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Chapter 34: A Difficult Birth (Please read on, please recommend, please do everything!)

Xizhimen, Beijing Zoo.

Gu Xiao got out of the taxi, looked at the crowded street in front of her, and fell silent.

"Sorry, I wanted to pay, but I can't afford it," he muttered silently, then sincerely pulled out his phone and called his cheapskate father.

After receiving the reply, Gu Xiao followed the route she remembered and headed towards the side gate of the zoo.

Ten minutes later, in the quiet alley, a large, slightly rusty green iron gate slowly opened.

A middle-aged woman wearing a dark blue headscarf leaned out.

Her face was rosy, her eyes crinkled with laughter, and her apron was covered in bits of grass.

Upon seeing Gu Xiao, her eyes lit up. She stepped forward, patted his arm, and playfully scolded him:

"You little brat! It's been years since we last met, and you finally come to see me?"

That was quite a blow. Gu Xiao rubbed her arm, looking somewhat helpless: "Aunt Li, I have my own things to do too."

The middle-aged woman in front of me is named Li Xiuying. She is the logistics supervisor of the herbivore area in the zoo, responsible for feed distribution, medicine management, and material requisition. She can be said to be Gu Hui's most capable old subordinate.

When Gu Hui was a child, she was always busy and Gu Xiao often ate and drank in her office.

"Thin!"

Li Xiuying circled around him, her brows furrowed. "Are you not eating properly again? Your dad is such a quiet person, he just doesn't know how to take care of people."

Gu Xiao, who ate and drank excessively all day, was certain that she hadn't lost weight, but seeing her enthusiastic manner, she didn't refute it.

They chatted for a few minutes, from "It's cold, wear more clothes" to "Don't overwork yourself for the college entrance exam," and just as the conversation was about to turn to "dating," Gu Xiao quickly interrupted:

"Aunt Li, I have something important to discuss with my father."

"Okay, busy man."

Li Xiuying rolled her eyes at him, stepped aside to let him in, and casually handed him a warm tea egg, saying, "I boiled it this morning, have a taste."

Gu Xiao did not refuse and thanked her with a smile.

Walking along the stone-paved road in the logistics area with Aunt Li, we saw red brick warehouses on both sides. The smell of grass and feed mixed together filled the air, and we could hear the low growls of various animals from time to time.

After walking for more than ten minutes, the two arrived at the administration building behind the elephant museum.

Following her memory, Gu Xiao went up to the second floor and found the office at the end of the corridor.

Knowing that Gu Hui was definitely patrolling the park, he didn't knock and just pushed the door open and went in.

The office was covered with animal posters, and the bookshelves against the wall were also crammed full; a quick glance revealed that they were all animal-related books.

"How pure," Gu Xiao murmured softly, not touching or groping inappropriately. She simply sat on the sofa, quietly flipping through the script.

A moment later, the door was gently pushed open, and Li Xiuying walked in carrying hot tea.

Smelling the aroma of tea, Xiao Jiu darted out of the pocket, curiously looking around. His bright black eyes were full of excitement, and he was about to leap out to explore.

"No."

Gu Xiao warned without looking up.

Xiao Jiu let out a wronged cry, reluctantly retreated into the pocket, and sulked while hugging its tail.

Li Xiuying watched the interaction between the human and the mouse with a somewhat strange expression:
"Is that the squirrel you rescued? It's so well-behaved!"

Gu Xiao smiled but didn't reply.

Li Xiuying placed the teacup on the coffee table, her gaze softening.
"You have indeed changed a lot."

"It's been several years, so naturally things have changed a lot."

Gu Xiao gave a perfunctory answer, but Li Xiuying felt heartbroken and scolded, "Your old man is so unreliable. I don't know what he's busy with all day. Doesn't he care if you starve to death out there?"

Gu Xiao was both amused and exasperated: "Aunt Li, I'm actually doing quite well."

Li Xiuying spat, "You send your child out to do business, and you call that doing well?"

That's right, many staff members at the zoo knew about Gu Xiao selling study materials.

Some people marveled at his abilities, while others felt sorry for his precociousness; Li Xiuying belonged to the latter group.

In her mind, children who are studying should not have to worry about money. Gu Hui makes her child worry so much, what else is that but unreliable?
Just as Gu Xiao was about to say something to explain for her father, the door was suddenly pushed open. A young staff member rushed in, sweating profusely: "Manager Gu, Xiao Li is having a difficult labor, Manager Song has asked you to..."

He stopped abruptly when he realized that the person sitting on the sofa was a strange teenager.

He took a step back to check the address, then stood there stunned.

“I am Gu Xiao, the son of Supervisor Gu.”

Gu Xiao stood up and introduced herself, then looked at Li Xiuying, "Who is Xiao Li?"

"A snow leopard in the feline enclosure."

Li Xiuying said with a serious expression, "She just turned three this year, and her health has never been very good."

She stood up and said to the staff member, "I'll contact the supervisor. You can go back to your workstation."

The staff member responded and left.

Seeing the anxiety on her face, Gu Xiao asked curiously:
"Is the situation bad?"

“The mortality rate of animals in dystocia is very high.”

Li Xiuying walked quickly to her desk, picked up the phone with practiced ease, and said while dialing a number, "Xiaoli is a first-time mother and is very likely to refuse treatment due to nervousness."

Gu Xiao nodded thoughtfully, and seeing that the call wouldn't go through for a while, she said:

"He may already be on his way."

"Probably so."

After trying several times, Li Xiuying had to put down the receiver.

Seeing that she still looked worried, Gu Xiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Give me the location, I'll go take a look."

Li Xiuying looked at him in surprise, and after a moment of silence, she took out a blue employee badge:

"Follow the signs in the East District, turn right when you see Xiongshan, there's a small road, the white house at the very end is it."

Gu Xiao responded, took the employee badge, and jogged away.

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After crossing the South Changhe River and arriving at the East District, Gu Xiao jogged all the way and soon reached the north side of Xiongshan.

Following Aunt Li's instructions, he shifted his gaze to the right and indeed found a path next to the Hundred Trees Garden.

At the end, a white house is faintly visible.

I walked quickly, and whenever I encountered staff members who tried to stop me, I simply pulled out my employee ID.

Perhaps intimidated by Gu Xiao's imposing presence, no one dared to stop them.

He entered the house without any trouble and, based on the sounds, found a ten-square-meter animal shed.

At that moment, Gu Hui and two other men, both dressed in work clothes, were squatting outside the iron fence, arguing heatedly about something.

"We must administer anesthesia! If we delay any longer, the pups will be lost, and the mother will also be in danger!"

A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses spoke urgently.

"no!"

The older, dark-skinned man next to him immediately objected, "With Veterinarian Xu not here, how can we control the anesthesia dosage? Besides, Xiao Li is already very weak; the risk of anesthesia is too great!"

"Then what do you suggest we do? Just sit here and watch?" the bespectacled man asked anxiously.

Gu Hui squatted between the two, his brows furrowed, his eyes fixed on the depths of the animal enclosure.

Gu Xiao followed his gaze.

A beautiful snow leopard was lying on its side on a haystack, its silvery-gray fur soaked with sweat, its belly heaving violently.

The low, suppressed whimpers were heartbreaking, and each contraction made its body tremble violently.

(End of this chapter)