My Wife is an Evil Dragon – Chapter 139

Chapter 139: Maybe the Evil Dragon Is a Genius

On the first floor of the pet shop.

Xia Li’s arm was laden with a large bag of supplies.

The little dragon in front of him was comparing the prices of two packs of cat treats, then chose the more cost-effective one and tossed it into the basket.

Xia Li was mentally prepared for adopting Mianhua.

But when it came time to pay, he still felt a pang of pain.

It seemed that finding a job had to be put on the agenda.

His wallet was getting thinner, and more than half of the 5,000 yuan Mrs. Fang had given him last time was gone.

His food expenses would probably run out in two months at most.

“How much is it?”

As soon as the cashier finished scanning the goods, Lucia leaned forward, trying to see the price on the screen.

Xia Li turned sideways to block her view.

His broad shoulders completely blocked Lucia’s line of sight. Lucia didn’t see anything, only heard a ‘beep~’ sound, indicating the payment was successful.

These things weren’t for her, a little dragon, to see.

It wasn’t Lucia’s turn to worry about money matters at home yet.

Xia Li silently closed the payment interface on his phone and put it back in his pocket.

“How much was it?”

Lucia, who hadn’t seen anything, asked from behind Xia Li’s back.

Xia Li carried the two 12-kilogram bags of cat food to the car, and Lucia huffed and puffed, trying to help.

After putting the cat litter, cat bed, and other heavy items in, the car’s trunk visibly sank.

“It wasn’t much, you don’t have to worry about it.”

Seeing that the evil dragon still wasn’t letting go of the issue, Xia Li clapped his hands and replied casually.

Lucia quieted down, her small face silent for a while.

She had seen the price of each item, and none of them were cheap.

After roughly calculating the numbers in her head, Lucia successfully confused herself. Finally, she grabbed Xia Li’s arm and said sincerely.

“I’ll eat less in the future and use the money I save to raise Mianhua.”

“Don’t say that.”

Xia Li was both amused and touched, but also a little annoyed.

“You saying that makes me feel useless.”

However, this was something he had to face.

Although the online serialized “Record of Experiences” had started to generate a considerable income, it wasn’t stable. Who knew when the book might suddenly disappear.

Xia Li had never expected to make a living from this book. After all, this job was just a side hustle. As for his main job, he still had to think about it.

If he couldn’t come up with any good business ideas, Xia Li would first become a worker.

Taking action was better than being a daydreamer at home.

Going out to learn some social experience was also a kind of progress.

He took Lucia back to the pet hospital on the second floor.

The doctor who had given Mianhua her checkup brought her out. The thin little calico cat was wrapped in Xia Li’s light gray towel.

After a series of examinations and procedures, Mianhua had become even weaker.

It lifted its small head and, seeing the familiar two, let out a soft “meow”.

Hearing this sound, Lucia was completely smitten and quickly took Mianhua from the veterinarian.

“The internal and external deworming has been done. For now, the kitten has no problems other than malnutrition.”

Doctor Li said, “The biochemical results will take another half hour to come out… Do you want to take her home first and we’ll send you the results electronically, or do you want to wait here for the paper copy?”

Xia Li glanced at the evil dragon who was playing with Mianhua with her finger and thought for a moment before replying.

“My girlfriend can’t read the electronic version… We’ll wait here.”

“Okay,” Doctor Li nodded, “Then you can sit here for a while. When the report is ready, I’ll have the receptionist bring it over to you.”

“Thank you.”

After giving his instructions, Doctor Li went back to his office to see the next patient.

“Don’t play with her with your finger. Doing that will make her develop a biting habit.”

Xia Li grabbed the little hand of the evil dragon beside him, who was completely infatuated with the kitten, and corrected her bad habit.

“But Mianhua doesn’t dare bite me.” Lucia said, feeling wronged.

Xia Li didn’t believe her and demonstrated himself, “Using your hand to tease small animals makes them prone to biting. There are so many examples of this online.”

As he spoke, Xia Li extended his hand.

