Chapter 58 How Much Trouble Can a Child Really Cause

Inside the Changping Mountain Pet Paradise, Chen Zhiyu smiled as he watched Yu Xueqing drive away.

"Quite an interesting little girl, and that fox is quite interesting too."

While guiding Yu Xueqing through the breeding area, Chen Zhiyu had keenly sensed that Yu Xueqing seemed to possess a terrifying and uncanny intuition regarding all animals.

She acted as if she inherently knew what the little pets wanted.

As for that fox, it was remarkably perceptive of human nature. Before the ostrich leg was brought over, the little fox's perfunctory attitude toward his petting was visible to the naked eye, and its whimpering sounds were merely casual, perfunctory yips.

However, once the ostrich leg arrived...

Well... the little fox actually showed off its talent, starting to massage his thigh.

What a little creature that refused to suffer the slightest disadvantage.

"Boss..."

Chen Zhiyu walked back with a gentle smile. The head of security, who had been waiting by the crescent-shaped building for a while, hurriedly strode up to him and said:

"Through our surveillance review, we found that those Chinese alligators entered the pet paradise by lifting a manhole cover and sneaking in through the rainwater and sewage diversion drainage pipes..."

The security head wore a helpless expression as he informed Chen Zhiyu of the alligators' origin.

The rainwater and sewage diversion project directly directs rainwater into the river, while domestic sewage is sent to wastewater treatment plants.

One large and four small Chinese alligators had swum upstream through the drainage outlet connecting the land to the river, quietly finding their way into their Changping Mountain Pet Hospital.

"Notify the Forestry Bureau! If they are willing to take them, they can take them back; if not, we'll keep them here for now."

Chen Zhiyu glanced sideways at the small pond. Inside, the Chinese alligators were floating on the water's surface, alongside a piece of blood-stained meat drifting on the pool.

Suddenly, one Chinese alligator lunged forward, opening its jaws in an attempt to clamp down on the piece of pork.

However, it missed completely, and worse still, as its jaws snapped shut, its body instinctively initiated a death roll, attempting to tear a chunk of flesh from its prey.

As a result, it failed to bite the meat, and its body began spinning at high speed uselessly in the pond.

In less than two seconds, the Chinese alligator had spun itself dizzy, floating belly-up on the water with stars dancing before its eyes.

Another Chinese alligator also surged forward, but the current swept the piece of pork away, causing it to miss as well. Like the previous alligator, it spun in place and crashed out.

"...Look at how much trouble they have just eating." Chen Zhiyu complained with a helpless expression.

These alligators possessed zero hunting ability, lacking even a shred of wild instinct.

Had they not been raised in a breeding farm, a moderately sized large crab could easily have pinched them until they cried.

"If only that damn thing out there was like these Chinese alligators, how wonderful would that be."

Chen Zhiyu turned and walked back inside, his expression turning somewhat heavy. The saltwater crocodile in the river channel was nearly eight meters long.

Its predatory capability was nothing like that of Chinese alligators.

That saltwater crocodile... had actually devoured two two-hundred-pound wild boar breeding boars from Changping Mountain.

***

Meanwhile.

Yu Xueqing had already driven back to Changxi Town with her little fox, feeling thoroughly delighted.

Having met Boss Chen Zhiyu today, Yu Xueqing secured the perk of free admission to the park.

Whenever she came to visit in the future, the Changping Mountain Pet Paradise would also provide complimentary fox grooming services.

"Wah—woo-woo-woo!"

However, the instant her Wuling mini-van turned into the country lane, a frantic child wearing a basketball jersey, shorts, and slippers bolted out from a side path.

The child was crying his eyes out. Startled, Yu Xueqing slammed on the brakes of her car, shaken as she watched the child flash past the front of her vehicle.

"That little fellow... isn't that Uncle Bao's family's Chen Zhi?"

Before Yu Xueqing could ponder why the little fellow was sprinting frantically through the village, Chen Baosheng, wielding a wooden stick, hurried past in hot pursuit, his face flushed red.

Chen Baosheng's face was beet red as he cursed incessantly.

"What is Uncle Bao doing!"

Yu Xueqing hastily poked her head out and asked Chen Baosheng, who was currently in a state of blood rage.

"Nothing, just beating a brat..." Hearing Yu Xueqing's call, Chen Baosheng offered a strained smile and replied before continuing his pursuit of his son while clutching his wooden stick.

