Raising You This Small Stuff

Chapter 36.1 A thrilling moment! (Long Bow’s owner)

Mo Yi Cheng and Chen Sheng returned to the artist’s van which was downstairs in the hospital’s parking lot. After a while Long Bow rushed back out, panting heavily with his tongue hanging out as he jumped out of the computer.

Kan Ming drove straight towards the old man’s house.

It was 5:30 p.m. and since it was rush hour, the road was congested. The artist’s van was stuck on the road two intersections away from Grandpa Fu’s house.

Long Bow kept on whimpering, going round in circles inside the car and from time to time looking out the window with his two paws on it.

Yuan Suo was also restless in the apartment, asking Mo Yi Cheng again and again whether the car was moving and how much longer it would take to get the photos from Grandpa Fu’s house.

Finally, the anxiety in Long Bow’s heart made him unable to wait any longer. He jumped back into the computer and said, “Mo Ge, can you please open the door for me? I’ll just run down the road, I’ll be very fast. I have a way to getting into the house. I’ll be back as soon as I get the photos.”

Without waiting for Mo Yi Cheng to speak, Chen Sheng said: “No, there are too many cars on the road, it’s too dangerous.”

Long Bow said: “It’s okay, I’ll walk along the side of the road. If I keep waiting like this, I’ll go crazy!”

They all knew that what Long Bow really wanted to do at this moment wasn’t just to get the photos, but to let out all the emotions he felt from losing grandma and from being about to lose grandpa too.

Mo Yi Cheng thought about it for a while, “How about this, let’s get out together.”

Chen Sheng stopped him, “You can’t, there are so many people on the side of the road, once you show your face you’ll be surrounded. I’ll go.”

As he spoke, he motioned for Long Bow to come out of the computer, then opened the door, getting out of the car with him.

As Long Bow was in a hurry, he started running along the side of the road as soon as he got out. At first, Chen Sheng was able to follow him down half of the street smoothly, but was soon overwhelmed by his speed.

“Long… Long Bow, wait!”

Long Bow stopped and looked back.

“Bark!”

“You… you have four legs, but I… I only have two legs, even if you bark at me I still won’t be able to keep up!” Chen Sheng panted.

“Bark, bark, bark!!!”

“Ha ha ha…. you wait….” Chen Sheng was completely unable to keep up. If he had known earlier he would have eaten more food in the afternoon.

He only saw Long Bow turning around the corner of the street in front of him. It seems he was trying to take a shortcut. Chen Sheng put his hands on his knees, took a few breaths, then followed. But when he turned around the corner, there was no sign of Long Bow.

Only an unmarked van turning at breakneck speed as it disappeared around the corner.

Chen Sheng’s brain went blank for a moment, then he guessed what might have happened! But he wasn’t sure, so he called out a few more times hurriedly, “Long Bow! Fu Changgong!”

He was almost roaring. Long Bow had only ran over for less than a few dozen seconds, and a dog’s hearing was extremely sharp. Even if Long Bow was far away, after hearing this shout he would definitely turn back!

His chest almost exploded from the pain due to the intense exercise just now, but he ran out again towards the intersection inside the alley. However there was no sign of Long Bow on either side.

An extremely fierce chill crept up his spine in an instant. Taking out his phone, he called Mo Yi Cheng and told him about the current situation.

Mo Yi Cheng advised him not to rush first. Perhaps it was just that Long Bow was anxious so he had run fast. Maybe he was already at home now.

“I’m getting out of the car right now, stand there, don’t move.” Mo Yi Cheng put on sunglasses and a mask and got out of the car.

After the two rounds, they rushed to Grandpa Fu’s house. Sure enough, Long Bow was nowhere to be found.

Chen Sheng breathed heavily, “It must…. it must have been that car, that took Long Bow away!”

Everyone was in a state of extreme anxiety.

Chen Sheng called the police, and at the same time asked someone to retrieve the surveillance video of the surrounding area. Although there was no footage of Long Bow being taken away, it was confirmed that Long Bow never ‘appeared’ after running into that alley! However, the van just happened to drive out quickly after Long Bow entered the alley. The police also confirmed that the van was a registered vehicle.

