Zuo Ning looked at the number on the scale, and then innocently looked back at Lu Chenghe who wasn't sitting that far away. He hadn't gotten to think about whether his own weight exceeded the healthy range when he was picked up by the veterinarian and sent back to Lu Chenghe.
Lu Chenghe very naturally reached his hand out to appease the dog by rubbing its head while his eyes looked toward Wen Ting. While putting away the messy medical instruments, he said: "18.5 jin, for a three month old Samo, this weight is a little bit heavy but still within the healthy range. Its heart rate and blood pressure are both very normal, it is a very healthy baby. In this period of time, its food intake has increased, possibly because of exercise, but there is no need to worry; it is doing very well."
Wen Ting's words weren't able to push down the ridicule in his own heart. The equipment in this room was almost comparable to a professional pet hospital, even surgery wouldn't be a problem, yet the Lu family prepared this collection of things merely to make it more convenient to give their family's dog a physical examination every month. He was a specialist in treating the pets of the wealthy, but this was his first time seeing this kind of willfulness. Even those upper-class women who love dogs as if they were their lives weren't like that to this degree.
Not knowing that he was being ridiculed at this time, Lu Chenghe picked up Little Pudding who was continuously pouncing onto his body and facing Doctor Wen, he nodded: "You've worked hard."
Since he started raising a dog, he subconsciously started to pay attention to news about pets in his free time, the ones he looked at the most were those about cats and dogs refusing to enter the pet hospital. As a result, he thought of preparing a basic facility at home. If a little ailment could be solved at home, why should they go to the pet hospital and suffer hardships?
Obviously, his approach was correct as just now when he brought Little Pudding in, the little thing did not resist at all.
If Zuo Ning knew of Lu Chenghe's thoughts, he would definitely roll his eyes. Even if he knew that he was going to the pet hospital, he would not reject it. Knowing he was going to get a physical examination, why would he reject it? He wasn't a stupid dog who didn't understand anything. Anyway, hearing that he wasn't overweight, he was quite happy and couldn't help but use his paws to pat Lu Chenghe's body once: "Woof!"
You heard that right? I'm not heavy at all, there's no need to go on a diet or lose weight!
Looking at the foolishly smiling dog's face, Lu Chenghe reached out with his hand and scratched its chin. After seeing that it was comfortable and motionless in his arms with its eyes closed, he stood up, indicated for the steward to take care of the veterinarian, and carried Little Pudding out from the room.
Wen Ting smiled and looked toward the steward: "Mr. Lu is really fond of Little Pudding. It is very rare to see someone as concerned about their pet as Mr. Lu."
Those well-off old ladies have nothing to do all day so they raise pets as a pastime, but when would people busy working have the free time to raise a pet and have the energy to accompany their pet? Even if they liked pets, they would have the servants at their side take care of everything, and only when they felt like it would they call their pet over to tease it. He came to the Lu home twice to examine Little Pudding, and both times, Mr. Lu personally accompanied it, this was really hard to come by.
The steward also responded with a smile: "Yes, my family's young master is very fond of Little Pudding, so in the future, we will be troubling Doctor Wen quite a lot." As for his family's young master, he actually wasn't as busy as outsiders believed, he was even more leisurely than office workers, but it wasn't necessary to let outsiders know this.
Upon returning to the bedroom, Zuo Ning quickly occupied the sofa. Afterward, he pulled out a tablet buried under of the sofa cushion. Patting the screen, he called out for Lu Chenghe: "Woof!" He hasn't finished watching his television series. Today, the male protagonist will jump off a cliff and then counterattack by raiding the peak's people!
Lu Chenghe's actions on the desk paused as he looked toward Little Pudding who was anxiously looking at him. He couldn't help but smile as he walked over: "Can you understand it? You're so energetic about it everyday."
"Woof" He had to understand it, ah~ His dog life only had this little bit of joy left in it!
Although Lu Chenghe's words were like this, he nevertheless turned on the tablet. This tablet was originally brand new and brought out specifically for the dog to play with so there was no password set up on it. After seeing that the screen lit up, Little Pudding began to adjust his sitting position and prepared to watch the television series. Lu Chenghe reached out and turned off the screen, making Zuo Ning blankly raise his head and look toward Lu Chenghe.