Judging from the curses Chen Baosheng hurled during the chase, it appeared to be because Chen Zhi had lost his summer vacation homework.

He had gone out to play with his friends in the morning and played all the way until afternoon when someone suddenly came up with a brilliant idea. As a result, they were caught red-handed by the village chief while blowing up cow dung at the ancestral hall for the patriarchs to see.

Chen Zhi had chosen to run the fastest; the other two little brats had already been intercepted, and their parents were interrogating them to find out whose filial sons and grandsons had conceived the brilliant idea of blowing up cow dung inside the ancestral hall for their Chen clan ancestors and patriarchs to behold.

Several clothes hangers had already been beaten to pieces, and the only fugitive remaining at large was Chen Zhi.

Yet the other two boys were surprisingly tight-lipped, not uttering a single sound.

"...Did retribution really come this fast? I only tore up their homework books at midnight!"

An Sheng could not claim to understand every nuance of the Changxi Town dialect, but by piecing things together through guesswork, he could grasp the gist of it.

Yet it was precisely because he understood some of it that the little fox was left frozen in place.

Having had his bear cub collar removed, he causes such a massive commotion on the very first day?

One must realize that the Chen clan ancestors residing in the ancestral hall had all passed away as heroes.

If even a single one of those spirit tablets were missing, the Changxi Chen clan might have vanished from history altogether.

The last Chen clan patriarch to be enshrined had, during his lifetime, been a fierce man who directly shouldered guns and artillery to slaughter enemies on the battlefield, and in his later years even drove a tank to shell the capital city of an enemy nation.

That patriarch's coffin had been draped in the national flag when he returned.

As for the only person currently qualified to enter the ancestral hall and receive the offerings of his descendants, it was none other than Chen Fengshui.

Village Chief Chen Fengshui's greatest achievement was reclaiming wasteland—reclaiming the tea mountains of Lean Dog Ravine and Shangpo Mountain, and leading the Changxi Chen clan lineage into a prosperous life of tea cultivation.

Blowing up cow dung... for the Chen clan ancestors to see?

Unbelievable!

An Sheng's little fox face was agape with astonishment, and Yu Xueqing, having comprehended the meaning of the curses, wore the exact same expression of utter shock.

The ancestral hall.

Those were the resting places of the Chen clan heroes.

During festival sacrifices, women experiencing their menstrual periods were sometimes not even allowed to approach too closely, permitted only to offer incense candles in the outer perimeter for fear that the scent of blood might disturb the slumber of the ancestors.

One could easily imagine the sanctity of the ancestral hall.

"Good grief..."

Yu Xueqing clicked her tongue in amazement, realizing that tonight the town was bound to be exceptionally lively.

Little Zhi... even if they didn't die, they'd still lose a layer of skin.

Yu Xueqing called her mother, sharing all the gossip she had just witnessed.

Chen Peipei was startled, then burst into fierce rage, declaring she would return immediately.

Yu Xueqing's maternal grandfather also rested in the ancestral hall.

If those naughty children weren't strung up and beaten, it would certainly be insufficient to appease the public anger of Changxi Town.

"Ying-ying-ying?"

That evening, Yu Xueqing did not live-stream merchandise sales; instead, she accompanied her parents to the ancestral hall to watch the drama unfold, bringing along a bucket and a cleaning rag to help clean the ancestral hall and wash away the defilement.

Due to An Sheng's special status, Yu Xueqing instructed the little fox to be a good boy and stay home to watch his phone.

However, as soon as An Sheng finished watering the tea trees he had planted, he slipped out of the house.

He planned to borrow a few props from Lin Ying.

Yet, the moment the little fox vaulted into the large villa's garden, An Sheng sensed something was amiss.

Lined up in a neat row outside the front door of Lin Ying's house were a group of people wearing white shirts and ties, alongside individuals in professional office attire, while even the three housemaids stood silently outside.

More than a dozen people lowered their heads in silence, expressions on their faces resembling those in mourning.

"........."

Upon seeing this, An Sheng was startled at first, but then, tilting his head slightly, he immediately spotted Lin Ying sitting on the large sofa inside the living room, causing a flurry of black lines to instantly cross his forehead.

You scoundrels, you almost scared them out of their wits!