Chapter 997: Chapter 994: Don’t Ask, the Answer Is Break Up
"Three pounds of clear soup lamb over a hundred kilometers, speedy delivery—" Ansheng, driving the sled car, sat in the passenger seat, looking at Ah Qing practicing skiing and chuckling softly. frёeωebɳovel.com
"....There might not be clear soup lamb, but we should be able to have hot pot with thinly sliced lamb tonight."
After hearing the little fox badmouth the sled dog business owner, and then seeing Xiaolan with an expression full of pride, as if seeking kudos from herself, Ah Qing was left crying and laughing, agreeing to treat Doggy to a good meal.
Xiaolan’s temper is indeed a bit irritable.
However, that owner is truly unscrupulous, purely a profiteering businessman eating from both sides.
Ah Qing hasn’t experienced riding a sled dog, but Momo and her friends did visit Erbin last National Day.
Sleddog rides aren’t about rally racing; they merely pull passengers around a fixed route and then rest at the starting point, typically costing each passenger between a dozen to fifty bucks.
But this boss not only charges high but also doesn’t feed the dogs anything good, so it serves him right to be beaten by the dog!
He takes the customers’ money and harshly exploits the clever dogs—purely unscrupulous.
"Then...I’m going to ride it!"
Ah Qing removed her ski boots, cheerfully sat on a sled dog, hugged the little fox, letting Huhu rest on her front, and wrapped her arms around its belly.
"Come on, Ah Qing, give them the orders....." Ansheng introduced the dog operation guide to Ah Qing.
"All our sled dogs are tongue-flickers, when you want them to accelerate, just shout ’Ula,’ currently the highest gear is four ’Ula,’ there’s also a burst mode..."
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Upon hearing, Ah Qing slowly drew a question mark.
"Ula....."
Ah Qing shyly opened her mouth to give the order to the sled dogs to move forward, but due to hesitance, her voice decibels were still slightly low.
The leading Alaska received the command, looked troubled, and gingerly stepped forward, inching along.
This speed...not something we’ve experienced!
"Ah Qing, speak up! We’re going to pick up Momo and the others for a ride."
Seeing the dogs stepping tiny paces, one even went off to poop, then jogged back into line, Ansheng said, amused yet helpless.
"Oh..." Ah Qing embarrassingly commanded the dogs again, this time, louder.
The leading Alaska received the order, quickly sped up, towing the sled car up toward the cabin on the slope.
Upon reaching the ski coach, Ansheng curiously asked Ah Qing: "Huh? Where are they?"
"I’ve only been away for less than half an hour, how come they’re all missing?"
As the fox entered the scene, the live stream’s chat was flooded with questions directed at Ah Qing.
Questions like whether Huhu can do snow camouflage or how Huhu managed to lure the dog brothers in.
Seeing these questions, the coach returned the phone that was being warmed by heating pads to Ah Qing.
"Momo and Tang You went to buy warmers; Lingren bought clothes that were a bit too big and had some gear spill out...." Ah Qing explained to Ansheng, then turned to her phone screen to answer viewers’ questions.
"Lingren spilled gear?" Ansheng looked at Ah Qing with confusion.
"She stuffed warmers into her clothes, and as she skied, the snow got into her clothes, and...they burst," Ah Qing told the little fox gently.
The snow met the warmers and melted, causing Lingren’s thermal and innerwear to get drenched, making her cold and uncomfortable to the point she likely went to borrow a hairdryer at the foot of the mountain.
Momo and Tang You need their phones, but the ski resort’s temperature is absurdly low; without sticking a few warmers on the phones, they’ll black out in just over ten minutes.
"Oh....." Ansheng nodded lightly in understanding.
Momo’s phone constantly goes off once she’s on break, with endless calls.
Tang You.....her game addiction is huge, and if her phone runs out of battery, she’d likely be half-dead.
"So...will they be coming back?" Ansheng asked Ah Qing with a peculiar expression.
"With that long line at the foot of the mountain, I’m not boasting, but even if I step in, I’d get plucked bald."
Momo and Tang You’s phones were previously kept in their pockets without warmers attached, now shutting down due to the cold, and the matter of buying warmers to restart involves the long queues at the shop and cable car down the mountain....
If they manage to return by midday, it’s considered fast.
"Uh!?" Ah Qing was taken aback, glanced at the long line of cable cars at the foot of the mountain, then looked towards the ski coach.
"Coach, do you think they’ll come back?"
The ski coach hesitated, checked his watch, and replied with an odd expression: "Going down is easy, but going up depends on luck."
"But....wait a little longer, it’ll be meal time then, they might be able to come up?"
The coach may have said that, but his tone was filled with doubt and uncertainty.
"Pfft..."
Ansheng almost burst into laughter: "Hoping the cable car queues to function, you might as well count on the dogs."
"Ula!"
Ah Qing hesitated for a while before uttering ’Ula’, instructing the sled dogs to rescue friends trapped in hardship.
Going down the mountain can be done sitting on props, but going up, only the cable car is an option.
However, Ansheng acquired special props to ignore the ski resort’s rules and freely roam the snow field.
Plunging down the slopes, the dogs under Master Fuli’s command all piled onto the sled, looking at the serpentine snow trails with fear.
"Bro...too fast—"
The Alaska’s face showed panic, clinging tightly to Master Fuli’s arm, completely unprepared for how terrifying it would be to ride a sled car.
"What’s the fear? There’s a safety net at the foot of the mountain..." Ansheng dismissively drove the sled, taking Ah Qing downhill.
After a two-minute rapid descent, the sled car arrived at the shop door at the foot of the mountain.
The dogs scrambled out of the sled car, lining up neatly, waiting until all their kin gathered and opened their mouths.
"Ugh.... "
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Tourists puzzledly glanced at the sled car and then at the handsome sled dog family resembling wolves.
"Trust the older cousin... "
"Girls are like a home water heater, constantly used personally, every shower fluctuates between hot and cold. There’s only two possibilities: it’s broken, or someone secretly used it....."
"Don’t hesitate, just break up, or before New Year."
Momo, sitting by the shop’s floor-to-ceiling window, her phone connected to a charger, on a call.
"Whimper~"
Ansheng lifted a paw and tapped the window sill, causing Momo inside, charging her phone, to look outside at the little fox and Ah Qing in surprise.
"How...did you guys get down here? The cable car is still waiting for a number to be called!"
"I saw you guys down the mountain for so long and not coming back, so I came to see..."
Ah Qing pulled aside the shop’s multi-layer curtain, giving Momo a peculiar look as she asked about her phone: "Convincing a breakup, again?"
"It’s my younger cousin! He definitely speaks the truth..." Momo said a couple of things to the person on the other line, shrugged, and said:
"When a guy asks about breaking up, usually he’s endured to the limit and just lacks a reason, even my cousin, who’s a straightforward guy can’t stand his girlfriend."
"I really don’t want to see her during New Year..."
"Rich, honest, gentle, considerate, sunny, handsome is inherently an impossible triangle..."