Chapter 347

Under the shocked gaze and following of Professor Bai and the others, one person and one bear went down the mountain directly to the car at the foot of the mountain.

Lao Lao Lao Wei said: "How about not using a cage? It's quite stifling."

A person from the zoo said: "Uncle, this won't do. This panda isn't small, and its teeth are sharp. If it suddenly goes crazy, everyone in our car will be in danger of their lives."

Wei Ming said to Lao Lao Lao Wei: "Dad, how about you persuade Steel Egg?"

Several people from the zoo shook their heads. You think this is your family's cat? Letting this kind of large wild animal crawl into an iron cage basically only has the method of a tranquilizer gun. In the end, it still has to take a shot.

However, Lao Lao Lao Wei touched the panda's head and said two sentences in its ear.

It unwillingly called twice. Lao Lao Lao Wei patted its shoulder again, and Steel Egg then stood up and climbed onto the car. Because its legs were relatively short, Lao Lao Lao Wei even lifted it a bit, muttering: "Seems fatter than a few days ago."

Steel Egg turned its head and hummed unhappily. Who said this was cuteness expanding?

When Steel Egg crawled into the cage itself and buried its head in its belly, it only left a butt for Lao Lao Lao Wei.

Everyone was stunned. Lao Lao Lao Wei closed the door, sighed, turned around, and with a face of reluctance and helplessness said: "You guys hurry and go, go."

The officer from the Forestry Bureau, the worker from the zoo, and Professor Bai didn't know what to say for a while. It just went in? This giant panda was simply more obedient than the pandas they raised from childhood.

Professor Bai held Lao Lao Lao Wei's hand tightly: "Comrade Wei Jiefang, you were also engaged in animal research before, right?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei: "I'm just the one in charge of livestock in our village. Big and small livestock, eating, drinking, pooping, peeing, getting sick, and breeding are all my responsibility."

Professor Bai said excitedly: "You are a talent!"

Wei Ming on the side thought, then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and invite him to join your team.

However, Professor Bai just sighed about Lao Lao Lao Wei, this strange person, and then led the team away, leaving behind Steel Egg's new name, 240, which was its pedigree number.

Wei Ming looked at the two departing cars and said to Lao Lao Lao Wei: "Steel Egg won't drop the chain, right?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei looked confidently into the distance: "Rest assured, the two of us have already agreed."

Wei Ming: "..."

Sending Steel Egg away, Lao Lao Lao Wei and his son returned to the village, and then they saw Long Xiaoyang coming over with a basket on his back.

"Brother, Uncle, look what I brought for you!"

Wei Ming leaned closer and looked: "Yo, kiwi fruit."

Long Xiaoyang said: "I collected some for you in our village. The price offered was twice as expensive as the supply and marketing cooperative. The villagers all scattered to help me find them, but it's a bit late now, so there's only this much. Bring them along when you return to the capital tomorrow. Maybe they aren't as delicious as the foreign ones, but at least it won't be so heartbreaking. Two yuan each, even ginseng fruit can't be this expensive."

Wei Ming took the basket from his back and patted his shoulder again: "Good, go home and eat."

During the meal, the eldest brother-in-law and the second brother-in-law confirmed the decision to open a feed workshop in the town.

One was that transportation was convenient. Transporting in the village was too much of a problem, especially after just going through the big flood.

Two was that it was convenient to radiate the entire commune, and even the entire Baoxing County.

Of course, the cost was definitely higher than in the village, but it was also within their bearing range. Raising quails before earned some money, and there was also the help of Wei Ming and Mei Wenhua.

As for the true controller of this workshop, it was actually Long Xiaoyang, who was not yet twenty years old. After all, he had also learned a lot of things in Yanjing following Brother-in-law Mei.

After eating, everyone tacitly moved small stools to watch the movie. Wei Ming spent money and asked Master Xu to play the movie for another day. This was already the third day. Usually, they couldn't play three shows a year. Dagou Village was envied to death by surrounding villages.

