Chapter 78: 78. License Processing_1
The feet were pulled back, but the onlooker didn’t leave; they just stood there, silently watching.
Erbao the Casro obediently passed over the leash and positioned herself next to Du Bin.
My, oh my! The bystanders internally marveled, already itching to come forward and inquire about the dogs.
But just as they were about to step forward, another dog appeared from behind!
One, two, three, four… The fourth dog also climbed down.
Finally, no more dogs’ heads popped out from the back seat of the car, leaving the onlookers numb. They now gazed admiringly at the girl—
So pretty, yet raising dogs with such splendor?
These were obviously purebred dogs, and she had four of them at once; good gracious, what a wealthy family!
Without a villa, there would hardly be room to move around.
He finally took a deep breath, but now hesitated to approach the four majestic dogs standing before him.
After watching for a bit longer, he reluctantly prepared to leave.
Just then, the beat-up pickup truck trembled slightly again. He looked over instinctively, only to see a huge dog’s head poking out from the back seat!
The onlooker was dumbstruck.
Regardless of the onlooker’s amazement, Song Tan paid it no mind.
After running around all day, having eaten only a few buns since ten o’clock, she was now ravenous and eager to get home.
Just as she turned into the pitch-dark archway, the door of the office with a sign that read “License Bureau” swung open, and a young man came out.
He stretched lazily at the doorway and then exclaimed,
Before him stood an enormous giant dog!
It looked like a tiger from the zoo, with a black snout and a coat of light yellow fur. It wore a thick black collar around its neck, from which a brass tag hung, trembling slightly with the flexing of its muscles as it moved.
He had never seen such a ferocious and enormous dog in his life!
What’s more surprising was that at the other end of the dog’s leash was a young girl.
Moreover, her other hand was holding four dog leashes, each attached to a large breed that was typically banned in the city!
With his limited knowledge, he recognized only the Du Bin and the German Shepherd.
In a daze, he heard the girl say, “I’m here for a dog license.”
The staff member’s eyes drifted uncertainly, gazing at the big dog and then at the four large breeds, thinking to himself in a daze,
“That’s a big license…”
Wait, that’s not right!
The last of his reason kept his professional integrity intact, and he blurted out, “No way.”
“These dogs,” he scrutinized each one, all large breeds, “are banned in our city.”
Song Tan blinked, “But I raise them in the countryside.”
She shook the leash, “I need these dogs to guard my vegetable garden.”
Does your family’s vegetable garden grow Flat Peaches as well? Needing so many good-looking dogs to guard it!
The clerk was taken aback.
Lacking such experience, he couldn’t make up his mind and finally added,
“Your dogs are too big. Wait a moment, I need to ask the leader.”
After saying that and glancing once more at the Kangal, he turned to go back upstairs.
Before ascending, still unable to resist his curiosity, he turned back and asked, “What kind of dog is this?”
“This one? Turkish Kangal. It’s called Dawai.”
“From Turkey, huh…” The staff member was impressed yet confused, then quickly went upstairs.
The small courtyard was quiet, suggesting that the work was rather leisurely.
It wasn’t long before a middle-aged man also came down the stairs.
He descended the steps with a teacup in one hand, asking slowly, “Which Turkish Daiwang is here for licensing?”
Upon hearing his name, Dawai let out a deep “woof” from his throat.
In the next instant, the leader nearly tripped over his raised foot and almost fell down the stairs!
“Oh my, that dog is huge!”
The two hesitated in the corridor, not daring to approach, and after a while, they said, “Miss, it’s easy to license these four dogs, but this one…”
The leader sighed, “We’ve never issued a license for such a big dog before.”
Song Tan blinked and said, “Well, leader, I’m not raising dogs in the countryside, I want to respond to the call of our city district, don’t I?”
The way she put it… There were lots of dogs in her mountainous and remote rural area, and indeed no one had ever come to the city district to get a dog license.
After all, the dogs in the village didn’t even get vaccinated, so there was no question of licensing them.
If it were about dogs from the countryside, it would be a first!
But in their place, there was no such target or anything, so the staff didn’t feel much pressure. Suddenly issuing a license for such a big dog, if any problem arose…
The leader’s mind began to waver back and forth.
Seeing this, Song Tan decisively struck while the iron was hot:
“Don’t worry, this dog can be licensed.”
She took out Dawai’s previous license: “Look, this is a license from neighboring Huacheng, which its previous owner had arranged. Now that the dog belongs to me, I’m here to handle the formalities, aren’t I?”
The leader flipped through a notebook, “From Huacheng next door, huh… Well, if that’s the case, then it’s easily settled.”
Those lower-level workers didn’t care about being the first; they preferred having something to follow.
Huacheng, being a second-tier city, was much better than their eighteenth-tier; if that place could do it, so could they.
Moreover, compared to the licenses in Yun City, Huacheng’s dog license looked more formal and serious – not only did it detailedly record the dog’s breed, height, weight, but also registered the owner’s residential information.
“In that case,” the leader let out a sigh of relief, “then sure, let’s do it. Did you bring a photo? If not, go ahead to the photo studio upfront and take one yourself. Fill out those forms in your spare time, and then we can get this settled for you when you come back.”
Song Tan took the form, which, in addition to the personal contact information and ID details she had to fill out, required only the dog’s breed, age, color, name, and gender.
Dawai Kangal, Dabao Du Bin, Erbao Casro, Sanbao German Shepherd, Sibao Mastiff.
When the application form was submitted, the staff member stared at the names on the form, almost convinced that these dogs were being raised to guard vegetable gardens.
—Sloppy from start to finish.
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Not far from the disease prevention station, in a housing complex, a middle-aged man opened his door, looked left and right before carefully letting a few peers into his home.
“Old Sun, what are you up to? Didn’t you say we were just having tea?”
His secretive behavior put everyone on alert, “I’m telling you, we’ve been friends for so many years, we can’t get involved in any dirty business!”
Old Sun had a look of “you wouldn’t understand” on his face, and after ushering the people inside, quickly shut the door. He then sneakily opened the freezer compartment of his fridge, struggling to pull out his tea canister from beneath a pile of buns, dumplings, and wontons.
From inside the canister then came a sealed bag specifically for tea.
The pitiful handful of tea leaves, at most an ounce or two.
A group of grown men was instantly speechless.