When at work one must dress modestly and sit elegantly upright. Yet, however well Jiang Youyou would try to cover up, she would inevitably gossiped about at behind, which made her somewhat nervous. Each time she found others talking in a corner, she would suspect that they were talking about her falling in love with a company colleague when she was working in the company for less than half a year, and so on and so forth. She was made a bit out of it by such kind of things so that she even made a mistake to send a wrong document to Huang Yu, who wanted this month’s personnel records while Jiang gave her that of the last month.
Huang Yu had also heard about the love affairs between Jiang Youyou and Dai Jingcheng. She only said as long as they didn’t make any mistakes in the work, it would be ok to have love affairs, and they could just ignore the gossips. Anyway, it was the boss, not the colleagues, who paid you, so you only had to be responsible to the boss. No matter what other colleagues would think of you, what you should take into account was how your supervisors would think of you.
Jiang Youyou nodded. When she was introspecting about her own behavior, she had a phone call.
She hurriedly went out of the office. The call was from the community police office.
Jiang Youyou immediately called Dai Jingcheng, “Shall we ask for a leave and go back home at once? The policeman of our local police office told me that the Yellow Tiger has bitten another dog to death. It was a wolf dog belonging to another residents of our community, who claimed ten thousand yuan in compensation.”
Oh my god, how could the Yellow Tiger bit a wolf dog to death? Was it blackmail? How could it be possible?
The Yellow Tiger always behaved itself. Every day it should go for a walk by itself and then go back to keep guard in the yard. What’s more, it couldn’t defeat a wolf dog.
When the taxi reached the intersection, they saw many people standing in a ring. The villagers were rubbernecking. The Yellow Tiger was temporarily locked in an iron cage. When it saw the master and mistress back, it barked loudly with bow-wow and wagged its tail excitedly. The dog ate very much and grew fast, so no one could tell it had been a stray dog that was abandoned and injured once.
A fat young woman with curly hair and flower-patterned clothes and love handles stood with hands on her hips. She was the mistress of the nearby villa, whose husband was surnamed as Fang and usually drove a white BMW. The villagers all called her Mrs. Fang.
Seeing the master and mistress back, the Mrs. Fang pointed to Jiang Youyou and said, “That dog must be killed today, and otherwise my Windfast would turn in his grave. Mine is a pure German shepherd. I spent eighteen thousand yuan to buy him and now it grew up to such a big dog, so you must pay me at least ten thousand yuan in compensation.
While she was talking, her love handles were shaking. Fattiness is the killer of the beauty. To see the woman Jiang Youyou decide that she would never touch the midnight snacks anymore.
At the foot of the woman there lay a German shepherd dog. Its neck was bitten off with only a little skin linked its head. Its blood must have been drained out. The dog lying deadly on the ground must be the wolf dog, the so-called Windfast, according to Mrs. Fang.
“It goes like this…” the policeman beckoned the two to go alongside and have a talk. He talked about what had happened this morning. “This morning I saw the two dog fighting each other when I was walking the beat. The wolf dog was free-range as your little yellow dog.”
“And later its mistress came and said to your dog, “What an under-bred dog you are. Get away or don’t blame my Windfast for biting you. You mean bitch.”
“What’s wrong to be an under-bred dog? An under-bred dog is still a dog. Since both are dogs, they must be equal to each other.” Jiang Youyou was getting angrier as she argued. The Mrs. Fang was still cursing, with her spit flying around.
“In less than one minute the wolf dog was killed. And your dog won’t let it go even after the wolf dog died. It released only when I pried its mouth open with a big tree branch.” This was the first time the policeman saw an underbred dog kill a wolf dog, the scene was really very shocking. The wolf dog’s neck was just broken off in the mouth of the under-bred dog.
Dai Jingcheng went up to the fat woman. “You’re Mrs. Fang, aren’t you? I’m the master of the Yellow Tiger. I really felt sorry but it was your dog to jump up to mine first, you shouldn’t try to pass the buck. Now let’s solve the problem in this way-I’ll compensate you of your economic loss with money, on the condition that you won’t come to my home to stir up trouble later.”
Jiang Youyou was just to stop Dai Jingcheng from paying her money but it was already too late to stop him.
Dai Jingcheng took out a small wad of one-hundred-yuan banknotes from his purse, squatted down to point to the wolf dog’s head and said, “Mrs. Fang, look here. The length of the head of a pure German shepherd dog is about forty percent of the height of its shoulders. While your Windfast, its head seemed a bit too long. What’s more, the pure German shepherd has no groove in the middle of its forehead, or, even if it has, it’s only an inconspicuous one. Look at your dog, its groove is as deep to hold a fly. However, it had rather good lips. You can say it was a good variety of Kunming shepherd dog. If you cannot show Windfast’s German shepherd studbook, I tell you, I’ll pay you at most three thousand yuan to show my sincerity.”
The Fang something woman received the money bitterly and checked. She was not as arrogant as before. Holding the body of Windfast, she said to the policeman, “This young man seems to be kind.”
Jiang Youyou felt incredible-when and how did Dai Jingcheng become an animal expert?
On the way back home, the Yellow Tiger followed the master and the mistress obediently, with its innocent eyes constantly looked at one after another, as if it had never fought against another dog outside.
Jiang Youyou looked at Dai Jingcheng in wonder, “What else do you still keep from me? How did you know the method to distinguish a wolf dog?”
Dai Jingcheng said, “Ha, I still have more things for you to get to know little by little. I have really done some research on German shepherd dogs. My father was once a soldier and was in charge of training police dogs. He often talked with me about these experiences.” Looking at the Yellow Tiger, he had a proud expression on his face. “Look, I, Dai Jingcheng, am an awesome young man, my dog is an awesome dog. It could kill a wolf dog within one minute. But come to think of it, what breed on earth the Yellow Tiger is? It is so fierce.”
As the parents treated their children. Every little boy would have the chance to fight against the other boys. His parents would be angry when he did this. However, they would feel relieved if their son won.
Anyway, they didn’t have to work this afternoon, so Jiang Youyou and Dai Jingcheng were going to take the Yellow Tiger for lunch in the nearby town. They deliberately picked a restaurant that specialized in stewing big bones with turnip. And the leftover bones could also be given to the Yellow Tiger for grinding its teeth. The restaurant owner was surnamed as “Hu”, and he had been running it for ten years.
As soon as they entered the restaurant, the owner’s golden retriever made its escape upstairs and peered through staircase the Yellow Tiger that followed the man and the woman.
The golden retriever was a discerning dog.
The stewed bones were tasty and the meat on them was delicious. Jiang Youyou chewed the bones with relish and put the leftovers on the table.
Dai Jingcheng picked up a bone and took a close look at it. “Little Tiger, look at your mother, how stingy she is to pick the bones clean without any meat left for you.”
Jiang Youyou didn’t know what to say.
Dai Jingcheng deliberately left more meat to feed the Yellow Tiger. “Little Tiger, see how nice your daddy is to you.”
The restaurant owner went up and touched the Yellow Tiger’s head. And the Yellow Tiger licked the owner’s hand friendly.