Zoo

After finishing her soy milk, Zhou Dongdong tried to move onto Liu Chang'an like a frog with its belly up, but Liu Chang'an stopped her by pressing her head down with his fingers.

Zhou Dongdong turned her head to look at Liu Chang'an, still puffing out her cheeks in dissatisfaction, but was met with a cold and rejecting look. After letting out a loud "waaaah," Zhou Dongdong remembered that only other children had the ability to get all their wishes by crying loudly. After letting out a loud cry, she turned her head back and continued to calmly bite the shriveled soy milk bag.

So Liu Chang'an picked her up and placed her in his lap. After Zhou Dongdong wobbled but managed to sit still, she suddenly felt very tall and majestic.

Liu Chang'an lifted Zhou Dongdong up by her armpits and then put her down.

Lift it up, then put it down.

Repeat.

Lift it up, then put it down.

Repeat.

Zhou Dongdong giggled, "I want to play more!"

Liu Chang'an stopped playing with her, so Zhou Dongdong grabbed Liu Chang'an's leg and started climbing. This was clearly a bit overestimating her abilities; her size wasn't suited for climbing... Pandas don't seem to be suited for climbing trees either, but they can climb them anyway. Zhou Dongdong looks like a panda, but she's not a panda after all.

Zhou Dongdong was jolted to the ground by a bump in the stomach, rolling over as she scrambled to her feet. Zhou Dongdong seized the opportunity to slap her bottom, causing her to lie back down. "Why are you bullying me again?!" Liu Chang'an.

Liu Chang'an lay down peacefully. Zhou Dongdong cautiously glanced at Liu Chang'an before tentatively getting up, glancing upstairs, and quickly wiping the dust off her stomach and buttocks.

"Let's go to the zoo to see the pandas today," Liu Chang'an said.

"You can eat pandas, right?"

"Where in my words is there any connection to food?" Liu Chang'an asked, puzzled.

Zhou Dongdong didn't understand what he said, and continued, "Brother Chang'an, you eat everything, you must have eaten pandas too."

"Go back and call your mom, see if she's free. If she is, we can go to the zoo together." Liu Chang'an waved his hand, too lazy to talk to her about such a silly topic as eating pandas.

Zhou Dongdong hurriedly went upstairs to find her mother.

Upon receiving the message, Zhou Shuling immediately shouted from upstairs that she was free.

Liu Chang'an remained seated on the recliner when Zhou Dongdong ran down with two more steamed buns. She ate one herself, stuffed the other into Liu Chang'an's mouth, and then sat on his lap.

Old Man Qian and Old Man Qin from the building across the street walked over together, glanced at Liu Chang'an and Zhou Dongdong, and revealed a smug smile.

Liu Chang'an ate a steamed bun, and Zhou Dongdong also ate a steamed bun, then they both watched them.

The two old men circled the paulownia tree once, began to inhale and exhale their inner energy, circulated their qi for a while, and then began to pat the paulownia tree with both hands.

After patting for a while, they started rubbing against the tree, bumping it with their backs, and then they started patting the tree trunk with their hands, repeating this cycle.

"Stop looking, it'll make you stupid." Liu Chang'an covered Zhou Dongdong's eyes, and the two of them spun around to the other side.

"Little Liu, what are you saying? Do you even know what we're doing?" Old Man Qian hearing was still quite sharp, walked over defiantly, intending to lecture the two children.

"Aside from wild boars and bears rubbing against tree bark, which is quite common, I haven't really seen many animals do that. I really don't know," Liu Chang'an admitted his ignorance.

"We're practicing martial arts! We exercise by patting the sycamore tree. You can search for it online; it's very popular." Old Man Qian thought going online was a very fashionable thing. Among the elderly who only knew how to play mahjong and "pao zi" (a type of Pao Hu Zi), he was at the forefront of fashion.

"Why are you taking pictures of my sycamore tree?" Zhou Dongdong walked over and gently touched the bark of the sycamore tree to comfort it.

"Old Qian said he once wanted to dig for the treasure under this phoenix tree with you, but you refused. Actually, this phoenix tree has absorbed the treasure energy from underground, making it more spiritual than other trees and more beneficial to our training," Old Man Qin explained.

