Chapter 480: Chapter 437: Merit Before Taking the Position

Chen Ying made up an excuse, left the two officers behind, and pulled the person in charge to check on yesterday’s surgery.

“What’s going on, that officer’s attitude doesn’t seem right.”

“I asked around, the person is fine, maybe they think this matter shouldn’t be escalated.”

“Did we escalate it? It was just a coincidence. Besides, if something really happens, their work will be even harder, how can they let a little face issue get in the way like this.”

The person in charge patted Chen Ying on the shoulder, “You don’t worry about this matter, I’ll handle it, we must find the person behind this. This shelter is set up by the township, unlike private ones. If they want to play dirty, they can forget about it.”

After checking on a few dogs’ situations, Chen Ying returned to the office and registered a few dogs on the computer.

“There should be no problem for now, wait three more days, once the redness and swelling around the stitches fade, they can be removed. I won’t be coming then, you can have the veterinarians from the local livestock station handle it.”

“Alright, if there’s any problem, I’ll just video call you.”

Initially, the black-faced officer thought they were intentionally ignoring him, but seeing Chen Ying detail everything to the person in charge lightened his mood.

Chen Ying didn’t avoid talking in front of them, and the situation about the stray dog shelter could be pieced together from their conversation.

“It’s easier now while it’s cold, but once it warms up, we need a plan for handling waste and food scraps ahead of time. Wasn’t there a biogas pit before? Does the township have any now? Maybe send it over there?”

In the mainland countryside, they can compost, but here on the prairie, there’s no such habit. Cattle manure, mostly fiber, is stored by locals as fuel, but handling the excrement of omnivorous animals like dogs is much more troublesome.

“We have few here, but I heard the cattle farm seemed to have built one before, not sure if it’s still in use. Should I ask?”

As they were discussing, the officer with the law enforcement camera interjected.

“There’s one there, my grandma lives in that area, but they don’t accept outside things, saying they’re unsure of what’s in it, and if it doesn’t meet deposit standards, it might damage the equipment or something.”

“I see.” Chen Ying frowned, “How do other stray dog shelters handle it then?”

Generally, in places where animals are concentrated, waste and food scraps are piled up and processed uniformly. In the mainland, methods like composting fermentation and anaerobic digestion are common.

There are basically two paths: one is recycling to produce organic fertilizer, the other is biogas fermentation.

“How about this, I’ll help ask the cattle farm if they can recycle animal waste and food scraps. If they can, I’ll call you.”

“That would be really appreciated.” The person in charge quickly went over to shake hands, expressing his gratitude incessantly.

The black-faced officer, whose mood had just returned to normal, looked grim again.

Before he could speak, the police dog base’s patrol car drove in, and two police dogs got out of the car.

The two police dogs were so impressive looking that Chen Ying wanted to approach and pet their heads and paws, but unfortunately, they were official working dogs and couldn’t be desecrated.

(The dream dog, but unfortunately not eligible to apply for adopting a retired police dog)

Once the two police dogs got off the car, they immediately scanned their surroundings, then squatted beside their trainer waiting for orders.

After a few greetings, Dongzi opened the door to the small room, letting the two dogs inside to sniff around.

After entering, the two police dogs circled the room and finally stopped in front of the dog food.

Having determined there’s a problem with the dog food, Dongzi then led them to the next room, where the two dogs identified two more problematic bags.

After moving aside a dozen bags stacked in the middle, they found three more bags against the wall.

Altogether, ten bags of dog food were confirmed to have issues.

While they were conducting their checks, the pet food factory supplying the dog food also underwent a unique inspection.

Finally, a few problematic bags were found in the shipping warehouse.

However, the quality control agency did not find any issues during their random checks in the production workshop.

“In this case, should we consider someone deliberately poisoned them?”

The factory head seemed bewildered upon hearing that someone had poisoned their dog food, turning pale as he rushed to the workshop.

With the poisoning confirmed to be deliberate, the local police station took over the subsequent investigation.

The black-faced officer was not allowed to participate in the investigation of this case, and based on the law enforcement camera’s records, his inappropriate conduct had affected the shelter, leading to his reassignment to rotation at the village police station.

Chen Ying stayed for another day before returning to the emergency station.

About half a month later, on the last day of the lunar month, the shelter’s person in charge called him.

The person who poisoned the food was the boss who had previously offered Jinya three thousand to shoot an advertisement.

He was never in business innocently, only thinking about using the internet to turn the purchased pet food factory’s pet food into an online sensation, then selling the factory at a high price to earn the difference.

After his plan failed, he somehow heard that the stray dog shelter was managed by Chen Ying, and learned they had ordered a large amount of dog food from the pet food factory. He then bribed a worker to randomly poison the inventory in the shipping warehouse.

He figured since the ones dying were stray dogs, no one would pursue the poisoner for these dogs. Plus, he checked and saw the shelter also fed leftovers, who could confidently assert dog food killed the dogs?

