Chapter 5

A middle-aged man shook the Shih Tzu in his arms: "Tangtang, what's wrong with you?"

The dog lay motionless on his lap, its eyes misty with a sense of grievance.

"There's... something strange. Let's go back first, shall we? We can come again tomorrow." The schoolboy in a uniform, who had watched too many ghost movies, pulled his girlfriend's hand and walked out.

The woman sitting next to Lin Yue leaned closer to him, her eyebrows knitted together: "What do you think about this?"

She often brought her dog to this pet hospital for treatment, but she had never experienced anything like today. The lively pets had suddenly fallen silent, and the situation was truly bizarre.

"Ahem," Lin Yue coughed, patting Badun's head: "Badun, stop showing off."

Badun tilted his head to look at him, his eyes saying, "Are you just making things up?"

People in the corridor looked over, and the eerie atmosphere dissipated due to his joke. The pets in their arms also relaxed, though they remained quiet, clearly no longer as fearful and cowering as before.

"Little brother, your dog is really a general, isn't he?" the woman said with a smile.

"Yeah, a hero among dogs, the kind that eats eight meals a day."

Woof!

Badun barked in protest.

From yesterday evening to this morning, Lin Yue had only fed him one meat patty.

Where is Badun?

Where is Badun!

This human is so cunning, boasting without any basis, and lying without a second thought.

"Oh, so that's where the name 'Badun' comes from." The woman laughed, rubbing Badun's head: "Thank goodness you didn't follow me; if you ate so much every day, my partner would kick you out for sure."

Badun's morale collapsed, and he buried his head under the seat, not wanting to look at the human couple.

At the same time, a young man sitting near the examination room said something.

"Damn, where were you just now? You wasted so much time before deciding to use force. If you had tied it up earlier, we wouldn't have had to wait so long."

Lin Yue nodded toward the examination room: "What's going on?"

"It seems the dog isn't cooperating with the treatment and has been causing a commotion in the examination room for a while."

"Oh." Lin Yue patted Badun's head, signaling him to stay, and walked to the examination room door, looking inside through the glass.

The curtain in front of the examination table was pulled to one side, revealing a seven-month-old Golden Retriever. A woman in a black sportswear was firmly holding its front legs, while the nurse who had come out earlier was unfastening the straps on both sides, apparently preparing to tie it down.

Lin Yue glanced back at the couple in the corridor, called to Badun, and opened the examination room door to walk in.

The nurse unfastening the straps looked up: "Hey, hey, it's not your turn yet. Go out, go out."

"Oh, I'm here to help," Lin Yue explained: "You'll scare it, and it will be even worse the next time it comes for treatment."

The nurse pulled down her mask a bit, her tone not very friendly: "Help? What can you do to help?"

As a professional, she was not in a good mood about giving advice to a layman.

"Oh, I used to learn massage techniques at a pet grooming salon, which can help calm pets down," Lin Yue said seriously.

The nurse was about to tell him to stand aside when someone came out of the adjacent room, wearing a white coat, a blue mask, and a stethoscope around his neck.

"You worked at a pet grooming salon?"

The voice came from behind the mask, sounding clear and crisp, with a special kind of penetrating quality.

Lin Yue looked at the bright almond eyes of the woman: "My relatives back home run a pet grooming salon, and I learned a few things when I visited them."

"Xiao Rui, move aside a bit and let him try."

Xiao Rui glanced at him and moved aside.

Lin Yue walked to the examination table, one hand holding the Golden Retriever, the other hand gently massaging its neck.

He knew nothing about massage; his only experience with a pet grooming salon was standing in front of the price list for bathing and massage services after graduation, lamenting how poverty limited his imagination.

He lied to the nurse because he thought their efficiency was too low and wanted to help speed things up and save everyone some time.

The people around didn't know the truth; they only saw that the Golden Retriever had indeed calmed down and lay still on the examination table.

Xiao Rui looked at the man and the dog on the examination table, puzzled. She couldn't see anything particularly skillful in his technique, so how did he manage to calm the dog?

The dog's owner was even more confused. He couldn't control his own dog, but a young man who walked in and did a few things had it behaving like a well-mannered grandson. It was truly bizarre.

The female doctor took the opportunity to give the Golden Retriever an injection. From the moment she pushed the medicine to the moment she pulled the needle out, the dog didn't resist at all, behaving perfectly.

"Alright, remember not to give it a bath for a week."

The dog's owner nodded and carried the Golden Retriever out.

Xiao Rui looked at Lin Yue up and down, making him a bit uncomfortable: "What do you want?"

"Your technique is amazing. Can you teach me?"

Lin Yue flatly refused: "It's a secret technique, not to be shared."

"Tsk." Xiao Rui pouted and glared at him.

Lin Yue didn't want to argue with her, turned around, and shouted down the corridor: "Next!"

"Sister Su Han, look at him!" Xiao Rui was very unhappy that Lin Yue treated her like air.

"What was your attitude toward him just now?"

"I..."

"Never mind, the patient is here."

"Hmph, what's so great about him." Xiao Rui turned away, signaling the man to put his dog on the examination table.

...

Lin Yue took on the role of an assistant, specifically helping to calm the pets. Su Han was happy to have someone help and didn't mind his taking over.

This way, things went much faster. What usually took a whole morning was done in two hours.

After giving Badun the rabies vaccine, Su Han handed him a bottle of mineral water, pulling down her mask: "Thank you for your help today."

Just as Lin Yue had thought, she not only had a beautiful voice but was also very attractive, especially her small, fresh, and cherry-like lips.

If she changed into high heels and a fitted outfit, put on some makeup, and let down her hair, she would be a real beauty.

"You don't have to be so polite. I just wanted to get Badun vaccinated as soon as possible."

Su Han glanced at the Akita obediently squatting beside him and tossed it half a piece of dried meat from her pocket.

"I have a question, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate to ask."

Fat, short, and round is not appropriate, but with a beautiful woman, anything sounds good.

Lin Yue smiled: "What's your question?"

"There are many people who bring their pets here for treatment every weekend, and sometimes we are still busy when it's time to close. I was wondering... are you interested in working part-time at the hospital?"

"Part-time?"

"Yes. I called the director just now, and he said if you can come here every weekend to help, he can pay you 500 yuan per day."

Lin Yue did the math: two days a week, eight days a month, 4000 yuan in part-time income, which could match his previous monthly salary.

"However, I decline."

Su Han didn't expect him to refuse so straightforwardly.

Xiao Rui, not without jealousy, said: "Is it too little?"

She worked eight hours a day, 26 days a month, for 5000 yuan, and now Lin Yue could earn 4000 yuan in just two days on the weekend and still wasn't interested.

What kind of background does this guy have? He doesn't look like a rich second generation.

"No." Lin Yue shook his finger: "I am a free-spirited person and don't like being tied down to a job. How about this: if the examination room gets too busy, you let me know. I'll come if I have time, and if I don't, I won't. I'll help out without any pay, just to assist you. What do you think?"

In the past, he would have definitely agreed, but now things are different. What job could compare to the tasks issued by the system?

To be honest, he no longer cares about a 500 yuan daily pay. He has other reasons for wanting to help at the clinic.

What is the hardest debt to repay in the 21st century?

Human debt!

Facing Xiao Rui's suspicious gaze, Lin Yue added Su Han on WeChat and left with Badun without looking back.

"Sister Su Han, is he flirting with you?"

"Go away, don't say nonsense."

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