“We have to get him back as soon as possible!” There was self-blame in Chen Sheng’s voice. He had lost Long Bow. If something happened to him, he would blame himself for the rest of his life. After seeing what had happened to Long Bow, he went online to search for news about ‘dog theft’. Large and medium-sized dogs like Long Bow were the main targets of theft, and the methods used on them were extremely cruel. Some even shot them directly with poisoned needles, making a lot of dogs die on the spot with almost no time to struggle!

Elves time outside the game was limited, and after a certain period of time they would return automatically to the game, but no one dared take that risk. Who could guarantee that in the hours of waiting, the big yellow dog would still be alive after being caught by dog thieves?

Chen Sheng used all available resources to issue a life and death order to find the dog thieves vehicle as soon as possible to rescue Long Bow.

Mo Yi Cheng also sent some manpower to look around in the nearby residents to find out if they had seen the van or heard anything about the dog theft.

The sky turned darker.

Mo Yi Cheng and Chen Sheng converged back at the car but found that both sides hadn’t found anything.

Mo Yi Cheng didn’t forget to ask Chen Jiao to buy dinner and transmit it to Yuan Suo. Yuan Suo also sensibly prepared sour plum juice for Mo Yi Cheng.

Long Bow had been kidnapped, Yuan Suo was very worried. After taking only two bites of dinner, he lost his appetite. He couldn’t help with what was going on outside, so he could only force himself to concentrate on something else.

Turning on his laptop, he decided to draw a comic strip of Long Bow and Grandpa Fu. It was very quiet inside the apartment, his thin back looking very focused.

There was a big yellow dog lying next to a small wonton stall at the entrance of a simple and cozy alleyway. The big yellow dog could turn into a human at night and chat with his grandpa and make many friends online, but one day his grandpa fell sick and the dog was taken away by dog thieves… The story came to an abrupt end. Yuan Suo wiped the corners of his red eyes and uploaded the comic.

Yuan Suo’s previous comics had gradually gained popularity, so after this one was uploaded, it was quickly liked and reposted, although it was only in single digits.

“What happened to the dog?”

“Grandpa is so nice, he won’t die, right?!”

“Hurry up and return the dog now!!! Author when will you update next?”

Yuan Suo struggled for a while as he looked at the comments. He typed a response skillfully, then deleted it one by one. Finally, he lowered his head sadly. He didn’t know…

Among these comments and reposts, there was one account that stood out the most. It was a “Big V”. The identity was a contract author of the website JJ Literature. The name was ‘don’t worry about not eating radish’ and the work under the author’s information was [The domineering president and his perlessly stunning bunny]. After the account reposted the comic and criticized the dog thieves, they sent a private message to Yuan Suo.

“Hello, I really like your comics.”

Yuan Suo replied: “Thank you. ”

After a while, a voice message was sent.

“Hello, the background of your latest comic looks familiar. Did you collect the material in S city?”

After Yuan Suo clicked and listened to it, he felt that the voice on the other side was very familiar, so he also replied with a voice message, “Yes, it’s S city.”

After a few seconds, another message came over and this time the voice was obviously a little excited, “Are you Du Du?”

Yuan Suo froze for a moment, it was really Su Yi!

When Su Yi heard about what had happened to Long Bow, she was very anxious, but her ‘real’ life self wasn’t in S City, so even if she wanted to help she was powerless.

“Long Bow will definitely be fine!” Mo Yi Cheng said that good people had their own luck, then that meant that Long Bow would definitely have his dog luck!

“Hmm, he will definitely be fine.” Su Yi replied.

TL: ‘that meant that Long Bow would definitely have his dog luck’ it is seriously not a curse.

Chapter 36.2 A thrilling moment! (Long Bow’s owner)

Eight twenty in the night.

A dusty van drove past the wonton stall in the alley. There were two men in the car. One with a short, fat body and a fierce face, and one who was sharp-tongued with a gloomy face. Both men looked outside. The man in the back spoke with a cigarette in his hand from his position beside a self-made dog-like iron ring, “Damn it, it’s only bad fu*ing luck that we’ve had today! We didn’t even get to catch a few of them and I was almost bitten by that dan dog.”

