Chapter Fifteen: Drilling into Dog Holes

  On Saturday, Vi and I found the address that Gu Yue Xuan wrote to me, it's a villa area called 'Xin Jing Zhuang Yuan'.

  The situation was often unexpected, and when I arrived with Wei'er, we found that there were many students wearing our school uniform at the entrance of the manor. What? Did they come for the same purpose as us?

  "Hey, what are you doing here?" Viola walked over and asked a girl.

  "You know it's obvious what we're doing here, and so are you!" The girl said, rolling her eyes at us.

  "Are you also here to interview Mr. Dongfang? How is this possible? Why are you..."

  "Do you think you're the only one who thought of it? We're not stupid either!"

  "What's going on? With so many people, even if they come one by one, it won't be our turn!" Viola turned around and said to me.

  I finally understand why Gu Yue Xuan said good luck to me, it turns out that's what he meant! I pouted in anger.

  "It seems we have no choice but to think of a way!" Viola rubbed her chin thoughtfully, as if thinking about something.

  "Are you going out the back door?" I said in a low voice.

  "Do you think you're the only one who can think of it? We're not stupid either!" Vier said, imitating the tone of the girl from earlier.

  "What's going on? Can't just wait for him to let us in?"

  "The mountain man has his own wonderful plan, follow me!"

  While others were not paying attention, I and Wei'er were searching for the entrance to the manor like thieves. I followed her from behind and circled around the manor for a long time because this house was really too big. Wei'er and I hadn't even circled half of it before we got exhausted.

  "Vera, what are we looking for anyway?" I really didn't understand why we had to circle around the estate.

  "This can't be right, a mansion this big can't possibly not have dogs!" Vera muttered to herself, ignoring me.

  "Raise... what? A dog? You're not going to...?" "You can't be serious about digging a dog hole!" I exclaimed in surprise!

  "Ah! Found it, I knew it. How could such a large estate not have dogs?" Viola exclaimed excitedly as she walked towards the dog hole.

  "You're not... you're not going in from here?"

  "Do you think there's another entrance?" After saying that, he lay down on the ground and stuck his head in, as if to investigate.

  After a while, she stuck her head out and said to me: "There's no one inside, let's go in!"

  "Uh... Viola, actually we don't necessarily have to go interview that Mr. Dongfang. Maybe, perhaps, there are other..." I stammered.

  Wei'er stood up in front of me and said: "Ouyang Yue, don't you want to join the news agency anymore? What about your dream? Are you still going to be a reporter?"

  "Put aside your dignity as a thousand-gold lady, for our dreams, we must fight to the death! Hmm?" Veer's face was full of expectation, awaiting my affirmative response.

  "Alright, I'll give it a shot!" I smiled at her.

  A few minutes later, Vera and I had smoothly entered the estate, only... now we were facing off against a sheepdog. The dog was staring at us, its tongue hanging out of its mouth, drooling from time to time.

  Vera and I didn't dare move or even breathe, fearing it would suddenly pounce on us.

  I swallowed hard, grasped Vera's clothes tightly and whispered: "What to do? Are we going to confront each other like this? It may pounce on us at any time." Even I could hear my own voice trembling.

  "Wait a minute, I'll count one two three, you run that way and I'll run this way. After we shake it off, let's meet back here, OK?"

  I gave her an OK sign. Vera stretched out one finger, saying "1" in lip language, and then stretched out both index fingers and middle fingers together. Tense, really tense, what if I get bitten?

  "Three..." Vera shouted, and the sheepdog immediately barked! "Woof... woof...". I was so scared that all my nerves were tense. Without looking back, I ran in the opposite direction of Vera, now there's only one thought in my mind, which is to run...

  All I could hear was the sound of "wang... wang... " barking getting farther and farther away from me, but I still ran desperately.

  Suddenly thought of something, that dog didn't chase me over, right? Oh no, Wei Er...

  I feel like turning back and running back, oh no, I don't know if Wei Er will be okay, it's all my fault, I should have run with him together, what to do now? Thinking of this, tears flowed out uncontrollably.

  I crouched down and walked back, looking around as I went. After a long time, I still hadn't seen Wei Er, and my fearful heart made me cry. What to do? This place is so big, where can I go to find her? The only thing I could confirm was that I was still in that garden.

  "Waaa... waaa... Wei'er, where are you?" I sobbed softly.

  "It seems like there's someone over there, go take a look." It was a man's voice, probably the security guard here.

  I hastily ran to the back of a tree, my heart racing up to my throat! Should I just stand out or wait for them to find me? And then get beaten like on TV? NO...... It's too scary.

  Suddenly, my hand was pulled by another hand and successfully hid behind a larger tree.