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Chapter 1073 True and False Xiao Hei
Lu Jingxing smiled and slapped him: "Come on, show me..."

Ji An cried out, then walked away with Lu Jing.

"Situ is not sure about all of this, especially it. This little guy looks to be quite old, for such a big body, but his appetite is not good. He doesn't eat much, and he hums from time to time. Situ said it might be in pain somewhere, but you can't tell..." As they were talking, they came to a cage that contained a golden retriever alone.

When the little guy saw someone coming, he raised his head to take a look at the person, then slowly lowered his head and continued to lie down.

"It's really a golden retriever..." Lu Jingxing was a little surprised to see such a pure golden retriever.

"Let me tell you, Brother Lu, there are so many precious dogs this time, including several Alaska dogs. You can imagine how anxious their owners must be. These cat and dog dealers are such bastards." Jian became indignant when he thought of this.

Lu Jingxing had already scanned the area on the way here, and there were indeed many valuable dogs. Logically, such dogs should not be lost so easily. I don't know what methods those people used.

Most pastoral dogs are free-range, or some are in rural areas. When their owners are not at home, those damn dog dealers can even break into their homes to steal or rob them. However, there shouldn't be so many Alaskan dogs like these raised in cities.

Lu Jingxing remembered that when he rescued the last batch of dogs, there were only a few valuable dogs, many of which were hybrids or mostly pastoral dogs.

Therefore, the overall physical condition is much better than this batch.

This time, he seemed to be in a bad mood.

Lu Jingxing didn't think any more about it. He got familiar with the little guy for a while. Seeing that the little guy was not on guard against him, he brought it out.

What surprised Lu Jingxing again was that the little guy seemed to be particularly enthusiastic towards him. Although he had been looking listless, after coming out of the cage, he started wagging his tail around him.

"Brother Lu, it likes you so much..." Jian said with a smile.

Lu Jingxing also laughed. Being liked by dogs made him feel very happy.

"It was still wearing a collar, how could it get lost? There's some white on its head and face, so it looks like it should be at least eleven or twelve years old. This shouldn't happen. A dog that big shouldn't just get lost so easily..." Lu Jingxing muttered to himself as he took the little guy out of the cage.

Put a leash on it. Since it has a collar, it doesn't take any effort to put it on. Moreover, as soon as Lu Jingxing took out the leash, the little guy consciously put his head forward, and it was obvious that he was used to being taken for a walk by his previous owner.

"There's a name on it, but unfortunately there's no owner's phone number..." Jian half-knelt down and helped Xin tidy up the little guy.

"Xiao Hei? A golden retriever named Xiao Hei?" Lu Jingxing couldn't help but chuckle. Its owner was quite unusual: "Take a few more photos of it, post two videos on the platform, and name it 'Golden retriever named Xiao Hei looking for parents'..."

"I've been filming. This is the fastest way to help them find their parents. I just don't know if their parents have paid attention to this incident. It would be great if they happened to see it..." Jian followed Lu Jingxing with the filming equipment all the way to the simple operating room at the base.

"Whether there is attention or not, this is always a hope." Lu Jingxing was full of confidence.

There are no good instruments here, except for an ultrasound scanner, which was bought back from a former pet shop that was no longer needed and discarded. There are no other equipment.

The operating room was also very simple, even simpler than the one that Lu Jingxing and his team had temporarily built at the cat warehouse.

It can also be seen that this operating room is not used very often. Many medicines and instruments are covered with dust. Even though Situ Fang has used the operating room these days, he did not use it very often because there were not many examination equipment. At most, he helped the little ones deal with visible injuries. For cases like Xiao Hei who might be sick but was not sure what the disease was, Situ Fang did not provide in-depth treatment.

"Lift it onto the operating table first, let me listen..." Lu Jingxing said as he was ready to pick up Xiao Hei's head.

The little guy was very cooperative and didn't make any noise at all, letting them do whatever they wanted.

So, Lu Jingxing and Ji An easily lifted Xiao Hei onto the operating table.

Lu Jingxing looked at its entire body very carefully. There was nothing wrong with the little guy's body. So the problem that made Situ Fang suspicious should be an internal problem.