Today they were watching *The Mysterious Buddha*, which was also a movie with very high popularity this year. And the heroine, Liu Xiaoqing, also had a local advantage. She was from Chongqing and could still be considered a Sichuanese now.

After sleeping for another night in this small village in the mountain gully, the next day, Wei Ming's family of three prepared to set off for Chengdu. Officer Chen drove to pick them up early in the morning, and the villagers also staged a scene of seeing them off for eighteen miles.

Xu Shufen looked back reluctantly, feeling that her mother's back was a bit more hunched.

Approaching National Day, Chengdu could already see a clear festive atmosphere. Wei Ming and the others had to stay in the city for one night and leave by the morning flight the next day.

Lao Lao Lao Wei said to Officer Chen: "Little Chen, can you take us to see the Chengdu Zoo?"

"No problem, Uncle."

And just as they left, a phone call came to the guesthouse. The other party claimed to be from the zoo and wanted to ask if the writer Wei Ming had checked in.

"Mainly want to ask if his father, Comrade Wei Jiefang, is there."

"Oh, Comrade Wei Ming's family is all staying at our guesthouse, but the family of three just went out."

"Ah, went out~" An employee of the zoo put down the phone and shook his head at Professor Bai.

Ever since Steel Egg was transported to the zoo and settled down, it hadn't eaten or drunk, and didn't even move much.

But once the staff wanted to approach it for an examination, it would go crazy, not letting anyone approach at all.

The zoo wanted to use a tranquilizer needle to knock it out before examining it, but didn't expect this panda to be quite flexible and know how to use cover. For a time, they couldn't take it down.

And looking at its movements to avoid the tranquilizer needle, it didn't look like it was sick.

But not eating or drinking would cause problems sooner or later. This was prepared to be sent to Hong Kong. If it was like this when it arrived in Hong Kong, maybe people would think they sent a sick bear. This wasn't a small matter.

Professor Bai thought of Wei Jiefang, who was in charge of livestock in the rural area. This 240 listened to him the most. Maybe he had a way, so he came to ask for help.

"You call the guesthouse again and tell them that if Comrade Wei Ming's family returns, they must notify us."

"Okay, Professor Bai."

However, not long after, Wei Jiefang delivered himself to the door.

"Professor Bai, where is our Steel Egg?" He asked as soon as they met.

"Comrade Lao Lao Lao Wei, you came just in time!" Professor Bai explained the problem of 240 from yesterday to now and let him make a decision.

Lao Lao Lao Wei said: "Bring the food basin over, I'll see what's going on."

"Uncle, be careful, 240 doesn't like people approaching now."

Then Lao Lao Lao Wei saw a basket of emerald green bamboo. Under the gaze of his wife, son, and staff, Lao Lao Lao Wei entered Steel Egg's living area, and Steel Egg not only didn't go crazy but instead swayed over to welcome him.

Lao Lao Lao Wei was intimate with it for a while, and only then started feeding it, and it ate very deliciously.

The panda keeper marveled: "It's evil, why does it eat when he feeds it!?"

Professor Bai also sighed to Wei Ming: "This giant panda is too trusting of your father."

Wei Ming laughed: "At that time, it was still small and followed its mother to the village to steal sheep, but it was left in the sheep pen. My dad was afraid of scaring it, so he held it and slept in the sheep pen for a night, and served it with delicious food and drink. Maybe animals know who is sincerely good to them."

The keeper was aggrieved: "We are also sincere."

Professor Bai also felt it wasn't that simple. There must be something that science couldn't explain, perhaps it could be called metaphysics.

It was just that he was in a dilemma now. This wild giant panda seemed to only be handled by Wei Jiefang. But he was the father of a famous writer, not an ordinary person. He couldn't not go home for the sake of a giant panda.

"Son, how about I don't leave?" Lao Lao Lao Wei came out with an empty basin and said to Wei Ming, "Look, this Steel Egg can't leave me either."

Professor Bai was overjoyed. We thought of the same thing!

However, Xu Shufen said: "If you don't leave, what about us mother and son? There's still Little Hong at home."