Lu Chenghe smiled, he hugged Little Pudding to his body and held it: "This is where you turn it on, you press it like this and then the tablet will turn on right away." After demonstrating once, Lu Chenghe turned off the tablet and handed it over to Little Pudding, placing the tablet in front of it: "Go and turn it on."
His family's Little Pudding was very clever as many things that took other dogs several days took about one or two times for it to learn. As a result, something like turning on a tablet definitely wasn't too difficult for Little Pudding.
Zuo Ning pulled back his paw and looked at Lu Chenghe. Teaching a dog to turn on a tablet, do you really not have any problems? Of course he knew how to turn on a tablet, he also knew that he needed to press it twice, but he didn't dare to, ah! Nowadays, animals weren't spirits!
Lu Chenghe saw its foolish appearance and thought that it didn't understand. Thus, he patiently held its paw and demonstrated a few times. Afterwards, Lu Chenghe watched with a look full of expectation as Zuo Ning extended his paw, trembling as he succeeded to turn on the tablet.
Lu Chenghe was very satisfied as he praised it and took out a strip of dried meat as a hard to come by reward. It was necessary to know that thinking its weight was excessive, Lu Chenghe very strictly controlled its snacks and didn't easily give them out for it to eat.
Zuo Ning, who was nibbling on jerky while watching his television series, occasionally shot a careful glance at Lu Chenghe who was working at his desk. His owner's brain deviated a bit from the average. Would acting even more intelligently win him some benefits? En, this plan could work.
Lu Chenghe handled his official business, occasionally turning his head to take a quick look at Little Pudding who was lying against the cushion in an incomparably comfortable position and looking at the tablet with great interest. Though it was a bit noisy, aside from the first time Little Pudding requested to play with the tablet and Lu Chenghe endured and endured, trying not to drive it away to the kennel on the first floor, he was already used to it now.
Just seeing that the little thing often showed human-like behaviour when looking at the story line of the television series with a relatively intense conflict, also following along and calling out, he couldn't help but feel that it was funny.
If it weren't for the fact that there were really a lot of pets who liked to watch this kind of television series, he feared that he would really believe that Little Pudding was an intelligent spirit. However, he didn't really believe that Little Pudding was capable of understanding what it was watching, it was likely that it was just listening to the sound.
Watching and watching, Lu Chenghe suddenly took out his cell phone, took a short video and established a Weibo called Little Pudding's Daily Life. He easily bought a V and then uploaded this short video. He had seen that many pet owners liked to record the gradual growth of their pet and suddenly also thought to leave behind something like this to remember it. After Little Pudding grows up, he could take out its childhood videos and photographs to look at. He felt that there would definitely be some differences.
Aside from buying a V, he also gifted several bot-followers. This video hadn't made much of an impact and Lu Chenghe definitely wasn't going to buy attention for it. Therefore, not caring much about the post, he put the phone away. He then planned to get a new phone dedicated to Little Pudding's Weibo tomorrow.
For the company's image and publicity, he himself also had a publicity team running a Weibo. To avoid posting things on the wrong account, using one cell phone for each was better.
One person and one pet were respectively busy, Lu Chenghe very rarely stayed up late and had a healthy balance of work and rest. At the time where he usually went to bed everyday, he turned off the computer. When he got up, Zuo Ning subconsciously glanced at the time on the tablet. After watching just two episodes of the television series, it was actually eleven already. Seeing that Lu Chenghe was coming toward him, he silently looked with one eye twitching. Behind the cliff, the male protagonist had unexpectedly obtained a rare martial arts manual and was right in the middle of practicing, he hadn't had enough time to go out and start slapping people's faces. Zuo Ning lightly sighed, it seemed that he could only wait until tomorrow to watch it.
Lu Chenghe heard that sighing sound and finding it funny, he patted its butt once: "You knew I came to get you to go to bed so you sighed?" Lu Chenghe only said this without really thinking about the matter. He turned off the tablet and afterwards, he carried the fat little dog who was almost twenty jin into the bathroom. He brushed his teeth and washed his face before brushing the teeth and cleaning the fur of the furball sitting on the vanity beside him.
