Chapter 33

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The next day, Zhang Hang went to a stock brokerage firm and reported his account name. Once the staff checked it, they led Zhang Hang to a VIP room, Big Black following along with his guide dog certificate on his neck. Since Kaishi issued the policies in 2006, Big Black had basically been able to accompany Zhang Hang anywhere.

As Zhang Hang said, they truly didn’t have much money at the moment. In 2008, anyone who witnessed five million yuan enter the stock market without a splash would be reluctant to enter a stock brokerage firm.

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During 2008, Zhang Hang was inexplicably led to the stock brokerage firm by Big Black over winter vacation. He had originally agreed to go for a walk, but ended up being led very far away. By the time Zhang Hang reacted, someone came to him and asked, “Hello, what can I do for you?”. With the staff’s help, Zhang Hang opened an account. When transferring money to the account, he thought about it and said, “Ten thousand?”

Big Black bit Zhang Hang’s pant leg with some force. The tip of his teeth touched Zhang Hang’s skin, which tingled slightly.

Gritting his teeth, Zhang Hang said, “One hundred thousand.”

The pant leg was pulled with force, and Big Black’s front paw stepped on his foot. Zhang Hang made up his mind and said, “One million!”

Big Black still wasn’t done. He stepped on Zhang Hang’s foot five times. Blind people were very sensitive to numbers and would count silently without prompting. After five steps, Zhang Hang’s face turned green and he believed he must have counted incorrectly. When he hesitated, however, Big Black stepped on his other foot five times as well.

Zhang Hang had no choice but to deposit five million yuan in one go. At once, he was led to a VIP room, as there were only a few people who invested five million yuan in stocks all at once in 2008. Zhang Hang was immediately treated as a distinguished guest, and there was even a specially assigned person to help him.

Zhang Hang couldn’t see the stock market fluctuations, so asked the staff member to read for him. The staff member read each stock one by one, until Big Black suddenly grabbed Zhang Hang’s pant leg and stepped on his foot five times.

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Zhang Hang smiled wryly and had no other choice but to ask the staff member, how about this stock?

The staff member said directly that this stock had crashed and gone completely green. The situation was incomparably bleak, and many people had thrown all their money into this devil’s stock only to lose everything. Zhang Hang’s face turned green, but Big Black was still stepping on his foot. This wasn’t like spending four yuan to buy a lottery ticket and winning 8 million. This was five million yuan…

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After that, Zhang Hang would go to the stock market every day to inquire about the price of the stock, and every day it fell lower and lower. Five million changed to one million which changed to fifty thousand, but Big Black’s face remained as soft and smooth as before, and gave no indication of exploding.

At first, Zhang Hang couldn’t help but regularly check up on the stock. Later, when he saw how it wasn’t rising at all and Big Black’s lack of interest whenever they went to the firm, he gave up on the five million yuan. He still had hundreds of thousands left, which was more than enough to last until he graduated and found a job.

When school started again, Zhang Hang didn’t go to the stock market anymore, and gradually forgot about the five million he had invested. He would occasionally remember and sigh, but didn’t feel too bad about it. Since it was originally bestowed by heaven anyways, keeping it or not wasn’t all that important.

Lu Chengye was not overjoyed by Zhang Hang’s lottery jackpot, nor was he furious about losing five million yuan in one night. However, Zhang Hang had been a little uneasy when he opened an account to buy stocks, but went through with it because he trusted Big Black. This made Lu Chengye very happy.

His Hang Hang, as expected, was superior to all others. The suffering he had experienced were now all turned into wealth so he could face his trials and hardships without flinching. The mentality of feeling no arrogance in victory and no despair in defeat was very rare. Let alone an 18-year-old youth, some people couldn’t do it even if they reached 80.

Then, he had been constantly studying and had never visited the stock market again. After Zhang Hang’s graduation ceremony, when Lu Chengye watched the financial channel, he barked at the stock brokerage firm’s news.

After spending five years together, both day and night, Zhang Hang knew everything about Big Black. Just as Zhang Hang could put out a palm to hold Big Black’s head as soon as Lu Chengye raised a paw, if Big Black hummed softly, Zhang Hang would know what he wanted to say. This sort of tacit understanding, even between people, was hard to achieve.

Although he was able to calmly watch the five million yuan decrease, this didn’t mean that Zhang Hang had no psychological shadow regarding the stock market. Seeing prices drop by several millions was very scary.

But, if Big Black wanted to go… Zhang Hang silently flipped open his wallet that contained hundreds of thousands of dollars and slid a card in his shirt pocket, planning to take it with him tomorrow.

This was a sort of silent trust. If Big Black wanted to go, then Zhang Hang would go. He would still accompany him even if he went bankrupt.

“Woof!” Lu Chengye barked with satisfaction and licked Zhang Hang’s fingers.

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The night was still quiet, and just as peaceful as every night before it.

The next day, Lu Chengye led Zhang Hang to the stock brokerage firm from a year and a half ago. After Zhang Hang said his name and several staff members checked it, their eyes lit up and their voices changed. They immediately invited him to the VIP lounge. Zhang Hang hadn’t come to the stock brokerage firm for the past two years, and couldn’t see the stock fluctuations online, so didn’t know how the stock he invested in was doing. However, based on the attitude of the staff, it should have risen a bit.