Mianhua very obligingly provided a counter-example, opening her mouth and nibbling on Xia Li’s finger.

“Hee hee hee…”

Lucia couldn’t stop laughing.

Xia Li: “…”

“She doesn’t dare bite you, she only dares bite me.” Xia Li concluded.

“Meow~”

The kitten in the evil dragon’s arms raised its head and let out a sweet and aggrieved meow at Xia Li.

Lucia laughed even harder.

What a cat taking advantage of the dragon’s power.

His position in the family hierarchy seemed a little precarious.

But… why was this cat’s personality just like the dragon’s?

Biting him and then meowing sweetly at him.

As a seasoned hero, would he, Xia Li, fall for this trick of giving a slap and then a sweet?

He did.

“Dumb as a dragon.”

Xia Li’s large hand ruffled the little dragon’s bun-shaped hair.

Lucia’s laughter froze on her face.

‘Dumb as a dragon’

Just five short words… It sounded like she had been called dumb twice.

The evil dragon’s little brain was fried again by Xia Li’s words.

Xia Li finally laughed and held her soft and squishy dragon claw in his hand as they walked forward.

“Let’s go, let’s walk around.”

“Hmm…”

Lucia was quite interested in places like pet hospitals.

The humans of this world were different from the predators of Azure Continent.

They were friendly to all animals, not only building zoos for homeless wild animals, but also allocating medical resources to treat domesticated animals.

Before this, Lucia had only seen animal slaughterhouses in Azure Continent. The term ‘pet hospital’ was still too magical for her.

The two walked through the long corridor of the hospital.

On both sides of the corridor were rooms of the same size, and in each room, there was a veterinarian in a white coat consulting with patients.

Xia Li estimated in his mind that the scale of this pet hospital was indeed quite large.

When he saw the introduction board at the entrance saying there were 100 staff members, Xia Li subconsciously thought it was an exaggeration.

A pet hospital with over 100 employees? It wasn’t a people’s hospital.

But after walking around, he found that it was really possible.

From the consultation rooms to the biochemical testing laboratory, and the small rooms for X-rays, ultrasounds, and CT scans, the medical level of this pet hospital was top-notch even in Sichuan Province.

No wonder there was a constant stream of customers, and every doctor seemed busy. This hospital must have a good reputation in the pet community.

How much money could they make in a day…

Xia Li wondered to himself.

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For him, a poor unemployed person with tight finances, seeing such a booming business subconsciously triggered thoughts related to money.

Walking to the end of the corridor, there was a large room with iron cages lining the entire wall.

The words “Inpatient Department” were hanging on the door.

Xia Li didn’t open the door to go in, but just stood at the entrance and peeked inside.

He saw the cow cat that had escaped and been returned earlier.

This cat was visually an adult. Its half-black, half-white yin-yang face made it look not only neurotic but also a bit sinister.

Glancing up at the movement outside the room, the cow cat yawned lazily and lay down on its side in the cage, stretching its limbs straight out.

As expected of a cow cat.

This sleeping posture, just like a human lying in bed.

“There’s a mouse hospitalized inside…”

Lucia also stood on tiptoe and looked inside the room with Xia Li.

The neatly arranged iron cages in the inpatient department made the dragon’s scalp tingle.

There were also rooms full of cages like this in Azure Continent, but the animals kept inside were meant to be killed. Here, they were meant to be saved.

“It’s a gerbil. They were very popular a few years ago during the Year of the Rat, but they’re rarely seen now.” Xia Li said.

Lucia murmured, “They actually put mice and cats in the same room…”

“Haha.”

Xia Li also found it absurd, but this hospital was probably short on beds and didn’t care much about species separation.

He took Lucia’s little hand and led her back the way they came.

Lucia held the kitten in one hand. Since her other dragon claw was being held by Xia Li, she could only tilt her head and rub her cheek against Mianhua.

“…”

Xia Li, seeing this scene, was envious.

“That big dog must have a stomachache.”

Passing by a consultation room, Lucia glanced at the golden retriever lying on the examination table and said.