"You may continue."

Liu Chang'an pulled Zhou Dongdong upstairs.

Upon arriving at Zhou Dongdong's house, Liu Chang'an said to Zhou Shuling, who was busy in the kitchen, "I've come to freeload a meal."

Zhou Shuling listened and responded.

After breakfast, Zhou Shuling went to change her clothes. It was clear that she was even more enthusiastic about going to the zoo than Liu Chang'an and Zhou Dongdong.

"Does this look good?" Zhou Shuling had changed into three different outfits.

"We're here to see the animals, not for them to see you. No matter how nicely you're dressed, male monkeys, bears, deer, and horses won't even glance at you," Liu Chang'an reasoned with her.

Zhou Shuling rolled her eyes at Liu Chang'an unhappily, but she didn't change out of the slightly preppy plaid A-line skirt. This style is actually suitable for mature women, as it usually gives them a more gentle and quiet temperament, and even tones down the shrewdness of a street vendor.

"How can I get the panda to look at me more?" Zhou Dongdong, who loves pandas, asked curiously.

"When it wants to eat you."

"I didn't want to eat it!" Zhou Dongdong was startled. She thought the panda had discovered her thoughts, which was why the panda wanted to eat her.

Zhou Shuling tidied her hair again and set off. She didn't have many cosmetics. Even now, she felt that life was just starting to improve and she still owed a lot of debt. She didn't have the right to pursue too many cosmetics to dress herself up. Besides, she felt that her usual Dabao and Bai Que Ling could meet her skincare needs.

The three neighbors took the subway and then a bus to the zoo.

"This is a zoo with lots of animals!" Zhou Dongdong had only ever seen zoos in books before. Excitedly, she ran over, tripped and fell, but immediately got up and ran to the entrance. However, there weren't any animals wandering around as she had imagined.

"Slow down!" Zhou Shuling called out, and was about to scold her when she saw Zhou Dongdong turn around and run back screaming in fright. It turned out that a model dinosaur had suddenly opened its mouth wide and roared at Zhou Dongdong.

A black car suddenly sped out from the corner. Seeing Zhou Dongdong right in front of the car, Zhou Shuling turned pale and felt as if her heart was about to explode. She rushed over like a madwoman.

But before Zhou Shuling could run two steps, she found that Liu Chang'an had already grabbed Zhou Dongdong and was staring at the black car that had illegally entered the visitor trail area with a gloomy expression.

Zhou Shuling had never seen Liu Chang'an with such a gloomy expression.

"Brother Chang'an..." Zhou Dongdong wasn't afraid of Brother Chang'an like this, but she felt that she must have done something wrong. She shrank back and hid in Brother Chang'an's arms, watching her mother rushing over, wondering if she would hit her.

"Take her to the zoo first. I'll come find you later. Don't look back here." Liu Chang'an handed Zhou Dongdong over to Zhou Shuling.

Zhou Shuling's heart hadn't fully returned to normal. She always listened to Liu Chang'an's serious requests without any nonsense or acting on her own. She took Zhou Dongdong and ran while looking at her.

"What the hell? The kid was running around without being watched, and now you're blaming me?" A young man rolled down his car window, peeked out, and analyzed the situation.

"You can leave now." Liu Chang'an stretched out his hand, then lowered it, coldly looking at the young man.

Hearing this, the young man was overjoyed and quickly started his car and drove away, saying back, "Be more careful next time!"

The young man drove away slowly, glancing casually in his rearview mirror. To his surprise, he noticed that the man with the gloomy face, presumably the little girl's father, was slowly running behind his car.

"Are you crazy?" The young man chuckled. If he hadn't caused trouble earlier, would he be coming after him now to settle scores?

The young man drove onto the highway and drove until he reached another scenic spot on the outskirts of the city. A strange intuition came over him, and he couldn't help but look back. The gloomy-faced guy was still following behind his car!

What was he trying to do? The young man didn't have time to think about how the other person had done it; he was just inexplicably terrified, his whole body drenched in cold sweat.

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