Lu Chenghe didn't know how other families raised their dogs but he felt that his own family's dog was raised to have good habits from childhood. When its teeth were brushed and the like, it never struggled and opened its mouth to let you fiddle with it. He was also very careful when brushing each tooth individually, trying to avoid touching the gums and hurting it as much as possible .
For most dogs, brushing their teeth once a week and biting teeth cleaning objects was enough, but Lu Chenghe found that Little Pudding was very obedient when its teeth were brushed and sometimes, when he didn't brush its teeth, it would intentionally hold the toothpaste in its mouth and come over requesting for its teeth to be brushed. Upon seeing this, Lu Chenghe immediately had the steward have a toothpaste that could be used daily custom made. Everyday, he would brush its teeth once before going to bed.
A month ago, Lu Chenghe would have never thought that he would brush a dog's teeth everyday.
After washing his face and rinsing his mouth, Lu Chenghe carried Little Pudding to the kennel. He hadn't put it down yet when his entire arm was firmly held by four paws. Looking down, he saw that innocent expression in its eyes saying that it wanted to follow him. Patting the dog's head: "Go to bed."
Zuo Ning grumbled before trying to climb up with great effort. Happiness had to be fought for. He thought that tonight was a good opportunity to get onto the bed.
Seeing this action, Lu Chenghe naturally realized its intention as after all, it wasn't the first time. Hence, he cold-heartedly said: "You can't. You have to sleep by yourself. This is your bed."
"Wu… Wu… Wu…"
What a dog looked like when fake crying, at last, Lu Chenghe got to experience this. Poking at that furry little head: "Stop crying, it's so fake."
"Woof!" Sleep together, sleep together!
Finally, they compromised and it was Lu Chenghe who felt that he had no other option as he was reasoning with a dog who was unyielding in its request. He didn't have the heart to listen to that pitiful sound and as soon as he complied with its desire, it immediately rejoiced. Lu Chenghe felt that his family's dog was really a schemer, he also didn't know if it had watched too many television shows.
Zuo – scheming dog – Ning once again succeeded in climbing onto the bed. After waiting for Lu Chenghe to lie down, from the crook of his arm, he all of a sudden squeezed into his embrace. Exposing a little head, he anxiously looked at Lu Chenghe. Lu Chenghe, who seemed to be smiling as he looked at it, couldn't help but rub it a few times. Afterwards, he opened his mother's vacation pictures and let him look at them: "Do you still remember her?"
"Woof!" I remember, she's your mom, my future mother-in-law!
Lu Chenghe picked up the laptop on the side and let Little Pudding look at the pictures one by one, hoping for Little Pudding to see them and find them familiar. Otherwise, when his mother came back, she would seem the same as a stranger to it. If it didn't recognize his mother, she would feel wronged and wail accusingly toward him.
Thinking of his mother, Lu Chenghe suddenly recalled that Little Pudding seemed to be his mother's dog. When his mother came back, she would take it away right? Lu Chenghe looked at the head of the dog who was determined to stay squeezed in his embrace and got caught up in some contemplation.
Zuo Ning saw Lu Chenghe looking at himself and extended a paw to pat Lu Chenghe's chest: "Awoo?" What are you looking at me for? I've already come up here so you wouldn't want to throw me down right?
Seeing that foolish appearance, Lu Chenghe put away the computer. Covering the dog with the quilt, he closed the lights and went to bed. After his mother came back, even if she took this dog away, it should still return by itself right? He has heard that all dogs recognize their owners very well.
Zuo Ning, who was covered with the quilt, struggled to stick out his dog head with great difficulty. Afterwards, he slowly squeezed into Lu Chenghe's embrace and only after he was entirely surrounded by Lu Chenghe's smell did he close his eyes in comfort.
[1] – ◍´Д‵◍ The term used here can either mean a close friend of the same sex or a gay partner… While this is a shounen ai novel, I'm not sure which connotation the author meant for it to have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