But he didn’t expect his plan to be discovered by a puppy just as it was being executed.

If it weren’t for that mixed-breed wolf dog, he might actually have succeeded.

The police officer with the black face had some marital ties with that idiot, and he felt suspicious when he heard the report, but he didn’t expect the other person to really dare to do such a thing.

When he came to the shelter, he thought, regardless of whether the idiot had anything to do with it, he had to suppress it, and he even thought of framing it on some unknown dog-hater.

After all, stray dogs, right? Who would have thought a stray dog shelter could have a dog on the payroll?

How the police station handled that person wasn’t Chen Ying’s concern, he just asked if all the dog food was inspected to ensure there were no issues, not missing a bag or two, as that would be a big problem.

“The township takes this matter pretty seriously, and even some herders came over specifically to help count the supplies. People from the pet food factory also came to help test them, and only the confirmed safe ones were kept, those with doubts were taken away and replaced.”

This was handled quite well.

“Oh, also, the police station helped contact a cattle farm, they’ve agreed to accept the animal manure we send over, twice a week, but we have to transport it ourselves.”

Luckily the cattle farm is quite close, and the transportation cost isn’t high, a three-wheeled transport vehicle can handle it.

This matter didn’t require Chen Ying’s attention, as the township already arranged the personnel and vehicles.

Two days later, Chen Ying drove to the River Source Protection Station and found that someone had tied a hada to the sign at the emergency station at the intersection.

Chen Ying stopped to look for a while, feeling inexplicably moved.

He never really paid attention to the situation of stray dogs and cats before. If it weren’t for discovering a stray dog threatening the safety of wildlife this year, he might not have taken it seriously.

Animal rescue, stray dogs should also be part of that rescue effort.

Upon reaching the protection station, the people there were clearing the road.

After heavy snow, the snow on the road melts into water and then freezes into ice, which is especially accident-prone, so they have to clear the roads both early in the morning and late at night.

“Why are you here? You didn’t even call in advance so that I could save you a meal. How about I cook you two packs of instant noodles?”

Yin Li put away the shovel and invited Chen Ying into the house to warm up by the fire.

This weather is colder than before New Year, around zero degrees during the day, and minus thirty to forty degrees at night, the outdoor water pipes don’t thaw until after noon.

“I’m planning to go back in April. There’s just over a month left and I want to take a tour around Alkine.”

“Why go there? Aren’t you waiting to go to Shennongjia?”

“News came, the notice is for May, so I’ll go back in April, pack up and head over in May, just in time.”

Yin Li thought for a moment but still didn’t suggest going to Alkine at this time. The weather is freezing cold, often with blizzards, the road conditions are not good, and it might be hard to find a place to stay overnight.

Although Chen Ying’s car can be used as a camper, if something happens out there alone in the snow, it’s hard to find someone to call for help.

“Wait for summer for Alkine, head to the Grand Canyon first.”

“What, you’re going too?”

“Might have to. I got a notification the day before yesterday, there’s a training session lasting a week in the Grand Canyon, the deputy director has family issues and can’t leave, so I might have to go.”

“Can you bring someone along? I’m not part of your system.”

Yin Li grinned, pulled out his phone, and called someone right in front of Chen Ying.

When the other party heard Chen Ying wanted to go, they agreed without a word, immediately sent Yin Li a notification, and asked him to provide Chen Ying’s name and ID number, so he could be entered into the system and just check in when the time comes.

“You guys are really…”

“It’s just you, it wouldn’t be so easy for anyone else,” Yin Li explained while entering the number for Chen Ying.

“This time, the main focus is on learning about policies and new technologies, as well as some basic animal rescue skills. You’re an expert in this area; they would invite you not because they look down on you, but because they weren’t sure you’d want to. Besides, our system’s vets can handle basic rescues, we don’t want to bother a big shot like you.”

“Pfft, you’ve said all the flattering and awkward things.” Chen Ying kicked Yin Li and, with a turn of his eyes, “Did your mom and sister mention marriage this time when they visited?”

Yin Li looked up at him, and without saying a word, pounced, lifted Chen Ying’s clothes from behind, and pinned him on the bed, giving him a few good punches.

Chen Ying, even with his head covered, laughed nonstop, continuing to irritate him while enjoying teasing around.

Yin Li released him and retorted with a cold laugh, “You’re happy making fun of me, but when Miss Dao comes around, we’ll see how much of a coward you are.”

“What does her coming have to do with me!” Chen Ying shouted with a slight evasive look in his eyes.

“Hmph, you just brag now, later I’ll talk to Old Gao, and we’ll see just how much you can still brag.”

Chen Ying gave Yin Li a sideways glance, with a look of disdain, “I don’t just talk big, I’ve got a backbone through and through.”

Yin Li: Hehe, sending you a trident (屮)