Super Zoo

The panda exhibit is located in a small grove in the northeast corner of the zoo, less than a hundred meters from Xiongshan. After leaving the office, Suming habitually whistled at the entrance of the building... Find your next adventure on My Virtual Library Empire

He waited for several seconds, but didn't see Da Hei rush out in his usual cheerful manner. Then he remembered that the fellow, along with Lele, was undergoing 'rehabilitative training' under Tony's direction.

Tony, the young man, was usually quite insensible. When he had any free time, it was spent either raiding Chinese restaurants or pretending his Chinese wasn't very good, strolling around the zoo and practicing 'spoken language' with female tourists.

In fact, his Chinese was very smooth. When speaking with Suming, he had a perfect Hong Kong accent.

Fortunately, he was a handsome guy. Although he liked to chat with beautiful young ladies, he didn't engage in any sleazy actions and managed to maintain a gentlemanly demeanor. He attracted quite a few girls who came to the zoo, almost becoming a human landscape of the zoo.

It was said that behind Shuomingqing Residence, the small grove was quickly becoming a professional English corner. Every Friday night, many female college students would come from the city to gather in the woods to practice their spoken English.

In light of this, Suming gave Tony two strict orders.

First, it was okay to practice spoken language, just don't turn it into practicing ****. The zoo couldn't afford to lose face like that.

Tony: "..."

Second, no matter how beautiful the female college students were, they had to pay the entrance fee. Since foreigners have different aesthetic standards from Huaxia people, sometimes even the complete opposite, Suming specifically added that the uglier they were, the more they had to pay to enter!

Tony still: "..."@@novelbin@@

But when it came to professional work like horse training, Tony was like a different person. He set a very strict rehabilitation training plan. He got up earlier than the horses and went to bed later than them. These two horses were now entirely his responsibility, and even Suming had to notify Tony in advance to schedule a ride.

Er Shi Xiong and Zhu Lao Er originally wanted to follow their two pals to the pony farm to broaden their horizons but were coldly rejected by Tony. It felt like a parent found out their top-student son was friends with two delinquent troublemakers who were bottom of the class and mercilessly told the two little rascals to get lost.

The two wild boars felt despised and dejected, hiding in the back mountain all day, resignedly digging holes to look for food and getting fat.

Without a mount in the park, Suming could only wave down a tour car and haul himself onboard.

"Pleasant Goat... Itchy Balls... Beautiful Goat..."

Whether it was the tour car's speaker system or the singer's tongue just couldn't roll properly, whenever they sang "Lazy Goat," it always sounded like "Itchy Balls." There were children on the bus singing along innocently with the speakers, making Suming couldn't help but feel itchy and he subconsciously scratched his underpants.

Taking his time, he headed towards the panda exhibit.

The live broadcasting at the panda exhibit was already closed, maintaining only three hours of open time each day. When Suming arrived, the visiting hours had just ended. A group of tourists was leaving the panda exhibit, and the caretaker Li was about to close the door.

"Director..." Seeing Suming, Li put down what he was doing and came over.

"Let's talk inside." Suming gave Li a meaningful look.

"Got it!" Li squinted his eyes, and the two sneakily slipped into the panda exhibit and slammed the door shut.

The news of the panda's pregnancy couldn't be leaked out, or else Xiangjiang would find out and surely demand Lele back immediately. Suming was determined to secretly give birth first and then deal with it. They couldn't avoid returning the pandas, but surely they had to leave the baby panda with him.

Pregnant Lele had already moved into the air-conditioned room, and just one glance through the large French windows made Suming burst into laughter.

The embryos of pandas are extremely small, with newborn pandas being about the size of a mouse. Therefore, from conception until just before giving birth, it is virtually impossible to notice any physical changes in a mother panda, and the several months of pregnancy don't hinder the mother's movements at all.

However, Lele, who was in the air-conditioned room, looked like a woman in her tenth month of pregnancy, sprawling lazily in the corner on a large straw sofa. Scattered around her on the floor were many fruits, as well as a bucket of watermelon. From time to time, Lele would casually grab some food and stuff it into her mouth, munching away, then lie there motionless once again.

"Ever since moving into the air-conditioned room, its treatment has improved to the point where it's getting so lazy it could breed maggots..." Keeper Li said.

It was lucky that all it ate were fruits and highly fibrous bamboo, otherwise after a few months of pregnancy, this fellow would probably end up fatter than the second disciple. Losing weight and getting back in shape after giving birth is not an easy task.

"Don't mind it, animals know what's best for themselves, just make sure the vet checks it regularly every day," Suming said.

Panda Yingying didn't enjoy the same treatment, though.

Pandas lead carefree lives, not as invested in their offspring as other animals, focusing solely on their happiness. To prevent it from disturbing the pregnant Lele, Yingying wasn't allowed into the air-conditioned room. On blazing hot days, without a place to cool off, it could only sit in a pool of water, idly swishing its paws through the water, looking bored.

Seeing Suming coming, Yingying was too lazy to climb out of the water and waved its wet, sopping bear paw from afar as a greeting.

Despite their chubby and clumsy appearance, pandas actually enjoy playing. With Lele feeling low due to her pregnancy and unwilling to play, and Suming unable to keep her company all day, Yingying sitting in the water looked quite lonely and pitiable.

After thinking for a bit and suddenly getting an idea, Suming turned to Keeper Li and asked, "What do you think about putting pandas and brown bears together, would that work?"

"What?!" Li scratched his ear, thinking he had heard wrong.

"Well, they're both bears..." Suming said to himself: "It's like you and Tony, different ethnicities, but both humans."

Li initially thought Suming was just asking casually, but realizing the intent in his words, it seemed he was seriously considering it!

Li felt his temples throb and hurriedly explained, "Director, Director, it's not the same, comparing people to animals doesn't work. Even if you put two of the same family and order, like black bears, together, they're going to fight at first. And we're talking about pandas and black bears here. To use an analogy, leopards are felines, and so are tigers, but it would be a disaster to put them together, right?"

"That's not necessarily true," Suming stroked his chin back and forth, looking at Yingying in the pool with a strange smile.

Seeing him like that, Li knew things were going to get messy. His heart sank and he almost felt like crying. "Director, can we not make a commotion?" Li advised with a somber face. He just wanted to be a quiet keeper, and that didn't seem too much to ask for... Why was it so hard?

"We're idle anyway. Look at her, she's becoming so anxious with nothing to do," Suming reasoned.

Suming gestured to Yingying in the water with a serious face, and seeing this, Yingying knew Suming had something 'fun' in store for her again. It quickly got out of the water, shook off the water droplets, trotted over, and looked up at Suming with anticipation.

Suming pinched its belly and asked with a chuckle, "Yingying, how about Uncle takes you out to play, would you like that?"

"Woof Woof Woof..." Yingying opened its big mouth and barked joyfully.