424: The dog got into trouble.

Of course, gifts also had to be sent to the homes of the friends in official circles that they had made later on. The reason was very simple: Bai Xue was sending two yellowtail amberjack to her little friends to try out.

Reasonable and logical! Impeccable!

Over the next few days, Yang Qi would go to the Municipal Shipyard every day to take a look around.

Except for the first day when he brought an eight-jin yellowtail amberjack to confirm with General Manager Cao that the renovated scientific research vessel would be renamed "explorer", that was about the only real business.

The other days were just spent drinking tea in General Manager Cao's office, then taking a tour of the shipyard construction site before driving away.

"General Manager Yang, you're so busy, you don't need to come by every day. Rest assured, I will help you keep an eye on things."

On this day at the shipyard construction site, that engineer said to Yang Qi.

"I don't have much to do these days, so I just come over to drink tea with General Manager Cao, hehehe,"

"Alright then, I'm heading off first. Please help me push the progress on this ship!"

Yang Qi felt a bit embarrassed by what was said and stuffed a few packs of cigarettes into the engineer's pocket.

"Don't, General Manager Yang, you really shouldn't do this!"

"Just take it, take it. Thank you for your hard work. I'm leaving."

Yang Qi held down the engineer's hand, said a few polite words, and turned to leave the Municipal Shipyard.

That evening, Yang Qi was at Bai Xue's studio, helping her edit the videos and photos taken recently.

It was the video of Tuna fishing from a few days ago, as well as the video of catching yellowtail amberjack in the Korea Strait.

Because Yao Shanshan was not there later, when it was just the two of them, Bai Xue couldn't spare her hands to film, so the camera was usually fixed to the bow of the boat.

The workload for editing videos filmed this way was much larger. After they edited the works and posted them to their TikTok account, they found many messages in the backend and fan groups.

The popularity of Tide Cottage had basically faded over the recent period.

Most of the messages now were from fans talking about how good the resources were in their local areas, inviting them to fish—both freshwater and saltwater.

Whether domestic or even abroad, they all had them. And most of them had pictures as proof.

Yang Qi replied to them one by one:

"Thank you for your kindness, I will definitely go visit if there's a chance!"

"Little Snow, when the fishing moratorium arrives, we really should go travel around, see the magnificent mountains and rivers of our motherland, or go play abroad."

Yang Qi turned his head and said to Bai Xue.

"The fishing moratorium doesn't have much of an impact on us, as we mainly focus on fishing. So to be accurate, we work all year round, hahaha!"

Bai Xue couldn't help but laugh.

Yang Qi thought about it and realized it was indeed the case. For him, the fishing moratorium at most meant not putting Gillnet and Cast Net on the setting sail.

They could still go out fishing as normal, and the price of the catch was even a bit higher. So, it wasn't like these fishing boat(s) had to wait until the fishing moratorium to take a break.

"You're right, I had entered a cognitive misconception! I kept thinking about waiting until the fishing moratorium to go play, hahaha."

Yang Qi scratched his head and laughed.

"By the way, Little Snow, the money for those gold bricks arrived today."

"Oh, how much?"

"Five boxes of gold bricks, the actual amount received was 450 million. Tsk tsk tsk, I don't even know how to spend it! You think about it, we have to spend at least a portion of it first."

Yang Qi said with some pride.

"That's great, hehehe, it should be after-tax, right? It seems the country gave us a fair price."

Upon hearing this, Bai Xue was also excitedly hugging Yang Qi and laughing.

"Would the country shortchange us on this little bit of money? It's just that banner hanging in the living room, it feels a bit... you know!"

Yang Qi thought of the most prominent place in the living room, that banner which had already been framed with small leaf red sandalwood.

That was after the two of them went out to sea, and his mom and dad went to the The City to get it and hung it up.

"Just let it hang there, this is an honor."

Bai Xue said proudly.

"Alright, since you all want it hung up, just let it hang there!"

Yang Qi shook his head and stopped talking. There were only four people in the family, three against one, nothing much to say.

As the two were chatting, they suddenly heard a strange "woooo" sound coming from the doorway.

"Coal and Gold Bar are back."

Yang Qi got up and opened the studio door, finding Coal standing outside, wagging its tail, head lowered, making a "woooo" sound.

"Hmm? What's wrong, Coal? Why are you alone? Come in!"

Yang Qi was a bit surprised.

But what surprised him even more was that one of Coal's legs was lame, and it hopped into the room on three legs.

"Oh no! Coal, what happened to you? How did you get hurt? Don't move, don't move, let me take a look."

Bai Xue also noticed something was wrong. This must have been caused by being hit by a car or beaten by someone; otherwise, it wouldn't have broken a leg.

"Honey, it must be a fracture. Let's go to the pet hospital!"

"By the way, why are you alone? Where is Gold Bar?"

But no matter how they asked, Coal just whimpered softly, "woo-oh, woo-oh". Perhaps it was trying to express something, but neither of them could understand what it meant.

"Mom, is Gold Bar still with you?"

Yang Qi picked up his phone and called his mom to ask.

"No, after I finished feeding them, they left! What's wrong?"

His mom asked curiously.

"Gold Bar is missing, only Coal came home by itself, and it also broke a leg. I'm planning to take it to the pet hospital first to see."

Yang Qi told his mom about the situation.

"Then you go take it to check its leg first, and your dad and I will go look for Gold Bar nearby."

His mom hung up the phone after saying that, and pulled Yang Limin out to look for the dog.

This afternoon, Yang Qi and Bai Xue went to the The City, and at noon, they had dropped the two dogs off at his mom's house.

This had happened often before; usually, after eating, they would run home on their own.

"Something must have happened!"

After saying this, Yang Qi picked up Coal and walked towards the main gate. Bai Xue quickly grabbed the car keys and ran towards the car at the main gate.

The two rushed to the pet hospital in town, which was just preparing to close. The owner saw business coming and immediately came over to greet them.

He first glanced at the dodge ram, then grinned and led Yang Qi into the shop.

The subsequent set of measures refreshed Yang Qi and Bai Xue's worldview once again.

The owner called the doctor and nurse back. The nurse first put a muzzle on Coal and hung up an IV drip, and then the doctor immediately took X-rays and a CT scan for it.

After a while, they told Yang Qi and the other, "Coal has a fractured right leg, its chest cavity is fine, but it must undergo surgery immediately and needs to be hospitalized."

"The examination fee and surgery cost 4680 yuan, and hospitalization fees are calculated separately."

"Since the doctor and nurse were called back after getting off work, there is an additional charge of 200 each."

Yang Qi and Bai Xue were stunned after hearing this. These days, let alone people who can't afford to get sick, animals can't afford to get sick even more!

The two looked at each other, what else could they do? Treat it!

When people get sick and go to the hospital, they can't bargain; cats and dogs in a pet hospital can't bargain either, and there's no medical insurance.