“Didn’t it not bite you? Your kick is enough for that beast to suffer, and it will be on the chopping block tomorrow so why are you angry with it? If you have time for such nonsense why don’t you hurry up and see who has a dog. Let’s hurry up and take a few back so that we can finish today’s work!” The short fat man retorted.

The thin man glared at him, “It wasn’t that was bitten… hey… hey, wait, there’s a dog!”

The short fat man also looked out. Sure enough, there was a little brown chubby dog lying in front of the door of a 24-hour snack bar, sleeping soundly with a round belly and don’t know if it was having a good dream or not as it’s tail wagged.

“Heh heh….. it’s a bit small, but it’s very fat!” The thin man smiled wretchedly. Snuffing out his cigarette, he picked up a dog tool and jumped down to try to catch it!

“Big brother! Where’s little chubby?”

“Ah, it just finished eating, it’s playing outside!” The boss replied while wiping the table.

The girl finished reading the last page of the novel, complained that the last two updates were too small, turned around and went outside to take little chubby to the back room.

As a result, she lifted up the curtain and came out just in time to see the scene of little chubby’s neck being strangled by a wire as a man struggled to pull him into a van!

“Little chubby!” The girl yelled, “Big brother! Hurry! Someone is stealing our dog!”

The two dog thieves didn’t expect that they would be caught on the spot like this. The thin man moved his hand hard, pulled the little fat dog into the car then closed the door quickly. The short fat man stepped on the accelerator and the car sprinted away!

At that moment, the shop owner rushed out, a very fit man in his early 30’s. Seeing the speeding van, he hopped onto the motorcycle at the entrance of the store without hesitation and chased after it!

Chen Sheng was standing guard beside the artist’s van anxiously, the van parked not far away from the entrance of the alley where Long Bow had been kidnapped. There was no one in the apartment in the game on the computer, which meant that Long Bow was yet to return to the game, or… that he would never return to the game again. Thinking of the possibility of the latter happening, Chen Sheng’s scalp tingled, the nerves around his temples jumping incessantly.

“Drink some water.” Mo Yi Cheng gave him a bottle of mineral water. “The police have already started to act and we’ve also gotten a lot of clues. I believe we’ll be able to find Long Bow soon.” Mo Yi Cheng said to comfort him, but the words had no heart in it. He had just experienced the feeling of his elf going ‘missing’ and knew what it felt like to feel that his heart was almost about to explode.

Although Chen Sheng wasn’t Long Bow’s player, it was obvious that he had already pinned the feelings he had for the ‘little dog’ he had lost years ago on Long Bow, moreover he had been right next to Long Bow when he was kidnapped. This kind of self-blame and guilt was hard to ignore.

Chen Sheng took the water, said thank you, raised his head and took two sips.

“Second young master! President Chen!” Kan Ming who was observing the surroundings with full concentration suddenly spoke.

“What’s wrong?” Mo Yi Cheng became alert.

“Look at that car!”

The two looked over, and saw a van speeding like crazy towards the entrance of the alley, followed by a motorcycle.

Chen Sheng jumped up excitedly, saying loudly: “That’s the car, even if it turns to dust this young master will recognize it! Follow it! Follow it!”

“Kan Ming, follow it!” Mo Yi Cheng’s eyes sharpened, but he spoke calmly and at the same time told Yuan Suo who was in the game not to be afraid, switched off the phone and put it in the special pocket of his suit.

When the two men in the van saw that they had left the motorcycle behind them, they were about to cheer and celebrate, when a luxurious business car suddenly appeared at the entrance of the alley in front of them.

The fat man stepped on the brakes quickly as he turned the car, trying to escape in another direction.

But when they turned, the motorcycle behind them had already caught up.

The corners of Kan Ming’s mouth rose and from a very clever angle, forced the van to turn around again smoothly. In the end, due to the driver’s panicked movements, the van crashed into a can that was heaping with trash.

Then the police arrived to deal with the rest.

The boss and his sister took their little chubby home. Little chubby was so scared that he shivered with tears in his eyes.