Lao Lao Lao Wei pointed at Steel Egg: "Then I can't leave it alone, right? It obviously isn't adapted to a strange environment and strangers."

"Then what about me? The son and daughter are grown up, you can ignore them, but you have to take care of me."

Lao Lao Lao Wei: "Then you stay too. Sichuan is your hometown after all."

Wei Ming said: "Dad, you are embarrassing the zoo. You are an old farmer. Do you think a city job is so easy to get? And you want two."

Professor Bai finally couldn't help but interject: "A formal job is difficult, Comrade Lao Lao Lao Wei, can you accept a temporary job?"

Although Professor Bai knew it was inappropriate for a great writer's father to be a keeper with them, in his heart, the panda was more important than the writer, and Wei Jiefang was the best candidate to accompany Steel Egg through the adaptation period.

Wei Ming sighed: "You say, isn't it good to go back to Yanjing to enjoy happiness with me? Haven't you had enough of serving the livestock in the village in the first half of your life?"

Seeing that Wei Ming wasn't very happy, Professor Bai persuaded: "Comrade Wei Ming, how about this? Let the two stay in our Chengdu Zoo first, and let them return to Yanjing after the panda adapts here. During this time, we will provide food and lodging, and pay wages, according to the expert standard. What do you think?"

Lao Lao Lao Wei straightened his back. Yo, I've become an expert!

"Professor Bai, you, sigh, it's all for the national treasure, for the return gift to Hong Kong, the overall situation is the most important. Fine, I won't say anything."

Seeing Wei Ming so reasonable, Professor Bai breathed a sigh of relief: "Comrade Lao Lao Lao Wei, we are colleagues from now on. Next, I will systematically help you learn and master the relevant knowledge of giant pandas."

Lao Lao Lao Wei really didn't know much about these. Learning it well and accompanying Steel Egg to Hong Kong would be just right to use.

"But you said expert treatment, does that mean you have to issue me an expert certificate?" Lao Lao Lao Wei cared about this matter very much. Professor Bai also promised with a smile to issue him a certificate, but he had to study first.

Xu Shufen pouted on the side. Although she cooperated with Lao Lao Lao Wei this time, singing in harmony and staying at the zoo as a temporary worker, she still had some resentment, feeling that her husband didn't even want his own flesh and blood for the sake of the panda son, getting more and more unreliable as he got older.

Thus, in the evening, after wanting his own flesh and blood once, and after Fenfener calmed down, Lao Lao Lao Wei finally explained his intention to his wife: "Actually, my ultimate goal is to go to Hong Kong with Steel Egg."

"Go to Hong Kong to do what? Who is in Hong Kong?" Xu Shufen was puzzled and aggrieved, "Are you trying to abandon your wife and children!"

"Abandoning children is fine, abandoning wife is not." Lao Lao Lao Wei hurriedly promised, and one sentence coaxed Xu Shufen to be happy.

Immediately, he lowered his voice and said: "I'll tell you the truth, but you must, must keep this a secret. This isn't just my own business. If it spreads out, it might affect the future of Pingan and the son and daughter."

"Ah!?" Xu Shufen was startled, "Then you'd better not say it. Anyway, if you want to go to Hong Kong, I'll go with you."

She could also abandon the children. After all, they were so big, and there were two big sisters, so they didn't lack maternal love at all.

Lao Lao Lao Wei: "No, I must tell you, to save you from letting your imagination run wild. The son and Pingan also know about this. The son ran to Hong Kong twice this year, and it was also because of this matter at the root."

After Lao Lao Lao Wei set the atmosphere, he finally told the truth: "Little Ming's grandfather, my dad, your father-in-law, he is still alive, in Hong Kong!"

"What?!"

That night, Lao Lao Lao Wei said everything, starting from that letter from Hong Kong, to the recent visit of Wei Lingling to the capital, and that they claimed a very, very big old Western-style house in the Magic City.

Xu Shufen digested it for a long while and sighed: "Our dad is too pitiful."