"Let's do an abdominal ultrasound first. You can pass the abdominal hair to it." Lu Jingxing took out his commonly used tool knife from the tool box and handed it to Ji An, while he went to debug the ultrasound machine, which he was not sure whether it could still be used.

"Oh, OK, I have no problem with this." Jian took the tool knife with both hands. Seeing his fearful look, Lu Jingxing couldn't help but laugh: "This is just an ordinary tool knife, not a scalpel. You don't need to be so nervous, right?"

"Ah? Oh, haha, I thought you gave me your scalpel. Well, there's no need for a scalpel to pass on hair..." Jian laughed to himself.

After debugging for more than ten minutes, Lu Jingxing turned on the machine and nodded to Ji An: "Just give it a try."

The two of them lifted the little guy together and placed him in a card slot on the operating table.

Jian held the little guy's head. Although he was a little scared, it would be no fun if the little guy suddenly attacked and bit him. But after all, he was a veteran, so he managed to calm himself and Xiao Hei.

The longer Lu Jingxing took the photo, the more confused he became. He couldn't help but look back at Xiao Hei a few times, until Ji An couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Brother Lu, is this guy suffering from an incurable disease?"

Because I really don’t know how to describe Lu Jingxing’s expression, it’s too changeable.

Lu Jingxing didn't answer him. After watching for about ten minutes, he stopped what he was doing...

"Help it down first. When you were transferring the hair to it just now, did you feel that the hair on its chest was much shorter than that on other parts of its body? It felt like it had been transferred not long ago, right?" Lu Jingxing asked Jian as he lifted Xiao Hei off the operating table.

"Yes, the hair on the upper part of the abdomen is shorter than that on the lower part. I thought it was normal, so I didn't say anything." Jian nodded affirmatively.

Then he asked again: "What's wrong? Does this have anything to do with his illness?"

After Xiao Hei was brought down, Lu Jingxing did not reply to Ji An's words, but tried to shout at Xiao Hei: "Zhuangzhuang..."

The little guy was obviously stunned, then he started to wag his tail more vigorously and moved closer to him. "What do you mean, your name is Zhuangzhuang instead of Xiaohei? Brother Lu, do you know it?" Now it was Jian's turn to be dumbfounded.

Lu Jingxing shook his head: "You wait here with it, I need to make a phone call to confirm."

Having said that, without waiting for Jian to react, he hurried out.

Yang Pei, who had just come out of the operating room, received a call from Lu Jingxing: "Brother Lu, didn't you go to Mingzhou? How is it? Do you need me to go there too?"

He didn't even wait for Lu Jingxing to say anything, he just started typing away.

"Wait, wait, wait..." Lu Jingxing had to interrupt him. If he didn't interrupt him, he probably could have talked for another ten minutes.

"Hey, you say..." This time Yang Pei shut up immediately, because usually when it was Lu Jingxing's turn to interrupt him, it meant that he had something urgent or serious to discuss with him.

"It's like this, I remember one time you adopted a golden retriever, named Zhuangzhuang or something, anyway, it wasn't called Xiaohei..." Lu Jingxing muttered this to himself, so Yang Pei didn't hear it clearly.

"Ah? I received so many golden retrievers, in a shaped way? There are also several of them, what's wrong?" Yang Pei asked in confusion.

"It's a golden retriever named Zhuangzhuang. When he came for a check-up, he was diagnosed with a lung tumor. Surgery was not possible, so I prescribed Chinese medicine for him. Later, the owner asked him to bring him for a follow-up check-up, but he never came. Can you help me check it out..." Lu Jingxing finally got to the point.

"Oh, oh, oh, I remember, we have registered. Wait a moment, I'll check it now..." After hearing this, Yang Pei did not ask Lu Jingxing why he wanted to check the situation now, but immediately ran to the front desk.

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When it comes to information about the dogs in the store, the most complete information is on the computer in front of the counter.

"Come on, let me check the information..." He walked to the front desk without hanging up the phone, pushed the girl away, grabbed the mouse and started to spin it: "No, Jia Jia, how do I check this?"

"Ah? What do you want to check?" The receptionist called Jia Jia was pushed away by someone a second ago. She was about to say that she was going to play in the backyard for a while, but before she could take a step, she was called back by Yang Pei.

