, it was Bai Cheng's usual resting place. I lowered my eyes and looked at it for a moment, and it seemed that the thin figure could still be faintly seen above.
Bai Ye closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he could no longer see the slightest emotion. With a quick movement, he bent down to pick up the mat, walked briskly to the gate of the yard, and threw it into the garbage heap in the distance.
Then, without looking back, he turned around and went back to the house.
Bai Cheng is not the first stray animal that Bai Ye brought home to take care of, in the past so many years of living alone, he has rescued too many small animals to count. But it was only to rescue them from the hands of the Grim Reaper, and they would be released soon after.
When you have a little spare money in your hand, you can buy some cat and dog food, go to the place where you release them, and feed them when you see them, especially in bad weather when stray animals are difficult to forage.
Unless he didn't see it, as long as he did, he couldn't suppress the surging mood. It's better to think about how much you can save than to watch them struggle with hunger and disease until the last moment.
More than a month has passed since Bai Cheng was sent away, and Bai Ye still goes out late and returns late every day to run errands. I don't know if it's my own psychology, whether it's when I go out or go home, I always feel that there is often a figure quietly following him behind him.
However, when he quickly turned around to look, he did not find any suspicious signs. Xu has been occasionally worried about Bai Cheng recently, which caused such an illusion.
After a few days of rest, I'll go to the alley and see it, Bai Ye thought.
On this day of rest, Bai Ye brought a full plate of dog food and went to the alley where he met Bai Cheng that day.
As soon as I came to the corner of the alley, I saw the familiar figure under the eaves from a distance, but it seemed to be a little different from before.
As I got closer, I saw that the lower abdomen of the thin body was bulging. Looking at it that way, the pregnancy should have been more than a month and a half. So, when he brought it home, it was pregnant.
Although he had bathed it before, now he saw that the fur on its body was the same as before, and some of it was even messy and messy.
Presumably, it is the innate maternal characteristics of the animal that make it run all over the streets and alleys to forage for food for the imminent baby in its womb, and try to survive so that they can come to this world safely.
Bai Ye felt a pain somewhere in his heart, and frowned and approached it.
Bai Cheng had already gotten up from the ground when he came over, standing there looking at him and wagging his tail enthusiastically. Probably due to the weight of his abdomen, he squatted down again after standing for a long time.
Bai Ye followed its movements, and inadvertently glanced at the cushion on the ground. Although the mat was badly worn, he could still see the familiar logo on it, which was the box he had used to hold the books.
He clearly remembered that on the day he gave it away, he threw the mat out the door. Don't......
Bai Ye's eyebrows tightened, and they all said that animals are very spiritual. It must have understood what he meant from his behavior, so even though it knew the way home, it just took the mat back to the eaves of the alley and didn't choose to continue to bother him.
For more than a month, it has been secretly following behind him, whether it is out of gratitude to him or what other meaning it has, it doesn't matter now.
Squatted down beside Bai Cheng, stroked its head, and placed the dog food in front of it. I saw it leaning over and sniffing it, and then it began to eat it in large gulps.
Bai Ye's mood that had been suppressed for a long time seemed to be released in an instant at this time.
A big bowl of dog food was swept away by Bai Cheng not long after. The closer it gets to the day of delivery, the more difficult it becomes, and it doesn't know how long it hasn't eaten.
Sighing secretly, Bai Ye tried to raise a smile and whispered, "Bai Cheng, let's go home." ”
Bai Cheng seemed to understand, quickly stood up, wagged his tail excitedly, his tongue stretched out, and he kept panting as if "hahaha", and it was more like smiling and saying hello to him.
Bringing Bai Cheng home again, Bai Ye was worried that it would not have enough nutrients and that it would be difficult to produce at that time. I deliberately bought a lot of frozen chicken thighs and put them in the refrigerator, and took one every day and cooked it for bibimbap to eat.
Bai Cheng's belly is getting bigger and bigger, and the fetal movement is becoming more and more obvious. Seeing that it was restless and its appetite began to wane, it knew that it was about to give birth.
I worked late that night, and when I got home, the moon was already high. The first time I entered the house was to look for Bai Cheng, and when I opened the door, I faintly heard a few shrill screams, and hurriedly turned on the light and looked at the source of the sound.
I saw that in Bai Cheng's arms, four small meat balls of different coat colors crawled around with their short limbs, screaming happily.
Bai Ye happily walked over and squatted down, first rubbing Bai Cheng's head and saying "hard work", before teasing a few little guys.
That night happened to be the bright moon in the sky, and the stars were brilliant, and the white night named them the sun, the moon, the stars, and the stars. With a few more little ones in the house, the life of the white night has added a lot of fun.
Until one day, Bai Ye suddenly discovered that something was wrong with Bai Cheng. Its gait becomes extremely unsteady when it walks, and certain muscle groups in its limbs and trunk sometimes show rhythmic and persistent spasms, and sometimes even vomiting.
He panicked and hurriedly took it to the veterinary hospital for diagnosis and treatment, but after some treatment, there was still no improvement.
He did not give up and brought it back to his special Chinese veterinary treatment room for various treatments, but even if he tried his best, Bai Cheng still died in pain.
These symptoms of Bai Cheng are neurological symptoms caused by canine distemper virus, which are typical symptoms in the later stage of canine distemper virus. Once canine distemper has developed to this stage, it has reached the point where it is powerless.
Bai Ye speculated that it had been infected with the canine distemper virus during its pregnancy, but it was not treated in time at the time. But for the sake of the baby in the womb, it survived by tenacious willpower.
When Bai Ye found it and brought it home, it coincided with its recovery, so he didn't find anything wrong with his body in advance.
After Bai Cheng left, Bai Ye consciously shouldered the responsibility of his father. Feed, shovel, and guide them to learn the correct dog behavior.
Originally, I was just worried that Bai Cheng had been wandering around before pregnancy and would not have enough to eat, coupled with malnutrition after pregnancy, the milk available for puppies after giving birth might not be enough, but I bought a few cans of goat milk powder for cats and dogs in advance, but now it just came in handy.
Every day, I patiently hold a two-finger-sized bottle and feed the puppy who has not yet opened its eyes. During this period, the little ones did not show any abnormalities and grew up healthy and strong.
Except for Bai Cheng's unexpected accident, everything else looked ordinary and nothing special.
However, it wasn't until two months later that he suddenly transformed into a human form, what the hell is going on? Now that it has returned to its original form, what does it have to do with the fire around it? Bai Ye was puzzled.