“How do you know?” Xia Li was surprised.

“Because its breathing is heavy, and its stomach is twitching when it breathes…”

Lucia thought for a moment and found that she couldn’t give a reason, it was just her intuition.

Dragons were a race with good intuition.

The humans of Azure Continent even believed that this race had a sixth sense beyond normal perception.

Especially for these weak beasts that were suppressed by their bloodline, the dragon race could easily see through them.

“…You have this kind of talent?”

Xia Li stroked his chin and thought for a moment, suddenly feeling enlightened.

Could it be that Lucia was a genius in the veterinary world?

“How about this one? What’s wrong with the corgi inside?”

“It ate too much and has indigestion,” Lucia stood at the half-open door and glanced at the chubby orange dog inside, then added.

“Its belly must be full of poop.”

At the same time, the veterinarian in the consultation room pressed the corgi’s belly and listened to its chest with a stethoscope.

“There seems to be a problem with its gastrointestinal tract. Its belly is hard. Has it not defecated for a long time?”

“Yes, a little… Recently, when I take it out, it doesn’t go to the toilet and doesn’t eat much.”

The veterinarian and the pet owner in the consultation room asked and answered each other.

“What the heck?” Xia Li exclaimed.

“How do you solve this kind of situation?” He asked the little dragon beside him.

Lucia replied without hesitation, “Wild canines choose to eat grass to induce vomiting. Some special plants will cause diarrhea when eaten. They use this method to help themselves solve the problem.”

“It’s not a big problem,” The veterinarian’s voice came from inside the consultation room.

“We’ll give it a laxative. If that doesn’t work, we’ll use an enema. You should pay attention to feeding it some probiotics regularly.”

The veterinarian started writing a prescription.

Xia Li stood at the door, stunned.

Although the solutions varied depending on the level of civilization, the conclusions were completely consistent.

Xia Li still thought it was a coincidence, and the pets in these two rooms didn’t have serious problems.

He pulled Lucia along to find their next target.

In another consultation room with the door completely closed, a silver and white shorthair cat lay on the table.

It looked extremely weak, its breathing short and rapid. Its half-open eyes were unfocused and looked somewhat vacant.

The pet owner in the room was saying something emotionally, wiping away tears as they spoke.

Lucia glanced through the glass window from afar.

Then she frowned slightly and said to Xia Li with some regret.

“There’s a problem with its heart… It feels like it’s almost gone.”

Xia Li stood at the door and looked inside.

Although he couldn’t see what the two people inside were talking about, Xia Li saw the veterinarian in the white coat typing on the computer.

‘Significant left ventricular hypertrophy. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Suspected attack. Sudden death?’

Tightening his grip on the dragon claw, Xia Li led her away from the corridor.

“Lucia…”

Lucia was sitting on a chair in the waiting area, petting Mianhua. After being manhandled by her for a while, Mianhua was no longer afraid of her at all. It even raised its head to meet the approaching dragon claw.

Hearing Xia Li call her name, Lucia looked up in confusion.

After careful consideration, Xia Li asked.

“What do you think about becoming a veterinarian in the future?”

“Veterinarian?”

“It’s the doctors in white coats we saw in those rooms just now. They’re responsible for treating small animals.”

“Oh… me, a doctor?” Lucia was intrigued by the question.

But thinking about it carefully, it was indeed one of the few things she could do.

Helping small animals… seemed like a kind of social value, right?

“I’ll be a doctor right away!”

Lucia was a woman of action. She said she would do it, and she meant it.

She was about to go to the front desk with Mianhua in her arms to discuss it with the receptionist when Xia Li grabbed her.

“Wait, you can’t go yet.”

“Why not?” Lucia turned back.

“You don’t have a veterinary license, let alone an ID card. No one would dare hire you.”

“Then what should I do!”

Lucia also remembered this and had to return dejectedly.

“One step at a time, I’ll figure something out.”

Xia Li pondered, his gaze sweeping across the lobby of the pet hospital.

Opening a pet hospital…

He wondered how much investment it would take?