"Just help me check on a golden retriever named Zhuangzhuang. It has a tumor in its lungs..." Yang Pei put the operation aside and did not hang up the phone. She continued to operate the computer.

"Let me do it..." This time it was Jia Jia's turn to push Yang Pei out.

The front desk is so small. Since you don't know how to use it, you should just move away.

Yang Pei scratched his head, chuckled awkwardly, and finally gave up his seat.

"Zhuangzhuang, right, Golden Retriever? You came for a check-up in April and were diagnosed with a lung tumor. Surgery is inoperable, so Dr. Lu prescribed Chinese medicine for you, right?" Jia Jia searched the computer screen with the mouse for a while and then muttered it out silently.

"Brother Lu, did you hear that, right?" Yang Pei moved the operating room closer to Jia Jia to ensure that Lu Jingxing could hear what she said, then took the phone over and spoke loudly to Lu Jingxing.

"I heard it, I heard it. Keep your voice down or my ears will be deafened. By the way, send me the phone number of Zhuangzhuang's parents and I will call him to ask about the situation..." Lu Jingxing said.

"Okay, I'll send it to you. What's the matter? Is there a dog over there with a similar condition who can't have surgery and needs to take Chinese medicine?" Yang Pei asked as she wrote down the number and sent him a message.

"No, I think our dog named Xiao Hei looks too much like Zhuang Zhuang. However, the collar he wears is called Xiao Hei. I want to confirm it."

"There is such a thing? Well, then you should contact its owner quickly. I'm hanging up..." Yang Pei hung up the phone as quickly as possible.

Lu Jingxing also called the number sent by Yang Pei without stopping.

The phone rang for a long time before someone answered: "Who is this?"

As soon as Lu Jingxing heard the voice, he basically confirmed this person. He said directly: "Hello, are you Zhuangzhuang's parent?"

There was a long pause before the man said slowly, "Zhuangzhuang is dead..."

"Dead? How did he die? Did you see it with your own eyes?" This confused Lu Jingxing.

"Who are you?" It took a long time for the other side to react.

"Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Dr. Lu Jingxing, the doctor at Pet Care who originally treated your Zhuangzhuang. Since you didn't bring Zhuangzhuang in for a follow-up check-up, I called to ask about the situation. How could it die? Didn't the medicine provide any relief?" Moreover, Lu Jingxing knew that even if the medicine didn't provide any relief, it would not make the condition worse. Therefore, no matter what happened to Zhuangzhuang, it was impossible for him to die so soon.

"It's none of your business. It's actually getting better after taking your medicine. It looks more energetic in the past month or so. Alas..." The owner sighed again and stopped talking.

Lu Jingxing was so anxious that he asked, "Why don't you tell me? Why do you keep asking one question after another?" But he was too embarrassed to ask directly, so he had to ask in a guiding way: "What's the situation now?"

"Actually, we didn't see its body, but the old people here said that once a dog feels it's dying, it will go outside and find a place to die quietly. This situation did happen when we raised pastoral dogs before. The strange thing is that we didn't find its body this time. We searched everywhere near our home but couldn't find it." The owner sighed leisurely.

When Lu Jingxing heard this, he felt relieved: "How many dogs do you have in your family? Is there one named Xiao Hei?"

"Yes? How do you know? Did I tell you last time? But Xiao Hei had just arrived at our house and was not very old at that time. There were only Zhuang Zhuang and Xiao Hei in our family. Xiao Hei is at home now..." When Zhuang Zhuang's owner heard this, he seemed to perk up and asked immediately.

"Let me ask you one more detail. When your Zhuangzhuang left, was he wearing Xiaohei's collar?" Lu Jingxing asked again.

"I don't know about this, but Zhuangzhuang's collar is definitely at home. We even built a cenotaph for it and put the collar inside." Zhuangzhuang's owner felt his hair stand on end when he heard this: "Why don't you tell me everything at once? The more I listen, the more scared I get."

"It's like this. We rescued a group of cats and dogs in Minnesota. When I came here today, I found a golden retriever with a collar with Xiao Hei's name on it. I did an ultrasound on it, and I think its symptoms are very similar to yours, but not exactly the same, because its tumor is even smaller than before, so I'm not sure. I called to confirm this with you." Lu Jingxing repeated the matter as simply as possible.

(End of this chapter)