The two men gave an account of the crime and gave the location of where they hid the dogs.

Chen Sheng and Mo Yi Cheng followed the police to the illegal den where they hid the dogs and slaughtered them.

When the police entered the slaughterhouse, they arrested two other suspects on the spot.

The slaughterhouse was built in an abandoned factory in the suburbs where the surrounding area was sparsely populated, making it easier to commit crimes. Every day, dozens or even hundreds of stolen dogs were transported in and out and killed brutally.

There was a strong stench in the workshop because the place was rarely cleaned before and after dogs were slaughtered. Many of the dogs waiting to be slaughtered had been stored in overcrowded layers of iron cages on the first floor, their frightened and wet eyes flinching in the dark, not even daring to bark when they saw people coming in, obviously scared out of their minds.

The police worked late into the night before they were able to bring all the dog cages inside the factory out. With the moonlight and fresh light, the puppies breathed fresh air and felt the warmth of humans again. Their little paws stuck out from the gaps in the iron cage as their little tongues drank their first mouthful of sweet water in many days, as well as their first mouthful of sweet food.

Chen Sheng searched in front of a dozen huge dog cages, shouting Long Bow’s name.

“Bark, bark, bark!”

Hearing the familiar bark, Chen Sheng turned his head immediately and saw a big yellow dog in the corner of a wooden cage barking at him.

He approached it with excitement. Sure enough, it was Long Bow! The light was dim, making it difficult for him to see clearly, but the blood stains on the fur on Long Bow’s head was unusually eye-catching.

Everyone worked together to release Long Bow from the cage. Chen Sheng leaned down and hugged the big yellow dog, breathing a deep sigh of relief.

Long Bow was dizzy, thirsty and hungry, and the kick to his head made him suspect that he had a slight concussion.

Chen Sheng brought a bottle of water hurriedly. There wasn’t anything suitable for him to pour the water into, so he poured some into the palm of his hand and brought it to Long Bow’s mouth. Long Bow glanced at him gratefully, lowered his head and drank a mouthful.

“Long Bow, the car is parked outside, we will send you back to the game first.” Chen Sheng said when Long Bow finished drinking the water.

“Bark!”

“What’s wrong?” Chen Sheng saw that he wanted to say something.

“Bark, bark!”

“Ah, you mean my hand? Hah hah, when they caught the two dog thieves who kidnapped you, I couldn’t resist punching them. I didn’t expect their bones to be quite hard, scrapping this young master’s skin.” Chen Sheng said offhandedly.

“Bark, bark!”

“You’re welcome, you’re welcome, let’s get into the car first!” Having rescued Long Bow, Chen Sheng was in a good mood.

Mo Yi Cheng shook his head as he watched from the side.

Long Bow returned to the game. After the system diagnosed that there was nothing serious except a slight concussion and dehydration, everyone was relieved.

Chen Sheng took him home to get the photos and then returned to the hospital.

Mo Yi Cheng had an important event to attend tomorrow and had to get up early to board a plane so he went back first.

From catching the dog thieves to finding Long Bow, Mo Yi Cheng told Yuan Suo everything that had happened. Yuan Suo’s face as he sat on the bed holding the quilt as he listened intently turned pale then red, obviously frightened by the thrilling process.

“But everything is alright now. Long Bow has gone to the hospital to accompany Grandpa and Chen Sheng is there with him, so we don’t have to worry.”

“Then… what about the dogs that were rescued?” Yuan Suo remembered that Mo Yi Cheng said there were still a lot of dogs in the factory.

Mo Yi Cheng answered: “The police will release the news to help them find their owners. Of course, Chen Sheng and I will do what we can to help those puppies. If they can’t find their owners, then we will help them find adoptive families. In short, those little things have suffered too much, we will definitely give them a good home.”

After listening to Mo Yi Cheng’s words, a smile appeared on Yuan Suo’s face, “If… if there’s a puppy that can’t find its owner, we can also raise one.”

Mo Yi Cheng smiled, “We?”

“Hmm! Their fluffy fur must be very cute!” There was a look of longing on Yuan Suo’s face.

“Alright, we will adopt one.”