Chapter 963: Apology

The reason she called Xiao Fu out was that the matter of borrowing the dog had been discussed with him at the grain station, so she naturally did not want to confront them immediately.

Hearing the call, Xiao Fu thought: Who would be looking for him at his daughter's house?

As soon as he came out, he saw the people from the grain station, and his face immediately darkened: "You are looking for me?"

The person who had previously come to borrow the dog flashed an awkward expression: "Brother Shanliang, no, Brother Changsheng, let me say sorry to you first."

Xiao Fu said coldly: "What did you say when you borrowed the dog? Moreover, Zhuifeng has been missing for days. You say sorry to me now? You are a public unit, how can you act like this?"

That person quickly put on a smiling face: "Brother Changsheng, truly sorry, it was our negligence. The day Zhuifeng got lost, we scattered people to search everywhere, but we never found him. We wanted to contact you, but we didn't have your city address. Truly sorry, look how this turned out."

They had originally worried about how to explain it to the owner, but they didn't expect to receive a message from Liushu Village that the dog had found its owner by scent.

While sighing with relief, they felt a strange taste in their hearts; they hadn't had a good New Year due to their worry, only to find that Zhuifeng had gone straight home for a reunion: "Brother Changsheng, I know you are angry, but we didn't lose it on purpose."

Before Xiao Fu could speak, Chuxue answered first: "I want to ask, what promises did you make when you borrowed the dog?"

That person coughed lightly, his face full of embarrassment: "I know, we indeed did not take good care of Zhuifeng..."

Chuxue did not let him continue: "Did you do it?"

That person was thinking about how to answer when he heard Chuxue mock: "Your grain station is truly something; you starved my Zhuifeng until he was almost skin and bones. Forget about good food and drink, even basic sustenance was a problem. I just want to ask, where did his rations go?"

Hearing these words, that person knew the wind had probably reached them; he sighed heavily: "Girl, I know that no matter how much I explain, it will be futile, after all, Zhuifeng did suffer under us, but I still want to say that the person responsible for caring for the dog embezzled Zhuifeng's rations."

Upon hearing this, Chuxue became angry: "This dog got thin day by day, not in one day. Are you fooling a ghost here?"

That person knew they wouldn't believe him: "Girl, that person was also treacherous inside. At first, he let us see the dog food every day; we saw he was indeed feeding Zhuifeng on time and in the correct amount, so we relaxed, thinking that person was an honest man in the unit, and afterwards we didn't pay attention anymore."

After a few days, they found the dog wasn't as lively as before; he even joked that it might miss its family. That night, Zhuifeng even caught a man approaching the granary. We saw he was quite alert and thought he was just in low spirits."

Later, several people from the grain station were sent to the region for training, and the remaining people were a bit unable to coordinate, so the matter of Zhuifeng was entirely entrusted to the person who cared for him."

When the people who went for training returned from the region and the shifts became regular again, someone wanted to take Zhuifeng out for some fresh air, only to discover Zhuifeng had lost a lot of weight, and they hurried to the front to tell everyone about this."

The person caring for him said Zhuifeng had no appetite all along. The station chief quickly had someone fetch a veterinarian to take a look, who said the dog wasn't sick at all, but was starving."

We then knew that person had deceived everyone; he had been embezzling Zhuifeng's rations. At first, he didn't dare embezzle too much, but seeing no one noticed him, his boldness grew bigger and bigger. In the end, he even mixed the family's pot-scraping water with bran and a handful of coarse grains, which was Zhuifeng's daily ration..."