As a result, he asked for the current price of the stock he had invested in so long ago, and was immediately terrified.

“…According to the current price, how much will I get if I sell it all now?” Zhang Hang sat on a chair and hugged Big Black’s neck. He didn’t think he could sit on his own at the moment.

“Probably…” the staff member calculated, “around 50 million.”

“Woof!” Lu Chengye raised his head and barked proudly.

In reality, this was a result born from his hands. People who speculated in stocks knew of the horror that was this devil stock from 2008. Lu Chengye had not speculated in stocks, but at the time, it was said that if he’d bought a million worth in November of 2008, it would become 110 million in October of 2010. This was quite a frightful profit! However, an increase of more than 100 times was too terrible, and Lu Chengye didn’t need that much money, so for this occasion he held back and kept the profit at 10 times.

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After selling all the shares, Zhang Hang’s feet seemed to be stepping on soft cotton as he walked out of the stock brokerage firm. Thankfully, nobody except the staff knew how much he had earned. Otherwise, he wouldn’t dare go out in fear of being robbed.

Seeing Zhang Hang like this, Lu Chengye stopped a taxi by the side of the road. They had money, so this time they could take a taxi back!

Back home, Zhang Hang felt as if he was in a dream, so he pinched his face. It hurt. If he pinched it again, it still hurt. Seeing his silly appearance, Lu Chengye opened his mouth and bit the youth’s finger hard enough that it would only hurt a little.

After several hours, Zhang Hang finally started to emerge from his stupor when his stomach reminded him of his hunger. He put his wallet away and didn’t even hold onto Lu Chengye as he whispered, “When I was a child, I envied other children who had a mother who read them bedtime stories, so I begged my father to tell me one. Actually, I had read many stories myself, but I hoped to have an adult read them to me. My father didn’t tell me many stories, only one about a snail girl. Big Black, will you suddenly shed your fur and become a snail girl while I am sleeping?

“Woof, woof, woof!” Lu Chengye bit Zhang Hang’s ear with displeasure, but was reluctant to actually exert energy. He simply held the ear in his mouth and licked Zhang Hang’s earlobe with the tip of his tongue.

“Ah, I was wrong. Big Black is a young man. If you ever change into a person, you will become a young man.” Zhang Hang stroked Lu Chengye’s belly and chuckled. “However, Big Black didn’t find a wife. Before, a guide dog school approached me for breeding, but you bit their female dog and we had to compensate them.”

“Wu… woof!” Lu Chengye was angry at the thought of that event. Hang Hang had actually sent him to be bred. The female dogs came over to smell his butt while the person in charge of supervising the breeding was still watching, which was totally intolerable. At the time, Lu Chengye couldn’t completely control himself. His eyes were red, and he caught a female and bit it. When he regained his senses, he’d already bitten the poor female. Of course, he hadn’t yet finished the job, so the female fought back and bit him. If he hadn’t been protected by Hang Hang, he would’ve been treated as a rabid dog and put down.

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“Don’t be angry, Big Black.” Sensing Lu Chengye’s rage, Zhang Hang quickly stroked his back to pacify him. “It was my fault, I shouldn’t have taken you there without your consent. I… I was overthinking things.”

Lu Chengye gradually calmed down after being comforted by Zhang Hang. He knew that Zhang Hang was also trying to help him, as he was always restless every spring. Even if he was in control of his mind, his body would occasionally give him difficulties. Usually when he waited at the school gate, he would sit quietly, but in the spring he would pace back and forth. The security guard, seeing that he was in heat, advised Zhang Hang to get him castrated, but Zhang Hang refused. Likely listening to the security guard, Zhang Hang sent him to breed, but Lu Chengye didn’t need that at all.

What he really needed, he could never get. He didn’t dare even touch it once.

“Big Black, I won’t ask why you knew the winning lottery numbers, or why you knew that stock would rise exponentially. I’ll just take it as you being a really smart dog who knows finance and economics.” Zhang Hang was lying on the soft wish his head resting on Big Black’s long body. By now, he had completely calmed down. “From the start, every time Big Black has done this type of thing it has always been for my sake, and this time as well, right?”

Lu Chengye, quietly acting as a pillow, listened to Zhang Hang.

“From the time I decided to learn to be a bartender, I knew that the environment of a bar would be very messy. The students who went to be apprentices together said that many drunken people would swear at them, which was hard to listen to. Big Black can make money, but I don’t want to sit on a mountain of it idly. I know that becoming a famous bartender will be very hard. However, Big Black is trying so hard to make money for me. He wants me to open a bar by myself, doesn’t he?” Zhang Hang said.

Instead of barking, Big Black bent his upper body and put his head on Zhang Hang’s shoulder. One person and one dog snuggled together.

Four years ago, when I was forced to take you to the police station, I thought that from that day on, I would never let you suffer again. I stick to my word.

sere: yayyy good for ZH, also cute doggy promise at the end :3bear: doggy snuggles are best snuggles