1099 The Poisoned Dog (1/2)

When it comes to gossip, most people are nosy, no matter their gender. It's just that some people are more open about it, while some keep them hidden.

Zhang Zian was interested in the fresh dog poisoning news that Lu Yiyun's area just had. Wang Qian and Li Kun were even more curious, and came crowding around her, pressing for more information.

Jiang Feifei was cleaning up next door, and know nothing.

Lu Yiyun gave it a thought before saying everything she knew of the situation.

After closing shop at the pet shop last night, Wang Qian, Li Kun and Jiang Feifei sent her back to her area just like usual, and she asked them to just drop her off at the entrance so as to not bother them for too long. It's quite late now, so probably nothing will happen.

She entered the neighbourhood herself, her head lowered as she entered her own rented apartment quickly. She could actually afford a place better than this apartment, but this place is close to the pet shop and she's too lazy to move. Even though her place right now is small, it's more than enough for one human and a cat.

A few familiar faces walked by her, they're all residents of the area. She has been staying here for some time, and basically knows everyone, but since she's naturally shy, she would almost never proactively greet other people. Even if others greeted her first, she would only lower her head shyly.

Usually at this time, it's exactly the time where the working class had just finished their dinner. Some of them are playing the computer, some of them playing on their phone, some of them guiding their kids at their homework, and some of them walking their dogs.

No matter the season, she would always meet people that are walking their dogs on her way back from work.

After working in the pet shop, she got a lot more familiar and knowledgable about dog behaviour and dog mentality, and no longer gets afraid when she sees dogs. In fact, most of the time, dogs calm her down more than humans do.

She may not know the owners of the dogs, but she's extremely familiar with the dogs in the neighbourhood.

”Good evening.”

When she walked to the lobby of her apartment, she heard a greeting while her head was still down, and a husky rushing towards her in its glee — though it was restrained after a few steps by its owner.

She recognizes the husky, the owner's a woman in her mid-thirties living right below her floor.

She raised her head slightly, it really was that woman walking her dog.

There's no one around her, the greeting was for her.

Lu Yiyun had conversed with this woman once, last year end. This woman was walking her dog back then too, but she hadn't put her dog on her leash. When Lu Yiyun walked past her, she couldn't help but blurt out ”Huskies like to bolt, if you don't leash them, you will lose them.”

It was the year end back then, and the dognapping cases were getting more and more common, Zhang Zian was also busy settling it. That's why she had initiated the conversation despite her quiet self.

Her reminder was soft, she couldn't even hear herself properly, and she ran off like a bolt immediately after that, not confirming whether the other had heard her.

But, from the next day on, the woman would always leash her husky when she brings it out for a walk, and would always greet Lu Yiyun when they meet even if she had never replied once,

She hadn't replied last night either, and they were used to it, walking past her after only dropping a greeting.

But what she had never thought would happen, was for this to be the last time she would see the husky,