That night, Mu Zi talked a lot to Ouyang Liuse, chattering away like an old lady for most of the night.
So much so that soon after, he forgot which words he had spoken that night that truly moved Ouyang Liuse.
In any case, the next day, when he was standing in the corridor opposite Mina's window to monitor, it was no longer just Mu Zi alone...
It was now past four in the afternoon, and the temperature had dropped slightly due to last night's downpour. Mu Zi and Ouyang Liuse stood side by side in front of the window, eating couple's ice cream while observing the movement in the opposite window.
"Have you looked at the bank card Uncle Li gave you?" Ouyang Liuse asked.
"Huh? I actually forgot." Mu Zi was startled for a moment, took out the bank card from his pocket and handed it to Ouyang Liuse, "Can you check how much money is in it for me?"
Ouyang Liuse took it, made a call to check, and looked at Mu Zi in surprise: "Five... hundred thousand?"
"Oh." Mu Zi responded indifferently, apparently not surprised by the amount. Then he changed the subject: "Let's give forty thousand to my future in-laws first, and give more when we have more money."
"Future in-laws? Forty thousand? What are you talking about?" Ouyang Liuse asked, puzzled.
"Pretending not to understand, huh?" Mu Zi smirked and said, "Then let me put it another way. I'll use these forty thousand to buy you..."
"You..."
While the two were joking around, Mu Zi suddenly froze, and his actions stopped abruptly. Ouyang Liuse, puzzled, followed his gaze and saw Mina walking out of the staircase with a large dog.
"What a great dog!" Ouyang Liuse exclaimed with sparkling eyes, "It's a Neapolitan Mastiff from Italy!"
"What Neapolitan Mastiff?" Mu Zi frowned and asked. "Why is she coming out so early today? No, we have to follow her immediately!"
Saying that, he turned and ran downstairs.
"Wait!" Ouyang Liuse called him back, "No need to rush, I know what she's doing."
"Oh?" Mu Zi was curious.
"She must be taking her beloved dog to the pet hospital! Because... this Neapolitan Mastiff is clearly in heat," Ouyang Liuse said somewhat embarrassedly.
"Neapolitan Mastiff, is that the breed of that ragged dog?" Mu Zi asked very verbosely.
Ouyang Liuse rolled her eyes at him: "Ragged dog? Neapolitan Mastiff, oh, it's a world-famous dog worth five thousand in cash!"
Mu Zi skeptically stared at the large dog with wrinkled face and sturdy body, with grey brindle fur, and said, "This is a world-famous dog?"
Ouyang Liuse laughed: "Don't just judge by its appearance, okay? Although this dog is ugly, it might be one of the most fearsome dogs in the world. Strong and ferocious, seemingly with endless strength, cold and gloomy, it's terrifying to people. It's one of the most aggressive fighting dogs in the world. It used to be a favorite of the Mafia, used to show terror and power. At the same time, it's one of the most dangerous dog breeds in the world, because once it attacks, it's relentless, and it likes to devour its prey, including humans..."
At this point, Mina had already walked far away with her Neapolitan Mastiff, but Mu Zi seemed to have become interested in Ouyang Liuse's lengthy explanation, "You said it's dangerous, likes to devour humans? Then why do people keep it?"
"Fool, because every pet dog is specially trained! I guess the training costs almost as much as the dog itself!"
Mu Zi twisted his hair at the forehead, staring at Mina's figure, lost in thought.
"No, we have to follow and see which pet hospital she's going to!"
Saying that, he pulled Ouyang Liuse and ran downstairs quickly...
It seemed that the place Mina was going to was not far from the community because she didn't take a car but walked leisurely on the street with her dog.
Mu Zi and Ouyang Liuse followed from a distance.
Mu Zi seemed to have suddenly developed a great interest in pet dogs, asking enthusiastically about Neapolitan Mastiffs along the way.
Mina did indeed go to a pet hospital, and it was very close to the community, just across an intersection. Only after watching her walk in with her dog did Mu Zi and Ouyang Liuse stop.
They stood under the shade of a tree opposite the hospital entrance, chatting sporadically. Later, Mu Zi spoke less and less, but his hair-twisting gesture became more frequent.
Ouyang Liuse curiously watched Mu Zi's strange behavior and asked, "Is twisting your hair your way of thinking?"
Mu Zi was startled, apparently completely immersed in his thoughts just now, oblivious to the outside world. He looked at Ouyang Liuse in a daze and said, "What?"
Ouyang Liuse said, "I'm asking why you always like to twist your hair?"
"Oh." Mu Zi put down the finger that was twisting his hair and said, "Habit... Oh right, why do you know so much about dogs?"
"Oh." Ouyang Liuse seriously mimicked Mu Zi's tone and demeanor and said, "Hobby."
Mu Zi touched his nose uninterestingly and teased, "Besides the internet and dogs, what else do you know about? Tell me all at once."
Ouyang Liuse smiled and caressed her forehead hair, mysteriously bringing her red lips close to his ear and said, "A lot. For example, how to prevent you from accidentally getting me pregnant."
Mu Zi was suddenly taken aback, perhaps the speaker was unintentional but the listener intentional, he felt a lot of emotions hearing this. From Phoenix City to Wutong, from Wutong to Binnan, then to Binbei, he had met not a few people, but those who truly treated each other sincerely and knew everything about each other, there were only two, one was Li Tian, and the other was Ouyang Liuse. Now that Li Tian had gone to America, then in this world, the only person I can fully trust is Ouyang Liuse. It's not easy for a person to find someone they can fully trust in this world, and it's even harder to share secrets with someone. Most relationships between people are just mutual use, mutual deception...
Trust, the most basic and primal emotion between people. To find such a friend, such a lover, is truly a fortunate thing!
Thinking this, his gaze towards Ouyang Liuse became affectionate. He couldn't help but pull her in front of him and said gently in her ear, "I love you."...
Just as the two were sweetly embracing and whispering sweet nothings under the bright sun, Mina had already walked out of the hospital with her dog.
Ouyang Liuse seemed to break free from Mu Zi's embrace, but Mu Zi firmly held her in place.
From Mina's angle, under the shade of the trees across the street, a young man and woman were embracing and whispering sweet nothings. But she would never have guessed that the question the young man was asking the girl was this:
"How many times does this kind of dog need to mate?"